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Billionaires And the Budget
February 28, 2010 BusinessBudget 2010, Business, IndiaAbhilash Sidd
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TDS just got a little less tedious
February 28, 2010 Business, WorldBudget 2010, Business, IndiaAbhilash Sidd
The Budget has given a big relief to taxpayers whose taxes are deducted at source. Under tax deduction at source (TDS), every person responsible for payment of any sum to any person is required to deduct tax at source at the prescribed rate and deposit it with the central government.
Deduction would be in order if the payments exceeded the prescribed threshold limit. But, the Budget has increased the threshold limit of a number of items (see chart). This will be a relief to ordinary taxpayers and particularly to senior citizens whose total income falls below the taxable income. The threshold limit for rental income has been increased from Rs 1,20,000 to Rs 1,80,000. Take for example, a senior citizen whose total income is less than Rs 2,40,000 and who has a rental income of Rs 1,80,000, which he receives from a company.
According to the existing system, the company will pay him the rental after deducting tax at the rate of 10%. Now, to claim the refund for the tax deducted from his rental income as his total income is less than Rs 2,40,000, he will have to file a return with the department. After filing the return, he will have to wait to get the refund.
Under the new system, the TDS will not be affected as his rental income is not more than Rs 1,80,000. This will save him the cumbersome process of filing the return to get refund.
Similarly, the threshold limit for insurance commission for TDS has increased to Rs 20,000 from Rs 5,000. This will save an agent inconvenience if income is less than the taxable income. Otherwise also, he will not have to wait for a refund. These amendments will take effect from July 1, 2010.
Highlights of Budget 2010
February 26, 2010 BusinessBudget 2010, IndiaAbhilash Sidd
FM prunes tax rates:
Income up to Rs 1.6 lakh – nil Income above Rs 1.6 lakh and up to Rs 5 lakh – 10 per cent
Income above Rs 5 lakh and up to Rs 8 lakh – 20 per cent
Income above Rs 8 lakh – 30 per cent.
Income Tax department ready with two-page Saral-2 return forms for individual salaried assesses.
New tax rates would offer relief to 60 per cent of tax-payers.
Government’s net borrowing to be Rs 3,45,010 crore for 2010-11.
Additional deduction of Rs 20,000 allowed on long term infrastructure bonds for income tax payers; this is above Rs one lakh on saving instruments allowed already.
A unique identity symbol would be provided to the Indian Rupee in line with US Dollar, British Pound Sterling, Euro and Japanese Yen.
Fiscal deficit seen at 4.8 per cent and 4.1 per cent in 2011-12 and 2012-13 respectively.
Total expenditure pegged at Rs 11.8 lakh crore, an increase of 8.6 per cent.
Gross tax receipts pegged at Rs 7,46,656 crore for 2010-11, non-tax revenues at Rs 1,48,118 crore.
FM appeals to “misguided elements” (left wing extremists) to eschew violence and join the mainstream.
Planning Commission to prepare integrated action plan for Naxal-affected areas.
Defence allocation pegged at Rs 1,47,344 crore in 2010-11 against Rs 1,41,703 crore in the previous year. Of this, capital expenditure would account for Rs 60,000 crore.
Fiscal deficit pegged at 6.9 per cent in 2009-10 as against 7.8 per cent in the previous fiscal.
Finance Minister to continue giving cash subsidy for fuel and fertiliser instead of previous practice of bonds.
Non-plan expenditure pegged at Rs 37,392 crore and Plan expenditure at Rs 7,35,657 crore in budget estimates. 15 per cent increase in plan expenditure and six per cent in non-plan expenditure.
Rs 1,900 crore allocated for Unique Identification Authority of India.
Rs 1,73,552 crore provided for infrastructure.
Need to take firm view on opening up of the retail.
Government committed to ensure continued growth of Special Economic Zones development.
Repayment of loan by farmers extended by six months to June 30, 2010 in view of drought and floods in some part of the country.
One-time grant of Rs 200 crore provided to Tirupur textile cluster in Tamil Nadu.
Allocation for new and renewable energy ministry.
Clean Energy Fund to be created for research in new energy sources.
Rs 500 crore allocated for solar and hydro projects for Ladakh region.
Alternative port to be developed at Sagar Island in West Bengal.
Allocation for National Ganga River Basin Authority doubled to Rs 500 crore.
Government for competitive bidding for coal blocks for captive power plants.
Mega power plant policy modified to lower cost of generation; allocation to power sector more than doubled to Rs 5,130 crore in 2010-11.
Government proposes to set Coal Development Regulatory Authority.
Propose to maintain thrust of upgrading infrastructure in rural and urban areas. IIFCL authorised to refinance infrastructure projects.
Interest subvention for timely repayment of crop loans raised from one per cent to two per cent, bringing the effective rate of interest to five per cent.
Bottleneck of public delivery mechanism can hold us back.
Rs 200 crore provided for climate resilient agriculture initiative.
Government to provide Rs 16,500 crore to public sector banks to maintain tier-I capital.
Allocation for women and child development hiked by 80 per cent.
Government decides to set up National Social Security
Fund with initial allocation of Rs 1000 crore to provide social security to workers in unorganised sector.
Rs 1,270 crore provided for slum development programme, marking an increase of 700 per cent.
Allocation for development of micro and small scale sector raised from Rs 1,794 crore to Rs 2,400 crore.
One per cent interest subvention loan for houses costing up to Rs 20 lakh extended to March 31, 2011; Rs 700 crore provided.
25 per cent of plan outlay earmarked for rural infrastructure development
Road transport allocation raised by 13 per cent to Rs 19,894 crore, says FM.
Allocation for urban development increased by 75 per cent to Rs 5,400 crore in 2010-11.
Indira Awas Yojana scheme’s unit cost raised to Rs 45,000 in plain area and Rs 48,500 in hilly areas.
Allocation for NREGA stepped up to Rs 40,100 crore in 2010-11.
For rural development, Rs 66,100 crore have been allocated.
Plan allocation for health and family welfare increased to Rs 22,300 crore from Rs 19,534 crore.
Plan allocation for school education raised from Rs 26,800 crore to Rs 31,036 crore in 2010-11.
Deficit in foodgrains storage capacity to be met by private sector participation.
Exclusive skill development programme to be launched for textile and garment sector employees.
Plan allocation for Ministry of Minority Affairs raised from Rs 1,740 crore to Rs 2,600 crore.
Plan outlay for Ministry of Social Justice raised by 80 per cent to Rs 4,500 crore.
Government to contribute Rs 1,000 per year to each account holder
Finance Minister says Government hopes to implement direct tax code from April 2011.
Kirit Parekh report on fuel price deregulation will be taken up by Oil Minister Murli Deora in due course.
Government has decided to set up apex-level Financial Stability and Development Council.
FDI inflows steady during the year. Government has taken series of steps to simplify FDI regime
Market capitalisation of five PSUs listed since October increased by 3.5 times.
Nutrient based fertiliser subsidy scheme to come into force from April 1, 2010.
Earnest endeavour to implement General Sales Tax in April 2011.
Status paper on public debt within six months.
Government will raise Rs 25,000 crore from disinvestment of its stake in state-owned firms.
Government to provide Rs 300 crore to organise 60,000 pulse and oilseed villages and provide integrated intervention of watershed and related programme.
Government to continue interest subvention of 2 per cent for one more year for exports covering handicrafts, carpets, handlooms and small and medium enterprises.
Government intends to make FDI policy user friendly by compling all guidelines into one document.
RBI considering some additional banking licenses to private companies, NBFC will also be considered if they meet criteria.
Export in January encouraging.
Need to review the public spending and mobilize resources.
FM stresses on the need to make growth more broad-based.
Need to ensure that the demand-supply imbalance is managed.
Need to review stimulus imparted to economy.
Government conscious of the situation of price rise and taking steps to tackle it.
Erratic monsoon and drought-like conditions forced supply side bottleneck that fuelled inflation.
Double digit food inflation last year due to bad monsoon and drought-like conditions.
Figures for merchandise exports for January encouraging after turnaround in November and December last.
Govt to raise Rs 25,000 cr this year to meet cap expenditure requirements
GST and DTC can be introduced in April 2011
Direct tax code will be implemented April 1, 2011
Final figure may be higher if earnings in last quarters are strong
18.9% growth rate in manufacturing sector in 2009
Concerned over emergence of double digit food inflation
Export figures encouraging; pvt investments can be expected
Double digit food inflation in 2009
Need to review stimulus, move to fiscal consolidation
Signs of food inflation going to non-food items
Steps to reduce public debt, paper to be presented in 6 months
1st challenge: quickly revert to higher GDP growth path of 9%, cross double digit growth
2nd challnge: harden economic growth to make dev more inclusive
3rd challenge: relates to problems in government system
Focus shifts to non-governmental actors
Uncertainity was there on account of delay in monsoon, concerns about production and food prices.
Income tax slabs raised
February 26, 2010 BusinessBudget 2010Abhilash Sidd
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday brought cheers to lakhs of tax income payers by increasing the tax limits which he claimed will help nearly 60 per cent of the tax payers while presenting the Budget for 2010-11.
Making the announcement about increasing the tax limits Mukherjee said that those earning up to Rs 1.60 lakh per annum will now have to pay no tax while those earning between Rs 1.60 lakh to Rs 5 lakh per annum will from now on pay tax at the rate of 10 per cent.
Tax on income between Rs 5 lakh per annum to Rs 8 lakh per annum will be 20 per cent while those earning more than Rs 8 lakh per annum will pay tax at the rate of be 30 per cent.
New income tax rates
No income tax for those earning upto Rs 1.60 lakh per annum
For people earning between Rs 1.60 lakh per annum to Rs 5 lakh per annum the tax rate will be 10 per cent
Tax on income between Rs 5 lakh per annum to Rs 8 lakh per annum will be 20 per cent
Income tax on income of Rs 8 lakh and above will be 30 per cent
New tax rates would offer relief to 60 per cent of tax-payers
Additional deduction of Rs 20,000 allowed on long term infrastructure bonds for income tax payers; this is above Rs 1 lakh on saving instruments allowed already
Investment linked tax deductions to be allowed to two-star hotels anywhere in the country.
Mukherjee began his budget speech by recalling the hard days of past two years, but with an assurance that the worst was over for the economy and the days ahead were promising though not without challenges.
“Today, as I stand before you, I can say with some confidence that we have weathered this crisis well,” Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha.
“That is not to say that the challenges today are any less than they were nine months ago, when the UPA was voted back to power under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,” he added.
He said three challenges he had listed last year remained relevant today — those of quickly reverting to a high growth path of 9 percent and cross over to double-digit expansion; making growth more inclusive and developing infrastructure in rural areas; and strengthening food security.
He said in 2009, when he presented the interim budget in February and the full budget in July, the Indian economy was facing grave uncertainty, the economy slowed down and business sentiment was low.
But this year, the budget has came against the backdrop of the Economic Survey for 2009-10, saying India’s growth can go up to double digit levels in four years, with the country emerging as the fastest growing economy in the world.
The initial market reaction, as the finance minister began his budget speech was guarded, with the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) ruling at 16,347.72 points, against the previous day’s close at 16,254.2 points, with a gain of 93.52 points, or 0.58 percent.
Those in the packed house presided over by Speaker Meira Kumar, included Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj.
Although the Budget speech also contained some policy pronouncements and other steps directed at reforms, it is basically an annual statement of accounts for the upcoming fiscal in terms of receipts and expenditure, along with direct and indirect tax proposals.
The Budget was presented after a quick meeting of the Union Cabinet inside Parliament presided over by the Prime Minister for a customary approval for the proposals.
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A Sixth Grade Field Guide to the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado
Alpine Ecosystem
Sub-alpine Ecosystem
Montane-Mixed Conifer Ecosystem
Montane-Aspen Forest Ecosystem
Montane--Oak Shrubland Ecosystem
Pinyon-Juniper Ecosystem
Riparian Ecosystems
Natural Cycles
Hazards--Drought, Insects, Invasive Plants
Hazards--Avalanches, Fire, Floods
Alpine Ecosystem
Adriana, Brooks, Noah
Up in the high alpine ecosystem there are no trees. The alpine ecosystems are above 11,000 feet in Colorado. The tundras has small insects, and birds. In the winter the snow can build up to 15 feet tall! The treeline lies 11,000-12,000 feet depending on the slope or the top of the mountain. The Alpine Tundra ecosystem in Colorado or the Rockies as you could say, stand at high altitude where trees usually don't grow.
Mountains at high altitude throughout the world
Windy, Cold, and Treeless
Nighttime Temperatures Below Freezing
Well-Drained Soil
Average Temperatures: -4 degrees celsius to 0 degrees celsius
Annual Precipitation = around 11.81 inches per year
Consumers in the Alpine Tundra
Mountain Lions are one of the Alpine Tundras biggest consumers. They can also be known as pumas, cougars and panthers. They can vary in size and weight. The males can reach up to 200 pounds and eight feet in length with his tail. The females are typically smaller. A mountain lion is not spotted and is a lot of the time tan-ish brown. Mountain lions like to prey on deer, though they also eat smaller animals such as coyotes, porcupines, and raccoons.
Mountain Lions can be found in many habitats, from Florida swamps to Canadian forests.
Red foxes are solitary hunters who feed on rodents, rabbits, birds, and other small animals. Foxes will eat fruit and vegetables, fish, frogs, and even worms. If living among humans, foxes will opportunistically dine on garbage and pet food. Like cats, the fox's tail will help it’s balance. In the cold the fox will put its tail over it’s body to keep warm.
Red foxes live around the world in many diverse habitats including: forests, grasslands, mountains, and deserts.
Coyote
The Coyote is a fierce predator. Modern coyote’s have shown their cleverness by adapting to the changing American landscape, which means the mountains and the dense forest.The Coyote is a member of the dog family and they just used to live in the desert and prairies, but now it has adapted to the harsh winter and mountains and dense forest. In the spring, females give birth to litters of three to twelve pups and they are born in a den. Both parents feed and protect their young and their territory.
The pups are able to hunt on their own by the following fall. A Coyote can be 15 -46 lbs and can run up to 43 mph and that is a adult maximum speed.
Omnivores in the Alpine Tundra
Grizzly Bear
The Grizzly Bear is a powerful animal, it has little to no fear from other predators in its territory. The tundra grizzly is usually creamy yellow on its back and a brownish chest and limbs. Many tundra grizzlies eat mostly plants, but they also eat rodents and insects. Grizzlies don't usually hunt larger prey. More often they eat abandoned kills of other predators.
Grizzlies can be found on the Alaska and northwestern Canadian tundra.
A major food source for the arctic fox is the lemming, but the tundra voles are another sample. Other foods include birds, eggs, insects and carrion.
In the summer, the arctic fox is dark gray to bluish brown. Its fur color changes to a creamy white in the winter. The arctic fox is considered an omnivore since it will feast upon tundra berries if they are available.
The Brown Bear lives in the forests and mountains of northern North America, Europe, and Asia. It is the most widely distributed bear in the world.These omnivorous( The Brown Bear eats mainly plants but can eat small fish and other insects) giants tend to be solitary animals, except for females and their cubs, but at times they do congregate. Dramatic gatherings can be seen at prime Alaskan fishing spots when the salmon swim upstream for summer spawning.
In this season dozens of bears may gather to feast on the fish, craving fats that will sustain them through the long winter ahead.
Herbivores in the Alpine Tundra
The lemming is one of the smallest animals in the tundra. It is pretty much most animals prey. Because this mouse like rodent weighing 2 ounces to 4 ounces is part of the staple diet of so many animals, changes in population can have serious repercussions.
Their colors vary during summer. In winter, their coats turn white, and they live in burrows under the snow.
In winter, the Arctic hare's thick fur is almost blindingly white, providing really good camouflage against the ice and snow covering the tundra. It has black eyelashes that protect its eyes from glare. Since it doesn't hibernate, it's roly-poly body shape and relatively short ears help it conserve heat. On average, the hare weighs 6.5 pounds to 11 pounds.
With its long hind legs and snowshoe like back feet, the Arctic hare can clear up to 7 feet in a single bound and run at speeds of 40 miles per hour without sinking into the snow.
Birds in the Alpine Tundra
The Sharp Shinned Hawk is mostly found in ranges to 11,000 feet to 11,500 feet. They don’t like areas where the trees are scattered either.The Sharp Shinned Hawk eats songbirds which make up about 90 percent of their diet.
These raptors have distinctive proportions: long legs, short wings, and very long tails, which they use for navigating their deep-woods homes at top speed in pursuit of songbirds and mice.
The Golden Eagle is one of the largest, fastest, nimblest ( alive, quickly,light) raptors in North America. Lustrous gold feathers gleam on the back of its head and neck; a powerful beak and talons advertise its hunting prowess. You're most likely to see this eagle in western North America, soaring on steady wings or diving in pursuit of the jackrabbits and other small mammals that are its main prey. Sometimes they have been seen attacking large mammals, or fighting off coyotes or bears in defense of its prey and young hatch lings.
The Golden Eagle has long inspired both reverence and fear
Mountain Blue Bird
The mountain bluebird breeds in the high mountain meadows with scattered trees and bushes and short grass. It lives at lower elevations in the winter in plains and grasslands. Male Mountain Bluebirds lend a bit of color to open habitats across much of western North America. You may spot these cavity-nesters flitting between perches in mountain meadows, in burned or cut over areas, or where prairie meets forest
Black-billed Magpies are familiar and entertaining birds of western North America. They sit on fence posts and road signs or flap across range lands, their white wing patches flashing and their very long tails trailing behind them. This large, flashy relative of jays and crows is a social creature, gathering in numbers to feed at carrion. They’re also vocal birds and keep up a regular stream of raucous or calls.
Major producers
While sage-grouse will feed on wildflowers, insects and forage crops in spring and summer, they depend on sagebrush for food year round, and especially in winter when sagebrush is the only available food source.Mating season is early to mid-March until mid to late May. Females lay between 8-12 eggs and are responsible for creating the nest and brood rearing. Older sage grouse do not pair-bond, they are not monogamous. Outside of mating, males do not take part in raising the young. Eggs and nests can be lost due to disturbances such as bad weather and predators such as ravens, red fox, raccoon and coyote. They are herbivores which means they only eat leaves and other plants.
American Crows are familiar over much of the continent: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices. They are common sights in treetops, fields, and roadsides, and in habitats ranging from open woods and empty beaches to town centers. They usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything – typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit but also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests. Their flight style is unique, a patient, flapping that is rarely broken up with glides.
Grasses are typically short plants with long narrow leaves, growing wild.
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria (or both) living among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic relationship.
Impacts in the Alpine Ecosystem
Air pollution can cause smog clouds that contaminate lichen, a significant food source for many animals.
Exploration of oil, gas, and minerals and construction of pipelines and roads can cause physical disturbances and habitat fragmentation.
Oil spills can kill wildlife and significantly damage tundra ecosystems.
Human Impacts in the Alpine Ecosystem
The tundra ecosystems have been used by humans since prehistoric times. High terraces were used as butchering and camping sites by early hunters over 7,000 years ago. Domestic sheep have grazed tundra areas throughout the Rocky Mountains since the turn of the century. Butterfly populations have been reduced as meadows were overgrazed. Off road vehicles have ruined sections of tundra, as have hikers who do not use established trails.
Plants in the Alpine Ecosystem
Habitats: The sunflower live in dry areas or prairies and is sometimes considered a weed.
Adaptation: The sunflower has very thick roots and stems.
The sunflower is deciduous because it loses its leaves
They are deciduous. This means they lose their leaves in the fall. They are also low growing plants.
Habitat: They grow best in wet places like by streams and rivers.
Adaptations: They have adapted to live in wet places.
Are they deciduous?
The columbine among many other beautiful flowers is in fact deciduous. (Deciduous: A plant that's leaves fall off in the winter is deciduous.)
What is Their Habitat?
Columbine is found in the sun and above treeline. It blooms in late spring with red and yellow stems. It is pollinated by hummingbirds and butterflies.
What Are Their Adaptations?
The Columbine lives 6,000 to 10,000 feet up in the air. It is hard for animals to eat it because it is so high up.
Are They Deciduous: The polemonium is deciduous which means that they lose their leaves in the fall. But in the summer the flowers bloom beautiful light blue colors.
Habitat: The polemonium native land is grassland, woodlands,and meadows.
Adaptations: It has been able to adapt to live in harsh and rugged environments.
Mountain Ball Cactus
This pincushion shaped cactus is covered with spirally arranged bumps that bear rigid spines. One to several brilliant rose purple flowers bloom in the center of the cactus. Mountain ball cactus may bloom from mid April to mid June and late summer in the tundra.
Purple-fringe
The Purple-fringe usually has multiple stems. Each has a dense cluster of flowers. The flowers are dark purple. The flower has yellow tipped stems that make the flower get a fringed appearance. They bloom from early June to early July.
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Salah Hamouri's Administrative Detention Order Renewed
Today, 26 February 2018, the decision was taken by the occupation Minister of War, Avigdor Lieberman, to renew the administrative detention order of Salah Hamouri. His order has been renewed for four months, to begin on 28 February 2018. This means that Salah will continue to remain in prison till at least 28 June 2018, at which point he would have been in prison for ten months. Despite the claim that Salah represents a ‘security threat’, Addameer maintains that Salah has been imprisoned as a result of his human rights promoting activists and his activism. As a documentation field officer, Salah’s is responsible for meeting with ex-prisoners and detainees, and their families, to collect...
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By bringing a significant number of buyers together to approach the developer you’re able to help them by cutting out much of the legwork and the agent fees that would result from selling each block of land individually on the open market.
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Travelshoot announces an investment of $500,000 from these Queensland based investors to help scale its business and maximise global opportunities with its travel partners, including Flight Centre Travel Group, Helloworld and RACQ.
Australian medical innovator receives US$2.6 million Bill & Melinda Gates grant to develop a...
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Unlockd closed a $AU15 million Series A Round in early 2016 from some of the biggest names in the business community, and has recently appointed an advisor to assist with their Series B raise of up to $US30 million
Aussie fashion retailer GRANA is raising a $10 million Series A round led by...
Following the Q1 announcement of its US $6 million in seed funding earlier this year, led by Golden Gate Ventures, MindWorks and Bluebell Group, the GRANA team will move into a new 18,000 square-foot centralised warehouse in Hong Kong this month to manage business growth and plans to double its headcount to 100 employees by the end of 2017.
This new social media app is designed to create stronger bonds within your family
Gerald Ainomugisha - Sep 8, 2016
kin2kin is a kind of private and live family album. Photos are organised by who is in the photo, not who sent them. Simply loving a photo, or making a comment, lets the person in the photo know you are thinking about them and lets you start a conversation directly with that person.
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TheRight.Fit, a website connecting brands and agencies with creative freelancers and talent, has secured $750,000 in a seed capital raise from AirTree Ventures.
This crowdfunding campaign aims to make Sydney the Silicon Valley of APAC by 2023
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A fintech start-up wants to rip the red tape off Australia’s huge mortgage market
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Beer Industry Reacts to ‘The New Yorker’ Cover
All About Beer Magazine - Volume , Issue
The Nov. 3, 2014 cover of The New Yorker features a drawing titled “Hip Hops” by artist Peter de Sève.
The New Yorker released its annual food issue this week and before a hardcopy arrived in my mailbox, my Facebook feed was filled with pictures of the cover. Friends in the beer industry talked about how cool it was and said it’s a sign that beer has “arrived.” The New Yorker asked artist Peter de Sève to draw the cover (called “Hip Hops”) and the magazine goes on to say that the drawing “captures the appropriate seriousness with which beer is handled these days by many Brooklyn restaurants and the people who dine in them.” It wraps up by saying: “It’s an unprecedentedly excellent time to drink beer in Brooklyn, as the cover suggests. Just don’t become a snob about it.”
In my opinion, “Brooklyn” could easily be replaced by “the United States” and this scene could happen in many places (maybe minus the neck tattoo).
Because of the strong reaction and celebration around the cover I reached out to several folks in the beer industry and asked for their opinion on the cover (click on their names to see their responses).
What do you think of The New Yorker beer cover? Join the discussion on Facebook or leave a comment below.
Ray Daniels (Cicerone Certification Program, Chicago)
Oliver Gray (Literatureandlibation.com)
Roger Baylor (New Albanian Brewing Co., New Albany, IN)
Os Cruz (TalkBeer.com)
Greg Koch (Stone Brewing Co. Escondido, CA)
Nora D. McGunnigle (NOLABeerBlog.Com)
Joe Wiebe (Craft Beer Revolution: The Indider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries)
Jeremy Cowan (Shmaltz Brewing Co., Clifton Park, NY)
Christopher Sidwa (Batch Brewing Co., Sydney, Australia)
Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Milton, DE)
Jeff Cioletti (DrinkableGlobe.com)
Pete Slosberg (Brewer, San Francisco)
Melissa Cole (Writer, London)
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Charlie devereux says:
Love it. Sez everything you need to know about cool dining circa the 20-Teens.
Just J says:
Gotta love how Sam Calagione begins with totally unrelated self-promotion. Maybe he was something ‘back then’, but there are so many others before and after him who just shut up and made real beer. Sorry, but the Dogfish train has left the station.
Sam Handwich says:
This comment goes to show that you are beer snob. How hard is it to accept that there are other people out there that enjoy different types of beer than you like.
If there wasn’t people like Sam it would always be the same boring things.
-Just J
I think you need to re-read Sam’s answer, he drank a bunch of Italian beers & did a collaboration with an English brewery (that he isn’t selling, the English brewery is). He is simply talking about how American craft beers are now influencing the rest of the world, which is the opposite of how things use to be. Whether you like their beer or not, Dogfish Head has been innovating brewing since there humble beginnings & seem to be continuing to do so.
“Just J”, DogFish continue to innovate as they always have.
Sure, DFH is not the fastest brewer in terms of turnaround on specials, seasonals, one-offs or other experimentation. But they’re consistently creative, and they often put WAY more effort into researching a brew first (compared to breweries that experiment semi-randomly and try to sell it).
Case in point is DogFish’s collaboration and support of Pat McGovern’s archeology and ancient brewing recreations. But this is only one of several themes DFH does.
I honestly don’t know if you’re a true beer snob, or simply trolling. I’ve considered myself a beer snob since 1994 (and it’s why I got into brewing), and a long time BFD member, and NO ONE I know would make your comment about DFH.
Perhaps you mis-spoke and meant to say “Red Hook”?
Dirt says:
^J, I feel like you missed the point. He’s simply saying that craft beer is exploding all I over the world, not just in BK, NY, or the US. 15 years ago, the idea of Italian craft brewers was probably pretty far-fetched.
Thom Meyer says:
I agree with you on the issue of variety. I am often asked what style of beer I prefer and have no answer. I appreciate many styles with the exception of fruit and spiced beers which I avoid. I do wish more servers had a greater knowledge of the beers that they offer!
Japan Beer Times says:
Craft beer going mainstream in America is so refreshing to see, and gives hope to fledgling movements, like the one in Japan. 200+ craft breweries and growing!
Jim T says:
HAHAHA @ “Mr. I-only-drink-double-IPAs” from Cicerone Certification Program.
This has been my beef with craft beer for the last couple of years. I’ve been drinking stouts, ambers, and browns lately trying to recover a few tastebuds after getting blown out by over hopped ales.
Who cares? I’ve been drinking all styles for 20 years and since 2006 it’s been pretty much all IPAs. Drink what you enjoy, if it’s Keystone Light, some Belgian or a sour. Why would you have a “beef” with someone’s palate?
Chris LaPierre says:
We don’t need to do that tasting thing. As long as you’re ordering a reputable beer there’s not a 10% chance it will be spoiled.
Unless the distributor let it get hot, or the restaurant has dirty lines, or…
Hopefully you get the point – that there are many potential opportunities for spoilage/issues along the path from brewery to consumer.
Tom Calhoun says:
I’d swear that was a scene from a Portland pub! Beer does deserve a place on the same shelf as wine, and anyone who says otherwise is snobby or naive. I could have chosen beer or wine as a profession, but went the beer route because of all the great, lovable personalities in the business. We sell great beer without pretension or a stuffy suit, and good, long-lasting friendships are made from that.
matt hickey says:
Honestly, I thought it was ridiculing the pseudo-intellectualization of craft beer by people who pretend to know or care anything about what they are drinking, just so they can appear to be hip. It seems to me to be satirizing the classic wine-snob restaurant moment–not celebrating our excellent local beermakers and genuinely informed beer drinkers–and implying that if “beer is the new wine,” the designation is a double-edged sword at best.
heybrewtiful says:
Beer Snobs on New Yorker Cover: Geeks Unsure If They Should Celebrate http://www.heybrewtiful.com/2014/10/craft-beer-mocked-on-cover-of-new.html
I’m 45, and Iv’e all way’s loved beer, even before I was 21, and personally glad it’s finally getting the respect, and attention, it has all ways deserved! Beer Is THE “Nectar Of The God’s”!
Lisa Hinkley says:
I love this cover! It’s great that widely distributed publications like the New Yorker are starting to take notice, and spread the word about craft. It’s about time!
This easily could represent (most of) the US and obviously not just Brooklyn. I’ve been called snob pleantly of times, but its mostly by ignorant (as in not knowing anything about beer) Bud Light, Coors Light or Miller Light drinking people who refer to quality craft beer as “dark beers” and go around saying “I don’t do those fancy dark beers”. I really don’t mind being called a “beer snob” it just means I enjoy quality over crap.
Jeff Linkous says:
The illustration depicts a restaurant, but it easily could be a brewery tasting room as well. Beer is vastly different even now than it was just five years ago, let alone the 30-something years that is the breadth of this flavor renaissance. Give it another five years and perhaps the faces populating the illustration will have changed, as certain elements/facets mature and other undercurrents surface to make their mark.
It appears “The New Yorker” is once again validating itself as the epicenter of all things new and zeroing in on hipster mecca Brooklyn as the center of the craft beer universe.
I echo Greg Koch’s sentiments that your average craft beer drinker is not a neck tattoo guy or an extra from the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video from 1991. People from all walks of life and ages are into craft beer; my 70 year old dad has been drinking them for almost 10 years.
The pull of craft beer is not exclusive to hipsters, indie-rockers, and neo-hippies.
Joseph Schmoe says:
The cover has little to do with beer and a lot to do with Brooklyn hipsters taking themselves too seriously…about anything, not just beer.
And all the beer execs getting their panties in a bunch over it is even funnier. It’s social criticism, not beer criticism.
Some people don’t even know how to look at pictures to let them speak first before the personal biases kick in.
@craftbeerninja says:
it’s fair to say that this is a golden age for beer drinkers seldom has there been such quality & variety available to Joe public. The New Yorker has taken a snapshot (if you will) that could just as easily be London or any large cosmopolitan city. As a UK publican & self confessed beer groupie I’ve endeavoured to wax lyrical about cask ale & craft keg. For the longest time I was the weirdo beer dude who compared beer to wine. Suddenly to my amusement A: I’m almost fashionable (still not sure how I feel about this fact) B: the inevitable incursion of wine snobbery has invaded my once peaceful Beery province or craftdom C: I apparently don’t fit in to the developing scene ( I can only assume my beard isn’t big enough & my jeans do not cut off circulation to my genitals)
Now quality is obviously important but in my opinion so diversity of beer style, breweries etc.so the one act I’ve seen more often than not by the enthusiastic but not so knowledgeable craft beer drinker is the “I only drink pale ales” or whatever the first beer style they stumbled upon was don’t get tied up people try as many style as you can get hold of & try to remember it’s beer not a fashion accessory. There’s a Beery brave New world dive in & drink it all up……
Linda Forrester says:
I was not impressed with the cover of the times??
I never felt I needed to “arrive” as a beer drinker…I have not been in competition with the people that drink wine?? If I had that in mind..I would have been drinking it!
Plus, I am not impressed with the people, nor the bar! This does not represent anybody I know..and the people it does represent would feel the same if it was me in that drawing!!I feel that it was, and is close to being racist?????? I am 73, and and have been drinking beer for many years..in every kind of establishment out there. I do not need anyone to accept me..nor the beverage I choose. Sad commentary on our world!
One Vice says:
I’ve been looking for great beer since before the first “microbrew” – please ABB (anything but Bud in any form by any maker). I love most styles and have probably 150 different beers in my cellar, some 20 years old. I applaud punking the hipster and also the need to stop and think about the beer you are tasting. Find what you like but remember it is still just beer – putting on airs like that hipster is for fools – like speaking latin or going on about which side of the river a wine is from (as if the winemaker had nothing to do with it).
Dan Lang says:
There is a large wave breaking behind the breweries and restaurants….it’s the wave of the homebrewing societies. Catch the VIBE.
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A rendering of what ZED451's rooftop lounge will look like when it arrives this spring. (Photo: ZED451)
. . . is that ZED451 (739 N. Clark St.), the hip dining spot where the culinary team not only prepares the cuisine, but also serves it tableside, will have its grand opening in mid-April. I'm also getting excited about the two-story glass atrium, 451 Lounge, which is comprised of a wine bar, an indoor fire pit, a fully exposed kitchen with chef counter seating and a “green” roof top lounge with an outdoor fireplace.
Last Girl Standing Sarah Preston reports that Wicker Park indie lounge Celebrity bites the dust, making way for Aberdeen at 1856 W. North Ave. on March 8.
Marcus Samuelsson's much-anticipated seafood restaurant C-House (166 E. Superior St.) aims for a late-April debut in the new Affinia Chicago Hotel.
Juicy Wine Co. (1658 N. Milwaukee Ave., 312-492-6620) is getting in the brunch biz on Saturdays with the 5 Buck Brunch. Beginning March 1, Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago chef and instructor Michael Wilison and his students will whip up weekly specials for $5 each. One of the signature dishes is sure to be the Orange Waffles with Harold's Fried Chicken. They'll also have Bellinis, Mimosas and Bloody Marys. 11am-4pm.
And look for the team behind high-end night spots Manor (642 N. Clark St., 312-475-1390) and RiNO (343 W. Erie St., 312-587-3433) to enter the culinary world as they're shopping for a space in the city to open a restaurant right now. Also, their super-duper VIP lounge Stay opens on the top level of Manor this spring.
What the critics are saying . . .
. . . about:
Il Fiasco (5101 N. Clark St., 773-769-9700). "(New chef Eric Aubriot) hasn’t overhauled the menu by any means, but his presence can be felt in every section of it. His rich, twice-baked Gorgonzola soufflé was in a different class from other appetizers offered (many of which Aubriot kept from the previous menu): The cheese was balanced by red wine–poached pears, and the dish had a bigger flavor—and was more sophisticated—than its peers. His crisp corn cakes, topped with a mushroom sauce that had a robust earthiness (a flavor that was missing when I tried the mushroom pizza back in August), similarly impressed. And though it was odd to see french fries listed under appetizers, they showed off Aubriot’s years of experience; he only lightly seasoned them with truffle oil, so you won’t smell like a forest all night but you will remember why truffle oil became big in the first place."—David Tamarkin (Time Out Chicago) Read it all here.
Rockwell Lounge (710 N. Clark St., 312-787-2675). "The old Narcisse space has gone all dark slate, moody blues and sheet metal. The front area houses a cordoned-off seating area while the bar sports two stripper poles and a catwalk for drink-ordering entertainment. Downstairs features much of the same paired-down and muted cool-tone decor, with more modular seating and an additional, pole-free bar. The crowd falls somewhere between those who frequent the neighborhood's ultra-lounges and folks who appreciate Chicago's grittier rock joints."—Fred Schlatter (Chicago CitySearch) Read it all here.
Stretch Run Sports Club & Grille (544 N. LaSalle St., 312-644-4477). "Either barbecue ribs ($8.95) or hot wings ($8.95) will add some life to your meal. A layer of Sweet Baby Ray's sauce coats meaty, tender ribs; sizzling hot sauce blankets the wings. The latter arrive with the usual celery sticks and choice of blue cheese or ranch dressing."—Laura Bianchi (Crain's Chicago Business) Read it all here.
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Sweden vs Saudi Arabia (bad news for Sweden, not contested on a hockey rink)
Saudi Arabia has entered into a diplomatic fracas with a European Union member over monkeys.
Yes, you read that one right.
The pygmy marmosets at Skansen zoo in Stockholm had been destined for a Riyadh zoo.
"They didn't want the monkeys anymore because of the political situation," said Skansen zoo boss Jonas Wahlstrom.
Last month the Saudi ambassador to Sweden was recalled, after Sweden ended an arms deal in a human rights dispute.
Okay technically the Saudis were just doing a little diplomatic quid anti quo after a female Swedish politican criticized the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for not letting sluts behind the wheel.
A co-ordinated campaign by Muslim nations against Sweden is not a fanciful notion. There is talk that Sweden may lose its chance to gain a seat on the UN Security Council in 2017 because of Wallström.
Look, aside from the benefit of not letting women drive (hint: they're all terrible at it, we might consider a similar move here), there's nothing here that should really offend the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, Sweden does $1.3B a year with the Saudis, and that they're throwing money around while other governments aren't hasn't escaped the notion of policy makers everywhere: notice Sweden just last week apparently greased some wheels some but not enough.
Meanwhile, another Middle Eastern country is entering into a diplomatic fracas with a monkey...
Bonus observation: Note the name of the "Islamophobic" politician and the name of the zoo curator. Is that like Johnson/Johnston over there?
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December 5, 2017 nathan.lankford 7 comments
Lists are arbitrary and burdensome, but why not join the fun everyone else is having? We gathered our lists, separate lists for all of us, then combined them into one that had 50 albums. What you get here are the four writers/contributors of ATH, giving you their meaningless opinions on what we thought was the jam in 2017. It’s alphabetical, and we put the initials next to it so you could track down your enemy!
Show Review: Fleet Foxes @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater
August 18, 2017 nicole.baumann Leave a comment
Wednesday and Thursday nights, The Moody Theater played host to one of the biggest acts in the indie world, Fleet Foxes. The band was coming in hot after the release of their triumphant third studio full-length,Crack-Up,and droves of excited fans poured into the venue to catch a performance for the first time in a long time. What they got was musicianship at its finest– two nights of precise and profound music that fed the excitement of the crowd as the band seamlessly wove together new and old tracks from their catalogue of folk rock.
Read on for my thoughts on the show, as well as some pics from the ever-awesome B. Gray.
Show Preview: Fleet Foxes @ ACL Live (08/16, 08/17)
Indie folk gods, Fleet Foxes, are coming to our city tomorrow and Thursday and if you don’t have tickets yet you best get to stepping and try to find some, as these two evenings are bound to be nights to remember. The last time Austin played host to Robin Pecknold and company was the 2011 ACL festival, so it will be nice to see the band again with full and proper sets in an intimate setting–the Moody Theater seems like the perfect venue for such a group. A lot of time has passed since then, and with the release of their phenomenal third full-length,Crack-Up,earlier this year, we are on course for two transfixing evenings of orchestral beauties new and old. Personally, I’m stoked to see how the band weaves together the introspective new material with the sweeping folk of the past. With their now expansive catalogue of gems, there really isn’t any way they could go wrong.
To top things off, the band is bringing along the quiet bedroom folk of Bedouine. If you haven’t checked them out yet, take a listen below and get excited for this complimenting opener.
If you don’t already own it and you’re not into holding a 2xLP through the whole show, go buy it on the Nonesuch Records page. Trust me–Crack-Upis one of those records you need to hold in your hands.
Small Feet Hook Up with Barsuk Records
May 1, 2015 nathan.lankford Leave a comment
I make no excuses for my love of really powerful pop music, even if it comes in the simplest of forms. That’s exactly why I like listening to the music of Small Feet…the project of Sweden’s Simon Stalhamre. When you listen, you’ll probably be most attracted to Simon’s voice…it creates the emotion that I remember when I first listened to James Mercer (before he got boring), and perhaps a touch of Fleet Foxes in there too. Also, if you listen closely around the 3 minute mark, I swear you can hear an homage to Third Eye Blind. Barsuk will release From Far Away Everything Sounds Like the Ocean on August 7th, so pencil in a date for some pop music.
Greylag Sign to Dead Oceans
July 29, 2014 nathan.lankford Leave a comment
A few years ago there was this wave of folk/Americana being remained and tossed out left and right. Bands like Fleet Foxes and Cave Singers dominated my own personal listening playlists, but the genre hasn’t really hit me again until I heard this track from Greylag, who’ve just signed to Dead Oceans. They’ve got similarities to both previously mentioned groups, with the instrumentation resembling the former and the vocals harkening to the latter. Their album will be self-titled, and it’s set for an October 14th release…should make great times for fall listening.
Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream
November 19, 2013 Joey Bagnasco Leave a comment
Rating: ★★★½ ·
Harlequin Dream is the second LP from Australian folk-rock band Boy & Bear. Like their 2011 debut, Moonfire, this is a great sounding, very well produced record with several memorable tunes.
Boy & Bear work within the same reverb-soaked modern folk-rock style of bands like Fleet Foxes and Band of Horses. Vocally, it’s hard not to hear a major Fleet Foxes influence here. Still, Boy & Bear have found their own sound, and their tunes are generally more driven and upbeat than their contemporaries.
Harlequin Dream feels more pop and less folk-influenced than Moonfire. The first five songs are all fairly bright, high-energy tunes. The album slows down for the first time and takes a slightly reflective turn with “A Moment’s Grace”, before picking back up with the folk-sounding “End of the Line”, which has enough banjo in it to feel like a Mumford and Sons piece. The next song, “Back Down the Black”, feels very out of place here, maybe because its subject is so much more serious than anything else on the album. The last two songs are my personal favorites, especially the mellow, meditative “Arrow”.
The vocals throughout Harlequin Dream are quite strong. There are some really well done, smooth harmonies as well as some impressive displays of range. The title track in particular is incredibly hard to sing along to, although it’s catchy enough to make you want to try and fail (I did).
Lyrically this feels like a fairly straightforward rock record, with many of the songs covering such inexhaustible subjects as desire and loss. The mood stays lighthearted throughout the album, but there’s still room for some complex lyrical structures in songs like “Real Estate.”
I like how Harlequin Dream expands upon the Boy & Bear’s already solid sound. I definitely think that this band is only going to get more popular, and I don’t really have any criticisms of this album other than the fact that the ridiculous cover makes my eyes hurt.
Poor Moon – s/t
Rating: ★★★ · ·
Side project of two members of Fleet Foxes or not, Poor Moon is essentially the child of Christian Wargo, bassist/vocalist for the aforementioned band. For years, Wargo wrote and recorded songs on his own before he decided to bring along Casey Wescott, as well as Ian and Peter Murray to help bring his bank of demos and songs to fruition. Thus was born Poor Moon—a band to adapt a collection of songs into a collective album.
Naturally, with musicians from such a well-known band in the folksy/indie scene, people will be drawn to Poor Moon for its ties, but those who come looking for the vast dependency on warm harmonies and big, swelling folk sounds will have to keep on looking, because for the most part, this effort showcases folk sound on a smaller, minimalist scale. Take the first song “Clouds Below” for example, begins with some gentle guitar plucking and the soft vocals of Wargo, which meander in coolly, harmonizing with the impossibly higher backing vocal to create a serene and simple opener. This sets the tone for the album, alluding to signs of a peaceful, folksy sound.
But, the band picks it up a bit from where they leave you after “Clouds Below” especially on the third track “Same Way,” where things get groovy. One of the strongest on the album, the song employs some opening ‘ooh’s’ and is backed by strong melodic xylophonic sound as well as big echoing drums that fill the previously empty background of the song. There is a quite an enjoyable breakdown towards the end of the song that is just long enough to give you a taste of the musical ability of the members of this band and it makes you desire a bit more depth from the songs of Poor Moon. Through the rest of the album, you listen for little pieces of this depth that the band demonstrated on this song, but sadly they are in short supply. It isn’t the lengthy and full storytelling and serene folk album that feels right for the genre and it comes across as a group of songs that were forced to sound similar, as opposed to the authentic and natural production of an album.
Most of the songs are relatively short for folk numbers that are reaching to be meaningful and impress a feeling upon their listeners, which leads me to my biggest complaint about this album; there just isn’t enough on here to really make an impression on those who take a listen the first way through. With repeated listens, it’s possible to grasp and really hold on to the music that has been so meticulously laid out for its audience.
December 12, 2011 RayRay 14 comments
We’ve already brought you our songs of the year and Texas albums of the year, so now it’s time for the much anticipated albums of the year list. I’m sure many of you will notice some big names off the list and you will be ready to plead your case about why we are wrong. We’ll hear ya out… Feel free to drop us a comment with your own list or just to debate with us. Follow the jump for list.
50) The New Tigers – s/t
49) Secret Cities – Strange Hearts
48) AM & Shawn Lee – Celestial Electric
47) Rural Alberta Advantage – Departing
46) Blue Skies for Black Hearts – Embracing the Modern Age
45) Geoffrey O’ Connor – Vanity is Forever
44) Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams
43) Destroyer – Kaputt
42) Obits – Moody, Standard and Poor
41) The Rosebuds – Loud Planes Fly Low
40) Tim Cohen – Magic Trick
39) Bad Sports – Kings of the Weekend
38) Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis
37) Chad Van Gaalen – Diaper Island
36) Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts
35) Crystal Stilts – In Love With Oblivion
34) Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
33) Devon Williams – Euphoria
32) Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
31) Sonny and the Sunsets – Hit After Hit
30) Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
29) Wax Idols – No Future
28) Grooms – Prom
27) Cut Off Your Hands – Hollow
26) The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
25) Ducktails – Ducktails III
24) Papercuts – Fading Parade
23) Atlas Sound – Parallax
22) Mind Spiders – s/t
21) Craft Spells – Idle Labor
20) Yuck – s/t
19) The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
18) Comet Gain – Howl of the Lonely Crowd
17) The Drums – Portamento
16) Snowmine – Laminate Pet Animal
15) King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
14) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Belong
13) Girls Names – Dead to Me
12) Light for Fire – s/t
11) Other Lives – Tamer Animals
10) Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
9) Iceage – New Brigade
8 The Antlers – Burst Apart
7) Seapony – Go With Me
6) Pure X – Pleasure
5) Cloud Nothings – s/t
4) Real Estate – Days
3) Gold Leaves – The Ornament
2) The Twerps – s/t
1) Wye Oak – Civilian
So that’s it ladies and gents, we are officially putting an end to 2011. What do you like and what do you not like? Let’s hear it.
Gold Leaves – The Ornament
August 17, 2011 nathan.lankford Leave a comment
Rating: ★★★★½
Every once in awhile, you come across a record that fits into your life perfectly, filling the empty emotional space, revitalizing your spirit. Just one listen to Gold Leaves is all it takes to find that The Ornament seeps into your soul, establishing itself as an album that meets all your musical needs.
“The Silver Lining” is one of those perfect pop songs, carefully constructed for the maximum benefit of listeners. It’s a gentle number, similar to the recent work of Camera Obscura (in construction at least). But, what makes the track stand out is Carl Olsen’s voice. It waivers somewhere between Ward and Banhart, touching every emotional chord for those with a hankering for all things sad-bastard. While there’s a bit of solemnity to the opener, “The Ornament” provides a bit of brightness with just the slightest change in pacing. You’ll find that same careful arrangement with every bit of accompaniment propelling the song’s essence. It’s not a track to be taken lightly, echoing in your memory long after the song has skipped onto the next.
“Endless Dope” opens a new chapter for Gold Leaves. While other tracks have featured lush arrangement, this track seems more sparse in those regards, though elements still remain. But, Olsen’s vocals play the main role here, drawing you into his poetic verse, as opposed to letting you get washed away with waves of pop brilliance. Similarly, “Cruel & Kind” refuses to rely upon the maximum arrangements, carefully meandering through your mind. Inside this track you’ll find yourself getting lost, but in a manner that only the best of music can accomplish; it’s simplicity lets you drift in and out of consciousness, always drawn back by the inherent melody built within the tune.
Even when The Ornament doesn’t draw itself out with meandering tracks, a great deal can still be accomplished. For instance, “Hard Feelings” is one of the shortest songs on the record, but in a short span you’ll find trickling guitar lines, string pieces swirling in the background, and Olsen at the center of it all. Eventually, it crashes spectacularly in the middle, switching things up just slightly. There’s a denseness to this number, as it seems filled to the brim, but in writing in that fashion, Gold Leaves still leaves room for the melody and the emotion to find its way to your inner ear.
If you haven’t found room in your day for this collection, then you need to put down everything immediately. The Ornament is the kind of album that begs to be listened to, begs to be played over again and again. After one listen, you’ll end up clearing your schedule, finding yourself lost inside the depth and emotional pull of everything Carl Olsen has managed to put together for this outing. Not a note goes wasted, and that in and of itself, is something to praise–but this record is so much more. So stop reading this now, and drift away with Gold Leaves.
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More New Music from Gold Leaves
Awhile back we brought you an early listen to “The Ornament,” the first single from the upcoming album, The Ornament, by Gold Leaves. It’s really easy to see comparisons to other folk acts such as Fleet Foxes, but one thing I enjoy that is a bit different is the lush arrangements behind the sound on each track. We’ve got another one today, and you’ll hear hints of the kind of orchestration you usually find on the quiet tracks of Papercuts records. Yeah, those are great qualities to have, so you won’t hear any complaints coming from my end right now. Be sure to pick up the record on August 16th via Hardly Art.
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NOAA: ‘Near-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season’
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is “predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The organisation said, “This outlook forecasts a 40% chance of a near-normal season, a 30% chance of an above-normal season and a 30% chance of a below-normal season. The hurricane season officially extends from June 1 to November 30.
“For 2019, NOAA predicts a likely range of 9 to 15 named storms [winds of 39 mph or higher], of which 4 to 8 could become hurricanes [winds of 74 mph or higher], including 2 to 4 major hurricanes [category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher]. NOAA provides these ranges with a 70% confidence. An average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, of which 6 become hurricanes, including 3 major hurricanes.
NOAA graphic showing hurricane season probability and numbers of named storms
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“New satellite data and other upgrades to products and services from NOAA enable a more Weather-Ready Nation by providing the public and decision makers with the information needed to take action before, during, and after a hurricane,” said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., acting NOAA administrator.
“The 2019 hurricane season marks the first time NOAA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites includes three operational next-generation satellites. Unique and valuable data from these satellites feed the hurricane forecast models used by forecasters to help users make critical decisions days in advance.”
NOAA graphic showing 2019 Atlantic tropical cyclone names
“NOAA’s National Weather Service is making a planned upgrade to its Global Forecast System [GFS] flagship weather model – often called the American model – early in the 2019 hurricane season.
“This marks the first major upgrade to the dynamical core of the model in almost 40 years and will improve tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts. NOAA is driving towards a community-based development program for future weather and climate modeling to deliver the very best forecasts, by leveraging new investments in research and working with the weather enterprise,” added Jacobs.
“Also, this season, NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter aircraft will collect higher-resolution data from upgraded onboard radar systems. These enhanced observations will be transmitted in near-real time to hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center and forecasters at NWS Weather Forecast Offices.
“NOAA’s outlook is for overall seasonal activity and is not a landfall forecast. Hurricane preparedness is critically important for the 2019 hurricane season, just as it is every year.
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Time Shall Tell says:
Near normal hurricane season, you say? Now I’m worried. If you had said this was going to be the worst hurricane season in Bermudas’ history then I would have been alright with that. The predictions for local hurricanes seem to often be the opposite of what is stated. Emily comes to mind as one of the worst hurricane predictions (though not the only one) in recent Bermuda history. Let’s wait & see if your upgrade to the American model proves to be more reliable. Either way, I still appreciate the heads up on such matters. Thank you, guys.
Bob & Margaret says:
Wow, awesome insights. By my analysis I concur that it will most likely be a near normal hurricane season. That is to say not definitely near normal and not necessarily normal, but not far off. I guess we will just have to wait and see…
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MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle Opens Up About 'Real Struggles' of Balancing Motherhood and a Full-Time Career
At age 36, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle took a risk by moving from her high-paying banking career to one in media — where she had no experience and was warned not to pursue.
“A mentor of mine said, ‘Don’t go back to journalism school,’ ” Ruhle, now 43, tells PEOPLE.
So as she continued to work in the banking industry, Ruhle started doing public speaking to recruit girls to study math and science.
“One day I was giving a speech for a nonprofit called The White House Project, which is a group that was aimed at helping women just advance,” she recalls. “I said I’ve always wanted to work in the media and there was a woman at the table who said, ‘I work at Bloomberg and I think you’d be great.’ ”
The next day, Ruhle met Andy Lack — then the chairman and CEO of Bloomberg Media Group — and began her transition into the world of on-camera news reporting.
“Making the transition to Bloomberg was an easier transition for me because I knew the content so well,” the New Jersey native says. “I went there with two kids. While I was there, I had a third, which is always challenging in a new career.”
Now, as the anchor of two shows on MSNBC and a contributor on the Today show, Ruhle says she’s happier than ever.
“I didn’t expect this,” the MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle host says. “The best part about getting older is I’m actually happier as a 43-year-old than I was a 33-year-old and a 23-year-old because I’m trying to be somebody else and fit in somewhere that I don’t.”
Finding that balance hasn’t come without making demands in the workplace. For example, Ruhle takes her daily 6 a.m. meeting from home so she can spend the mornings with her husband, Andy Hubbard, and three kids.
“For working parents, specifically working moms, everything that does go wrong at home — and that’s obviously a lot — the thing I struggle with is I always blame myself,” Ruhle admits. “I always think, if only I was there, if I saw their face in the morning, or after school. One of the real struggles for women in having careers and families, we don’t have generations before us that were like, she did it, she did it, she did it. I’m just trying to get through the day.”
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Ruhle constantly advocates for working moms on her show and through blog posts on NBC Better. She’s also defended celebrity mom Amy Schumer when mom shamers criticized the comedian for getting back to work after welcoming son Gene in May.
The news anchor hopes to additionally empower stay-at-home moms who want to get back into the workplace, a topic she’s discussed previously on Today. “Moms don’t realize all the work they were doing,” she says. “If you are the head of your PTA, if you are running a kids’ little league team, if you were organizing a charity, if you were just running your family, think about the management and organizational skills.”
At the end of the day, Ruhle knows, “Everybody is trying to take care of their families and live their best life,” she says. “I’m super lucky. I’ve had so many awesome blessings and I want that for the next generation. I get to live the American dream.”
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Your West Chesire
Volunteer helps the borough spearhead the recycling revolution
Cheshire West and Chester Council supports volunteering and the work done by the hundreds of volunteers throughout the borough every day.
Residents across west Cheshire also support the commitment to recycling too, with 58 per cent of residents’ waste now being recycled, placing the borough in the top six per cent in the country for recycling performance and leading the way as cultural change sweeps the UK.
Since 2012, residents have separated their rubbish between different containers for food waste, garden and dry recycling.
One man who has contributed to helping change behaviour is council volunteer Jim Struthers from Kelsall.
Jim volunteers for the council’s Waste Reduction Volunteers Programme, which aims to reduce food waste through the “Love Food Hate Waste” scheme by, amongst other things, promoting composting. Jim visits school and community groups to spread the message.
In addition, he volunteers as a driver for the Cheshire Community Development Trust, which is partly funded by Cheshire West and Chester Council.
He is one of hundreds of volunteers across the borough helping to create a thriving community by giving up their free time to support the smooth delivery of council services.
When the new waste recycling scheme was introduced in 2012, he helped deliver the new bins and advised residents how they should be leaving their waste at the kerbside. He then visited households, whose bins had not been collected because they had been filled with the wrong materials, to help them recycle correctly.
Jim said: “Of course some people didn’t like the fact that their boxes hadn’t been emptied. Others would give very implausible reasons why there were things in their boxes that shouldn’t have been. We found that as long as you approached people in a non-confrontational way then we could find a way forward.
“We started with lots of households where recycling boxes hadn’t been emptied, but we got the numbers down in no time by getting the message across in the right manner, which led to fewer a fewer boxes being rejected. The reason we were doing this was to encourage people to recycle more and reduce the amount of material that goes to waste.”
Jim continues to spread the recycling message to school pupils. He added: “We take our own rubbish into the school and get the children involved; asking them which type of recycling box the rubbish goes into. The children are very receptive and will go back home and say to mum and dad: that does not go in that bin it goes in this bin.
“I think volunteering is infectious, because there is a real feel good factor. People appreciate what you do and you want to keep on doing it. You will choose other jobs and will also do some other volunteering roles.”
Councillor Louise Gittins, Cabinet Member for Communities and Wellbeing, said: “As the nation marks National Volunteers Week, Cheshire West and Chester Council is celebrating the people who offer their time by volunteering. The volunteers help the borough achieve its aims of creating a thriving place with thriving people.”
View: Councillor Louise Gittins's profile
Jim also drives elderly residents to hospital, shopping trips and social visits in his volunteering role for Cheshire Community Development Trust.
He said: “A lot of people I deal with when I am driving are very lonely people. Loneliness is a real problem these days. You become a friend and I suppose a bit of a volunteer confessional. It is nice when people trust you.
“I volunteer because I know that I am doing something that is worthwhile. Most people are appreciative, they know you have helped them and you are doing it of your own free will and in your own time.
“Apparently there is some sort of medical evidence that because volunteers have a feel good factor they actually live longer. Volunteering is good for people and maybe they live longer because they have got a good outlook on life.”
If you wish to become a volunteer for the council then contact please email: Volunteering@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk.
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#10 UCSB @ #4 BYU
Can I just tell you how much I LOVE home games?! I really like Reed, so it's really nice to have him around all the time. The games this weekend were so fun!
Friday night the Cougars won in 4! Should've won in 3, but hey, we'll take it. Reed had 2 kills, 46 assists, 3 digs, 5 blocks, and set the team to a .319 hitting percentage.
Saturday was so awesome. Once again, they should've taken it in 3, but settled with a 4 set win. But it was a record breaking night for the Cougs. They set a BYU all-time record of 24.5 blocks! Teammate Futi set a new BYU blocking record of 15 blocks! The blocking was crazy good! I get all excited just sitting here remembering the games! haha! Reed had 49 assits, 2 service aces, 8 blocks, and set the team to .377 hitting percentage. He's so good! Go to byucougars.com to see this weekend's highlight video.
And this little Cougar turned 8 months yesterday! He's such a trooper at the games-it's loud and past bedtime, but he does really well. He's a gym rat already!
I just can't get enough of this little face! He also pulled himself up for the first time today!
#7 USC @ #4 BYU
Oh man-we've had a busy, but awesome weekend! Where to begin?!
This weekend we had Reed's parents and his brother and his family from Arizona here for games. It was so much fun to have so much family around! Evan got to meet his Arizona cousins for the first time. And Grandma Chilton was loving having 3 or her 5 kids and 5 of her 7 grandkids around! It got a little crazy sometimes, but it was so fun.
Speaking of cousins, Evan got a brand new one on my family's side! Little Penny arrived Friday afternoon and we are so excited! We can't wait to meet her!
Then of course there was volleyball! Even though BYU is ranked higher than USC nationally, they are tied in the conference. So it was a big weekend for both teams. Friday night was so intense! Almost all of the 4 games went past 30! They were so close. Good news...BYU won! They should've had it in 3, but we'll take it in 4! Reed played so well! He had 5 kills, 4 blocks, 10 digs and 65 assists! This kid was all over the court! He was doing it all. It was so fun!
On Saturday we had a little birthday party at our house. March is a big birthday month in the Chilton family. It was Reed's Dad's birthday on Saturday, our nephew's birthday is on Monday, and his older brother's (who was MIA working at the BYU bball game in OK) birthday this week! So we filled 4 of those 5 grandkids (sorry Evan!) with sugar and then sent them to the park! Aunt Marie also brought over some liquid nitrogen and we made our own ice cream with it. We throw really great parties!
The Cougars entertained us with that sweep we barely missed Friday night! Reed played so well again. The whole team had a really great weekend. Reed set the team to .394 hitting percentage! So fun!
If you missed the games this weekend, don't be too sad. The Cougars are at home again this weekend taking on UC Santa Barbara. Really, if you've never been to a home game, you're missing out. You should come. It's so much fun! And...you'll get to see us!
Friday and Saturday at 7 pm in the Smith Fieldhouse
BYU @ LBS Active Ankle Tourney
The Cougars were off the Long Beach State this weekend to play in the Active Ankle Tournament. My parents also surprised us last Sunday when they told us they were flying me and Evan down for the tournament! We loved having one less lonely weekend and loved the warm weather. I was so nervous to fly with Evan alone, but he did really well (thank goodness!). Evan had a good time playing with Grandma and Grandpa Jo and his Uncles Ryne and Trae. Unfortunately Evan was busy getting his 3rd tooth and was a little grumpy...poor little guy!
We were lucky Thursday night to be at home when Ryne opened his mission call...he'll be serving in the Billings, Montana mission! He reports to the MTC on June 16. We are so excited for him and couldn't be more proud of him!
Friday night BYU played #9 Penn State. It was a really fun game to watch...and we won in 4! The team played really well and Evan enjoyed seeing his dad.
Saturday night BYU played St. Francis. They are a small school from Pennsylvania. The coaches decided to sit some of the starters and put some of the other guys in. So Reed didn't get to play. The Cougs won in 4. So it was a very good weekend for our team. Reed was able to come home with us Saturday night and then fly out Sunday morning.
This weekend BYU hosts USC at 7pm in the Smith Fieldhouse...come see us!
#1 Pepperdine at #4 BYU
It's been a while since I last posted...things got a little crazy here for a little bit! Last weekend the team traveled to play at Hawaii. Because of the time difference and all the traveling, this trip is 2 days longer than normal trips. Then there were the tsunami warnings. I was pretty worried for a little while, but thankfully it turned out to not be much. Unfortunately, the Saturday night game was postponed until Monday night...so the trip was extended another 2 days! Believe it or not, no one was happy. The team couldn't enjoy Hawaii because they had to rest for their game. And then to make things worse, they lost. Everyone watching for a tsunami from their balconies.
After being on the road for a month, the Cougars were finally at home this weekend! It's been so nice to have Reed home! My parents and little brother came up to see their first home game (because of all the delays, they beat Reed here!). It was so fun to have them here! Evan loved having other people to play with after spending a week with no one but Mom. Evan was so excited to get his very first Cougar hat!
On Friday, my little sister, her husband, and little girl came down too! Her baby, Bailey, is just about 2.5 months older than Evan, so it was fun to see them together. Evan tried to suck on Bailey's toes and Bailey pushed Evan over. They had a good time together!
Friday night's game was awesome. We had a really good crowd and we won in 4! It was so fun! It was the perfect game for my parents to come to. Reed played really well and had fun doing it! It was one of those games that reminded him why he does this and why he loves it so much. Evan meeting Cosmo for the first time! Evan LOVED playing with cousin James after the games!
Saturday's game was not as fun. We lost in 3. Reed played so well in the 1st game! He had some awesome digs, a crazy pancake, and set really well. Then, for some unknown reason, he got pulled out. That's why we lost. BYU has always beaten Pepperdine when Reed plays. It was a hard loss. But overall, we had a really fun weekend. Reed's parents were also in town for the games, so Evan had grandmas everywhere! It was so fun! Thanks everyone for coming out!
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Valrhona launch at The Hotel Café Royal
Fine chocolate brand Valrhona launched a new chocolate, and I had the chance to go to the party, taste, and investigate.
Much of what I do is meeting, tasting and recording the new creations of artisan chocolatiers and small-batch chocolate makers. These chefs are working at the cutting edge of chocolate innovation, in that they play and invent, taking chances on new flavours, experimenting with new cacao origins or processes. But as passion for chocolate only grows, and globally pastry chefs are increasingly savvy about the potential of my favourite ingredient, so the larger fine chocolate...
The Best of Italy – A.Giordano
As the final 2014 heats of The International Chocolate Awards are underway, here is a look at a two time world award winner.
A. Giordano is one of those specialist traditional food businesses that have died out in such number, as things become centralised, economies of scale win the financial battles, and tastes become bland and homogenised. But A.Giordano is a shining example of survival, rescued from its potential fate by a combination of passion, hard labour and a good dose of luck. [caption id="attachment_2419" align="alignnone" width="506"] The famous gianduiotti in all sizes.[/caption] Established in 1897, and masters in the...
Patricia Hodgkinson at I Wanna Cocoa
A great new talent is unearthed. Very definitely one to watch!
One of the greatest joys of writing about food, and judging and consulting on chocolate, is witnessing passion and creativity. I recently came back from Paris, where I spent a day in the inner sanctum of La Maison du Chocolat, one to one with Head Chef Nicolas Cloiseau, tasting recipes, interviewing him, and gaining stunning insight into that globally successful fine chocolate company. Nicolas Cloiseau is a big deal, it was a privilege. (More of...
The Chocolate Show London – 2014
An important date for your diary and chance to indulge. Get mingling with the finest chocolate makers at this not-to-be-missed event.
Do you like chocolate? I know, stupid question, but there is the odd freak out there that doesn’t. Although what they would be doing reading my articles is a little uncertain. So, assuming you do like chocolate, love chocolate, worship chocolate, or even make it your life’s work, you MUST be sure to have the 17th-19th of October blocked out in your diary for The Chocolate Show 2014 at London’s Olympia. [caption id="attachment_2377" align="alignnone" width="506"] Scrumptious...
The Best of Italy – TortaPistocchi
As the summer holidays draw to a close, here is a taste of something wonderful found on travels of mine, that I can happily still get at home.
It is a truism that Italy is all about family, family and food. At the Tuscan workshops and showroom of TortaPistocchi, the burgeoning chocolate empire of Claudio Pistocchi, this could not be more the case. During the late morning visit I paid with Italian chocolate expert Monica Meschini, we met not only Claudio and his sister but also his wife, two year old daughter, parents, cousin and a close friend. This was a normal day...
Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume Restaurant
Humour me for straying from chocolate once again. L'Enclume was an experience too special to keep to myself.
L'Enclume, Simon Rogan's two Michelin starred restaurant in the village of Cartmel, is hardly on the beaten track. It occupies the old blacksmith's (enclume is French for anvil) in the heart of a Cumbrian village carved out of characteristic grey stone, nestled in amongst the hills of the Lake District. But while it may not be a place you are likely to wander past, it is absolutely worth the journey, consider it a pilgrimage. I...
Afternoon tea at Cocolicious in Kent.
As Afternoon Tea Week approaches I thought I would bring you a gem of a tea from my favourite cafe.
In the UK afternoon tea has a unique place in our hearts, and the elaborate meal that has developed to fill the unscalable gap between lunch and supper can be a very special thing indeed. Sadly, because of the worldwide fame of our afternoon tea ritual there are a plethora of formulaic, badly executed excuses for it in hotel dining rooms and village tea shops throughout the nation. It isn't that we want innovation, at...
Daniel Clifford’s Ultimate Box of Chocolates
A world class chef, whose chocolate is well worth a pilgrimage.
Just over a year ago I was lucky enough to eat at Midsummer House, Daniel Clifford’s two Michelin starred restaurant on the edge of Midsummer Common in Cambridge. I am currently doing research for a series of articles for Four Magazine, including one on how exciting, informed and adept chefs are getting with chocolate. Looking at the notes of my glorious experience in the hands of one of the UK’s finest chefs it seemed like...
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Wildrose raised big cash in 2012, Tories fell behind.
12 Comments on Wildrose raised big cash in 2012, Tories fell behind.
Falling behind in fundraising, Premier Alison Redford and MLAs Peter Sandhu and Steven Young count their pennies.
Unofficial political donation records published by Elections Alberta yesterday show that Premier Alison Redford‘s Progressive Conservative Association is not in the robust financial situation its leaders are accustomed to over the past four-decades in office.
At least not in 2012, when the Tory Party was eclipsed by its main rival in fundraising amounts.
Danielle Smith‘s Wildrose Party smashed political fundraising records in 2012, raising an incredible $5,916,565 over the course of the year. Contributing to the $5 million figure was $3,122,670 of revenue reported from the 2012 election and $2,793,895 raised outside the campaign period. In their non-campaign period, the Wildrose Party recorded a $175,133 deficit and $405,361 in net assets.
While the Wildrose Party attracted large donations from medium-sized oil and pipeline equipment companies, the large majority of that party’s donations came from individual donors. This trend suggests the Wildrose has harnessed a fundraising machine similar to the Conservative Party of Canada. With close ties to the federal party, it is no surprise that the Wildrose has chosen to mimic this successful fundraising goal.
Premier Alison Redford
The Conservatives under Prime Minister Stephen Harper were the first federal political party in recent history to succeed in effectively cultivating a large base of individual donors to fund their political operations. This energized base of individual donors helped free the Tories from having to depend on the large corporate donations that for decades fuelled the Liberal Party of Canada.
The test for the Wildrose Party will be whether they can sustain this level of fundraising in the years between election periods.
Meanwhile, Alberta’s PC Party reported a $3,055,621 deficit after last year’s election that had been whittled down to $794,767 in liabilities at the end of 2012. Relying heavily on corporate donations, the Tories raised $1,607,581 during the 2012 election and $2,331,592 in the non-campaign period.
Manmeet Bhullar
The Tory fundraising numbers from the 2012 election are lower than expected and are somewhat misleading as many Tory candidates raised astonishing amounts of funds on their own accord. For example, Calgary-Greenway Tory Manmeet Bhullar‘s campaign spent $133,294, Fort McMurray-Conklin Tory Don Scott‘s campaign spent $110,955.44, Edmonton-Whitemud Tory cabinet minister Dave Hancock‘s campaign spent $121,233.35, and Calgary-West Tory candidate Ken Hughes‘ campaign spent $111,796.33.
Despite the old saying that Alberta’s PCs strived to always have enough money in their coffers to run two back-to-back election campaigns, the party is struggling with a smaller donor base and growing debt wracked up in last year’s election.
Brian Mason‘s New Democrats reported impressive revenue of $1,380,659 outside the campaign period in 2012, but remain strapped with a $554,883 debt from previous election campaigns. Raj Sherman‘s Liberals reported $478,795 in revenue in the non-election period and a $30,015 surplus in funds at the end of 2012.
Tags Alison Redford, Brian Mason, Danielle Smith, Dave Hancock, Don Scott, Ken Hughes, Manmeet Bhullar, Peter Sandhu, Raj Sherman, Stephen Harper, Steven Young
← Mayor Mandel on the warpath, keeps re-election plans secret. → Spreadsheet: Tracking Alberta political party fundraising from 2004 to 2012.
12 replies on “Wildrose raised big cash in 2012, Tories fell behind.”
Change Albertasays:
Good Article Dave. It looks like Liberals spent the least per seat and per vote. Sounds like they have a case to say that they are efficient spenders and are able to maintain a budget. Its It looks like ND’s had almost 3.5x the revenue that ABLibs had and still the ND’s got less seats, despite all that money and Federal ND handholding and coddling.
Its fair to say then, while ND’s had donations from Unions and WR and PC got its donations from Corporations, it seems the Alberta Liberals have made very respectable show of personal donations from real Albertans. The ND’s have peaked in Alberta, the Tories have mislead and lied to almost everybody and campaigned on a fake budget with billions in deficit, the Wildrose had politically contentious candidates, who WR leader did not remove quick enough. Liberals appear to be strong financial managers and that is a huge plus.
Jasonsays:
In all seriousness, is this the first time that we have had actual evidence that the ALP debt has been repaid? The Betkowski debt?
Artsays:
Change Alberta,
So the Liberals raise less than any other party in the Legislature, and only 29% of what they raised in the last election year (over $2million in 2008) and they are on the move?
Bad, bad, spin Jonathon.
Hey Art, its hard for some haters like you to see value. Liberals DID NOT have the huge corporate help. The media fueled Lakes of Fire Hysteria, stole the election from the WR, decimated the Alberta Party before it even had a chance and the Liberals took a direct hit, but still got 5 seats.
They had only a new leader for barely even a year. How is a new leader supposed to raise millions of dollars that quickly, it would have been monumentally inhuman to be able to do that in such a short time. Esp. at a time, when other leadership candidates were airing dirty laundry on an almost daily basis.
The ordinary and uninformed, lost their marbles to thwart the Wildrose boogeyman. Like Dominoes, they piled on and hedged their bets AGAINST the Wildrose and the Tories benefitted by default.
Most voters don’t care to be considerate and think carefully, nor do they care to use their memory of how the Tories have screwed Albertans and saved NOT ONE PENNY. That is unfortunate, people need to start thinking again, even if for a few minutes to place a vote more thoughtfully.
The Tories can afford at election time to be everything to everybody, because they have huge corporate donors that use the Tory Party to further their own financial agendas. Edmonton Media, is lazy and compliant and even biased, perhaps because much of their revenue depends on the Public Affairs Bureau, (also jokingly known as the Tass News Agency). Most people believe what they read and see, once they see it thousands of times over and over. A misleading spin told in Edmonton Papers over and over again, becomes believed. The same trick is used in repressive regimes all over the world, yes it is.
Esp. Academia, those so-called political scientists and health law ethicists that wish to secure Tory funding for their institutions, during the entire election, they spewed some of the most biased garbage, one-sided reporting and journalism that would make the Cruelest of Dictators Green with Envy.
Democracy is extremely weak here in AB. Checks and balances of healthy democracy are almost non-existent. The Tories control almost every political committee and veto anything that calls for more transparency.
Its sad that some of you ascribe to two right wing parties running this place and what is even worse, almost nobody here, is asking for accountabilty or any checks and balances, its truly shocking. BC and Ontario Liberals never had to put up with such a deeply entrenched and willingly daft population and such a biased media.
You want to see good media coverage, just goto any of the other province’s legislatures. Heck even Australians, use their grey matter to question those in office and the bureacracy. You will see them asking sledgehammer questions and keeping politicians, esp those in office, accountable and answerable, at all times.
Sorry but, some of you or none of you believe in accountable governance, checks and balances and democracy.
Its absolutely deplorable, and stupid to criticize any party that has always stuck up for the average middle class citizens and that has moderate, sensible policies.
Go move to China, if you really love dictators and don’t want any checks and balances, accountability or transparency.
Its time the centrists and progressives unite under the Liberals and change things this time. So much can be accomplished under this flag. YES it can.
40 yrs folks, this place is in dire need of some turnover, don’t you think?
Fred Ziffelsays:
Dave – is the PC party trust fund “off the books” or does it get included in their reported assets?
Ryansays:
As I recall, the PCAA party got demolished in fundraising in the election, but their CAs had a far more respectable showing relatively. It wouldn’t surprise me if they reported some high CA fundraising figures when those come out.
Also, does anybody know the exact size of the TAPCAL party trust fund?
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jerrymacgpsays:
@Change Alberta, it is misleading to say “while the NDs got donations from unions…”, when in fact the NDP also got a lot of money from individuals. Yes, union donations were a significant portion of NDP contributions, the campaign & annual disclosures shown on the Elections Alberta website (BTW Dave, your link is broken; it should be http://efpublic.elections.ab.ca/efParties.cfm?MID=FP) show dozens of individual donors over the $375 disclosure threshold.
Have I gone through and added up the total amounts from individuals vs unions and labour groups? No. That would be tedious & time-consuming, and I’m surprised the disclosure forms don’t already have those totals (it would be one quick spreadsheet cell on the original documents). But just a cursory inspection reveals that saying the NDP is funded by unions doesn’t tell the whole story.
Oh, and by the way, the NDP is supposed to be the party of labour; why then should unions not contribute to it?
Mayors, potholes and KLM | Edmonton Blog Watch | The Unknown Studiosays:
[…] Dave Cournoyer wrote about the fundraising prowess of the provincial Wildrose Party. […]
Concerned Albertansays:
A couple of years ago, I read in The Herald that the Wildrose was given $3 million in start-up money by the oil boys.
1. If this is true, how is that allowed by election rules?
2. If this is true, it’s due to no great feat of brilliance by anyone involved with the party, then, that it has done well for itself and will no doubt do even better next election as the deliberately set-up fallback for the failing Tories. Everyone knows that moneyed campaigns usually win elections.
“…what Alison Redford taketh away….. Alison Redford giveth back?” | Chris LaBossieresays:
[…] is looking more like a Premier than the Premier. They are beating the PC’s at their own game, raising piles of money from a very broad base of support, and they have very much softened their policy positions. The Wildrose will not make the same […]
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NEIL YOUNG Archives - Vol. 1 (1963-1972) (REPRISE) (via Spotify)
SIMON H. FELL Frank & Max (Bass Solos 2001-2011) CD (BO'WEAVIL)
ALAN WILKINSON Practice CD (BO'WEAVIL)
HESSION/WILKINSON/FELL Two Falls & A Submission CD (BO'WEAVIL)
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mp3s of ALICE COLTRANE on Piano Jazz with MARIAN McPARTLAND
mp3s of THE SILVERTONES "Young At Heart" b/w FREDDIE McKAY "Love Is A Treasure" 12" (STUDIO ONE)
mp3s of LES TOUAREG Avec les Seigneurs des Sables (DISQUES ALVARES)
BILL FAY Time of the Last Persecution (DERAM) (via Spotify)
BLUES CONTROL & LARAAJI FRKWYS Vol. 8 LP (RVNG INTL.)
SEX CHURCH Growing Over LP (LOAD)
SKOAL KODIAK Kryptonym Bodliak LP (LOAD)
I continue to have, but barely use, Spotify. Not because it isn't awesome, because of course it's awesome. Not even because they only pay the artist something like .002456 cents per play. (I don't know what it is exactly, but I'm pretty sure the amount starts with a point-zero-zero-two.) I already tweeted about the very first search I typed into Spotify, Ash Ra Tempel, and how it got zero results, which I'll admit I still haven't really forgiven them for. I also haven't really figured out how to use any of the social or discovery options... I realize that's because I'm not trying very hard, but so far there's nothing as inspiring as Turntable.fm chat, or even the good ole "suggestions" column on YouTube. And that's just it, the real reason I barely use Spotify is simply because I'm doing just fine with iTunes, YouTube, and, let's not forget, my own stereo. I'm already comically behind on the listening I need to do, let alone want to do, and at this point Spotify feels like an unnecessary complication.
I've mainly been using it to look up current hip-hop and pop songs that people talk about, because I don't buy that stuff at all. In fact, there's really only one album I've been using Spotify to listen to so much that I'm probably going to reach my free-account limit. The only other album to even get close has been Ford & Lopatin's Channel Pressure when I binged on it over a couple awesome days this summer (and then promptly bought the 12"), but the winner is Neil Young's Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972) 10 Blu-ray or 8 CD or whatever set. All 125 tracks are on Spotify, and in all those listens I still haven't even gotten through half of it, and I haven't had to mess around with 10 Blu-ray discs to do it, not to mention a Blu-ray player. (Then again, um, the actual set does sound really, really nice: "Also found on these 9 multimedia discs are 20 special feature videos, film clips, and film trailers, an additional 55 audio tracks of rare interviews, radio spots, and concert raps, and an array of interactive features, including image galleries of archival photos, press, lyric manuscripts, documents, biographies, tour dates, and complete lyrics, as well as an interactive timeline feature which presents an in-depth overview of Young's life and career." You also get "a digital download card to access MP3 files of all 128 audio tracks, a lavish 236 page fullcolor hardbound book that features additional archival materials, tapes database, and detailed descriptions of the music and artwork, a foldout Archives poster, a custom keeper for the 10 sleeved discs, and more." Apparently in there somewhere is a DVD of Young's lost/shelved debut feature film Journey To The Past, and I think I also heard that the audio discs will play film of a cozy burning fireplace on your TV while you listen to the tunes.)
And of course, the tunes are the single most important thing, and this is one fine listen, starting at the very beginning, disc 0, with some stray tracks Neil cut in Canada before he was famous, mostly with a band called The Squires. I read about these sessions in Shakey, which was somewhat deprecating of them, but man, from the surf instrumental "Aurora" to a very early version of "Don't Cry No Tears" from Zuma, here called "I Wonder," I think they sound absolutely choice, with my fave being the perfectly sublime "I'll Love You Forever." After the Squires jams, disc 0 rounds out with a few early (and honestly not quite 'there' yet) solo hotel-room-style performances of various songs including "Sugar Mountain" and "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing," and then disc 1 goes right into the great Buffalo Springfield songs, including what might still be his finest achievement, the Jack Nitzsche-produced "Expecting to Fly." Disc 2 takes us through his eponymous debut LP all the way to some of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and then disc 3 takes a welcome detour to a single live solo gig somewhere on the way, the sublime Live at the Riverboat from 1969. Disc 4 gets into the rest of Everybody Knows and the first half of After the Gold Rush, disc 5 is another detour to a single gig (this time Crazy Horse live at the Fillmore East in 1970, drool), and so on all the way through Harvest. Thanks Spotify! And thanks for paying Neil Young one cent USD so far for my listening to, instead of buying, Volume 1 of the Archives. (That's .002, the cents-per-play royalty rate which I did just see quoted after a cursory google search, multiplied by, let's say, 500 songs played, if I've played this album 20 different times on Spotify, and listened to an average of 25 songs each time I did. Which is a lot of usage... when I buy an album fair and square, I very rarely listen to it that much, which definitely proves something about something.)
Neil Young Archives Volume 2 hasn't been released yet, but it has been announced that it will cover the years 1972 to 1982, which means it will not only give us the entire Ditch Trilogy (Time Fades Away/On The Beach/Tonight's the Night) but will also take us all the way up through the mighty Trans, in other words incorporating every single one of his truly great albums (though I might throw in Sleeps With Angels and Harvest Moon as almost great... hell, Le Noise too). Jeez, maybe I should just buy both of these sets... it'd be cheaper than the new washer & dryer I hafta get... I guess Spotify does sell records!
This might be the first time I've actually heard British jazz double bassist Simon H. Fell, though he's been on my radar for a good 15 years, around which time he was recording some hardcore British free improv jazz jams with saxophonist Alan Wilkinson, who was in turn recording some hardcore British free improv jazz jams with guitarist and key link between free jazz and punk/industrial music (not to mention punk/industrial film criticism) Stefan Jaworzyn, all deep within the pre-internet bowels of the early-mid 1990s. Now we have here a new CD of solo 4- and-5-string double bass performances by Mr. Fell, assembled from recordings spanning ten years, released in an edition of 300 copies by the Bo'Weavil label. There are two venues, or at least locations, where these tracks were recorded, apparently at various times over the years, though I never got the sense that any one piece sounded 10 years older or newer than any other piece, which means Fell must be a remarkably consistent player. I was also struck by how all or nothing this music is... you've got to turn it up and listen closely to every single note for the music to really be rewarding. You get out what you put into it, as they say. When I listened to it at lower volume, while cleaning up around the house with the kids running around doing stuff, I was asking all kinds of questions of free improvisation as the music made its jagged and often obtuse way. Am I even able to listen to it anymore? Has it served its purpose? (Which seems to have been a two-year crash course in increasing my capacity for musical logic, somewhere in the aforementioned pre-internet 1990s, lessons that I still consider today.) Is that why the music no longer comes to life for me, because I've internalized all the lessons? Or is it simply not turned up loud enough?
Speaking of Alan Wilkinson, and hardcore British free improv jazz, Bo'Weavil also sent along a new edition-of-300 CD by him too, also of solo performances, this one called Practice. I don't think I've ever actually heard his playing before either. Right off the bat it connects more than Fell's stuff. It might be because I have it on louder, by myself at work, without kids running around, but also because it totally swings and reminds me more of Thelonious Monk. He doesn't even use any "extended techniques" until close to the 3-minute mark! But don't get me wrong, he certainly extends himself throughout the disc, and it's a long one at over 65 minutes. Great player though, he can get as blasted and extended as any of the other post-Brotz lions I've heard, but he's also very nimble and capable of lightly skipping stuff. He does a very good 8-minute version of "Lonely Woman" that takes that old chestnut and makes it new in certain ways. And wait, what's this, Bo'Weavil has also put out a new trio album in which Fell and Wilkinson are joined by their longtime cohort Paul Hession on drums! First time hearing Hession too as far as I know. And honestly, this one is kind of going in one ear and out the other. It's a live gig, so you've got some enthused audience reaction, which is cool, but the sound has more of a venue ambiance that isn't as crisp and in-your-face as it is on the solo discs. That means you've got to dig in even further to hang on every note (Fell's bass is particularly low in the mix, which is so common for live free jazz recordings that it almost seems like it might be a requirement), and it just isn't happening for me right now. Still sounds like a good high-energy trio, and I'll have to check it out on headphones. The title is Two Falls & A Submission and this one is an edition of 350 copies.
After the Fell/Wilkinson/Hession extravaganza, the previously listed new albums by Village of Spaces and Dan Melchior und Das Menace got another well-deserved go-round on the 5-disc changer, still in there from last time, both going on my "Best of 2011" list (due sometime in mid-2012). Then I switched to the turntable for more new stuff, because I got hold of a copy of the Blues Control & Laraaji collabo (thanks Zum) (sounds great on wax), and also because a new LP from Load Records is always a must-check for me. For something like 15 years Load has broadcast and distributed the worldwide voice of weird punk, weird heavy rock, and weird noise, and it's important to understand the weird, because thriving colonies of weirdness ensure biodiversity of the species, and biodiversity promotes survival during any sort of near-extinction scenario. Didn't think it was so humanistic, did you? Well it's not, I was actually talking about microbes.
Anyway, we've gotten not one but two new albums from Load this quarter. The first is Growing Over by Sex Church. I knew nothing about this band upon receipt, though it seems that they're from Vancouver BC, and this is a fine little LP of grinding dirge punk rock. Did I say little? Actually, it's kind of big and a bit overlong as an 11-song LP, but the band has a good heavy sound in which they know where to leave space so that the listener can begin to parse the words that are being sung, and breathe in between the impacts of various loud and amplified ensemble dirge rock moves. The cover art and album title even work together nicely. In an earlier post I called another current band of today "meat and potatoes" and it could apply to Sex Church too. It's meant as praise, because these are the bands that keep us nourished and grounded in between visitations from the divine. Such as....
Second new one from Load is a ripper by Skoal Kodiak, which is a band that has apparently been playing in Minneapolis for 6 years. Kinda weird that I just heard about 'em this month, because I thought I'd been keeping tabs on Minneapolis ever since Prince and Twin/Tone Records came along, and especially ever since the late-90s heyday of my all-time favorite Minneapolis label, the unfortunately under-distributed Freedom From. I've even kept tabs on two of the three members of Skoal Kodiak in the past... drummer Freddy Votel during his stint as the last drummer ever for The Cows (1995-1998, according to Wikipedia), and way back in September 2001 (believe it or not, six days before 9/11) I saw vocalist/electronicist Markus Lunkenheimer, credited on this LP with "confusion," perform a 5-minute solo noise set on modified bleach bottle at a Phi-Phenomena event that Freedom From staged in Minneapolis, to celebrate the then-concurrent Phi-Phenomena tour. A month later, as long as I'm fully disclosing, I even played guitar and saxophone in a band with Markus and Freedom From proprietor Matthew St. Germain and another guy named Bob. We opened 6 shows for Reynols on their 2001 US tour, and those were the only 6 times we ever played together. I don't even think I've seen Markus since, but believe me, Skoal Kodiak is ten (or 600) times better than our band was. They are another one of those trios that make a perfect triangle foundation, like ZZ Top, Budgie, Meat Puppets, or Sun City Girls . . . the rhythm section of Freddy on drums and Brady on bass (first names only) not only lay down a heavy noise-rock surface, they also give each tune a subtle and dementedly funky nightclub lope undercurrent that is very addictive. I know it's cliche to work in a Prince reference when discussing bands from Minneapolis, but track two "Hollidazzle" actually sounds like a runaway Prince production... not the popular stuff under his name, I'm talking about some of his weirdo new wave rippers like "One Day I'm Gonna Be Somebody" by The Time or "Drive Me Wild" by Vanity 6, only the Skoal Kodiak version includes transformation by lead vocalist into some sort of frothing were-Prince. Markus is particularly good in the traditional post-Yow post-Am Rep shouter/barker mode, and I think he's probably singing right into that modified bleach bottle, because his vocals are constantly melting into something more like strobelight effects at said theoretical funky nightclub. And where are all those crazy keyboard-type synth-type melodies and tones coming from? Is that the bleach bottle too?? I guess I could watch YouTubes. Either way, it's a hell of a formula and I think Skoal Kodiak is my favorite Load Records signing since Sightings. (And what label did Sightings' debut 7" come out on? Well, as a matter of fact it was......... Freedom From.)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Ska Bonanza (HEARTBEAT)
KING TUBBY Herb Dub - Collie Dub (JIGSAW)
FUNKADELIC Maggot Brain CD (WESTBOUND)
JOVONTAES Things Are Different Here LP (HELLO SUNSHINE)
Ska Bonanza came up on the shuffle and sounded so luxurious that I was moved to tweet something about how third wave ska, especially during its 1990s heyday, got so terrible that I'm only just now, 20 years later, able to appreciate what a great band The Skatalites were. One of the great R&B bands period, especially if R&B is an creation of the entire African diaspora, and not just something that happened in the mid-20th Century United States. Here's a couple Skatalites burners featuring Don Drummond:
I also already tweeted about how heavy the Herb Dub-Collie Dub album is, released more or less anonymously in 1976, in the killer sleeve below. No artist or band credit, just "Mixed by King Tubbys" [sic] on the label. As far as I can tell, when the album was reissued in 2001 (in a much worse sleeve) it was billed as by King Tubby & the Skatalites, I guess in that the Tubster was remixing Skatalites rhythms, which is weird, because, uh, the rhythms on this album are not ska rhythms at all, right? They are slow roots rhythms? Unless I'm crazy, or Tubby slowed the tape down to like less than half speed, which isn't true...
THE POLYPS Ants on the Golden Cone LP (HELLO SUNSHINE)
YOKO ONO Fly 2LP (APPLE)
mp3s of VARIOUS ARTISTS Rock Steady Coxsone Style (COXSONE)
mp3s of CABOLADIES Psychic Birthmark (SMOOTH TAPES)
mp3s of TIGER HATCHERY s/t one-sided LP (PIZZA NIGHT)
an mp3 of "A Dread At The Controls" radio show, December 1978, JBC Radio, Jamaica (DL)
mp3s of VARIOUS ARTISTS Krypton Ten: Christchurch 1981-87 2LP (UNWUCHT)
More new music! This time it's two LPs from Hello Sunshine, a vinyl-only sub-label of Woodsist Records. The first is by Jovontaes, a band from Lexington, Kentucky, probably named after this dude. Lexington has been one of my favorite music towns ever since the Hair Police marched outta there in full riot gear over ten years ago (yes, it's really been that long). In fact, Hair Policeman Trevor Tremaine wrote a blurb for this record that says, in part, "[Jovontaes] emerge from (and possibly define) my town's peculiar skate/Kraut/nihil/garage axis," which is certainly enticing to this mind's ear. As for "skate," this record was recorded in a skate shop (with a killer name: Void) that one of the members owns. The "Kraut" descriptor also makes sense, because these are minimalist spaced-out groove instrumentals with a psychedelic edge, although it honestly took me a couple listens to even realize it. I dug the warm and fuzzy skate shop sound right away, but the grooves really didn't even register at first. The second time I was prepared for the elusiveness, and could enjoy that great shivery sound a little more, especially noting the subtle and potent low end (booming floor tom and distant crawling bass guitar). Still, very minimal stuff. Do I wish they made these jams more into songs? I'm not sure, and that in itself is something. Maybe it is in fact the "nihil." I'm also just noticing that the press release calls this "improvised music," which adds another layer of explanation. I listened to it for a third time last night, and it sounded even better. I think I'm about to listen to it again... it does go well with night-time... now playing, track 3 "Falcon", the best one on here... what was I thinking, these guys are totally grooving.....
Also on Hello Sunshine is an album by The Polyps, who is a guy I've never heard of before named Raf Spielman, who does a label I've never heard of named Eggy Records, but I've played his record like 5 times now, even more than I played the Jovontaes record, even beginning to approach the number of times I played the Stare Case record a couple months ago. I don't know what it is, but it's definitely something, and it's not chillwave, even as it layers electronics, drone, dream-sounds, goofball industrial damage, and slow Funkadelic voices until a couple weird shattered and gauze-wrapped pop songs wobble to the surface before sinking again... regardless of how much I like it (I honestly have no idea), he brings more the table than most . . . Ferraro, for example, brings even more but he doesn't bother to have a table to put it on... just dumps it on the floor... no matter what the style, music has to be foundational and architectural, and the reason I've listened to this record a few times is because it is.
My goodness Yoko's Fly sounds better than ever, not only for its time (1971), but for right now and the foreseeable future. A lot of the intense avant solo female styles that bubbled up from the underground in the 2000s, like the recently discussed Inca Ore, were already right here in full flower, and in my opinion this is Ms. Ono's masterpiece. Her Plastic Ono Band debut had the awesome opening double shot of "Why" and "Why Not," but they were also total John Lennon jam sessions, one fast, one slow, and I can't really remember anything about Side 2... oh yeah, that's when Ornette Coleman shows up! Talk about jam sessions! Fly does not shy away from those same extended Lenono one-chord groove-jams, and in fact even stretches one out to 16 minutes ("Mind Train"), but the 4 LP sides are brilliantly balanced by many uniquely crafted and memorable shorter pieces, such as the Fluxmania of "Toilet Piece/Unknown" and "Telephone Piece," pieces featuring Joe Jones and his invented "automatic instruments," even a few good old 4-minute-or-less songs like the intense "Don't Worry Kyoko" and the stunningly beautiful melancholy of "Mrs. Lennon," which was Yoko's first true solo single (as you can see her and John explain on The Dick Cavett Show before showing a video they made for it, clip below). And then on Side D, specifically balancing Side A's "Mind Train," we get the 22-minute non-verbal free-form solo-voice title track, a more potent statement of nudity than the cover of Two Virgins... if you ask me...
What's up with the iPod constantly pulling up another great Studio One rocksteady comp that I didn't even know was on there? Still liking the Studio One stuff better than the more acclaimed Treasure Isle rocksteady. It has a fuzzier sound, because it was a one-track studio (!) at this point and Coxsone had a certain way of gathering the musicians around the mic. At least I think that's what I read in a book, maybe Bass Culture by Lloyd Bradley or somewhere deep in the vastness of Solid Foundation by David Katz. Here's my choice cut from this comp, "Let Me Love You" (aka "Love is a Message") by a very young Jacob Miller:
More new(ish) music! Also with a Lexington, KY connection! I'm talking about the Caboladies and their 2008 album Psychic Birthmark! Still seem to always like this band better than the Emeralds! Funny how most of the "brand new" music I'm writing about is actually from 2008 or 2009! This Tiger Hatchery self-titled one-sided 12-inch probably is too... ah, it was recorded in 2009, released in 2010... time sure is flying... frying... fading away...
lovely image from the Mimaroglu Music Sales web store
The Krypton Ten double LP is a fantastic compilation of music from the Christchurch, New Zealand underground punk/rock scene, "previously released between 1981-87 on locally distributed cassettes & records." I'm surprised how very little I had ever heard about these bands before this... I guess Dunedin got all the ink. The only band from 1980s Christchurch I could've named off the top of my head is The Pin Group, who aren't even on here, and I've only even heard of a mere five of the bands that are: Scorched Earth Policy, The Axemen, Alec Bathgate, George D. Henderson, and Henderson's long-running band The Puddle. Apparently Bill Direen is on a couple of these tracks, but I only have MP3s and haven't read the apparently informative liner notes (this thing seems to have sold out of distros a couple weeks ago when I wasn't paying attention). Pretty much everyone else on here is completely new to me, like G.O.D. and The Limbo Dancers and Dillinger's Brain and Drowning Is Easy and so many more, and I swear there is not a dull moment over 30 tracks. And hey, Tony Rettman interviewed the Unwucht label founder/proprieter who put together this massive release, read it here.
SIENKO PREDICTS DANZIG TANTRUM!
In earlier times, from The Real Glenn Danzig
Not only did I have to wince when I read this blow-by-blow account of Glenn Danzig being a Prima Glenna last weekend at Fun Fun Fun Fest, I also had to laugh, because the whole thing was more or less just predicted by longtime Blastitude contributing editor Chris Sienko! He happened to catch the Danzig Legacy tour when it stopped in Chicago on October 7th, and he sent me a great e-mail about it three weeks ago on October 19th, which included this particularly insightful section:
....Danzig and Doyle stomped out for one of four remaining times that Glenn's supposedly going to sing these [Misfits] songs. "I hope you fuckers are getting your rocks off, because this is it!" spat Danzig. Actually, his inner wants and needs were pretty well telegraphed through the whole show. "We're up here sweating our asses off for you guys!" meant "it's too hot in here." "This ain't no Tom Petty, motherfucker, so you better believe we're playing it loud!" meant "it's too loud in here." And "any other fuckin' act would be back in their dressing room right now, combing their hair in front of the mirror" meant "I wish I were back in my dressing room, combing my hair in front of the mirror." Just SAY you don't want to be here, Glenn! Then fucking play the songs we're here to see! The whole crowd chanted along with the wordless choruses and chants, and got all riled up for "Bullet" and "Last Caress." I think he did maybe seven or eight Misfits tunes, tops?! before stomping back off, after which the scrim again became the Danzig skull and he came out for two more of his current songs and "Mother." Couldn't end on a high note, could you?
VARIOUS ARTISTS Mojo Rock Steady (STUDIO ONE)
PASCAL ROGE After the Rain... the Soft Sounds of Erik Satie (LONDON)
KURT VILE Constant Hitmaker CD (GULCHER)
VIVIAN JACKSON (YABBY YOU) Conquering Lion (PROPHET RECORD)
AUGUSTUS PABLO East of the River Nile (SHANACHIE)
CIRCLE Prospekt (EKTRO)
KING TUBBY Explosive Dub (CLOCKTOWER)
MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO Horizontal Structures (HONEST JON'S)
SUN CITY GIRLS Funeral Mariachi CD (ABDUCTION)
VILLAGE OF SPACES Alchemy of Trust CD (CORLEONE)
DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE Catbirds and Cardinals CD (NORTHERN SPY)
ELEVEN TWENTY-NINE s/t CD (NORTHERN SPY)
SOFT MOON Total Decay EP (CAPTURED TRACKS)
BLUES CONTROL Local Flavor (SILTBREEZE)
Mojo Rock Steady is a superb rough-and-tough rocksteady compilation album. It was put together by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One, who they say was surpassed as a producer by Duke Reid of Treasure Isle during the rocksteady years, but this just sounds tougher and more together than even Duke's Treasure Chest to me. Sure, Duke's stuff is a little more elegant and romantic, but that's precisely why I prefer Coxsone's streetwise sound. Just take the Sound Dimension jam called "Psychedelic Rock," which was renamed "Rockfort Rock" because a sound system in the Rockfort neighborhood adopted it as their theme song; the LP even features a tag added to the front of the tune in which an anonymous DJ introduces the tune as "Rockfort Rock," big-upping the neighborhood. This album also includes a few sublime jazzy rocksteady instrumentals such as sax master Roland Alphonso's "Take Me" -- Coxsone always was known as a jazz head, and an awesome jazz presence is where ska and rocksteady trump the American R&B they were otherwise so obviously influenced by.
Back in 2007 (has it really been that long?) I attended a live show by Circle and it was great, but today I wasn't feeling that Prospekt album at all really. It's from 2000, and the description I read made it sound like it was one of their best. On the other hand, their 2007 album Tower Featuring Verde is SO GOOD (and nothing like the live show I saw).
Finally catching up with the latest Moritz Von Oswald Trio double LP release, Horizontal Structures, released earlier this year. Side one "Structure 1" has got some kind of faraway ghost-of-Eddie-Hazel ticklish lead guitar going on, which is unexpected and nice, and I now see that it was played by Dominican old head Paul St. Hilaire, who has been collaborating with the Basic Channel crew for some time now. Throughout the album his guitar blends with the sci-fi rain-forest atmosphere of deep dubby percussion and surreal electronics to create another great release by the Trio. The rhythms seem even more overlapping and multilayered than they were on the Vertical Ascent debut, and there are sections on the download-only "Structure 5" that get so spaced-out they basically sound like Harry Bertoia.
Funny how just last post I'm going on about how I never listen to new music, and never talk about it on this blog, and then tonight, without planning to whatsoever, I spin something like 7 brand new and recent albums in a row. It was triggered by listening to WNUR on the way home from work. In addition to a great song (that I have now determined to be "The Light") from the self-titled Hush Arbors album that was released about 3-4 years ago on Ecstatic Peace (2008 to be exact), and which I once had a generic promo CD of that I failed to review at the time and unfortunately can no longer find, the DJ played two tracks from the Sun City Girls' swan song Funeral Mariachi. It sounded so good that I had to dust a copy of it off when I got home, the nearest of which was my lovely gatefold CD edition on Abduction, which made me do the unthinkable: turn on my CD player and use it to listen to music. The album sounded as great as it did last year when it came out and I played it constantly, and then, after it whispered to a gentle close, what should emerge from the speakers next but something wholly appropriate, with a similarly sublime recording clarity rendering still more slow, haunted, elegaic-but-smiling new American folk music. It turned out to be the new CD from Village of Spaces, which I put in my CD changer 2-3 months ago when I received it in the mail, but have not gotten to until tonight, because like I said, I very rarely listen to CDs. I believe this band lives in Maine, and they used to be called Uke of Spaces Corners County, and then just Uke of Spaces Corners, and then Village of Spaces Corners, and now Village of Spaces, and they've always been good, but this Alchemy of Trust album is really a their-masterpiece-to-date kinda thing. And then what should come on next and next in the ole 5-disc changer but two more very new releases, both on the Northern Spy label, the Dan Melchior Und Das Menace full-length called Catbirds and Cardinals, and the self-titled debut by Eleven Twenty-Nine. The Melchior sounded just as good as it did the first time when I tweeted about it, the third song "Forest of Tin" especially standing out this time with its haunting refrain of "Can you hear my feedback, feeding back/from deep within the forest of tin?"
Eleven Twenty-Nine, which is apparently blues lingo for a one-year prison sentence, is in this case the name of the guitar duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides, et al) and Marc Orleans (Sunburned Hand of the Man, et al). These guys have been duking it out in the underground for a good 20 and 10 years respectively, probably more, and there is no doubt that they are superb guitarists. Mr. Carter gets a life-time pass for the always-massive Charalambides (hell, he'd probably get one for The Mike Gunn alone), although in the mid-00s he was roving around the country guitar-slinging, and I personally ran across what seemed like 3 or 4 sort of ad hoc group-improv albums he jammed on in a row, and while I wouldn't call any of them "bad," none of them felt especially essential. In retrospect, I'm glad he was keeping his chops up, because now that he's in a highly focused duo with Orleans, who really seems to be at the top of his own game (stunning work on the new Meg Baird LP, for example), sparks are flying. These extended avant/blues/folk jams sound composed, but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't either, beyond the album's dedication/inscription to Jack Rose, which seems to fire the whole album up with his huge heartfelt spirit.
And then, when I give the CD player a break and head back to the ole iTunes album shuffle, the brand new stuff just keeps coming with the new four-song Soft Moon EP on Captured Tracks. This is a (one-man?) band based in San Francisco, and I'm not sure what makes his/their music better than all the other retro-coldwave retro-post-punk bands these days, but it really is. Why do I like it 100 times better than Cold Cave, for example? Well, it does have extremely fresh and well-produced hypnotic krautworthy grooves, and a great "mineralized being" vocal presence that communicates sharply written tunes. At no point does he even try to sing like Ian Curtis! Here's a song that also works an Eno/Roxy-style electronics solo and some out-of-nowhere bongo frenzy into the mix:
And wow, iTunes album shuffle knows what's up, jumping from Soft Moon to another band that is 100 times better than [insert closest competitor here], but I already said that last week: Blues Control, and their absolute megalithic masterpiece from 2009, Local Flavor. Still sounds wonderful.
INCA ORE Silver Sea Surfer School (NOT NOT FUN)
SOUND DIMENSION "Heavy Rock" b/w "Heavy Dub" (COXSONE) (best horn line & trombone solo, great tune)
JACKIE MITTOO "Our Thing" (BAMBOO) (version!)
CAN Soundtracks (MUTE/SPOON)
PORTER RICKS Biokinetics (CHAIN REACTION)
PRINCE FAR I & KING TUBBY In the House of Vocal Dub (GRAYLAN)
MICHIGAN & SMILEY Downpression (GREENSLEEVES)
THE NEW BLOCKADERS & ORGANUM Salute (FRUX)
THE UPSETTERS Return of the Super Ape LP (UPSETTER)
INCA ORE Birthday Of Bless You (NOT NOT FUN)
GROUPER/INCA ORE split LP (NO LABEL)
It's nice to have the Inca Ore record first up there, because when I list what I'm listening to on a day or a weekend like this, I'm always amazed by how rarely anything new or remotely current gets played, and since I list things in the order I listen to them it's even more rare for a recent record to be listed first, which is the only way its name will show up on my twitter and make it look like it's actually about new music, like a real music writer's twitter would be. Sure, I like plenty of new music, and I keep up pretty well, but whether it's iTunes album shuffle or LPs stacked by my stereo, it just tends to be older stuff. I guess I hold the controversial opinion that anything recorded in the 1960s on up can still be interpreted as technologically and culturally new. Even if we just started at a year like 1964 and worked towards the present, we'd be mining old music recordings and coming up with beautiful new (to someone) gems for as long as we have electricity and speakers. Strewn throughout the last five decades were vast deposits of musical gold that seem to be even more abundant than crude oil, and unlike oil, recordings of good music are extremely reusable.
Even the Inca Ore record was released two years ago in 2009, so this is hardly a timely mention I'm giving it, but it does seem to be her most recent, which makes it still current, right? Also, I listened to it twice just now, and I'm still not sure what to say about it. Maybe this record needs to be 40 years old before I can begin to grasp it. I really liked her Birthday of Bless You release (2008, also Not Not Fun), and her side of the split LP with Grouper (originally a cassette from 2007). Both of those seemed really focused, clearly stated, and legitimately spooky, and though Silver Sea Surfer School seems ambitious in new ways, which is a good thing, it also seems more stylistically jumpy and unsettled. So yeah, not sure, but I'll keep it on my iTunes for future shuffles to turn up. (Side note: the Discogs page for this record lists style as "Abstract, Noise, Poetry, Therapy." That's the first time I've seen therapy listed as a style... that could be listed for a lot of records, right? Discogs apparently already has it listed for 639. Blood on the Tracks isn't one of them.)
The YouTube channel that hosts the above Sound Dimension "Heavy Rock extended with Heavy Dub" clip is great and I've listened to a bunch of stuff on it this weekend. Great sound, pics of the original labels, lots of seamless mixes between A side tunes and B side versions, and a selection that looks to be entirely pre-digital. For just one great example, check out this mix of Sugar Minott's "I Need A Roof" with the Studio One "Consumer Dub." Thanks PabloWKingStoned!
Raise your hand if, back in the 90s, your copy of the Porter Ricks CD cracked a month after you got it because of that otherwise rad metal tin it came in! Now raise your hand if you forgive Chain Reaction anyway because the album is so awesome!
Two of the heaviest stylists in reggae history unite on the ephocal In the House of Vocal and Dub, Prince Far I the "voice of thunder," and you know what Tubby does (mix of thunder). Checked out the Michigan & Smiley album because in Check the Technique, KRS-One talks about how their song "Dangerous Diseases," big in New York at the time, was an influence on Boogie Down Productions, as was reggae in general. I do love "Dangerous Diseases" aka "Diseases," cut over one of my favorite dancehall-era rhythms which is indeed known as the "Diseases" rhythm (or sometimes as the "Golden Hen" rhythm, though I'm not sure why yet), and can be heard on a bunch of tracks like another fave of mine "Dance in a Montreal" by Brigadier Jerry. "Diseases" is a funny song too ("I said the most dangerous diseases/I said the most dangerous diseases/I'm talkin' like the elephantitis/The poliomyelitis"). That said, though I do dig a lot of digital '80s dancehall tunes, especially up to like '82 or so, and will surely continue to find more, these days I'm completely happy to spend most of my time listening to reggae recorded before the 1980s digital boom. As mentioned above, the well will never run dry (despite what Prince Alla might advise). (UPDATE: I knew the "Diseases" rhythm didn't start with "Dangerous Diseases," I just knew it!)
I don't really have an original edition-of-75 copy of the Organum & New Blockaders cassette on the Frux label as listed above, I just downloaded it off of a blog. It was recorded in 1984 and it's definitely killer stuff, grinding low-end synth, intangible electronics, clattering concussion/percussion, sounds of large objects being torn apart, perhaps more, perhaps even less... When it first came up on the shuffle I thought it might have been some early No Neck Blues Band... that group actually had a dark industrial vibe at first (circa 1992-1994 or so?), gradually replaced by a somewhat lighter extendo-groove kind of thing, and then fragmenting and reassembling from there. They are still going and I still like their music. I now wonder if the New Blockaders were a direct influence on those initial NNCK jams....doesn't matter of course, but I did just manage to write more about NNCK here than I did about the New Blockaders.....
Love these cheap Lee Perry LPs that are out there, I got Return of the Super Ape for $8.99 at Laurie's Planet of Sound this weekend, possibly Chicago's best non-Reckless record store. And if you really want some nice price reggae vinyl, hit up Ernie B!
Relistened to all three aforementioned Inca Ore records just now. The first two are indeed excellent, and while I still agree with what I wrote at the beginning of this post, I'm starting to get a handle on the third one. There's a tune called "Shine On from the Heaven Above" that really hits a yearning spaced-out spot...
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JAH LION Colombia Colly (MANGO) (Lee Perry-produced toasting record from 1976)
NICOLAS JAAR Space Is Only Noise (CIRCUS COMPANY)
PARAMETER Galactic Ramble (SHADOKS)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Duke Reid's Treasure Chest (HEARTBEAT)
MIGHTY DIAMONDS When the Right Time Come/I Need A Roof (VIRGIN)
BORED YOUTH Touch & Go EP (LOST AND FOUND)
nice 4-song reggae-on-random-shuffle playlist (see below)
SANTANA Caravanserai LP (COLUMBIA)
AME SON Primitive Expression (SPALAX)
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing Here Now But The Recordings (INDUSTRIAL)
The Nicolas Jaar record is a nice one, which seems to work with some pretty hip contemporary sounds like deep house, dubstep, chillwave, autotune, pitched-down R&B, but actually does the unthinkable and uses them all to make not half-baked genre exercise but MUSIC (in this case just good downtempo haunting-yet-wry new-wavey soul tunes, comparable to another dry'n'wry electronic contemporary, Tin Man). Click here to listen to "Space Is Only Noise If You Can See" (which dare I say has Arthur Russell vibes).
Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label is generally regarded as the premiere label for Jamaican rocksteady, the transitional style between ska and reggae circa 1966-1968, and the Treasure Chest comp is two CDs compiling the greatest hits he produced during that period. Here's one you might recognize, "The Tide is High" by The Paragons. Some other greats include "Come On Little Girl" by The Melodians, the self-explanatory "Rock Steady" by Phyllis Dillon, and the exquisite Curtis Mayfield reimagination "Queen Majesty" by The Techniques.
I've sung "I need a roof / over my head" to myself at least 2,000 times in the last couple days, after listening to the Mighty Diamonds Right Time album a couple times. It's such a great song, although the version I've heard the most is Sugar Minott's, and I feel like I've also heard it as a truncated phrase echoing through seemingly ten different dub tracks over the years, or maybe just one, or maybe zero. I love the Diamonds' version too, especially the wonderful counterpoint from the background vocals. The Right Time album is regarded as a classic, although the sound always takes a couple minutes for me to adjust to... I'm more used to "dread" roots (dubbed-out, foggy recording, songs in minor keys, scary), and this is more "sweet" roots (more clean and dry recording, more major keys, wistful and melancholy). I just made up that dread/sweet distinction, don't go quoting me at Deadly Dragon or anything, and these are still sufferer's songs... when Tabby sings "I Need A Roof" it's because he lives in a tin shack and he really does need a roof.
The Bored Youth EP was supposed to be released in 1982 on Touch & Go, the same year as the debut Negative Approach EP, but it didn't get pressed up until someone in Germany booted it in 1990. According to their guitarist Jon Katz, as quoted in Tony Rettman's Why Be Something That You're Not? Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985, "I had just got a new amp and was having trouble getting it to sound right and Rob had a real sore throat, so we just decided to scrap the whole thing." Damn, sounds incredible to me! If this had been released in '82, who knows what history would look like? There might just be some strange butterfly-effect differences. You can listen to it on YouTube:
Random shuffle reggae playlist came out very randomly rocksteady (and speaking of the Duke, the middle two of these four cuts are on the aforementioned Treasure Chest comp): Ken Parker "Have A Good Time" (nice Sam Cooke cover); Alton Ellis "Cry Tough (extended version)" (one of the all-time great rocksteady tunes and rudeboy cautionary tales, here inna dub style); Joya Landis "Moonlight Lover"; New Establishment "Darling" (can't find the last one on youtube but it's a good tune)
French band Ame Son was formed by renegade members of a Daevid Allen backing band, and they've recorded spaced-out free-prog on and off since 1967, including Catalyse, a 1970 release on the notorious BYG/Actuel label. The Primitive Expression release gathers some archival material recorded between 1967 and 1976, and was apparently released in some form in 1976, and reissued on CD in 1998 by the almighty Spalax label. I wish I had a copy because I'm listening to the Mutant Sounds version and I'm not sure which tracks are from what time period. It's all worth a listen, and I'd like to give it a closer and more informed one, but I can tell you this, there is a stunner on here called "Je Vieux Juste Dire," which starts as a weird drony number with delicately sung vocals, and then develops into a highly involving 26-minute jam! Here's part one, listen to it while tripping on the Kirby-damaged cover art! (Or click here to listen to the whole 26-minute jam in youtube playlist form.)
And I leave you for today with a bonus embed of one more super-tough tune from the Treasure Chest!
NEIL YOUNG Archives - Vol. 1 (1963-1972) (REPRISE)...
VARIOUS ARTISTS Ska Bonanza (HEARTBEAT) KING TUBBY...
JOVONTAES Things Are Different Here LP (HELLO SUNS...
VARIOUS ARTISTS Mojo Rock Steady (STUDIO ONE) PAS...
INCA ORE Silver Sea Surfer School (NOT NOT FUN) SO...
JAH LION Colombia Colly (MANGO) (Lee Perry-produce...
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Gypsy Shadow Publishing Author Ed Ahern
Fascinating individual describes Ed Ahern. His modern fairy tales overflow with the vividness of his imagination and his talent as a storyteller. Gypsy Shadow’s Fireflies, New Springs, Legends and Wee Folk Genres feature young adult and children’s stories, folk tales and fantasy. His The Witch Made Me Do It fits nicely in each of these categories. As a result, you will find something to enjoy and hopefully share with others in this collection of modern fairy tales!
Interview with children’s fairy tale and fantasy author Ed Ahern:
How old were you when you first started to write?
Ahern: At sixteen, I started out writing obituaries for a weekly newspaper; my first paying job writing. About the same time, I completed my first fiction story, a shoot-em-up bodice ripper that never got published, and which I fortunately lost many years ago. Additionally, my junior year in high school, I wrote my first poem, a stinker about ants that got published in the school newspaper.
What motivates you to write?
Ahern: My motivation varies with the type of writing, and where I am as a writer. My non-fiction is limited to articles about fly fishing for Atlantic salmon, written to help other anglers and show off what a hot shit angler I am. An initial goal when I resumed writing fiction and poetry was publication. But now, some three hundred published pieces and reprints later, I write what I hope is decent and not what I think an editor will like.
I write really because I like telling prose stories and conveying poetic thoughts and emotions. Like probably most performers I live for the enjoyment and appreciation of an audience.
What’s your favorite non-writing activity?
Ahern: In order of personal importance: family first, then reading, fly fishing, shooting, online diversions like Facebook and Twitter, and exercising.
Are you an activist, or is there a particular area of conservation or compassion you are passionate about?
Ahern: Activist is probably too strong a term for me. Nonetheless, I’m a conservationist and support organizations like Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited and the Atlantic Salmon Federation. I no longer support the NRA, their views on gun control are not mine (nor the majority of NRA members)
Ahern: No pets at present, but a past with, serially, one cat and three dogs. I’ve spent over forty years living with household animals, and I’m not counting the gerbils and goldfish.
Are you an only child or do you have siblings?
Ahern: I’m the first of three, with a sister and brother lined up behind me.
Are you married—and do you have children? What do you love about your relationship?
Ahern: Married forty-nine years in November, 2016. My stock line in the bio is that I have my original wife, but that after so many years together we’re both out of warranty. Two children, five grandchildren. We’re very close emotionally but not geographically.
What is the most significant thing that has happened during your lifetime?
Ahern: I survived. I was a sport diver as a teenager and a Navy diver and bomb disarmer while in service. Then almost ten years living overseas as an intelligence operative, then another quarter century avoiding the conflicts and disease in second and third world countries. Almost swept away twice while wading where I shouldn’t have in turbulent rivers.
What do you read and what is your preferred medium?
Ahern: Two part answer. Pro Bono I handle a stable of review readers and sit on the review board for Bewildering Stories, which entails reading and evaluating around 25,000 words/week. My leisure reading alternates between literary fiction, genre fiction and nonfiction. The leisure reading is almost always from a physical book.
What are your favorite books?
Ahern: There are too many to list. I tend to keep or buy a book I really like, and there are well over a thousand books squirreled away in the house. And my tastes have changed over the decades. The Tarzan and Tom Swift books I read as a child seem pretty awful now, although I loved them then. I continue to make dedicated efforts to plow through Ulysses and Infinite Jest. I love the writing but get so frustrated that I put them back down for awhile. I do reread Tolkien fairly frequently.
Who are your favorite authors?
Ahern: Another “it depends” answer. Some authors are comfort food- George R. R. Martin for example. Some authors are annoyingly good—the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Andre Dubus. Some authors recompose English into brittle brilliancy—David Foster Wallace.
If you had a gift certificate for $100 worth of books, where would you begin browsing and what would you buy first?
Ahern: No hesitation. Collectable books on Atlantic salmon fishing. I’d need more than a hundred dollars though.
WEBSITE: www.swampgasworks.com
TWITTER: @bottomstripper. I write almost daily about writing.
FACEBOOK: edward.ahern.39
KEYWORDS FOR YOUR BOOK(S) AND YOUR INTERVIEW.
fairy and folk tales, children’s books, Christmas books, reading to children
Thanks, Ed. We are honored to have you as one of our authors!
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Denise Bartlett is Gypsy Shadow Publishing’s Chief Editor and acquisitions editor. She delights in working with established authors to tighten up their manuscripts and their messages and with brand new authors to bring their dream of being a published author to fruition. Visit her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseBartlett.ChiefEditorGSP/
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RTC Discussion
By MizzouGrad, November 8, 2019 in College Wrestling
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Longtime lurker, but as a Mizzou fan, grad, personal giver of money and overall lover of things #Tigerstyle, this last week got on my nerves.
From standalone Willie, Flo guys and members of this board talking about the demise of Mizzou and this and that.
I've spent the past few years digging into how these RTC's work and what's the future. The bottom line is there is only 3 functional RTC's in the country and you could make a strong discussion there is really only 2.
I'm not going to regurgitate the role, definition or ultimate purpose of the RTC system, but here are the broad facts:
1.) HWC and NLWC are the only two functional, long-term RTC's in the country. They both have multiple athletes that almost exclusively rely on the funds raised/generated from the RTC to live, have stable fundraising preventing financial shortfalls and can successfully transition athletes from college to post-grad with NO need for endorsements beyond basic services like camps/part-time coaching etc.
2.) Every other RTC cannot say that. We do not know exactly what Nebraska provides Jordan Burroughs, but we know from his advertising deals that his image/likeness provides enough income to have an upper-middle class lifestyle. Therefore, Nebraska RTC is paying for James Green, who has been able to supplement his RTC monies with world championship success.
3.) Go down the line: Ohio RTC, Finger Lakes RTC, Cowboy RTC - None of these RTC's are successfully supporting MULTIPLE athletes over an entire Olympic Quad. Sure, Finger Lakes can bring in Jordan Oliver for a year or so. That's no different than Mizzou currently employing Dom Bradley and Alan Waters for this Olympic run.
4.) There is a general ignorance around college fundraising, declining national enrollment and cuts in upper-education. Simply put, it's not a lack of effort from these programs/coaches/fundraisers. The RTC system is a.) Not a long-term, sustainable addition for a vast majority of Wrestling programs and b.) exacerbates the lack of parity in college wrestling and potentially harms other institutions.
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Gantry 1,422
Ohio RTC has definitely been supporting multiple athletes, and has been for a long time. Synder/McKenna just left and Logan retired, but that doesn't change that they've been a full time, active RTC with multiple world level guys for a long time.
nhs67 478
Is it safe to say that Mizzou is now in full panic mode?
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LHU125 54
Sounds a lot more like opinions rather than facts...
9 minutes ago, nhs67 said:
No. We have arguably the #2 class for 2020. Season ticket and fundraising is at an all-time high and we have the best wrestler in America going to AWA and throughout Missouri promoting Tigerstyle.
Mizzou is doing great.
16 minutes ago, Gantry said:
That's why I said 3.
Posted November 8, 2019 (edited)
Me fail reading, that's unpossible!
Edited November 8, 2019 by Gantry
RTCs help the rich get richer, no doubt about it. But there’s more than two rich programs in the country. NJ RTC has a ton of potential. FLWC is already in the elite group. NYC RTC certainly has the alumni base to become a big deal.
Aside from that quibble, I agree with the gist of your post.
Billyhoyle 1,727
The value of RTCs isn’t to create parity, it’s so that these wrestlers can get paid to pursue international competition. I really don’t care if Missouri wrestling takes a hit for these athletes to have a livelihood.
3 hours ago, MizzouGrad said:
Don't feed the trolls, then. You creating an account to make that as your first post indicates that there is, in fact, concerns. Enough for you to wish to quell any sort of doubt in the 'masses' before it becomes uncontrollable.
Anybody with a decent mind of the sport knows that Mizzou will be decent for the foreseeable still.
Flo has to incite extremes. It is about clicks for them.
Many of us trolls? We understand. Others that don't? Oh well.
Just do us a favor and calm your knockers, bub.
Devil's advocate: The three biggest grappling names as far as Mizzou have left the last 24 months for better professional and/or personal prospects. You certain you're not freaking out a little here? I am. For you. Or my friend is, at least. They also just got hammered by a VTech squad in a dual that should have been competitive. It wasn't.
AnklePicker 383
Couldn’t agree more. Blaming it on “lazy” coaches is beyond ignorant. As I’ve said for quite a while, RTCs are great for our international program but bad for many, if not nearly all as you’ve pointed out, of our NCAA programs. Every coach should not be expected to run (the easy part) or fund (the hard part because coaches aren’t salesman) an RTC.
Fund 5 true regional training centers throughout the country. All the coaches could send their athletes there and they could run youth stuff to generate income just like many of the RTCs are already doing.
MDogg 185
Not trying to be a smartas* but not sure what “make a strong discussion” means...but there’s no making a strong argument that there are only 2 functional RTC’s in the country today. After all as a Mizzou fan you should know since you just lost your best senior level prospect since Cox to Iowa because of the strength of the Hawkeye’s RTC. And NJRTC and Cornell are not just functioning, they’re thriving.
There is no debating the fact that the NLWC is far and away the #1 RTC right now, but despite their dominance I think it’s very, very possible they produce 1 of our 6 Olympic reps next year. Personally I’m taking Cox over Taylor at 86 and Yianni over Zain at 65 (though those - especially the latter - are far from locks). That would make Snyder the only NLWC rep on the team...and unless he beats or really pushes Sadulaev not many people will consider Snyder making the team and medaling a feather in the cap of the NLWC.
There are 6 Olympic weights and the NLWC has no serious contender to make the team at 3 of the 6 weights. There’s nobody in that room that’s genuinely in the mix for 57 or 74, and I don’t think Cassar is a serious contender in freestyle this quad...trials are just too soon after the NCAA season ends and he has very little freestyle experience. In freestyle I don’t see him beating Gwiz, Coon, or Gable.
Edited November 8, 2019 by MDogg
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I’m assuming OP is referring to this article - https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/5068724-tax-forms-reveal-stunning-finances-at-nittany-lion-wrestling-club
Not sure how much has changed since 2015, but the point about having only 2 “long-term” RTC’s may not be too far off based on this data. With other expenses, you can’t pay too many people a decent salary with less than $500k in assets.
Carl attracts donations. That fact is indisputable and unlikely to change anytime soon. NLWC will be exceptionally funded for as long as Cael keeps winning regularly.
But a few things:
1. That article is four years old.
2. There are other schools with richer alumni and all it takes is one exceptionally wealthy one to take an interest in the sport (see Cornell, Princeton)
3. Net assets matter, but more important is free cash flow. For the folks who don’t speak accounting, one is a snapshot in time of how much is “in the bank” while the other is a measure of how much much money is coming in and how quickly. None of that data shows that.
It’s not just about two RTCs. But the point that very few schools can compete in a wrestling arms race is correct.
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I really did mean Cael. I have the new 11 Pro now and it hasn’t learned his name yet!
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19 hours ago, MizzouGrad said:
Longtime lurker,
Stop. Just stop. I am so humbled..
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On 11/9/2019 at 6:16 AM, wrestlingnerd said:
That’s the definition of revenue, not free cash flow.
29 minutes ago, MDogg said:
Wrong. Revenue is top line. Not net of anything. Gives you zero idea how much cash there is building in the business. FCF is the truest way to measure whether your balance sheet is likely to increase in cash over time or not.
“while the other is a measure of how much much money is coming in and how quickly”
What about your definition indicates anything is being netted? “How much money is coming in” is clearly the definition of revenue.
2 hours ago, MDogg said:
Ummmm.... the fact that we were talking about net assets in the same sentence?? Revenue is completely irrelevant in that context.
1 hour ago, wrestlingnerd said:
Ummmm...how does the fact you referenced net assets in that same sentence justify this incorrect definition or “free cash flow?” It doesn’t. I’ve got a CPA and CFA so I’m not one of the folks “who don’t speak accounting” you referenced in your original post.
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On 11/8/2019 at 3:36 PM, nhs67 said:
Mizzou forfeited 133, wrestled their backup at 141 (who got pinned) and their 3rd string hwt (Elam is redshirting). No fan of Mizzou (or folks that know anything about the team) are worried based on that dual.
1 hour ago, MDogg said:
Am I supposed to be impressed by those letters? No offense, but they're table stakes in finance.
This is not an accounting forum. I simply said that while I agree with him at a high level, nothing on the Flo article referenced suggests only two RTCs are financially viable because net assets (a very balance sheet-focused snapshot view) are not necessarily indicative of which RTCs are financially viable. I suggested a better metric, which is unavailable, is free cash flow, since (as you should know) it is much more indicative of the trend that those net assets are likely to take. Saying "how much money is coming in and how quickly" in that context is not incorrect. Incomplete, perhaps, but again, what is the point of being complete with terminology used in finance on here?
Cptafw164 27
RTCs are the new requirement in the college landscape for recruiting the elite prospects. It is hard, hypothetically, for a place like West Point to keep elite commits with international goals because there isnt a stable of guys at their RTC.
I'll give some hypotheticals:
1. Hypothetically, West Point recruits an under the radar stud who wins dual titles in Akron at 182 plus win bronze in freestyle cadet worlds...only to, hypothetically, decommit and hypothetically go to, oh any random place...lets just say, Iowa.
2. Another hypothetical scenario is if some elite recruit from some prep school in any arbitrary state...lets say Maryland, has a brother that currently goes to West Point. You would figure that they might want to join their brother. Hypothetically, lets say they dream of being a world and olympic champ WHILE wrestling in college. Then, hypothetically, they go somewhere with a RTC making that goal more likely.
That being said, I don't think that any RTC can beat the pay and benefits of the military's World Class Athlete Program. You get a salary of your rank plus housing/utilities allowance based on zip code. Full medical and dental. Their RTC is at Colorado Springs. But, you have to wait until you graduate to go there.
What West Point needs to lobby DOD for is allowing the COMMISSIONING of volunteer assistant coaches as officers so they can get the salary and benefits comprable to funded RTCs. For that to happen, WCAP would need to branch to the West Point Wrestling Club and have a contingent there. Since the amount of slots for soldiers of all ranks at West Point is approved by congress, congress would have to approve that move. Then there is the other part where any wrestlers who want to join would have to go through OCS (Basic training, OCS school then Specialized Branch schooling called BOLC). It would be a hard sell, but if 3-5 years wrestling doesn't pan out, they have a career to continue OR they can get released from service.
WEIRD enough is that Penn State has a WCAP contingent training at NLWC!!! The freestyle WCAP guys train there while the greco guys reside at colorado springs. That hurts! Not too bad because PSU seems to refer lots of talent to WCAP.
More than a competitive RTC, Army could use looser admissions standards for recruited athletes. It is one of the most selective schools in the country.
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21 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Quinn, Judith Ann, born: 29 March 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004463039
24 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Beaulieu, Oliver R., born: 27 March 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003024552
24 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Daigle, Annette, born: 26 March 1933, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004682802
30 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Poer, Curtis Max, born: 24 May 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004444161
30 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Sheehan, Bethany Rae, born: 22 January 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003734939
30 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Smith, Kelly Ann, born: 8 February 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003793172
30 Fountain Street, Wauregan, Smith, Sharron D., born: 31 March 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003804699
6 Front Street, Wauregan, Frenette, Jordan Allen Michael, born: 23 December 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004647708
6 Front Street, Plainfield, Walters, Nicholas J., born: 26 February 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004497109
6 Front Street Unit 484, Wauregan, Walters, Sabrina M., born: 22 June 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004663580
6 Front Street, Wauregan, Wood, Heather Marie, born: 22 September 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004010615
8 Front Street, Wauregan, Lecour, Joshua P., born: 28 January 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003993014
8 Front Street, Plainfield, Therrien, Wanda Gail, born: 12 July 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003224651
2J Gorman Street, Plainfield, Frechette, Mildred, born: 27 July 1923, Democratic, Voter ID 001585929
131 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Corrao, Jason S., born: 27 October 1978, Independent, Voter ID 001588709
270 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Moffitt, Shirley Ann, born: 12 November 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000925612
270 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Roberts, Kelly M., born: 21 November 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003191352
270 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Roberts, Ronald L., born: 13 April 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001584991
270 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Roberts, Travis M., born: 15 October 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004448868
296 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Ryan, Elizabeth Ann, born: 21 July 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003932316
313 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Rose, Roy R., born: 29 November 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004463734
323 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Cornish, Daniel A., born: 10 February 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004000392
341 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Medeiros, Robert F., born: 4 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004709559
349 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Truken, Robert K., born: 10 February 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004020726
372 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Mecouch, Ryan M., born: 24 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004783738
378 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Hayward, Michael A., born: 4 October 1977, Republican, Voter ID 001587135
381 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Armstrong, Christine J., born: 2 May 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004132404
387 Green Hollow Road Unit D, Wauregan, Lacombe, Sarah, born: 4 May 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004359269
389 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Price, Stacey Ann, born: 29 January 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003839165
398 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Hill, Angela S., born: 8 June 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003178886
398 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Hill, Shayne Frederick, born: 11 March 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003178910
398 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Sedgwick, Donna L., born: 31 December 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585630
406 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Dumaine, David M., born: 5 April 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586835
419 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Arriaga, Angela M., born: 23 October 1978, Republican, Voter ID 003703132
419 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Caron, Lillian M., born: 12 March 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 001583416
419 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Tetreault, Angela M., born: 23 October 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003177969
419 Green Hollow Road, Wauregan, Tetreault, Ashley Amber, born: 28 January 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003333474
500 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Dapsis, Joyce Ann, born: 22 March 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003346380
540 Green Hollow Road, Plainfield, Bratovich, John M., born: 4 July 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003499571
4 Grove Street, Wauregan, Deangelis - Moulton, Carol A., born: 11 October 1957, Republican, Voter ID 005081194
4 Grove Street, Plainfield, Moulton, James Thomas, born: 24 June 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003149334
4 Grove Street, Plainfield, Moulton-Deangelis, Carol Ann, born: 11 October 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003149328
6 Grove Street, Wauregan, Downing, Adam I., born: 5 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004098550
6 Grove Street Unit B, Wauregan, Downing, Santo M., born: 6 September 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 000631730
6 Grove Street, Wauregan, Downing, Therese J., born: 6 November 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 000631487
8 Grove Street, Wauregan, Collins, Brennan Kurt, born: 17 August 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003761233
8 Grove Street, Plainfield, Collins, Don Kyle, born: 7 August 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003635572
8 Grove Street, Plainfield, Collins, Kyle D., born: 13 December 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 001584438
8 Grove Street, Plainfield, Collins, Sandra J., born: 15 July 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 001582584
10 Grove Street, Plainfield, Duplisea, Mathew James, born: 15 October 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003222403
12 Grove Street, Plainfield, Plantier, Agnes, born: 17 July 1926, Democratic, Voter ID 001583064
16 Grove Street, Wauregan, Kerns, Charles Edward, born: 25 August 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004718493
16 Grove Street, Wauregan, Wright, Rachel E., born: 22 May 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004939102
18 Grove Street, Plainfield, Gilman, Jennifer L., born: 28 October 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 001586174
19 Grove Street, Wauregan, Gilson, Thomas Joseph, born: 12 May 1965, Republican, Voter ID 001125257
19 Grove Street, Wauregan, Patel, Harsh N., born: 9 June 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004670084
19 Grove Street, Wauregan, Patel, Nileshkumar V., born: 20 September 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004432279
20 Grove Street, Wauregan, Pierre, Fabiola, born: 7 May 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004335859
21 Grove Street, Wauregan, Marasini, Swarup, born: 8 November 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004794876
22 Grove Street, Plainfield, Smith, Charles G., born: 10 August 1938, Republican, Voter ID 003611744
22 Grove Street, Plainfield, Smith, Sandra J., born: 8 March 1958, Republican, Voter ID 003611745
25 Grove Street, Wauregan, Guilbeault, Mary Ann, born: 16 March 1953, Republican, Voter ID 001583801
25 Grove Street, Wauregan, Nadeau, Robert C., born: 23 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004947342
27 Grove Street, Wauregan, Cipriano, Patricia A., born: 13 September 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003992895
27 Grove Street, Wauregan, Mecteau, Wendy Lee, born: 4 November 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004135441
31 Grove Street, Wauregan, Marmaras, Justin Michael, born: 20 April 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004703572
32 Grove Street, Wauregan, Ogden, Angela M., born: 27 January 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004432270
32 Grove Street, Wauregan, Ogden, Brian Keith, born: 29 September 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004380705
37 Grove Street, Wauregan, Lukoski, Jeremy Thomas, born: 27 June 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004559752
37 Grove Street, Wauregan, Lukoski, Julianna Leigh, born: 10 February 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 004498591
39 Grove Street, Wauregan, Christian, Samantha M., born: 6 January 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003392722
39 Grove Street, Plainfield, Khek, Boriboun, born: 22 December 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003656841
41 Grove Street, Wauregan, Hakala, Jeffrey Crawford, born: 13 October 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003992967
41 Grove Street, Wauregan, Larose, Emily J., born: 28 January 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004409641
41 Grove Street, Wauregan, Larose, Gregory A., born: 14 September 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004409643
43 Grove Street, Wauregan, Patel, Jemini N., born: 28 May 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004339524
43 Grove Street, Wauregan, Patel, Vitthalbhai Harmanbhai, born: 25 January 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004339531
43 Grove Street, Wauregan, Reynolds, Patricia A., born: 24 July 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003897435
43 Grove Street, Plainfield, Shorey, David L., born: 27 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 003523808
44 Grove Street, Wauregan, Clarke, Emily Michele, born: 20 December 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 003778872
44 Grove Street, Wauregan, Clarke, Shane Michael, born: 20 September 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 003408727
51 Grove Street, Wauregan, De Rouin, Nancy L., born: 21 February 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003824517
53 Grove Street, Wauregan, Saran, Melanie S., born: 12 March 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003332769
53 Grove Street, Wauregan, Saran, Skylar Steven, born: 10 January 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004913837
55 Grove Street, Wauregan, Bouchard, Donna M., born: 24 August 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003891813
57 Grove Street, Plainfield, Barr, John Wayne, born: 1 April 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004819780
57 Grove Street, Wauregan, Barr, Stacy J., born: 19 June 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004076309
57 Grove Street, Plainfield, Cargene, Amanda L., born: 24 December 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003227915
59 Grove Street, Wauregan, Laporte, Xavier Allen, born: 30 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004678408
59 Grove Street, Wauregan, Smith, Richard B., born: 11 November 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004784516
65 Grove Street, Wauregan, McGrath, Jessica Lynn, born: 23 February 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003278755
67 Grove Street, Wauregan, Barber, Roy S., born: 24 July 1953, Republican, Voter ID 004363067
67 Grove Street, Wauregan, Blain, Sharon A., born: 7 December 1982, Republican, Voter ID 003223019
69 Grove Street, Wauregan, Angell, Taylor Frances, born: 28 August 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004743448
69 Grove Street, Wauregan, Brisson, Joseph A., born: 25 November 1967, Republican, Voter ID 004692764
71 Grove Street, Plainfield, Goldstein, Robin M., born: 29 November 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 003224792
73 Grove Street, Wauregan, Derosier, Kevin J., born: 2 May 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588230
73 Grove Street, Wauregan, Derosier, Matthew John, born: 16 September 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005059741
80 Grove Street, Wauregan, Chapman, David G., born: 15 July 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004725485
80 Grove Street, Wauregan, Dusablon, John L., born: 14 November 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003770587
80 Grove Street, Wauregan, Dusablon, Susan A., born: 16 April 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003770590
80 Grove Street, Plainfield, Wooldridge, Amy, born: 23 February 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003641991
90 Grove Street, Wauregan, Imbacuan, Angelica Elise, born: 31 December 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004872335
90 Grove Street, Wauregan, O'Connell, Arthur J., born: 12 May 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004432272
96 Grove Street, Wauregan, Miner, Beth A., born: 2 March 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004125804
96 Grove Street, Wauregan, Miner, Christopher, born: 30 July 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004033965
96 Grove Street, Wauregan, Miner, Christopher Richard, born: 6 June 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004907709
3 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Johnson, Amy Louise, born: 23 March 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 004558598
3 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Terre, Amy Louise, born: 23 March 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003668280
7 Jolley Road, Plainfield, Oliver, Lake Matthew, born: 25 August 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003635588
7 Jolley Road, Plainfield, Oliver, Melissa Ann, born: 27 May 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003635581
11 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Parrock, Jessica Lee, born: 30 July 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003610974
14 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Chapman, William J., born: 2 February 1937, Republican, Voter ID 001583498
16 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Williams, Christina Marie, born: 1 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004071869
16 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Williams, Timothy J., born: 26 February 1975, Republican, Voter ID 001586586
17 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Molzahn, Katie Lynn, born: 1 February 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004747873
21 Jolley Road, Plainfield, Kramer, Albert J., born: 12 February 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003191097
22 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Young, Elizabeth A., born: 16 January 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004409670
22 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Young, Robert A., born: 29 January 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004409673
29 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Guertin, Gayle Marcey, born: 15 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003716935
30 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Robinson, Sean M., born: 31 July 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003775012
33 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Ertel, Thomas R T, born: 26 May 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004794875
34 Jolley Road, Plainfield, Sleboda, Rebecca Ann, born: 23 June 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003227047
34 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Sleboda, Sara B., born: 16 January 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004706771
34 Jolley Road, Plainfield, Sleboda, Stephen Peter, born: 7 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003227048
35 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Evans, Edward N., born: 17 February 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004654194
35 Jolley Road, Wauregan, Lacasse, Donna M., born: 5 December 1961, Republican, Voter ID 004020210
3 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Caron, Jereme Louis, born: 18 May 1976, Republican, Voter ID 000142419
3 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Caron, Sharon H., born: 6 November 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003177885
4 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Cornell, Daniel E., born: 24 November 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 003189335
5 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Lewis, Kerilynn J., born: 20 October 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003156127
7 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Corson, Charles W., born: 21 September 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588203
7 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Corson, Rebecca M., born: 26 October 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587200
10 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Hobbs, Mark E., born: 29 August 1955, Republican, Voter ID 003218703
11 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Desaulnier, Patricia A., born: 21 February 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 000560005
11 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Desaulnier, Paul J., born: 13 April 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 003444816
12 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Konrad, Eugene J., born: 28 September 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003348710
12 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Konrad, Terry L., born: 5 November 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003348711
12 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Shaw, Bethany A., born: 11 March 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003278758
13 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Greczkawski, Nathan R., born: 21 April 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003224817
14 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Demaio, Todd S., born: 16 November 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000459264
15 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Combies, Melissa M., born: 31 January 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 001587252
15 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Combies, Michael A., born: 6 October 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 001583561
18 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Graff, Ryan H., born: 5 July 1978, Independent, Voter ID 000633418
19 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Fraser, Christopher M., born: 21 September 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004432264
22 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Milliron, Len V., born: 20 October 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000631512
22 Juniper Lane, Plainfield, Milliron, Sandra M., born: 2 July 1963, Republican, Voter ID 000631536
24 Juniper Lane, Wauregan, Gibson, Everett C., born: 24 September 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003588205
9 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Lepine, Carolyn Ruth, born: 10 January 1977, Republican, Voter ID 003311855
9 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Lepine, Todd L., born: 8 May 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 000631108
10 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Devivo, Ana Elizabeth, born: 5 September 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004310926
10 Lori Drive Unit 3W, Wauregan, Laprade, Joyce J., born: 16 May 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001469785
10 Lori Drive Unit 3 W, Wauregan, Laprade, Kenneth W., born: 12 May 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001469786
15 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Bryan, Wayne Guy, born: 11 December 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004442649
15 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Rogers, Nicholas Craig, born: 18 April 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003778873
16 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Hull, Megan N., born: 4 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 001589139
20 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Dumas, Jason C., born: 12 July 1972, Republican, Voter ID 001587635
25 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Larocque, Lori J., born: 22 August 1961, Republican, Voter ID 003311854
25 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Larocque, Michael A., born: 24 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 001586018
26 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Needham, Kevin T., born: 11 June 1963, Republican, Voter ID 001588505
26 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Needham, Kurtis Todd, born: 30 December 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004654282
28 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Greenman, Marguerite T., born: 10 September 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 001587473
29 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Greenman, John J., born: 17 July 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000925919
30 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Danna, William J., born: 22 December 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583262
30 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Seiden, Kayelyn Marie, born: 19 November 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004439266
39 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Banyon, Vincent James, born: 8 May 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003847504
39 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Krauss, Leeann Theresa, born: 1 September 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003932277
40 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Stacy, Douglas G., born: 3 August 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003949868
40 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Stacy, Tessa Lee, born: 30 August 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003545442
45 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Bryant, Alec M., born: 18 February 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004647645
45 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Bryant, Jeremy C., born: 19 May 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003364845
45 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Bryant, Lucilia B., born: 26 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 000634014
46 Lori Drive, Wauregan, McClure, Vanessa Mae, born: 3 January 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003817678
55 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Sanders, Paul O., born: 17 July 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 003189504
55 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Smith, David Brandon, born: 21 November 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004331632
55 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Smith-Sanders, Diane A., born: 22 June 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003189523
56 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Miner, Justin L., born: 29 October 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004898960
56 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Tracy, Daniel W., born: 18 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 003190083
62 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Walker, Anne Marie, born: 29 September 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586356
62 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Walker, Courtney Anne, born: 21 June 1991, Independent, Voter ID 004037810
62 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Walker, Stanley G., born: 2 March 1968, Republican, Voter ID 001586199
72 Lori Drive, Plainfield, Brooks, Carol A., born: 5 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000666094
77 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Fowler, Michael James, born: 17 October 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003992950
77 Lori Drive, Wauregan, Szmondrowski, Sheila M., born: 1 July 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003723899
5 Marie Street, Wauregan, Berry, Carol A., born: 21 March 1968, Republican, Voter ID 000631024
5 Marie Street, Wauregan, Desjardin, Shannon, born: 25 September 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003929857
13 Marie Street, Wauregan, Anderson, Catherine M., born: 17 December 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 001587415
14 Marie Street, Wauregan, Guertin, Marie A., born: 5 November 1938, Democratic, Voter ID 000629354
19 Marie Street, Wauregan, Jovanovich, Michele Laranne, born: 8 June 1968, Republican, Voter ID 003972073
19 Marie Street, Wauregan, Jovanovich, Sam Ronald, born: 8 June 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003456989
20 Marie Street, Wauregan, Murray, Brian James, born: 18 October 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003993032
20 Marie Street, Wauregan, Murray, Megan M., born: 30 June 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003993036
23 Marie Street, Wauregan, Burnell, Denica M., born: 2 December 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004673633
24 Marie Street, Wauregan, Neumann, Harold Douglas, born: 15 May 1977, Republican, Voter ID 004673621
29 Marie Street, Wauregan, Pintal, Linda Susan, born: 18 July 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004747106
30 Marie Street, Wauregan, Lemieux, Bel C., born: 20 December 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000631880
30 Marie Street, Plainfield, Lemieux, Jeffrey Thomas, born: 14 July 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003263228
35 Marie Street, Wauregan, Kopec, Agniesfka, born: 6 November 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003981707
35 Marie Street, Wauregan, Robinson, Thomas James, born: 30 October 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003983512
36 Marie Street, Wauregan, Pelletier, Rachael M., born: 9 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004548374
39 Marie Street, Plainfield, Chesley, Melissa Lynn, born: 10 December 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003298588
39 Marie Street, Wauregan, Credit, Shannon L., born: 24 June 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003218704
39 Marie Street, Wauregan, Fontana, Cameron J., born: 30 December 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004351307
45 Marie Street, Wauregan, Hawrylik, Christopher A., born: 29 December 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003383079
46 Marie Street, Wauregan, Sikorsky, Kathleen Robin, born: 8 February 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 003635589
46 Marie Street, Wauregan, Sikorsky, Meagan Elizabeth, born: 4 April 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004557717
49 Marie Street, Wauregan, Baribeau, Jessica R., born: 18 February 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004488801
49 Marie Street, Wauregan, Gilbert, Joseph William, born: 13 October 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003959645
49 Marie Street, Wauregan, Gilbert, Kathleen F., born: 14 May 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 003949911
50 Marie Street, Plainfield, Anderson, Kristen Lynn, born: 8 June 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003232171
50 Marie Street, Wauregan, Larosee, Brenda L., born: 6 February 1965, Republican, Voter ID 004012705
50 Marie Street, Wauregan, Luchi, Kristi Anne, born: 4 August 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004827024
59 Marie Street, Wauregan, Lyons, Jason E., born: 28 February 1979, Republican, Voter ID 003983754
60 Marie Street, Plainfield, Dudley, Gregory John, born: 15 February 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003263442
66 Marie Street, Wauregan, Kidd, Scott M., born: 5 August 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003993000
66 Marie Street, Wauregan, McNicholas, Windy Gail, born: 27 August 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003993023
12 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Desjardins, Iszach Joseph, born: 30 August 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004645010
12 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Lucas, Amber, born: 9 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004781489
135 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Cruz Clontier, Marie E., born: 13 March 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003993079
135 Moosup Pond Road, Plainfield, Ligmann, Samantha Jessica, born: 24 March 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003223858
161 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Green, Nathan Mark, born: 13 April 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004037180
166 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Frodl, Denise A., born: 6 March 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585578
166 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Frodl, Guy A., born: 4 June 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004010250
166 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Strauss, Richard Alan, born: 30 December 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003049388
174 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Owens, Ariel, born: 24 August 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004667395
174 Moosup Pond Road, Plainfield, Owens, Fred W., born: 9 April 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000833700
174 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Owens, Marionette, born: 28 June 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 003916940
174 Moosup Pond Road, Plainfield, Owens, Tameka S., born: 1 October 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003191706
185 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Guertin, Mary Jane, born: 11 November 1933, Democratic, Voter ID 001577384
185 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Hill, Amanda, born: 17 September 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003964340
185 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Moran, Danielle Joan, born: 10 October 1989, Republican, Voter ID 004074315
185 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Onate, Danielle Joan, born: 10 October 1989, Republican, Voter ID 004625961
185 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Onate, Kyle J H, born: 4 April 1989, Republican, Voter ID 004409995
239 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Stone, Benjamin Charles, born: 20 April 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003773331
239 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Stone, Robin M., born: 20 August 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003588578
275 Moosup Pond Road, Wauregan, Wilkins, Kerstin Lynzy, born: 28 September 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004714435
17 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Raill, Patricia J., born: 1 July 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 000458923
18 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Spina, John Baptist, born: 8 November 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004056992
18 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Upton, Kurtis J., born: 9 May 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003371228
19 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Lyon-Baker, Garrett Hart, born: 28 August 2001, Democratic, Voter ID 005033090
19 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Patel, Ashokkumae Manilal, born: 11 February 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004372050
19 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Patel, Bhagavati Ashokkumay, born: 16 May 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004184749
19 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Patel, Jaymin Ashokkumar, born: 12 December 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004217948
20 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Bessette, Gabriella Rachelle, born: 19 May 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004952842
20 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Corriveau, Eric J., born: 11 December 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004748054
20 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Corriveau, Julia Marie, born: 21 March 1974, Republican, Voter ID 001585786
23 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Poirier, Orise J., born: 1 October 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 001583087
23 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Poirier, Robert, born: 9 November 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 001583088
24 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Backofen, Charles G., born: 6 October 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 001588893
24 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Backofen, Deborah Ann, born: 15 June 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003298584
24 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Backofen, James Mil, born: 17 June 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 001584792
25 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Boucher, Eva A., born: 4 July 1921, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587114
25 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Schimmelpfennig, Kellie A., born: 31 August 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004703040
29 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Boucher, Rachel, born: 19 December 1919, Democratic, Voter ID 001583080
29 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Parenteau, Tara Lynn, born: 16 June 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003253222
30 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Arrington, Alexus Renee, born: 27 November 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004795564
30 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Pringle, Amanda N., born: 23 October 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004636119
31 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Vandale, Patricia A., born: 14 January 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 004808734
32 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Hamel, Edward, born: 26 August 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586644
35 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Brunsdon, Albert John, born: 3 July 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003234753
35 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Currier, Audrey Christine, born: 29 May 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004021227
35 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Dickinson, Dennis Robert, born: 4 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004021224
35 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Raudolph, Melissa L., born: 4 May 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 001587798
36 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Boucher, Agnes M., born: 1 October 1911, Democratic, Voter ID 001583079
37 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Huttula, Robert J., born: 14 November 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 001588759
38 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Flagg Mil, Ronald J., born: 17 July 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 001587489
38 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Leandro, Maria C., born: 20 July 1934, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585886
38 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Renaud, Sabryna Leigh, born: 12 April 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004811507
39 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Muenchausen, Douglas Leroy, born: 23 June 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004503068
40 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Mitchell, Dawn M., born: 16 July 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004165527
40 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Steadman-Ingves, Jessica, born: 20 March 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004812065
41 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Doyon, Michelle E., born: 1 September 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003227393
41 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Schmitt, Jack D., born: 7 November 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003489042
42 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Congdon, Allison Marie, born: 26 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003547151
46 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Marsan, Tai Parker, born: 23 October 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004723640
46 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Walker, Margaret M., born: 15 November 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587704
49 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Brown, Stephainie Marie, born: 12 September 1988, Independent, Voter ID 004200616
50 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Curley, Violet L., born: 6 September 1962, Independent, Voter ID 003698056
50 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Golob, Melissa, born: 27 March 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004199503
50 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Lemieux, Joseph A., born: 8 March 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003275134
50 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Morton, Cheryl Lee, born: 22 July 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586045
52 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Pensis, Cierra N., born: 21 September 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003932388
53 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Castillo, Eliodora C., born: 8 July 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003580001
53 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Moya, Camille C., born: 12 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004539435
53 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, White, Michelle L., born: Birth date not shown., Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000632617
56 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Guillemette, Karen M., born: 2 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003140059
57 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Darrow, Lynn J., born: 22 August 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 004154133
59 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Bradley, Bruce E., born: 26 July 1965, Republican, Voter ID 001585703
60 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Dougherty, Ethan Michael, born: 22 January 2001, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005098751
60 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Phillips, April Lynn, born: 4 March 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003051603
60 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Saundrs, Danielle Nave, born: 25 May 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004380710
60 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Soler, Wanda M., born: 29 February 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 001583166
61 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Jodoin, Roger N., born: 18 November 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586016
62 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Bucher, Timothy M., born: 25 July 1987, Republican, Voter ID 005059840
62 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Gibson, Amber R., born: 15 November 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004797750
62 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Tabb, Marie Dawn, born: 2 December 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003778884
65 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Racine, Dori-Anne M., born: 29 May 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003778881
67 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hill, Kristin Elizabeth, born: 13 May 1976, Republican, Voter ID 000150914
67 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Pike, Liana E., born: 14 March 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004598601
68 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Barylski, Ashley Anne, born: 4 July 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004105624
68 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Beausoleil, Ginger Lynn, born: 15 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004367457
68 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Bourbeau, Kayla Beth, born: 28 August 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004562188
68 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Tourtellotte, Rosemarie, born: 20 January 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587703
72 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Burns, Cheyenne M., born: 19 November 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004641020
72 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Burns, Chivon, born: 17 September 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004995009
72 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Vierra, Belinda Jean, born: 10 June 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003741947
90 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, O'Connell, Arthur J., born: 12 May 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004432272
90 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Oconnell, Ericka Salomone, born: 25 July 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004227583
95 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Barrett, Cynthia L., born: 19 October 1963, Republican, Voter ID 003292853
95 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hervieux, Deborah M., born: 13 January 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004317522
96 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Lynch, Christopher R., born: 14 August 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 000649715
96 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Lynch, Meggan M., born: 30 January 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 003820486
102 North Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Zanauskas, Peter Arne, born: 17 January 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004804315
103 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Baker, Joyce J., born: 13 October 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 001585262
111 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Credit, Brenda E., born: 3 October 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 001583627
111 North Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Credit, Gary L., born: 27 December 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 001583628
North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Coourtois, David J., born: 19 June 1959, Independent, Voter ID 004165503
4 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Leblanc, Heath Parry, born: 16 October 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001581138
4 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Lucier, Georgette, born: 11 November 1929, Democratic, Voter ID 001582928
8 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Chambers, Jennifer, born: 9 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004615250
8 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Lefevre, Beth Ann, born: 16 September 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 003891852
9 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Hamel, Alicea Victoria, born: 31 December 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004852172
9 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Hebert, Debra Ann, born: 19 August 1953, Republican, Voter ID 001584424
9 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Herbert, Bert L., born: 2 January 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588095
14 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Merritt, Donald Clifford, born: 4 January 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003119731
17 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Denihan, Katie L., born: 23 May 1987, Republican, Voter ID 005031216
18 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Post, Joann M., born: 5 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 004960531
19 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Dickey, Marlene M., born: 13 February 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 000414779
20 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Maheu, Brian A., born: 8 December 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001589163
20 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Maheu, Clayton Lee, born: 27 February 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587661
20 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Maheu, Marlene Ann, born: 29 August 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587664
21 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Barry, Leah M., born: 20 February 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004411199
22 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Howe, Ellen Estelle, born: 31 March 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004805850
23 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Ball, Kevin S., born: 3 November 1974, Republican, Voter ID 004284324
23 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Bouley, Michael E., born: 10 June 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583388
27 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Ouda, Walied E., born: 1 April 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004691646
28 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Brule, Erick R., born: 16 March 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003315923
30 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Andnzejewski, Lisa M., born: 18 October 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003608326
30 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Wertheim, Bruce, born: 23 December 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001724835
31 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Bodine, Keith F., born: 6 May 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003149297
32 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Dragon, Robin N., born: 20 August 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004648012
32 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Ewalt, Amy Nicole, born: 3 October 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003949552
32 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Ewalt, Russell Scot, born: 13 December 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003949540
33 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Adams, Tony, born: 7 January 1931, Democratic, Voter ID 001587487
34 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Denomme, Danielle Marie, born: 31 January 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004706720
34 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Denomme, Lori L., born: 22 April 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003374944
37 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Strader, Jeffrey Thomas, born: 18 June 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 003238808
38 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Felix, Crystal D., born: 6 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586684
38 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Justice, Gary Lee, born: 2 June 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 001585659
40 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Dockray, Brian K., born: 14 October 1968, Republican, Voter ID 004115005
40 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Roach, Jennifer Ann, born: 25 June 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004115006
42 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Dube, Erica Nicole, born: 16 December 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004874398
45 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Zheng, Jin Xiang, born: 10 October 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004060244
46 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Higgins, Michael E., born: 22 October 1976, Republican, Voter ID 000674767
46 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Walker, Margaret, born: 15 November 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587443
48 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Yurkevicius, Andrew Paul, born: 6 August 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004834953
50 North Walnut Street, Plainfield, Davidson, Jennifer Lynn, born: 22 November 1983, Independent, Voter ID 003624392
50 North Walnut Street, Wauregan, Latour, Ryan P., born: 1 July 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003993011
1333 Norwich Road, Plainfield, Perry, Kenneth J., born: 30 August 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 001586101
15 Old Putnam Road, Plainfield, Grenier, Bernice, born: 28 August 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 001583058
15 Old Putnam Road, Plainfield, Grenier, Donald, born: 27 November 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 001583059
23 Old Putnam Road, Wauregan, Stoyanovich, Heidi A., born: 3 November 1960, Independent, Voter ID 004015504
23 Old Putnam Road, Wauregan, Stoyanovich, Robin L., born: 2 December 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004011515
27 Old Putnam Road, Wauregan, Carpenter, Angela, born: 3 April 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004750758
27 Old Putnam Road, Wauregan, Carpenter, Nathan, born: 3 February 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004750784
27 Old Putnam Road, Wauregan, Woodie, Angela Lynn, born: 24 May 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003959827
16 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, Boisse, Eric E., born: 4 May 1966, Republican, Voter ID 000632351
16 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, Brouillard, Ronald L., born: 20 January 1960, Republican, Voter ID 000673512
16 Old Putnam Road Ext, Plainfield, Greczkowski, Ryan Evan, born: 12 June 1909, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004048617
16 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, St Laurent, Amy Lynn, born: 19 November 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003964416
24 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, Glaude, Jason L., born: 27 December 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585992
26 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, Boisse, Tina Marie, born: 1 December 1966, Republican, Voter ID 004729275
50 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, Champagne, Charles R., born: 13 August 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 001584057
50 Old Putnam Road Ext, Wauregan, Champagne, Doreen R., born: 14 February 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 001583856
1 Patty Lane, Wauregan, Kennedy, Glen J., born: 6 April 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000463460
2 Patty Lane, Plainfield, Champagne, Mallory Kate, born: 16 April 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003333505
3 Patty Lane, Plainfield, Peloquin, Linda G., born: 22 October 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 001583034
3 Patty Lane, Plainfield, Peloquin, Michael G., born: 2 November 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583035
4 Patty Lane, Plainfield, Forde, Cynthia J., born: 5 October 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 001585658
5 Patty Lane, Wauregan, Wood, Howard David, born: 5 December 1957, Independent, Voter ID 004798832
6 Patty Lane, Wauregan, Pechie, Jamie L., born: 21 March 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004034575
3 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Nye, Brian R., born: 10 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003197660
11 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Davis, Carol, born: 21 May 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 001583298
11 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Lamontagne, Matthew J., born: 23 September 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003302374
11 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Lamontagne, Suzanne Marie, born: 10 April 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003430880
14 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Fritz, Mandy Dawn, born: 12 April 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003941836
25 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Duprey, James Andrew, born: 13 June 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004977260
25 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Duprey, Roger, born: 24 January 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 001583126
26 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, McCracken, Bronwyn A., born: 10 July 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000560391
30 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Anderson, Jaime Lynn, born: 12 March 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003560145
30 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Anderson, Jeffrey Allyn, born: 2 August 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003575619
34 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Bumpus, James K., born: 7 November 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004674925
34 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Fitzgerald, Cheryl M., born: 9 December 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000924709
34 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Fitzgerald, Curtis N., born: 9 May 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003224788
34 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Heon-Bumpus, Yaritza I., born: 13 November 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004784502
35 Pinecrest Drive, Wauregan, Wood, Betty V., born: 14 March 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 001585264
37 Pinecrest Drive, Plainfield, Marsh, Kathleen A., born: 21 January 1969, Republican, Voter ID 001588409
1 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Abebio, Faustina O., born: 10 December 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004986811
3 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Weimer, Jason W-B, born: 10 July 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004021204
5 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Laflamme, Connor R., born: 20 December 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004313849
7 Plainview Drive, Plainfield, Gauthier, Denis A., born: 25 September 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 003197685
7 Plainview Drive, Plainfield, Gauthier, Maria, born: 7 May 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 003197686
7 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Levesque, Hollie M., born: 8 June 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003959785
12 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Bonesio-Bessette, Kathleen F., born: 22 November 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004165538
13 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Ring, Robert Francis, born: 10 October 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004246090
18 Plainview Drive, Plainfield, Baron, Angela, born: 15 November 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003197665
19 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Gwozdz, Sara Lynn, born: 4 May 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003107422
20 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Vieira, David Henry, born: 28 August 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001584430
23 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Adamski, Frank Edward, born: 28 May 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003850721
23 Plainview Drive, Plainfield, Rowe, Carol Anne, born: 29 August 1965, Republican, Voter ID 003263222
24 Plainview Drive, Wauregan, Scovel, Jacklyn N., born: 1 December 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004682839
24 Plainview Drive, Plainfield, Scovel, Lynn Marie, born: 20 June 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003648017
24 Plainview Drive, Plainfield, Scovel, Michael J., born: 21 July 1969, Independent, Voter ID 003648021
4 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Phillips, Thomas Raymond, born: 7 June 1959, Republican, Voter ID 004412792
76 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Blanchard, Bradlee K., born: 23 February 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588670
196 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Duval, Nathaniel R., born: 3 September 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004621835
200 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Scharlack, Dylan Thomas, born: 1 May 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004698381
282 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Auger, Margaret, born: 7 April 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 001583038
290 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Dugas, Andre Joseph, born: 3 October 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003559387
290 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Ormerod, Elizabeth R., born: 30 December 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583117
300 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Grannum, Jamal Everett, born: 20 December 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 004022677
300 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Jusino, Alantte D., born: 5 February 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004214229
300 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Marciano, Anthony J., born: 9 July 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001578386
346 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Okenquist, Rebecca, born: 26 May 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004928485
350 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Serban, Carol A., born: 13 June 1943, Republican, Voter ID 001587849
350 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Serban, Nicholas J., born: 26 March 1942, Republican, Voter ID 001587850
358 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Plitsas, Katherine Elene, born: 18 August 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003792944
358 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Plitsas, Konstantinos, born: 6 May 1949, Republican, Voter ID 003149329
358 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Plitsas, Thomas A., born: 13 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004037801
362 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Briere, Heidi M., born: 28 February 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004336535
365 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Dumas, Jane E., born: 11 June 1952, Republican, Voter ID 003605630
365 Putnam Road Unit D, Wauregan, Warner, Tiffany Renee, born: 2 April 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003179695
367 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Desrosiers, Yvonne T., born: 5 April 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003060333
367 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Myelte, Suzanne Claire, born: 2 November 1959, Republican, Voter ID 003575451
367 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Wheeler, Todd William, born: 14 September 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003560640
369 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Suplicki, Kellie L., born: 2 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003222622
371 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Pion, Tracey L., born: 16 January 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003106589
373 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Ledoux, Joshua A., born: 27 May 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003189054
373 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Mucci, Matthew Howard, born: 18 January 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003686231
373 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Smith, Colleen B., born: 31 July 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 002513037
376 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Dogue, Eduardo, born: 12 August 1924, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001584423
376 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Percy, Kelly Ann, born: 13 January 1977, Republican, Voter ID 003523322
379 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Allen, Jenna E., born: 20 November 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003332218
379 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Allen, Richard D., born: 12 October 1962, Republican, Voter ID 000628972
379 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Kudelsky, Denise M., born: 13 February 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003253066
380 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Squillante, Erin Lynn, born: 13 December 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004063980
386 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Gilman, Richard J., born: 11 September 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003594915
386 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Walsh, Lisa Mae, born: 10 December 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001580043
397 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Willard, Steven A., born: 4 June 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583442
398 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Carter, Richard James, born: 18 June 1952, Republican, Voter ID 003261369
398 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Percy, Marilyn S., born: 10 May 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 001379028
398 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Percy, William Stephen, born: 20 August 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001382105
398 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Thomas, Nancy L., born: 2 August 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 004213277
412 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Duval, Eileen, born: 21 January 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 001583167
412 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Duval, Raymond, born: 19 July 1938, Democratic, Voter ID 001583168
428 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Goyette, Marilyn J., born: 15 September 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 000629374
428 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Goyette, Roland M., born: 2 February 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 000629125
434 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Colli, Charles, born: 1 August 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 001583090
434 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Colli, Vivian, born: 24 January 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 001583091
437 Putnam Road, Plainfield, St James, Charles H., born: 21 July 1961, Republican, Voter ID 000629516
440 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Demuth, Esther J., born: 18 April 1938, Democratic, Voter ID 001584304
441 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Hewitt, Leslie J., born: 9 December 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000633528
441 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Perry, Christofer Adair, born: 30 November 1976, Green, Voter ID 004398819
441 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Pudlo, Blanche I., born: 15 March 1925, Democratic, Voter ID 001582121
441 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Trembly, Sara R., born: 27 February 1970, Green, Voter ID 004449845
447 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Ricketts, Donna J., born: 21 January 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003756774
454 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Rioux, Robert A., born: 9 February 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004673561
454 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Smith, Desiree Lynn, born: 20 April 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004555304
454 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Smith, John T., born: 26 December 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587958
456 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Libby, Donald R., born: 14 September 1966, Republican, Voter ID 004551668
462 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Butera, Karen A., born: 6 September 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003506958
468 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Bliss, Annette J., born: 14 October 1958, Republican, Voter ID 003768706
468 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Lewis, Karen M., born: 20 January 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 004351927
468 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Lewis, Kent Hammond, born: 11 September 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003278763
471 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Jolley, Shannon Lee, born: 7 May 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004963691
471 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Romagnano, Alexander, born: 28 April 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 000628793
471 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Romagnano, Sheila J., born: 26 January 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 000628679
489 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Belitsos, Louise A., born: 25 January 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 000673232
489 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Caya, Lisa M., born: 10 May 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003997300
489 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Giambuttista, David Lee, born: 7 March 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003997292
491 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Carlsen, Brian Edward, born: 24 December 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003649632
491 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Carlsen, Christopher James, born: 12 January 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003817688
495 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Diraimo, Danielle Marie, born: 21 August 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003525721
503 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Johnson, David A., born: 22 August 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003308710
515 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Vertefeuille, Ryan William, born: 30 May 1980, Republican, Voter ID 003118544
533 Putnam Road, Plainfield, Phillips, Chester E., born: 13 June 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004748232
550 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Dubois, Brad Daniel, born: 12 August 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003805759
550 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Dubois, Glenn Herbert, born: 23 May 1976, Republican, Voter ID 003990714
550 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Dubois, Louise A., born: 10 July 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 001585044
551 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Desbonnet, Brian A., born: 9 June 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000171182
551 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Desbonnet, Kimberly Ann, born: 18 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003723847
562 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Chaput, Gregory P., born: 8 April 1970, Independent, Voter ID 004339515
562 Putnam Road, Wauregan, Misinski, Jon F., born: 12 July 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004105837
167 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Harper, Robin Ellison, born: 1 December 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004828485
193 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Machamer, Gary J., born: 22 December 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004442643
193 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Machamer, Joshua J., born: 1 October 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004839793
193 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Voya, Cantessa Maria, born: 3 May 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004483807
218 Shepard Hill Road, Plainfield, Ritchotte, Louis Wayne, born: 10 July 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000059516
235 Shepard Hill Road, Plainfield, Beauchene, Catherine, born: 20 September 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 001583977
235 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Beauchene, Linda C., born: 16 July 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587374
235 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Hall, Derek J., born: 19 August 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003290174
235 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Robinson, Clarence James, born: 28 October 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003959765
249 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Johnson, David F., born: 5 November 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003202737
255 Shepard Hill Road, Wauregan, Hapgood, Gregory Giles, born: 7 October 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 004021221
3 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Beaudreault, Erik John, born: 30 March 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 005054591
3 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Saunders, Jonathan Francis, born: 16 November 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004808731
3 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Savalle, Amanda Lynn, born: 22 July 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003460951
5 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Beaudreau, Louis J., born: 17 February 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 001585928
5 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Fernandes, Marilyn J., born: 12 April 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588712
5 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Waters, Brendyn Michael Ganan, born: 17 August 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004827026
9 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hopps, Michelle S., born: 12 October 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004326510
9 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Ramosa, David Stephen, born: 3 November 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004585098
11 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hug, Samantha Ashley, born: 4 April 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004785078
11 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Perry, Gisele J., born: 27 December 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003964225
11 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Perry, Nell J., born: 2 May 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004042859
24 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Conti, Richard L., born: 11 August 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 003474329
27 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Holladay, James L., born: 8 September 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 001585052
44 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Iannelli, Britney L., born: 17 September 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004621730
53 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Greene, James A., born: 23 January 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 000833282
53 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hebert, Melissa T., born: 1 February 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003191828
54 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Breault, Etta V., born: 3 August 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003314661
54 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Rainville, Leo J., born: 20 February 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004831551
56 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Suzik, Sandra Jean, born: 13 September 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583717
57 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Krodel, Edward J., born: 27 December 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004308759
58 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Wade, Lori-Ann, born: 28 May 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004364683
59 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Walker, Twila M., born: 9 September 1957, Republican, Voter ID 003723606
64 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Tworzydlo, Brenda L., born: 4 December 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003778886
65 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Warrender, Belinda Marie, born: 6 June 1968, Republican, Voter ID 000673785
65 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Warrender, Michael D., born: 10 February 1970, Republican, Voter ID 004432287
65 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Warrender, Michael David, born: 27 October 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004963717
66 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Csubak, Troy A., born: 31 July 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003232307
66 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Miller, Caitlin, born: 2 November 1991, Republican, Voter ID 005077528
66 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Small, Koreana Marie, born: 25 February 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004092333
69 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Durand, Dennis J., born: 1 October 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003776872
69 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Jeffs, Jessica Lynn, born: 12 March 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004928311
69 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Kimball, Shea Allison, born: 20 September 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003827675
69 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Piligian, Anastasia Kristine, born: 18 January 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005098903
71 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Kettle, Christine A., born: 23 November 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003203091
75 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Shippee, Patience M., born: 5 August 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000633782
76 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Bonazelli, Vincent F., born: 9 September 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000905985
78 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Papa, Paul J., born: 16 September 1982, Republican, Voter ID 003189479
79 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Heath, Stephanie Ann, born: 4 July 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003234740
80 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Auger, John Norman, born: 31 January 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003070448
80 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Burdick, William T., born: 30 January 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001581697
80 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Suchocke, David B., born: 12 September 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003540449
82 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Ruiz, Ruben, born: 14 January 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004915837
83 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Humes, Dorothy G., born: 4 April 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 000627617
83 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Knight, Katherine M., born: 8 June 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585428
84 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hazel, Franz Van-Lewis, born: 13 January 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004326469
84 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Storo, Jerry Salvatore, born: 10 December 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004327779
89 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Krupula, Arnie E., born: 26 December 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004326671
91 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Adams, Brittney Ann, born: 8 January 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003750909
91 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Lalumiere, Michelle Marie, born: 16 January 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003229009
91 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Pepin, Danny R., born: 18 March 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004350301
92 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Mack, Katherine Anne, born: 25 January 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004037609
93 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Navarro, Damary, born: 7 April 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004469544
94 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Charette, Joyce M., born: 18 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004326959
94 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, McManis, Gary A., born: 11 May 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 001583751
94 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Ritzie, Makayla Mary May, born: 26 June 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004835012
95 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Burgess, Dawn E., born: 1 December 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001010992
97 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Dickins, Katherine J., born: 6 November 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003649783
97 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Dimarzio, Wanda, born: 5 October 1963, Republican, Voter ID 000520529
98 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Carter, Kelsey Lee, born: 9 September 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004876603
98 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Jordan, Justin Michael, born: 10 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003713581
99 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Tetreault, Scott E., born: 10 July 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003308250
100 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hobert, Chance Warren, born: 11 November 1998, Republican, Voter ID 005066027
100 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Sanchez, Stephanie Nicole, born: 2 December 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005004718
101 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Beauregard, Mark G., born: 25 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 001588816
101 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Brisson, Melissa A., born: 26 February 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003776858
102 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Finley, Stephanie, born: 8 March 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004750647
102 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Yerkan, Tyler Jason, born: 13 October 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004875771
104 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Moran, Jacob, born: 31 May 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004527139
104 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Moran, Jennifer Renee, born: 9 March 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003237806
104 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Moran, Kayla M., born: 8 August 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004584873
107 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Goldsmith, Julie Rose, born: 30 November 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 000195444
107 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Luberto, Joe B., born: 10 May 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588158
107 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Luberto, Loriane Mary, born: 20 July 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004336615
108 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Choma, Matthew Michael, born: 22 March 1973, Republican, Voter ID 005074296
111 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Baker, Jennifer E., born: 11 August 1975, Republican, Voter ID 001586596
111 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Beaudry, Debra D., born: 10 December 1952, Republican, Voter ID 001584318
111 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Beaudry, Robert N., born: 31 August 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 001588033
111 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Gamache, Benjamin J., born: 18 October 1993, Independent, Voter ID 004176954
111 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hopps, Chelsea Nicole, born: 4 February 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004521386
111 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Terwilliger, Spencer, born: 5 July 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 005067227
112 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Anderson, Darryl K., born: 23 September 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 001586955
112 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Mann, Christopher W., born: 6 July 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004409652
112 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Myshka, Teresa L., born: 13 October 1962, Republican, Voter ID 003553920
112 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Tripp, Chelsea J., born: 29 October 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004409664
113 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hopps, Amber Rose, born: 16 April 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004286402
113 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Hopps, Hanah Olivia, born: 27 August 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004930940
114 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Page, Katherine M., born: 23 April 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003610968
119 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Dean, Janelle Marie, born: 28 July 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004387545
119 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Moran, Ralph H., born: 10 February 1940, Republican, Voter ID 001584402
129 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Lebeau, Kyle C., born: 21 February 1990, Republican, Voter ID 004037806
131 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Garcia, Gina Diane, born: 17 April 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003290163
133 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Chretien, Nathan Courtney Michae, born: 22 April 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004883248
133 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Courteau, Tristin Annette, born: 31 July 1999, Independent, Voter ID 004864922
133 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Fournier, Linda A., born: 12 June 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586458
133 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Maglio, Anthony L., born: 25 December 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585995
133 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Maglio, Gwen S., born: 20 December 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 001586126
133 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Maglio, Kayla M., born: 25 October 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004012452
133 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Walters, Adam R., born: 15 September 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004784060
139 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Bromley, Amber Skye, born: 6 July 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004106344
139 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Mitchell, Kathy M., born: 2 December 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 001584306
143 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Comeau, Matthew G., born: 14 November 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003983727
145 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Casko, Donna M., born: 4 November 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585882
145 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Casko, Scott Ryan, born: 3 September 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003308055
145 South Chestnut Street, Wauregan, Utz, Daniel J., born: 30 June 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001584930
167 South Chestnut Street, Plainfield, Goldsmith, Jeffrey Paul, born: 2 June 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003499629
100 South Main Street, Wauregan, Suarez, Joshua, born: 22 May 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004714437
90 South Street, Wauregan, Thompson, Aleisha, born: 3 June 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003949767
118 South Street, Wauregan, Rosa, Monique A., born: 30 September 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004873594
1 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Gervais, Bianca, born: 3 November 2001, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005090079
2 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Fancher, Suzanne E., born: 12 March 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003187683
2 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Plummer, Danielle M., born: 2 November 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003273122
4 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Stewart, Tylor Richard, born: 23 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004904288
5 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Leyko, Krystie L., born: 22 July 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003630395
6 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Labonte, Katrina, born: 13 June 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003777500
8 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Labonte, Alicia Barrett, born: 9 April 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004555251
10 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Labonte, Katrina, born: 13 June 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003777500
10 South Walnut Street Unit 10, Wauregan, Piette, Kyle M., born: 4 November 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004641039
12 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Staples, Brittany Angela, born: 7 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004950538
14 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Etheridge, Frederick E., born: 16 June 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004907205
14 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Taylor, Logan R., born: 13 March 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004336622
14 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Topping, Stephanie Lynn, born: 6 December 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003964395
18 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Luna-Rocket, Stacie M., born: 2 August 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004790033
20 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Arrington, Jessica A., born: 17 December 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004323535
24 South Walnut Street, Waurega, Schaller, Michael Abraham, born: 6 July 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003253847
26 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Lyon, Holly D., born: 10 March 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004398825
30 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Anglin-Taylor, Kirsten Nicole, born: 23 October 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003320253
32 South Walnut Street Unit 32, Wauregan, Lyon, Timothy J W, born: 29 April 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004459564
32 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Rosario-Santos, Estefania, born: 22 May 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004092326
72 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Johnson, Tracy Lynn, born: 14 November 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005004710
72 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Woodard, Christina M., born: 23 March 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004107738
74 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Harvey, James V., born: 16 November 1957, Republican, Voter ID 000631758
74 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Harvey, Patricia L., born: 16 March 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000630650
78 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Delman, Christine M., born: 14 November 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003813827
78 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Foster, Gloria Emoine, born: 4 June 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005046592
78 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Foster, Gloria Emonie, born: 14 June 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005045152
80 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Latour, Kaitlyn Ashley, born: 26 April 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004326945
84 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Huggins, Gary L., born: 26 October 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004295789
84 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Huggins, Rosemarie, born: 20 January 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004295796
84 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Tourtellotte, Brittaney Lynn, born: 29 July 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004295868
84 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Yovan, Paul M., born: 21 December 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003373089
90 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Lawrence, John J., born: 21 October 1972, Republican, Voter ID 000630812
90 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Thompson, Aleisha, born: 3 June 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003949767
90 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Thompson, Thomas David, born: 9 October 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004295858
90 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, White, Chad M., born: 28 April 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004984913
92 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Kohanski, Brian J., born: 16 November 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005097284
96 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Raymond, Amanda Lynn, born: 16 May 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004355899
96 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Williams, Dashawn Terrell, born: 11 December 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005004714
104 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Alexander, Jeanne L., born: 5 July 1938, Democratic, Voter ID 001587790
104 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Robillard, George D., born: 3 May 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 001587797
106 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Babcock, Everett M., born: 22 July 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001584419
110 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Cote, Lori A., born: 25 January 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 001587537
110 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Dupre, Sherise N., born: 16 August 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588711
110 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Lyon, Peter, born: 12 June 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 004899897
112 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Martin, Shawn Michael, born: 13 July 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005078221
112 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Topping, Stephanie Lynn, born: 6 December 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003964395
114 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Smerechniak, Scott, born: 14 October 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587072
114 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Smerechniak, Sherry, born: 29 October 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 001585259
116 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Dauphinais, Craig A., born: 6 April 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003190326
118 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Dietrich, Dianne F., born: 25 June 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004821204
118 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Gudaitis, Kevin A., born: 23 April 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003594928
118 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Guimont, David A., born: 20 December 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 001588181
118 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Guimont, Sara A., born: 19 August 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 001588180
118 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Warren, Kelso Rebecca, born: 18 March 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004793447
120 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Baker, Kyona Jean, born: 17 August 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003682102
120 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Deschamps, Karen, born: 26 March 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586610
126 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Mott, Todd Eric, born: 31 October 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004714472
126 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Sweet, Darlene Ann, born: 9 August 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 001584509
129 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Gardner, Holly Diane, born: 10 March 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003813348
131 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Barnes, James A., born: 9 February 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001588603
131 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Boyle, Jessica Marie Eva, born: 10 March 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004354882
131 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Christian, Craig E., born: 25 March 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003392726
131 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Christian, Debra Z., born: 30 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 003311841
132 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Chanthaboury, Cathy`, born: 18 October 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004839784
132 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Lakotta, Janice, born: 12 March 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 001588424
132 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Tatro, Theresa, born: 12 April 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 001584309
133 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Fratus, Melissa M., born: 31 December 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003365742
133 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Votra, Ruth Ann Cloutier, born: 16 October 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003234533
134 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Moscone, Priscilla, born: 24 October 1932, Republican, Voter ID 001583135
137 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Messier, Brian R., born: 18 December 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586731
137 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Messier, George R., born: 21 March 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 001584390
137 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Messier, Susan D., born: 26 November 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 001584389
138 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Whited, Winton R., born: 19 January 1924, Democratic, Voter ID 003767265
139 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Messier, Jessica Catherine, born: 8 February 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004762403
140 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Kelly, Fawn Renee, born: 11 May 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003449837
143 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Mull, Kellsey Lynne, born: 28 April 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003619438
143 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Rivera Soto, Cloria Janet, born: 7 December 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004021229
145 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Bostrom, Laura L., born: 25 April 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003608963
145 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Bostrom, Paul Francis, born: 25 July 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001586728
145 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Rivera, Gloria Janet, born: 7 December 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003817684
147 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Horrell, Caleb Allan, born: 29 June 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004723554
149 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Lamarque, Joseph Robert, born: 31 March 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004884307
151 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Clifford, Christina Marie, born: 10 November 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004734484
151 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Clifford, Stephen, born: 29 November 1987, Republican, Voter ID 004734496
151 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Dexter, Maryjane, born: 2 November 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003349746
151 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Smith, Shayne Andre, born: 22 September 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004767067
151 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Whitfield, Charles L., born: 4 February 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004947370
152 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Minski, Tracie A., born: 14 June 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587610
157 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Young, Annette E., born: 20 November 1937, Republican, Voter ID 001584405
158 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Gervais, Marcel, born: 13 October 1949, Republican, Voter ID 001587033
158 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Maddox, Alex C., born: 4 July 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005075375
159 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Benton, Roger E., born: 14 October 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001585945
159 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Riley, Brooke Ellen, born: 17 January 1957, Republican, Voter ID 003735244
160 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Gervais, William Blair, born: 30 November 1978, Republican, Voter ID 003866777
162 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Brown, Davon O., born: 4 August 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004664996
164 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Church, Katrina, born: 24 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004386303
166 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Ferreira, Anna D., born: 19 December 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001583128
166 South Walnut Street, Wauregam, Veilleux, Chris M., born: 6 March 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004170378
167 South Walnut Street, Plainfield, Harmon, Michael E., born: 24 October 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001587441
167 South Walnut Street, Wauregan, Reust, Robert Anthony, born: 1 July 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003612065
2 Vosler Drive, Plainfield, Britland, Robert David, born: 25 February 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003227811
Wauregan Road, Plainfield, Shorey, David L., born: 4 April 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003635584
10 Wauregan Road Unit 14, Wauregan, Fall, Joyce M., born: 9 October 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001576989
10 Wauregan Road, Plainfield, Forrest, Arthur, born: 14 August 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003253854
10 Wauregan Road, Wauregan, Forrest, Marcia M., born: 14 February 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003775747
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New left notes (1966-1967)
(cont. from page 8)
annual income.They understand well thatthe
welfare system forces dependency on people, and they talk frequently and seriously
about building a welfare union that will
change that system. When the Independent
Union of Public Aid Employees went out
on strike for thirteen days, maintaining
among other things that caseworkers understood better the problems of welfare than
do administrators and therefore should have
a say in policy making matters, the JOIN
Welfare Union went further. They said "We
support the striking IUPAE because they want
to help make a humane welfare system.
We also feel that we as recipients understand the problems of welfare better than
either the administrators or the caseworkers,
and we should have the right to organize
and have a say in how the welfare system
is run." JOIN supported the strikers, flooding
the district office, calling non-strikers and
asking them why they weren't for a more
humane welfare system, and picketing in
front of Welfare chief Hilliard's office for
two days. They protested specific grievances,
the general inadequacies of the welfare system, and supported the strikers. Three members of JOIN were arrested for refusing to
leave Hilliard's office when he would not
act on their specific cases. Alan Kaplan,
President of the IUPAE stated that JOIN,
more than any other recipients group in
the city, had been helpful in the IUPAE
cause.
A considerable amount of activity hasgone
into trying to build a citywide recipient's
union. On the day of the nationwide welfare
protest JOIN and the Kenwood-Oakland
Community Organization (a negro welfare
group of the southside) held a joint march
on Hilliards' office to demand that recipient's
unions be heard. About60 members of JOIN
marched 50 blocks to the main welfare office downtown. An equal number marched
from the southside. Theprotestgrewtoabout
200, with the group singing both Negro
Freedom songs and white spirituals with
reworked verses ("justice songs"). Hilliard
agreed to meet with the two groups within
20 days to discuss general welfare problems
and the recognition of recipients unions.
He died the next day. Currently JOIN, KOCO
and the West Side Organization are supporting a Negro former state legislator (a
Republican) as the new head of the Welfare
Dept. All three groups were very much in
force at the recent Poverty-Rights Action
Group conference in Chicago, where steps
were made toward forming a national welfare union.
Our work in welfare suggests that recipients, in this case poor whites, can be
organized, force better treatment from a
large welfare bureaucracy, and work to completely change that system. They can also
develop some friends inside the welfare
department, and encourage and facilitate
"rank and file insurgency" on the part of
some within that bureaucracy, and most importantly, it is worth noting that we have
had success in some of these areas in the
face of having to deal with what is undoubtedly the most conservative of all the district welfare offices.
We know that real estate and housing is
an institution that affects poor people viciously. We have concentrated a lot of effort in this area. Housing in our area
is poor. From the outside some of the buildings look rather nice, garnished by wide
streets and trees, but they are false facades
from another era, before the area was
turned into a slum. We help people find
apartments, and move them when they
are illegally evicted. Sometimes we are
able to halt that practice. In May VISTA workers were given Orders from on high to stop
their activity in a certain building; the tenants learned of JOIN and asked for help.
A rent strike, rally, three-day picketline and
leafleting of the owner's neighborhood (your
neighbor is a slumlord) "brought the owner
to his senses" as an active tenant put it. He
signed a contract calling for grieveance pro-
ceedures and standard arbitration procedures in the case of unsettled grievances. To
my knowledge it was the first extensive
tenant-landlord contract to be signed in the
country. It was billed in the national press
as the first of its kind in the city.
We have to date forced three lanlords to
sign such a contract, and won concessions
from a number of owners (such as the firing
of a manager) of other buildings when
faced with a JOIN rent strike. The contract,
billed by school boycott leader Al Raby as
the most "creative innovation in the Chicago
movement during the year," was the basis
for the contract M.L. King's SCLC negotiated
with a large slum owner. JOIN's success
in housing has strongly influenced housing
activity by a number of tenants groups in the
city, as well as the country (if mail received
is an indication).
Most recently, a landlord refused to abide
by the terms of the contract. An arbitration
session was held, and ended up voting two
to one (2-1) to have tenants take control of
the building, using rentmoneyto hire people
from the building to fix it up according to
the specification of the contract. Work is
currently going on in the 21 unit building,
which may revert back to the owner's control
once the repairs are completed. After telling
the press that the entire thing sas a "communist takeover," the landlord waited two
weeks (being barred from the building) before filing suit against certain members of
JOIN. Lawyers seem tofeel strongly thatthe
contract will hold up in court.
While talking about our work in hoising I
will mention that in our organizing we suggest that keeping a building up is a "two
way process." "You can't expect tenants to
take pride in a building when the landlord
puts all the money in his pocket without
putting any back in. It's really in the best
interest of both parties to work out a contract." A good friend from Berkeley, who
recently stopped for a visit, offered that what
we were doing was OK, but it was "reform,
not revolution." Another friend has suggested that "its unfortunate to be a revolutionary in a non-revolutionary situation."
I've got mixed feelings on the debate, but
what I do know is that poor whites (many
southern) and Indians took over the building
and are running it themselves. I think that
basic to creating a basis for social change
("revolution") is building constituencies that
work around self interests. That is educational, and "education," exclusive of material
conditions, can be important in the creation
of new material conditions which might be
more conducive to basic social change.
Urban Renewal is a problem thatconfronts
us. There are very strong indications that
our area will become, in part, an urban
renewal area or a conservation area (a
lesser of two evils). Some members from
JOIN went to talk to the head of Urban
Renewal, explaining in conservative terms
what JOIN was, and how the members were
concerned with the future of their neighborhood. His firstquestion implied considerable
knowledge about JOIN's activities: "Why
did JOIN print an editorial against Mayor
Daley's Bond Issue?"
(Several community organizations and civil rights groups in the city oppossed the
195 million dollar bond issue for the basic
reason that it is an urban renewal pie that
solidifies the control of the city by the
interests that Daley represents, and in short,
won't benefit poor people.) Successful imposition of an Urban Renewal plan on Uptown
could ultimately hurtJOIN,foritwould move
a lot of poor people from the area. However,
as an organizing issue it is excellent, and it
is excellent, and it is not unrealistic to think
that JOIN, in conjunction with certain allies,
might well be able to do a good job combating it.
We have considerable work to do toward
developing an overall strategy for housing
in Uptown. Some of our problems are moving
people who've participated in past housing
actions to thinking about an overall plan,
recruiting staff to do reasearch and come
up with an alternative plan based on the
needs and desires of area residents. Currently the housing committee (composed
mostly of our rent strike Veterans) is giving
more thought to a large housing program,
such as people's meetings to derive fair
rents (figures indicate that working and middle class people pay less for bigger and
better places, yet poor people are excluded
for various reasons, e.g., regional origin,
race, or number of kids.). It is quite feasible
that on a specific date 2000 residents of
Uptown could announce "we're going to pay
thirty dollars less rent a month." The impact,
particularly if coordinated with other tenants
groups in the city, might be pretty big.
THE STEWARD SYSTEM
Such a plan, or a move into electoral politics, will hinge in great part on the development of the JOIN steward plan. Two months
old, the plan seeks to get a steward or
JOIN representative in each building in the
area where we organize. The initial job
of the steward has been to distribute the
printed weekly newsletter to the tenants of
his building. 3000 copies are distributed
person to person each week in this way.
AUGUST 24, 1966 NEW LEFT NOTES 9
They were interested in JOIN and liked the
students who they were just beginning to
understand a little. Yet there was natural resentment or class hostility. It erupted. For
a couple of hours a few of us "borgeoise
students" (they use it, but I don'tknowwhere
they got it) took the verbal attacks, were
Other copies are distributed on the street, told that they could and should run their
The steward's job is to inform people of own show, and that we could serve as ad-
JOIN activities, collect membership dues,
help people with food and clothing, get
names of people on welfare to the welfare committee, and find and help develop
new stewards. Currently there are three
categories of stewards, the total of which
numbers about 100. Some just pass out the
newsletter in their building and to their,
friends. Others work as organizers in their
building, talking to people, actually keeping
them informed in some detail about JOIN,
aiding people when they can. The over-
stewards (a friend didn't like the term, and
1 neglected to tell her that a community
person thought of it), numbering about 20,
seek to develop current stewards and find
new stewards. Theoverstewardsareincreasingly doing more and more organizing in
JOIN, and taking on leadership positions.
To develop more and more people within
the framework of this plan is, I believe,
critical to the future power and success of the
STOP COPS
JOIN has lost some of the folky and warm
quality that it and other projects had when
they were smaller. Yet I think the basic conceptions of democracy that gave birth to the
ERAP projects is still evident. If student types
sometimes forget, community people are
strong enough to let them know where it's,
at. A case in point, is the exciting rank and
file revolt we had awhile back. During a
housing meeting, myself and others argued
against taking action in a particular building
for a lot of reasons too complicated to talk
about here. The committee, chaired by an
ex-convict, voted by one vote to go ahead
with the action. Two of us continued toargue
after the decision, and somehow (the young
guys say big words, and they were probably
right) temporarily had our views prevail.
That started it, a beer party with young
guys loosely associated with JOIN fanned the
fire, and the next day there was an emergency meeting of 40, mostly student types
and young guys, with a smattering of older
JOIN members (both time as members age)
who served sort of as advisors or referees.
The guys were all young, many very bright.
visors when asked. Things got pretty hot,
cooled down, and then a plan. They would
form a group, now called the Uptown Good-
fellows (wow), and would workaround police
brutality. They would run it!
They did. The "Stop Cops" or "People Must
Control Their Police Project" is a month old.
Two weeks ago two hundred people, over
half of them young guys, marched from the
JOIN office to the Summerdale Police Station to demand a stop to police brutality
and the firing of a certain sargent. The commander met with them, gave them the
runaround, questioned the "citizenship" qualifications of one of the negotiators -- repeatedly arrested on false charges, and
agreed to send the tape of the conversation
to Orlando Wilson, Chicago's Chief of Police
who has been very successful at creating a
good image of Chicago's notorious police
dept. Some may remember that it was the
Summerdale station that was involved in a
scandel 6 years back that culminated in the
hiring of Wilson.
The GOODFELLOWS are important.
"We're marching against the cops; mostpeo-
ple don't realize we get treated just as bad
by the cops as Negroes and Puerto Ricans."
When was the last ime you heard of poor
white youth, largely southern, marching on
the police station for the same reasons that
Negroes do? The issue irked the middleclass
elements near where we work, and did not
bring us the best press coverage, although
there was a lot of it. Despite that expected
response, the response in the neighborhood,
not only with young people, has been good.
The march, and when we go again, has been
the talk of Wilson Avenue. Important is that
young people have found a reason for relating to JOIN. A teenager named Slim,
almost mute when I've tried to talk to him
in the past, came ufj to me in a restaurant
and pushed his finger against my JOIN button: "Hey, I'm in that now." The GOOD-
FELLOWS leadership understands how police brutality relates to housing, education,
welfare and jobs. Some are working nearly
full time as organizers.
A number of people who participated in
the march have jobs in one of the War
(cont. to page 31)
JOIN marches on welfare office as part of its many-faceted program to gain control of
a bureaucratized and indifferent system.
Title New left notes (1966-1967)
Editor Russell, James; Weissman, Aerlin; Speck; Calvert, Greg; Croston, Thane; Kleiman, Mark; Wilkerson, Cathy
Place of publication Chicago, Illinois
Publisher Students for a Democratic Society
Publication date 1966-1967
Owner The International Institute of Social History Library Collections; Brünn, Harris Watts Collection - Serials and Press Release Soldiers Movements, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Digital identifier giNewsletter943a000
Title p. 9
Full text (cont. from page 8) annual income.They understand well thatthe welfare system forces dependency on people, and they talk frequently and seriously about building a welfare union that will change that system. When the Independent Union of Public Aid Employees went out on strike for thirteen days, maintaining among other things that caseworkers understood better the problems of welfare than do administrators and therefore should have a say in policy making matters, the JOIN Welfare Union went further. They said "We support the striking IUPAE because they want to help make a humane welfare system. We also feel that we as recipients understand the problems of welfare better than either the administrators or the caseworkers, and we should have the right to organize and have a say in how the welfare system is run." JOIN supported the strikers, flooding the district office, calling non-strikers and asking them why they weren't for a more humane welfare system, and picketing in front of Welfare chief Hilliard's office for two days. They protested specific grievances, the general inadequacies of the welfare system, and supported the strikers. Three members of JOIN were arrested for refusing to leave Hilliard's office when he would not act on their specific cases. Alan Kaplan, President of the IUPAE stated that JOIN, more than any other recipients group in the city, had been helpful in the IUPAE cause. A considerable amount of activity hasgone into trying to build a citywide recipient's union. On the day of the nationwide welfare protest JOIN and the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization (a negro welfare group of the southside) held a joint march on Hilliards' office to demand that recipient's unions be heard. About60 members of JOIN marched 50 blocks to the main welfare office downtown. An equal number marched from the southside. Theprotestgrewtoabout 200, with the group singing both Negro Freedom songs and white spirituals with reworked verses ("justice songs"). Hilliard agreed to meet with the two groups within 20 days to discuss general welfare problems and the recognition of recipients unions. He died the next day. Currently JOIN, KOCO and the West Side Organization are supporting a Negro former state legislator (a Republican) as the new head of the Welfare Dept. All three groups were very much in force at the recent Poverty-Rights Action Group conference in Chicago, where steps were made toward forming a national welfare union. Our work in welfare suggests that recipients, in this case poor whites, can be organized, force better treatment from a large welfare bureaucracy, and work to completely change that system. They can also develop some friends inside the welfare department, and encourage and facilitate "rank and file insurgency" on the part of some within that bureaucracy, and most importantly, it is worth noting that we have had success in some of these areas in the face of having to deal with what is undoubtedly the most conservative of all the district welfare offices. HOUSING We know that real estate and housing is an institution that affects poor people viciously. We have concentrated a lot of effort in this area. Housing in our area is poor. From the outside some of the buildings look rather nice, garnished by wide streets and trees, but they are false facades from another era, before the area was turned into a slum. We help people find apartments, and move them when they are illegally evicted. Sometimes we are able to halt that practice. In May VISTA workers were given Orders from on high to stop their activity in a certain building; the tenants learned of JOIN and asked for help. A rent strike, rally, three-day picketline and leafleting of the owner's neighborhood (your neighbor is a slumlord) "brought the owner to his senses" as an active tenant put it. He signed a contract calling for grieveance pro- ceedures and standard arbitration procedures in the case of unsettled grievances. To my knowledge it was the first extensive tenant-landlord contract to be signed in the country. It was billed in the national press as the first of its kind in the city. We have to date forced three lanlords to sign such a contract, and won concessions from a number of owners (such as the firing of a manager) of other buildings when faced with a JOIN rent strike. The contract, billed by school boycott leader Al Raby as the most "creative innovation in the Chicago movement during the year" was the basis for the contract M.L. King's SCLC negotiated with a large slum owner. JOIN's success in housing has strongly influenced housing activity by a number of tenants groups in the city, as well as the country (if mail received is an indication). Most recently, a landlord refused to abide by the terms of the contract. An arbitration session was held, and ended up voting two to one (2-1) to have tenants take control of the building, using rentmoneyto hire people from the building to fix it up according to the specification of the contract. Work is currently going on in the 21 unit building, which may revert back to the owner's control once the repairs are completed. After telling the press that the entire thing sas a "communist takeover" the landlord waited two weeks (being barred from the building) before filing suit against certain members of JOIN. Lawyers seem tofeel strongly thatthe contract will hold up in court. While talking about our work in hoising I will mention that in our organizing we suggest that keeping a building up is a "two way process." "You can't expect tenants to take pride in a building when the landlord puts all the money in his pocket without putting any back in. It's really in the best interest of both parties to work out a contract." A good friend from Berkeley, who recently stopped for a visit, offered that what we were doing was OK, but it was "reform, not revolution." Another friend has suggested that "its unfortunate to be a revolutionary in a non-revolutionary situation." I've got mixed feelings on the debate, but what I do know is that poor whites (many southern) and Indians took over the building and are running it themselves. I think that basic to creating a basis for social change ("revolution") is building constituencies that work around self interests. That is educational, and "education" exclusive of material conditions, can be important in the creation of new material conditions which might be more conducive to basic social change. Urban Renewal is a problem thatconfronts us. There are very strong indications that our area will become, in part, an urban renewal area or a conservation area (a lesser of two evils). Some members from JOIN went to talk to the head of Urban Renewal, explaining in conservative terms what JOIN was, and how the members were concerned with the future of their neighborhood. His firstquestion implied considerable knowledge about JOIN's activities: "Why did JOIN print an editorial against Mayor Daley's Bond Issue?" (Several community organizations and civil rights groups in the city oppossed the 195 million dollar bond issue for the basic reason that it is an urban renewal pie that solidifies the control of the city by the interests that Daley represents, and in short, won't benefit poor people.) Successful imposition of an Urban Renewal plan on Uptown could ultimately hurtJOIN,foritwould move a lot of poor people from the area. However, as an organizing issue it is excellent, and it is excellent, and it is not unrealistic to think that JOIN, in conjunction with certain allies, might well be able to do a good job combating it. We have considerable work to do toward developing an overall strategy for housing in Uptown. Some of our problems are moving people who've participated in past housing actions to thinking about an overall plan, recruiting staff to do reasearch and come up with an alternative plan based on the needs and desires of area residents. Currently the housing committee (composed mostly of our rent strike Veterans) is giving more thought to a large housing program, such as people's meetings to derive fair rents (figures indicate that working and middle class people pay less for bigger and better places, yet poor people are excluded for various reasons, e.g., regional origin, race, or number of kids.). It is quite feasible that on a specific date 2000 residents of Uptown could announce "we're going to pay thirty dollars less rent a month." The impact, particularly if coordinated with other tenants groups in the city, might be pretty big. THE STEWARD SYSTEM Such a plan, or a move into electoral politics, will hinge in great part on the development of the JOIN steward plan. Two months old, the plan seeks to get a steward or JOIN representative in each building in the area where we organize. The initial job of the steward has been to distribute the printed weekly newsletter to the tenants of his building. 3000 copies are distributed person to person each week in this way. AUGUST 24, 1966 NEW LEFT NOTES 9 They were interested in JOIN and liked the students who they were just beginning to understand a little. Yet there was natural resentment or class hostility. It erupted. For a couple of hours a few of us "borgeoise students" (they use it, but I don'tknowwhere they got it) took the verbal attacks, were Other copies are distributed on the street, told that they could and should run their The steward's job is to inform people of own show, and that we could serve as ad- JOIN activities, collect membership dues, help people with food and clothing, get names of people on welfare to the welfare committee, and find and help develop new stewards. Currently there are three categories of stewards, the total of which numbers about 100. Some just pass out the numbers about 100. Some just pass out the newsletter in their building and to their, friends. Others work as organizers in their building, talking to people, actually keeping them informed in some detail about JOIN, aiding people when they can. The over- stewards (a friend didn't like the term, and 1 neglected to tell her that a community person thought of it), numbering about 20, seek to develop current stewards and find new stewards. Theoverstewardsareincreasingly doing more and more organizing in JOIN, and taking on leadership positions. To develop more and more people within the framework of this plan is, I believe, critical to the future power and success of the organization. STOP COPS JOIN has lost some of the folky and warm quality that it and other projects had when they were smaller. Yet I think the basic conceptions of democracy that gave birth to the ERAP projects is still evident. If student types sometimes forget, community people are strong enough to let them know where it's, at. A case in point, is the exciting rank and file revolt we had awhile back. During a housing meeting, myself and others argued against taking action in a particular building for a lot of reasons too complicated to talk about here. The committee, chaired by an ex-convict, voted by one vote to go ahead with the action. Two of us continued toargue after the decision, and somehow (the young guys say big words, and they were probably right) temporarily had our views prevail. That started it, a beer party with young guys loosely associated with JOIN fanned the fire, and the next day there was an emergency meeting of 40, mostly student types and young guys, with a smattering of older JOIN members (both time as members age) who served sort of as advisors or referees. The guys were all young, many very bright. visors when asked. Things got pretty hot, cooled down, and then a plan. They would form a group, now called the Uptown Good- fellows (wow), and would workaround police brutality. They would run it! They did. The "Stop Cops" or "People Must Control Their Police Project" is a month old. Two weeks ago two hundred people, over half of them young guys, marched from the JOIN office to the Summerdale Police Station to demand a stop to police brutality and the firing of a certain sargent. The commander met with them, gave them the runaround, questioned the "citizenship" qualifications of one of the negotiators -- repeatedly arrested on false charges, and agreed to send the tape of the conversation to Orlando Wilson, Chicago's Chief of Police who has been very successful at creating a good image of Chicago's notorious police dept. Some may remember that it was the Summerdale station that was involved in a scandel 6 years back that culminated in the hiring of Wilson. The GOODFELLOWS are important. "We're marching against the cops; mostpeo- ple don't realize we get treated just as bad by the cops as Negroes and Puerto Ricans." When was the last ime you heard of poor white youth, largely southern, marching on the police station for the same reasons that Negroes do? The issue irked the middleclass elements near where we work, and did not bring us the best press coverage, although there was a lot of it. Despite that expected response, the response in the neighborhood, not only with young people, has been good. The march, and when we go again, has been the talk of Wilson Avenue. Important is that young people have found a reason for relating to JOIN. A teenager named Slim, almost mute when I've tried to talk to him in the past, came ufj to me in a restaurant and pushed his finger against my JOIN button: "Hey, I'm in that now." The GOOD- FELLOWS leadership understands how police brutality relates to housing, education, welfare and jobs. Some are working nearly full time as organizers. A number of people who participated in the march have jobs in one of the War (cont. to page 31) JOIN marches on welfare office as part of its many-faceted program to gain control of a bureaucratized and indifferent system.
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Vol. 1, no. 3 (February 4, 1966)
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5 March Washington Post - Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse by Shankar Vedantam.
...Two political scientists recently examined 250 asymmetrical conflicts, starting with the Peninsular War. Although great powers are vastly more powerful today than in the 19th century, the analysis showed they have become far less likely to win asymmetrical wars. More surprising, the analysis showed that the odds of a powerful nation winning an asymmetrical war decrease as that nation becomes more powerful.
The analysis by Jason Lyall at Princeton University and Lt. Col. Isaiah Wilson III at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point shows that the likelihood of a great power winning an asymmetrical war went from 85 percent during 1800-1850 to 21 percent during 1950-2003.
The same trend was evident when the researchers studied only asymmetrical conflicts involving the United States. The more industrialized a powerful country becomes, the more its military becomes technologically powerful, the less effective it seems to be in an asymmetrical war.
Essentially, what Lyall and Wilson are saying is that if you want to catch a mouse, you need a cat. If you hire a lion to do the job because it is bigger and stronger, the very strength and size of the lion can get in the way of getting the job done...
More at the link.
TROUFION
Four quotes from the Vedantam article:
"...the likelihood of a great power winning an asymmetrical war went from 85 percent during 1800-1850 to 21 percent during 1950-2003."
"The more industrialized a powerful country becomes, the more its military becomes technologically powerful, the less effective it seems to be in an asymmetrical war."
"The rise of nationalism over the past two centuries and the revulsion that colonialism now inspires might also explain the declining ability of major powers to subjugate weaker nations."
"While the findings are of immediate interest because of the situation in Iraq, the social scientists are really trying to address a systemic issue: America has gotten stuck in the Hollywood notion that a military with ever more powerful armaments is a more effective military."
I would love to get a full copy of the report this article is based on. It opens up many questions. Least of all what has been the effect of the communications and transportation advancements: the speed of horse and sail 1800-1850 to the speed of airplanes, radios and digital sat com. Also what role has the change in sensabilities had on these operations (particularly to the US and Western Powers). For instance: In 1800 a white male could own slaves, and generally treat them worse than draft animals, a ships captain was omnipotent holding the right to life and death at sea, orders from the President to an Expeditionary force would cover six month blocks of time or more. Further the average in-country tour was measured in years not months. Colonialism, manifest destiny, superior races, civilizing effects, were all considered normal practice and accepted while genocide was not even heard of. The world was a fundamentally different place.
The thesis analogies are good to work with but they sound more like excuses as to why we (US) are not 'winning' today. Does the actual report offer anything remotely resembling a solution to the stated problem?
While I fully believe there is no cookie cutter answer to small wars, there are trends. There are successful tactical-operational and strategic actions that can bring about victory in small wars regardless of the size-strength and capability of a nation. But again as I have not seen the actual thesis yet I withold any further comment.
Need Report
I'd like to see the full report. I'd like to make my own determination that the correlation drawn is meaningful rather than accidental (or to use Aristotelian terms, "essential" rather than accidental, or part of the actual essence of being a large armed forces). In other words, the size and technological superiority may nothing whatsoever to do with winning or losing small wars. The author may have landed on something that is uncorrelated to the outcome, and thus the thesis may be unsubstantiated.
Interesting article, but who knows unless we see the report?
Difference of sensibilities
Just to add a period note to reinforce the changing times-changing means, here is a note from the Boxer Rebellion, in other words why what worked in the past doesn't always translate too well today:
Tientsin: Allied Proclamation to the Inhabitants
To the Inhabitants of the City of Tientsin:
In bombarding the city of Tientsin the allied forces only replied to the attack made by the rebels on the foreign settlements.
At present, as your authorities, forgetting their duties, have deserted their posts, the allied forces consider it their duty to establish in the city a temporary administration, which you all have to obey. This administration will protect everyone wishing to deal in a friendly manner with foreigners, but will punish without mercy everyone who causes trouble.
Let the bad people tremble, but the good people should feel reassured and quietly return to their houses and begin their usual work. Thus peace will be restored.
Respect this.
Tientsin, the 16th July, 1900.
Allemagne: Von Usedom, Capitaine de Navire.
Autriche Hongrie: J. Tudrak, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
États Unis d'Amérique: Colonel Meade, American Marines.
France: De Pelacol, Colonel.
Grande-Bretagne: Le Général Dorward, Captain Bayly.
Italie: G. Sirianni, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
Japon: Le Général Fukushima.
Russie: Vice-Amiral Alexieff.
Well, this isn't quite the whole report - its a pdf of a draft on the subject that was to be presented at the 2006 Annual American Political Science Association Conference held last August:
The American Way of War and Peace in Comparative Perspective
Why do states lose to weaker foes in so-called “small” wars? The United States, for example, enjoys a reputation for unmatched tactical proficiency on the battlefield yet has witnessed a post-1945 decline in its ability to secure its political aims in war. Using a new dataset of small wars and insurgencies (1800-2003), we argue the paradox of tactical success but strategic failure has afflicted all states since 1900. While crude indicators of military and economic power are an excellent predictor of war outcomes in the nineteenth century, such variables are no longer tied to political victory after 1900. Indeed, we argue that as states embrace the “modern” way of warfare – typified by mechanized warfare that uses rapid decisive operations (RDO) to strike an adversary’s center of gravity – they become less capable of winning small wars and insurgencies. Two variables serve to lock states onto this suboptimal path: (1) the process of industrialization and the rise of market-based economies and (2) a cultural understanding of modern warfare as appropriate, indeed, required, for civilized states. The paper uses a nested research design that pairs large-N statistical test (including fractal pooling) with a within-case comparison of American operations in Iraq (2003-06).
John T. Fishel
Rancho La Espada, Blanchard, OK
250 cases - what are they?
Interesting article in the Post and thanks to Jed for the full draft article. I scanned the article for a list of the cases - haven't had time to read the whole thing yet - but could not find a list. That,alone, gives mepause.When Max Manwaring and I wrote our origninal piece in Small Wars and Insurgencies, wepublished the entire list of 43 cases. So, I wonder what the cases are. For example, do the authors address every single Indian War in the US beginning with 1800? I should note that the outcome, despite some significant setbacks for the US Army such as the Little Bighorn, was victory in every case! In all the post-WWII insurgencies in Latin America, there have only been 2 victories for the insurgents - Castro in Cuba and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (1979). So, the definition of victory and defeat is of importance as well. The track record of insurgents is simply not very good. So, at a minimum, caution is indicated when we read the paper in its entirety.
goesh
Good point about the Indian wars, John T. From 1777 - 1787, in Kentucky alone, just over 1,000 settlers were killed or captured. The Shawnee were one of the main opponents in this phase of expansion yet by 1800, their power was pretty much negated. The likes of George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, experts in COIN at the time, saw to it. To give an example of their daring and ability, in 1789, Clark sent 3 scouts deep into Shawnee territory, Chillocothe to be exact, their principal village. That would be the equivilant of sending 3 men up to Fallujah during the initial invasion of Iraq to do some scouting/recon. They were that confident of their ability and that willing to take necessary, unexpected risks. Boonesborough and Franks Fort had been repeatedly hit in force and there was considerable marauding and Boone and Clark got wind of another force massing to the north and sent 3 men on a recon mission. Now that's classic, affective COIN doing the unexpected, high risk with the potential for real success. What Shawnee war leader would expect 3 white men to come snoopin' and poopin' deep into their turf? The mission was both a success and failure as Clark didn't expect his scouts to disobey ROE. They got up there, did their recon then took some Shawnee horses. Talk about balls, huh? Anyway, this apparently made the Shawnees more angry than the simple fact of scouting them. They gave chase, captured Kenton and killed my ancestrol Grandfather, Alexander Montgomery, at the Ohio river but the third man, whose name slips my mind, got away and returnd to his CO with the Intel. Typical of the asymentrical warfare our nation has had to engage in and the opponents we have had to face, the Shawnees repeatedly slapped Kenton's face with Grandpa's scalp ( at least they didn't put Grandpa's underwear on his head) held Kenton captive and frequently tortured him before he was able to escape. He ran the gauntlet 3 times. They didn't do beheadings back then, they burned people at the stake instead.
There are lots of details and particulars left out in reports such as this that essentially claim failure of our Nation but there is an accumulation of lessons learned, there is collective imprinting that becomes self-sustaining, creative and proactive in and of itself from lessons learned. It endures the test of time and that's what counts. Reports such as this may well cite the battle of the Rosebud and Little Bighorn as failures, but do they address the change of tactics needed for successful COIN? Following the defeats in the summer of 1876, the hostile were finally pursued in the winter. The troops were issued buffalo coats and winter logistics were put in place. In the spring of 77', Crazy Horse and Gall were done fighting and only Sitting Bull held out but was spending most of his time in Grandmother's Land (Canada). Some of the world's best light cavalry were done fighting by the summer of 1877, one year after two major defeats.
Tom Odom
DeRidder LA
43 Cases
Originally Posted by John T. Fishel
Can you provide a list of your 43 cases? I wonder how many of the Africa cold wars show up?
This paper has several implications for the study of warfare and its practice. It is clear, for example, that there is no uniform logic to warfare: states that excel at Type I war are precisely those states most at risk for suffering political defeat in so-called small wars. This points to both the need to bound our theories of conflict to specific types of conflict as well as to engage in fractal pooling to capture how variables’ significance change temporally. The results presented here do, however, point to the fact that leading explanations – both power-based realist theories and regime type accounts – are inadequate for explaining war outcomes outside of conventional conflicts. What we need now are better measures of more qualitative variables such as force employment and command climate at the unit level in order to capture how culture and economics interact to shape patterns of warfare.
The paper’s findings also shed some light into current debates about US force restructuring. In particular, the paper raises the question of whether the current “Revolution in Military Affairs” is not, in fact, locking the US even further into a suboptimal path of war-fighting. To be sure, modular force restructuring and other technological innovations promise to deliver devastating amounts of firepower at the tactical level. Yet such practices may simply exacerbate, rather than ameliorate, the problems facing mechanized modern forces in Type II and III wars. An appreciation of how armies in the nineteenth century fared and, in particular, their use of local intelligence, foraging practices, and sustained interaction with the local populace over lengthy deployments, may lead to more successful tactics and outcomes. Interestingly, the paper suggests that the real revolution in warfare may not be RDO-type operations post-1918 but the opposite: the embrace of asymmetric tactics and methods by weaker opponents at the turn of the century. Devolution may, in fact, be the revolution in warfare. In sum, the paper’s findings, if still tentative, suggest that there is profit in rethinking the links between the political economy of war, market-based principles, and the way states (and militaries) conceptualize why and how fight.
What I did not see in my quick read of the paper is an adequate examination of the leap of faith made regarding common military practices in the Age of Colonial Imperialism and how those practices--foraging to pick one--might play out in the 21st Century. The closest they come to this is in lightly discussing differences between the 101st and 4thID.
Interestingly, distance is highly significant and positively correlated with victory. This is a surprising result, for it suggests that states fighting insurgencies are more likely to win the greater the distance from their home capitals. By contrast, this result disappears and turns slightly negative in the 1900-2003 era. In effect, states in the nineteenth century appear to have had better power projection capabilities – if measured in terms of victories, and not quantities of material and men – than their twentieth century counterparts.
Here too is another weakpoint: the authors came up with the factor of "distance" as a physical measure and then to my mind misinterpret their own findings: that 19th Century States had great power projection than 20th Century states. What is missed is that the key variable in the equation was communications and what Dave Dillegge has talked about on here as strategic compression.
All of that said, however, I do have great empathy for the argument that our classic warfighting is defined by our own cultural parameters and we change only incrementally--usually at great cost. We go back to what we are most comfortable with and our arguments to support that position take on "10 Commandments-like" qualities.
Last edited by Tom Odom; 03-06-2007 at 02:22 PM.
Tom and others,
The full cite is "Insurgency & counterinsurgency: Toward a New Analytical Approach" in SMALL WARS & INSURGENCIES, Vol 3 No 3 winter 1992, Frank Cass, London.
"43 Internal Conflicts Involving Western Powers 1945 -1983"
1. Chinese Revolution Ph V 1945 -49
2. Vietnamese War for Independence 1945 -54
3. Israel War for Independence 1945 - 49
4. Indonesian War for Independence 1945 - 47
5. Algerian Troubles 1945
6. Greek Civil War 1945 - 49
7. Madagascar Uprising 1947
8. Malaya 1948 - 60
9. Huk Rebellion 1948 - 54
10. Colombia (La Violencia) 1948 - 53
11. Mau Mau 1952 - 56
12. Shifta Insurgency Eritrea 1946 - 52
13. Morocco Indepandence 1952 -56
14. Cyprus 1955 -59
15. Guatemalan Coup 1954
16. Algeria 1954 - 62
17. Vietnames Reunification Ph I 1954 - 62
18. Cameroon Civil War 1960 - 61
19. Cuba 1956 - 59
20. Spanish Morocco 1957 - 58
21. Muscat-Oman 1957 -59
22. Togoland 1957
23. Jordan 1958
24. Angola 1960 - 75
25. Venezuela 1961 -64
26. Bay of Pigs 1961
27. Vietnamese Reunification Ph II 1962 - 73
28. Brunei 1962
29. Guinea Bissau Ind Ph I 1962 -66
30. Oman 1965 - 75
31. Aden 1964 -67
32. Rafdan 1964
33. Mozambique 1964 - 74
34. Aden Crisis 1966 - 67
35. Guatemala 1966 -68
36. Bolivia 1967
37. Equatorial Africa 1969
38. Argentina 1970 -80
39. Moros 1972 -83
40. Uruguay 1972 - 80
41. Namibia Ph I 1973 - 80
42. Nicaragua 1972 - 79
43. Central African Empire 1979
Although there can be some argument, my count of these has 14 cases where the Western Power was on the losing end of the conflict. 14 of 43 (33%).
Congo/Zaire Wars and Angola
I would add the following to the list:
Congo 1960-1963: Belgium, US, UN: Government and UN "win"
Subset Katangan Secession: Belgium versus Congo, US, and UN: Congo win
Congo 1963-1965 US, Belgium, Congo versus Simbas with some later PRC assistance: Congo win
Angola 1975-1977(?) US, Holden Roberto (FNLA), Zaire versus MPLA, Cuba, USSR: MPLA "win"
Zaire 1977-1978 (Shaba 1 and 2) France, Belgium, US, Morocco, Zaire versus East Germany, Angola; Zaire win
That would make the total 47 with 15 cases where the Western power lost.
J Wolfsberger
Also from Shankar Vedantam's article:
Originally Posted by SWJED
The Peninsular War interests us because it is one of the earliest examples of an asymmetrical war -- Spanish insurgents faced down the powerful French army by using stealth, deception and the support of civilians.
Wasn't a gentleman named Wellington, commanding a few British troops, somehow involved?
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
At the time, he was merely Arthur Wellesley (sp?!
Yea, verily!
I'd submit that Wellesley and the British were nowhere near as critical to the defeat of the French in Spain as the Spanish and Portuguese insurgents, and that British victories in Spain were largely made possible because of the actions of the insurgency.
The g's did tie up a lot of French troops who would otherwise have been fighting the allies. The allies did tie up a lot of French troops who would otherwise have been suppressing the g's. The French would, IMO, have been successful against either alone, but failed against the combination. Thus, the author's generality, that the g's won outright by themselves, struck me as false.
Classic support for partisans
The Peninsula campaign is a classic example of Great Power support to partisans in a secodary theater of war. In this respect, it is not dissimilar to the anti-Japanese guerrillas in the Philippines supported by the US.Another example is the partisans in Yugoslavia supported by the UK, US, and USSR or the maquis in France before D-Day. In any event, if Great Powers are involved on opposite sides, the case is much more complex than a simple insurgency with carefully limited support from one Great Power or another. It is for this reason that I noted that someone else might break out the winners and losers among the Western Power supporters/participants differently than I did among out 43 cases.
John, Tom Odom posted this paper on compound warfare awhile back and it has a great section on this subject and the theory of compund warfare in general.
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/downlo...nd_warfare.pdf
Huber book
Thanks Slapout. Tom Huber is an old friend from Leavenworth days but I didn't know about that book.
To Tom Odom: thanks for the other cases.
Huber, Lewis, Yates
Welcome. Tom Huber, Sam Lewis, Spike Yates, and I used to do pizza and movie on Sundays at Leavenworth in the mid-1980s.
Tom--
I don't know if you knew that Larry has retired. His book (vol 1) on Panama is due out from CMH.
Yep I heard that Spike had hung it up.
Sam retired 3? years ago (we roomed together for nearly 3 years).
Huber is one of the handful left.
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The Adam Clarke Commentary
Account of the sickness of Lazarus, 1. His sisters Martha and Mary send for Christ, 2. Our Lord's discourse with his disciples on this sickness and consequent death, 3-16. He arrives at Bethany four days after the burying of Lazarus, 17,18. Martha meets Christ-their conversation, 19-27. She returns and Mary goes out to meet him, in great distress, 28-33. Christ comes to the grave-his conversation there, 34-42. He raises Lazarus from the dead, 43-46. The priests and Pharisees, hearing of this, hold a council, and plot his destruction, 47,48. The remarkable prophecy of Caiaphas, and the consequent proceedings of the Jews, 49-53. Jesus withdraws into a city called Ephraim, 54. They lay wait for him at the passover, 55-67.
Notes on Chapter 11
Verse 1. Lazarus, of Bethany
St. John, who seldom relates any thing but what the other evangelists have omitted, does not tell us what gave rise to that familiar acquaintance and friendship that subsisted between our Lord and this family. It is surprising that the other evangelists have omitted so remarkable an account as this is, in which some of the finest traits in our Lord's character are exhibited. The conjecture of Grotius has a good deal of weight. He thinks that the other three evangelists wrote their histories during the life of Lazarus; and that they did not mention him for fear of exciting the malice of the Jews against him. And indeed we find, from John 12:10, that they sought to put Lazarus to death also, that our Lord might not have one monument of his power and goodness remaining in the land. Probably both Lazarus and his sisters were dead before St. John wrote. Bethany was situated at the foot of the mount of Olives, about two miles from Jerusalem. Bishop Pearce observes that "there is a large gap in John's history of Christ in this place. What is mentioned in the preceding chapter passed at the feast of the dedication, John 10:22, about the middle of our December; and this miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead seems to have been wrought but a little before the following passover, in the end of March, at which time Jesus was crucified, as may (he thinks) be gathered from verses 54 and 55 of this chapter, John 11:54,55, and from John 12:9." John has, therefore, according to the bishop's calculation, omitted to mention the several miracles which our Lord wrought for above three months after the things mentioned in the preceding chapter.
Calmet says, Christ left Jerusalem the day after the dedication took place, which was the 18th of December. He event then to Bethabara, where he continued preaching and his disciples baptizing. About the middle of the following January Lazarus fell sick: Christ did not leave Bethabara till after the death of Lazarus, which happened about the 18th of the same month.
Bishop Newcome supposes that our Lord might have stayed about a month at Bethabara.
The harmonists and chronologists differ much in fixing dates, and ascertaining times. In cases of this nature, I believe men may innocently guess as well as they can; but they should assert nothing.
Verse 2. It was that Mary which anointed
There is much disagreement between learned men relative to the two anointings of our Lord, and the persons who performed these acts. The various conjectures concerning these points the reader will find in the notes on Matthew 26:7, chapter. See Clarke on Matthew 26:75.
Dr. Lightfoot inquires, Why should Bethany be called the town of Martha and Mary, and not of Lazarus? And he thinks the reason is, that Martha and Mary had been well known by that anointing of our Lord, which is mentioned Luke 7:37; (see the note there;) but the name of Lazarus had not been mentioned till now, there being no transaction by which he could properly be brought into view. He therefore thinks that the aorist αλειψασα, which we translate anointed, should have its full force, and be translated, who had formerly anointed; and this he thinks to have been the reason of that familiarity which subsisted between our Lord and this family; and, on this ground, they could confidently send for our Lord when Lazarus fell sick. This seems a very reasonable conjecture; and it is very likely that the familiarity arose out of the anointing.
Others think that the anointing of which the evangelist speaks is that mentioned John 12:1, days before the passover. St. John, therefore, is supposed to anticipate the account, because it served more particularly to designate the person of whom he was speaking.
Verse 3. He whom thou lovest is sick.
Nothing could be more simple, nor more modest, than this prayer: they do not say, Come and heal him: or, Command the disease to depart even where thou art, and it will obey thee:-they content themselves with simply stating the case, and using an indirect but a most forcible argument, to induce our Lord to show forth his power and goodness:-He is sick, and thou lovest him; therefore thou canst neither abandon him, not us.
Verse 4. This sickness is not unto death
Not to final privation of life at this time; but a temporary death shall be now permitted, that the glory of God may appear in the miracle of his resurrection. It is very likely that this verse contains the message which Christ sent back, by the person whom the afflicted sisters had sent to him; and this, no doubt, served much to strengthen their confidence, though their faith must have been greatly exercised by the death of their brother: for when this took place, though they buried him, yet they believed, even then, probably on the ground of this message, that Jesus might raise him from the dead. See John 11:22.
Verse 5. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Therefore his staying two days longer in Bethabara was not through lack of affection for this distressed family, but merely that he might have a more favourable opportunity of proving to them how much he loved them. Christ never denies a less favour, but in order to confer a greater. God's delays, in answering prayers offered to him by persons in distress, are often proofs of his purpose to confer some great kindness, and they are also proofs that his wisdom finds it necessary to permit an increase of the affliction, that his goodness may be more conspicuous in its removal.
Verse 8. The Jews of late sought to stone thee
It was but a few weeks before that they were going to stone him in the temple, on the day of the feast of the dedication, John 10:31.
Verse 9. Are there not twelve hours in the day?
The Jews, as well as most other nations, divided the day, from sun-rising to sun-setting, into twelve equal parts; but these parts, or hours, were longer or shorter, according to the different seasons of the year. See Clarke on John 1:39.
Our Lord alludes to the case of a traveller, who has to walk the whole day: the day points out the time of life-the night that of death. He has already used the same mode of speech, John 9:4: I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work. Here he refers to what the apostles had just said-The Jews were but just now going to stone thee. Are there not, said he, twelve hours in the day? I have not travelled these twelve hours yet-my last hour is not yet come; and the Jews, with all their malice and hatred, shall not be able to bring it a moment sooner than God has purposed. I am immortal till my work is done; and this, that I am now going to Bethany to perform, is a part of it. When all is completed, then their hour, and that of the power of darkness, shall commence. See Luke 22:53.
If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not
A traveller should use the day to walk in, and not the night. During the day he has the sun, the light of this world: he sees his way, and does not stumble: but, if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in it, John 11:10; i.e. there is no sun above the horizon. The words εναυτω, John 11:10, refer not to the man, but to the world, the sun, its light, not being above the horizon. Life is the time to fulfil the will of God, and to prepare for glory. Jesus is the light of the world; he that walks in his Spirit, and by his direction, cannot stumble-cannot fall into sin, nor be surprised by an unexpected death. But he who walks in the night, in the darkness of his own heart, and according to the maxims of this dark world, he stumbles-falls into sin, and at last falls into hell. Reader! do not dream of walking to heaven in the night of thy death. God has given thee the warning: receive it, and begin to live to him, and for eternity.
Verse 11. Lazarus sleepeth
It was very common among the Jews to express death by sleep; and the expression, falling asleep-sleeping with their fathers, them. The Hebrews probably used this form of speech to signify their belief in the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the body.
It is certain that our Lord received no intimation of Lazarus's death from any person, and that he knew it through that power by which he knows all things.
Verse 12. If he sleep, he shall do well.
That is, if he sleep only, Acts 7:60; ; 1 Corinthians 11:30;; 15:18,20,) yet, as it was an ambiguous term, the disciples appear here to have mistaken its meaning. Because, in certain acute disorders, the composing the patient to rest was a favourable sign; therefore the words, If he sleep, he shall do well, or recover, became a proverbial forth of speech among the Jews. In most diseases, sleep is a very favourable prognostic: hence that saying of Menander:-
υπνοςδεπασηςεστινυγιειανοσου.
Sleep is a remedy for every disease. See Grotius here. The meaning of the disciples seems to have been this: There can be no need for thee to go into Judea to awake our friend Lazarus; he will awake time enough, and his very sleep is a presage of his recovery: therefore do not hazard thy life by going.
Verse 15. I am glad for your sakes that I was not there
"I tell you plainly, Lazarus is dead: and I am glad I was not there-if I had been, I should have been prevailed on to have healed him almost as soon as he fell sick, and I should not have had so striking an occasion to manifest the glory of God to you, and to establish you in the faith." It was a miracle to discover that Lazarus was dead, as no person had come to announce it. It was a greater miracle to raise a dead man than to cure a sick man. And it was a still greater miracle, to raise one that was three or four days buried, and in whose body putrefaction might have begun to take place, than to raise one that was but newly dead. See John 11:39.
Verse 16. Thomas, which is called Didymus
Thomas, or Thaom, was his Hebrew name, and signifies a twin-one who had a brother or a sister born with him at the same time: Didymus, διδυμος, is a literal translation of the Hebrew word into Greek. In Genesis 25:24, Esau and Jacob are called thomeem, twins; Septuag. διδυμα, from διδυμος, a twin-from the Anglo-Saxon {A.S.}, to double.
Let us also go, that we may die with him.
That is, "Seeing we cannot dissuade our Lord from going, and his death is likely to be the inevitable consequence, let us give him the fullest proof we can of our love, by going and suffering death with him." Some think Thomas spoke these words peevishly, and that they should be translated thus, Must we also go, and expose ourselves to destruction with him? which is as much as to say: "If he will obstinately go and risk his life in so imminent a danger, let us act with more prudence and caution." But I think the first sense is to be preferred. When a matter is spoken which concerns the moral character of a person, and which may be understood in a good and a bad sense, that sense which is most favourable to the person should certainly be adopted. This is taking things by the best handle, and both justice and mercy require it. The conduct of most men widely differs from this: of such an old proverb says, "They feed like the flies-pass over all a man's whole parts, to light upon his sores."
Verse 17. He had lain in the grave four days already.
Our Lord probably left Bethabara the day, or the day after, Lazarus died. He came to Bethany three days after; and it appears that Lazarus had been buried about four days, and consequently that he had been put in the grave the day or day after he died. Though it was the Jewish custom to embalm their dead, yet we find, from John 11:39, that he had not been embalmed; and God wisely ordered this, that the miracle might appear the more striking.
Verse 18. Fifteen furlongs
About two miles: for the Jewish miles contained about seven furlongs and a half. So Lightfoot, and the margin.
Verse 19. Many of the Jews came
Bethany being so nigh to Jerusalem, many of the relatives and friends of the family came, according to the Jewish custom, to mourn with the afflicted sisters. Mourning, among the Jews, lasted about thirty days: the three first days were termed days of weeping: then followed seven of lamentation. During the three days, the mourner did no servile work; and, if any one saluted him, he did not return the salutation. During the seven days, he did no servile work, except in private-lay with his bed on the floor-did not put on his sandals-did not wash nor anoint himself-had his head covered-and neither read in the law, the Mishnah, nor the Talmud. All the thirty days he continued unshaven, wore no white or new clothes, and did not sew up the rents which he had made in his garments. See Lightfoot, and See Clarke on John 11:31.
Verse 20. Martha-went and met him
Some suppose she was the eldest of the two sisters-she seems to have had the management of the house. See Luke 10:40.
Mary sat still in the house.
It is likely that by this circumstance the evangelist intended to convey the idea of her sorrow and distress; because anciently afflicted persons were accustomed to put themselves in this posture, as expressive of their distress; their grief having rendered them as it were immovable. See Ezra 9:3,4; ; Nehemiah 1:4; ; Psalms 137:1; ; Isaiah 47:1; Luke 1:79; and ; Matthew 27:61.
Verse 21. If thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Mary said the same words to him a little after, John 11:32, which proves that these sisters had not a complete knowledge of the omnipotence of Christ: they thought he could cure at hand, but not at a distance; or they thought that it was because he did not know of their brother's indisposition that he permitted him to die. In either of these cases it plainly appears they had not a proper notion of his divinity; and indeed the following verse proves that they considered him in no other light than that of a prophet. Query-Was it not proper that Christ should, in general, as much as might be, hide the knowledge of his divinity from those with whom he ordinarily lodged? Had they known him fully, would not the reverence and awe connected with such a knowledge have overwhelmed them?
Verse 22. I know, that even now
She durst not ask so great a favour in direct terms; she only intimated modestly that she knew he could do it.
Verse 23. Thy brother shall rise again.
That is, directly; for it was by raising him immediately from the dead that he intended to comfort her.
Verse 24. I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection
The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead was then commonly received; and though it was our Lord who fully exemplified it by his own resurrection, yet the opinion was common, not only among God's people, but among all those who believed in the God of Israel. The Jewish writings after the captivity are full of this doctrine. See 2 Macc. 7:9,14, 23,36; 12:43; 14:46; Wisd. 5:1,7, 17; 6:6,7. See also Josephus and the Targums, passim.
Verse 25. I am the resurrection, and the life
Thou sayest that thy brother shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day; but by whom shall he arise if not by ME, who am the author of the resurrection, and the source of life? And is it not as easy for me to raise him now as to raise him then? Thus our blessed Lord raises her hope, animates her faith, and teaches her that he was not a mere man, but the essential principle and author of existence.
Though he were dead
Every man who has believed or shall believe in me, though his believing shall not prevent him from dying a natural death, yet his body shall be re-animated, and he shall live with me in an eternal glory. And every one who is now dead, dead to God, dead in trespasses and sins, if he believe in me, trust on me as his sole Saviour, he shall live, shall be quickened by my Spirit, and live a life of faith, working by love.
Verse 26. Shall never die.
Or, Shall not die for ever. Though he die a temporal death. he shall not continue under its power for ever; but shall have a resurrection to life eternal.
Believest thou this?
God has determined to work in the behalf of men only in proportion to their faith in him: it was necessary, therefore, that these persons should be well instructed concerning his nature, that they might find no obstacles to their faith. These sisters had considered him only as a prophet hitherto; and it was necessary that they should now be farther instructed, that, as God was to exert himself, they might believe that God was there.
Verse 27. Yea, Lord: I believe
πεπιστευκα, I have believed. Either meaning that she had believed this for some time past, or that, since he began to teach her, her faith had been considerable increased; but verbs preter, in Greek, are often used to signify the present. Martha here acknowledges Christ for the Messiah promised to their fathers; but her faith goes no farther; and, having received some hope of her brother's present resurrection, she waited for no farther instruction, but ran to call her sister.
Verse 28. The Master is come
This was the appellation which he had in the family; and from these words it appears that Christ had inquired for Mary, desiring to have her present, that he might strengthen her faith, previously to his raising her brother.
Verse 30. Jesus was not yet come into the town
As the Jewish burying places were without their cities and villages, it appears that the place where our Saviour was, when Martha met him, was not far from the place where Lazarus was buried. See Clarke on Luke 7:12.
Verse 31. She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
It appears that it was the custom for the nearest relatives of the deceased to go at times, during the three days of weeping, accompanied by their friends and neighbours, to mourn near the graves of the deceased. They supposed that the spirit hovered about the place where the body was laid for three days, to see whether it might be again permitted to enter, but, when it saw the face change, it knew that all hope was now past. It was on this ground that the seven days of lamentation succeeded the three days of weeping, because all hope was now taken away. They had traditions that, in the course of three days, persons who had died were raised again to life. See Lightfoot.
Mr. Ward says: "I once saw some Mussulman women, near Calcutta, lying on the new-made grave of a relation, weeping bitterly. In this manner the Mussulman females weep and strew flowers over the graves of relations, at the expiration of four days, and forty days, after the interment."
Verse 33. He groaned in the spirit, shows himself to be truly man; and a man, too, who, notwithstanding his amazing dignity and excellence, did not feel it beneath him to sympathize with the distressed, and weep with those who wept. After this example of our Lord, shall we say that it is weakness, folly, and sin to weep for the loss of relatives? He who says so, and can act in a similar case to the above according to his own doctrine, is a reproach to the name of man. Such apathy never came from God: it is generally a bad scion, implanted in a nature miserably depraved, deriving its nourishment from a perverted spirit or a hardened heart; though in some cases it is the effect of an erroneous, ascetic mode of discipline.
It is abolishing one of the finest traits in our Lord's human character to say that he wept and mourned here because of sin and its consequences. No: Jesus had humanity in its perfection, and humanity unadulterated is generous and sympathetic. A particular friend of Jesus was dead; and, as his friend, the affectionate soul of Christ was troubled, and he mingled his sacred tears with those of the afflicted relatives. Behold the man, in his deep, heart-felt trouble, and in his flowing tears! But when he says, Lazarus, come forth! behold the GOD! and the God too of infinite clemency, love, and power. Can such a Jesus refuse to comfort the distressed, or save the lost? Can he restrain his mercies from the penitent soul, or refuse to hear the yearnings of his own bowels? Can such a character be inattentive to the welfare of his creatures? Here is God manifested in the flesh! living in human nature, feeling for the distressed, and suffering for the lost! Reader! ask thy soul, ask thy heart, ask the bowels of thy compassions, if thou hast any, could this Jesus unconditionally reprobate from eternity any soul of man? Thou answerest, NO! God repeats, NO! Universal nature re-echoes, NO! and the tears and blood of Jesus eternally say, NO!
Verse 35. Jesus wept.
The least verse in the Bible, yet inferior to none. Some of the ruthless ancients, improperly styled fathers of the Church, thought that weeping was a degradation of the character of Christ; and therefore, according to the testimony of Epiphanius, Anchorat. c. 13, razed out of the Gospel of St. Luke the place 19:41) where Christ is said to have wept over Jerusalem.
Verse 36. Behold how he loved him!
And when we see him pouring out his blood and life upon the cross for mankind, we may with exultation and joy cry out, Behold how he hath loved US!
Verse 37. Could not this man, which opened the eyes, Through the maliciousness of their hearts, these Jews considered the tears of Jesus as a proof of his weakness. We may suppose them to have spoken thus: "If he loved him so well, why did he not heal him? And if he could have healed him, why did he not do it, seeing he testifies so much sorrow at his death? Let none hereafter vaunt the miracle of the blind man's cure; if he had been capable of doing that, he would not have permitted his friend to die." Thus will men reason, or rather madden, concerning the works and providence of God; till, by his farther miracles of mercy or judgment, he converts or confounds them.
Verse 38. It was a cave, Jewish burying-places were made in the sides of rocks; some were probably dug down like a well from the upper surface, and then hollowed under into niches, and a flat stone, laid down upon the top, would serve for a door. Yet, from what the evangelist says, there seems to have been something peculiar in the formation of this tomb. It might have been a natural grotto, or dug in the side of a rock or hill, and the lower part of the door level with the ground, or how could Lazarus have come forth, as he is said to have done, John 11:44?
Verse 39. Take ye away the stone.
He desired to convince all those who were at the place, and especially those who took away the stone, that Lazarus was not only dead, but that putrescency had already taken place, that it might not be afterwards said that Lazarus had only fallen into a lethargy; but that the greatness of the miracle might be fully evinced.
He stinketh
The body is in a state of putrefaction. The Greek word οζω signifies simply to smell, whether the scent be good or bad; but the circumstances of the case sufficiently show that the latter is its meaning here. Our translators might have omitted the uncouth term in the common text; but they chose literally to follow the Anglo-Saxon, {A.S.}, and it would be now useless to attempt any change, as the common reading would perpetually recur, and cause all attempts at mending to sound even worse than that in the text.
For he hath been dead four days.
τετα�ταιοςγα�εστι, This is the fourth day, i.e. since his interment. Christ himself was buried on the same day on which he was crucified, see John 19:42, and it is likely that Lazarus was buried also on the same day on which he died. See Clarke on John 11:17.
Verse 40. If thou wouldest believe, is faith alone that interests the miraculous and saving power of God in behalf of men. Instead of δοξαν, the glory, one MS. reads δυναμιν, the miraculous power.
Verse 41. Where the dead was laid.
These words are wanting in BC*DL, three others; Syriac, Persic, Arabic, Sahidic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Vulgate, Saxon, and in all the Itala. Griesbach leaves them out of the text.
Father, I thank thee
As it was a common opinion that great miracles might be wrought by the power and in the name of the devil, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and invoked the supreme God before these unbelieving Jews, that they might see that it was by his power, and by his only, that this miracle was done; that every hinderance to this people's faith might be completely taken out of the way, and that their faith might stand, not in the wisdom of man, but in the power of the Most High. On this account our Lord says, he spoke because of the multitude, that they might see there was no diabolic influence here, and that God in his mercy had visited his people.
Verse 43. He cried with a loud voice
In John 5:25, our Lord had said, that the time was coming, in which the dead should hear the voice of the Son of God, and live. He now fulfils that prediction, and cries aloud, that the people may take notice, and see that even death is subject to the sovereign command of Christ.
Jesus Christ, says Quesnel, omitted nothing to save this dead person: he underwent the fatigue of a journey, he wept, he prayed, he groaned, he cried with a loud voice, and commanded the dead to come forth. What ought not a minister to do in order to raise a soul, and especially a soul long dead in trespasses and sins!
Verse 44. Bound hand and foot with grave-clothes
Swathed about with rollers-κει�ιαις, from κει�ω, I cut. These were long slips of linen a few inches in breadth, with which the body and limbs of the dead were swathed, and especially those who were embalmed, that the aromatics might be kept in contact with the flesh. But as it is evident that Lazarus had not been embalmed, it is probable that his limbs were not swathed together, as is the constant case with those who are embalmed, but separately, so that he could come out of the tomb at the command of Christ, though he could not walk freely till the rollers were taken away. But some will have it that he was swathed exactly like a mummy, and that his coming out in that state was another miracle. But there is no need of multiplying miracles in this case: there was one wrought which was a most sovereign proof of the unlimited power and goodness of God. Several of the primitive fathers have adduced this resurrection of Lazarus as the model, type, proof, and pledge of the general resurrection of the dead.
Loose him, and let him go.
He would have the disciples and those who were at hand take part in this business, that the fullest conviction might rest on every person's mind concerning the reality of what was wrought. He whom the grace of Christ converts and restores to life comes forth, at his call, from the dark, dismal grave of sin, in which his soul has long been buried: he walks, according to the command of Christ, in newness of life; and gives, by the holiness of his conduct, the fullest proof to all his acquaintance that he is alive from the dead.
Verse 45. Many of the Jews-believed on him.
They saw that the miracle was incontestable; and they were determined to resist the truth no longer. Their friendly visit to these distressed sisters became the means of their conversion. How true is the saying of the wise man, It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting! Ecclesiastes 7:2. God never permits men to do any thing, through a principle of kindness to others, without making it instrumental of good to themselves. He that watereth shall be watered also himself, Proverbs 11:25. Therefore, let no man withhold good, while it is in the power of his hand to do it. Proverbs 3:27.
Verse 46. But some of them went their ways
Astonishing! Some that had seen even this miracle steeled their hearts against it; and not only so, but conspired the destruction of this most humane, amiable, and glorious Saviour! Those who obstinately resist the truth of God are capable of every thing that is base, perfidious, and cruel.
Verse 47. Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council
The Pharisees, as such, had no power to assemble councils; and therefore only those are meant who were scribes or elders of the people, in conjunction with Annas and his son-in-law Caiaphas, who were the high priests here mentioned. See John 18:13,24.
What do we?
This last miracle was so clear, plain, and incontestable, that they were driven now to their wit's end. Their own spies had come and borne testimony of it. They told them what they had seen, and on their word, as being in league with themselves against Jesus, they could confidently rely.
Verse 48. All men will believe on him
If we permit him to work but a few more miracles like these two last (the cure of the blind man, and the resurrection of Lazarus) he will be universally acknowledged for the Messiah; the people will proclaim him king; and the Romans, who can suffer no government here but their own, will be so irritated that they will send their armies against us, and destroy our temple, and utterly dissolve our civil and ecclesiastical existence. Thus, under the pretense of the public good, these men of blood hide their hatred against Christ, and resolve to put him to death. To get the people on their side, they must give the alarm of destruction to the nation: if this man be permitted to live, we shall be all destroyed! Their former weapons will not now avail. On the subject of keeping the Sabbath, they had been already confounded; and his last miracles were so incontestable that they could no longer cry out, He is a deceiver.
Both our place and nation.
Literally, this place, τοντοπον: but that the temple only is understood is dear from Acts 6:13,14; 2 Macc. 1:14; 2:18; 3:18; 5:16,17; 10:7; where it is uniformly called the place, or the holy place, because they considered it the most glorious and excellent place in the world. When men act in opposition to God's counsel, the very evils which they expect thereby to avoid will come upon them. They said, If we do not put Jesus to death, the Romans will destroy both our temple and nation. Now, it was because they put him to death that the Romans burnt and razed their temple to the ground, and put a final period to their political existence. See Matthew 22:7; and the notes on chap. 24.
Verse 49. Caiaphas being the high priest that same year
By the law of Moses, Exodus 40:15, the office of high priest was for life, and the son of Aaron's race always succeeded his father, But at this time the high priesthood was almost annual: the Romans and Herod put down and raised up whom they pleased, and when they pleased, without attending to any other rule than merely that the person put in this office should be of the sacerdotal race. According to Josephus, Ant. xviii. c. 3, the proper name of this person was Joseph, and Caiaphas was his surname. He possessed the high priesthood for eight or nine years, and was deposed by Vitellius, governor of Judea. See Clarke on Luke 3:2.
Ye know nothing
Of the perilous state in which ye stand.
Verse 50. Nor consider
Ye talk more at random than according to reason, and the exigencies of the case. There is a various reading here in some MSS. that should be noticed. Instead of ουδε διαλογιζεσθε, which we translate, ye do not consider, and which properly conveys the idea of conferring, or talking together, ουδε λογιζεσθε, neither do ye reason or consider rightly, is the reading of ABDL, three others, and some of the primitive fathers. Griesbach, by placing it in his inner margin, shows that he thinks it bids fair to be the true reading. Dr. White thinks that this reading is equal, and probably preferable, to that in the text: Lectio aequalis, forsitan praeferenda receptae.
That one man should die for the people
In saying these remarkable words, Caiaphas had no other intention than merely to state that it was better to put Jesus to death than to expose the whole nation to ruin on his account. His maxim was, it is better to sacrifice one man than a whole nation. In politics nothing could be more just than this; but there are two words to be spoken to it: First, The religion of God says, we must not do evil that good may come: Romans 3:8. Secondly, It is not certain that Christ will be acknowledged as king by all the people; nor that he will make any insurrection against the Romans; nor that the Romans will, on his account, ruin the temple, the city, and the nation. This Caiaphas should have considered. A person should be always sure of his premises before he attempts to draw any conclusion from them. See Calmet. This saying was proverbial among the Jews: see several instances of it in Schoettgen.
Verse 51. This spake he not of himself
Wicked and worthless as he was, God so guided his tongue that, contrary to his intention, he pronounced a prophecy of the death of Jesus Christ.
I have already remarked that the doctrine of a vicarious atonement had gained, long before this time, universal credit in the world. Words similar to these of Caiaphas are, by the prince of all the Roman poets, put in the mouth of Neptune, when promising Venus that the fleet of AEneas should be preserved, and his whole crew should be saved, one only excepted, whose death he speaks of in these remarkable words:-
"Unum pro multis dabitar caput."
"One life shall fall, that many may be saved."
Which victim the poet informs us was Palinurus, the pilot of AEneas's own ship, who was precipitated into the deep by a Divine influence. See VIRG. AEn. v. l. 815,
There was no necessity for the poet to have introduced this account. It was no historic fact, nor indeed does it tend to decorate the poem. It even pains the reader's mind; for, after suffering so much in the sufferings of the pious hero and his crew, he is at once relieved by the interposition of a god, who promises to allay the storm, disperse the clouds, preserve the fleet, and the lives of the men; but,-one must perish! The reader is again distressed, and the book ominously closes with the death of the generous Palinurus, who strove to the last to be faithful to his trust, and to preserve the life of his master and his friend. Why then did the poet introduce this? Merely, as it appears to me, to have the opportunity of showing in a few words his religious creed, on one of the most important doctrines in the world; and which the sacrificial system of Jews and Gentiles proves that all the nations of the earth credited.
As Caiaphas was high priest, his opinion was of most weight with the council; therefore God put these words in his mouth rather than into the mouth of any other of its members. It was a maxim among the Jews that no prophet ever knew the purport of his own prophecy, Moses and Isaiah excepted. They were in general organs by which God chose to speak.
Verse 52. And not for that nation only, preceding words in John 11:51, are John's explication of what was prophetic in the words of Caiaphas: as if John had said, He is indeed to die for the sins of the Jewish nation, but not for theirs alone, but for the sins of the whole world: see his own words afterwards, 1 John 2:1,2.
Gather together in one
That he should collect into one body;-form one Church out of the Jewish and Gentile believers.
Children of God that were scattered abroad.
Probably John only meant the Jews who were dispersed among all nations since the conquest of Judea by the Romans; and these are called the dispersed, John 7:35, and ; James 1:1; and it is because he refers to these only, that he terms them here, the children of God, which was an ancient character of the Jewish people: see Deuteronomy 32:5; Isaiah 43:6;; 45:11; ; Jeremiah 32:1. Taking his words in this sense, then his meaning is this: that Christ was to die, not only for the then inhabitants of Judea, but for all the Jewish race wheresoever scattered; and that the consequence would be, that they should be all collected from their various dispersions, and made one body. This comports with the predictions of St. Paul: Romans 11:1-32. This probably is the sense of the passage; and though, according to this interpretation, the apostle may seem to confine the benefits of Christ's death to the Jewish people only, yet we find from the passage already quoted from his first epistle, that his views of this subject were afterwards very much extended; and that he saw that Jesus Christ was not only a propitiation for their sins (the Jews) but for the sins of the whole world: see his 1st epistle, chap. 2. ver. 2. 1 John 2:2All the truths of the Gospel were not revealed at once, even to the apostles themselves.
Verse 53. They took counsel together
συνεβουλευσαντο, they were of one accord in the business, and had fully made up their minds on the subject; and they waited only for a proper opportunity to put him to death.
Verse 54. Walked no more openly
πα��ησια, He did not go as before through the cities and villages, teaching, preaching, and healing the sick.
Near to the wilderness
Some MSS. add, of Samphourein, or Samphourim, or Sapfurim.
A city chilled Ephraim
Variously written in the MSS., Ephraim, Ephrem, Ephram, and Ephratha. This was a little village, situated in the neighbourhood of Bethel; for the scripture, 2 Chronicles 13:19, and Josephus, War, b. iv. c. 8. s. 9, join them both together. Many believe that this city or village was the same with that mentioned, 1 Macc. 5:46; 2 Macc. 12:27. Joshua gave it to the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:9; and Eusebius and Jerome say it was about twenty miles north of Jerusalem.
And there continued
Calmet says, following Toynard, that he stayed there two months, from the 24th of January till the 24th of March.
Verse 55. The Jews' passover was nigh at hand
It is not necessary to suppose that this verse has any particular connection with the preceding. Most chronologists agree that our Lord spent at least two months in Ephraim. This was the last passover which our Lord attended; and it was at this one that he suffered death for the salvation of a lost world. As the passover was nigh, many of the inhabitants of Ephraim and its neighbourhood went up to Jerusalem, some time (perhaps seven or eight days, for so much time was required to purify those who had touched the dead) before the feast, that they might purify themselves, and not eat the passover otherwise than prescribed in the law. Many of the country people, in the time of Hezekiah, committed a trespass by not attending to this: see 2 Chronicles 30:18,19. Those mentioned in the text wished to avoid this inconvenience.
Verse 56. Then sought they for Jesus
Probably those of Ephraim, in whose company Christ is supposed to have departed for the feast, but, having stayed behind, perhaps at Jericho, or its vicinity, the others had not missed him till they came to the temple, and then inquired among each other whether he would not attend the feast. Or the persons mentioned in the text might have been the agents of the high priest, had been at Ephraim, came and inquired among the people that came from that quarter, whether Jesus would not attend the festival, knowing that he was punctual in his attendance on all the Jewish solemnities.
Verse 57. Had given a commandment
Had given order; εντολην, positive order, or injunction, and perhaps with a grievous penalty, that no one should keep the place of his residence a secret. This was their hour, and the power of darkness; and now they are fully determined to take away his life. The order here spoken of was given in consequence of the determination of the council, mentioned John 11:48-53.
CHRIST'S sympathy and tenderness, one of the principal subjects in this chapter, have already been particularly noted on John 11:33. His eternal power and Godhead are sufficiently manifested in the resurrection of Lazarus. The whole chapter abounds with great and important truths, delivered in language the most impressive and edifying. In the whole of our Lord's conduct in the affair of Lazarus and his sisters, we find majesty, humanity, friendship, and sublime devotion, blended in the most intimate manner, and illustrating each other by their respective splendour and excellence. In every act, in every word, we see GOD manifested in the FLESH:-Man in all the amiableness and charities of his nature; GOD in the plenitude of his power and goodness. How sublime is the lesson of instruction conveyed by the words, Jesus wept! The heart that feels them not must be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity, and consequently lost to every generous feeling.
On the quotation from Virgil, on the 50th verse, a learned friend has sent me the following lines.
My dear Sir,-I have observed that in one part of your Commentary you quote these words of Virgil, Unum pro multis dabitur caput; and you are of opinion that Virgil here recognizes the doctrine of atonement. There is a passage in Lucan where this doctrine is exhibited more clearly and fully. It is in the second book, v. 306. Cato, in a speech to Brutus, declares his intention of fighting under the standard of Pompey, and then expresses the following sentiment:-
O utinam, coelique Deis Erebique liberet, Hoc caput in cunctas damnatum exponere poenas! Devotum hostiles Decium pressere catervae: Me geminae figant acies, me barbara telis Rheni turba petat: cunctis ego pervius hastis Excipiam medius totius vulnera belli. Hic redimat sanguis populos: hac caede luatur, Quidquid Romani meruerunt pendere mores.
O, were the gods contented with my fall, If Cato's life could answer for you all, Like the devoted Decius would I go, To force from either side the mortal blow, And for my country's sake wish to be thought her foe. To me, ye Romans, all your rage confine, To me, ye nations from the barbarous Rhine, Let all the wounds this war shall make be mine. Open my vital streams, and let them run; O, let the purple sacrifice atone, For all the ills offending Rome hath done! ROWE.
A little after, v. 377, Lucan portrays the character of Cato with a very masterly hand; but he applies expressions to a mortal which are applicable to Christ alone.
Uni quippe vacat, studiisque odiisque carenti, Humanum lugere genus.
The golden mean unchanging to pursue; Constant to keep the purposed end in view; Religiously to follow nature's laws; And die with pleasure in his country's cause, To think he was not for himself design'd, But born to be of use to all mankind. ROWE.
The Adam Clarke Commentary is a derivative of an electronic edition prepared by GodRules.net.
Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on John 11". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". <http://classic.studylight.org/com/acc/view.cgi?book=joh&chapter=011>. 1832.
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Laurent Bécue-Renard is a French director and producer. In 1995 and 1996 he served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Sarajevo Online and published a series of short stories called The Sarajevo Chronicles. After the conflict, he began exploring the war’s enduring impact on three widows at a rural therapy center. His documentary about them was screened at dozens of festivals and received the Berlin IFF’s Peace Film Award. Shifting his focus to young men returning from battles in faraway lands, he continues to explore war’s psychological aftermath with Of Men and War, the second installment in his Genealogy of Wrath trilogy.
Filmography: War-Wearied (2001)
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vul. Shota Rustaveli, 19
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Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
Approaching the Elephant
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Bats Left/Throws Right
Hey, We Waited Until Paragraph Twelve. That's The Patience Of Job In Journalism Terms.
James Hohmann and Marin Cogan in Politico's Stewart Rally coverage:
Most signs fit with the happy-go-lucky ethos of the rally, but others were crude. One sign had Hitler mustaches on pictures of Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Glenn Beck and John Boehner. The message said, “Afraid yet?” This is particularly insulting to Cantor, who is Jewish and in line to become House Majority Leader if Republicans win next week.
OKAY, assuming this is so--and nobody ever says that Hitler mustaches are particularly offensive to Barney Frank or Doogie Howser, or that that Goldberg book is particularly offensive to descendants of the liberals who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade--shouldn't Hitler mustaches on anyone, other than Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, and maybe that guy from Sparks, be particularly offensive to Eric Cantor? (And, granted, he's complained about Limbaugh. I'm not knocking Cantor. I'm sayin' maybe it would be easier for the guys from Politico to keep it in their pants if they learned how a zipper works.)
Labels: Does The Media Really Need More Than One Neck? 4 comments:
Putting The I In "Intuit". And The Twit.
David Brooks, "The Next Two Years". October 28
THE other day I went looking for some piece of Brooks' bio--damned if I can remember what now--and a promising Googlead turned out to be a sort of cracked mirror image of myself. It's not surprising, of course, that there are people out there who admire Brooks when he's dispensing right-wing talking points, and dislike his periodic forays into mock-reasonableness. (It is perhaps a bit surprising that anyone who thinks that way bothers with him.) What really did take me aback, momentarily, was that this guy actually buys the whole routine, and was incensed that Brooks had moderately praised Rahm Emanuel, or moderately deplored nuclear war, or something' (I'm kidding; it was Rahm. There's no way Brooks would criticize our last sixty-five years of explosive military diarrhea.) So this is not the reverse of my position, which maintains that Brooks suffers from Pernicious Reaganinfantilism, and can't identify enough of the truth to miss or bend. It is, rather, that same blasted American cultural landscape in which Coke is It, Pepsi hits the Spot, and people are interesting because they're on th' teevee. You may agree or disagree with Brooks, or Beck, or Snooki, but you are not permitted to question the integrity of either of their two dimensions. (I used to shop in the same grocery as The Teevee Weather Lady; observing the reaction she provoked you were forgiven for wondering why this country ever imagined it had to rid itself of Monarchs. This is, I think I've mentioned before, the single cultural trend, or occurrence, or whatever it is, that I would flat not have believed had you revealed it to me via Time Machine in 1972. It was, perhaps, the only point in my youth where idealism trumped the eye-opening results of growing up on the westside of Indianapolis: I was absolutely convinced, to the point of not even considering it, that a generation's familiarity with advertising, through the newfangled color teevee box, would breed a contempt so thorough that the mere hint of lying, the merest whiff of hard sell or softened soap, would be enough to bankrupt a brand forever. I knew this as certainly as I knew that a transparent boob like Ronald Reagan could never become President.)
Could you and I, O Reader, have conspired for ten minutes eighteen months ago--nay, if you matched my own cynicism, two years ago!--to write today's Brooks column for him? Historic defeat, blah blah. Generic polls blah blah blah. Big Spender, blah, out of touch with real America, blah blah blah blah blah. And, of course, the prescription: Obama must now become more like David Brooks!
Which sorta raises the question, for me, of where exactly this David Brooks was when spiteful January raised her head in 2008, and Barack Obama looked like the Republican's one chance to avoid losing to the bitchful Hillary:
Then he got defined as an orthodox, big government liberal who lacks deep roots in American culture.
Somewhere the Cracked Mirror Riley is incensed that Brooks merely suggests that Obama isn't an American, rather than owning up. And somewhere, in some parallel universe where he has the time to give a shit, Bruce Springsteen is demanding his poster back.
I, on the other hand, merely wish to point out that a couple centuries of being as rooted to a particular place as the trees they occasionally swung from didn't do African-Americans a world of good.
Anyway, Mr. Brooks: you're fifty years old. Near half a lifetime has passed since you touched the hem of Milt Friedman's garment. That's seven mid-terms ago; one--the pants-pissing contest of 2004--went the President's way. I'm more wooly mammoth than spring chicken myself, so I don't expect you not to crow about virtual poll wins and historic gobbledegook. I do expect that at some point you might pause to consider what's what, if only for the sense of novelty. You may be better off than you were twenty-nine years ago (granted, I'm no expert in assessing the psychic pits, pockmarks, and tumors of a life spent lying for money), but do you really imagine the country is? That country you imagine inherently agrees with you, except when it's misguided? Three decades, historic slashing of tax rates, historic inequities, four historic recessions, two jobless recoveries, and a political culture which has gone from corrupt, dishonest, and banal, to corrupt, dishonest, banal, and breathtakingly stupid. Now you think Americans "fear their nation is in decline"? Now we're threatened by debt, deficit, bailouts and self-indulgence? Th' fuck were you when Reagan tripled the Debt? When Bush I bailed out the S&L mess created in the hot torrents of incontinent deregulation? The historic reversal of our deficit trend under Bush II was okey-dokey by you, until after the 2004 elections, when your middling expressions of concern, safely beyond repercussion, meant nothing besides a hoped-for salutary effect on your own Moderate career.
I don't know who you think this is foolin', Dave. Okay, I do, I just wonder if you think you're foolin' yourself. I've just sat through the stupidest election cycle in Indiana history, and only 2000 and foregone conclusions have kept it from the all-time top spot. That's not my partisan opinion. It's fucking incontrovertible fact. In a state which has led the nation in Stopping Voter Fraud Which Has Never, Ever Occurred, we're about to elect as Secretary of State--the state's top voting official--a guy who voted illegally in 2008, preserving a fraudulent registration so he could keep his government job. His campaign ads depict him as a Tax Cutter; the Secretary of State has no revenue responsibilities whatsoever. He might as well've pledged to buy cheaper envelopes this time, and check the ads for toner sales. The incumbent State Treasurer is campaigning on the fact that he managed to earn interest on the money we had lying around. Unlike the last Democrat, who kept it under his mattress. Mitch Daniels is spending some of his PAC money plugging state races; being forced to watch campaign ads for state races alone should make a proud and free people rise as one and beat the shit out of him, but the remarkable thing to me is, they're all canned, like he allotted fifteen minutes for the whole process, and catch him in half-profile, which accentuates his Nixonian hauteur to near-parody. The Democrat (note: graded on a curve) running for the seat Evan Bayh is just too distraught to defend has accused the Republican of being insufficiently anti-abortion. That's Dan Coats, by the way, one of the myriad Republicans who vow to end the Socialist Obamacare in order to strengthen Medicare.
You really imagine this bunch, and this approach, is the key to rescuing Columbia Herself from the twilight tailspin into Oblivion? And maybe Bond in Seconds, Get Teeth Their Whitest, and Kill the Germs that Cause Bad Breath? Best of luck. Is it too soon to write your November 2012 column for ya?
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May You Never Get Old
Matt Bai, "In Time of Change, Nostalgia Has Appeal". October 27
I B'LIEVE I'm on record as granting permission to anyone who wants to to bash "Boomers" for a multitude of real sins: opposition to the enormity of US involvement in Indochina, which lapsed as soon as the threat of conscription did (in fairness I, born in the closing moments of 1953, was eligible for the last six months of the draft; so 2/3 of Boomers, by median if not mean, never risked a government-sponsored jungle trip at all). Blame 'em for insufficient resistance to the the post-facto rewrite that portrayed that war as a fine little patriotic excursion spoiled by a few chronic grumblers and ungovernable loogie launchers; for the hypocritical descent into mindless consumerism and real estate acquisition of the Reagan/Yuppie era; for Reagan himself; for the soul-deadening shallowness that replaced the News, and our politics; for that commercial that uses Melanie's "Brand New Key"; and for everyone named "Dylan".
Here is a partial list of things you cannot blame on Boomers. In fact, let's rephrase that. Here is a partial list of thing you must either be a total idiot, a liar, or a sad-sack careerist mining the endless lode of "My Generation Uses the Internet, while Yours Had Enormous Rotary Phones and Sideburns", or all three, to blame on us:
• Boomers are not responsible for the fact that old people tend to xenophobia, terminal crotchets, and a lack of familiarity with the latest dance steps. Similarly, your generation is not to blame for inventing the extraordinarily broad and unwarranted generalization that puts your sorry, complaining, never-did-nothing-worth-spit ass in the best possible light by comparing it to something worse and imaginary.
• We're not responsible for the rise of that paranoid and post-war domestic fascism program which eventually merged with the Republican party around the time the oldest of Boomers was learning to drive.
• In fact we're not responsible for the massive propaganda campaigns which, since 1946, convinced Americans that invasion, subjugation, and forced sex with garlicky foreigners was right around the corner unless we kept our military brass crotch-deep in jet/atomic/digital-powered bombers and golf courses.
• Nor the corporate takeover of America, of roughly the same vintage.
Let's just note here that, while you're so busy congratulating yourself on living in a post-racial neighborhood you've done nothing whatsoever to address the rapidly expanding implementation of the last three, with a particular note about how easy it's been to scare Post-Racial, Internet-Savvy America with the specter of brown men stealing our freedoms with shampoo bombs. Just like everyone else.
And yet, a less noticed undercurrent is pulling politics in the opposite direction, too. The latest polling suggests we may see the election of several venerable politicians to offices they held before, including some who haven’t governed since the days when “apple” and “blackberry” referred primarily to fruit. And this suggests that as much as we talk about closing the book on the last era of American politics, we may be having some trouble letting go.
Y'know, I love it when a totally artificial meme is stood on its head by the very people who perpetrate the fraud in the first place, and then the crazy juxtaposition! is displayed as some sort of glimpse at a parallel universe, which somehow then proves the original contention. It's why I try to start every morning off by reading Slate.
The poster septuagenarian for this new crop of resurrected office-seekers is Jerry Brown, who was the youngest governor in the country when Californians elected him to the first of two terms in 1974. (Mr. Brown was famous then for dating Linda Ronstadt. You can Google her, or just ask your mom.)
Okay, we're often called upon here to explain some humor basics. First, like most people, this construction (bygone cultural icon + "ask your mom" = funny) worked on us the first 6 or 7 thousand times we heard it, but since then, eh. Second, the humor [if any] really requires that Bygone Cultural Icon be someone the average audience [if any] member had at least some vague familiarity with, i.e., someone still in the public eye but increasingly seen as a tired relic squeezing out link sausages to a rapidly deceasing audience. The Eagles. Ask your mom. Bon Jovi. Ask your mom. It doesn't really work when 52% of your audience really would have to ask its mom who someone was. It doesn't work on someone whose last album/tour was twenty years ago, unless that person was the most hugely colossalest star of his time. Garth Brooks. Ask your ma.
Now then. I, Boomer, was among the first batch of eighteen-year-olds allowed to vote in a Presidential election, in 1972. This means that, in my rapidly-dwindling lifetime, I've had the opportunity to vote against Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan (twice) G.H.W.H.M.S Bush (twice), and Bob Dole. It was twenty years before I had the change to vote for one of my generational buddies, and ten more before the first (and probably next-to-last) chance to pick between two. So shut th' fuck up about Jerry Brown, fer chrissakes. Or better yet, move there, vote against him, and help the younger, internet-savvy inmates take over the rest of the asylum. Ask your mother.
By the way, has anyone calculated the odds that the sort of person who makes a career of making shit up about randomly ascribed collections of birth years will also claim that two instances of something unremarkable constitute a Trend?
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Who, What, When, Where, And Nobody Likes A Sarcastic Wimp
David Brooks, "No Second Thoughts". October 26
I NEVER kept a journal back in the quill and parchment days, and my advice to the legions of up-and-coming bloggers--beyond the fact that it's not as glamorous as it looks--is to choose your bête noir with more care than I did mine.
I'm not apologizing. I've noted here before that while Brooks may not be as stupid as Erick Erickson, or as faux-incendiary as Ann Coulter--consider, Reader, how difficult it is to choose a single avatar for those conditions!--he is Your Race Leader in Hypocrisy. In fact, David Brooks is the fucking wrapper Republican Hypocrisy comes in these days, or was 'til they went with the Teabag brand, not that that's slowed him down. He's a virtual Swiss Army knife. He's the German Shepard of all-arounders. He's among the career leaders in Pretending Republican Talking Points Are the Product of Your Own Ratiocination (13,655), Facile Moralisms (43,866), Assuming the Mantle of Middle-American Worker Without Ever Living In Middle America or Working (9,427), Average Speed in Defending Republicans Doing What Should, By His Supposed Principles, Be Indefensible (1.2 columns), and Smarm. He's got nine Gold Gloves for his work in defending his supposed moderation, by having mastered the technique of half-grimacing on those rare occasions when Jim Lehrer or--heaven forfend!--Mark Shields brings up some example of the hydrophobic rat infestation which is his side of the political spectrum. David Brooks is the sort of reasonable Conservative who doesn't mind if gays marry or serve in the military! He's the sort who probably doesn't think abortion is always murder! He is, however, the sort who doesn't exactly stand up for those "principles" when his party goes a'harvesting votes from that direction.
And I am from Middle America. To me the guy with the bone-through-the-nose Obama poster is much less a danger to the Republic than the guy who's too smart to do it himself, but doesn't mind other people doin' it for him, so long as he reaps most of the benefits. It's President Palin vs. President Daniels. President Nixon vs President Brain-Damaged B Actor. They're both out to mug you. It's just that with one of 'em you can hear the war whoops two blocks before they reach you.
On the other hand, I really had no idea, back when I started doing this, that a) The New York Times would wind up being a regional shopping leaflet; and b) that Brooks was capable of the levels of disingenuousness he's shown there. (Meaning, of course, compound disingenuousness, not the simple sort of which his career is built.)
When times get tough, it’s really important to believe in yourself. This is something the Democrats have done splendidly this year. The polls have been terrible, and the party may be heading for a historic defeat, but Democrats have done a magnificent job of maintaining their own self-esteem. This is vital, because even if the public doesn’t approve of you, it is important to approve of yourself.
Y'know, no one's gonna goad me into defending Democrats, but Reality is a different matter. The Democrats aren't in whatever situation they're in (election results are a week away; maybe we can wait that long to count the votes) because of hubris; they're where they are because they've been running from Ronald Reagan for thirty years. They found themselves, last January, with two bad choices: a compromised healthcare bill, or a failure to deliver on the healthcare promises their landslide President had made. Surprising at least one observer (me, who expected them to fold yet again), they took option A. They are now blamed for this; had the vote gone the other way they'd be blamed for that. And they are to blame, because even if they couldn't see which way the wind was blowing they could've checked in with 1992 again. They didn't lose those fights through supreme self-confidence. They lost because they thought they could win by refusing to fight. It's stupid, and when you see a crowd of ostensibly smart people doing something stupid--assuming that surprises you in the least--you look for some ulterior reason. And that reason is they're still running from Ronald Reagan thirty years later. They're afraid to propose the United States of America spend money on programs that benefit anyone other than the wealthiest 5%, for fear of being called Tax n' Spenders, and they're afraid to cut the astronomically absurd "Defense" budget for fear of being called unpatriotic. They're afraid to make corporations pay fairly, and in full, for their benefits and for the sound operation of a free and just society, and they're afraid to make them pay for shipping American jobs overseas. They're afraid of Roger Fucking Ailes. They're afraid of using the system to their advantage the way Republicans do without blinking, and they're afraid of their own constituencies. They're afraid of Ben Fucking Nelson and Evan Bugwit Bayh. Mostly they're convinced, and have been for some time, that electability is more important than being right or doing what's right, and they're convinced that corporate donations are more important than defending a belief system.
They find themselves here because they imagined, somehow, they imagined, yet again, they could deal rationally with a bunch of criminally self-serving pathological liars. Because they imagined they could compromise with the likes of you, Dave, and then you'd let them hide behind you when your people started saying mean things.
Y'know, I don't give a fuck if Dems go down to defeat next week; I think it would've been better for them if their pathetic track record in 2006-2008 led to a defeat last time, one which woke them up to the fact that "moderate" Democrats are the Möbius Band of American politics: you travel along and get nowhere but back where you started. The only thing worse than defeating deserving Democrats is replacing them with the Clown Car from Hell which is the Republican party. Y'know, Dave: the party that remained supremely self-confident as it destroyed the US economy and our military and diplomatic standing overseas. And the only thing worse than electing more of those idiots is the sort of "moderate" Republican who pretends he's not quite sure how they got seated at his table.
Labels: Is There Some Reason We're Importing Them? 5 comments:
• We're leaking, but the good news is it can't possibly be brain fluid: four days after we got 400,000 pages on the Great Cluster Fuck in Iraq, the Times coverage--after thoughtfully including a top-of-the-Sunday-frontpage exposé of how Julian Assange Just Isn't Our Kind (Daniel Ellsberg went to a psychiatrist!)--I'm convinced, by the way, that absent Ben Bradlee and whatever honor remains among thieves, the Times would have hired Sally Quinn away from the Post years ago--the whole thing's down to a box in the corner. So Last Week! I am reminded of what I said in 2002: the main argument against our invading Iraq, or anyone, for that matter, is that this country is too juvenile to handle it. We should have picked up on this when the warfloggers blamed Life for My Lai. Now our newspapers can't handle the news.
Reggie Bush returned his Heisman. On his own. Just saying'.
• On the other hand, "Karzai takes money from Iran" has legs. Or maybe that's just to make up for "Secret donors run US campaigns: Who are we to judge?"
• My memory's going: has there been a national election since 1980 which was about anything?
• GM PAC gives Mitch McConnell $5000. In other news, Mitch McConnell accepts $5000 from GM.
Enjoy the next couple months, motherfuckers, until the Teabaggers take over.
• Somerby:
As we’ve noted, every journalist flies to Finland to examine its high-scoring (middle-class) schools. This furthers a preferred press corps narrative: Our own public schools are a mess!
But please note: No one has ever flown to Finland to explore a second question: How do they provide health care at such a very low cost? Here are the OECD data for the U.S. and Finland:
Total spending on health care, per person, 2007:
United States: $7285
Finland: $2900
How weird! Why does no one fly to Finland to examine this major achievement?
• You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to slip a similarity past a Post staff writer:
Nevertheless, the similarities to Beck's rally are just the sort of thing Stewart himself would satirize on his show if, of course, it weren't his rally and his TV show in the first place.
• No, really: Joe Frontiera and Dan Leidi, columnists, consultants, and concerned clip-art bystanders, "Don't Get Fooled Again: The Baby Boomers' leadership failure".
• Your Moment of Zen:
Admirable is he, who when he
sees lightning, does not say
"Life goes by like a flash."
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A Lady In Private And A Whore In Public
NBC News Raccoon Brian Williams:
TVNewser: It’s been an interesting month for the TV business, with Rick Sanchez let go by CNN, and now FNC’s Juan Williams fired by NPR. What do you think of all this, and what do you think of the media coverage of these controversial developments?
Brian Williams: We’ve [covered] Juan the past two nights. The other two networks led with Juan Williams last night. I didn’t think it was quite at that level. But this is ‘eye of the beholder’ stuff. This is where, as someone said on our air last night, the First Amendment gives you the right to say what you want. It doesn’t give you the right to be employed.
So, these media organizations are exerting their own right to employ or not employ these folks. But I think there has been a little bit of a thread of media people, in the public eye, saying things and paying a price for it.
Yet Brian Williams, whom NBC Brand News goes With, both teased and opened the story on Thursday by saying it "raised questions about Political Correctness", before tossing to Andrea Mitchell, who had thoughtfully interrupted her tireless pursuit of Just Who in the Brown Campaign Called Meg Whitman a Swear to cover another major story.
Then the goddam thing rates a second night! More fallout! Jesus, Brian, your name's on the fucking show. If you know the story can be summed up in a sentence, tell me why didn't you sum it up in a sentence?
Political correctness? Sheesh, the only person making it about "Political Correctness" was Juan Williams, and he had a million reasons to do so. (None of which included his integrity as a commentator, of course, because he has none, which is what NPR should have said in the first place. Like at his job interview.)
Is this the way you covered the Sanchez story, Brian? Th' fuck makes "Scary Muslims want to blow up planes" less offensive than "The Jews run everything"? Other than the fact that the Jews run everything, I mean? Why don't you dedicate the second half of your career to actually being a journalist? What's the worst that could happen? How many meals are you going to miss from here on out?
The Internets Are Now Closed
CablinasianDem, in comments at Wonkette:
Even when Juan Williams is fired for making inflammatory comments, they're dull, cliche, and uninspired.
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The Nixon Revival
MAYBE the case needs to be made, before events make it for me (let us see, for instance, just how simon-pure and post-culture-war the New Republican Majorities remain as the 2012 campaign draws near). I am, the objective Reader will have noted, more interested in saying shit than convincing anyone of it.
I broke with Candidate Obama--that is, I went from potential, if reluctant, supporter back to default and grumbling Democrat--three years ago next week, when he and John Edwards helped Tim "Roasted Potato" Russert gang-tackle Hillary Clinton on the grounds that Eliot Spitzer had done something sensible in between his weekly forced-feminization sessions, and she should answer for it. I was no Hillary supporter--sorry, meant to suggest you sit down first--but was, and am, convinced that this sort of shit is precisely what's wrong with our campaigns, and hence our governance, and that a half-way sensible and decent man foregoes temporal personal gain which comes at the expense of poisoning the public drinking water. Of course, later, Nominee Obama would express his admiration for Ronald Reagan *. I lost it. No, really, before that I was soft-spoken and reasonable. Look it up.
Because, y'know, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Barack Obama was a twenty-year-old college student majoring in political science. When I was a twenty-year-old college student majoring in folk pharmaceuticals, I sure as hell knew what a Dick Nixon was.
I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.
And don't get me wrong: there is absolutely no excuse for the President to've missed what Reagan was about. I happen to think the same is true for every sentient being in this country alive at the time, and certainly for anyone who lived through it as a functioning adult and a Democrat. And the above, by the way, is from his next-day expiation.
I suppose that, under the circumstances, I can be forgiven for blacking out before the remark about Nixon, but the simple fact is that he missed that one, too, and Big Time: Nixon is the man who altered our politics forever, with a single speech, with, in fact, two words: Silent Majority. But Nixon was a petty thug, a war criminal, an impacted bolus of hate in America's transverse colon. Whereas Reagan was an affable dunce whose PR people had finally caught up with the Teevee Age. Nixon had B-52s and unlimited ordnance to drop on Commies, in a war which, however else it gets rewritten in the pop imagination, it is still not quite acceptable to insist was the Right Thing To Do; Reagan only had dumdum bullets and a few fleeing hippies to shoot in the back. Y'know, the sort of thing you forgive if the guy seems like someone you'd wanna have a beer with. So the Right has been able to pretend, for three fucking decades, that it just wants to return us to the simpler, gentler time of Good Ol' Gramps and his common-sense, horse-and-plow wisdom, not lock us back in the closet and give the key, and the cattle prod, to Uncle Ernie and his creepy five o'clock shadow and Beefeater breath.
There was no reason to swallow it then, and there's no reason to swallow it now. The Teabaggers are the grandchildren of the paranoid fascists of the post-war era, whose pinnacle was Richard Nixon. They are not the inheritors of the prop mantle worn by that sainted spokesmodel and Great Communicator. It's well past time for seeing Reagan for what he was; too bad that didn't happen when it might've meant avoiding the dissolution of the middle class, and re-peonage of the poor, and five-fold increase in the prison population. And it's time to start calling The Nixon Revival what it is. Unadulterated, but by no means pure.
* which, of course, he was then forced to admit he meant in a gay way, not politically.
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Ginni Thomas, Take Two
ONE thing you can say for the Great Nixon Revival: it's never gonna lack for Martha Mitchells.
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People, And Their Facsimiles, In The News
OKAY, admittedly, I'm but a dilettante at the Law, a mere amateur rhetorician and wannabe electrician, and I'm no a Hazmat technician, I just like wearing the suits. But at this point, since he obviously can't manage to keep Lady Macbeth there indoors, shouldn't Clarence Thomas now recuse himself from any case involving an insanity defense? Can't someone explain to Crazy Ginni that words have meanings, at least they often do when sane people try to use them, and that these words are magically recorded and preserved by answering machines? And has the Thomas household been checked recently for heavy metals? How 'bout the Coke cans?
Christ, if nothing else, can't whoever's been ponying up the wingnut welfare on the grounds that, since she'd done the dirty hula with a Negro she was the one Teabagger who couldn't be called racist, stuff a sock in her or something?
Sure, Sure, A Pound Of Barnyard Sweepings And A Cup Of Sugar Might Turn Themselves Into A Chocolate Soufflé
Matthew Continetti, "Five Myths About Sarah Palin". October 17
Ross Douthat, "Tales of the Tea Party". October 17
David Brooks, "Don't Follow the Money". October 18
LAST week I got around to watching the POV documentary on Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Ellsberg left Harvard to become a Marine. As a civilian military analyst he led mission after mission in Vietnam, like his friend John Paul Vann, going where the brass--let alone the politicians and functionaries--wouldn't have dared. He was a war supporter who gradually came to realize what a lie the whole thing was.
In other words, Daniel Ellsberg had more intellectual courage than the three privileged fucks listed above, their organizations, and their "movement", as well as more physical courage thanthey and the entire Republican leadership. And that's before you factor in risking life in prison to expose the vengeful war criminals who killed twenty times the number of Americans bin-Laden ever did, and millions of the Other, just to keep their Ponzi scheme profitable.
Of course, the whole exercise wound up as a sort of sick comedy, proving that it was easier, and more effective, to hand America a witless bumper sticker than a 1700-page look at what was done in its name, with its money; the reader can decide if there are still any reverberations to be heard today. Nixon won a second term in a landslide; Gene Roddenberry and Roone Arledge served as the boring insects spreading the virus to the twisted bowel of the body politic. You can get into an extended argument over Vietnam today, without effort, with people whose entire position is obliterated by the factual record. Hell, you could get into an argument with so-called Progressives during the Glorious Revolution of 2008 without them displaying the slightest recognition that the United States had ever taken a military action from any motive other than the purest, nor without heavy humanitarian heart. If you haven't heard, within the last six months, that Tet was Actually A US Victory, or that Walter Cronkite sold out the United States (or any other variation on "the media mislead Americans into defeatism"), it can only be because you don't follow the argument.
How many of the well-respected punditasters above do you imagine has ever cracked open a copy of The Pentagon Papers? They do not want to know; they do not want to be forced to apply their easy moral pronouncements to issues that aren't predecided for them. Th' fuck did we get here? Well, we got here because the realities of Vietnam were so ugly, so destructive of the national mythology, that a wide swath of Americans simply decided that talking to themselves was preferable to facing reality. Meet their children. There was certainly an element of this in the opposition to the Civil Rights movement, but that opposition was allowed to show itself plain and in public for many years to come (Bill Buckley was still writing those "King was too a Commie" pieces in the early 80s). Vietnam is to "Conservatism", and its party, what On the Origin of the Species is to backwoods fundamentalist magic.
This is how you get, not only some two-bit whore to shill for Sarah Palin, but a supposed major newsource to publish it. Palin "didn't hurt McCain" because a CNN exit poll of Republican voters says so; what prodigies of illiteracy would this sort of thing evoke in a sane conversation? And that represents the single "fact" offered in "busting" Five "Myths". The rest of the thing is a Bunny Ranch price list for a selection of tawdry corporate sex acts. You know; the Weekly Standard's stock in trade. (I don't care if you imagine that La Palin has her finger in the light socket of some vast Middle American power grid; ignoring her obvious mental incapacity just because she's on your side is beyond the pale. It's no longer a question of what, if anything, can be said to excuse Palin, or O'Donnell, or Angle, or Bachman, or Beck; it's how they come to feel so at home in a major political party that they could walk in and help themselves to the remote. Ask the same goddam thing about Reagan, whom the Right was beginning to criticize in its darkest days, or Bush, whom it now treats as some accidental houseguest, half-remembered only because he left an embarrassing stain on one of the towels. Look: God Knows I'm not exactly thrilled with my own end of the political spectrum, and, especially, its appointed spokescreatures. But there's a clear distinction, at least, in that Glenn Greenwald has been holding the President's feet to the fire since the primaries; compare this to "Palin's uneven performance on the campaign trail". Uneven! The Party of Burke won't even criticize a moran in its midst. Unless it thinks the mic is turned off.)
Which brings us to Douthat, who'd clearly be the village idiot in any decently-educated village. The man made his bones--inexplicably (paging Mr. Moyers!)--by writing, two years ago, that the Republican party needed to become the party of New Ideas; today he writes that Dumb as Dirt is actually pretty insightful, provided you squint just right and are congenitally disposed to believing the last thirty years of economic disaster must be someone else's fault. [Not to mention that the goddam thing recapitulates Continetti's drivel, except Ross Boy could only come up with Four Myths and zero phony facts. Great minds think alike. So they can, too. At any rate, the whole exercise ("For one thing, I never said the downstairs bath had to be Early American") sounds like a strategy session with the divorce lawyer just in case That Cheatin' Bastard tries to keep the House. Which sorta puts the lie to the whole "What Republican Rift"? routine.]
Like Brooks, Douthat for some reason believes arguing with imaginary liberals is a lifetime sinecure. Brooks, who could just as easily be ignored as the rest of this stuff if it weren't being taken seriously by the country's last surviving newspaper, of course, has made the same sort of "peace" with his new, or "new", 300 lb. bunkmate as Douthat; today he's busy swimming in the vast pools of anonymous Republican campaign contribution cess, and pronouncing the stench not so bad if you stand far enough away. Brooks comes up with one-one, (1), O-N-E--example of a race where Democratic outside interests have slightly outspent Republican outside interests, proving for all time that money doesn't influence politics. He points out that in the most heavily contested races Democrats have outspent Republicans. Which is like noting that the Texans at the Alamo had an unfair advantage in interior lines.
I'm long inured to this sort of thing passing for Thought. I just don't know how much longer it'll be before I can understand how it passes for analytical thought.
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Extrapolations From The Obvious, Poured Appetizingly Over A Shingle
David Broder, "A tentative step toward the Oval Office by a GOP policy guru". October 17
FIRST, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did:
When she vanished, police questioned Condit, making the story even hotter.
The Levys, perhaps inadvertently, fueled the flames, holding vigils and news conferences, hoping to help find their daughter.
Like the time they inadvertently demanded to know why police hadn't searched his apartment.
Hey, didn't Ann Coulter solve the crime? She doesn't get enough credit. Dean?
[I]n a party where a candidate such as Angle can be the nominee against the majority leader, brains are clearly a precious commodity. What we saw in Washington on Thursday night was a reminder that despite the occasional appearance, Republicans do not lack in that regard.
Three guesses.
Back in Washington, the luxury of having a thoughtful presidential contender was striking for everyone hearing Daniels. The onetime Reagan White House political director and Bush White House budget chief is not your run-of-the-mill intellectual. His style is to be down-home, but his record of accomplishment is dazzling.
Dazzling, in the same sense in which David Broder is the Dean of American political analysts. Which, in some sort of mystic cosmic alignment or other, is precisely the same sense in which Mitch Daniels is an intellectual.
Okay, it's Broder; it's like getting upset because Tom Brokaw thinks George Patton won WWII. And it's America, where "intellectual" means "might not embarrass himself on Jeopardy!, provided they used dumbed-down celebrity questions". Still, where does this come from, and why's in it the air for Broder's corpse to latch on to? George Bush's nickname for Mitch? Got a favorite Daniels quote? Dean? Anybody? A Daniels article that changed your perception of the world? His five favorite books are Ayn Rand Action Comics, vols. 6-10. (He might as well said Jesus is his favorite philosopher, though the campaign's just getting started, folks.)
Let's leave aside the fact that "Libertarian intellectual" is a contradiction in terms; could we at least admit, in the spirit of toughening our educational standards across the board, that it's about as ridiculous as saying someone is a Traffic-flow intellectual, or a Cosmetics intellectual? Daniels has a pocketful of pre-packaged answers to everything, the way a pederast might have a pocketful of candy, but he certainly hasn't answered the major question, which is why those answers have led, over the past thirty years, to America becoming the world's most pitiful, impoverished Superpower.
[Incidentally, the Daniels Miracle has gone from Mantra, to Empty Mantra, to Meaningless Collection of Nonsense Syllables. Or make that "back to" meaningless nonsense; the state will soon begin paying interest and penalties on the $1.8 billion it's borrowed to cover unemployment benefits ("We're still better than Michigan!"), because it hasn't repaid the loan on time. $100 mil in interest, plus $21/worker in penalties, a penalty that doubles every year the loan goes unpaid. Candidate Daniels made hay out of the $200 million state budget "deficit" in 2004. Just for comparison's sake. (Actually, he made pork tenderloin sandwiches; he pounded the thing so thin it spread to $500 million, then $800 million, depending on who ordered it.) So Penny-Pinchin' Mitch seems to've been remarkably profligate with other people's money when it came time to preserve, or "preserve" the $billion surplus, or "$billion" "surplus" he was going to run for President on. Deadbeat Indiana is going to have to find $100 million next year to pay for Mitch Daniels' Presidential aspirations. Somebody alert Dean Broder.
And so it turns out that Daniels, like his idol St. Ronnie of the Shucks, has quadrupled the budget while claiming to fight it, the difference being that, so far as I recall, Reagan never tried to claim he'd miraculously shrunk the thing. But then Reagan was no intellectual.
And Daniels' answer to all this? The Next Republican Majority should forgive the debt, thereby increasing the Federal Deficit Which Threatens Our Very Way of Life. That's something. Not intellect, but something.]
The Hudson Institute gave a dinner honoring its former president, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, with the award named for its founding intellect, Herman Kahn.
The coveted "Mein Führer, I'm Too Vell-Fed To Valk!" Award.
[Incidentally, the Hudson Institute soaked up the government largess in the Hoosier state for twenty years, while all her citizens benefited from its particular brand of Bullshit Futurism as a Front for Corporate Rapine. This means I'm long since familiar with the legendary stories of Kahn's abiding affection for cabbies. It also means I've searched the streets for three decades trying to locate one he'd've fit in. Unsuccessfully.]
It was in every respect the opposite of the spectacle that came out of Nevada. There, Democrats and Republicans alike cringed as they watched their supposed champions mangle policy questions and personal exchanges in a fashion that would have been embarrassing for high school debaters. How did Nevada end up with two such inept candidates?
How? How? Say, just whose political reporting are you Dean of, anyway? How do we wind up with Sharon Angle vs. Harry Reid? Fuck, tell me how we ever wind up with anything even marginally better.
Tell me who eats this shit with a spoon, Dean, shingle and all, if not your profession? If not you. Who writes this sort of by-the-numbers dreck? The Daniels campaign is the desperation of a roomful of second-generation Nixonites and Reagan Privateers suddenly concerned, four decades later, about the roosting habits of the toothless inbreds they embraced for the sake of temporal political gain. How is it we miss that? And while we're feeling so intellectual an' all--again, I suppose it's a good thing that Irony died before she had to see the standard of Intellectualism! raised on the GOP barricades--maybe we could ask what these people have actually done for us in the sixty plus years since Nixon-Gahagan. Maybe we could ask how people with no morals got outflanked by people with no morals or brains, and why we should suppose that giving control back to the former would make a spit's worth of difference. Maybe we could ask why this den of thieves thinks fooling a Hoosier qualifies you for President.
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Readin', Ritin', Retrenchment
Sharon Otterman, "Lauded Harlem Schools Have Their Own Problems". October 12
LISTEN, I admit that some of this is personal: I know how hard my Poor Wife works. I know how few people--including 99% of the sidewalk education reformers I come into contact with--could handle it for a week. I know what's happened to her, professionally, over the past two decades of our using schools as political soccer balls (and, particularly, with Indianapolis, and the state of Indiana, using the Separate but Unequal Not Exactly Indianapolis Public Schools as a punching bag): ceaseless churning of educational practices by local and state governments, megalomaniacal district superintendents and their fellow Education Leaders, and the education "establishment" they cow. Six years ago she spent most of her free time in the final two months of school, and all of her summer (unpaid) rewriting curriculum and planning new classes so Indianapolis Public Schools (and the School of Education at IUPUI) could rake in millions of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation largess for something called the Small Schools Initiative. IPS was the only major school district in the country to jump into the thing with both feet. All of the Foundation money went to the university, to administer the program, and to training administrators and teachers in how to run the program; in other words, it provided junkets for administrators and an extra work load for the people actually doing the educating. Not one dime ever made it to a classroom. Not one dime was every supposed to. It lasted two years, before being killed. Quietly, if you need to ask.
She has, in her career, seen Indianapolis Public Schools go from Junior High schools (7th and 8th grades) to Middle Schools (6th, 7th, and 8th, a combination only a blind sadist could have concocted), back to two-year schools, and on to integrating them into some high schools. (Isn't this how GM got to be where it is today?) Four changes in lesson plan procedure, which basically changed whose desk all those papers would sit on, unread; three complete overhauls of the online grading system, including the most recent, which prevents her from entering data from her own machine at home (because it's a Mac, and you know what sort of cross-platform compatibility problems we have in 2010) and, instead, forced a sweet technophobe and Luddite painter to learn whatever version of DOS the official system employs; and the Magnetification of half of IPS high schools, the granddaughter of School CHOICE (pick your school and we'll bus you there), daughter of that Small Schools Initiative and junior-middle-school Chinese fire drill, which, among other things, required my Poor seniority-laden, union featherbedding Wife to reapply for the job she already had, the one she'd just been named Teacher of the Year for doing, the one where by every objective standard you could apply she was one of the premier teachers in the state. Thank god they didn't require a PowerPoint presentation.
That's without mentioning how successive mayors of Indianapolis have been given the power to open Charters next to every Starbucks, or the three different procedures (In the Spring! No, in the Fall! No, in the Spring!) for the statewide, high-stakes ISTEP testing which grinds everything to a halt for two weeks every year, or the time the Indiana state legislature stripped the IPS union, and only the IPS union, of its collective bargaining rights, or the current threat that the Great State of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, Governor, Tony Bennett, Personal Anti-Union Educational Hatchet Man, will take over Indianapolis' "failing" public school system, and run it as well as it has the Family and Social Services Administration and the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission, those other major programs it cares so deeply about.
My wife teaches six classes in a seven-period day; that's one more than her contract permits, and she's been doing this for three years, because the school can't afford to hire the proper number of teachers. It's six different classes, not one class six times. She created a curriculum on the fly two years ago, because some idiot administrator (gotta stop repeating myself) offered a class the school didn't actually have. She took on a class last year that was created ten days after the year began. She's a mentor, official and unofficial, to her younger colleagues. She--not the entrepreneurs in the front office--is the one they call when they're going to be absent and haven't left a lesson plan for the substitute; she goes in early to see it's taken care of. She sponsored an after-school club last year despite having been told there was no money for it; when her Wobbly husband asked why, she said, "Because the kids want it." She's the one who arranges student shows, and generally the one who hangs and/or takes them down, because her colleagues have other things to do with their weekends. She mans booths at art fairs and such three or four times a year so that students can show their work. A few years back she got a Public Passenger Chauffeur's License with Special School Bus Cluster, because the district eliminated drivers for field trips and after-school events for a couple of years.
Her reward for this (Reader, do not get ahead of me!) is being treated like she was awarded a sinecure by some Borgia pope. Like she's a place-kicker one missed chip shot from being released. Like she should justify, every school year, maybe every grading period, having a job, let alone some small accrued benefits over some rookie know-it-all Ivie Teach for America boss-fucker with a two-year stint and $300,000 per administration post after in her crosshairs.
And--you may have heard--by being condemned because the century of second-class citizenship for African-Americans and their schools, if any, following three centuries of no citizenship at all (void where required by Apportionment), is now the fault of tenure in New York City schools.
But back home and out of the spotlight, Mr. Canada and his charter schools have struggled with the same difficulties faced by other urban schools, even as they outspend them. After a rocky start several years ago typical of many new schools, Mr. Canada’s two charter schools, featured as unqualified successes in “Waiting for ‘Superman,’ ” the new documentary, again hit choppy waters this summer, when New York State made its exams harder to pass.
A drop-off occurred, in spite of private donations that keep class sizes small, allow for an extended school day and an 11-month school year, and offer students incentives for good performance like trips to the Galápagos Islands or Disney World.
Y'know, I wonder if the drop-off was identical to the drop-off in climbing splits once the Tour de France started actually drug testing riders? I wonder if it's the same as the drop-off in 100m times between Ben Johnson setting the World Record, and Ben Johnson taking a urine test? I wonder if I could get a grant to check on this.
And the cost of its charter schools — around $16,000 per student in the classroom each year, as well as thousands of dollars in out-of-class spending — has raised questions about their utility as a nationwide model.
Raised questions? Really? I didn't hear Brian Williams ask Mr. Canada about it. I didn't hear Colbert ask That Guggenheim Fellow about the discrepancy, or where the money was supposed to come from while barking mad crowds complain about paying any taxes at all (Defense expenditures and personal benefits excepted). I don't recall Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, "Cufflinks" White, and a dozen of their cohort saying anything about doubling spending in that Post Op-Ed. In fact, I'm fucking waiting for someone to say it. I'm fucking waiting for The Mitch Daniels Education Miracle to announce we're raising educational expense by a third, except that will no longer include property and maintenance costs, and we're slashing teacher pay and benefits so we can put social workers and Registered Nurses in every classroom. Yup. Any day now.
In 2009, the Harlem Children’s Zone had assets of nearly $200 million, and the project’s operating budget this year is $84 million, two-thirds of it from private donations. Last month, the Goldman Sachs Foundation pledged $20 million toward constructing an additional school building. With two billionaires, Stanley Druckenmiller and Kenneth Langone, on the board, its access to capital is unusually strong.
In case you've forgotten, it was Ambrose Bierce who noted that if you steal a man's money and keep it, you're a thief, but if you steal his money and give 10% of it back you're a philanthropist.
The zone’s two charter schools are open to all city children by lottery. Officially, the schools spend, per student, $12,443 in public money and $3,482 in private financing each year. But that does not include the costs of a 4 p.m.-to-6 p.m. after-school program, rewards for student performance, a chef who prepares healthy meals, central administration and most building costs, and the students’ free health and dental care, which comes out of the zone’s overall budget, said Marty Lipp, the zone’s communications director.
I wonder if it includes the cost of psychiatric help for whomever put this on the HCZ website:
The budget for the HCZ Project for fiscal year 2010 is over $48 million, costing an average of $5,000 per child.
Again, I'm all for the work of the Harlem Children's Zone, regardless of that persistent feeling of being stabbed in the shorts; I'm all for fighting poverty. But not with a lottery, not by robbing the worst off to aid the bad off, not by giving Goldman Sachs a seat on the board, but by giving it an equitable tax bill that goes towards improving everyone's lot. Supposedly "we" decided thirty years ago that the Disney version of Entrepreneurship was the model for Everything. So when does this altruistic concern for the well-being of the impoverished actually touch the real engine of all this misery? Goldman Sachs has had a hundred and forty years to worry about the Poor. It doesn't need Geoffrey Canada's help. It doesn't have to pony up a few stolen dimes to a nonprofit to improve things; it could do so by paying an equitable amount of taxes and not gaming the fucking political system. And it--and we--don't need to help destroy what's left of trades unionism in this country just so a few children can show improvement on some dumbed-down test, given enough practice first.
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That's Edu-tainment!
Ian Urbina and Sarah Wheaton,"Rhee, Washington Schools Chancellor, to Resign". October 13
GOODBYE, Failing DC Schools™, Hello AEI sinecure, Educational Consultant to NBC, and six-figure book deal; we'd like to see serial liar Rhee put her career where her lyin' lips have been, and sign up for seven years as a non-union teacher in a charter school. One which admits not just the identical depressed-socioeconomic-level students as its public school neighbors, filtered through parental interest, but the same percentage of learning and emotionally disabled, the same percentage of non-English speakers, and agrees to keep them there short of prison or death. Y'know, just like the real public schools do. (And good luck finding one.) Furthermore, we'd like to see her work her Education Miracle with hormonally-mazed eight graders, not 6 year-olds, on the grounds that that's the level where the US supposedly falls behind the rest of the world, also known as Scandinavia. We'd like to see her do it with independent observers there to make sure she isn't teaching to the test, and others making sure that Joel Klein isn't dumbing down the test itself. We wanna see her live on the income, make herself available 24/7 for student and parent calls, and have her pay cut at the whim of her boss, then be fired because she's accrued seniority. We still wouldn't believe her; that much is already settled. We just think it would be a good first step, like giving Eric Erickson and Jonah Goldberg fifteen-month hitches as forward artillery spotters, or putting a banker in prison for theft. You know: symbolic.
Comedy aside, why was Michelle Rhee's proboscis in the DC mayor's race in the first place? For the sake of the children? And having made that decision, and lost, how does she come to refuse to resign, as any half-honorable hack would've?
The first sports hero I ever chose for myself--I was a baseball fanatic from the cradle, but So's My Old Man--was the great Kansas miler Jim Ryan. He's the reason I became a track and field man. I've seen the start of the Indianapolis 500 from the pits. I saw Maris and Mantle hit back-to-back home runs in '61. My school was the last to win the NCAA Men's Basketball championship undefeated, and the Colts won a Super Bowl. And nothing has ever matched the excitement of just warming up in the infield before a dual meet, or hearing the breath go out of a guy as you passed him on the stretch of a quarter he though he had won. And there's not a record in the books now that isn't tainted, and all because nobody said anything while obvious cheats grabbed the glory. Just win, baby, and no thought for tomorrow. A whole generation of baseball stars won't be in the Hall. Lance Armstrong, who would've been a great and inspiring story, will instead be covered in chess for eternity. Just win.
And apparently no one under forty knows any different, and everyone over forty is too corrupt or conflicted to say anything. Joel Klein is a cheap political hatchet-man who either ran a con game or doesn't know one when he sees it; Michelle Rhee's accomplishments are writ in vapor. They're just the latest mouthpieces for a scam that's been going on since Brown, and which, in the past few decades, has found union-bashing more profitable than tightening the nuts and bolts of local educational systems. But they don't get called on it, even after the fact, even when they lose. We know teachers, or their unions, are not the problem with education; we know there's not a single problem to correct, or a single goal to reach; we know we couldn't reach it if there was. The whole thing's bullshit. It's not the first time somebody's tried to sell the stuff, but I'll be goddamned if I remember so many people being convinced they're eating Tootsie Rolls.
Anyway, so long, Michelle. I wish I could say Goodbye.
Towards A Unified Theory Of Cupidity And Stupidity
Ross Douthat, "Grading School Choice". October 10
David Brooks, "The Paralysis of the State". October 12
We Mostly Wanted To Try A Shorter David Brooks: If we didn't give state and municipal employees medical benefits, we could afford bridges and chunnels and skyways and all that other shit we don't need. And everyone left would have a HeliHummer. Except the Drones, of course.
Say, That Was Fun, Let's Try A Shorter Ross Douthat: The American Enterprise Institute and its Associated Mouthpieces would like to remind you that we never said Charter schools were any better than the public schools. If you can't tell propaganda from fact, blame your uncaring unionized public school teacher. Hey, here's a movie!
Maybe You Should Have That Blind Spot Looked At. By Someone Who Isn't Blind: Things are apparently now so dire for the Brooks-style Republican--that is, the sort which has to pretend it considers something more than winning elections, and so realizes we're speeding toward two more years of Republican Do Nothingism--that he's taken to bashing police pensions. Cops make $70,000 per! They can retire at 50!
Let us note here, again, how often it is that honorary Lt. Colonels such as Brooks demonstrate their complete unfamiliarity with anyone who's actually served in the US military. Where, for example, one may retire after twenty years (at 38!) with half pay, or stick it out for another ten (48! under 50!) for 75% pay. Plus low-cost health care at restricted facilities for yourself and your family, government guaranteed housing loans, and any number of benefit programs. You can get $36,000 for college for serving two years, or one, if you pay $100/month to get into the program. Do we begrudge them, Mr. Brooks? Or are we just keeping them on standby for when we need that Trans-Pacific tunnel built?
There are roughly 700,000 law enforcement officers working at the state or local level in this country. It's absolutely certain that a considerably higher percentage puts his or her life on the line, everyday, "defending our freedoms", than do the 2.5 million members of our military cartel, which requires 8 support troops for every soldier in the field. If your Magic Formula is so fucking Magic, why don't you apply it everywhere?
[No, I didn't forget. The Army's not unionized, right? And not likely to be? So I answered my own question. Okay, then, so we've got $47 billion in aircraft carriers floating around at this minute--that's using the Navy's figures, and their math isn't like land math; there are those who say the damned things cost more than twice as much--and $23 billion in the first of their ten replacements. That's just construction cost for the existing ships, and doesn't include the billions in development, the $300M in annual operating costs, the $2.5 B overhauls they all need, and the God Knows What it'll cost our grandchildren--won't someone think of the unborn?--to decommission the damned things starting twenty years from now, at two nuclear reactors each. Wanna name an international incident in the modern era which would have required as many as three? Wanna calculate the odds, then, of two such incidents happening simultaneously? That's but 60% of the fleet. And this is not Our Military Budget, Fifty Times That of Our Largest Potential Competitor. It's just the premier show-off piece for one branch, and its express function, almost from the time the Nimitz was built, is to cow tenth-rate military powers so we don't have to go around threatening to nuke a Hemisphere every time Coca-Cola doesn't get its way. In which, by the way, we are routinely thwarted by weapons which could have been manufactured for a high school science fair. In 1917.]
Ask AEI: Douthat acknowledges anti-public school propaganda; the intention is not to correct any false impressions, but to accrue credit for admitting Truth while simultaneously arguing that we pursue Error anyway. How much longer does this sort of shit get a free pass? Some AEI functionary says, "Wait a minute, let's not go overboard about Charter schools." He says this not as we're going overboard about Charter schools, but fifteen years late, after we've seen their results are nothing like what was being claimed around the time we all jumped into the deep. And just before some pop-culture wilting convinces everyone all over again that we should go overboard about Charter schools, thereby placing them dangerously near the point where they'll have no where left to hide.
So instead it's time for a little pre-lowering expectations. After all, Charters do somebody some good, and they're already paid for. And this is supposed to explain how Missing the Fucking Point is still a viable option. Because if Charters haven't performed substantially better than the public schools, and done so right out of the box, then the mistake isn't Charters. The mistake is your argument. Not the exaggerated one; the one you're making now.
[Here's a Tell, by the way, like you fucking need one when these arrogant assholes don't think they even have to hide the cards: Douthat:
[T]he jury is still out on whether either policy consistently raises academic performance.
Or, in other words, it doesn't.]
2+2: Even supposing this shit was unequivocal--by which I mean "unequivocal evidence for your argument", and not "unequivocal evidence of your cupidity", which it almost is, you're still full of it. Just because I feel an obligation to continue free education in this country doesn't mean I think the loudest assholes, the biggest vote-buyers, and Our Acknowledged Corporate Masters get to design the curriculum. Whether Microsoft can pick up its next generation of software pirates domestically is no concern of mine; maybe when you fucks start demanding as much from corporations as you do from ordinary citizens I'll sign on. It was somewhat amusing to see that Guggenheim fellow on Colbert the other day, pretending, one, that his movie didn't bash teachers and, two, that we have an obligation to fund public education as a training ground for the private sector, but the private sector has no obligation to hire Americans nor treat them fairly. At the end of the day, you can't--or won't--lift a finger to assure that the whole thing isn't in vain. I'm not sure how you sell this to any population qualified to judge someone else's eduation. And I know it's been said before, but it seems so apt: go fuck yourselves.
Flunkies
Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, and 14 other public liars including Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene "Cufflinks" White, "How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education leaders". October 10
SURELY, Mr. Riley, that recourse to bold-face ad hominem is uncalled for, a cheap partisan shot aimed out Our Nation's Education Leaders. Well, no. It would've been a cheap partisan shot if I hadn't read the thing first, which, in the event, made no actual difference, as could've been predicted. Theirs is the cheap partisan shot, made for personal and political gain; when do these people say something surprising, something unexpected, something that doesn't sound rote? I feel the same inclination to apologize for any characterization I could possibly dream up that I do apologizing to Jonah Goldberg, Erick Erickson, Ben Shapiro, or that Atlas Juggs imbecile for their refusal to put their own meat on the line in defense of Civilization. If Education is such a vital, and disastrous, part of American life then it's too important to put your name on a piece of shit that wouldn't have earned a passing grade in a decent freshman logic course.
Just me? Here's a sentence from the thing. One might almost conclude it was, in fact, the key sentence. Now, I was educated in the public schools, so you tell me what it relies on besides prestidigitation.
So, where do we start? With the basics. As President Obama has emphasized, the single most important factor determining whether students succeed in school is not the color of their skin or their ZIP code or even their parents' income -- it is the quality of their teacher.
Preteritio Alert: let's forget that sixteen of Our Nation's Vaunted Educational Experts can't match an object with its number; believe me, I've seen plenty of Gene White's professional missives, and they argue against the importance of proper English, at least where becoming an overpaid Education Leader is concerned. In 1965 the Coleman Report to President Johnson identified economic class as the major predictor of future academic achievement. It's never been refuted. If you take a look at "Failing" schools in 2010, the thing they share is high percentages of students living in poverty. This is too well known for anyone to've become an Educational Leader without a thorough familiarity with it. It's certainly possible to disagree, but even on Mt. Olympus here, claiming the opposite as established fact has but one possible description: it's a Fucking Lie.
We know very clearly that it is a student's ZIP code, in that low-income households frequently are intellectually impoverished, do not hold academic achievement or intellectualism in high regard, and exacerbate the social negatives with bad nutrition and health care, unstable living conditions, and the thousand bad influences that surround the impoverished home. We know that it is skin color, the result of hundreds of years in which anyone darker than a paper bag could not be taught to read, or, even if things happened to be less draconian, could not enter into hundreds, or thousands, of professions were knowledge could be used, excepting maybe among "his" people.
We think people ought to be ashamed to put their names to such a thing. It's not that we don't think such an opinion can be honestly held--though it can't be honestly held without acknowledging the scoundrels who hide behind it--it's that it can't be honestly held while it's distilled into a Magic Formula. A magic formula which just happens to both line the pockets of its proponents and let them off the hook for failures.
Let's take the case with which I'm most familiar, that of Dr. Eugene "Cufflinks" White (if you'd rather, Somerby has repeatedly dealt with the serial prevaricator Rhee). White makes much, professionally, from the fact that he grew up in a dirt-poor, single-parent home in Jim Crow, Alabama, and was the first of his family to graduate from high school, let alone earn a college degree. White tends to minimize that his entree into higher ed was being 6'5" and able to hoop. We don't impugn it; plenty of B-ballers waste the educational opportunities of a scholarship. We'd just like to know what the 5'5" kid with no skillz is supposed to think.
After stints in Ft. Wayne and as an assistant at IPS, White was named superintendent of Washington Township schools, Indianapolis' best and wealthiest, where he became famous for his annual dragnet of African-American high school males, where he told them to behave less like Africans and more like Americans. This, of course, was wildly popular with white voters, as well as far too many black; occasionally the complaints of an African-American parent who found the exercise racist, demeaning, and probably unconstitutional--that is, of someone who saw it for what it was--made the papers, and was promptly denounced. It's still White's schtick today, in a district which is almost 60% black and 70% minority, though now he does a separate number for the girls, just to keep things balanced. Earlier this year he was overheard in one such using the phrase "act like niggers" ("using the N-word", in local media parlance, as though the negative magic of the term itself was more important than the attitude behind it, the one they didn't want to touch), which he then lied about when confronted. Gene White is not a very good liar.
This is the attitude, folks: the African-American middle-class Church Elder distain for those crazy cuttin'-up colored folk. It's an attitude which has no place in public education. And it's a particularly ironic one when the argument seems to be that our failing students aren't being given enough personal attention. By their lazy union teachers.
White's in his sixth school year as IPS superintendent. They've been marked by lots of trumpeting. He instituted a tougher dress code (after instituting a Task Force to come up with one, so he could remain insulated. He instituted year-round schedules at some poorly-performing schools, then lost a lawsuit when he simply ordered teachers to work the extra days without compensation. He's created a number of magnet schools. He made big noise at the beginning of this year about enforcing attendance; he then quietly informed the schools not to do so. The big plan there? Make teachers responsible for tracking down truants. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself, and doesn't feel obligated to pay the people who do.
The results have been that Indianapolis Public Schools are the same Failure they were before he arrived. So now it's on to Year-Round School for everybody, meaning another CYA Task Force to fine-tune what has already been decided. And here's what I love about Education Reform, Leadership Style: the local teleprompter readers can't get enough of explaining how this solves the problem of students forgetting stuff over the summer. And, y'know, you may correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't most of our public schools operated on the Agrarian calendar since, oh, their inception? How is it Our Educational Leaders didn't already have an answer or two? Has this just become a problem in the last couple years?
In short, let us consider the source, here: Bloomberg's anti-union hit man, a self-promoting Teach for America groupie, and a convocation of urban Educational Leaders who find it easier, and more personally rewarding, to blame their underlings than accept responsibility.
In other words, this is Reagan Republicanism III: The Calcifying. The people who actually run things are somehow Perpetual Outsiders, plagued by an amorphous but omnipotent Marxism. Their pronouncements are to be taken as unqualified Truth, and as, inherently, True American Values. And yet, y'know, this is just the latest package design for an already tired product (granting that When In Doubt, Redesign the Package is the one authentic American Value for these people's America); the crappyness underneath is never examined, and never called to account. The meddlesomeness of the last decade, or the decade before that? Oh, you're talking about Old Education Leadership! See? New package. We haven't failed. That's unpossible. We're here to clean up Failure. SURGE!
It's remarkable, really: sixteen educational professionals, and not a doubt among 'em. It's everyone else's fault. Every last one of 'em believes that seniority systems are an unqualified evil, that the vast run of claims about Test Scores, with no antecedents, no rigor, no philosophical justification--and a track record of outright cheating, under, for example, Joel Klein--"prove" Failure, which in turn "proves" that Evil Union Teachers are negatively affecting student accomplishment. And that the answer--sitting down?--is superintendent and administration autonomy. Public liars and self-promoters hiding behind a national crisis of their own promotion. Well, you gotta admit: it worked for the Bush administration.
Friday, October 8
Nixon's The One! Reagan's The Beard!
TOO busy yesterday, but let's greet the day today with a mention of Somerby breaking in on the latest Brooks/Collins Conversation, that gimcrack in the Times apparently designed to prove, under the pretext of demonstrating that its Opinionists do not think about the things they write and have no more knowledge of current events than the average dental waiting room occupant, that combining a wishy-washy centrist "Liberal" and a so-called "moderate" "conservative" yields a particularly thin gruel.
“We!” Has Brooks ever dirtied his pretty pink hands inside the walls of a low-income school? Has he ever spent any time examining the real state of play of these institutions? Here at THE HOWLER, if we had to summarize the progress we’ve made in education over the last decade, we would mention the large score gains in reading and math recorded by black and Hispanic kids on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Presumably, those score gains were pushed along by our teachers. Question: Does Brooks even know that these large score gains exist?
The other day Brave Indiana blogger Doug Masson talked about the difficulty of blogging about issues when no one seems to take any real interest in 'em. He's a young man, so I suppose this seems to him to be a near- or medium-term trend. (He's also a smart man, so I'm not suggesting he thinks this has happened in a vacuum.)
And I'm not going to reply Listen, sonny, I been around, and you don't know the half of it. For once. Because I really do believe there's been a flight from Meaning to the Redoubts of Emotion in the past few decades. But I think that amounts to people who formerly discussed Issues (and the sort of people who, a generation ago, would have been disposed to) being reduced to entrenchment because they can't win on an open field any longer.
And that's both long term and short term. The Right wants to fight fin de siecle Progressivism now, alongside its Hundred Years War on The Class Traitor Roosevelt, in part because it always has, and in part because it thinks it can get away with it now. Who Lost China? is now Who Wants Sharia Law?; Creationism begat Intelligent Design begat Teach the Controversy! without anyone ever confronting 19th century science, let alone 21st. Bobo Brooks thinks Teachers need to Learn How to Love; funny how he adopts that song-and-dance when it looks like his more hotheaded cousins might wind up responsible for doing something about the issue. Reagan hates the National Debt until his name goes on the account.
Such things travel in waves. I don't think we're experiencing a tsunami now so much as the popularizers of Politics have taken a page from the popularizers of Meteorological reports: exaggerating everything is a sure-fire ratings winner.
And since I'm old and richly endowed in crotchets, let me say that, on the beaches I comb, at least, the tide seems to be bringing in more Nixon artifacts, and less of the Reagan Miracle and Compulsive Optimism. Not enough, these days, that tax rates are historically low, Defense spending remains incontinent, and Democrats in full customary cower. Millions of our fellow citizens simply miss the paranoid rantings of a total lunatic. We've gone from Bill O'Reilly, Reagan without the PR affability, corporate shill, supremely confident (at least publicly) because he knows that hooks the Rubes while knowledge don't, to Glenn Beck, Nixon without the genius, but all the evil banality. The question for me isn't What Changed? but How They Keep Getting Away With It. It's not How We Got Here. It's Welcome Back. And maybe they all just need a big hug from Bobo Brooks.
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• Credit Where Credit Is Due: Bob Somerby, all this week, on education. There is sense being made in our educational "debate"; it's just not being made in our politics, or our newspapers, or on our teevees. And we repeat: Somerby has a blog. Kathleen Parker has a Pulitzer and a teevee show.
The only thing I can add is this: it's our debate on Education, supposedly driven by Our Utter Failure, and the goddam thing is stupid on the face of it. Say it again: if people really were this stupid we'd have hundreds of deaths from shaving accidents every morning, and half again as many babies dried off in microwaves. Not to mention that all these people would've died broke, because they gave all their money to the Sham-Wow! guy and the first company to break the Hundred Blades on a Razor barrier, once thought impossible.
• Partial Credit Where Partial Credit Is Due: Mitch Daniels fires David Lott Hardy, Esquire, his chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, in the aftermath of the revelation that Scott Storms, the Commission's erstwhile general council and chief administrative judge, was taking to Duke Energy about a job (one he eventually took) while he was overseeing cases involving Duke. Hardy knew about it and did not require Storms to recuse himself. For its part Duke has put Storms and its Indiana president Mike Reed (former IURC executive director) on paid administrative leave, apparently because it only became aware it had hired two IURC officials it had negotiated with while they worked for the state when the news hit the papers.
Why partial credit? Because Daniels has refused to vacate the Duke-related decisions Storms was involved in, instead ordering them to be reviewed, and his office announced the firing was a result of a "verbal report"--verbs being considered an inferior part of speech, I guess--and not a full internal review. On the plus side, Daniels does seem to have remembered the Governor's Personal Grand High Inquisitor the Republican-controlled legislature created for him in Aught Five, and which immediately set about looking for criminality in previous Democratic administrations. [So far, as I recall, anyway, they've found a lottery clerk who swiped some scratch-offs, and learned that the late Frank O'Bannon once got a haircut on company time. Meanwhile the billion-dollar Family and Social Services Administration fiasco, the Incredible Shrinking Major Moves Fund, and the thousands in unreturned Tim Durham contributions ("That money has already been spent") have been ruled, I believe the legal term is, none of your fucking business. You didn't think I'm letting that malignant toad off easy, did you?]
• Remedial Reading: I was at some pains at The Aptly Named World O' Crap to explain how it is the Big Gay Cupcake Scandal did not, in fact, involve cupcakes; curiouser things have followed. Briefly: woman calls a shop named Just Cookies to order some quantity of rainbow-iced cookies for Coming Out Day. Woman says that when Voice on the Phone (in fact, the owner) learned of the destination of said cookies, and Just Who might be licking his icing, he informed her of his moral objections, told her he had two daughters he was trying to Raise Right, and hung up on her. Complaints ensue.
Now if you happened to be a male of my approximate height watching Channel 8 "News" that evening, or the next, or whenever it is they latched onto the thing, you heard one of those Tales from the Teleprompter which have any number of elements resembling actual ("verbal") language, in which nouns were, and verbs did, but which had no connection to the way things behave in real life. And this was because the folks at 8 had decided to bend matters to the standard script, or else they've forgotten how to tell a story from beginning to end, probably from long disuse, the verbal equivalent of bedsores. Or maybe Honor has broken out among Public Christians. At any rate, they seemed bound and determined to convey that The Gays were Filing a Complaint because That's What All These Special Interests Do, even though it was a clear case of misunderstanding. Which is where the cupcakes came in: at one point we were informed that the store doesn't even sell cupcakes! And it doesn't do Special Orders, at least not often.
Oh, golly, there's that damn prickling in my thumbs again. So, first, you only have the idea that Special Interests and Sodomites get to file official complaints about every slight they encounter in life if you're a fat and satisfied semi-burgher living in the suburbs who never experiences anything like it. It seemed almost certain there was something more to the story; it seemed even more certain that the Wholly Logical Reasons why the order couldn't be filled ("Who orders cupcakes from Just Cookies? They were looking to cause trouble!") came direct from the shop owners post facto and might not have revealed the entire landscape of the event. It took me a couple days to discover the What in what had happened.
Seems a woman from the Social Justice Education Office at IUPUI had called to order rainbow cookies. And when the owner found out who they were for he explained to her that filling the order would prevent his young progeny from growing up as morally superior as he is, and hung up on her. The cupcakes are what they wound up ordering from another, less moral, bakery.
The shop rents space from the city-owned City Market; Mayor Gomer got involved, mostly because in 2012, or never, the city will be hosting Super Bowl XLVI: The Super Bowl That Might Not Happen, and its quarter-million LGBT spectators and participants.
Tony Dungy was unavailable for comment.
And the desperate weirdness continued when, last week, William Phillips, a Greenfield Police officer, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist while on a bicycle training run. The accident occurred after midnight on US 40; the natural assumption was that the driver was drunk.
That turns out not to've been the case, apparently, but even before that was known the thing had taken on almost mythic proportions. At one point on Day Two I heard that police were looking for the driver who'd "killed the beloved father and husband". Ummm, tasty. Could I please have another trowel full?
Then came word, through the county prosecutor or the Greenfield PD--not exactly disinterested observers--that an attorney had contacted them, saying his client was ready to turn herself in. Much, if not all, Hell broke loose.
Apparently one, if not the major point the attorney was trying to negotiate was the avoidance of a media circus, something which should also be in the interest of law enforcement. Well, it didn't quite work. Tuesday evening, when it was widely expected that the woman was to show up for questioning, Channel 8 had a chopper overhead, and gave us five minutes of "a vehicle a man and woman had exited a half-hour ago. Of course, we don't know whether this is the woman, but…" Really. Why, to see inside we'd need some sort of infrared scanning device. So, let's turn it on.
Lemme just note here that as a long-time bicyclist I want nothing whatsoever to do with the roads anywhere from Gathering Dusk to Dawn's Mid-morning Light, and as little as possible to do with them otherwise. I ride a mostly-empty parking lot in bright sunshine and I'm still obsessive about knowing what's going on with every car on the lot and everyone on the street nearby. And I've almost been hit twice now. They say the officers were wearing safety clothing and were well-lit. But it's still and always the case that if you get into an altercation with a motorized vehicle, or even another bike, you're going to wind up the loser no matter who's at fault.
Some of the coverage--by Day Three the casual viewer might have imagined Phillips had died in a gun battle with Osama bin Laden, or that Hero was his middle name--seemed suspiciously designed to remove any questions about what he and other officers were doing training in such dangerous--and rather unrealistic--circumstances; Hendricks county does have motorized police vehicles with lights and sirens and two-way wrist radios, just like the civilized world, and these, presumably, are what they send out when someone needs to cover 12 or 15 miles in the dark. It worked. And some of the tone seemed designed to compensate for last-month's revelations about the drunken Indianapolis metro policeman who killed a stopped motorcyclist, and badly injured two others, while on duty. And the pent-up opprobrium for the driver abated only slightly when she turned out to be, not a Sterno bum with no license and a jacket the size of the phone book, but a middle-aged nurse who was driving her three children home from her parents house, who says she was distracted by the autistic one acting up. No record, unless you count the fifteen-year-old parking violation Channel 8 dug up.
And somebody had a poll the other day, asking if lawyers should be able to negotiate with police for their clients. 'Bout 80% against, as you might've guessed, unless you guessed 100. Seems like the News ought to be prohibited from encouraging public stupidity when it so obviously has a vested interest in perpetrating it.
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But This Time, Baby, I Mean It
SO the President wants me--at least in so far as "Liberal" now means "anyone to the left of Joe Lieberman" in addition to its standard pejorative sense--to consider the alternatives.
Short answer: I wish there were some.
Slightly longer answer: So, it's come down to Who I Want Chairing The House Committee on Phone Answering at 3 AM? I wish Irony could have lived to see this.
Still longer answer, with implied "Motherfucker": It's what I've been doing since 1972, and, if I were four years older, since '68. I've been forced to find ways of surviving eight years of Nixon, eight years (plus reverb) of Reagan, and eight years of Bush II for the Inherent Promise of a moderate Democrat, another moderate Democrat, and you. What? Oh, this one's about Congress? Well, that's different, then. It's much worse.
The Democrats in Congress ran for the hills as soon as the last effective Democratic President, for Good or Ill--Lyndon Baines Johnson--ramrodded Civil Rights and Great Society legislation. It found enough courage, eventually, to mount a challenge to Vietnam, and impeach a criminal President. It seemed to totter for a brief moment in early 1981, considering whether to actually oppose Reagan or jump in and grab some personal profits before the Looting of America train left the station. Guess which one it chose?
Oh, right, I'm sorry; St. Ronnie's ideas were just go gawrsh-darn popular they couldn't be resisted. Because he was such an admirable communicator. Really sold us on the Grand Old Traditions of North American corporate privateering, Latin American death squads, and the Bottomless Cup O' Defense Contracting. That's why we haven't heard a peep from the Democrats in Congress for the last thirty years: Reagan's way with a quip.
That's why so many House Democrats, and a third of the Senate Caucus, lined up behind the Bush Tax Cuts even though he'd stolen the Pulpit it was delivered from just six months before. That's why they got maneuvered into voting Bush carte blanche in Iraq right before his first midterm election, on the grounds that otherwise they'd appear (Even) Weak(er) on Defense and Objectively Pro-Rape Room.
How'd that one work out? Not so bad for you; since you weren't there you got to use a streetcorner soapbox speech you'd made as your anti-Iraq War bona fides. Which convinced people, somehow, despite your record of voting for every Iraq War funding measure that crossed your desk; mind you, I'm not saying Democratic voters are blameless. But then, we're talking about Congress, right? So let's just recall the track record: Outmaneuvered, Cowed, Trounced in the Mid-terms Anyway. Given fresh majorities in 2006 ("Because the alternative was so much worse"), they put Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge and proceeded, shockingly, to accomplish nothing. In 2009, with a man in the White House who'd pledged his support for Single Payer, they proceed to dick around to make sure the insurance companies and pharmaceutical privateers had enough time to weigh in, before managing to eke out a victory for Water Added Ham, Sometime in the Near Future, So Long As That's Okay with Everybody. Because it was that or look like a bunch of Unprincipled Do-Nothings about to be clobbered in the midterms.
You stood on the sidelines, sir. Saving your legendary oratorical skills for a month before the midterms, evidently.
I'm sorry, but Just how is it you implied motherfuckers don't get it? Why couldn't you come out and say "It's not Liberal vs. Conservative. It's not Big Tax and Big Spend. It's about Common Fucking Sense vs. Being Lied To and Robbed Blind for the sake of Corporate Profits."? There never was such an opportunity, at least not since Franklin Roosevelt. And he took his. His picture's on the dime. Yours is on a thousand Joker and Bone-through-the-nose placards.
I can somewhat forgive the Clinton administration for being blindsided on national healthcare (though for failing to respond once it happened, not so much). You guys, on the other hand, had that history, plus fifteen years of skyrocketing costs and fifteen years of rapidly descending levels of care on your side. You had an election which offered a generational realignment of the political scene as grounds for making things happen. You're a fifty-year-old man with thirty years of 100% Guano Republican Insanity in your adult lifetime (which had followed fifteen years of Goldwater and Nixon) and you thought these guys could be reasoned with. Even after they pointedly and unanimously kicked you in the teeth just after the Inauguration. In the midst of a fucking national disaster. You're a bright man with a first-rate education; you've been outsmarted by John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Sarah Palin, who don't combine to make a triple-digit IQ.
So now you think I should ride to the rescue, because they're so awful. And here's the thing: I'll be voting next month. I'll be enthusiastically pulling the level for the only African-American Muslim in the Congress, and the only Indiana representative who had the balls, and the safe district, to come out in favor of real health care reform. I'll be reluctantly voting for Blue Dog Brad Ellsworth to take Blue Dog Evan Bayh's seat (nothing you or anyone else could possibly have said would have gotten me to vote for that Time Bandit again), the way Ellsworth reluctantly voted for health care at the eleventh hour, and refuses to defend it in the face of his opponent's well-lubricated attacks. In a state you carried, historically, just twenty-three months ago. Call it force of habit; it's sure not loyalty to the cause. That I'll exhibit after the cause shows some loyalty to me. Hopeyness springs eternal.
And it sure as hell ain't Battered Spouse Syndrome, bub. I cringe when Republicans speak because of the shit they say. I'm not afraid of 'em, because I've seen the worst they can do. Repeatedly. And even if I were, I wouldn't run to a Democrat for protection.
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The meaning of the dream symbol: Milk
Milk may symbolize mother-love, or your nurturing as a child.
It may symbolize nourishment for your psyche, enabling personal expansion.
Drinking milk may symbolize sharing in divine life or consciousness; or awareness of the one source of all life, one life-force. Religious traditions speak of a fluid or drink that came from Cod - as sap in trees, blood, etc. -and was variously named: milk, ambrosia, honey/mead, nectar, etc. Psychologically, ‘Cod'/'divine life' may be experienced/understood as your true self, living in tune with your ‘destiny’ or fundamental psychic structure.
The symbolism of Milk refers to nurturing, maternal purity and emotional sustenance. As such, the image of milk in our dreamscape, may refer to an endearment and compassion for new acquaintances in our life. Moreover, the serving of milk may imply an aspiration to strengthen our relationship with these respective individuals.
However, the vision of spilled milk may negate all these representations and symbolize instead a loss of faith, opportunity and trust. Nevertheless, if this same milk is spilled, and an unrecognized animal comes along and laps it up anyway, we may be epitomizing the loyalty of a friend, who unbeknownst to us, returns our love and care in a humble, yet naturalistic, fashion.
In yet another dream imagery, we may find ourselves choking on milk. This dream figure involves overprotectiveness and a desire to smother another individual with our love. This behavior works against self-development. Individuals must learn to ‘weather’ life’s experiences. When we shield our loved ones from experiences we limit the ‘true’ shaping of their character. In this sense, it may be indeed harmful to ‘cage’ our loved ones.
According to the Ramayana, amrita, the nectar of life, was produced by the churning of the Sea of Milk. This was the first food and the first drink, in which all other beverages resided in a state of potentiality, and hence milk was naturally the symbol of plenty and fertility, and also of knowledge. The meaning of the word was extended in an esoteric sense and, as a channel of initiation, milk was lastly a symbol of immortality. No sacred writings have celebrated milk to the extent of those of India. The morning hymn, the agnihotra, sung every day since the Vedas began, tells how ‘Indra and Agni with joyful song give life to this milk so that it confers immortality to the righteous man who makes sacrifice.’
There is a similar note in Orphic hymns in which milk is not only the drink, but the place, of immortality. Similarly Herakles (Hercules) imbibed the milk of immortality at Hera’s breast, while the Pharaoh was suckled by a goddess and by this means attained to a new and wholly divine life, from which he drew the strength to fulfil his mission as an earthly ruler. Again, milk was poured on the 365 altar tables around the tomb of Osiris, one table for each day of the year, and this sprinkling helped the god’s rebirth each morning.
The Celts, too, regarded milk as the nectar of immortality when a drunken stupor was not required. Furthermore, milk possessed medicinal virtues. A Pictish druid, Drostan, advised the King of Ireland to heal his soldiers, wounded by the Bretons’ poisoned arrows, by collecting the milk from 140 white cows and pouring it into a hole in the middle of a field. Those who bathed in it would be healed.
The Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite compared God’s teachings with milk, because the strength instilled in them furthers spiritual growth.
Suckling by a divine mother is a mark of adoption and hence of absolute knowledge. Herakles was suckled by Hera and St Bernard by Our Lady, making him the adoptive brother of Christ. The Philosopher’s Stone is sometimes called the Virgin’s Milk, milk in this context being a food of immortality.
There are many instances of Muslim commentators giving milk this sense of the initiatory. For example, in a hadlth recorded by Ibn Omar, Muhammad is supposed to have said that ‘to dream of milk is to dream of learning or knowledge’.
In the language of Tantrism, ‘milk’ is bodhicitta meaning both ‘thought’ and ‘semen’, rising to the manipura-chakra, or umbilical centre.
Lastly, it should be added that milk, like all symbolic vehicles of Life and Knowledge as absolutes, is a lunar symbol, predominantly female and linked to the springtime renewal of nature. This is the essential quality of libations of milk and of such milk-white sacrificial victims as the cow which the Yakut sprinkled with milk at the Spring festival in May and which somehow signified the transfer to the fields of the powers inherent in the symbol.
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Justin Barcia Outdoor – 2011
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Shortly after completing GEICO Honda Rider Justin Barcia‘s new supercross track, the Dream Traxx crew returned to his new compound to begin construction on his outdoor track. Jason Baker and the Dream Traxx crew spent eight days at Barcia’s compound creating a monstrous outdoor track that doesn’t look like it belongs in the flat lands of Florida. Take a look at the pictures below to see just how this flat piece of land was turned into a motocross rider’s heaven!
For more information on Dream Traxx visit www.dreamtraxx.com . To stay up with the latest ‘dirt’ at Dream Traxx – follow www.twitter.com/dreamtraxx andwww.facebook.com/dreamtraxx
As you can see, the property started out as your typical flat piece of Florida land….but that was all about to change.
Photos: Dream Traxx
Let the excavation begin.
The Dream Traxx crew spent over 200 man hours excavating the property and generating dirt for the new track.
And when they were all done, it was hard to believe that this was once a flat piece of land.
With jumps that would rival any pro motocross track in the series, and elevation that looked like it belonged up north, the Dream Traxx crew basically pulled this track out of the ground.
In addition, they excavated a pond to collect rainwater runoff and to help aid with watering of the track.
When Justin first arrived home to see the finished product his smile was from ear to ear. He was already making up names for the enormous jumps scattered across the track, like Mt. Barcia and the Dirty Drop.
It is hard to imagine that all of this dirt was generated without leaving a giant hole. It looks like it just belongs.
When the track was complete, Jason Baker (the proud builder) was asked his thoughts on the finished product. “I was so happy that Justin and his family gave me free reign on their property, and let me turn this relatively flat piece of land into a motocross haven! I feel when my creativity is not restricted – the sky is the limit!“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aLhuinaHH0A It all started with a dream. First, it was a dream to be a professional motocross racer. Then, it was a dream to become one of the best motocross and supercross track builders in the world. Now, it is Dream Traxx! Dream Traxx began over 10 years ago, when the riding boots were […]
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Introduction to EV charging displays
As more people own electric cars and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), the electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) infrastructure will need to support all of the extra battery-powered vehicles on the road. To address the quickly growing demand, EVSE components should be low cost and quick to set up.
A charging station typically includes current sensing and digital processing to monitor power delivery to the vehicle. Sometimes a charging station may include a human machine interface (HMI) to provide a more intuitive user interface. In this blog post, I’ll focus exclusively on the HMI component.
One way to reduce HMI costs is to use a resistive touch screen instead of a capacitive touch screen. Resistive touch screens can still recognize basic gestures and respond to gloved fingers. The costs of a resistive touch-sensing screen are usually much lower than a comparably sized capacitive screen.
Another point of consideration is software development. An open-source operating system like Linux® offers a free development platform with broad community support. Additionally, existing graphics libraries like Qt provide a starting point for developing HMI elements including text, images and progress bars. Figure 1 shows an example charging metrics screen.
Figure 1: Example charging screen
The HMI unit could also integrate communication functions to relay information over Ethernet or a wireless network to a centralized station in order to monitor usage statistics or report any damage to the charging unit. Additional communication could include information about local attractions or news while the car is charging.
One way to quickly implement a low-cost HMI system is with a Sitara™ AM335x processor. Based on an Arm® Cortex®-A8 processor, this family of processors is capable of speeds from 300MHz to 1GHz and comes with many communication peripherals, such as Controller Area Network (CAN), Ethernet or Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART). Some devices in the AM335x family also include a 3-D graphics accelerator.
To get started, TI offers the AM335x starter kit with an included resistive touch display, and a processor software development kit with several demos on Linux. The processor SDK includes Linux and real-time operating systems (RTOS), along with hardware abstraction layers to make applications portable across different devices.
Even though AM335x processors make sense for a low-cost EVSE HMI, you may want to integrate additional features to provide a wider range of performance. All of the existing software development on an AM335x processor can be migrated to other Sitara devices, since the processor SDK supports all Sitara processors. A high-performance AM57x processor can handle additional video capabilities, such as streaming high-definition video up to 1080p while the car finishes charging. Another example is the integration of a secure payment module, where an AM437x processor can enable security features like secure boot.
Check out the Human Machine Interface (HMI) for EV Charging Infrastructure Reference Design.
Read the white paper, “Scalable solutions for HMI.”
Learn about the latest technologies that will speed the adoption of EV charging.
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It's currently unclear exactly what shape the project will take, but Newsted revealed that he has a wealth of previous material to draw from. "I don't even know what the heck I'm gonna do," he admitted. "I have so much music from over the years. I have a bunch of new stuff, I have so many mixes of projects with people — new players, young players, old-school players like myself — so I'm just trying to figure out exactly what I wanna unleash on everybody first. That's kind of what it's coming down to — the timing of things and how I wanna hit people with it, and which stuff."
He spoke about his desire to release music on special-edition vinyl with lyric sheets, but also enthused about the possibilities about more modern methods of putting out tunes. He discussed possibly releasing a string of four-song EPs and spoke about the freedom of being able to put music online.
Along with starting a Facebook page and Twitter account, Newsted has launched NewstedHeavyMetal.com. While he still hasn't posted any material from Newsted Heavy Metal Music, you can get a brief taste of music in the teaser video below, in which Newsted introduces the project.
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Corentyne woman allegedly beaten by Police
A Corentyne, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) housewife is alleging she was beaten with a baton by Police at the Number 51 Police Station on Tuesday night. She is also accusing the officers of stealing $100,000 from her.Takurdai Jugnanand told Guyana Times on Wednesday that a group of Police Officers went to her Lot 73 Number 52 Village home on Tuesday and requested that she go to the Springlands Police Station. She said she did not leave with them but rather made her own way to the station with her 15-year-old son. According to Jugnanand, when she arrived at the station, there was a report by a driver of the car that she travelled in earlier in the day, stating that he left a cellphone in the back seat of the car and she picked it up. According to the woman, she was not given a chance to say anything, but she was told to stand against a wall. This, she told Guyana Times, was after she and her son were made to sit on aTakurdai Jugnanandbench for two hours.The mother of four explained that after being told to stand and face the wall she thought that the officer was going to carry out a body search to see if she had the cellular phone on her person.“I feel one lash on my shoulder and I start to holla and when I go to turn around I feel another lash on the other and I turn around and ask him “why you beating me, I aint do you anything,” and then he take the baton and lash me on my right knee and then lash me again on the knee…”In recounting the ordea,l Jagnanand said the Police Officer asked her to give him the cellphone.The woman is also claiming that her teenage son was questioned without her being present. More so, she said her son was slapped by an officer.According to Jugnanand, the officer took her bag and began to search it. She said she had $100,000 in the bag and the officer took the money and told her that had to be the cash she received after selling the phone.However, according to the housewife, the officer put the money into his pocket and promised to give it back to her when she was leaving. Jugnanand said she was made to sign two blank pieces of paper in order to secure her release. According to her, one of the officers at the station assisted her to take the teenager out of the station compound and she took a car home.At home she telephoned the Whim Police Station and asked for the officer in charge to make a report but was told that she would have to go to the station.She said on Wednesday morning she was there at 08:00h and after waiting until 12:30h, she left to seek medical attention. The 45-year-old woman said officers at the Whim Police Station refused to give her a medical form to take to the hospital. She said one was however given to her when she went to Central Police Station. The woman has since been seen by a doctor at the New Amsterdam Hospital. In tears, Jugnanand told Guyana Times that she wants to get her money back which the family saved for her husband’s eye surgery but was going to be used instead for her son’s urgent medical bills. (Andrew Carmichael) read more
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OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Where The Waters Turn Black by Benedict Patrick has many things going for it. It’s the winner of the best cover in the 2017 SPFBO competition as well as it’s a very unusual cross between Moana & the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. This book while being a standalone is set in the Yarnsworld setting.
I loved Benedict Patrick’s debut They Mostly Come At Night and so I was even more excited when WTWTB was in my lot. The story focusses on Pukotala and the neighboring Atoll islands as it is a veritable paradise with sandy beaches, coconut trees, tropical atmosphere and a laid back people who support themselves by fishing and other coastal activities. In this setting we meet our main character Kaimana who is incredibly talented in music or as the islanders say she has a “Knack” for music. She has spent the last three years traveling with a musical troupe across the islands and has returned to her home in Pukotala to convince her parents that this is the life she wants. Unlike leading a much simpler existence being wed to someone and living as a fisherwoman or the spouse to one.
The first line of this book is “There’s a monster in the village” and it’s from that exciting beginning we find out more about taniwhas or the term that describes the monsters (of various sizes, shapes & temperaments) across the crescent atoll islands. Kaimana tells the toddler who tells her such that there’s no taniwha haunting their village but goes to investigate nonetheless. It’s from this moment onwards that the plot really tightens up and we get to see if there really is a taniwha and the author very smartly alternates every chapter with a retelling of a legend/myth which is local to these islands. Thus the story goes forward and thematically backward as well.
Benedict Patrick is a good writer but the Yarnsworld is truly something exciting as each book has focused on a different part of the world and this story is no different. He builds up an incredible world with the flora and fauna, the sights and sounds, and the legends and the gods as we are completely submersed into a tropical setting. This experience was something that he has done admirable across all three of his Yarnsworld books (having read all three I can attest to this). This story mixes humans, gods, monsters and a whole bunch of legends, I loved this aspect of the story and there’s a couple of gods featured as side characters who might become fan favorites based on their interactions with the main characters.
Overall I would say this book can be read as a standalone but of course if you read it after They Mostly Come Out At Night, you might even see someone from that book make a cameo. Where The Waters Turn Black is a special book in a special series and you definitely need to read this magical story to inject some magic into the mundane everyday life.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Night Of The Chalk is another intriguing title that comes with an eye-catching cover. Samuel Gately’s debut introduces us to a world wherein spycraft, dragons, and magic come together in a dangerous pattern. Set in the city of Delhonne and over the period of five nights, the author presents a story that is very much a thriller with strong shades of spy stories mixed in with some good ol’ fantasy leanings.
The story begins with one of our protagonists Cal finds himself on the run from a card game as he finds himself betrayed by his debtors. Things however don’t quite work out the way as planned for his pursuers and Cal is left bloodied but intact. He soon runs into his old friend Aaron Lone who informs him of the upcoming war that will be breaking out soon. Reunited with his friend Aaron after quite a many years, Cal finds himself thrown into a struggle that will need his contacts and Aaron’s skills to master and survive.
This story is a nice action packed story that is set within the city of Delhonne and spaced over the entirety of five nights. What I enjoyed most was that the author really strived to inject some street level smarts and back alley spy battles into the story. While this story also has dragons, they aren’t necessarily the fire breathing monstrosities made famous in Game Of Thrones. Sure they are on the larger side and can potentially exhale fire but they are demonstrated more from a military and policing perspective. The main story is how Aaron & Cal combine their smarts, knowledge and skills to face down an enemy who clearly is stronger and more devious than anyone thinks.
The action sometimes takes a backseat to shadowing and schemes that are crucial to the plot. The author also cleverly uses the city and this environmental factor adds to the claustrophobic conditions of the plot and things are brought to the fore by the various factions fighting on the sly. The blurb mentions an aspect of James Bond’s spy stories and while this isn’t entirely untrue, there’s enough nods and throwbacks to that genre. The plot pace also slowly builds up and then ends on a strong note as the climax unspooled.
Overall this was a story that I enjoyed very much and even brought the sequels when they were released. I want to read more of the intriguing world that Samuel Gately has created and he has marked himself out as a writer to watch out for. Night Of The Chalk is definitely a debut that I would recommend for those looking for something different than the usual cup of action fantasy tales.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Adrian G. Hilder’s debut The General’s Legacy: Inheritance was a fantasy story that stays true to several beloved fantasy tropes and this was a story that does several things in a solid manner.
The story opens up in midst of an epic battle with soldiers, magic and monsters, we get several viewpoints in to this fight and get to meet several prominent characters such as General Garon, Zeivite the mage and the indomitable warrior Quain. Soon after the events of the battle in the prologue, the real story opens up nearly fifteen years later. We get to meet the grandchildren of general Garon and see how crucial the events of the battle were. The plot soon picks up as we are given may POV characters to follow but the main protagonist prince Cory is the one to watch out for.
Like I had mentioned in my short blurb that The General’s Legacy: Inheritance doesn’t do anything extraordinary. What it does quite well is that it focuses on the known tropes in epic fantasy:
1) Fantastical world settings
2) Heroic characters
3) Lots of action, snappy dialogue and rapid pace
This serves the story quite well as the reader will be taken on for quite a thrilling story as they witness Prince Cory doing his best to live up to his grandfather’s legacy and save the kingdom of Valendo from certain ruin. The action is often intense but never gritty, we know that the characters will be making out horrid scenarios with most of their wits and limbs intact. This aspect of the book might not appeal to jaded readers of the fantasy genre but to a younger audience or to readers who keep an open mind will definitely find something to enjoy with this book. The story also ends on a cliffhanger of sorts as I believe the author had to chop of the book into two parts because of its burgeoning length. This aspect is good to keep in mind as the climax isn’t artificially planned but done to better separate the two parts.
Overall this story was very much in line with the earlier books of Terry Brooks, Raymond Feist and to a certain extent by John Gwynne. Focusing on epic action, heroic characters, and an “easy to follow” magic system, Adrian G. Hilder crafts a terrific fantasy story that will have its fans and some detractors as well. I liked what I read and thought his efforts deserved a semifinal spot for its earnestness. The General’s Legacy: Inheritance is a story that will not surprise in terms of its scope but think of it as an excellent brew that you know hits the right spot always.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION: Peter McLean was born near London in 1972, the son of a bank manager and an English teacher. He went to school in the shadow of Norwich Cathedral where he spent most of his time making up stories.
By the time he left school this was probably the thing he was best at, alongside the Taoist kung fu he had been studying since the age of 13. He grew up in the Norwich alternative scene, alternating dingy nightclubs with martial arts and practical magic.
He has since grown up a bit, if not a lot, and spent 25 years working in corporate IT. He is married to Diane and is still making up stories.
OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB: The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody Anne at his side. But things have changed while he was away: his crime empire has been stolen and the people of Ellinburg--his people--have run out of food and hope and places to hide. Tomas sets out to reclaim what was his with help from Anne, his brother, Jochan, and his new gang: the Pious Men. But when he finds himself dragged into a web of political intrigue once again, everything gets more complicated.
As the Pious Men fight shadowy foreign infiltrators in the back-street taverns, brothels, and gambling dens of Tomas's old life, it becomes clear:
The war is only just beginning.
FORMAT/INFO: Priest Of Bones is 352 pages long and is divided into fifty titled chapters spread over two sections. There’s also a map, dramatis personae section as well as an acknowledgements section. Narration is in first person solely via Tomas Piety. This is the first book in the War Of The Rose Throne series.
October 2 2018 marked the American e-book and trade paperback publication of Priest Of Bones and it was published by Ace Roc Books. The book is also released in hardback and e-book format in the UK on October 4 2018 by Jo Fletcher books.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Priest Of Bones is Peter McLean’s fantasy debut and one that will certainly mark his name in the annals of grimdark fantasy. Priest Of Bones is a book that focuses on Tomas Piety and his soldiers who wish to return to their home town of Ellingburg from a war that even though their nation has won, it was a pyrrhic victory through and through. The story begins with Tomas and his men who find themselves homesick and home bound as Tomas' younger brother Jochan Piety and his band of men happen upon them as well. Tomas has a lot of special folks in his unit like his sergeant Bloody Anne, Sir Eland, Cookpot, Billy the boy etc. His crew is one of soldiers whose mettle has been tested and they have proven themselves multiple times over.
Before the war, Tomas had multiple business holdings which he plans to takeover and enjoy the good life. Things however turn out a bit differently as he finds a big surprise for him in his hometown. He will have to return to his days of being a wise guy gangster before he learnt to be a soldier and a priest. Things then take a darker turn as we find out about the true workings of the city of Ellingburg as well as the past of the Piety family.
Peter McLean has previously written a horror urban fantasy and it was starkly different than what was then being published in the urban fantasy genre. He does something different with this opening salvo as well. Priest Of Bones is the first volume of the War Of The Rose Throne and it is a bloody, dark, vicious, slim volume of a book. There are many things to like about it, for me the prime highlight was the characterization as even though the story is solely presented from the first person perspective of Tomas Piety. All the characters presented are vividly described and will stand out in the reader's mind starkly. Be it Bloody Anne or Tomas’ aunt Enaid or dangerous bête noire Ma Aditi or even bit characters like Billy the boy who I believe deserves a bigger role in the upcoming sequel as do the aforementioned characters.
Peter absolutely nails each and every character down as they struggle with their morals as well as visceral needs. In a world wherein survival is often dependent on wits, wiles and weapons. Truth, decency and morality often are shorn in favor of survival instinct. It’s a stark representation of Darwin’s law in a secondary fantasy world and the author showcases it brilliantly. Characters will die as newer ones are introduced and none are more fascinating than Tomas Piety, ruthless gang boss, brilliant commander and a consecrated priest of the Lady Of Eternal Sorrows. Tomas truly shines as he slowly unfolds himself from his militaristic roles and slips back into his previous occupation as the leader of the Pious Men. There’s much more to Tomas as the reader learns and they learn quite a bit as to why he’s so different than his younger hotheaded, fierce warrior of a brother Jochan. Why Billy the boy listens to his orders and yet also serves as his confessional priest (the only one tending to Tomas). Why Bloody Anne being the ruthless warrior she is, still looks on to his commands and why Ma Aditi, most dreaded gangster and feared by the constabulary, royals as well as the common populace counts him and him only as her foe.
Tomas is a leader and an alpha for sure but he’s not brilliant yet foolhardy like Locke Lamora, neither is he a deadly but cursed warrior like Logen “The Bloody Nine”. He’s the fantasy equivalent of Michael Corleone, a ruthless and brilliant man who can shed his morals upon the circumstantial dictates and do the unthinkable to make sure of his victory. This book heavily reminds one of the Cosa Nostra methods and measures espoused within The Godfather series of books and I believe it might not be an accident. Some reviewers have compared it to the TV show Peaky Blinders but since I haven’t watched it at all, I can’t comment on it.
The world showcased within is a shaky one wherein gangs are often double-crossing each other and the nobility likes to play within these shadows as well. I enjoyed this aspect of the book and for those who like a bit of political machinations within their stories, will certainly enjoy this story. Amidst all of this savagery, the author veritably showcases the humanity of the people within. This is a hard task but it’s done adroitly by Peter McLean as he shows us how scary monsters like Jochan came to be. Plus in that moment, you feel the savage brutality of the world as well as the keen sense of sympathy for folks whom you would have never guessed. It’s not just with one character but many others and I enjoyed this aspect whilst having to steel my mind against the very horrendous crimes committed (trigger warning for paedophilia).
This book while high on crime and intrigue doesn’t disappoint with the action sequences. There’s enough action both of a personal and large scale nature to keep fantasy readers engrossed as well a very vivid climatic homage to The Godfather. I loved reading it and would be overjoyed to see it translated on the big screen. Lastly there’s some crucial hints dropped about the nature of the conflict as well as the upheavals in the city of Ellingburg. I enjoyed how the author makes this book a strong mix of low fantasy as well as a crime thriller but yet at the same time, there are bigger machinations on the horizon (both magical and illicit). This is just the opening salvo and yet it left me desperately wanting more.
There were just a few minor niggles for me, primarily the character of Billy the boy is given a small role but his actions are vastly important and so I had hoped for more of an explanation about him and his past. While none is found in this volume, I hope the author changes it in the sequels. Secondly the worldbuilding is on the leaner side and I really was hoping to know more about the nation, the previous war, the history, etc. Lastly the plot ends on a small cliffhanger and for those who don’t like them, be on the watchout as you will experience one which might leave you thoroughly teased for the sequel "Priest Of Lies".
CONCLUSION: Priest Of Bones is a magnificent crime thriller that’s set in a secondary fantasy world. Most crime readers would be forgiven if they momentarily forgot that this isn’t set on Earth but some other world. Peter McLean proves himself to a very adapt writer and joins the pantheon of brilliant British minds such as J. Abercrombie, M. Billingham, M. Lawrence, D. Mina, etc. Priest Of Bones is that rare title that straddles two different genres and showcases the brilliance of both.
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Emotions, Both Fleeting and Sustained: A UFC Fight Night Round-Up
By Josh Rosenblatt
Hunt vs. Bigfoot: Who Could Ask for Anything More?
Here’s something I don’t understand about MMA fans and pundits: If two fighters have been generous enough to supply you with an experience that was as close to sublime as you can hope for in this unpredictable sport and this weary world, why would your instinct be to ask them to do it again? Why tempt the Fates and hope for the impossible: the repeat of transcendence? Don’t we all have enough experience with life by this point to know that moments—no matter how transformative--are by their very definition transient, that the wonderful and sad truth about life is that all our greatest and most joyous experiences are forever in a state of passing away, that life is at its most beautiful when it’s at its most sorrowful, that all beauty is fleeting?
I remember reading a story once about the great classical actor Laurence Olivier, who, after giving a masterful performance as Othello at a theatre in London, was found weeping in his dressing room. His co-star Maggie Smith asked him how, after performing so brilliantly and after transporting his audience to places they had never been before, he could be so sad.
“It was magnificent,” Smith said. “Magical.”
“I know, I know,” Olivier responded, “And I have absolutely no idea why.”
To ask Mark Hunt and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva to fight a rematch after their classic, epic, poetic five-round match this past Friday in Australia in the hopes that somehow their second fight will be as good as their first is to live in denial of the fundamental truth of human existence and to refuse to resign oneself to the paradox that governs our emotional experiences: that our most magical and joyous moments are also our most miserable because we’re plagued with the knowledge of their transience. The Buddhists speak about immersing ourselves in the present to achieve enlightenment, to find eternity in an hour, but the sad and beautiful, and beautifully sad, truth is that we’re not really capable of that, not fully anyway. The best we can hope for is temporary immersion in the experience of a moment tinged with the recognition that the moment, even as we’re experiencing it, is dying away. Olivier knew this, and that’s why he wept.
So, don’t hope for a Hunt/Bigfoot rematch. Not only would it lead to inevitable disappointment, but doing so is the manifestation of a delusion that flies in the face of what we know deep down in our hearts to be true: that for 25 minutes two enormous men fought each other in such a way that their efforts transcended sport and toppled into art and that our experience of watching them moved from mere viewership into the realm of communal transcendence ... and then they stopped. The bell rang, their arms were lifted, and everyone went home. That’s it. Olivier walked off the stage and then everyone moved on--Olivier, eventually, included. I for one would be happy if Silva and Hunt never saw each other again, if they just left us with the memory of a perfect moment that with each passing day we’ll remember with less and less accuracy until it’s just a faint feeling, a recollection that, for one flash, we witnessed something meaningful.
What more do you want from life?
Shogun and the (Temporary) Return of My MMA Youth
Speaking of fleeting emotions, the really terrible thing about caring about fighters is watching them--slowly or instantly but inevitably--collapse before your eyes. This is particularly true for the fighters who were there when you first fell in love with MMA. Whether those fighters are or were the best fighters doesn’t matter. The love you feel for your first MMA heroes can never be touched by the more cerebral appreciation you may develop for better fighters who come along later in your life, after you know what you’re looking at. It’s the same as it is with music. My head knows that the Smiths are a better band than Jane’s Addiction, but the love I have for Jane’s Addiction is the love of a 15-year-old, a time in life when music means something, and no matter how beautiful the Smiths are they will forever be cursed by the tardiness of my coming to them. My love for them is the love of the fan, not the true believer.
So, watching the dissolution of my early favorite fighters—the ones who in my head will always be associated with the first flowering of ardor—has been hard these last few years. First it was watching Fedor fall three times in a row after never falling before, then it was Mirko “Cro Cop” timidly being chased around the Octagon time after time, and for the last two years it’s been Mauricio “Shogun” Rua—whose collapse seemed to come in a burst. One minute he was the light heavyweight champion of the world, fulfilling the promise of his early, marauding PRIDE days; the next he was cowering before Jon Jones, and he was never the same after that. Against Alexander Gustafsson, Bradon Vera, and Chael Sonnen, he seemed slow, unintimidating, and uninspired. The old Shogun, who used to kick men’s heads straight off their bodies, seemed gone. Even in his classic fight against Dan Henderson, he looked more like an old man slogging his way through a fight on pure heart than a killer.
But watching a trimmed-down Shogun knock out James Te Huna with a colossal left hook on Friday night was like seeing the sun rise again after years of darkness. I didn’t realize until that moment just how much the guy meant to me and how hard it had been to watch his slow, seemingly inevitable slide into irrelevance. My joy when that knockout came was uncontrollable, as was Shogun’s. He seemed reborn. Who knows how much longer he’ll be around, or how much longer he should be, but for now, Shogun Rua is alive, which means my MMA youth is still alive as well. Bruised and beaten but alive.
Active Engagement: A UFC 167 Round-Up
"Sapo" and My First MMA Heartbreak
Written by: Josh Rosenblatt
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Cheryl Cole Voted Best Dressed Woman and Style Icon Of The Decade
Thread: Cheryl Cole Voted Best Dressed Woman and Style Icon Of The Decade
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Cheryl Cole, the Girls Aloud singer and X Factor judge, has been voted best dressed woman of the year and style icon of the decade.
The wife of Chelsea star Ashley Cole beat stiff political competition in the shape of US First Lady Michelle Obama and French President's wife Carla Bruni to scoop the style icon accolade. More than 3,000 women, aged 20 to 60, took part in the poll for television channel The Style Network.
The survey also revealed that women were seen as at their most stylish when aged between 25 and 30.And 56 per cent of those in their 20s who were quizzed spent more than a quarter of their income on clothes and cosmetics.Other fashion secrets revealed were that the average British woman bought 20 pairs of shoes each year.
Cole beat model Kate Moss to top spot in the Best Dressed Women List 2009 by Glamour magazine.In the seventh year of the annual awards she outclassed the competition with her "glossy" look.Jo Elvin, editor of Glamour, said: "In the past year, Cheryl Cole has become everyone's style crush.
"She's ridiculously gorgeous, beautifully groomed and always glossy, glossy, glossy." But it was a bad day for former glamour model Katie Price who was voted worst dressed woman of 2009.
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Alice Wong Is Making Change in the World of Disability Rights
Alice Wong is deeply involved in disability rights, from community building to national policy.
We had the opportunity to discuss her the extent of her involvement within the community, as well as her personal ties to it — including her work with the Disability Visibility Project..
What is the Disability Visibility Project and why should readers know about it?
Alice Wong: Disability Visibility Project (DVP) is a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability stories and culture. People often don’t associate disability to culture but that’s not true! There are 57 million Americans with some kind of disability, that’s 1 in 5 and yet there’s little history about us as a people. The Disability Visibility Project encourages people with disabilities to tell their stories and document our culture in doing so. There is power in storytelling and finding community and that’s what we’re all about.
Can you talk more about underrepresentation of people with disabilities—why is it so important to think about equity and inclusion with intersectionality in mind?
AW: It’s always bothered me that when you see people with disabilities in film or tv, they are often white. Disabled people of color exist as do queer disabled people of color, and so on and so forth! There is so much diversity in the disability community that isn’t highlighted enough in mainstream media. The one-dimensional aspect of this kind of diversity is so limiting. As a disabled Asian American girl, I rarely saw anyone that looked like me when I grew up and no one should feel like a unicorn because they belong to multiple communities. People are complex and that should be celebrated.
What is your favorite thing about the work you do and the impact it has on people with disabilities?
AW: The old granny in me gets a kick whenever I connect people who are working on similar projects or care about similar issues together. I like sharing information as well and it’s gratifying to know that people find them useful. I host Twitter chats on various topics and it’s been awesome to interact with people around the world.
What are your hopes for your future and the future of the Disability Visibility Project?
AW: Originally, I envisioned DVP to last one year but due to demand and enthusiasm by people with disabilities, I’m continuing it indefinitely. Anyone is welcome to record a story using StoryCorps’ app or at a StoryCorps location. Our project also has non-audio options including guest blog posts and an Instagram campaign (in partnership with another project).
Recently, I won an award and the money from that award will allow me to post the 100+ oral histories that we have so far on our website. I can’t wait to have these stories available in short audio and text clips for public as a historic, educational, and advocacy resource.
Is there something specific that sparked your interest in disability advocacy and policy work?
AW: Nothing super specific. My “origin” story, a post I wrote for The Nerds of Color, describes how popular culture influenced my disability identity. I was a very angry girl and I turned that energy into something constructive whether it’s policy research or activism. I majored in sociology and found it to be very helpful at connecting the dots in terms of my individual experiences of discrimination to larger systemic issues.
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What do you consider to be one of the most important aspects of your work?
AW: Highlighting and sharing stories from people with disabilities that deserve attention and visibility. On Facebook, my news feed is filled with posts and work by some prolific and creative people and through my curation in the DVP’s Facebook group, I select the ones that like the most.
What advice would you give for other women who want to get involved (or get their kids involved) with the Disability Visibility Project?
AW: Please check out our website on How To Participate and another option is to hang with us online either on Facebook and Twitter! By the way, the most recent post on our website is a great essay by Grace Tsao on growing up Asian American with a disability.
Can you describe one of your proudest moments since starting this project?
AW: I’m proud that this project is something driven and embraced by people with disabilities. Otherwise, the DVP wouldn’t be what it is today without community support.
One example of a proud moment is connecting with Grace Tsao and her giving me permission to re-publish her essay. I met her through friends of friends on Facebook and was stunned by our similar experiences. This is what’s so exciting and fulfilling about what I do–we are not alone.
What has been one of your biggest career challenges, and how did you overcome it?
AW: Knowing my limitations and being able to say no. I’m a night owl and I simply don’t function as well in the morning. When I’m starting a new project, I have to ask colleagues whether we can schedule meetings in the afternoon or if I can make some alternate plans. It’s hard to communicate this in a way that doesn’t leave someone to think that I’m lazy or demanding.
One time I had the chance to be interviewed by NPR for a story but I had to be up at 7 a.m. and I knew that wasn’t going to be good for my health. As I’ve gotten older, I’m getting better at saying no and letting go of the fear of missing out.
Do you have any advice for young girls who want to learn more about disability issues?
AW: Be open about what you want to know more of and be a good ally if you are non-disabled. Check your own privilege and listen to what people with disabilities are saying about their lives, even if it makes you confused or uncomfortable. Disability in Kidlit is a website with great reviews of YA novels featuring young people with disabilities.
Other recommendations:
Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
Run by Kody Keplinger
For non-fiction by women with disabilities:
Don’t Call Me Inspirational by Marilyn Rousso
Criptiques by Caitlin Wood
You can learn more about the Disability Visibility Project on Facebook or Twitter.
By Caroline Liu on March 9, 2016
Caroline Liu is a freelance writer, graphic designer, and computer programmer studying at Wesleyan University. She is pursuing majors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Computer Science in order to bridge her passions for tech, design, and social justice. Learn more about Caroline on her website or follow her on Twitter.
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Today's I Ching for Halle Berry
The present is embodied in Hexagram 24 - Fu (Turning Point): There will be a free course and progress. He finds no one to distress him in his exits and entrances. Friends come to him, and no error is committed. He will return and repeat his proper course. In seven days comes his return. There will be advantage in whatever direction movement is made.
The third line, divided, shows one who has made repeated returns. The position is perilous, but there will be no error.
The situation is evolving slowly, and Yang (the active masculine force) is gaining ground.
The future is embodied in Hexagram 36 - Ming I (Darkening of the Light): It will be advantageous to realize the difficulty of the position, and maintain firm correctness.
The things most apparent, those above and in front, are embodied by the upper trigram K'un (Earth), which represents docility and receptivity.
The things least apparent, those below and behind, are embodied by the lower trigram Chen (Thunder), which is transforming into Li (Fire). As part of this process, movement, initiative, and action are giving way to brightness and warmth.
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Evidence demonstrates global warming decreases flooding & extreme precipitation
The UK Meteorological Office chief scientist Julia Slingo proclaimed yesterday "all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play" in the current precipitation and floods in SW England, and that "There is no evidence to counter the basic premise that a warmer world will lead to more intense daily and hourly rain events."
These are blatantly false statements countered by over 200 peer-reviewed published studies demonstrating that global warming decreases extreme precipitation and flooding. Slingo's claims are based highly flawed climate models, which even the IPCC admits cannot be used to support such claims. Slingo's MET Office report claims Britian's storms are "consistent with global warming," weasel words to defend a theory which is always said to be "consistent" with any weather event including warming, cooling, snow, droughts, and floods.
Excerpts below of Slingo's statements from the BBC and Bishop Hill, followed by links to several published papers demonstrating that global cooling leads to more frequent and extreme flooding, rather than global warming which climate alarmists claim is the culprit. Also included below are several papers finding decreased solar activity is linked to increased precipitation and flooding.
BBC: Met Office: Evidence 'suggests climate change link to storms'
Climate change is likely to be a factor in the extreme weather that has hit much of the UK in recent months, the Met Office's chief scientist has said.
Dame Julia Slingo said the variable UK climate meant there was "no definitive answer" to what caused the storms.
“In a nutshell, while there is no definitive answer for the current weather patterns that we have seen, all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play in it,” Dame Julia said.The “clustering and persistence” of storms that have hit the UK was extremely unusual, she added. “We have seen exceptional weather. It is consistent with what we might expect from climate change.”
"But all the evidence suggests there is a link to climate change," she added.
"There is no evidence to counter the basic premise that a warmer world will lead to more intense daily and hourly rain events."
Julia Slingo on the storms
The Met Office and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) - a government research centre - have issued a joint report into the storms in south-west England. To mark the occasion Julia Slingo has taken to the airwaves, trying desperately to insinuate that there is a link to climate change:
Dame Julia said while none of the individual storms had been exceptional, the "clustering and persistence" were extremely unusual.
"We have seen exceptional weather," she said.
"We cannot say it's unprecedented, but it is certainly exceptional.
"Is it consistent with what we might expect from climate change?
"Of course.
"As yet there can be no definitive answer on the particular events that we have seen this winter, but if we look at the broader base of evidence then we see things that support the premise that climate change has been making a contribution."
Event: Julia Slingo on the weather: "what was that little bit extra that climate change has added...?"
Credit: BBC Radio 4
Shaun Ley: BBC journalistProfessor Julia Slingo: Chief Scientist, UK Met Office
Shaun Ley: But what about the root causes of this winter's extreme weather? Well, the Chief Scientist at the Met Office has now come out more strongly than ever before, seeming to make a link between extreme weather and climate change. And Dame Julia Slingo joins us on the line, now. Dame Julia, you're convinced - or as satisfied as you can be - that there is a link between this winter's extreme weather and climate change.
Julia Slingo: Well, what we're saying very clearly is that, first of all, we understand the root causes of our very extreme run of weather - very prolonged unsettled weather, very, very wet - the wettest we've seen since 1766 in the southern part of the UK. We're saying that they - although we can understand it from the natural variability of the climate system, the extreme nature of the impacts, and indeed of the rainfall and the storminess, could be a manifestation of climate change. And we discuss that in some detail, in a very complete report that we've published today on our website, and it's available for the public to read.
Shaun Ley: The government always says it must rely on scientists, when it deals with issues of climate change. You, as a scientist, seem to be pointing the way towards more vigorous action by our government in Britain, and by governments around the world, to tackle climate change.
Julia Slingo: Yes, I think that's right. I think those of us who've worked in climate science, as I have for my whole career, we understand the fundamental physics that underpins climate change. We're looking now at what the records around the world are telling us - they're very clear, it's what the IPCC has published last year. And we're looking at a situation where: yes, the world is warming, we know that warmer air holds more water, we're beginning to detect an increase in intensity of daily and hourly rainfall rates, over the UK. We're looking at ongoing sea-level rise, a manifestation, of course, of global warming. And there are now some studies emerging that suggest that storminess is increasing, if we look at the long-term trends over the last century or so.
Shaun Ley: You seem to be saying that climate change deniers are simply wrong, and it's now time for governments to be much more robust - we're in danger of missing carbon emission targets, and really we've got to put on a much stronger act.
Julia Slingo: That's right. I mean, I think as scientists we always go back to the evidence base, and the report we've published is very clear about the evidence. I always challenge the climate sceptics to provide me with the same level of scientific integrity of the evidence base - I can't see it, and nobody has come forward to counter, as I say, the basic premise that if you have a warmer world, you are going to get more intense heavy rain rates on the daily/hourly time scale, as we're beginning to detect now, over the UK.
Shaun Ley: What you're saying is stark. You're saying this winter's extreme weather was avoidable, and man - mankind, all of us together - could have avoided this winter's extreme weather.
Julia Slingo: I'm not saying that entirely, because I think until we have done the definitive study on the contribution of global warming to this winter's extreme weather, we have to be very careful on statements as strong as that. Extreme weather is part of the natural cycle of weather and climate - that's very clear. What we need to understand now is how much global warming is adding to the extreme weather events that we see - and have always seen, I mean, we have always seen damaging weather in the UK. The question is: what was that little bit extra that climate change has added to it already? And how will climate change continue to add to extreme weather, as we go forward over the next few decades?
Shaun Ley: The Prime Minister, David Cameron, came to government pledging to be a "green" party. Are you disappointed? There seems to have been some sort of retreat from that, particularly under the pressure of austerity and recession.
Julia Slingo: It's not my place to comment. It's my job, as Chief Scientist of the Met Office, to give the government the best possible scientific evidence on which they can then make their decisions. And that's our job - we continue to work extremely hard to make sure that the science that we do is at the highest integrity, that we report it openly and transparently in the peer-reviewed science literature, and that is basically the way in which we've put together the report that was published today. It's a scientific report, it's the evidence base - I think, you know, the government then has to make its judgement on the best way to shape its policies, based on that evidence.
Shaun Ley: Dame Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the Met Office, thank you very much indeed.
Rebuttal to Slingo's challenge to the climate skeptics "to provide me with the same level of scientific integrity of the evidence base - I can't see it, and nobody has come forward to counter...":
IPCC:
“There is limited to medium evidence available to assess climate-driven observed changes in the magnitude and frequency of floods at regional scales because the available instrumental records of floods at gauge stations are limited in space and time, and because of confounding effects of changes in land use and engineering. Furthermore, there is low agreement in this evidence, and thus overall low confidence at the global scale regarding even the sign of these changes.”
New paper finds warming leads to fewer floods
Floods 10X More Likely During Global Cooling Periods Vs. Global Warming Periods, EU Scientists Discover
Testimony of Dr. John Christy at House Subcommittee on Energy and Power Hearing
New paper finds floods and extreme precipitation were more common during the Little Ice Age
New paper finds mechanism by which the Sun controls floods in the European Alps
Article in nature says extreme weather events can't currently be attributed to global warming
New paper finds solar activity controlled heavy rainfall & flooding along major river in China over past 2000 years
New paper finds climate of northeastern US is highly sensitive to solar activity
New paper finds warming decreases floods
New paper shows no increase in precipitation over past 105 years, counter to global warming theory
New paper finds extreme floods and droughts occurred in China when CO2 was "safe"
Was Nashville's flood caused by global warming?
New paper finds a decrease in extreme weather in China from 1956-2000
Whoops: Global Warming Decreased Floods
New paper finds more evidence the Medieval Warming Period was global
Dame Slingo at UKMO Crosses the Line on Extreme Weather Attribution
New paper shows global warming leads to fewer floods
Key statements from the IPCC AR5 on extremes, courtesy of Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr.:
MET Office: Britian's storms "consistent with global warming"
So what about 1929, Julia?
MET OFFICE: 2010-2012 DROUGHT IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND WORSE IN 100 YEARS
UK ENVIRONMENT MINISTER WARNED: CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS MORE DRY WINTERS
Met Office blames global warming for floods. But then it also predicted below average precipitation for this winter. [@afneil on Twitter]
Jerome February 10, 2014 at 10:18 AM
British born Anthropologist, Dr Brian Fagan, covered the beginning of the Little Ice Age by outlining the Great Dieing Off of 1315-1318. The Famine was the result of devastating spring and summer rains that swept through the UK and all of Northwest Europe. Additionally, the follow-up winters during that period were cold enough to freeze most of the rivers and early enough to kill off any late year crops such as turnips. The end result was the worst famine to hit Europe in 2000 years.
The scientific facts are simple concerning a warming globe: the sun is at or near zenith over the equator year round. Regardless of whether the globe is warming or cooling, the maritime tropics will see little temperature variation. However, in the mid and high latitudes, where advected air flow from the equator plays a very large role in temperature variances, the opposite is true. If the globe is cooling (and the maritime tropics constant), then the cooling will take place in the high and mid latitudes. This will in turn reinforce the strength and its attendant storms. Colder and much more dense polar air will penetrate the mid latitudes (in some cases making it even into the subtropics). A warming world means that excess maritime tropical air masses flow poleward, which in turn weaken the strength of the polar jet stream as well as keeping it bottled up in the high latitudes.
Ego, "extreme weather" patterns are much more likely when the globe is cooling versus when it is warming.
MS February 11, 2014 at 2:10 PM
Thanks well said & borne out by observations instead of a silly computer game model
more papers finding increased precipitation occurs during global cooling periods
http://www.kaltesonne.de/?p=16591
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Tag Archives: Emanuel Andrade
Equestrian Sport Prod., Hunter/Equitation, Show Jumping
Andrade Records Another Win in the $30,000 UHealth Grand Prix at ESP New Year’s
January 3, 2018 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Emanuel Andrade and Bon Jovi. Photo Credit ©AnneGittinsPhotography.
Wellington, FL – January 3, 2018 – It was another successful week of competition for Emanuel Andrade of Wellington, FL during ESP New Year’s competition at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC), as the young talent scored another major win, this time in the $30,000 UHealth Grand Prix. Andrade piloted his own Bon Jovi and raced to complete the fast track in 43.353 seconds to best the class.
The course, designed by Hector Loyola of Wellington, FL, welcomed back six of the original twenty-four entries to the jump-off. Alejandro Karolyi of Wellington, FL rode Lincourt Gino, owned by Monica Carrera, to second place after a jump-off time of 45.546 seconds. Third place went to Alexis Trosch of Wellington, FL and his own Cantara Z, after crossing through timers in 45.978 seconds.
Jumper Highlights:
The $10,000 UHealth Open Stake Class saw Alex Granato of Wellington, FL and Beorn, owned by Moyer Farm, LLC, finish atop the class after crossing through the jump-off timers in 35.775 seconds. Emanuel Andrade and Garinco Van De Lijsaerd, owned by Andrade, collected second place with a time of 37.199 seconds. Lauren Tisbo of Wellington, FL and Tequestrian Farms, LLC’s Jeleena De Muze finished in third place after securing a finish in 38.282 seconds.
The $1,500 Low Children’s Jumper Classic saw Ellen Mollerus of Larchmont, NY and Joan Mollerus’ Corona 120 take first place with a jump-off time of 39.772 seconds, while Charlotte Matthews of Bayville, NY and Sagamore Farm’s Castellina Della Caccia finished in second place with a time of 44.477 seconds. Eva Harris of Wellington, FL and Harkopp Farm’s Showtime De Pleville rounded out the top three with a time of 44.497 seconds.
The $1,500 Marshall & Sterling Child/Adult Jumper Classic presented by Accuhorsemat saw Taylor Kraft of Frenchtown, NJ and Tracey Howe’s Cosmopolite S ride to top honors in the class after finishing their jump-off track in 40.109 seconds. Chloe Wilkenfeld of Bedford, NY and Vrai Diams Palatie, owned by Limelight Farm, took second place after stopping the clock in 40.628 seconds. Sarah Tredennick of Wellington, FL and her own Annwood Lane secured third place with a time of 40.628 seconds.
Laura E Southard of Mount Dora, FL rode to victory aboard her own Duft 27 in the $1,500 Low Adult Jumper Classic after stopping the jump-off timers in 41.932 seconds. Chole Friedheim of Pennington, NJ and Choper Enterprises, LLC’s Jazir took second place with a time of 44.594 seconds. Jennifer Evancic of Versailles, KY and her own Loguestown earned third place after a jump-off time of 45.096 seconds with eight faults.
The $5,000 Martha Jolicoeur Douglas Elliman 1.35m Stake saw James Chawke of Ireland and Renee Walker’s Benjamin take first place with a jump-off time of 39.781 seconds, while Carlos Quinones of Wellington, FL and Michelle Navarro-Grau’s Tazman collected second place with a time of 40.836 seconds. Coco Fath of Fairfield, CT collected third place with Hillside Farm LLC’s Cohbanta, after finishing with a time of 41.541 seconds around the short course.
The $2,500 NAL Low Junior Jumper Classic was won by Emma Seving of Newton Square, PA and her own Easy Money, after crossing through jump-off timers in 42.495 seconds. Dylan Laiken of Wellington, FL and Show Show, owned by Alex Jayne, collected second place with a time of 40.528 seconds with a an additional four faults. Zachary Yariv of Wellington, FL and his own In Style finished in third place after finishing in 45.038 seconds and a rail.
The $2,500 Low Amateur Owner Jumper Classic saw Brianne Link of East Islip, NY and her own Bilbao finish atop the class as the fastest combination contesting the jump-off with a time of 40.028 seconds. Sabrina Lefebvre of Terrebonne, QC and her own Alaska earned second place after completing the short course in 41.083 seconds. Emma Cullen of West Berwyn, PA and 3 Seas, LLC’s Grandy De Laubry finished in third place after stopping the timers in 41.824 seconds.
Hunter Highlights:
Hannah Isop of Pawlings, NY and Tracy Freels’ Red Ryder finished atop the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby. Jennifer Bliss of Loxahatchee, FL and Harris Hill Farm LLC’s Sugarman captured second place. Third place honors were presented to Kim Barone of Watertown, MN aboard Cynthia Bulwicz’s Cyril.
Meghan Knapic of Blue Point, NY was awarded champion of the ESP Hunter 3’3″ Division aboard her winning mount Most Likely. Reserve champion was presented to David Oliynyk of Franklin, MA and Generous, owned by Lori Gaudet.
Sandra Ferrell of Bernville, PA and Dapper, owned by Stephanie Bulger, were champions of the Triple Crown Nutrition Green Hunter 3’3″ Division, while reserve champion was awarded to Chris Ewanouski, riding Atta Boy, owned by Geoffrey Sutton.
The #1 Education Place Junior Hunter 15 and Under Division saw Sam Walker of Nobleton, ON riding Bocelli, owned by Karen Macdonald, take top divisional honors. Reserve champion was awarded to Isha Swani of Ponte Verda Beach, FL and Park Place, owned by Shadowfax Equestrian LLC.
The Gold Coast Feed Performance Hunter 3’3″ Division saw Alyssa Bokor of Williamsville, NY and Candid, owned by Jordan Allen, rise to the top of the division with several consistent performances. Jennifer Bauersachs of Frenchtown, NJ and New Addition, owned by Spring Hill Farm, captured reserve champion honors for their efforts in the division.
Olivia Sweetnam of Wellington, FL and Mr. Magoo, owned by Sweet Oak Farm, finished atop the Score at the Top Small Pony Hunter Division; Clara Propp of New York, NY collected reserve champion with Benlea Mizzou, owned by Aquitaine Equine.
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ESP Holiday I & II Highlight Major Wins for Todd Minikus and Emanuel Andrade
Emanuel Andrade and U. Photo Credit ©AnneGittinsPhotography.
Wellington, FL – December 19, 2017 – Emanuel Andrade of Wellington, FL and his own U took top honors in the $25,000 Ultima Fitness Grand Prix at ESP Holiday I hosted at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) on Thursday, December 14, after stopping the jump-off timers in 41.904 seconds.
Liza Finsness of Wellington, FL and Shiver captured second place with a jump-off time of 43.292 seconds, ahead of Michael Morrissey of Wellington, FL and QBS Equestrian LLC’s La Lopez 3, who narrowly missed first place and finished the course, designed by Mauricio Garcia, with a time of 38.617 seconds but with four added faults.
Later in the week, Todd Minikus of Lake Worth, FL and Carlo, owned by North Face Farm, captured a speedy win in the $25,000 ProElite Grand Prix at ESP Holiday II, besting a class of 44 entries on Sunday, December 17.
The pair finished a strong first round on the course, also designed by Garcia, and proceeded to stop the jump-off timers in 37.549 seconds, just tenths of a second faster than Alvaro Tejada of Guatemala and Voltaral Palo Blanco, owned by Agroprosa, who completed the round in 38.187 seconds. Liza Finsness of Wellington, FL once again rode Shiver to another top three finish, this time finishing the short course in 39.33 seconds.
Ian Millar of Perth, ON and Vittorio 8, owned by Future Adventures, championed the ESP Holiday I $10,000 Ultima Fitness Open Stake after completing their jump-off round in 34.838 seconds to best the class. Emanuel Andrade of Wellington, FL and Jenni’s Choice, owned by Andrade, collected second place with a time of 35.787 seconds, as well as third place aboard his own Gran Mamut, rounding out the top three with a time of 35.138 seconds and eight faults.
The ESP Holiday II $10,000 ProElite Welcome Stake was won by Alex Granato of Wellington, FL and Beorn, owned by Moyer Farm, LLC, after crossing through jump-off timers in 32.49 seconds. David Oberkircher of Collegeville, PA and Upper, owned by Southfields Farm LLC, earned second place with a time of 34.037 seconds. Alejandro Karolyi of Wellington, FL and Willow, owned by Amalaya Investments, finished in third place after finishing in 34.042 seconds.
The ESP Holiday I Child/Adult 1.10m Jumper Classic saw Julia Strawbridge of West Grove, PA and his own Ailee rise to the top of the class. The pair completed their round in 77.308 seconds with two time faults for the win ahead of Strawbridge and her second mount C’est La Vie, also owned by Strawbridge, who completed the track in 78.878 seconds and with three faults. Christina Castillo finished with a third-place ribbon aboard Eduardo and Isabel Castillo’s Waltaire Palo Blanco, who stopped the timers in 69.142 seconds and with four faults.
Sophia Thomson of Jupiter, FL and her own Bull Run’s Eternal rode to victory in the $1,500 Low Child/Adult Jumper Classic during ESP Holiday I, stopping the jump-off timers in 40.549 seconds. Joshua Baird of St. Charles, IL and Lollipop S secured second place with a time of 41.661 seconds, while Juliett Johansson of Fort Lauderdale, FL and her own Viva’s Roxanna W took third place after adding four faults to their jump-off time of 41.292 seconds.
Elizabeth Kirby of Wellington, FL and Cor de Pomme, owned by E. K. Equestrian LLC, finished in first place in the ESP Holiday I $2,500 M&S Child/Adult Classic after finishing their second round in a time of 43.542 seconds, during ESP Holiday I. Bevo Tarika of Fairfield, CT and Kanneau, owned by Tarika, took second place as the only other combination to advance to the jump-off round. The pair finished in 41.658 seconds with four faults. Lisbeth Hazoury of Wellington, FL and Los Establos Sporthorses Corp.’s Valmach des Abbayes finished in third with 4 faults in the first round.
Lauren McCaulley of Lake Charles, IL and Umano de la Ruche, owned by Ilan Ferder, rode to victory in the ESP Holiday II $1,500 NAL Child/Adult Jumper Classic with a jump-off time of 42.241 seconds. Alexandra Elkins of Dallas, TX and Shosy TSP, owned by Elkins, finished in second after stopping the jump-off timers in 43.747 seconds. Bruna Silva of Windermere, FL and Lorenza Jmen secured third place with a time of 47.401 seconds.
Anne Meyer of Plymoth, MN and Stella Luna, owned by Meyer, took home the blue ribbon in the ESP Holiday II $2,500 M&S Child/Adult Classic with a speedy jump-off time of 41.725 seconds. Phoebe Alwine of Delray Beach, FL and Zenith Dance, owned by In the Clover Equestrian, finished the class with a jump-off time of 42.328 seconds for second, while Kaila Robert of St. Bruno, QB captured third aboard Ninja, owned by Ecuries La Montee, after riding the fast track in 42.889 seconds.
The ESP Holiday II $1,500 Low Adult Jumper Classic was championed by Catherine Kenny of Wellesley, MA and Nubia 11, owned by Maggie Savoie, as the pair finished with a jump-off time of 36.248 seconds, ahead of Nicole Sarett of Vero Beach, FL and Vaya Con Dios, owned by Alexandra Vanderrest, who finished their jump-off round in 42.92 seconds. Jenny Swanson of Dover, MA and Patriot K, owned by Swanson, secured third place with a second-round time of 35.682 seconds and four faults.
Margaret O’Meara of Kirkland, WA and Woodland Way, Inc.’s Just Nick, championed the ESP Holiday I Child/Adult Amateur Hunter Division, while Sidney Jefferson of Toronto, ON and her own Socialite took home reserve champion honors.
The Green Hunter 3′ Division of ESP Holiday I saw Victoria Colvin of Loxahatchee, FL and Fortitude, owned by Debi Maloney and Sarah Cressy, capture the divisional championship. Hannah Isop of Pawling, NY and Calica, owned by Christine Watkins, rode to reserve.
The ESP Holiday I USHJA Hunter 2′, 2’3 & 2’6″ Division was won by Kelly Mullen of Franklin, TN and Three Wishes, owned by Warioto Farms Inc. Wendy Picard of Boca Raton, FL and her own Extraordinary captured reserve champion honors.
Penny Lombardo of Loxahatchee, FL and Northampton, owned by Catherine Bray, finished atop the division in the ESP Holiday I USHJA Hunter 2’9″ Division. Lombardo also collected reserve champion with First Star, owned by Bray.
The Score at the Top Small Pony Hunter Division saw Cecilia Perry of North Venice, FL guide Sparkle, owned by Fielding Stichman, ride to the divisional title in ESP Holiday I, ahead of Sterling Malnik of Ocean Ridge, FL and Amber Asbell-Jackson’s May-B-Tango, who were awarded with reserve champion.
Adam Edgar of Leesburg, VA and Honor, owned by Salter Hydinger, took champion honors in the ESP Holiday II Adult Amateur Hunter Division. Catherine Kenny of Wellesley, MA and her own Bliss received reserve champion honors.
The ESP Holiday II Cross Rail Hunter Division was captured by Orly Antvey of Plantation, FL piloting Heaven Scent Raindrop, owned by Melanie Antevy. Reserve champion went to Matthew Scharbo of Winnetka, IL and Lanes End’s Shimmer.
Libbie Gordon of Statesville, NC and Unexpected, owned by Derby Lane, LLC, were champions of the ESP Holiday II Junior Hunter 3’3″ Division. Reserve champion was also awarded to Gordon, riding her own More Fun.
Alexa Elle Lignelli of New York, NY was awarded champion of the Score at the Top Small/Medium Green Pony Hunter Division during ESP Holiday II. Her winning ride was Just Right, owned by Agatha Lignelli. Reserve champion was also presented to Lignelli and Entourage, owned by the Lignelli Family.
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Central Park Horse Show, Competitions, Show Jumping
Hardin Towell and Lucifer V Win $40k US Open CSX FEI Speed Class at Central Park Horse Show
September 23, 2017 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Photo: Hardin Towell and Lucifer V.
New York, NY – September 21, 2017 – The second day of the 2017 Rolex Central Park Horse Show (RCPHS) featured international and national show jumping competition, showcasing top equestrians from around the world on Thursday, September 21, in the heart of New York City’s Wollman Rink.
The evening was presented by CSX, highlighting the $40,000 U.S. Open CSX FEI Speed Class, which saw a win for Hardin Towell (USA) and Lucifer V, as they opened elite show jumping competition for the week. The evening’s competition also featured the U.S. Open $50,000 Spy Coast Farm Puissance, which saw Emanuel Andrade (VEN), Kama Godek (USA), and Todd Minikus (USA) split the victory three ways after each cleared the traditional brick wall at a height of 6’9″ inches. The $5,000 1.20m Junior/Amateur Jumper Speed Class was topped by Mimi Gochman of New York, NY aboard Gochman Sport Horse LLC’s entry, Avoloma BH.
Guilherme Jorge (BRA), course designer of the 2016 Rolex Central Park Horse Show and 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, returns to Wollman Rink as the show jumping course designer for this week’s national and international competition. The U.S. Open $40,000 CSX FEI Speed Class saw 30 horse and rider combinations take to Wollman Rink for their first night of competition, including some of the world’s very best, highlighting rounds by Kent Farrington (USA), and McLain Ward (USA), alongside rising talent Lucy Deslauriers (USA), who finished in a competitive fifth place.
The winner of the U.S. Open $40,000 CSX FEI Speed Class, Hardin Towell (USA), guided Evergate Stables’ Lucifer V, a 2006 Westphalian gelding (Lord Pezi x Grandina), improving upon the pair’s third place finish last year and crossing through the timers in 53.53 seconds. Towell was the last entry on course and ultimately overtook Daniel Bluman (ISR) aboard Bacara D’Archonfosse, a 2007 Belgian Warmblood mare (Asca Z x Queen D’Archonfosse) owned by Kim Douglas and Alexa Schwitzer, who stopped the clocks in 55.75 seconds. Kristen Vanderveen (USA) and Bull Run’s Faustino De Tili, a 2005 Belgian Warmblood stallion (Berlin x Bijous Van De Vijfheide) owned by Bull Run Jumpers Five LLC, rounded out the competition in third place, finishing in 55.98, adding four faults to their converted time.
“I felt the course was nice. It had a twisty turning start, but it wasn’t so big and my horse has been jumping big classes all year,” he said. “Tonight was a very competitive class, but I had a lot of confidence in my horse, so I took some shots and it was fantastic. I felt he was pretty quick to the second to last jump, and I thought my turns were nice. Last week at Gold Cup I only got third, but I didn’t trust my horse or myself through the first line and in the second line I had the third jump down. I would’ve ended up third even if I’d gone clean, so today I decided to believe in my horse. I felt fast today and I knew it was quite good.”
Towell and Lucifer V have been partnered together for several year and amassed top finishes around the globe in international competition. The pair has excelled during the summer season and Towell felt that the size and structure of the ring helped the duo secure the win and spoke to the versatility of Lucifer V.
“He’s a very diverse horse. In big fields like Spruce Meadows, he’s also great. He doesn’t have the biggest stride, so in an arena like this it’s even better because he’s quicker in the turns, but this is quite a good ring. I’d also like to add that Daniel is one of my very close friends and we’re very competitive, so it’s always fun to win, but to beat one of your friends is even better,” laughed Towell. “I’m not going to lie, the reason I really tried was because Daniel was winning, and he’s won enough the past couple of weeks.”
Bluman is also coming off of a very successful European tour, like his friend Hardin Towell, and was pleased with Bacara D’Archonfosse and her performance, as they look towards the $216,000 Grand Prix CSI 3* presented by Rolex.
“The mare jumped really well again tonight. We’ve been jumping great the past few shows and winning some classes. I walked the course and like Hardin said it wasn’t too big,” he explained. “I got to see Kristen [Vanderveen] go after me and she had a beautiful round and was super-fast. At that point I figured Hardin would get me at the end. He’s a competitive guy. We work together and grew up together, and I knew he was going to try and he got me, so I’m happy for the second place, happy for him, and looking forward to tomorrow.”
Bluman explained that though the mare is a serious competitor in the competition arena, she’s extremely relaxed outside of the ring. He commented, “Hardin and I were joking in the warm-up that if she were a horse used for transportation two hundred years ago, it wouldn’t do. She doesn’t want to work because she’s so relaxed. It took her twice the amount of time to get from stabling to the ring than any other horse, but she goes in the ring and she knows what she has to do. She’s a competitor and she likes to win. She allows me to do my job. She’s really fantastic horse who always wants to jump clear.”
Kristen Vanderveen and Bull Run’s Faustino De Tili were incredibly close to stealing the win in Wollman Rink and used the tight course to their advantage, posting the third fastest time despite knocking the first rail at the one-stride combination.
“He is super-fast and the small ring here actually plays to his advantage because he’s really quick on the turns. I felt that we were very tight everywhere and he ended up catching me off guard by the end of the course. He was so ready for the turns that I cut him a little too aggressively at the combination and it caught up with me,” she explained. “But I was very pleased with him tonight. He’s so rideable for me. He’s listening all the time and asks where I want to go, and that really helps in a ring of this size, and with his size as well. He’s right where I want him.”
Emanuel Andrade, Kama Godek, and Todd Minikus Split Top Honors in U.S. Open $50,000 Spy Coast Farm Puissance
The evening’s competition concluded with the U.S. Open $50,000 Spy Coast Farm Puissance, which saw a three-way tie between Emanuel Andrade (VEN) aboard Clouwni, a 2003 Holsteiner gelding (Colman x Odessa XVII) owned by Andrade, Kama Godek (USA) and her own De Grande, a 2008 Dutch Warmblood gelding (Verdi x Concorde), and Todd Minikus (USA) piloting VDL Excel, a 2009 Dutch Warmblood gelding by Douglas and owned by Autumn View Farm.
The class boasted five entries that began the competition at a wall height of 5’3″. All five entries contested a height of 6’9″, before Andrew Kocher (USA), and Paul O’Shea (IRL) were eliminated in the fourth and final round of competition.
“I started to train last year and I had an equitation horse,” smiled Godek. “I got an email asking if anyone wanted to do the Puissance at Central Park and I mean say no more! I had another client riding this horse in the 3’6″ Equitation and I knew he jumped big. I practiced a couple of times last year and we came back to win this year!”
Emanuel Andrade and Clouwni
Emanuel Andrade, a notable name on both the national and international show jumping circuits, contested his first Puissance class under the lights aboard his own Clouwni, ultimately clearing the massive wall set at 6’9″.
“This was my first Puissance and it was very exciting. It was impressive the first time I jumped that wall, but after that I started getting confident and it got much better. It was huge! I’m very happy about it,” he said. “I’m very happy about the group of horses that went this year. They were all so good.”
Veteran of the group, Todd Minikus, guided a young talent in his string in the class, also clearing the impressive wall at its top height. At only eight-years-old, VDL Excel looks to be a strong contender for the future and Minikus commented on the experience for both horse and rider under the lights in Central Park, while thanking class sponsor Spy Coast Farm for the opportunity.
“I’d like to thank Spy Coast Farm for sponsoring this. We all really appreciate it and the crowd seems to really appreciate it,” said Minikus. “I rode a young horse tonight. We just started doing some smaller grand prix and this is great for giving the horses experience under the lights.”
The revival of the Puissance in New York City was sparked by the once popular National Horse Show hosted at Madison Square Garden for many years. Mark Bellissimo, CEO of International Equestrian Group (IEG), felt it was necessary to keep the tradition alive in Central Park, once again bringing the entertaining brick wall back to the iconic city.
“The National Horse Show used to be here and no one can replace that show, but we are hoping in time we can bring that type of energy with us to the Rolex Central Park Horse Show,” he commented. “This is the opportunity to do that, so last year we decided to add the Puissance class. It’s a great thing to have in this sport. It engages the crowd and gives people something to root for that they understand. It’s simple, if you leave the wall up, you move on to the next round.”
Spy Coast Farm, a sport horse breeding and training operation based in both Lexington, KY, and Wellington, FL, was a first year sponsor of the U.S. Open $50,000 Puissance class and Lisa Lourie of Spy Coast Farm was on hand to discuss their participation in the event this year and discuss her love for Puissance, which was sparked by watching the entertaining class at the Dublin Horse Show each summer.
“I was so happy that we got this group of riders this year and we were so thrilled that they all came out. That’s what the Puissance is all about. If you don’t have good riders and good horses, then the class falls flat. We had the right group tonight, and that’s what it comes down too,” she said. “I called Mark after watching the Puissance at the Dublin Horse Show and told him that I was in for Central Park because it’s such a fantastic class.”
Mimi Gochman and Avoloma BH Ride to Win in $5,000 1.20m Junior/Amateur Jumper Speed Class
The night commenced with the $5,000 1.20m Junior/Amateur Speed Class, which awarded a victory for New York City’s own Mimi Gochman, piloting her new mount, Avoloma BH, a 2005 Dutch Warmblood mare (Quasimodo Z x Voloma) owned by Gochman Sport Horse LLC.
“I used to have parties in Wollman Rink for my birthday,” commented Gochman. “It’s amazing to see the transformation from an ice skating arena to an amazing show with a beautiful backdrop. It’s such a privilege to be able to show in the middle of New York City. Central Park has always been a fun place to hang out, but I never imagined I’d be riding in a horse show here.”
Of her round, Gochman said, “It was a nice course. It was a little complicated with the angles but our trainer really helped. She told us where to go and set us up for the best possible route, so that was very helpful. She’s a new mare for me, and we’ve had a lot of success so far. I’m really starting to figure out what she likes and doesn’t like. She’s game for anything and she always tries to jump her best. She’s just a really good mare.”
Gochman completed the track in 52.97 seconds, almost three full seconds ahead of the second position finisher, Alexandra Crown, also of New York, NY, who rode her own Quentucky Jolly, a 2004 Selle Francais gelding (Nirvan V x Fabiola Depinette), to second place on 55.82 seconds.
“I got this horse in the middle of July,” said Crown, “We’ve only gone to about five shows together or so. He’s incredibly competitive and he’s very good at venues like this. He’s comfortable with the tight rings. This worked out in his favor, but we still couldn’t beat Mimi. That was fast! We gave it a go and he was fantastic, so I couldn’t have asked for anything more.”
The class continued with an impressive New York native streak as Sophie Gochman took the third place slot aboard Wirina, a 2003 Dutch Warmblood mare (Harlem x Sarina) also owned by Gochman Sport Horse LLC, after finishing the course in 55.87 seconds.
“I’ve been competing against Mimi for basically my entire life,” commented the eldest Gochman sister. “This doesn’t really change anything. I’m always rooting for her and she’s always routing for me. Tonight I was just taking one for the team. Whoever wins, it’s still good because go team Baxter Hill!”
For more information, visit www.centralparkhorseshow.com.
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Competitions, Show Jumping, Tryon
Emanuel Andrade and Bon Jovi Take $35,000 1.45m Tryon Challenge CSI 2*
July 17, 2017 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Emanuel Andrade and Bon Jovi. Photo Creditit ©Sportfot.
Mill Spring, NC – July 16, 2017 – Emanuel Andrade (VEN) and Bon Jovi found success on the Grass Complex at Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC), overcoming a challenging short course in 38.465 seconds for the win. The pair finished ahead of Aaron Vale (USA) and Stakko, who took second place with 40.145 seconds, and Amanda Derbyshire (GBR) with Sibell BH in third with a four-fault jump-off time of 37.404 seconds.
The track, set by Martin Otto (GER), tested 34 entries on the Grass Complex at TIEC, and Andrade commented that while he likes riding on grass and footing equally, riding on the grass is a nice change. “The grass always rides differently. It didn’t look huge, but it was hard, because a lot of people were having rails [down] and there were only five clear. It wasn’t easy at all,” he said.
Bon Jovi, a 2006 Dutch Warmblood gelding (Verdi x Corland) owned by Andrade, is a talented mount who was able to go clear around the short course and shave more than a second from his nearest competitor’s time.
“My horse is naturally quick and I think it was our day. I showed him last night and this morning I tried to change a couple things and it went great actually. I’m very happy with the results. Everything went correctly and we won,” explained Andrade.
He elaborated, “Sometimes you need luck. Bon Jovi is a winner. He always tries really hard and I really like him. I feel lucky to have a horse like that.”
Andrade and his horses will stay at TIEC for a while longer to contest a few more shows before heading to New York to close out his year at HITS Saugerties. With the win coming at the end of the competition, Andrade noted that the $35,000 1.45m Tryon Challenge CSI 2* was a great way to end the week.
“I’m very happy about it. It wasn’t a great weekend [for me], but I closed the week with a nicer result and I couldn’t have asked for a better day.”
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Farmer, Oliver, and Fuqua Highlight Hunter Derby Day
Kelley Farmer and Because (Photos courtesy of Equinium Sports Marketing)
Andrade Secures Second Consecutive Win in Grand Prix
West Palm Beach, FL (February 18, 2017) – The sixth week of The Ridge Palm Beach Series welcomed back the popular monthly hunter showcase, Hunter Derby Days, as well as the circuit’s standard $15,000 1.40m Grand Prix and full hunter and jumper divisions at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center. With the winter equestrian season now in full swing, the Palm Beach Series full hunter and jumper divisions run each week from Wednesday to Sunday, with unique show offerings each week including USEF Equitation Tuesdays, the unique and spectacular venues of the Turf Tour, the elegance and performance of Hunter Derby Days, and, newly launched in 2017, Schooling Dressage Shows. Week 6, which ran from February 8-12, featured the February 10th Hunter Derby Day and Saturday’s $15,000 1.40m Grand Prix, presented by RV Sales of Broward.
Hunters Take Center Stage during February’s Hunter Derby Day
The second of The Ridge Palm Beach Series’ Hunter Derby Days commenced February 10th, featuring a $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, $15,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, and a $5,000 USHJA Pony Derby. Held under the spectacular covered arena at Jim Brandon, the three classes featured a challenging and beautifully designed course, as well as some of the top horse and rider combinations showcasing the athleticism of the performance hunter. Friday’s events kicked off with the USHJA National Derby, continued to the International Derby in the afternoon and concluded with the Pony Derby under the lights in the evening.
Julie Oliver and Bossa Nova Win $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby
Bossa Nova, piloted by Julie Oliver, danced over the beautiful hunter course set for the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, besting a class of 26 horses to finish on a score of 186. Kim Barone rode Easy Street HU to reserve honors, and her other mount, Dolce Vita, to third place. Dolce Vita, with Barone in the saddle, was the USHJA National Hunter Derby Champion at January’s Hunter Derby Day.
Kelly Farmer and Because Top $15,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby
With the jumps and prize money raised, the $15,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby began with Kelly Farmer and Scripted took an early lead with 182, but eventually was bested by her own effort with Because to secure victory. Scripted’s early effort was bumped to fifth by Amy Momrow and Aeroplane, Jennifer Hannan and Flamingo-K, and taking reserve honors, last month’s USHJA International Hunter Derby champions, Louise Serio and Rock Harbor.
The Dutch-bred gelding Because, who was purchased in Ocala barely a year ago with Jane Gaston, had only the highest accolades to his name from Farmer, who rode him to his first Derby victory, and from Gaston, who has ridden him to numerous championships and Horse of the Year Honors in the Amateur Owner divisions. “He is an extraordinary animal, with potential to be one of the best Derby horses I’ve ever ridden,” stated Farmer. “He usually pulls double duty with me and his owner, and has won in everything, now from the Derbies to the greens, 4-foot, and Amateurs.”
Owner Jane Gaston had equally rave reviews, stating, “He has huge range & scope, and is a total gentleman. Originally started as a jumper, he has made great progress with Kelley and I in the hunter ring, and we are thrilled with his first Derby win.”
As one of the top hunter riders in the world, Farmer is a regular on The Ridge at Wellington’s Hunter Derby Days series, taking top honors in the International Derbies in 2016 and now a win with Because in 2017. “Nona and George do a great job, they’re very accommodating, and this is a great venue and show for a young horse to learn what horse shows are without getting thrown into a very intense environment. This, for a derby horse, is a bit like starting a Grand Prix horse: they get to jump at a real horse show on nice footing, real jumps, nice course designers, and are still doing the real thing without the pressure. Nona and George have done a beautiful job creating the perfect conditions for effectively bringing along horses.”
Kat Fuqua and Somekindawonderful Sweep $5,000 USHJA Pony Derby
From the big leagues to the ponies, the covered arena transformed once again into a miniaturized version of the International Derby course and welcomed a group of talented ponies and riders. An exceptional round by Kat Fuqua and Somekindawonderful led the field for the evening’s $5,000 USHJA Pony Derby from beginning to end. Fuqua and her Captain America, who were the champions of January’s USHJA Pony derby, finished third, with Augusta Iwasaki and Small Suggestion taking reserve honors.
Consistently attracting top names in the sport, including Olympians, medal finalists, and international champions, the Hunter Derby Day competitions offer an exclusive way to gain national and international experience, as well as qualifying scores, in a utopian show atmosphere.
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Emanuel Andrade and Belita Secure Second Consecutive Victory in Saturday’s $15,000 1.40m Grand Prix Presented by RV Sales of Broward
For the second week in a row, Venezuela’s Emanuel Andrade and Belita ruled the Grand Prix, putting in impressive double clear rounds that proved to be uncatchable. The first double clear round went to Ilan Bluman and Eax Run Run LS, who finished on a final jump off time of 34.385. Soon after, Lauren Crooks and Columbeille de Reve stole the lead from Bluman, only to have it stolen almost immediately by Andrade and Benita. The athletic bay mare and the Venezuelan young rider put in a blazingly fast jump off round, taking a commanding lead over the rest of the field with a 29.431. A late effort by Kelly Cruciotti and My Flores bumped Crooks into third, but no horse & rider combinations were able to challenge Andrade’s lead, despite a field full of accomplished international Grand Prix competitors including Daniel Bluman, Darragh Kenny, Pablo Barrios, and Peter Jordan.
The Ridge at Wellington’s Palm Beach series continues with full hunter and jumper divisions each week, Wednesday – Sunday, as well as February 24th’s Turf Tour at Polo West, USEF Equitation Tuesdays, and each week a $15,000 1.40m Grand Prix on Friday and a $5,000 1.30m Open Stake on Saturday.
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Venezuela, Dominican Republic Reign Supreme in Palm Beach Series Turf Tour and 1.40 Grand Prix
Emanuel Andrade and Jenni’s Chance (Photos courtesy of Equinium Sports Marketing)
West Palm Beach, FL (February 13, 2017) – In a banner week for South America and the Caribbean, the Palm Beach Series’ unique hunter and jumper offerings during Week 5, which ran February 1-5, were headlined by the circuit’s trademark Turf Tour and accompanying $15,000 1.40 Grand Prix. Envisioned as a utopian compliment to Wellington’s booming winter equestrian season, the Palm Beach Series diverse show offerings draw a cross section of competitors from aspiring leadliners to international Grand Prix and Olympic champions. From its main base at Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, just minutes down Forest Hill Boulevard from the city’s equestrian mecca, full divisions of hunters and jumpers run weekly in tandem with USEF Equitation Tuesdays, Palm Beach Series Schooling Dressage, Hunter Derby Days, and the Turf Tour.
Emanuel Andrade and Benita Surge to Victory in $15,000 RV Sales of Broward 1.40m Grand Prix
Displaying the brave riding style that seems to come standard in South America’s show jumpers, Pan Am, World Equestrian Games, and Rio 2016 Olympic rider Emanuel Andrade rode Benita and Jenni’s Chance to first and second placings in Friday’s $15,000 RV Sales of Broward 1.40 Grand Prix. Held Friday in the pristine all weather arena at Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, Andrade and Jenni’s Chance had an early double clear finishing on 38.174 in the jump-off. But almost as soon as Andrade’s placing was announced, he was back in the arena to best his own time with Benita.
In a thrilling jump-off effort, Benita, under Andrade’s guidance, soared over the final vertical and through the timers to best Jenni’s Chance with a jump off time of 35.263. Despite a number of valiant efforts from the rest of the field, no one could catch Benita or Jenni’s times. Colombia’s Ilan Bluman rounded out the top three rankings with Eax Run Run LS.
Dominican Republic’s Manuel Fernandez Hache Rule the Turf Tour February 4th
The talented combination of Manuel Fernandez Hache and Al Calypso proved exceptional during Saturday’s Turf Tour 1.45m Grand Prix, putting the Caribbean nation at the top of the standings. Veterans of the 2015 Pan American Games, Hache and Al Calypso navigated Saturday’s Turf Tour course with the grace and poise of seasoned international competitors. One of the last combinations to stretch their legs on the grass field at The Ridge at Wellington’s home farm, their double clear effort and 41.533 jump-off time stole the lead from the US Olympian Laura Kraut and Cavalia.
Manuel Fernandez Hache and Al Calypso
“It was a very good ride, a very good course,” said Hache following his ride in the Turf Tour. “We have been riding at Spruce Meadows during the summer, so Al Calypso is used to being on the grass and enjoys the change from sand arenas. It can be dull riding in the same places over and over and this is a breath of fresh air to come out here and be able to jump on this level in an open environment. I love the tranquility of The Ridge’s shows, we have been showing in the Palm Beach Series’ Grand Prix for the past few weeks as a way to build up for the U25 Grand Prix and larger classes later in the season. It’s great that we can come out here and relax, jump, and train without stress. This course was particularly nice to sharpen up the horses, it was very straight forward. I galloped my horse straight and forward to the jumps, and made the most of riding on the grass.”
Palm Beach Series Schooling Dressage Welcomes Riders Every Other Tuesday through April
The second of the twice-monthly Palm Beach Series Schooling Dressage Shows commenced Tuesday, February 7th, with riders of all levels enjoying the serene environment, exceptional footing, and world-class judges. From young horses and riders at their debut dressage show, to seasoned Grand Prix and international competitors fine-tuning their Freestyles, last Tuesday’s judge, GP & BA certified German dressage expert Heiner Jeibmann, saw everything from Training and Third Level to the Prix St. Georges and Grand Prix.
The weekly schooling shows run every other Tuesday, with the next event being held February 21st and featuring FEI Judge Janet Foy. PBS Schooling Dressage is held at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, a full service show grounds just minutes from Wellington’s center that includes multiple all-weather lighted arenas, an oversized covered arena, two large barns of permanent stabling, a lunging area, and ample parking for trucks, trailers and cars. Designed to put horses and riders in a new, unique atmosphere, the dressage classes begin at 4pm.
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Emanuel Andrade and Nokia De Brekka Win $30k UHealth Grand Prix at ESP New Year’s Show
Emanuel Andrade and Nokia De Brekka. Photos ©ManciniPhotos.
Wellington, FL – January 4, 2017 – Emanuel Andrade of Wellington, FL and Nokia De Brekka finished atop the $30,000 UHealth Grand Prix at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC), besting a class of 39 entries. Andrade and Nokia De Brekka finished the jump-off track in 42.673 seconds to take the win, while Jackson Brittan of Westlake, TX and Easy Contact Humlan rode to second place with a time of 45.562 seconds. Leslie Howard of Darien, CT piloted Up and Blue Chapelle to third after crossing through the timers in 45.816 seconds.
Andrade and his own Nokia De Brekka have had a phenomenal season at PBIEC during the 2016 Holiday Series, amassing several top finishes in numerous Welcome Stake classes, as well as in the grand prix competition offered weekly. Andrade bested a talented jump-off, which saw six riders advance from the first round. Only the top three finishers completed the day with a double clear effort around the track set by Hector Loyola of Wellington, FL.
Andrade rode three other mounts in the class including Dipssy, Cortina 186, and Bon Jovi, all proving to be highly competitive in grand prix competition. Continuing his preparation for the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), Andrade has exemplified his skill and knack for speed during pre-season competition, which will be useful looking towards nearing circuit.
The ESP Holiday Series will conclude on Sunday, January 8, ahead of the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) circuit, which will begin on Wednesday, January 11, and continue through Sunday, April 2, 2017.
Conor Swail and Flower
Conor Swail of County Down, Ireland guided Flower, owned by FINCA Horses Inc., to top honors in the $10,000 UHealth Open Stake with a speedy jump-off time of 39.876 seconds. Shane Sweetnam of Wellington, FL and Cobolt, owned by The Blue Buckle Group, finished in second place after crossing through the timers in 40.121 seconds. Nicole Shahinian-Simpson of Wellington, FL and Akuna Mattata, owned by Silver Raven Farms, rounded out the top three with a jump-off time of 41.489 seconds. The class saw 32 entries contest the first major class of the week’s competition during the ESP New Year’s Show. Nine combinations moved forward to test the short course designed by Hector Loyola of Wellington, FL. Six pairs finished the class with a double clear effort in hand.
Luis Larrazabal of Wellington, FL and Champion for Volt, owned by Augusto Surico, rose to the top of the $5,000 1.35m Jumper Classic presented by The Brazilian Court Hotel after besting second place by nearly six seconds. Larrazabal stopped the timers in 42.957 seconds ahead of Carlos Quinones of Wellington, FL and Sato Yama, owned by Michelle Navarro-Grau, who claimed second place with a time of 48.703 seconds. Rodrigo Pessoa of Wellington, FL and Chaco 34, owned by Francesca Damasceno, took third place after finishing the track in 49.224 seconds.
The $1,500 Low Children’s Jumper Classic presented by Equine Couture & Tuff Rider saw Ellen Mollerus of Larchmont, NY and Caretino, owned by Katherine Strauss LLC, take top honors after completing the short course in 34.237 seconds. Eva Harris of Wellington, FL and Showtime De Pleville, owned by RussellSportHorses LLC, took second place with a time of 37.51 seconds ahead of Dakota Champey of Far Hills, NJ and Unsomnie De La Roque, owned by Hampton Farms LLC, who took third place with a time of 39.248 seconds.
The $1,500 Low Adult Jumper Classic presented by Equine Couture & Tuff Rider saw Carson King of Bedminster, NJ and Middlemarch, owned by River Run Farm LLC, claim victory in the division as they completed the jump-off track in 36.98 seconds. Devon Degen of Watermill, NY and Coachella, owned by Degenmoor Farm Inc., rode to second place with a time of 38.053 seconds. Deborah Imperatore of Basking Ridge, NJ and Ben-Sky, owned by J&J Imperatore LLC, finished in third, after dropping a rail for four faults and crossing through the timers in 37.736 seconds.
Samantha Johnson of Skillman, NJ and her own Gallant rose to the top of the leaderboard in the $1,500 Children’s Jumper Classic with a time of 34.439 seconds. Sabrina Lefebvre of St. Marc Sur Richeliue, QC and Wedding Day finished in second place with a jump-off time of 35.69 seconds, while Ally Marrinan of Saunderstown, RI and Ruby, owned by Rose Hill Farm, rounded out the top three with a time of 36.157 seconds.
Stephanie King of St. Augustine, FL and her own Co-Starr captured victory in the $1,500 Adult Amateur Jumper Classic presented by Accuhorsemat after completing the track with an efficient time of 34.04 seconds. Laura Anderson of Ashland, VA and her own HHS Cheiro took second place as the only other combination to advance to the jump-off round. The duo added four faults to their time of 40.959 seconds. Devon Degen of Watermill, NY and Zippo, owned by Degenmoor Farm Inc., rounded out the top three after adding a single time fault in the first round to finish in 77.255 seconds.
The $2,500 High Amateur Owner Jumper Classic presented by Equiline saw McKayla Langmeier of East Granby, CT and Tahiti Island, owned by Blue Hill Farm, LLC, take top honors with a time of 43.26 seconds. Daisy Farish of Versailles, KY and Balance, owned by Chansonette Farm LLC, captured second place, completing the course just behind Langmeier with a time of 43.549 seconds. Michelle Navarro-Grau of Wellington, FL guided her own Yidam to an exciting finish in the class, collecting a time of 43.654 seconds for third.
The $2,500 NAL Low Amateur Owner Jumper Classic saw Lynsey Whitacre of St. Joseph, MO and her own Zorzuela Leuze Z ride to victory after finishing with a time of 41.179 seconds. Rileigh Tibbott of Ebensburg, PA and her own Cento per Cento CG captured second place with a time of 43.01 seconds ahead of Meghan Hurst of Baton Rouge, LA and her own Fidel Cavaro who earned third place with a time of 43.369 seconds.
Catalina Peralta of Geneva, FL and Chopin Z, owned by Grindstone Farm LLC, finished atop the $2,500 Low Junior Jumper Classic after completing the jump-off round in 41.016 seconds. Faith Davis of Gurley, AL and her own Da Vinci took second place, finishing just behind Peralta with a time of 41.303 seconds around the short course. Isabella Andreu of Wellington, FL and Grannit Du Petit Bois, owned by Ilsa Franzuis & Jorge Andreu, finished in third place with a time of 42.234 seconds.
Chloe Wilkenfeld of Bedford, NY and Urben, owned by Ashley McIlwain, rose to the top of the leaderboard in the $1,500 NAL Child/Adult Jumper Classic after completing the jump-off track in 38.471 seconds. Morgan Champey of Far Hills, NJ and Baronesse, owned by MDHT Equestrian, LLC, finished in second with a time of 39.739 seconds, while Samantha Karp of Wellington, FL and her own David rode to third place, stopping the timers in 40.955 seconds.
Hunter Highlights
Kim Barone of Watertown, MN and Easy Street HU, owned by Raven Ridge Farm, rode to the top of the class in the $5,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby after receiving a two round score of 173. Emma Weiss of New York, NY and her own Cheveaux took second, finishing just behind Barone with a score of 172.5. Ashton Alexander of Ocala, FL and Amazone De La Cense, owned by Plain Bay Farm, secured third, earning a 165. The derby featured 21 entries, while Barone championed the class with an 86 in the first round and an 87 in the handy. Weiss earned the high score of the day aboard Cheveaux after receiving an 89 for their first round effort.
Victoria Colvin of Loxahatchee, FL and For Ever, owned by Victoria Colvin, LLC, captured first place in the USHJA Green Hunter Incentive Program (PGIP) with a score of 81. Colin Syquia of Wellington, FL and Samba’s Secret, owned by Jennifer Smith, captured second place with a score of 78, while Maria Rasmussen of Oak Creek, WI and O. Edward, owned by Sydney Hamel, also finished with a score of 78 for third.
The $1,000 3’6″ Junior/Amateur Owner Hunter Classic presented by Sweet Oak Farm saw Emma Weiss of New York, NY and Cheveaux take top honors with a two round score of 168, while Michael Williamson of Loomis, CA and Boris, owned by Vlock Show Stables LLC, took second place, finishing just a point behind Weiss to receive a 167. Krista Weisman of Brooklyn, NY and Reality, owned by Krista & Alexa Weisman, captured third place with a score of 162.
Ashley Vogel of Mequon, WI and her own Avignion rode to victory in the $1,000 3’3″ Junior Hunter Classic presented by Sweet Oak Farm after receiving a total score of 170 from the judging panel. Jaden Olson of Parker, CO and her own Conradical took second place after receiving a 161, while Samantha Braswell of Wellington, FL and Pinehurst, owned by Two Goals Farm LLC, rode to third place with a score of 150.
Martha Ingram of Nashville, TN and Ice Time, owned by John & Stephanie Ingram, LLC, rode to victory in the $1,000 3’3″ Amateur Owner Hunter Classic presented by Sweet Oak Farm after earning a two round total score of 167. Lindsay Maxwell of Beverly Hills, CA piloted her own Kingston to second with a score of 166.5, while Krista Weisman of Brooklyn, NY and Concept, owned by Krista & Alexa Weisman, took third with a 166.
The $500 Large Pony Hunter Classic presented by Moorcroft Inc. saw Ansley Wright of Manalapan, FL and Serenade in Blue, owned by Deborah Brown-Moon, take top honors with a score of 158. Caroline Ellis of Weston, MA piloted All about Blue, owned by Artillery Lane, LLC, to second place with a score of 156 ahead of Dakota Champey of Far Hills, NJ and Tantallon Co-Captain, owned by MDHT Equestrian, LLC, who earned a 148 for third place.
Samantha Takacs of Oldwick, NJ and IFlirt, owned by MDHT Equestrian, LLC, rode to victory in the $500 Small Pony Hunter Classic presented by Moorcroft Inc. after receiving a two round score of 162. Caia Watridge of St. Augustine, FL and her own Heavens to Betsy secured second place with a 160, while Allison Coleman of Wellington, FL and her own Training Wheels rounded out the top three with a score of 154.
The $500 Medium Pony Hunter Classic presented by Moorcroft Inc. was won by Sienna Pilla of Ridgefield, CT aboard Robin Hill’s Snapshot, owned by Piccolino Farm LLC, who topped the class with a score of 161. Alexandra Lynn Willner of Boca Raton, FL and Oakledge Fire and Rain, owned by Donald Stewart, finished with a 160 for second place. Campbell Hudkins of Farmington, CT and Swingtown, owned by Peacock Ridge, LLC, rounded out the top three finishers with a score of 154.
For more information on PBIEC and to view a full list of results, please visit www.pbiec.com.
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Emanuel Andrade Finishes Exceptional Week at ESP Holiday I
Andrade and Nokia De Brekka. Photo Credit ©ManciniPhotos.
Wellington, FL – December 17, 2016 – Emanuel Andrade of Wellington, FL concluded a tremendous week at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) after taking top honors in both the $25,000 TACKNRIDER Grand Prix and $10,000 TACKNRIDER Stake during ESP Holiday I competition. Andrade finished one, two, three in the $25,000 TACKNRIDER Grand Prix aboard Nokia De Brekka, Dipssy, and Bon Jovi, respectively. Guiding Nokia de Brekka to the win with a time of 44.716 seconds, Andrade also produced two clear rounds with Dipssy, finishing in 45.357 seconds and Bon Jovi completing the track in 45.794 seconds.
Andrade had four entries in the class and amassed an impressive finish with his top mounts following in consecutive order. The class featured 32 combinations and a large jump-off of 12 entries, while course designer Hector Loyola of Wellington, FL built the track. Andrade outmaneuvered the class, finding the quickest routes around the short course with each of his mounts who qualified for the jump-off. Andrade’s three mounts were the only to finish with a double clear effort on the day.
“As always, I came in to today wanting to do the best I could. The past couple of weeks have been very successful,” he said. “The grand prix today was more technical and a bit more difficult so I feel like it was a really good day.”
Andrade has excelled at PBIEC since his return to Wellington late fall and feels that his horses are in top shape and gaining strength in the ring that is essential to being competitive at the top levels.
“It was easier for me to feel comfortable with three horses in the jump-off because you have three opportunities. When you look at the class list for today there were a lot of riders with experience and great horses so I’m just really happy that we finished the way we did.”
“All three of my rides were the only double clear rounds today and it was a tough track. I’m very proud of my horses,” he added.
Andrade entered the ring on Bon Jovi knowing that he had already secured first and second place, which is an interesting but unusual position for riders contesting a competitive grand prix. Demonstrating his intense will to win, Andrade wanted to try and best his own winning time.
“When I went in on Bon Jovi I wanted to try and beat myself. That’s the best part of competing is having the chance to try and beat yourself in a class like this,” he continued.
The Venezuelan star has always been a tough and consistent competitor during the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), garnering top accolades in numerous divisions throughout the 12-week circuit. This year, the Under 25 classes is set to be the focus for Andrade, while an exciting new mount will take center stage on Saturday nights under the lights.
“I’m going to try and do my best. I jump a lot of the Under 25 classes and we just got a new horse that is going to be very good for the Saturday night classes so we will see. I’m very excited to see if we can continue to have good results at WEF.”
Andrade also took first place aboard Dipssy in the $10,000 TACKNRIDER Stake earlier in the week, as the pair navigated the jump-off track in 37.167 seconds ahead of Ian Millar of Perth, ON, who guided Vittorio 8 to second place with a time of 38.82 seconds. Wilhelm Genn of Lebanon, OH and Bugatti rounded out the top three after completing the track in 39.029 seconds. The class saw six combinations qualify for the short course, while a total of 26 entries took to the initial track.
The $2,500 M&S Child/Adult Jumper Classic was championed by Samantha Karp of Wellington, FL and her own David, who paced the class with a 35.07 in the jump-off round for the win. Stephanie Ann Cook of Franklin, TN and Fidele, owned by Lionsway Farm, captured second place after adding four faults to their time of 38.375 seconds. Deborah Perkins of Wellington, FL and Emerald Grace, owned by Jimmy & Danielle Torano, finished in third after dropping a rail for four faults and completing the track in 40.029 seconds.
Filip de Wandel and Innocent Nina, owned by Five Way Farm LLC, captured top honors in the $5,000 1.35m Jumper Classic after besting the jump-off round with a time of 46.55 seconds. Denis Coakley of Lake Worth, FL and Sterling Un Prince, owned by Matt Garrigan, finished in second place after completing the track in 46.748 seconds, while Conor O’Regan of Upperville, VA and Touche Windsor Z, owned by Windsor Farm Sales, rounded out the top three finishers after adding four faults to their time of 47.053 seconds.
The $1,500 Low Child/Adult Jumper Classic presented by Equine Couture & Tuff Rider saw Star Schatten of Franklin, TN and Cayotee, owned by Lionsway Farm rise to the top of the competitive class. The pair finished the short course in 34.86 seconds ahead of Samantha Briggs of Lexington, KY and Leonardo, owned by Higgns’ Investments, who stopped the timers in 37.519 seconds. Zayna Rizvi of Greenwich, CT and Forget Me Knot, owned by Peacock Ridge, LLC, secured third place after completing the track in 39.702 seconds.
Madeline Thatcher of Bluffdale, UT had a spectacular weekend in the Amateur Owner Hunter 3’6″ 18-35 Division, piloting Sterling, owned by Pony Lane Farm, and Summer Place, also owned by Pony Lane Farm, to champion and reserve champion, respectively.
Patricia Griffith of New York, NY guided Chicago, owned by Callie Seaman, to divisional honors in the Green Hunter 3’6″ Division, while Kelley Farmer of Keswick, VA and High Priority, owned by Zenfield Farm, captured reserve champion.
Griffith also continued with her win streak aboard Clearline Z, owned by McLain Ward, in the High Performance & Green Hunter 3’9″ Division ahead of Maggie Jayne of Elgin, IL and Like I Said, owned by Pony Lane Farm, who took home reserve champion.
The Junior/Amateur Owner Hunter 3’3″ Division saw Elizabeth Kirby of Wellington, FL and Reservation, owned by E. K. Equestrian LLC, ride to the top of the division and earn champion accolades. Hana Bieling of Wellington, FL and Waterfall, owned by Jennifer Combs, were presented with reserve.
Christina Rogalny of Wellington, FL and Redeemed, owned by Carol Ruth & Sumner Hill Farms, LLC, led the competition in the Junior Hunter 3’6″ Division presented by #1 Education Place to take home champion honors ahead of Alexa Schwitzer of Muttontown, KY and In Joy, owned by Over the Top Stables LLC, who finished in the reserve position.
The Large Pony Hunter Division was championed by Chase Finizio of Boca Raton, FL and California Dreamin’, owned by Millennium Farm, Inc. Sophia Calamari of New Milford, PA and Fox Creek’s Antony Quinn, owned by Dianna Orona, collected reserve champion.
Alexandra Lynn Willner of Boca Raton, FL and Anisette, owned by Hannah Hoch, were awarded with the divisional championship after a consistent week of riding. Willner also captured reserve champion honors in the division aboard Rosewood, owned by Hannah Egan.
Zayna Rizvi of Greenwich, CT and Canterbrook Prince Charming, owned by Ella Bikoff, found themselves atop the Small Pony Hunter Division, while Mia Green of Delray Beach, FL and Bieber, owned by Laura Barrett-Gurtis, took reserve.
The $500 Pony Hunter Classic presented by Moorcroft, Inc. saw Alexandra Lynn Willner of Boca Raton, FL secure first place in the class aboard Anisette, owned by Hannah Hoch. Zayna Rizvi of Greenwich, CT and Anderin’s Momento, owned by Ella Bikoff took second place, while Willner captured third place in the class aboard Rosewood, owned by Hannah Egan.
For more information on Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) and to see a full list of results, please visit www.pbiec.com.
Emanuel Andrade and Wicked Race to Win in $10,000 Open Stake at PBIEC
Emanuel Andrade and Wicked. Photo Credit ©ManinciPhotos.
Wellington, FL – November 16, 2016 – Emanuel Andrade of Wellington, FL and Wicked, owned by Hollow Creek Farm, took top honors in the $10,000 Open Stake at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) during the ESP November competition. Andrade and Wicked completed the jump-off track in 46.848 seconds ahead of David Blake of Wellington, FL and Bella Donna, who crossed the jump-off timers in 47.172 seconds. Richard Neal of Malibu, CA and Ida Gold finished in third, dropping a rail in the jump-off and finishing in 45.151 seconds.
The class saw 25 entries test the track set by Hector Loyola of Wellington, FL, as nine combinations advanced to the jump-off round, while only two pairs delivered a double clear effort on the day. Andrade and Wicked, who is a relatively new mount for the talented rider from Venezuela, looked in fine form and have already established a strong partnership.
“It was a really good class. I just got back from a long summer of competition and I have a lot of horses that do well in these types of classes and helps to give them experience,” said Andrade.
Wicked, a 2007 Warmblood mare, is an exciting new addition in Andrade’s string of top horses and he is confident that the duo can be very competitive at the 1.50m level this winter season. Andrade also commented on the pair’s speedy jump-off time, noting that the mare took the International Ring with confidence.
“She’s a really good mare that I just got from Andrea King and is nine years old. She’s still green, but I’m very excited for her future. She’s a nice 1.50m horse for certain and that will be our goal this circuit,” he continued. “I think that the footing is very much improved and it felt great. She jumped fantastic on it and I think that they did a great job.”
Andrade represented his home nation of Venezuela at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is working towards continued success at the top levels of the sport. His return to Wellington was a welcome changed for Andrade and his team, who feel very at home at PBIEC.
“It was a really good year this year and I have a lot of horses that I am excited to compete this season,” he added. “It feels so good to be back in Wellington. My main house is here so I’m very happy and it feels like home.”
Robyn Hannigan of Celebration, FL and her own Capacabana rose to the top of the leaderboard in the $2,500 Low Junior/Amateur Owner Jumper Classic as the duo completed the jump-off course in 32.143 seconds. Tanner Korotkin of Wellington, FL and Corphin, owned by Alan Korotkin, finished in second place with a time of 35.664 seconds, while Andre Mershad of New Albany, OH and Zaza, owned by River Farm Sport Horses, rounded out the top three finishers after adding four faults to their time of 32.525 seconds.
The $1,500 NAL Child/Adult Jumper Classic was championed by Isabel Sanchez of West Palm Beach, FL and Chino, owned by Anabella Mejia, after the pair dashed through the timers nearly five seconds faster than Mateo Coles of Ft. Lauderdale, FL and Wibrands, owned by Daniela Roy, who earned second with a time of 44.332 seconds. Kara Constantakos of Jupiter, FL and her own Bon Vivant completed the class with five faults in the jump-off round and a time of 45.108 seconds for third.
Sabischy Hassler of Wellington, FL and her own Poseidon HM collected the blue rosette in the $1,500 M&S Child/Adult Classic presented by Accuhorsemat as the pair finished a quick and accurate trip in the jump-off round for first place. The pair rode to a time of 39.657 seconds, while Alexis Rappaport of Berwyn, PA and her own Valkenier earned second. Brielle Biggins of Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Good Boy H M took third place honors after adding four faults on course and completing with a time of 35.714 seconds.
John Angus of Ft. Lauderdale, FL concluded a banner week in the $1,500 Low Child/Adult Classic presented by Equine Couture & TuffRider, earning first and second place aboard Vertigo, owned by Gordon Munro, and Seacrests Elsa, owned by Stephanie Angus, respectively. Jennifer Kazma of Boca Raton, FL and TH Vechta Cruise finished in third place in the competitive class.
Casey Brottman of East Northport, NY and Touche, owned by Cheyenne Sickle & Angus Gordon, were presented with champion honors in the Adult Amateur Hunter Division, while Julie Burton of Loxahatchee, FL and her own Uppercase followed in reserve.
Leah Greenstein of Wellington, FL and her own Branson rose to the top of the Children’s Hunter Division presented by UHealth Ear Institute after solid performances throughout the weekend. Isabella Watson of Lake Worth, FL and Worthington, owned by Carol Tucker, rode to reserve champion.
The Children’s Pony Hunter Division presented by The Wanderers Club saw Hannah Glanzberg of West Palm Beach, FL and her own Silver Shine awarded with the divisional title for the competition. Sophie Hess of Boca Raton, FL and her own Sunday Morning Jazz finished with the reserve champion rosette.
Allyson Blais of Boynton Beach, FL guided her own Captain Darco Heldenlaan Z to top honors in the Junior/Amateur Owner Hunter 3’3″/3’6″ Division presented by #1 Education Place after a strong week of competition ahead of Siena Vasan of Boca Raton, FL and Skolar, owned by Carriage Hill Farm, who collected reserve champion.
The Low Adult Hunter Division presented by Pilates Rocks saw Lauren Zaremski of Jupiter, FL and Amorika, owned by Castlewood Farm & Alan Korotkin, split the divisional championship title with Lynn Blanchette of Jupiter, FL and her own All-Star. Eliza Eddy of Lighthouse Point, FL and Ever So, owned by Carriage Hill Farm, took home reserve champion.
Schuyler Gobin of Wellington, FL and her own Sharp Charmer were awarded with champion honors in the Open Hunter 3′ Division presented by Neue Schule ahead of Vinissa Blann of Delray Beach, FL and Namesake, owned by Chuck Mayer.
For more information on Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC), please visit www.pbiec.com.
Championships, Competitions, Show Jumping, Winter Equestrian Festival
Emanuel Andrade Scores Two Circuit Championships at WEF
April 5, 2016 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Emanuel Andrade with Walter 61 at the WEF. Photo by © 2016 Jack Mancini.
Wellington, Florida – Venezuela’s Emanuel Andrade was named Circuit Champion in the High Amateur-Owner Jumper and the Medium Amateur-Owner Jumper divisions to close out the 12-week Winter Equestrian Festival held from January 13 through April 3 in Wellington, FL.
Andrade’s success began during the opening week of competition when he won the $15,000 Maybach – Icons of Luxury High Amateur-Owner Classic riding Walter 61. He went on to score two more High Amateur-Owner Classic victories in week four riding Belita, a nine-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare (Ukato x Voltaire), and again in week eight with Walter 61, a 14-year-old German-bred gelding (Werenfels x Donator). Consistent results all winter with Walter 61 gave the pair the overall High Amateur-Owner Circuit Champion title, presented by Maybach – Icons of Luxury.
“We had an incredible season,” said Andrade, who was gifted a pair of leather riding gloves by Maybach – Icons of Luxury as his Circuit Championship prize. “I have a really great team behind me, and all of my horses have tried so hard this winter. Thank you to everyone for their hard work and for making this possible.”
In the Animo Medium Amateur-Owner division, Andrade claimed the circuit championship title with Rufus de Violaines, his 10-year-old bay selle francais gelding. The pair won the $10,000 Medium Amateur-Owner Classic during weeks two and 11. In addition, Andrade won the $10,000 Medium Amateur-Owner Classic during week eight with Sothis D Ouilly, a nine-year-old grey selle francais mare (Cheers Cassini x Narcos II).
With the 2016 winter season drawing to a close, Andrade will begin competing on the Longines Global Champions Tour. The first stop is Miami, FL from April 7 to 10. Andrade is a member of the Vienna Eagles team in the new Global Champions League, competing alongside teammates Danielle Goldstein, Lauren Hough, Rodrigo Pessoa, and Paris Sellon.
Andrade represented Venezuela at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France and was involved in a jump-off for the individual bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. At the age of 19, he hopes to make his Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this summer.
Andrade is based at Hollow Creek Farm, proud sponsor of the Children’s, Junior and Young Rider Nations’ Cup events at the Winter Equestrian Festival.
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Ceremony Order of Friendship Joris Ivens
On Thursday 16th of January H.E. Mrs. Ngo Thi Hoa, Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, conferred the Order of Friendship posthumously to Joris Ivens. Mrs. Annemiek Nooteboom received the Friendship Medal on behalf of the Ivens-family. She gave the medal and certificate to the European Foundation Joris Ivens to keep and treasure it forever in the archives.
Friendship Medal posthumously conferred on Joris Ivens, presented by Vietnamese Ambassador
The Vietnamese government honors Joris Ivens posthumously by conferring the Friendship Medal. This award will be presented on Thursday afternoon 16th of January by H.E. Mrs. Ngo Thi Hoa, Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the embassy in The Hague. A family member of Joris Ivens, Annemiek Nooteboom, will receive the medal on behalf of the family.
Film shooting in Nijmegen for a series on Ivens by Chinese television
On Friday 23 October a film crew of Chinese broadcasting (CCTV-9) shoot some footage in Nijmegen for a four-part series on Joris Ivens and China. Prof. Zhang Tong Dao from Beijing University Beida, teacher as well as filmmaker, is the director. Each episode will focus on one of the Chinese films Ivens made between 1938-1988. Dutch filmmaker René Seegers, who made Joris Ivens Old Friend of the Chinese People in 2008, assisted this film crew during the shooting.
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Visit delegation of Quang Tri province to Nijmegen
On 30 and 31 October a delegation from Quang Tri province (central Vietnam) visited the city of Nijmegen, at the invitation of the municipality of Nijmegen, The Economic Board and the European Foundation Joris Ivens. Ms. Ngo Thi Hoa, ambassador of Vietnam in The Hague, attended the meetings. In Quang Tri the Ben Hai River is situated on the 17th parallel, where Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens in 1967 shot the long documentary Le 17e parallele. The delegation was headed by mr. Hoang Nam, the vice-president of the Peoples C ...
Ivens' Rain in Sprengelmuseum, Hannover
The NDR-Radiophilharmonie will perform 'Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain' by German composer Hanns Eisler, together with the projection of Ivens' film Regen (1929, Rain) in the Sprengel-Museum in Hannover on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 October 2019.
Two new books about Joris Ivens and Vietnam
Recently two new books were published in Vietnam about Joris Ivens. The first one describes the life and career of Joris Ivens as a filmmaker with a special focus on Vietnam, the second book is the result of the International Joris Ivens Symposium, held in Hanoi in November 2018. All lectures of Vietnamese filmmakers and friends/assistents of Ivens as well as international film scholars are included.
Matera, European Capital of Culture, presents Ivens censored Italian film sequence
Matera in the Italian region of Basilicata is this year’s European Capital of Culture. The exhibition ‘Visione Unica’ of the design group Formafantasma includes Joris Ivens’ documentary l’ Italia Non è un Paese Povero (1960) as part of a visual archive about the very rich patrimony of this region. The last decades Matera shows a remarkable switch from poor and subordinated region towards a spectacular cultural pinnacle, praised by UNESCO, the World Monuments Fund and used by many famous ...
Hommage to Joris Ivens at IFF Innsbruck
The 28th International Film Festival Innsbruck (Austria) presents an hommage to Joris Ivens commemorating his death thirty years ago, on 28th of June 1989. Three films will be shown between May 28th and June 2nd: The Spanish Earth, Loin de Vietnam and Lied der Ströme. This series is supported by the 'Zukunftsfonds der Republik Osterreich' and the University of Innsbruck.
Joris Ivens Symposium in Hanoi attracts much attention
On 22 and 23 November the International Joris Ivens Symposium in Hanoi brought together a wonderful mix of Vietnamese film veterans, who had collaborated with Joris Ivens and his wife in the 1960s and a group of film scholars from Canada, USA, Indonesia, Australia, France, China and The Netherlands.
Günter Jordan's 'Unknown Ivens' presentation in Leipzig
The magnificient book of film historian Günter Jordan about Joris Ivens' East-German films, entitled 'Unknown Ivens' ('Unbekannter Ivens') will be presented on 25 November at the legendary UT Connewitz film theater in Leipzig. Next to the lecture by Jordan 'Joris Ivens at DEFA and in the GDR' the films Die Windrose (1958, The Rose Compass) and Rain (1929, Regen) will be shown.
Premiere 'Marceline. A Woman. A Century'.
On 16 November at IDFA Amsterdam the documentary Marceline. A Woman. A Century made by German director Cordelia Dvorak will be premiered. This portrait of the strong-minded filmmaker Marceline Loridan-Ivens (1928-2018) and fourth wife of Joris Ivens, saw its final editing two days before she passed away. In this film we see Marceline serving her guests coffee or vodka in her Paris apartment at the rue des Saints Peres.
International Joris Ivens Symposium in Hanoi 22-23 November
At the occasion of the 120th birthday of Joris Ivens and the 50th anniversary of the debut of the film The 17th Parallel, The People’s War (Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 1968) the VietNam Film Institute in collaboration with the European Foundation Joris Ivens are organizing an international Ivens-seminar in Hanoi on 22-24 November. Renowned (film) scholars from Vietnam, Canada, USA, Australia, Indonesia, China and The Netherlands will provide an impulse to the Ivens Studies around the world. Former Vietnamese co ...
A new documentary film about Ivens and Viet Nam
On Monday May 28th the VietNam Film Institute presented a new documentary film about Ivens in VietNam at the occassion of a ceremony in Nijmegen celebrating 50 years of solidarity between Nijmegen and VietNam. Mrs. Ngo Thi Hoa, Ambassador of VietNam in The Hague, Mr. Hubert Bruls, mayor of Nijmegen, and activists from the 1960s and 70s supporting VietNam, attended this meeting. The theme 'Looking back for a better future' was illustrated with specialists presenting innovative technologies from Nijmegen in nowadays projects in Viet ...
New DVD with Ivensfilms for DEFA released
The DEFA Foundation in Berlin released a new German DVD with Ivens-films in conjunction with the book Günter Jordan published about these films. DEFA already had launched a DVD with Song of the Rivers in and now presents The Wind Rose, Friendship Will Win and The Peace Cycle Tour Warsaw-Berlin-Prague 1952.
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"Thinking Machines" outside Dune?
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Re: "Thinking Machines" outside Dune?
Postby Aquila ka-Hecate » 12 May 2011 06:51
SandChigger wrote: Funny, but I don't remember Frank Herbert writing anything about the machines taking over and deciding to exterminate the human race. Could somebody give me a quote on that?
The possibility of it happening.
That one scene in the desert with Siona at her testing: the humans crouched cowering in caves from the ravening machines..
..or that's how I recall it.
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Postby Freakzilla » 12 May 2011 07:24
Aquila ka-Hecate wrote:
I believe that was a vision of a POSIBLE time that would have come to pass had Leto not chosen the Metamorphasis.
Why would Leto show Siona a vision of pre-Butlerian Jihad times to win her over to his side?
He was trying to show her "why he did what he did".
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Freakzilla wrote: I believe that was a vision of a POSIBLE time that would have come to pass had Leto not chosen the Metamorphasis.
Yes, that's exactly how I understand it, too.
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Postby SadisticCynic » 12 May 2011 08:22
A Thing of Eternity wrote: I'm with you Chig, I think the power of nano-tech lies in materials technology, not invisible robots. That said, nanotech mall allow for some near-nano robots. They may never be microscopic, but I could very easily see things starting at roughly the size of spiders, then one day being down small enough that they just look like a speck.
Nanotech for medicine is already in the works, but it's not robots, it's more about just making structures that latch on to other things, like seeking out cancer cells and then blocking sites where nutrients come in (if I recall correctly, it's been a while since I read up on it).
That sounds quite a bit like viruses. I guess one could call those 'nanobots' if one was feeling generous with terminology.
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I see us going in two directions from here, mechanical (Ixian) and biological (BT).
It's only a matter of time before we understand DNA well enough to make our own creatures. At the atomic and molecular scales, it seems to me that the difference between biological and mechanical is simply a matter of which raw materials you use.
Leto also mentions to Hwi that the Ixians contemplated making a self-improving, hunter seeker with a machine mind. I believe these are the machines his metamorphasis prevented the Ixian from making that would have gone out of control and destroyed humanity.
Is that not close enough to nanobots?
However, I don't think these machines "took over" and decided to exterminate humans. I think they were designed as a weapon that got out of control.
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Postby SandChigger » 12 May 2011 10:30
Yes, but that was later, not part of the Butlerian Jihad.
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Postby Hadi Benotto » 12 May 2011 11:05
Freakzilla wrote: I think they were designed as a weapon that got out of control.
Which is what current scientists working on nanotech fear.
Freakzilla wrote: Is that not close enough to nanobots?
Well the previous hunter-seeker was 5cm in length. Nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometre in at least one dimension so no? It's possible, but than again it was an emerging technology when Frank wrote the books so he might not have know too much about it. Would Leto have been able to counter a mechanical intruder like that? Would he have been able to change his internal chemistry enough to fight them off? If you have an enemy that's designed to kill your DNA, would he have been able to literally change his DNA to fight them? Did he have that kind of power? I know RM's can change poisons, and alter their body chemistry, but would this have been within their realm to change?
If the Ixians kept enough of their pre-Jihad research, or had enough ghola masters around who retained that type of knowledge, do you think it would've taken them 10-15k years to develop a nano-based HK?
No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.
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Postby Hunchback Jack » 12 May 2011 12:04
Watson's Postulate: Never mind turning trash into oil or asteroids into heaps of Volkswagens, or hanging exact copies of Van Goghs in your living room, the first thing we get with nanotechnology is immortality.
Tesler's Corollary: The first thing we get with nanotechnology is the resurrection of the dead.
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Postby Sardaukar Capt » 01 Nov 2011 11:12
Hadi Benotto wrote: Yeah, I've tried piecing together how the term cymek could've come about, and when I think about it I just kind of stare into oblivion...
Of course whenever I think about the cymeks I can't help but immediately think of the B'omarr Monks from Star Wars. You saw them in the scene in Return of the Jedi where 3P0 and R2 come inside Jabba's palace, they're walking towards the camera as the door closes behind them. As the door closes, this robot spider, with a brain canister hanging off the bottom, passes in front of the door scaring 3P0.
I know Star Wars took some Dune elements, so I guess turn about is fair play? Maybe the hack didn't think anyone would notice? I just don't know.
One does have to wonder if machines do gain sentience, will their first thought be to exterminate us? It seems that's always the way writers paint the picture; machine can think for itself and automatically comes to the conclusion that they're better off without us. One of the differences between the Dune universe and our current reality, at least the way I like to picture it in my head, is that when the machines rose to power, gained awareness, the amount of integration between man and machine was much much greater. I think nearly everything would be autonomous and computer controlled, to a much greater degree than we are now which would facilitate a much easier transition of take over.
Of course our current civilization is moving that way now, but it's still a heck of a long way off from that potential future.
When I started reading McDune The BJ, what I first thought of when I saw the "Titans" and Cymeks was that KJA had ripped off William Dietz's Legion of the Damned. (If anyone hasn't tried it, its a fun military SF read). Well first thought was... WTF did Frank put in his "notes" the idiot son supposedly found? Was he senile at that point or something... then the epiphany struck me that KJA is pretty much doing these on his own and vaguely following established Dune canon from the books let alone any notes Frank left. So next logical step in my mind was what idea(s) did he rip off for these things.
I think setting the story as the machines trying to annihilate humans was derivative and easy (the only way KJA knows) because it's pretty clear from blogs and twits that he does absolutely no research on any subject he's going to write about. So naturally he regurgitates derivative and banal pop-culture depictions of man vs machine like the Forbin Project (where he ripped off Colossus as Omnius) and The Terminator for the whole homicidal machine thing. He must have caught those 2 on Netflix while "editing" the House books and thought ... "FUCK YEAH!!... plot for next Trilogy CONFIRMED!!"
Given that Frank spent years researching the topics of politics, religion, economics, ecology, and etc for Dune, its easy to see him, if he had lived, doing the same with AI. He would have spent TIME researching the topic and not spent a week brainstorming then go off dictahiking out an entire book on a few treks through the woods. It would have been so interesting and fascinating to see Frank's take on AI and how it ended up devolving humans to the point that a religious fervor ignited that Great Revolt against any type of Thinking Machine.
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Postby Freakzilla » 01 Nov 2011 11:19
Sardaukar Capt wrote: It would have been so interesting and fascinating to see Frank's take on AI and how it ended up devolving humans to the point that a religious fervor ignited that Great Revolt against any type of Thinking Machine.
Have you read Destination: Void and the rest of the Pandora Series?
No I have't read those. I have stayed away from most of his other books because of a childish worry they might not live up to what Dune has meant to me. But I've put aside and plan to read his other books in the near future.
Sardaukar Capt wrote: No I have't read those. I have stayed away from most of his other books because of a childish worry they might not live up to what Dune has meant to me. But I've put aside and plan to read his other books in the near future.
Of course they're not as good as Dune but to me it seems FH worked out a lot of the ideas used in Dune in those other books.
Postby JustSomeGuy » 01 Nov 2011 21:04
Frank Herbert was a good story teller. I am now on a reread of Dune and I know that the rest will follow soon. Frank Herbert didn't use more words than were necessary, and he... I forgot what I was going to say. I have read Dune, Destination Void (I have not been able to finish the last book, but Mr. Herbert wasn't really in on the meat), and the Whipping Star books. He was a good story teller. I have also read some of his standalone books, and have yet to read a work of his I did not like. His books are not perfect, but they're not half bad. I still (sometimes) can't believe that I spend so much of my time on a site dedicated to Dune. It must be a good book... I'll get back into it and let you know later- not that you should care, you know Dune is great.
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I consider some of his other books to be a part of the "Duniverse." Well, it's possible...
An alternate Duniverse, maybe.
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Postby A Thing of Eternity » 02 Nov 2011 00:43
Much of his other stuff can seem more like him musing about subject in the form of writing it down as SF, but the Pandora series is very near to on par with Dune in my opinion - you just have to survive all the technobabble in the first book - OR read that book last, like I did!
A Thing of Eternity wrote: ... OR read that book last, like I did!
Don't do that! Don't read the last line of D:V, either. It will ruin it!
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Postby trang » 02 Nov 2011 09:23
Freakzilla wrote:
Agree, DO NOT read the last page of DV, it freaked me out at the end and was awesome ( I havent read the other 3 yet) I started collecting all his other works and started with Whipping star/The Dosadi Experiment and they were great ( Frank could have really written a lot of other books with Jorj X. McKie character). The Green Brain wasn't my favorite, but good story. Working on Hellstrom's hive.
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That's true, it did kind of ruin the grand surprise of D:V for me - it was an accident though, it's not like The Jesus Incident says it's the second book after D:V anywhere on or in it!
TJI is very close to my favourite FH writing.
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Postby machinor » 26 Dec 2015 19:02
Ok it doesn't fit 100% with the OP, but the thinking machines outside of Dune I associated the most with the BJ-machines are the AIs in the Culture novels by the (great) late Iain Banks.
The AIs there are basically concious and have superhuman intelligence. And all the peoples and races living in or being part of the Culture are heavily dependant on them for administration, subsistence etc. Also, the AIs form a kind of decentralized, anarchical grass root form of "government" or rather organisation.
The first novel "Consider Phlebas" even has them fighting an interstellar war against a race of fundamentalistic giant insect jihadis.
The funny thing is, that although the protagonist in "Consider Phlebas", a kind of face dancer (I kid you not) is fighting the Culture, it and the AIs are not presented to be even slightly sinister. In other words: they are more or less the "good guys", even if that kind of morals or ethics do not really apply to the war presented.
AND STILL i always kept thinking: "I don't trust you, you vile thinking machine!! Butler was 100% right!!!!!!"
I have only read two of the ten novels about The Culture and I can highly recommend them.
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Postby Freakzilla » 26 Dec 2015 23:24
machinor wrote: Ok it doesn't fit 100% with the OP, but the thinking machines outside of Dune I associated the most with the BJ-machines are the AIs in the Culture novels by the (great) late Iain Banks.
I disagree. Banks presents a utopia, humanoids are aided by the Minds, not enslaved by them. Herbert's worlds are dystopian. Oppressive and repulsive. I don't see the connection at all.
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Postby Omphalos » 28 Dec 2015 18:52
Did you just imply that the humans were oppressed by the machines themselves?
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Postby machinor » 06 Jan 2016 05:42
Well, what essentially makes Banks' Culture a utopia is that it's a society of "post-scarcity", as he calls it. And as we know, Herbert's Duniverse is all about scarcity.
But my point was more that true, the AI aid the humans, but if you read the books, very often the AI are the one who are active and organize in a political way. Sure, the scope of an interstellar anarchic ad-hoc-government maybe probably demands an AI. But still the humans of the wider population seem complacent and content with their passivity.
From the point of a fundamentalistic techno-sceptic human-firster, I can totally see how that would seem as enslavement through hedonism and complacency. So if we assume that the Butlerian Jihad was a total religious war betwen humans/religions as it is implied in the first book, it would be most deliciously Herbertian if the thinking machines actually didn't do anything bad.
The tabu on thinking machines then is of course the human thing to do:
"This jihad was terrible, that should never happen again! ... We should make sure to eliminate the cause of it all so that it never happens again... THOSE DEVILISH THINKING MACHINES!"
"YEAH! ... wait that means we got what we wanted... we WON!"
"Right! COOOOOL!!!!"
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Postby georgiedenbro » 06 Jan 2016 10:20
The important part of the Jihad in the Dune universe isn't that the machines did anything bad, but rather that humans using machines enslaved other humans. I doubt very much any version of the future will be bereft of this as we have had proven historically that some percentage of humans always want nothing better than to enslave everyone else if possible. This is as true today as it was 2,000 years ago, and frankly they do it in mostly the same ways. Huxley spoke of the advent of doing so through drugs and technology, which may be employed to a larger extent in the future than it is now, but overall the source of the problem wasn't machines but rather men. The Jihad was a way of disarming men of that tool they employed while attaching alongside a moral about humans thinking for themselves. I think the bottom line according to Frank is not that machines can't be trusted but rather than men can't be trusted, and we see this as well with the ban on atomics; any sufficiently dangerous technology is banned in Dune. The series also points out, though, that banning something is only a temporary solution as you can't hold it back forever. This might be taken to mean that while the Empire stalled things for several thousand years, man would nevertheless eventually have to learn how to safely integrate computers into society one way or another.
Incidentally I'd say the one weakness of Frank's conception of AI is that I don't think he correctly conceptualized what the capabilities of AI might one day be. I think he thought of machines as being linear-thinking calculators that could do so as a prodigious rate, but that certainly will cease to be an accurate description of what they do in not too long. Once we get into quantum computing and bio-neural circuitry the game will change incredibly, and we're not that far off from opening up these areas.
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Kelso Old Parish Kirk
Anna Huntley rehearsing in Kelso Old Parish Church
Alina Ibragimova rehearsing.
All concerts take place in
Kelso Old Parish Church,
The Knowes,
Kelso, TD5 7BH
Kelso Old Parish Church
In the 13th Century the poet and would-be soothsayer, Thomas the Rhymer, predicted that the church then standing in the place of Kelso Old would collapse into a full congregation. In 1770 his prophesy began to be fulfilled when pieces of masonry fell on the worshippers beneath. A new church was called for and built in 1773 by James Nisbet, the builder of Ednam House and Paxton House.
The church was built in the form of an octagon, one of only two such churches in the UK. Inside there is a balcony around the church in the centre of which, facing the altar, the Duke of Roxburgh used to sit. Originally the church was furnished with box pews but in 1896 these were removed and the church was given a Victorian make-over with standard pews and elaborate architectural furnishings.
A new chancel has been built to house our piano which has enormously enhanced and lightened the church.
The church faces the old ruined Kelso Abbey and its graveyard and is adjacent to the large Knowes car park (TD5 7BH).
Our concert grand piano
Our grand piano, a beautiful Steinway Model ‘C’, was donated to the society in 1973 by a member and it was selected for us by the great pianist Peter Wallfisch who gave the first performance on it to the society.
Since then it has been at the heart of all our concert seasons and many major pianists have performed on it including Yu Kosuge, Steven Osborne, Joanna MacGregor, Nikolai Demidenko, Martino Tirimo, Huw Watkins, Anna Tilbrook, Tom Poster, Llyr Williams, Benjamin Frith, and James Baillieu among many others.
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Leeuwenhoek's legacy
Leeuwenhoek today
His biographers
His wills
His death
Louvain: "Highly-honoured and Far-famous"
Hooke: "A single votary, Mr. Leeuwenhoek"
Oude Kerk memorial
What happened to his microscopes?
... to his papers?
... to his letters?
... to his house?
The estate of Maria van Leeuwenhoek
Streets in the Netherlands named after Leeuwenhoek
Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters.
Leeuwenhoek, A. van
Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger
Starting in 1939, an evolving committee of Dutch scientists and, increasingly, historians, has slowly made its way through all 300+ surviving letters. They published them a volume at a time until the end of the century.
Leeuwenhoek, A. van. Alle de Brieven / Collected letters. Edited and annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 15 Volumes. Amsterdam and Lisse: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1939–2014.
The editors state:
The aim of the project is to produce a critical edition of the text of van Leeuwenhoek’s letters with a modern English translation, with philological, historical and scientific annotations, internal references, and photos of drawings and engravings.
Alle de Brieven / Collected Letters
year vol no
ltrs letters years editor
1939 I 21 [1] – 21 [14] 1673-1676 C.G. Heringa
1941 II 21 22 [15] – 42 [27] 1676-1678
1948 III 27 43 [28] – 69 1679-1682 A. Schierbeek
1952 IV 12 70 [37] – 81 [42] 1683-1684
1957 V 8 82 [43] – 89 [48] 1685-1686
1961 VI 12 90 [49] – 101 [56] 1686-1687 J.J. Swart
1964 VII 8 102 [57] – 109 [64] 1687-1688
1967 VIII 10 110 [65] – 119 [71] 1688-1692
1976 IX 14 120 [72] – 133 [79] 1692-1694 J. Heniger
1979 X 14 134 [80] – 147 [90] 1694-1695 L.C. Palm
1983 XI 22 148 – 169 [102] 1695-1696
1989 XII 37 170 [103] – 206 [121] 1696-1699
1994 XIII 21 207 [122] – 227 [139] 1700-1701
1996 XIV 21 228 [140] – 248 1701-1704
1999 XV 21 249 – 269 1704-1707
2014 XVI 25 270 - 294 1707-1712
2018 XVII 32 295 – 326 1712-1716 H.J. Zuidervaart, D. Anderson, L. Entjes
This illustrated and heavily annotated work has the Dutch on the left and the English on the right. Although the first two volumes used older translations, the subsequent volumes have all been freshly translated into English. An indispensable project, it has been led for the last thirty years by L.C. Palm (above left) of the The Institute for History and Foundations of Science, part of the Descartes Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. A decade ago, Dr. Palm wrote in Changing Demands, Changing Policies:
The aim is to have the mss of the parts yet to be published ready for printing at the end of 2008.
In 1999, the fifteenth volume in this nineteen-volume series was published. It has twenty-one letters written by Leeuwenhoek between July 1704 and July 1707. Two-thirds of the letters were written to the Royal Society in London as well as John Chamberlayne, who translated them for publication; others were written to Antonio Magliabechi and Francesco Corner.
All the databases -- the publisher's, Amazon's, and WorldCat's -- use the Arabic numbering 1 - 17. The volumes themselves use the Roman numbering I - XVII.
The first nine volumes were published by CRC Press in Amsterdam, and the most recent six, those under the supervision of Dr. Palm, by Swets and Zeitlinger, Lisse, though all nine are often listed as published by only Swets and Zeitlinger. In any case, both CRC and Swets and Zeitlinger are now imprints of Taylor and Francis, the academic publishing arm of Informa.
The Taylor and Francis web site, and thus Amazon.com, has them all as published by CRC Press. The printed title page of Volume XIV states that the publisher is Swets and Zeitlinger in Lisse. [ add screenshot ] WorldCat lists all the volumes as published by Swets and Zeitlinger, as does the bibiiography for this web.
That leaves the final seventeen years of letters and four volumes. The publisher's web site announced the publication of volumes 16 and 17 for several years. The volumes had ISBN numbers and a price, $249.95, but Taylor and Francis kept pushing back the publication date for I assume sound economic reasons -- lack of market and lack of any subsidy to make up for it. In any event, volume 16 finally appeared in April 2014 and volume 17 is scheduled for early 2018. That will leave two more.
While volume 16 cost $171 at Amazon in late 2014, the first fifteen volumes are rare and expensive, upwards of $300 each when found used. They are listed as out of print and unavailable at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The publisher offers volume 14 new for $319.95 and states, "Volumes One to 13 are available at a reduced price from Swets and Zeitlinger."
Another option is a library. World Cat lists 18 libraries in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. that have a complete collection up to volume 11.
1923 Iterson, F. K. Algemene vergadering te Appledoorn op 1 en 2 September
1934 Rijnberk, G. van Leeuwenhoeck-Brieven, Een Oproep
1938 Rijnberk, G. van Alle de Brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
1939 Leeuwenhoek, A. van Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 1
1979 Leeuwenhoek, A. van Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 10
1990 Fournier, M. Zo Leeuwenhoek, Zo Leeuwenhoek-Commissie
1991 Ruestow, E. G. Of a man and his microscopes: Widening the perspective of early modern science
1999 various DBNL - Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
2005 Palm, L. C. The Edition of Leeuwenhoek's Letters: Changing Demands, Changing Policies
2013 Henderson, F. Faithful Interpreters?
2017 Fransen, S. Anglo-Dutch translations of medical and scientific texts
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Overview of the series: Volumes 1 to 17
1: Letters 1-21 from 1673 to 1676
2: Letters 22-42 from 1676 to 1678
6: Letters 90-101 from 1686 to 1687
7: Letters 102-109 from 1687 to 1688
10: Letters 134-147 from 1694 to 1695
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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos
By John GreathouseIn Entrepreneur, Launching Venture, On Fundraising
In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. The campaign was so successful it eventually catapulted 7-Up’s sales to rival that of both Coke and Pepsi, making it the third most popular soft drink in the US.
The company hired the Dominican actor Geoffrey Holder, who delivered the commercial’s signature tagline with memorable panache, “Maaarvelous, absolutely maaarvelous.” Overnight, “maaarvelous,” spoken in an exaggerated Caribbean accent, became a national catchphrase.
What made the commercials noteworthy was not their charismatic pitchman. It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not, via the “UnCola” label. When evaluating a potential Institutional Investor, entrepreneurs should consider what they are not, as much as what they are. Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency.
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Collapsing Startup Costs
Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL, the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. When we launched GoToMyPC in 2001, we were forced to purchase hundreds of servers and pay expensive hosting fees to third-party datacenters. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. The disappearance of these legacy costs has spawned a legion of Capital Efficient Startups (CESs), described more fully in Pour And Stir. Founders of a CES should pursue investors that are best described as not sharing the traits of traditional venture capitalists, as described below.
Company Friendly – Seek investors who demonstrate with their actions, and not solely their words, an entrepreneur-centric approach. For instance, a company-friendly investor will typically only participate in a follow-on funding round beyond their pro rata participation with the Founders’ explicit approval. In this situation, the company-friendly investor will maintain their agreed upon relative position in future funding rounds. For example, if they own 15% of the company in a Series A round, then they will only invest an amount in the Series B round such that their overall investment remains 15%
This approach ensures that the investors’ advice regarding future funding events is not self-serving. Investors that do not invest beyond their pro rata share are relatively indifferent as to a follow-on funding round’s valuation. Investors that insist on investing more than their pro rata allocation in follow-on rounds have an incentive to compress the company’s valuation, in order to maximize the percentage ownership acquired by their investment. Such depression of funding valuations increases the entrepreneurs’ relative dilution.
Small Rounds, Aligned Interests – CES entrepreneurs who have previously participated in large funding rounds with high valuations appreciate the direct correlation between the post-money valuation of their latest funding round and the range of financial outcomes that will be acceptable to their investors.
Although it may initially sound counter-intuitive, large funding rounds at high valuations can actually decrease your chance of success, rather than increase it. For instance, I recently met a young CEO who had previously founded a company that raised a sizable round at a $30 million pre-money valuation from two large, Bay Area VC funds. Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket.
When the CEO excitedly called his venture capitalists, he was shocked when they literally laughed in his ear. When their laughter subsided, they condescendingly explained that they did not invest in his company to get a “2 or 3x multiple on our money.” The company was subsequently sold for far less than the total capital invested in the business. Rather than walking away a decamillionaire, the Founding CEO lost a significant amount of his own money, as well as that of his friends and family. This CEO is now looking to fund a CES and he is not interested in a large round or a particularly high valuation.
Funding Paths To Profitability, Not Burn Rates – UnVCs do not encourage entrepreneurs to develop large cash burn rates that must be fueled with future funding rounds. Although this can be an effective way for large Institutional Investors to efficiently deploy their capital, it reduces the spectrum of acceptable exits and significantly dilutes the entrepreneurs’ ownership stake, as depicted in the following chart.
Assume your investors will not be satisfied with anything less than a 5x return. Thus, if they invest $10 million and own 35% of your company, your adVenture’s exit must be at least $140 million (($10 million x 5) / 35%). Per the above data, such exits account for less than 30% of all recent VC-backed exits. Conversely, if you execute your go-to-market strategy with investments totaling $3 million, you disproportionally expand the spectrum of potentially acceptable exits without limiting the size of your exit.
Smaller funding rounds with modest valuations often results in less dilution for the Founders and their employees. However, the most effective way to minimize dilution is to extract capital from customers’ pockets. CESs often devise short and direct paths to revenue as a means of balancing dilution with funding an optimal growth trajectory.
Management Is Not Fungible – UnVCs tend to invest in serial entrepreneur teams, not market spaces or ideas. Such firms do not typically enter into investments with the intention of replacing members of the management team with either their own executives “in residence” or from their professional network. This approach actually increases the company’s execution risk, as significant uncertainty is inherent whenever an ad hoc team is formed. When a senior executive is “transplanted” into an existing team, the risk that the transplant will be “rejected” should not be underestimated.
When entrepreneurs are viewed by investors as their partners and not their subordinates, a healthy, long-term and mutually beneficial relationship often develops. When entrepreneurs feel they serve at the whim of their investors, trouble (especially for the entrepreneurs), usually ensues.
Multiple Winners – Certain markets lend themselves to one or two companies owning their space, such as eBay, You Tube and Twitter. UnVCs do not demand that entrepreneurs pursue such winner-take-all strategies. Many large-fund venture capitalists overly value grand slam outcomes, as they can be career-building investments. An investor looking for a career-making deal might encourage you to take imprudent chances in the hopes you are the sole winner in a highly competitive and capricious market. If you fail, their downside is minimal. They will remove your company’s logo from their website and try to forget they ever made the investment. For you, the impact of a negative outcome is a bit more tangible and dramatic.
Bring In The Fences
The fact that capital efficient businesses raise modest amounts of money does not necessarily result in smaller outcomes. You can achieve “homerun” returns with such adVentures, without having to hit the ball as far. By minimizing your dilution and aligning your company with investors who appreciate the decreased risk associated with a broad spectrum of outcomes, you effectively bring the homerun fence in from 400 feet to 40 feet. What would be a double or even a pop fly at an overly capitalized business can be a homerun at a CES.
Double Hit Of Lithium Please
Venture Capitalists are held in low regard by many entrepreneurs for a reason. Money and power are strong corruptive agents. However, even at the most traditional of venture firms, UnVCs are emerging.
When Charles Grigg invented 7-Up in 1929, he originally called it “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon Soda” in homage to the mood altering lithium, which it liberally contained. The formulation proved effective as its initial positioning was as a hangover cure. Unfortunately for stressed out CES entrepreneurs, lithium was removed from 7-Up in 1950.
Geoffrey Holder’s tagline was eventually changed to, “Maaarvelous, the smell of success is never too sweet.” As any CES entrepreneur can attest, with enough sweet success, you will never pine for the days when 7-Up was lithiated.
John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition.
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What's really going on in western Colorado
Advertising, Climate change, Crazy Republicans, Embarrassing Republicans, Extremism, Lies, politics, Ray Scott, Stupid Republicans
State Senator Ray Scott, in tweet on climate change, cites full-on wacko nutbag source
by Anne Landman • September 18, 2019 • 1 ment
Ray Scott’s September 17, 2019 tweet citing NaturalNews., a conspiracy-theorist website that rivals InfoWars
One of the most dangerous things about Colorado State Senator Ray Scott is that he can’t seem to tell the difference between authoritative, credible sources of information and paid promotional research or even websites whose stock in trade is pletely whacked-out conspiracy-theories.
Case in point: On September 17, 2019 Senator Scott actually posted a tweet saying “NASA admits that climate change occurs because of changes in Earth’s solar orbit, and NOT because of SUVs and fossil fuels.” In support of this claim, he cites an article published by a website called “NaturalNews..”
So what’s the problem?
NaturalNews. isn’t a legitimate scientific website. It’s “a conspiracy theory?and?fake news website” that? hawks??dietary supplements, promotes?alternative medicine,” makes “tendentious nutrition and health claims,” promotes “fake news,?and espouses various?conspiracy theories.” NaturalNews. is as far from being an authoritative, legitimate science-based website as you can get.
Colorado State Senator Ray Scott
In fact, NaturalNews. has been widely discredited as a pletely off-the-wall, far-gone wacko conspiracy website. It was rated #1 on a list of the Top Ten Worst Anti-Science Websites.
The Daily Beast called NaturalNews. “a conspiracy site rivaling Infowars.” On June 8, 2019 The Daily Beast published an article about NaturalNews. titled “Natural News went from selling cheesy kale chips to peddling far-right prophecies, racking up millions of Facebook followers along the way.”
Facebook removed NaturalNews’ page from its site following publication of the article.
The founder of the NaturalNews is Mike Adams, who has been preaching global apocalypse for 20 years. Adams intersperses far-out conspiracy rants about things like chemtrails and misleading anti-vaxx claims with ads promoting things like organic broccoli sprout capsules and Groovy Bee Organic Maca Root Powder. Adams is often likened to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of Infowars.
This is who your duly elected official, State Senator Ray Scott, is citing as a source he considers as offering legitimate research. What’s worse is that he believes the nutty fake news this site spews over our country’s most pre-eminent scientific agencies.
Diversity, Ethnic/Minority, Extremism, Hate
Grand Junction mosque’s new sign vandalized
by Anne Landman • September 18, 2019 • 2 ments
Two Rivers Mosque’s new sign after vandalism
On August 31, the Islamic Center of Grand Junction unveiled a colorful new sign installed in front of its new Two Rivers Mosque at 8th and Gunnison Ave. and held a munity barbecue to celebrate. About 50 people attended the barbecue, and it was an afternoon of peace, friendship and great food.
Not three weeks later, the sign was vandalized beyond all recognition.
Embarrassing Republicans, Energy, Environment, Extremism, politics, Stupid Republicans, Worker advocacy
Sen. Ray Scott’s tweet opposes progress and planning for future
Ray Scott’s tweet lamenting planning for the future, and indicating he can’t wait for such folly to end
Is Republican State Senator Ray Scott concerned about Colorado’s economy and workforce?
It sure doesn’t look like it, judging from his twitter feed.
On September 4, Scott posted a tweet that said “2022 an’t e fast enough.” It was his response to an announcement that Governor Polis had just created a new government office to deal with pressing new problems facing Colorado’s workforce. Scott’s tweet referred to the year when Governor Polis’s first term in office will be over.
Sen. Scott tweeted his disdain Governor Polis’ newly-created “Office for the Future of Work,” announced September 4.
Sen. Scott either 1) failed to investigate the need for this office, or he 2) doesn’t care what’s going to happen to Colorado workers in the near future if we fail to plan for ing trends.
We need to address changes like the Gig Economy, Automation and Changes in the Energy Market
NO planning for YOU! Colorado State Senator Ray Scott
The new office is part of the state’s Office of Workforce Development. Its purpose is to address the needs Colorado’s workforce faces amid the rapidly changing nature of work. Challenges include the growing gig economy, in which people increasingly work as independent contractors instead of employees in full and part time jobs. The gig economy is leading to the rapid disappearance of employer-employee relationships that gave workers benefits like health insurance, vacation time, retirement accounts that often include matching funds and paid sick time off. The gig economy has left many workers without the crucial economic safety net that Coloradans have depended on for generations. What’s more, innovations like artificial intelligence, automation in manufacturing, self-driving vehicles and society’s turn away from costly, inefficient fossil fuels? toward renewables, like solar and wind power will soon leave existing workers out of jobs unless we plan for the future and help retrain workers to help them adapt to new fields and technology.
Until now, the state has lacked a coordinated way to address all of these pressing issues facing workers.
Seems pretty forward-thinking to do so, then, doesn’t it? One would think it is a good idea to look at what’s ing in the near future and start preparing for it.
Planning for the future absolutely makes sense, and it’s something we ought to be doing to assure Colorado transitions into a successful, prosperous future.
For Ray Scott, though, planning for the future is just pure folly.
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One more thing about missioner candidate Janet Rowland…
Former County missioner Janet Rowland (January 2005 – January 2013) advocated a program that paid women with drug addictions $300 to get sterilized
Former Mesa County missioner Janet Rowland, who has already had two terms in the recent past and is now running for a third term, has given Mesa County voters plenty of reasons not to elect her again, but here’s another one, and get ready. This one is kind of creepy.
In 2008, Rowland promoted a program that paid drug-addicted women $300 to get sterilized so they couldn’t reproduce. The program, called Project Prevention, targeted its advertising mainly at women, and 37% of the women who had been sterilized under the program were African-American. In 2009, African-Americans made up just 12.4% of the U.S. population.
Recall effort against Governor Polis fails miserably
by Anne Landman • September 6, 2019 • 1 ment
Rep. Jared Polis is safe in office after recall effort fails to gather anywhere near enough signatures.
It was another victory for progressives in Colorado today as upset Republicans who were trying desperately to recall Governor Jared Polis ended up gathering fewer than half the signatures they needed to put the recall measure on the ballot. The recall faction failed so miserably in fact that they didn’t even bother to turn in the signatures they did get.
Local Republican proponents of the effort were spotted using illegal techniques to gather signatures, like setting up tables in public parks without obtaining the required permits and taping signs advertising their petition effort on government buildings.
In the end, the “Dismiss Polis” people gathered only 300,000 of the 630,000 signatures they needed to qualify for the ballot.
Governor Polis responded to the news by saying “After all that fuss, I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t turn in a single signature on the recall. I hope the remaining misguided efforts against others see the same results … Recalls should not be used for partisan gamesmanship.”
Crazy Republicans, Ethics, Harassment, Lies, politics, Trump Insanity, Worker advocacy
BLM to G.J.? Moving federal offices out of D.C. is a way to dismantle them, Mulvaney tells Republicans
by Anne Landman • September 6, 2019 • 0 ments
Don’t cheer the relocation of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C. to Grand Junction until you understand the Trump administration’s real?motive behind moving federal agencies out of Washington. Hint: It’s not to help them, and it’s not to help us.
The real motive for moving agencies out of Washington is to hobble and destroy them.
Uprooting federal agencies and moving them out of D.C. into “red” areas is a method the Trump administration is using to pressure skilled federal workers to leave by attrition and destroy federal oversight agencies. Republican Senator Cory Gardner, all three of our Republican Mesa County missioners (John Justman, Rose Pugliese and Scott McInnis) and Trump administration employees have all been telling the public that moving the agencies out of Washington is a way to streamline them, and make them more efficient and responsive to the people and industries they oversee.
Hogwash.
Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, politics
Senator Ray Scott caught watching a movie during the legislative session
ICYMI (in case you missed it), “Next with Kyle Clark,” (a front range Channel 9 TV news features show) broadcast video of our own Republican Mesa County State Senator Ray Scott spending his time watching a movie on his phone during a legislative session.
Colorado Pols identified the movie as the widely-panned 2018 Mark Wahlberg vanity vehicle called “Mile 22,” that got a one-star rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s no wonder Scott wants to ditch his senate seat and run for Mesa County missioner. It appears he’s bored to tears having to represent all of his conservative western slope supporters at the Capitol in Denver.
Advertising, Consumer advocacy, Corporations, Corruption, Marketing, Safety
Beware local sales pitch for a free filet mignon dinner
Postcard mailed out locally that promotes a free meal in exchange for sitting through a financial services seminar.
Have you received a post card in the mail recently promising a free gourmet dinner, with your choice of filet mignon, poached salmon or grilled Portobello steak, at the Ocotillo Restaurant in exchange for sitting through an “informational seminar and insurance sales presentation”?
My first thought upon reading this post card was that given the high cost of the promotion — a sit-down filet mignon dinner at a really nice restaurant — that the pany sponsoring this free dinner must be having a VERY hard time attracting customers on the merits of the pany alone. I read the postcard thoroughly and squinted to read the mice type, which said “Securities and investment advisory services offered through Woodbury Financial Services.”
Then I looked into Woodbury Financial Services, and it was no wonder the person putting on this promo buried the pany’s name in the mice type.
Activism, Crazy Republicans, Embarrassing Republicans, Ethics, Fake patriotism, Intolerance, Lies, politics, Stupid Republicans
State Senator Ray Scott lied to the Daily Sentinel about social media blocking case
Full disclosure: I was the plaintiff in the lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado brought against State Senator Ray Scott for blocking constituents from his official social media accounts.
On August 31, 2019 the Daily Sentinel printed an article about the settlement we reached in the case.
Had the Sentinel contacted me for this article, I would have let them know that Ray Scott lied to them about several specific pieces of information regarding the case.
Ray Scott’s first lie:
Scott told the Sentinel that he blocked people from his social media accounts “only if someone posted a profane or inappropriate ment.”
That is absolutely false.
Elections, Ethics, politics
City to re-zone Burkey Park for medium-high residential development at their September 4 meeting
by Anne Landman • August 31, 2019 • 1 ment
Burkey Park on Patterson Road is a dry vacant lot with a trash can and split rail fence, but is prized by neighbors for open space and the longtime promise that the City would one turn the parcel into a developed park. The Burkey family donated the land to the City in 1967 on the condition the City would turn it into a park.
At their public hearing on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, Grand Junction City Council will hear an agenda item to rezone Burkey Park to allow construction of medium-high density residential development on it.
The City plans to rezone Burkey Park from its current zoning of “Recreational” to R-8 zoning to allow residential construction of a density of eight dwelling units per acre. This density would most likely be attached dwellings like condos, duplexes and townhouses. The City bills the rezone as “medium density” development, but the R-8 designation is actually labeled medium-high density in the City Code.
The 18 acre parcel located on Patterson Road between 29 1/2 and 30 Roads was donated to the City by the Burkey family in 1967 on the condition that the City would one day turn it into a park. The City never fulfilled its promise, though, and instead let the parcel languish as a weedy vacant lot for more than 50 years, while pouring taxpayer money into other odd areas, handing over $500,000 (pdf) – $750,000 every year to Colorado Mesa University for a period of 15 years.
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Former Army officer turned grad student/writer. Author of the Iraq War memoir Kaboom, and co-editor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War.
Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
"Pilgrim's Progress" - essay published in The New York Times, Home Fires, January 2011
"The Hut Next Door" - essay published in The New York Times, Home Fires, May 2011
"Straight Shooter" - article published in Boston Review, September/October 2011
"The Subway Chronicles" - short story published in Mason's Road, January 2011
"Brothers in Arms" - short story published in The Nevada Review, Spring 2011
"Where's the Great Novel About the War on Terror?" - essay published in The Atlantic, June 2011
"A Ghost on Tobacco Road" - essay published at The Classical, February 2012
"War, Beer and Rock & Roll: a book review of The Operators" - review published in The Daily Beast, January 2012
"Down and Out With the American Dream: a book review of Lost in America" - review published in The Daily Beast, September 2011
"This Creed of the Desert" - op-ed published in the New York Daily News, October 2011
"After the Slaughter" - article published in Boston Review, March 2012
"The List" - article published in The Daily Beast, April 2012
"War Games" - essay published at The Rumpus, December 2011
"Remembering Mark" - essay published in The New York Times, At War, May 2011
"Renaming the Campaigns" - essay published in The New York Times, At War, July 2011
"The Labyrinth" - article published in TIME, Battleland, September 2011
"The Repeal of DADT is All Smoke, No Fire" - article published in The Huffington Post, April 2010
"Book review of Sebastian Junger's WAR" - review published in The Huffington Post, May 2010
"Three Wise Men" - essay published in Scholars & Rogues, September 2011
"The War Yet to Come: a book review of Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds" - review published in Small Wars Journal, June 2011
"Book review of Siobhan Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone" - review published at Bookslut, February 2011
"In Defense of Once an Eagle" - article published in TIME, Battleland, August 2011
"The War Belongs to All of Us" - article published in The Washington Post, Impact of War, May 2010
"Why Vets Aren't Buying The Hurt Locker" - review published at AOL News, March 2010
"Precision Targeting in a Modern Counterinsurgency" - essay published in Armor Magazine, September 2009
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"Above all, Kaboom is about the day to day travails of a typical platoon set smack among thousands of disillusioned and war-weary Iraqis ... without a trace of sentimentality, Mr. Gallagher draws the reader into the everyday complexities of leading soldiers from every strata of American society."
- Bing West, Wall Street Journal
"Vivid and introspective ... [readers will] come to appreciate his evocative prose, convincing dialogue, and especially, telling vignettes of life as an American soldier in Iraq."
- The New Republic
"This may well be the best memoir to have been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ... Kaboom is laugh-out-loud funny. And brutal. Buy it."
- Andrew Exum, of Abu Muqawama
"Surely the Jarhead of the second Gulf war."
- Patrick Hennessey, The Financial Times
"[Gallagher's] exceptional narrative technique makes the soldier in-group cant both believable and coherent; his relentless pursuit of sanity in the midst of a chaotic storm of IEDs, policy changes, sheiks, civilians, and baffling missions makes this blog-based memoir an exciting read reminiscent of Anthony Swofford's Jarhead."
- Library Journal
"As funny as it is harrowing."
- Entertainment Weekly
"At turns hilarious, maddening, and terrifying."
- The Washington Post
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international | eu | opinion/analysis Wednesday April 24, 2019 11:52 by Derrick Harris
For many years, international recognition of the Armenian Genocide has remained a foremost priority for Armenian Diasporas all over the world. Some achievements have been realized in this area (Armenian genocide's recognition by over 30 countries, the support of leading world's mass media and public organizations). But to date, it is clearly insufficient to fully resolve this issue, and that is why the struggle for this recognition is continuing with some success.
For instance, the US Armenian Diaspora has been working so actively in this area that it has recently achieved the signing of the relevant declaration by the Governor of the State of Alabama, whose state has become the 49th one that has recognized the Armenian Genocide. And now it comes down to the official recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the White House.
Moreover, Armenians may soon take this process to another level as evidenced by the documents indicating the US readiness to bring their matter before the UN Security Council.
In fact, not only adoption by the UN Security Council of the resolution on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide during the World War I, but also some sort of punishment of Turkey for its current insubordination rather than for its past mistakes may be made at the instigation of the White House through paying compensation for the Armenian people.
Armenians' insistence and resourcefulness can create and convey only respect for them. For more than 100 years, they have not forgotten about the tragic events happened when their people were mass executed, deported and became the subject of medical experiments. As a result, they had to run for their lives. The US Armenian Diaspora also consisted mainly of those people, who had managed to escape from the Ottoman Empire and had not become the targets of mass reprisals on grounds of nationality and religion. This is the pain of the Armenian people. They are legally and legitimately demanding the recognition of the genocide and calling for its condemnation and assumption of responsibility by Turkey for crimes committed.
And to achieve these goals they picked a pretty good time as relations between Washington and Ankara are at their lowest point. And, therefore, using the growing contradictions between the countries, the US Armenian Diaspora played the situation very shrewdly and urged Washington to recognize the Armenian Genocide although the USA was ignoring to discuss this issue for many years.
The White House was previously intent on maintaining cooperation with Turkey to avoid any damage to relations between NATO allies, yet as tensions between the two countries are mounting, Washington is rather keen on punishing Ankara. Rumors of the Americans having a hand in the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey as well as the fact that the United States provides shelter to Fethullah Gulen, a mastermind of the coup, serve only to exacerbate the situation. Furthermore, an incident with oppositional journalist Khashoggi, whose body had been dismembered inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, did not improve relations between the countries either. The case has been widely publicized in the press, which has been initiated by Turkish authorities.
The US recognition of the Armenian Genocide can hurt Turkey badly. It is already not the subject of the US particular attention, and now this whole thing seems only logical for D. Trump, who wants to draw a line in the sand with such ambitious man as Erdogan.
This raises the question for Armenians whether it is worth initiating the recognition and condemnation of hundred-year-old crimes, which leads to heightened tension in the region.
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Jimmy Garoppolo, born November 2, 1991, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA, is an American football quarterback for the ‘New England Patriots’ of the National Football League.
Garoppolo played college football at Eastern Illinois. As a senior in 2013, he broke Tony Romo’s school records for career passing touchdowns, yards and passing touchdowns in a season. He also won the Walter Payton Award that season.
The Patriots drafted Garoppolo in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft, 62nd overall. Garoppolo was the first player from the Football Championship Subdivision drafted in 2014, and the highest-drafted quarterback New England has drafted since Drew Bledsoe was picked first overall in 1993.
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paul stein says:
Dear Ms. Cotillard…Could you please translate the lyrics of La Vie En Rose ? I am not a movie, art or acting critic but I do work with the archetypal nature and love of “image” or “psyche” “in-relationship(s).” Please bear with my fumbling words of deep respect for your poetic depth of talent. Your soulful character portrayal of Edith Piaf was magnificent and I thank you deeply for educating me about her and you that moved me to tears of inspiration. What struck me most deeply was the archetypal symbolic nature of her emotionally enthralling creativity “you” captured so beautifully in Piaf’s projected soul-love onto a “fighter” that “she” in turn reflected in him and in the German’s occupation of France and French POW’s. It is easy for me to romanticize that soul-love and longing for “transcendent wholeness” into the political naiveté of “art for art sake” “innocent” of the “other” in oneself and the “dominating” historic “consumptive toxification” of “our” bio and eco systems that “killed” “her” and “him” and millions more because of it, and continues to do so in the name of “God,” “Country,” and “lust for more power.” I think you are a terrific actress and a strikingly beautiful and talented woman in your own right. You embody Piaf’s signature song La Vie En Rose and the archetypal psychology of all women’s “fight” for innate symbolic desire for inner healing and “wholeness” as an “object” of consciously discriminated re-embodiment.
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Yes to the above email. Besides your Seattle International Film Festival award you deserve an Oscar for Edith Piaf. Given the ethnocentrism of prevailing US corporate chauvinism toward foreign films, actresses and actors etc., I would suppose that such a nomination would not be considered. Why not change the rules? You should have an “action alert” outlet for people like myself who appreciate your work to petition the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for your Oscar nomination. I sent two emails to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (http://www.oscars.org/contact/index.html) (http://www.oscars.org/contact/web.html) recommending your Oscar nomination.
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Uganda : imba! The Story of the African Children's Choir
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The stars of our film, the 39th African Children's Choir!
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Erin Levin, Danielle Bernstein, Michael Dunaway
imba! will bring together the playfulness and bittersweet beauty of childhood in a cinematic adventure through North America via the lens of Moses and Angel, two African children on a journey that will change the course of their lives forever.
Their experience is documented as they perform in venues across the country, acting as the ambassadors for Africa's most vulnerable children. Their goal, to raise awareness and show that despite the desolate circumstances they come from, they have beauty, dignity, hope and unlimited potential.
Our film stands out from the rest for two main reasons: 1) the entire story will be magically told through the eyes of children and 2) much like the Choir itself, the film is not about what Westerners bring to help Africa, instead it is about gift of song and joy that these African children are bringing to us.
We will come alongside their journey and invite the viewer to experience Angel and Moses’ poverty, poignancy, hope and humor.
This Grammy-nominated group began in Uganda during a bloody civil war in 1984. Over the past 28 years they have expanded into six more African nations – Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria. Over 1,000 children have been members of the 39 Choirs and over 52,000 children have been educated thanks to support and funding from the Choir.
Children selected for the African Children’s Choir are extremely vulnerable – either orphaned or living on less than $2 a day. They cannot afford to attend school. Thanks to the Choir, these talented kids will have their education funded through university. Former Choir members are now some of Africa’s most promising and prominent young leaders lifting their communities up on their own.
The Choir has performed with stars such as Elton John, Paul McCartney, Mariah Carey, Dispatch, John Legend, Queen, Josh Groban; for dignitaries including the Queen of England, Nelson Mandela, Presidents Clinton and Bush; and on records such as Annie Lennox’s Christmas album, the Blood Diamond soundtrack and American Idol Gives Back.
Our core crew is made up of four award-winning filmmakers, photographers and journalists. The Producer, Erin Levin, is a humanitarian journalist and filmmaker. Her production and outreach experience ranges from ABC and CNN to the Peace Corps and non-profits around the world.
The Co-Directors are Danielle Bernstein and Michael Dunaway. Danielle is a filmmaker dedicated to creating work that addresses a wide range of social issues. She partners compelling documentary film with people and organizations who can offer solutions; moving audiences to action. Michael is the Editor of the Film Section of Paste Magazine. He is also the producer and director of PBS documentary The Man Who Ate New Orleans.
Jason Maris is our Director of Photography. He is an editorial and commercial photographer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. As a Getty photographer his work has been published worldwide. We are also hiring local crews across the US, Canada and Uganda.
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We have raised approximately $100,000, one-fifth of our budget, to date. We have filmed the back-stories of Moses, Angel, the African chaperones and the Choir in Uganda and had two shoots with them in the States. Over the next year we will film a number of star-studded shows, long heartland bus rides, American monuments and countless interesting interactions with the Choir. Next summer we will return with them to Uganda to capture their transition home and into the African Children’s Choir Primary Boarding School. Our expected release is early 2014 – the Choir’s 30th anniversary.
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C2Call FriendCaller: New free VoIP service.
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Claims to be the first browser-based VoIP-and-video app – and no registration is required.
"The first time my family tried Skype a few years ago, we got half the video portion on the Jetsons-like Internet telephony service to work. My wife, traveling overseas, couldn't see us, but our son and daughter, then ages 5 and 3, were so thrilled to see mommy that they kissed the pixels of her puckered lips," writes the San Jose Mercury News's Scott Duke Harris.
"Now making progress is another startup that, like Skype, has European roots, Silicon Valley venture backing and an intriguing advance in the technology known as voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP. C2Call is the developer of FriendCaller, an app available in Apple's iTunes store that is said to be simpler to use than other VoIP systems such as a Skype and AIM because it eliminates the need for communicating parties to register and exchange user IDs," Harris writes.
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Guapdad 4000 – First Things First (feat. G-Eazy & Reo Cragun)
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Guapdad 4000 was one of the the standout performers on Dreamville’s Revenge of the Dreamers III album last month, making appearances on “Wells Fargo,” “Costa Rica” and “Don’t Hit Me Right Now.” This week, he’s back with a video for his new single “First Things First” featuring G-Eazy and Reo Cragun.
“This was song No. 7 of a wild, drunk recording binge in a session with my producer James Delgado and Mike & Keys,” Guap told Billboard. “Buddy had just left and Reo walked in and laid the hook, which sounded like fucking hot butter on a delicious slice of sourdough toast in the a.m. After listening to the magic we made, and basking in the warm glow that is my talent, I knew I had to get G-Eazy on the second verse. Too player.”
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Chabad Launches the First Online International School For Jewish Children
Esther Levertov 6, of Santa Fe, NM, at the Online School for Young Shluchim. Click on image to see more photos.
by E. Silberstein - Ithaca, NY
Chabad Shluchim living in remote places or cities where there is no Jewish school, have long contended with schooling their children at home or parting with them at young ages, so they can get a traditional education. A newly developed online school now gives these children the benefit of a classroom situation where they daily interact with classmates--children of other shluchim, and a teacher, at home.
Eyes glued to the screen, seven-year-old Devorah S. of Ithaca, NY, listens intently to her teacher’s voice through her headset. Devorah has 15 classmates whom she met only "virtually," and a teacher who lives 300 miles away from her. One of 150 students from around the world who participate in an online classroom, Devorah says she loves “learning Yiddish,” her favorite subject. The two-hour class in front of a computer screen flies by. “It doesn’t seem like two whole hours.”
The Online School for Young Shluchim was established by the Shluchim Office a division of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the Chabad-Lubavitch educational arm. Founded by the late Mendel Shemtov, the Online School provides Jewish children with a comprehensive Jewish education and the opportunity to meet and socialize with other children of similar background. Designed specifically for the children of Chabad Shluchim who often live in cities and countries where there are no local religious Jewish schools, the School’s classes range from first through eighth grade. Scheduled to accommodate different time zones and three languages--English, Yiddish (a spoken language among many children of Shluchim) and Hebrew, the School’s goal is to equip the students with the necessary education and skills to eventually integrate into a regular Jewish high school curriculum.
Every day at a set time, Devorah and her classmates at the Online School enter a password and plug in their camera equipped headsets to access their online classroom. The screen acts as a classroom and the students are able to listen, interact and ask questions through their headset. Instead of raising their hands, they merely click the control button on their key board requesting to be called on, or simply type in their questions. Through their cameras they can actually view their teacher and fellow classmates. The teacher can even call students up to the board to demonstrate their skills. During recess, the students enjoy open microphones and are able to interact freely with each other.
Mendel Levertov, age 10, of Santa Fe, spends four hours a day at the Online School for Young Shluchim. "He's learning Code of Jewish Law, Talmud, Torah, Chasidut, Navi and Parsha over the course of a week," says his father, Rabbi Berel Levertov, Chabad representative to Santa Fe. "This is an incredibly innovative program that has allowed me to keep my children at home while giving them the quality of education they would receive at a proper yeshiva or traditional Jewish day school," says Levertov, who has four out of five children enrolled in the Online School.
Long distance education is not a new phenomenon. Other correspondence courses for home schooled students include communication through postal mail, radio broadcasts, videos, CD’S, email and most recently, web cameras. These courses are geared towards a specific subject. The students simply access an online curriculum and are guided by an instructor. But the Online School is the only long distance education system that actually simulates real classroom dynamics. Mrs. Gittel Rosenfeld, the Online School Principal, says she feels that the online environment does not lessen the effectiveness of the teacher. "To the contrary, the students get to interact and learn through visual stimulus without the distractions of a normal classroom.”
Until virtual spit balls are invented, teachers at the Online School also enjoy the benefits of the unique and innovative system that eliminates losing time on discipline. When the classroom gets to noisy or out of control, the teacher can simply switch off the student’s microphones. “You can build positive relationships with the students when you are not forced to discipline,” says Chanie Barber, second grade teacher at the Online School. Though the class is only two hours a day, the students seem to pack more learning into less time.
There are a few minor glitches to be ironed out, with students sometimes as young as five and six years old getting stuck on technicalities, headsets and microphones. Getting kicked off the server can sometimes mean that the student will miss 10- 15 minutes of the two hour class until they get readmitted. The teachers too have to get used to the new environment. Devorah says that sometimes she feels the class is going too fast for her, but she does not know how to communicate that message. Without the teachers in close proximity, it is difficult for them to gauge the reactions of their students and evaluate the pace at which they understand the information. But students and parents say it is an amazing development.
"My children now have the benefit of being schooled by trained teachers, with the supervision of a principal and the social environment they would get at school. My children now are on the phone and internet with their classmates, and this has opened a whole new dimension in their experience as young Shluchim," says Mrs. Devorah Leah Levertov.
Less than a year old, this seems to be a rapidly growing form of schooling. The school started with four students who interacted over the telephone on a conference call. By September, the school had swelled to 150 kids and the online classes opened for the first time. The web cameras were introduced a short while later, and the students can now actually see their teachers and classmates. According to administrators of the Online School, they are anticipating opening up classes to students in Australia and Asia. There are no immediate plans for classes in Spanish or other languages, but should there be a demand for that, says Chana Raizel Segal, the school administrator. “we’ll do our best to fill it.”
The students, teachers and administrators are excited about the progress they have made and the opportunities that lie ahead. Do the kids miss being in a regular school? “This is a real school!” Devorah insists.
Chabad Launches the First Online International School For Jewish Children - Esther Levertov 6, of Santa Fe, NM at the Online School for Young Shluchim.
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Measles Ground Zero: Urgent Care Facilities Flooded with Vaccine Requests
By Staff on April 15, 2019
After Mayor de Blasio's public health emergency declaration, health care workers deal with worried residents
By Morgan Hines and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio
Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in New York City. The measles outbreak that started in Williamsburg, Brooklyn spread to Queens and Rockland County with more and more cases being reported each day.
CNN reported on Monday morning that the number of measles cases in the United States is the highest it’s been in 25 years with 90 new cases in the last week and 555 in 2019 total.
Dr. Lynda Gerberg, lead pediatrician at Northwell Health- GoHealth Urgent Care, says that she’s never seen an outbreak like this before. The Northwell clinic on Kent Ave. is getting more calls than ever before at measles ground zero in Williamsburg.
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Jerry Lee Simon, 70, passed away Saturday, September 28, 2019, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN, due to complications after heart surgery.
Jerry was born January 2, 1949, to Dale and Jean (Ayers) Simon at Rapid City, South Dakota. He grew up on the family ranch just east of Zeona, and resided there until his passing.
Jerry attended the Spring Creek country school near the Zeona store, and high school in Newell. He competed in football, 4-H, ropings, and also showed Hereford cattle in 4-H. In high school he received the “best freshman” award in FFA. His mother Jean would always say he didn’t have a lot of love for school, but had a high “social IQ”.
At a very early age Jerry’s love of horses, ranching, and the cowboy way was seen by all. He bought or traded numerous horses when young, training them as good ranch horses or competition rope horses.
In 1970, Jerry married Judy K. Knighton. They settled on the Simon Ranch, and lived a regular ranch life until their separation in 1987. Both enjoyed competing in the rodeo world, and had a lot of friends. To this marriage, their daughter DeLynn “Squeek” was born in January 1974.
Jerry continued living on the ranch, raising sheep, cattle, and horses. He also did leather work, braiding, and built saddles with his father Dale. They also became involved in cowboy boot and shoe repair, as well as other tack.
In the mid-80’s, Jerry’s love of horses expanded to Percheron horses. He and his family fed livestock with teams through the winter, and gave sleigh rides at community gatherings. Livestock was checked and mineral was spread by team and wagon in the spring, summer and fall. Breaking teams for others became a hobby. During this time Jerry and his close friend, Steve Elgen, also worked with teams logging in the Black Hills. Jerry’s love of Percherons spread to his daughter, DeLynn, as they showed Percheron horses and competed in team competitions. Jerry was a member of the Percheron Horse Association and participated in their annual horse sale. Jerry still owned a team, and kept in touch with his draft horse friends.
In 1989, Jerry decided to become a SD Brand Inspector as a service to his neighbors and friends. For him it was a social event, as he enjoyed traveling and seeing friends during shipping time.
Jerry’s love for good horse stock continued through the years, even when he did not ride near as frequently. His love of horses could be seen as he would lend horses to the neighbor kids for queen competitions, ranch work, or to use during rodeos.
In 2005, Jerry met Lynda Neumiller in Deadwood, while she was passing time reading a horse sale catalog. Their connection through horses was quick to grow, and they enjoyed attending many barrel racings and ropings to view the competitive stock. They were married in November 2011, and lived at the ranch near Zeona. Their connection through horses remained until his passing. Together they were producing fine competition horses, as well as having a mare race on the track, one of the things on Jerry’s bucket list. Jerry was also honored in October 2015, by being asked to judge the Ranch Horse Competition at the Retired Racehorse Project “Thoroughbred Makeover” in Lexington, KY. In 2016, he was again asked to judge, but declined so he could enter his own horse in the competition.
Jerry will be remembered as a kind and generous man – always willing to go help a neighbor before doing what he needed to do. He was a very proud grandfather, who enjoyed spending time with the grandkids and attending their sporting events. The sparkle in his eye and contagious laugh will be remembered and missed by many. His love of reading horse pedigrees, watching competitions, especially barrel racing, and being involved in the horse community will be what he is remembered most for.
Jerry was preceded in death by his father, Dale Simon, his paternal aunts and uncles, and both sets of grandparents.
Grateful for having shared his life are his wife, Lynda Simon; mother, Jean Simon; daughter, DeLynn (Bryan) Hanson of Fort Pierre; step daughters, Stephanie Moninger and Rebecca Neumiller, both of Rapid City; seven grandchildren, Chase and Timber Rose Hanson, MacKenzie, Nyal, and Owen “Opie” Moninger, Giavanni and Genavieve Neumiller; special family friend, Todd (Luanne) Youngberg of Nisland, and their children, Dana and Orrin Youngberg; and 11 cousins and spouses, and too many friends and neighbors to list.
Because of Jerry’s love of kids and horses the family suggests that in lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial to the Jerry Simon Memorial Youth Barrel Race to be held at the Golliher Arena in Spearfish. Scheduling details will be announced at a later date.
Celebration of Life Services were held Saturday, October 5, 2019, at the Spur Creek Ranch, Newell, South Dakota.
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Dickens' Review
Years ago in my college art history class, we talked about the painting by John Everett Millais that is commonly called The Carpenter's Shop and our professor read us Charles Dickens' review of it. I remember wondering then just what was Dickens' problem. Ironically, he and Millais would go on to become good friends, but only after Millais had become reknowned for the style that Dickens originally found "revolting" and "repulsive".
I wanted to have Millais yelling in Dickens' face, asking him the questions I wanted to know. "You champion common everyday people in your stories yet you can't seem to tolerate them in artwork." It's probably because it wasn't what Victorian people were used to looking at in galleries-- paintings were their version of the cinema and they wanted to see pretty, glamourous people, not people who looked like themselves. Granted, the Pre-Raphaelites would later supply plenty of pretty, glamourous people, but Millais' talent would always be for catching realistic emotions and likenesses. This painting was just too "gritty" for the tastes of its age.
Don't get me wrong: I love Dickens. I have a shelf of books and biographies by and about him. But historically he could also be incredibly infuriating. Just ask his daughter Kate. Or his wife (Don't get me started.)
But tastes in art change and in 1850, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were seen as radical upstarts, wanting to take on what they saw as the stale and stodgy artistic restrictions of the Royal Academy to introduce a new way of looking at color, composition and subject matter. I'm sure they expected some scorn for going against the norm, but I don't think they were prepared for this.
It's hard to believe now, but this is the painting that was seen as so shocking:
Christ in the House of His Parents, 1849-50, John Everett Millais.
Queen Victoria even asked to have a private showing of this painting at Buckingham Palace in order to judge how truly terrifying it was to the public. (Millais would later find this all incredibly amusing, even if the Queen didn't.)
What was probably considered so offensive about this painting was that ordinary, un-idealized people were chosen as the models to play the members of Christ's family. Millais had gone very "method painter" for this one, sketching industriously for hours in a real carpenter's shop, even bringing home to his studio wood shavings and sheep's heads (ugh) for authenticity. He enlisted his relatives to model for his subjects and I'm sure they weren't exactly thrilled later when they read how their physical appearances were described by one very notorious reviewer...
Young Millais, prior to the big fuzzy
sideburns, drawn by William Holman Hunt.
Millais seemed to get the lion's share of attention, both good and bad, in the early days of the PRB. On top of this particular painting's hyper-realism, it was also steeped in religious symbolism that would become the trademark of Millais' best buddy, William Holman Hunt. (You can see a lot of Hunt's thematic influence on early Millais.) But Millais and his painting hardly seemed to deserve what got thrown at it...
...Because it was Charles Dickens, the most famous man in England, who set his journalistic eye on this "new style" of painting and in particular, this former child prodigy of the Royal Academy.
I give you Dickens' review of the picture in its near-entirety:
When Dickens attacks!!
"You come in this Royal Academy Exhibition, which is familiar with the works of WILKIE, COLLINS, ETTY, EASTLAKE, MULREADY, LESLIE, MACLISE, TURNER, STANFIELD, LANDSEER, ROBERTS, DANBY, CRESWICK, LEE, WEBSTER, HERBERT, DYCE, COPE, and others who would have been renowned as great masters in any age or country you come, in this place, to the contemplation of a Holy Family. You will have the goodness to discharge from your minds all Post-Raphael ideas, all religious aspirations, all elevating thoughts, all tender, awful, sorrowful, ennobling, sacred, graceful, or beautiful associations, and to prepare yourselves, as befits such a subject Pre-Raphaelly considered for the lowest depths of what is mean, odious, repulsive, and revolting.
"You behold the interior of a carpenter’s shop. In the foreground of that carpenter’s shop is a hideous, wry-necked, blubbering, red-headed boy, in a bed-gown, who appears to have received a poke in the hand, from the stick of another boy with whom he has been playing in an adjacent gutter, and to be holding it up for the contemplation of a kneeling woman, so horrible in her ugliness, that (supposing it were possible for any human creature to exist for a moment with that dislocated throat) she would stand out from the rest of the company as a Monster, in the vilest cabaret in France, or the lowest ginshop in England.
"Two almost naked carpenters, master and journeyman, worthy companions of this agreeable female, are working at their trade; a boy, with some small flavor of humanity in him, is entering with a vessel of water; and nobody is paying any attention to a snuffy old woman who seems to have mistaken that shop for the tobacconist’s next door, and to be hopelessly waiting at the counter to be served with half an ounce of her favourite mixture. Wherever it is possible to express ugliness of feature, limb, or attitude, you have it expressed. Such men as the carpenters might be undressed in any hospital where dirty drunkards, in a high state of varicose veins, are received. Their very toes have walked out of Saint Giles’s."
Look! Millais even got himself a
statue at the Tate! Except that it
later got moved to the back.
How humiliating.
Ouch. I feel really sorry for Millais' relatives.
And Dickens goes on that soon there will be a Pre-Galileo Brotherhood (the PGB, no doubt) who will want to take science back to the days when the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, you're very funny, Charles. Anyway...
...But it was respected art critic John Ruskin who came to the rescue of the flabbergasted PRB and countered Dickens' dreadful review by defending the young artists. Ruskin especially took Millais under his wing (which would of course lead to certain future complications...)
As the Pre-Raphaelites would eventually start gaining fame and success, they would also become more respectable. (Well, almost. Rossetti was always on the fence...) Johnny Millais would someday become Sir John Everett Millais, the first artist ever to be given a baronetcy. But until this happened, he got invited to a lot of parties.
It so happened that he was friends with writer Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White) and his brother Charles, who was a painter and a potential Pre-Raphaelite brother.
Both men were also good friends with Charles Dickens.
The Collins brothers: Wilkie (left) and Charles (right). Both portraits by Millais.
They desperately wanted to patch up the rift between the Most Famous Man in England and the painter of the beloved Ophelia. Dickens cordially sent Millais an article about the London fire brigade (the subject of one of Millais' next paintings), along with a peculiar apology:
Charles Dickens:
"With great power comes great artwork..."
"Objecting very strongly to what I believed to be an unworthy use of your great powers, I once expressed objections in (this) same journal. My opinion on that point has not in the least changed, but it has never dashed my admiration of your progress in which I suppose are higher and better things..." (source: John Everett Millais: A Biography, by G.H. Fleming)
So in other words, Dickens believed Millais was not using his superpowers for Good, plus he was probably hanging around too much with the Injustice League.
Patching up (a bit) with Dickens led to Millais using Dickens' daughter Kate, also a budding artist, as a model for his painting, The Black Brunswickers.
Kate Dickens, later Perugini.
"My dad is driving me nuts. Must get married quickly."
The Black Brunswickers.
This guy was no one Kate knew. Really.
Kate's artist husband 2.0:
Charles Edward Perugini.
And she was much happier...
Not long after this, Kate would hurriedly marry Millais' friend Charles Collins, much to her father's near-hysteria because he believed his favorite child was only getting hitched in order to get away from him and the increasingly troubled Dickens household. (That's a long story in itself; see again link about Dickens' wife...) Kate's marriage to Charles was not a happy one, and he died young. Kate woud go on to marry yet another artist, the Italian-born painter Charles Edward Perugini. As Kate Perugini now, Kate's own career as a artist would finally flourish.
Of course, at the end, the irony of all this was that Millais was the artist who was called in to draw Dickens' official deathbed portrait. Millais, always a gentleman, by this time had forgiven Dickens for that horrible review.
Maybe I'm having a harder time with it.
But then again, Millais had superpowers.
Coming up next: Georgie's Birthday.
Posted by Raine Szramski at 1:16 PM
WoofWoof March 21, 2016 at 2:11 AM
What an interesting article! Thanks for a brilliant cartoon plus such fascinating information about Dickens/Millais! One additional story: Millais describes how he was walking through London late one night with Wilkie Collins when they spotted a woman dressed completely in white. Wilkie was overcome with curiosity and went off to follow her. She ended up becoming his mistress and inspired to write The Woman in White.
Raine Szramski April 5, 2016 at 11:11 PM
Thank you for your kind words and the Wilkie Collins anecdote!It's all a big creative circle... !
Annael June 22, 2017 at 1:11 PM
This blog just made my day. Thank you.
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goetzkluge June 13, 2019 at 5:45 PM
Raine, thank you for the full Dickens quote and your insightful article. I referred to it in https://snrk.de/hideously-ugly
Raine Szramski October 25, 2019 at 8:02 PM
Thank you so much! I'm honored and flattered. (I'm so sorry for this very late reply as well.)
wendwillow October 22, 2019 at 7:21 PM
I completely agree that Dicken's taking offense to the humble surroundings of Joseph's workshop and to the climate and work appropriate clothing is in itself offensive to humble working folk.
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In this paper, we deal with a problem of separating the effect of reflection from images captured behind glass. The input consists of multiple polarized images captured from the same view point but with different polarizer angles. The output is the high quality separation of the reflection layer and the background layer from the images. We formulate this problem as a constrained optimization problem and propose a framework that allows us to fully exploit the mutually exclusive image information in our input data. We test our approach on various images and demonstrate that our approach can generate good reflection separation results.
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Detecting synchrony in degraded audio-visual streams
Dhandhania, K., Wulff, J., Sinha, P.
Even 8–10 week old infants, when presented with two dynamic faces and a speech stream, look significantly longer at the ‘correct’ talking person (Patterson & Werker, 2003). This is true even though their reduced visual acuity prevents them from utilizing high spatial frequencies. Computational analyses in the field of audio/video synchrony and automatic speaker detection (e.g. Hershey & Movellan, 2000), in contrast, usually depend on high-resolution images. Therefore, the correlation mechanisms found in these computational studies are not directly applicable to the processes through which we learn to integrate the modalities of speech and vision. In this work, we investigated the correlation between speech signals and degraded video signals. We found a high correlation persisting even with high image degradation, resembling the low visual acuity of young infants. Additionally (in a fashion similar to Graf et al., 2002) we explored which parts of the face correlate with the audio in the degraded video sequences. Perfect synchrony and small offsets in the audio were used while finding the correlation, thereby detecting visual events preceding and following audio events. In order to achieve a sufficiently high temporal resolution, high-speed video sequences (500 frames per second) of talking people were used. This is a temporal resolution unachieved in previous studies and has allowed us to capture very subtle and short visual events. We believe that the results of this study might be interesting not only to vision researchers, but, by revealing subtle effects on a very fine timescale, also to people working in computer graphics and the generation and animation of artificial faces.
Dhandhania, K., Wulff, J., Sinha, P. Detecting synchrony in degraded audio-visual streams Journal of Vision, 11(11):800-800, ARVO, September 2011 (article)
Messias, J., Ahmad, A., Reis, J., Sousa, J., Lima, P.
This paper describes the status of the ISocRob MSL robotic soccer team as required by the RoboCup 2011 qualification procedures. The most relevant technical and scientifical developments carried out by the team, since its last participation in the RoboCup MSL competitions, are here detailed. These include cooperative localization, cooperative object tracking, planning under uncertainty, obstacle detection and improvements to self-localization.
Messias, J., Ahmad, A., Reis, J., Sousa, J., Lima, P. ISocRob-MSL 2011 Team Description Paper for Middle Sized League 15th Annual RoboCup International Symposium 2011, July 2011 (techreport)
Trajectory Space: A Dual Representation for Nonrigid Structure from Motion
Akhter, I., Sheikh, Y., Khan, S., Kanade, T.
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, 33(7):1442-1456, IEEE, July 2011 (article)
Existing approaches to nonrigid structure from motion assume that the instantaneous 3D shape of a deforming object is a linear combination of basis shapes. These basis are object dependent and therefore have to be estimated anew for each video sequence. In contrast, we propose a dual approach to describe the evolving 3D structure in trajectory space by a linear combination of basis trajectories. We describe the dual relationship between the two approaches, showing that they both have equal power for representing 3D structure. We further show that the temporal smoothness in 3D trajectories alone can be used for recovering nonrigid structure from a moving camera. The principal advantage of expressing deforming 3D structure in trajectory space is that we can define an object independent basis. This results in a significant reduction in unknowns, and corresponding stability in estimation. We propose the use of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) as the object independent basis and empirically demonstrate that it approaches Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for natural motions. We report the performance of the proposed method, quantitatively using motion capture data, and qualitatively on several video sequences exhibiting nonrigid motions including piecewise rigid motion, partially nonrigid motion (such as a facial expressions), and highly nonrigid motion (such as a person walking or dancing).
Akhter, I., Sheikh, Y., Khan, S., Kanade, T. Trajectory Space: A Dual Representation for Nonrigid Structure from Motion Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, 33(7):1442-1456, IEEE, July 2011 (article)
Loose-limbed People: Estimating 3D Human Pose and Motion Using Non-parametric Belief Propagation
Sigal, L., Isard, M., Haussecker, H., Black, M. J.
International Journal of Computer Vision, 98(1):15-48, Springer Netherlands, May 2011 (article)
We formulate the problem of 3D human pose estimation and tracking as one of inference in a graphical model. Unlike traditional kinematic tree representations, our model of the body is a collection of loosely-connected body-parts. In particular, we model the body using an undirected graphical model in which nodes correspond to parts and edges to kinematic, penetration, and temporal constraints imposed by the joints and the world. These constraints are encoded using pair-wise statistical distributions, that are learned from motion-capture training data. Human pose and motion estimation is formulated as inference in this graphical model and is solved using Particle Message Passing (PaMPas). PaMPas is a form of non-parametric belief propagation that uses a variation of particle filtering that can be applied over a general graphical model with loops. The loose-limbed model and decentralized graph structure allow us to incorporate information from "bottom-up" visual cues, such as limb and head detectors, into the inference process. These detectors enable automatic initialization and aid recovery from transient tracking failures. We illustrate the method by automatically tracking people in multi-view imagery using a set of calibrated cameras and present quantitative evaluation using the HumanEva dataset.
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Sigal, L., Isard, M., Haussecker, H., Black, M. J. Loose-limbed People: Estimating 3D Human Pose and Motion Using Non-parametric Belief Propagation International Journal of Computer Vision, 98(1):15-48, Springer Netherlands, May 2011 (article)
Point-and-Click Cursor Control With an Intracortical Neural Interface System by Humans With Tetraplegia
Kim, S., Simeral, J. D., Hochberg, L. R., Donoghue, J. P., Friehs, G. M., Black, M. J.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 19(2):193-203, April 2011 (article)
We present a point-and-click intracortical neural interface system (NIS) that enables humans with tetraplegia to volitionally move a 2D computer cursor in any desired direction on a computer screen, hold it still and click on the area of interest. This direct brain-computer interface extracts both discrete (click) and continuous (cursor velocity) signals from a single small population of neurons in human motor cortex. A key component of this system is a multi-state probabilistic decoding algorithm that simultaneously decodes neural spiking activity and outputs either a click signal or the velocity of the cursor. The algorithm combines a linear classifier, which determines whether the user is intending to click or move the cursor, with a Kalman filter that translates the neural population activity into cursor velocity. We present a paradigm for training the multi-state decoding algorithm using neural activity observed during imagined actions. Two human participants with tetraplegia (paralysis of the four limbs) performed a closed-loop radial target acquisition task using the point-and-click NIS over multiple sessions. We quantified point-and-click performance using various human-computer interaction measurements for pointing devices. We found that participants were able to control the cursor motion accurately and click on specified targets with a small error rate (< 3% in one participant). This study suggests that signals from a small ensemble of motor cortical neurons (~40) can be used for natural point-and-click 2D cursor control of a personal computer.
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Kim, S., Simeral, J. D., Hochberg, L. R., Donoghue, J. P., Friehs, G. M., Black, M. J. Point-and-Click Cursor Control With an Intracortical Neural Interface System by Humans With Tetraplegia IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 19(2):193-203, April 2011 (article)
A Database and Evaluation Methodology for Optical Flow
Baker, S., Scharstein, D., Lewis, J. P., Roth, S., Black, M. J., Szeliski, R.
International Journal of Computer Vision, 92(1):1-31, March 2011 (article)
The quantitative evaluation of optical flow algorithms by Barron et al. (1994) led to significant advances in performance. The challenges for optical flow algorithms today go beyond the datasets and evaluation methods proposed in that paper. Instead, they center on problems associated with complex natural scenes, including nonrigid motion, real sensor noise, and motion discontinuities. We propose a new set of benchmarks and evaluation methods for the next generation of optical flow algorithms. To that end, we contribute four types of data to test different aspects of optical flow algorithms: (1) sequences with nonrigid motion where the ground-truth flow is determined by tracking hidden fluorescent texture, (2) realistic synthetic sequences, (3) high frame-rate video used to study interpolation error, and (4) modified stereo sequences of static scenes. In addition to the average angular error used by Barron et al., we compute the absolute flow endpoint error, measures for frame interpolation error, improved statistics, and results at motion discontinuities and in textureless regions. In October 2007, we published the performance of several well-known methods on a preliminary version of our data to establish the current state of the art. We also made the data freely available on the web at http://vision.middlebury.edu/flow/ . Subsequently a number of researchers have uploaded their results to our website and published papers using the data. A significant improvement in performance has already been achieved. In this paper we analyze the results obtained to date and draw a large number of conclusions from them.
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Baker, S., Scharstein, D., Lewis, J. P., Roth, S., Black, M. J., Szeliski, R. A Database and Evaluation Methodology for Optical Flow International Journal of Computer Vision, 92(1):1-31, March 2011 (article)
Neural control of cursor trajectory and click by a human with tetraplegia 1000 days after implant of an intracortical microelectrode array
(J. Neural Engineering Highlights of 2011 Collection. JNE top 10 cited papers of 2010-2011.)
Simeral, J. D., Kim, S., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P., Hochberg, L. R.
J. of Neural Engineering, 8(2):025027, 2011 (article)
The ongoing pilot clinical trial of the BrainGate neural interface system aims in part to assess the feasibility of using neural activity obtained from a small-scale, chronically implanted, intracortical microelectrode array to provide control signals for a neural prosthesis system. Critical questions include how long implanted microelectrodes will record useful neural signals, how reliably those signals can be acquired and decoded, and how effectively they can be used to control various assistive technologies such as computers and robotic assistive devices, or to enable functional electrical stimulation of paralyzed muscles. Here we examined these questions by assessing neural cursor control and BrainGate system characteristics on five consecutive days 1000 days after implant of a 4 × 4 mm array of 100 microelectrodes in the motor cortex of a human with longstanding tetraplegia subsequent to a brainstem stroke. On each of five prospectively-selected days we performed time-amplitude sorting of neuronal spiking activity, trained a population-based Kalman velocity decoding filter combined with a linear discriminant click state classifier, and then assessed closed-loop point-and-click cursor control. The participant performed both an eight-target center-out task and a random target Fitts metric task which was adapted from a human-computer interaction ISO standard used to quantify performance of computer input devices. The neural interface system was further characterized by daily measurement of electrode impedances, unit waveforms and local field potentials. Across the five days, spiking signals were obtained from 41 of 96 electrodes and were successfully decoded to provide neural cursor point-and-click control with a mean task performance of 91.3% ± 0.1% (mean ± s.d.) correct target acquisition. Results across five consecutive days demonstrate that a neural interface system based on an intracortical microelectrode array can provide repeatable, accurate point-and-click control of a computer interface to an individual with tetraplegia 1000 days after implantation of this sensor.
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Simeral, J. D., Kim, S., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P., Hochberg, L. R. Neural control of cursor trajectory and click by a human with tetraplegia 1000 days after implant of an intracortical microelectrode array J. of Neural Engineering, 8(2):025027, 2011 (article)
Dorsal Stream: From Algorithm to Neuroscience
Jhuang, H.
PhD Thesis, MIT, 2011 (techreport)
Jhuang, H. Dorsal Stream: From Algorithm to Neuroscience PhD Thesis, MIT, 2011 (techreport)
Modelling pipeline for subject-specific arterial blood flow—A review
Igor Sazonov, Si Yong Yeo, Rhodri Bevan, Xianghua Xie, Raoul van Loon, Perumal Nithiarasu
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 27(12):1868–1910, 2011 (article)
In this paper, a robust and semi-automatic modelling pipeline for blood flow through subject-specific arterial geometries is presented. The framework developed consists of image segmentation, domain discretization (meshing) and fluid dynamics. All the three subtopics of the pipeline are explained using an example of flow through a severely stenosed human carotid artery. In the Introduction, the state-of-the-art of both image segmentation and meshing is presented in some detail, and wherever possible the advantages and disadvantages of the existing methods are analysed. Followed by this, the deformable model used for image segmentation is presented. This model is based upon a geometrical potential force (GPF), which is a function of the image. Both the GPF calculation and level set determination are explained. Following the image segmentation method, a semi-automatic meshing method used in the present study is explained in full detail. All the relevant techniques required to generate a valid domain discretization are presented. These techniques include generating a valid surface mesh, skeletonization, mesh cropping, boundary layer mesh construction and various mesh cosmetic methods that are essential for generating a high-quality domain discretization. After presenting the mesh generation procedure, how to generate flow boundary conditions for both the inlets and outlets of a geometry is explained in detail. This is followed by a brief note on the flow solver, before studying the blood flow through the carotid artery with a severe stenosis.
Igor Sazonov, Si Yong Yeo, Rhodri Bevan, Xianghua Xie, Raoul van Loon, Perumal Nithiarasu Modelling pipeline for subject-specific arterial blood flow—A review International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 27(12):1868–1910, 2011 (article)
Geometrically Induced Force Interaction for Three-Dimensional Deformable Models
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(5):1373 - 1387, 2011 (article)
In this paper, we propose a novel 3-D deformable model that is based upon a geometrically induced external force field which can be conveniently generalized to arbitrary dimensions. This external force field is based upon hypothesized interactions between the relative geometries of the deformable model and the object boundary characterized by image gradient. The evolution of the deformable model is solved using the level set method so that topological changes are handled automatically. The relative geometrical configurations between the deformable model and the object boundaries contribute to a dynamic vector force field that changes accordingly as the deformable model evolves. The geometrically induced dynamic interaction force has been shown to greatly improve the deformable model performance in acquiring complex geometries and highly concave boundaries, and it gives the deformable model a high invariancy in initialization configurations. The voxel interactions across the whole image domain provide a global view of the object boundary representation, giving the external force a long attraction range. The bidirectionality of the external force field allows the new deformable model to deal with arbitrary cross-boundary initializations, and facilitates the handling of weak edges and broken boundaries. In addition, we show that by enhancing the geometrical interaction field with a nonlocal edge-preserving algorithm, the new deformable model can effectively overcome image noise. We provide a comparative study on the segmentation of various geometries with different topologies from both synthetic and real images, and show that the proposed method achieves significant improvements against existing image gradient techniques.
Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Geometrically Induced Force Interaction for Three-Dimensional Deformable Models IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(5):1373 - 1387, 2011 (article)
Computational flow studies in a subject-specific human upper airway using a one-equation turbulence model. Influence of the nasal cavity
Prihambodo Saksono, Perumal Nithiarasu, Igor Sazonov, Si Yong Yeo
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 87(1-5):96–114, 2011 (article)
This paper focuses on the impact of including nasal cavity on airflow through a human upper respiratory tract. A computational study is carried out on a realistic geometry, reconstructed from CT scans of a subject. The geometry includes nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea and two generations of airway bifurcations below trachea. The unstructured mesh generation procedure is discussed in some length due to the complex nature of the nasal cavity structure and poor scan resolution normally available from hospitals. The fluid dynamic studies have been carried out on the geometry with and without the inclusion of the nasal cavity. The characteristic-based split scheme along with the one-equation Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model is used in its explicit form to obtain flow solutions at steady state. Results reveal that the exclusion of nasal cavity significantly influences the resulting solution. In particular, the location of recirculating flow in the trachea is dramatically different when the truncated geometry is used. In addition, we also address the differences in the solution due to imposed, equally distributed and proportionally distributed flow rates at inlets (both nares). The results show that the differences in flow pattern between the two inlet conditions are not confined to the nasal cavity and nasopharyngeal region, but they propagate down to the trachea.
Prihambodo Saksono, Perumal Nithiarasu, Igor Sazonov, Si Yong Yeo Computational flow studies in a subject-specific human upper airway using a one-equation turbulence model. Influence of the nasal cavity International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 87(1-5):96–114, 2011 (article)
Predicting Articulated Human Motion from Spatial Processes
International Journal of Computer Vision, 94, pages: 317-334, Springer Netherlands, 2011 (article)
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Soren Hauberg, Kim S. Pedersen Predicting Articulated Human Motion from Spatial Processes International Journal of Computer Vision, 94, pages: 317-334, Springer Netherlands, 2011 (article)
Learning static Gestalt laws through dynamic experience
Ostrovsky, Y., Wulff, J., Sinha, P.
Journal of Vision, 7(9):315-315, ARVO, June 2007 (article)
The Gestalt laws (Wertheimer 1923) are widely regarded as the rules that help us parse the world into objects. However, it is unclear as to how these laws are acquired by an infant's visual system. Classically, these “laws” have been presumed to be innate (Kellman and Spelke 1983). But, more recent work in infant development, showing the protracted time-course over which these grouping principles emerge (e.g., Johnson and Aslin 1995; Craton 1996), suggests that visual experience might play a role in their genesis. Specifically, our studies of patients with late-onset vision (Project Prakash; VSS 2006) and evidence from infant development both point to an early role of common motion cues for object grouping. Here we explore the possibility that the privileged status of motion in the developmental timeline is not happenstance, but rather serves to bootstrap the learning of static Gestalt cues. Our approach involves computational analyses of real-world motion sequences to investigate whether primitive optic flow information is correlated with static figural cues that could eventually come to serve as proxies for grouping in the form of Gestalt principles. We calculated local optic flow maps and then examined how similarity of motion across image patches co-varied with similarity of certain figural properties in static frames. Results indicate that patches with similar motion are much more likely to have similar luminance, color, and orientation as compared to patches with dissimilar motion vectors. This regularity suggests that, in principle, common motion extracted from dynamic visual experience can provide enough information to bootstrap region grouping based on luminance and color and contour continuation mechanisms in static scenes. These observations, coupled with the cited experimental studies, lend credence to the hypothesis that static Gestalt laws might be learned through a bootstrapping process based on early dynamic experience.
Ostrovsky, Y., Wulff, J., Sinha, P. Learning static Gestalt laws through dynamic experience Journal of Vision, 7(9):315-315, ARVO, June 2007 (article)
Neuromotor prosthesis development
Donoghue, J., Hochberg, L., Nurmikko, A., Black, M., Simeral, J., Friehs, G.
Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 90(1):12-15, January 2007 (article)
Article describes a neuromotor prosthesis (NMP), in development at Brown University, that records human brain signals, decodes them, and transforms them into movement commands. An NMP is described as a system consisting of a neural interface, a decoding system, and a user interface, also called an effector; a closed-loop system would be completed by a feedback signal from the effector to the brain. The interface is based on neural spiking, a source of information-rich, rapid, complex control signals from the nervous system. The NMP described, named BrainGate, consists of a match-head sized platform with 100 thread-thin electrodes implanted just into the surface of the motor cortex where commands to move the hand emanate. Neural signals are decoded by a rack of computers that displays the resultant output as the motion of a cursor on a computer monitor. While computer cursor motion represents a form of virtual device control, this same command signal could be routed to a device to command motion of paralyzed muscles or the actions of prosthetic limbs. The researchers’ overall goal is the development of a fully implantable, wireless multi-neuron sensor for broad research, neural prosthetic, and human neurodiagnostic applications.
Donoghue, J., Hochberg, L., Nurmikko, A., Black, M., Simeral, J., Friehs, G. Neuromotor prosthesis development Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 90(1):12-15, January 2007 (article)
International Journal of Computer Vision, 74(1):33-50, 2007 (article)
We present an analysis of the spatial and temporal statistics of "natural" optical flow fields and a novel flow algorithm that exploits their spatial statistics. Training flow fields are constructed using range images of natural scenes and 3D camera motions recovered from hand-held and car-mounted video sequences. A detailed analysis of optical flow statistics in natural scenes is presented and machine learning methods are developed to learn a Markov random field model of optical flow. The prior probability of a flow field is formulated as a Field-of-Experts model that captures the spatial statistics in overlapping patches and is trained using contrastive divergence. This new optical flow prior is compared with previous robust priors and is incorporated into a recent, accurate algorithm for dense optical flow computation. Experiments with natural and synthetic sequences illustrate how the learned optical flow prior quantitatively improves flow accuracy and how it captures the rich spatial structure found in natural scene motion.
Roth, S., Black, M. J. On the spatial statistics of optical flow International Journal of Computer Vision, 74(1):33-50, 2007 (article)
Assistive technology and robotic control using MI ensemble-based neural interface systems in humans with tetraplegia
Donoghue, J. P., Nurmikko, A., Black, M. J., Hochberg, L.
Journal of Physiology, Special Issue on Brain Computer Interfaces, 579, pages: 603-611, 2007 (article)
This review describes the rationale, early stage development, and initial human application of neural interface systems (NISs) for humans with paralysis. NISs are emerging medical devices designed to allowpersonswith paralysis to operate assistive technologies or to reanimatemuscles based upon a command signal that is obtained directly fromthe brain. Such systems require the development of sensors to detect brain signals, decoders to transformneural activity signals into a useful command, and an interface for the user.We review initial pilot trial results of an NIS that is based on an intracortical microelectrode sensor that derives control signals from the motor cortex.We review recent findings showing, first, that neurons engaged by movement intentions persist in motor cortex years after injury or disease to the motor system, and second, that signals derived from motor cortex can be used by persons with paralysis to operate a range of devices. We suggest that, with further development, this form of NIS holds promise as a useful new neurotechnology for those with limited motor function or communication.We also discuss the additional potential for neural sensors to be used in the diagnosis and management of various neurological conditions and as a new way to learn about human brain function.
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Donoghue, J. P., Nurmikko, A., Black, M. J., Hochberg, L. Assistive technology and robotic control using MI ensemble-based neural interface systems in humans with tetraplegia Journal of Physiology, Special Issue on Brain Computer Interfaces, 579, pages: 603-611, 2007 (article)
Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
We propose a Bayesian framework for representing and recognizing local image motion in terms of two basic models: translational motion and motion boundaries. Motion boundaries are represented using a non-linear generative model that explicitly encodes the orientation of the boundary, the velocities on either side, the motion of the occluding edge over time, and the appearance/disappearance of pixels at the boundary. We represent the posterior probability distribution over the model parameters given the image data using discrete samples. This distribution is propagated over time using a particle filtering algorithm. To efficiently represent such a high-dimensional space we initialize samples using the responses of a low-level motion discontinuity detector. The formulation and computational model provide a general probabilistic framework for motion estimation with multiple, non-linear, models.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Linear parameterized models of optical flow, particularly affine models, have become widespread in image motion analysis. The linear model coefficients are straightforward to estimate, and they provide reliable estimates of the optical flow of smooth surfaces. Here we explore the use of parameterized motion models that represent much more varied and complex motions. Our goals are threefold: to construct linear bases for complex motion phenomena; to estimate the coefficients of these linear models; and to recognize or classify image motions from the estimated coefficients. We consider two broad classes of motions: i) generic “motion features” such as motion discontinuities and moving bars; and ii) non-rigid, object-specific, motions such as the motion of human mouths. For motion features we construct a basis of steerable flow fields that approximate the motion features. For object-specific motions we construct basis flow fields from example motions using principal component analysis. In both cases, the model coefficients can be estimated directly from spatiotemporal image derivatives with a robust, multi-resolution scheme. Finally, we show how these model coefficients can be use to detect and recognize specific motions such as occlusion boundaries and facial expressions.
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D. Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Robustly estimating changes in image appearance
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
We propose a generalized model of image “appearance change” in which brightness variation over time is represented as a probabilistic mixture of different causes. We define four generative models of appearance change due to (1) object or camera motion; (2) illumination phenomena; (3) specular reflections; and (4) “iconic changes” which are specific to the objects being viewed. These iconic changes include complex occlusion events and changes in the material properties of the objects. We develop a robust statistical framework for recovering these appearance changes in image sequences. This approach generalizes previous work on optical flow to provide a richer description of image events and more reliable estimates of image motion in the presence of shadows and specular reflections.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y. Robustly estimating changes in image appearance Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
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Nanohole structuring for improved performance of hydrogenated amorphous silicon photovoltaics
E.C. Johlin, A. Al-Obeidi, G. Nogay, M. Stuckelberger, T. Buonassisi, and J.C. Grossman
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 15169–15176 (2016)
Engineering solutions and root-cause analysis for light-induced degradation in p-type multicrystalline silicon PERC modules
K. Nakayashiki, J. Hofstetter, A.E. Morishige, T.-T.A. Li, D. Berney Needleman, M.A. Jensen, and T. Buonassisi
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2556981 (2016)
Synchrotron-based investigation of transition-metal getterability in n-type multicrystalline silicon
A.E. Morishige, M.A. Jensen, J. Hofstetter, P.X.T. Yen, C. Wang, B. Lai, D.P. Fenning, and T. Buonassisi
High-performance and traditional multicrystalline silicon: Comparing gettering responses and lifetime-limiting defects
S. Castellanos, K.E. Ekstrøm, A. Autruffe, M.A. Jensen, A.E. Morishige, J. Hofstetter, P.X.T. Yen, B. Lai, G. Stokkan, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Exceptional gettering response of epitaxially grown kerfless silicon
D.M. Powell, V.P. Markevich, J. Hofstetter, M.A. Jensen, A.E. Morishige, S. Castellanos, B. Lai, A.R. Peaker, and T. Buonassisi
Transient terahertz photoconductivity measurements of minority-carrier lifetime in tin sulfide thin films: Advanced metrology for an early stage photovoltaic material
R. Jaramillo, M.-J. Sher, B.K. Ofori-Okai, V. Steinmann, C. Yang, K. Hartman, K.A. Nelson, A.M. Lindenberg, R.G. Gordon, and T. Buonassisi
Dopant activation in Sn-doped Ga2O3 investigated by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
S.C. Siah, R.E. Brandt, K. Lim, L.T. Schelhas, R. Jaramillo, M.D. Heinemann, D. Chua, J. Wright, J.D. Perkins, C.U. Segre, R.G. Gordon, M.F. Toney, and T. Buonassisi
Development of an in situ temperature stage for synchrotron X-ray spectromicroscopy
R. Chakraborty, J. Serdy, B. West, M. Stuckelberger, B. Lai, J. Maser, M.I. Bertoni, M. Culpepper, and T. Buonassisi
Review of Scientific Instruments 86, 113705 (2015)
Supporting online materials: ftp://ftp.aip.org/epaps/rev_sci_instrum/E-RSINAK-86-063511
Spontaneous lateral phase separation of AlInP during thin film growth and its effect on luminescence
K. Mukherjee, A.G. Norman, A.J. Akey, T. Buonassisi, and E.A. Fitzgerald
Dislocation density reduction limited by inclusions in kerfless high-performance multicrystalline silicon
S. Castellanos, and T. Buonassisi
Physica Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters 9, 503–506 (2015)
Single-phase filamentary cellular breakdown via laser-induced solute segregation
A.J. Akey, D. Recht, J.S. Williams, M.J. Aziz, and T. Buonassisi
Advanced Functional Materials 25, 4642–4649 (2015)
Open-circuit voltage deficit, radiative sub-bandgap states, and prospects in quantum dot solar cells
C.-H.M. Chuang, A. Maurano, R.E. Brandt, G.W. Hwang, J. Jean, T. Buonassisi, V. Bulović, and M.G. Bawendi
Nano Letters 15, 3286–3294 (2015)
Proof-of-concept framework to separate recombination processes in thin silicon wafers using transient free-carrier absorption spectroscopy
S.C. Siah, M.T. Winkler, D.M. Powell, S.W. Johnston, A. Kanevce, D.H. Levi, and T. Buonassisi
Maintaining surface-phase purity is key to efficient open air fabricated cuprous oxide solar cells
R.L.Z. Hoye, R.E. Brandt, Y. Ievskaya, S. Heffernan, K.P. Musselman, T. Buonassisi, and J.L. MacManus-Driscoll
APL Materials 3, 020901 (2015)
X-Ray absorption spectroscopy study of structure and stability of disordered (Cu2SnS3)(1-x)(ZnS)x alloys upon annealing
S.C. Siah, R. Jaramillo, R. Chakraborty, P.T. Erslev, T.-C. Weng, M.F. Toney, G. Teeter, and T. Buonassisi
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 5, 372 (2015)
Picosecond carrier recombination dynamics in chalcogen-hyperdoped silicon
M.-J. Sher, C.B. Simmons, J.J. Krich, A.J. Akey, M.T. Winkler, D. Recht, T. Buonassisi, M.J. Aziz, and A.M. Lindenberg
In-situ photoluminescence imaging for passivation-layer etching process control for photovoltaics
J.Z. Lee, L. Michaelson, K. Munoz, T. Tyson, A. Gallegos, J.T. Sullivan, and T. Buonassisi
X-ray absorption spectroscopy elucidates the impact of structural disorder on electron mobility in amorphous zinc-tin-oxide thin films
S.C. Siah, S.W. Lee, Y.S. Lee, J. Heo, T. Shibata, C.U. Segre, R.G. Gordon, and T. Buonassisi
Tetrahedrally coordinated disordered Cu2SnS3–Cu2ZnSnS4–ZnS alloys with tunable optical and electronic properties
P.T. Erslev, M.R. Young, J.V. Li, S.C. Siah, R. Chakraborty, H. Du, R.J. Lad, T. Buonassisi, and G. Teeter
Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 129, 124–131 (2014)
Atomic layer deposited gallium oxide buffer layer enables 1.2 V open-circuit voltage in cuprous oxide solar cells
Y.S. Lee, D. Chua, R.E. Brandt, S.C. Siah, J.V. Li, J.P. Mailoa, S.W. Lee, R.G. Gordon, and T. Buonassisi
Advanced Materials 26, 4704–4710 (2014)
Variation of dislocation etch-pit geometry: An indicator of bulk microstructure and recombination activity in multicrystalline silicon
S. Castellanos, M.M. Kivambe, J. Hofstetter, M. Rinio, B. Lai, and T. Buonassisi
Investigation of lifetime-limiting defects after high-temperature phosphorus diffusion in high-iron content multicrystalline silicon
D.P. Fenning, A.S. Zuschlag, A. Frey, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, G. Hahn, and T. Buonassisi
Extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of selenium-hyperdoped silicon
B.K. Newman, E. Ertekin, J.T. Sullivan, M.T. Winkler, M.A. Marcus, S.C. Fakra, M.-J. Sher, E. Mazur, J.C. Grossman, and T. Buonassisi
Rapid dislocation-density mapping of as-cut crystalline silicon wafers
D. Berney Needleman, H.J. Choi, D.M. Powell, and T. Buonassisi
Physica Status Solidi RRL 7, 1041–1044 (2013)
Download the software here: /dlcounting
A next-generation hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline for in-situ studies of energy materials and devices
J. Maser, B. Lai, T. Buonassisi, Z. Cai, S. Chen, L. Finney, S.-C. Gleber, C. Jacobsen, C. Preissner, C. Roehrig, V. Rose, D. Shu, D. Vine, and S. Vogt
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 45, 85–97 (2013)
Local melting in silicon driven by retrograde solubility
D.P. Fenning, B.K. Newman, M.I. Bertoni, S. Hudelson, S. Bernardis, M.A. Marcus, S.C. Fakra, and T. Buonassisi
Acta Materialia 61, 4320–4328 (2013)
In-situ stage development for high-temperature X-ray nanocharacterization of defects in solar cells
S. Gangam, A. Jeffries, D.P. Fenning, B. Lai, T. Buonassisi, C. Honsberg, and M.I. Bertoni
Proc. 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Tampa, FL, USA (2013)
Improved iron gettering of contaminated multicrystalline silicon by high-temperature phosphorus diffusion
D.P. Fenning, A.S. Zuschlag, M.I. Bertoni, B. Lai, G. Hahn, and T. Buonassisi
Decoupling surface- and bulk-limited lifetimes in 100-μm thin silicon using transient absorption pump-probe spectroscopy
S.C. Siah, C.B. Simmons, J. Hofstetter, M.T. Winkler, and T. Buonassisi
Precipitated iron: A limit on gettering efficacy in multicrystalline silicon
D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, G. Coletti, B. Lai, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Analysis of the evolution of iron precipitates in multicrystalline silicon during solar cell processing
J. Schön, A. Haarahiltunen, H. Savin, D.P. Fenning, T. Buonassisi, W. Warta, and M.C. Schubert
Antimony-doped tin(II) sulfide thin films
P. Sinsermsuksakul, R. Chakraborty, S.B. Kim, S.M. Heald, T. Buonassisi, and R.G. Gordon
Chemistry of Materials 24, 4556−4562 (2012)
Co-optimizing crystalline silicon solar cell throughput and efficiency using continuously ramping phosphorus diffusion profiles
A.E. Morishige, D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, and T. Buonassisi
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA (2012)
Nanoprobe X-ray fluorescence characterization of defects in large-area solar cells
M.I. Bertoni, D.P. Fenning, M. Rinio, V. Rose, M. Holt, J. Maser, and T. Buonassisi
Energy & Environmental Science 4, 4252–4257 (2011)
Synchrotron-based microprobe investigation of impurities in raw quartz- and carbon-bearing feedstock materials for photovoltaic applications
S. Bernardis, B.K. Newman, M. Di Sabatino, S.C. Fakra, M.I. Bertoni, D.P. Fenning, R. Larsen, and T. Buonassisi
Progress in Photovoltaics 20, 217–225 (2011)
Detection of ZnS phases in CZTS thin-films by EXAFS
K. Hartman, B.K. Newman, J.L. Johnson, H. Du, P.A. Fernandes, V. Chawla, T. Bolin, B.M. Clemens, A.F. da Cunha, G. Teeter, M.A. Scarpulla, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Seattle, WA, USA (2011)
Synchrotron-based characterization of solar cell nanodefects
M.I. Bertoni, D.P. Fenning, V. Rose, M. Holt, J. Maser, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Seattle, WA, USA (2011)
Iron distribution in silicon after solar cell processing: Synchrotron analysis and predictive modeling
D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, S. Hudelson, M. Rinio, J.-F. Lelièvre, B. Lai, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Applied Physics Letters 98, 162103 (2011)
Influence of defect type on hydrogen passivation efficacy in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
M.I. Bertoni, S. Hudelson, B.K. Newman, D.P. Fenning, H.F.W. Dekkers, E. Cornagliotti, A.S. Zuschlag, G. Micard, G. Hahn, G. Coletti, B. Lai, and T. Buonassisi
Infrared birefringence imaging of residual stress and bulk defects in multicrystalline silicon
V. Ganapati, S. Schoenfelder, S. Castellanos, S. Oener, R. Koepge, A. Sampson, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, H. Morhenn, G. Hahn, J. Bagdahn, and T. Buonassisi
Impurity-to-efficiency simulator: Predictive simulation of solar cell efficiencies based on measured metal distribution and cell processing conditions
J. Hofstetter, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, J.-F. Lelièvre, T. Buonassisi, and C. del Cañizo
Proc. 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain (2010)
See also: Journal Article
Retrograde melting and internal liquid gettering in silicon
S. Hudelson, B.K. Newman, S. Bernardis, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, M.A. Marcus, S.C. Fakra, B. Lai, and T. Buonassisi
Synchrotron-based microanalysis of iron distribution after thermal processing and predictive modeling of resulting solar cell efficiency
D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, J. Lelièvre, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA (2010)
V. Ganapati, S. Schoenfelder, S. Castellanos, S. Oener, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Honolulu, HI (2010)
Impact of defect type on hydrogen passivation effectiveness in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
M.I. Bertoni, S. Hudelson, B.K. Newman, S. Bernardis, D.P. Fenning, H.F.W. Dekkers, E. Cornagliotti, A.S. Zuschlag, G. Micard, G. Hahn, G. Coletti, B. Lai, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Honolulu, HI (2010)
Quantitative stress measurements of bulk microdefects in multicrystalline silicon
S. Schoenfelder, A. Sampson, V. Ganapati, R. Koepge, S. Castellanos, S. Oener, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, Germany; pp.977-980. (2009)
Evolution of metal impurities during crystalline silicon solar cell processing
S. Hudelson, Y.S. Lee, K. Hartman, B. Lai, Z. Cai, M.A. Marcus, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, San Diego, USA (2008)
Transition metal co-precipitation mechanisms in silicon
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Acta Materialia 55, 6119 (2007)
Luminescence imaging
T. Trupke, R.A. Bardos, M.D. Abbott, E. Pink, Y. Augarten, F.W. Chen, J.E. Cotter, M. Kasemann, M.C. Schubert, M. The, S.W. Glunz, W. Warta, M. Rüdiger, E. Schäffer, P. Würfel, D. Macdonald, J. Tan, A. Cuevas, J. Bauer, O. Breitenstein, T. Buonassisi, A.M. Lorenz, and H.P. Hartmann
Proc. 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Milan, Italy (2007)
Intermetallic phases and transition metal interaction in mc-silicon
M. Heuer, S. Langkau, T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, A. Minor, and E.R. Weber
Evolution of stresses in wafer bulks and edges during industrial solar cell processing
T. Buonassisi, S. Reitsma, R. Sweeney, M.D. Pickett, W. Huang, J. Lesniak, and M.L. Spencer
See also: Presentation
Transition metal interaction and Ni-Fe-Cu-Si phases in silicon
M. Heuer, T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, A. Minor, and E.R. Weber
Physical mechanisms of in situ surface gettering of metals in ribbon silicon for solar cells
D.R. Khanal, T. Buonassisi, M.A. Marcus, A.A. Istratov, and E.R. Weber
Control of metal impurities in “dirty” multicrystalline silicon for solar cells
A.A. Istratov, T. Buonassisi, M.D. Pickett, M. Heuer, and E.R. Weber
Materials Science and Engineering B 134, 282-286 (2006)
From understanding towards engineering metal impurities in multicrystalline silicon
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Dresden, Germany; pp.696-699 (2006)
Transition metal interaction and formation of intermetallic phases in multicrystalline silicon
M. Heuer, T. Buonassisi, M.A. Marcus, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, A. Minor, B. Lai, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Dresden, Germany; pp.1105–1107 (2006)
Complex intermetallic phase in multicrystalline silicon doped with transition metals for low-cost solar cells
M. Heuer, T. Buonassisi, M.A. Marcus, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, T. Shibata, and E.R. Weber
Physical Review B 73, 235204 (2006)
Transition metals in photovoltaic-grade cast multicrystalline silicon: Assessing the role of impurities in silicon nitride crucible lining material
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, J. Rakotoniaina, O. Breitenstein, M.A. Marcus, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Chemical natures and distributions of metal impurities in multicrystalline silicon materials
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M. Heuer, J.P. Kalejs, G. Hahn, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, T.F. Ciszek, R.F. Clark, D.W. Cunningham, A.M. Gabor, R. Jonczyk, S. Narayanan, E. Sauar, and E.R. Weber
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 14, 513-531 (2006)
Metal precipitation at grain boundaries in silicon: Dependence on grain boundary character and dislocation decoration
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, T.F. Ciszek, and E.R. Weber
Quantifying the effect of metal-rich precipitates on minority carrier diffusion length in multicrystalline silicon using synchrotron-based spectrally-resolved X-ray beam induced current
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, G. Hahn, S. Riepe, J. Isenberg, W. Warta, G. Willeke, T.F. Ciszek, and E.R. Weber
Local measurements of diffusion length and chemical character of metal clusters in multicrystalline silicon
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, M. Heuer, M.D. Pickett, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Solid State Phenomena 108-109, 577-584 (2005)
Distinguishing the impacts of individual metal species on multicrystalline silicon performance in a multiple metal environment
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, M.D. Pickett, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Barcelona, Spain (2005)
Distribution and formation of silicon carbide and silicon nitride precipitates in block-cast multicrystalline silicon
J. Rakotoniaina, O. Breitenstein, M. Werner, M.H. Al-Rifai, T. Buonassisi, M.D. Pickett, M. Ghosh, A. Müller, and L.Q. Nam
Synchrotron-based investigations of the nature and impact of iron contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, M.A. Marcus, R. Jonczyk, J. Isenberg, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, W. Warta, R. Schindler, G. Willeke, and E.R. Weber
Journal of Applied Physics 97, 074901 (2005)
Analysis of copper-rich preciptiates in silicon: Chemical state, gettering, and impact on multicrystalline silicon solar cell material
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, T.F. Ciszek, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, W. Warta, R. Schindler, G. Willeke, and E.R. Weber
Journal Applied Physics 97, 063503 (2005)
Impact of metal silicide precipitate dissolution during rapid thermal processing of multicrystalline silicon solar cells
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, S. Peters, C. Ballif, J. Isenberg, S. Riepe, W. Warta, R. Schindler, G. Willeke, Z. Cai, B. Lai, and E.R. Weber
Synchrotron-based investigations into metallic impurity distribution and defect engineering in multicrystalline silicon via thermal treatments
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, S. Peters, C. Ballif, M. Heuer, T.F. Ciszek, Z. Cai, B. Lai, R. Schindler, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Lake Buena Vista, USA; pp.1027–1030 (2005)
Impact of iron contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells: Origins, chemical states, and device impacts
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, R. Jonczyk, B. Lai, Z. Cai, J. Isenberg, W. Warta, R. Schindler, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 19th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Paris, France; pp.488–491 (2004)
Defects in the deteriorated border layer of block-cast multicrystalline silicon ingots
M. Rinio, C. Ballif, T. Buonassisi, and D. Borchert
X-ray beam induced current/microprobe x-ray fluorescence: synchrotron radiation based x-ray microprobe techniques for analysis of the recombination activity and chemical nature of metal impurities in silicon
O.F. Vyvenko, T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, and E.R. Weber
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 16, S141-S151 (2004)
Applications of synchrotron radiation x-ray techniques on the analysis of the behavior of transition metals in solar cells and single crystalline silicon with extended defects
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, Z. Cai, B. Lai, T.F. Ciszek, and R. Schindler
Physica B 340-342, 1137-1141 (2003)
Observation of transition metals at shunt locations in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
T. Buonassisi, O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, and G. Hahn
Journal of Applied Physics 95, 1556-1561 (2003)
Metal content of multicrystalline silicon for solar cells
A.A. Istratov, T. Buonassisi, E.R. Weber, R.C. McDonald, A.L. Smith, R. Schindler, J.A. Rand, and J.P. Kalejs
Solid State Phenomena 95-96, 175-180 (2003)
Metal content of multicrystalline silicon for solar cells and its impact on minority carrier diffusion length
A.A. Istratov, T. Buonassisi, R.J. McDonald, A.R. Smith, R. Schindler, J.A. Rand, J.P. Kalejs, and E.R. Weber
Assessing the role of transition metals in shunting mechanisms using synchrotron-based techniques
T. Buonassisi, O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, G. Hahn, D. Sontag, J. Rakotoniaina, O. Breitenstein, J. Isenberg, and R. Schindler
Proc. 3rd World Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (WCPEC-3), Osaka, Japan; pp.1120-1123 (2003)
Application of x-ray synchrotron techniques to the characterization of the chemical nature and recombination activity of grown-in and process-induced defects and impurities in solar cells
T. Buonassisi, O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, and R. Schindler
MRS Symposium Proceedings 719, 179 (2002)
Application of synchrotron radiation based x-ray microprobe techniques for the analysis of recombination activity of metals precipitated at Si/SiGe misfit dislocations
O.F. Vyvenko, T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, M. Kittler, and W. Seifert
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14, 13079-13086 (2002)
X-ray beam induced current – a synchrotron radiation based technique for the in situ analysis of recombination properties and chemical nature of metal clusters in silicon
O.F. Vyvenko, T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, H. Hieslmair, A.C. Thompson, R. Schindler, and E.R. Weber
Journal of Applied Physics 91, Journal of Applied Physics (2001)
Electrical and mechanical defects in solar cell materials and devices
S. Hudelson, K. Hartman, Y.S. Lee, and T. Buonassisi
4th Workshop on the Future Direction of Photovoltaics, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan (2008). Read the PDF
Synchrotron-based infrared spectromicroscopy of oxygen gettering by grain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon
M.D. Pickett, T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, R.F. Clark, S. Narayanan, and E.R. Weber
15th workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells & Modules: Materials and Processes, Editor: B.L.Sopori, NREL, Golden, CO, pp.178-181 (2005).
Synchrotron-based spectrally-resolved X-ray beam induced current: a technique to quantify the effect of metal-rich precipitates on minority carrier diffusion length in multicrystalline silicon
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, G. Hahn, S. Riepe, J. Isenberg, W. Warta, G. Willeke, T.F. Ciszek, and E.R. Weber
EXAFS studies on Ni11.6Fe2.8Cu0.4Si27.6 precipitates in multicrystalline silicon
M. Heuer, T. Buonassisi, M.A. Marcus, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, and E.R. Weber
Neutron activation analysis study of metal content of multicrystalline silicon for cost-efficient solar cells
Proc. 13th workshop on crystalline silicon solar cell materials and processes, B. L. Sopori, Editor, NREL, Vail, CO, pp.158-161 (2003).
Experimental procedure for determination of the depth of metal clusters in XBIC/µ-XRF mapping of metal clusters in silicon solar cells
Statistically meaningful data on the chemical state of iron precipitates in processed multicrystalline silicon using synchrotron-based x-ray absorption spectroscopy
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, Z. Cai, B. Lai, M.A. Marcus, J. Lu, G.A. Rozgony, R. Schindler, R. Jonczyk, and J. Rand
Proc. 13th workshop on crystalline silicon solar cell materials and processes, B. L. Sopori, Editor, NREL, Vail, CO, pp.96-101 (2003).
Proc. 12th workshop on crystalline silicon solar cell materials and processes, B. L. Sopori, Editor, NREL, Breckenridge, CO, pp.111-116 (2002).
Application of x-ray fluorescence technique to studies of aluminum gettering in silicon
Analysis of shunts in multicrystalline silicon solar cells using microprobe x-ray fluorescence technique
T. Buonassisi, O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, R. Schindler, and G. Hahn
Application of x-ray fluorescence microprobe technique for the analysis of fully processed solar cells
O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, T. Buonassisi, E.R. Weber, and R. Schindler
Proc. 11th workshop on crystalline silicon solar cell materials and processes, B. L. Sopori, Editor, NREL, Golden, CO, pp.172-176 (2001).
The bright future of silicon-based photovoltaics
Invited talk at the Intersolar North America Conference, San Francisco, California, USA (2008). Read the PDF
Invited talk at the 4th Workshop on the Future Direction of Photovoltaics, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan (2008). Read the PDF
T. Buonassisi, S. Reitsma, M.D. Pickett, W. Huang, J. Lesniak, and M.L. Spencer
Plenary presentation at the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Milan, Italy (2007). Read the PDF
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The Mythos Companion for Savage Worlds
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Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce the relase of the Mythos Companion book for Savage Worlds. This new book compiles the content from Wine and Blood, Queen of the Labyrinth, and Battle of Thermopylae into a single release. It is currently available in PDF format and will be released as a black-and-white paperback later this month. Mythos: Companion [PDF: $10.00 | POD: $13.99 COMING...
Savage Worlds Mythos in Full Color Print
Apr 20th, 2016 · 0 Comment
Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce the availability of the Mythos core setting guide for Savage Worlds in full color, hardcover print! This revised edition contains all errata and incorporates the new Mythos format. In addition, the player’s and GM’s sections of the core setting guide can be purchased separately in the forms of the Hero’s Handbook and Epic Gamemastering....
Epic Savage Worlds Adventures in Mythological Ancient Greece
Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce the release of the revised edition of the Mythos core setting guide for Savage Worlds. This revised edition incorporates previous errata along with presenting the new Mythos layout format presenting a full color book and new artwork (already featured in the EGS version). Additionally, all those who’ve already purchased the core setting guide...
Mythos Wine and Blood Now Available for the Entropic Gaming System
Jul 8th, 2015 · 0 Comment
Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce the release of the first Mythos supplement for the Entropic Gaming System – Wine and Blood. This first supplement details Dionysus’s entrance into the Heavenly Contest as Zagreus and the new material that comes with it, such as the addition of the Satyr Background. Mythos: Wine and Blood (EGS) [PDF: $3.95] http://www.rpgnow.com/product/152409/Mythos-Wine-and-Blood-EGS Zagreus...
Master the Minotaur’s Labyrinth in the Latest Supplement for Mythos
Jun 21st, 2015 · 0 Comment
Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce the release of the second supplement for Mythos powered by Savage Worlds, detailing Hera’s entry in to the Heavenly Contest and the incorporation of the Labyrinth of the Knossos of Crete. Available in PDF, this supplement will another part of the material incorporated into the Mythos Companion book, to be released in print and PDF. Mythos: Queen...
The Land of Mythological Greece for the Entropic Gaming System
Mar 23rd, 2015 · 0 Comment
Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce that the full suite of core books of the Mythos setting for the Entropic Gaming System are now available in PDF. This suite of books provides customers with different buying options. First, you can pick-up the entire core setting guide in one book in Mythos (EGS). This book contains both player and GM content in one offering. The full color PDF is...
Help the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae for Savage Worlds
Mar 29th, 2014 · 0 Comment
Mystical Throne Entertainment is proud to announce the latest adventure module for Mythos, an Ancient Greek Mythology setting for Savage Worlds, placing the characters in the throes of the Battle of Thermopylae. [View our entry in the Roleplayers Chronicle Reference database here.] In a distant, possible future, it’s the year 1077 AF. After more than a thousand years, the Heavenly Contest ended without...
Designer’s Diary: Mystical Throne Entertainment – Mythos (Savage Worlds)
Sep 24th, 2013 · 0 Comment
Mythos Mythos is a full setting for the Savage Worlds RPG published by Mystical Throne Entertainment. By Gilbert Gallo Learn more about Mythos here Purchase the Mythos here Welcome to the latest Designer’s Diary, a column where designers are given the opportunity to take readers on an in-depth ride through the design and development process of their system, setting, or product. If you’d like...
Savage Worlds Heroic Greek Mythology in Mythos
Mystical Throne Entertainment has released its latest Savage Worlds setting – Mythos. Written by Italian author Gilbert Gallo, the Mythos Core Setting Guide is an English translation of his Italian Mythos RPG, converted and expanded for use with Savage Worlds. Mythos is all about epic deeds and heroic tales! [View our entry in the Roleplayers Chronicle Reference database here.] The Olympians...
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Listen to a never-before-heard Beatles outtake from Sgt. Pepper
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles legendary album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ and to celebrate,you can listen to a previously unreleased version of their title track.
The outtake comes from the anniversary edition of their famed Sgt. Pepper album which will be released on the 26th May. The anniversary album will feature new mixing from Giles Martin and Sam Okell and feature notes from surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. In addition the album will come included with a whopping 34 previously unreleased recordings for fans to hear for the first time.
The outtake version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band features a much more stripped down production that doesn’t feature the horns or the applause and laughter of the original. The new recording also features an extended ending with some additional vocals and a conversation between Paul and John Lennon about the track. According to the track’s title this early released outtake from the upcoming anniversary album is the 9th take – though whether that means of this track, just in that recording session or something else is anyone’s guess.
Listen to the Beatles – ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9 and Speech)’ for the first time below:
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Articles by Beckman, M.
Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ., 3 December 2003
Dense Matter
Compact bones can still break easily
Mary Beckman
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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA--Irregularly placed studs can weaken a house's frame. A small change in a bone protein similarly disrupts the skeleton and dramatically reduces its strength, according to new research presented here 23 November 2003 at the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting. The results reveal that a characteristic other than density enfeebles bone.
As people age, their hips, spine, and wrists are more likely to fracture and break. Diminished bone density, a condition that occurs in osteoporosis, frequently makes bones fragile (see "The Plot Thickens on Thin Bones"). To understand how bones become weak, researchers study genes that affect bone density. The gene that encodes -collagen--the most common bone protein--comes in two varieties: The more common form carries a G at a particular DNA position, and the other sports a T. Seventy percent of people carry two copies of the common form (G/G), whereas 25% have one of each variant (G/T). Previously, geneticist Stuart Ralston of the University of Aberdeen, U.K., showed that elderly G/T people were 1.56 times more likely to fracture a bone than were G/G seniors. To determine how the T variant weakens bones, Ralston and colleagues examined hipbone from about 25 people with an average age of 75 who had received prosthetic hips.
The researchers tested the activity of bone-building cells called osteoblasts. In a petri dish, osteoblasts from G/G individuals crafted a greater number of bonelike structures than did cells from G/T subjects, suggesting that the T version of -collagen impairs bone construction. Surprisingly, they found that bones from G/T people were only slightly less dense than bones from G/G volunteers. Among osteoporosis patients, that density difference translates to a modest 6% to 7% increased risk of fracture. But G/T elderly fracture their bones 10 times more often than normal, the researchers found. Together, these results suggest that G/T bones are unusually fragile despite having nearly normal density.
To find additional factors that might weaken bones, Ralston and colleagues extracted collagen from the hip samples. Usually, -collagen teams up with another form of collagen-- -collagen--in a ratio of 2-to-1 within bones. In G/T hips, however, an surplus skewed the ratio to 2.4-to-1. Further analysis revealed that -collagen molecules grouped themselves in threesomes, an unusual arrangement known to make bones brittle. To look more closely at the bone organization, the researchers applied an imaging technique that measured its mineral content; G/G bones contained about 25% calcium, but the frailer G/T bones contained only about 20%. This difference might compromise bone strength without drastically reducing its density.
The demonstration that dense bones can still be fragile is "really surprising," says molecular biologist Marian Young of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland. The requirement for the right collagen ratio suggests that the architecture of bone is as important as the density, says cell biologist Arnold Kahn of the University of California, San Francisco: "If the struts are put in the wrong place, the structure won't be as solid." With more knowledge of bone structure, researchers might gain the skills necessary to launch a new renovation show, This Old Hip.
--Mary Beckman
S. A. Ralston, Genetic control and gene-environment interaction affect susceptibility to osteoporosis. 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, 21-25 November 2003, San Diego, California. [Meeting Web Site]
Citation: M. Beckman, Dense Matter. Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ. 2003 (48), nw164 (2003).
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Martin Kaymer cooled off from his record-setting pace on Saturday. He missed a few fairways, putted off a green and made a handf
Martin Kaymer cooled off from his record-setting pace on Saturday. He missed a few fairways, putted off a green and made a handful of bogeys. He even took an unplayable before shooting 72. At times, it looked as if the wheels were coming off. At the end of the day, the soft-spoken Germans lead is only one less than when he started. Clearly, he is in control of this U.S. Open. "Two over par is not as bad as it looks on the scorecard," Kaymer said of his score that came on a day when just two players found red figures. After missing just three fairways all day, he missed that many in the first five holes. One errant drive found a nest of pine straw from which he was forced to take a drop and ended up sinking an 18-foot putt for bogey, his second in four holes. Another drive ended up in the native area and, after NBC announcer Roger Maltbie told viewers Kaymer would have almost no shot, he put it to five feet and made eagle. His lone birdie of the day came on the final hole. After watching Kaymer cruise over the first 36 holes, the United States Golf Association clearly didnt want to have to re-write the record books anymore and so the pins were tucked in some near-diabolical spots and the greens rolled firm. Only Rickie Fowler and Erik Compton managed sub-par rounds, both 67s. Fowler knows that reeling in the leader will be a near-impossible task; however hell still put the ball in the ground on Sunday. Crazy things seem to happen in majors. "I can put myself in contention with the rest of the group, and see what Martin does," he stated. "If he goes out and posts double digits, its going to be impossible for us to catch him. Its like a second tournament going on. See what Martin does. Hes obviously on top of his game and playing well." Comptons spot is all the more remarkable considering he is playing with his third heart. The player who won the Order of Merit on the Canadian Tour back in 2004 has undergone two transplants, the last one in 2008. 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Gryba got a match penalty and a game misconduct for the hit, though most hockey fans Ive seen on social media (and commentators and analysts) deemed it a clean hit. I thought it was clearly a full body check with no intent and the one official was looking right at the play with a good view and didnt call anything until afterwards. I dont get it. I know its hard for the officials to make that call since hockey plays happen so fast. But since this official saw the play happen from a good angle, I have no idea how he didnt see what actually happened. Couldnt the official who saw it just say it was a clean hit to the other official and linesmen? If you were the ref that was looking at the play as it happened, what would you have done? Thoughts on the play? Thank you for your time, Haleigh J. -- Haleigh: While I am certainly concerned for the health and well-being of Artem Anisimov I, like you, see this as a legal body check in both the setup and execution of the hit delivered by Eric Gryba. Let me attempt to clarify your question as to why the referee called a match penalty from what you describe as, from a good angle. Referee Justin St. Pierre, backing up through the bottom of the end zone face-off circle, processed the visual information he received on the play and did react to the hit by raising his arm to call a penalty before the scrum developed. From this position, given the speed of the play, St. Pierre must have determined in the momentary aftermath of the hit that an illegal check to the head had been delivered. This is reasonable for the ref to determine given his angle (looking through the back of Gryba) and more so by the physical possture and reaction of both players following the contact.dddddddddddd. Grybas body naturally elevated as a result of impact and Anisimovs out of control fall and loss of his helmet provided the ref with incriminating imagery burnt into his mind in that moment. The time delay that resulted from the altercation that took place following the check, coupled with the fact that Anisimov required medical attention to remove him from the ice elevated the refs perception of the play to a match penalty. My take is considerably different. As you suggested, Anisimov had his head down and was looking back toward the puck with his body in a lowered posture. In setting up to make a legal check, Gryba mirrored his opponent by lowering his body posture as well with the intent to make a shoulder check through Anisimovs body. The body posture of both players is a key component in the set up of the intended check. Just prior to impact Gryba stiffened his legs slightly and delivered a shoulder check off the centre mass of Anisimov. While some secondary contact to the head resulted the main contact was delivered through Anisimovs chest and shoulder. Once the referee determined that an illegal check to the head had been delivered, rule 48 provides for only two penalty options to assess; a minor or a match penalty. There are no provisions for a major penalty or game misconduct within this rule. A match penalty is to be assessed at the Referees discretion if, in his judgment, the player attempted to or deliberately injured his opponent with an illegal check to the head. In my judgment, for the reasons stated above, I do not believe that was the case. The closest official to the play made the call. In response to your last portion of the question, his partner, veteran referee Paul Devorski, would have been trailing the play a considerable distance away and on the opposite side of the ice. 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Jul 29, 2011 | Fukushima Accident Updates
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Different districts, different traditions, one people
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Completely surrounded by some of the deepest waters in the world, the sea was an intrinsic part of life for early Caymanians. From the sea turtles and its vitality to the Caymanian diet, to its location being a favorite of pirates, the Cayman Islands were largely founded on a rich maritime heritage. Caymanians looked to the sea for their livelihood. Fishermen, coat captains, skippers, deck hands, and rope makers were a vital part to the Cayman economy and to everyday life. This rich maritime heritage is one that continues even to this day.
For about two hundred years, the bulk of Caymanians survived on the fruits of the sea. Bordered by gorgeous reefs teeming with marine life, Caymanians made catboats to go fish at these nearby reefs. Their efforts were tireless; eventually Caymanians were recognized as master shipbuilders. Over the years there have been literally hundreds of schooners, catboats, skiffs and, in later years, even motor vessels built on Cayman shores.
Men also foraged far and wide across the Western Caribbean aboard turtle schooners to bring back meat for turtle stew. Further proving themselves in the Maritime world, Caymanians became known as first class mariners, sought after by the largest shipping companies as captains, navigators and crew for their vessels.
Among the plethora of Grand Cayman attractions is The National Museum in Grand Cayman, keeping Caymanian history alive. The National Museum tells the fascinating story of the Cayman Islands with traditional catboats and other natural history specimens on view.
Experience the rich history of the Cayman Islands, one of the top Caribbean destinations. Many attractive modern-day career opportunities exist in the Maritime sector, including naval architecture, marine engineering, maritime administration, nautical studies, and more.
While driving around each island notice the blue and white signs that tell the maritime story about that location.
The Elmslie Memorial Church on Harbour Drive in George Town is made from the wood of a shipwreck.
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A Traditional Small Trolley or Cart.
This small cart was designed to take 2 small passengers or some cargo. The construction was mainly from wood with some metal parts to make the handle.
Many of the sheet timber parts were designed to overlap when assembled, so that most of the sizes were non-critical.
The cart was designed to be made from plywood, or any other sheet timber.
My neighbour was discarding an old wardrobe which he let me have. This provided more than enough wood. It wasn't hardwood but good enough.
The sides and base were marked out as indicated by the plans and then cut out. The edges were sanded to get the final shape.
The sides were assembled using some of the reclaimed wardrobe fixings.
Self-tapping wardrobe fitting
The rear axle was cut from a block of hardwood.
The cut-out on the underside was simply to allow the axle to be held without the need to drill the 10mm hole all the way through which would be difficult and require a long drill.
The holes were drilled by hand as parallel to the axle housing as possible. In reality the holes had to be opened out to 11mm to get the axle to slide all the way through.
The photograph below shows the axle end detail. The washers and 10mm nuts were standard parts. The tube was a piece of 12mm diameter pipe which was a running fit in the hub of the wheel. This was drilled out to 10mm to fit on the axle rod and was turned to a length 0.5mm longer than the width of the wheel hub.
The completed rear axle.
The nuts on the inside were used to give the outside wheel nuts something to clamp against rather than the wooden beam taking all the force.
If preferred the wheels could just run on the threaded rod, but the pipe bearing would give a smoother running fit.
This image shows the front axle ready to take the wheels. A piece of wood of the full thickness was not available so two blocks were bolted together as shown. The bolts were needed anyway to hold the metal steering arms.
The steel box sections were difficult to keep central on the 8mm threaded rod and so some wooden bungs were inserted into the lower end. These were drilled centrally 8mm to give support.
The steering pivot was a piece of 10mm threaded rod running in a 12mm piece of pipe. As the wood for the base of the cart was only soft pine, a block was screwed to the inside to give extra support.
Steering support block
The sides of the cart were secured to the base using some screws up through the bottom. This photo also shows the steering axle installed, secured with two Nyloc nuts.
The handle for the cart was a piece of 16mm square box section. It was drilled through both ends with an 8mm drill. The top end was fitted with a piece of 8mm threaded rod which had some fuel hose fitted on it to form a handle.
The Handle
The lower end of the handle had a short length of 8mm threaded rod held in place with two nuts plus two washers. The length of this rod was cut to be just less than the distance between the two pieces of threaded rod, which were holding the steering arms in place.
General view of steering and handle assembly
Handle Pivot
At this point the trolley was ready for a quick road test. Initially the steering was a little tight, but it soon loosened up after a few turns.
The other concern was the steering arms. They were strong enough for pulling and steering, but they could twist quite easily. This twisting was reduced by slightly tightening the threaded rod nuts, but time would tell if this would be a problem or not.
The steering arms could be made shorter if needed, but it was quite nice that the arm could be leaned back as shown, when the trolley was parked.
The rear axle was re-enforced by adding a couple of triangular wood off-cuts.
Two seats were added to the cart supported by batons on each side. The seats were screwed in place but could be made removable.
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A Blind Spot in Confocal Reflection Microscopy: The Dependence of Fiber Brightness on Fiber Orientation in Imaging Biopolymer Networks. L.M. Jawerth, S. Munster, D.A. Vader, B. Fabry, and D.A. Weitz. (2010). Biophysical Journal, 98, L01-L03.
== Summary ==
The paper is interested in imaging techniques for biopolymers. In particular, the paper compares the effectiveness in imaging collagen networks of two confocal imaging methods, confocal reflection microscopy (CRM) and confocal fluorescence microscopy (CFM). The authors simultaneously image collagen using the two techniques and find that in CRM, fiber brightness depends strongly on fiber orientation. This explains why when using CRM to image collagen, the network appears to be aligned with the imaging plane, whereas in CFM, the network seems isotropic.
== Background ==
Difference between CRM and CFM:
Previous research in collagen network architecture:
== Experimental Setup ==
Small numbers of polystyrene (PS) microspheres were placed in cylindrical microwells filled with polyNIPAM nanoparticles (Fig 1A, 1D). The microwells have depth and diameter 30 <math>\mu</math>m, and they are chemically functionalized so that the particles cannot stick to the surfaces. The microspheres have diameter 1.0 <math>\mu</math>m. The nanoparticles have diameter 80 nm and induce a depletion attraction between 2 microspheres (sticky spheres, see Fig 1B). This depletion attraction is very short-ranged (< 1/10 PS sphere diameter) which means that the interactions are pairwise additive (see Fig 1C). Therefore the total potential energy U of a given structure is well approximated by <math>U = CU_m</math>, where <math>C</math> is the number of contacts or depletion bonds and <math>U_m</math> is the depth of the pair potential.
The authors do this for thousands of clusters which they then image using optical microscopy. For each value of N <math>\leq</math> 10 they determine different cluster configurations and their probabilities <math>P_i</math> and thus the free energies <math> F_i = -k_B T ln P_i </math>.
[[Image:meng_fig1.gif|400px|thumb|center|Fig. 1. A. Experimental system: microwells filled with polyNIPAM microgel particles and PS microbeads. B. Close-up view of two sticky microspheres and surrounding nanoparticles. C. Pair potential. Note that the depletion attraction is very short-range, so the interaction is strictly pairwise additive. D. Micrograph of several microwells, each with different individual clusters. E. Optical micrographs of colloidal clusters in microwells with N = 2, 3, 4, 5 particles.]]
== Results ==
The cluster classifications can then be compared to experimental predictions, which are found in a previous theoretical PRL paper (Arkus, Manoharan, Brenner. ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' '''103''', 118303 (2009)). Observed structures agree with experimental predictions. For N = 2, 3, 4, 5, one unique structure (dimer, trimer, tetrahedron, triangular dipyramid), as shown in Fig 1E.
The first interesting case is N = 6. Two structures are observed, an octogon and a polytetrahedron. Both have C = 12 contacts and thus have the same potential energy. What explains the 20-fold preference for the polytetrahedron (3 kT difference) is an entropic difference. The entropy can be divided into two factors: a rotational entropy and a vibrational entropy. The rotational entropy makes the largest contribution to the free-energy difference and is proportional to the moment of inertia or equivalently the permutational degeneracy. This contributes a factor of 12, the remaining factor of 2 coming from the vibrational entropy. In the case of N = 6 as for N = 7 and 8, highly symmetric structures are extremely unfavorable among clusters with the same potential energy.
Cases of N = 7 and N = 8 are similar to N = 6, although the number of structures increases to 6 and 16. For all cases, all the structures have the same number of contacts and entropic effects dominate, with highly symmetric structures extremely unfavored. These are all shown in Fig 2.
[[Image:meng_fig2.gif|400px|thumb|center|Fig. 2. Comparison of experimental and theoretical cluster probabilities P at N = 6, 7, and 8. Structures that are difficult to differentiate experimentally have been binned together at N = 7 and 8 to compare to theory. The calculated probabilities for the individual states are shown as light gray bars, and binned probabilities are dark gray. Orange dots indicate the experimental measurements, with 95% confidence intervals given by the error bars.]]
The landscape undergoes a qualitative change when N reaches 9. The number of structures predicted theoretically reaches 77 for N = 9 and 393 for N = 10, too many to catalog experimentally. The authors concentrate on measuring the probability of having structures of two types:
1. nonrigid structures, in which one of the vibrational modes is a large-amplitude, anharmonic shear mode. These have high vibrational entropy. (Fig 3A, 3B).
2. structures with more than 3N - 6 bonds. These often have high symmetry, but they have extra bonds. The potential-energy gain is therefor large enough to overcome the deficiency in rotational entropy. (Fig 3C).
[[Image:meng_fig3.gif|400px|thumb|center|Fig. 3. A. Optical micrographs and renderings of nonrigid structures at N = 9 and (B) N = 10 (C) Structures of 3N – 5 = 25 bond packings at N = 10. The anharmonic vibrational modes of the nonrigid structures are shown by red arrows. Experimentally measured probabilities are listed at top. Annotations in micrographs indicate clusters corresponding to subsets of HCP or FCC lattices. Scale bars, 1 µm.]]
While the average probabilities at N = 9 and N = 10 should be 1% and 0.25%, the single nonrigid structure at N = 9 has probability 10%, and the 3 extra-bond structures at N = 10 occur 10% of the time. This confirms that nonrigid structures and structures with extra bonds are favored.
The full theoretical free-energy landscape is shown in Fig 4.
[[Image:meng_fig4.gif|400px|thumb|center|Fig. 4. Calculated minima of the free-energy landscape for 6 <math>\leq</math> N <math>\leq</math> 10. The x axis is in units of the rotational partition function, where I is the moment of inertia (calculated for a particle mass equal to 1) and <math>\sigma</math> is the rotational symmetry number. Each black symbol represents the free energy of an individual cluster. The number of spokes in each symbol indicates the symmetry number (dot = 1, line segment = 2, and so on). Orange symbols are nonrigid structures, which first appear at N = 9, and violet symbols have extra bonds, first appearing at N = 10. Vertical gray lines indicate the contribution to the free energy due to rotational and vibrational entropy. The reference states are chosen to be the highest free-energy states at each value of N.]]
== Discussion ==
The paper shows/confirms that the most stable small clusters of hard spheres with short-ranged attractions can be determined by geometrical rules: (1) rotational entropy favors structures with fewer symmetry elements; (2) vibrational entropy favors nonrigid clusters, which have half-octahedral substructures sharing at least one vertex; and (3) potential energy favors clusters with both octahedral and tetrahedral substructures, allowing them to have extra bonds.
The paper's description of free-energy landscape is still incomplete because of some of the simplifications it makes. In particular, while the interaction energy in the paper is extremely short-ranged, this is not generally true. For longer-range interactions, the effects will no longer be fundamentally entropic, and they will depend on temperature as well.
== Relation to Soft Matter ==
This is a neat paper that fits well with the first few lectures and readings in our course. It makes you think about fundamental ideas in statistical mechanics and how to measure them experimentally. It also shows how complex configurations can quickly come about from simple short-range interactions.
3 Experimental Setup
5 Discussion
6 Relation to Soft Matter
Experimental Setup
Fig. 1. A. Experimental system: microwells filled with polyNIPAM microgel particles and PS microbeads. B. Close-up view of two sticky microspheres and surrounding nanoparticles. C. Pair potential. Note that the depletion attraction is very short-range, so the interaction is strictly pairwise additive. D. Micrograph of several microwells, each with different individual clusters. E. Optical micrographs of colloidal clusters in microwells with N = 2, 3, 4, 5 particles.
The cluster classifications can then be compared to experimental predictions, which are found in a previous theoretical PRL paper (Arkus, Manoharan, Brenner. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 118303 (2009)). Observed structures agree with experimental predictions. For N = 2, 3, 4, 5, one unique structure (dimer, trimer, tetrahedron, triangular dipyramid), as shown in Fig 1E.
Fig. 2. Comparison of experimental and theoretical cluster probabilities P at N = 6, 7, and 8. Structures that are difficult to differentiate experimentally have been binned together at N = 7 and 8 to compare to theory. The calculated probabilities for the individual states are shown as light gray bars, and binned probabilities are dark gray. Orange dots indicate the experimental measurements, with 95% confidence intervals given by the error bars.
Fig. 3. A. Optical micrographs and renderings of nonrigid structures at N = 9 and (B) N = 10 (C) Structures of 3N – 5 = 25 bond packings at N = 10. The anharmonic vibrational modes of the nonrigid structures are shown by red arrows. Experimentally measured probabilities are listed at top. Annotations in micrographs indicate clusters corresponding to subsets of HCP or FCC lattices. Scale bars, 1 µm.
Fig. 4. Calculated minima of the free-energy landscape for 6 <math>\leq</math> N <math>\leq</math> 10. The x axis is in units of the rotational partition function, where I is the moment of inertia (calculated for a particle mass equal to 1) and <math>\sigma</math> is the rotational symmetry number. Each black symbol represents the free energy of an individual cluster. The number of spokes in each symbol indicates the symmetry number (dot = 1, line segment = 2, and so on). Orange symbols are nonrigid structures, which first appear at N = 9, and violet symbols have extra bonds, first appearing at N = 10. Vertical gray lines indicate the contribution to the free energy due to rotational and vibrational entropy. The reference states are chosen to be the highest free-energy states at each value of N.
Relation to Soft Matter
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Stow Public Safety Report… August 13, 2014
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Monday August 4, 2014
2:20am SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
A caller on Boxboro Road reported two younger males walking with flashlights. The caller asked if police could check on them. The Police responded. The men were residents and all was OK.
7:16am LARCENY
A caller requested to speak with an officer regarding a money scam. An officer advised the caller.
9:48am MEDCIAL EMERGENCY
A caller from Meeting House Lane requested an ambulance for a medical emergency. The Police and Fire/Rescue responded. An ambulance transported the patient to the hospital.
3:17pm VANDALISM
A walk-in reported that someone keyed her car. The woman was advised.
A caller reported that someone may have taken her car off her property without permission and now it was damaged. The Police responded. A report was filed.
5:46pm WELL-BEING CHECK
An officer reported that a woman was walking near the traffic with large bags. She was checked on and was OK.
6:05pm FOUND
A walk-in found a cell phone near the pump houses at the shopping plaza. An officer attempted to contact the owner.
6:09pm ASSIST CITIZEN
A walk-in requested to speak with an officer regarding an incident with her neighbor. The woman was advised.
8:25am ANIMAL
An officer observed a pit bull running around High Street, alone, without tags. The Animal Control Officer was notified.
A caller requested that an officer escort him/her to a location. There had been conflict in the past and the caller did not want any trouble. An officer assisted the individual.
4:17pm MEDICAL EMERGENCY
A caller from Warren Road requested an ambulance for a woman who was not feeling well. The Police and Fire/Rescue responded. The ambulance transported the woman to the hospital.
11:34pm SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
A caller on Red Acre Road reported that a man was walking behind a woman. The Police responded. No one was located.
Wednesday August 6, 2014
A walk-in reported that there was damage to his farmland. An officer advised the caller.
4:25pm SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
A caller on Great Road near Bolton reported a strange object, with wires coming out of it, in the road. The Police responded. The Highway Department responded to pick up the object.
5:34pm ROAD SAFETY COMPLAINT
A caller on Great Road reported that a scooter was riding on the road. The caller wondered if it was legal. The Police responded.
A caller reported that she believed her family member took the caller’s license and a small amount of cash without her permission. An officer advised the woman. A report was filed.
11:39am MEDICAL EMERGENCY
A caller from Crescent Street requested an ambulance for an individual with an allergic reaction to a bee sting. The Police and Fire/Rescue responded. The ambulance transported the patient to the hospital.
7:57pm COMPLAINT
A caller from Lake Boon complained about an erratic boat. The Police responded. The operated was advised to be more careful.
Friday August 8, 2014
7:16am ARREST
Roger Ruby, 25, from Marlboro, was arrested for driving an uninsured car, with a revoked registration, and for driving without a license.
11:12am ASSIST CITIZEN
A caller from Kingland Road reported that she tried to pull a large tree limb out of the lake. She was concerned a boat might hit it. The Police responded. The limb was removed with assistance.
An ambulance was requested for a woman on Warren Road who had chest pain. The Police and Fire/Rescue responded. The ambulance transported the woman to the hospital.
5:18pm BURGLARY
A caller reported that he was away on vacation but his dog walker told him his house was burglarized. The Police responded. A report was filed.
6:15pm MEDCIAL EMERGENCY
A caller from South Shore Drive requested an ambulance for a man who had a possible stroke. The Police and Fire/Rescue responded and transported the man to the hospital.
A caller from Orchard Drive reported that a group of kids were hanging around the community building. The caller wanted it checked out. The Police responded. No one was around.
9:34pm ANIMAL
A caller reported that her German Shepherd ran away while she was in Bolton. She believed the dog might try to run home to Sudbury Road. The Animal Control Officer was notified.
Saturday August 9, 2014
12:45am COMPLAINT
A caller from Foxglove Lane reported that someone was setting off fireworks. The Police responded. Nothing was found.
5:25am MEDICAL EMERGENCY
The Fire Department reported that a woman fell and had a possible heart attack. The Police and Rescue responded. The ambulance transported the woman to the hospital.
The Fire Department responded to a home on Warren Road due to a flood inside. The water and electricity were shut off. Maintenance was notified.
A caller from Great Road reported that a neighbor was playing loud music for over an hour. The Police responded. The music was turned down.
Sunday August 10, 2014
A caller requested that the police check on a car at the public boat launch at Lake Boon. The Police responded. An individual was out fishing. All was OK.
A caller from Forest Road reported that her jewelry had been stolen. The Police responded. A report was filed.
9:50am ASSIST CITIZEN
A caller reported that her German Shepherd had been missing since Friday. The Animal Control Officer was notified.
1:17pm ACCIDENT
A caller on Gleasondale Road, near the Hudson town line, reported that her car went into a tree. She was not sure where she was but she knew she was injured. The Police and Fire/Rescue from Hudson responded.
A caller from Barton Road reported that a sign was stolen from her front yard. The Police responded. An attempt to check the security cameras was made to see if the theft was “caught on tape.”
The Hudson Police reported that a man was parked near the reservoir on State Road. The Stow Police responded. The man was taking pictures of the moon. All was OK.
11:30pm ARREST
Thomas Arsenault, 24, from Marlboro, was arrested on a warrant.
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The comparison between Sanders and Venezuela is misguided and facile
February 24, 2016 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
‘Socialism’ may be at the heart of chavismo and the Sanders campaign, but they come from two very different political traditions.
One of the more popular comparisons of critics of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is between the brand of ‘democratic socialism’ that Sanders has espoused in his Democratic presidential campaign and Venezuelan-style socialism.
But for reasons I’ll describe below, it’s a facile and wrong-headed comparison, and it’s an insult both to Sanders and to the Venezuelan opposition that’s struggling so hard against something much more insidious than just ‘democratic socialism.’
RELATED: Eight things Americans should know about the Danish (and Nordic) welfare state
Sanders has looked to countries like Sweden and Denmark, arguing that the US social welfare net should look more like the Nordic social welfare net. Those are countries that, by and large, conduct free and fair elections with a firm dividing line between government and party, squeaky-clean transparency, a tradition both of consensus-building and more recently, a reformist nudge that’s tried to retool creaking social welfare system toward more competition and liberalism.
No one disputes Venezuela’s problems, which faces today probably the globe’s most painful economic crisis. They are immense.
But it didn’t get there through Scandinavian-style socialism. Or social democracy. Or democratic socialism. Continue reading The comparison between Sanders and Venezuela is misguided and facile →
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Bolivia election results: Morales wins landslide, but obstacles lurk
October 13, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Photo credit to Aizar Raldes/AFP.
It wasn’t unexpected, but Evo Morales has extended his rule to a third consecutive term after Sunday’s general elections in Bolivia, where exit polls show that Morales leads his nearest rival, Samuel Doria Medina, by a margin of around 60% to 24%, easily avoiding a runoff and propelling him into position to become Bolivia’s longest-serving leader.
Although Morales himself introduced a two-term limitation in a new constitution promulgated by popular referendum in 2009, he argued that because he was elected to his first term in 2005 under the old Bolivian constitution, his 2009 reelection was his first ‘term’ under the new constitution, paving the way for Sunday’s reelection bid.
Unless the Bolivian Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional (Plurinational Legislative Assembly) votes to overturn those term limits, however, Morales will now become a lame-duck president, whose final term will end in 2019.
Though the final results of Bolivia’s parliamentary elections are not yet available, it was also expected that Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS, Movement for Socialism) would retain its control over both houses of the national assembly.
RELATED: Morales set to cruise to easy reelection in Bolivia
Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, won reelection for many reasons, including his faithful support among Bolivia’s majority indigenous population. Bolivia’s economy is roaring, thanks to a commodity boom and high demand (and high prices) for Bolivian natural gas in neighboring Argentina and Brazil. Though Morales came to office as a firebrand disciple of the late socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, he has taken a more nuanced approach to economic policy than chavismo might otherwise indicate. Though Morales has nationalized many of Bolivian’s industries, including major gas, mining and telecommunications interests, even orthodox economic policymakers admit that the Morales government has done a good job of managing state assets. Morales has reduced Bolivian public debt, and he has used the proceeds of the Bolivian commodities bonanza to finance programs that have sharply reduced poverty in South America’s poorest country. Continue reading Bolivia election results: Morales wins landslide, but obstacles lurk →
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Morales set to cruise to easy reelection in Bolivia
Photo credit to Xinhua / Reynaldo Zaconeta / ABI.
Though the late Hugo Chávez has been dead for over a year, the progeny of his democratic socialist movement elsewhere in Latin America are thriving — in part by playing much smarter regional politics than Chávez ever did.
Even as Chávez’s heirs in Venezuela struggle to control a growing economic and governance crisis, the other children of chavismo, including Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and Bolivian president Evo Morales, may be showing how to marry socialist ideology to a more sustainable co-existence with global markets.
All three leaders, including Morales, tweaked investors by nationalizing industries and, in the case of Morales, railing against the international patchwork of neoliberal institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
As with Correa and Chávez, Morales came to power with a relatively anti-US disposition, and one of the first things that Morales, a former coca farmer, did upon taking office was to kick US drug enforcement agents out of the country. His steps have de-escalated the militarization and violence involved with US-led efforts to eradicate drug production in Latin America, and have likely emboldened the calls of other regional leaders to call for a new approach to illicit drugs, including legalization.
But if Morales has nationalized industries like a Venezuelan socialist, he’s run them like a Norwegian state manager.
That’s one of the chief reasons that Morales (pictured above), the country’s first indigenous leader, is such a favorite to win reelection to a third term as Bolivia’s president in general elections on October 12. Bolivians will also vote to elect the members of both houses of its Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional (Plurinational Legislative Assembly).
Continue reading Morales set to cruise to easy reelection in Bolivia →
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ESSAY: How Gabriel García Márquez introduced me to Latin America
April 18, 2014 Kevin Lees 3 Comments
Whenever I go to México City, I marvel at the way its indigenous history integrates into the fabric of the city. Nahuatl words, like ‘Chapultepec,’ meaning grasshopper, and ‘Xochimilco,’ a neighborhood featuring a series of Aztec-created canals, pepper the geography of the city. Those are just two of hundreds of daily reminders rooting Latin America’s largest modern megapolis of 8.9 million in the language and traditions of its pre-Columbian past. It’s where the Virgin of Guadalupe, a young Nahuatl-speaking girl, apparently revealed herself to Juan Diego in 1531 as the Virgin Mary, instructing him to build a church, launching one of the most compelling hybrid religious followings in the New World. Even the inhabitants of the notorious Tepito barrio worship Santa Muerte on the first of November with bright flowers, cacophanous marimba and not a small amount of marijuana, in celebration of the magical chasm between what is, for many Tepito residents, a gritty life and an often grittier death.
It’s the way that México City blends the mysterious and the mundane, matches the sacred with the profane and so blends the line between the indigenous and conquistador that it’s hard to know who conquered what. For all of those reasons, I often think of it as the unofficial capital of realismo magico.
So it’s natural to me that the literary master of magical realism, Gabriel García Márquez, made his home in México City for much of the last six decades of his life. It’s also where García Márquez died on April 17 at age 87.
It was his uncanny ability to blend the realistic with the magical that largely won him such adoration worldwide. But what makes the writing of García Márquez and the other authors of the 1960s Latin American Boom so electrifying to me is the way that it blended the literary with the political. Certainly, García Márquez’s writing was about family, about love, about solitude, about power, about loss, about fragility, about all of these universal themes. But his writing also explicated many of the themes that we today associate with Latin America’s culture, identity, history and politics.
His death wasn’t entirely unexpected. García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer all the way back in 1999 and by the beginning of the 2010s, he rarely made public appearances anymore due to the grim advance of Alzheimer’s disease. By the time I made it to Latin America for the first time, he was already approaching 80, and I knew I’d have little chance of meeting him.
That’s fine by me, because I always considered him, through his work, my own personal ambassador to Latin America. Over the course of several treks through Latin America, Gabo still accompanied me through his writing — and along the way, he shaped my own framework for how I think about Latin American life.
When I was planning my first trip to Latin America, I brought with me a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I saved the novel for this very occasion, a trek from Buenos Aires to Mendoza and then by bus over the Andes to Santiago. Technically speaking, I was on the wrong end of the continent for García Márquez. I packed some Neruda, some Allende and some Borges — and some Cortázar, too (mea culpa, I still haven’t clawed enough time to read Hopscotch).
Nevertheless, García Márquez’s words transcended the setting of his native Colombia. Hundred Years, published in 1967, just six years after the Cuban revolution that undeniably marked a turning point in its relationship with the behemoth world power to the north, it came at a time when Latin American identity seemed limitless, and García Márquez mined a new consciousness that wasn’t necessarily Colombian or even South American. So much of the story of Colombia’s development from the colonial era through the present day is also cognizably Bolivian, Chilean, Mexican or Argentinian. After all, García Márquez, already a well-known figure, went on a writing strike when Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile in 1973, ousting the democratically elected Socialist president Salvador Allende, who either committed suicide or was shot on September 11, the day of the coup.
It was an intoxicating read. The sleek brown corduroy blazer I picked up in Buenos Aires with the affected hint of epaulets on the shoulders soon became what I called my ‘Colonel Aureliano’ jacket. Besides, where better to buy a Spanish language copy of his work than El Ateneo, perhaps the most amazing bookstore in the world?
Hundred Years, of course, came highly recommended from the world that had discovered García Márquez decades before I was even born. It became an instant hit upon publication, catapulting García Márquez’s popularity beyond his more established peers, including México’s Carlos Fuentes and Perú’s Mario Vargas Llosa.
Bill Clinton, in his autobiography My Life, confesses to zoning out of class one day in law school to finish it: Continue reading ESSAY: How Gabriel García Márquez introduced me to Latin America →
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Formed in late 2005 Eternal Lord was created by 3 ex members of The Hunt For Ida Wave (TDON Records) and ex Burning Skies (Life Force Records) drummer.
The band hit the studio to record a demo in 2006 for Thirty Days Of Night Records. Eternal Lord toured this E.P for the duration of the year with such bands as Abigail Williams, Job For A Cowboy and Suicide Silence.
Early 2007 the band had some slight line up changes, recruiting ex I Killed The Prom Queen (Metalblade Records) vocalist Edward Butcher and From The Carnival Of Horrors (TDON Records) bassist Nick Gardener. After recording some demo versions of there album, letting fans have a preview of what’s to come and touring the United Kingdom with All That Remains / Misery Signals and Textures the band really started to get noticed more. Playing shows UK wide and being booked for other countries such as Australia and Europe.
Eternal Lord are set to release there debut album “Blessed Be This Nightmare” this year and follow it up with some extensive touring!
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Who Were The Strasser Brothers? Part 3 (Last One)
"Material from Otto Strasser went to make up the book Der Führer which was issued in the name of "Konrad Heiden", which, along with Rauschning`s above-mentioned collection of lies, was used in formulating the indictment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg whereby leading Germans were put to death and barbarously so by slow strangulation. Strasser material was also made much use by Dr. William C. Langer as acknowledged in his book The Mind of Adolf Hitler (Secker & Warburg, London, 1972), a piece of wartime propaganda he was assigned to concoct by the American dirty tricks department known as the OSS. The kind of help muck-spreader Strasser gave to Langer can be distinguished from Strasser`s own offering of ordure entitled The Gangsters Around Hitler (W.H. Allen, London, undated but on British bookstalls in the middle of the war). Tpical of its filth is his tale of a film made, he claims, of two titled ladies from the War Office executed for espionage:..."when Hitler is unable to sleep he orders this film to be shown again and again. as he sits alone in the cellar which houses his private cinema" (p.43). Otto Strasser died in obscurity in Munich in 1974.
His Brother Gregor stayed on Hitler`s party till 1932 when his disruptive intrigues came to a head. Authors James & Suzzane Pool, in Who Finaced Hitler (p.382), reveal that during the autumn of that year the Jew Paul Silverberg, a very wealthy industrialist, secretly gave money to Gregor Strasser who, like his brother, while presenting himself as such a strict opponent of big business, was quite prepared to be on its payroll. The Jewish industrialist Otto Wolff, whom we have come across as paymaster for the Otto Strasser-Walter Stenes plot in 1931, also extended his purse to Gregor in this follwong year. "Like Silverberg, Wolff had contributed heavily to Strasser..." (p.454). When in December, 1932, General Kurt von Schleicher became Chancellor, he immediately offered the position of Vice-Chancellor to Gregor Strasser with whom he was conspiring as a move to disrupt Hitler`s party. Thereupon Hitler denounced him as a traitor, and he had to resign from the Party. This was not however, the end of his subversion. He was involved in Röhm plot two years later, and executed for this.
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Ernst Röhm, head of the SA in 1934, was akin to the Strassers in political outlook, wanting to pursue a further revolution in the military sphere by elevating the SA in place of the Army, just as the Strassers wanted to regiment industry through public ownership. If Röhm had had his way, the consequent upset to the country, when Hitler had only newly taken hold of it, would very likely have meant the downfall of National Socialism. At that time the SA, two million strong, was--under Röhm behaving like increasing grandeur--running out of Hitler`s control. A loyal SA commander, Victor Lutze, brought to Rudolf Hess eye-witness accounts of Röhm`s plans to overthrow Hitler and bring about a second revolution (Hess: The Missing Years, David Irving, Macmillan, London, 1987, p.22). Also Hitler`s personal pilot, Hans Baur, in his book Hitler At My Side (Eichler Pulblishing Corp., USA, 1986, p.79) records that Hitler told the author that the Italian Ambassador in Paris had learned that Röhm was planning an uprising, and had entered into negotiations with the French who had assured him they would not interfere, and that Röhm had already drawn up his entire lists for a new goverment. The Italian ambassador had notified the German ambassador in France who had informed Hitler, who, after agonizing dliberation, had to order the arrest and execution of Röhm and his leading connspirators, thereby by his prompt and necessarily radical action very rightly preventing the vastly greater bloodshed and turmoil of civil war."
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Shahid Kapoor at the 10th anniversary of PETA Awards
Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor signing the board at the 10th anniversary of PETA Awards (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in Mumbai.
Star shower at PETA's anniversary
While Shahid Kapoor gets the PETA Asia Sexiest Vegetarian Award, a bevy of B-town celebs gather to be honoured with humanitarian awards at PETA's 10th anniversary bash. The gala will also have recorded video appearances by former Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson and rocker Bryan Adams.
As celebs gather at the Trident Hotel at Bandra kurla Complex, in Mumbai, we caught up with some of them who have supported the humble cause.
"My contribution towards PETA should have been much more than what I have done. I feel honoured for being recognized by such an amazing
organization. I am extremely honored to receiving the humanitarian award," says Bollywood actress Eesha Koppikar.
Talking about her lovee for animals, Celine Jaitly, who appeared in a PETA ad in 2009 for saving elephants from captivity says, "Animals are my first love, getting PETA's award motivates me to do more work for animals. They can't speak for themselves and yet their love is so unconditional. I am glad I could make a difference."
Raveena Tandon Thadani, who's equally excited about being honoured says, "Animals need us to speak for them. Let's stop the cruely and let us make a difference."
John Abraham, who campaigned for independence for caged birds in a popular ad campaign for PETA and is also hosting the event, remained unavailable for comment.
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Music Review Chance Pe Dance' music makes you shake a leg Rating:** 1/2
Chance Pe Dance' music makes you shake a leg (IANS Music Review)
By Ruchika Kher
Film: "Chance Pe Dance"; Music Director: Adnan Sami; Lyricists: Kumaar, Irshad Kamil, Irfan Siddique and Amitabh Bhattacharya; Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Tulsi Kumar, Javed Ali, Vishal Dadlani, Soham Chakrabarthy, Shreya Ghosal, Kunal Ganjawala, Master Saleem, Neeraj Sridhar, Amit Kumar and Shaan; Rating:** 1/2
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to shake a leg with the music of Shahid Kapoor-Genelia D'Souza-starrer "Chance Pe Dance". The soundtrack has been composed by Adnan Sami and it boasts of fast-paced, high-on-energy dance numbers.
The album contains seven originals and two remix versions.
It opens with "Pe pe pepein" that starts with typical wedding music in the background. A Western song with rap by Hard Kaur and vocals by Master Saleem and Neeraj Sridhar, "Pe pe pepein" has a strong Punjabi flavour. It's a fast-paced song and slowly grows on you.
The song also has a remix version that adds more beats and makes it a perfect dance number.
Next is "Pump it up" with Vishal Dadlani behind the mike. The song has a punch and starts with a bang. It's a full-on dance number with a mix of dhol and electronic guitaring.
This track too has a remix version which is faster and includes more orchestration.
Up next is a slow love ballad "Pal mein hi", which is beautifully crooned by Soham Chakrabarthy and Shreya Ghoshal. The song brings in a tranquillising effect. It's a sweet and pleasing romantic number that touches a chord with the listener.
Then we have another fast track in the guise of "One more dance". The song sung by Kunal Ganjawala is not that impressive. The song has a techno feel and is meant for the dance floor; it, however, fails to create an impact and falls flat.
It is followed by "Yaba Daba Yahoo". Sung by Kunal Ganjawala, it takes the dance flavour of the album further. A fun number, it has a heavy dose of English lyrics.
"Rishta hai mera", sung by Shaan and Tulsi Kumar, changes the mood of the album. It's a soft, smooth song. An inspirational number, "Rishta hai mera" is a melodious composition and generates interest.
Finally there is "Just do it". High on electronic arrangements, the song has been crooned by Amit Kumar and director Ken Ghosh has composed it. It has influences of hip hop and is a dance number yet gain.
On the whole, if you want to dance away to glory, then "Chance Pe Dance" is the album you are looking for.
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I don't get affected by rumours and gossips about my love life Shahid Kapoor
By Joginder Tuteja, December 18, 2009 - 11:32 IST
Shahid Kapoor isn't resting. He has already seen two of his films releasing in 2009 (Kaminey, Dil Bole Hadippa), is currently shooting for Parmeet Sethi's film with Anushka Sharma, and is busy promoting Chance Pe Dance which arrives in January next year.
Meanwhile, even as names of his past, present and perhaps future girlfriends continue to emerge at a break neck speed, he prays if a Vivah organized by his parents would finally settle all rumours, speculations, gossips, grapevine and idle talk once for and all.
Joginder Tuteja gets into a conversation with Shahid who has been super busy shooting for his films but is still managing to keep a close tab on the promotion of Chance Pe Dance as well as reactions to his newest on-screen partner Genelia D'Souza.
Akshay-Katrina 'jodi' is the hottest today while Saif and Kareena too are building a good brand around themselves. In such times, it is seems quite good to see a fresh pairing with you and Genelia coming together for the first time in Chance Pe Dance.
We had a hearty laugh because it was the camera that eventually had captured my 8 packs
I agree. Ever since the First Look of the film came out, I have got so many messages and calls congratulating me about this new pairing. Yes, there is a certain freshness that has certainly come in due to both of us coming together. Since the film boasts of a young subject, it was imperative that Genelia and I look compatible with each other. We really had a lot of fun doing Chance Pe Dance together and with the promos and songs clicking with the audiences, I am now excited to see how they react to the entire film. Genelia has done really great work in the film and what strikes me most is that she is a heroine who can also act! I am sure we will do a lot of more movies together.
For these abs, I am not going to stop eating what I want or take added strain
After Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, you too seem to have developed a fascination for this entire 6 pack, 8 pack abs affair?
(Laughs) Believe me; even I was surprised when I developed 8 pack abs. I was just trying to get in shape and was working out for that. However, it was during the shooting of a song for Chance Pe Dance when director Ken (Ghosh) just smiled and waved at me. He called me near the monitor and asked me to have a look at it. We had a hearty laugh because it was the camera that eventually had captured my 8 packs.
Come on, it's hard to believe. You developed an 8 pack and it's the camera which told you first about it?
I swear that was indeed the case. See, I was working out to be fit and not to get into any competition with anybody. I wasn't sitting and counting my abs. But yes, when Ken pointed this out, I did feel good about it, more so because this hadn't been planned. However, let me also clear that I am not going to live for maintaining this physique. Fit rehna important hai but for these abs, I am not going to stop eating what I want or take added strain.
Meanwhile, you seem to have developed quite a playboy image for yourself during last couple of years. It seems like you are having an affair with every leading lady that you interact with during the making of your films. Vidya Balan (Kismat Konnection), Priyanka Chopra (Kaminey) and now Anushka Sharma (yet untitled Yash Raj film) - it is indeed one enviable list. Really Shahid, what's happening?
(Laughs) Really yaar, my mummy-daddy should just find a nice girl for me and marry me off Vivah style. I guess it would be best if I go through an arranged marriage. At least talks around my so-called affairs would come to a stop. I mean ever since I went single two years back, there have been these constant talks around my relationships with fellow co-stars.
It is amusing when media breaks the news to me that I am seeing a girl. Can it be funnier than that?
Isn't it annoying for you?
Annoying would be too harsh a word. But yes, I am really aghast about the entire thing - not because of the entire pairing up thing but the fact that at least I should know if I am really going around with someone. It is amusing when media breaks the news to me that I am seeing a girl. Can it be funnier than that?
Does it lead to an uncomfortable situation between you and the girl in question?
I make sure that it doesn't turn out to be the case. I don't get affected by rumours and gossips and neither do I want my co-star to be. I am living my life the way I want to and I am not going to stop that just because someone out there wishes to talk or write about it by giving it a spicy connotation.
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Shahid Kapoor uncut Exclusive Interview
think of myself as a general store, where everything is available. You’ll get anything you want. Shahid Kapoor gets candid.
How do you feel when you look into the mirror these days?
I’m shooting for a new film now, so the look and the hair is different. Those six and eight pack abs were for Kaminey and Chance Pe Dance.
Do girls ask you to take off your shirt?
(Laughs) It has happened a couple of times. I look down or look away because it’s embarrassing... but I won’t deny that I like it. In Chance Pe Dance, Ken (director Ken Ghosh) and I had to create some shock value. That was the eight-pack. It got me a lot of ‘Whoas!’ Girls seem to like me a little more now.
Are we talking about any girl in particular here?
Sorry, I’m not going there.
Does having an eight-pack make you feel more like a man?
I won’t be politically correct and say it doesn’t really matter. Yes, it’s a great feeling.
Was six-pack Shah Rukh Khan the role model or eight-pack Aamir Khan?
Honestly, it was neither since I had not planned on either a six or an eight pack. Kaminey needed a raw, rough look, while Chance Pe Dance an aesthetic, chiselled body. For a year, I worked out with my trainer keeping both requirements in mind. It was Ken who, after looking into the monitor, pointed out that I had an eight-pack. It took me by surprise, but when others agreed, I realised he was right. You could say it happened by chance.
What was the biggest challenge getting there?
Getting the last four packs. It’s easy developing your upper abs but losing fat in the lower half happens only last. Also, it’s more difficult when you are a vegetarian.
Did the abs help you as a dancer or add to your performance as an actor?
They were for purely for visual effect and aesthetic appeal. I didn’t build them to prove a point to anyone. For me, the greatest actors in the world are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dilipsaab (Kumar) and Amitji (Amitabh Bachchan) who have a body of work rather than a body to show.
Your dad, Pankaj Kapur, has also relied more on performance than physical appearance. What was his reaction to the macho image?
Dad understands that in this new space the look is as much a part of the job. He reacted with a wry smile and an “achche lag rahe ho beta.”
How is your look different now?
In Parmeet’s film I’m playing a regular 22-year-old, so I didn’t need a bulky body. Parmeet saw me at a show earlier this year and was worried. We were going to start shooting in 45 days and he wanted a boy next-door. He got it. Personally, having an eight-pack is a high but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I’m an actor not a body builder. Still, it must be heartbreaking to lose it just when you got it? I’m a fitness freak now, I can get it back in three months.
How do you feel when you look at your old films now?
I’m not going to run away from an Ishk Vishk or a Vivah. I don’t mind going back to a love story. I think of myself as a general store, where everything is available. You’ll get anything you want.
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Ricky Simon Out To Prove He Belongs Against Rob Font At UFC Washington (Interview)
Ricky Simon suffered his first loss inside the Octagon back in July at UFC Sacramento. There, the surging contender was knocked out by Urijah Faber in just 46 seconds.
For Simon, he says the loss is a learning experience and a small bump in the road en route to the top.
“Well I mean there were definitely reasons why I got caught. I did get caught early and was a little too excited in there. I was extremely confident, I felt great, I still feel great. But, yeah you know, I chime it to experience, but it was so much fun to fight a Hall of Famer in his hometown, that crowd was nuts,” Simon said to MMA News. “I definitely chalk it up to a learning experience. A little bump in the road but I know nine times out of 10 I beat Faber. I’m just going to keep doing what I do which is training my ass off. And, just show I belong here on Dec. 7 when I take out the number 10 guy in the world.”
Although Simon is no longer ranked, he is getting a top-10 opponent in Rob Font at UFC Washington. For the 27-year-old, he wasn’t surprised he got another ranked opponent as he believes the UFC knows he belongs in the rankings.
“Not really because I had called him out after I went in and put on a dominating performance on a top-15 guy over Rani Yahya in February,” he explained. “After that fight, we were trying to get someone ranked and I asked for that Rob Font fight. So, obviously I wasn’t going to turn down a Hall of Famer fight. I think the UFC knows where I belong and are confident in my abilities. Font needed an opponent and I have been asking for it, so it made sense.”
Yet, against Font, it will be a tough fight. The 32-year-old is coming off of a dominant win over Sergio Pettis and is extremely well-rounded. He has seven knockout wins and four submission wins.
The versatility is something Simon will have to worry about. But, he is confident he will get his hand raised at the end of it.
“Font is very well-rounded, he has submissions and knockouts and totally controlled Sergio in his last fight. But, I’m a different beast than Sergio Pettis,” Simon said. “I have better wrestling and I think that is what is going to dictate this fight as I’m going to be able to keep it where I want it. Rob’s great but I’m totally confident in my abilities as well, I think I’m going to get it done.”
Simon believes his pressure will be too much for Font.
“It is going to be interesting with the way he throws his straight punches and mixes up his striking. But, ultimately, I’m going to be able to dictate where the fight goes and put the pressure on him,” he said. “That is going to be the story of the night that there is too much pressure.”
In the end, for Ricky Simon, a win here puts him into the top-10 and he can start his way up the bantamweight rankings to an eventual title shot.
“It is hard to say with the rankings and how it goes. I did set a goal for myself this year to hit top-10,” Simon concluded. “With all that activity going on at bantamweight, Font has moved to 10, and it would put me right around there.”
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Bard on the Beach’s Much Ado About Nothing is “fresco e dolce”
By Cora Li
THEATER/VANCOUVER
The Tony Awards aired last week, with much ado given to play revivals, so it was with great joy and amusement that I watched director John Murphy’s updated take on Shakespeare’s comical Much Ado About Nothing, which opened the 28th season of Bard on the Beach.
In the last staging of Much Ado (2010), Murphy played the lead as Benedick. His re-imagined version is transported from a warring Italy of the 1500’s to an economic boom-time of the 1950’s. Instead of regal princes and soldiers, Murphy invents a cinematic microcosm of directors and film-star royalty.
[Kevin MacDonald, Ian Butcher]
Murphy doesn’t mess with the play’s core because “the original script is so close to perfect.” However, his adaptation is smooth and flawless — he’s painstakingly replaced all war references with silver screen terminology.
Much of the action and contrivances in Shakespeare’s original rendition unfurl seamlessly under this new façade. 1950’s Italy was still quite traditional, but with money to spend, men and women began to struggle between the lines of propriety. This is an era where Claudio’s outrage and Beatrice’s grievances are both real and believable.
The furious pace of a soundstage is conveyed as soon as crews explode on set to film various snippets of ongoing shoots. The head of the studio, Leonato, is told that renowned director Don Pedro has just concluded his latest movie and is coming for a visit along with celebrated actors Benedick and Claudio. The generous Leonato invites everyone to stay at his villa, where his daughter Hero and the glamorous actress Beatrice are also vacationing.
Razor-tongued Beatrice is famous for her public rivalry with cynical Benedick. The ensuing battle of wits is Shakespeare’s trigger-quick comedy at its best. The invited guests include Don Pedro’s paparazzo sister, Dona Johanna, who is jealous of his success and plots to ruin his reputation at every turn. She gets her chance upon overhearing that her brother will play matchmaker for Claudio, who has confessed his love for Hero.
[Ben Elliott, Sereana Malani]
Meanwhile, the rest of the troupe “play their parts” to make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other. The actors will “act out” scripts to trick the reluctant lovers! Santo cielo!
Pam Johnson’s set design is classic and glamorous, much like the era she’s trying to envision. The soundstage’s enormous sliding doors express the grandeur of the industry and double as a backdrop where cinematographic elements are projected to stimulate the senses.
A maestro with fabric, Christine Reimer creates costumes that are refined yet flirtatious, vintage yet bold – an extravagant exhibit of the celebrity lifestyle. During the first half of the play, Johnson and Reimer use monochromatic tones to simulate the feel of old Hollywood black and white films. As revelations of love brighten each actor’s life, Technicolor explodes onstage, in costumes and props.
All these visual delights are harmonized together through Gerald King’s timely, precise lighting and Murray Price’s uncompromising and seductive audio compilations. The mood is effervescent and playful. The Italian ballad Sigh No More, sumptuously performed by David M. Adams (as Antonio), received enthusiastic cheers.
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg (choreographer) and Josh Reynolds (fight director) also deserve recognition for fluid coordination of rambunctious action, whether on spry human feet or via Vespa!
[Amber Lewis, Parmiss Sehat, Kaitlin Williams]
The inventive direction and adept crew are matched by the dynamic cast. Some over-the-top performances must have been intentional, mirroring the unbelievable lives of contemporary celebrities. Kevin MacDonald, as Benedick, is wry, gregarious and oh-so suave; Amber Lewis, as Beatrice, is defiant, provocative and slick in every way. The two are like fireworks on stage, beginning with explosive intensity and ending in a romantic shower of shimmering sparkles.
Ian Butcher’s Don Pedro is a domineering presence and Andrew Wheeler doles out equal measures of fatherly pride and disgraced torment as Leonato. The outrageous performances of Ashley O’Connell, Chris Cochrane, David M. Adams and Austin Eckert as the night-watch had the audience in stitches. Eckert is exceptionally droll in his absurd antics, without having to utter a word.
Much Ado About Nothing features some of Shakespeare’s wittiest dialogue, memorable characters and quotable quotes. Other than to hear the female lead names pronounced in the Italian fashion as [be-ah-tree-che] or [mahr-guh-ree-tuh], Murphy’s re-imagined rendition is nearly perfect. Join Bard on the Beach at Vanier Park for this vibrant, light-hearted cinematic rollicker.
Directed by John Murphy, Much Ado About Nothing continues at Bard on the Beach’s BMO Mainstage through September 23.
Photos by David Blue.
About Our Contributor Cora Li
Cora dabbles in arts, technology, food, and travel. She loves that Vancouver offers a vast playground for exploring all of her passions. Cora’s most memorable job to date was working with VANOC during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
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Up Week to Week, "Live with Kelly and Michael" Nearly Ties "Dr. Phil" as the #1 Syndie Talker of the Week
Disney-ABC Domestic Television spins the numbers for the week of March 31-April 4.
[via press release from Disney-ABC Domestic Television]
Ratings Report: Week of March 31, 2014 (National Live + Same Day Program Ratings)
"LIVE with Kelly and Michael" Nearly Ties "Dr. Phil" as the Week's No. 1 Syndie Talker in Homes and Viewers, While Beating "Ellen" in Both Key Measures
"LIVE" is Up Week to Week and Year to Year in Households and Total Viewers
"LIVE" Posts its Strongest 30-Week Average in Homes and Women 25-54 in 6 Years
"LIVE with Kelly and Michael"
During the week of March 31, 2014, "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" ran in a near tie with "Dr. Phil" as the week's No. 1 syndicated talk show in Households (2.9 rating vs. 3.0 rating) and Total Viewers (3.809 million vs. 3.935 million). Despite its early time periods with lower overall TV usage levels, "LIVE" outdelivered "Ellen" by 12% in Households (2.9 rating vs. 2.6 rating) and by 6% in Total Viewers (3.809 million vs. 3.591 million) to rank No. 2 for the week. In fact, "LIVE" beat "Ellen" for the 15th week in a row in Households.
On average for the 2013-14 season to date, "LIVE" stands as the No. 2 syndicated talker in Households (3.0 rating) and Total Viewers (3.925 million), leading "Ellen" (2.8 rating and 3.866 million) in both Nielsen measures.
· "LIVE" grew week to week by 4% in Households, 5% in Total Viewers and 7% in Women 25-54.
· "LIVE" posted double-digit gains over the same week last year (w/o 4/1/13), up year to year for the 15th straight week in Households (+12%) and the 21st consecutive week in Total Viewers (+12%).
· "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" is generating its biggest overall audience 30 weeks into a TV season in 7 years and is posting its strongest 30-week average in Households and Women 25-54 in 6 years - since the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons, respectively. Up over the comparable weeks last season in Households (+12% - 2.9 rating vs. 2.6 rating), Total Viewers (+13% - 3.905 million vs. 3.445 million) and (+7% - 1.6 rating vs. 1.5 rating), the year-to-year growth for "LIVE" is even more impressive considering its year-ago averages include the high-rated first weeks of Kelly and Michael as a new team.
"LIVE with Kelly and Michael" is distributed in national syndication by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive produced by Michael Gelman, "LIVE" airs in more than 200 markets across the U.S. Visit "LIVE" on the web at LIVEKellyandMichael.com, on Facebook, or follow "LIVE" on Twitter and Instagram, @KellyandMichael.
Source: The Nielsen Company, National Live + Same Day Program Ratings, weeks of 3/31/14, 3/24/14 & 4/1/13, 2013-14 season=9/9/13-4/6/14.
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Press Box Insider 12-07-2015
Podcast, Radio, Sports Betting
Julian Rabaud (Nitro MMA)
Julian ‘Julz The Jackal’ Rabaud: A Tale of Pain and Glory
Neil Rooke
Spotlight, UFC
In a split second, light becomes dark. Day becomes night. Everything just becomes a blur.
It takes just one well-timed punch to send weeks and months of hard work crashing down to the canvas. The eyes close. In the background, the distant noise of a roaring crowd, many in disbelief, rings through his ears.
Julian Rabaud could feel his face burning. His eyes were hurting and his heart was breaking. So much began to run through his mind as he stood up in disbelief. So many people would be disappointed. So many people would feel ripped off… So many people would find joy in the pain of “The Jackal.”
“I think after the last fight, it was kinda clear that I was in a bit of shock with the outcome, and I think a lot of other people were, too,” Rabaud confessed to The MMA Corner. “I think some people might have understood the loss, but I was obviously one of those people that didn’t understand. We’ve spoken about my anxiety before, and it being a massive problem in my life. Conquering that and putting that behind me was the best thing that happened to me—being able to be confident and live life and doing what I do without having to worry about the anxiety and having panic attacks before a fight. After the last fight, though, when I was getting off the floor and getting into the back room, it just hit me. I fell into a massive panic attack. I knew what it was and I was scared.”
Rabaud (Nitro MMA)
After his 25-second loss to Ben Nguyen at Nitro 11 that saw Rabaud relinquish his bantamweight championship, Rabaud turned everything off and went to Sydney. The anxiety had hit again and the best thing to do was to get away from it all. The best thing to do was to get away from that fight, to be as far away as possible.
“The last thing I wanted to do was look at that fight, think of the fight, think of that time, so I jumped on a plane and I left to Sydney, where I spent time with my girlfriend looking after me, and I just felt so much fucking heartache about the fight. That anxiety, it almost killed me. When you’ve got a barrel of a shotgun pointed to your head, you think a bit differently,” Rabaud admitted. “You start thinking about yourself, you start thinking about your family and you start thinking about your life. And unfortunately, I’m not gonna lie, fighting for me, all that shit that went on, I was quite upset with myself. I was quite upset with what happened and the fact that I didn’t know that this could happen to me and this demon and this personal thing inside me could come back and haunt me again.
“I’d been in Sydney for five months. I hadn’t spoken about the fight. I didn’t read the magazine that came out [about me]. I never fucking bought it. I didn’t wanna know anything. I was very, very, very beside myself, and basically, three nights ago, I was back on medication and come off again and everything was all good and I was coming strong. When it comes to fighting, that sacrifice or the threat of me being touched up or being knocked out or rocked, it sorta dawned on me, is this gonna happen every time? I just had to dwell on it a bit, and I thought it was time that I looked at that fight again.
“And I did. I watched it and I watched it, probably about 20 times. And I know it was only a short fight, but I sat there and I watched it. I’ve been hit so hard in the gym. I’ve been bashed around by guys three times the size of Ben, and that’s something that I credit myself on. I’m not an athletic guy. I don’t have the ability, I don’t have the brains—I’m simple. Ben was very smart, but I credit myself on being tough. I never ever expected that outcome. He knew me. He knew me well. He watched a lot of my last fight. He knew that I move back, and he knows that I’m really calm about being struck in the head. He capitalized on that because I waited too long. He did a good job of stopping me so soon, and if he was gonna do it, that’s how he had to do it.”
Reflection is an integral aspect of moving forward for any fighter. Anybody who continues to focus on their shortcomings inside the cage is not going to ever be able to succeed again, no matter how many useful tips for tonight (or tomorrow, or next week) they are given. For Rabaud, that meant watching the tape that he had avoided for so long, and then, working out an action plan.
“After I watched it, and I booked a plane ticket and I got on the plane and I landed early this [Monday] morning, I went straight to my gym and I was welcomed there by my team and we trained,” Rabaud recalled. “And then later, I trained that night. I wasn’t ready to face some things. I’m still human. I’m embarrassed and ashamed, all these feelings I’ve never felt before. You don’t train for that. There’s nothing you can do to prepare yourself for that. That’s the fight game. I had to fucking man up. I had to look down the barrel of that gun and say, ‘Alright, you’re gonna have to kill me, ’cause this is something that I love.’ I’ve got it in my blood. I can’t walk away; I have to fight. I’m back. I’m back on the scene. I’m back in the gym. I’ve got nobody on my mind but me. I’ve got some things to clear up with Nitro and then I’ll be back, and it’ll be on Nitro. I’m not interested in fighting anywhere else, and I want my belt back.
“All the bullshit aside, I’m sleeping on the floor in the gym. I’ve put myself there, not because I don’t have anywhere else to go. All my family is here, all my friends—I’ve got plenty of places to go. I put myself there because I don’t want no sympathy; I don’t want hugs and kisses. I wanna be left alone and work on me. I wanna change a lot about my style, as a person, as a man and as a mixed martial artist. Maybe I’ll start to concentrate on being a mixed martial artist [who] isn’t a brawler. I’m always gonna look to bang on someone and get that finish. There’s some things I wanna get to know in myself. There’s a lot for me to work on.”
As far as a return to the cage goes, Rabaud isn’t looking to rush into things. Coming back from a loss can be one of the most important fights of a career, and working on how to ensure that the same thing doesn’t happen again is at the forefront of Rabaud’s mind.
“I’m not looking to do anything until early next year, and I’m gonna train right through,” he revealed. “Nitro have a show in October, and I think Ben will probably defend his title. Hopefully he keeps it—I like to right the wrongs. I did it with Chris [Morris]. There’s no reason why I can’t or won’t do it with Ben. He can understand that. If he went out the same way and he wanted a rematch, I’d give it to him. The guy’s a superstar. He’s had over 20 fucking fights or something. I’m up for the challenge. I’m up for the fight. I’m not scared of any obstacle, and I don’t think that any obstacle can’t be moved with what’s on my mind and my heart.
“I know he’s got skills. I know he’s quick. But I tell ya what he had on that night and it wasn’t one of them—he had nothing but luck. It was nothing but fucking luck. That’s all it is when you knock someone out, and I’ve had luck before, too, but I don’t get to show who the fuck I am. And that was a fight that I got to and it never happened. It’s not about the fuckin belt, all that glitter and shit—not interested. You know what’s bigger than a belt? A name. The man. A real man in front of ya, that’s the fucking biggest thing to conquer, and that’s all I’m interested in. It may not be him, it may be someone else, but whoever it is, I’ve big things to make right.
“I’ve got nothing else. I’ve got nothing else. You don’t make no money in this sport, you don’t eat in this sport, you don’t get fucking nothing in this sport. I just wanna fight and beat the man in front of me. People talk about big pictures and the UFC and all that. That’s a big fucking company, man. There’s a lot of talent out there. At the end of the day, I just wanna beat whoever the fuck is in front of me and I wanna be the hero of the night. That’s it. That’s all it is now.”
A big part of Rabaud’s competitive advantage is his ability to cut so much weight leading up to a fight. Of course, there is also a detriment that comes with such a skill.
“I cut 20 kilograms for the fight [with Nguyen]. I cut seven kilograms the day before the fight and, man, I was tired. I was ready to have a nap before he hit me,” Rabaud admitted. “When I fight people, it’s no secret, I’ll give it to every fucking opponent that’s ever gonna face me, this little bit of advice: you’ve spent more time in the gym working on your technique, your game plan, your skill, your fucking strengths, all that shit, you should be better on the fucking night. I’d be insulted if you’re fuckin not, because all I do is cut fucking weight. I don’t get to fucking do all this fancy shit. I gotta cut weight ’cause I’m a short guy with short arms and I’m thick. I’m fucking fat. I’ve gotta cut that weight to fight guys my height. I might step it up, I might go to 65 [kilograms]. I can’t fight guys with the reach and all that.
Rabaud (Facebook.com/julz.jackal.5)
“I care about my record. I care about my sheet before I go to bed—I wanna be clean. I wanna fight guys that are good match-ups. I wanna make my name. It’s just a fucking street fight if the match-ups aren’t right, and you can do that at the pub. You can fucking play snakes and ladders all night. At the end of the day, to fight, I’ve gotta cut that weight. And it’s a miserable thing, but I know that’s what I gotta do. I’m putting it all on the table. At the end of the day, you’ve gotta fight.
“I based my whole camp on fucking Ben being the fucking Karate Kid and he came out like fucking Bruce Lee and blasted on me. I’m not scared to tell people these little things about me, my weaknesses or whatever. I come in drained. I’ve gotta fix that. I’ve gotta put more juice in the tank. That’s what I need to do. I’m still learning who I am—as a man, as a fighter.”
After his loss to Nguyen, Rabaud was met with a great deal of criticism on social media and on online MMA betting guides. He knew it was bound to happen, considering his vocal presence. He leaves nothing to the imagination with his confidence, both in and out of the cage. But as his critics talked, Rabaud kept to himself. Adding fuel to the fire isn’t his forte, after all. He prefers to be the one that starts the blaze.
“All these drug allegations, people sayin’ ‘Jackal’s on drugs, that’s why he lost his fight’—no, dickheads. Jackal is fucking human, that’s why he lost the fight,” Rabaud exclaimed. “I didn’t like that people were saying I was smoking ice and apparently I’m doing this and that. I fucking wish that I smoked ice, because it wouldn’t be such a fucking hard weight cut, would it? It frustrates me. People are so low, though. These are people that can’t fight, won’t fight, don’t fight. I don’t say anything, though. I just sit back and wait, and then I’ll tell my story. I just wanna be the best that I can possibly be. I wanna fucking show people what I’ve got. I wanna show ‘em what I can take [and] that I can give out a bashing. Hell, I don’t even care if I’m the one getting bashed. I’m not giving up.
“I’m coming fucking fight ya. I’m fighting with myself right now—I’m fighting in my head. I’ve got so much going on. I’ve got debt. I lost some money. I’ve got anxiety. Some people are really shy; they don’t wanna express this kinda stuff. I’m happy with who I am. I’ve made plenty of mistakes and everyone does, and I’m not someone to say I didn’t make them. I put my hand up and I say, ‘Yeah, I did it.’ I just hope people can understand. I fix the fucking problem. When the gun was pointed at my head, you don’t think about nothing else. Unfortunately, it’s human nature that you worry for yourself. I’m kinda happy this shit has happened, and it’s happened for a reason. And I’m gonna keep it close to me. I’m bitter, I really am.”
At the best of times, fighting professionally can be a tough business. Working so hard in preparation for a fight to have that feeling of bliss taken away from you, that can cause any proud competitor to question exactly what they are doing. Rabaud knows that with a loss comes the chance to win again, and that’s what he now looks forward to the most.
“I wanna sit up on that fucking cage,” Rabaud confessed. “It feels like I’ve never sat up on that cage. I know no fighter trains as hard as me in that division. No one does. I’m not expecting to lose at all. I wanna fuckin get out there again; I wanna say I’m sorry. I wanna show I’m sorry to Nitro. I wanna give the people what they wanted to see, what I hyped, what we published, all that. Fuck, I just wanna give it all back, everything that we promised. That’s the worst thing, telling the world that you’re gonna do something and not being able to do it. And it happens day in and day out with fighters. And for anybody where that has happened, they should fix it, or at least fucking try.
“That’s why I’m back in Queensland. I’ve ripped myself down into pieces so that I can put myself back together the way I want to. I’m in pieces right now, and now I’m gonna put it all together. Every time I get on the phone, I give you a piece of me. It’s just me. There’s no sugar; there’s no fucking confetti. That piece, it’s me on paper, and that’s all there is to it. And now it’s time for me to put it all together.”
Julian would like to thank everybody that has contacted him through social media over the past few days and would like to express his gratitude for the support that he has been getting. Follow Rabaud on Facebook.
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Located in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Neil Rooke has been writing about the sport of MMA since 2011. In the past, Neil has written for Cage Junkies and has written for Fight! Magazine as well as Fist! Fight Magazine. Neil is also a regular contributor to Fight! Magazine Australia and Yahoo! Sports Singapore.
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What a complete tosser..and not because he lost in such a spectacular way, but because at the weigh in he acted like a massive bellend. Ego bigger than talent.
learn to be humble or be humbled
Cock Meat Sandwich
Douchebag, who cares
I’m happy he lost and feels terrible about himself. He deserves it.
John Ax
He’s not going to win again. Not ever.
Ybow
What a fucking joke this guy is. LOL
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Thought he’d be more self-reflective, but he’s still making excuses…
1. kills you to make weight
a. so you don’t train
b. so you’re exhausted on fight night
2. too “small” to beat guys in the next weight class
so now what? he’s basically built a bulletproof excuse for getting beat where ever he fights. that is cowardly. takes guts to fight in the cage…not gonna take that away from the guy…but takes more guts to own up to the fact that you lost. ben was better that night…period.
my opinion: either don’t fight or don’t make excuses. man up bruh.
What glory? This guys a total sore loser and represents everything that’s wrong with professional fighting. He tried to be a bully, got his ass thoroughly and quickly handed to him, then paints himself as a victim due to anxiety disorder and his opponents “luck”.
No where in this puff piece does he take any sort of responsibility, for his lack of skill or shit attitude. Douchebag crybaby.
Mike Hawk
rikishibruh
excuses and excuses “the guy knocked me out in 20 seconds because he had no other way to beat me” hahahahahaha
Stop crying
My god what a huge weenie. You lost, and you feel upset ok, but why go on and on making every excuse how you have anxiety, you had to cut weight, you’re small, you were tired, Ben was lucky wah wah wah. What a huge baby that’s just embarrassing. Have some respect for yourself and the sport and your peers.
What a lame excuse of a man… lol
twattooed
what a fucking dickhead. acted like a tool at weigh in, got KTFO in under a minute… the ben is just a big bully picking on the little tattooed twat. hahaha
Little tatty got rekt!
OUTFOXEM
“It was nothing but fucking luck.”
Don’t worry Ben. It’s obvious he doesn’t remember the fight.
The guy’s an utter loser, a joke. Hope he gets knocked about a LOT more.
Julian Wanker
i want to see that little bitch get knocked out again,,.
All bullshit… all about himself. No praise to his opponent who also work really hard. At the end of the fight, it’s all about win and lose and sportsmanship. This guy lost without any sportsmanship. All I see is just a kid who can’t take the pain and cry.
Oh…. and then ran away.
Saigon T J Nguyen
Likes to everyone that posted. This guy really thinks his history on and off paper makes home. You in a spectator sport respect that and respect what you went through and the people that paid to watch the match. You f’d up at the weigh in and I the ring.
Likes to everyone that posted. This guy really thinks his history on and off paper makes him. You in a spectator sport respect that and respect what you went through and the people that paid to watch the match. You f’d up at the weigh in and In the ring. Asking for a second chance is the same thing as breaking up with your spouse and asking to be taken back
People who are legitimately strong, and know they’re strong don’t need to act like meatheads to try and intimidate their opponent as Jackoff did at the weigh in. Notice how calm Nguyen remained, despite Jackoff’s provocation. In his mind, he already knew he was going to annihilate Jackoff the next day.
cheza za
whatever shit he tried to come up with, it’s never gonna change the past: the cockiness and low life attitude as a fighter he showed all of us, he will still be the shittiest fighter ever who abused fame and power, this kind of man needs to be taught a lesson, out from this world if possible, I have zero respect for this kind of a man, he is piece of shit.
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tuluvavellala
it was 20 seconds not 25. dont be biased towards your kind you journos
David Liang
That’s the most amount of self-indulgent nonsense I’ve ever read, and this is after a loss. Imagine if he had won that fight.
julz the fag
astrobong
This guy makes fighters with tattoos look really, really, really bad and questionable – NO HONOR. What a coward loser at the weigh ins…..trying to be psychological cause he knows that is the only way to win for him… emotional blackmailing and a poker face, haha! Nothing but luck until BEN!
what a loser
excuses. so much faeces came out of his mouth. took an eternity to spew all that bullshit, takes a couple seconds to get knocked out in the ring.
he should’ve just pulled the trigger
Ilya Arkadiev
Not feeling sorry for this “The Jackass” at all. Anxiety or not, he is a hole who tried to bully his mark and got his arse kicked.
Maulana Wahyudi
Craaaaaaawwwwling iiiin my skiiiiiiiiiinn
Wow sorry Julian, I am Australian too and I believe you deserved to be knocked on your arse after behaving like that.
Somewhere in the last 20 years or so. people have started equating being angry with being strong.
They are 2 very different things.
I hope you have learned respect for other fighters and people since this, you had no right to treat someone that way.
Man up you little pussy!
John Li
Sounds like he’s been hit in the head too many times. ““I know he’s got skills. I know he’s quick. But I tell ya what he had on
that night and it wasn’t one of them—he had nothing but luck. It was
nothing but fucking luck.” I guess his definition of “luck” = skills and quickness. LMAO. He just needs to face the fact that he lacked the skills and the quickness that night. I guess he was out of luck. smh
Carlo Angelo Brogdon
Douche bag! Just admit that the other guy was and is better than you then and now, stop blaming your “condition” and take it like a man! You acted like a bad ass ay the weigh in, where’s that guy now??
Everyone gets anxious, some worse then others. But if you had bad anxiety, why would you get your face covered in tattoos? I have horrible anxiety (believe me, as serious as it gets) and I hide in the shadows, I could never draw attention to myself like that.
Total luck huh? Couldn’t even the guy that beat him the respect he deserves. Sounds like its coming from the same guy that showed no mutual respect during the weigh in. What a disappointment of a competitor.
If you’re going to act like your opponent deserves no respect (like at the weigh in), you have to be able to back it up. This dumbass couldn’t and the rightful winner took the glory in 25 seconds! Learn some respect or next time, pull the trigger Julian!
what a joke, he act’s like he’s a god in this sport… Nobody in the US has heard of him… Don’t say it was a lucky punch, it was a timed punch… He lives for the attention, look at him, tattoo’s all over his face.. for 2 reason’s, the attention, and wants to intimidate people because he knows inside he’s scared, he already admitted to being scared.. that’s why he put on the show at weigh ins, to try and get the upper edge.. Ben one of the most technical fighters out there.. I know, I fought him. And I lost, but i didn’t go around saying it was luck. His article was nothing but excuses, he wants to be a hero for the night, you can’t be a hero until you become a man.. this guy has a long way to go before he becomes that… The putting a gun to his head over losing a fight? You want anymore sympathy? Enjoy sleeping on the “gym” floor, and after you lose to a few more guys enjoy doing dishes.
Yy89
Get some more tattoos mate, try to be more intimidating at weigh in mate. Your only tactics aye? Other than crouching and getting hit for 30.
So did the writer of this article go in and blow Jackoff after the fight? Sheesh. What a bunch of spun garbage.
Nice tats. LOL. Tool. Unfortunately those don’t win fights. Men aren’t scared of ugly art. LOL
On a positive note I think Julz and Neil make a really nice couple. I have nothing but respect for Neil’s sturdy asshole and it’s unrivaled ability to withstand lengthy, violent poundings each time “The Jackal” loses yet another fight.
“But as his critics talked, Rabaud kept to himself. Adding fuel to the fire isn’t his forte, after all. He prefers to be the one that starts the blaze.” ………lol
Long article, lots of words. As Master Ken would put it…Bullshit!
Bullshit to the author who sympathized, Bullshit to Julz the Pussay, Bullshit to his career.
Old8oy .
He showed minimum respect for his opponent at the weigh-in…Nguyen should have knocked him out there and then. He showed a lot of restraint. This Rabaud prick thinks he looks like some Maori warrior or some bollocks…anyone who things having tattoos all over your face and body makes you a hard man deserves to end up on the deck like this sorry cunt…
Peter Cowen
Yeah Fedor and his brother are twice the fighters this dick is, as are many others without acting like a complete dick.
The lack of skill, aggression happens.
your tattoos are tough as fuk bro
Disg
not only you got anxiety and unfair weight loss and lack of luck, you must had got incontinence from hit to passing out all these bullshit. why don’t you start a writing career and do chick flick with all these inner emotions.
No sportsmanship. Absolutely no class. Talked a whole bunch of shit but couldnt back it up and when he lost, he runs away to Australia for months. Why don’t you just stay there. America doesnt want you back
TwoKick
“Julian would like to thank everybody that has contacted him through
social media over the past few days and would like to express his
gratitude for the support that he has been getting. Follow Rabaud on Facebook.”
who are these people supporting this douche bag? acts like a douche bag and cries like a baby. watch this space, i see a quicker trip to jail then his trip to the floor
OnlyMeAndI
I guess the ego was to big. And not every knockout is luck. I have been a boxer for a long time, and he over commit on every punsh. If you a striker you would have been knocked out again.
capriciouscapuchin
what a joke, big tough bully who behind the scenes has a “sensitive side” who got his ass handed to him.
Why don’t you say thank to that referee to rescue you from brain damage. I guarantee you MMA will not allow you to come back because you are a worthless piece of shit fighter. You don’t deserve to fight any MMA fighter again. Oh talking about rematch with Ben, that is funny because Ben is already way up high 1000 miles from you. You need to fight to get up there and keep dreaming. One recommendation for you. Be respect to your opponent.
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didn’t read any of this because he’s a woman bashing dog, he should have just blown his fucking head off.
rai chu
Cocky piece of messy canvass. You acted like a total ass on the weigh-in so here’s the biggest middle finger for you. ..!..
Jake the snake
You’re fucking gay, Julian. Your chin is weak, you have bad technique, and you fight like a dimwit. If you really watched that humiliating and career ending knockout delivered by Ben, you would’ve realized that and just quit your day job and work at a used record store. Have a terrific life, asshole.
u wot m8
Covert narcissism at it’s best.
The wounded pride is crying.
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Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Where Does Floyd Go From Here?
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Whether you believe it lived up to the hype or thought was a bust, the biggest boxing match of this generation is finally in the books. A bout that played out against everyones wishes, but went along with how most experts predicted it would, saw Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2) lose by unanimous decision to Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (48-0), who moves one step closer to Rocky Marciano’s perfect 49-0 undefeated record.
The question everyone is asking now is where does Money go from here? With a a slew of young fighters chomping at the bit and a small stable of veterans who have yet to face the undefeated five-division champion, it seems there are few options available for Mayweather’s swan song.
Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2)
Despite previously stating that he would likely not be having an immediate rematch against Pacman, it’s believed a rematch clause was already written into their contract, so the hard work of negotiating has already been done if both fighters choose to go this route. Even though this past weekends fight didn’t deliver the fireworks many had hoped for, reports of Pacquiao suffering a shoulder injury in training do add some intrigue into the idea of a rematch, and while a second bout would unlikely sell as well as their first, it is still the most lucrative bout available for both fighters. So if Money is truly contemplating retirement after his next fight, then why not add as much cash to the coffers as possible beforehand?
Amir Khan (30-3)
This is a fight that seemed almost destined to happen back until Amir Khan dropped back-t0-back losses to Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia, respectively. Khan, to his credit, has been able to string together four-straight and if he comes out on top against Chris Algieri later this month, he’ll be back into a good place to start asking for boxings biggest draw. Khan has made the permanent move to welterweight, and like a couple of Floyd’s most recent opponents, is signed to Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, which would help ensure a quick and smooth bout agreement. Khan may not be the biggest name available, but he’s a decent international draw and might just be an interesting enough opponent for Mayweather to take on.
Kell Brook (34-0)
If interesting is what we’re going for, then IBF Welterweight Champion Kell Brook is about as interesting as it gets. At 29-years-old, the Brit is undefeated in 34 professional outings, making him mature enough, and seasoned enough for this level of match. The downside is he has yet to face any of the usual suspects of the division, and is not as big a draw as his latino counterparts. While Eddie Hearn recently stated that both Kkan and Brook were off the table for Floyd because they lacked star power, no one should make that bet just yet. Assuming Brook gets past Frankie Gavin later this month, he may be able to drum up enough support to make this fight happen.
Adrien Broner (30-1)
Broner seemed destined to face Floyd one day, but a unanimous decision loss to Marcos Maidana saw any hopes of that fight happening soon slip away. Maidana himself would immediately go on to face Mgyweather not once, but twice. Broner has got three more in the win column since, but against lesser competition. He’s stated he’d like to fight Khan, and Danny Garcia has been lobbying for a bout against him, but if he can get past his recent legal troubles, the dangerous 25-year-old might be the best test for Mayweather before he retires.
Terence Crawford (26-0)
Having been labeled by some as the next Floyd Mayweather, Terence Crawford has everything it takes to be a PPV draw. The only problem is if you want to be the man, you have to beat the man. Just as both Mayweather and Pacquio did with Ricky Hatton and De La Hoya, so must Crawford with one of the two giants. He has all the elements to be a superstar, and could be adored instead of infamous. Many analysts like this matchup, but it’s still unclear where Money’s mind is at. Of course even if the fight does happen, it will be a big mountain to climb in order for Crawford to dethrone the king of PPV and claim that title as well.
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Pacquiao was the last best hope that anyone would ever beat Mayweather. If this fight had happened 5 years ago, he might have even done it. Likely that was the reason so many people plunked down $100 to see the fight. They desperately wanted to see loudmouth Mayweather lose just one time. Now, Floyd will take one more fight — maybe two so it’s an even 50 — win both of them the same way he always has and retire. After that, boxing will fall off the proverbial cliff popularity-wise. There isn’t a PPV draw big enough to take the place of Mayweather and Pacquiao. Barring some uber-charismatic fighter coming out of the woodwork, this will go down in history as the last gasp of the era of boxing’s greatest era: Starting in 1900 and ending this decade.
The only thing that could possibly save boxing for a little while longer would be for FM to get KTFO by his last opponent. In a single stroke, that would probably crown a PPV heir to the throne.
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