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Ahmadinejad: Obama reaction to his speech "insulting", "amateurish"
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Ahmadinejad calls Obama reaction to 9/11 comments 'insulting'
Iranian president tells reporters he is justified in questioning the motives behind the 2001 terror attack.
By DPA Tags: Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Barack Obama UN 9/11
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently accused the U.S. of involvement in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, fired back at criticism waged against him saying Saturday that "the reaction [by U.S. President Barack Obama] was very amateurish … if there is nothing to hide, just present the relevant documents to the fact-finding team so that we can all together fight against the involved terrorists."
Ahmadinejad told reporters upon his arrival in Tehran from New York that "I just raised one simple question and it is not right that whoever poses a question is insulted afterwards."
The Iranian president said during his address before the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been used against Muslims around the world, and used as a pretext for invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
"We should not allow this incident to be turned into another holy and untouchable issue," Ahmadinejad said - a reference to the Holocaust, which the Iranian president considers a pretext for Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
"The U.S. cannot raise a claim and issue a one-sided verdict, and based upon that, dictate its policies to other countries and accuse any state opposing the U.S. version of terrorism," he added.
Ahmadinejad said during a news conference on Friday that his remarks at the General Assembly were not meant to hurt the feelings of Americans, but rather to show that the U.S. government had used the tragedy to kill "tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Asked whether he should apologize for the remarks, Ahmadinejad shot back: "Why should the statements be perceived negatively? We have expressed our sympathies to those killed on September 11. We must now find the root causes."
Nearly 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001, including more than 2,700 in New York City when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center.
Iran's state television network said in a statement that there was a "media competition" between Ahmadinejad and Obama in New York, which "Ahmadinejad had clearly won, and that the interview with BBC Persian "could not save Obama."
Since his arrival in the U.S. on Monday, Ahmadinejad held several exclusive interviews with the U.S. media, with the apparent aim of clarifying the Iranian stance to the American public.
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THE AMORAL BOORISHNESS OF MICHAEL WALSH AND HIS ATTACK ON "NEVER-TRUMPKINS"
Michael Walsh attacks never-trumpers here:
https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2016/08/17/the-moral-cowardice-of-the-nevertrumpumpkins/
He argues us never trumpers are electing hillary.
Michael Walsh, you are an idiot.
I am a registered Democrat in ny who won't vote for any liberal, congenital liar. Neither donald or hillary.
So, please tell me how i help elect either trump or hillary as a dem voting for the libertarians in ny?
Hillary is up 30% in ny. And because we have a federal election decided by an electoral college, my voting trump - who is, right now, guaranteed to lose ny - would actually be throwing away my vote; whereas by voting libertarian i actuall send a message to both parties.
And if in some alternate universe, trump was only behind in ny by 1 or 2 or 3% - and couldd actually maybe win ny with the never-trumper vote, then he would be demolishing hillary almost everywhere else, and he still would not need my vote.
Jerks like michael walsh should stfu. Really. Stfu.
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MERKEL TALKS OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH
First, the good news. German premier Angela Merkel says that full Islamic veils like niqabs have no place in German society:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has described full-body veils used by some Muslim women that cover the face as an obstacle to integration. [...]
Merkel weighed in on the issue in comments to the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland newspaper group published Thursday. She was quoted as saying: "From my point of view, a fully veiled woman in Germany has barely any chance of integrating."
There's just one little thing: either the women wearing them don't want to integrate, let alone relate to wider society, or, they're being forced to wear such awful garments.
Now for the bad news that ruins everything:
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, adding that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practiced in a way that respected the constitution. [...]
"The phenomenon of Islamist terrorism, of IS, is not a phenomenon that came to us with the refugees," Merkel said at an election campaign event for her Christian Democrats in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ahead of a regional vote on Sept. 4.
What a disgrace. It may not have come from all the alleged refugees, but it certainly did come from plenty. If she thinks Islam is fine in Germany, then there's reason to doubt the sincerity of her argument against the veils. Instead of helping, she's only hurting once more. She probably hasn't even met with any of the victims of Islamofacist crimes to offer her condolences. If she's losing support from the public, it's for the best.
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HOW TO MAKE NON-KOSHER RECIPES INTO ACTUAL KOSHER
If you've ever wondered how to turn recipes for non-kosher meals into those that are actually kosher, the UK Jewish News has a whole article about how it's done, and concepts that taste just like pork without actually being pork. It's a clever testament to how food development is advancing marvelously these days.
(On a semi-related note, I set up a food blog recently, where I link to recipes and various other articles for meals whenever I can.)
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FRANCE'S BAN ON BURKINIS IS JUSTIFIED
More violence cropped up this week in France and Corsica, this time involving burkini wearers who, along with their male masters, led to a riot, and so several towns are now banning them from public beaches:
The French government has defended municipal bans on body-covering Muslim burkini swimwear but called on mayors to try and cool tensions between communities.
Three Mediterranean towns – Cannes, Villeneuve-Loubet and Sisco on the island of Corsica – have banned the burkini, and Le Touquet on the Atlantic coast is planning to do the same.
The mainly conservative mayors who have imposed the ban say the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies French laws on secularism.
The burkini debate is particularly sensitive in France given deadly attacks by Islamist militants, including bombings and shootings in Paris which killed 130 people last November, which have raised tensions between communities and made people wary of public places.
The socialist government’s minister for women’s rights, Laurence Rossignol, said municipal bans on the burkini should not be seen in the context of terrorism but she supported the bans.
“The burkini is not some new line of swimwear, it is the beach version of the burqa and it has the same logic: hide women’s bodies in order to better control them,” Rossignol told French daily Le Parisien in an interview.
It's also bad for hygiene, and there's various health sources in France who believe, with good reason, that healthy hygiene is crucial.
Rossignol said the burkini had sparked tensions on French beaches because of its political dimension.
“It is not just the business of those women who wear it, because it is the symbol of a political project that is hostile to diversity and women’s emancipation,” she said.
On Saturday, a brawl broke out between Muslim families and a group of young Corsicans in Sisco after a tourist took pictures of women bathing in burkini. The mayor banned burkinis on Monday.
And they're doing the right thing. In fact, burkinis could be used as smuggling tools, something you can't do with a bikini (Ursula Andress sure couldn't have done that with hers in Doctor No back in 1962). For example, they could be used to smuggle smalls parts for explosives, or even hand grenades, guns and knives. They could even be used for drug smuggling and hiding documents and money. That's another reason why it's best to ban them from the beaches.
FROM PUBLIC TO PRISON MORALIST: HAREDI SLASHER BASHED UP IN CELL FOR PROVOCATIONS
The convicted Haredi murderer Yishai Schlissel is still making some eyebrow raising headlines, as it's revealed he shredded another prisoner's pictures of his daughters because he despised how they were dressed:
Yishai Schlissel, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish man serving a life sentence for the murder of 16-year-old Shira Banki at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade last year, is being kept away from other inmates at the Ayalon Prison after a physical altercation with a fellow prisoner left him hospitalized.
Last month, Schlissel tore up photos of another inmate’s daughters he had hanging in his cell, saying the girls were “dressed immodestly.”
Enraged, the prisoner beat Schlissel until prison guards separated the two. Schlissel was hospitalized for unspecified injuries.
The Ayalon Prison warden placed Schlissel in solitary confinement for a number of days as a disciplinary measure.
After an evaluation by prison officials, the warden decided to give Schlissel a separate cell citing his volatile behavior.
The Israel Prisons Service confirmed the decision in a statement, saying that Schlissel’s “taunts, inappropriate behavior and damage he caused another inmate’s property” necessitated the move.
Now I don't know what the other prisoner was in jail for or how severe his own crime was, but Schlissel's act in itself was offensive and an act of hatred towards people who could otherwise be innocent. And assuming the daughters were of legal age, how fascinating that somebody who was hell-bent on slaughtering homosexuals at the parade has such a problem with pictures of ladies hung in his cell. He could be bitter at the realization he threw away his future and will never be able to lead a relationship with women again after the violent crime he committed against one. But it sure seems for now like he's become an isolationist in the worst possible way, and has rejected being part of the human race (remember, this was somebody who even refused legal counsel and doesn't recognize the state laws).
Frankly, he deserves whatever he got for violating the Commandment of Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder. No matter how distasteful homosexuality is, it's no justification for savagery like what he committed last year.
BAR KOCHVA'S BALLISTA BALL
Some students in Gush Etzion dug up an ancient weapon used during the Bar Kochva revolution in ancient times:
An ancient ballista ball, claimed to be one of those used by Jewish warriors fighting against the Roman Empire during the Bar-Kochba revolt, has been unearthed by high school students in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem.
The rebellion, led by Simon Bar-Kochba between 132 and 136 CE, was also known as the Third Jewish Revolt, because it was the final of three Jewish uprisings against the Romans due to religious and political persecution.
It is estimated that many thousands of Jews died during the revolt, resulting in a massive depopulation of the communities inhabiting the Judean Hills.
Many survivors of the battle were sold into slavery by Roman captors.
On Monday, Yaron Rosenthal, director of the Kfar Etzion Field School, said the stone ball was discovered during an annual excavation in Gush Etzion led by school counselors shortly before Tisha Be’av.
There may still be several thousand more of these balls out there waiting to be found. Nice to see one of them was unearthed.
Donald Trump Calls for 'Extreme Vetting' of Immigrants (VIDEO)
Cross-posted from American Power.
Following-up from earlier, "In New National Security Speech, Donald Trump to Call for Ideological Screening for Terrorists."
As I wrote there, "Of course, he'll be savaged by the Islamo-coddling left-wing media."
Yep, it turns out one Politico hack claims Trump's plan will make the U.S. less safe. I know, leftist logic is just impeccable, heh.
And there's all kinds of left-wing rejoinders at Memeorandum.
Frankly, this "extreme vetting" plan is the best thing yet!
At LAT, "Donald Trump calls for 'extreme vetting' and an ideological test for would-be immigrants":
Since Donald Trump called for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the U.S., he has tried to expand, narrow or otherwise redefine the polarizing proposal that helped win him the Republican primary but has posed a greater challenge in the general election campaign.
On Monday, he added a phrase to his policy lexicon: “extreme vetting.”
To Trump, that means ensuring anyone entering the country shares American values.
The newest addition to Trump’s immigration policy came during a major speech on national security in Youngstown, Ohio, that featured an unusually subdued Trump reading uneasily at times from a teleprompter and repeating several false claims, including his assertion that he was early to oppose the Iraq invasion and the unsubstantiated pronouncement that the San Bernardino shooters’ neighbor saw bombs in their apartment before the attacks.
It followed days of criticism over Trump’s insistence that President Obama and Hillary Clinton founded Islamic State. Those comments, and other unscripted and unforced controversies, have helped distract from Trump’s core economic and anti-terrorism messages, push down his standing in polls and lead Republicans to once again urge him to curtail his improvisational style of campaigning.
Trump did not explicitly back down from his December proposal, still on his campaign website, for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.”
He did not mention it, instead calling on the departments of State and Homeland Security "to identify a list of regions where adequate screening cannot take place," which would then be referred to to temporarily halt visas.
Trump spent more of his speech defining what he said was a new ideological test for those entering the U.S., comparing his plan to Cold War-era screening.
"We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people," he said. "In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law. Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted."
Keep reading.
You can see how leftist media reports are highly critical, but of course Trump's plan is exactly what we need.
It's a great start.
On this issue alone I'd vote for Trump in a heartbeat. It's the crucial issue facing the country. We're at the crossroads. It's existential.
Leftists are going to hate it, obviously. The left is simple incapable of protecting American national security. If Trump's not elected, these issues are not going away. No doubt other candidates will again raise the prospect of "extreme vetting" to save the country.
It's a breath of fresh air.
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Clinical Flu Shot Provided On Campus: Swine flu Fails to Overshadow Seasonal Influenza Preparation
Amanda Cheek, News Editor
The seasonal flu has not left the minds of many students and faculty at George Mason University this semester. Despite the recent H1N1 epidemic, students and faculty lined up at the first clinic on campus where the flu shot was offered by the School of Nursing on Sept. 15.
Dr. Charlene Douglas, coordinator of Community Health Nursing, said that she was concerned that people were so caught up with the H1N1 virus that they would not come out for the seasonal flu shot.
Douglas also said that the seasonal flu kills about 36,000 people every year and that is just another reason people should get the flu shot.
Jenna David, a geography major and freshman at Mason, said she has never had the flu shot before but chose to get it this year because she was living in the dorms.
“Now that I live on campus, there are a lot of kids [and] a lot of germs. I feel I’m more likely to get it here than just living at home with my family,” said David.
The flu shot clinic offers the seasonal flu shot to students for $15 and to faculty for $20. A shot for pneumonia is also offered at $50 per person.
Informational flyers were handed out as students and faculty received their shots that were approved by the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The flyer for the seasonal flu shot lists the mild side effects that could be caused by getting the flu shot, which included soreness, redness or swelling near the injection site; hoarseness; sore, red or itchy eyes; coughing, fever and aches.
Marci Jerome, assistant professor of Special Education at Mason, has been working here for 10 years and said she has gotten the flu shot every year since she had children.
“I have two children, and with the whole family, I wanted to get my shot early. I thought they might run out, and with the kids in school, I don’t want to get [sick] from them,” said Jerome.
Jerome said she did not know if there was any connection between the H1N1 virus and the seasonal flu, but she did not want to take the chance.
Douglas said that now is a great time to get the seasonal flu shot. The H1N1 vaccine will not be released until mid-October, which she said means it would not be available to the public until around late October.
Receiving the shot now will give students and faculty the time to let the seasonal flu vaccine go through their system and body, so they will have processed the first vaccine completely and be ready for the H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available, said Douglas.
Douglas believes we should not lose sight of the seasonal flu shot’s importance as a preparation against the seasonal flu, even with our knowledge of the H1N1 virus.
“[We should] prevent what we know [now] even as we prepare for what is new,” said Douglas.
The first flu clinic hosted at Mason took place in Patriot’s Lounge in Student Union Building I on Sept. 15, but there are many others that will be going on at Mason’s Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William Campuses until Nov. 12.
For a full schedule of times the flu shot will be offered at Mason, visit shs.gmu.edu.
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About CHRISTINE ARYLO
Transformational Leadership Advisor & Coach, MBA
Social Impact Leader and Founder
Wisdom Teacher
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Be the change you wish to see in the world, your life and in the lives of those you love & lead.
Christine Arylo, MBA, is a transformational leadership advisor, teacher, speaker and three-time best-selling author who is recognized world-wide for her work with women to make shift happen – in the lives they lead, the work they do, and the world they wish to create.
Arylo combines 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience in brand marketing, business strategy, human resources, and leadership development for companies like Gap Inc., Visa, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tyco and PepsiCo, with 20 years of wisdom-based training on conscious leadership, human potential, indigenous and feminine wisdom, and yogic science to guide people to lead their lives, businesses, organizations and relationships differently.
For more than a decade, through her transformation-based consulting company, Expanding Possibility, she has been a catalyst, mentor, and advisor for established and emerging leaders on 6 continents.
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Her blended approach to leadership gives those who work with Arylo access to expanded levels of self-awareness, resilience, presence, insight and the courage to lead the way to new ways of working, living, creating and relating.
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She is on faculty for several personal transformation organizations including Esalen and Kripalu. She has been a guest lecturer speaking on feminine leadership and women’s empowerment for Kellogg and Wharton, as well as, UCLA, Mills College and the Haas School of Business. She teaches within national leadership programs such as Ellevate Women’s Network and Leading Women In Technology.
Arylo believes when women come together, in sisterhood, with intention, shift happens. Which is why she hosts women’s empowerment, wellness and leadership retreats four times a year. And runs several online programs that connect women worldwide.
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Christine has made several courageous life leaps to follow her heart to creating the world she desires – for herself and other. Including finishing business school and heading to California without a job to pursue her dream of working in fashion. Selling her house and car to live her dream of living and working around the world – which she did for 3 years.
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Christ the Savior Church
Orthodox Christianity in Southbury, CT
Turkana Mission
Mission Statement of our Parish
The mission of Christ the Savior Orthodox Church is to proclaim and live out the gospel of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ as it has been handed down to us since apostolic times. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, we:
Worship in the fullness of joy and truth.
Unite ourselves with Christ through sacramental life.
Reach out and care for others in love.
By being faithful to this life, we are transformed into the Body of Christ, bringing the Kingdom of God to all.
The History of Christ the Savior Orthodox Church
From the early 1970s, former rector Father Vladimir, Matushka Suzanne Aleandro, and their children were communicants at Three Saints Church in Ansonia, CT. Their pastor, Fr. Nicholas Vansuch, visited their home in Oxford and travelled the surrounding countryside. With a heart for missions, Fr. Nicholas pointed out possible mission sites. Southbury had a growing population and a history of an Orthodox presence, including Churaevka, known locally as Russian Village. There was no active Orthodox church in the area and Southbury was chosen as an ideal site for a mission.
By the late 1970s, the Aleandro family was attending Saints Cyril and Methodius Church in Terryville, CT which was led by Fr. Michael Koblosh. Under his visionary leadership, Terryville experienced much change and dynamic growth including the construction of a new church building. Later, Fr. Michael was called to serve a parish out of state. When he returned and was not yet attached to a new church, he said, “Let’s start a mission!” Fr. Vladimir often shared with Fr. Michael the dream to create a mission in Southbury, a natural progression from Fr. Nicholas’ early vision.
In May 1991, Bishop Job of the Diocese of New England, Orthodox Church in America, gave his blessing to explore a mission station in the Woodbury/Southbury area. On June 16, 1991, the mission station held its first liturgy, celebrated by Fr. Michael Koblosh in the Aleandro home. Services were held for a few weeks at the Aleandros, but they knew they quickly had to find permanent lodgings if the mission were going to grow.
The mission station’s first host was Epiphany Episcopal Church in Southbury which provided their church hall for Saturday evening Vespers. We moved to our next location when Fr. Michael made arrangements to rent part of a building on Route 67 on a monthly basis. The space could not be designated as a church, so it was called the Orthodox Christian Center. The first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the storefront location on October 13, 1991. A large sign was made with “Orthodox Christian Center – Books Icons” and it was put out on Saturday mornings. Visitors stopped by through the day, looked through the books and icons, and asked lots of questions. Because of our unusual setup, people who would never have walked into a church were introduced to Orthodoxy.
During the next several years, Christ the Savior Orthodox Church was served by several different men of faith. Vladimir Aleandro was ordained to the Deaconate at the mission on February 1, 1992, making him the first son of the parish. Fr. Michael Koblosh continued to serve as Parish Priest and beginning on October 6, 1993, he served as rector of Christ the Savior while also taking on the duties of Liturgical and Pastoral affairs for Holy Ghost Parish in Bridgeport, CT. On June 1, 1994, Fr. Koblosh left Christ the Savior and Fr. Mac Vranes was assigned the duties of Parish Priest. Deacon Vladimir Aleandro was ordained to the Priesthood by Metropolitan Theodosius on June 29, 1995 and served his first liturgy as Rector on Sunday, June 30, 1995.
In August 1995, Fr. Vladimir received notification that we would have to vacate the Orthodox Christian Center and start searching for a new home. While we looked, the parishioners of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Sandy Hook, CT let us use their church on Sunday mornings before their services. By the grace of God, we were able to rent a storefront in the Middle Quarter Mall in Woodbury and moved into it in October 1995. This fourth location would be our home for almost nine years.
In December 1999 Peter and Chezelle Serev donated four acres of land on which to construct a church building, a very generous gift for which we shall be forever grateful. This gift brought us one step closer to realizing the community’s dream of having a permanent home. Our parishioners and many friends enthusiastically contributed to our building fund so that we were able to construct the church from February to August 2004. We moved from our rental space in mid-August 2004 and used another temporary space in the Middle Quarter Mall until we received the Certificate of Occupancy for our new church. The time in temporary quarters with bare walls and only a few icons reminded us that it was not the structure that made us the Body of Christ, but our community.
The first step in building an Orthodox church is the planting of the cross. The cross for Christ the Savior Church was made of cedar by Don Cole, a parishioner. On November 16, 2003 it was planted at the spot where the altar would be in the new church. This cross is now planted in the center of the island in front of the church and is lit throughout the night.
On June 4, 2005 Christ the Savior Orthodox Church was consecrated. During the consecration, the holy table or altar was built using four stones of special significance that truly summarize our history and our community’s vision. The stones were from Jerusalem; St. Nectarios Church, Aegina, Greece; the chapel in Russian Village (Churaevka); and our mother church, Saints Cyril and Methodius Church, Terryville, CT. Metropolitan Herman, Bishop Nikon, Fr. Vladimir Aleandro, and Fr. Michael Westerburg, the Chancellor of the New England Diocese, used one of the stones to hammer the Mensa or table top onto the four columns of the holy table. After completing this act, the stones were placed under the Altar where they are kept permanently.
On July 1, 2019 we welcomed Fr. Moses Locke as our next rector along with his family, Matushka Christy and their sons Elias, Seraphim, and Symeon.
Dear Faithful, Attached is the bulletin and calendar for October. Dependent on the weather, we will be outside for at least this Sunday. God bless you all. In Christ, Fr. Moses October Bulletin October Calendar
Dear Faithful, Happy New Year! The Church year ends with Dormition and begins with Nativity, a perfect image of the surrounding protection of our Lady. Links are below for the bulletin and calendar for September. A hard copy of the calendar is in your mailboxes. A modified hard copy of the bulletin has been sent to those without emails, and others who are not on this
Reopening the Church
Christ the Savior has received a blessing to increase the number of parishioners at each service! The parish may now have 50% of the building's capacity present for services (75 people). In order to facilitate adherence to these guidelines, those interested in participating in-person must sign up via Sign Up Genius by clicking here. Service Times:- Saturday Vespers:
1070 Roxbury Rd.
Father Moses Locke, Rector
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Youth Rock Climbing Championship to be held in Odesa
Jan 18 2013, 16:57
ODESA, JANUARY 18th, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― Odesa Rock Climbing Championship among the young athletes will be held 19 January in Odesa, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.
On January 19, 2013, Odesa Rock Climbing Championship among the young athletes will be held in our city. The competitions will be held at Odesa Youth Sports School No.12.
The competition is aimed at promoting rock climbing among young people and forming the city’s team to take part in the National tournaments and competitions.
The Championship will be with the strict observance of safety. Responsibility for the life and health of the participants in the area of competition lies with the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice of safety.
Competitions are scheduled to start at 11:00 a.m.
Winners will be determined according to the rules of the Cup of rock climbing and awarded with prizes.
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Gladeyes v Geoff
Gwen and Jade are in a band called the Gladeyes. They often practice and record at the home of Gwen’s parent’s, Trish and Geoff. Since these two people have possibly heard them play their songs more than anyone else on the planet, they could be considered experts on the subject of the Gladeyes. The Gladeyes thought, then, who better to interview them than Geoff, General Practitioner by day and Rolling Stone music critic by evening.
The interview started casually in Geoff and Trish’s living room, Geoff in his chair and Jade and Gwen cross-legged on the floor. As if waiting for this opportunity for his whole life, Geoff’s interview used up all four sides of two sixty-minute cassette tapes. Below is a small excerpt from the conversation.
nb. This was also recently published in the journal "Hue and Cry 'Stakeout.'"
Dad (Gwen’s Dad Geoff): So, am I going to be a fictitious interviewer?
Jade: No, you don't need to be fictitious, do you want to be fictitious?
D: Can I be from the Rolling Stone? Actually, who was it I was reading an interview with? Oh yeah that's right, I was reading a little bit about um… Now, you are known as the Gladeyes?
Gwen: Ha-ha, yes.
D: And how would you describe yourselves as a band?
G: Ah, you mean musically, what genre and stuff, or..?
D: Well, I wouldn't really use words like genre, just really, how would you describe yourselves as a band?…Which of you is the better musician?
G&J (laughter)
D: Which of you has got the greater..? I mean in some bands some people do more of the sort of musical side, and the others do the lyrical side. Is it sort of very mixed and shared, or does one of you have a greater interest in various aspects of it, like one of you is more interested in the lyrical side, or do you share that?
J: I think it's pretty even.
D: When you make up the words does one of you write it? Or you both kind of add in and change it, and...?
G: We have collaborated on words before but we don't so often as the music, even though it relates, the lyrics are generally written by one person.
J: Mmm, but when we started they were a bit more collaborative, it would be good to be more collaborative...
D: So does it tend to be that if you write a song, the lyrics are by one of you and another song might be lyrics by another person?
G: Yeah. But we have collaborated and we do, and even if we don't collaborate maybe on the actual writing, we might collaborate on the ideas of what the song would be about. And then the person who writes the lyrics is just the person who is more excited about it at the time.
J: Nothing's planned, like we don't say "Oh, you write three songs today," and nothing happens like that.
D: No, no, I know...No, no, I wasn't suggesting that but I was thinking, well...
G: But we would sit down and have times where we try and write lyrics together and stuff.
J: Yeah.
D: Like you have a piece of music that you've done, but you haven't got the lyrics?
G: …the chords or the structure, maybe one of us would bring that, and someone else would write more of a melody, and someone else might add the lyrics, and someone else might write little bits of lyrics. But it's really quite collaborative, but some songs are more or less collaborative.
D: Mmm.
G: …but as an overall kind of project and set of ideas I think it's really collaborative, because they all sit within that framework. And so those songs exist because of the other songs, even, you know... well, that structure’s there for them, or something.
D: Anyway, just getting on to a lighter topic, with your names - interesting names aren’t they? Gwendoline, quite a traditional female name, I’ve never heard of a guy called Gwendoline…
J&G: (laughter)
D: …and Jade is what I might call an intersexual name, because it can be a boy or a girl. So, Gwen represents the femininity and tradition of the female in your band and Jade, because there’s no males in the band, she can sort of flip over to the male side, is this right?
G: Yep. Definitely right.
J: Yeah, you’re spot on. On the money.
D: Because, I’m just going on from your music, you’ve got some really light and fun tracks, one of my favourites being Geek Boy, which, I don’t get to hear very often in fact, but, in terms of lightness and fun, and then you have…
J: It’s my Dad’s favourite song as well!
D: Oh is it? Okay.
G: Oh really? Maybe we have to do a tribute to the Dad’s?
D: Yeah. And then you have the more serious and kind-of deeper songs, and I understand that as part of your greater artistic concept you’ve developed these characters of Damien and Monika. Can you tell me about Damien and Monika?
G: Well, I don’t think they’re…
D: Do they represent anything, or are they characters?
J: Yeah, they represent…something. They’re like vessels, of people.
D: Vessels for different people?
G: They’re almost like…
J: Archetypes? Or…
G: Yeah like tropes.
D: What’s a trope?
G: It’s sort of like an archetype, but it’s actually more specific
J: Like cinema or something? Is it related to cinema?
G: It’s any kind of representation, just like something that’s reoccurring, like the idea of an innocent child that’s really perceptive. Like in Les Miserables, there’s a character called Mignon and she’s a trope, she represents a recurring archetype, within literature or…
D: So are you kind-of intending, as you produce more songs, developing a sort of narrative of these people? Like they become, um, cartoon characters is not the right word, but they become like real people that keep popping up in your songs, and become familiar to people and they become, kind of like real people?
J: Yeah, we’ll always probably write songs about people. Yeah, I think those names probably won’t keep going, I don’t know actually, but, it’s nice to bring in new characters.
G: Yeah.
D: Are there any other characters beside Damien and Monika?
J: Claudia.
D: Claudia, of course Claudia
G: Andy
D: Andy of course.
J: Geek boy, but that’s not really a name.
G: But that’s definitely like a specific character.
J: There’s gotta be more than that…
D: Where did Andy come from?
G: I think Andy was just a name.
D: Yeah, but what influenced that song? What influences do you have, do you recognise any influences in your music? Your early music is possibly a little bit influenced by the Velvet Underground.
J: Yeah, we were listening to quite specific music when we started.
D: Karen Carpenter?
D: I noticed in that book Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, that she slayed Karen Carpenter, there was a paragragh or short paragraph…
G: Where she brings her down sort of thing?
D: Well yeah sort of, she has a very good way of bringing big things down into little things and dismissing them almost. Like, a generation of women worshipping Karen Carpenter, and just saying, well, you know, she was a bit of a messed-up woman that ate, didn’t eat herself to death. The reverse. I thought it was a bit cruel, she has a cruelty…anyway, I’m digressing, and it’s not really to do with the interview. Not too much, but it’s possibly, if that’s a book that you read it might indicate something about the ways that you think.
G: I think it’s good to always have those counters anyway, you know…
D: Yeah, so do you think that your music is always a mixture of light to serious? You like to bring in all the different moods of how you feel, I mean, Andy’s quite a sad song? And Geek boy’s a kind of tongue-in-cheek happy song, isn’t it? I mean you obviously don’t think of geek boys as really being geek boys because again it’s like a stereotype, and people who get called geek boys often aren’t. You seldom are what people slot you into.
J: Yeah
D: It’s got a catchy tune, that’s what I like about it. Um, where you’ve got much more narrative types, like Bad Town Blues is more kind of narrative, isn’t it?
G: Yeah
D: So you’re quite eclectic in your style of songs, and even in your lyrics as well. Now, I’m interviewing you as an older person, and one of the things I’m noticing now is that it kind of almost bores me how novels and songs are all about the same thing, which is love. Which is obviously so pertinent to you, you know, like relationships, boy-girl relationships, and love and all the angst and intricacies of that. But as you get older, because that’s not so important to you, because you’ve kind of gone through all that, it kind of seems a bit boring in a way. I mean, recently I’ve been listening to a radio station that plays a lot of oldies stuff, and just about everything is a love tale. So, do you aim to write songs that aren’t about that, and still try to catch young people’s attention? I mean, obviously you relate to your own generation, you’re not kind of making music for different generations. Do you think you can kind of make music and lyrics that address other issues? But fun issues, and issues that are really close to people’s hearts?
G: I don’t know, I hope that we already do that to a certain extent, even within those kinds of narratives that might address things like love and relationships and stuff, you know?
D: Well you could write a song that’s about the boy-girl love thing, or about the mum-child love thing, or about the mum-dad, or the child-dad, or the child-grandad, or the child-grandmother, or what-have-you, those sorts of love things. Do you think people relate to that much?
J: Yeah I think there are a lot of songs with that kind of thing. There’s heaps!
D: One of the things I wanted to ask is the idea of doing interviews anyway. Why bother doing interviews? Why not, I mean, listen to the music?
G: I think they just inform what you do in a different kind of a way. And probably be more-or-less successful each time.
J: I like reading interviews with people.
G: Yeah, me too.
D: Interviews can be edited, especially if they’re TV and so on, so you have to be a bit guarded when you’re interviewing.
G: Yeah, it’s a real skill I guess.
D: I realise that you two, before you were interviewed by me, have had to discuss what you’re going to kind of say and not say, and I see you sort of tapping each other when you feel that one of you is revealing too much about…
J&G: (nervous laughter)
D: Um.
J: Um.
D: Have you ever thought of going brunette?
G: Jade’s the boy. So I think she should.
J: Why does the boy have to go brunette?
G: I don’t know, the girl gets to call the shots?
D: Okay, I think I have explored you quite well haven’t I? I think I’ve made you think a bit, haven’t I?
J: Yeah, there were some good questions.
G: Yeah, definitely.
J: The best interview we’ve had so far.
D: It was good for me too, I’m very proud of you I have to say. Very proud of you. I think you’ve done really, really great, kind of hard to hold it together because it’s kind of like a marriage really, it’s hard in this world to kind of maintain…
J&G: Partnerships.
The full interview is to be published as the book, So the Attainment of Perfection is Forever? Stay tuned.
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Eastern Caribbean Stock Exchange to Trial Tokenized Security Offerings
The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange (ESCE) plans to partner with Canadian-based digital asset marketplace provider Blockstation to pilot security token offerings (STOs), according to a Letter-of-Intent published on March 10.
Blockstation is slated to provide a platform for listing, trading, clearing, settlement and the compliant tokenization of digital assets.
The ECSE was the first regional securities market and stock exchange in the western hemisphere and was established by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB).
The ECCB administers the eight members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States — Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Digital assets traded on the ESCE to be fully insured
The planned partnership will see the development a portal for issuers to manage disclosure documentation for upcoming STOs, in addition to security tools designed to assist regulators to track the circulation of digital assets. Full insurance coverage will be provided for all digital assets traded on Blockstation’s platform.
Trevor Blake, the managing director of the ECSE, stated: «The ECSE is proud to take a leading role in increasing access to and participation in our securities market through digital assets.»
The Blockstation platform will support Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) trading and will be open to international traders.
Blockstation launches digital asset platform with Jamaica Stock Exchange
Discussion between Blockstation and the ECSE started in late-2018 following trials of Blockstation’s digital asset platform with the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and a planned pilot with the Barbados Stock Exchange.
Last month, JSE and Blockstation announced the official launch of the platform. The stock exchange is currently reviewing applications for five companies seeking to launch digital securities offerings.
ECCB plans 2020 roll-out for blockchain currency
The Eastern Caribbean States have sought to embrace distributed ledger technology, with the ECCB hoping to issue the world’s first central bank digital later this year.
After the year-long trial that began during March 2019, the project will transition to a six-month rollout across the Eastern Caribbean region.
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DharmaCivilization.com
Center for the Study of Dharma and Civilization
Reaction, Revolution and Dharma Renaissance: The Case of “Hindu” Nationalism
Posted on October 27, 2012 by Dharma Civilization
By Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya
The following article is from chapter 2 of the groundbreaking new political work “The Dharma Manifesto”, by Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya.
“Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.”
– Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
The following paper will examine the Indian social movement known variously as “Hindu” Nationalism, or “Hindutva”[1].
The overtly political aspects of the ongoing Hindu renaissance that has been haphazardly developing for the last approximately 135 years, along with its repeated failure to secure its self-stated aim of instantiating Rama-rajya (Dharmic rule) on the political scene, are crucial topics that very few Hindu intellectuals have addressed in an ideologically cogent and politically mature manner. Some of the few intellectual leaders who have, in fact, addressed this issue in a truly systematic and well-formulated ideological way include Dr. David Frawley (Sri Vedacharya Vamadeva Shastri), Sitaram Goel, Ram Swarup and Dr. Koenraad Elst. I have also written about this topic very extensively, but have only begun releasing a limited number of my writings on this matter to the general public starting in early 2011, The Dharma Manifesto being the ideological dénouement of these writings. The following are a few thoughts on the current state of contemporary Dharma politics on the South Asian subcontinent, with an emphasis on the specific case of what is often termed “Hindu” Nationalism.
As we will see, the primary stumbling block that has relegated the greater Hindutva movement to near irrelevancy in the dual realms of both ideological development and engaged political action has been:
1) Its preponderance of reactionary thinking and action, rather than proactive cultivation of a more revolutionary outlook and practical strategy to both a.)gain political power and to b.) consequently govern the Indian nation-state along purely Dharmic principles.
2) The lack of the divinely-bestowed spiritual empowerment that is necessary for any self-described religious-based movement to secure meaningful success.
By the time the British and other European powers began the incremental process of colonial domination in India and the rest of South Asia in 1757, much of the Hindu community in north India specifically had already experienced hundreds of years of genocidal religious cleansing at the hands of the Mughals and other Islamic invaders before them. Without doubt, the establishment of European rule over India directly saved Hinduism (and, arguably, much of Vedic spiritual culture that served as the ancient basis of the later phenomenon of “Hinduism”) from inexorable extinction at the hands of Islam. If the British had not assumed the administration of India when they did, Hinduism would most likely not exist today, and all of present day India would be an Islamic state. All followers of Dharma must be eternally grateful to the British for this inadvertent rescue of the non-Islamic elements of Indian culture.
During the more liberal atmosphere of the British Raj period (1857-1947), history witnessed the beginning stages of a budding, if often very confused, and ultimately self-abnegating, Hindu renaissance with the emergence of such neo-Hindu movements as the Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission and Hindu Mahasabha, as well as such Hindu leaders as Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Bhaktivinode Thakura (1838-1914), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920), Arumuga Navalar (1822-1879), Gedong Bagus Oka (1921-2002), Sister Nivedita (1867-1911)[2], Annie Besant (1847-1933)[3], and many others. As a result of the rediscovery of their Vedic heritage on the part of many 19th century and early 20th century Hindu intellectual leaders, a new sense of political activism in the name of a rediscovered “Hinduism” cautiously developed with the nascent political theories of such people as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) and Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1889-1940).
The culmination of this new movement, which was decidedly devoted to a Hindu identity politics, has resulted in the overwhelmingly dominant role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (founded in 1925) and its greater Sangh Pariwar family of front organizations over the realm of Hindu politics in India for the last 85 years. The overtly political manifestation of the Sangh Pariwar movement was eventually manifest in the later Jana Sangh political party. The party operated under this name from 1951-1980. It was founded by Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (1901-1953), who was subsequently murdered by the Congress Party regime in 1953. Since 1980, the party has been known by the name Bharatiya Janata Party.[4]
There has been a clear, multi-stage trajectory in which pro-Hindu political ideology and activism have progressed in the last 135 or so years. Before I discuss the nature of that trajectory in any significant depth, first I need to lay out the three general morphologies that most political formulations have historically taken. There are three general forms of political activity observable in the modern political realm: 1) Utopian, 2) Reactionary, 3) Revolutionary.
Utopian designates a primarily futuristic-oriented politics that tends to be very unrealistic and fantasy-fueled. In many cases utopian-based ideologies tend to be eschatologically-driven and millennial in outlook, with the never-achieved (or achievable) promise of a perfect paradise on earth that can only be delivered by the particular political movement making the given promise. Such disastrously failed movements as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Anarchism and the political Left in general are Utopian in nature.
Reactionary, on the contrary, is primarily past-oriented[5] and looks toward a “better, more ordered time”, that is historically usually no more than several generations previous to the present era, as the archetypal hallmark and model for present-day cultural renewal. As Nicolás Gómez Dávila explains the mindset of the reactionary: “The reactionary is, nevertheless, the fool who takes up the vanity of condemning history and the immorality of resigning himself to it.” American reactionaries, for example, tend to see the 1950s as the apex of American civilization. As is clear from the term itself, reactionaries are capable only of reacting to assaults on tradition that they detect around them, and are usually incapable of proffering pro-active and positive ideas for how to foundationally transform society for the better in the face of modernity’s degenerate encroachment upon traditional values and culture. Reactionaries are especially known for timidity, intellectual incuriosity, lack of vision, as well as narrow parochialism and immaturely expressed xenophobia. Republicans, Tories, and the conservative Right in general fall under this general heading. Utopian and Reactionary represent the two furthest opposing extremes of the political spectrum.
Revolutionary, on the other hand, describes a political stance that is proactive and constructive in nature, rather than merely utopian or reactionary. Rather than supporting either unrealistic utopian goals, or merely reacting in an ineffectively knee-jerk fashion to the incessant attacks of its opponents, the revolutionary perspective proffers positive systemic change designed to transform the basic characteristics of a presently-given social reality in a wholly original and fundamental way. Revolutionaries seek to alter society, not merely peripherally and incrementally, but foundationally and swiftly.
In the very specifically Hindu/Vedic context, the revolutionary perspective looks at the ancient past (and not merely two or three generations back, but millennia back) as the source from which to derive eternal principles that are designed to be used in the present day to create a radically better future. The Dharmic revolutionary subscribes to an archeofuturism, to use Guillaume Faye’s instructive terminology.[6] Rather than merely dreaming about an unobtainable future based upon blind faith and wishful thinking, or conversely, merely reacting in a frustrated manner to the negative occurrences happening around them, revolutionaries seek systemic (and not merely cosmetic) change in the here and now.
The term “Revolutionary” tends to carry with it the stereotyped, and wholly inaccurate, notion of political violence, which is not at all the technical denotation of this word in political science terminology. Rather, by “Revolutionary” is meant a concept, ideology or movement whose aim is to affect fundamental systemic changes (i.e., a change of the prevailing system itself), rather than merely cosmetic or surface change alone (i.e., minutial changes and readjustments within the confines of the system). With this proper understanding of the terminology, the term “Revolutionary” does not in any way denote violence.
In brief, a Revolutionary movement must have the following features:
A) It is predicated upon a grand, but rationally achievable, vision.
B) It is led by a professional vanguard of elite leaders dedicated to achieving the vision, (b.i) who are capable of intellectually formulating that vision into ideological form, (b.ii) who know how to organize the masses in both the largest and most effective ways necessary to achieve the vision, and (b.iii) who themselves wholly personify the vision of the movement in their own personal character and lifestyle; i.e., the leader is the movement.
C) It has a clearly and systematically formulated ideology that encompasses the totality of political concern, including a comprehensive and defensible internal ideological structure, the minutia of economics, a philosophy of governance, social relations, geopolitical formulations, etc.
D) It has the ability to both formulate constructive alliances with like-motivated movements/organizations, and has a keen understanding of all aspects of the opposing forces.
E) Most importantly of all: a revolutionary has the resolute will to win.
As we look at the last 135 or so years of modern Hinduism, we see that Hindu forms of political expression have progressed roughly and sequentially, though certainly with significant overlaps, through the above three stages of Utopian, Reactionary, and Revolutionary.
“We Are One” – Utopian Stage (1875-1925)
Beginning in the Colonial era, and continuing down to today, such historical trends as the 19th century neo-Hindu movements and Radical Universalism, as well as such historic figures as Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, and many of the earlier gurus who came to the West, clearly represented an early Utopian stage of Hindu political expression. The concerns of such Hindu Utopians included such unrealistic liberal Western notions as radical egalitarianism, universalism, evolutionary and historico-progressive world-views, temporal-centrism,[7] and such emotionally-driven eschatological visions as the future establishment of a pan-ecumenical world political order – what today would be more accurately termed the New World Order. Such intellectually puerile sentiments, however, did not (and could not) lead to the type of strong Vedic restoration movement necessary to revive Dharma globally.
Such a Vedic restoration is necessarily radically traditionalist in nature, and is thoroughly opposed to all the key corrosive elements that have rendered modernity non-viable. The German intellectual Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) presciently describes a similar vision of such a restoration in the following way.
“Restoration of all those elementary laws and values without which man loses his ties with nature and God and without which he is incapable of building up a true order. In the place of equality there will be inherent standards, in the place of social consciousness a just integration into the hierarchical society, in the place of mechanical election an organic elite, in the place of bureaucratic leveling the inner responsibility of genuine self-government, in the place of mass prosperity the rights of a proud people.”[8]
For Sanatana Dharma to both survive and thrive in the coming decades and centuries, a thorough Vedic Restoration along the lines of Jung’s words above must be brought about – a reaffirmation of Sanatana Dharma’s most ancient and orthodox cultural and spiritual expression in direct contradistinction to the values of both Western materialist modernity and shortsighted Indian nationalism (i.e., “Hindu” Nationalism).
Most of the formulators and present-day thinkers of the “Hindu Nationalist” movement represent, to one degree or another, a rather sharp historical and conceptual disconnect from the traditional Sanatana Dharma that had been taught by the Vedic Acharyas and that had been practiced by the common Hindu people for thousands of years. After 1000 years of genocidal battering on the part of Islamic invaders, modern Hinduism was definitely not at the height of its intellectual, cultural, spiritual and political/military glory by the time the British arrived on the scene. By the time the British had saved Vedic culture from extinction, a radically traditional Sanatana Dharma, in its unapologetic, pristine, and consciously Vedic-centric form, needed desperately to be reconstructed by her intellectuals and spiritual leaders. Unfortunately, a serious process of tradition-oriented reconstruction was not seriously attempted at that time.
Instead of seeing the dire problems with Hinduism that were present by the 18th and 19th centuries as something that needed to be addressed and cured from within the confines of Sanatana Dharma, the neo-Hindus instead turned to external, non-Vedic, sources for their guiding inspiration. As a result, rather than attempting a true reconstruction of authentic Sanatana Dharma, which would have made Sanatana Dharma strong and pure once again, they instead attempted an unnecessary “reform” of Sanatana Dharma along the lines of Christian norms and ideals.
Thus we saw the Christian-inspired, neo-Hindu obsessions with eliminating “caste”, eliminating sati, eliminating murti worship, Christian style monotheism, “social reform” at the expense of intellectual/spiritual development, Hegelian historicism, and Radical Universalism. Attendant upon these superfluous “reforms”, we now witness the sad legacy of a Hindu world confused about what it believes, about what even constitutes a “Hindu”, about its future, as well as Hindu children who are not interested in Hinduism, and a Hindu community of almost one billion people many of whom suffer from inferiority complexes and the psychological scars of a people disconnected from their true spiritual heritage. What Sanatana Dharma really needed was never “reform” along these neo-Hindu lines, but rather a positive tradition-based reconstruction of its eternal ideals. “Hinduism” needed to re-embrace its true essence as Sanatana Dharma – the Eternal Natural Way.
What Sanatana Dharma needed – and still needs! – were two interdependent developments.
A) A reclamation of Vedic-based, traditional Sanatana Dharma, with a highly orthodox, Vedic-centric understanding of the unitive and integral Vedic culture that had sustained Sanatana Dharma for 5000 years. It needed a purely Vedic understanding of pramana (valid means of knowledge and derivation of authority), of the nature of Dharma (in the strictest of philosophical senses, not just the popular sense), of what constitutes Vaidika (Vedic) vs. Avaidika (non-Vedic), etc.
B) Once the pure Tradition of Sanatana Dharma was reconstructed, the next organic development needed to be a strictly Vedic-based strategy for both juxtaposing, but also actively interfacing, traditional Sanatana Dharma with the modern world.
The latter project of fostering dialogue between Sanatana Dharma and modernity needed to be done, not by falsely denying the differences between the two (as almost all of the 19th century proto-Hindutva figures attempted via Radical Universalism), but in the same manner that every other ancient culture had met the challenge of modernity: recognition of most modern religions/ideologies as purva-pakshas – opposing ideological constructs; friendly and open debate with these purva-pakshas; unapologetic assurance in the exceptional status of Sanatana Dharma, and a concomitant refusal to concede to the forced imposition of an inferior status.
Unfortunately, because the unneeded distraction of “Hindu reform” became the more easily accomplished dominant paradigm of the hour, to this very day the real project of Vedic reconstruction outlined above has barely gotten off the ground. It is now time to begin the process.
Many of the “Hindu reformers” were well-motivated and sincere persons who truly felt that they were acting in the interests of Sanatana Dharma. Many of Ramakrishna’s words are very inspiring and wise. Swami Vivekananda was a truly courageous and talented leader who the Hindu people can and should take immense pride in. More, many of these personalities did accomplish some good in providing at least some modicum of a vehicle for interfacing Sanatana Dharma and modernity, however self-destructive this particular vehicle has ending up being in the long-run. In formulating a Christian-inspired paradigm for Vedic survival with only short-term successes in mind, however, they did not have the long-term implications of their syncretism in mind.
“We Are Different” – Reactionary Stage (1925-1945)
Beginning roughly in the Interwar period (the 1920s and 1930s), we then see the formulation of a strictly Reactionary form of Hindu politics with the emergence of Savarkar, Savitri Devi (the European Pagan writer Maximiani Portas, 1905-1982),[9] the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, etc. The uniformed paramilitary formations, martial aesthetic, stress on character development, egalitarian ethos combined with a rigid hierarchical structure, and much of the generic patriotic rhetoric of the RSS was directly appropriated from the newly immerging, parallel nationalist movements that were sweeping the European continent during the 1920s.
Unlike their much more successful European counterparts, however, this new reactionary Hindu movement had very few innovative ideas, did not know how to successfully engage in politics either electorally (not till the 1980s at the earliest) or in terms of mass mobilization (other than borrowing heavily from the paramilitary structure earlier developed by their much more successful counterparts in the various nationalist organizations of contemporary Europe), were wholly disconnected from the traditionalist and orthodox Vedic understanding and practice of the Yoga tradition, had no clear understanding of Dharmic political theory, and most importantly, did not know how to construct an elite political vanguard capable of leading the people by their own spiritual example.
The RSS and Sangh Pariwar defined itself, both historically and to this very day, exclusively in negative juxtaposition to what they were not: they were not Muslims; they were not Christians; they were not Marxists; thus, if only by necessary default, they were “Hindus”. However, to this very day, the RSS has found itself incapable of defining in positive identitarian terms what it actually means to be a Hindu in the spiritual sense of this term. Savarkar’s blind imitation of then-fashionable European racialist theory in the formulation of his interpretation of “Hindutva”, or “Hinduness”, as designating a specifically racial group was doomed to failure from the outset. For Savarkar and all those who followed in his footsteps, being Hindu meant being Indian; being Indian meant being Hindu. Thus, Hinduism for the Hindu Nationalists was merely another term for the Indian race![10] Being a politician, and not a Vedic philosopher, Savarkar did not understand that Sanatana Dharma does not equate to the Indian race. Sanatana Dharma is a world-view and spiritual tradition. It is the sacred heritage, not merely of those people who happen to possess an Indian passport, but of the entirety of the Indo-European peoples.
To this day, rather than facilitating the radical, systemic change necessary to bring about a new Dharma civilization (which is clearly not at all the aim of these Hindutva movements, and never has been), the Reactionary tendency in pro-Hindu politics has shown itself to be an un-visionary, anti-intellectual, philosophically impotent and currently irrelevant political force. It finds itself dedicated more to a rather light version of Indian Nationalist conservatism than Vedic nation building.
The deepest extent of their political program essentially consists of a return to an era more within the comfort zone of the octogenarian men who lead this reactionary movement – possibly a return to India circa 1855 for Savarkar and Hedgewar, or an India circa 1955 for an Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani. A Dharma Nation will never be achieved by the feckless Reactionaries, if only because such a goal is not even within the scope of their actual aims or intellectual understanding.
Sadly, the vast bulk of so-called “Hindu activism” that takes place today still falls under the category of Reactionary, and is more a reflection of amorphous Indian Nationalism, and general pride of place and ethnicity than any serious attempt to reorder society (either Indian, American, or global) in such a manner as to reflect Dharmic principles instantiated in concrete political form.
Many of the attempts at polemical and ideological writing that we have seen arising from “Hindu Nationalists” make it all too apparent that they are not yet politically mature enough to either vie for power or to govern a working nation-state. When, and only when, it comes to the point that self-described “Hindu Nationalists” develop the philosophical maturity to engage in the nuanced ideological struggle necessary to win power, and only when they learn how to develop temporary and practical alliances with others while also keeping the greater goal of political power in mind, will they be ready to govern the current nation-state of India. Only then will “India” become Vedic Bharat once again! Contemporary “Hindu Nationalism” needs to move away from the fantasy-rhetoric level that they have wallowed in for so many decades, and begin the hard work of engaging in real politics in the real world.
“We are Vedic!” – Transforming the RSS into a Revolutionary Movement
Without doubt, the current attempt at Vedic restoration is seen as almost being synonymous with the vision, leadership, organizational structures and ideological pronouncements of the RSS movement. With approximately six million dedicated activists, the RSS is officially the largest volunteer organization on the Earth today. Unfortunately, the RSS has served as a sadly flawed and ideologically challenged vehicle for Vedic restoration. The RSS will need to address the following problems if it is going to transform itself from a Reactionary movement to a Revolutionary one:
A) Distinguishing between Indian Nationalism versus Vedic Restorationism. Many difficulties arise when these two separate concerns become indistinguishable, as they very clearly have in the minds of almost all “Hindu Nationalists”. Indian Nationalism is an ethnicity/national/racial movement. Vedic Restoration, on the other hand, is a religious/cultural/philosophical one. The RSS has, in my opinion, been more of an Indian Nationalist movement than a Vedic Restorationist movement. More, this is the primary reason why the BJP so badly lost the Indian national election of 2004 – because they tried to appeal to Muslims, Christians, pseudo-secularists, and other non-Hindu Indians merely as patriotic Indians, rather than appealing exclusively to the majority community as follower of Sanatana Dharma[11]. The RSS’s main concern has become Indian Nationalism rather than Sanatana Dharma…and this has only set the movement back.
B) Within the current day Vedic Restorationist movement, we must clarify the difference between Hindu Revival (a political/social/cultural phenomenon), which the RSS is predominantly engaged in, versus Vedic Reconstruction, (an intellectual/academic/philosophical/spiritual matrix of projects), which is precisely what such individuals as David Frawley, Swami Dayananda Sarasvati, Shrikant Talageri, Subhash Kak and myself, as well as other, more traditionalist, Vedic thinkers are engaged in. Both are projects of seemingly rival significance, and the different natures, goals and methods of these two separate projects need to be understood.
C) Within the parallel projects of Hindu Revival and Vedic Reconstruction, we need to distinguish between a Neo-Hindu versus a Traditionalist world-view, which has been addressed to a much greater extent in the book Radical Universalism: Are All Religions the Same?, by Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya.
The RSS is currently a neo-Hindu, revivalist, Indian Nationalist movement. What it needs to become is a Traditionalist Vedic Reconstructionist movement. Like some of the 19th century neo-Hindus of the past, the RSS has done much good for the Indian nation-state historically. The RSS has been on the front-lines of defending Hindu India from foreign aggression, both military and missionary.[12] The sacrifices of countless individual RSS members are too numerous to mention. Today, however, both India and Sanatana Dharma need radically more. The RSS needs to change quite radically if it is going to maintain itself as an effective organization in the future.
The following is a ten point program that Hindu Nationalists should implement if they truly wish to transform their nation of India for the better.
1) Annihilate the immediate existential threat from the Communist terrorists, Islamic Jihadists and Christian missionaries who have enslaved your country.
2) Stop graduating countless engineers, “IT professionals” and medical personnel, and instead begin to once again encourage your children to become philosophers, sadhus (sages), artists, thinkers, warriors and leaders.
3) Revive the Kshatriya warrior spirit of your ancestors and no longer revel in weakness in the name of ahimsa.
4) Re-Aryanize, re-Vedicize and re-spiritualize the entirety of your present-day culture.
5) Eliminate the Dalit problem once and for all by allowing those many individuals who are eligible among this community to enter the varna system in accordance with their inherent individual psycho-physical nature. If a Dalit behaves like a brahmana, then he is a brahmana. Period!
6) Learn to interact with modernity in a successful manner. That means, without excuses, rededicating yourselves to excellence and perfection in everything you do and communicate.
7) Build your own economy instead of depending upon the West for economic success via immigration and outsourcing of jobs. To do this, you will need to completely exorcise your economy of even the slightest taint of socialism and collectivism. Once and for all – Socialism simply does not work!
8) Start to carry yourselves with courage and pride in your Vedic heritage, rather than viewing this heritage as an embarrassing burden from the past. If you do not reclaim your immense Vedic heritage, someone else will reclaim it from you.
9) Make spoken Sanskrit the sole recognized language of your nation.
10) To successfully achieve all of the above, stop reaching for any and all excuses for why you have not yet been able to achieve these goals. Victory belongs only to those who reject excuses. Then, and only then, will Bharat regain the respect of the world.
Dharma Nationalism: A New Revolutionary Approach
The new stage that Hindu activism needs to take is undoubtedly the Revolutionary approach. It is clear that Indian Hindus now need to enter the Post-RSS phase of Hindu activism. As a starting point, 21st century Hindu activism needs to make a sharp break from its more paranoid and pessimistic past, and begin to start thinking in much more realistic, concrete, strategic and winning terms.
The enemies of Dharma have had the gift of being able to think and strategize on a long-term basis. Their end goal has always been the end of Dharmic civilization and the creation of their own dystopic vision of reality ranging centuries into the future! Contemporary Hindu activism, on the other hand, has only seemed able to operate reactively, only thinking about some immediate injustices that have just occurred in the news today – and even then only rarely reacting effectively, if at all. The contemporary Indian Hindu activist movement needs to stop looking for excuses, and beat the enemy at their own game.
A truly Revolutionary Dharma activist movement has not existed on the world scene until 2012. The seeds of its birth have now come to fruition in the form of the Dharma Nationalist movement.
Indeed, the Indian nationalist fueled “Hindu” activism of the past will now quickly take a back seat to the spiritually fueled Dharma Nationalist activism of the future. Unlike parochial “Hindu Nationalism”, Dharma Nationalist activism is, indeed, comprehensively total in its application. It is based primarily upon spiritual/philosophical concern, and only secondarily on ethnic/national concern. It is motivated by the spiritual insight and compassion gifted to us by the eternal Truth of Sanatana Dharma, and not merely on an empty pride residing in the relative and temporal, ever-changing geographical boundaries of the nation-state of India. It fosters a true selfless action akin with that of the rishis, and not merely a series of political calculations based upon the personal need for power and aggrandizement.
More crucial than any other juxtaposing comparison to the failed Hindu activist endeavors of the past: Dharma Nationalism presents a clear, realistic, and achievable strategic diagram revealing exactly how society should be best structured in order to ensure the maximal amount of happiness and prosperity, to the fullest degree of qualitative and spiritual depth, for the greatest number of living beings. This fact will be abundantly evident upon an attentive reading of The Dharma Manifesto.
[1] Tentatively translated as “Hinduness”.
[2] Born as Margaret Elizabeth Noble, an Irish social worker who abandoned Christianity and became a follower of Sanatana Dharma.
[3] The second leader of the Theosophical Society after Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891).
[4] “Indian People’s Party”.
[5] Reactionaries do not look to ancient or Classical antecedents for guidance for the present, but tend to only look back a few generations at most.
[6] See Guillaume Faye’s Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age for more on this innovative concept.
[7] My term for the deceivingly comforting psychological phenomenon exhibited by any given generation that convinces them that the particular era in which they find themselves represents the most important and advanced era in history. A much more healthy approach in reconciling one’s subjective perception with the particular times in which one finds oneself was nicely stated by the German philosopher Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) in the following manner: “Live with your century, but do not be its creature.” (On the Aesthetic Education of Man)
[8] Edgar J. Jung, Deutsche uber Deutschland (Munich, 1932), p. 380.
[9] Savitri Devi and Savarkar were in agreement on several basic issues of Hindu Nationalism. Babarao G.D. Savarkar, brother of V.D. Savarkar, even wrote the Forward to Savitri Devi’s book “A Warning to the Hindus“.
[10] “India is dear to us because it has been and is the home of our Hindu Race, the land which has been the cradle of our prophets, and heroes and Gods and godmen …. The real meaning of Swarajya then, is not merely the geographical independence of the bit of earth called India. To the Hindus independence of Hindusthan can only be worth having if that ensures their Hindutva – their religious, racial and cultural identity.” (Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Hindu Rashtra Darshan, vol. 4, pp. 218-9)
[11] Approximately 83% of the Indian population are followers of Sanatana Dharma – a clear majority.
[12] Balraj Madhok, the president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh party in the late 1960s, is a living example of the patriotic fervour of Hindu Nationalism. He wrote the following in 1970: “Western countries also have been exerting to exploit India’s illiteracy and poverty by using their economic aid measures, their cheap and provocative literature, and, above all, their missionaries as instruments for a campaign of mass conversion. We want to warn these foreign powers not to indulge in activities that violate India’s sovereignty and independence and demand that the Government of India take stern measures to curb them.” (Indianisation? What, Why and How. New Delhi: S. Chand, 1970, p. 103)
This article is from chapter 2 of the groundbreaking new political work “The Dharma Manifesto”, by Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya.
The Dharma Manifesto serves as the first ever systematic revolutionary blueprint for the nascent global Vedic movement that will, in the very near future, arise to change the course of world history for the betterment of all living beings. The Dharma Manifesto signals the beginning of a wholly new era in humanity’s eternal yearning for meaningful freedom and happiness.
Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya has been acknowledged by many Hindu leaders throughout the world to be one of the most revolutionary and visionary Vedic spiritual masters on the Earth today.
With a forty year history of intensely practicing the spiritual disciplines of Yoga, and with a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Sri Acharyaji is one of the most eminently qualified authorities on Vedic philosophy, culture and spirituality. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of Dharma and Civilization.
His most historically groundbreaking politico-philosophical work, “The Dharma Manifesto”, is now offered to the world at a time when its people are most desperately crying out for fundamental change.
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Expanded ‘8 1/2’ Soundtrack & New Recording of Bernard Herrmann’s ‘The Bride Wore Black’ Score Announced
Posted: December 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: 8 1/2, Arthur B. Rubinstein, Bernard Herrmann, Cinema Paradiso, Ennio Morricone, Jermoe Moross, Nino Rota, The Bride Wore Black, WarGames
Quartet Records has announced its latest releases, including an expanded soundtrack album for the 1963 drama 8 1/2 directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo and Barbara Steele. The 2-CD features the complete score from the Academy Award-winning film composed by Academy Award winner Nino Rota (The Godfather, Romeo and Juliet, Death on the Nile), including over 20 minutes of previously unreleased music. Visit the label’s official website for the full album details, to listen to audio samples and to order the album, which is limited to 2,000 units.
The label has also announced a new digital recording of the score for the 1963 drama The Bride Wore Black directed by Francois Truffaut. The album features the film’s complete score composed by Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo, Taxi Driver) recorded with the Basque National Orchestra under the baton of composer Fernando Velázquez (The Impossible, Mama, A Monster Calls), including over 15 minutes of music not used in the final version of the movie. Visit Quartet Records’ website for the full album details, to check out audio samples and to order the CD.
The label’s other new releases include a 60th Anniversary remastered soundtrack edition of the 1958 western The Big Country featuring music by Jerome Moross, a 35th Anniversary expanded soundtrack edition of John Badham’s 1983 classic WarGames featuring music by Arthur B. Rubinstein and a 30th Anniversary remastered soundtrack edition for Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 drama Cinema Paradiso featuring music by Ennio Morricone.
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Prevalence and trends in enamel fluorosis in the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s
Author: Beltrán-Aguilar ED, Griffin SO, Lockwood SA.
Journal Name: Journal of the American Dental Association
Publish Date: February 2002
Volume/Page: 133(2):157-65.
Categories: Dental Fluorosis, Prevalence, Total Body Burden
BACKGROUND: The National Survey of Dental Caries in U.S. School Children: 1986-1987 conducted by the National Institute of Dental Research, or NIDR, remains the only source of national data about the prevalence of enamel fluorosis. The authors analyze these data and describe changes in the prevalence of enamel fluorosis since the 1930s, as reported by H. Trendley Dean.
METHODS: A sample of children comparable to those described in the 1930s was selected from the NIDR data set among children living in households served by public water systems during the child’s first eight years of life. The type of water system (that is, natural, optimal and suboptimal) for each household had been recorded in the NIDR data set using data from the 1985 U.S. Fluoridation Census. The NIDR data set included information about the children’s history of fluoride exposure obtained from parents.
RESULTS: In the 1986-1987 period, the prevalence of enamel fluorosis (ranging from very mild to severe) was 37.8 percent among children living in residences with natural fluoride (0.7 to 4.0 parts per million fluoride ions, or F-), 25.8 percent in the optimal fluoride group (0.7 to 1.2 ppm F- and 15.5 percent in the suboptimal fluoride group (< 0.7 ppm F-). The largest increase in fluorosis prevalence from the 1930s to the 1980s was in the suboptimal fluoride group (6.5 to 15.5 percent).
CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Exposure to multiple sources of fluoride may explain the increase in enamel fluorosis from the 1930s to the 1980s. The exposure to fluoride from sources such as dietary supplements has decreased since the 1980s because of reductions in the recommended dosage, but these changes occurred too late to have an effect on the study cohort. Evidence of simultaneous use of systemic fluorides indicates the need to reinforce guidelines for the appropriate use of fluorides and promote research on measuring total fluoride exposure.
Using urinary fluoride and dental fluorosis as biomarkers of fluoride exposure in brick kiln workers in Balochistan, Pakistan.
A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the level of urinary fluoride and dental fluorosis in brick kiln workers (n=100) and a control group (n=20) in Balochistan, Pakistan. The fluoride level was also assessed in groundwater samples(n=30). The results showed the urinary fluoride level was significantly greater (p<0.05)in the brick
The prevalence and risk factors of fluorosis among patients in a pediatric dental practice
Seven hundred eight patients aged 5-19 years in a pediatric practice in North Carolina were selected using a random-start, systematic sampling procedure and enrolled in a case control study to determine risks for fluorosis. Subjects were examined by four trained examiners using the Tooth Surface Index of Fluorosis (TSIF). Information
Risk factors associated with fluorosis in a non-fluoridated population in Norway.
In Norway, there is no water fluoridation and little naturally occurring fluoride in drinking water. Fluoride toothpaste is used by 95% of the population and there is a long tradition of fluoride supplement use. The purpose of this study was to record the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis in
Systemic fluoride. Sources, amounts, and effects of ingestion
Fluoride may be ingested from a variety of sources, including many foods and beverages. Fluoride intake varies greatly among individuals and is dependent on dietary constituents and use of fluoride products. Although ingestion of toxic amounts of fluoride is rare, the prevalence of dental fluorosis has increased in North America, suggesting that the levels of fluoride ingestion
Severe Dental Fluorosis: Perception and Psychological Impact
[caption id="attachment_8879" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Severe fluorosis - Photograph by David Kennedy, DDS[/caption] In its severe forms, dental fluorosis causes highly disfiguring brown and black staining of the teeth, which can cause chronic embarrassment and social anxiety for the impacted child. In 1984, a panel from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) warned
Dental Fluorosis Impacts Dentin in Addition to Enamel
Dental fluorosis is a mineralization defect of tooth enamel marked by increased subsurface porosity. The enamel, however, is not the only component of teeth that is effected. As several studies have demonstrated, dental fluorosis can also impair the mineralization of dentin as well. As noted in one review: "The fact that
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'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
Martin Edwards' Crime Writing Blog
Island murders
I’ve never visited the Shetland Islands, but reading Ann Cleeves’ breakthrough novel Raven Black made me want to. It was the first book I’d ever read about Shetland and it made a great impression on me. Now, there’s a positive flurry of Shetland-based crime novels. Ann’s follow-up novel, White Nights is due out soon. Meanwhile, there’s a new author to look out for She is S.J. Bolton, whose debut novel Sacrifice is also set on Shetland.
Sacrifice looks as though it may venture into territory occupied by one of my favourite horror films, The Wicker Man. The author says she is fascinated with British traditional folklore, and the story is apparently based on an eerie Shetland legend, about the story of the ‘Kunal Trows’ of the most northerly Shetland island, Unst. It’s high on my to-read list.
White Nights is right at the top of that list, after the success of Raven Black. Ann’s a fellow member of Murder Squad who has been writing thoroughly enjoyable mysteries for about twenty years, but her career received a real fillip when Raven Black won the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger for best novel of 2006. The book combines atmospheric writing (the traditional fire festival Up Helly Ya provides a vivid backdrop to the latter stages of the book) with a neat plot and an engaging detective, Jimmy Perez. Originally Ann conceived the novel as a one-off, but its popularity prompted her to sign a contract to write three more Shetland books, one for each season of the year. Quite apart from good sales in this country, the award of the Dagger has raised her profile overseas, and she’s now a best-seller in Scandinavia, in addition to have signed deals to publish in a variety of other countries around the globe.
The Shetland setting, I think, is probably the feature that caused this particular novel to achieve more recognition than its predecessors, even though such books as The Sleeping and the Dead really are very good indeed. There’s something fascinating about islands, and they do make excellent settings for crime novels (think And Then There Were None and P.D. James’ The Lighthouse.) Maybe island magic will work wonders for S.J. Bolton’s career too.
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Tell No Lies and Presumed Innocent
I’ve been reading a debut novel by an American lawyer, Julie Compton, called Tell No Lies. It’s strange that so many attorneys write crime novels, whereas in the UK there are only a handful of lawyer-novelists. Why is it? I’ve never understood. I do, though, know a number of English solicitors who tell me that they mean to write a book ‘when they have a bit more time’. Can it really be true that our colleagues in the States are, in comparison, under-worked? Doesn’t seem likely, somehow.
Certainly, the protagonist in Tell No Lies is kept fully occupied. Jack Hilliard is a trial lawyer with an apparently happy all-American family life who runs for D.A. at the same time as embarking on a dangerous liaison with a sexy attorney called Jenny Dodson. Poor old Jack finds it all too easy to compromise his principles, not least in relation to his stance on the death penalty. When Jenny is accused of murder, he finds himself in the embarrassing position of being aware that she has an alibi – it seems she was frolicking with him at the time the victim was shot to death.
As ever with an American novel about a murder trial, the publishers are making comparisons with Scott Turow. However, it’s better to judge Julie Compton’s book on its own merits. Turow is, as far as I’m concerned, in a different league from all other American lawyer-novelists, or at least all those I’ve read. Presumed Innocent is a genuine masterpiece – one of the most gripping thrillers I’ve ever come across. It is one of the few books that literally kept me up half the night, so keen was I to find out what was going to happen. Nothing by John Grisham (and I’ve enjoyed a number of his books, especially the first half of The Firm and The Rainmaker) comes close. I’ve not read everything Turow has written, but it must be open to doubt whether he can ever surpass that brilliant first novel. It combines a great plot with superb characterisation, a wholly credible portrayal of the legal system, and very good writing. What more could anyone ask?
Florence Maybrick
When I first embarked on the Harry Devlin books, I was surprised that no fictional whodunit series had previously been set in Liverpool. One of the reasons why this seemed odd was that not one, but two of the most extraordinary and fascinating real life murder mysteries of all time occurred in Liverpool. I mentioned the Wallace case recently in connection with the death of Jonathan Goodman. The other case was that of the murder (if it was murder) of Florence Maybrick.
The Maybrick case has, in recent years, attracted renewed interest because of the purported diary of Florence’s husband, James Maybrick, who is believed by some people to have been Jack the Ripper. That’s another story (also fascinating, since whether you believe that the diary was fabricated or not, it’s an extraordinary piece of work) which I’ll talk about some other time.
Florence was an American who married a cotton broker (whose brother was a well-known composer) and settled in Battlecrease House at Aigburth, Liverpool, across the road from the cricket ground. The marriage wasn’t perfect; James had various mistresses, one of whom bore him five children, and Florence had a fling of her own. When James suffered an illness and then died, arsenic was found in his body. Florence was thought to have had motive, means (she’d bought arsenical fly-papers) and opportunity. Amidst massive publicity, she was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. The judge who presided over the case eventually went insane. Florence was reprieved at the last minute, but not before she’d heard the sound of hammering outside her prison cell as her gallows were constructed. She spent fifteen years in prison before being released and promptly wrote a book about her experiences and went on the lecture circuit. More than half a century after being sentenced to hang, she finally died in impoverished obscurity in her native USA.
And that’s only a much-condensed summary of an amazing story. It’s long fascinated me and, some years ago, I had the rare privilege of being taken around the hugely atmospheric Maybrick house by its owner – a memorable experience. The Maybrick case has inspired a number of novels – some say it even influenced the Sayers classic Strong Poison. There’s a much closer connection with Joseph Shearing’s Airing in a Closed Carriage, and The Wychford Poisoning Case by the marvellous Anthony Berkeley. For some reason, I’ve not said anything much about Berkeley on this blog. But he’s one of my favourite detective story writers of the past; more about him soon.
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A re-make is never as good as the original movie (well, hardly ever; I suppose there are exceptions to the general rule, though none spring to mind as I type.) What about sequels? Do they ever surpass the first work?
The question is prompted by recent comments on this blog about sequels to Rebecca, and also by a couple of other things. Over the week-end, I watched Children of the Damned, the sequel to Village of the Damned, which I posted about recently. The second film owes nothing to its predecessor apart from John Wyndham’s original idea of spooky children with uncanny and terrifying powers of mind control. It’s very much a film of its time, with a heavy Cold War influence. The cast is excellent, and includes not only Alan Badel, but also Ian Hendry (who was originally the main star of ‘The Avengers’, believe it or not, Patrick Macnee being his sidekick), and Alfred Burke, later to star in perhaps the best of all British p.i. television series, ‘Public Eye’.
The first half-hour is brilliantly creepy, but the rest of the movie doesn’t quite live up to that initial promise. One of many differences from the first film is that there’s no personal connection between the main characters and the children, and lack of such immediate involvement is a real weakness in the closing scenes. I think the sequel was worth doing, because it contains some thought-provoking ideas, but overall it doesn’t adequately resolve them, and isn’t as good as the earlier film.
‘The Sunday Times’ carried a story yesterday about the ‘mystery of the missing Da Vinci sequel’ – the fact that Dan Brown has not yet produced the promised follow-up to his mega-seller. The story says that The Da Vinci Code has earned him ‘an estimated £125 million.’ Perhaps there is no mystery, and Mr Brown is simply enjoying his enormous wealth. Meanwhile, I'm striving to resist the temptation to call my next Lake District Mystery The De Quincey Code!
The really amazing aspect of the story is nothing to do with sequels, but rather a suggestion that authors never have to endure Deadline Hell. Dan Brown’s British publisher is quoted as saying ‘there is never any clause from a publisher to a novelist that they have to deliver at a certain time. We would not impose such a thing on a contract.’ This observation will, I think, startle a number of authors, as it did me.
Like Shelley Smith, Philip Macdonald had a book chosen by Julian Symons for inclusion in the Collins Crime Club Golden Jubilee Collection. Like her, he is a writer of the past whose work deserves to be read today. I’d rate him as one of the most interesting crime novelists to emerge from the Golden Age. Even though many of his books have flaws of one kind or another, he had the gift of creating fascinating situations that keep you turning the pages.
His usual detective was Colonel Anthony Gethryn. Gethryn was in spirit a character of the 1920s, and he featured in The Maze, which kicked off the Crime Club list in 1930, but he appeared as late as 1959, in a weird but entertaining serial killer story, The List of Adrian Messenger. This is the book that, in its 1963 film version, included fleeting appearances from such unlikely Golden Age figures as Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster. George C. Scott was cast, rather improbably, as Gethryn.
There is something intensely cinematic about most of Macdonald’s work and it’s no surprise that he finished up working in Hollywood. He was associated with the screenplays of Rebecca and Forbidden Planet (and he wrote the novelisation of the latter, under a pseudonym.) These are credits that most writers would kill for. Oddly enough, he did not write the screenplay for Twenty Three Paces to Baker Street, a very good 1956 movie based on a Gethryn novel. The script came from the pen of Nigel Balchin, a writer of considerable literary gifts who sometimes ventured into criminal territory. Balchin's own work is of great interest, and I'll post about him separately one of these days.
Macdonald wrote two lively multiple murder books, X v Rex and Murder Gone Mad, long before The List of Adrian Messenger. He tried his hand at impossible crimes and wrote a few good short stories. Michael Gilbert, an even better crime novelist than Macdonald, said that the cleverly conceived denouement to The White Crow, an early Gethryn story, influenced the resolution of his play A Clean Kill. If you enjoy Golden Age detective stories, do give Macdonald a try.
Questions of identity – and not just ‘whodunit?’ - lie at the heart of many of the finest crime stories ever written. Ten years ago I wrote an article about impersonation which was included in the Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing. Now Cambridge Scholars Publishing have produced a book of erudite essays called Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction, edited by Linda Martz and Anita Higgie. My copy has just arrived.
A quick glance suggests that the book contains a good deal that is of interest. Gillian Linscott, a very capable writer, is the subject of a study of her ‘suffragette fictions’ featuring the feisty Nell Bray. One chapter addresses Christie’s work for the stage, another tackles Tony Hillerman, yet another (by Suzanne Bray) examines ‘a new generation of Anglican writers’ – the books of Kate Charles, D.M.Greenwood and Phil Rickman are among those considered.
Sharon Wheeler asserts, provocatively but intriguingly, that ‘in the 1980s crime fiction was a tired and stale-looking genre.’ She argues that it was rescued by feminists, some of whom were lesbian writers, notably Val McDermid, who is now widely acknowledged as one of the leading crime novelists in the UK, and indeed the world, and (a novelist I feel deserves to be better known) Katherine V. Forrest. Her main subject is the work of someone I've never read, the American gay writer John Morgan Wilson, and she says of the books: ‘the plotting is of a high standard, but Wilson’s focus is on his central character and how a man who has lost everything can survive.’
Opinions vary about the merits of taking an academic approach to the genre. It can be over-done and in the past I've read some essays which gave the impression that the authors had neither read widely in the genre nor enjoyed what little they had read. But there are some academics whose work is thought-provoking and worthwhile even for those who read crime simply for entertainment. And one benefit of works of crime reference which is, to my mind, indisputable, is that they draw attention to writers who might otherwise go more or less unnoticed. I’m looking forward to finding out which hidden gems the various contributors to this volume recommend.
An Afternoon to Kill
Reprinting neglected classics of crime fiction is a great service performed by a small number of admirable publishers. It’s still a great service, even if the books turn out, in the cold light of day, not to live up their reputations. In the field of short fiction, Doug Greene’s Crippen and Landru have done a marvellous job in resurrecting innumerable splendid stories that would otherwise still be gathering dust. I’ve mentioned Rue Morgue Press recently in connection with Dorothy Bowers, and their books are always worth a look Ramble House have reprinted the weird yet unforgettable Harry Stephen Keeler, as well as some books by such interesting and varied authors as Rupert Penny and Joel Townsley Rogers.
I’d like to think that one day, someone will reprint the hard-to-find books by C. Daly King that I mentioned the other day. Obelists Fly High was reprinted in the UK in 1980, to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Collins Crime Club (a great imprint, sadly no more – killed off by the accountants, I guess.) Symons chose and introduced twelve titles in all. Some were familiar – such as Christie’s The ABC Murders. Others were competent but unexceptional – books by Freeman Wills Crofts, Elizabeth Ferrars and Andrew Garve. And there were one or two gems.
Best of all, I thought, was Shelley Smith’s An Afternoon to Kill. Smith was a very good writer, whom Symons plainly admired, but who seems to have given up on crime fiction prematurely after producing some very good books (the same is true of Margot Bennett, again someone I read and enjoyed on Symons’ recommendation.)
An Afternoon to Kill is such a terrific story that I don’t want to say much about it, for fear of giving the game away. But it really is very enjoyable, as well as clever. Time for another reprint, perhaps?
A different kind of crime
Yesterday, on the spur of the moment, a colleague at work suggested that we take half an hour to visit Liverpool Town Hall – a stone’s throw from our office – and have a look at an exhibition relating to Holocaust Memorial Day. So I went along, and I was very glad I did.
The exhibition is called RESPECTacles. It’s a quite extraordinary work of art consisting of innumerable pairs of second hand spectacles (some donated by celebrities ranging from Elton John to Ronnie Corbett, to say nothing of Tony Blair) and it’s inspired by photographic images taken during the Holocaust. I found the record of the Nazis’ terrible crimes very moving – as much so as when I visited Anne Frank’s house nearly twenty years ago, and that’s saying something.
The setting for the exhibition is utterly magnificent. The Town Hall is impressive externally, but even better on the inside. Yet although I pass it every day, I’d only ever been inside the Town Hall once before. This too gave me pause for thought. It’s so easy to take things for granted – to assume that ‘we’ll get round to them sooner or later’. And sometimes we never get round to it.
Since Christmas I’ve been labouring over the tedious task of proof-checking, hating the unpleasant weather and the traffic queues on the motorway, reading tedious financial documents, and sometimes feeling fed up. The January blues, and I suppose plenty of other people succumb to them. But seeing those dreadful photographs of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and learning about the lives of people who were sent there, never to return, made me realise how absurd it is not to appreciate to the full all life’s pleasures while one can. I knew that already, but it did no harm to have such a poignant reminder of a fundamental truth.
Thrones, Dominations...
When I posted recently about Dorothy L. Sayers, fellow blogger Jilly asked if I’d read Thrones, Dominations. This is the book that Sayers started and abandoned. The writing wasn’t interrupted by her death; she simply gave up on writing detective fiction. Eventually, the estate selected a writer of distinction, Jill Paton Walsh (who has tried her hand at detective stories in the past) to complete the book. It can have been no easy task, but I was impressed with the result; she did the job as well as it could have been done, and that the book, read as a whole, was better than, say, Whose Body? or Five Red Herrings. Encouraged by this success, Paton Walsh produced A Presumption of Death, utilising some of Sayers’ material. I felt this was not quite as gripping as the earlier book, but still a likeable read.
Finishing a book written by someone else is a fascinating challenge. Almost everybody seems to have had a go at The Murder of Edwin Drood - Dick Stewart has even written a book, End Game, devoted to listing all those who have done so. Unfinished novels by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Cornell Woolrich are amongst those that have been completed by other hands.
On a slightly less exalted level, I had the privilege of completing the late Bill Knox’s last Thane and Moss story, The Lazarus Widow. I’ve written about this elsewhere, so I won’t go on about it at length right now – but it was certainly one of the most interesting experiences of my writing career. The fact that it worked out happily in the end (and, most important, for Bill’s family, who have become friends) was intensely rewarding. I’m not surprised that Jill Paton Walsh found the invitation to complete Thrones, Dominations impossible to resist.
The trouble with ingenuity
I’m someone who loves elaborate plots in crime novels, and as I mentioned the other day, I started Fear and Miss Betony, by Dorothy Bowers, with high hopes, given the claim that ‘The Golden Age of detective fiction was known for elaborate plots. This may well be the most ingenious one of them all.’ Now I’ve finished the book, I’m reflecting on both its strengths and its weaknesses.
Bowers’ writing style is literate and appealing. Here, the encounter between the eponymous Emma Betony and a sinister fortune teller called The Great Ambrosio is highly atmospheric and memorable. The setting (the book was published in 1941) is nicely done; the story gives a reminder that, albeit changed, life in England still went on while the Second World War raged. And Bowers understood the importance of character. Right at the end, Inspector Dan Pardoe makes the point that: ‘The key to this was character – as to so much else. The impact of character on circumstance, circumstance on character.’
The structure of the book is unusual. Emma is brought in by her former pupil, Grace Aram, to help understand an apparent campaign to murder a patient run at the nursing home-cum-school that Grace runs. Pardoe only appears near the end of the book, after murder is done. But the victim is not the person whom one has been led to expect: shades of Christie’s Peril at End House.
However, there are shortcomings. The detective work seems a bit perfunctory and at least one clue is withheld from the reader – not exactly fair play. More important, there are too many characters (this is a subject touched on in a recent post and comments.) This means that one quickly comes to the conclusion that the culprit is likely to be one of the few individuals in the story who is truly memorable. Worst of all, I still can’t understand why the murderer went to so much trouble. It seems to me that the objective might have been achieved more easily and at much less risk.
This is the trouble with ingenuity – much as I admire it. Sometimes the whole exercise is over the top. Ultimately, the reason I like the book is not because of the plot (because I’m afraid I figured out the solution some time before the end) but because Emma Betony is a splendid character, depicted with skill. One can see that the author really liked her, and with good reason. My favourite Bowers book remains Deed Without a Name, but Rue Morgue Press have done whodunit fans a real service by reprinting all her five novels. Each of them has elements of distinction and her early death was a tragedy that robbed us of a writer of genuine talent and rich promise.
Jonathan Goodman, who died earlier this month, was one of the leading British criminologists of the past forty years. He was probably best known for a book about one of Liverpool’s most celebrated real life murder mysteries, the killing of Julia Wallace. The Wallace case attracted the interest of crime writers as eminent as Raymond Chandler and Dorothy L. Sayers; DLS wrote an essay about the puzzle (she believed, no doubt rightly, that Julia’s husband was innocent of the murder) and, in a letter to John Dickson Carr in 1937 expressed astonishment that he had never heard of it, saying ‘it certainly is a grand case.’
Less celebrated, but equally intriguing, is a crime committed at Gorse Hall, Stalybridge, (about 40 miles from Liverpool and close to the area where Dr Harold Shipman later pursued his murderous trade), which Goodman considered in an excellent book, The Stabbing of George Harry Storrs. The Storrs case dates back to the early years of the last century, but it continues to intrigue. Two different people were tried for the murder, but neither was convicted. Gill Linscott used some of the basic facts in her Nell Bray mystery, Dead Man’s Music.
I first became interested in the Crippen case when I created a character – Nic Gabriel in Take My Breath Away – who had written a book about it. Over the years I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the story. My own researches into the case were greatly assisted by Goodman’s The Crippen File, a wide-ranging collection of newspaper cuttings and other documents about the police investigation and trial of one of my favourite (alleged) murderers. I tried to make contact with Goodman to discuss the case a while ago, only to learn he was unwell. Thus a conversation that I would have found fascinating never happened. Goodman’s other work included The Passing of Starr Faithfull, and The Burning of Evelyn Foster. Bloody Versicles: the rhymes of crime, is a unique compilation of felonious verse: here is a segment of one grotesquely unfair ditty from the time of the Wallace case:
‘Willie had a mistress,
Willie had a wife.
He only wanted one of them,
So Willie took a life.'
I’ve had a weakness for parodies since I was about eleven years old and the English teacher asked us to write a couple in successive weeks – one a sci-fi parody, one a parody of a detective story. My effort at the former made it into the school magazine – my first ever publication – but the latter has plenty of nostalgic appeal for me, as it was a Sherlockian pastiche, ‘The Orange and Purple Worms’.
I’ve managed to avoid most of the action movies mercilessly parodied in Simon Pegg’s comedy Hot Fuzz, but I enjoyed the film a lot all the same. Pegg plays a Scotland Yard cop who is too smart for his own good and finds himself exiled to a pretty town in the west country, where crime is minimal and the police have no interest in detection. Needless to say, mayhem ensues, with a series of violent and wittily executed murders taking place. However, there is remarkably little effort on the part of the local constabulary to solve them. What is going on?
Hot Fuzz is from the same people who made Shaun of the Dead an entertaining spoof of zombie films. The cast is brilliant, including the likes of Timothy Dalton as a rascally supermarket manager and Edward Woodward taking charge of the Neighbourhood Watch. Maybe the action goes on a few minutes too long – comic crime is notoriously difficult to do perfectly, whether on the page or on the screen – but even so, this is well worth watching, with plenty of genuinely funny moments.
P.S. This is my 100th blog post. I think of the blog essentially as a conversation between people whose interests have much in common with mine and I've really appreciated all the comments and feedback. Thanks.
Culture and Coroners
Liverpool’s year in the spotlight as European Capital of Culture got under way with a free event said to have been attended by around 50,000 people. I couldn’t be there – ironically, work had taken me down the East Lancashire Road to Manchester – but it was fun to see highlights on television, especially of the long-absent Ringo Starr playing the drums and singing his latest song, ‘Liverpool 8’ (admittedly, it’s not exactly up to the standard of ‘Penny Lane’ or ‘Strawberry Fields’.)
After I started working in Liverpool, it occurred to me that it would be a great place to set a mystery series and I still think so. It’s a wonderfully atmospheric location; I took these photos, and many others, while walking round the city centre and thinking myself back into Harry Devlin's view of the world. Above all, it's a city in which anything can happen. The people are great and – true to the cliché – naturally and spontaneously witty.
When I was writing Waterloo Sunset, I needed to do much more research than usual. I received a great deal of generous help from a number of people, including the former Dean of the Anglican Cathedral, the boss of a community cinema, and the head of Merseytravel (who provided me with elaborate plans of subterranean Liverpool that I found so compelling as to persuade me to adapt the story-line to them.) Most of all, I was assisted by the city coroner, Andre Rebello. There is an important character in the story who is a coroner, and an inquest scene featuring a couple of suspects in the mystery. The snag is that I’ve never attended an inquest. But Andre gave me generous assistance and readily came up with workable solutions to potential plot problems. So did another local coroner, Jean Harkin, when a last minute query was raised by my editor. My discussions with Andre and Jean proved quite fascinating and I was left with great admiration for the work that coroners do.
I’m one of many writers who owe a good deal to people who willingly provide information which may make a huge difference to the quality of the final book. In my early days as a novelist, I tended to rely on my own knowledge and didn’t do much research. Now I do much more – and I’ve discovered that it’s hugely enjoyable.
Ed Hoch
News travels fast on the internet; a good thing, except perhaps when the news is bad. I was saddened last night to learn of the death of Edward D.Hoch, one of the finest of all writers of short mysteries, and certainly the most prolific. His first story appeared in 1955 and he has contributed a story to every issue of ‘Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’ since 1973. Although he wrote five novels, the short form was what he loved and he was a master of it.
Crippen & Landru published several excellent volumes of his stories, including Diagnosis: Impossible and The Ripper of Storyville. He paid tribute to the inspiration of Ellery Queen in another C&L book, the fascinating The Tragedy of Errors, and his close relationship with Fred Dannay (one half of the Queen writing duo) was clearly a major influence upon his career. He was a very versatile writer, but had a particular interest in ‘impossible crimes’ and stories involving codes and ciphers, and produced many excellent examples which rang the changes on the basic themes quite splendidly.
Ed Hoch edited numerous anthologies; as a contributor, he was also an anthologist’s dream, as I found out after I got to know him. We met a handful of times at Bouchercons, but thanks to the wonders of email I came to think of him as a friend. Our first encounter was in Nottingham in 1995. Ed and I competed in a ‘Mastermind’ quiz along with Sarah J. Mason and Marv Lachman – the quizmaster being the renowned bookseller, writer and editor Maxim Jakubowski. It was great fun, and Marv included a photo that I cherish of the four of us on stage together in his book The Heirs of Anthony Boucher. The copious references to Ed in the book illustrate his importance in the world of mystery fiction.
After that encounter, I would invite Ed from time to time to contribute stories to CWA anthologies. He always replied quickly and affirmatively and always delivered excellent work. I was truly delighted when he told me that one of them, ‘The War in Wonderland’, (set in Cheshire) from the Green for Danger collection of rural mysteries, had won a Barry award.
The last time I saw Ed and his wife Pat was at a cocktail party during the Las Vegas Bouchercon. I hardly knew anyone else there, but as ever, they were welcoming and very good company. The final time I heard from him was about ten weeks ago, shortly after I started this blog. His reaction to it was very encouraging, and that was typical. He was a true professional, but more important even than that, he was a genuinely kind and generous man. I shall miss him, but his stories are a wonderful legacy. They will be enjoyed for many years to come.
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What is an Obelist?
C. Daly King was one of the most intriguing American writers of the Golden Age. His work could be fascinating, but also frustrating. He is best remembered for his short story collection The Curious Mr Tarrant, which features a number of ‘impossible crime’ situations, including a much-anthologised classic, ‘The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem’, as well as a fresh take on the Marie Celeste mystery. His six detective novels include Obelists at Sea, Obelists en Route and Obelists Fly High.
‘Obelist’ was a word that King made up. He defined it in Obelists at Sea as ‘a person of little or no value’ and then re-defined it in Obelists en Route as ‘one who harbours suspicion’. Why on earth you would invent a word, use it in your book titles, and then change your mind about what it means?
It beats me, but it illustrates Daly King’s quirky approach. He was a psychological theorist, author of books such as Beyond Behaviourism, which maybe explains things. It certainly explains, though it hardly excuses, the rambling debate about psychological theory in Obelists en Route (one footnote draws the reader’s attention to ‘as good an account of the hormic apologetics as can be found’ in a journal called ‘Psychologies’, which I’m sure is not the same as the glossy publication on sale in W.H.Smith.)
Julian Symons thought King wanted to demonstrate psychological theories through his elaborate whodunits, but if that is so, he wasn’t really successful. And yet there’s something about his work which compels interest, despite the failings. As Symons says, Obelists Fly High is ‘an astonishing performance…almost nothing is as it seems.’ True to form, King started the book with an epilogue and ended it with a prologue. As Symons said, the latter is likely to leave the reader ‘gasping and possibly indignant…There is a plan of the plane, and not one but two full pages given to the ‘reported movements’ and ‘actual movements’ of the characters at given times. Top this with the ‘Clue Finder’ which…suggests nearly forty points that might have led you to the murderer, and you have – well, certainly you have one of the most extraordinary detective puzzles of the twentieth century.’
Obelists En Route boasts no fewer than seven diagrams, a Clue Finder and a ‘bibliography of references’. Obelists at Sea under-achieves, with a measly five diagrams and no Clue Finder. I’ve never seen Clue Finders in any other detective novels, although I’ve heard it said that Elspeth Huxley used a similar device in one or two of her books. They were rather an appealing idea.
Daly King published three other detective novels. I found Bermuda Burial dull and disappointing. Arrogant Alibi and Careless Corpse are fabulously rare and I’ve never come across copies at an affordable price. But, because he was such a quirky writer, I will keep looking for them.
Crime fiction and science fiction
After watching the film Village of the Damned last weekend, I started to think about the links between sci-fi and crime fiction (or should I say cri-fi?) The film is based on The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, someone whose books I devoured as a teenager. Wyndham, like H.G. Wells, was a writer who tends to appeal to readers who aren’t really sci-fi buffs, as well as enthusiasts for the genre. The film might be rather dated (I saw the 1960 version, not the re-make) but I thought it well-done, with plenty of suspense, and one or two nice mysteries. It’s a long time since I read the novel, but the adaptation is, I think, reasonably faithful to the original.
I don’t read much sci-fi (though I’m an avid watcher of Dr Who), but in Waterloo Sunset, I have used science fiction as one of the background elements. The reasons for this relate to the theme, as well as the plot. Harry Devlin spends quite a lot of time in a (fictitious) bar called the Stapledon. I named it after Olaf Stapledon, a Merseyside man who wrote well-regarded science fiction books in his spare time. (Has there ever been another Scouser called Olaf? I wonder.) He went to the same Oxford college as me and worked in a shipping office in Liverpool close to my own office. Nevertheless, I haven’t yet got round to reading any of his novels. Perhaps a treat in store?
Back to John Wyndham. His first literary executor was a friend of mine, a solicitor who was a marvellous companion, but confessed – to my amazement, for in all other respects he was a civilised fellow of fine judgment – to having no interest whatsoever in fiction. Maddeningly, when I interrogated him about what John Wyndham was like, and what he had to say about his books, he could recall very little. Wyndham was evidently a quiet and private individual, pleasant but not inclined to open up too easily.
I did, however, recently discover a little known fact - that, in the 1930s, Wyndham wrote a detective story called Foul Play Suspected, under the name John Beynon. It’s a rare book, which cropped up on eBay a while back and was sold for a sizeable sum.
There are plenty of other writers who have crossed over between sci-fi and crime. Isaac Asimov is an obvious example, and the excellent Fredric Brown achieved success in both genres. Among detective writers who have dabbled are W.J. Burley and P.D. James, while a good many novels combine elements of both genres. I’ve never tackled sci-fi myself, but I would like to have a go one of these days – in a short story, not a novel.
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Dorothy Bowers and Rue Morgue
I came quite late to the work of Dorothy Bowers. Until a few years ago, I’d never heard of her, but an article by the industrious Philip Scowcroft in Deadly Pleasures alerted me to her existence. She only wrote five books and died in 1948, shortly after being admitted to the Detection Club. Yet her work earned much acclaim, and in some quarters she had been seen as a successor to Dorothy L. Sayers. I was impressed by Deed Without a Name, which features Inspector Dan Pardoe, and has a very well-realised setting in England’s ‘phoney war’, and wanted to find out more about this relatively little known author
In the end, I did, thanks in part to the admirable detective work of Tom and Enid Schantz. They are booksellers based in Boulder, Colorado, who have set up Rue Morgue Press, which is dedicated to rediscovering worthy but forgotten detective novels. They’ve now reprinted all of the Bowers books, and have discovered facts about her rather sad life which are recorded in the valuable introduction to these nicely produced new editions. Like several other detective novelists, including Colin Dexter and Bob Barnard, she was keen on crossword puzzles and sometimes compiled them for publication. She never married, and succumbed to TB, which no doubt explains the six-year gap between her fourth and fifth books; she died at the age of 46, a year after the publication of The Bells at Old Bailey, a book that, compared to her best work, I found rather disappointing,. Before long, all her work was out of print.
Bowers’ mysteries remain intelligent, well-written and readable to this day. There’s something out of the ordinary about them which puts Bowers head and shoulders above many of her contemporaries. I’ve been hoarding the one that I haven’t read, and which Tom and Enid reckon is one of her best – Fear and Miss Betony. I’m starting it now and after a run of modern crime novels, it will be good to slip back sixty-odd years in time.
As for Rue Morgue Press, it’s worth checking out their list. I thought I was familiar with plenty of crime writers of the thirties and forties, but I must admit the names of Maureen Sarsfield and Joan Coggin had completely passed me by. Thanks to Tom and Enid, though, the books of those writers, both of whose careers in the genre were very brief and frankly made little impact even at the time, have been made available for a fresh generation of readers. And Murder at Shots Hall, by Sarsfield, became one of their best-sellers.
A change of scene
One of the interesting things about writing two different series, set respectively in Liverpool and the Lakes, is the need to change approach when shifting from one to another. After a long break, I really enjoyed getting back into the city scene with which I’m very familiar (because I’ve worked there since 1980) in Liverpool. So creating the environment for Waterloo Sunset was pretty straightforward – even though I still needed to do plenty of research, which included exploring the building of the block opposite my own office and taking the opportunity provided by a fire drill one morning of exploring a little oasis of greenery tucked just off a six-lane highway and which I'd not paid much attention to over the years.
Now I’m back writing about the Lake District and although I know parts of the area (not all of it, by any means) very well, it’s a different matter creating a strong picture of a place that you don’t see as regularly. All the more so because I don’t have a particularly strong visual memory. This means there is a need for regular return visits (which prompts family members to urge me to write a Lakes book set in the height of summer again, rather than another with a winter backdrop – well, maybe next time!) For my own part, I need no excuse to escape to the Lakes whenever the opportunity arises. Even the areas that attract the tourists still have plenty of appeal to me and, after The Arsenic Labyrinth was set in Coniston, the new novel is taking me to Ambleside, where Hannah and Marc have moved.
On my first visit of the year to Ambleside, I had the pleasure of meeting Steve at Fred Holdsworth’s bookshop in the centre of the town. I’m a huge admirer of the work that independent booksellers do in a far from easy commercial climate and this is a small but very welcoming and well-stocked shop that has flourished for many years, and will, I hope, continue to flourish far into the future.
Because the new book is set at around this time of year, it’s all the more important to remind myself of how places look and feel in the depths of winter. The contrast between a bright summer day on the fells and their brooding atmosphere in winter is quite something. As my career has developed, I think I’ve become both a more descriptive writer and one who deals with characters’ relationships in increasing depth. This evolution is something I’m happy with, though I keep reminding myself that story is paramount. And in a mystery novel, I think that means that a strong plot and a reasonable amount of incident remain important.
With films, as with books, variety is good, and I’ve watched a very varied group of movies lately. The Page Turner, directed by Denis Dercourt in 2006, is the only one with sub-titles, and certainly the most under-stated. But the build-up of tension is highly effective, resulting in one of the most disturbing psychological suspense movies I’ve seen in a long time.
The basic set-up is this. Young Melanie, daughter of a butcher, has her heart set on a career as a pianist. But at an important examination, her concentration is disturbed when one of the assessors, herself a successful pianist, unpardonably allows an autograph-hunter to disturb the playing. The girl’s dreams are ruined as a result.
We next encounter her a few years later, working as an intern for a top lawyer. She manoeuvres a short-term assignment to look after the lawyer’s young son, himself a would-be pianist. When it turns out that the lawyer’s wife is the woman who wrecked her ambitions, it becomes apparent that Melanie is bent on revenge.
There are all kinds of hints as to the horrors that may or may not unfold. Will the boy be drowned, will his favourite pet have its throat cut? Will Melanie seduce the lawyer, or his wife? In fact, the most dramatic moment of violence in the whole film is unexpected and cleverly in keeping with Dercourt’s method of defying expectations.
Music plays a huge part in the creation of a chilling atmosphere and the concept of the intense relationship between a pianist and the person who turns the pages of sheet music for her is brilliantly exploited. If it’s whiz-bang action you want, The Bourne Identity is recommended. But I liked the subtlety of The Page Turner just as much.
How many characters?
One question that any writer has to answer is this: how many characters (excluding the walk-on parts) shall I create for this book? For a writer of detective stories where plot is important, there is a particular challenge. Too few credible suspects, and the mystery suffers. Too many, and it’s hard for the reader to get a handle on who is who; it may also be difficult for the author to draw the people in sufficient depth.
A traditional stand-by in the Golden Age was the ‘cast of characters’ which helped readers to keep all the suspects straight in their mind. Ngaio Marsh and Christianna Brand were among those who made use of this device. So did the eccentric, but interesting, American C.Daly King, author of the ‘Obelist’ books. (I'll post more fully about King another day.)
Cast lists have fallen out of fashion to some extent in modern times. Some readers positively object to them, arguing that if a cast list is required, it’s a sign that something is wrong with the book. I understand this argument, but don't think it's necessarily correct. Cast lists are still to be found in some books, notably history-mysteries. Good examples are to be found in a couple of highly successful, high quality series set in the past: Lindsey Davis’s Falco books and the 1950s Lydmouth series by Andrew Taylor.
I tend to like reading and writing books with reasonably large casts of characters. From a writer’s perspective, perhaps large casts are easier to handle within a series, where the core cast is already established. Existing relationships can be nudged forward, while space is given to developing the characters who haven’t appeared before.
But the right answer to the question posed by the title of this post is probably that there isn’t a right answer. It all depends on the book in question, and on what the writer is trying to achieve.
Have His Carcase
I saw some of the tv adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers novels at the time they were made in the 1980s, starring Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter, but not all of them. At last I’ve got round to watching one that escaped me first time around, Have His Carcase. It’s a Sayers book for which I have a genuine fondness, because it was the first of hers that I ever read, at the tender age of around 13.
By then I’d read plenty of Christie, and all of Sherlock Holmes, but Sayers was a very different writer and I quickly devoured her novels and short stories. Some of the period stuff and background I found tedious as a teenager, but I admired the writing as well as the plots, and I still do. My all-time favourites are The Nine Tailors, Murder Must Advertise and (although a lot of people don’t rate it) the interesting and unusual The Documents in the Case, co-written with that shadowy figure Robert Eustace. (Eustace also co-wrote one of the all-time classic detective short stories, ‘The Tea Leaf’.)
Lord Peter Wimsey is a challenge for any actor because of his evolution over the years from a Bertie Wooster type to someone of genuine sensitivity and deep passion, as well as intellect . In the 70s, I enjoyed the series starring Ian Carmichael, which focused on the earlier books. Petherbridge is a more serious actor, and he did justice to the way in which Sayers developed her detective. As for the casting of Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane, I think it was inspired. Walter is invariably an impressive performer, but she caught the subtleties of Vane’s character to perfection.
The pace of the story is noticeably slower than you would find in present day tv drama, but the production values were high, and even today it is easy to see why the series was a popular success. It’s also good to be reminded of an interesting book and I look forward to watching the remaining episodes.
As for Sayers, she had faults as a writer, and critics such as Julian Symons, Raymond Chandler, Q.D. Leavis, Edmund Wilson are amongst those who have pointed them out. But she aimed high and was capable of brilliance, and for those qualities, she can be forgiven much. It’s no surprise to me that, half a century after her death, she is still regarded as one of the major detective novelists of the last hundred years.
Harcourt and Henry Wade
Just when I thought I’d finished my set of essays for the Harcourt Encyclopaedia, the phone went and the editor, Barry Forshaw, asked me to write something about Henry Wade. It’s a pleasure to do a short piece, because if there is one Golden Age British writer who deserves to be better known, in my opinion it is Henry Wade.
‘Henry Wade’ was the name under which Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher wrote varied, thoughtful and entertaining crime fiction for thirty years. His career stretched from the 1920s to the late 1950s, when psychological suspense was coming to the fore. He played an important part in the development of the genre, especially but not only in the credible portrayal of the business of detection, and the ordinary people whose lives are changed by crime. I am really not sure why his gifts have long been under-estimated by commentators, who are apt to bracket him with the so-called ‘humdrum’ writers such as John Rhode.
Aubrey-Fletcher had a distinguished military career during the First World War, and several of the Henry Wade novels reflect his understanding of the impact that conflict had on those who lived through it. The Dying Alderman (1930) is a capable whodunit with neat use of a ‘dying message’ clue, but Mist on the Saltings (1933) is even more effective; a study in character that was ahead of its time. The novel also benefited from an evocative setting on the East Anglian coast. Released for Death (1938) presents a sympathetic picture of a criminal exploited after leaving jail by a career villain.
Lonely Magdalen (1940) is even better, offering a realistic yet gripping account of an investigation into the apparently commonplace murder of a prostitute whose body is found on Hampstead Heath. The book, structurally very accomplished, is written in three sections; the central part of the book details the dead woman’s misadventures in her younger days before the police inquiry resumes following her identification. This novel, like many of Wade’s best, features Inspector John Poole, a shrewd and sympathetic Oxford-educated detective whose other cases include a very enjoyable ‘inverted mystery’, Too Soon to Die (1954.)
I’m not suggesting that everything he wrote was a masterpiece. But many of them still read well today. His work bridged the gap between the detective novel as game and the crime novel focusing on character. Henry Wade also had a far better understanding of police procedure than most of his contemporaries - and he described it well.
One disappointing experience with an author can put you off for a long time, perhaps forever. Many years ago, my late father enjoyed an early thriller by Robert Ludlum, but when I tried it, I didn’t get beyond the first twenty pages or so and I was never tempted to try Ludlum again. But of course, it’s a mistake to be deterred too easily. I worry sometimes that if a reader didn’t enjoy an early book of mine, they will give up on me permanently, when all the time I’m trying (hard!) to get better.
Did I miss out by giving up so quickly? Well, Ludlum’s sales were in no way adversely affected by my lack of interest. By the time he died in 2001, he’d sold upwards of 200 million copies (estimates seem to vary; perhaps figures become meaningless by the time you reach that level) and I gather that more than a dozen ‘Robert Ludlum’ novels have appeared since then, apparently thanks to the efforts of various writers chosen by Ludlum’s estate to keep the torch burning.
At long last, I’ve been induced by the generally excellent reviews to sample the Bourne movie series starring Matt Damon and based on Ludlum’s most celebrated character, an amnesiac CIA man. And I thoroughly enjoyed The Bourne Identity – certainly enough to try the next in the series, and perhaps the books on which they were (very loosely, I guess) based.
Although I didn’t care for that one Ludlum book I tried so long ago, I do admire the thriller writer’s art, even when it’s practised by authors with relatively few literary pretensions, like Ludlum. The film tells a gripping story and there is plenty of focus on the character’s dilemma, as he tries to work out who he is, and how to survive the seemingly overwhelming forces stacked up against him, as well as on incident (the car chase is terrific, the love interest neatly handled.) First class light entertainment. I’m looking forward to watching the sequel soon.
There’s a real difference between thrillers and detective novels, by the way, though it’s not easy to define in a sentence. One of the best accounts of the distinction came from someone skilled at writing both, the late Michael Gilbert, in an essay called ‘The Moment of Violence’. It’s included in a book of essays that he edited called Crime in Good Company, and it remains full of insight, fifty years after it was written.
Leslie S. Klinger and Sherlock Holmes
I mentioned recently the Sherlockian pastiche that I’ve been labouring over. As a way of practising the craft of writing, trying such a different style and voice is quite a useful exercise, as well as enjoyable. This is the fifth story I’ve written about the great consulting detective. Who knows? One day I may get the chance to collect them all into a single volume. Anyway, this time around, my attempt to think myself into the world that Conan Doyle created was assisted by a wonderful research tool,
There are plenty of books about Holmes, some of them excellent, but my main source nowadays for information about the man himself, Watson, and their world, is The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, edited in three volumes by Leslie S. Klinger, a monumental and expertly researched piece of work. (It’s also attractively produced and, in terms of value for money, very reasonably priced.)
It may give an idea of the quality of Klinger's achievement to say that John Le Carre, no less, contributes an Introduction. He describes Watson’s voice as belonging to ‘a tweedy, no-nonsense colonial Britisher at ease with himself’ and adds: ‘Professional critics can’t lay a glove on Conan Doyle, and never could.’ And he offers quite a tribute: ‘With no Sherlock Holmes, would I have invented George Smiley?’
Klinger’s own introduction, ‘The World of Sherlock Holmes’, is a fascinating read, and his annotations to the stories provide vast amounts of background information about the stories, answering questions like: ‘who was Watson actually married to, and when?’ For a writer following in Conan Doyle’s footsteps, Klinger’s work is invaluable. Open any page at random and there is almost certain to be something of interest that’s a bit out of the ordinary – for instance, a chart to help the reader decide which particular snake was the ‘swamp adder’ which featured in ‘The Speckled Band.’ There is also a lot of very entertaining trivia – I’m tempted to suggest that, even if you hate Sherlock (but, really, how could you?) you would find plenty here to amuse and entertain you, including various insights on the late Victorian era. But above all, for anyone wishing to re-acquaint themselves with the Canon, the Klinger editions are, quite simply, a source of almost endless pleasure
Deadly Pleasures
I’ve been reading the latest issue – number 52, it’s been running a long time - of George Easter’s crime fiction magazine ‘Deadly Pleasures’. As usual, it’s packed with interesting information, including some fascinating articles from immensely knowledgeable contributors such as Philip Scowcroft, who is always a mine of information, and Marv Lachman, author of that definitive study of crime fandom The Heirs of Anthony Boucher.
Marv’s book discusses Bouchercon crime conventions at length, and I first met George at one of them – in Toronto, back in 1992. He’d recently read All the Lonely People and it was immediately apparent that he had a real love of British crime fiction. Needless to say, I warmed to him instantly. My vague recollection is that he’d originally planned to write a book under the title Deadly Pleasures, but his plans changed and the magazine was the happy result.
It’s proved highly successful over the years and has spawned the ‘Barry’ awards, named after crime fan and former contributor, the late Barry Gardner; in 2007 George Pelecanos and Ken Bruen respectively won the prizes for best novel and best British novel.
The main emphasis of the magazine is on reviews; I contribute one or two myself, but the leading commentators include George himself, Larry Gandle, Bev de Weese, Ted Hertel jr., Britain’s own Ali Karim, and Maggie Mason. Ali is someone else I met at a Bouchercon – at the vast Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, in this case. A strange place for a first encounter, considering that at the time we lived not too far away from each other on the other side of the Atlantic, in Cheshire.
It’s fascinating to compare Larry Gandle’s shrewd and occasionally acerbic assessment of books nominated for CWA awards with the judges’ verdicts. On the whole, I concentrate on reviewing books I like rather than those I don’t, and (though I haven’t discussed it with him) I suspect that Ali has a broadly similar approach. However, the world would be a poorer, and less well-informed, place if all critics went about their work in the same way. I don’t always agree with Gandle’s opinions (although I had a lot of sympathy for his assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of those of this year’s crop that I've read), but they are invariably insightful, well-argued and worth reading. And they are among the highlights of a consistently good publication.
Priscilla Masters
Many crime writers started their career in print by publishing something rather different from a mystery novel. Julian Symons began with poetry and Minette Walters with romantic fiction. Colin Dexter wrote texts for students (as N.C. Dexter) in the 1960s, and some of James Sallis' early work focused on the jazz guitar. Going back further in time, S.S. Van Dine (aka W.H.Wright) wrote well-regarded books of art criticism before creating the Golden Age sleuth Philo Vance (whose cases were best-sellers in their day, although to read them now, it's not entirely easy to believe.)
My own first published book was a racy little tome called Understanding Computer Contracts, and Priscilla Masters, a friend who also appears on the Allison & Busby list, started out with a little book called Mr Bateman’s Garden. It’s a children’s story, set in the extraordinary, long-forgotten but now restored, gardens of a Staffordshire National Trust property, Biddulph Grange (a must to visit if you are fascinated by unusual gardens, and a real favourite of mine.)
Some time after that, Cilla wrote her first detective novel, Winding Up the Serpent, published in 1995. It introduced her principal detective, DI Joanna Piercy, and earned much positive comment. It’s a book that has become highly collectible – a first edition in fine condition might cost as much as a thousand dollars. Since then, Cilla has produced a range of good stories, including mysteries with a strong medical theme (she works part-time as a nurse, and makes even better use of her expert medical knowledge than did Dame Agatha) and River Deep, a splendid book featuring a female coroner, Martha Gunn. Martha, a strong and appealing character, returns in Cilla’s latest, Slipknot. It's interesting to compare Cilla's modern day Shrewsbury with the town portrayed by Ellis Peters in the Brother Cadfael books.
I first got to know Cilla when we did a couple of library events together in Lancashire, the best part of a decade ago. She’s a witty and entertaining public speaker, and we’ve often talked of doing more gigs together, although so far work commitments have got in the way. But a couple of years ago she very ingeniously wove my novel Take My Breath Away into a Joanna Piercy book called Wings Over the Watcher. A unique and generous gesture that I much appreciated.
John Banville, alias Benjamin Black
I’m reading Christine Falls, the first novel in a projected crime series written by John Banville under the pseudonym of Benjamin Black. It’s not a case of identity concealment, since the publisher trumpets the author’s real name on front and book covers and the first two pages of the book. Presumably, the creation of the Black pen-name is to differentiate this novel (and its successor, Silver Swan) from Banville’s other work.
Banville won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. I confess that I haven’t read that, or The Book of Evidence (short-listed for the Booker), but I did like The Untouchable, which features a character reminiscent of the spy Anthony Blunt
It’s nothing new for the best writers to try their hand at crime fiction (or, at least, novels with crime at their heart- which are perhaps not quite the same thing.) Dickens, Greene, Amis father and son and even Dylan Thomas are among those who have dabbled; and of course, Sebastian Faulks has been hired to write a James Bond thriller. But it’s certainly interesting to see what Banville does with some elements of the genre, even though I’m not sure he’s truly working within it.
This book won enormous praise on publication; the late Michael Dibdin, himself an estimable crime novelist, was among those who raved. It features a pathologist called Quirke, who encounters the corpse of the eponymous Christine and soon realises that her death is shrouded in mystery. However, there isn’t much resemblance to the work of Patricia Cornwell or Kathy Reichs. No deranged serial killer, no DNA evidence. In fact, the setting of the early chapters is Dublin in the 50s, and after a hundred pages, it looks as though Banville’s focus is on examining the nature of sin rather than on springing too many surprises about the identity of the principal sinners. But we’ll see.
The first review
An unexpected New Year present was an early (astonishingly early) review in Publishers Weekly of Waterloo Sunset – ‘impressive…skilfully weaves the strands together…twisty whodunit’; yep, thanks, I’ll definitely settle for that.
It’s always difficult to predict how reviewers will react to one’s new book. The secret is not to fret about reviews too much in advance – but needless to say, this is much easier said than done, hence my relief right now. I’ve been very lucky with critical reaction over the years, but the reality is that you can’t please all the people all of the time. Nevertheless, if the vibes generally are negative, chances are that something has gone wrong. So I’m hoping that others will share the opinion of the PW reviewer. This is the first time that one of my Harry Devlin books (as opposed to the Lake District Mysteries) has been published in the US at the same time as the UK. So far, the Lakes books have probably struck more of a chord with American readers than the Liverpool series, but I’d like to think that Waterloo Sunset will make an equal impression on both sides of the Atlantic.
It’s certainly a book I was very keen to write and I’d like to take this opportunity to say how much I appreciate the support of my UK and US editors, Susie Dunlop and Barbara Peters, in agreeing (despite, I’m sure, reservations about my taking a year off from the Lakes) to let me return to my first series. Publishers need good writers, but it’s equally true that writers need good publishers. And my experience of Allison & Busby and Poisoned Pen Press (as well as Luebbe, my German publishers) has been enormously positive. I want to repay their faith by continuing to improve as a novelist
Right now, there’s only one snag. The PW review was based – as is often the way - on an uncorrected advance reading copy of Waterloo Sunset. I still have to crack on with the corrections for the American edition, as well as working on the copy edited manuscript from Allison & Busby. I confess that I’m not the most enthusiastic proof-checker in the world (I blame checking too many legal documents over the years – now I tend to read what I think I wrote.) Certainly, I lack the discerning eye of my fellow blogger Juliet Doyle, whom I came to know when she put in tireless and very effective work on the proofs of my last law book.
But at least now I can get on with the task in good heart, buoyed by that lovely first review.
Writing about crime fiction
I’ve been grateful for the reaction to my essay about ‘The Detective in British Fiction’, which appears on my website. To set it in context, it may be worth saying a bit more about how essays like this, for crime reference books such as the forthcoming Harcourt Encyclopaedia, come into being.
I’ve contributed to a variety of encyclopaedias and similar compendiums about crime fiction over the years, including the St James Guide, 100 Great Detectives, and the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. The last of these was quite an experience.
The story of the Oxford Companion began, so far as I was concerned, with my coming up with the idea of such a book and pitching it to OUP. Michael Cox, an excellent editor and anthologist, later to achieve fame and fortune with his own novel, The Meaning of Night, came to my home in Lymm to discuss the project in (about) 1990. All looked good until the news came that OUP in New York had commissioned a similar book, to be edited by Rosemary Herbert. So my project died instantly. With hindsight, I realise that although the idea was attractive, the work involved would have been demanding – quite murderously so. And Rosemary was ideally qualified for the task.
I was asked to contribute to Rosemary’s book, and I met her at a Bouchercon in Toronto in 1992. Some of the topics for essays were challenging (‘The prodigal son in crime fiction’ struck me as especially tricky) but Rosemary and Catherine Aird, who led the UK branch of the editorial team, were terrific to work with. As time passed, the number of essays I was asked to write increased. However, the in-house editors at OUP kept changing and the process of getting the book to print seemed interminable. One or two contributors had, indeed, died by the time the Companion was published, and in the end (through no fault whatsoever of the external editors) at least one critic suggested it wasn’t quite as cutting edge in content as it might have been. I still think it’s a real mine of interesting information, though, and I'm proud to have been associated with it.
With the Harcourt book, as with any similar work, one is limited by the subject matter one is given, as well as by word count. So, when writing about the detective in British fiction, the real challenge is this: how can I squeeze more than a century and a half of material into 3000 words? To say that one has to be highly selective is an under-statement.
All this means that such essays tend to skim somewhat on the surface of things, due to constraints of length and the need to avoid duplication of other essays in the same book. Even so, I find that they are fun to write. Above all, there is always the hope that one will draw interesting books, characters or authors to the attention of someone who will enjoy reading them, and who would otherwise not have encountered them. That’s where the real satisfaction lies.
First sentences
I don’t think it’s true that a good opening sentence means that the book as a whole is bound to be equally effective. But it helps. There’s much to be said in favour of grabbing the reader’s attention, although this can be done with subtlety as well as with a shock. Over the years, authors as good – and as different from each other - as Dickens, Orwell, Camus and Daphne du Maurier have created memorable openings to memorable novels.
There have been some wonderful opening sentences to crime novels, too. Ruth Rendell is very good in this department, as she is in almost everything she does in the genre – perhaps best of all at the start of the masterly A Judgment in Stone: ‘Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.’ Who could not want to know how that happened?
Mind you, some of the Golden Age detective novelists, including some of the best, seemed to work on the principle that the more mundane the opening, the better. Take an example that Harry Keating has quoted in Murder Must Appetise from Miles Burton’s Death in the Tunnel: ‘The 5.0 p.m. train from Cannon Street runs fast as far as Stourford, where it is due at 6.7. On Thursday, November 14th, it was, as usual, fairly full, but not uncomfortably so.’ At least this method does not raise expectations too high. Yet Burton (aka John Rhode and Cecil Waye) was a successful writer in his day and retains a loyal fan base; some of his novels go for very high prices in the collectors' market.
Of course, precisely how to open a novel is a subject much in mind since I have started work on a new book. Here are some of my past efforts:
‘Do you think I murdered Alison?’ asked Stirrup. (Suspicious Minds.)
‘How long have you been afraid of me?’ (First Cut is the Deepest.)
‘The dead woman smiled. So far, so good.’ (Take My Breath Away.)
‘You’d never believe it to look at me now, but once upon a time I killed a man.' (The Arsenic Labyrinth.’
And here – at least, unless and until I have a change of mind – is the start of the new novel:
‘The books were burning.’
What better way to begin a new year than to start writing a new book?
I’m working on the first chapter of the fourth Lake District Mystery today. It’s always an exciting time, that stage when the wonderful story ideas that have sprung to life in one's mind haven’t been compromised by the limitations of one's talent. I always begin full of hope - and then after a while the angst starts to set in. Why isn’t the plot working? How do I get from this scene to where I really want the story to be? Does what I’m saying about this character contradict his or her past, as described in an earlier book in the series? Talk about a roller-coaster ride.
But today, at least, it’s going well.
I send my best wishes to everyone who reads this blog from time to time, including in particular those who either encouraged me to start it, or to keep it going (or both.) To my amazement, I've managed to produce a new post for each day since the blog began and I've found the whole experience thoroughly enjoyable. In 2008, I'll continue to combine updates about my own writing with thoughts about crime fiction in general, past and present, as well as the occasional excursion into true crime.
Here’s hoping for a peaceful and healthy year ahead. – and for some really good reading from authors familiar and currently unknown. In a short space of time, I’ve been truly gratified to get to know some very generous people through blogging. It’s a great community, and I’m thrilled to have become part of it.
Martin Edwards is the 2020 recipient of the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing. His latest novel is Mortmain Hall, a crime novel set in 1930. He has received the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded by UK librarians for his body of work. He is President of the Detection Club, consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics, and former Chair of the CWA. His contemporary whodunits include The Coffin Trail, first of seven Lake District Mysteries and shortlisted for the Theakston’s Prize for best crime novel of the year. The Arsenic Labyrinth was shortlisted for Lakeland Book of the Year. The Golden Age of Murder won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards, while The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books also won the Macavity and was nominated for four other awards. He has also received the CWA Short Story Dagger, the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, a CWA Red Herring, and the Poirot award “for his outstanding contribution to the crime genre”.
Martin Edwards Books
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Ullacombe Farm Shop, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Approx halfway up the Bovey Tracey to Haytor road keep an eye out for this excellent farm shop that stocks a wide range of local produce including meat, vegetables, cheeses, cakes, jams. The sizeable and inviting cafe, which includes an outdoor seating area, is run by very friendly and helpful staff...
The Rock Inn, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Haytor Rocks beauty spot Haytor Rocks is Dartmoor's most popular tor. It's also the National Park's most popular beauty spot. Situated on the east flank of the moor, Haytor Rocks overlooks stunning South Devon countryside and coast. The Rock Inn is located in the village below this famous to...
Yarner Wood Templer Way Walk, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Yarner Wood is part of the East Dartmoor National Nature Reserve. The Templer Way is a long distance footpath running between Dartmoor and the South Devon coast following, as far as possible, the route of the old granite railway. This walk takes in some of the best sections of the wood and railway....
Yarrow Mine/Devon Wheal Francis/Yarner Copper Mine, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
At Yarner Wood Reserve Base, painted on an angled wood panel, are depictions of the Yarner Wood area through history. One, particularly dark, is of a bleak landscape. In the foreground is a mine. It's hard to imagine when wandering around this wood today that there was once a thriving copp...
Yarner Valley, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Two streams arc through Yarner Wood and meet near Yarner Wood Base Reserve. To the north is Woodcock Stream. To the south is Yarner Stream. The valley cut by the latter is particularly impressive and we'd recommend visiting for its natural beauty, birdlife and historical features. We've positione...
Ilsington Manor House (Ruins), Ilsington, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
In the north eastern corner of Ilsington St Michael's Church are the remains of Ilsington Manor House. A Dartmoor National Park Authority information board tells the story of the manor house and provides floor plans and drawings. George Ford 'is thought to have rebuilt the house in...
Ilsington St Michael's Church, Ilsington, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Another Dartmoor church rebuilt in the 15th century, Ilsington St Michael's Church is thought to have been first constructed during the 11th century. Look out for the ruins of Ilsington Manor House in the north eastern corner of the churchyard. There's also an alarming story associated with&...
Ilsington St Michael's Church Lych Gate, Ilsington, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Just west of Ilsington St Michael's Church is Ilsington St Michael's Church Lych Gate. A local information board reads: 'The first building on this site that we know of was likely to have been of medieval origin, for in the year 1639 it was being used as a schoolroom for about 30 b...
Yarner Wood, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
'Yarner Wood was purchased in 1952 by the Nature Conservancy and became England's first National Nature Reserve.'* Today, it's part of the East Dartmoor National Nature Reserve that incorporates nearby Trendlebere Down and parts of the Bovey Valley. It's a superb place. There are nature trails, bird...
Haytor National Park Visitor Centre, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
At present, Dartmoor has three National Park Visitor Centres. The largest and most impressive is up in Princetown. Next is Postbridge National Park Visitor Centre with its special display relating to Dartmoor's rich prehistory. The smallest is at the foot of the hill that rises to Haytor Rock...
Haytor Down, Haytor Vale, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
This is probably the most popular area of moorland in Dartmoor National Park. In high Summer, or after a good dumping of snow in Winter, its many car parking areas are rammed full with vehicles. Its popularity is partly owing to its location on the eastern side of Dartmoor near the large towns of So...
Yarner Wood Bird Hides, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
'The internationally important upland oak woodlands in this National Nature Reserve are one of the best places to see woodland birds of many kinds but especially the enigmatic pied flycatcher, secretive lesser spotted woodpecker and vocal wood warbler.' The Natural England information boards at the...
Yarner Wood Reserve Base/Natural England Office, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
The Yarner Wood Reserve Base/Natural England Office is situated next to the car park and main access point for Yarner Wood. Just across the car park from the office is a bird hide providing views over a large pond (the stew pond) frequented by birdlife. Leaflets providing information about Yarn...
Yarner Wood Nature Trail, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Yarner Wood is part of the East Dartmoor National Nature Reserve. Dotted around the wood, you'll find posts to which are attached numbered Yarner Wood Nature Trail waymarkers. You can follow either the short loop that runs close to the Yarner Wood Reserve Base or extend it into a longer loop&nb...
Templer Way, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 1 mile away)
Haytor Rocks is, arguably, Dartmoor National Park's most famous tor. The rocks rise from Haytor Down which is peppered with disused quarries and crossed by an old tramway on which granite was transported from the moors down to Stover Canal and then to the coast at Teignmouth from where the rock was...
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This Robotics Designer Has a Plan for Sex to Go Social
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You get home half-exhausted, open a bottle of Chianti, and think about soaking in the tub. Instead you turn on your laptop, read a few New York Times articles and find yourself instinctually headed towards that one site your browser loves to autofill. It’s a social network filled with cam girls, single people, and horny avatars all waiting to have sex with you — through a robot interface.
That is Seth’s vision of the future, at least. He’s the creator of FriXion, the first ever social network that’s working to allow its users to touch one another using various haptic devices — over any stretch of distance. And for the average user, the “touching” will involve hand holding, kissing, even full-on penetrative sex.
FriXion works like this (and I’ll try to use layman’s terms): The network uses off-the-shelf sex toys and already existing technologies and connects them using their open and universal API (just call it an interface). So, essentially it’s a platform that allows teledildonic devices — dildos, vibrators, and sleeves, for example— to interact with each other using real-time bidirectional force feedback. Seth uses the word “telemetry” a lot and what he means is that through FriXion, one toy can feel what the other toy is feeling.
If you move one way, your partner’s toy will move the other way. Some of the sci-fi features currently being tested include measuring biometrics like heart rate, which would then translate to a soft pulsing on your partner’s device in real time. And any and all of these devices can interact where their functionalities overlap. If that was too much techno-mumbo-jumbo for you, let’s put it this way: This network for sex toys gives a pretty convincing imitation of intimacy.
“Frixion is a software platform we’re developing to enable people to connect physically over distance,” explains Seth, who chose not to share his last name, as we spoke last year. “It feels like the act of sex. While you’re thrusting, I’m being penetrated. You’re pushing back. I’m feeling the resistance.” Compared to other sex machines or long-distance sex tech, Seth claims that FriXion provides a very organic motion, one that’s true to real-life sexual interactions. Just watch the promo videos. Pair it with a virtual reality simulator like the Oculus Rift, and you could see users having a near three-dimensional experience with other users, porn, cam girls, or even avatars.
“It feels like the act of sex. While you’re thrusting, I’m being penetrated. You’re pushing back. I’m feeling the resistance.”
I’ve never been so certain that if an interview subject’s invention were used by a large group of people, that the reality of sex or even human relations might be changed forever. But remember the big “if” in that sentence. That “if” —whether people want to adopt this kind of technology— weighs a lot.
If CES 2015 proved we are closer and closer to an Internet of Things, FriXion would be a grand slam in the direction of true technological intimacy. By 2025, many experts claim that robotics will become an integral, normal part of our daily existence. Stowe Boyd, lead researcher for GigaOM Research, predicted that, “Robotic sex partners will be a commonplace, although the source of scorn and division, the way that critics today bemoan selfies as an indicator of all that’s wrong with the world.” But what of a network that allows for actual humans to be on the other side of the robot’s moving parts? Will that type of technology be met with the same scorn and division? That’s the question currently on Seth’s mind.
In 2014, sex continued to go high tech, and in 2015, Seth feels that it’s bound to go more and more social. If we’ve outsourced nearly every aspect of our livelihoods and identities to machines, what’s to stop us from turning to machines to satisfy our most basic desires? Seth hopes to offer the ultimate in customized masturbatory experiences. A place that not only connects your toys but a place to meet new people, and a hub for virtual sex.
“The beta will initially support users to meet, have sex, and transact payments between each other using an e-wallet. Retail prices for the various devices will run the gamut, the V2 wristband accelerometer will start at $40. The F1 robot is currently the only way to have a meaningful bidirectional experience and it retails for $199,” Seth explains. He sees FriXion as a great interface to inspire more and more tech developers to innovate now that they have a means of communicating with other toys. FriXion is already able to support smart fucking machines like the Diltron, the Shock Spot, Klic-Klic, Lovense, High Joy, and Black Cat Box. “For the cost of a tablet or an iPhone, you’ve got virtual sex and a frickin robot that does other things.”
But at its heart, FriXion is intended to be a social network, Seth stresses. He explains the Facebook/dating site mash-up of the FriXion network: “You’re going to a have a profile, a timeline, a feed. We want to use the profile in ways that work similarly to OkCupid, if that’s how you want to use it. When you sign up, we’ll have check boxes and you can check as many as you want: cam girls, casual encounters, dating, relationships, long distance relationships. We’ll kind of unlock the functionality with those check marks. And if they’re interested in dating, we’ll be pushing matches for you to reach out and connect with people.”
“I had to sit around and look around and say: I’m having sex with a robot with a person. Isn’t that amazing?”
Seth’s okay with developing a network that could very well have implications for sex work, like cam girls offering live events or porn stars holding haptic showcases. “It’s a real risk that we’re taking by taking such a broad approach,” he tells me. “When I saw this technology working, I really felt in awe of where we are. I had to sit around and look around and say, ‘Okay, this is 2013 [at time of development]. I’m having sex with a robot with a person. Isn’t that amazing?’” Seth admits, “I couldn’t justify only selling it to cam girls or something like that. I thought that was just weird. At the same time, I couldn’t justify just pitching it as tech for long distance relationships only. So we just decided to put the tools out there and invite everybody.”
There may also be a gamified future with FriXion, where users earn trophies for different sexual achievements — say a badge for 100 sexual partners, a star for partner loyalty. These partners don’t even have to be human. “You can imagine on Utherverse or Second Life where two avatars could meet each other and connect using their Frixion credentials and their devices connect and they’re having real human sex with each other, but only seeing their avatars and the avatars are animated using the data received through the FriXion API,” Seth rattles off excitedly.
It’s a very postmodern view of the sex industry. It’s an imagined future where, when browsing online dating profiles, people can expect to have sex teledildonically before they even meet in person. For Seth, it’s about not wasting anybody’s time and it’s about finding compatibility as soon as possible.
As our conversation comes to a close, Seth puts out a challenge to me. “What’s the most recent innovation in the sex tech industry?” I think for a moment. “Bluetooth-enabled wearable vibrators, probably,” I say. But I can hear Seth shaking his head. He sees toys like that as gimmicky and only practical for a few novelty uses. “I hope that creating this useful infrastructure is going to create a renaissance. It’s going to untie people’s hands to make really useful devices. A lot of these gimmicks you see are gimmicks because they don’t have the licenses to create functionality that is more useful. It’s why you see on FriXion there are devices that are stroking and reciprocating.”
For transhumanists and technophiles, FriXion sounds like a dream interface. If remote sex with feedback is what you’re looking for. Other already established “adult” networks like Uplust focus on NSFW social sharing and companies like KIIROO are focused on users who are looking to bring back the immediacy to their long distance relationships. FriXion has a much more laissez-faire attitude to what will go on within its interface. With sexy avatar lovers and trophies for conquests, it sort of sounds like a Spike Jonze film or William Gibson story waiting to happen. Are we prepared for it in 2015?
“I still have to remember that some people are ashamed to talk about sex,” Seth admits. “I’m very matter-of-fact and clinical about it. I have to remember some people aren’t. It is a bit frustrating, but I feel like our timing is really good. Haptics are huge this year. I think it’s pretty obvious that sex is one of the most useful applications of haptics.”
It’s hard to say what it will mean when we have a virtual experience that feels the same as the real deal — but what’s most important is that these products are actually meeting a demand of the consumer. And at the end of the day, if the consumers actually enjoy virtual sex. As David Levy, an artificial intelligence expert, once put it to The Kernel, “The question is not whether it is better to have sex with a robot or sex with a human being, but whether it is better to have sex with a robot or no sex at all. In the case of teledildonics, I see the products as increasing the sexual possibilities between humans, not decreasing the desire for human-human sexual contact.”
For many of us, opting into the network would be something of a rebellion.
The effect of postmodern sex remains to be seen, if it will even come at all. At the time of writing, FriXion is still in its early adopter stages, where users can request an invite in return for discounts and giveaways. Seth tells me that by March 2015 he hopes to send out a new batch of invites and roll it out to a wider audience. This year, he’s most excited about the trajectory of haptics and the virtual reality space. Seth thinks, “It will really blow people’s minds and will continue to challenge what modern relationships can look like. It really shifts the core experience to lose all awareness of the device and be present in a virtual space with a virtual partner.” For many of us, opting into the network would be something of a rebellion. We’d be consenting to something we’re not used to okaying in such intimate spaces: complete novelty, exploration, freedom, anonymity.
“This kind of multi-use, robust, flexible approach to solving the problem I think is going to be the most appealing to people and it’s really going to be the killer app that makes intimate technology practical,” Seth assures me confidently.
I hang up the phone and contemplate one day having sex with someone over an internet connection, through a robot-powered vibrator, without ever really knowing who that someone is. I’m still mulling it over. “That’s got to turn someone on,” I think to myself.
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Home›Tech & Science›The Apple Timeline : From Bankruptcy to A Trillion Dollar Company
The Apple Timeline : From Bankruptcy to A Trillion Dollar Company
By Chandni D
NewsPatrolling.com : With its share price soaring to an all-time high, Apple has now become the first ever public sector company to reach a market valuation of 1 trillion dollars. While you try to figure out just how many zeros follow 1 in that sum, should you also know that this is the same company who battled the brink of bankruptcy in 1997. Over 20 years since then – and an eternity long legacy of Steve Jobs – few would have really thought that Apple would emerge to be a culture-defining entity, literally pushing human race ahead. After all, they started as just another computer manufacturer.
With its share price soaring to an all-time high, Apple has now become the first ever public sector company to reach a market valuation of 1 trillion dollars. While you try to figure out just how many zeros follow 1 in that sum, should you also know that this is the same company who battled the brink of bankruptcy in 1997. Over 20 years since then – and an eternity long legacy of Steve Jobs – few would have really thought that Apple would emerge to be a culture-defining entity, literally pushing human race ahead. After all, they started as just another computer manufacturer.
You know the story is epic when tens of movies are made, and books are written, on it. But, in case, if you’ve missed the outstanding titular performance of Michael Fassbender in ‘Steve Jobs’ (2015 movie), here’s a quick but detailed look-back at the memory lane:
A college dropout and working at a gaming company, Steve Jobs incorporated Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, along with two of his friends: Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. However, soon after 3 months, the friendship among three turned sour; Wayne sold his shares at just $800 and left the company.
Apple I, the first ever Apple computer was first introduced in Job’s parent’s garage in Cupertino, California. A local computer store managed to sell more than 200 units of Apple I. Then came Apple II in 1977, which was billed as the first personal computer for the masses. It sold decently; not as exceptional as the founders wanted it to though. However, innovation continued at the company with Apple Disk II, ProFile hard disk, and home printers.
In 1983, Apple launched Lisa, a new brand of personal computers that offered a graphical interface. However, as it turned out, Lisa soon tanked. However, what came out next would revolutionize the entire computing world—Macintosh, the first-ever affordable computer (priced at $2,495) to offer graphical interface. The computer was launched with this now-iconic commercial- VIDEO- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
However, even with an outstanding product, things weren’t exactly very good at the company. Financially, it was struggling. Then in the mid-80s, the news came like a jolt to the public, Steve Jobs had to leave a company that he once created. He was ousted by his own people. Steve Wozniak, too, followed Jobs and left the company. The founders were now out.
In the following years, Apple kept on launching new products. Portable computers seeped well into our lifestyles. And the computing world was seeing some big changes. However, in the closed rooms, with stiff competition from Microsoft and HP, and without a competent leadership at the top, Apple continued struggling. It sustained big losses over the course. And in 1997, the company was strides away from bankruptcy. But then something happened…
Steve Jobs made a comeback in his company. Apple’s board made that decision to have him onboard. What came next was a succession of big decision-making in the company and even bigger changes that steered Apple on the path where it is currently on. In the next 15 years, Jobs, true to his original words, went on to “put a ding in the world”.
OS X was launched, iBook came into existence (which dwindled in 2006). MacBook continued improving. A line of products was launched in the following years—iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iPod, and more. BUT it was really 2007 that changed the entire landscape for Apple. On June 29, 2007, Steve Jobs stood before the world and launched the first ever iPhone. And that was the beginning of the ‘Smartphone era’.
In the next few years, Apple launched Macbooks, Tablets, iPads and, of course, the badass that we now know as Siri. It continued on its path of innovation. BUT, in place of being rewarded as generation’s biggest revolutionary and entrepreneur, there was something totally different in store for co-founder Steve Jobs. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. And over the months, his situation worsened. He resigned from the company on August 24, 2011. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011.
Even after Jobs gone, Apple continued progressing in the tech world. In 2012, it became the world’s most trusted brand. In 2014, it became the first US company to be valued at over $700 billion. The company launched a chain of retails around the world that stood at 463 in number till 2015. As it stands now, Apple now has 1.3 billion active devices worldwide, with a total of over 12 billion iPhones sold since 2007.
All these achievements, all these struggles, and all the sacrifices on the core team’s part now has led Apple to become the first ever public sector company to be valued at more than $1 trillion. A monumental story really! (Remember, there’s a reason why millions of entrepreneurs around the world look up to Steve Jobs.)
Is it too high to touch?
Following the latest grand feat, the hushed talk, in the Silicon Valley, in particular, is now centered whether the iPhone makers have set the bar too high for others to match. You can easily antedate the risen brows at Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft, all of which are right behind in the ranking but with a large margin in between.
Indeed, a trillion mark is grandeur in every dimension. But so was the one and a hundred billion USD marks when first crisscrossed. In 1901, US Steel Corporation became the first company to touch the market valuation of one billion US Dollar. 86 years later, in 1987, IBM became the first ever $100 billion company. Both the figures, once, looked too big to touch. Could this be the same with the latest 1-trillion-Apple-feat? The tech-giant has perhaps opened a new door for others to barge in.
Theory (And Practical)
Theoretically, with ambitions high and the right strategy, any company can grow to touch the trillion-mark. But in practical terms that are more inline with the world’s reality, the task-at-hand is extremely tough. Feasibly not for the giants in the upper echelon like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Berkshire Hathaway, but at least for thousands and thousands of other companies who are just as innovative and culturally impactful as Apple.
Think about it. There would be a time when entrepreneurs chased the dreams to create a million-dollar company. And then came an off-spring of new-age entrepreneurs who pursued billion-dollar companies on their portfolio; very few in number, even fewer if you’re counting those really did turn that aspiration into reality. And now we’re here, at this terminus, with the first ever public sector company with a valuation of over $1 trillion. Could we really imagine a very small population of elite dreamers who could possibly dare to chase this trillion-dollar ambition? Very unlikely.
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Supreme Court Upholds Order Against Use of Excessive Force by Army in Manipur BY V. SHIVSHANKAR ON 27/04/2017
New Delhi: In a huge setback to the Centre, the Supreme Court has re-affirmed its July 2016 order which said that the army and Manipur police had killed innocent people in the guise of encounters with militants.
The court in its order had held that the army cannot use excessive force under the provisions of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) or the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) to deal with militants or insurgency.
While upholding this order, a five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justices Dipak Misra, J. Chelameswar, Madan B. Lokur and Uday Lalit dismissed as ‘no merits’ the curative petition filed by the Centre to re-open the case that held the army responsible for the killings in the guise of self-defence and insurgency.
Generally, curative petitions are filed after the court dismisses the review petition and though the Centre wanted a fresh hearing in open court, this curative petition was heard by the judges in the CJI’s chamber and dismissed.
On July 8, 2016, the top court had given this ruling on a PIL filed by the Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association alleging 1,528 fake encounter deaths in Manipur in the last decade. The court had pulled up the army for human rights violations in the fake encounters. Last week, the same bench reserved its verdict on the issue of setting up a special investigation team to probe specific instances of excesses including murder and rape. A judgment on the same is expected shortly.
In its judgment, the apex court had said that if members of the armed forces are deployed and employed to kill citizens of the country on the mere allegation or suspicion that they are ‘enemy,’ then not only the rule of law but also democracy would be in grave danger. It said that the use of excessive force or retaliatory force by the Manipur police or the armed forces of the Union is not permissible. It had directed that the Indian army and other paramilitary forces cannot use “excessive and retaliatory force” in Manipur and that all allegations of such excessive use of force must be probed.
Seeking to recall this order, the Centre said the findings and conclusions have far reaching ramifications on the security and integrity of the territory of India, especially in certain parts of the country. The protections available to the armed forces under statutes such as AFSPA and UAPA have been completely negated or bypassed. If the position maintained by the order continues, it may, one day, be well-nigh impossible to maintain peace and security, it argued.
The Centre maintained that the Indian army, in the given circumstances, has to take quick decisions which cannot be dissected later on, like an ordinary murder appeal. The action taken by the army during operations cannot be put to judicial scrutiny. It submitted that the principle of judicial scrutiny cannot be applied in insurgency operations in the state of Manipur by the security forces.
The curative petition noted that it is a well-known fact that the northeastern region has also been, post-independence, prone to the activities of insurgent and militant groups from the China and Myanmar region. There is a constant threat from armed militant groups and, therefore, there is need for counter insurgency operations through the armed forces in conjunction with the Manipur police. These anti-insurgency/militant operations also hold out a threat to the lives of the armed forces personnel since the insurgents/militants wield deadly weapons inclusive of the latest automatic fire weapons.
Disagreeing with the court’s far reaching findings, the Centre said the order failed to take into account the peculiar facts and circumstances and did not take into account the express contents of statutory provisions and their interpretation, especially in consonance with the ground realities under which the forces are posted in the Manipur region. The government had held that no army action against such suspected insurgents in frontiers and difficult terrain can be equated to a “public order” or a “law and order” situation. It cannot be expected that the army during the currency of such operations – which generally last two-five minutes – must consider the possibility that the army officer concerned might one day be tried for participating in the operation.
The government said the immediate effect of the impugned judgment is that it has hampered the army’s ability to respond to insurgent and terrorist situations. Denying the violation of human rights in these encounters, the government said “human rights and respect for the life of a human being are kept on the highest pedestal” as reflected by the data showing that only 10% of insurgents died in army operations between 1990 and 2015.
In the end, however, none of these arguments cut any ice with the Supreme Court, which let its original order stand.
Supreme Court Upholds Order Against Use of Excessive Force by Army in Manipur
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Local Community Leader to Receive Legacy Award
The San Antonio chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) has announced that Silbia G. Esparza, Executive Director of SA Time Dollar Community Connections, will receive the Legacy Award at the chapter’s annual business meeting on January 10, 2017. Our invitation was mailed to all members.
The LDEISA Legacy Award:
The award recognizes women who are not members of the association, but who have had a profound influence on San Antonio’s culinary world. Past recipients are Doña Maria Treviño of El Mirador, and Isabel Sanchez Wong of Rosario’s Café y Cantina.
LDEI has had a long and strong relationship with Time Dollar. Chapter members donate time and funds to support a community garden at the organization’s center, and members frequently lead workshops on nutrition and cooking subjects. LDEI has also served as a catalyst for connecting Time Dollar with farmers, ranchers and food purveyors who donate goods weekly from their Pearl Farmers Market stalls. Those goods are then distributed through Time Dollar’s weekly food pantry. Silbia and her husband Eduardo personally handle the bulky market pickups.
“Silbia represents the selfless generosity that ensures families in need get nourishment that is critical to their survival,” says Chapter President Blanca Aldaco. “Not only does Time Dollar’s food pantry play an important role in that sustenance, Silbia ensures that members of her community learn about basic nutrition, the value of fresh vegetables and fruit, and how to prepare healthy meals at home, thus giving them nourishment beyond their immediate needs. She and her organization embody the notion that we must help others now, because hunger cannot wait.”
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Transcript of Senator Pia S. Cayetano's manifestation in support of Senate Resolution No. 493 expressing condolences to the former Sen. Eddie Ilarde
Thank you, Mr. President. I would also like to be the co-author of this resolution honoring the late Senator Ilarde.
Unlike many of my colleagues who've had the pleasure of knowing him personally, I didn't really know him personally. I was quite young when he and my dad both served in the Batasan, but I felt like I knew him personally because like many of those my age, he was frequently in our household through his television programs. And what I'd briefly like to share is that my mother, whom many of you know personally, happens to be an American, and she also learned her Filipino by listening to shows of the late Eddie Ilarde and other of his contemporaries during those times.
Wala naman pong Netflix, wala naman pong internet, so my mom's way of learning life in the Philippines, the dramas and the comedies of the Philippine life, a lot were learned through television and Eddie Ilarde was part of our household.
I was not really familiar with his early days in politics, but I was already in college I think when he ran for the Batasan and that was the time I was more conscious of politics. I found him to be the type of ideal politician in the sense that he always remained humble and simple lang ang mga salita niya, yung mga naiintindihan ng tao. And so those are just some of the memories that I have as a child that I felt I would like to share with his family and loved ones, and to spread into the record also because the younger generation did not have the privilege of knowing this person. So I give my deepest condolences to the family and close friends of the late Eddie Ilarde. And I also pay my utmost respect to them.
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Recent news from suppliers to the waste industry.
McNeilus breaks ground on new customer-focused facility
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corp. company based in Dodge Center, Minnesota, has announced that it recently broke ground on a nearly 30,000-square-foot facility that will provide customers with a “unique, collaborative pre-delivery experience for their refuse collection fleets,” the company says.
McNeilus’ new Joint Pre-Delivery Inspection facility, which will officially open in early spring 2021, features truck inspection bays, a parts warehouse, a drive-through wash bay and a customer center, along with compressed natural gas (CNG) protection measures throughout the building. One of the most unique aspects of this facility, according to the company, is that it brings together and aligns the truck inspection processes of the body manufacturer, chassis manufacturer and the customer for a streamlined experience.
“By focusing McNeilus headquarters on refuse collection products and services, we’re positioning ourselves for breakout growth. Coupling this new customer-focused quality facility with strong industry collaboration is just one of the ways we’re leading the industry forward,” Jeff Koga, vice president and general manager of refuse at McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, says.
According to the company, advantages of McNeilus’ Joint Pre-Delivery Inspection facility will be seen in delivered quality and reduced delivery time, along with an inspection process that aligns with specific customer needs. Data from the comprehensive joint inspection process also will augment and improve manufacturing processes.
The company said it also celebrated the importance it places on quality, reflecting on improved processes, productivity and safety during World Quality Month in November.
“Recognizing World Quality Month provides a platform for acknowledging our team members and their achievements and valuable quality contributions,” Vasu Chakravarthy, director of quality for McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, says. “And, it also provides a lens for developing solutions to broader industry issues impacting many haulers.”
Amp Robotics partners with Waste Connections
Amp Robotics Corp. (Amp), a Denver-based creator of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics used to recover recyclables reclaimed as raw materials, has signed a long-term agreement with Waste Connections Inc. to deploy 24 AI-guided robotics systems.
“We’re excited to partner with Amp to expand the deployment of state-of-the-art technology in our materials recovery facilities, furthering our sustainability initiatives and increasing returns,” says Worthing F. Jackman, president and CEO of Toronto-based Waste Connections. “Waste Connections is committed to expanding resource recovery capacity, and we believe Amp’s robotics systems align with our goals to enhance safety, increase productivity, and improve recovered resource quality.”
Amp’s technology recovers plastics, cardboard, paper, cans, cartons and many other containers and packaging types reclaimed for raw material processing. For example, its AI platform identifies different types of plastics, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene (PP) and polystyrene (PS), and sorts them further by color, clarity and opacity.
Amp’s technology can adapt to container packaging introduced into the recycling stream with recognition capabilities to the brand level—increasingly critical as demand for sufficient quantities of high-quality recycled material grows to meet consumer packaged goods companies’ commitment to use postconsumer recycled content.
“We’re thrilled to be supporting Waste Connections’ commitment to expanding resource recovery as we extend our efforts to modernize recycling operations and advance a more circular economy,” says Matanya Horowitz, founder and CEO of Amp Robotics. “To see such a robust expansion of our pipeline and mark this milestone in a year upended by COVID-19 is a testament to our industry-leading technology—and working with a visionary company like Waste Connections helps enable and strengthen an essential public service.”
Eberhard Group partners with ZenRobotics to build AI-driven recycling plant
The Eberhard Group, Steinackerstrasse, Switzerland, has announced a major investment in a new recycling plant that can process 200 tons per hour, converting mixed construction debris into secondary raw materials. The plant is set to be complete in fall 2021.
Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and smart robotic sorting technologies supplied by ZenRobotics will be used at the plant to capture high-purity fractions from C&D debris. The recycled materials will then be converted into new building materials for the construction industry. Eberhard’s plant is an example of circular economy innovation, turning waste into value and significantly reducing CO2 emissions and environmental pressures from resource extraction, the company says.
The new plant, called EbiMIK (short term for Eberhard – Materials in Circulation) will be in Oberglatt, Switzerland. It will feature an advanced robotic sorting system by ZenRobotics that includes two parallel lines with multiple high-capacity, heavy-duty robots on each line. The job of the robots is to capture high-value and high-purity materials from mixed construction and demolition debris.
Construction and demolition debris is a considerable source of secondary materials worldwide. In the European Union, it makes up approximately one-third of the total waste generated. The EU’s target is to recover, recycle or reuse at least 70 percent of this material by the end of 2020. At present, many of the material streams for C&D debris are not suitable for reuse or high-grade recycling, the company says. Instead, mixed construction debris is still widely used today as low-grade material or is even dumped. In Switzerland, 10 percent or less of the total 7.5 million tons of C&D debris generated per year is sustainably recycled today.
Eberhard’s investment in the new high-capacity recycling center enables the company to recover the highest quality secondary raw materials for its customers and help lift recycling rates in the C&D industry. In addition to the state-of-the-art C&D recycling plant, a raw material storage and a component production facility also are being built for the new EbiMIK recycling center.
“The ZenRobotics robots with AI are a very important part of our revolutionary recycling plant, EbiMIK,” Patrick van der Haegen, division head development at Eberhard, says. “EbiMIK converts mixed demolition waste into fully circular secondary raw materials. Mixed demolition waste no longer needs to be downcycled into low-grade materials or even landfilled.”
Juha Mieskonen, head of sales at ZenRobotics, adds: “The Eberhard Group is an early pioneer in heavy-duty C&D sorting robots. The family business made its first investment into ZenRobotics’ smart autonomous waste sorting robots back in 2015. We are delighted that Eberhard is now multiplying its robot count by reinvesting into our advanced robot waste sorting system as part of this groundbreaking new plant investment.”
Hyundai Construction Equipment names J.Y. Kim as president
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas (HCEA), Norcross, Georgia, announced Nov. 9 that the company has named J.Y. Kim as president.
A 28-year Hyundai veteran, Kim began his career as part of an overseas sales team to support North American operations, and later, worked at HCEA’s Chicago office from 2004 to 2008.
He was instrumental in establishing a foundation for a Brazilian factory and sales company before managing operations for Indian manufacturing, sales and marketing. During his tenure in India, he brought Hyundai’s market share to 19 percent. After his two major overseas stays, he worked with emerging countries that included Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and many in Southeast Asia.
“We are excited to have J.Y. bring his passion, market knowledge, and support, as well as his understanding of worldwide trade operations to ... North America, especially when understanding import/export policies has become a critical part of successful management,” said Stan Park, HCEA vice president of distribution and marketing.
Avis names new president and CEO
The board of directors of Avis Industrial Corp., headquartered in Upland, Indiana, has announced that Greg King has been named the company’s new president and CEO, effective immediately.
King has spent the last four and a half years as president and general manager of Harris, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avis that is based in Cordele, Georgia, with additional operations in Baxley, Georgia, and sales and engineering offices in Wiltshire, U.K. The search for a new leader at Harris is in process, but in the interim, King will continue to manage Harris in his role as president and CEO of Avis, the company notes in a news release about his promotion.
Prior to joining Harris and Avis, King worked at WestRock, formerly Rock-Tenn Co., Atlanta, from 1989 through 2015 in various senior executive roles.
“I feel Greg is a very good fit for Avis and the unique group of companies Leland has built over the years,” says Ron McDaniel, chairman of the Avis board. “I promised Leland I would step in on an interim basis if needed, and I feel good about honoring that commitment. It is now time for Avis to move forward with a full-time, engaged leader and continue developing and growing what Leland was so passionate about.”
McDaniel is referring to Leland Boren, the former chairman, president and CEO of Avis who died in November 2018.
Eriez announces executive retirement
Charlie Ingram, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, will retire from Erie, Pennsylvania-based Eriez at the end of 2020, the company’s President and CEO Lukas Guenthardt has announced via a news release. “After 26 years of significant contributions to Eriez, our industry and the Erie community, Charlie has decided to retire and bring to an end his very successful career,” Guenthardt says.
Ingram joined Eriez in 1994 as national sales manager, rising to vice president of sales and marketing in 2004. Guenthardt says Ingram was one of the architects of Eriez’s three-fold growth while he directed the sales organization in the Americas. “Ingram’s approaches to field sales, market-focused strategies, aftermarket initiatives, training and customer education significantly helped position Eriez as the world authority in separation technologies,” he adds. “Charlie has been a valued mentor and leader during his tenure.”
Eriez says Ingram fostered the professional growth of Eriez’s sales and marketing teams, enhancing customer satisfaction through improved sales structures and processes.
As executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Ingram oversees Eriez’s global marketing operations and the introduction of new Eriez products to target countries, managing product line realignment and standardization based on market intelligence, the company says.
Ingram has written many articles and is well-known for numerous speeches delivered on behalf of Eriez, according to the company. As the only manufacturer member elected to serve on the board of directors for the Manufacturers’ Agents National Association (MANA), Ingram has served as a presenter and panelist for MANA at events and has written numerous articles for MANA’s Agency Sales magazine.
While with Eriez, Ingram has served in numerous community and professional volunteer roles. He was president of several community and industry boards, including the Erie Philharmonic, Sight Center of Northwest PA, Process Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (PEMA) and the Kahkwa Club. He was previously a member of the advisory board of Mercyhurst University’s Walker College of Business and the Edinboro University President’s Advisory Council, a board member of Denison University and Presque Isle Partnership, and the global sales and marketing chair for The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT).
Company Wrench named new dealer for Kobelco in Central Florida
Company Wrench Ltd., Carroll, Ohio, has announced it is the new dealer for Kobelco Construction Machinery USA Inc. in Central Florida. Company Wrench also represents Kobelco in five other states, including North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Company Wrench President Cam Gabbard believes the territory expansion is the result of a mutual admiration between the parties.
“Company Wrench has successfully represented the Kobelco product in a number of key markets over the years,” he says. “Adding the Central Florida territory is probably the most substantial development in our relationship with Kobelco since we first signed as a dealer in 2013. We are excited to show this booming market what the Kobelco product has to offer.”
Gabbard believes the high standards of both parties make Company Wrench and Kobelco a perfect fit.
Living up to expectations
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Lori Wachs was born in New York City, USA, and is a hedge fund manager, but perhaps better known for being the wife of TV anchor Ali Velshi. Her husband is known for his work for NBC, which he serves as a business correspondent and a senior economic correspondent.
The Net Worth of Lori Wachs
How rich is Lori Wachs? As of early-2019, sources estimate a net worth that is over $2 million, earned largely through a successful career in the finance industry. Her wealth has also been elevated thanks to the success of her husband, who has an estimated net worth at $500,000. As she continues her endeavors, it is expected that her wealth will also continue to increase.
Early Life, Education, and Career
Very little information is known about Lori’s childhood, her family, and her path towards deciding to pursue a career in the finance industry. However, it’s known that after matriculating from high school, she enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as a Benjamin Franklin scholar. She majored in finance, and completed her degree as a Magna Cum Laude in 1990.
After completing her education, she joined the risk arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs, where she served for the next two years. Risk arbitrage is a strategy for investments that takes advantage of the narrowing gap of a trading price but depends on the consummated deal of a target’s stock and an acquirer’s valuation to profit.
She then joined Delaware Investments and worked her way up the company, and in 1997 was promoted to a portfolio manager, and the vice president of the company, so her wealth grew significantly over the next decade. In 2010 she decided to launch her own investment firm alongside two colleagues – the company would be called Cross Ledge Investments.
Husband – Ali Velshi
Wachs’ husband Ali began his career in various local stations, focusing on business and general assignments mainly centered in Canada. In 2001, he decided to move to the US and joined CNNfn based in New York City, where he anchored numerous shows before the network closed down three years later. He was reassigned to the main network as a business anchor, and in the 2000s his popularity increased significantly with shows such as “The Situation Room” and “American Morning”.
His exposure also increased when he started taking more field reporting duties, covering elections, and even travelling to areas abroad to cover disasters, along with other international events. He also appeared in shows such as “Anderson Cooper 360”; he is also one of the reporters who defends Islam, and in 2013, he announced that he would be leaving CNN to join Al Jazeera America, and would host a new program with them. He stayed with the network for three years, when Al Jazeera America was shut down, after which he joined MSNBC, working with the parent news division NBC News as a business correspondent. His programs with the network include “MSNBC Live with Ali Velshi” and “Velshi & Ruhle”.
Relationship and Marriage
According to reports, Ali was married during his 20s, but it was a brief marriage that ended in divorce. He met Lori in the late 2000s, when she was a guest on his show. During this time, she was already the President of Cross Ledge Investments. The two started their relationship from there, and married in 2009. Lori is also no stranger to marriage, as she has been married before but it also ended in divorce; she has two children from that marriage.
According to interviews, the couple often don’t spend their weekdays together, due to numerous work commitments. Lori also frequents Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania where her children live, and spends the weekends with them, normally working the rest of her week in New York – what they do is regularly talk on the phone to maintain communication. She said that she enjoys talking to him, and it feels like they always have something new to talk about. She also mentioned that it is exciting to be able to meet during the week after all of their commitments.
Lori Wachs on Social Media
It is a known fact that Wachs’ husband is an Ismaili Muslim, who is very vocal when it comes to his beliefs. No details have been shared as to whether or not the two were married in a more traditional manner, or if they married based on her husband’s traditions. It is also not known if she converted to the same religion.
One of the reasons why there is very little information about her online is due to the fact that she does not have any presence with any of the major social media websites such as Facebook or Instagram. It is known that she has a LinkedIn account on which she details her work experience; she also has a personal website which promotes her work. She is not only an expert on finances according to her, but is also consulted about buying behavior, retail practices, and fashion trends. Her company also has its own website, which can be linked through her personal website, but it hasn’t been active for some time.
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About Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was established as a dialogue forum in 1996 with 26 partners to bridge Asia and Europe. Its 53 partners include 51 member countries and 2 regional organisations (ASEAN Secretariat and European Commission).
ASEM represents around 62.3% of the world's population, 57.2% of the global GDP and almost 60% of the world's trade. Throughout its evolution, ASEM has maintained a consistent edge as a forum for political dialogue between member countries with diverse and complementing capacities. The 2nd ASEM expansion in 2006 saw India join the Forum w.e.f. 1 January 2007.
ASEM Meetings
ASEM Summit Level meetings are held biennially. 11 ASEM Summits have been held so far. India’s first Summit level participation was at the 7th Summit held in Beijing on 24-25 October 2008, where Prime Minister, Shri Manmohan Singh led the Indian delegation. The 8th ASEM Summit was held in Brussels on 4-5 October 2010 where Vice President, Shri Hamid Ansari led the Indian delegation. The Indian delegation was led by External Affairs Minister, Shri Salman Khurshid at the 9th ASEM Summit held in Vientiane, Lao PDR from 5-6 November 2012. 10th ASEM Summit was held on 16-17 October, 2014 in Milan, Italy. Minister of State for External Affairs, Gen (Dr.) V.K. Singh (Retd.) led the Indian delegation to the Summit.
The 11th Summit was held on 15-16 July 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Indian delegation was led by our Vice President Shri Hamid Ansari. The theme for the Summit was "20 years of ASEM: Partnership for Future through Connectivity”. Hon’ble Vice President was the lead speaker for the Plenary Session on Promoting ASEM Partnership for Greater Connectivity.
Apart from the biennial Summits, Meetings of Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Finance, Education, Culture and Transport, Mayors, Governors and Parliamentarians are also held regularly.
India hosted the 11th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM11) in Delhi-NCR from 11-12 November 2013, which was inaugurated by the Vice President, Shri Hamid Ansari. The FMM marked the beginning of a new orientation for future ASEM meetings, as members agreed that the dynamism of ASEM should find expression in tangible result-oriented initiatives which could be utilized to define joint responses by Asia and Europe to global and regional challenges and also seize opportunities for growth and development.
The 12th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM12) was held in Luxembourg from 5-6 November 2015. Minister of State for External Affairs, Gen (Dr.) V.K. Singh (Retd.) led the Indian delegation. The meeting was attended by Foreign Ministers/ Deputy Foreign Ministers of all ASEM partners. The theme of the meeting was "Working Together for a Sustainable and Secure Future”. The 13th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM13) would be held in Myanmar in 2017.
Areas of Cooperation
India is an active participant in ASEM. The following initiatives have been taken by India in the last two years under the areas identified for tangible cooperation:-
(i) First ASEM Roundtable on "Energy Efficiency in Green Buildings” was organized by CII in September 2014 in Hyderabad and the Second ASEM Roundtable was organised in Gandhinagar, Gujarat in November 2015.
(ii) An ASEM Workshop on "Cooperation between Asia & Europe in Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Medical Devices Sector” was held in November 2014 in New Delhi in association with CII.
(iii) A Roundtable on "Innovations in Technologies for Disaster Rescue Efforts amongst ASEM countries”, was held in December 2014 in New Delhi in association with the Ministry of Home Affairs.
(iv) A Workshop on "Towards Efficient & Sustainable Water Management through partnership amongst ASEM Countries” was held in February 2015 in New Delhi as part of Water India-2015 in association with CII.
India is a Member of the ASEM Working Group on Press and Public Awareness Management Strategy. As a member of this Working Group, India hosted a Foreign Policy Module for ASEM Diplomats on "Diplomacy and Foreign Policy- An Indian Perspective” from 9-13 March 2015 at the Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi. The second edition of the Foreign Policy Module for ASEM Diplomats was held from 13-17 June 2016 in New Delhi.
India also successfully hosted the 11th ASEM Customs Directors General/ Commissioners meeting in Goa from 8-9 October 2015. The meeting was attended by the Heads of Customs Administrations and Senior Customs Officials from 40 ASEM member countries and the European Union.
The Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) is the only permanently established institution of ASEM. India regularly contributed US$100,000 annually to ASEF since becoming a member of ASEM in 2007 till 2010 to support collaborative initiatives being undertaken by ASEF. Increased annual contribution of US$ 120,000 is being made by India from 2011 onwards.
The MEA in association with ASEF successfully held the 19th Summer University Project on "Sustainable Urbanization in Heritage Cities” from 9-21 August 2015 at Symbiosis International University, Pune. INTACH was the knowledge partner for the event.
The 20th anniversary celebrations of ASEM were held in 2016. India was a Member of the ASEM Working Group on the 20th Anniversary Celebrations”. As a member of the Working Group, India hosted the ASEM Youth Dialogue on 26 March 2016 in New Delhi in partnership with Young Indians (Yi), an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
India organized the ASEM Workshop on Non-Invasive Technologies for Diagnostics and Treatment of Diabetes as a Lifestyle Disease on 4 February, 2017 in New Delhi in association with CII. The event was attended by more than 100 participants and included eminent panelists comprising medical practitioners, researchers and academicians from India and the ASEM countries. The workshop focussed on sharing the latest research and information available on the Non Invasive Technologies that could be utilised for Diabetes.
India also organized the ASEM Workshop on Techniques and Instruments for Conservation of Monuments and Artefacts on 6-7 February 2017 in New Delhi in association with INTACH. The Workshop was attended by 80 participants from Asia and Europe including practitioners and policy makers, museologists, conservationists, archivists, students and researchers etc. The Workshop consisted of technical sessions focussing on further requirements in the field of techniques and equipment used in conservation of monuments and field visits to the INTACH Conservation Laboratory, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Humayun’s Tomb World Heritage Site. The Workshop led to discussions contributing to bringing ASEM countries on a common platform towards the process of conservation of monuments and artefacts, as these practice vastly different techniques and technologies.
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Board of Regents Approves UC Merced’s 2020 Project
After receiving approval from two of its key committees, the UC Board of Regents approved UC Merced’s 2020 Project late Thursday afternoon.
In a vote that was initially scheduled for Friday, Nov. 20, the Regents approved the campus’s proposal to double its physical capacity by 2020 — a move that would allow Merced to join other UC campuses in expanding enrollment. When construction is completed, UC Merced will have capacity for 10,000 students.
The full board’s approval authorizes the campus to move to the Request for Proposals (RFP) phase of the 2020 Project’s development plan. Three major development teams that emerged earlier this year from a rigorous prequalification process will be invited to bid on the project, which will add 919,000 assignable square feet to campus facilities.
In approving the proposal, including its budget and commercial terms, the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Grounds and Buildings found that UC Merced’s proposed development approach, a form of public-private partnership, is in the “best interests” of the University of California and will allow the campus to achieve its growth objectives more rapidly and cost-effectively than traditional methods.
“We are very pleased that the Board of Regents’ committees have endorsed our proposal to partner with a private developer as the best way to add much-needed facilities on a timely and cost-effective basis,” Chancellor Dorothy Leland said. “This expansion is critical to UC Merced’s vital mission to bring educational opportunity and economic development to the San Joaquin Valley and to expand access to the UC system for students from all across California.”
Single Development Team to Be Selected
The 2020 Project proposal calls for a single private development team to design, build, operate and maintain a broad mix of academic, residential, student life and recreational facilities through a single long-term contract. The selected developer will also provide partial financing to supplement state and UC funding.
UC Merced’s use of a single developer for all phases of the master-planned project is expected to create significant time savings and additional long-term value for the university compared to traditional development methods, campus officials said.
The goal of the project is to support enrollment growth from the current total of nearly 6,700 students to 10,000 students — a level that will allow the campus to reduce the amount of financial support it now requires from the UC system — to create operational efficiencies and to provide a strong base for academic and research achievements.
“I commend Chancellor Leland and the UC Merced team for their leadership in developing a cost-effective solution to expand the campus’s capacity to serve California,” UC President Janet Napolitano said.
The “design-build-finance-operate-maintain” (DBFOM) model is an innovative form of public-private partnership (P3) increasingly used for infrastructure projects, such as bridges and utility projects, around the world. While the UC system has used other, less complex P3 models for other facilities, the 2020 Project would be the first DBFOM model used for an educational facility anywhere in the United States.
The newest UC campus, opened in 2005 with 875 students, has seen sharp increases in demand in recent years — with an application growth rate that was double the UC system average in 2014 — and has already moved most administrative personnel to off-campus facilities to make room for student and faculty growth.
Mixed-Use, Master-Planned Community
The 2020 Project is proposed as a mixed-use, master-planned development to be built on a 219-acre, university-owned parcel that includes or is adjacent to the existing campus. The proposal is based on a detailed analysis and recommendations provided by the Urban Land Institute in January 2013.
In May 2013, the Board of Regents approved an amendment to the UC Merced Long-Range Development Plan that would allow the expansion to proceed on a 38 percent smaller footprint than initially planned, saving significant infrastructure costs and development time. Campus officials have been working since then to structure a proposal that would use private resources to leverage state funds available for the project.
The project is expected to create 10,800 new construction jobs in the region (12,600 statewide) and inject another $1.9 billion into the regional economy ($2.4 billion statewide). Through carefully managed growth, permanent employment at the university is expected to increase by some 400 people.
The current schedule calls for the RFP to be issued this fall, with formal bids due in the spring of 2016. Selection of the winning bid and regents’ approval of the external financing and project design would follow in spring or summer. Execution of the formal project agreement, or long-term contract, would occur immediately thereafter, allowing construction to begin in late 2016.
First deliveries of facilities are planned for 2018. The balance of the project would be substantially completed in 2020.
Under terms of the agreement, the selected developer would be responsible for operating and maintaining the newly constructed facilities in good condition for 35 years. This approach encourages sound, practical design and construction, and eliminates additional budgetary provisions for upkeep during the length of the contract.
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'There is a little bit of Amar Singh in everyone's life'
When we tell Amar Singh, lately the general secretary of the Samajwadi Party(SP), it was his failures we want to talk to him about over coffee, he straightens himself in his chair, tightens his lips and says: "OK, so what do you want to say?" write Aditi Phadnis and Saubhadro Chatterji.
"You haven't got much done in politics, have you?" we respond. "You've managed to drive a wedge between Mulayam Singh Yadav and his traditional supporters; you could have transformed Uttar Pradesh (UP) if you'd wanted to. Instead, you've turned it into a playground for your cronies..."
"I compromised," he concedes. "I've said in many interviews that I became too indulgent. I partially agree with what you say, but all I want to say in my defence is: All that is visible is not what is accurate. I've always raised a voice of protest when I thought things were going wrong. I have a passion for politics; my crime is that I succumbed to its lure. I got overindulgent. For that, I must not pardon myself."
So, the Amar Singh years for UP were power for Amar Singh and his pals? "When Mulayam Singh Yadav was in the government, I never had actual power -- only titular power. And this charge of cronyism, you make this charge because of the UP Development Council. But I had no constitutional or executive powers. It was all advisory, recommendatory -- I could actually do very little."
We must look disbelieving because he ploughs on. The power policy, he insists, was not made for any specific person, it was for everyone. The sugar policy, he adds while stirring the sugar in his coffee, is something that people allege was made for one person: Kushagra Bajaj. But Dhruv Sawhney and KK Birla, he points out triumphantly, also made money as UP became the highest producer of sugar during that period. Singh trots out a similar argument for the power sector. "GVK Reddy would not have got the Srinagar power plant if I had not been around," he says, referring to the 330-Mw Alakhnanda hydel project granted in 2006 to the GVK group along with two others -- Rosa and Anpara. Between them, they were supposed to have provided UP with 24x7 power. Yeah, right.
"Yes, but Anil Ambani did get the Rosa power project -- 600 Mw," we remind him.
Singh takes this head on and says he gave it to "Anil only after Kumar Birla held the licence for years and did not produce even one unit of power." "I would have liked to give even the 1000 Mw Anpara C project to Anil. But the Lanco group bid the lowest and Anil lost. I would have been indulging in cronyism if I'd given all three to Anil. Lanco Rajagopal is a Congress MP. His party disliked me. But the government decided and he got it," Singh says.
By now, he is in full flow and wants to have his say. "As for sugar, well, I gave it to Kushagra, the grandson of Jamnalal Bajaj -- not a Dawood Ibrahim. I did it for UP. If this is crony capitalism, I will do it again," he says.
He then has a dig at the press saying that when he hired Nandan Nilekani, we called it cronyism -- Nilekani was appointed to the UP Development Council. But when the Central government appointed him as the head of the Unique ID project and gave him the rank of Cabinet minister, Singh takes pleasure in rubbing it in, "what then?"
"So if all you were doing was acting as a broker between the industry and Uttar Pradesh, why call it politics." we ask.
Singh looks wounded. "Broker? I haven't charged a penny for brokerage! These projects were not implemented for me. They were implemented for the people of Uttar Pradesh. Many were dead projects. Now, at least, power is flowing. You live in Noida, right? Well, I did it for you. There is a little bit of Amar Singh in everyone's life."
We take a sip of the, by now, tepid coffee. It is terrible, and we vow not to touch it again.
"The problem was not with these people or their relationship with me. The problem was my party," he says, with the air of making a revelation.
Singh recounts the cases of several persons with a criminal past who were forced upon him. "But you went out on a limb for Raja Bhaiyya of the royal family of Kunda -- who fed people to crocodiles if they opposed him..." we insist.
Singh doesn't deny this, instead chooses to say, "People also said Sita was not pure because she lived with Ravana for a while. But I never justified Dilerganj," referring to the incident where a woman of a certain community was raped in the mid-1990s, following which women came and laid siege to the police station and in retaliation, several members of the community including a four-year-old child were hacked to death.
"I never leave the side of anyone who is in distress," Singh says emphatically.
"We know", we say. "You identify people who are down at a particular time in their career, spot their potential and help them out. In that sense, you're like a groupie -- who craves fame and sleeps with pop stars so that she can tell the world what it was like".
This gets Singh really angry. "I don't have to live up to people's perceptions ... Whom I befriend, whom I sleep with are my business and theirs. It is with mutual consent. There is no element of coercion involved. I'm not forcing anyone to do anything."
He takes a sip of water and offers us some advice. "You should write for the common man. Where were you when Amir Khan was being attacked in Gujarat for siding with Medha Patkar? I went to jail for one night opposing the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's campaign against people from UP. Where were you? Where was the film industry when Mahesh Bhatt was attacked? I always try to speak up for what is right. If I am not able to support what is right, I keep quiet."
Singh stays quiet for a few seconds. Then, calmer, he says, "Looking back, I should not have compromised for this long. I always wanted to raise my voice. I should have come out much earlier ... but I was afraid that if I would come out (of the SP), I would become irrelevant. That word 'irrelevance' is frightening."
"It takes a big man to concede this," we say. With rare honesty, Singh says: "I had to invent my relevance. In the process, I made compromises."
We hold our breath. Singh is telling us the unvarnished truth. And he is hurting.
"There was something fundamentally artificial about the life I was living. The moment of relevance (in politics) doesn't last long. I wanted to make it last as long as I could. And I preferred relevance over moral conscience."
We look around. There are trays overflowing with nuts, heaps of mithai in every corner of the room, plush cushions, glittering chandeliers -- and a man who can't enjoy any of it because he'd faced a brush with death.
"I'm having a wonderful time now that I'm free," he says, looking at the brighter side of life. I'm watching movies on DVD. I'm starring in a film in Bangla. I'm also acting as a musician in a Malayalam movie in which Dimple Kapadia is acting as my wife. Life is colourful, life is good," he says. He is telling the truth. Amar Singh always does.
Aditi Phadnis & Saubhadro Chatterji in New Delhi
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The Agony of the Feet
September 13, 2012 Dan Lewis Uncategorized 0
Flip-flops are popular summertime footwear with an onomatopoeic name derived from the sound they make when one walks wearing them. And beyond that sound, there is not a lot to them. Each pair is nothing more than a two pieces of shoe soles held in place on the appropriate foot by a typically y-shaped strap anchored between the first and second toe. Their simplicity is, probably, their greatest appeal.
And also the reason why the cause tens of millions of dollars in injuries each year — in the UK alone.
In 2010, the UK’s Daily Mail reported that England’s National Health Service (NHS) attributed roughly 200,000 doctors and emergency room visits to injuries “caused by wearing [flip-flops].” The total cost of those visits? 40 million pounds, or about $63.5 million. While that number includes all sorts of injuries not directly related to foot care, it speaks volumes to the size of the potential ills caused by the shoes.
In 2008, a doctoral student in biomechanics at Auburn University conducted a study using 39 college-age men and women. The participants in the study were asked to walk across a board — twice — which measured vertical force while a camera monitored their foot and leg movements. One of the two treks was made using flip-flops; the other was while wearing “traditional athletic shoes.” As reported by USA Today, the study found that “[w]hen participants [in the study] wore flip-flops, they took shorter strides and their heels hit the ground with less vertical force than when they wore their sneakers.” This change in the wearer’s gait can lead to foot and lower leg pain. Further, the study found that while wearing the flip-flops, participants “did not bring their toes up as much” as they typically would, perhaps because the toes were busy gripping the flip-flops. A review of the same study by CNN noted that this “seemed to result in problems from the foot up into the hips.” Flip-flop use has been linked to sprained ankles, pronation and misalignment of the foot and legs, flat feet, tendonitis, blisters, and more.
And those in the know practice what they preach. The executive director of the U.S.-based Institute for Preventative Foot Health, Bob Thompson, told CNN (in a separate story two years later) that flip-flops are so bad for your feet that he does not own a single pair.
Bonus fact: Flip-flops have a history dating back to ancient Egypt, but the ones commonly worn in the U.S. and Europe are probably originally from Japan. Per Wikipedia: “The modern flip-flop descends from the Japanese z?ri, which became popular after World War II when soldiers returning to the United States brought them back.” Zori were often considered formalwear for Japanese women of the time.
From the Archives: The Birth of a Shoe Company: How Kenneth Cole got its start (in a less-than-traditional way).
Related: A pair of zori.
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The United States and China announced today that they will work together and with other countries to “phase down” the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are extremely potent greenhouse gases. A global phaseout would be the equivalent of cutting 90 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping just finished a two-day meeting in California initially thought to be more of an unscripted chance for the two leaders to forge a personal relationship than a meeting with any specific policy agenda. This is Xi’s first meeting with Obama as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, which is the analogue to the Chinese presidency. Recently China has made news on plans to cut carbon emissions but then appeared to partially walk some of that news back. The fact that powerful greenhouse gases were on the agenda during their talks is a welcome sign. And if the so-called “Group of Two” regularly acts to reduce the use of substances that cause climate change, it makes it much more likely that the rest of the world will agree to do the same.
Congressional Democrats urged the President to bring up HFCs during the meeting in a letter on Wednesday. According to the White House, the specific agreement between China and the U.S. reads:
Regarding HFCs, the United States and China agreed to work together and with other countries through multilateral approaches that include using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs, while continuing to include HFCs within the scope of UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol provisions for accounting and reporting of emissions.
HFCs are used in air conditioning, refrigeration, and if released, stay in the atmosphere for 15 years. Their use has skyrocketed as a replacement for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the ozone-destroying compounds whose production was banned in 1990 through a global agreement known as the Montreal Protocol. This agreement was signed in 1987 and required reductions in CFC use but an amendment in 1990 required a complete phaseout. Every country in the world is a party to this agreement. At the time, experts saw HCFs (and HCFCs, which were eventually regulated under the Montreal Protocol) as “one of the best substitutes for reducing stratospheric ozone loss.” In the 1990s, all new vehicle air conditioning systems began to use HFCs.
Yet HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases. While carbon dioxide is the most famous human emission that causes climate change, other so-called “super pollutants” are responsible for nearly half of global warming. HFCs are one of these super pollutants. Automobile manufacturers are aware that the air conditioning systems they sell contain substances that do this, and they encourage consumers to recycle their vehicles so that chemicals like HFCs can be reclaimed.
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Retro Danger Zone
The Promise of Synthwave: Von Kaiser’s “Landline”
July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019 Retro Danger Zone 0 Comments
The first time I heard Von Kaiser I was doing menial chores around the apartment. Since that shit is tedious but necessary I often listen to podcasts in an effort to multitask. Of all the podcasts I listen to Beyond Synth is my go-to podcast for all drudgery. The host, Andy Last, never ceases to entertain, and in the process of listening to him I get to keep up with what’s new in the world of synthwave. There is literally no better way to add joy to a joyless task.
Around two minutes and forty seconds into episode 193 of Beyond Synth Andy Last introduced a song by a synthwave group called Von Kaiser titled “Jetpacks.” This track had not been officially released yet. Andy knew he was beating Neon Fawkes (the host of another synthwave podcast called Nightride FM) to the punch with a debut of this track on his show. To be fair Julian (aka Neon Fawkes) was raving about the band on Twitter long before most people were, but Andy had gotten the podcast drop on him. Beyond Synth would become the first of all the synthwave podcasts (that I know of?) to play “Jetpacks.” Andy reveled in that fact, laughing and shouting “FUCK YOU JULIAN!” before playing the track.
So there I was, cleaning up, making an attempt to organize my life when I heard chimes, a woman singing “oohhh ooohhh ohhh oooohh,” a ripping, melodic guitar solo, and then the first verse hit. I stopped what I was doing.
For the next five minutes or so that the track played I was unable to do anything. The music had hit me and the full weight of the lyrics made it impossible to get anything done. I had forgotten about tidying up. I had forgotten about everything, really. All that existed in that moment was me and that track.
I rewound the podcast on my phone to listen to the track again. Was it as good as I thought it was or did I just get caught up in the moment? It’s good, that much I knew, but was it more than that? I listened to it again and yes, it was as good as I thought it was. In fact, it wasn’t just good, it was something else. Something next level. An instant classic that can be placed in the upper echelon of synthwave with vocals, right up there with artists such as The Bad Dreamers, N I N A, The Midnight, Mecha Maiko, Dana Jean Phoenix, Megan McDuffee… All of my musical heroes in the world of synthwave pop.
I took to twitter to express how I was feeling in that moment:
I am an eloquent yet subtle tweeter.
Julian took to twitter to mention that I was late to the party:
All I had to go on at that time was that one track, but the full length album was coming out soon and I could not wait. The second it dropped on Bandcamp I was on it. It was past midnight but that did not stop me from listening to it in its entirety the second I got it. Did I have to work the following morning at 9 AM? Yes, but that wasn’t going to stop me. It was worth losing sleep over because this is what I heard after downloading Von Kaiser’s Landline:
Landline by Von Kaiser
Right out of the gate Landline opens up with some classic synthwave tropes: Pitched toms and a burning guitar solo. There is some serious guitar shredding on this album. It’s not just mindless, self indulgent “look how fast I can play!” shredding, either. Every one of the guitar solos on this album has a melody and a purpose. The guitar parts are well written and fit their respective songs perfectly. The retro synth sounds and claps in the drums of this track heightened my anticipation. This album was off to a great start.
At first I had a hard time figuring out what “Armitage” was about until the following lines were sung:
“Malicious virus meant to wipe us out, we don’t even know about.
Simulations run on hard drives have prepared us to save lives.
Future generations will thank us, or we’ll die trying. ”
That’s when I figured it out: This track is the first of several tracks on Landline that reference the Shadowrun RPG. Armitage is the last name of Jake Armitage, the infamous Shadowrunner (the Shadowrun equivalent of an adventurer in Dungeons and Dragons). I got into the Shadowrun RPG in the early 90’s as it hit on a number of nerdy interests that I had then (and now, really. Nothing has changed). The RPG (and series of video games dating as far back as the Sega Genesis and as recently as Steam) effortlessly blends science fiction and fantasy into a single universe, with magic users and computer hackers (called “deckers”) all thrown into the mix. The virus being referred to here is (I think?) the Crash Virus of 2029, a virus that wipes out The Matrix (aka The Internet, for all intents and purposes. And yes, Shadowrun predates both the Internet and the movie The Matrix. Pretty ahead of its time if you ask me). Right off the bat this album appeals to my interests, and it only gets better from here on out.
As mentioned previously this is the first track I ever heard from Von Kaiser. Listening to it for the third time gave me goose bumps all over again. As detailed earlier it has the perfect intro: Retro sounding synth chimes and poppy “oh oh ooohhh oooohhhh’s” preclude another one of Von Kaiser’s signature melodic guitar solos. It’s not just the accompaniment that hits me with this tune, the vocals are pithy and relevant to where I am right now in my life:
“With corded phones and tape machines, you could do anything, if you just believed”
Sometime in the early 90’s I saved up for an entire summer mowing lawns and doing anything I could, including launching clay pigeons for dudes to shoot down with shotguns at a sporting club, to muster up $400 for a Fostex four track so I could record myself. It had no digital effects, no reverb or delay, nothing, and everything I ever recorded with it sounded like it was behind a pillow. I loved that tape machine to death and felt that I could make an album with it that would one day take the world by storm.
“We Grew up with posters on our walls, the Pepsi generation, thought we’d seen it all.
Brightly lit future with flying cars and we’d all be super stars.
Energy is endlessly, entertaining us violently.
Commercials play on TV, and nothing was ever free.”
These days you can get a copy of Garageband on your iPhone for free and it comes with every digital effect you can imagine. The combined total of those digital effects would have cost thousands of dollars in 1992. This song was a punch in the gut for me as it hit close to home. It highlights the great digital divide in my life between my analog childhood, when physical media trickled down to me via record stores and Blockbuster Video, and my digital adulthood, where everything is available at the touch of a button.
In the Shadowrun universe the “Black Rain” is a gang of orks based in Seattle. While the track “Black Rain” does not contain any references to post apocalyptic street gangs comprised of orcs that came into being in 2011 after magic returned to the world (more songs should, really, few artists are dealing with this issue), the track does describe a scene that could easily take place in a campaign set in the Shadowrun universe:
“Killing time at the tech noir,
meeting our contact, we’ve come so far,
data drive, exchange goes fast,
got what we came for, the time won’t last.”
In the Shadowrun universe information is as good, if not better, than money, so if you can get your Decker past Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics in The Matrix before Street Samurais get to him you got something to sell down at the Tech Noir. Seriously, if none of these terms mean anything to you you’ve got to get in on the Shadowrun RPG sourcebook. It’s amazing.
The titular track of Landline plays out much like a scene from a movie. Vocal duties are exchanged between a man and a woman in “Landline” to tell the story of the song—a conversation of sorts that does take place in part over a pay phone. This song is a classic story of love long distance, complete with a sax solo that heightens the sexual tension of the situation. The combined harmony in the second line of the chorus “Speeding to get there on time/The soft feel of your skin on mine” is absolutely brilliant and it really emphasizes the strong emotion of desire felt in this track. If Landline was a movie then this track is the scene that earns the film an R rating from the MPAA.
I feel like I’m tiptoeing around what this song is about, and I’m not doing a good job. These two people want to fuck. There, I said it.
A pounding bass line and classic sounding synth arpeggio with digital delay introduces this track. Much like “Jetpacks,” “Flashbacks” conveys the same sense of nostalgia and longing for one’s youth with the line “Now we’re all grown up and know about everything/the magic’s all gone with the video arcade.” This is another line that hits close to home for me.
Yes, I’m about to launch into yet another personal story.
Fuck you, it’s my blog.
Every year I celebrate my birthday just as I have since I was eleven years old—at an arcade (yes, I know. I am a pitiable man-child). The locale I used to celebrate at was The Dream Machine, a chain of arcades that used to dot the landscape of the northeastern region of the United States when I was a kid. Supposedly there is one left in Hull, Massachussetts, but for the most part they are all gone. I still go to the Funspot for my birthday every year to try and rekindle the good times I had in my youth, popping quarters into machines in an attempt to get the highest score possible.
“Flashbacks” is just one of many tracks on this album that seems to be custom designed for my specific tastes and interests. It’s uncanny. I don’t remember getting a phone call from Von Kaiser asking me what topics I would really like to have relayed to me in song, but they might as well have.
While the other Shadowrun references in this album are a little more subtle, this track comes right out and mentions the RPG right in the title. The chorus, “I’m gonna get mine in 2029” is a reference to the aforementioned Crash Virus of 2029, so this is the second song that references that incident in the Shadowrun universe. I love the fact that the Crash Virus in Shadowrun has a theme song now. I’m not even halfway through and this album could not get any better. There’s more?
I’ve already said it but I’ll say it again: A lot of the tracks on this album play out like the scene to a movie. Given the title I was expecting to hear a song about getting run through with a machete by Jason Voorhees. Instead I got a wonderful retro synth laden track that opens with a soliloquy about the joy of being under the moon and the stars at night. Sounds like something one of the teens at Camp Crystal Lake would say right after banging in a tent but just before Jason Voorhees uses a seemingly blunt street sign to impale and split them into two or three different pieces. Rather than falling under the genre of horror this song is about finding love when you’re young at summer camp. I’m going to show some restraint and not go on and on about that being an experience that I also had when I was young, but there it is, yet once again. The musical accompaniment matches that subject matter perfectly. “Crystal Lake” is an absolutely gorgeous track, filled with lush synth pads, a pulsating eighth note baseline, and a wonderful soaring synth melody in between the verses.
Carl Sagan introduces this track along with a funky bass line, pounding drums, and a tastefully done synth solo. All of this gives way to the lyrics and the crux of the song: “Night Driver” is an ode to curiosity. At this point I have to wonder if Von Kaiser is actually in my head or if a lot of synthwave producers and fans share a lot of common interests. I love “Cosmos,” both the old series with Carl Sagan and the new, re-booted series with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. “Night Driver” definitely lives up to its name in that I often have deep thoughts about the curious nature of existence when I am alone, driving late at night on a secluded back road that has no streetlights.
Also, I own an Atari 2600 paddle game called Night Driver. COINCIDENCE? Yes. Yes, it is.
While the previous track ponders space and the nature of our existence in the cosmos, this track uses the cosmos as a metaphor for how love can make us feel like we’re lost in space. “Stars & Satellites” has a wonderful spacey feel to it, complete with ambient synth pads and a slow tempo emphasized by a sparse yet dramatic drum beat. The saxophone solo, one of many on this album, emphasizes the romantic nature of this song. Just like the previous track, “Night Driver,” “Stars & Satellites” feels vast and infinite, much like the universe it is in awe of.
Nobody writes odes to nostalgia like Von Kaiser. At this point in the album I already feel emotionally beat up with tracks like “Jetpacks” and “Flashbacks,” two tracks that hit way too close to home in terms of my own personal history. “Mixtape” does the same to me as the aforementioned tracks as it takes me back to a time when media was not available at the touch of a button like it is today. I remember waiting patiently with my boombox to hit record on a blank cassette so I could get a copy of Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart” for free. Back in grade school and high school I made mixtapes for friends and for people that I wanted to be more than friends. This is emotionally powerful stuff for me, personally, and Von Kaiser does a masterful job of bringing it all back over a driving sixteenth note synth bassline, toms, and heartfelt vocals.
I absolutely love the introduction to this track: A growling bassline that has a high pitched, delay laden, whistling synth with the resonance knob cranked flying high above it. The goth atmosphere of “Blood Moon” fits the subject matter perfectly as the lyrics describe a sexy sort of femme fatale vampire. Is there sexy sax in this song as well? It’s Von Kaiser. Of course it has sexy sax in it.
On a somewhat unrelated note this track did make me want to play Castlevania: Blood Moon again. It’s easily one of the best NES Castlevania hacks ever put out. Someone needs to re-hack that game and put an 8-bit version of this tune into the soundtrack. I know, I keep relating everything back to video games. The band’s name is Von Kaiser, so it’s appropriate.
I think this track is one of the few on this album that I could not ascertain the meaning of with absolute certainty. I always enjoy vague lyrics that can have multiple interpretations but I can’t help but get the feeling that there is probably something I am missing here. I think “Wolfhart” is about the crisis we all face in a world with information overload and tragedies unfolding every day, all of which are fed to us via the internet and the never-ending onslaught of the 24 hour news cycle. I’m not exactly sure. What I am certain of is the fact that this song has some great twin lead guitar work and some well executed harmony vocals. Von Kaiser is a master of putting two melodies together seamlessly. The filter sweep in the bass on the breakdown is just plain brilliant, as is the arpeggio and synth pad that play out this track.
There’s a number of ways you can interpret “Transporter” but for me this song is about the excitement and anticipation that I feel when I’m about to travel or go on a journey into unexplored territory. Is there sexy sax soloing on this track? Check! There’s also a killer synth solo on this track as well. It all blends together so effortlessly. Von Kaiser makes it look easy.
I get the feeling that Von Kaiser put some real thought into the track order of this album. I imagine you don’t necessarily have to do that in this day and age, seeing as how you can just grab individual tracks a la carte from music outlets like iTunes and Spotify. Just like “Night Driver,” a song that opens with Carl Sagan, is followed by “Stars & Satellites,” “Transporter” is followed by “ETA,” a track that expands upon travel, but rather than traveling to a destination this track ponders the time travel that we all undergo as a consequence of living:
“Time in slow motion as the years slip by,
Cryogenically trapped in my own mind
Waking up to a world, I don’t recognize,
I can’t function here, please put me back
This wasn’t the future we were supposed to have,
all the best of intentions disastrously planned,
I can’t stay here it’s not my time
Send me back”
The chorus of “ETA” is as brilliant as it is emotionally powerful. I can’t imagine a better track to end Landline on. It’s yet another track that Von Kaiser has written that hits way too close to home for me.
I’m old now. Time has shot me out of a cannon into a world that barely resembles the world I grew up in. I still see the world through a prism that was forged by Saturday morning cartoons, Canon films, WWF wrestling, and tabletop RPGs. I’ve lived through every audio format change with the exception of 78 RPM records and wax cylinders. I often wonder how the fuck I got here and where the hell I’m going. “ETA” puts all of those facts together into one beautifully composed, elegantly arranged, and enormously compelling song.
So there it is. My thoughts on every track of Landline. My final analysis: Von Kaiser is brilliant at composing music and songwriting. Those two skills are related but ultimately, with artists, you either get one or the other since they are both skills that take a lot of time and effort to develop. Von Kaiser excels at doing both, and that is rare. There’s some great musicianship and composition on this album: Blistering guitar solos, tasteful saxophone solos (probably done with samples, but maybe not? The sax solos on this album are well composed regardless), great arrangements, and great sound design. This album also has some fantastic songwriting on it. Von Kaiser is masterful at fitting stories and ideas into the lyrics that they write. This band can do it all.
On a more personal note Landline is, to me at least, the promise of synthwave: The concept that the musical ideas of the past are not old hat and should not necessarily be discarded. Rather, you can take these ideas and reforge them in the 21st century into something new and exciting. Von Kaiser takes the sounds of old analog synthesizers, screaming guitar solos that used to be ubiquitous in hair metal, sensual saxophone solos alla George Michael’s “Careless Whisper,” all of these ideas of the past, they use them all to create an epic meditation on where they’ve been, all that they’ve seen, and all of their disparate interests (from vampires to Shadowrun to mixtapes to their memories of Summer camp), all of it is transformed into one cohesive work that sums up the best of what synthwave has to offer. I can’t imagine an album more custom written to my own set of specific tastes and interests. This is one of the greatest fucking albums I have ever heard and it will always evoke the strongest of emotional responses whenever I listen to it.
You can listen to Landline via the following musical outlets:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/landline/1460766869
Bandcamp: https://vonkaiser.bandcamp.com/album/landline
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1O1f7DyuwwkONRSlcWwoSI
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River Ave. Blues » Defense alone makes Adeiny Hechavarria a sneaky good late season pickup
Defense alone makes Adeiny Hechavarria a sneaky good late season pickup
September 4, 2018 by Mike Leave a Comment
The Yanks can get by without Aroldis Chapman in the regular season, but the postseason is another matter
Tuesday Night Open Thread
(Presswire)
The Yankees made two trades prior to the August 31st postseason eligibility deadline last week. The first brought Andrew McCutchen to New York in a three-player trade with the Giants. The deal had been reported a day earlier, so it wasn’t a surprise when it went down. It always seemed likely the Yankees would add an outfielder for September. They got a pretty good one.
The second trade came out of nowhere. The Yankees landed shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria from the Pirates for a player to be named later or cash. Bryan Hoch reports the Rays and Pirates are paying pretty much his entire $5.9M salary this season. The Yankees are only responsible for the pro-rated portion of the league minimum, or roughly $88,000. A cheap pickup in every way.
It was easy to wonder what the Yankees would do with Hechavarria after the trade went down. My first thought was Didi Gregorius would miss more time than expected. Thankfully that does not appear to be the case. But, even with Gregorius out, the team still had Tyler Wade and Ronald Torreyes as reserve middle infielders behind Gleyber Torres and Neil Walker. There’s always room for another infielder, sure, but it didn’t seem completely necessary.
Hechavarria is 1-for-5 with a single with the Yankees but already we’ve seen his value. He’s a fantastic defensive shortstop. A clear defensive upgrade over the error-prone Torres and a better all-around player than Wade or Torreyes. Neither Hechavarria nor Torreyes will hit much. Hechavarria will at least play the heck out of shortstop. We’ve seen it already.
Adding Hechavarria was one of those “improve the margins of the roster” moves that tends to raise some eyebrows at the time it is made before coming into focus. He serves two purposes for the Yankees. One, with Gregorius out, he improves the defense considerably. Gleyber is going to be on the field either way. It’s either Hechavarria’s great defense or Walker’s good bat or Torreyes’ okay all-around play. Hechavarria it is.
Secondly, when Gregorius does return, Hechavarria gives the Yankees a great defensive replacement for Miguel Andujar. Andujar has to come out for defense late in close games — I love the kid, but it has to happen — and, previously, the Yankees were playing Walker at third base, which is fine. Now it’ll be Hechavarria. It’s been a while since Hechavarria has played third (2012), but the defensive tools are all there, and I think he’ll be able to shift back there with no problems at all.
It would be silly to expect much offense from Hechavarria. He’s a career .255/.291/.344 (72 wRC+) hitter with a .253/.286/.340 (68 wRC+) line in 2018. The best thing you can say about him offensively is that he won’t strike out excessively (16.2%). Maybe Hechavarria will go into a BABIP fueled hot streak at some point this month. That’d be cool. Otherwise, the Yankees picked him up to help an infield defense that has been underwhelming this year, and so far he’s done exactly that.
“Just a premium defender at shortstop,” said Aaron Boone following the trade. “I just feel like we really add to our strength up the middle. We just really like his defensive capabilities and that element that he gives us while Didi’s down and even after that, potentially just having some defensive flexibility, even late in games.”
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My family, about 1953
I can't remember the occasion on which this picture was taken, but we are posing in the back yard of our house on Kitchener Street and the whole family is there, including our foster brother and sister and her brother who was visiting. In the front row from the left, I see the youngest cousin, Lynette Humphreys and next to her with the braids is her sister Merilyn. In the second row, from the left is cousin Adele, my sister Jean, my Mom Winnie Filer, my Auntie Grace Humphreys and me. Right behind me on the right is our foster brother Jimmy Dobie. And in the very back, between Mom and Auntie is Uncle Rev. Frank Humphreys, my dad Rev. Fred Filer and on the back left, my foster sister Louella' brother whose name I have forgotten. Luella, age 14, was the photographer.
By looking at us you would never guess that in a few short years there would tragedy. It began with Louella. She was 12 years old when she met my parents at the Keats Island Baptist Camp where Dad was pastor and camp director and Mom was the camp nurse. She had been sent to camp by the Social Services. Every year they sent children who lived in their children's home to the camp. In those days they didn't have so many group homes or foster care and kids from disadvantaged and messed up families were taken into care and placed in this home (somewhere around Marine Drive I think) that was like an orphanage. Luella's father was an alcoholic and her mother had left the kids, as far as I know. Both Luella and her mother were in the Home until my parents met Luella at camp and decided to bring her to our home to live. Her brother, I think, was eventually in foster care too.
Luella was a difficult girl but my parents did all they could for her and she was treated the same as my sister and I. She had only been at our house for about two years when she requested that the Children's Aid take her back. She found my parents too strict and didn't like to obey all the house rules, attend church and behave in an appropriate way. She might have even been stealing money out of the jar where mom kept coins for small purchases at the grocery store. It was with great regret that my parents let her return to the Home. And it was even with more regret when later they learned she had run away from there and was pregnant. Nobody knows what happened to her child but it's assumed it was taken away for adoption. Not long after that Luella ended up in the Girls Home (prison for young offenders) on Cassiar St.
When she got out of the Young Offenders prison she went into the care of the Salvation Army. One day my mom got a phone call from them to say where Luella was. She went out and bought some roses and was headed to the Salvation Army home to visit but by the time she got there, Luella was gone. And soon after, she was incarcerated in Oakalla Women's Prison. She was 17 years old and a drug addict.
A friend of mine worked at Oakalla as a matron. She was there the day the tragedy happened. Luella was found dead in her cell.They claimed that she died of a brain tumour, but my friend speculated it was likely a drug overdose because at that time heroin was readily available to inmates. I went to Luella' funeral at the funeral home on Powell St. by Gore Ave. The casket was open. They had dressed her in an older woman's blue dress. She didn't look like the innocent kid who used to live with us. She looked like a worn out old lady. That vision of her has never left my mind.
Not to many years after this photo was taken, my foster brother Jimmy, who had also met my parents at the Keats Island camp when he was 12 yrs old, found his birth mother and her new husband. Jimmy had cerebral palsy and was living in the Children's Aid Home when my parents first met him. My parents invited him to come home for the weekend and he misunderstood and thought they meant 'forever'. They didn't have the heart to send him back. He was the most delightful boy, charming in every way and loved by everyone he met. Mom took him to speech therapy and he tried his best to be like other kids. He was determined some day to drive a car.
I'll never forget the day dad enrolled him in Templeton School and Jimmy came home crying. They had put him in the 'special' class with children who were below average and low achievers. He was mortified. It also upset him in later years when people thought he was 'drunk' because of the way he stumbled when he walked. Dad had the school put him in a regular class and he did his best to keep up though it was hard for him to write with a pen. (Nowadays they have computers for kids with disabilities). He managed to get get through junior high and then he got a job as a janitor for Fleck Brothers.
When he found his birth mother, she was living on a shrimp boat over in Deep Cove with the man she had married. Jimmy was invited to visit them. He was delighted about going, but unfortunately while there he fell on the ladder leading down into the hold and injured his ribs. It wasn't long after, when the ribs failed to mend, that the doctors discovered that Jimmy had cancer. And it was terminal.
When he died, my parents got messages from all over the neighbourhood from people whose lives Jimmy had touched. Just watching him bravely struggle down the street day after day was an inspiration to everyone. And his bright spirit, beaming smile and good nature endeared him to everyone.
We buried Jimmy's ashes under a tree at the Campfire Rock on Keats Island because that's where he had met my parents. When he died he left a sum of money which my parents used to purchase the cottage we used to have on Keats. And at the camp there was a camp cabin named for him with his picture on the wall.
Of the people in the picture, only my sister and my cousins and I remain. Everyone else is gone now. First Uncle Frank who died far too young after a gall-bladder operation; then my dear Mom who passed away at age 53 from cancer; My Auntie Grace, mom's younger sister, who was my favorite and a most inspiring woman; and then my dear dad who lived to be 90.
Yes, every picture has a story, and this one had some sad parts to it. But it's nice to look at it and remember, and think about how happy we all were that moment the photo was taken.
Post note: When I wrote my play "The Street: A Modern Day Tragedy", set in Strathcona and based on true events, I based the character of "Sally" on my foster sister Luella. And the play is dedicated to Luella and my former boyfriend Jimmy Bain, who inspired the story. The play was produced successful by Theatre in the Raw and ran for 3 weeks at the Web Cafe on West Hastings St.
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Labels: family, memoirs
WHEN DADDY CAME HOME FROM THE WAR
a Remembrance Day story.
This photo was taken of us before Dad left for the war. Mom, Dad, my little sister Jean and me.
I remember the day my Dad came home from The War. We were living at grandpa's house on Cobourg Street in Stratford Ontario where my mother, sister and I had stayed all the time dad was overseas. My grandma had died not long before the war ended. The War was a big part of our lives. Every kid in school had at least one family member: father, uncle, grandpa or brother, fighting overseas. Almost on a daily basis someone in the school would learn their loved one had been wounded or killed. I was lucky. My dad was coming home from The War.
During the four years he was overseas, every night we'd sit at the table in grandma's kitchen and listen to the BBC news on the radio. I still remember that static, far-away sound of the news-caster's voice. On the wall by the table was a big map, and we'd stick pins in it to show us where The Action was. There was a special pin marking the place were Dad was serving as a chaplain in the #10 army field hospital in Holland.
I thought of my dad often during those years when he was away. I remember going to Kingston with my mom and sister just before he was shipped overseas, and his last visit to Stratford when we went as a family for a portrait, dad looking so handsome in his arm uniform wearing his captain's hat and clerical collar. I was about 9 then and my dad was very special to me. I remember, going back to my early childhood living on the prairies, walking with my dad down country roads or visiting farm houses where he knew people from his congregation. I have a picture of myself, age 3, with dad holding me up to sit on a fence so I could pet the sheep. I remember my dad working in his garden, and preaching on Sundays, and telling me stories about his life when he was a boy in Wales, and later working in the coal mines in Caerphilly from when he was 14 to when he immigrated to Canada and met my mom. I had missed my dad so much, and when he was going to arrive home at last, I was more excited than at any other time.
And then, he came home. But it wasn't the same dad I remembered. He was a different dad, still handsome in his officer's uniform, a bit thinner and perhaps more careworn. But he was a stranger. I remember running to my room, sobbing uncontrollably, partly from happiness and relief at having him back again, but also for reasons unknown to me then. I didn't realize til years later just why I had cried. Now I understand it was that he was 'different' because of all he had seen and lived through. I remember later reading through piles of letters he had saved sent to him by parents and loved ones of young men he had buried or who had been wounded. My dad's job as chaplain had been to comfort the dead and dying and their families. He had lived through terrifying and devastating experiences. Once, he told us, a buzz bomb had stopped buzzing right over the hospital. He had thrown himself to the floor and prayed. And thankfully, the bomb exploded somewhere farther away. All these experiences had 'changed' my dad. But really, deep down he was still the same dad I had known before The War, full of compassion and love and gentleness. He won the MBE for his honorable service at the army hospital. And he won the respect and love of everyone he met.
So on this Remembrance Day I still think of that day so many years ago when he returned from the war, that 'stranger', but still he was my Dad. And I think of all the children in the world who are waiting for their Dads to come home from The War, and pray they get back home safely.
Rev. Capt. R.F. Filer, MBE
Labels: family, medals, memoirs, war
FIFTY SHADES OF KINKY: Sex Talks at the Vancouver Museum
There I was in a room jammed with people, surrounded by gizmos and gadgets — everything from nipple tassles and condoms to books of erotic literature.
It was the reception of the opening of the Museum’s edgy new exhibit: Sex Talks in the City. People milled about, wine glasses in hand, and browsed the display cases of curios, some dating to the turn-of-the-century. It had been suggested to wear something red, so many of the women were tarted up in red dresses, some with up-dos reminiscent of the 30’s and ‘40’s. Even a few men wore ‘costumes’ suitable for the evening. As it is the Lunar New Year, I thought it appropriate to wear my embroidered red silk Chinese jacket and black velvet pants.
The aim of the Museum is to normalize conversations about sexuality through photos, intimate artifacts and question. One room contains a series of dresser drawers that hold a variety of sex toys, burlesque attire and even some 19950’s mail-order ‘men’s physiques’ pamphlets. One drawer that amused me contained a ‘baby’ (doll) wrapped in a blanket. It seems that one person had told the story of how, when they were a child, they had come home from school one day and discovered a new-born baby in their parent’s bedroom dresser drawer. The baby had been born while the child was at school and because they lacked a proper cradle or crib, the mother had places her newborn in the drawer. From that time until they were an adult, the child thought babies came from inside drawers! (That would definitely be more comfortable than under a cabbage in the cabbage patch!)
Many of these intimate artifacts were once taboo topics but these days they are being talked about openly. The aim of the exhibit is to normalize these conversations between young and old. The exhibit is contained in three rooms, divided between different motifs and topics from the classroom, the streets and to the bedroom, representing everything from Vancouver’s sex trade to teen sexting.
Vancouver Police "rap" sheets, circa turn of the century
One exhibit I found interesting is a wall full of ‘rap’ sheets with photos taken of prostitutes, johns and anyone found in brothels or selling illegal liquor back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s in Vancouver. Most of the women ranged in age from 17 to 65. Many of the men were Asian or black indicating some racial profiling at that time. In the ‘classroom section’, near the display of electric “body massagers” were desks scrawled with questions about birth control asked by students from Grades 4 – 12. An adjoining display explores the phenomena of teens exchanging intimate messages and photos on-line and by texting.
Anything you want to know about homosexuality is there for you to see and read about. One of the drawers contained a rubbery artificial penis used by a trans-gendered person who might want to pee standing up like a man! Another display case has creepy, kinky sex tools including a hideous mask and whips. It seems there’s a fairly good-sized community of “Kinks” in the city!
Code words used by "Kinks" to indicate the sex-play has gone too far
Kinky sex anyone? (pretty scary!)
“Sex Talk in the City” explores the changing attitudes towards sex and sexuality in Vancouver. It’s a brave, new concept for a Museum to chronicle topics that have been taboo in the past. Sex education’s evolution is highlighted at the exhibit. Sex-education videos from the 1980’s are there for visitors to view. There’s also a copy of Asha’s Mums, a book about growing up with lesbian parents, banned by the Surrey school board until 2002. And books purchased by the Little Sister’s Bookstore that have been confiscated at the US border.
I couldn’t help but wonder how many other museums would be brave enough to present such an intimate display. Certainly none in those Bible-belt areas of the southern USA. This display is bound to prompt discussion. There’s a lot there to talk about, and even to laugh, at making learning about sex less uncomfortable.
The exhibit runs until September 2, 2013. Go and see for yourselves! There’s always something new to learn.
museumofvancouver.ca/sextalk
Twitter:@museumofvan
Labels: educational, exhibits, museums, relationships
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St Peter in Chains Parish Stroud Green
St Peter in Chains
Contents: A-E
A brief history of the Parish
Arrange a Mass intention
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Celebrating the Mass
Chuckles Toddler Group
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Gift Aid Declaration form
Later years – Ascent Group
Parish funding
Parish prayer groups
Praying with the Bible
Contents: Q-S
Safeguarding vulnerable people
St Gildas Junior School
St Gildas – Sisters of Christian Instruction
St Peter-in-Chains Infant School
St Peter’s – the first 60 years
Sick or housebound
Sisters of Providence
Sisters of Sion
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The church in pictures
The church in words
Westminster Diocese website
What should I give?
Who was St Gildas?
World Council of Churches website
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Scripture reflection – 12th Sunday of the year – Year B – 21st June
The Lady aisle is the oldest part of the church. Outside, over the side entrance, you can see the same carving of Jesus and an eagle that decorates the front of the altar. This is the badge of the Canons Regular of the Lateran. Inside the Lady aisle, there are four images of Mary – a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, a painting of the Greek Madonna from Ravenna in Italy and a window depicting the Coronation of Our Lady in Heaven in the chapel itself plus a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham near the side door. This statue has regularly been carried in procession in May between Holy Trinity church in Granville Road and St. Peter’s.
The stained glass window in the Lady aisle depicting the warrior saints – St. Maurice, St. Martin of Tours, St. George, St. Joan of Arc and the Archangel Michael was erected as a memorial after World War I.
There are four depictions of St. Peter in and outside the church. The relief carving above the main doors shows the story of St. Peter being freed from his chains by an angel with Roman soldiers nearby; there is a statue of St. Peter above the porch – somewhat the worse for wear. Inside the church two more traditional statues show St. Peter with the scriptures in one hand and the keys of the kingdom in the other. One is just to the left of the crucifix at the back of the Sanctuary while the other, the parish’s most recent acquisition bought on a parish pilgrimage to Fatima and paid for by donations, is just to the right of the Sanctuary as you look at it
The six statues at the back of the Sanctuary are, from left to right, St. Monica – the mother of St. Augustine, St. Patrick, St. Peter, St. Augustine, St. Edward the Confessor and St. Agnes – holding a lamb.
In the Blessed Sacrament Chapel there are 3 paintings: The Last Supper – below the altar, Melchizedek giving bread and wine to Abraham (Gen. 14-18) – above the altar on the left and, on the right, is the story of the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). These flank a statue of the Sacred Heart. Above the altar is the first of two stained glass windows depicting Christ the King.
On the pillar to the right of the chapel is an icon depicting Christ the King, again bought by parishioner subscription to mark the Millennium. To the left of the chapel is a modern carved wooden statue of St Anthony of Padua. Now mainly invoked to help find lost articles, St Anthony originally joined the Canons Regular before becoming a Franciscan where he became known as ‘The Hammer of the Heretics’.
The beautifully tiled side altar dedicated to St. Joseph illustrates three of the roles we associate with the saint – the window above the altar shows Joseph holding the infant Jesus, while the contemporary carved wooden statue of St Joseph the Worker shows a smiling carpenter. The ceramic tiles behind the alar show St. Joseph as patron of the dying and it is for this reason that this altar is the home of the parish Book of Remembrance.
The statues of the English Martyrs in the Martyrs Chapel, dedicated to the Conversion of England, were carved by an Austrian artist, Joseph Furthner (1890 – 1971). The chapel also contains a glass case with copies of St. Peter’s chains while above the chapel is a second stained glass window showing Christ the King.
Around the church are a set of ceramic Stations of the Cross and at Easter we bring out a large black crucifix with a white figure of Christ which is venerated during the Good Friday services.
In case you have wondered about the rather odd mix of scales of the figures used for the Christmas Crib, they are a mixture from two sets and the story is that when the church was last re-decorated in the 1990s, a set of figures was found locked in a cupboard where they had been put at the time of the Second World War.
Behind the carved screen doors of the baptistery there is more stained glass showing the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan by St. John the Baptist as well as the original stone font where many parishioners will have been baptised and which Fr. Sean would like to see moved to the Sanctuary.
Also tucked away near the books and papers you will find a statue of St. Francis embracing Jesus on the cross.
Then, of course, as well as other decorations and fitting in the church, there are the chalices, ciboria, the monstrance, processional crosses, candlesticks, vestments, lectionaries, missals, and other vessels, used as part of liturgical celebrations – a number of which were given by parishioners or to commemorate members of the parish.
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Gunter agrees to Spurs move
December 25, 2007 andym Tottenham Hotspur 0
Tottenham Hotspur have sealed the signing of Cardiff City full-back Chris Gunter. The 18-year-old will officially become a Spurs player when the transfer window opens on January 1st.
There’s been nothing official on the fee or contract length, however reports claim the deal could reach up to £3million.
On the move, Chris’ father Gerald said: “Christopher spoke with Gareth Bale, who is very happy at Spurs, and that helped Chris to make up his mind.
“Gareth told Christopher Spurs was a great club.
“Christopher is really determined to make the step up, he has said before that you’re not a real professional footballer until you move away from home.
“It’s a short career and these kind of chances only come around once or twice, he feels it is right to move.”
He added: “As a parent it is really reassuring to see him go to a club who have invested a lot of money and time into young British talent.
“We can look and see that Gareth [Bale] is already there and lots of others too.
“Aaron Lennon, Jermaine Jenas, Danny Rose, Tom Huddlestone, Jamie O’Hara, all these players were signed as teenagers and they’ve been given their chance.
“It makes a big difference, he will be surrounded by good young British players, that doesn’t happen if you sign for someone like, say, Arsenal.
“He should be able to fit in quickly, I believe he’s training for the first time on Christmas Day.
“Obviously his mum is a bit upset he’s moving out and away from home – he’s been with Cardiff since he was eight years old – but we’ll go and watch him every chance we get.”
Arsenal 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur
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9/30/20 (We.) 9:30 PM VICE (#108) New King of the Donks
9/30/20 (We.) 9:00 PM VICE (#107) Donkmaster's Last Stand
9/23/20 (We.) 10:30 PM VICE (#106) It's All About the Money
9/16/20 (We.) 10:30 PM VICE (#105) Donk Racing Gets Dangerous
9/9/20 (We.) 10:30 PM VICE (#104) The Superbowl of Donk Racing
9/2/20 (We.) 10:30 PM VICE (#103) Donkmaster Defends His Home Turf
8/26/20 (We.) 10:30 PM VICE (#102) Big Rim Rebellion in the Bayou
8/19/20 (We.) 10:30 PM VICE (#101) Donkmaster: The King of Big Rim Racing
DONKMASTER (VICE)
8/19/20 - ???
1 (8 episodes)
completed airing its first season on 9/30/20; has yet to be renewed for a second season
(from Viceland's press release, May 2019) The network hits the street literally with DONKMASTER. In a motorsport subculture show like no other, Sage Thomas (a.k.a. The Donkmaster) is the king of the donk street race scene throughout the South, leaving everyone else in his dust. The show follows him and his crew before and more importantly during these all-out street races with mobile works of art.
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· Hoff Productions
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The 2011 Sasquatch bill is un-frack-withable
By imaginary liz on February 7, 2011 in Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Gorge Amphitheater, Guided by Voices, Imaginary Scoop, Matt & Kim, Noah and the Whale, Old 97s, On The Road, Rebecca Gates, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stornoway, Surfer Blood, The Decemberists, The Drums, The Flaming Lips, The Head and the Heart, The Radio Dept., The Thermals, The Young Evils, Wilco
{Sasquatch photo by asclepius6 from the Imaginary Flickr Photo Pool}
Do you hear that?
It is the sound of folks feverishly tweeting and posting about the amazing #Sasquatch line-up just announced. After weeks (who are we kidding, months!) of mathematically calculating probabilities based on tour schedules and record release dates, we finally have a firm answer of who’s going to be at the Gorge this Memorial Day weekend, as well as explanations as to why certain folks don’t have a Seattle tour date in the next few months.
Not to sound like everyone else every other year, but this year’s line-up has left me speechless. The Sasquatch folks have brought together the best of the best of the best (except Allo Darlin, which I’m guessing will be begged to participate next year) to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. I mean Wilco, Bright Eyes, Matt & Kim, The Radio Dept., The Thermals, Stornoway, and The Young Evils!?!?!? You’re killing me!!!
Are you headed that way? Who are you most excited about (mine bolded below)? Anyone else you think is going to be added to the bill before we pack up our roadtrip munchies and head Quincy, WA way?
Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse , Wilco, The Flaming Lips (performing The Soft Bulletin & more), The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Bassnectar, Robyn, Flogging Molly, Death From Above 1979, Pink Martini, Cold War Kids, Old 97’s, Ratatat, Wolf Parade, Chromeo, Guided By Voices, Yeasayer, Beach House, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Local Natives, Matt & Kim, Deerhunter, Mstrkrft, Trailer Park Boys, Sleigh Bells, Major Lazer, Flying Lotus, Skrillex, Tokyo Police Club, Fitz & The Tantrums, !!!, Archers of Loaf, Against Me!, The Thermals, Best Coast, CSS, Surfer Blood, Jenny & Johnny, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Head & The Heart, Bonobo (DJ Set), City and Colour, Reggie Watts, K-Os, Gayngs, Tim Minchin, The Drums, The Radio Dept, Young the Giant, The Antlers, Sharon Van Etten, Villagers, Stornoway, Aloe Blacc, Black Mountain, Moondoggies, Noah & The Whale, Sam Roberts Band, Secret Sisters, Twin Shadow, Das Racist, Wye Oak, Tig Notaro, Wheedle’s Groove, Smith Westerns, Rival Schools, Foster the People, Alberta Cross, S. Carey, White Denim, Washed Out, Gold Panda, Dan Mangan, Axis of Awesome, The Globes, Cotton Jones, Jaill, Mad Rad, Basia Bulat, Other Lives, The Bronx, White Arrows, Pepper Rabbit, Talkdemonic, Rebecca Gates and The Consortium, The Young Evils, and more!
4-day all-inclusive passes are on sale now at the Sasquatch website.
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Hi - I'm Imaginary Liz! As co-founder, editor, etc. of Three Imaginary Girls, I've been living the life imaginary since 2002. 💖 I host a weekly radio show with my husband on Space 101 every Friday night from 9p-10p PST. 📻 You can listen on the radio at 101.1 fm {in Seattle} or online at www.space101fm.org. 🎧 The show is called "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About" – we share new & vintage obscure indie-rock and jangle-pop from Seattle and beyond. Each episode also features a special guest sharing one of his/her/their favorite obscure pop songs. You can listen to an archive of all our past radio shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/PopSongsMixtape/
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CDD Overview
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Agenda – FY 2020 – 2020-05-07 – Ventana
Agenda - FY 2020 - 2020-05-07 - Ventana
Brian Howell, Meritus Corp
2005 Pan Am Circle, Suite 300
813-873-7300 x 329
brian.howell@merituscorp.com
CDD Board Meetings
Meetings will be held at the Offices of Meritus located at 2005 Pan Am Circle, Suite 300, Tampa, FL 33607* on the following dates:
October 1, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Cancelled
November 3, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. - Landowners Election
November 5, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Cancelled
December 3, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Cancelled
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The Royal Abbey of Saint-Riquier
HECTARES OF DOMAIN
THOUSANDS OF VISITORS
A documentary produced by France 3 for the magazine "Why seek further": Saint-Riquier, rebirth of an Abbey.
Owned by the Somme Departmental Council since 1972, the Royal Abbey of Saint-Riquier now hosts a cultural center dedicated to live shows, with a rich, diverse and high-quality program.
It was founded by the future Saint Riquier in 625, on a source, the object of a very ancient pagan cult. The abbey became royal in 632 under the protection granted to it by Dagobert I. It was Charlemagne himself who entrusted his son-in-law, Angilbert, with the construction of a new and vast abbey with the noblest materials, thus forging a model of religious architecture for ecclesiastical buildings in the West. Thanks to a library that has become, over the centuries, one of the most important in Europe, and to a scriptorium active in particular in the creation and dissemination of the tiny carolina, the abbey plays a considerable role in the conservation and transmission of knowledge until the end of the 12th century. A jewel of Gothic architecture, the Abbey has experienced many destruction due to fires and looting but remains today one of the most beautiful buildings in France, in particular thanks to the work carried out by Charles d'Aligre in the 17th century. The Royal Abbey is today a departmental cultural center dedicated to live shows: theater, dance, music ... For more than thirty years, the walls of the abbey church have resounded, every summer, to the harmonies of musicians coming to perform at the Festival de Saint-Riquier - Baie de Somme to the delight of music lovers.
The Abbey Church of Saint-Riquier is a unique example of the evolution of Gothic architecture, exhibiting elements belonging to early Gothic, classical and flamboyant. The facade of the abbey dates from the beginning of the 16th century and has the particularity of being dominated by a single central tower which rises to 50 meters, without windows, allowing a deployment of statues embedded in a dense network of arches and of lines. The central tympanum, representing the tree of Jesse, is crowned by a statuary representing the Trinity, two abbots and the apostles. It is overlooked by depictions of the Coronation of the Virgin, Saint Michael, Adam and Eve, the prophets Moses and Elijah. Since the 20th century, numerous works have been undertaken to restore elements of the various faces, in particular the buttresses and the interior facings. The western facade was completely restored by reconstituting certain elements of destroyed statues and revealing many polychromic elements. The abbey, owned by the city, became a parish church during the French Revolution. It and 28 of its 59 statues are classified historical monument by Prosper Mérimée from the first decree of 1840.
In the 19th century, the greatest authors, including Victor Hugo, notably admired the two impressive statues which adorn the pillars of the nave and which recall the important stage that was the Royal Abbey of Saint-Riquier on the paths of Saint- Jacques de Compostela. The wings of the abbey, in the 17th-18th century style, house not only a theater dedicated to live shows but also exhibition and seminar rooms.
19th century buildings
The "small schools" installed in the park, in the extension of the east wing, were built in the 19th century to house the classrooms of a minor seminary. Two Picardy barns from the beginning of the 19th century, from Omécourt in the Oise, were reassembled in the Abbey park during the 1980s, respecting traditional materials and techniques.
The abbey house
The abbey dwelling is one of the most authentic testimonies of the 17th century Maurist Abbey. Built during the time of Charles d'Aligre, it was bought during the Revolution by the parish priest and then used by the minor seminary. It remained largely intact until the German military occupation.
The park and the gardens
At the bend of a promenade, one can admire the Picardy barns, the "small schools" and the perimeter wall forming an almost closed square garden with trees. Over approximately 3 hectares are planted 300 fruit trees: apple, pear, cherry, peach, plum, but also chestnut, walnut and hazelnut trees, as well as around a hundred ornamental trees. The park and barns are also home to works of art, especially on the occasion of contemporary art exhibitions or on a permanent basis.
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Made in chelsea louise and andy dating. Made In Chelsea: Andy Jordan and Louise Thompson for reunion?!
Made in chelsea louise and andy dating Rating: 9,6/10 1713 reviews
Made in Chelsea's Andy Jordan says he wanted to marry Louise Thompson
Storming up to Andy, who was sat with a girl he had dated and given Louise's jumper to go home in, she snapped: Hi darling, first of all I'd like. The series concluded on 16 December 2013 after 10 episodes, however a Christmas special episode aired immediately after the series on 23 December 2013, which was then followed by an end of season special presented by on 30 December 2013 featuring a reunion of the cast to discuss events from the series. Instead, new cast members include Tristan Phipps and Eliza Batten. This is the first series to feature new main cast members Josh Shepherd, Lauren Frazer-Hutton, Tiff Watson and Lonan O'Herlihy, and was the only series to include cast members George Amor and Will Colebrook after they did not return for the ninth series. The first trailer for the series was released on 17 July 2018 confirming some of the cast members set to appear. Schweizer dating sites Oct 2012 - 2 min - Uploaded by E4Newbie Andy says hi to Louise.
Who is Louise Thompson dating? Louise Thompson boyfriend, husband
This was the first series to include new cast members Fran and Olivia Newman-Young, Phoebe Lettice-Thompson and Alex Mytton. After Andy was told he didn't want to feel threatened in his relationship with Louise, the ex backed down and gave the couple his blessing. The sixth series showed viewing figures continue to grow with over 1. Alik was the only one who remained as a cast member after this series. Cheska feels nervous as she prepares to go on a double date with Binky, Stevie and Sam, but is more drawn to Sam than Stevie.
Made in Chelsea
Also prominent was Andy's musical talent, which he would later leave the series to go on and pursue, departing alongside best friend Stevie. Reality hits home for Sophia when she finally realises that Francis likes her, leaving her with a dilemma over what to do with Proudlock. The former star broke the news at the time in a statement. It was revealed that this would be a stand-alone series which would not be promoted as the fourteenth series. The six-episode series began on 10 August 2015 on. The official trailer for the new series was released on 29 September 2015 confirming the start date.
Who is Andy Jordan dating? Andy Jordan girlfriend, wife
When I first found out about you I was gutted. Former cast member Emily Blackwell returned to this series as a regular once again whereas Fran Newman-Young, Millie Wilkinson, Mimi Bouchard and Binky Felstead all made a brief one-off return. Four gigs were confirmed, with them taking place throughout November 2013. Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of the Earl of Wessex, currently. Louise has been very vocal letting fans know that her recent toned abs and six pack are down to her boyfriend Ryan Libbey. The tenth series will in fact follow in October 2015.
Who is Sam Thompson? Celebs Go Dating star from Made in Chelsea
Louise and Andy have been going strong since they started dating halfway through the last series in April. Binky is still left confused by Jamie as he refuses to make any effort with her. The pair recently announced they are engaged with Ryan popping the question on his birthday on August 4. Series one was presented by stand-up comedian Jenny Beade, who usually greet two of the Chelsea cast to discuss, dissect and deliberate their latest happenings. Cheating allegations about Sam broke the couple apart, but they later reunited.
Made in Chelsea star Louise Thompson says she won't get back with Spencer Matthews
It was revealed that this would be a stand-alone series which would not be promoted as the tenth series. Main article: The fifth series began airing on 8 April 2013 on. Following this series it was announced that Sam Prince would not be returning to the show, and that this was his final series. He even worked as 's Candy Kittens intern - doing menial tasks such as picking up his dry cleaning. I had thoughts over the summer that things might happen again. This series was also the last to feature original cast member Cheska Hull as well as Riley Uggla. Instead conversation was led by various cast members.
Niall Horan Dating in Star?
Free online dating and matchmaking service for singles. This is notably the only series since where it wasn't followed by an End of Season reunion show. Main article: A spin off series entitled Made in Chelsea: Ibiza was confirmed on 11 April 2017 and began on 31 July 2017. Lauren was introduced as the new girlfriend of already established cast member , whilst Tiffany is the sister of Lucy Watson. The 28-year-old can't claim to have been there from the start, but she joined for its second series back in 2011. Louise also spoke about her happiness at dating fellow co-star Andy Jordan, which has meant the pint-sized star doesn't need to worry about other people's relationships, especially Spencer's shenanigans. It also includes Tabitha and Miles briefly getting together before it's revealed she's been seeing Sam P back in Chelsea, and the final nail in the coffin for Digby and Olivia's relationship.
Who is Sam Thompson? Celebs Go Dating star from Made in Chelsea and Louise Thompson’s brother
Louise returns and comes face-to-face with an annoyed Lucy, who then confronts Spencer over his lies about her. You catch it on E4 at 9pm on Sunday - Thursday. With the information, the pair are quick to reveal the truth to Louise but Spencer denies everything. Celebs Go Dating returned to our screens for series six on Sunday February 24th. Can I just say, that after this is finished, please do not ever speak to me again. Sam is now a keen vlogger, who has his own with over 26,000 subscribers.
Made in Chelsea's Andy Jordan admits he has feelings for ex Louise Thompson
Back in London, Louise was thrilled when Alik moved over from New York to be with her, although they said moving in together may be a bit soon. Tinder is more than a dating app. Until they left the show, Louise was hanging out with the likes of and Rosie Fortescue. In 2018 Sam was rumoured to be dating. It was announced on 18 March 2014 that the cast of Made in Chelsea would be travelling to to film a special series of the show.
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Nokia UK joins the N97 pre-order news queue - £499
Published by Steve Litchfield at 9:29 UTC, May 18th 2009
Nokia has announced that the much anticipated Nokia N97 is going to be now available to pre-order online later today priced at £499 (inc VAT, SIM free) from the Nokia Online Shop. Typically the Nokia UK Online Shop gets the first stocks of UK variants of Nokia devices. Here are the links to the Black Nokia N97 and White Nokia N97), though no shipping date has been set yet. As we know, the Nokia N97 will also be the first device to feature (in its firmware) the Ovi Store, which is set to go live in the next week.
We are expecting the Nokia N97 to start shipping in the first half of June, though the exact date will vary from country to country. By ordering through the Nokia UK shop you should, judging by past experience, get the first UK variants of the N97. Typically online orders arrived the day before the device goes on sale at the flag ship store in Regents Street, London. This is usually at least a week before they go on sale via operators.
Note that the links above (to the Black N97 and White N97) are affiliate-enabled, which means that you can support All About Symbian by using them to order. It won't cost you any more but will help Rafe to keep AAS afloat. Thanks in advance.
You can also pre-order the N97, in select other markets, here.
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SnC 043 – Wed 13 Dec 2006
13 December, 2006 – 11:07 pm – No Comment
Well, I’m pleased to be with you this week – no, no, really, really pleased to be with you.As you’ll see (right), it’s been an interesting few days. Now I have to sort out a replacement car. It is a real testimony to the strength of the Smart Car that it withstood two fairly hefty impacts (one on each side) which wrote it off but the passenger area was completely intact (apart from broken glass). Psst. Don’t tell the insurance company but the wing mirror glass ended up in my lap – unbroken!Applesauce vs. Sour Cream – The LeeVees (Massachusetts, USA)Name four great Hanukkah songs. OK, then how about two good Chanukkah songs? Not easy, huh?Adam Gardner (Guster) and Dave Schneider (the Zambonis) have taken up the important task of writing a bunch of great, rockin’ Hanukah songs. Yes, every song is about Chanuka. Some say such a concept is a bit obsessive but Adam and Dave prefer the phrase "extremely focused."The new album is called "Hanukkah Rocks" – in stores now!13 Dec 2006 Mo Pitkin’s New York, NY16 Dec 2006 Congregation B’Nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT17 Dec 2006 Kinetic Playground / Chicago IL. (Adam & Dave Acoustic)21 Dec 2006 T.T The Bears, Boston, Massachusetts23 Dec 2006 Southpaw / Jeweltide, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New Yorkhttp://www.theleevees.com/ http://www.myspace.com/theleeveesHow Long – Paula Toledo (Vancouver, BC, Canada)I’ve plays quite a few songs by Paula. Every one a gem. If you’ve not checked her website, do it now. Just reading her most recent blog, it seems that there has been a lot of snow in BC recently, enough to take three large limbs of a tree in her yard. It can be quite unsettling but it’s amazing what resiliant organisms trees are. http://www.paulatoledo.com/ http://www.myspace.com/paulatoledo3 plays – Red Cassette (UK) FIRST PLAYI discovered Red Cassette through a sampler CD from The Tilting Sky who support young independent artists here in Suffolk adn neighbouring Norfolk. The track I’d originally wanted to play is not available because it is being released on a compilation CD in the spring but Andrew has some others on his MySpace which are every bit as good. This is one such. Take a look at his MySpace and see if you can guess which other track I first wanted to play.http://www.redcassette.com http://www.myspace.com/redcassette Dancing with Delores – Giles (UK)GILES are a guitar-led trio based in the North West of England. They have just released their 4th album and regularly tour the whole of Europe. Founded in 2002, GILES are now an established force, both in the UK and abroad.Their mission: put blues back on the map!Thu 21 Dec The Blues Bar, 4 Montpellier Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5DThttp://www.gilesmusic.comSatisfy me – Glasshouse (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)Dan James – Vocals, GuitarsStew Riddle – Bass, VocalsRaven D. Jones – GuitarsMatt Wedmaier – Drums, VocalsBoasting an individual style that they have fought long and hard to retain as their own – Glasshouse exudes an individuality and imagination that comes from a long hard development and from resisting any bandwagon. they are engaging, sometimes haunting, yet always built around a melodic framework. You can buy music direct from their website and MySpace.Stew and Dan are flying to Los Angeles this month to finish the album mixing with producer and friend, Roger Sommers. The album is looking to be released later in 2006…so stay tuned for further developments.http://www.glasshouseband.com/ http://www.myspace.com/glasshousebandMy eyes may wander – Chilli Cold Blood (Austin, Texas, USA) FIRST PLAYChili Cold Blood released their new record entitled ‘Lips’ on November 30th at Beerland in Austin, TX. This latest record, their 5th to date, is their first true studio album. Making a deliberate step away from their gut-bucket approach and sound, LIPS is by far their heaviest and funkiest recording yet, making more apparent their rock-n-roll influences, most notably, the HEAVY INFLUENCE OF Black Sabbath, while also revealing a nasty new funk. All along the evolution of the band, they have enjoyed and at times dreaded having an utter sense of freedom to take the band any direction they choose. After all, given the odd make-up of the band, there is no precedent to offer guidance, yet that can be a beautiful thing. For having experimented with an array of influences and ideas, taking the band one direction, then another, they have managed to boil it down to a sound that is singular in its blunt lyrics, funky rhythms, and evil riffs. While there may be disputes, CCB stays true to their origins on the new record, with no compromise in the instrumental make-up of the band (i.e. NO BASS).Ethan (CB) Shaw, steel guitar; Doug (Chili D) Strahan, guitar; Matt (Bagpiper) Puryear, drums.http://www.bloodchili.com http://www.myspace.com/chilicoldblood
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Rhode Island Tax Return Preparer Indicted for Allegedly Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns
A federal grand jury in Providence, Rhode Island returned an indictment today charging a West Warwick, Rhone Island tax return preparer with 44 counts of filing fraudulent tax returns for clients, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts William D. Weinreb.
Developer Agrees to Mitigate Impacts to Streams and Wetlands
A developer and his companies have agreed to effectuate $900,000 in compensatory mitigation, preserve undisturbed riparian areas, conduct erosion-control work on streams, and be subject to a prohibitory injunction to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) on property north of Houston, Texas, the Justice Department announced today.
Environment and Natural Resources Division Distributes Memorandum Summarizing Enforcement Policies and Priorities
On Friday, the Environment and Natural Resources Division publicly distributed a memorandum summarizing important principles and priorities for environmental enforcement. The memorandum, issued Jan. 14 by outgoing Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark, emphasizes that robust enforcement of our nation’s environmental laws remains one of the division’s highest priorities. It emphasizes that, when engaged in criminal and civil enforcement, it is important that the division continue to enhance the fair and impartial application of the law.
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Consilium Staffing Providing Locum Tenens in Response to VA Hospital Reform Legislation
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August 21, 2014 – Consilium Staffing, Your Partner in Locum Tenens, is sub-contracting with small businesses to provide temporary physicians in response to the President’s landmark VA hospital reform legislation signed on August 7th, allocating $5 billion to the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire more doctors.
The VA currently operates more than one hundred fifty medical centers nationwide, and has been overwhelmed by an increase in the number of patients awaiting treatment, including vets from the Vietnam War, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
“We launched our Government Services team more than a year ago based on our commitment to serve our active duty military personnel and the veterans who have served this great country of ours. The recent headlines highlighting the need for additional physicians and other healthcare providers to treat these patients has only emboldened our commitment, and we are proud to be part of the solution,” says Matt Baade, Executive Vice President for Consilium.
Consilium’s Government Services Team works with other businesses across the country to deliver a steady stream of temporary physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants for government healthcare positions, regardless of the length of assignment.
The healthcare staffing firm’s dedicated government team is led by Lisa Holmes, Director of Government Services. Holmes has more than thirty years of experience in Federal Healthcare, which includes management of federal business activities for numerous corporations, as well as fifteen years with the U.S. Army Supply and Logistics team in Germany.
“As a spouse of a U.S. Army combat veteran who received a Purple Heart in Vietnam, and the daughter of a Korean Vet, my first priority is to ensure the providers we place in federal health facilities are committed to a cause greater than themselves, delivering the best care that can be provided to such a deserving population,” says Holmes.
Consilium’s portfolio of more than ten thousand providers vastly improves their business partners’ ability to quickly present quality candidates to fill the nation’s government-run healthcare facilities.
About Consilium Staffing
Consilium Staffing is a locum tenens company offering temporary healthcare providers to medical facilities nationwide. For more information on Consilium Staffing, please visit www.ConsiliumStaffing.com.
Mike Gianas is the Director of Communications with Consilium Staffing
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Timing. It’s never been one of my strong points. So trust me to be laid up in dry dock just when there have been some significant – and long-awaited – announcements in the world of cruising.
Cunard and Azamara are both adding ships to their fleets, with a new-build and an acquisition.
First off, Cunard is to build a fourth ship to join the three Queens: Mary 2, Victoria, and Elizabeth. It’s going to be five years before the vessel is completed – at one of the Fincantieri yards in Italy – and its arrival in 2022 will be 12 years after the launch of Elizabeth.
The new 113,000 gross-tonne vessel will become the 249th ship to fly the Cunard flag and its entry into service will mark the first time since 1998 that the line has had four ships in service together.
The company has recently spent £94 million on a significant “remastering” of Queen Mary 2, including the construction of additional balcony cabins, and a further £30 million on a comprehensive refurbishment of Queen Victoria.
The announcement comes as the company marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of QE2. Senior vice-president Simon Palethorpe says: “What better way to celebrate [QE2’s] important role in Cunard’s past than by announcing our commitment to Cunard’s future with the commissioning of a new ship.”
It’s a move that many, including myself, have been waiting patiently for, and one that I discussed at length with Micky Arison, chairman of parent company Carnival Corporation, only a few months ago.
At the time, on board Majestic Princess, he accepted that Cunard was the only Carnival brand without a newbuild on order, but he hinted that one might soon be on the way. He made it clear, however, that any addition to the fleet would not be another liner. The profitable transatlantic service remains a one-off, and would not justify the expense of building another QM2.
NEXT, Azamara. The boutique niche of giant Royal Caribbean is to grow by 50 per cent, with the addition of a third ship. Azamara Pursuit will join Azamara Quest and Azamara Journey in August next year.
The 700-passenger vessel is currently sailing as P&O’s Adonia, but will be handed over in March to undertake a significant refit.
The three ships are almost identical. Together with four ships now operated by Oceania – Insignia, Nautica, Regatta, and Sirena – plus one other, Pacific Princess, they were all built for the now-defunct Renaissance Cruises between 1998 and 2001.
Pursuit has sailed in more guises than most, and has seen service as Minerva II, Royal Princess, and with Carnival’s “impact tourism” brand, Fathom.
It’s taken several years for Azamara president Larry Pimentel to persuade the Royal Caribbean board to add to his fleet but the persistence has finally paid off. Now his management team has a few short weeks to put together a season of Azamazing itineraries ready to go on sale.
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Craig Pollock
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A former student at St Paul's Collegiate, Pollock was a guitarist for Russia, Knightshade, Whisperscream (briefly), Circus Animals, and has recorded as a solo artist.
After leaving school in 1982, Pollock undertook an electrical apprenticeship, before leaving New Zealand in 1987 to undertake a music degree at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, USA, specialising in guitar. He returned to New Zealand in 1988, taught guitar privately, and played for a time with a band called Russia. In 1991 he released solo album called Just Looking, and released the song Yesterday on HUM Sampler 92. He joined Knightshade, and briefly Whisperscream, around 1991. He continued to play with Knightshade until 1995, and again when the band reformed in 2011. In the interim, he played in Circus Animals (1996–2000).
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Filipino Domestic Workers Flee War in Syria, Return Home to No Work
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Mary Ann Lagahet and other women who just returned from Syria on a bus from the airport to the reintegration center. (Photo: Aurora Almendral)
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At Ninoy Aquino International airport in Manila, 85 Filipina women walk through the gate. They’re coming off the last leg of their journey back from Syria.
Two years into the war in Syria, thousands of women from the Philippines are still working there as domestic servants.
Mary Ann Lagahet, who is 27, arrived in Damascus in early 2011, just before the start of the uprising. She finally got out when her contract ended. Today, she looks exhausted.
“I’m grateful to be back safe in the Philippines,” Lagahet says. But her sister is still in Damascus, and she’s hoping the Philippine embassy there can get her out soon.
“We have repatriated about 4,100 household service workers,” says Carmelita Dimzon. She heads the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, which works with the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs to bring Filipino workers back from wars and disasters. Dimzon says there are still about 2,000-2,500 Filipina workers in Syria.
Jennifer Baculpo got back a year ago. She worked as a maid in Latakiya, in Syria’s north. When the war started, she says her employer told her the sounds outside were just fireworks.
“But I’m not stupid,” Baculpo says. “I know gunfire when I hear it.”
When the fighting got bad in Latakiya, her employer moved the household to Damascus. But the war caught up with them. Baculpo heard shots, she heard a car bomb go off down the street, and she saw burnt cars and bodies. She says wasn’t allowed to watch TV, but when her employers left the house, she would switch it on to watch the news.
Baculpo says she spent all day cleaning, washing the dishes, and taking care of the kids, sometimes from 6 am until midnight. Then she would lie in bed listening to demonstrators chanting until dawn.
“I kept thinking I need to go home, or I’ll die here,” Baculpo says.
It’s been difficult to get domestic workers like Jennifer Baculpo out of Syria, according to Carmelita Dimzon. “It was not easy to get them because employers resisted. They did not want to release them.”
Sometimes employers demanded that their maids pay them back for the cost of bringing them to Syria. Baculpo’s employer did that at first, but Baculpo insisted, and after several months, they gave in.
Once she was let go, Baculpo stayed at a dorm at the Philippine embassy, which was filled with other Filipinas trying to get home. She recalls that one of the women there was verging on hysteria.
“If she heard even a bang, that’s it, she starts screaming. She was really delirious,” Baculpo says. “They told me don’t pay any attention, Jenny, just let her be. I said why? What is going on? They told me she’s lost her mind — because of what her employer did to her, and because of the war.”
Baculpo lived in the embassy for a month and a half before the Philippine government flew her home. But one of her friends, a woman named Faihirine, is still in Syria. Faihirine told her she wants to stay in Damascus as long as she can stand it, because there’s no work for her in the Philippines.
Back home in Manila
When Jennifer Baculpo got home, she thought she would never again work overseas. But she hasn’t been able to find steady work in the Philippines. She lives in a tiny, two-room cement-block house in Manila with her parents, sisters and her kids. There’s no running water or electricity. Her son plays with rocks outside while the neighbor girls sing songs to each other.
In Syria, she earned $200 a month. It wasn’t enough for her family to live on, but it’s more than they can scrape together now. They’re surviving by eating vegetables that they grow in a nearby plot. And Baculpo says she is worried that she can’t afford her kids’ school supplies.
“If I don’t go overseas,” she says, “this is how our life is, really hard.”
Now Baculpo is looking for another job overseas, for her kids’ sake. While she won’t go back to Syria, she says she’ll take her chances in whatever other country offers her work.
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Submitted by Larry on Mon, 06/06/2016 - 6:53am
This greystone three unit building was built in 1908 by Oscar Stuberg, a masonry contractor. He and his wife Sophia lived in the building. Oscar emigrated from Sweden in 1888. The architect was Nils Hallstrom who was born 1844 in Sweden and emigrated to the US in 1892 at the age of 48. He was a busy architect who worked mostly on the north side and mostly doing small apartment buildings and flats. He died in 1908 at the height of his productivity.
The façade shows the attention to detail with the rusticated limestone and bands of smooth stone at each level. At the top the cornice has a raised molding with a dentil detail below all in limestone. The current owner has lived here for 17 years and one of the first major jobs was replacing the front porch that was in severe disrepair. In keeping with the original design the spindles are straight and the eave is detailed with a band of dentils.
The original front door is oak with beveled glass on the side lights. The foyer has new doors and mailboxes and flooring. As you enter the first floor unit step into a reception hall which opens into the original living room that now functions as the dining room. This room opens into the current living room through a wide opening which replaced a smaller arched passage.
This new living room extends across the width of the building with two angled windows to capture more light along one wall. On the back wall an arched area once held the built-in china hutch which was removed years ago by the previous owner and replaced with a book shelf. At the other end of the room a small bedroom was made part of the living room by removing the wall and adding two decorative columns. This makes the whole room much larger and more open. All the oak floors are original and many moldings are original or replicas of the originals.
The hallway to the back has maple flooring. There are two bedrooms off this hallway and two bathrooms, one is a powder room that was changed from a kitchen pantry. Along this hallway is a space that once held a small china hutch. It has been replaced with cabinets and Corian counter top and a cabinet with leaded glass doors.
If you can imagine the original kitchen, the sink was on the wall facing the pantry with no cabinets above, a small pull chain light, and metal lower cabinets. A kitchen in 1908 had few amenities and little storage because of the pantry. The refrigerator and stove were along the outside wall. Now the kitchen has a corner sink and beautiful maple cabinets arranged along these two walls. In the center is a butcher block island with storage below. The room has been expanded to include the back porch by the addition of insulation and the removal of the old back door and window. This brings more light into the kitchen and creates a feeling of spaciousness.
The kitchen leads to the back staircase and to the garden and terrace. In this hallway are paintings that are based on photographs of gardens in Italy, a favorite vacation spot for the current owner. The artist was Betty Sitbon who also did the paintings on the façade of Andies Restaurant on Clark Street. The garden is the design of the owner who has a small business, City Spaces, specializing in landscape design.
Please join us for refreshments in this urban oasis garden of the backyard!
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Burning - a film by Lee Chang-don
A film about obsession, where one of the main characters follows another in a car through the streets of an exotic city; and where the main female character disappears halfway through the film; and one of the characters keeps mementos of past relationships. This description could define an Alfred Hitchcock film. Perhaps a remake of Psycho, or more appropriately a new version of his masterpiece, Vertigo. It is also one way to describe Burning, the new Korean film from auteur Lee Chang-dong. A contemporary story involving Lee Jong-su, (Yoo Ah-in) a young drifter with dreams of becoming a writer, who meets up with childhood friend, Haemi (Jeong Jong-seo), a free spirit with plans of traveling to Africa. Both renew their friendship which rapidly becomes sexual. When Haemi comes back from Africa she introduces Lee to Ben (Steven Yeung), a well-off, mysterious young man, whom she met on the airplane on her way back, and who Lee compares to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. During a party where the three smoke pot, and Haemi dances topless erotically as the sun sets (one of the highlights of the film), Ben confesses to Lee that he has the odd hobby of setting old greenhouses on fire. When Haemi mysteriously disappears, Lee immediately senses something wrong, and starts following Ben, partly because he is worried about his friend, but also because he is obsessed with the mysterious young man and his opulent lifestyle.
The film is based on a short story by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami called "Barn Burning." This is also the title of a 1939 short story by William Faulkner, the Southern author who is Lee's favorite writer. As Lee and Ben's friendship deepens, Ben decides to buy a copy of Faulkner's collected stories.
The film takes a postmodernist approach in its meandering way in which it tells this story. Scenes often do not lead to expected outcomes, thus the structure is freewheeling and loose. At 148 minutes director Lee eases us into the narrative with a sure, firm hand, an invisible camera, and a rambling mise-en scène. However, he manages to engross us in the narrative, thanks primarily to the stellar performances by the three principals.
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, it was a selection of the New York Film Festival, and it is South Korea's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
BOY ERASED with Hedges, Crowe and Kidman
Boy Erased is not the first film this year to tackle the thorny subject of conversion therapy. This film, featuring three Hollywood A-listers, closely follows the themes of the recent indie The Miseducation of Cameron Post. The fact that big Hollywood is taking a chance on this controversial subject makes it a film worth considering, and certainly one that will be critically discussed as we head towards the end of the year, and awards season time. Especially since the film possesses heartfelt performances by all three principals.
When Jared, played by Lucas Hedges, a young college student, comes out to his parents, a Baptist minister (an almost unrecognizable, overweight Russell Crowe) and his wife, Nicole Kidman, they decide to enroll him in a program to cure him of his homosexuality. It’s a bit like the Joan Fontaine character in Hitchcock’s Rebecca, after she marries Laurence Olivier and enters gloomy, mysterious Manderley. When Jared steps inside the Love in Action program he enters the gothic, a Dickensian institution run by Mr. Sykes, a character with a Dickensian name that Charles Dickens himself might have had fun developing, since from a literary point of view he is only a stone’s throw from Mr. Squeers, the cruel headmaster in the novel Nicholas Nickleby. The fact that this film is based on a true story verges on the unbelievably tragic.
The secondary characters are as fully rounded as the leads. Mr. Sykes, played by Joel Edgerton, the director of this film, is a wondrous creation: a Bible-wielding mountebank who spouts salvation while hiding from everyone his true nature. Also wondrous, as well as scary is one of Mr. Sykes’s enforcers, played with sinister gusto by Flea of The Red Hot Chilly Peppers. There is also a memorable performance by Troye Sivan, the South African-born, Australian actor/singer, whose latest pop album, Bloom, is at the top of the charts. Mr. Sivan has a great screen presence, and one of the members of the cast who is openly gay.
Although the film has many wonderful touches, it falls into a predictable pattern where the characters become recognizable figures verging on the stereotypical. So we get the young, questioning boy, who is far from being a slut, but who carries an incredible amount of guilt because of his feelings. There’s the understanding mother, and the unyielding father who just cannot come to terms with his son’s feelings. There’s also the clever boy who will play along with the conversion program just to get out of there; and regrettably there’s also the boy who is permanently scarred by the program’s abuse, and becomes its tragic victim.
Despite its artistic flaws, Boy Erased is a courageous step from mainstream Hollywood to expose a dubious system that thus far has effected 700,000 members of the LGBTQ community, and continues to be practiced legally in many parts of the country.
Guadagnino's SUSPIRIA
Luca Guadagnino, the much-praised director of Call Me By your Name returns to the theme of inter-generational relationships in his rethinking of Dario Argento's 1977 thriller Suspiria. Whereas the classic horror film was the first of a proposed trilogy depicting the theme of "Three Ancient Mothers," with the results being the familiar "giallo" style for which the Italian filmmaker is best known, Guadagnino's take on the film is a self-contained two and a half hour extravaganza taking the bare-bones story of the original, and riffing on socio-political themes not really present in the original film.
In this retelling we meet Sussie Bannion, a young ingenue from America (Dakota Johnson), aching to escape her Mennonite upbringing, who travels to a divided West Berlin to enroll in the famous Helena Markos Dance Company, a school run by a Pina Baush look-alike named Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton). Almost immediately the new girl falls under the spell of Madame Blanc, who recognizes in her an innate talent for dance, and the "je ne sais quoi" necessary to become a great dancer. At the same time, an elderly psychoanalyst (also played by Tilda Swinton wearing a ton of makeup), with a past dating back to the days of the Third Reich, is investigating the disappearance of one of the dancers in the company, and the alleged claims that the school is run by a coven of witches.
While all of this proves to be quite enigmatic, the movie fairly quickly falls off the rails as it tries to bite more than it can chew. Apparently in Guadagnino's mind it is not enough to just make a horror film. The new Suspiria, which is divided into acts like a German Expressionistic film of the silent era, ie, Nosferatu, features the Baader-Meinhof political landscape of Germany in the decade of the 1970's, as well as the vivid ghosts of National Socialism. This, together with a running time of 152 minutes, makes it a bladder-buster of a horror film, too long for a genre which, like comedy, works more effectively when it adheres to a shorter running time. Unfortunately, the film denouement is one of the most extravagant spectacles I have seen in quite a while. Never a good idea to outdo the original. Dario Argento is an excessive filmmaker, no one will argue with that, but in paying homage to the master, Guadagnino totally goes overboard.
So, should you bother with this remake? Try the new Suspiria if you like to be engrossed in a film that asks more questions than it answers, and if you enjoy the experience of a polemic work that's sure to spark some very interesting cinematic conversation.
THE FERRYMAN on Broadway
From London comes last year's West End hit, The Ferryman, Jezz Butterworth's titanic play about the Troubles in Northern Ireland during the decade of the 1980's, around the time Bobby Sands and other incarcerated members of the IRA died in Maze Prison after a long hunger strike that divided a nation.
The well-preserved body of Seamus Carney, killed because he was believed to be an informer for the British, has been discovered buried in a bog, and now the kingpin of the IRA, Mr. Muldoon (Stuart Graham), must make sure that the surviving members of the Carney family do not accuse him and his cohorts of the murder. This threat is especially directed at the surviving brother of the deceased, Quinn Carney (Paddy Considine), the patriarch of a large rural Northern Ireland family. And what an incredible family Mr. Butterworth has created! All of them played with beautiful nuances and expert craft by a company of Irish actors under the direction of the spectacular Sam Mendes, a director who has proven again and again that he is both adept crafting films (from American Beauty to Skyfall and Spectre) to both musicals (the recent revival of Gypsy) and this masterpiece by the author of the monumental Jerusalem, one of the most exciting plays in recent days, which had a monumental Tony award winning performance by Mark Rylance.
Whereas Mr. Butterworth attempted to write an ensemble piece in Jerusalem, the outcome was mostly a vehicle for the talents of Mr. Rylance. With The Ferryman he has achieved this quest. With 21 speaking parts, the writing is able to create 21 fully-rounded characters which range from angry young men who dance furiously to a punk rock song by The Undertones, to a wheelchair-bound aunt, played beautifully by that great Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan, who remembers her unrequited love which left her childless. There is also a simple-minded British handyman named Tom Kettle (Justin Edwards) who works for the Carney family, and who brings the children apples, and who wrings the neck of a goose for the family harvest feast, an eerie act-ender harbinger of the violence that's bubbling under the surface of this work.
With a rousing version of the Irish fighting song "A Row in the Town," the mention of the feared legendary creatures called the Banshees, and an ending that you will never forget The Ferryman is most definitely an Irish play crafted out of ancient mythology and the violence of the times it portrays. Yet, the themes that it presents are as universal as those of the great playwrights of the English language. With this spectacular work, Mr. Butterworth joins that prestigious list.
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NYFF: At Eternity's Gate
The director of At Eternity's Gate, Julian Schnabel became a sensation during the 1980s with his "plate paintings:" large scale canvases set on broken ceramic plates. He emerged as the most famous of the bad-boys of that artistic generation that also included David Salle, Keith Haring author Jay McInerney and Jean-Michel Basquiat: artists that made downtown Manhattan the epicenter of the artistic world. As a matter of fact, when Schnabel traded in his canvases for a movie camera, his first project was a biopic of the late Basquiat. Now Schnabel turns his cinematic attention to another bad-boy artist: the infinitely tragic Vincent van Gogh and his last tortured days in Arles, in the south of France: frantic days in which the artist descended into madness while at the same time capturing the light of Arles in one brilliant canvas after another. Van Gogh stayed at Arles for eighty days, and managed to paint seventy-five canvases. The large majority of them the well known masterpieces he is best known for.
Essentially the film follows the relationship between Vincent (an incredible Willem Dafoe) and his brother Theo (Rupert Friend), as well as the friendship between van Gogh and artist Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac). But like Schnabel's early broken canvases, the film is a disjointed look at the artist's downward spiral into madness, mutilation and suicide. Certainly it is not Lust for Life, Vincente Minelli's 1956 biopic starring Kirk Douglas as the tortured Dutch artist.
Willem Dafoe's understated van Gogh is the highlight of this work, and the glue that keeps this film together. Mr. Dafoe has been the darling of the Independent film sect lately, morphing from one character to another with the greatest of ease. He can be Pier Paolo Pasolini in Abel Ferrara's 2014 biopic of the murdered Italian filmmaker, or he can become Bobby, the manager of the Magic Castle hotel in last year's great The Florida Project. His van Gogh might just be his greatest role since he played the Son of God in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.
If your idea of a biopic is not a definitive reconstruction of the past, and if your taste in film favors a narrative of moments, impressions and fragments, then you will certainly enjoy this arresting, luminous film.
A Star is Born: this time with Cooper and Gaga
There’s s great line in Bradley Cooper’s new film A Star is Born referring to music being just twelve notes, “and the story repeats again.” It’s a referential line to the history of this well-known show-biz story which began in 1937 with Dorothy Parker and Ben Hecht’s original script for David O. Selznick, and the talents of Fredric March and Janet Gaynor. For many this early Technicolor film is the quintessential version of this story, but the story was told again in 1954, changed to a musical to accommodate the prodigious talents of Judy Garland. This version, helmed by George Cukor remains incomplete with sections missing, but what remains intact is gold. Music also remained when the story was told a third time, this time with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson in 1976, in perhaps what many consider the weakest of the three versions, although the film has its champions.
One of them is Bradley Cooper. The current version of the story draws much from this version. The story is well-known. Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) is a hard drinking famous rocker who meets Ally (Lady Gaga) a talented, but unknown singer. Jackson gives a boost to her career, and the two fall in love and marry. But as Ally’s fame takes off, Jackson’s demons catch up to him. He horribly embarrasses Ally and himself the night she wins the Grammy award, and things go headlong downhill for Jackson to the inevitable tragic conclusion already familiar from the previous versions.
Thanks to Bradley Cooper’s intelligent handling of this material as co-screenwriter and in his directorial debut, A Star is Born has become the film to beat at the Oscars this year. The film features great emotional acting from Cooper, and shows a triple threat Lady Gaga who might just have carved out a niche for herself come Oscar night. Also giving memorable performances are Andrew Dice Clay playing Ally's father, Anthony Ramos as Ally's friend from her time when she was singing at a drag bar, Sam Elliott as Jackson's older brother, and Rafi Gavron as Rez, a music producer and Ally's manager who precipitates the tragic conclusion of the story with his unfeeling approach towards Jackson's alcoholism.
They don't write them like they used to, and Hollywood knows this. They keep resurrecting this property time and again because filmmakers know that audiences love a great tragic love story. This version of A Star is Born speaks to current audiences in a way the previous versions satisfied their particular public. And when it comes to the movies we love to see a performer who has already distinguished herself in another facet of showbiz making a kill on the big screen, and this is exactly what we get when we witness Lady Gaga's great performance.
NYFF: Roma
We will never know the meaning of everything that's in the new film Roma, Alfonso Cuarón's loving black-and-white recreation of his childhood in the Roma section of Mexico City. As with any autobiographical movie, the writer-director shares scenes filtered through the lens of memory, and artificially recreated through the performance of actors and the objectivity of the camera, manned by the subjective intellectual directorial decisions that make a complete cinematic product. After exploring the adventure of a Mexican road trip (Y tu mamá también), a dystopian future (Children of Men), outer space (Gravity) and a world of wizards and humans (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), he's exploring the memory and magic of his childhood. Roma, in addition brings on board a wealth of cinematic references, some personal, and others culled from a lifetime of movie watching.
When you watch Roma you are also watching Cuarón's homage to the directors he loves and those that have influenced his career. Visually, it's impossible to watch Roma and not bring to mind the work of Federico Fellini and the other architects of the Neorealism movement. This is particularly evident in the choice of casting non-professional actors in key roles, such as Yalitza Aparicio, a woman from a village in Oaxaca, who had never acted before, and who plays Cleo, an indigenous servant/nanny to an upper middle class family.
But make no mistake about it: this is a 100% Mexican film, one which could not have been made elsewhere. Though touching upon Mexican themes of racial inequality and university students unrest, the core of the film remains the breakup of a family, and the way their nanny manages to keep them together, while confronting her own dire problems. This gives the film a universal appeal while at the same time remaining very close to Cuarón's memories of his beloved Libo, and indigenous woman whom he considered his second mother.
There are many epic moments in this film that stand out: a trip to the movies (to watch 1971's Marooned) where the disintegration of the family begins (the scene might remind you of a key scene in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows), a New Year's celebration featuring a shooting party which culminates in a forest fire, a student demonstration that ends tragically, and a visit to a seaside resort where a dangerous undertow and raging waves threatens the very lives of the main characters. Despite these superbly crafted showstoppers, it is the intimate moments of family life that catapult this film into the realm of greatness.
Roma is a Netflix film that you will be able to stream towards the end of the year, but this is the kind of movie that you need to watch on the big screen with an audience. Roma is Mexico's official entry into the 2018 Oscar race. If I were you I'd race to a theater to watch it.
NYFF: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, is a rare, strange beast. An anthology film consisting of separate stories that go from the ridiculous to the sublime. The first one, featuring a singing cowboy Roy Rogers style was written twenty-five years ago. The film is a homage to the western, perhaps the most neglected genre in contemporary Hollywood. Of course, the Coens grew up in the heyday of the television western craze. So, visually, the stories borrow from Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, Bonanza, and a myriad of others. There are also homages to the great cinematic westerns of the 40's and 50's as well as the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns that became a staple in theaters in the decade of the 60's.
So, the movie is a mish-mash of styles: there's a segment with a singing cowboy (Tim Blake Nelson) who is fast on the draw, who keeps on singing even after he loses a "high noon style" shootout. In another sequence James Franco comes to rob a bank looking like one of those laconic cowboys in the credit sequence of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, complete with a long riding coat. In another segment Tom Waits plays a gold prospector who strikes it rich to the tune of "Mother Machree," and in the longest sequence of the film a wagon train heading west is attacked by the kind of savage Indians that John Ford specialized in, and which I thought Hollywood had done away with in its revisionist phase. Perhaps the most poignant episode features Liam Neeson as a kind of traveling P.T. Barnum who displays one "freak:" an English actor (Harry Melling) with no arms or legs, a talking torso who recites everything from poetry to the Declaration of Independence. The episode builds to a climax of pure heartlessness, making it for me, the most satisfying of all the segments.
At the Q&A after the film, Kent Jones, the head of the selection committee at the New York Film Festival suggested that the unifying theme of the six stories is mortality. I'm sorry to say that this statement caught the brothers by surprise. Or were they just kidding, and playing to the crowd? With the Coens you never know. However, one thing's for sure: the movie is a very entertaining trifle which will surely please their fans.
Aïda at the MET
This is my second visit to the Metropolitan Opera in one week. My first visit was the MET’s opening night, and now I'm back here on Saturday night. Twice I have seen performances where the tenor delivers an abysmal performance. I’ve already described Roberto Alagna’s awful Samson, disgracing opening night, and now we can add Aleksandrs Antonenko’s appearance in Aïda. His terrible Radames has no place on the MET's stage.
Mr. Antonenko suffers from a variety of musical and acting ills. But his silent cinema acting could be forgiven if there were a voice behind the silly theatrics. Instead he offers an unfocused attempt at a vocal line where pitch problems abound as he scoops up to most notes. Incredibly enough his top is ringing and secure, which is the reason, I'm convinced, that he still gets hired here and in Europe. But the vocal journey to an above-the-staff destination is one of the most ugly and arduous I have heard in a long time. His curtain call received a cool reception, and a smattering of boos.
The evening clearly belonged to the ladies. Anna Netrebko offering her first house Aïda was nothing less than a triumph. Those that were fortunate enough to see her first trip down the Nile in Salzburg two summers ago knew that she would not disappoint. Her Ethiopian princess featured sturdy vocalism, beauty of sound, and those precious high notes that make your ears ring. She is truly our current reigning queen of the operatic stage, and I hope that she continues to steer her career in the right vocal direction. Anita Rachvelishvili sang Amneris with vigor and a strong mezzo, and was a credible rival to Ms. Netrebko.
As Aïda's father, Quinn Kelsey delivered an impassioned reading of Amonasro; his steely baritone able to handle the vocal complexities of the role. Dmitry Belosselskiy was a sturdy Ramfis, as long as the role does not go below the staff where his voice disappears. Ryan Speedo Green made a lasting impression in the small role of the King. Conductor Nicola Luisotti led the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus in a work which I'm sure they can do with their eyes closed.
A word about the MET's production of this opera. On the one hand, it is great to see the enormous stage of the MET being used by this larger than life conservative staging. On the other hand, in these days of experimentation, this production is starting to look a bit aged, a bit kitschy. Perhaps, it is time to take a long hard look at this perennial favorite and grace it with the production it deserves, not just use it to bring in the crowds who want to see what opera staging was like thirty years ago.
The US Open is in Action, but why isn't the Roof?
This has been a summer where the heat has plagued events that are close and dear to my heart. My trip to the Bayreuth Festival this year from August 1-9 coincided with a heat wave that attacked Germany like it never had before. It was uncomfortable at the Festspielhaus, a theater with no air conditioning, and it was unbearable at the Bayerische Hof Hotel, also with no AC. This was my third trip to Wagner's city, and I had never experience such temperatures before.
The 2018 50th anniversary edition of the US Open has coincided with one of those New York heat waves that drives you indoors to a place where the air conditioning is going full blast. The players have been struggling through triple digit heat together with very high humidity. The USTA will not close the roof and pump the AC at Ashe Stadium because they claim that the Open is an "outdoor event." Of course, as soon as there is a threat of rain the roof will close -- so much for an outdoor event!
Fox News and the Associated Press reported that the powers-that-be at the Open are thinking of closing the roof if the heat continues. While they think about it, players are retiring, suffering through cramps, and fans have to seek shelter and hydrate before they faint. I guess keeping the roof open is good for water sales! Here is the Fox News article:
Extreme temperatures at the U.S. Open on Tuesday and a scorching weather forecast for Wednesday have officials debating whether to close the roofs at two of the tournament's venues.
The temperatures during Day 2 of the season’s final major topped 95 degrees and the humidity nearly reached 50 percent, making it feel like more than 105 degrees on the courts of the Bille Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. Six players were forced to quit their matches Tuesday, with five citing cramps or heat exhaustion.
The heat had U.S. Tennis Association executives considering whether to close the roofs at Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong stadiums, the Los Angeles Times reported. However, the newly renovated new Louis Armstrong Stadium is a naturally ventilated arena and it was unclear how much relief its new retractable roof could provide, especially with temperatures set to reach the upper 90s once again.
“We may close the roof in both buildings in an attempt to bring down the ambient temperature,” U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier told the L.A. Times.
The brutal weather even forced tennis officials to do something that had never been done fore at the U.S. Open: offer men the chance to take a 10-minute break before the fourth set if a match went that far. A similar rule is already in place for women, allowing 10 minutes of rest before a third set when there’s excessive heat.
At the end of the day, the ATP or a lot of the supervisors, they’re kind of sitting in their offices, where (there’s) an A.C. system on, where it’s cool. And we have to be out there. They tell us it’s fine; they’re not the ones playing,” Alexander Zverev, the No. 4 seed in the tournament, said. “For sure, the rule should be more strict. There should be a certain temperature, certain conditions where we shouldn’t be playing.”
Novak Djokovic, one of the favorites to win the men's title, felt the humidity as well.
“Everything is boiling — in your body, the brain, everything,” he said.
On the women’s side, Alize Cornet changed her shirt mid-match and received a warning. Male tennis players are allowed to change shirts on the court. Petra Kvitova told reporters after her match she was glad it lasted only a little over an hour.
“I really tried hard not to play the third one in this kind of heat,” she said. “I knew it's going to be very hot, but I couldn't imagine how horrible the heat was in, so it was pretty difficult conditions. … When you are playing, you are not just really thinking about it. But when you stop for a while, then you feel the heat like from the ground, as well. Yeah, it was the humidity, as well, was there. We didn't really play, like, long rallies. I think that was kind of helpful.”
Arthur Ashe Stadium opened in 1997 as an open-air stadium. But after several years of rain at the tournament, its roof was installed for around $150 million. Louis Armstrong Stadium opened in 1978 and has undergone several renovations. Its roof, newly installed, cost $200 million and the stadium is not air-conditioned. U.S. Open rules state that the tournament is to remain an outdoor event and the roofs will close only due to threat of rain, according to tournament director David Brewer.
BlacKkKlansman is the latest from Spike Lee
An incredible, almost unbelievable real cop story about the infiltration of a backwaters Ku Klux Klan chapter by a rookie black undercover police officer, using his white, Jewish partner as his double, serves as Spike Lee’s resounding career second act, his latest agitprop piece that rightfully puts him back on the charts for a new audience.
Spike Lee never really went away, but his recent output did not feel like the Fort Greene, 40 Acres and a Mule Spike of old. Sure, artists change and develop, but Spike seems to have emerged out of NYU already formed, already sure of himself, as he brought to the screen Afrocentric fare wrapped in socio-political discourse. BlacKkKlansman, his latest joint, is the real thing: Spike on top of his game, even with the excesses of old. Not a copy of his former art, but a textbook chapter on how to apply lessons from the past to a new public in order to empower them for a new fight. Make no mistake about it: this might be a story from the 1970’s, but this movie is all about Trump’s America, and the director makes no bones about it. Risking the very fact that the film could be dated years from now, this is the strongest indictment of the Trump administration to come out of Hollywood to date. The director has not lost his edge, in fact, his satiric vein might just be stronger than ever, and his anger over the current state of events boils over.
Heading a cast, ripe with Academy Award potential is John David Washington as Ron Stallworth, Colorado Spring's first African American cop, entering into a force replete with racial antagonism. Washington, with his "fro" looks like a figure straight out of the 1970's blaxploitation films that the movie quotes, as he builds a righteous persona for his character. Adam Driver, his doppelgänger in the sting operation, is Flip Zimmerman, a Jewish American detective who learns much about how he is perceived by others. The rest of the cast shines. Laura Harrier plays Patrice Dumas, an Angela Davis-type activist who Stallworth falls in love with. Topher Grace plays David Duke, the Klan's Grand Wizard, in a three-piece suit, as if he were running a business empire, and not the "invisible empire." Jasper Pääkkönen, as Felix, a dangerous member of the Klan chapter, is one of the scariest movie villains in quite a while. His performance is memorable and chilling. His wife, played by Ashlie Atkinson, is a monster who relishes the day when blacks will be eliminated by deadly force.
Spike Lee is a student of film, and a professor at NYU, his Alma Mater. BlacKkKlansman is filled with movie references both old and new, and on the shot seen above, he even copies himself. It's the "Spike Lee shot." No joint is complete without it. At a pivotal moment in the film, characters seem to glide forward towards an unknown destination. (The best use of this technique was in Malcolm X, as Denzel Washington -- John David's dad -- advances towards his tragic destiny at the Audubon Ballroom as we hear on the soundtrack Sam Cooke singing "A Change is Gonna Come."
It's a moment where young Washington must have felt connected to his dad, and a brilliant way for Spike Lee to bridge the generations as the struggle continues.
Castellucci brings Salome to Salzburg
Romeo Castellucci is a director of deep, abstract ideas. His stage productions are abstractions that constantly ask the audience to think. This was his approach to Richard Strauss's Salome, that amazing one-act work that after so many years still amazes the listener, and given the right staging, it is still capable to shock an opera audience out of its complacency. This is the aim of this production, which premiered at the Salzburg Festival on July 28, and which continues playing until August 27th. Conducted with utmost precision by Franz Welser-Möst, and played by the amazing Vienna Philharmonic, the scores bristles with dark, thunderous excitement that reminds us that in 1905, the year of this work's premiere, Strauss was a young enfant-terrible looking to shock. Enter Castellucci with a production that visually attempts to top Strauss, and at times almost succeeds.
The opera has been staged in the auditorium of the Felsenreitschule, and the first thing we notice is that its famous arches have been covered. This evening will be all about hard cold stone: gray walls, gray men in 1930's fedoras and long coats, faces inexplicably half-painted red, and a John the Baptist, his face painted black, wearing a black fur coat that makes him look like a Biblical King Kong. Salome, meanwhile, dressed all in white, is his worshiping Ann Darrow. And constantly, naked bodies are being dragged across the endless stage giving us an atmosphere of horror, perfect for this work.
Forget about watching Asmik Gregorian do the "Dance of the Seven Veils." The Lithuanian soprano, who scores a triumph with this production, is crushed under a block of stone during that amazing music. And forget about seeing a facsimile of bass-baritone Gábor Bretz's head brought on a silver platter. When the time comes, the prophet's headless body instead is brought out for the Jewish princess to drool over. The only severed head we get is that of a horse. I'm sure Castellucci will argue that it is not a homage to The Godfather, and it is not. A girl's first infatuation in her life oftentimes is for a horse. This Freudian fetish beautifully mirrors Salome's fixation on Jochanaan.
Overall, an interesting and provocative production that will keep you on the edge of your seat musically, while intellectually entertaining your senses with images you will not be able to shake out of your system for a while.
My third PARSIFAL at Bayreuth
The current production of Parsifal, now in its third year, replaced the Stefan Herheim staging I was lucky to see in 2012. That production moved the action to Bayreuth itself, and enacted the history of Germany from the antebellum turn of the century, its entrance into World War I and on through the debacle of the Second World War and beyond. It was a spectacular achievement, my first Parsifal at Bayreuth, and so inspired that it was truly a hard act to follow. The current production, which I first saw last year, moves the action to the present-day Middle East, transforming the knights into a sect of monks, who harbor a Christ-like Amfortas who is literally bled for his sins and ours. It is an interesting vision which strives towards a universality to Wagner's work, but ultimately just ends up being a series of good ideas and pretty stage pictures lacking a cohesive factor to unify the staging.
There have been some changes in the cast since this production premiered three years ago, most notably, the departure of Klaus Florian Vogt last year, who dedicated his summer at the Green Hill to Walter, as he did this year, and Georg Zeppenfeld who this year moved on to sing King Henry the Fowler in the new Lohengrin. This was the second year that Parsifal was sung by Andreas Schager, a tenor with a true robust, heldentenor voice, which, however, he uses only in its forte and fortissimo capacities, giving the impression that he is shouting the role. The Festspielhaus is small enough to allow subtlety. Günther Groissböck took on the role of Gurnemanz this year, and I thought the results were mixed. The quality of his voice is certainly suited for the part, but I think the problem here is that we have grown accustomed to listening to more lyrical voices sing this part (i.e. René Pape, who seems to own the role around the world). But to be fair to Mr. Groissböck, the bass sang with determination, and depth of tone. It was just not a pretty sound. Baritone Thomas Meyer sounded like he was under the weather. His Amfortas in the third act felt like he was singing from under the sea, fathoms deep. His aria to his father was a mess, and he resorted to the "Bayreuth Bark" when he knew the notes were far beyond his reach. Elena Pankratova has remained with the production since its first year, and her Kundry is a master class in singing and acting.
Arguably, this production has suffered from a lack of musical leadership right from the start. The original conductor of this production was to have been Andris Nelsons, but he left the production at the last minute with an axe to grind against Christian Thielemann, so say Bayreuth insiders. Harmut Haenchen stepped in at the last minute, and conducted this staging for the first two years. This season Semyon Bichkov has taken over the orchestra, and although his tempi are on the fast side, his conducting of this intricate score was solid, at all times making sure that his singers were not drowned out. Interestingly enough, as a result of his cautious handling of the pit, I felt the chorus at times drowned out his orchestra: a first for me at Bayreuth.
Meistersinger 2.0 at Bayreuth
One of the highlights of last year’s trip to Bayreuth was attending Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The Australian gay director, who also happens to be Jewish, chose to highlight the anti-Semitism found in Richard Wagner’s work as it is found in the character of Sixtus Beckmesser, superbly sung and acted by Johannes Martin Kränzle, who is back this summer reprising this role. As a matter of fact, most of the principals from last year are back, which makes this Meistersinger 2.0 a pleasure to witness, since Mr. Kosky has not just sat on last year’s laurels, but he has gone back to the drawing board and improved upon last year’s wonderful staging.
What is different this year? Act II lost the grassy surface that at the end of the act was rolled up anyway. Objects and furniture from the first act, which takes place in Wahnfried, Wagner's home in Bayreuth, were suddenly thrown together on stage left. The end of the act still features the controversial Jewish head ballon that shocked many viewers last year. The only difference being that I do not remember booing during the opening night telecast, or the performance I attended. This year, the conclusion of Act II featured vociferous booing from segments of the audience, although applause and cheers far outweighed those that were booing this production. Why the boos? Something tells me that there were some in the audience that like their Wagner cut and dry, conservative and without any directorial intervension. Or perhaps it might have been that segments of the audience that are still troubled by Anti-Semitic references, and the role Wagner's music played in the development of National Socialism: the last time that Germany officially tried to destroy its Jewish population.
You couldn't ask for a better cast: the aforementioned Kränzle has settled into his role, and gives a masterful performance that last year could have been described as "shtick" but this year has matured into a character of Shakespearean dimension. Michael Volle is right now the finest singling and acting Hans Sachs, and the same can be said about Klaus Florian Vogt's Walter. Together with newcomer to the cast Emily Magee as Eva, the principals are surrounded by a great cast of meistersingers, each of whom has a distinctive personality.
Philippe Jordan conducted with a sure hand, and achieved the kind of unique sound that manages to escape from the sunken pit and envelop the audience. Not every conductor manages to do it, but Maestro Jordan was quite successful in making us closer to Wagner's great music.
As long as this cast stays together, this will be a production for the ages. Now, it is time to film it, and share it with the rest of the world.
The Flying Dutchman as Light Operetta
Certainly one of the wonders of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer is how close it was to the music of Weber and Meyerbeer. Although Wagner is already a fully formed composer at this time, he still holds on to the trappings of Romantic Opera, where set pieces were the norm of the day. Thus, this work is filled with arias and ensembles that later on Wagner would drop in favor of a more unified musical creation. The current production at the Bayreuth Festival, directed by Jan Philipp Gloger is an uncontroversial, and, at times, a light, and apathetic look at the age-old story of the mariner who blasphemed and thus has been cursed to wonder the seven seas in search of a pure maiden who can redeem him.
In this production, the director accentuates Daland's greed upon seeing the Dutchman's wealth, and turns the spinning wheels into a factory where portable fans are being packed and shipped by factory girls in sky blue uniforms. Of course, Senta is the only one not packing fans: she is too busy with her fetishistic sex doll of the Dutchman (a real ugly, misshapen object. Why would anyone fancy this?). No wonder when Daland brings the Dutchman to the factory and Senta finally meets the man of her dreams she is struck by his beauty and sex appeal. It is a riveting moment in this staging. I wish there had been more.
In an evening where the singing was first rate, the work of the chorus must be singled out. Eberhard Friedrich's ensemble is a well-oiled machine which can sing brightly and powerful, as in the chorus of men who move from the back of the deep stage to the apron pulling forward the set for the spinning wheel AKA fan scene. The chorus of women at the factory also did exemplary work, and boy, can they act.
The principals all sang their roles with gusto and good cheer, and the audience applauded them with even more gusto. Despite a very high temperature inside the Festspielhouse, there were many curtain calls, unlimited, as is the custom at the Green Hill. Among the principal players Tomislav Muzek showed off his powerful tenor voice as the forlorn Erik, and the steersman of Rainer Trost delighted the audience with this acting. John Lundgren's Dutchman is a dark, malevolent figure and Ricarda Merbeth's Senta is a powerful, wild driven woman. The two were made for each other! Axel Kober's conducting was firm, and he led a vigorous reading of this early score.
After six years, it is time for this production to be retired, and in its place we need a darker version of this story. After all, it's what Wagner's music calls for.
"Basket of Deplorables" at work
This was the scene in Tampa, Florida as Jim Acosta from CNN was doing his reporting at one of Donald Trump's rallies. The crowd, incited by many months of hearing about fake news from POTUS, turned on the journalist yelling at him, raising their middle fingers and screaming "CNN sucks!"
As I prepare to leave the United States to go to Bayreuth, Germany for the Bayreuth Festival I hang my head in shame that this is the state of my country at this moment.
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Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom is the perfect title to describe the current state of the franchise that started with Michel Crichton's novel and Steven Spielberg's classic 1993 film. This fifth film in the series finds Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) going back to Isla Nublar to save the last remaining dinosaurs before the mother-of-all volcanoes sinks the island. Claire has formed a Dinosaur Protection Group, and after visiting Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell), the partner of Dr. Hammond, who created the original Jurassic Park, and his secretary Eli Mills (Rafe Spall), she seeks out former dinosaur wrangler Owen because she knows he can help her to save the last living Velociraptor, and because she still has a major crush on him. Dr. Lockwood tells her that the dinosaurs will be placed on another island where they can live peacefully without mankind. Meanwhile, Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) is in Washington in front of a Senate committee, and in his best Cassandra mode, makes some gloomy pronouncements about how the dinosaurs need to perish in order to correct Dr. Hammond's mistake, and if not, how we will have to learn to co-exist with them. Mr. Goldblum, a stalwart in this series, and a performer one can always depend on when the script falls apart, ends up giving a performance so removed, that it feels like he phone it in.
Once in Isla Nublar we meet big White hunter Ken Wheatly (Ted Levine), and from the first shot of the man we know that he's going to be trouble (so much for character development!) It seems that both Claire and Owen have been duped. The animals are being rounded up so that they can be put up for auction to rogue states so that they can serve as military weapons. I wonder if a Velociraptor or a T-Rex can tell one army from the other? But who cares! The film becomes a creature feature inside Lockwood's old dark house when we find out that the stately state has a lab in the basement cloning new creatures, including an outrageous creation that even outdoes Indominus rex from the previous movie.
Despite the participation of a serious cast, including B.D. Wong reprising his role of genius geneticist Doctor Wu, and Geraldine Chaplin (her fourth film with Spanish director J.A. Bayona) as a nanny, the film ends up being nothing more than a bridge towards the next part of the franchise, which if you wait around after the movie's end credits, will tell you that the next chapter will be a glitzy update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World as dinosaurs run amok free all over the world. I guess the new movie ought to be called "The New Kingdom." Or perhaps, it's time to end the series right now, since the premise has left the original park way behind.
On June 28, the Bavarian State Opera unveils their new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. The production will be directed by Pierre Audi with sets and costumes by renown German artist George Baselitz. The stellar cast will feature Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, Nina Stemme as Kundry and René Pape as Gurnemantz. Kirill Petrenko will conduct the Bavarian State Orchestra.
The performance will be broadcast live in Germany by BR Klassik. Watch the video above for a short preview of the production.
Romeo and Juliet at ABT
I never get tired of watching Kenneth MacMillan's brilliant choreography of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The more I attend performances, the more I discover. This time I noticed that in the second act, the beggar who crosses the stage on crutches later on throws them away, and starts dancing freely much to the chagrin of the characters who just gave him alms. Also, the two little boys who stand on sentry at the entrance of the Capulet household come back in the second act, and sway to the music and wave to the dancers, but are ushered away when death comes to Verona's main square. It's little touches like these that makes this work so fascinating and utterly enjoyable.
Likewise, the more I listen to Prokofiev's brilliant, exciting score the more surprises come through. I concentrated this time on the vast array of dissonances, and thought about just how dangerous it was to be a 20th century composer in Stalin's Soviet Russia. How, for example, Dmitri Shostakovitch, that other giant of Russian music, suffered for putting on paper what he heard in his mind's ear. How much did Prokofiev have to adjust his own modernist leanings in order to have his music approved by a repressive state? This work just might be my "desert-island ballet," although the jury is still out on that one, and I think it might just be out for a long time.
Yesterday afternoon American Ballet Theatre presented the ballet with two of the most charismatic and popular dancers in its roster: Daniil Simkin and Misty Copeland. Mr. Simkin is an exciting, highly technical dancer who offers a graceful interpretation of the title character, going from youthful lad to lover. Ms. Copeland, riding a wave of recent acclaim once becoming a principal dancer, presents us with a very likeable Juliet, but watching her early entrance, one never experiences the innocent, shy girl that the role demands. Instead her characterization emphasizes the passionate, take-charge woman that she ultimately becomes towards the end of the drama right from the start. Not exactly what is called for in a Juliet, however her charm and technical proficiency carry her through.
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most satisfying works in ABT's roster, not to be missed by anyone who values great theater and beautiful ballet. The perfect marriage of amazing music and inspired movement.
The New LOHENGRIN at Bayreuth
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Glastonbury 2003 Diary Day Two (Saturday)
by adminPosted on July 1, 2003
On Saturday morning, there are posh loos with – joy of joys – hot running water, allowing me to wash my face before making a cup of tea outside the tent. Rob texts me to say that he and Richard have gone to eat at Lulu’s in the hospitality tent. My appetite doesn’t tend to kick in until later, so, when they return, we go for a wander around the site. After careful perusal of the food on offer, I go for the ‘top scram’ all-you-can-eat breakfast at the noodle bar at the far end of the site, near the acoustic stage – egg, bacon, sausage, eggy bread, beans and brown sauce, with a mug of tea thrown in – all for a fiver. This keeps me going until mid afternoon. By the time I’m ready for a dump, though, all but one of the hospitality flush toilets is blocked (gormless people using newspaper rather than toilet paper, evidently) necessitating a long queue, during which I read ‘The Guardian’ from cover to cover. By evening, they’re closed down and replace with portaloos – late arrivals will probably think the flush toilets and hot water are some kind of an urban myth.
I watch a few minute of proficient urban blues from Ben Andrews on the Pyramid Stage, then go for a walk around Green Fields, the alternative heart of the festival, which includes kids’ areas, healing fields, a teepee field and so on. This time, I even make it to the ‘sacred space’ where a single young black guy is wandering round endlessly muttering the incantation ‘pills, weed’. I’m not tempted by the hash brownies, but wander over to the Mojo beer tent by the Acoustic stage for a pint of Mystery Tor (the beer in the other bars is abysmal).
Later, Tony Benn is his usual, smug, self-congratulatory self in the Left ‘debate’ but the others think he’s great (and I agree with most of his arguments, it’s his style that annoys me), so I keep my opinion of him to myself. Jimmy Cliff goes down well in the scorching heat but does one of those endless crowd participation numbers that gets on my nerves, so Richard and I head over to join Rob at the Other Stage (hence missing The Harder They Come but never mind) and watch most of The Thrills. When we watched them at the Social last year, my mate Mike said they were overhyped, but he could see them headlining Saturday afternoon at Glasto – and here they are doing just that. The frontman has got better at communicating with the audience and they’re pleasant in an undemanding way, going down well despite their first album not being out for another two days.
The Thrills’ reception is as nothing to that for The Polyphonic Spree – nearly thirty exuberant people in red robes singing sub-Flaming Lips epics to the sunshine. They’re made for a steaming hot summer afternoon at Glasto and, for the first half hour, I really enjoy them, as do the crowd. I can see why friends have been keen to persuade me to go and see them at Rock City on Wednesday. After forty minutes, however, I’m getting bored, and wander off during their endless, yet-more-of-the-same final number.
Richard’s keen on seeing Radio Four, punk rockers from New York, so the three of us hike up to the New Bands tent to check them out. They’re OK, but, after four numbers, we’ve seen enough and go for a beer. Rob and I are big fans of the Libertines, whose lead singer and songwriter, Pete Doherty, has gone AWOL, and agree to check out their Other Stage appearance at 6.50. They’ve got a substitute guitarist and sound right, apart from the vocals, but the spark has vanished. Live, the couple of times I’ve seen them before, they were anarchic and very, very exciting, reminding me of the one time I saw The Clash, 25 years ago. On Saturday afternoon, we agree to leave after half an hour, even though they haven’t yet played their best song, What A Waster. Then they start playing it but the performance is so uninspired, we keep going. Sad.
I decide to check out a bit of Supergrass who I’m quite fond of but have never seen live. I get a good spot, but they fail to achieve lift off, so I head back through Hospitality to join Rob and Richard for the heavily anticipated Kings Of Leon. The others think these are the bees’ knees but I’m unimpressed and slink back to the Other Stage for some Arthur Lee and Love. Arthur is playing the entirety of one of my favourite albums Forever Changes and, normally I’d be there for the whole thing. But I have a ticket to see him do it all over again at Rock City on Tuesday (bought before I knew he was on at Glasto), so I restrict myself to just two full numbers, finding him on fine fettle, then head over to the Cabaret tent.
Yes, it’s my mission this time to visit every single tent at the festival (except the cinema – I don’t see any point in watching movies at a performing arts festival) and, while I don’t like Bill Bailey’s stand-up quite enough to fork out fifteen quid to see him, I’m happy to catch his act for (sort of) free. Unfortunately, lots of other people have the same idea and are standing five deep outside the tent, barely able to see. Bailey is already on, five minutes early. I slowly worm my way in until, by the end of the set, I’m standing inside the tent (where there’s room for one row of standers, while everybody else sits) with a good view. For some reason, he does a short set with endless encores. It’s mildly amusing rock/philosophy parody stuff, but nowhere near as side-splitting as his turn in the brilliant Black Books TV series. I leave after the positively final encore (he comes back for one more, despite having over-run). I’m having a good time, despite not having seen any complete sets (unless you count Tony Benn’s contribution to the Iraq ‘debate’) but now it’s time to see my second truly great band of the weekend.
(I should point out that, had I not seen them four times in the previous three years, I would undoubtedly have gone to see The Flaming Lips on the Pyramid Stage that evening. After REM, they’re probably the best live band in the world. I don’t because I know their current act backwards and also because the area will be heaving – as far as I’m concerned, it’s not worth seeing even the best band in the world if you have to do so at a huge distance. Tonight’s headliners, Radiohead, are the main reason that this year’s festival sold out in eighteen hours, instead of the usual two or three weeks. I have no interest in seeing Radiohead. I mean, The Bends has some good moments but I don’t like anything after it – I had my prog-rock period in the 70’s and don’t need another one thank you very much, but we’ll discuss that tomorrow.)
My final stop of the evening is The Other Stage, for the wonderful Super Furry Animals. I have never seen less people at the Other Stage, even early in the day, but those of us there (many, unlike me, Welsh) love the band and greet them raucously. They play a great but somewhat low key set (it doesn’t help that their video projector packs in) of their best songs. I’m much nearer the front and the crowd are much less crazed than when I saw them four or five years ago. During the closing, ecstatic, The Man Don’t Give A some idiot starts throwing water at us. It’s cold and I’m annoyed. Only after a couple of minutes do I realise that the huge security chasm in front of the stage means I’m a mere five people from the barrier and the water is being thrown by security minders meaning to calm the steaming, dehydrated masses who would normally be at the front for the headliner on a Saturday night. Me, I’m jumping about to get warm. The band come back on dressed as Yetis for the last, wild bit and it takes me less than a minute to get back to the tent. Rob’s left Radiohead after half an hour saying they were dull. Kind of an odd end to a Glasto Saturday night.
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IT'S TIME WE RECOGNISED THE BLAIR GOVERNMENT'S CRIMINALITY
In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast and critics alike. The farewell speech of one of the most artful, Tony Blair, had "a sense of moral conviction running through it", effused the television presenter Jon Snow, as if Blair's appeal to Kabuki devotees was mystical. That he was a war criminal was irrelevant.
The suppression of Blair's criminality and that of his administrations is described in Gareth Peirce's Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice, published in paperback this month by Verso. Peirce is Britain's most distinguished human rights lawyer; her pursuit of infamous miscarriages of justice and justice for the victims of state crimes, such as torture and rendition, is unsurpassed. What is unusual about this accounting of what she calls the "moral and legal pandemonium" in the wake of 9/11 is that, in drawing on the memoirs of Blair and Alistair Campbell, Cabinet minutes and MI6 files, she applies the rule of law to them. Advocates such as Peirce, Phil Shiner and Clive Stafford-Smith have ensured the indictment of dominant powers is no longer a taboo. Israel, America's hitman, is now widely recognised as the world's most lawless state. The likes of Donald Rumsfeld now avoid countries where the law reaches beyond borders, as does George W. Bush and Blair. Deploying sinecures of "peace-making" and "development" that allow him to replenish the fortune accumulated since leaving Downing Street, Blair's jackdaw travels are concentrated on the Gulf sheikhdoms, the US, Israel and safe havens like the small African nation of Rwanda. Since 2007, Blair has made seven visits to Rwanda, where he has access to a private jet supplied by President Paul Kagame.
Kagame's regime, whose opponents have been silenced brutally on trumped-up charges, is "innovative" and a "leader" in Africa, says Blair. Peirce's book achieves the impossible on Blair: it shocks. In tracing the "unjustifiable theses, unrestrained belligerence, falsification and wilful illegality" that led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, she identifies Blair's assault on Muslims as both criminal and racist. "Human beings presumed to hold [Islamist] views were to be disabled by any means possible, and permanently... in Blair's language a 'virus' to be 'eliminated' and requiring 'a myriad of interventions [sic] deep into the affairs of other nations'." Whole societies were reduced to "splashes of colour" on a canvas upon which Labour's Napoleon would "re-order the world". The very concept of war was wrenched from its dictionary meaning and became "our values versus theirs". The actual perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, mostly Saudis trained to fly in America, were all but forgotten.
Instead, the "splashes of colour" were made blood-red - first in Afghanistan, land of the poorest of the poor. No Afghans were members of al-Qaeda; on the contrary, there was mutual resentment. No matter. Once the bombing began on 7 October 2001, tens of thousands of Afghans were punished with starvation as the World Food Programme withdrew aid on the cusp of winter. In one stricken village, Bibi Mahru, I witnessed the aftermath of a single Mk82 "precision" bomb's obliteration of two families, including eight children. "TB," wrote Alistair Campbell, "said they had to know that we would hurt them if they don't yield up OBL." The cartoon figure of Campbell was already at work on concocting another threat in Iraq. This "yielded up", according to the MIT Centre for International Studies, between 800,000 and 1.3 million deaths: figures that exceed the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the genocide in Rwanda. And yet, wrote Peirce, "the threads of emails, internal government communiques reveal no dissent." Interrogation that included torture was on "the express instructions... of government ministers".
On 10 January 2002, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw emailed his colleagues that sending British citizens to Guantanamo Bay was "the best way to meet our counter terrorism objective". He rejected "the only alternative of repatriation to the United Kingdom". (Later appointed "justice secretary", Straw suppressed incriminating Cabinet minutes in defiance of the Information Commissioner). On 6 February 2002, Home Secretary David Blunkett noted that he was in "no hurry to see any individuals returned to the UK [from Guantanamo]". Three days later, Foreign Office minister Ben Bradshaw wrote, "We need to all that we can to avoid the detainees being repatriated to the UK." Not one of the people they refer had been charged with anything; most had been sold as bounties to the Americans by Afghan warlords. Peirce describes how Foreign Office officials, prior to an inspection of Guantanamo Bay, "verified" that British prisoners were being "treated humanely" when the opposite was true. Immersed in its misadventure and lies, listening only to their leader's crooned "sincerity", the Labour government consulted no one who spoke the truth. Peirce cites one of the most reliable sources, Conflicts Forum, run by the former British intelligence officer Alastair Crooke, who argued that to "isolate and demonise [Islamic] groups that have support on the ground, the perception is reinforced that the west only understands the language of military strength".
In wilfully denying this truth, Blair, Campbell and their echoes planted the roots of the 7/7 attacks in London. Today, another Afghanistan and Iraq beckons in Syria and Iran, perhaps even a world war. Once again, voices such as Crooke's attempt to explain to a media salivating for "intervention" in Syria that the civil war in that country requires skilled, patient negotiation, not the provocations of the British SAS and the familiar, bought-and-paid-for exiles who ride in Anglo-America's Trojan Horse.
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Belmont Ironstone Mine
Posted on April 20, 2009 by chris.twigg
The second phase of working at Belmont started in 1907-1908 after the original working there ceased around 1886.
Hunters Hill Farm consists of a large range of building which constituted the stables and workshops of the mine, close to the road is a huge concrete wall which one supported one end of the tipping gantry where railway wagons were loaded.
Continuing a short way up the path you first reach the collapsed drift entrance with an electrical sub-station next to it, the remains of ceramic insulators can be seen in its back wall.
A little further up the hill again stands a powder house now filled with earth.
I also noticed that the nearby allotments have a vegetable bed constructed from Pease bricks, although as Pease never ran Belmont they could just be anomalous
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Matthew James on April 22, 2009 at 1:14 pm said:
Interesting post. In addition to the above the railway linking the mine site to the main line near to Hutton Lane can be traced across the fields and through the Kemplah estate. The base of some sort of building still remains at the junction, which I am unsure as to what purpose it had. Apparently there are also some small infalls etc in the hills above the site, obviously linked to the mining activity.
Matthew James on September 25, 2009 at 7:50 am said:
I suppose the question we could ask is whether the mine owners developed the site right at the top of Sparrow Lane on purpose. At the time of development Sparrow Lane was a well known and used path/track from the centre of Guisborough (I believe starting from near the bottom of New Road) where possible miners housing was located. Notwithstanding the location of the seam etc the location would make sense from a logistical point of view, meaning that materials and labour could be bought to site easily.
The original Belmont mine site was situated somewhere off the top of Belmangate. What is fascinating is that using the Google earth feature, the original rail link to the site can be seen between the sports pitches, even though it was pulled up many years ago!
Matt35741 on August 26, 2017 at 5:57 pm said:
Does anyone know if the cylindrical brick structure in the field at the top of Belmangate (opposite the Gracelands Care Home) is a mineshaft linked to the original Belmont mines?
chris.twigg on August 26, 2017 at 6:21 pm said:
No, it’s much too far down the hill, the original mine drift locations are where the lake is now, beyond the top of Belmangate. I don’t know what that structure is.
G Charles on June 3, 2018 at 6:28 pm said:
I believe this was a well with just a shallow seepage at the bottom.A door in one side gave access via a set of steps.
Matt35741 on August 27, 2017 at 8:22 am said:
That’s what I thought. You can see the structure on Google Earth, there is a big sign on it now which led me to believe it was a shaft of some sort. Maybe some form of well?
This was a seepage well [ie very shallow] with a door in one side and steps leading down.
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Winnipegs Chantal Vanlandeghem wins gold at Australian age group nationals
SYDNEY, Australia- Chantal Vanlandeghem put a golden finish on a successful meet for a 13-member Canadian youth and junior team Saturday with a victory in the women’s 100-metre butterfly for 15-year-olds at the Australian age group swimming championships.
Canada earned five more medals Saturday to conclude the six-day competition with 20 podium appearances.
Vanlandeghem clocked one minute and 01.04 seconds for the win and her fifth medal of the competition, tops on the Canadian team.
Melanie Bath of Australia was second in 1:02.01 and her compatriot Tessa Wallace third in 1:02.54.
“I wanted to get a best time but winning the gold made up for that,” said Vanlandeghem, who clocked 0.1 seconds off her personal best. “I closed the race pretty well in the last 10-15 metres, I kept my stroke even and put my head down to the wall. It’s extremely exciting to come here and see that I’m just as strong as the Australians my own age.
It was a big day for Canadian Olympic team member Lindsay Seeman of Newmarket, Ont., who collected silver medals in both the women’s 800 freestyle and 200 backstroke for 16-year-olds.
Jacqueline Keire of Toronto grabbed her fourth medal of the competition adding a silver in the 200 freestyle for 14-year-olds. Natasha Fung of St. Albert, Alta., notched her first medal placing third in the 200 individual medley for 15-year-olds.
Vanlandeghem was also fifth in the 200 IM, Braeden Newton of St. Albert sixth in the 200 backstroke for 16-year-olds and Lindsay Delmar of Burlington, Ont., ninth in the women’s 800 freestyle for 16-year-olds.
“We never expected to come here and win 20 medals,” said Canadian national junior coach Ken McKinnon. “We were only three weeks into our training cycle, there was a transition to make from short course to the long course season plus the travel.”
Racing wasn’t the only items on the agenda for the Canadian swimmers.
“They swam nine to 10 kilometres a day in training throughout the competition and they worked hard and stayed consistent,” said McKinnon. “They handled themselves really well. To race one of the best countries in the world on their turf was a very valuable experience for their development.”
The trip has not yet ended for the Canadians. Next is a training camp with the Miami Swim Club in Miami, Australia. The head coach there is Dennis Cotterill who has developed more than 40 Olympians throughout this career including triple Olympic champion Grant Hackett.
Full results at: http://www.clubsonline.com.au/uploads/swimresults/National/2009AGE/index.htm
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HomePOLITICSEX-GOV ALIYU RECEIVES SHERIFF IN MINNA, BOTH MEET WITH EX-DICTATORS
EX-GOV ALIYU RECEIVES SHERIFF IN MINNA, BOTH MEET WITH EX-DICTATORS
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, who was recognised as the authentic National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, on Friday, arrived in Minna, the Niger State capital, on Saturday, to see a former Governor of the state, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, and a former military dictator.
This came two days after the appeal court recognised Sheriff, a former Governor of Borno State, as the chairman of the PDP.
The appellate court, on Friday, recognized Sheriff as the National Chairman of the PDP, throwing away the claim of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the party to the leadership of the PDP.
Sheriff, who arrived in Minna at exactly 2.30pm on Sunday and received by Aliyu, again described the Court of Appeal’s ruling in his favour as a victory for the PDP.
The PDP chairman stated, “My victory is a victory for the PDP all over Nigeria. There is no loser. It is just a misunderstanding within a family, and we are calling on everybody to come together so that the party can be a formidable one once again.”
Aliyu later joined Sheriff for a meeting with the former military dictator, which lasted for about 90 minutes.
The PDP chairman left the Niger State capital at about 4.30pm on Sunday.
Speaking to newsmen after a closed-door meeting with the ex-military dictator, Sheriff added, “During our meeting, he said he is happy with my statement after the court ruling. He told me to continue that way so that I can bring everybody back together to make the party a formidable opposition party.
“What we want to do now is how to put the party back in shape so that everyone, who is aggrieved, is brought back as one united family once again. Look, united we stand, divided we fall.
“I have even called Makarfi himself and I have called on everybody to come back so that we can work together.”
Aliyu said, “Now that we have a legal decision even though other people talk about going higher (Supreme Court), others are saying ‘no’, we should start widening the solution; that we don’t waste time in terms of legality.
“For the moment, Ali Modu Sheriff is the chairman of the party, and those of us who love to see the solution to the problems in this party, will continue to find ways of mending fences.
“I think we should all bury our ambition, you can’t have an ambition without a platform.
“We need to all come together and I appeal to all of us, all PDP lovers and members, to really look at the issues objectively so that we have a platform that we can call a party which can win elections. Not a fragmented party.”
INEC to drop Makarfi from party chairmen’s list
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will obey the verdict of the Port Harcourt Division of the Court of Appeal, which, nullified the outcome of the May 21, 2016 Convention of the PDP
Before, the judgment, the commission, in the list of 40 registered political parties in the country, recognized Makarfi as the National Chairman of the PDP.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the commission would comply with court verdicts on the PDP’s leadership tussle.
Oyekanmi told one of our correspondents on the telephone on Sunday that the commission would commence the process of obeying the court directives as soon as it was served with the papers.
He said, “Our position has not changed; we will always comply with legitimate court orders and judgments. So, in this case, when we are served, we will take the necessary steps to obey the judgment. I am not sure we have been served with the judgment
“If they serve the commission with the judgment, absolutely, the commission will recognize Ali Modu Sheriff as the chairman of PDP because that is what the court has said.
“We also know that the other party (faction) has said it will be proceeding to the Supreme Court.
“Whatever is the decision of the Supreme Court, which is the final verdict, would be obeyed by INEC.
“But as we speak, the Appeal Court is the superior and latest judgment. INEC will comply with the provisions of that judgment as of today when we are served, and that will affect everything in the PDP as far as INEC is concerned.”
Oyekanmi stated that it was the desire of the commission for the PDP to resolve its internal dispute as INEC would always obey whatever the courts ruled on the matter.
Going to S’Court won’t resolve issues, says Kashamu
The Senator, representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, said the threat by Makarfi to head for the Supreme Court over last Friday’s verdict of the Court of Appeal would not resolve the crisis rocking the PDP.
He believed that going to the Supreme Court to appeal the appellate court’s judgment, would only prolong the crisis and make the current office holders to stay in office longer than they ordinarily would have done.
These were contained in a statement he issued on Sunday, a copy of which was made available to one of our correspondents.
The lawmaker noted that both Sheriff and Makarfi had shown that they both had leadership qualities, and it was time for the two of them to come together and move the party forward.
Kashamu added that the PDP could not afford to continue as a divided house, stating that election in Anambra State would hold this year (2017), while that of Osun and Ekiti states would follow in 2018.
The statement read in part, “I sincerely doubt if anyone who is talking about going to the Supreme Court has the interest of the party at heart. Going to the Supreme Court will not resolve the issues. Rather, it will prolong them and further endanger the party.
“Senator Sheriff will not fold his hands and allow the judgment in his favour to be ridiculed.
“We have election coming up in Anambra State this year and later in Osun and Ekiti states. So, we must do primaries, either later this year or early next year.
“We cannot afford to allow the fate that befell us in Edo and Ondo states to repeat itself. The 2019 general elections are fast approaching.”
Kashamu also called on respectable leaders and elders in the party to intervene in the lingering dispute in order not to allow the ill-motivated opinion and selfish interest of a few to mislead them to taking actions that would not be in the overall interest of the party, its members and supporters.
He said, “We cannot afford to part now or divide our party any further. Let all true party men and women, young and old, rich and poor, strong or weak, rise and rally round our National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and our national leader, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, to put the party together and organise a free and fair and all-embracing national convention within 45 to 60 days.”
Kashamu lashed out at the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, for what he termed the governor’s “inconsistency” on the chairmanship of Sheriff, having supported his choice in the past and turned round singing a different tune.
The senator said, “Not a few have wondered why the volte-face by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State. Exactly a year ago, he praised the PDP National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to high heavens, extolling his qualities. Now, he is singing a new song.
“The questions are: what has changed? Why the inconsistency? Why the flip-flop? Should anyone take him seriously?”
Meanwhile, the National Auditor of the party, Alhaji Fatai Adeyanju, said following the authentication of the Sheriff-led national executive council by the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, eight PDP governors out of 12 were already in talks with the Sheriff -led team.
He said this in Ijebu Igbo on Sunday during a stakeholders meeting of the party.
Adeyanju also urged leaders and members of the party to look beyond the judgment and come together to work for the party and help it play a formidable opposition role.
Don’t appeal judgment, secretary, youth leader tell Makarfi
Also, two national officers of the PDP appealed to Makarfi not to appeal the Court of Appeal judgment at the Supreme Court.
The party’s National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo, and the National Youth Leader, Mr. Demis Alonge-Niyi, stated this in separate interviews with journalists in Abuja on Sunday.
They said dragging the case before the Supreme Court would lengthen the leadership issues in the party rather than providing lasting solutions to the crisis.
Oladipo said, “I think the time has come for our members to put this leadership tussle behind us and move forward in the overall interest of our party.
“2019 is around the corner and time is not on our side. We need to put the matter behind us and embrace peace. We should not forget that in 2018, we have governorship elections in Osun and Anambra (2017) states.
“We must work hard to reclaim the Presidency as well. We also need to win more states as well as more seats in both the National Assembly and states assemblies
“To me, going to the Supreme Court will further escalate our problems and drag the matter more than expected. We should put our heads together and see how we can resolve the family matter amicably.”
Longe-Niyi stated that “all aggrieved party members should put the matter behind them with the pronouncement of the Appeal Court and embrace peace in the interest of the party”
Sheriff is always ready for true reconciliation. Our members should emulate him and embrace peace. He said
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Daily Telegraph: England have to be more efficient
by Michael Vaughan | Aug 13, 2016 | Blog, Cricket, England, Telegraph | 0 comments
Frustration is the word I would use to sum up England so far this Test match because they have misplaced the fight and determination that served them so well at Edgbaston to give them a deserved 2-1 lead in the series.
In Birmingham they showed old-fashioned basics of line and length, hammered a fuller length with the ball and took their catches. But they have not looked like covering the basics here. The bowling was erratic and too short, the batting in the first innings was too undisciplined and their catching schoolboyish.
To be bowled out on again on the first day of a Test match was not good enough, and they have to start batting consistently for at least 125 overs in the first innings of matches if they are to be the world’s best team.
Since the start of last summer, a span of 21 Tests, England have only managed a score of 400 or above in the first innings of a match on six occasions. It is 20 Tests since a batsman in the top five other than Alastair Cook or Joe Root scored a century, and that was Adam Lyth, who was dropped a year ago.
The numbers prove that when England do score 400 they have a good game.
They have won three of the Test matches in which they have started with a 400 score and drawn the other three. It was by posting 589 in their first innings that they fought their way back at Old Trafford from 1-0 down. They managed to fight back and win at Edgbaston, but there are only so many times a team can do that.
The model for this team has to be the South African side that Graeme Smith developed. They too did not have a world-class spinner, but they had disciplined seam bowlers and patient batsmen. They were so difficult to dismiss twice in a match.
England have too much talent not to become a dominant team but individuals have to take responsibility to make sure they are hard to get out. They have the talent to score runs; it is about minimising the risks and batting for the team.
For a player the Oval Test is so important because it is the last time the selectors can judge you before picking the winter touring squads.
But England have just not been quite right mentally all week. A couple of them went on to social media a few minutes after play on Thursday to complain about Alex Hales’s first-innings dismissal. That is a sure sign that a team is getting distracted by something that has been and gone. Move on. They had to work with these umpires for possibly another four days, so why get on their wrong side?
Hales has a lot of anger built up inside him because he is frustrated by the fact that he has not spent enough time out in the middle. I was lucky because I had normally calmed down by the time I had reached the dressing room. I don’t mind players throwing the bat around in the dressing room when they get out, but that is where it stops. You do not steam out the back of the dressing room and attack the third umpire with verbals.
What he needs to do is sit down with Mark Ramprakash, the batting coach. He too had problems with inner anger. But now he has retired and is older in life he can offer Hales some advice on how to handle it and channel the frustration in the right direction.
Hales’s form in this series has proved that four Tests can be a long time in a player’s career. Against Sri Lanka we were seeing signs of improvement. He was batting much better. But now he is on a steep downward curve. He has had a couple of good balls, which you have to accept as an opener, but played some poor shots, too. I wrote last week that I believed England had to give Hales, Gary Ballance and James Vince a longer run in the side. I still believe that is the case.
But for England to compete in India they have to bat a lot longer in the first innings and stop gifting the opposition wickets with soft dismissals.
When they manage to bat properly and score 400, Moeen Ali becomes a threat with the ball. We have seen this summer that he bowls better when he has runs on the board. England are a good team when they take the match deep.
The cricketer in me wants them to be more efficient, but I have to admit that as a cricket fan they are more interesting to watch when they are inconsistent.
This series has been the most enjoyable I have watched at home since I became a commentator. In three of the four Tests we have arrived on days three and four not knowing which side is going to win. When you have two equally matched teams playing competitive cricket then the Test-match game is a wonderful product.
Credit goes to Pakistan and Misbah-ul-Haq. He has shown confidence in Younus Khan, who repaid him here, and has brought a calmness to their cricket which has allowed them to fight back twice in this series. They did it at Edgbaston until England started reversing it in the second innings, and have bounced back here after a defeat in Birmingham. They have probably won more sessions in this series than England. A 2-2 scoreline would be a fair reflection.
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F1 | Gp Austria, Minardi “We’re coming out of a ridiculous week”
5 July 2017 /in F1 /by Redazione
The week just past was, to say the least, full of words that burst like soap bubbles at the meeting in Paris which was completely useless as it brought nothing except a reprimand in regards to an action that remains questionable.
During the weekend in Austria Sebastian Vettel will have the eyes of the marshals focussed on him and this could give an advantage to Lewis Hamilton in a possible scuffle with his direct rival. There is certainly tension between the two drivers, even though, considering the tight race for the world title, I never believed in a peaceful coexistence between them. This may be an extra hassle for Mercedes considering that my sources speak of a possible arrival of the German driver at Brackley as soon as 2018.
We will be going to a short circuit (barely 4,318) in which the weather could play an important role, but it is fast enough to give us close performances. Pole position could be decided on the edge of thousandths of a second.
Ferrari must be ready to counter the Mercedes domination, being careful to watch over its shoulders at the host Red Bull which will play at home and will give its all in qualifying to gain the front row and to mess with the fight at the fight at the top since it has opted for 9 sets of Ultrasoft, as opposed to eight for Mercedes and the 7 of Vettel and Raikonnen.
This season’s surprise is Force India which is confirming the fourth place it conquered last season. It was an extraordinary result for a small team which was bothered by no small number of financial problems and also called on to manage a fiery struggle between Perez and Ocon. The Mexican must redeem himself after the negative experience in Canada when he did not heed team orders, above all in view of the driver’s market.
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Manchester Season Tickets honoured by Sheffield
Wednesday, 1st February 2017
The Manchester Phoenix organisation would like to officially thank the Sheffield Steeldogs for offering to honour the use of Phoenix season tickets (Free of Charge) till the end of this season.
Manchester Season ticket holders can carry on using their season tickets at Ice Sheffield till the end of the 2016/2017 season. The Steeldogs organisation has also said that they will allow any other Phoenix supporter with a Phoenix Shirt admission at concession rate.
The Phoenix organisation is grateful for The Sheffield Steeldogs and would like to wish them the best of luck for the rest of the season.
Thanks Steeldogs
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Lymphoproliferatives Syndrom
Das lymphoproliferatives Syndrom ist eine genetische Erkrankung bei welches die Apoptose gestört ist und es deshalb zu einer Akkumulation von Lymphozyten in verschiedenen Geweben kommen kann. Diese Proliferation lymphatischen Gewebes ist primär nicht maligne, kann aber sekundär zu Autoimmunprozessen und malignen Erkrankungen führen.
Hereditäre maligne Bluterkrankungen
Akute myeloische Leukämie
Erbliche Anfälligkeit für akute myeloische Leukämie
Erbliche Anfälligkeit für myelodysplastisches Syndrom
Juvenile myelomonozyäre Leukämie
Autoimmun-lymphoproliferatives Syndrom Typ 2
Lymphoproliferatives Syndrom 1
X-chromosomales lymphoproliferatives Syndrom 1
SH2D1A
XIAP
Myelodysplastisches Syndrom
Non-Hodgkin-Lymphom
Noonan-Syndrom ähnliches Krankheitsbild und juvenile myelomonozytische Leukämie
Osteomyelofibrose
Somatische Erythrozytose
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Unreal Dream: The Michael Mor...
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>> the last time that i saw him was actually at the inauguration of president jacob zuma. it was a passing on of the torch first to m becky, then to jacob zuma, but he was still the moral force that will held that country together and he still is and will continue to be. >> and we are almost out of time. i've got to throw this into you. you knew the mandela days. there's been a lot of disappointment in thao mbeki and jacob zuma on management levels and personality wise. do you think nelson mandela would have been happy with the country he's left behind now? >> no, he would never be happy until the hungry are fed and the naked clothed and the sick are healed. but they start the out with a nation where 85% of the people were discriminated against. they're probably now down to 70% of the people hole still in poverty. but we have in this nation probably 30% of the people are still in poverty. so we've got a long way to go. >> ambassador young, thank you so much for your time. >> fascinating >> other world leaders have been inspired by mandela's ability to fib his enemies. a ma
>> the last time that i saw him was actually at the inauguration of president jacob zuma. it was a passing on of the torch first to m becky, then to jacob zuma, but he was still the moral force that will held that country together and he still is and will continue to be. >> and we are almost out of time. i've got to throw this into you. you knew the mandela days. there's been a lot of disappointment in thao mbeki and jacob zuma on management levels and personality wise. do you think...
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“Let me use a sports metaphor,” says Pardeep Nagra. “When it comes to issues of human rights, you have to be in the game. If you stay on the sidelines, you’re part of the problem.”
Nagra, once an Olympic boxing hopeful, shot to prominence when he was denied the opportunity to participate in the Canadian National Championships in 1999 because of his beard, which he could not shave off as a practicing Sikh. It was not an unexpected obstacle. From the time Nagra became a boxer (the gifted athlete switched from soccer while training at the gym to recover from a sports injury) he had been fighting on two levels – in the ring and in the courts.
When Nagra arrived in Vancouver for the nationals, he had already prevailed in the lower courts. But the Canadian Amateur Boxing Association (CABA) used a loophole to prevent him from competing, saying that he had a right to compete in Ontario (where the courts had ruled in his favor) but not in Vancouver. “This made no sense,” says Nagra. “Since both Ontario and Vancouver were under the umbrella of the CABA.”
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While facial hair has been allowed in professional boxing for a while now, the rule against beards in amateur competition is a longstanding one with unknown origins. “It was strange to see lawyers for the CABA arguing against beards for health and safety reasons,” says Nagra, “while they probably watched the bearded Floyd Mayweather box the bearded Conor McGregor in a professional fight not that long ago.”
Nagra’s struggles to get the CABA to allow beards in boxing motivated Sikh and Muslim boxers in other countries to take up the cause as well. His story is the inspiration for “Tiger,” an award-winning film cowritten by Canadian filmmakers Michael Pugliese and Prem Singh who also star in the film.
Singh plays the title role; Pugliese plays Nagra’s competitor. Mickey Rourke, who starred in The Wrestler in 2008, plays Nagra’s coach; Janel Parrish of Pretty Little Liars plays Nagra’s lawyer.
I asked Nagra how he was able to focus on his sport while having to constantly fight for his rights. “You have to be better,” he says. “There is higher accountability because you are in the public eye. If I had not been good at my sport, people would have wondered what the fuss was all about.” He adds, “The other reality is that I never knew when the courts would make their decisions or what that decision would be, so I just had to keep staying focused on my sport.”
The CABA eventually agreed to let amateur Canadian boxers compete with beards, but the decision came too late for Nagra. He continued to box for a few years, but began to focus more on getting those rights for the athletes who came after him. Today amateur boxers in Canada and the UK are allowed to keep their facial hair. There has been intense lobbying for the International Amateur Boxing Association to change its rules as well, with a decision expected any day now.
Did Nagra ever feel demoralized that he was not able to compete? “No, not at all. Human rights have never, ever been arbitrarily handed over; they take decades, centuries, battles, and lives. Being demoralized is not going to solve the problem.” Despite the success of his efforts to make boxing more inclusive for people wanting to keep a beard for religious or health reasons, Nagra acknowledges that there is much more work to be done.
“In the last 20 years, technology has made it possible for hatred to be disseminated at a rate never seen before,” he says. “Where once hateful things were said face-to-face, now the ease and anonymity of social media have given hate a megaphone.”
“And hate is easy,” he adds. “It doesn’t require any energy. To fight against hate, that takes energy, it takes work.”
When Nagra was approached for Tiger, he agreed to help without even looking at the script. “The story is about me, yet it is not just about me. It is a vehicle for the right to diversity and equality. I want people to know that it is Canadian to wear a turban. To have a Sikh actor play the lead role of a Sikh character in a mainstream movie, that is very special.”
Nagra continues his fight as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He is a passionate advocate for diversity in various Canadian institutions and Executive Director for the Sikh Heritage Museum of Canada. But today, his focus is Tiger, which won Best Feature Film at the San Diego Film Festival. “Tiger is both a vehicle and tool to showcase to America a new screen identity and celebrate representation,” he says. “And I need you to watch it!”
Tiger releases on November 30, 2018 at select theaters in Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles. Locations can be found here http://pardeep.ca/portfolio/tiger/
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Go Forth and Conquer 06-07
Hey everybody, welcome to the post.
I've been sitting on this one for a while now. I want to go back and analyze my junior year of high school. The ups, the downs, ins and outs and everything between. Maybe it's for me, maybe it's for you. Either way, I'm writing it.
It might have been the best school year of my life. Regardless, it eclipsed every other year in importance and opportunity. You can think of it as a junior year wrap-up, an evaluation of the big stuff in my life. I hope you enjoy.
Junior year was definitely the most challenging schooling of my life, academically speaking at least. With 4 AP classes all peaking the workload at the same time, life got pretty brutal come April.
Seminary- Seminary was an awesome class for me, especially the first semester. Second semester was good and all, but it just didn't stand up next to first. I remember walking in the first few days and missing my sophomore seminary class a lot. Sophomore year I had Brother Pearce, and my class was full of all-stars. It was mostly sophies, with a few solid seniors thrown in there for good measure. We never had any problems getting participation. I was good friends with all the kids, it was just a solid class. That was sophomore year, and my junior year 1st semester class looked nothing like it. I was friends with two or three people in the class, and I knew a few others by name and face, but had never really talked to them. It was apparent really early on that this class was a lot rougher around the edges than any other I'd ever been in. We had lots of kids that didn't want to be there, or who were really interested in sleeping the first period of the day. It looked pretty dire, and I wasn't too excited about it.
Brother Adams was our teacher, and he recognized the situation just as well as I did. He did a lot of awesome stuff for us that first semester, and amazing things started to happen.
We were initially all pretty closed to each other. It took a few hard weeks for us to start warming up to everybody in the class, but once it did, things caught on fire. Adams knew we had a really competitive class body, so he pushed that for us as often as was reasonable. I remember getting up there, Me, Brady, L'il Ashby, Dave, Ande, and Taesha and just working our hearts out to beat the other classes time records or whatever. We pulled together to lay the smackdown and win those bagels at the end of the semester. We started to bond, and we started to get comfortable with each other. We all warmed up and began to really share experiences and ideas. Once we finally got rolling, things were amazing. I looked forward to it every time I went, just because I knew I had good friends in there who were trying to do the same things I was. I gained so much respect for those kids in there. We all came from really diverse backgrounds and situations in life. It was so cool to see us all come together though. I've never felt more welcome in a seminary class ever than I did in there. We all just got really close, it was amazing.
I still can't help but smile inside when I see the people from that class. Most of us got split up at semester change, and that was pretty hard. I see L'il Ashby at the stake center every once in a while, he's a studmuffin. Ande and Taesha, I've got nothing but huge respect for those two. It was just an excellent class, and I really grew to love everybody in there. First semester seminary junior year: Best seminary class to date.
Junior Choir- Oh the love that was Junior Choir. I signed up last year mostly to have a reason to leave Jazz Band. As much as I loved making music with my sweet trombone, I didn't feel like I was up to par with the rest of the players in there, and I really just felt like I was holding everybody back. I didn't want to drag the band down and keep feeling like I sucked so much, so Junior Choir looked like a pretty lucrative option. Add on top of that my desire to learn to sing, and the multitude of ladies who were begging guys to go try out, it was hard not to make the call and try out late sophomore year.
Try outs weren't as bad as I thought, and I actually went in there pretty confident. Not so much that I knew that since I was a guy I'd be a walk-on, but cause me and my dad had worked on the song the night before and I felt like I knew what I was doing. I went in there, did my thing, and T said I'd be a good asset to the choir. Simple as that, I was in.
The first day was a little tricky there too. I didn't quite know what to expect. I had never sung in a genuine choir before. I'd had a lot of practice with church and all, but never anything really organized. I stuck pretty close to Kyle, since he had been in men's chorus sophomore year and seemed to know the ropes.
Warmups the first day were pretty cool. Totally unexpected, full of energy and corn. It was one of those things that people sort of looked around and wondered if they'd really join in, but seeing everybody else leaping in and smiling the whole time made the fears go away. It was fun and productive, I could definitely feel myself getting better and understanding the whole singing thing more. T always made us feel like we were making good progress, and it felt great.
It was an awesome class. First off, I was in there with all my buddies. Sophomore year didn't see too many great opportunities to have classes with my boys. Here we were, Me, Kyle, Levi, and James. We had been classic in Junior High, but sophomore year had seen us drift a little bit apart. I was glad to be with them, and glad to be with so many other good guys. Kirt, Robert, Joey, Peter, Peter, Austin, Brad, Bentley, Cody, Jared, and the newcomer Shaun Noble, who I'd never met before, but he ended up as my music partner and a cross country buddy, so it was way cool. Just being with all those good guys, hanging out, blending together, it was a great environment.
And then there were girls! Lots of em! And they sounded amazing! And they were all pretty happy to be there, which was just cool. It was always a nice class to be in, because c'mon, there were lots of friends and lots of girls. A winning combination.
More important than that though, was what we were doing in there. T is amazing, and somehow manages to keep us all excited and full of energy and moving in the right direction. It was super cool, the first time we brought all of our voices together after a little practice to pull off a sweet part of a song. It just sounded so good. We were all just smiling about it, wondering if that was really us that pulled that off. We made some awesome stuff happen in there. It was excellent to sit there during TVTV time and realize that we'd just had an awesome rehearsal and made a lot of progress. Those were good days, getting better.
Junior choir just had a winning combination when we did it right. Great people and progress, you can't get much better than that. Of course, it was a double edged sword. Some days we just didn't get anything done because we were talking too much. We still need to work on discipline, but over all it was an awesome experience, one I'm really glad I signed up for.
Litmag- Culture Shock the very first day. I went into this class the second semester, mostly upon Wessman's request. It required a little shuffle of my schedule, but Wessman really wanted me to come in and train so I could do some heavy duty journalism stuff my Senior year. I couldn't fit into the real journalism class, but Wessman was sorta doing half and half in his litmag class, so in I went.
I knew a few of the guys in there, so I was pretty excited about it. Jaron, Nate, Mac, it was going to be good times. I figured it'd be a nice breath of fresh air, considering I hadn't been in a class like that for a few years at least. I was going to be creative and all that. It was gonna be sweet.
Wow. It wasn't what I expected. I mean, I should have figured it was coming, but walking in there I was totally smacked with the wet noodle of culture shock. There were "creative" kids in there. I'd never taken a high school class with "creative" kids. You know, the ones with the fishnets on their arms and the crazy sweatshirts with weird stuff on them and the haiven Glaiven. There were kids in there I'd never seen before in my life. It took a little bit of an adjustment, but it was one that I was willing to make.
The first few days we did some creative writing stuff, just free write stuff, that was good times. Wessman taught us a little bit about newspaper writing and all that, and then we had to pick sides. He wanted to find out which side of the class we'd fall on, the newspaper side, or the litmag side. I think I was one of the last guys to get called on to proclaim my allegiance. I had entered the class fully intending to go on the newspaper side, but the idea of the litmag had really started to be cool to me as I learned more about it, so I called it straight in the middle. "Put me in the middle, wherever you want me to go."
It was an odd class. Huge variety of kids in there. There were the creative types, the talented types, the sleep in class types, the "man, I didn't expect to see you in a class like this types". Wessman was really good about it though, he ran it pretty well. He tried to cater to all of us, keep us all doing work that we wanted to do and that needed to be done. Sure, some periods were spent with absolutely no progress being made, but things eventually picked up.
I still hadn't found my niche in the class when Wessman realized that we really had to start cooking on the litmag or we wouldn't hit deadline. I didn't really know the whole process that the litmag needed to go through, or what work had been done so far. It had been a little frustrating, not knowing what to do. When Wessman would tell us to do stuff, we sort of didn't get it done. We'd make an initial effort but then get sidetracked. It was, as it were, less effective.
Then one day things changed. Wessman got up to the board and talked about what needed to be done that day to move closer to being ready. One of the tasks was finding the information on the art that we were going to include in the actual publication. We had chosen the art, but we needed to make sure we had author names, the medium they used, the size, titles, all that good stuff. Wessman told us we needed to get that done, but that he needed to go run some errands or something. He told the class that I'd be in charge of spearheading that department, gave me the nod of confidence, and away he ran.
This was a good day. I was a little tired of not getting things done, and I suddenly had that exhilarating rush of "I'm in charge, let's get this puppy rolling". I immediately set up the task force to go get the information from the attendance office, so we could find out where the people were. I sent those two off, but I was standing up at the whiteboard, and I was ready to get things done.
I have this tendency to hijack projects. Give me an opening, and suddenly I'm at the helm. That's what I did that day. I'm not quite sure why I did, or even how I did it, but suddenly I was telling everybody what needed to happen. For the first time since I'd been in the class, everybody was working on something. We had kids in the class doing work, we had kids over in the computer library. I was doing nothing but running around, making sure everybody had a job and that we were moving closer to our goals. People were asking questions, getting support, giving suggestions, and ultimately getting work done. That day we moved like a well oiled machine. In all the times I ended up being in charge in that class, I'm pretty sure that first day was our most effective.
In any event, I had taken my small responsibility over the art information and transformed it into a medium-sized dictatorship. I wonder if that's what Wessman intended to happen, either way he didnt' stop it once he got back. He sorta stood back and let it happen.
And suddenly, I was promoted from not having a job to being a co-editor. I took the job seriously, because we really needed to haul it to get things done. It was a really gratifying experience, seeing everything come into place. I love the managerial position. It's something that I feel pretty natural about. It took a lot of work, and a lot of times it was discouraging, but working with all the teams, getting everybody's unique talents to come together and publish it, wow, that was a great feeling.
I was really happy with how the magazine turned out. It was cool to get to work alongside Nate and Jaron, who I had been buddies with, but was working with for the first time, and I think we grew to be pretty tight in there. Jaron pulled off a ton of excellent work with photoshop and indesign to make things look smooth and awesome, which was pretty cool to see.
I got closer to everybody in there, we grew as a team and created an awesome product. Yeah, we know people buy it for the extra credit. But that's OK. We pulled something awesome off this year, and maybe next year things will be a little different for them.
I've got a lot of respect for the litmag kids. If I had room, I'd do it again next year. It was a cool class for me to take, because more than real structured "learning" it was production. It was a team with a genuine deadline and a genuine goal. I was in there busting out the leadership, which I really enjoyed doing, and I think it taught me a lot too. Much love for litmag.
Athletics- Cross Country was so amazing my Junior year. Athletics was a PE class during the day where the whole team would go, get dressed, and work out during fourth. It was cool for a lot of reasons. It meant we didn't have to stay after to workout, since we had already done it. We felt pretty important, you know, not learning stuff in order to run. It was fun to be with my team. I have so much love for that team. Going through all that pain with them, you can't come out of that without a lot of love and respect for your fellow athletes. Athletics was good clean fun. I think we all got a little burnt out as the season progressed, but we did our best out there. Once XC was officially over we started having lots of fun with Sock Tag and various other games we'd play while "working out". There's nothing like the sweet satisfaction of thoroughly owning somebody with that sock. Athletics was good, and that's about it.
Precalc- Just a good solid class where you learned good stuff. My first semester class was awesome for me, it was stacked with tons of excellent people. Me, Kyle, Nick, and Taylor all sat on one row, second from the front. We joked around, but always learned the math and did it well. It was sweet to listen to Kyle's Zen when it was seriously time to get to work. One ear plugged, fousing down to a point, yeah, we got some good work done. Kaelin was a really cool guy, taught us a ton of sweet stuff that wasn't part of the curriculum. Yeah, he gets sidetracked a lot, but I appreciated it. More than anything it was sweet to realize that Kaelin's just a normal guy, doing awesome stuff. He had great stories, and it was fun to learn from him. I really got along well in that class, we just had a ton of fun. I always looked forward to it.
Of course, second semester brought a change of periods, which meant new people. It had its ups and downs. Definitely fewer of my friends in there. Since I was coming in at the semester, I lost my good seat. I had occupied the best seat in the house first semester, but now I was sort of a migrant. There were lots fewer kids in this class, but it felt so cramped all the time for some reason. It was 4th period, so instead of 2nd when we were all finally waking up to be energetic, we were all ready to go back to bed.
There were good people in the class, but there were also a few who weren't at all interested in doing math. That's one thing I really appreciated about first semester. We could joke all we want, Me, Kyle, and Nick, but we still got out work done. I found it a lot more difficult to do my work with certain people around in my new class. I therefore made it a point to move to the other side of the room. Sometimes those people would come over and sit, but mostly they stuck to their side, and life was good.
One of the big ups of the new class was being in there with the ever studly J. Gabbitas. Once things finally got settled he came and chilled on my side of the room, and we got to know each other and be better friends. That was cool, and I'm really glad that happened. With a little work, he could make an excellent Ultimate player.
There were a few select people I was really glad were in the class. It was a good class, and I learned the math and did will on the tests, so things were good. Math is still cool.
AP Action
AP classes had been something that I'd looked forward to as long as I could remember. I knew my siblings had taken them, and I knew they were a lot harder than normal classes. I knew I'd learn more, and I knew that there was a beastly test at the end. All of these things really appealed to me. I love learning everything I can, and I adore a decent challenge on a bubble sheet. I took four my Junior year, something I'm really pretty happy about. Everybody said I was crazy, but hey, it was my choice, and I'm happy I made it.
To be honest, I didn't take the classes for the college credit. I took them for the challenge and the learning. I'm not much of one for credit at this point of my life. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it, and learn what I could in the meantime. They were the hardest classes I could sign up for, so yea verily, sign up I did.
AP American History- AP history was a brute, but such a loveable brute that you just wanted to give the whole subject a big hug. From day one I knew that it'd be a class I'd really enjoy. It was strenuous and oftentime monotonous, but it was subject matter that I really loved, and learning more about stuff I was interested in always felt great at the end of the day. Rockwell lectured really well, and entire class periods were taken writing notes at breakneck speed. I developed a pretty decent system for taking notes, marking things that were really important and all that.
Really, AP American History was old school, that's all there is to it. No surprises, it was the education system at it's most basic. Here's the lecture, take notes. There's the chapter, read it. Here's an assignment to drill the info in, do it. Here's a test to make sure.
But on top of that was Rockwell, who really is just a comical character. I can see how some people could not like him. He didn't make much of an effort to hide the fact that he didn't know us personally for a really long time. Some teachers get to know their students real well, but I don't think Rockwell was one of those. That's OK though, because it was Rockwell and he didn't pretend. He had old jokes, but hey, he was loveable, and he taught us excellent stuff.
I remember the assignments to read the chapters. A very important lesson I learned from Junior year relates to those chapter assignments. I started off pretty well reading them, but once the middle of the year came I got lazy and busy and didn't read. I still did great on assignments and tests, but it felt like there was something missing. I didn't have as much satisfaction in that class as usual. When Rockwell picked it up and started giving us assignments on every chapter, man, I really started to love that class. Sometimes me and kyle would do the work together, but no matter what, I always had the best feelings about myself and school when I'd sit down and read that book for the hour and a half it took. I learned a ton, and I knew that walking into school the next day I'd be ready for whatever Rockwell had to throw at me. Reading those chapters just had a way of relaxing me, and filling me with a sense of accomplishment and peace. I've got a great love to the history book because of it.
History was really useful everywhere else too. In any situation, it was always helpful to be able to bust out a ton of background knowledge on any situation. I can't count the number of times in English when I'd slow down and be like "Hey, chill, this happened before, it'll happen again. It's been going on forever, historically blah blah blah." It was pro. Reading the news and all that, it was so easy to see all the parallels. AP history started to plug in to every part of my life, and I was really glad that it did. To be honest, I'd retake the course next year if I had room. I would love to hear it all again. I've got a great love for AP History.
AP English- I hated AP English for a really long time. I walked in the first day and got sat down on a table that had nobody I knew on it, people I'd never even seen. I was in the front of the class, and yet the desk was oriented such that there was absolutely no comfortable way to sit and see the teacher or the board and any of the rest of the class. Harward came off early as a serious butthead. He came in the first day and started ranting off on these big words that none of us had ever heard of before, and he wouldn't tell us what they meant. That was a big problem for me, because I'd never really been placed in a situation where words were over my head. He kept giving us assignments to analyze these rhetorical strategies on pieces, and that didn't sit well with me at all. Everything about him and that class bugged me. His logic seemed so flawed, his goals and everything else just so irritating. The fact that a lot of my friends had a fairy tale first term with Parrish made me want to leave really bad.
It just bugged me, the way he used words that didn't mean a thing to all his students. I figured that if a word didn't mean anything to me, it wasn't really even a word. Because what is a word? It's just a tool to convey an idea from one person to the other. Both people know what the word means, so they both have the same idea. All the leadership training I've ever had talks a ton about two-way communication and how important that is. Yeah, there was none of that in the beginning. He would go on and on about logos and pathos and ethos and all sorts of other words that I can't remember right now. It meant nothing to me, and it just irritated me. It bugged me that he just jumped right in, didn't give us any intro, just did it.
And then there was Latape. Oh how I despised latape. It was some sort of mnemonic device to help us remember how to start paragraphs in our AP essays. Start with the author's last name, then do some sort of adjective, then blah blah blah. It bothered me. Of course, he had started the year with some diatribe about how terrible the five paragraph essay was, and how templates that you just plug things into are horrific. Then, two weeks later, he gives us this latape template and demands we use it. The hypocrisy killed me!
I had serious issues with the class. I'd never disliked a teacher as much as I disliked Harward. I wanted to rant a rave every day about how much I disliked the guy. The only thing that kept me from posting an angry argument every night on the blog was that I was pretty sure he'd magically read it.
One of the big problems I had was with analyzing rhetorical strategies. He would make us find out how this person accomplished their purpose in writing this paper. It felt, to me, that he skipped the whole "purpose" part, and that really bugged me. That's what had always been important to me. The first question, what's the purpose, and the next question, did he succeed? That was all I cared about. I didn't care how they wrote it, just whether or not it had the intended effect. It took me a long time to get over that.
A lot of things had to happen in order for me to fix the problems I was having in there. First and foremost it was a pride issue. I needed to stop believing that Harward was a nincompoop. I got moved to another desk, which really made me happy, because now my back wasn't always having issues trying to see anything. I finally started catching on to all the big words he would throw around like candy, and suddenly it didn't seem like he was just spouting crap to try to impress us, we were honestly having academic discussions.
When things changed, they changed big time. I started to love that class, look forward to it like crazy every day I had it. The class, after the initial "we hate Harward" days, really came together. It's amazing how that always happens. But we all respected each other, and we could joke around with each other and with Harward too. I really became a better writer in there, because once I started understanding where Harward was coming from he really helped me out. It was fun to have discussions in there, those were some of my favorite days. You put Me, Kent, Austin, Sam, P-Burn, and April in one room, there's nothing but good times there.
English took a total 180 for me. Right now I treat Harward just like one of my buddies. We joke around and have a good time. I can't believe I used to hate the guy, he's a stud! If I had room, I'd go TA that class. English taught me a lot about analyzation and about writing, but it was a mean first few months in there. It was trial by fire at first, but once we all came through it, things blossomed and became really awesome. I went into that AP test super confident thanks to Harward. Yeah, multiple choice was still a little sketchy, but man, those essays came out like molten gold spewing from my pen. Na na na na, can't touch this.
The best part was, I totally used Latape. I did. The one I vowed never to use, yeah, I used it. Which just goes to show, maybe Harward wasn't a total jerk that managed to change his ways halfway through the year. Maybe the problem lied with me (yeah, duh, of course it did). But I'm glad that me and Harward started getting along. Whatever changed, it was a sweet change, cause I really loved English class. We had a treat bucket! We just had a great time. One of my favorite memories of Junior Year, starting to get along with my English class. Mmm mmm good.
AP Physics- What do you get when you add two parts mullet with three parts awesome shirts, shoes, and watches, and another 4 parts sweet jokes? That's right: Olsen. AP Physics, the next step in the relationship. Now, Sophomore physics and AP physics are completely different animals. Normal honors physics is cake. You go in there, and half the class doesn't want to be there. Olsen knows that. He knows they just don't really want it. The class is easy for you because you want to learn and work hard and do well, and so you do. You really shine in that class. You learn a ton, which is just awesome. Honors physics is pro, but compared to AP, it's the little sandbox next to Kennecott Copper Mine.
I thought I was tough stuff in the physics department, because like I said before, I had owned normal physics. AP took everything that we'd already done and added a million new parts to it. What used to be simple and elegant was now brutally complex and elegant. The same basic ideas applied, but suddenly we had to apply them to a million different things at once. I was totally surprised at how difficult it was.
It was really rewarding though. Figuring out those real complex problems, mmm, that's amazing stuff right there. We honestly felt like the elite in there. It was a small class, and it only got smaller as time went on. We were the cream from the honors classes. I got a lot of respect for everybody that stuck that class out. It was cool to have Olsen teaching us all this stuff. I don't know why, but I think Olsen's just a stud. There were like, 11 of us, and he just totally taught us. It'd be easy for somebody to say 11 kids aren't worth it, but our class was worth it to the school and to Olsen.
It was hard, wrapping my head around it all the time. It always felt so good afterwards when I finally got it. Like most classes though, it was a real two sided deal. When I got stuff I'd walk out of there full of energy and happy as could be. When I didn't understand something, despite trying super hard, I'd be way depressed and tired once school got out. Whether I got it or not really governed how I felt about it.
Harmonic motion was a brute, and so was radial motion till we all got the hang of it. All the calculus stuff really wasn't that difficult, but considering the lack of background I had in calc it made it a little trickier.
It was a hard subject, but one that I'm glad I took. We had a lot of fun joking around together and learning. It was a challenge, but with the challenge came great rewards. Much love for my AP physics class. There's nobody in there I don't respect and smile when I think about them. Bahaha, just good times.
AP Chemistry- I saved this one for last, as it's the best one. The Grandpappy of AP experiences. The keynote speaker, the big one. AP Chemistry takes the cup for junior year.
Imagine this setup: Last year you took normal chemistry, and did well in the class. You understand everything pretty decent. You decide to take AP chemistry, because, well, why not? You want to learn more because it interests you and you think it'll be useful.
You walk in the first day and find a class of 14 or so other students. You know all but one of them from previous experiences together. Your teacher is your cross country coach, who you've spent the entire last summer running for. You respect him a ton, and you know that he respects you a ton as well. You're excited to learn. Some of your best friends are there right by you, it's going to be a good year.
You get your book and your assignments. You realize very quickly that they are all exactly the same. Read the chapter. Do these questions. Test on it afterwards. Every single time.
Sometimes we'd wait to have a test on a few chapters at once. But that's how it went. Read the chapter, questions in the back of the chapter. If you can't figure something out, we'll talk about it as a class.
It got old fast, and we could see a few people falling by the wayside. Luckily the whole first semester was stuff we had done last year, so it was mostly a review plus a few fairly mild new concepts. Hansen, who I respect a ton to this day, wasn't spoon feeding us. In fact, he wasn't spoon feeding us to the extreme. It was the furthest from it possible. We had our books, we had the assignment. We were on our own.
Sure, we'd talk about stuff in class. But for whatever reasons that rarely ever helped. In fact, it mostly just confused us more.
Things got progressively harder. The subject was picking up, and we were ultimately responsible for ourselves. This wasn't like History where Rockwell lectured every day, with the book as a supplement. Nope. The book was your only friend in that class. Nothing else would help you. Your only chance was the book.
The semester break approached, and the class took a serious blow. James and Jason and Tania were leaving us. Now, to most classes that's not a big deal, but to a class of 14 or so, losing three of your members is a big deal. Hansen was a little sad about it, he felt like he'd messed up and that's why they were leaving.
One day around that time I stopped into Hansen's room to tell him I wasn't going to go to practice or something of that nature, and me and him ended up having an hour long discussion about the AP Chemistry class and what needed to change. It took a while, it was kind of a difficult thing to talk about, but we made good progress. We discussed how it didn't really do us any good to have Hansen kind of read the chapter to us, and that we needed more class participation and more support together instead of strictly from the book. We talked about ideas for gearing up for the test and how to prepare. At the end of that little meeting we both came out of there with a serious plan on how to make the class work better, and for the first time in a long time I was excited about AP Chemistry again.
Semester change came, our numbers went down, and all the sudden we were into new material. Everything before had been hard, but it had been things we were comfortable with from the past. We were launched into Chemical Kinetics, rates of reaction and all that business. Molecular Geometry, brutal stuff like that. It was brand new. The class changed a little bit because of what me and Hansen talked about, but it was still the same basic concept: This is your class, I can't feed it to you, it's your responsibility.
A few students "died" in those months. They didn't really get the new material, and they decided that they wouldn't take the test when it came up. I got pretty discouraged for a while, got a little tired of it, but I was still in it and knew I'd be taking the test. We moved along. I'd get excited when I'd learn something new and understand it, but I was still a little dormant.
Now, important to note here is the presence of Levi. Levi was one of the guys that was ready to leave the class at semester. We knew that we his plan. I was disappointed, but that's what he had decided to do. The first day of second semester, there was Levi. He had had a change of heart, and said he was determined now to stay and pass that test.
It was a few months later that I really started to notice how determined Levi truly was. Hansen had bought us the princeton review and the Barrons prep books. I saw Levi studying them, taking notes of things he didn't understand, and then raising his hands and asking questions for Hansen on stuff he didn't know. I saw him studying in junior choir! It was amazing, I was really impressed.
Best of all though, it was contagious. Levi was so determined and excited and ready to go at it, that it was impossible for me not to catch the spirit. He'd ask me a question, and I'd mostly know the answer, but I was content with that. I couldn't give it to him for sure, and that wasn't good enough for him. He needed to know. What had once been good enough for me, that foggy idea, just wasn't good enough anymore. I had to study! I had to go and learn everything I could! The test was coming up, and if it killed both of us, Levi and I had decided to be ready. We vowed that we'd pass it.
We both set out studying hard from that point. We knew that the situation was pretty critical. Hansen, who I respect so much, simply wasn't going to give us the info. He knew it, that's for sure, but he didn't quite know how to teach us everything. He had given us the tools though. We had our text book, the princeton, the barrons, and the whole class to use as resources to figure things out. During class times we had mostly taken to doing practice tests, everything we could get our hands on. We did so many of them. While that was going on it was up to us to study and figure out the stuff that we didn't know that we needed to.
It was definitely sink or swim time. The test was only a few weeks away. Then a miracle struck. Hansen busted out some amazing teaching. We need desperate help on equilibrium, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. It was brief, and really close to the test date, but it was needed relief, and I think we all appreciated it greatly.
The test grew neared. I still had three other tests growing nearer, but none worried me like chemistry did. It was the big show, the real one. Everything else, if we passed, we passed because we worked hard and had a lot of help. With AP Chemistry, if we passed, we knew we passed because we earned it. It was the test to beat. If I could do that, I could do anything.
Me and Levi kept studying. The day before the test Levi came home with me and we spent four hours or so going over stuff. We got online and looked at 2006's free response test. We did it all, piece by piece. We went through it and figured it out. It was a big confidence builder. We had studied like mad and here we were, actually making it through 2006's best shot.
As a team we knew we could do it. We felt confident, but we knew that tomorrow would bring a whole new animal. We'd be separated, no more consulting each other. Tomorrow was the day. We figured we'd done everything that we could. We parted for the evening, as prepared as we could possibly be for what was to come.
The day of the test was strong. This was it. I didn't care about anything else right then. Those three other tests didn't even matter compared to chemistry. We got to the library early and chilled. It was a very small group taking the test, only eight or so of us. Me, Levi, Glen, Landon, Lydia, Rachel, and a few others. It all came down to this.
The test opened up harder than I expected for the beginning, but it was multiple choice, and everything we'd learned and process of elimination moved me forward. It felt oddly surreal. The whole year had really been building up to this point. This was it. The big show, right here. I was doing the test. I couldn't hear angels singing or cosmos spiraling away. It was surreal in the fact that it was just a normal day, in the normal library, filling out that normal bubble sheet. It wasn't epic. And yet, to me, inside, it was the most epic thing I'd done all year.
I pushed on, and once multiple choice was done came the free response. The same feeling. This was it! I was here, doing it! The real deal! The test! Everything went into it. I pushed as hard as I could.
And then it was over. The symbolic test was finished. I sealed the packet and signed my fate over to the AP graders. A whole year of studying. All the bonds (ha!) that were made between me and Levi over the stress of the test just finally free to be happy. We were all happy for each other. We were survivors.
Now, I know I have gone on forever. But I fear that I haven't quite made this point epic enough. In any good hero story, one must overcome incalculable odds to win the day. If Hercules' twelve tasks had simply been to mow the lawn seven times, he wouldn't have been a very good hero. The fact was that his twelve tasks involved slaying a hydra, kidnapping Cerberus, obtaining some girdle and some cows, stealing some apples from some other mean guy, and all sorts of other insane stuff. This was no walk in the park. Because it was so insanely difficult, it makes a nice epic.
For a hero to kill a dragon with a tank, well, that's not so cool. For a hero to have to kill the dragon with nothing but his sword? Yeah, that's princess-saving material right there. It was just like that. For our class to go in there and beat that AP test, it was kind of like slaying a dragon with toenail clippers. We weren't handed the victory. But the truth of the matter was that we had the clippers, and that's all we needed. It was whether or not we were going to use those clippers.
Levi and I made the choice that we would slap that dragon up and down with those clippers. We put in the work, and we were rewarded for it. I know of several others that did similarly. I know of some that didn't. A few gave up. That was their choice.
But me and levi? Oh no, we're in it for the big show. No questions about it. We played that test hard, and we kicked the crap out of it.
That's why I have such a love for AP Chemistry. It wasn't handed to me, and that makes all the difference in the world.
I will finish the rest of this post at a later date. Hooray!
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Posted by CJThatcher at 2:00 AM
Mm-mm, good. I can't wait for the rest of it.
That was a great year, indeed. Lit mag especially was awesome; I loved working with you and Jaron. Like you said, we became pretty tight.
Good post. I look forward to the rest.
Rebbie Becky said...
omg. what a great summary of our junior year. I cannot wait for the senior edition!! hey check out my blog at rebbiebecky.blogspot.com/
Iam a current BHS senior who took AP Chemistry my junior year. I never thought the class to be very difficult. The general sense I got was that the sophomores in the class were very challenged, yet the juniors seemed to be hardly challenged.I believe that students should make the most of their time in school, by taking the classes that interest and challenge them most, but should always keep in mind ''never to let school get in the way of your education''. Hope this helps. BHS Senior
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Charles Rammelkamp, 1/19/2015
Current Occupation: RETIRED
Former Occupation: ADJUNCT ENGLISH PROFESSOR and TECHNICAL WRITER
Contact Information: Charles Rammelkamp has published a novel (The Secretkeepers), two collections of short fiction and two volumes of poetry. A chapbook of poems, MIXED SIGNALS, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. A full-length volume of poetry entitled MATA HARI: EYE OF THE DAY will be published by Apprentice House in 2015.
“So how’s retirement?” Mark asked. It was Saturday and we were both at the gym. We’d met by chance in the locker room, changing into our togs.
“Not bad,” I said. “It’s been six months. I sure don’t miss Infodyne.” Infodyne was the company where I had worked as a technical writer for twenty-seven years. None of my friends or family knew exactly what I did, and I found it hard to describe. When asked, I’d allude to the “systems” Infodyne developed for various “applications.” But what I did was…well, I sat at a computer all day or in meetings, updated our “living documents,” as we called the user manuals. When I’d had the opportunity for an early retirement, I’d jumped at it. Infodyne, as the very name of the company suggested, was a soul-sucking waste of time.
“Man, I sure wish I could retire,” Mark said. Mark was a public school psychologist. He dealt with at-risk kids all day. “I mean, on top of all the regular bullshit, I get these…cases.” He paused, but before I could respond, he launched into a description.
“Just yesterday a teacher brings me this kid.” He shook his head in disbelief, remembering. “I mean, in an auditorium full of people you’d be able to pick this guy out. He’s fidgety, yes, but I mean, this is way beyond fidgety. Rolling his head around, punching walls. There must be some neurological damage. I wanted to know what medications he was on, talk to his parents, somebody, refer him to a hospital for observation.”
Just then a stranger interrupted our conversation, a burly guy at another locker in a windbreaker and ballcap. “Send him to City Psych,” the man said. “They’re one of the best places for kids like this. Look, it’s right here in the business journal, the ranking.” The man pulled a newspaper from his satchel and thrust it at Mark.
“Thanks. I’ve seen those lists before. Yes, City Psych, I’ve heard of them,” Mark said.
“Bill Toomey, he runs it,” the man said. “Me and Bill used to play ball together at Archbishop Spalding. He was quarterback. I played tackle. Bill was more of a fullback, really, but coach made him quarterback. I remember this one game we played against Saint Paul…”
I took the opportunity to leave Mark and this guy, went to the pool to swim my half-mile. After my swim, I came back to the locker room, and there was Mark again, likewise having just completed his workout. I resumed our earlier conversation.
“I have been thinking of teaching a course in the writing program at the university,” I said. “But just for something to do. On the adjunct faculty.”
“That sounds like a good idea,” Mark nodded. “Have you taught before?”
“Years ago at the community college,” I said. “One course, at night. Your story about that kid made me remember this student I had who used to light matches in class. I’d have to ask him to stop. He wore a ballcap with Go to Hell on the visor, and in his first essay he wrote about how his grandfather drowned his grandmother in the bathtub on Christmas Eve, a mercy killing –”
“You teach writing?” I turned around and there he was again, the burly guy. It didn’t look as though he’d exercised. He still had his windbreaker and ballcap on, still held onto his satchel.
“Well, I – ” I started to explain, but the man had dug around in his bag and pulled out several sheets of paper on which he’d written in pencil. I could see a lot of words crossed out and inserted, signs of erasures.
“I’m writing this story for the business journal. Maybe you could take a look at it.” His hands trembled as he turned the pages over and over to find the beginning and then he started to read. “The new features of the marketing period,” he read and then paused, muttered the word “networking,” stopped, thrust the papers at me.
“I can’t read without my glasses,” he said. “Here.”
But I just grabbed my towel and headed to the showers. “Yeah, I need my glasses, too,” I apologized. “Besides, I’m retired.”
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Jan Priddy says:
At 62, I am nearing retirement, and I will probably welcome retirement. I am tired. I would prefer to keep working part time, but that may not be an option. We’ll see. But I am a teacher and my job is exhausting but soul-enriching. I fear what might happen to my soul without the daily challenge of teaching high school students. For my entire adult life I have worked with students. They insist I be my best, they insist I keep rethinking what I think I know, they give me a bigger world than I would have if I didn’t have to get out of bed by 6:30 in order to get to school and could keep right on writing all day.
Barb Belland says:
Nice article, Charles. I believe only retire from one career so that we can occupy ourselves with other interests. Upon “retirement” I returned to school but initially found myself bored without the challenge of holding a company together. Now, I find that I’ve been able to carry my business acumen over to my writing career. Retirement is for those who have “been there and done that” and still have something to offer.
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Millie BadCat
From the moment I saw her years and years ago, I knew Millie was the cat for me. She was very small, and the tag on her cage at the Humane Society said that she liked to chase moths, and I thought that made her a knitter’s cat for sure. Turns out she didn’t give a crap about moths, but she was a hell of a mouser, and regularly attempted to make short work of every animal in the neighbourhood.
It wasn’t at all unusual to have to unhook her from the front windowscreens where she hung, hurling invective at some enormous dog she felt sure she could end if she could just get through the damn window. She slept on my head every night and went on hungerstrikes when I left town. She liked to put her tail in my bath. Her favourite food was pizza, she was tidier than we were, and she taught all the girls to hang up their coats through the magic of urine… and I didn’t know just how much I loved her until today. She drove me crazy.
Millie was an old lady by now – in human years she’d be in her nineties, and up until the last few days she’d been having a pretty good run. She still made her rounds every morning to make sure that there were no squirrels that needed threatening, and she continued to raid the compost bin if the lid was left open, fulfilling a deep passion for any food that was not intended for cats. In the last little bit she’d become very skinny, and seemed to have less energy, and today a visit to the vet for what we thought was something minor became very major indeed, and we said by to our little cat just an hour after a diagnosis so devastating that there was nothing else to do. She was a very, very good cat, and we wouldn’t have wanted to see her suffer for a minute longer.
I’ll get back to knitting and fundraising tomorrow, goodness knows both need doing, but tonight I think I’ll just have a really good cry for my 3.77lbs of wee beast.
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Margo on June 27, 2017 at 6:56 pm said:
Oh Steph, I’m so sorry. It’s so hard to say good-bye to our furry friends. A touching tribute. I love the picture with her tail in the bath!
Sue Franklin on June 28, 2017 at 11:38 am said:
Such a pretty kitty, and a lovely tribute! Millie was blessed to have been so loved, and that your love was strong enough & selfless enough to let her go when it was time.
Gina on June 27, 2017 at 6:56 pm said:
Good cat thoughts your way. So nice you had her for so long. So
Kathie on June 27, 2017 at 6:58 pm said:
JuleZ on June 27, 2017 at 6:58 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss! My furbaby’s been gone for 28 years and I miss her everyday!
kath on June 27, 2017 at 7:01 pm said:
So sorry — our furry friends are like no other.
I’m so very sorry for your loss. It’s never easy losing a soul-cat.
Natalie C on June 27, 2017 at 7:03 pm said:
So very sorry to hear this, I’ve always admired her when she’s made an appearance on the blog- she was so pretty!
Sending love, losing a pet is so hard, but much worse when they’ve been your shadow for so long x
Lynne on June 27, 2017 at 7:03 pm said:
So sorry for your loss!
Lucinda on June 27, 2017 at 7:04 pm said:
I’m so sorry! Losing a beloved pet is so hard.
Eden on June 27, 2017 at 7:05 pm said:
Oh, Stephanie, my heart breaks for you. I know how you feel. My deepest condolences.
Leslie Fischgrund on June 27, 2017 at 7:05 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. What a great tribute you wrote to Millie, and I know that was hard to do today.
Until you meet again on the Rainbow Bridge….
Liz on June 27, 2017 at 7:06 pm said:
I am so, so very sorry. It sounds like she had a wonderful life with you. It’s never easy to let our beloved pets go. Heartfelt sympathy from NYC.
MK on June 27, 2017 at 7:06 pm said:
I’m so sorry. I’m glad she had so many quirks; you’ll never run out of stories to tell about her! But then, I think that’s almost always the case with the animals closest to our hearts… we know all the ways that they’re impossibly weird.
Kim on June 27, 2017 at 7:07 pm said:
Our deepest sympathies to you and your family. Many hugs in empathy.
Carolyn on June 27, 2017 at 7:09 pm said:
Nothing winds tighter around our hearts than these precious fur babies….cried for several myself,..
Sunny on June 27, 2017 at 7:10 pm said:
What what a great life Millie had and she got to protect your house and yarn from any intruders. Years ago, we had a cat that loved to get in our bathtub after one of us had a bath because it was nice and warm. He would get in there and purr really loud and the sound would amplify. Thanks for bringing back that lovely memory.
Damn. So sorry. She was loved.
grace on June 27, 2017 at 7:14 pm said:
Sorry to hear. She had a great run after you adopted her.
Alllison on June 27, 2017 at 7:15 pm said:
I am so very sorry for your loss Stephanie. I give you so much credit for honoring Millie with your post. I lost my cat of 23 years last year and I could not post about it at all. I had her longer than I had been a mom. It gets easier, and I look back with lots of love and fond thoughts now.
Anne on June 27, 2017 at 7:15 pm said:
I’m so sorry. She was a beautiful cat, and it sounds like she was a wonderful one.
Miranda on June 27, 2017 at 7:16 pm said:
So very much love. So sorry for your loss.
Morenna on June 27, 2017 at 7:17 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. Millie sounds like wuite a character.
Afton on June 27, 2017 at 7:19 pm said:
My heart goes out to your and your family for your loss. The creap into our hearts, burrow around and leave a cavity when they leave us, don’t they?
Erin Dixon on June 27, 2017 at 7:19 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. We had to put down our dog of 15 years last year and it was the hardest thing. But when they reach that old of an age, it’s a mercy. She’ll be there on the other side, waiting to sleep on your head.
Anela on June 27, 2017 at 7:20 pm said:
I’m so sorry you had to say goodbye to your friend. You were so lucky to have each other fir so long.
Terry on June 27, 2017 at 7:20 pm said:
So sorry! I had to do the same back in September for my 15 year old best buddy, who also, by odd coincidence, loved to sleep on my head every night. It’s amazing what holes they leave when they go.
mousiesnax on June 27, 2017 at 7:23 pm said:
Very sorry to learn of Millie’s passing. What else can I say?
Elaine in NYC on June 27, 2017 at 7:23 pm said:
Oh, Steph, I’m so sorry about Millie. It’s never easy to lose a beloved pet.
Elaine in NYC
Cynthia Carpenter on June 27, 2017 at 7:25 pm said:
All these years I thought you did not really care for Millie and that she was really just for the girls. I’m so sorry both for my ignorance and especially for your great loss.
ccr in MA on June 27, 2017 at 7:26 pm said:
I’m so very sorry.
I’ve had them go quickly and slowly, and both ways suck.
Jo-Anne on June 27, 2017 at 7:27 pm said:
So very sorry for your loss. It is so hard to lose a furry member of the family. I know she was much loved.
Cherylann on June 27, 2017 at 7:28 pm said:
You don’t choose cats; they choose you. How lucky that Millie chose you. Millie’s on the other side of Rainbow Bridge (with a giant pizza all her own). She’ll look down on you every now and then to make sure your stash is mouse free. Sending you loads of hugs and light and love.
liz n. on June 27, 2017 at 7:29 pm said:
Condolences to you.
The animals who grace our lives leave paw prints on our hearts forever, don’t they?
Very respectful of you to ease Millie’s suffering.
Diane on June 27, 2017 at 7:30 pm said:
Millie certainly was a singular cat. I know your friends and family will always have a special place in your hearts for her. Now so will the Blog. Thank you for the lovely tribute and photos, especially the one with her tail in the tub.
Lori N on June 27, 2017 at 7:31 pm said:
I know how hard it is to lose a pet. I am very sorry for your loss.
Andrea S. on June 27, 2017 at 7:32 pm said:
I’m so very sorry for the loss of your furry family member.
I’m sorry, sometimes the “bad” animals make the best pets.
Erica on June 27, 2017 at 7:34 pm said:
I’m so sorry. The furry ones seem to leave the largest emptiness.
Hugs–I’m so sorry for your loss.
Barbara R on June 27, 2017 at 7:35 pm said:
Totally understand. Been there, done that for Mrs. Jones. She was 14years old. Go cry now.
I’m so sorry to hear about Millie. Sounds like you both won the lottery when you took her home. (((hugs)))
Trish at Tangled Threads on June 27, 2017 at 7:39 pm said:
So glad that she shared her life with you. So sorry that you have to carry on alone. Never easy to lose a special friend.
EvelynU on June 27, 2017 at 7:40 pm said:
Patty on June 27, 2017 at 7:42 pm said:
So Sorry! ♡ She has quite a legacy, immortalized in the blog. Love to all her family members. I know she will be sorely missed.
Word Lily on June 27, 2017 at 7:43 pm said:
Ohh, I’m so sorry for your loss.
Aunt Colleen on June 27, 2017 at 7:44 pm said:
Oh! I’m so sorry, Stephanie. I’ll have a bit of a cry for you and your kitty, too.
Olivia on June 27, 2017 at 7:44 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. Millie was truly one of the Best Cats.
Tara on June 27, 2017 at 7:45 pm said:
So sorry for your loss
Miriam Ogden on June 27, 2017 at 7:45 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. I understand, as I just had to have my sweet cat Lovey put down on Thursday. It is hard… Take care
Sandy on June 27, 2017 at 7:45 pm said:
Peggy Hinrichs on June 27, 2017 at 7:47 pm said:
Oh Steph, my heart goes out to you. Millie was a member of your family, and now she’s gone. You are in my prayers.
I’m so sorry Millie was a very cool cat. I lost my fur baby in Feb , but she (Millie) will be there waiting at the rainbow bridge. Hugs
Jane on June 27, 2017 at 7:48 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. She sounds like a very good cat, indeed.
RisaL on June 27, 2017 at 7:48 pm said:
Deepest and most sincere sympathy on the passing of Millie. Bless you for adopting her and loving her, and bless her for loving you. May you meet again at the rainbow bridge.
(This is from a dog person.)
Raymonde on June 27, 2017 at 7:49 pm said:
So, so sorry to hear about your cat. It is hard to lose our furrry friends.
Cheryl-anne on June 27, 2017 at 7:54 pm said:
I am so sorry for your loss . My husband and I did the same on Saturday with our own feisty nearly 15 year old girl, it is not an easy thing to do, but it is what is best for them…
Sorry for your loss, animals are a great gift for the time we have them
Renee on June 27, 2017 at 7:55 pm said:
Gosh it’s so hard to lose fur family. What a gal Millie was. Sending lots of fur love from my two cats, Brandy and Izzie.
So sorry. Millie had a good person. You were both lucky. Hugs…
Sarah V. on June 27, 2017 at 8:05 pm said:
Oh, oh, Stephanie. I am so, so, so very sorry. Millie was a complete badass, and she will be missed by the blog, too. Hugs and so much sympathy from afar.
Cecilia on June 27, 2017 at 8:08 pm said:
Oh Steph, I’m so sorry. I’m glad that Millie had such a good human. Hugs.
Carolyn in NH on June 27, 2017 at 8:08 pm said:
Sad news. So sorry for your loss. It sounds like she had a good, long life with you, with much love. All our critters deserve as much. Cry, and expect to still feel her “sleeping” on your head sometimes. She obviously loved you too.
I am so sorry-now there is a Millie-shaped hole in your lives. We all will miss her.
My Buddy sits over my shoulder as I type this. His days are surely numbered, but he is oblivious, so we wait. It will be so hard, even though we see it coming.
Britta on June 27, 2017 at 8:09 pm said:
I’m so sorry to your family for the loss of Millie! Saying goodbye to our beloved pets is the hardest thing about loving them. I’m glad you were able to ease her suffering.
Biskymom on June 27, 2017 at 8:10 pm said:
She sounds like she was a terrific cat with a lot of personality. So sorry for your loss.
Robin of Omelette on June 27, 2017 at 8:10 pm said:
So sorry for your loss; I’ll miss her sadly– a most blog-worthy cat.
My favorite picture of her was one with her front paws on the edge of the tub, captioned, “Whatcha doin’–takin’ a bath?”
Lindsey from London on June 27, 2017 at 8:14 pm said:
Oh poor Millie and poor you! It is so hard losing a cat you love …
The only time my stepfather ever cried was when our beloved 18-year-old Siamese died. I still think of him often with great affection, and it’s been well over 30 years (and two years ago I dissolved into tears when I found some of his hairs when cleaning out my mother’s house …).
Millie will always be part of your family’s life and legends, and what more could a cat want (besides a warm and loving home, which she obviously had)?
JudyG on June 27, 2017 at 8:14 pm said:
We recently had a similar situation with our Nathan who was only 10. Left him for a test, went to bring him home, left with an empty carrier. So glad that Millie was yours and you hers. Many hugs.
Carla on June 27, 2017 at 8:14 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss, but thank you for sharing your heartache with us. Maybe this is why my Mickey has been reminding me since I got home, “Pet me now. You might not get a chance to tomorrow.”
oh, I am so sorry! I am a cat person and the loss of one of our girls is so very difficult. My girls and I send our hugs and sympathy.
Wendy T on June 27, 2017 at 8:15 pm said:
I am slave to three felines. I have lost three others over the years. I cry whenever that happens. I also cry for other kitties when they die. I’m crying for yours. I’m sorry for your heartache.
Charlene on June 27, 2017 at 8:15 pm said:
Her devotion to your bathing always made me smile. So sorry your wee one has left you.
Sue J on June 27, 2017 at 8:15 pm said:
So sorry, Stephanie. Sending much love and hugs your way.
Mandy S on June 27, 2017 at 8:16 pm said:
Nothing helps ease that ache. Tears from here for you.
I’m so sorry anout Millie’s death. I know it leaves a hole in your heart.
Margieinmaryland
sprite on June 27, 2017 at 8:17 pm said:
Sending love to you & your family.
Gale on June 27, 2017 at 8:17 pm said:
So very sorry. Losing a pet is , losing a member of the family.
Fiberenabler on June 27, 2017 at 8:18 pm said:
I’m so so sorry. Gentle hugs. You were a good cat, Millie.
Katie on June 27, 2017 at 8:18 pm said:
I’m unlurking to offer my deepest condolences on Millie’s loss. As a lifelong pet owner, I know just how deeply they work their way into our hearts, and that no matter how long we are blessed to have them in our lives, it’s never long enough. Sending virtual hugs!
Par in Unionville on June 27, 2017 at 8:18 pm said:
Only another pet owner truly understands. Hugs to you and your family. Millie was a blog legend.
MNSusan on June 27, 2017 at 8:18 pm said:
I am so very sad for you and your family. We just went through this in May with our 13-year-old black Lab. Bailey was wild and crazy and so very loved. It is so hard to say goodbye.
Elizabeth on June 27, 2017 at 8:21 pm said:
Oh so sorry–the very worst kind of day. You were fortunate to have each other; you must have brought her a lot of happiness, whether she showed it or not (cats often don’t, alas).
Jenny Benton on June 27, 2017 at 8:22 pm said:
So sorry to read of the passing of your beloved cat. She will stay in your hear forever – and be prepared to think you catch a glimpse of her around a corner for quite some time. I think their spirits come back to say a final goodbye and remind us of their love.
We had to say goodbye to our beautiful 20 year old Birman and still miss her terribly.
Betty Catherine on June 27, 2017 at 8:25 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. They really are one of the family, and they don’t last long enough.
Margaret in Mirror, Alberta on June 27, 2017 at 8:27 pm said:
I am a Certified Cat Person. I know exactly whereof you speak…having been privileged to have a few versions of Millie-cat in my life (current feline: Pookie, aka “Miss Pooks”, “Missie Poo-poo” or just plain ‘Pooks’). My heart goes out to you…and I send you a hug across the miles.
Christie on June 27, 2017 at 8:31 pm said:
I’m sorry for your loss. 🙁
ChemKnits on June 27, 2017 at 8:33 pm said:
I”m so sorry for your loss. She had a wonderful life and got to be a knitter’s cat, which is the best kind I have two 5 year old cats and I can’t imagine how I’ll deal with not having them around. You’ve lost a member of the family – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Hugs to you and your family. So hard to say goodbye even when you know it’s the loving thing to do. Such a beautiful girl!
Melody on June 27, 2017 at 8:38 pm said:
Oh, Stephanie, I add my condolences at the loss of your Millie. I am so sorry for the heartache you feel. The deeper your hurt, the more she was loved.
I lost my precious Ellie (my avatar) in February to kidney disease. I had had her for over 17 years. She got me through a separation, a divorce, depression and so much more. She took part of my heart with her when she went.
Deborah on June 27, 2017 at 8:46 pm said:
Oh, Stephanie, I’m so sorry. I remember Millie stories going way back on this blog, and I’ve always been gleeful over any glimpse you’d give us of your black furry beauty. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for you to lose her, and I hope you do give yourself the time you need to cry and grieve. My thoughts are with you.
(Just to add– I made a donation to your PWA fundraiser in memory of Millie.)
Kate on June 27, 2017 at 8:50 pm said:
Our Bluebell in Texas looked just like your Millie. We loved seeing pictures of your Millie and we know how much you are missing her. Our sympathy.
Cathy Sims on June 27, 2017 at 8:52 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m sure that you did all the right things at all the right times, and eventually you will even believe that. She had a good life with you and she knew she was loved.
Judy Workman on June 27, 2017 at 8:55 pm said:
It’s never easy to let go of those we love. I am so sorry for the loss you all feel.
Tiffanie on June 27, 2017 at 9:02 pm said:
“Millie was”
Two words that are so sad.
She most certainly had a good run.
lauren on June 27, 2017 at 9:05 pm said:
oh as soon as I started reading this post I knew. Dear sweet old Millie! I am glad she had many long happy years with you and your family. Hugs and love to you all. <3
Pat on June 27, 2017 at 9:05 pm said:
I join the others of the blog wishing/praying for your comfort. I have no other words. <>
Shelley on June 27, 2017 at 9:07 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. She was a beautiful little cat and was very luck to have you for her family.
Janice on June 27, 2017 at 9:07 pm said:
So very sorry. I loved when you blogged her. The blog is crying too.
My cat was put down in October 2014 after a wonderful run of sixteen years as a member of our family. The day we said goodbye to her, my heart felt broken and my eyes were filled with tears (something that strangely doesn’t happen to me immediately after a human death in the family). I could feel the void she left behind in our home for days afterward. Thankfully, our dog helped in healing some of my heartbreak (although I do realize dogs aren’t for everyone).
*hugs* I’m so sorry to hear about Millie; from what I gathered from your pictures of her she was a beautiful cat. We here on the internets will miss her along with you.
Barbara from Springfield MA on June 27, 2017 at 9:14 pm said:
It hurts so much to say goodbye to our little furry kids. I am so sorry for your loss. Take a few days off from blogging – but if you need to talk, we’re here to listen.
I think you need some snuggle time with Elliott. Nothing like a baby to heal your heart.
My sympathies to you and all of Millie ‘s famiky
Presbytera on June 27, 2017 at 9:21 pm said:
Sending sympathy (and empathy) to you and Joe and the girls on this sad day.
Cindy on June 27, 2017 at 9:25 pm said:
Losing a beloved pet is so hard and I am weeping just thinking about how sad you must feel. Try to remember the unique things that Millie did to make you laugh or wonder, “How did she think of doing THAT! She was loved and cared for and loved you back….what else do we need. Hugs to you and your family…
Rebecca S. on June 27, 2017 at 9:29 pm said:
I’m so sorry, Stephanie. We lost one of ours over U.S. Thanksgiving and we still grieve.
Jesse on June 27, 2017 at 9:30 pm said:
I’m sorry for your loss. She loved you just as much as you loved her.
Sandra on June 27, 2017 at 9:32 pm said:
There is simply no better friend than our felines. When they go, they leave a hole in our hearts that can never be filled. Their daily rounds, their lioving rituals shape us as better people. When we go to a shelter to adopt, we let the cat choose us and they are never wrong.
RIP, dear Millie. We will miss you, too.
Tamera york on June 27, 2017 at 9:33 pm said:
So sorry. They sneak into your heart and leave a hole when they leave
Robin on June 27, 2017 at 9:34 pm said:
Sorry for your heartache at your loss.
Sharon on June 27, 2017 at 9:35 pm said:
So very sorry for your loss….
I’ll weep with you. I had to put my beautiful friend to sleep a year ago and clearly I’m not as over it as I had hoped.
Tinkerbell was oddly enough about the same size as Millie but a photo negative of her. She was a shaded silver Persian and where Millie turned white, she turned dark gray.
I honor you for acting to spare her suffering and by that action to take it on yourself. It is the only gift that you can give that is meaningful and damnit it hurts so so much. I wish you peace.
Stacia on June 27, 2017 at 9:42 pm said:
I am so sorry!
I could have been reading about my Lucy. Her last day was very much the same. I still miss her. She will ALWAYS be the background on my iPad.
I always mourn for the furry children. Having my sweet Leif (dog) put down was the most gut-wrenching thing I’ve ever done, so I feel your pain. I love cats, but have none because I also love a cat-allergic husband. Love the photos of her, especially the tub pic. May she mouse long and prosper over the rainbow bridge!
Lisa H. on June 27, 2017 at 9:49 pm said:
I am so sorry for the loss of your sweet (not bad) cat Millie.
I am so sad for your loss. We lost two cats in much the same way, and knowing that they are not suffering does not make their absence any less sad. Grieve, and knit, and come back when you’re ready <3
My sympathies. Millie made lovely appearances in the blog. Her glare was magnificent. I shall miss her…though not as you will.
Nikki on June 27, 2017 at 9:56 pm said:
I am very sorry
Sarah on June 27, 2017 at 9:57 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss.
I lost my 18 year old baby in October last year and I still miss her sleeping on my pillow curled around my head. She was a much larger girl than yours — about 10 lbs — but the love is so much larger than their bodies.
Dimitra on June 27, 2017 at 9:59 pm said:
So very sorry Steph. I lost my own dear kitty five years ago this month. I like to think of our cats who have left us romping in endless fields of catnip in cat heaven.
Booa on June 27, 2017 at 10:00 pm said:
Oh, I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so hard. You don’t know how much you love your furbaby until you have to make a truly horrible decision to spare them pain. They leave a very very large hole in your heart. I’m crying for Millie, and for you, and everyone that loved her. She was loved and cared for and I’m sure she loved you, too. Hugs and light and love and I’m so, so very sorry.
Pat on June 27, 2017 at 10:00 pm said:
I’m sure our very good cats Boris and Merlin are showing her ropes in cat heaven. Where the sound of the can opener makes them all sing.
Sorry for your loss my dear. It’s never easy but the memories are sweet.
Judy Phillips on June 27, 2017 at 10:03 pm said:
Oh what a beauty! I have an aging purr baby who won’t be with me much longer. He’s had a good long run, but oh how I will miss him.
Kathy I on June 27, 2017 at 10:05 pm said:
I’m sorry for your loss. 🙁 -hugs-
Judy on June 27, 2017 at 10:05 pm said:
Oh! I’m so sorry for the loss of your baby. Those cat persons in our life are such a joy. Hugs to you. So sad!
Pat L on June 27, 2017 at 10:09 pm said:
Very sorry for your loss of sweet Millie. It always hurts to lose à 4-legged family member. Thinking of you and sending condolences. ❤
MillieP on June 27, 2017 at 10:12 pm said:
Sad for the loss of your little beastie.
Directions at the bottom of Leave-a-Reply say ‘touch the cat’. Ironic given the story of the cat is the thing has touched us all.
Eve Linn on June 27, 2017 at 10:13 pm said:
So sorry to read of the loss of your quirky girl cat. It’s always a horrible wrench to say goodbye. Thinking of you and your family.
zombie tomato on June 27, 2017 at 10:16 pm said:
I am so sorry for your loss. Millie sounds like a wonderful wee kitty beast. And she was so beautiful.
Nicole on June 27, 2017 at 10:22 pm said:
Love to you, yours and to Millie. My cats always love me more when I’m knitting. Wonderful little things they are.
Anne at Shintangle Studio on June 27, 2017 at 10:22 pm said:
My studio companion Winston, a marmalade, striped cat who was supposed to be a barn cat (that didn’t last long), was born in a basket in my closet fifteen years ago, and this weekend I thought he was in his last days. He’s better now, but I know it’s just a matter of time, probably not very much time. I’m watching carefully to try to catch that moment when his life ceases to be a joy to him so we can help him out of it with mercy and love. It’s all we can do, as the lovers and guardians of our non-human family members. Sigh. We can, however, be glad to have given them good lives and glad too for all they gave us. I’m sorry you’ve lost your Millie.
Robin on June 27, 2017 at 10:22 pm said:
Might be time to get out Elliot’s rainbow booties in tribute. “Gone from your life but never absent from your heart.” Hugs to you and the fam.
Years ago, as a beloved dog was escorted to the Rainbow Bridge, my favorite vet told me that if he didn’t believe that all of his pets would be waiting in Heaven, he wouldn’t much care whether he went there.
I’m a nonbeliever, but I totally understood.
Cherish your memories of Millie; when the time is right, she’ll send you your next furbaby.
Julia on June 27, 2017 at 10:26 pm said:
I’m so very sorry. Sometimes the right decisions are the hardest.
May on June 27, 2017 at 10:35 pm said:
I’m so sorry. I lost my dog to cancer on October 7th. Your cat sounds like a very good cat and she was beautiful. My deepest sympathies.
Kmoya on June 27, 2017 at 10:41 pm said:
Today, before I saw your post, I had a long chat with a dear pet who I lost 6 months ago. They’ll always be with us, and i hope they remember how much we love them.
Susan on June 27, 2017 at 10:43 pm said:
I’m so so sorry for your loss. She was a beautiful beautiful girl. It sounds like she was full of sass. (How can so much personality fit into such a tiny body? I’ve never understood, and I’ve lived with many cats.)
Condolences to you and your whole family.
Lee Winemiller Cockrum on June 27, 2017 at 10:46 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. She was a lovely beauty. Such a wonderful memorial you have written for her. Perfectly expresses how m check you love her.
Duffy on June 27, 2017 at 10:46 pm said:
I am so sorry. Much commiserating here from all of us at Chez Runamuck. I’ve had that happen to me and understand.
Marilee RD on June 27, 2017 at 10:51 pm said:
I am so sorry for your loss! She looks like a sweet girl and a wonderful cat – it is terrible losing a loved pet. I’ve had to do the same, and it is devastating. Hugs!
Betty Penick on June 27, 2017 at 10:53 pm said:
My heart aches for your loss!
meg on June 27, 2017 at 11:01 pm said:
the tragedy of loving animals is that we must outlive them. Much love to you and your family.
Kelley on June 27, 2017 at 11:02 pm said:
I am so sorry for your pain. Remember the good times, the quirkiness, and the funny stories. Let go of the hard times at the end. The love lives on.
Aileen on June 27, 2017 at 11:04 pm said:
I’m so sorry about Millie.
CatBookMom on June 27, 2017 at 11:07 pm said:
It is always so hard to say goodbye to a furkid. Hope she’s feeling more spry and chasing those mice, over on the other side. My Ravatar black cat Midnight and her sister Shadow will be sure to show her the best spots for sunbaths.
Nancy G on June 27, 2017 at 11:17 pm said:
Oh, Steph, I am so very sorry for your loss! Our furbabies are never with us long enough, but the pain when we lose them is the price we pay for the joy (and very definitely the laughter) they bring to our lives.
Brenda Mansker on June 27, 2017 at 11:24 pm said:
It’s so hard to lose our animal pals. Millie lived long and well. We give them the best we can & let them go. Sorry Stephanie
Ann on June 27, 2017 at 11:25 pm said:
I’m so sorry. Our fur babies dig so deeply into our hearts and it always hurts to let them go.
KCathcart on June 27, 2017 at 11:34 pm said:
So, so sorry. My heart breaks for you. 🙁
Lee Turner on June 27, 2017 at 11:35 pm said:
oh i hate those kitty shaped holes in our hearts when they go. i hope you don’t mind if i cry with you. big hugs, if you want them.
Heather on June 27, 2017 at 11:42 pm said:
I am so sorry. Very much thinking of you and your family now, and in the months to come as you adjust to her being gone.
Barbara Seiver on June 27, 2017 at 11:44 pm said:
You have been loved by a fine cat – a successful life. Sorry you had to say good-bye to such a friend.
Anonymous, too on June 27, 2017 at 11:51 pm said:
Steph, I’m so sorry for your loss. I know everyone who knew her will miss her — even The Blog. Take time to grieve (and to find all the cat toys under the davenport, behind the fridge, etc.). The World’s Greatest Model for Knitted Flat Things will always have a place in your heart and your memories.
Karen on June 28, 2017 at 12:00 am said:
I”m so sorry for your loss!
Jennifer on June 28, 2017 at 12:12 am said:
I’m so sorry Steph! I lost my own sweet little pain in the arse, Mouser, back in December. It was so hard to get used to him not being there to pester me.
Just remember that you gave her a much better and longer life than she might have had otherwise.
Melinda on June 28, 2017 at 12:13 am said:
Tears for you missing your furry girl. I’m nursing an aging dog (he’ll turn 17 July 11 if he keeps waking up). He doesn’t seem sad or in pain – other than stiffness getting up in the morning or laying down again – just slowing down every day. It is so hard to say goodbye. Consider yourself hugged. And may the squirrels forever be chased by her memory!
holly on June 28, 2017 at 12:19 am said:
Oh, Steph! I’m so sorry you’ve lost your fluffy friend. May her memory be a blessing.
Nola H on June 28, 2017 at 12:19 am said:
Sorry for your lost.
Merrill Johnson on June 28, 2017 at 12:28 am said:
So very sorry for your loss. You were clearly a great cat Mom. Hugs.
Lenny on June 28, 2017 at 12:31 am said:
There is a rainbow bridge.
Gina on June 28, 2017 at 12:36 am said:
They take a lot of love with them when they go. Daily love that you didn’t know was there until it’s gone. I share your pain and am sad for you.
Abigail Goben on June 28, 2017 at 12:44 am said:
I’m sorry for the loss of your Millie. She was always a treat to see on the blog! Many hugs from me and my two cats
Kristy on June 28, 2017 at 12:46 am said:
I’m so sorry. Losing a cat at any age is hard, and the unexpectedness had to make it even harder.
Paula Grey on June 28, 2017 at 12:49 am said:
If there were words of comfort I would pour them all over you.
Lani on June 28, 2017 at 12:53 am said:
Love hurts but I’m sure you’ll agree that “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Pets work their way into our hearts and leave such paw prints that the effects of their deaths are the same as those of a family member or dear friend.
Millie was fortunate to have someone able to help her avoid suffering. Perhaps someday all humans who want it can be afforded the same graceful end.
Meghan on June 28, 2017 at 1:07 am said:
My papa lost his cat only a couple of days ago as well. So desperately heartbreaking. We must try to celebrate the joy they bring – as you have done with this post.
Jennifer on June 28, 2017 at 1:08 am said:
Your house must be full of heavy hearts tonight. As a fellow pet lover, I am sorry to hear of her passing and this household thinks of all of you tonight. If only we could have immortality, for our pets…
Kyle on June 28, 2017 at 1:16 am said:
I am so sorry for the loss of your friend. I also have a BadCat who ruins every day of my life, but she’s really going to ruin it when she goes. <3
Lynda the Guppy on June 28, 2017 at 1:24 am said:
I’m so sorry you lost Millie, but what a good long life she had with you and the family.
Thanks for sharing her with us just this little bit.
Tiny Tyrant on June 28, 2017 at 1:24 am said:
Stephanie I am so very sorry for your loss. I loved seeing her on the blog (maybe more than the two legged creatures that inhabit your world).
They take a piece of us with them when they go.
Tubesock Patti on June 28, 2017 at 1:27 am said:
So sorry! Losing a pet is so hard. Sending hugs.
Ann on June 28, 2017 at 1:28 am said:
They put their paw prints on our hearts and fur every where else. Millie sounds like a corker. I’m sorry she’s gone.❤️❤️❤️❤️
Bri on June 28, 2017 at 1:42 am said:
I loved whenever Millie made an appearance on the blog;
she always struck me as the quintessential cat. Having lost my own (rib) warmer of many years in a similar fashion recently, I knew from the moment I saw the title where your post was going and cried all the way through. I’m so sorry for you and your family and hope you can find solace in knowing the last thing you did for her was the utmost of compassion.
GeniaKnitz on June 28, 2017 at 1:45 am said:
I’m so sorry about your sweet Millie. We’re longtime cat people, and I know how it feels to lose one. The fact that she’ll always live in your heart doesn’t mean you won’t feel her loss every day for a long time. You and she were lucky to have known each other.
Linea on June 28, 2017 at 2:00 am said:
I’m very, very sorry for your loss – losing a pet is always hard, especially when they’ve been part of the family for so many years!
Leigh on June 28, 2017 at 2:15 am said:
For such small furry bodies, they really leave a big hole in your heart. I’m sorry she is gone.
Yvonne on June 28, 2017 at 2:22 am said:
So sorry, Stephanie. It sounds like she discharged her feline duties with dedication, and loved her Mummy very much.
DC on June 28, 2017 at 2:23 am said:
Sorry to hear of your loss of Millie. Our Bad Cat is the one kicking the knitting instruction sheet to shreds because the paper gets more attention. Bye Millie. Will miss bits and pieces of you on YH’s blog photos.
Fionadp on June 28, 2017 at 2:24 am said:
So so sorry. We have lost 4 cats in our married life and they all left a unique shaped hole. That picture could be our Domino, a long haired black moggie. He would dangle his tail in the bath. He loved to roll on the warm tub after the bath and often got wet when he misjudged the drain speed.
Sarah on June 28, 2017 at 2:29 am said:
So sorry for your loss x
E on June 28, 2017 at 2:47 am said:
I am so, so sorry. She was clearly loved and loving, and that makes it harder. My thoughts are with all of you, including Millie.
Ella Smith on June 28, 2017 at 3:06 am said:
My sympathy to you and yours. losing a beloved pet is hard, especially one that has so much personality. it’s 12 years since we lost our big ginger boy Max to kidney failure and i still miss him.
Tanja on June 28, 2017 at 3:21 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss – what a beautiful baby ❤️ We lost our Lena a little more than a year ago, I know how you feel.
Terry Hickman on June 28, 2017 at 3:26 am said:
Here’s another batch of hugs and sympathy for your loss heading to you from Omaha. Our fur babies really are complicated and annoying, delightful, funny, affectionate, amazing friends. Losing a longtime kitty is really, really hard. She was lucky to have you, and the good memories will outlast the hurt. Still. *hugs*
Olivia on June 28, 2017 at 3:32 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss, thinking of you and your family, love from one cat’s human to another xxxxx
Stephanie in PDX on June 28, 2017 at 3:34 am said:
I’m sorry about Millie. My darling Dante looked a lot like Millie and used to put her tail in the tub too. It is just as hard to lose a fur-person.
Rosie on June 28, 2017 at 3:38 am said:
My sympathy on your loss – I would be devastated if I lost my furry friend and I would miss scraping all that ginger fluff off my knitting, too.
Dennis on June 28, 2017 at 3:55 am said:
Since I had my own place, there has always been cats in my home. And every time one died, I cried. When you live together, sleep together, you become part of each other.
And when one dies,part of the other dies too.
Because of your blog, I too knew Millie and loved her. So even in The Netherlands she is remembered.
So sorry to hear your sad news. Losing a pet is always difficult, especially as they have no input as to their care or the outcome.
Anita on June 28, 2017 at 4:03 am said:
Oh Stephanie, I’m so very sorry. We had to do the same for our beautiful old dog Kyah 12 years ago and I still tear up every time I think about it. Knowing that you have done the right thing doesn’t make it any less painful.
Amanda Page on June 28, 2017 at 4:04 am said:
So sorry about your girl beastie Millie, she looks like 10kilos of spirit in a 3.77kg body.
JennyR on June 28, 2017 at 4:37 am said:
So sorry for your loss. Millie will be missed, but it sounds like you did the only thing that could be done for her. May she rest in peace.
AK on June 28, 2017 at 4:50 am said:
So very sorry for your loss <3 I also had to say goodbye to one of my cats this spring, what the vet and I had thought to be an irritated bowel turned out to be cancer… and two others are getting very elderly and have kidney problems. But part of loving them is knowing when you need to let go and not allowing any suffering into their lives if you can prevent it. And I'm sure Millie's tiny ghost will continue to haunt the neighbourhood squirrels for generations to come!
Jane on June 28, 2017 at 5:14 am said:
So sorry. I love your tribute, and that was a brave decision you took xx
Rachelle Crosbie on June 28, 2017 at 5:41 am said:
I’ve been there too, it’s hard to say goodbye to our furry family, but sometimes we have to make that choice. Mine was made for Chloe who was lovely and very much my cat, but like your kitty had to be let go. Hugs
Shari on June 28, 2017 at 5:48 am said:
I’m so sorry. Losing a furry family member is heartbreaking.
José on June 28, 2017 at 6:15 am said:
I am so sorry for your loss…
Susan on June 28, 2017 at 6:27 am said:
So very sorry for your loss. Take time to grieve. Losing a beloved pet is so very difficult. Hugs.
Kimberley on June 28, 2017 at 6:39 am said:
I’m sorry for your loss of Millie. I know how very difficult it is to say goodbye to a beloved pet. I secretly thought mine was a knitter’s cat too as she never played with my yarn or needles… she just loved to sit on my lap while I knit. Hugs Stephanie.
I’m very sorry. It sounds like she had a wonderful life with you.
Bindy in Australia on June 28, 2017 at 6:51 am said:
More hugs and love coming your way, Steph. What a hard day. Rotten to have such an out-of-the-blue shock, and not enough time to process it all. Lots of care and support from all your real-even-though-we’ve-never-met internet friends. Vale Millie; you were awesome, and very entertaining for the blog.
Jackie on June 28, 2017 at 6:59 am said:
My condolences. Our pets are family and their loss can be harder than any other since they are the constant in our lives. Take solace in the fact that she led a long and full life.
Livnletlrn on June 28, 2017 at 7:12 am said:
Warm hugs to you and your family.
Susanne on June 28, 2017 at 7:12 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss… Cats are a part of the family, it’s always so hard to let go 🙁
Carol on June 28, 2017 at 7:16 am said:
What a wonderful life you gave your Millie. Losing a beloved animal is so very hard. Sending hugs.
Jacqueline on June 28, 2017 at 7:31 am said:
Those little lives leave great big holes, don’t they?
We have a Christmas tree ornament to represent each of the pets who’ve lived with us. It promotes happy memories and telling of tales as we trim the tree.
But for now, a great big cry and a slug of whisky is what’s really called for.
Sally at Rivendale Farms on June 28, 2017 at 7:40 am said:
So very, very sorry. Even when it’s the right thing so they don’t suffer anymore, it still just sucks. Sending hugs.
Tamzell on June 28, 2017 at 7:46 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. We had to say goodbye to our oldest cat just last week. Hugs and sympathy to you and your family.
Jo in Boston on June 28, 2017 at 8:00 am said:
They never live long enough, do they? You gave her the best life she could have had–so sorry she couldn’t stay forever.
Susan B on June 28, 2017 at 8:04 am said:
Gen on June 28, 2017 at 8:07 am said:
I’m sorry to hear this, and your post brought tears to my eyes. At the end of January, I lost my cat of 13 years – the only constant thing in my life during two university degrees and years of moving every 6 months. He was my rock. I miss him.
Have a good cry. I’m still crying for my Hermes.
Lorraine Keay on June 28, 2017 at 8:24 am said:
Devastating! So sorry to hear. Feel your pain and loss. Still catch myself looking for my Andy after 4 years.
Lizz on June 28, 2017 at 8:25 am said:
I am sorry for your loss! I abruptly lost my first cat and I also didn’t realize how much I adored her until she was gone. I hope you are able to take the time you need to grieve. She reminds me of my Lou so much that I am tearing up. Will keep you in my thoughts.
Caroline on June 28, 2017 at 8:27 am said:
Very sorry about Millie! I lost my old girl three weeks ago, and one of my middle-aged girls has a cancer diagnosis and we’re watching her to know when it’s time. They’re with us for so much of our lives that it’s amazing to have them be gone.
Ellen on June 28, 2017 at 8:28 am said:
I am sorry for your loss. We have had to make that very hard decision several times; it never gets easier. But our pets count on us to be sure that they have all the food and comfort that they need, and you made the choice that you needed to. It sounds as though she lived a good life.
Somehow, each time we lost a cat another one, ot two, have turned up in our lives, unbidden. And each time we have said “too soon”, and yet it has turned out that they showed up just when we needed them. Millie was obviously there, right when you needed her; I am so sorry that she is gone.
Janis on June 28, 2017 at 8:29 am said:
Many hugs — I went through that type of loss twice myself, and they take pieces of you with them when they go. They’re far superior beasts to humans, I think.
penny on June 28, 2017 at 8:31 am said:
I’m so sorry. {{hugs}}
Benita Story on June 28, 2017 at 8:32 am said:
Aww… Rats. My heart is with you. My hubby and I have said good-bye to several furry friends over the years as they crossed the bridge and it is so hard. I have tears running down my face because I know how much you are hurting. Love ya!
Becki on June 28, 2017 at 8:32 am said:
Like everyone else, I am so deeply sorry for your loss. We lost our 17-year-old couch potato cat in November. Sending blessings & virtual hugs!
Karen Odle on June 28, 2017 at 8:33 am said:
Hugs. The do so steal a piece of our heart. {u}
Bridget on June 28, 2017 at 8:37 am said:
Steph, You just put me back into cry-mode. It’s been a month since I lost my fur-baby. I’m 67 years old, and I’ve had a cat for 61 of those years. A ‘new normal’ is going to take time. Be kind to yourself. That’s the only advice I can give.
Tess on June 28, 2017 at 8:42 am said:
What a wonderful companion! Watch out for her in your daily life. She will still be there taking care of you : )
Victoria Guerin on June 28, 2017 at 8:47 am said:
I’m so very sorry! I lost my little dog in December and I still reach out for her in my sleep.
Amanda on June 28, 2017 at 8:48 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. 🙁
Rose on June 28, 2017 at 8:51 am said:
So sorry. I hope that Millie has met my Gandalf the Grey, who passed into the next kitty realm last week. I miss him terribly.
So sorry. It is so very devastating when we lose a pet. I’ve lived through it four times and I sometimes think, when I’m curled in bed crying, if it’s worth it. Then less than a week later I get a new animal to love. I can’t imagine life without one. Their unconditional love and devotion is like nothing else. So have a good cry and you have lots of sweet memories for the future.
Cory the bunny lady on June 28, 2017 at 8:56 am said:
Hubby is a vet. Works for a zoo. We have a thousand pets of our own. And we cry every time one of them dies.it is always sad to lose a friend, whatever the species.. But we try to remember lessons learned from each of their lives. You have my sympathy for your loss. Millie sounds as tho she was a fabulous friend.
Julia on June 28, 2017 at 9:00 am said:
I’m so so sorry for your loss.
Donna T on June 28, 2017 at 9:00 am said:
That was a lovely tribute to an obviously above-average kat. My kat, too, sleeps on my head at night. Just this morning I again had to pick out the beginnings of her masterful dreads. Violet is an excellent stylist, but dreads aren’t really my thing. My deepest condolences to you on your loss. Our small companions are an enormous part of our lives.
Carlaannie on June 28, 2017 at 9:01 am said:
It bites to have to say goodbye to a pet. The pets I have had have been such blessings and I have actually learned things just from having pets. I love rescuing an animal and knowing that I will give that pet a great life. But, I have yet to figure out what I am supposed to learn when I lose a pet. I think we all agree here on the blog that we empathize greatly with you at this time. Maybe that is the lesson we learn. How to be more caring people.
Cynthia on June 28, 2017 at 9:05 am said:
So, so very sorry for your loss.
knitflicka on June 28, 2017 at 9:10 am said:
My heart is aching with yours. Our furry friends give us so much and leave such a hole in our hearts. Hugs to you, Stephanie. I’ve had many furkids (love that title) over the years but my last, Jasper, was my most precious – he loved to sit on my lap and he never bothered my knitting unless I was using straight needles. Then he wanted to play with the ends, apparently since I was only using the tips. Hence the beginning of my move to only circular needles. How much love we gain in our lives, no matter how crazy they can make us.
Louise Combest on June 28, 2017 at 9:11 am said:
There are so many thing to say. I love and adore cats. We’ve had to put down three, one just three weeks ago that really wasn’t “our” cat, just a stray that we loved and fed. When we realized he was sick, off to the vet we went, but after two weeks and much money, we had to give up on the poor baby who really never had a home and the love of people. A bed to sleep on and unlimited love and petting. Your cat had all that and I’m deeply sorry for the loss of her. I hope you find it in your heart to take another one in. There are so many in need. Peace to you.
I’m sorry for your loss. I’ve been owned by cats for 50 years and have mourned the loss of every one of them. They each hold a special place in your heart.
Leslie on June 28, 2017 at 9:15 am said:
Stephanie, so sorry to hear about Millie. Our pets may be small but they leave a huge hole in our hearts when they’re gone.
Sandy on June 28, 2017 at 9:19 am said:
I’m so sad for you and so sorry for your loss. Our pets are family and they leave such a hole in our hearts when they are gone. The hardest thing about being a pet mommy is knowing when to let them go. You did good. It’s easier to keep them going so you don’t suffer — but you did right by making sure she didn’t. Take care of yourself today.
Loretta on June 28, 2017 at 9:22 am said:
I’m 89 years old and lost many wonderful companions. I have always grieved for them but I know they wanted me to find a new friend to care and love again. Hugs.
Sally on June 28, 2017 at 9:25 am said:
Lindy on June 28, 2017 at 9:26 am said:
I am so sorry! I will miss her…I always kept an eye out for her in your pictures over the years.
Wendy on June 28, 2017 at 9:28 am said:
I’m so sorry you lost your friend… I’ll miss seeing her on the blog. It was a lovely tribute!
Putting down a pet is so difficult. I commend you for not letting her suffer. Letting go can be so hard. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Erin on June 28, 2017 at 9:35 am said:
Oh, Stephanie, my heart is breaking for you. Many of us have been in the very difficult situation of having to let a pet go, and it never gets easier. Energy like Millie’s can not be contained, so rest assured knowing it is still running rampant in the universe, nurtured by the love and affection of her human kin. I wish your family peace and comfort in that knowledge.
Kristi on June 28, 2017 at 9:35 am said:
She looks a lot like my Zelda that we had to say goodbye to this past November. So sorry for your loss — they really take a piece of your heart with them.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Each animal friend makes a special place in your heart.
So sorry to read about your loss this morning. I’ve been there, and it is always wrenching. Thinking of you.
Kay on June 28, 2017 at 9:50 am said:
So sorry your sweet little friend is gone. She was a beauty, and I love that she hung her tail in your bath water. Just checking to make sure the temperature of the water was suitable for her mistress no doubt. Sending you warm hugs from me and kitty purrs from our own crazy fur baby.
Jody L Ondich on June 28, 2017 at 9:55 am said:
Stephanie, I am so very, very sorry for your loss. Our furry family is so precious and irreplaceable, and they leave such a hole in our hearts for a while when they go. Much love.
Lynette on June 28, 2017 at 9:55 am said:
Stephanie, I am so sorry! I recently had to make the decision to say good-bye to my very sick cat, so I know the pain you are feeling. How can the right thing for our pets be so painful for us? The grief is real. don’t let anyone dismiss it by telling you Millie was “just” a cat.
Laura Williams on June 28, 2017 at 9:57 am said:
I am so very sorry for the loss of your sweet Millie… Hugs to you and your family.
Samina on June 28, 2017 at 10:01 am said:
I’m so sorry to read of Millie’s passing. I loved seeing her pop up on your blog. Our moose-sized version of Millie, Jett, passed away a couple of years ago. He was a big, snuggly ball of black fur & trouble & I still miss him very much.
Tamara Shaffer on June 28, 2017 at 10:02 am said:
I am so sorry. She was lucky to be yours, and you were lucky to be her favorite human.
Denise Bein Kroll on June 28, 2017 at 10:05 am said:
So very sorry to read of your loss. It’s never easy. Virtual hugs and headbutts from Oscar and Zelda
Leslie on June 28, 2017 at 10:05 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. Your post brought tears to my eyes. It was a beautiful tribute. I know how much it hurts to lose a fur baby, especially one who has been with us for a long time… I’m sending prayers and hugs your way!
Chris on June 28, 2017 at 10:11 am said:
I’m sorry for your loss.
Sarah on June 28, 2017 at 10:19 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so hard when we lose a pet. (We have lost several recently and it doesn’t get any easier).
Caren on June 28, 2017 at 10:23 am said:
Steph – We are so terribly sorry for you! Sending hugs (and comfort purrs and head butts from my kitties)…
Gillian on June 28, 2017 at 10:26 am said:
Oh Steph, I am so sorry. My own black cat loves to hang out on the tub with his tail in the water (but he’s about twice Millie’s size.) It’s so hard to lose a friend :/
Anne Okon on June 28, 2017 at 10:27 am said:
Ah, dear Stephanie and the rest of the Pearl-McFee clan,
I am so sorry for the loss of your dear Millie. I hope that the knowledge that you loved her well in this life, AND that this same love and compassion helped you help her leave it gives you some small comfort. My thoughts are with you all
Elisabeth on June 28, 2017 at 10:29 am said:
I’ve been there, too. Hugs to you as you mourn the loss of your fur-baby. I’ll be donating to the Rally in Millie’s memory.
Caroline Gaudy on June 28, 2017 at 10:37 am said:
Much love to you. Fierce, wee kitties rule the world. And our hearts.
imjustlori on June 28, 2017 at 10:43 am said:
I am so sorry for your loss. Those annoying critters are good at stealthily make a home in our hearts, which when they leave, is never quite the same.
Heike on June 28, 2017 at 10:43 am said:
Amanda on June 28, 2017 at 10:48 am said:
Our wee beasties are truly beloved family members, aren’t they… Thank you for sharing your memories of Millie with us.
Diane Cooper on June 28, 2017 at 10:51 am said:
So sorry for your loss Stephanie, but what a wonderful tribute to her… I am sure she is keeping all our creatures in line on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, until you meet up again…
May the good memories of her help you through the tough times….
Dari T on June 28, 2017 at 10:51 am said:
Condolences, dear Stephanie. It is never easy to lose a beloved pet (even one that makes us crazy!). It always seems a bit more sad when we have them grow old with us.
Tegan on June 28, 2017 at 10:54 am said:
Oh Steph, I am so sorry for all of you. Millie was an amazing character and she will be sorely missed by many. I’m so glad she was able to have such a wonderful life with you.
Ann in NJ on June 28, 2017 at 10:55 am said:
Deepest condolences to you and the rest of the family. She was a Good Kitty.
askbew on June 28, 2017 at 10:57 am said:
I am so sorry. Saying goodbye to our furry friends is so hard.
Kimberly on June 28, 2017 at 10:57 am said:
So devastating to lose a dear companion animal under any circumstance but especially difficult when its without warning. My heart goes out to you having been through a similar situation with our dear Cacou. Sending you prayers of comfort.
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” ― Jean Cocteau
Desiree on June 28, 2017 at 10:57 am said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. We lost one of ours a couple months ago, and it’s so hard. It sounds like Millie had a great life with you, which is all you can really ask for.
EileenG on June 28, 2017 at 11:05 am said:
I feel for you Steph. I will never understand how these furry beasts come into our lives for such a short time and manage to curl up in a corner of our heart forever. I have always had dogs and this is my first time living with a cat at 54. I am allergic to cats, thought I didn’t much care for them. They are a bit haughty, aren’t they? But this little calico cat that was here when I arrived, a former feral cat at that, has snuck into the middle of my heart (and does not trigger my allergies much for some reason). Callie also sleeps around my head (or on my hip if I’m on my side) and demands her breakfast in the morning. We think she is about fifteen now and she is getting thin and has no patience for the dogs anymore, so we keep them out of the bedroom during the day to give her some peace. We know our time with her is going to come to an end in the near future. So what, if sometimes I get up a little late and stay in bed to snuggle with Callie for a while longer. I think , I’ll do that tomorrow morning in memory of Millie.
Alix in MV on June 28, 2017 at 11:09 am said:
I am so sorry for your loss; one of the few times we exchanged comments was discussing what breed she might have been, as she strongly resembled my Old Man Cat (a Turkish Angora).
I recently lost him as well, so the empathy is especially keen.
Good thoughts out to you and your family.
Amy A on June 28, 2017 at 11:09 am said:
Thanks for giving Millie such a great home. One of my favorite posts ever is one from about 12+/- years ago, when a cat followed you into the bath. “Are we alone yet?”
Goodbye, Millie
CathyB on June 28, 2017 at 11:13 am said:
I’m so sorry – Millie appears to have had a very good life, and I know you will all miss her distinct personality.
PJ on June 28, 2017 at 11:15 am said:
Virtual hugs across the miles– it’s always hard to lose a fur-baby, especially when it feels sudden and unexpected. I see her crossing the Rainbow Bridge, being greeting my MY angel cats, Ching-Ching, Peanut Butter, Mama Cat, Tom Tom, Lisa Marie and saying “let me tell you about the BEST human EVER!!
Knitwit on June 28, 2017 at 11:18 am said:
I am so sorry that you had to say goodbye to your lovely kitty. She picked the perfect family to live with; enjoying much love and laughter. Millie will live on in the Blog as we all remember her antics…..and her famous “stink eye” when you misbehaved.
Kate on June 28, 2017 at 11:21 am said:
Steph,
Thank you for writing this. Our cat of 8 years ran away last week and I’m feeling a fairly heartbroken even though I yelled at him a lot when he was around. I’m feeling less alone reading your words today. I’m really sorry for your loss.
Diana Cripe on June 28, 2017 at 11:23 am said:
So sorry to hear about your beloved cat. We had a cat that we had had for a very long time too and I know how hard it is to say goodbye. I hope your family and knitting will get you through.
BoudoirStitches on June 28, 2017 at 11:25 am said:
So sorry for your loss. It’s alway very detressing when our furry friends leave us. I have lost 5 since my youth and consider an act of love to put them to sleep . sending love
Helen on June 28, 2017 at 11:30 am said:
So sorry to hear about Millie. I know how difficult it was for me when I had to put my cat to sleep last summer. But it was for the best for him. Thanks for sharing all the great stories about her.
Zoe on June 28, 2017 at 11:36 am said:
I’m so, so sorry for your loss. She sounds like a one of a kind kitty. Sending so much love to you and your family right now. I know firsthand how devastating it is to get a sudden, horrible diagnosis for a beloved family pet. <3 Rest in peace, pretty Millie.
Blechman Peg on June 28, 2017 at 11:40 am said:
I am so very sorry for your loss. I will keep you and your Family in my thoughts and prayers.
Teresa Douglas on June 28, 2017 at 11:45 am said:
Oh Stephanie I’m so sorry. Our pets are so special and it hurts to lose them. You did the right thing but it still hurts.
Paula Gallagher on June 28, 2017 at 11:46 am said:
They are only little but they carve a big place in our hearts and when they go a huge hole is left behind. It will take time to heal over. I’ve parted with several furry family members and I know the heartache. You gave her a great life, loved her deeply and memorialized her wonderfully.
Lauren on June 28, 2017 at 11:49 am said:
(hugs) I am so sorry Steph! I know what its like to say goodbye to a furbaby.
Heleninboise on June 28, 2017 at 11:50 am said:
RIP Millie…..so sorry, Stephanie.
Jeny on June 28, 2017 at 11:57 am said:
So sorry to hear this. We never realise how much of a hole they leave in our lives until they are gone. Sending hugs and good thoughts your way.
Lee on June 28, 2017 at 12:00 pm said:
My condolences. Millie will live on in your heart, and now that you’ve shared her with us, in our memories as well.
Jenny C on June 28, 2017 at 12:00 pm said:
Jenn on June 28, 2017 at 12:01 pm said:
Stephanie, I’m so sorry. I’m sure it was a difficult but necessary decision. Thank you for having the courage to do what had to be done. May you see her again on the Rainbow Bridge. RIP, sweet Millie
Kathleen S McQuillan on June 28, 2017 at 12:04 pm said:
So sorry for the loss of your sweet kitty <3
Oh, sweetie, sending you sympathy. It’s so hard to say goodbye to our furbabies.
(Halo is giving me stink-eye just now because after reading this I had to go seek her out and give her a good squeeze and too many smooches, thus waking her from what looked like a very good nap.)
Cicely Smith on June 28, 2017 at 12:09 pm said:
oh, honey
i’m so very sorry
Tracey on June 28, 2017 at 12:09 pm said:
So sorry 🙁
Deirdre on June 28, 2017 at 12:09 pm said:
Oh sadness! I’m sorry for your loss. She clearly was and is a very loved kitty. Peace to you.
Diana on June 28, 2017 at 12:10 pm said:
Remember the joy Millie brought you over the years. So sorry for your loss.
Ellanie on June 28, 2017 at 12:11 pm said:
I am so so sorry for your loss.
Sarah JS on June 28, 2017 at 12:13 pm said:
Such a hard time. We were faced with a similar decision with our lovely dog last autumn after we’d just delivered our youngest human off to college.
Big, big hugs.
Diane Fuller on June 28, 2017 at 12:15 pm said:
I’m so sorry. Losing a beloved pet is always heartbreaking and she sounds like she was wonderful.
auntiemichal on June 28, 2017 at 12:21 pm said:
Farewell, good kitty.
Leslita on June 28, 2017 at 12:23 pm said:
I’m so sorry about Millie’s death. Take good care.
Maria on June 28, 2017 at 12:28 pm said:
I am so very, very sorry for your loss. Let the grief take the time and space it needs. Godspeed, Millie.
I’m so very sorry. There are no words.
Pamela on June 28, 2017 at 12:31 pm said:
I’m so sorry you had to say goodbye to your kitty. The kindest thing to do is to end their suffering and you know when it’s the right time, but it is so hard. We’ve had to put 3 dogs and 2 cats down and I miss all but 1 dog (long story) every day.
Marsha Novak on June 28, 2017 at 12:37 pm said:
So so sorry. So hard to lose a furry one.
Carol on June 28, 2017 at 12:38 pm said:
Oh Stephanie, Joe and everyone else who loved Millie. I am so sorry to read this. It is never easy to say “good-bye” to a little furball that has stolen our hearts. She was a good cat, and far more fierce than her little size would indicate. In the words of Jim Butcher, she was “Small, but fierce!” My Pixel and I send much love and hugs.
What a beautiful, beautiful cat she was. I’m so sorry for your loss.
I love that her face had its own halo. Mostly upside down.
Kathy C on June 28, 2017 at 12:44 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. They become members of the family (or in some cases, the family’s feline overlord). My little sister was convinced the cat was her brother until she was at least five years old. They leave their pointy little footprints on our hearts; some of them for long after they have to leave us. Millie was a very good cat.
Jessica on June 28, 2017 at 12:50 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. They are such a part of our lives. She looks like the best cat. Hugs to you and your family.
Janis on June 28, 2017 at 12:55 pm said:
I am so, so sorry. Pets may be small, but they have a large impact on our lives and families. I lost my Heidi, a German Shepherd, over five years ago, and I still miss her, especially when I tap my toothbrush on the sink. She would mistake it for someone knocking and would run, barking, toward the door. Take all the time you need to grieve.
Beth in Maryland on June 28, 2017 at 12:57 pm said:
This is a lovely tribute. I wish I’d known her!
Jenni on June 28, 2017 at 12:58 pm said:
Condolences and hugs xx
bittenbyknittin on June 28, 2017 at 12:59 pm said:
So, so sorry for the loss of Millie. Our pets are our familiars. I still tear up over the loss of Betsy, the doggy love of my life, who passed over two years ago.
Beth Targ on June 28, 2017 at 1:07 pm said:
I’m so very sorry for your lose. She was a beautiful cat with what seems to have been a one-of-a-kind personality! They become so much a part of our families and our hearts, don’t they? My best to you all.
Your knitting may include less fur with time, but the blessing of Millie BadCat willl always be with you.
Lori Barker on June 28, 2017 at 1:09 pm said:
A lovely tribute to a beautiful furry friend. Our beloved animals are really a big part of who we are and how we live our lives. You and your family are all in our thoughts and of course sweet Millie too.
Patti on June 28, 2017 at 1:17 pm said:
You have my sympathy — we had to put our cat of 11 years down awhile back, and I don’t think I’ve cried that hard since I was 11 and the family dog. It is truly a sad day when we lose a Pet. 🙁
Knitsiam on June 28, 2017 at 1:17 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss, as I started to well up when reading Millie was…. It’s been several years since losing our girls (sisters from the same litter who were 21 and 22 when they passed) and there’s not a day I don’t miss my little kids in fur coats. Sending hugs to all from afar; she was blessed for her time with you and yours.
Karen in Michigan on June 28, 2017 at 1:19 pm said:
Oh, I’m so sorry. My own Smokey Joe is at the oncologist today for CT scans to plan his radiation for soft tissue sarcoma.
Louise on June 28, 2017 at 1:22 pm said:
We’re watching our very robust cat, who used to get on top of 10 foot gate within our side fence, no longer able to jump. We fear the end is near, but we still love him. and he’s very responsive. (Doesn’t seem to care about his new disability.) aww….. sorry for your loss.
Annie on June 28, 2017 at 1:25 pm said:
The BadCats are the best and most interesting (if a mite irritating when you discover someone has peed on your favorite jacket). Sympathies!
Kristen on June 28, 2017 at 1:34 pm said:
I’m so very sorry. We just said goodbye to our sweet and perfect kitty Zyla a couple of weeks ago. It was a similar situation, she just kept getting thinner. I miss her terribly, as I know you will Millie. What a privilege to love such sweet little creatures, and what a heartache when we have to let them go.
Lisa Roosen-Runge on June 28, 2017 at 1:36 pm said:
So sorry to hear the news about your beloved cat.
Knit on through all crises.
Best wishes for good riding weather over the Canada Day weekend.
LisaRR
A wonderful tribute to a true feline friend. Cry away today!
Adele on June 28, 2017 at 1:48 pm said:
My first introduction to Millie was that pic of her with her tail in your bath. Obviously a great cat. What I’m trying to figure out now is – who would play her in the movie? I’m thinking Susan Sarandon would do a good job. Possibly Bette Davis, though maybe she’s too historic for a modern cat.
(PS; verification is: click or touch the cat)
Donna Schoonover on June 28, 2017 at 1:53 pm said:
So sorry about Millie. She sounds like quite a cat. We just lost our Doogie cat so am painfully aware of how much it hurts.
Rita on June 28, 2017 at 2:11 pm said:
Aww… I’m so sorry for you. The pets touch our hearts in so many different ways. I’m glad you had so many good years with her.
Millie sounds like she was an amazing cat, and well loved.
When we make the kind and loving decision to hold our furbabies in our arms as they leave this world, it’s a devastating loss, but you will recover. She left her paw prints on your heart, and took a piece of it with her.
My sincere condolences on the loss of your beloved family member.
Vicki on June 28, 2017 at 2:16 pm said:
That is so hard, we’ve all been thru it; the thing to remember is you did what was best for her. You’ll still miss her forever, but sounds like it was time to say goodbye.
CeltChick on June 28, 2017 at 2:31 pm said:
Over 330 comments, which I just can’t read, tells us a lot about the compassion of knitters for our furry companions. I am very sorry for your loss. I hope you will, when the time comes & you can even think about it, consider giving another shelter animal a new home. Hugs & headbonks to all.
Sunshine on June 28, 2017 at 2:35 pm said:
Oh, I am so, so sorry. It’s so hard to lose such a special baby. 🙁
Peggy on June 28, 2017 at 2:39 pm said:
Terrible news. I’m so very sorry. You didn’t mention her much, and when you did you tended to complain about her, but we all knew you didn’t mean it. I’m glad she didn’t seem to suffer for long.
Mary Peed on June 28, 2017 at 2:48 pm said:
Losing a pet is as hard as losing a family member, because they are family. My sincere condolences to you as you grieve the loss of Millie.
I am so sorry for your loss. It is such a difficult decision to make but also the kindest in the long run. hugs to you. Be gentle to yourself.
T. Allison on June 28, 2017 at 2:57 pm said:
I am so very sorry about Millie. Losing a much-loved pet is so very hard; I still cry about the dog of my heart that I lost six years ago. We the Blog will miss her appearances in your blog as well. Take care.
Jennai on June 28, 2017 at 3:02 pm said:
Oh no, I am so sorry! I know exactly how you feel – I’ve been nursing my 15 year old cat through some major kidney issues for the last 8 months, and while he’s been doing surprisingly well, I know it’s almost time. I’m so sorry for your loss!
Flo miller on June 28, 2017 at 3:15 pm said:
So very sorry about Millie. Our pets are our families. I will give mine a hug in memory of Millie
Sheri at The Loopy Ewe on June 28, 2017 at 3:18 pm said:
Oh, I’m so sorry, Stephanie. She was a beautiful cat and I know you gave her many good years of love and care. It’s so hard to lose them.
Rosane on June 28, 2017 at 3:27 pm said:
I’m so very sorry for your loss, Steph (and family)! Sending you comforting thoughts your way.
Debbi on June 28, 2017 at 3:34 pm said:
My heart truly breaks for you. I know that you are not religious but you and your family will be in my prayers. I have been where you are right now and it is awful.
It wants me to touch the pencil and I want to touch the cat picture. I will touch the stupid pencil and then go pet my actual cat (who yowled to come in for a snack as I was typing this because she is a spectacularly unsuccessful hunter of critters in our yard) because our fur babies are just never with us long enough.
Peace to you and the rest of Millie’s circle of loving humans.
Friday's Mom on June 28, 2017 at 3:45 pm said:
So very sorry.
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”
― Amy Sedaris, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
I spent extra time this morning with my less than cuddle-able Rob (the cat from hell). He’s been such a challenge that when he allows me to just touch him, I get flutters. Love-Hate relationship on both sides, but mostly love him dearly. Again so sorry.
h. vert on June 28, 2017 at 3:45 pm said:
Having been through similar, I’m so very sorry for your loss!
So, so sorry, but it sounds like she had a good life. Always a hard day for a pet owner.
I’ll give Mouse, Sam, and Leo (aka, Mousella, Samantha Jane, and Napoleon) hugs today, and not push them away even as they try to catch the circular cable, try to crawl between my knitting and me, or insist on settling in when I need to be able to move around to use the swift.
Dottyw on June 28, 2017 at 4:04 pm said:
I am so sorry. It is very hard to lose anyone, let alone a family member like a cat. My dog has been gone for many years but her memory lives on in favorite family memories and pictures.
Cathey on June 28, 2017 at 4:04 pm said:
Millie the beautiful was probably the only creature who ever crossed your path that you didn’t teach how to knit. Still, I’m sure her fur is knitted into a good many of your projects. I speak from experience–and send hugs because I know the pain (and love) of which you speak.
Fairfarren, dearest Millie.
Sincere sympathy, virtual hugs and complete understanding to all who loved, and were loved by, her.
Harriet Angulo on June 28, 2017 at 4:12 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. We’ve lost beloved cats over the years, and it’s never easy. Good advice from our vet- plant a rosebush or other beautiful flowering plant, using kitty’s ashes in the soil. Then kitty “comes back” every year as the plant blooms.
pattifromky on June 28, 2017 at 4:21 pm said:
I am so sorry for the loss of your Millie. She sounds like one of a kind, as all furkids are. Peace and hugs coming your way.
Fracksmom on June 28, 2017 at 4:24 pm said:
Hugs losing a pet is like losing an important member of the family.
One of the saddest moments of an animal lover’s life. Peace be to you, and may her memory bring you comfort.
Denise on June 28, 2017 at 4:24 pm said:
I’m so sorry, Stephanie.
Spring on June 28, 2017 at 4:27 pm said:
I’m so sorry for you and Joe. We have a 20-year old cat (she’ll be 21 in November if she makes it until then). Grieve for her as you need to. Wishing you peace.
Meghan on June 28, 2017 at 4:40 pm said:
May I say how truly sorry I am for you and your family. Saying goodbye is hard no matter what. And when it is with almost no warning, it is even harder. Condolences to you and your family. I know it is hard to miss them so.
Several years ago when my beloved dog passed, we buried her in the yard and planted roses over her grave. Every year when they start blooming, it’s like she’s saying hello. And lately I imagine the large bouquets those roses are producing are her indomitable spirit spurring them on!
Lynn on June 28, 2017 at 4:46 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. Sending you hugs and assurance that she is at the bridge with so many of the ones that we have all loved waiting for us to reunite someday. Until them may she chase the biggest dog, feast on feast on pizza and always have a warm spot to sleep.
Bev S. on June 28, 2017 at 4:51 pm said:
Our animals are so much a part of us. I am really sorry for your loss.
Fancy on June 28, 2017 at 4:52 pm said:
Hugs and tears
Brenda on June 28, 2017 at 4:58 pm said:
I’m so sorry. Hugs.
A hard day for sure but you gave her the very best gifts of all – love enough to make her part of your family and love enough to let her go when it was time. Sympathy and tears are flying your way.
Nancy DeMere on June 28, 2017 at 5:05 pm said:
I am so very, very sorry for your loss. All cats are good cats, but Millie was an exceptional cat!
Gilly Dean on June 28, 2017 at 5:08 pm said:
So very sorry. No more than that.
Petra on June 28, 2017 at 5:09 pm said:
I am so happy that your Millie got to live such a life full of love. As much as we love them, that is how much it hurts when they have to go. Thank you for providing her with a safe, loving home.
I am so sorry for the loss of such a dear companion.
So sorry Stephanie. Sending you hugs.
Mary Alyce Heaton on June 28, 2017 at 5:36 pm said:
I am so sorry for your loss. You paid her a very great compliment by honouring her need to leave you now.
So very sorry that you had to bid farewell to your sweet beautiful girl. My heart aches for you and your family.
BeverlyL on June 28, 2017 at 5:55 pm said:
I’m so sorry for you and your family. Those furballs become such an important part of our families. Thanks for sharing her with us. Much love.
Spencer was my good cat and I cried buckets after I said goodby. I’m so glad to have known him. Sounds like you feel the same way about Millie.
cecelia on June 28, 2017 at 6:02 pm said:
Terribly terribly sorry for your loss – I’m glad you had a fine cat, with a fine name. Thank you so much for not letting her suffer – wholeheartedly unselfish.
Here’s to fine cats everywhere.
Holly on June 28, 2017 at 6:11 pm said:
It so amazing how our fur babies take up so much room in our hearts. Until you meet again, dear Millie is chasing those wee mousies on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge.
candygirlflies on June 28, 2017 at 6:26 pm said:
I’m so sorry, Steph… I’m now going to have a snuggle with a few Badcats of my own, in honour of Millie.
xoxo CGF
Alex on June 28, 2017 at 6:41 pm said:
No amount of time will ever erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of tape will ever remove their fur from your couch.
RIP Millie.
Lisa on June 28, 2017 at 6:44 pm said:
What a wonderful tribute to your wee beast. I’m so sorry for your loss of your beloved pet.
Ess-Kay on June 28, 2017 at 6:50 pm said:
It’s impossible to comprehend how much space our furry friends occupy in our homes and in our hearts…until they are no longer there. I am so sorry for your empty space. May it soon be filled with lovely memories of the wonderful life Millie shared with you.
Leslie on June 28, 2017 at 6:59 pm said:
bobbi on June 28, 2017 at 7:15 pm said:
i am so sorry, steph – our fur babies are such huge parts of our family. she’ll be waiting for you at the rainbow bridge!
Steph, I’m so sorry.
Sorry to learn of Millie’s passing. Maybe she’s playing with my recently deceased kitty, Isabelle, who we all miss every day. It’s their attitude that make cats so wonderful to live with, isn’t it?
Patsy Camarillo on June 28, 2017 at 7:45 pm said:
I am so very sorry to see Miller go. My own Fur Kitty (his name was Furball – the result of being named by a 12-year-old boy) has been gone nearly 3 years now. There is a new kitty about the house, but sometimes I still miss him desperately. Hugs to you.
My heart goes out to you and your family. I’m glad she had a great home and lived such a happy life. I hope all your happy memories help you through the grief.
Goodness, I am so sorry. She sounds like an exceptional cat.
sorry for your loss. Millie certainly was a beautiful cat and obviously much loved. Thank goodness knitting is calming and healing.
Melanie on June 28, 2017 at 9:07 pm said:
She will be missed but rejoice in the sweet memories. Think of her Everytime you take a bath.
I’m so very sorry for the loss of your Millie. My husband and I have seven rescue cats, and they really do become part of the family. I remember reading the post where Millie had her tail in the bath and cracking up laughing…it was just so very cat(titude). I hope eventually your memories will bring you comfort. In the meantime, hang in there.
Marie P on June 28, 2017 at 9:44 pm said:
I’m sorry for your family’s loss. She subs like quite the character! Thank you for telling us about her.
Rhonda on June 28, 2017 at 9:49 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. Pets add so much to our lives. You were kind to keep her from suffering. Take care.
Melissa (Ajax) on June 28, 2017 at 10:16 pm said:
She was a magnificent looking cat. You’ll treasure those photos, especially the tail dip. 🙂 I too, have unhooked many cats from screen doors. The things we put up with. (Thank you for the, um, rabbit (?) on the doorstep.) And so on.
I have also cared for aging pets and witnessed them go through the last part of life, getting skinny and crankier. They don’t care or worry; they just walk along enjoying some sunshine and belly rubs, right to the end. Millie was lucky to live with you.
Norah on June 28, 2017 at 10:19 pm said:
So sorry for your loss, Stephanie!
Jan Mosley on June 28, 2017 at 10:39 pm said:
I’m so sorry to hear about Millie. Don’t you wish they lived longer than we do? Saying goodbye is so hard, but saying hello is so sweet.
Melanie on June 28, 2017 at 11:20 pm said:
I am so sorry for your loss. We lost our house bunny yesterday and although we have the hustle bustle of things that need to get done, we all feel we need to take a day for our lovely Percy who made our life so much better. Peace.
Lynne S. on June 29, 2017 at 12:17 am said:
So sorry, Stephanie. It does hurt – reading your post brought it back. They have their ways, don’t they.
KitKatKnitter on June 29, 2017 at 2:38 am said:
They certainly do.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Hugs.
She leaves a giant, Millie-shaped hole in your heart. Blessings as you heal.
Lynne S of Oz on June 29, 2017 at 2:16 am said:
Such a sad day – you don’t know how much they entwine themselves into your life until they are not there any more. Many condolences on the passing of your wonderful Millie-badcat.
Cloud Smith on June 29, 2017 at 2:25 am said:
Losing a fur-child is so devastating. They’re with us such a short time, yet fill such an enormous place in our lives and our hearts. You have my utmost sympathy during this time of sadness. Hugs.
*hugs* I’m sorry to hear about Millie.
Have to say, she reminds me of our Queen Sweetheart, looks-wise. Sweetie may not have been black like your Millie, but lordy, she had the same ruff as Millie, loved bossing her ‘slaves’ (us) and her kittens around. She was an indoor/outdoor kitty who adopted us and brought us her kittens to raise and keep before she decided to come in every so often during the spring/summer and stay inside during the winter. She passed on this past winter, and we miss her still. Mom’s said she’s sensed her spirit and our black kitty Sam checking in on us every so often.
I always looked forward to seeing Millie sitting on a shawl blocking, looking like the Queen of Sheba – “You may draw my bath after serving dinner. Are you going to stare all evening? I said dismissed!” Lots of love to you Steph
Joanna on June 29, 2017 at 7:31 am said:
*hugs* I’m so sorry for your loss. I still think fondly of and miss two family pets we lost very abruptly. They will be on my mind today, as will you.
Sherry B. on June 29, 2017 at 8:14 am said:
I feel your pain and send hugs your way. My little ‘Jazzy’ came into my life 3 years ago, and life has not been the same since. Already 2 years old, she had many ingrained habits, including wanting to sit on my chest while I knit. I have had to learn adaptive skills! She makes life interesting now that I’m retired and I can’t imagine when she will leave me as your Millie has. Take time to grieve this major loss in your life.
PinkSkatingGirl on June 29, 2017 at 8:26 am said:
Oh, it is so hard to lose a beloved pet. I am sorry for your loss. Nice kitty.
annie on June 29, 2017 at 9:23 am said:
So sorry about your dear Millie. I always loved that tail-in-the-tub photo.
Pj on June 29, 2017 at 9:26 am said:
Jackie on June 29, 2017 at 10:17 am said:
I am so so sorry for your loss of Millie. She was a most unique beautiful looking feline who I can imagine had the personality to match her beauty.Our beloved Siamese, cat, Ping, was with us for over 23 years and has been gone for almost as long. I still really miss her! She once ate the back out of a beautiful Italian made knitted sweater that my husband bought for me, but she was still loved!
Salpal1 on June 29, 2017 at 12:01 pm said:
that has to be one of the hardest things in the world because they can’t tell us how they are feeling nor can we explain what we are doing. Those little furry creatures steal our hearts even when we don’t know it. I am so sorry you have lost Millie, but I know that has opened a place in your home for another creature someday who needs you.
Friday on June 29, 2017 at 12:02 pm said:
I’m so sorry you’ve lost your lovely furry family member.
Baraka on June 29, 2017 at 12:08 pm said:
I am always saddened when one of our familiars crosses over. For such small bits of livingness, they take up such a large portion of our hearts. Anyone who sleeps on your head all their life will certainly leave a hole. Thank you for loving her; they never leave our hearts even though they no longer leave us hairballs.
mirtle on June 29, 2017 at 12:22 pm said:
I am very sorry for the passing of your lovely kitty.
however I cannot stop thinking that many a squirrel, bird and little mouse as well as all sorts of little creatures may breathe a sigh of relief for not being maimed…
Val on June 29, 2017 at 12:28 pm said:
Stephanie, I am so very, very sorry. So hard to lose a furry family member, but suddenly is so much harder. No time to say good bye properly. Her spirit will stay with you and if you think that you see her out of the corner of your eye as she disappears around a corner..believe it, she is there with you. It doesn’t get easier but one day the “missing her” will become less hard.
Above all, remember that there was nothing you could have done to prevent this…nothing.
Jayne on June 29, 2017 at 12:57 pm said:
I am so very sorry for your loss.I am sitting here bawling for your lost little furbaby, just like I do when I lose one of my own. Now,of course, one of the options to click to prove I am human is a picture of a cat. Technology can be so cruel.
amanda on June 29, 2017 at 12:57 pm said:
Your Millie cat sounds a lot like my Charley cat, who also liked a nice bath and charging at windows. Much sympathy for your loss, and I think I might go have a nice cry of my own
I am very sorry for your loss of Millie. It is a very hard thing to get your mind around – every time you see something out of the corner of your eye, you will look for the cat and it will be a gut punch all over again. I have a gaggle of elderly cats myself – the result of falling in love with a whole litter of kittens that we bottle fed. We had to say goodbye to one of our little beauties in March and another is ill. It is a heartbreaking time of life and so unfair that their lifespans are so much shorter than our own. Still, I wouldn’t trade these last 14 years of kitty love for anything.
Lita on June 29, 2017 at 1:10 pm said:
Nothing compares to the loss of someone close to our hearts and part of our everyday lives.
Thanks for sharing Millie’s personality with us. Condolences to you and all who loved her.
Marlaine on June 29, 2017 at 1:40 pm said:
I am so sorry to hear of Millie’s passing. They fill our lives and homes with so much love and joy that its never easy to say good-bye even when we know we must. Condolences to you all.
Bhavana Stephen on June 29, 2017 at 1:44 pm said:
I’m so very very sorry. I wish pets could live forever.
Eileen on June 29, 2017 at 3:36 pm said:
My heart truly goes out to you. We think we’re invincible, until we have to say goodbye – especially when it’s unexpected. She sounds like she was a dear – my most sincere condolences, hugs and all.
Samira on June 29, 2017 at 3:38 pm said:
I am so very, desperately sorry for your loss.
KathyRo on June 29, 2017 at 5:37 pm said:
Ahhhh so sorry. I had a similar experience with a cat when I was a teenager. Mom took him to the vet.. and didn’t come back with him. It felt awful not to say good-bye.
Oh no, Steph, I’m so sorry. xoxo
Evelyn on June 29, 2017 at 6:46 pm said:
We just had to let our dog go on Monday. She came to us 3 years ago after the death of my father-in-law and stole our hearts. I’m so sorry for your loss. You really can’t be prepared for that kind of thing. Our girl was battling cancer for a year and a half, so we really knew how limited our time was. I don’t know if there is a cat equivalent to this quote, but, maybe it can help you the way it has helped me a little this week. “The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be…”
-Konrad Lorenz
lawheezer on June 29, 2017 at 8:09 pm said:
Offering enormous sympathy. Furry folks have such a short time here that they break your heart in pieces when they go. It’s never enough time.
Marlena on June 29, 2017 at 9:56 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so difficult to make that decision, but so right for your beloved friend.
Oh I’m so sorry, cats are such lovely companions. I always looked for her rare blog appearances. If she sat beside you while you knit you’ve spent an awful lot of time with her and must truly feel her absence sorely.
Sheila on June 30, 2017 at 11:10 am said:
Stephanie, I know just how you are feeling. we had to put down our beloved Hodge after having her just 3 years. she came to us as in a badly injured foster and stole my heart, laying beside me, healing from a coyote attack and in pain, she first put out her paw to touch mine and then put her head on my knee. she loved us and we loved her. she ended up having so many things wrong with her people wondered why she was alive. We finally had to say goodbye when xrays showed that she no longer had leg sockets and was most likely in incredible pain from arthritis.
Barbara on June 30, 2017 at 12:08 pm said:
Don’t throw out those cat supplies. A big chunk of your love is accompanying Millie’s spirit right now, but it IS “kitten season”. At some time, sooner or later when you’re ready, your path may cross that of a special little one who needs you almost as much as you need that little ball of furry mischief.
Our feline friends have a way of getting under our skin. Their presence, just curled up on a sofa on top of a crocheted blanket, as two of mine are doing as I write, just exudes tranquility and warmth. I’m glad Millie got to share her time with you and your family.
Joy on June 30, 2017 at 3:55 pm said:
I’ve been sad for you and yours for a few days. My thoughts are with you all as you move through this difficult process. I’m glad you had Millie as a part of your life, and that she had such a great family, but I know how awful this part is.
Kimberly on June 30, 2017 at 4:29 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss. Our furbabies really do leave large holes in our hearts when they leave us.
We’re so sorry for your loss. It’s always hard losing a pet-baby but always remember the good times. They truly do leave paw prints on our hearts.
Hugs, Lauren, Cassie and Zoe
Chela Norton on June 30, 2017 at 7:06 pm said:
Deepest sympathies for your loss. Furry companions sneak into life and heart and become more intrinsic than wethought possible. Even (perhaps especially) the ones that drive us nuts.
NutkinNB (Heather) on June 30, 2017 at 8:38 pm said:
My deepest sympathies. Losing a longtime companion is so hard; I’m sure she knew she was loved.
curvylou on June 30, 2017 at 9:51 pm said:
I’m so sorry for the loss of your wee beastie. They wriggle their little ways into our hearts, don’t they. Blessings on your head.
josiekitten on July 1, 2017 at 10:56 am said:
I am so sorry to read about your darling cat. They are so much a part of our lives, it is devastating when we have to say goodbye to them. My own kitty has got me through some very dark times following the sudden death of Mr JK last year; I seriously don’t know what I would have done without all those comforting nudges and knowing meows. Big hugs to you Stephanie. xxx
Caroline M on July 1, 2017 at 11:30 am said:
I’m so sorry Steph. It does get easier with the passage of time, you just have to survive this rough patch one day at a time.
Konna on July 1, 2017 at 12:02 pm said:
So sorry to read about losing your lovely furry friend. The ‘bad’ ones always steal our hearts, don’t they? Oh, the crying…..it does get better and less often.
Kathy on July 1, 2017 at 2:37 pm said:
Oh I am so very sorry. Sleep well Millie.
Amanda Haugland on July 1, 2017 at 6:52 pm said:
I am so sorry for you and yours. It is so hard to lose the fur-bearing family members, especially without warning. (Though having warning doesn’t make it much better.) We lost our Loki about a year and a half ago, and it still hurts. A lot. But we keep going.
Sending you all the love and sympathy.
Snow on July 1, 2017 at 7:00 pm said:
I’m so glad Millie found you-she just wouldn’t have fit with any other family. You seemed to understand her and to a cat that really is everything. You were both well loved.
Cyndi Buckey on July 1, 2017 at 11:40 pm said:
Run free in heaven Millie
Brenda on July 2, 2017 at 12:41 am said:
I’m so sorry. We also just lost our darling cuddlecat, unfortunately only 6 years old. Hugs from a dark, chilly wintery South Africa xo
Jessica Powers on July 2, 2017 at 5:42 am said:
Lots of love to you all as you figure out how to move around the cat sized absence in your home.
Mary R on July 2, 2017 at 6:52 am said:
Our four-legged family members leave such an imprint on our hearts. Hugs to all of you as you adjust to the loss of Millie.
Juti on July 2, 2017 at 11:28 pm said:
Have (yet another) hug.
Linda on July 3, 2017 at 11:12 am said:
So sorry to hear this. Never easy to say goodbye to a loved one, whether furry or not! Sounds like she had a really good life thanks to you choosing her all those years ago. Have comfort in that and all the joy & laughs & everything else she brought to you throughout her years.
Kristine on July 3, 2017 at 12:47 pm said:
I’m so sorry to hear about Millie. They really do leave paw prints on your heart.
angelbis on July 3, 2017 at 4:43 pm said:
I’m so sorry to hear about Millie. Give yourself time to grieve. Our pets really do manage to make a huge impact on our lives…
We lost our 21 year old cat a couple of years ago. It was devastating! She was a great cat and we shared so much of our adult lives with her. Now our cat who we always thought of as the “baby” is actually in the “senior” cat category – 14 years.
Stephanie on July 4, 2017 at 8:35 am said:
So sorry to hear of your loss of wee Millie. I lost my Salem a few months ago. He was bigger, but looked a lot like your Millie. Such a nice boy.
Cats have a special place in this world
Cherilyn on July 5, 2017 at 1:12 pm said:
My deepest sympathy for the loss of Millie.
Having lost one this year, I understand this post too well.
I am so so so very sorry for your loss. We just euthanized our cat Shelby this past weekend when the vet diagnosed a brain tumor (at age 14). The running joke between my husband and I was that she was so stubborn that she was clearly determined to lived forever. When she suddenly started showing signs of distress, we knew it was time for us to help end her suffering. I hope you can take comfort in your memories of her and all that you gave each other.
Nina on July 5, 2017 at 3:59 pm said:
Sorry about your cat, Steph. I lost my cats too, about 20 years ago. I still miss them with a deep sadness.
On a different note, I love your writing style. It reads so naturally. I’m a crocheter primarily and truly admire such patience for knitted lace, which in crochet is so easy by comparison. Nina http://www.nancysaid.com
Mary Ellen on July 5, 2017 at 4:07 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss Stephanie! Hugs from CT…..
granjudy on July 8, 2017 at 1:13 pm said:
So sorry for your loss. My old cat lived 19 years and it stunned me what a hole she left in my heart when she didn’t wake up one morning. I had planned for her to be my last cat, then my heart was stolen by a wee black manx lassie who left us after a devastating diagnosis after only 2 years. The current feline may not be our best ever, but after 14 years she’s grown on us. They become so much more than pets.
Ingrid on July 10, 2017 at 8:41 pm said:
I’m so sorry for your loss…
June Parker on July 11, 2017 at 12:16 am said:
So sorry for your loss. I’ve just read this. I never knew your Millie but I’m crying.
April Lowrey on July 20, 2017 at 12:42 am said:
Oh, Stephanie, I’m so sorry for your loss. I didn’t even know of Millie, but I can see why she was so special to you all. She must have been a wonderful cat. It’s never easy to lose our friends and when we do, it’s always so heartbreaking.
Kerri on July 27, 2017 at 12:25 pm said:
I’m so sorry to hear about Millie. It’s always so difficult when our pets leave us. My sympathies to the whole family.
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New Whitney Houston Music Dropped TODAY!
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Tracy Marie June 28th, 2019
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More than seven years after her death, Whitney Houston’s music is living on!
In 1991, Houston recorded her version of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love…”
The song was intended for her third album, “I’m Your Baby Tonight,” but did not make the cut.
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Ray Davies of The Kinks Knighted
By: Maura O'Malley
You may now refer to The Kinks’ frontman as Sir Ray Davies, as he was officially awarded knighthood yesterday by Prince Charles.
His reaction to the ceremony? According to U.K. news source The Daily Mail, he said, “It lasted three minutes, and it went very well, and I said goodbye and went home.” There’s that dry British humor!
But, on a more serious note, he did also say, “Initially I felt a mixture of surprise, humility, joy and a bit embarrassed, but after thinking about it, I accept this for my family and fans as well as everyone who has inspired me to write.”
You can hear Sir Ray Davies share more on knighthood below.
Davies now joins the ranks of formerly knighted musicians Elton John, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and more.
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XYFI Stories March 12, 2012
The MiFi just shrunk to the size of a thumb and got a microSD card NAS
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Berlin-based Nova Media, best known for its OS X utilities for OEMs used by carriers like Vodafone, announced a new personal hotspot device today called “XYFI.” The thumb drive-sized device (80mm-by-23mm-by-12mm) connects to any USB port for power and allows you to insert a SIM card to share a 3G data connection with up to eight other devices. The XYFI is also completely configured through a browser, so the entire setup process can be done through an iPad or iPhone. It will also function as a regular Wi-Fi modem for your Mac and packs a microSD card slot for file sharing over the network.
Nova Media explained in its press release that the XYFI provides up to 5.76 Mbit/s upload speeds and 14.4 Mbit/s download on 3G. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi is compatible up to up to 54 Mbit/s on 802.11 b/g networks. It also supports WPS and uses WPA, WPA2, and WEP. In the image to the right, we see the web-based interface will allow a user to hide the network SSID, create guest logins, and manage network settings.
You can buy the world’s smallest 3G Wi-Fi hotspot for 179 euros (around $234 USD) from Nova Media here.
The full press release is after the break.
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Home » 1864 Sherman's Atlanta Campaign - Garrard's Cavalry » Report of Colonel Beroth B. Eggleston, First Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second Brigade – September 11, 1864
Report of Colonel Beroth B. Eggleston, First Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second Brigade – September 11, 1864
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Report of Colonel Beroth B. Eggleston, First Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second Brigade.
HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIV., DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Blake’s Mill, Ga., September 11, 1864.
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to forward the following report of the operations of this command during the past campaign.
The brigade being stationed at Columbia, Tenn., marched from that place May 22, Colonel Eli Long commanding at that time and during most of the subsequent operations, but now absent from the command in consequence of wounds received. Arriving at Decatur, Ala., on the 26th, the brigade commanders reported to Major-General Blair, commanding Seventeenth Corps, and on same day a force under the rebel General Roddey was encountered and driven several miles when it was completely routed, with a loss of 12 prisoners and two stand of colors, besides, wagons, horses, mules, arms, &c.
On the following day Roddey’s entire force was met near Courtland and driven through the town. While in camp at Moulton, Ala., on the 29th we were attacked at daylight by General Roddey with cavalry and artillery. After a severe engagement, the enemy was repulsed and driven in great disorder, his dead, 15 in number, and part of his wounded left on the field. Sixteen prisoners were taken, including 3 officers. Our casualties, 3 killed and 14 wounded. Marched forty miles same day and rejoined the Seventeenth Corps, remaining with this command until arrival at Kingston, Ga., on the 6th June. During the march we crossed Raccoon, Sand, and Lookout Mountains, our animals suffering severely for want of forage. Near Rome, Ga., a lieutenant-colonel and 16 rebel soldiers were surprised and captured. From Kingston we proceeded to Etowah bridge, thence toward Marietta. June 11, First Ohio, Colonel B. B. Eggleston, while on reconnaissance near Marietta, met a force of rebels and drove them several miles. The Third Ohio, Colonel C . B. Seidel, was sent toward Noonday Creek, found the enemy in superior force, and was obliged to fall back with a loss of 12 wounded and 2 missing. The enemy, Iverson’s brigade of cavalry, had several wounded, and 1 prisoner was taken.
We now had continuous skirmishing for several days, and on the 15th attacked Wheeler’s cavalry, but found him strongly intrenched and were obliged to fall back with a loss of 2 killed, 16 wounded, and 2 missing. Rebel loss not ascertained. Remained in camp near Kenesaw Mountain until the 19th, when the command moved again and drove the enemy across Noonday Creek. A junction was then made with Third Brigade, Second Division, and, the enemy making a stand, and engagement ensued, lasting several hours, without decisive result. Crossed Noonday Creek on the 23d, and the enemy at once attacked us, but was handsomely repulsed and driven back with loss.
July 3, the brigade marched to Big Shanty, and on the following day had orders to follow the enemy, who was retreating. We pursued him some four miles beyond Marietta, and next day encountered Wheeler’s cavalry re-enforced with infantry. Fighting was continued at intervals throughout the day, with heavy skirmishing. Failing to dislodge the enemy, the command was ordered back to camp. July 5, we marched toward the Chattahoochee River, and on the 8th moved to Roswell. On the following morning a regiment was sent to hold McAfee’s Bridge, the remainder of the brigade being kept as a reserve, while the other brigades of the division crossed the river, opening the way to a forward movement of the army. The bridge was taken and held with slight resistance, 1 man being wounded. Remained near Roswell without active movements until the 16th, when the brigade crossed the Chattahoochee River, and on the 19th entered the town of Stone Mountain, on the Atlanta and Augusta Railroad, with the Third Brigade, driving out Dibrell’s brigade of rebel cavalry. July 20, marched to Decatur, six miles east of Atlanta, and on the 21st started on a raid to Covington; burned a covered railroad bridge over the Ulcofauhachee River and about two and a half miles of track, capturing a number of prisoners, including a lieutenant-colonel. During the expedition a large amount of cotton was destroyed, and many horses and mules captured. Returned to camp near Decatur on the 24th. July 27, started on a raid toward the enemy’s rear, the division acting in concert with command of Major-General Stoneman. Encamped at Flat Rock, on South River, and on the following morning were attacked by a force of rebel cavalry, with artillery. After an engagement of some hours, in which our only casualties were 2 wounded and 2 captured, the enemy was driven from our front, and the command subsequently marched to Lithonia. On the 31st, started back and went into camp at Buck Head, on the left of the army. Remained inactive until the 9th [August], when a reconnaissance was made by the brigade to Decatur as a demonstration upon the enemy’s right.
August 15, again went on reconnaissance to Decatur. August 17, marched with First Brigade for Sandtown, Colonel Minty, First Brigade, in command, and from Sandtown moved with Brigadier-General Kilpatrick for an attack upon the rebel lines of communication. Near Fairburn the Atlanta and Montgomery Railroad was destroyed for half a mile by the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and the brigade in or rear being here attacked by a force of rebel cavalry with artillery, Colonel Long formed in the woods and attacked the enemy. They were driven from their position, and their camp temporarily occupied. The brigade being then ordered to the advance of the column, soon encountered an enemy in front and skirmished with them during the greater part of the day, driving them to Flint River, where they took possession on the farther bank. A lively action ensued, and it was some time before they could be forced back, but while the artillery played upon their works a charge was made upon them, the river was crossed, and the rebels routed. The town of Jonesborough was then entered, and the Atlanta and Macon Railroad destroyed for some distance. On the morning after, the command moved on the McDonough road, the Second Brigade having the rear. We were attacked at an early hour by a brigade of rebel cavalry. This force was finally repulsed, and the brigade, ordered forward, to follow the first. Arriving near Lovejoy’s Station the command was dismounted to re-enforce the First Brigade, which had been attacked on the railroad and was being driven back. The brigade was formed in line across an open field, and breast-works thrown up in the rear. The firing was now very heavy on both sides, but the First Ohio and a portion of the Fourth Ohio at length repulsed the enemy, then fell back to the breast-works, and held him in check until his firing totally ceased, enabling a section of our artillery to be withdrawn. The command was then ordered back to their horses. Colonel Long was subsequently directed to form column and follow the First Brigade in a charge to be made upon the cavalry in our rear. This was effected without much loss, and the brigade was ordered to take the rear of the main column, when it again formed and moved toward McDonough. Before we could move out, however, the rebel infantry closed up on our rear, attacking with great vigor the line of skirmishers formed by a dismounted battalion of the Third Ohio, and shelling the columns of the other two regiments. Lieutenant Bennett, whose section of artillery had been attached to the Second Brigade during this expedition, was in position in the rear with one piece (his other having burst), and worked it with good effect. The enemy still advanced with increased numbers and pressed the Third Ohio heavily, all of that regiment being now dismounted. They held their ground firmly, though suffering much, until the enemy moved a heavy force to their right, threatening to cut them off, when they were obliged to fall back. At the same time Colonel Long was wounded in two places and forced to leave the field, turning over the command to myself as next senior officer. The column was now in motion, the enemy following slowly, and we were relieved by the First Brigade.
Marched that night to Cotton River, and, on the 21st, swam our horses across the swollen waters of Cotton Indian Creek, crossed South River, and arrived at Buck Head on the night of the 22d.
The loss of the brigade during this expedition was in killed, wounded, and missing, 7 officers and 87 men, including Colonel Long and Captain William H. Scott, of First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, inspector on the colonel’s staff. The latter was severely wounded in the charge upon the rebel cavalry. The loss inflicted upon the enemy is unknown, but must have been considerable. We brought off 14 prisoners.
August 25, the command marched to Vining’s Station, thence to Sandtown, where we recrossed the Chattahoochee. Continued on the left flank and rear of the army, following its movements to Jonesborough. Watched the flank of the army on its return toward Atlanta. Camped near Decatur on the 8th September, and, on the 10th, marched to Blake’s Mill, near Cross Keys, where we now remain.
Since leaving Columbia the brigade’s main column has marched 716 miles and has captured 151 prisoners, including 9 officers.
Below will be found a general summary of losses during the campaign:
Recapitulation of casualties: Officers-Killed, 1; wounded, 6; missing, 4. Enlisted men-Killed, 32; wounded, 124; missing, 40.
B. B. EGGLESTON,
Colonel First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Commanding Brigade.
Captain J. E. JACOBS,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Command.
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Posted on October 26, 2013 August 9, 2018 by Michael Taylor
Sports: New York Sports Bar Is the Next Best Thing to the Black Hole
Peter Dillons Bar has been the home of The Raider Nation of New York City for the past two seasons, and for bartender John Lauro – a die-hard Oakland Raiders fan – those have been the best two years of his life.
John launched an Oakland Raiders fan club and built up a loyal following of Oakland Raiders fans at another bar in New York City a few years back. Things didn’t work out, however, so he decided to find another bar at which to spread his Oakland Raiders love.
“The ownership of Dillons took a chance on me, and I am very indebted to them,” John says.
“After creating a Raiders fan club and operating at a different bar in Manhattan, I moved the whole operation to Peter Dillons Bar on 40th and Lexington,” John says, adding that his Raider fan base followed him to the new venue.
Peter Dillons Pub
Rabid Raider fans in New York City adopt Peter Dillons Bar as their sports bar of choice.
Which is not to say that there weren’t a few hard feelings along the way. The regulars, it seems, were used to being able to come into the bar and watch whatever game they wanted, and now, it was all about the Raiders.
So, there was a bit of friction at first, but …
“I brought my own crew in on Sundays, and the register started ringing,” John says.
“And I never apologize for making anyone money.”
Since moving to Dillons, John has come in contact with some “very high profile Raider fans”, and they have helped him increase the popularity of his Facebook page, which has been his main tool in promoting his club and game days at Dillons. And word of mouth didn’t hurt, either.
NYC Home of the Raider Nation
“It has been quite the success,” John says. The fan club has been re-branded as the Silver and Black Empire, the NYC Home of the Raider Nation.
“That is to honour both our team and our pride in our home town, which is in the heart of the Empire State,” John says.
“The re-invention of our club and our new location has created an energy that I can’t even begin to describe!
“Standing behind the bar, I get the best seat in the house, the one that faces the Raider Nation of New York City!
Next to the Black Hole, Peter Dillons Bar just might be the best spot on earth to root for the Raiders.
“I couldn’t imagine watching a game anywhere else, and I don’t want to!” John says.
“I love the connection I get with the rest of the Raider Nation. We get a little wild, a little rowdy, but that’s just who we are – we’re Raiders!”
There has never been a shortage of visitors, and if the numbers just keep growing, out-towners from the Golden State are always given a heart-felt welcome.
“Whenever someone from California comes in, I always have to ask how we’re doing, and I’ve been told that this is one of the best Raiders experiences outside of the Coliseum,” John says.
“That to me is the biggest compliment my club can receive, and that is what I live for. I don’t do it alone, as none of this would be possible without the wonderful people that make up the Raider Nation.
When the Oakland Raiders take on the New York Jets on 8 December 2013, NYC’s Raider Nation plans a massive invasion of the Meadowslands, and you can be sure that a lot of Dillons regulars will be proudly wearing the Silver and Black when they enter the stadium.
Black Hole East?
“I’m pleased to say we are going to our first live game together in a few weeks, when our boys come to town to play the New York Jets,” John says.
“My next goal is to lead my crew to Oakland. But one things at a time.”
John was recently nominated for a What a Fan award. While he considers that a great honour, it pales in comparison to standing front and centre in his little patch of Raider Nation each week.
“I love my team, and I’m very lucky that I was given the means to create this,” John says.
“I thank the bar owners for allowing me to use the bar as my playground, I thank my customers for sticking with me through some rough times, and I thank the Raider Nation for their continued support and constant inspiration. I do it all for them, and it’s them that keeps me going.”
And in case you’re wondering what happened to that “other” sports bar across town, it’s become an Atlanta Falcons hangout. Go figure …
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Abu Dhabi strong contender for World Capital of Sports award
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Abu Dhabi has emerged as a front-runner to be crowned as the World Capital of Sports in a two-race tie over Taipei.
The UAE capital has played host to some of the world's biggest sporting icons such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Lewis Hamilton but they face stiff competition in Taipei for the prestigious 2019 title.
The coveted sporting award will be handed out by the European Capitals and Cities of Sport Federation.
A delegation from the federation, comprised of sporting experts from nations including as Spain, Italy, China and Portugal, toured facilities at the Zayed Sports City, Yas Arena, Al Forsan Sports Resort and Abu Dhabi Golf Club.
The UAE is in prime position for the award as the annual host of the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November, the star-studded Mubadala World Tennis Championship and the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
Abu Dhabi will host the FIFA Club World Cup for the second year running in December and the AFC Asian Cup in January.
The award criteria include the volume and quality of sport events, as well as the sporting activities of residents and visitors alike.
Ahmed Al Qubaisi, Director of Marketing at Abu Dhabi Sports Council, expressed delight at Abu Dhabi qualifying for the final stages of the competition, which is recognised by the European Parliament and the UN, as well as by different European sports agencies.
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Best TV-14 Movies On Amazon India
Find the best movies rated TV-14, as per MPAA rating standards. These recommendations are at the same time acclaimed by critics and highly-rated by users.
1. The Night Manager, 2016
Olivia Colman and Hugh Laurie (House) star in this espionage drama based on a John le Carré novel.A quick mini-series that spans six episodes, it’s about a former soldier (Tom Hiddleston) who, while working as a night manager for a hotel in Cairo, Egypt, ends up getting hold of very sensitive information. He is then recruited by an intelligence officer (Olivia Colman) to bring down a corrupt businessman (Hugh Laurie.)A highly-acclaimed TV show not to be missed by lovers of spy stories, John Le Carré films (A Most Wanted Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), or just anyone who appreciates excellent acting.
0. Samsara, 2012
In the grand tradition of the ethnographic world tours like Mondo Cane, Samsara hits you in the face with the diversity and wonder of human life on earth. Unlike many of its predecessors, which often descended into colonialist gawping, Samara maintains a non judgmental gaze. This film uses no words or narration to travel the world showing you the breathtaking beauty of various countries, cultures, religions, cities, industries and nature. Shot on 70mm film, the definition and clarity has to be seen to be believed.
0. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 2007
A suspenseful drama from Romania, winner of a Palme d'Or.
0. The Imposter, 2012
The impossibly true story of a mysterious Frenchman who claims to be the 16 year old son of a family from Texas that went missing three years prior. This movie is shot so well with a story so unbelievable that I had to look it up to believe that it was a real documentary instead of a fiction film played as true. Expect twists and turns at every corner, with brilliant storytelling from the real life people that lived through the whole thing. If Christopher Nolan created a 48 hour story, it would pale in comparison to this film.
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Francis G. Newlands Business Records
Identifier: 2011-25
University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department
The collection contains many legal documents directly related to the acquisition of mills along the Carson River, including the Ogden Mill, Eureka Mill, and the Morgan Mill.y. The legal work was done by Newlands who was William Sharon's attorney. It also documents the formation of the Union Mill and Mining Company by William Sharon, D. O. Mills, John D. Fry, John P. Jones, and Alvila Hayward. The Union Mill and Mining Company served as the holding company for the mills Sharon began acquiring in the 1860s.
Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith), 1848-1917 (Creator, Person)
Francis Griffith Newlands was born in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi on August 28, 1848, to Jessie and James Newlands, immigrants from Scotland. His family soon relocated to Missouri and later to Illinois, settling in Quincy, Illinois. Newlands was privately tutored as a child, and, as a young adult moved to Washington, D.C. with his widowed mother. He attended Yale College and the Columbian College Law School (now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C. studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and moved to San Francisco in 1870 where he practiced law.
After moving to San Francisco, Newlands began working with a number of prominent Nevada businessmen, including Nevada Senator William Sharon. In 1874, Sharon's daughter, Clara Adelaide Sharon, and Newlands were married in San Francisco. Clara died in 1882, leaving Newlands with three small children. Sharon followed his daughter, Clara, in death in 1885. Upon his passing, Newlands inherited a portion of Sharon's estate and served as co-executor with Sharon's son Fred. Before Sharon died, Newlands had promised to protect his estate from ongoing legal action by Sarah Althea Hill, whom Sharon had allegedly married. By 1886, Newlands had become the single executor of the estate. In 1888, Newlands married Edith McAllister and relocated to Nevada the same year.
Newlands was elected as a Democrat to the 53rd Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1903). He did not seek renomination to the House of Representatives in 1902 and instead ran as a candidate for the Senate. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1902, reelected in 1908, and again in 1914, serving from March 4, 1903, until his death. During that time he served as chairman of the Committee on Corporations during the 62nd Congress, Committee on Revolutionary Claims during the 62nd Congress, and the Committee on Interstate Commerce during the 63rd-65th Congresses.
He died in Washington, D.C. on December 24, 1917.
[Parts of the biographical note adapted from Biographical Directory of the United States Congresses, accessed January 23, 2019]
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Francis Griffith Newlands (1848-1917) was a businessman and served as a Nevada Representative from 1893-1902 and a Senator from 1902-1917. The collection contains many legal documents directly related to the acquisition of mills along the Carson River, including the Ogden Mill, Eureka Mill, and the Morgan Mill.y. The legal work was done by Newlands who was William Sharon's attorney. It also documents the formation of the Union Mill and Mining Company by William Sharon, D. O. Mills, John D. Fry, John P. Jones, and Alvila Hayward. The Union Mill and Mining Company served as the holding company for the mills Sharon began acquiring in the 1860s
Arranged alphabetically by company or individual.
Purchased from Holabird-Kagin Americana at the 2011 Grand Finale Auction in December 2011.
Comstock Lode Mining District (Nev.)
Fry, John D., 1819-
Hayward, Alvila
Jones, John P. (John Percival), 1829-1912
Law materials
Mills and mill-work -- Nevada -- Virginia City
Mills, Darius O. (Darius Ogden), 1825-1910
Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith), 1848-1917
Sharon, William, 1821-1885
Union Mill and Mining Company
Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company
Holabird-Kagin Americana (Auctioneer, Organization)
Guide to the Francis G. Newlands Business Records
Newlands, Francis G. Business Records
Jessica Maddox
Part of the University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department Repository
Reno Nevada 89557-0322 USA
Newlands, Francis G. Business Records, 2011-25. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno. https://archive.library.unr.edu/public/repositories/2/resources/3939 Accessed January 21, 2021.
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Rescue operation underway to save toddler stuck in a 60-foot deep borewell
March 22, 2019 by qayam
Hisar: A one-and-a-half-year-old boy fell into a 60-foot-deep borewell in Hisar in Haryana on Wednesday evening after which a major rescue operation has been launched by the authorities.
According to a local, the boy was playing with some other children when he suddenly fell into the borewell. His family members and villagers later informed the police. The child’s parents are laborers.
Ashok Kumar Meena, District Magistrate, Hisar told ANI on Friday, “All the machine work is over. We are trying to manually lift the child. The distance between us and the child is around 15 feet. We are hopeful that in some hours we will be able to rescue him.”
Meena said an investigation will be conducted into the matter and legal action will be taken against the person who dug the borewell without taking permission from the department concerned.
In 2006, a similar operation was launched to rescue Prince, a five-year-old boy who had fallen into a borewell in a village in Kurukshetra. He was pulled out safely nearly 48 hours later.
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Wednesday, 21 November 2018 / Published in All Posts, Inmarsat, Intelligence News & Updates., Services
Inmarsat Insight Into On-board Satellite Communications
Inmarsat today announced the publication of the 2018 Super yacht Connectivity Report, which highlights the crucial role that satellite communications is playing in addressing connectivity issues within the Superyacht market.
The research, which is available for the first time as a downloadable report reveals that almost three-quarters (73%) of Superyacht owners are demanding seamless connectivity wherever they sail and speeds that are comparable to home broadband services. The Inmarsat report also highlights the issue of low cyber resilience with almost two-thirds (64%) of Superyachts dependent on simple, on-board firewall or crew managed systems. The research found that less than one-quarter (23%) placed the cyber resilience of the vessels in the ‘hands of experts’.
Part of Inmarsat’s 2018 Research Programme and produced in association with The Superyacht Group, the 2018 Superyacht Connectivity Report provides valuable insight into the usage and requirements expected of communications by captains, crews, and shore-based technical professionals. The key findings will form the basis of interactive sessions with Superyacht professionals and decision makers during the Monaco Yacht Show.
An important function of the new report is to enable Inmarsat to enhance its global connectivity solutions still further to address the specific demands of the Superyacht market.
Further important findings include:
Many yachts are carrying aging hardware
50% of those surveyed are sailing with satellite equipment over four years old and only a quarter of captain and crew have replaced their hardware equipment in the last two years
International Ship Management Code (ISM) and yacht management are the primary uses of satellite communication
43% rate safety and compliance as the number one usage followed by IoT sensors and applications with 34%
Satellite system specification begins early in a new-build construction process
Satellite specialists are involved in the system specification at the project concept and engineering phases in 42% of cases
Inmarsat has designed its Fleet Xpress global service for superyachts to address these needs and to add flexibility to meet seasonal demand changes, delivering the high data speeds enabled by Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Ka-band technology combined with the proven reliability of FleetBroadband.
With cyber security emerging as a critical issue Inmarsat developed and launched Fleet Secure, which is the newly integrated service that provides both network and end-point security alongside cyber threat detection.
Inmarsat’s Rob Myers, Senior Director, Maritime Market Development said, “Cyber resilience is one of the key issues we will be discussing with captains and crew at the Monaco Yacht Show with the report indicating that the level of cyber security deployed by the global superyacht fleet is minimal. We are looking forward to working with them to provide more robust and accessible options than they currently employ to ensure the future safety of these vessels.
“Our valuable survey into exactly how the owners’ representatives, captains, and engineers use satellite communication has been extremely well received in the market and provided us with an enhanced understanding of future needs. Inmarsat will continue to develop its range of services and our engagement with superyacht captains and crews based on these survey results will form part of a process of continual improvement. Our goal is simple, to keep superyachts connected and safe, wherever they sail in the world.”
Respondents to the survey, including captains, chief engineers, technical professionals, and senior crew have worked on over 160 superyacht installations.
Reflecting the growth in demand for on-board communications solutions Inmarsat is also announcing the appointment of SSI-Monaco as a new Fleet Xpress reseller, while e3 Systems has been awarded TIER 1 status for Fleet Xpress for Superyachts.
The 2018 Inmarsat Superyacht Connectivity Report is available for download now by clicking on the following link.
Riegal, J. (2018, September 27). Inmarsat offers new insight into on-board satellite communications. Retrieved November 21, 2018, from https://www.inmarsat.com/press-release/inmarsat-offers-new-insight-into-on-board-satellite-communications/
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The APWG is delighted to announce Giles Watling MP is its Chair. Giles was first elected as MP for Clacton in June 2017. With a background in the performing arts, primarily as actor, he has also run theatres, produced shows, has written for film and television and has been a director for the commercial touring circuit. In Parliament, he continues to champion the arts and joined the All Party Parliamentary Writers Group to ensure writers’ rights are recognised and rewarded.
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Robin Williams’ Continuing Legacy to Adaptive Athletes
Posted by Bryan Potok on August 11, 2020
The late comedian Robin Williams would have turned 69 years old on July 21. But even though he is no longer with us, his life is a gift that keeps on giving, particularly to adaptive athletes in the U.S. and around the world.
Williams' active support for adaptive athletes and the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), an organization that provides opportunities for people with disabilities, began in 1997 when he joined the Malibu Triathlon as part of a relay team. He was the first A-list celebrity to embrace the organization's sport and cause.
Williams cemented his support for the organization when the actor befriended the eventual Paralympic champion Rudy Garcia-Tolson when the latter was just nine or 10 years old. Their connection deepened when they teamed up with triathlon legend Scott Tinley for the Triathlon Challenge in San Diego, California. At the time, Garcia-Tolson, who was 15 years old, did the 1.2-mile swim, Tinley ran the 13.1-mile half-marathon, while Williams did the 56-mile bike ride.
Williams became a regular at CAF's other events. His presence was instrumental in attracting fundraising muscle and media attention to the organization. His staunch support helped CAF grow from a local San Diego charity into a global foundation. CAF is also a primary feeder into Team USA's Paralympic development lineup.
Heroes, Heart & Hope Gala
Williams was also instrumental in the inception of CAF's annual Heroes, Heart & Hope Gala in New York City. It all started when Scott Stackman, a New York financier, won a slot in the 2004 Ironman World Championship triathlon, which was auctioned off by CAF. Upon winning the auction, Stackman flew to San Diego to secure his prize, which was given at CAF's yearly Triathlon Challenge.
Stackman didn't know anything about the organization, but he wanted to race at Kona, Hawaii—where the Ironman is held every year—because it's the toughest ticket to get in the sport. According to CAF founder Bob Babbitt, inspiration struck Stackman when he found himself standing with Williams, while the latter presented a set of running prosthetic legs to Jake Frank, an eight-year-old above-the-knee amputee.
Babbitt shared that as soon as Frank received the legs and put them on, both he and Williams played tag on the grass. Stackman was moved at the sight of a young man transitioning from a wheelchair to running around and playing with Williams. This moment spurred Stackman to establish the Heroes, Heart & Hope Gala in New York. Over the years, the annual fundraiser has produced over $22 million.
The gala eventually became CAF's biggest charity event, bringing in around 20% of its annual budget. Sadly, the 2020 Heroes, Heart & Hope Gala had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A continuing legacy
Before Williams passed away in 2014, he created an endowment fund for CAF athletes. The Robin Williams Endowment Fund has supported numerous young, adaptive athletes. The latest recipient is 12-year-old Max Wong from Flushing, New York, who received a new tennis wheelchair grant. Wong is an upcoming wheelchair tennis player who dreams of playing at an elite level. The grant was awarded on May 6 during CAF's first-ever virtual 2020 Heroes of Sport Celebration.
CAF needs your support to ensure that adaptive athletes have what they need to be active now and after the pandemic. If you'd like to donate, please do so on their website. You can give your donation in honor of Williams or on behalf of someone you love.
<a href="https://amputeestore.com/blogs/amputee-life/robin-williams-continuing-legacy-to-adaptive-athletes">Robin Williams’ Continuing Legacy to Adaptive Athletes</a>
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Frozen (horror film)
Director Adam Green previously made the outrageous slasher film Hatchet, whose style is in stark contrast to his new film Frozen, although both rely on real effects rather than digital fakery. This is an early review – Frozen isn’t due until September – but it deserves some advance publicity. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but the situation in the film has stayed with me. You may have seen Open Water, the drama a few years back about two divers stranded helplessly in the middle of the ocean after being accidentally abandoned by their tour group. Frozen does much the same, except that this time there are three people, stuck in mid-air on a chairlift halfway up a snowy mountain.
The college-age victims make up a soundly contrived triangle – it’s basically a guy, his girlfriend, and the guy’s resentful best-friend-from-kindergarten who’s never had a proper girlfriend of his own. The last of these three is the most familiar, being played by Shawn Ashmore from the X-Men films (where he was Iceman). The other actors are Kevin Zegers (the problem teen in Transamerica) and Emma Bell. The three trip out to a resort for a day of snowboarding, and make the mistake of taking the chairlift up for a last run. Thanks to a switch in the operators, the lift is shut off and everyone goes home for the night. Actually for the week, as the resort is only a dinky little part-time operation. The youngsters on the chair slowly twig how bad their situation is, as a snowstorm blows up the slope and there are ominous howls on the wind…
The set-up is plausible, the situation all-too imaginable, and I enjoyed the way that you’re caught between enjoying the audience-manipulations and empathising with the characters. I laughed at the first in-your-face gross-out moment, and many audiences will laugh, but after that it gets bleaker, with the survivors reduced to tearing emotional chunks out of each other to distract from the horrors awaiting them. At base, it’s the old “people stuck in the lift” scenario with added wolves and snow, and I was reminded of the ‘90s TV comedy Bottom, which had an episode with Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson stuck on the top of a ferris wheel. Judging by the sniffy American reviews that Frozen has received, it’s not for you if you hated the partying youngsters in films like Cloverfield. That’s a thought; maybe we should get a horror film with middle-aged Ivy League professors stuck on a chairlift or menaced by Godzilla, and see how that plays. Or have them menaced by a serial killer: Green is currently making Hatchet 2.
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International Le Mans
Home > Pre War Era > International Le Mans
(First Series 1½ litre, 2 seater, 2/4 seater - 1931)
For the 1931 London Motor Show at Olympia, Aston Martin introduced a near replica of their current team cars, a strict two seater called the International Le Mans. At this point, it is very important not to confuse this model with the later '2nd series' Le Mans which we'll come to later. Now this sleek and sporty model caught the eye of a famous comedian at that time, Jimmy Nervo (of Nervo and Knox and the Crazy Gang).
The photograph above shows the car in it’s original form with its proud owner at the wheel and partner in the passenger seat. But there was a problem – Jimmy used the car to travel up and down the country and it had no room for luggage – so during 1932, the car was converted to a 2/4 seater by Freestone and Webb. So to see this rare car in it’s original form is special indeed. I bought this picture late in 2002, but, perhaps foolishly, I swapped it for a 1959 Le Mans poster signed by Roy Salvadori.
The full story of this car was featured in the AMOC quarterly in the Summer of 1981 – perhaps by coincidence, a few pages back from the article was a news item about another celebrity comedian/actor AM owner, Rowan Atkinson, who had just taken delivery of his first new Aston Martin. Spooky or what.
I managed to catch up with this famous and important car in late 2003 as it’s being slowly restored whilst in the hands of an enthusiast in Lincolnshire, UK. The AMOC register records the car as having a Riley engine, although I’ m now please to inform you that it has now been reunited with a correct 1.5 litre Aston Martin unit. I’m no expert, but to my eyes, the car appears to be not to far from complete, and could well be back on the road without too much further effort. As can be seen, the car retains the unique Freestone and Webb 2/4 seater body tub which has already been restored.
The AM register lists no more than 8 International Le Mans, all but 2 are listed as 2 seaters. And this car pictured below, VN8435, is one of the only two 2/4 seaters listed (also known as four seater). I photographed it during the 2006 AMOC St John Horsfall race and also on the 101 car timeline for the Aston Martin Centenary in 2013.
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Self-regulation of active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters
Marcus Brüggen, Evan Scannapieco
CLAS-NS: Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)
Cool cores of galaxy clusters are thought to be heated by low-power active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose accretion is regulated by feedback. However, the interaction between the hot gas ejected by the AGN and the ambient intracluster medium is extremely difficult to simulate as it involves a wide range of spatial scales and gas that is Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable. Here, we present a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of a self-regulating AGN in a galaxy cluster. Our adaptive-mesh simulations include prescriptions for radiative cooling, AGN heating and a subgrid model for RT-driven turbulence, which is crucial to simulate this evolution. AGN heating is taken to be proportional to the rest-mass energy that is accreted on to the central region of the cluster. For a wide range of feedback efficiencies, the cluster regulates itself for at least several 109 yr. Heating balances cooling through a string of outbursts with typical recurrence times of around 80 Myr, a time-scale that depends only on global cluster properties. Under certain conditions, we find central dips in the metallicity of the intracluster medium. Provided the subgrid model used here captures all its key properties, turbulence plays an essential role in the AGN self-regulation in cluster cores.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Brüggen, M., & Scannapieco, E. (2009). Self-regulation of active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 398(2), 548-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15216.x
Self-regulation of active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. / Brüggen, Marcus; Scannapieco, Evan.
In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 398, No. 2, 09.2009, p. 548-560.
Brüggen, M & Scannapieco, E 2009, 'Self-regulation of active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 398, no. 2, pp. 548-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15216.x
Brüggen M, Scannapieco E. Self-regulation of active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2009 Sep;398(2):548-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15216.x
Brüggen, Marcus ; Scannapieco, Evan. / Self-regulation of active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2009 ; Vol. 398, No. 2. pp. 548-560.
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Saints, Spirits, and Strangers: Masks from Malawi
Axis Gallery, New York
November 2 – December 1, 2001
The Maravi peoples, who comprise three main mask-producing groups (Chewa, Nyanja, and Manganja), have been settled in the region of Malawi since at least 1550. Masks were made by the mens’ secret society, called Nyau, to which all men belonged. Nyau is thought to have existed for several centuries among the Chewa, the senior branch of the Maravi, before spreading to the southernmost Maravi, the Mang’anja, after 1875. The majority of the masks on exhibition were collected in the Chewa heartland between the 1950s and early 1980s, but made considerably earlier.
During the mid-1800s, the Maravi peoples were invaded by the warlike Ngoni, who fled Shaka’s Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, and by Muslim slave traders, who decimated and depopulated the region. In the 1860s David Livingston estimated that 19,000 slaves from Malawi were exported from Zanzibar each year, and it is estimated that a far larger number of captives died annually in the caravans bound for the coast. The missionaries who followed in Livingstone’s footsteps established a strong foothold in Malawi. Christianity was a mixed blessing, because it combated both slavery and indigenous tradition. As Christianity made inroads, particularly in the 20th century, men refused to join Nyau, and compulsory membership could no longer be enforced.
Among Maravi, men governed the spiritual realm of death and the ancestors through Nyau, while women controlled life and regeneration. The Nyau Society performed both wooden and ephemeral masks during initiations, funerals, and at certain other important events. Nyau performances allowed the worlds of the living and the dead to interact during several days of festivities. Rules governed when each mask appeared, and the movements and songs it performed. All of these rules and the making and storage of the masks were strictly secret.
Masks of old men, ancestors, and spirits represent ideal qualities, such as wisdom, and themes relating to sickness, death, and the ancestral realm. In contrast, undesirable behaviors are caricatured through representations of outsiders. These strangers include British authorities, Muslim slavers and traders, white women (called Dona), Ngoni invaders, and characters who epitomize foreign values, such as Elvis Presley and Charlie Chaplin, who represents American Peace Corps volunteers. Such Christian characters as Simoni (Simon), Maliya (Maria or Virgin Mary), and the Devil contrast Christian values with the ancestral spirituality of Nyau. The nature of spirit is, however, ambiguous, and what is negative in one context can be positive in another. All of these masks are included in this exhibition.
Few Nyau masks exist in collections. Several factors account for their rarity. Nyau was so secret that it escaped the attention of early explorers and collectors. Later, the British colonial authorities banned Nyau because they mistakenly believed it underpinned chiefly power. The treasured wooden masks were rarely soldŃthey were costly to commission and earned their owners high rental fees. Their colored surfaces, periodically anointed with paint, often over several generations, and their numerous additions also unsettle Western stereotypes about African art.
Consequently, little has been written about Nyau masks, although they reveal fascinating similarities with the masks of the Makonde and Chokwe peoples, and with the Luba, from whom the Chewa trace their origins.
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Metallica Release ‘The Memory Remains’ Clip From ‘S&M2′ Film
Trafalgar Releasing
Metallica are previewing their upcoming S&M2 concert movie with a clip of the song "The Memory Remains." The film documents two concerts the band performed last month with the San Francisco Symphony.
S&M2 will be screened on Oct. 9 in more than 3,000 theaters around the world. (You can find the one nearest to your location at the movie's website.) The shows celebrated the 20th anniversary of the original S&M shows, as well as the opening of the new Chase Center on San Francisco's waterfront.
The two musical forces combined to perform several songs from the 1999 dates plus some new compositions the band has released since then. The orchestra was conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
You can watch "The Memory Remains" clip below.
One of the show's highlights came from the symphony's bassist, Scott Pingel, who performed Cliff Burton's "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)" solo on an upright bass. As Pingel told UCR, playing the late Burton's piece was something he wanted to do ever since he was a teenager.
"I remember sitting in my house, listening to the Kill 'Em All album, and hearing that solo," he said. "It was such a cool sound, particularly the way he used the effects. I had no idea whatsoever how he did it. I had no idea about effects pedals, but I loved it. I never really explored how to do it until a few months ago."
Metallica, 'S&M2' Track Listing
1. "The Ecstasy of Gold" (performed by the San Francisco Symphony)
2. "The Call of Ktulu"
3. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
4. "The Day That Never Comes"
5. "The Memory Remains"
6. "Confusion"
7. "Moth Into Flame"
8. "The Outlaw Torn"
9. "No Leaf Clover"
10. "Halo on Fire"
11. "Scythian Suite, Op.20, Second Movement" (Prokofiev, performed by the San Francisco Symphony)
12. "Iron Foundry"
13. "The Unforgiven III" (performed by the San Francisco Symphony)
14. "All Within My Hands"
15. "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth"
16. "Wherever I May Roam"
17. "One"
18. "Master of Puppets"
19. "Nothing Else Matters"
20. "Enter Sandman"
The Best Song From Every Metallica Album
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Source: Metallica Release ‘The Memory Remains’ Clip From ‘S&M2′ Film
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Der Spiegel: Former Peace Negotiators Call for End to Hamas Boycott
This is big:
They were part of the peace settlements in Cambodia, Somalia and Bosnia, they negotiated with militant groups like the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka or the IRA in Northern Ireland and a few of them were also engaged in the Middle East peace process. Fourteen elder statesmen from Europe, Australia, South America, Africa and Asia are calling in an open letter for the Mideast Quartet, comprised of the European Union, United Nations, Russia and the United States, to end their diplomatic boycott against Hamas.
The signatories of the letter, which is being published exclusively by SPIEGEL ONLINE in Germany and the Times of London on Thursday, include former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami; Alvaro de Soto, who served as the UN envoy for the Middle East Quartet from 2005 to 2007; Lord Chris Patten, the former British governor of Hong Kong and European Commissioner; and Lord Paddy Ashdown, who served as the High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina and oversaw the implementation of the Dayton Accords.
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Ben-Ami told SPIEGEL ONLINE the letter was directed equally at the European Union and the United States, but also at Israel. “Israel has to start thinking outside the box. I can recall the case of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO didn’t recognize Israel as a precondition, but as a result of the Olso process. The same should happen with Hamas.”
The letter (PDF format)
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Summaries of globally relevant systems to identify areas of importance for biodiversity.
The Areas guide provides short articles about selected areas of importance for biodiversity conservation. It explains in detail a number of recognised systems to protect, prioritise and identify areas of biodiversity importance that fall into two main categories: protected areas and biodiversity designations.
Area designations categorised as protected areas are those under protected area frameworks, that have legal or other effective protection at the national level. Some have additional recognition through regional or international conventions and agreements.
Area designations categorised as biodiversity designations are developed by governments, academics and NGOs in order to identify areas of biodiversity importance or areas where biodiversity is threatened, as a means to focus attention and resources on their conservation. They are not in themselves recognised as protected areas, although on-ground the sites may overlap with a protected area designation.
Global 200 Ecoregions
Large-scale priority areas of uniform ecological features, chosen for the conservation of the most outstanding and representative of the world’s habitats.
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A set of ecoregions whose conservation would achieve the goal of saving a broad diversity of the Earth’s ecosystems and ecological processes. These ecoregions include those with exceptional levels of biodiversity, such as high species richness or endemism, or those with unusual ecological or evolutionary phenomena. 1 The set of ecoregions aims to be globally representative of the world’s habitats in order to provide a blueprint for conservation which covers all global biodiversity, rather than focusing only on the biomes with the highest species diversity. A total of 238 Global 200 ecoregions have been identified of which 142 (60%) are terrestrial, 53 (22%) are freshwater, and 43 (18%) are marine. 2
The 200 ecoregions were ranked based on their current and future threats and conservation status. At the time of the study (1998), 47% of the terrestrial ecoregions were considered critical or endangered, and 29% were classified as vulnerable. Only 24% of these ecoregions were classified as intact or stable. 1
Modelling studies investigating the effect of climate change on the Global 200 Ecoregions suggest that more than 80% may suffer extinctions as a result of global warming, with considerable variation between biomes and at different spatial scales. 3 In particular, local biome change is likely to be greatest at high latitudes and altitudes and smallest in lowland tropical ecoregions.
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1998. The identification of the Global 200 Ecoregions was a one-off process which is not being further updated at this time.
Global in extent, with 238 identified regional-scale areas (142 terrestrial, 53 freshwater and 43 marine). 2
Ecoregions are relatively large units of land containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species, with boundaries that approximate the original extent of natural communities prior to major land-use change. These were first classified according to realm (terrestrial, freshwater and marine), biogeographic realm (e.g. Australasia, Oceania) and major habitat type. Within each biogeographical realm, a set of ecoregions with the greatest biological distinctiveness were chosen based on the following parameters: 1
Species richness
Endemism
Taxonomic uniqueness (e.g. unique genera of families, relict taxa or communities, primitive lineages)
Unusual ecological or evolutionary phenomena (e.g. intact large vertebrate faunas or migrations, extraordinary adaptive radiations)
Global rarity of major habitat type
Global 200 ecoregions are not formally recognised or managed areas, but rather a way of directing conservation efforts for better coverage of biodiversity. Nonetheless, the aim of directing conservation effort and investment toward these areas, as well as their broad scale, means that formal protection and management may be present for sites within these ecoregions.
Legal and compliance - The identification of an area as a Global 200 Ecoregion does not afford the area any legal protection. Legal protection and/or compliance requirements may exist within parts of these areas where there is overlap with other areas of biodiversity importance, such as legally protected areas.
Biodiversity importance - Global 200 ecoregions indicate areas of high biodiversity importance based on the criteria of high irreplaceability of species and habitats within large geographic regions. It is a regional-scale prioritisation approach to assist in conservation efforts world-wide. More detailed assessments are needed to locate the actual distribution of biodiversity within them for any site-scale decision making.
Socio-cultural values - The criteria for identification of Global 200 Ecoregions do not explicitly mention any socio-cultural aspects. However, like other global scale prioritisation approaches, due their large size, people are likely to be involved in use, protection and/or management within parts of these areas.
References & Websites
Olson, D. M. & Dinerstein, E. The Global 200: A Representation Approach to Conserving the Earth’s Most Biologically Valuable Ecoregions. Conserv. Biol. 12, 502–515 (1998).
Olson, D. M. & Dinerstein, E. The Global 200: Priority Ecoregions for Global Conservation. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 89, 199–224 (2002).
Malcolm, J. R., Liu, C., Miller, L. B., Allnutt, T. & Hansen, L. Habitats at risk: global warming and species loss in globally significant terrestrial ecosystems. WWF. (2002).
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New York Top Court to Review Medical Aid in Dying State Constitutional Issues
End of Life Choices New York and the End of Life Liberty Project are applauding the ruling by the New York Court of Appeals to hear the appeal in the case of Myers, et. al. v. Schneiderman.
Terminally ill patients and doctors sued the Attorney General and several district attorneys in an effort to prevent the prosecution of physicians who prescribe medications to terminally ill, mentally competent patients, upon the request of the patients, which patients may take to end their suffering and achieve a peaceful death.
“We are pleased that New York’s highest court recognized the substantial constitutional questions raised by this appeal,” said Edwin G. Schallert, Debevoise & Plimpton, co-counsel to plaintiffs in the case. “We look forward to vindicating the rights of terminally ill patients to choose to avoid unbearable suffering by having the option of aid in dying.”
“The Court of Appeals, in allowing this case to proceed, took a key step forward toward allowing the patients and physicians who brought this case to present compelling facts before the important issues are decided,” said Kathryn L. Tucker, Director of the End of Life Liberty Project, and plaintiffs’ co-counsel. “We are optimistic that when the Court is made aware of the suffering facing patients, the profoundly personal reasons motivating their desire to choose a more peaceful death, and the fact that when the option is available, end of life care for all patients improves, with no harm to anyone, it will rule in our favor.”
The lawsuit asks the court to find that physicians who provide a prescription for medication to a mentally competent, terminally ill patient – which the patient could consume to bring about a peaceful death – should not be subject to criminal prosecution under existing law which prohibits assisting another to ‘commit suicide.’
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Away She Goes: John Krasinski Talks to Maya Rudolph
“We wrote the script with Maya and John in mind,” says writer and editor Vendela Vida, who, alongside her husband, Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers, created the screenplay for director Sam Mendes’ Away We Go, a quietly soulful meditation on love and family. “Still, it was sort of surreal when they were actually cast.” The film’s stars, John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, weren’t exactly obvious choices to play Burt and Verona, a young, indivisible couple who travel the country in search of a place to raise their unborn baby. Krasinski is best known as Jim Halpert, the loveable cynic on Greg Daniels’ hit sitcom The Office. Rudolph, after nearly a decade spent lampooning celebrities on Saturday Night Live, has become inseparable from her over-the-top Donatella Versace and Oprah Winfrey impersonations.
“Maya added a pensiveness that I wasn’t fully expecting. You just look at Verona’s face in the film and see that she’s experiencing the full emotional weight of becoming a mother when she herself is motherless,” says Vida of Rudolph’s performance, a challenging role for the actress, whose mother, the late soul legend Minnie Riperton, passed away when she was still a child. “With John,” Eggers adds, “You’re definitely seeing a depth that he hasn’t been able to show in the vehicles he’s been in.”
Of the off-brand casting choices, Eggers points to Adam Sandler’s heralded performance in Punch-Drunk Love, a film directed by five-time Academy Award nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, Rudolph’s partner and the father of their young daughter, Pearl. (Days after this interview, Rudolph announced that she is pregnant with her second child). “It’s been said many times, but funny people have to know pain pretty well,” says Eggers. “It’s the source of the humor, bending rage or despair into some kind of happy balloon animal. That’s comedy, right?”
JOHN KRASINSKI: I’m going to kind of improvize this one. BLACKBOOK: That’s perfect. And if there’s ever any lull, I’ll jump in with questions.
JK: You’re not going to highjack this goddamn interview, goddammit. MAYA RUDOLPH: This is how we do [Sings Montell Jordan’s hit single from 1995.] This is how we do it.
JK: Hi, BlackBook. I’m here with Maya Rudolph. MR: Who?
JK: Now, Maya … First of all, I’d like to start from the beginning … MR: This is weird.
JK: By the way, I’m using all of James Lipton’s quotes. [laughter] And I’ve got a stack of cue cards in front of me. Before we get to the movie, could you please give us a brief insight into your relationship with SNL and what it meant to you before you were on the show? MR: Good question, John.
JK: How do you like that, BlackBook? MR: I fell in love with Saturday Night Live when I was a little girl — and I don’t know how old I was, but we didn’t have a VCR, so I must have been old enough to sneak into my parents’ bedroom when they were watching it. They were in bed watching it, and I remember coming in and saying, “I have a tummy ache!” The “Landshark” [skit] was on, I do remember that. When I was old enough to understand that I was watching the same actors in different costumes and wigs, I gravitated toward [Gilda Radner’s recurring character] Roseanne Roseannadanna, because I liked doing impressions. I started impersonating her and then people started laughing, like my aunts and neighbors. I enjoyed the buzz.
JK: Most people would say that getting a job like that would be a dream come true. But there must be a more complex answer than that. MR: It was the only dream I’ve ever really, truly had, other than being a mother. I used to say, One day, I’m going to grow up, and I’m going to work there with those people. I just really wanted that to be my life. And I wanted to have this thing where it was like some weird, natural extension of some fucked-up aspects of my personality — but in a positive way, via my job. Once I found people like me who did it, too, that’s when I started to feel normal for once. And you can tell I’m normal now, so that’s really been working really well for me.
BB: What was it like for you, immediately prior to your first performance on the show? MR: The first show was a hard one, because I started with only three episodes left in the 25th season. I was thrown in, which was probably a great way to do it, but also really intimidating and terrifying. The first show I ever did, I played Ananda Lewis, who, at the time, was a VJ on MTV. I remember I was wearing a leather bikini and a trench coat — which was great when my grandma and I got to talk about it. And I remember I was holding a microphone because I was VJ-ing — I swear, it’s not a dirty word — and my hands were tight and my knuckles were white because I was holding the microphone so tightly, while concentrating on the cue cards … and I broke my SNL cherry that night.
JK: Do you have any other questions or can I go again? BB: No, please, go ahead.
JK: Bitch! Whose show is this? MR: You’re railroading it, goddammit!
JK: Here’s something you’ve probably heard a lot, but I love talking about this: what is your theory on comedy acting versus dramatic acting? Because I always find it weird when people are like, “Don’t you want to do dramatic acting?” It’s like, Yeah, of course I would like to do that. MR: It’s like there’s this line that people feel you’ve crossed, like, “Oh, you’ve left the Comedy State? And now you’re in a Drama State? Welcome. Welcome to the Drama State.” I think I had always hoped to make a movie like this, but I thought I’d be super-old by that point, as I’ve heard you say about yourself, like, you know, in my Meryl Streep years — which is weird, because I’m not Meryl Streep, so we’ve got a problem. But I like that it’s taken people off-guard.
JK: In Away We Go, you and I are pregnant. And, throughout the movie, our characters wonder what it’ll be like to have a baby. How did you incorporate your own pregnancy into this part of the movie? MR: Good question, John. Thanks for asking. I definitely drew upon my life before I had a child, and having absolutely no fucking clue what’s coming next, and those moments of, “Holy shit, I’ve got to get my life together. Who am I? What am I doing? Where am I having this baby?” But for me, it was actually kind of a sweet relief. I got to enjoy this really, wonderfully delicious, selfish time when I didn’t have a kid, so I wasn’t really responsible for anything, like feeding another human being. Remembering what my life was like was fun, and it made me actually feel a hell of a lot younger. The love I’ve experienced as a mother kind of hits me all the time, and, obviously, there is a love between our characters, Burt and Verona, which isn’t a child-and mother kind of love, but it’s just a very real and honest and unapologetic love. And I almost feel like my heart got a little bit … bigger.
JK: I’m going to cry! One of my favorite parts in the movie is when we’re in bed in the hotel room and you roll over and you’re visibly upset, because you’re so confused and befuddled at how two people can love each other so much. And using what I’ve heard about pregnancy, because I’ve never been pregnant — MR: It would be weird if you had been.
JK: Did you set out thinking that you’d be a specific type of mother to Pearl? MR: There’s definitely this fantasy that’s like, “I’m not going to be a mother, I’m going to be Mother-fucking-Theresa.” And then you realize that you’re still the same person, the same things still bother you, you’re not perfect, but you can still be someone’s parent, someone’s mother, and it can still be okay. There’s no question that you want to give them everything and you want their lives to be perfect. Has any human achieved that? No, probably not.
JK: Once Pearl was born, was she just as you imagined she’d be? MR: We didn’t know if she was going to be a boy or a girl, and, when she finally came out, there was a really quick snip and suddenly, she was resting on my chest, staring at me. And her eyes were super-black. She looked like Marlon Brando in The Island of Doctor Moreau, because she was covered in all of these white blankets staring at me. I remember, in that moment, thinking, Yes, this is my baby. I’d always tried to picture what my baby would look like, and in that second, I was like, Yes, this is the baby I’ve been expecting. And then the doctor said, “Oops, we forgot to see what it was.” I didn’t know if it was a boy or a girl, but I knew it was my baby — you spend so much time being pregnant, not knowing who the hell is coming.
JK: It’s like leaving the door open for Elijah. MR: And when he comes to your house, you sure hope he doesn’t take all your shit.
JK: Having met Pearl, and bestowing upon her the honor of Coolest Girl I’ve Ever Met, I’m wondering how it’s been for you to watch a person forming her own world, using you as her mothership and then going off on her own. MR: I appreciate the mothership reference. There’s no question: you get that proud mom grin sometimes, when it’s like, Check it out. That’s my kid. But, yeah, she is who I thought she’d be in a lot of ways. Let’s put it this way: If she had come out as a total wallflower, and said stuff like, “I hate reading and I don’t like to perform,” then I’d be like, That’s not my kid. So it doesn’t really surprise me that she’s like, “Hey, I’m funny and I like to hang out.”
JK: One of my favorite things and least favorite things about this movie is the same thing. MR: The first scene?
JK: No, it’s this: You would have been the kid I hated in high school who was like, “Oh my God, I totally just failed that test.” And then you’d get it back and get an A, and you’d be like, “Oh my God, I got an A!” Meanwhile, I always thought I’d get a C, and, yep, I got a C. MR: See, you’re saying that, but I’m the one who thinks they’re going to get a C, and gets a C.
JK: When we were doing the movie, almost every day you’d say, “I’m lying, I’m not an actor.” And I thought that was so incredibly insane because only the best actors can hack it on SNL. And then I thought I was going to lose my job because you had been turning in such an incredible performance. How do you feel about that now, honestly, and at what point in the movie did you break through and give yourself the credit you deserve? MR: First of all, if I were you, I’d shoot me because that sounds so obnoxious. I don’t know why I psyched myself out so hard; I was doing fine. I think I was really saying, I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing, and I hope that’s okay. But having a partner like you, John, emphasized the fact that I wasn’t acting in front of my mirror with a soap-ona-rope microphone. Within our weird little bubble, it was okay. I’ve done movies before, but they’ve never been my movies; I’ve never shared a movie with anybody in this way
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In Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut, Nazar Najarian, a Montreal businessman, was killed, according to his daughter. Najarian divided his time between Montreal, where he founded an import-export company and Lebanon, where he helped lead a political party. His daughter, who is in Montreal, stated that his father was a brilliant man, and the most amazing father.
Their daughter also said that Najarian’s wife was with him in Beirut but was not injured in the explosion. She noted that they lost somebody that’s extremely important in terms of his contribution. It is still unknown about the cause of the blast, which killed at least 70 people and injured at least 3,000. Charlebois stated that Najarian grew up in Beirut and was Armenian. Najarian was secretary-general of a Christian Democratic political party in Lebanon called Kataeb.
Najarian often posted about his political activity during trips to Lebanon on his Facebook page, which lists Montreal as his city of residence. Last week, he posted a smiling photo after meetings with party officials in two towns. Charlebois also confirmed that Najarian quickly earned the respect of people in the local Lebanese community when staying deeply involved in his work in Lebanon after moving to Canada about seven years ago.
Charlebois added that he and his wife decided to move to Canada for stability and for a better future for their children. It was in January 2013, when Najarian founded his Montreal-based company, Tetran Holding Co. It focused on introducing high-end products to the North American markets and “emerging European luxury brands.” Najarian wrote in LinkedIn that he also taught marketing to university students, and he was fluent in four languages and held degrees in commercial sciences, marketing studies,and accounting.
Charlebois said that at the onset of the country’s civil war in 1975, he got involved in Lebanese politics when he was only around 16 years old. She also stated that they believed deeply in the fact that their involvement would save Lebanon at the beginning of the war in Lebanon in 1975. She said that many considered his father heroic during Lebanese civic life as he was lobbying, speaking out loud, denouncing what’s wrong, and promoting what’s right.
Source: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-businessman-among-victims-of-beirut-explosion-1.5050902
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Smart Dust is coming as "Researchers at I.B.M laboratories say they have made progress toward storing information and computing at the level of individual atoms.". The first paper deals with the storing of information at atomic level while the other details success in building a single molecule switch "replicating the behavior of today’s transistors."
To read a more detailed article about IBM's research, click on the image below.
At the same time IBM published these papers, HP is designing "a circuit called a field programmable gate array, or F.P.G.A., using molecular-scale components as the configuration circuitry, an approach that will save tremendous space in the chip design."
Click on the image to get Physorg's take on the IBM achievement.
It's a good read.
What this means is that supercomuters the size of dust motes becomes feasible and...tech like this will be EVERYHERE.
Something to think about, n'est pas?
By Remoran - August 31, 2007 No comments:
Life in the Slow Lane
Life in the slow lane has become the way the US does broadband in comparison with Japan as discussed in the excellent Washington Post article titled Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future. Using competition and savvy government regulations, the Japanese enjoy broadcast quality full screen video on the net, something that is entirely foreign to web users in the US. Demographics and physical constraints aside, what is needed from this writer's perspective is unfettered competition, net neutrality and a technically competent and courageous FCC to get the US moving toward a web future that has promise. The tech is here to make it happen, the political will and vision to make it happen is not. The choice is up to us to make a difference as we mover further into the 21st century.
Here's a blurb from The Huffington Post on the same topic spiked with political commentary.
How to Leave Iraq
A must read from Baseline as this special report details just how daunting it will be to leave Iraq after a war that never should have happened in the first place.
Remember the old Six Million Dollar Man series where astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured, was rescued by scientists who could "build him better" with prosthetics that gave him super human strength, speed and sight. Not bad for a show that ran in the early 70's given the fact pc's did not exist and Intel was just starting out making chips that would change how the world does business.
Thirty some years later, the Six Million Dollar Man, in terms of prosthetic capability, still remains fiction but there's hope... Rocket Man is coming based on radical research, funded by Darpa, to build prosthetics that can actually do something using rocket power as researchers have learned how to fit this tech into the form factor of a bionic arm without blowing up the user. "Our design does not have superhuman strength or capability, but it is closer in terms of function and power to a human arm than any previous prosthetic device that is self-powered and weighs about the same as a natural arm," said researcher Michael Goldfarb, a roboticist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
"It has about 10 times as much power as other [robotic] arms," Goldfarb said"
Click here to see a video on this outrageous device.
If this scales, Terminator and Transformer technology, from the power perspective, could become reality.
The other part of the equation, however, depends on how to use this power to make the prosthetic "feel real". To accomplish this, scientists at the University of Utah intend "to develop a "peripheral nerve interface." The implanted device would relay nerve impulses wirelessly from what's left of a limb to a computer worn on the person's belt. From there, the signals would be routed to a bionic arm and back to the remainder of the amputated arm, where they would then flow naturally back to the brain."
Hey Steve, wanna race?
Just found an awesome resource (The Product Space and the Wealth of Nations) that tracks the economic health of nations using physics, biology and network analysis as research tools to determine how efficiently countries develop products for export, a key factor in finding out the value of any given country. In his article titled Milton Freeman, meet Richard Feyman, writer Tim Hartford describes how "Two physicists, Cesar Hidalgo and Albert-László Barabási, and two economists, Bailey Klinger and Ricardo Hausmann, have been drawing unusual pictures of economic "space" (on their site) that promise a deeper understanding of the biggest question in economics: why poor countries are poor."
When one visits the WON site, the different kind of visualizations used to build the WON model shows just how intense the research has been to enable these people to come up with a viable approach that really explains, in objective terms, why some nations cut it while others don't.
To see source information on WON, click on the Center for Complex Network Research
You won't be disappointed.
Money As Dept
A must see to learn about the Fed's place in the US. After viewing this, learn how Money As Dept gave rise to entities like the Fed. This information, in my opinion, should be part of Economics 101, a required course that must be taken in both High School and College before one graduates from either institution. To see the end result, catch this riff from George Carlin.
Enemy of the State II
What me worry? Don't worry, we have you under "unlimited" surveillance without the protection of search warrants as "Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans’ business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said."
If this doesn't make you feel more secure then perhaps this news blurb will...
Or this. or this or this
We are on a very slippery slope as chaos theory proves that tipping points are not linear. The day before a pond freezes over, 50% of the water is ice free. The same chaotic process has happened regarding unlimited surveillance (starting with 9/11) as seen by acts of Congress (Patriot Act etc., etc.) and the cooperation of the press to sell "Protecting the Homeland from Terrorists" at the expense of civil liberties. (Goebbels would be proud.)
Hopefully, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will force the White House to defend it's policies where "The king can do no wrong..." files directly in the face of the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment. (Here's another take on the case.)
"One never knows do one?" - Fats Waller
In 1937, Olaf Stapledon wrote Star Maker, one of the greatest books ever written. In it, he discusses the inner workings of the universe that is remarkably prescient with references to artificial/collective intelligence, genetic engineering, extraterrestrial civilizations and the universality of life. In essence, the book is awe inspiring but why talk about a work written seventy years ago? In two words, inorganic life.
Seems that "some" forms of extraterrestrial life may be inorganic (not containing carbon) living in plasmas, "essentially the fourth state of matter beyond solid, liquid and gas, in which electrons are torn from atoms leaving behind a miasma of charged particles." whereby interstellar dust, under the right conditions, forms DNA type strands, replicate and evolve in similar fashion to the carbon based life-forms found here on earth. When this expanded idea of life is looked at in relation to Arthur C. Clark's masterwork, 2001, (Life living on the surface of stars as seen by Dave on his journey to the infinite.) the notion of different kinds of life existing outside the bounds of the carbon construct becomes feasible, especially when articulated by profound thinkers like Stapeldon and Clarke and confirmed by this discovery of plasma generated "life".
At the same time inorganic "life" has been discovered comes the idea of panspermia, or the concept that life on earth "began inside comets and then spread to habitable planets across the galaxy. " If this is the case for comets and plasma based life-forms, then we are definitely NOT ALONE.
Levitation, the stuff of sci fi, Star Wars and Star Trek fame, is no longer fiction. It appears that manipulating the Casimir Effect, (a force from nothing) by placing a "Perfect Lens of negative refractivity." between two surfaces enable objects to levitate, something that, heretofore was considered to be the stuff of science fiction. Applications of this tech could be endless with the first entering the realm of nanotech where objects of vanishingly small size could be manipulated in ways impossible to even think about before the advent of this technology.
Even though this research is in it's infancy, the notion of scaling this up to real world size is not out of the question as this tech is at the same level of development as that of invisibility another concept formerly believed to be another fanciful notion until now.
"To boldly go...." - Star Trek
By Remoran - August 15, 2007 2 comments:
Form Factor II
Ion batteries will be a thing of the past as flexible energy storage technology has made a giant step forward with the "new nanocomposite paper developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Infused with carbon nanotubes, the paper can be used to create ultra-thin, flexible batteries and energy storage devices for next-generation electronics and implantable medical equipment. Credit: Rensselaer/Victor Pushparaji
Using cheap materials, scientists have created a battery that also can be a supercapacitor, able to be driven by human sweat or blood as needs warrant. Additionally, said "paper" can be shaped and configured to power many different types of gadgets because the tech is extremely rugged and can scale to meet large energy requirements without a problem. Once the manufacturing process is mastered, nanocomposite paper will change how "portable" systems will be built as society movers further into the 21st century.
Remember Enemy of the State, (the 1998 thriller starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman and Jon Voight) where Will Smith, a hip, young labor lawyer unwittingly becomes the target of the NSA, tracked 24/7 by satellite and bugs (in TVs, clothes, phones & fire detectors) and hounded by ruthless NSA agents only to be saved by an old ex agent who wants back pay for services rendered long ago. Fast paced, intelligent, well edited and driven by a superb cast, the flick eerily echoes what is happening today, an all seeing surveillance keyed to everyone who lives in the good old USA.
Remember The Office of Total Information Awareness, the 2002 data mining thriller conceived by John Poindexter, the ex Naval officer of Iran Contra fame, whereby said agency would be able to "...provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant."
The Bush Administration pushed hard to make this real because it "...could be the perfect storm for civil liberties in America,'' said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington ''The vehicle is the Homeland Security Act, the technology is Darpa and the agency is the F.B.I. The outcome is a system of national surveillance of the American public.'' Congress shut the TIA initiative down but like Frankenstein, tech does not die, it just mutates and moves on as needs warrant.
In 2004, Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card visit John Ashcroft, the ailing Attorney General, to restart domestic wiretapping without the need of FISA. Ashcroft resists because he knows it's illegal but he's recovering from emergency Gall Bladder surgery and James Comey is the acting AG (which short circuit's the Gonzales/Card attempt to get Ashcroft to sign off on the restart) but the BA wants what it wants and re-certifies the program without legal justification.
Needless to say, the furor over the visit (and the end result of doing domestic spying without FISA) has sparked an ongoing constitutional crisis over what constitutes privacy and the role of the executive branch regarding this very important matter. (Here's the real reason for confrontation). Note: Since 2004, the NSA has been reassembling TIA data mining tech with the help of companies like AT&T.
August 3, 2007, the Democratic Congress acts "tough" by giving Bush more than what he asked for regarding surveillance.
In David Brin's Earth, Tit for Tat is the watchword for keeping technology in check whereby the watched can watch the watcher. Why can't we do the same?
"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database." You Are a Suspect - William Safire, NYT November 14, 2002
Guerilla Wi-Fi
Meraki, a startup that sells a very sophisticated $50 Wi-Fi transmitter ($5 MIPS/memory chip with high-end firmware), intends to "put a Billion More People Online." using code that self organizes networks. With this capability, a single "DSL Internet connection (spread across a mesh network composed of other Minis) can accommodate 50 simultaneous users. " When muliple DSLs are employed, the network scales to handle hundreds of connects without a problem because of the Mini's ability to act both as a router or repeater based on its links to the web. The cost is nominal, people love it and ISPs are happy because the minis are intuitive to set up and work as advertised. When the 700mhz spectrum comes on line, (Hopefully with Google's $4 billion offer to keep it open) Meraki's goal of one billion new users may be just the start point for something "really big."
"A journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step." - Mao Zedong
REAL portable computing is coming now that flexible OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diode) are getting ready to enter the marketplace once the bugs are ironed out regarding brightness, reliability, longevity and heat dispersion etc., etc. as they promise to revolutionize every aspect of computing with their thinness, flexibility (obviously) and low power requirements vs LEDs, which are difficult to produce, require beaucoup power and are rigid (glass substrate).
Interesting enough, Red Planet, a pretty decent 2000 sci fi flick (with good special effects) starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss, shows what a device would look like equipped with a flexible display and it's one everyone would want. When OLEDs are combined with capacious solid state memory, fast processor and an interface similar to the iPhone/Minority Report, a smart brick comes to mind because without moving parts, power requirements will drop like a stone, reliability would greatly improve and the devices will be able to handle physical abuse that would kill today's portable systems. When WiMax and open access to RF becomes real (let's hope the FCC doesn't blow it but...), these devices will be everywhere.
Addentum. Sony's entry's not bad either.
'Nuff Said
A truly great article is making the rounds causing people to think about the mind and how it works. Who's Minding the Mind? delves into the subconscious and how it influences conscious thinking in ways that will astound anyone who reads the piece.
"In a recent experiment, psychologists at Yale altered people’s judgments of a stranger by handing them a cup of coffee.
The study participants, college students, had no idea that their social instincts were being deliberately manipulated. On the way to the laboratory, they had bumped into a laboratory assistant, who was holding textbooks, a clipboard, papers and a cup of hot or iced coffee — and asked for a hand with the cup.
That was all it took: The students who held a cup of iced coffee rated a hypothetical person they later read about as being much colder, less social and more selfish than did their fellow students, who had momentarily held a cup of hot java."
And..."psychologists led by Aaron Kay, then at Stanford University and now at the University of Waterloo, had students take part in a one-on-one investment game with another, unseen player.
Half the students played while sitting at a large table, at the other end of which was a briefcase and a black leather portfolio. These students were far stingier with their money than the others, who played in an identical room, but with a backpack on the table instead.
The mere presence of the briefcase, noticed but not consciously registered, generated business-related associations and expectations, the authors argue, leading the brain to run the most appropriate goal program: compete. The students had no sense of whether they had acted selfishly or generously."
Almost quantum like, the subconscious mind's perception of reality causes the conscious mind to alter course in ways that cannot be predicted yet the SC/C pattern is forever locked in and nothing can be done to alter the process. Chaos works the same way in always teasing out deterministic behavior out of seemingly random events without fail in phenomena ranging from river flows and planetary orbits to the motion of a pendulum. Very cool and very though provoking to be sure.
In reading something as good as this encourages further research as to learning how the mind may work as a physical system and Henry Stapp, a highly respected quantum physicist working out of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, just might have the answer but before checking out his new book, a short detour into Quantum Darwinism may be required as this provides the basis for Stapp's take on brain processes.
Wojciech Zurek, a young Polish physicist, is the guiding light behind Quantum Darwinism, a theory that articulates how reality may work and how we make sense of it. His pdf titled Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical—Revisited is an elegant explanation that can understood by lay people like myself, something truly impressive given how mathematically challenged I am.
As one would think, Henry Stapp's book discusses quantum theory at length and how it applies to the brain, no small accomplisment given just how deep both topics are. Check out the in-depth review by Allan Combs and Jeffery Martin to see why Stapp is a player in both areas of cutting edge research.
Click on the Mindful Universe cover to get details about the book.
"The Devil's in the Details" - old English proverb
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Syria – the country that’s disappearing before our eyes
4 June 2013 by Joy Toose
This is a photo of my brother Matt (second from the right) in 2000. It’s not the clearest of photos, because as he attests, he was travelling before the world was digital! He’s with his girlfriend Alison and two friends in Palmyra, Syria.
It’s been over a decade since this photo was taken and things couldn’t be more different. In those 13 years, my brother has married Alison and had three adorable kids … and Syria seems to have changed beyond recognition.
Today I’m in Lebanon, which borders Syria to the north and east. It’s a small country with a population of similar size to Melbourne. World Vision has worked in Lebanon since 1975, but the Syrian Refugee Crisis means our work has increased significantly. I’m here helping with report-backs of our work for supporters, coordinating media visits and communicating the needs that our staff find in the communities and settlements where they work.
My brother took the traditional Aussie gap year a bit further than most, backpacking, renting and working his way around the world until he was 30. To him, Syria was special. It received far fewer tourists than neighbouring Turkey and a group of young Australian travellers through the country was still a novelty.
Matt remembers a popular falafel shop in Aleppo with a line out the door, where the customers refused to let him pay, or even wait in line behind them. Instead they ushered him into the shop and, with basic Arabic, hand gestures and laughter, helped him build the perfect kebab. Matt was treated with the same hospitality all over Syria and found it the most welcoming country that he travelled to in the Middle East.
But that welcoming country has now disappeared, and not just for travellers. Over 1.4 million refugees have fled Syria over the last two years.
On Wednesday, I visited a small settlement of tents in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley where I met one family who had arrived from Syria just 15 days ago.
Two of the family’s four children bore scars from the violence in Syria. The little girl, Usra had a raw looking scar on her forehead. Her brother Khaled had burns covering most of his leg below the knee. The children’s mother, Ramiah, said that the family feels safe now that they are in Lebanon but Usra still wakes up at night screaming.
“Fleeing conflict”, a term that I have written over and over again, is so abstract, but talking to Ramiah I suddenly realised how real, concrete and terrifying it was for them. Ramiah’s apartment block was hit, and she and her family escaped through a hole in one of the walls. When we asked what she had brought with her, Ramiah pointed to the clothes she was wearing.
World Vision is working with this settlement to provide families access to clean water and toilets. It’s the most basic of basics and Ramiah is thankful for it. “This is what we need,” she told us, holding up an empty water container.
I couldn’t help feeling that it wasn’t enough, I wanted them to have their homes and lives back. Ramiah’s story is far from unique – when those gathered around us saw my shock at the children’s injuries, they began to share with me their own scars from flying bullets and shrapnel. The families I met didn’t have a choice, the country they used to call home isn’t safe anymore. Ramiah, her husband and four children crossed the Syrian-Lebanese border seeking safety for their children, with no guarantees about what their new life would be like.
Living in Lebanon, where hospitality is a strong part of the culture, I wonder what has happened to the Syrians who were so welcoming to my brother. If they are some of the 1.4 million refugees who have left their homes and their rapidly changing country, I hope their kindness and generosity is being repaid.
Learn more about World Vision’s response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
Joy Toose
Joy Toose for World VIsion's emergency communications team. Last year, after Typhoon Haiyan, Joy worked in the Philippines assisting with World Vision's response.
NewLifeOnTheRoad says:
Its seems so like something from a movie, not something that is actually happening. To hear how much it has changed since your brother traveled to Syria back in 2000 to now where families are escaping with only the clothes on their backs, with nightmares when they sleep and to not having the freedom to be safe – its sees like its not possible. Yet reading your experience makes it so real. So live. Sorry that the country is disappearing before your eyes, sorry that the future is changed for those people – lets hope that the future will be brighter for those that are under the care of those helping.
Joy Toose says:
I can’t even imagine what it must be like to lose your country, your neighbourhood, your home. So devastating. Thnaks for reading Lisa. x
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David Loy to present Religion Forum lecture on 'Buddhist Reflections on Eco-Crisis' May 5
Luther.edu, April 21, 2011
Decorah, Iowa (USA) -- David Loy, professor, writer and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism, will lecture at Luther College Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m. in Room 102 of the Franklin W. Olin Building.
<< David Loy
A Luther Religion Forum lecture, Loy's presentation is titled "Healing Ecology: Buddhist Reflections on the Eco-Crisis." The program is open to the public with no charge for admission.
Loy will argue that there is an important parallel between what Buddhism says about our personal predicament and our collective predicament today in relation to the rest of the biosphere.
Loy lectures nationally and internationally on various topics, focusing primarily on the encounter between Buddhism and modernity and what each can learn from the other.
He offers workshops on "Transforming Self, Transforming Society" and on his most recent book, "The World is Made of Stories."
Loy's essays and books have been translated into many languages. His articles appear regularly in major journals such as Tikkun and Buddhist magazines including Tricycle, Turning Wheel, Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma, as well as in a variety of scholarly journals.
He is on the editorial or advisory boards of several journals, including Cultural Dynamics, Worldviews, Contemporary Buddhism, Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and World Fellowship of Buddhists Review. He is on the advisory board of several organizations including, Buddhist Global Relief, the Clear View Project and the Ernest Becker Foundation.
Loy holds the bachelor of arts degree from Carleton College, the master's degree from the University of Hawaii and the doctoral degree from the National University of Singapore.
Loy is a professor of Buddhist and comparative philosophy. He has taught at Bunkyo University in Japan and at Xavier University in Ohio. He has served as visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and as a research scholar with the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Loy's lecture is sponsored by the Luther College Religion Forum, the Luther Center for Ethics and Public Life and the Luther Diversity Center.
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WPS Centre
Women, Peace and Security Forum
Njoki Kinyanjui
COVID-19: a double burden for women in conflict settings
Since the COVID-19 epidemic broke out in December 2019, the virus has spread across the globe unabated, with countries in different phases of the curve. Njoki Kinyanjui tells us why the work of women’s networks in fragile contexts is so important, now more than ever, to ensure women’s participation in COVID-19 decision-making in conflict settings.
Public health emergencies worldwide, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, affect and impact women and men differently, but take a disproportionate toll on women. Even more so in conflict-affected countries and post conflict contexts, where the existing gender inequalities and exclusion of women from all decision-making, including on peace and security issues, are severely deepened. In these contexts, women are often on the periphery of peace and political solutions; and therefore, have limited decision-making power on social, economic, health, protection and justice outcomes. Moreover, they experience limited access to critical health information and services such as for primary, sexual and reproductive health, while available services remain strained and poorly equipped. Yet, with all these challenges, women continue to actively agitate for meaningful and full political participation and in other socio-economic arenas, including in health.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its devasting impacts, therefore, further deepens the exclusion and discrimination of women and negatively affects their protection in these fragile contexts. There is already documented evidence on the rise of violence against women, particularly domestic violence. It is therefore very positive that the Secretary-General’s call for a global ceasefire has been endorsed by many Member States, regional organisations and civil society groups including women’s organisations. Further, in his message on Gender Based Violence and COVID , he noted that “over the past weeks as economic and social pressures and fear have grown, we have seen a horrifying global surge in domestic violence” and issued a rallying call to end violence against women in their homes.
It is well recognised that globally, women predominantly carry the burden of providing primary healthcare,. 70 per cent of global health workers are women and emerging statistics show that increasingly health workers are getting infected by COVID-19. Women are also employed in the service industries and the informal sector, which are amongst those hardest-hit by the measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission. They are also paid less, bear the household burden and are most often the ones doing unpaid care work.
The role of women’s networks
COVID-19 prevention and response measures are anchored in community engagement, participation and sharing the right information. Under Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix recently underlined the role of peacekeepers in providing protection and conflict resolution in partnership with national authorities in fragile environments further strained by the pandemic. Women’s networks and organisations are a key partner to UN peacekeeping and their networks lead innovative community approaches to resolve conflicts, wage peace and reconciliation. It is these same networks that are critical vehicles for women’s participation in COVID-19 decision-making, prevention and responses and elevated advocacy for the global ceasefire call.
As 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the multiple impacts of the pandemic and the inequalities it lays bare are a stark reminder of how women can lead to turn the tide, as actors and decision-makers at all levels, in the health sector, but also more broadly on peace and political processes in their respective countries. It is a time to come together, and use the momentum created by the endorsement of the global ceasefire call, to protect women, safeguard the gains towards the fulfilment of their rights and lead as protectors of peace.
The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this blog post are those of the author(s) only, and do not necessarily reflect LSE’s or those of the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security.
Header image: Photo by Joel Filipe on Unsplash
Ms. Njoki Kinyanjui, is the Senior Gender Adviser and Chief of the Gender Unit, in the Department of Peace operations, New York. Njoki has over 20 years of experience on Gender Equality Programming and Women, Peace and Security in conflict and post conflict contexts in Africa and Asia. She has worked in various leadership roles within the UN, donor partners and INGOs; advising, managing and coordinating gender equality programming and Women, Peace and Security at senior level. She has a Master in Gender and Development from Nairobi University, Kenya among other academic qualification. She tweets @kinjoh.
Posted In: Gendering COVID 19
Josephine Gichuhi says:
Well put Njoki. Cases of GBV have increased since the onset of Covid-19. This is well documented in an article from CJ Maranga, Kenya.
The question is what will happen to women and children living in conflict and post conflict situation in the midst of dwindled resources. Actions based on conflict analysis for conflict responsive interventions must be put in place.
Thanks for sharing Njoki… keep it going.
Owuor Olungah says:
This is a fantastic reflection. The epidemic has turned people’s lives upside down and given psychopaths an opportunity to injure people in their close proximity unabated.
Gendering COVID 19
Gendering COVID-19: implications for women, peace and security
Women peace and security in the time of corona
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Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Hungary urge Ukraine not to restrict minority mother-tongue education
By Clive Leviev-Sawyer/ Published on: 17/09/2017
Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Hungary have urged Ukraine not to introduce the restrictions on mother-tongue education envisaged in the Education Act approved at second reading by the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said.
The foreign ministers of the four countries sent a letter to their Ukrainian counterpart, copied to Council of Europe secretary-general Thorbjørn Jagland and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Lamberto Zannier, on the issue.
The Ukrainian legislation allows for the possibility of minority mother-tongue education up to the fifth grade, after which all subjects – with some possible exceptions – will be taught solely in Ukrainian.
It is also envisaged that the Ukrainian language will become the only language of education in the system of secondary, vocational and tertiary education.
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva summoned a representative of the Ukrainian embassy in Sofia to discuss the issue, the Foreign Ministry said.
She expressed Bulgaria’s concern about the consequences for the Bulgarian minority in Ukraine regarding the adoption of the new law on education.
The Ukrainian side indicated that the new education law will not change the rights of the Bulgarian national minority to study its mother tongue. In the words of the representative of the Ukrainian embassy, the purpose of the normative act is to “strengthen” the use of the Ukrainian language.
Meanwhile, Bulgaria’s ambassador in Kyiv, Krasimir Minchev, will hold a meeting at the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which he will express the Bulgarian position on the new educational law of Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said./IBNA
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Shakespeare Childrens Stories 20 Audio CDs Collection
Product Code: B2D0130
Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear and The Tempest are not just plays but immortal pieces of literature by one of the greatest playwrights to have ever lived, William Shakespeare. All stories have been suitably abridged for young children, using modern English to help develop and nurture their literary interest.
TITLES IN THIS Audio CD
1-A Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. This story was first published in 1623, and has since been performed worldwide with great success. It is set in Sicily, and revolves around the main....
2- All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well is one of the most popular comedies of the master playwright, William Shakespeare. The play is woven around Helena, the orphaned daughter of a famous physician....
3- Antony & Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a brilliant drama of love and war by William Shakespeare. Hailed as one of the master playwright's greatest tragedies, the play is set in ancient Rome and Egypt,
4-As You Like It
All the world's a stage..." One of the most quoted lines of Shakespeare was first heard in this play. As You Like It is set in the enchanted Forest of Arden, where Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled duke, and Orlando, the
5- The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of the earliest plays of the great playwright, William Shakespeare. It revolves around two sets of identical twins who were separated at birth. Years later, fate brings them to the same city, and
6- Cymbeline, King of Britain
Cymbeline, King of Britain is one of the best-known works of William Shakespeare. It is a romantic play interwoven with war and tragedy. It revolves around Cymbeline and his daughter, Imogen. Imogen does not abide by her father's wishes, and marries a lowborn gentleman,
7- Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar is one of the greatest tragedies of William Shakespeare. The play is set in ancient Rome and portrays actual events from Roman history. As the play unfolds, the evil conspiracy of Caesar's murder is
8- King Lear
King Lear is one of the greatest tragedies of the master playwright, William Shakespeare. The play is focused around Lear, the aging King of Britain, and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. When Lear wants to step down from the throne, he decides to divide his kingdom
9- A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular comedies of the legendary playwright, William Shakespeare. The play revolves around Hermia and her best friend, Helena. Hermia runs away into the woods
10- Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado about Nothing is a popular comedy of the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare. The play is set in the quiet town of Messina in Sicily, where two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and
11- Othello
Othello is one of the most powerful tragedies of William Shakespeare. Othello is a Moorish general who falls in love with Desdemona, the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. The play is about their love and Othello's mistrust and jealousy, which ultimately leads to a murder.
12- Romeo & Juliet
Hailed as one of the greatest romantic tragedies ever written, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the tragic love story of the 'star-crossed lovers', Romeo and Juliet. Set in the city of Verona, Italy, the play revolves around the feud between two affluent families, the Montagues
13- The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is one of the most outstanding romantic comedies of William Shakespeare. The play revolves around the legendary characters of Antonio, a rich Italian merchant, Shylock, a rich Jew, and Portia, a rich heiress...
14 - The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth is one of the darkest tragedies of William Shakespeare. The play revolves around a power-hungry Scottish lord, Macbeth, and his lady, who conspire to kill King Duncan. After Duncan's death, Macbeth ascends the throne, only to be consumed by guilt, panic and paranoia,
15 - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a popular romantic comedy by the master playwright, William Shakespeare. It is believed to be his first comedy and probably his first play. It is about two
16 - Timon of Athens
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens is the tale of a rich Athenian who lived a lavish life, spending his wealth on his friends. Eventually, when his wealth ceases and he asks his friends for help, Timon is shocked to find that none of them are prepared to do so. This fills him with hatred for humanity,
17 - Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a delightful comic love story. The play begins with a shipwreck, during which Voila, a young aristocratic-born woman, is separated from her identical twin brother, Sebastian, and is swept onto the
18 - Hamlet
Hamlet is one of the most popular tragedies of the legendary playwright, William Shakespeare. It tells the sad story of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, who, upon his father's death, returns from Wittenberg to discover the evil plot of his Uncle Claudius and his mother, Queen
19 - The Tempest
The Tempest is one of the most popular plays of William Shakespeare. The play is set on a remote island inhabited by Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda. Prospero, now a magician, uses his magic to ....
20-The Taming of The Shrew
One of Shakespeare's most robust comedies, The Taming of the Shrew, is about Katherine, the ill-tempered daughter of a wealthy merchant in Padua. Katherine is so petulant that her father always believed no man would ever want her as
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Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing Format: Audio CD
Language: English Gender: Boy's/Girl's Interest
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Boots LeBaron's World
My blog contains a humorous and inspirational view of life, death, the workplace, spirituality, love, nature, creativity, Hollywood — Plus provocative interviews with some extraordinary participants in the games we all play.
Boots LeBaron’s World
The Human Race by Boots LeBaron
Facing Adversity
MOGULS LACK COURAGE! PROOF: SUNDAY’S OSCAR RACE!
A PEEK AT HUMANITY’S WILDERNESS
FOR SUNDAY’S OSCAR RACE: TALENTED WOMEN
AND OTHER MINORITIES GET THE COLD SHOULDER!
Want a dose of truth? Watch the Oscar ceremonies on the ABC-TV Network Sunday, February 28. Think about the talented minorities who are being ignored by the motion picture industry. They deserve a crack at recognition despite the color of their skin, their ethnicity, the massive gender inequities, the indignities they must suffer as they climb the theatrical ladder en route to prove their creative and technological abilities in a celebrity-obsessed glamour world where all powerful schlumps, narcissistic moguls, and greedy decision makers reign supreme.
Are we so blind to our imperfections, unaware that we are devoid of compassion and lack the intuitive integrity to recognize and reward the talent that stands before us? Some minorities are struggling for recognition. Others deserve praise — even Oscar consideration.
Are we so absorbed by our own insecurities that we fear makingwaves, using professional clout to enhance the recognition of those who deserve such praise?
What a bunch of political bullshit! Such cowardess is not only a Hollywood felony, it is a flaw that affects the entire corporate and blue collar world.
Hollywood is not the only industry that ignores and suffocates the hopes and dreams of highly talented men and women who have paid their dues bleeding, sweating and surviving in workplace environments to prove their worth.
All levels of management, experienced in walking the corporate tightrope to power, are guilty of turning their backs on talented yet highly skilled, underpaid women and other minorities, who deserve recognition.
Granted, there are capable decision makers in myriad businesses who have the integrity and foresight to evaluate the potential of an artist or up-and-coming financial wizard.
But at Sunday’s Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences’ TV fiasco hosted by a black man named Chris Rock, where are these self-anointed geniuses hiding? In a closet?
Nevertheless: Hurray for Hollywood, the news media and the crusaders for justice and equality for bringing this slice of prejudicial outrage to the limelight in a world that could use an enema the size of Pluto (or Planet 9) to cleanse its tarnished soul.
— Boots LeBaron —
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OSCAR POLITICS.
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Susan Carter (née Kenny)
Well said Boots.
This morning I was reminded of you whilst watching an Eroll Flynn movie “Seahawks “.
I remember you telling me about your Dad’s association.
Wonder if you remember me….the girl with the funny feet that worked for you many years ago.
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Boots LeBaron his legal name since the day he was born in Hollywood on July 10, 1932. He began writing essays, light poetry and interview stories when he was promoted from copyboy to TV staff writer at The Los Angeles Times. In the late 1950s, he volunteered to transfer from the drama department where he was doing interviews and writing the first FM radio column in Los Angeles to working as a crime reporter in the police beat at LAPD's Parker Center. There he learned about life, death and reporting working with newsmen he respectfully describes as "journalistic dinosaurs" representing four other metropolitan newspapers. The beat, he says, made "Front Page," the legendary stageplay and Billy Wilder movie look like a kindergarten class. After a brief stint as a general assignment reporter for The Times, he went into publicity representing the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. For the next 20 years he worked as a motion picture and TV writer-publicist for Universal Studios, was head feature writer for Rogers & Cowan (an international theatrical marketing/PR firm), turned down representing Barbra Steisand to publicize the Chrysler Corp. for Solters & Sabinson. As news division director for Richter, Mracky & Bates he introduced "Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute" and four other ecological slogans for the California state park system, worked as an advertising copy writer, creative director for NPRA, and a free-lance columnist for Los Angeles Copley newspapers including The Daily Breeze which printed more than 840 of his human-interest stories. His by-line articles were also published in The Times, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Herald-Express, as well as Peninsula People Magazine, The Easy Reader and Beach Reporter. As an artist, with the help of animator Walter Lantz, he has illustrated many of his own published stories. He is dyslexic, a former child actor, raised by a single parent (Thelma), the son of a rogue Hall of Fame stuntman (Bert LeBaron). He and his wife, JoAnne, have been married for more than 50 years. They have three adult children and four grandchildren. For the last 20 Years he worked as a writer-publicist at a variety of entertainment companies including Rogers & Cowan, Capitol Records, Universal Studios, and then returned to journalism as a free-lance writer. His stories and columns (some have been nominated for a Pulitzer prize or won other writing awards) were published in newspapers and magazines
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Volume 16 Supplement 1
32nd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
Early application of CVVH In the complex treatment of patients with early severe acute pancreatitis
I Aleksandrova1,
M Ilynsky1,
S Rei1,
G Berdnikov1,
L Marchenkova1 &
V Kiselev1
Critical Care volume 16, Article number: P362 (2012) Cite this article
A large population-based study of 1,024 deaths from acute pancreatitis (AP) has revealed that the median time lapse between the onset of AP and death was 6 days [1]. A number of authors considered the patients with persistent or progressive early multiple organ failure (MOF) as patients with early severe acute pancreatitis (ESAP) [2].
The aim of current study was to evaluate the efficiency of early CVVH in a complex treatment of ESAP. The retrospective analysis involved 106 patients. The patients were divided into three groups: the first group (n = 45) received CVVH dose <30 ml/kg/hour, the second group (n = 20) received the dose >30 ml/kg/hour, and in the third group (n = 41) CVVH was not used during the early phase of disease (Table 1). In the first and second groups the median time interval between admission and start of CVVH was 2 (2; 3) days.
As compared to reference group 3, significant (P = 0.022) reduction of early mortality (14 days) was observed in the second group, and decreasing tendency (P = 0.093) of mortality rate was detected in the first group. The median time interval between admission and death was 14 days (in the first and second groups) and 5 days in the third group.
The early application of the CVVH increases time interval for care delivery and allows reducing early mortality. The best results were obtained in the group of patients who were treated with the higher dose of CVVH (earlier restoration of homeostasis and decreased severity of early MOF).
Mole DJ, et al.: HPB. 2009, 11: 166-170. 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2009.00038.x
Isenmann R, et al.: Pancreas. 2001, 22: 274-278. 10.1097/00006676-200104000-00008
Hospital Research Institute for Emergency Medicine N.V. Sklifosovsky, Moscow, Russia
I Aleksandrova, M Ilynsky, S Rei, G Berdnikov, L Marchenkova & V Kiselev
I Aleksandrova
M Ilynsky
S Rei
G Berdnikov
L Marchenkova
V Kiselev
Correspondence to I Aleksandrova.
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Aleksandrova, I., Ilynsky, M., Rei, S. et al. Early application of CVVH In the complex treatment of patients with early severe acute pancreatitis. Crit Care 16, P362 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/cc10969
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc10969
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Celtic Defender In Race Against Time To Be Fit To Face Ross County
David Tully Oct 14th 2019
Celtic defender Hatem Abd Elhamed is a major doubt for Israel’s game with Latvia tomorrow night due to a virus, manager Andreas Herzog has confirmed.
The fullback played the full 90 minutes in Israel’s 3-1 loss to Austria on Thursday but Herzog says the defender hasn’t been back in training since then and has been laid low in his hotel room as he looks to recover from the illness:
“Hatem Abd Elhamed is sick and has been suffering from a virus. He’s not trained and in fact, hasn’t even left the team hotel. He’s not been able to eat with the rest of the group. Clearly, he’s a major doubt for the game.”
Celtic face Ross County on Saturday afternoon and Abd Elhamed is probably unlikely to feature in that game unless he gets back to 100% very quickly.
The 28-year-old has performed very well since moving from Hapoel Beet Sheva in July but he was an unused substitute in Celtic’s last two league games against Hibernian and Livingston.
It’s very likely that Moritz Bauer will continue to start at right-back if Abd Elhamed is ruled out of this weekend’s game. The Austrian has made four appearances after joining on loan from Stoke in September, providing two assists.
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