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[Met Performance] CID:92960
L'Oracolo {49}
Petrouchka {13}
Cavalleria Rusticana {239} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/26/1926.
Leoni-Zanoni
Ah-Joe..................Queena Mario
Uin-San-Lui.............Armand Tokatyan
Cim-Fen.................Antonio Scotti
Uin-Scî.................Adamo Didur
Hu-Tsin.................Louis D'Angelo
Hu-Cî...................Miss Wilson
Hua-Qui.................Henriette Wakefield
Fortuneteller...........Giordano Paltrinieri
Conductor...............Gennaro Papi
Director................Armando Agnini
Set designer............James Fox
L'Oracolo received one performance this season.
Petrouchka...............Adolph Bolm
Ballerina...............Florence Rudolph
Moor....................Giuseppe Bonfiglio
Charlatan...............Ottokar Bartik
Merchant................Ludwig Burgstaller
Street Dancers: Mollie Friedenthal, Rita De Leporte, Lilyan Ogden
Gypsies: Jessie Rogge, Florence Glover
Conductor...............Tullio Serafin
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA {239}
Santuzza................Florence Easton
Turiddu.................Beniamino Gigli
Lola....................Merle Alcock
Alfio...................Mario Basiola
Mamma Lucia.............Grace Anthony
Review of Oscar Thompson in Musical America
'Oracolo' Sole Addition of Week to Metropolitan Répertoire
Poignant Chinese Tragedy Given First Hearing of Season with Scotti Again in Villain's Rôle
In spite of the fact that the end of the opera season is only a few weeks off, works continue to be added to the repertoire. The latest was Leoni's miniature tragedy, "L'Oracolo" which was heard in triple bill with "Petrushka" and "Cavalleria" on Friday night. Other performances of the week were repetitions, but the magnificent "Tristan und Isolde" which brought the Matinee Wagner Cycle to a close was one of the finest ever heard. Marion Talley sang her first Sunday Night Concert and attracted a throng.
Tragedies in Threes
"For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain; the heathen Chinee" of Antonio Scotti in "L'Oracolo" is more than "peculiar." Chim-Fang becomes a sinitic embodiment of evil as portrayed by this master of stage delineation; a distinctly less genial trickster than the card player of Bret Harte's still quotable lyric. Opium selling, kidnapping, murder - wherein he qualifies as a hatchet pest - are his particular vanities. But he also sings well and he rolls an orange with a technic no other Chim Fang (if indeed there is ever to be another) is likely to equal. Today, Chim Fang is Scotti's most unapproachable achievement, much as one may admire also his Scarpia and his Falstaff. There is no more vivid or adroitly polished characterization in all opera. Though the Leoni work is, musically, a secondary one, this rôle is lifted by virtue of his art to a place among the foremost achievements of the lyric stage.
Friday night's "L'Oracolo," the first of the season, was but the repetition of a thrice familiar story, but the thrill of Chim-Fang's death scene, as re-enacted by Scotti and Adamo Didur, was as inescapable as at the little opera's première, some eleven seasons ago. The part of the nemesic doctor has been one of Didur's best and he, like Scotti, was very much in the vein at this performance. This, in spite of a detail or two that seemed a little off schedule as to time, as in the case of Scotti's changed and delayed entrance and exit after the discovery of San Luy's body. There was little time, on this occasion, for that gasping, shuffling flight that Chim-Fang has made as he feels accusing eyes upon him.
The remainder of the cast maintained a satisfactory level of competence. Armand Tokatyan replaced Ralph Errolle at the eleventh hour as Win-San-Luy and sang tunefully. Queena Mario was an attractive Ah-Yoe, coping as best she could with music that lies rather low for her voice. Louis D'Angelo as HooTsin and Henriette Wakefield as Hua-Quee completed the singing cast, but there was also tiny Helen Wilson as the cherubic child whose kidnapping became the prelude to Win-San-Luy's murder. This youngest of the Metropolitan American stars is eight years old, but looks about three. She was the object of much attention, without, however, exhibiting signs of a prima donna's recognition of her own importance.
The music of "L'Oracolo" again held the ear by reason of its fluent tunefulness. Puccini might have written its melodies, and if he had, they would have been regarded as among his happiest inspirations. Dramatically, however, the score continually misses fire - or would, if the music were at all necessary to intensify the action. The musical treatment of the scene of the discovery of Win-San-Luy's body is particularly inept, without, however, materially weakening the dramatic effect. It merely places a well-nigh hopeless burden on the soprano.
Linked with "L'Oracolo" in a triple bill of verisimo and burlesque tragedy were Stravinsky's riotous moujik ballet, "Petrushka," and Mascagni's never long deferred "Cavalleria Rusticana." In the former, the chief dancers and mimes were Adolph Bolm, Giuseppe Bonfiglio, Florence Rudolph and Ottokar Bartik, as at earlier representations. The handling of the crowds has been improved since last season. They have more zest, color, animation. One could only wish for a similar improvement in the playing of the orchestra, which lacked the sting of familiar concert performances of this music, in spite of Tullio Serafin's zeal as conductor.
"Cavalleria" was notable chiefly for the Turiddu of Beniamino Gigli, which was tonally resplendent, though inclined at times to fooling, at other times to the lachrymose. Florence Easton was an intense Santuzza and one prodigal of voice. Merle Alcock sang Lola attractively, both as to voice and appearance, and Mario Basiola cracked Alfio's whip in a highly professional manner. Grace Anthony completed the cast as Mamma Lucia. Gennaro Papi conducted both the Leoni and the Mascagni operas.
L'Oracolo: Conductor [Papi, Gennaro]
L'Oracolo: Ah-Joe [Mario, Queena]
L'Oracolo: Uin-San-Lui [Tokatyan, Armand]
L'Oracolo: Cim-Fen [Scotti, Antonio]
L'Oracolo: Uin-Scî [Didur, Adamo]
L'Oracolo: Hu-Tsin [D'Angelo, Louis]
L'Oracolo: Hu-Cî [Wilson, Miss]
L'Oracolo: Hua-Qui [Wakefield, Henriette]
L'Oracolo: Fortuneteller [Paltrinieri, Giordano]
L'Oracolo: Director [Agnini, Armando]
L'Oracolo: Set Designer [Fox, James]
Petrouchka: Conductor [Serafin, Tullio]
Petrouchka: Petrouchka [Bolm, Adolph]
Petrouchka: Ballerina [Rudolph, Florence]
Petrouchka: Moor [Bonfiglio, Giuseppe]
Petrouchka: Charlatan [Bartik, Ottokar]
Petrouchka: Merchant [Burgstaller, Ludwig]
Petrouchka: Street Dancer [Friedenthal, Mollie]
Petrouchka: Street Dancer [De Leporte, Rita]
Petrouchka: Gypsy [Ogden, Lilyan]
Petrouchka: Gypsy [Rogge, Jessie]
Petrouchka: Gypsy [Glover, Florence]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Conductor [Papi, Gennaro]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Santuzza [Easton, Florence]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Turiddu [Gigli, Beniamino]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Lola [Alcock, Merle]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Alfio [Basiola, Mario]
Cavalleria Rusticana: Mamma Lucia [Anthony, Grace]
1925-26: L'Oracolo: 1 performance: Statistics
Agnini, Armando [Director]
Alcock, Merle [Mezzo Soprano]
Anthony, Grace [Soprano]
Bartik, Ottokar [Dancer]
Basiola, Mario [Baritone]
Bolm, Adolph [Dancer]
Bonfiglio, Giuseppe [Dancer]
Burgstaller, Ludwig [Tenor]
D'Angelo, Louis [Baritone]
De Leporte, Rita [Dancer]
Didur, Adamo [Bass]
Easton, Florence [Soprano]
Fox, James [Set Designer]
Friedenthal, Mollie [Dancer]
Gigli, Beniamino [Tenor]
Glover, Florence [Dancer]
Mario, Queena [Soprano]
Ogden, Lilyan [Dancer]
Paltrinieri, Giordano [Tenor]
Papi, Gennaro [Conductor]
Rogge, Jessie [Dancer]
Rudolph, Florence [Dancer]
Scotti, Antonio [Baritone]
Serafin, Tullio [Conductor]
Tokatyan, Armand [Tenor]
Wakefield, Henriette [Mezzo Soprano]
Wilson, Miss [Actor]
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Home » Commentary » Arsenal Pulse » Systematic ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan?
Systematic ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan?
By Bill Humphrey June 13, 2010 - 7:22 pm March 5, 2014 Arsenal Pulse
The situation in southern Kyrgyzstan is growing rapidly worse, as what seems to be systematic ethnic purges against Uzbeks began today (NY Times):
Rioting spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation on Sunday as the authorities failed to contain mobs that appeared to be increasingly engaging in targeted ethnic violence.
The official death toll from four days of clashes neared 100 people, though the unrest seemed so widespread that the figure is likely to go far higher. Reports from the region said bands of ethnic Kyrgyz were seeking out Uzbeks, setting fire to their homes and killing them.
Thousands of Uzbeks have fled to the nearby border with Uzbekistan, and the authorities were said to have lost control of Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city.
“The situation in the Osh region has spun out of control,” Kyrgyzstan’s acting president, Roza Otunbayeva, said Saturday. “Attempts to establish a dialogue have failed, and fighting and rampages are continuing. We need outside forces to quell confrontation.”
“It was raining ash the whole afternoon, big pieces of black and white ash,” said Andrea Berg, a Human Rights Watch employee holed up her apartment in the city. “The city is just burning. It’s totally out of control.”
The rioters at one point commandeered two armored personnel carriers from troops stationed in the city, said Timur Sharshenaliyev, a spokesman for the government there. Soldiers were able to take only one back.
The provisional government passed a decree giving the police and soldiers permission to open fire on rioters to prevent attacks on civilians and government buildings, according to a statement on the government’s Web site.
Russia is moving slowly on a request for peacekeeping troops and plans to take up the matter before the Collective Security Treaty Organization this week. For more on that and for more background, you can read my post from last night: “Kyrgyzstan requests Russian peacekeepers.”
The New York Times has pointed out that in 1990, acts of reciprocal genocide in the same region were only halted by Soviet troops rolling in, but that was when Kyrgyzstan was still part of the USSR, which made such an intervention much easier. Even then, hundreds died before the troops arrived.
This post originally appeared at Starboard Broadside.
Tagged 2010 Kyrgyzstan Crisis, Central Asia, ethnic conflict, Kyrgyzstan, peacekeeping, Russia, Soviet Union.
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Últimas notícias da NASA - NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises
NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises
A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface.
Fonte: https://ift.tt/2Y8TL08 - March 19, 2019
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Can You Catch Coronavirus From Your Clothes?
FRIDAY, April 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- While most Americans are hunkered down in their homes as coronavirus sweeps across the country, essential workers still have to go to their jobs, and trips to the grocery store and pharmacy remain necessary. But can the clothing people wear out spread COVID-19?
If so, what is the best way to handle clothes on your return?
That may depend on exactly what you do when you leave the house. For example, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) urges nurses and doctors to think of hospitals as "hot zones," and advises them to remove all of their clothing before re-entering their home. An immediate shower or bath is also advised, with work clothing kept away from other clothing until thoroughly washed in hot soapy water.
But for the average person, the role of clothing in infection risk is much less clear.
"I have seen nothing published that suggests that people need to strip off clothes, launder and shower right after a trip to the store," noted Elizabeth Scott, associate dean at Simmons University's College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences in Boston. Scott is also the founder of Simmons' Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community.
At this point, "the focus should remain on hand hygiene practices, wearing a mask, and not touching the face" for most people, Scott said.
However, Scott said that as a precaution for store employees, sanitation workers or anyone in routine contact with the public, "It would make sense to remove outer clothing when they get home, and either launder them or leave them hanging until the next shift." And she advised washing hands right after doing so.
Scott also echoed U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice that "laundering should be done using the highest water setting possible, followed by thorough drying."
"I would always use the hottest water cycle possible for the type of fabrics being washed," she stressed. "And it is also possible to do a sanitizing wash, using household bleach following label instructions."
The CDC also advises against shaking out dirty laundry, to prevent unintentionally circulating any virus in the air.
For those who don't have a washer and dryer at home, are laundromats safe?
Scott suggested they are, so long as social distancing is followed. To that end, she advised minimizing laundromat time by sorting out dirty laundry in advance and folding clean laundry back at home.
"I would also suggest that you bring your own soap and hand towel," said Scott, to wipe down the outside of any public washer or dryer you might use. "I would add if you need to use a communal cart or laundry basket, wipe down all of the hand contact surfaces with sanitizing wipes or hand sanitizer."
Finally, Scott took pains to emphasize the importance of maintaining hand hygiene throughout your laundry trip.
"You should wash and dry your hands before you leave home if possible and sanitize your hands once outside the laundry room/laundromat," Scott said. "And, once you get home, wash and dry your hands again."
There's more about keeping your home safe at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Scott, Ph.D., associate dean and professor, College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, and co-director and founder, Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community, Simmons University, Boston
4 Out of 5 People With COVID-19 Will Develop Symptoms: Study
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Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet find love in Call Me By Your Name (2017)
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Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on October 17, 2017, 10:19:09 pm
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ZWISCHEN IMMER UND NIE
BETWEEN ALWAYS AND NEVER
L A T E R
CALLMEBYYOURNAMEFANART by blue night
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The bookseller had ordered two copies of Standhal's Armance, one a paperback edition and one an expensive hardbound. An impulse made me say I'd take both and put them on my father's bill. I then asked his assistant for a pen, opened up the hardbound edition, and wrote, Zwischen Immer und Nie, for you in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties.
In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone to look through his books one day, open up this little volume of Armance, and ask, Tell me who was in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties? And then I'd want him to feel something as darting as sorrow and fiercer than regret, maybe even pity for me, because in the bookstore that morning I'd have taken pity too, if pity was all he had to give, if pity could have made him put an arm around me, and underneath this surge of pity and regret, hovering like a vague, erotic undercurrent that was years in the making, I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him my spit in his mouth because I so desperately wanted him in mine.
He said something about the gift being the best thing he'd received all year. I shrugged my shoulders to make light of perfunctory gratitude. Perhaps I just wanted him to repeat it.
"I'm glad, then. I just want to thank you for this morning." And before he even thought of interrupting, I added, "I know. No speeches. Ever."
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Recited/Narrated by Armie Hammer
« Last Edit: February 20, 2018, 07:59:43 am by Aloysius J. Gleek »
"Tu doives entendre je t'aime."
(and you know who I am...)
Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne)
and Pee-wee in the 1990 episode
"Camping Out"
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-01-28/entertainment/0701270231_1_elio-andre-aciman-oliver
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-01-28/entertainment/0701270231_1_elio-andre-aciman-oliver/2
A tale of longing
conflicted feelings
Homosexual affair is book's emotional focus
By Art Winslow
By André Aciman
Farrar Straus Giroux. 248 pp. $23
In "Death in Venice," describing his main character's obsession with a lissome boy he has observed, Thomas Mann wrote that "in his infatuation, he wanted simply to pursue uninterrupted the object that aroused him, to dream of it when it was not there, and, after the fashion of lovers, to speak softly to its mere outline."
That is very much the affective atmosphere of André Aciman's "Call Me by Your Name," something of the Mann story in reverse, in which the narrator relates in later life his desire as an adolescent to secure--what?--his own desire, his aesthetic and romantic longing, in the person of a slightly older man, a house guest at his family's compound in Italy.
In the most basic sense, "Call Me by Your Name" is a coming-into-homosexual-awareness novel that shares commonalities with works by Edmund White, David Leavitt, Tom Spanbauer and many others. Yet that is a compromising view if considered exclusively, for even though Elio, the narrator, tells us early on that "I had wanted other men my age before and had slept with women," much else in the book argues toward ambivalence and the impetuousness of youth as complicating motivational factors.
Then, too, in its Mann-like focus on artistic sensibilities and its obvious playing with Romantic versus romantic inclinations, "Call Me by Your Name" is a meditation on the tenuous and sometimes evanescent underpinnings of desire, almost irrespective of its object. Elio is 17 during much of the recalled action and has mixed responses to the fleeting sexual contacts in his overall engagement with Oliver, the 24-year-old academic who takes up residence with Elio's family to work on an Italian translation of a book he has written. (Elio's father is a well-known professor who sponsors one such guest every summer, to help with their academic advancement.)
Additionally, Elio is recalling a summer fling from a vantage point 20 years on, and while those weeks form the emotional center of the book, he and Oliver went on to lead very separate lives. Elio, and apparently Oliver, had physical relations with young women, too, that summer, and the young men's approach-avoidance behavior toward each other called into question the meaning and context of their feelings, leaving an uneasy residue the succeeding years did little to abate. Elio wished to clear the air at the time but was told by Oliver," `we can't talk about such things. We really can't.' "
It has reached the point where Elio must talk about such things, though, and Aciman, cleverly, has made this account a separate telling from the diary Elio kept at the time, which is referenced occasionally and allows the author to compare two Elios, the present mind and past mind. Readers may remember the book that first brought Aciman attention as a writer, the memoir "Out of Egypt," a chronicle of his Jewish family's arrival in and eventual exit from Alexandria. Aciman is across the Mediterranean here, in his first novel, but a Diasporic sense remains, as Elio relates that his family "were not conspicuous Jews" but rather " `Jews of discretion,' to use my mother's words." When Elio spots Oliver wearing a Star of David on a gold chain, he reflects that outside the family, Oliver "was probably the only other Jew who had ever set foot in B."
Reference to towns like "B." and "N." are as specific as Elio's shorthand gets geographically, but we are near the site of Percy Bysshe Shelley's drowning (the early death of a Romantic), which means the bay of Spezia, in Liguria, northwestern Italy. "Cor cordium" ("heart of hearts") is inscribed on Shelley's gravestone, and the concept itself serves as a leitmotif in Aciman's novel, which is literary in its narrative style and its allusions to other writers. Not only is Dante quoted, but in a haphazard, circuitous night in Rome worthy of "La Dolce Vita," Elio runs into a Dante street performer (who is brawling with a Nefertiti impersonator).
Elio also reads Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (another Romantic) and German-Jewish poet Paul Celan (another drowning), and comes to think of his connection to Oliver in Celanian phrasing: "Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between always and never." His late-adolescent voice is confessional and engaging, realistically self-contradictory, too, as his feelings frequently jackknife to become their own opposite hours later. Even his consort takes a jab at what Elio refers to as his "operatic sentimentalism."
The book of Oliver's that is being translated into Italian is on Heraclitus, the 6th Century B.C. philosopher who, loosely, saw the world as opposites replacing each other in transformational changes--a point of view that ties directly to themes in "Call Me by Your Name," and even the novel's title. There is cross-dressing here, but it is Elio and Oliver (whose names are virtually anagrams of each other) wearing each other's clothing, and in passion Oliver suggests to Elio, " `Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.' "
Indeed, Elio meditates on individuals who need to "become so totally ductile that each becomes the other" and concludes that Oliver "was my secret conduit to myself." And he wonders, "Whom else would I ever be able to call by my name" without it being "a derived thrill, an affectation." Talking to his father, an accepting sort whose eyes know what they see when it comes to Oliver and his son, Elio thinks of a quotation from Emily Brontë: " `he's more myself than I am.' "
Probably all loves appear to be unique from the inside. It is a challenge for any writer to convey ardor without risking silliness, but Aciman balances Elio well on his psychic precipice. In his negative moments, Elio "felt queasy, as if I had been sick and needed not just many showers to wash everything off but a bath in mouthwash. . . . It was not him I hated--but the thing we'd done." Desire and shame were "the legacy of youth, the two mascots of my life," he reports.
Descriptions of sexual acts in "Call Me by Your Name" tend to be direct and not elliptical (one scene involving a piece of food might remind some of Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint") but are far from prurient, and while they loom large to Elio in a psychological sense, they do not occupy much of the novel. Elio is a good tour guide, too, with an ability to convey the pleasant torpor of his Italian days, his bike rides into town, his swims, the surround of local characters:
"I loved the afternoons best: the scent of rosemary, the heat, the birds, the cicadas, the sway of palm fronds, the silence that fell like a light linen shawl on an appallingly sunny day. . . . This was my balcony, my world."
Sunny, and yet the coloration of elegy will not fade in whatever illumination Elio can bring to bear on his past. Of visiting a spot in Rome where he and Oliver had been, he relates that it "still resounds with something totally present, as though a heart stolen from a tale by Poe still throbbed under the ancient slate pavement to remind me that, here, I had finally encountered the life that was right for me but had failed to have."
Elio's father may be the wisest character in Aciman's book. He tells his son:
" I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.' "
Art Winslow, a former executive editor and literary editor of The Nation, writes frequently about books and culture.
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Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 24, 2017, 10:30:54 pm
Like so many classic love stories, this one unfolds with the suspense of a thriller. Will Elio's passion ever be reciprocated by the one he worships? If it is, will they leap over fear and taboo to consummate their desire? And if they do, will they be exhilarated or repelled by that consummation? They have only six weeks to find out.
Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on August 19, 2017, 02:02:06 pm
In a first novel that abounds in moments of emotional and physical abandon, this may be the most wanton of his moves: [André Aciman's] narrative, brazenly, refuses to stay closed. It is as much a story of paradise found as it is of paradise lost. (....) Nobody gets clocked with a tire iron. No one betrays the other.
Even the fate of mundanely inanimate things like a ripe peach or a pair of worn bathing trunks become sweetly perverse yet spellbinding in Aciman’s approach of storytelling. Trust me when I say that after reading this book, you will never look at peaches or swimming trunks in the same way ever again.
Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on August 20, 2017, 09:06:16 am
Ulliva, Ulliva, Ulliva ---it was Oliver calling me by his name
when he'd imitate it's transmogrified sound as spoken by Malfalda
and Anchise; but it'd also be me calling him by his name as well,
hoping he'd call me back to mine, which I'd speak for him to me,
and back to him: Elio, Elio, Elio.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2017, 04:21:00 pm by Aloysius J. Gleek »
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscar-predictions-2018-academy-awards-1201789008/
With Sundance and Cannes behind us and a ton of high profile movies ahead, Anne Thompson takes a look at this year's Oscar contenders. Updated 10/18/2017.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/2018-oscar-predictions-best-adapted-screenplay-1201853697/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay
Frontrunners:
Scott Frank and James Mangold (“Logan”)
James Ivory (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung (“First They Killed My Father”)
Aaron Sorkin (“Molly’s Game”)
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (“Mudbound”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-actor-predictions-1201789016/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name”)
James Franco (“The Disaster Artist”)
Andrew Garfield (“Breathe”)
Jake Gyllenhaal (“Stronger”)
Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-supporting-actor-predictions-1201789020/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe (“The Florida Project”)
Ben Mendelsohn (“Darkest Hour”)
Jason Mitchell (“Mudbound”)
Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
Michael Stuhlbarg (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Steve Carell (“Last Flag Flying”)
Armie Hammer (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Woody Harrelson (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
Richard Jenkins (“The Shape of Water”)
Tracy Letts (“Lady Bird”)
Ray Romano (“The Big Sick”)
Mark Rylance (“Dunkirk”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-director-predictions-1201789013/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Director
Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”)
Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”)
Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”)
Denis Villeneuve (“Blade Runner 2049”)
Joe Wright (“Darkest Hour”)
Paul Thomas Anderson (“Phantom Thread”)
Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Patty Jenkins (“Wonder Woman”)
Martin McDonagh (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)
Dee Rees (“Mudbound”)
Steven Spielberg (“The Post”)
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/oscars-2018-best-picture-predictions-1201788999/
2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture
AND FYI:
https://twitter.com/cmbynmovie?lang=en
http://www.pictaram.org/post/BZbiWl0lDs2
http://www.pictaram.org/elioandoliver
elioandoliver
🍑 call me by your name 🍑
( @elioandoliver )
Wow. Sad and lovely.
(Of course we all loved Bill Paxton too.)
Peter Spears
@pjspears
11:01 AM - 19 Oct 2017
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https://twitter.com/pjspears/status/921073857468993536
Many of you have asked about Bill Paxton’s connection to Call Me By Your Name. Please see my response below. Thank you.
https://fuckyeahtimotheechalamet.tumblr.com/post/157793415456/matholcroft-from-left-brian-swardstorm-bill
http://matholcroft.tumblr.com/post/157758502924/from-left-brian-swardstorm-bill-paxton-peter
from left: Brian Swardstorm, Bill Paxton, Peter Spears, Armie Hammer,
Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet
RIP Bill 😔
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CALLMEBYYOURNAMEFANART
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Monet's Berm
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#call me by your name #elio #oliver #laterpeaches!
#digital art commission by #dozerdraws
#I'm basically sobbing at my desk
#later!!!
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them beautiful peach boys for my dear friend
@drawsaurus 🍑
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#call me by your name #elio #oliver #all that peach juice ;0;
#laterpeaches!
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all that peach juice
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#call me by your name #all that peach juice ;0;
#sketch commission for #dozerdraws
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🎠 Mick | 21 | Dutch
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(MAKING TALENTED PEOPLE DRAW U BEAUTIFUL THINGS IS JUST SO ADDICTIVE)
Fan Art / Digital Art / Drawings /
#CMBYN #CallMeByYourName #sketch commission for #@drawsaurus
#my boys #my good sweet boys
#Elio #Oliver #laterpeaches
#oliver ulliva #elio perlman #armie hammer #timothée chalamet
#seriously #i love this #just so much
#oliver's HAIR #his EYELASHES
#the soft nostalgic summer glow of it all #i love it
Making of #CallMeByYourName: "Summer Loving" in #TotalFilm magazine (Nov 2017) TOTAL FILM UK
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(ok, re the last gif, sue me. The billowy shirt of Oliver's that Elio lusts for and finally receives as a
gift-fetish is the blue oxford, not striped, but artist Mellowbeat's artwork is clever and Elio is so lustful!)
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"So long, Sirmione!" 📸
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Sirmione, Lake Garda
So long, Sirmione! 📸
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Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on October 05, 2017, 06:37:53 am
Peter Spears @pjspears 7:39 AM - 28 Sep 2017
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TBT. BTS Making movies. Italy 2016/1983 Call Me By Your Name
So, after seeing the movie at NYFF last night, I realized that, like Elio, I found that I had been faking being 'adult' for what seemed like years, and that, suddenly, I found myself unable to make my own way home, and, after feeding a gettone into the antiquated telephone, I needed to call Mom and ask her, tearfully, to pick me up from the station near Bergamo.
I also need to see the four hour version of the movie right away, please. Without people who feel it 'necessary' to loudly applaud during the last shot with Timothée staring into the fire just because Luca quietly put the movie title in the lower left of the frame, so no one could hear Sufjan's singing, or figure out his lyrics. Thanks.
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my thoughts only
by @erkinaken
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"I imagined Elio crying out to Oliver,
begging him to stay with him for the rest of his life.
All those could-have-beens always break me
because they are not to be."
Yeah, this is one of Oliver's blue oxford shirts (whether long or short-sleeved) that Elio had so longed for/lusted after, and, after having received it as a gift, Elio wore it when he was in the last tearful embrace with Oliver at the train station.
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Obtained judgment after trial for full amounts owed including delinquent contributions, liquidated damages, interest, attorney’s fees and audit fees. Trustees of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 Health and Welfare Trust and Plan v. Sotelo, 2018 WL 3240959 (D. Nev. July 3, 2018).
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Obtained over $1 million judgment against alter ego entity of employer who failed to pay required employee benefit contributions. Board of Trustees of Teamsters Local 631 Security Fund for Southern Nevada v. Lightning Exhibits, LLC, No. 2:16-cv-03032, 2018 WL 4566668 (D. Nev. September 24, 2018).
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Obtained a $1.9M judgment against employer, alter ego company and owner/fiduciaries who failed to pay their employees’ fringe benefits. Board of Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 Health and Welfare Trust and Plan v. Security Plumbing & Air Conditioning, 2017 WL 923913 (D. Nev. March 8, 2017).
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King, Michael W. | Hahn, Justin M. |
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Counsel to cosmetics and skin care brand Tarte, Inc., a portfolio company of Encore Consumer Capital, in its sale to Japan's KOSÉ Corporation, a Tokyo-based global cosmetics business.
Spaulding, David M. |
Employee benefits counsel to Tropicana Entertainment and its majority shareholder, Icahn Enterprises, in the acquisition of the Lumiere Place Casino, HoteLumiere, and Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis, from certain subsidiaries of Pinnacle Entertainment.
Obtained judgments against participants who were ineligible for health plan benefits but erroneously received them. Trustees of the Teamsters Local 631 Security Fund for Southern Nevada v. Beavers, No. 2:13-cv-00824, 2014 WL 1302035 (D. Nev. March 28, 2014)
Employee benefits counsel to Victory Park Capital Advisors in the sale of its portfolio company, Global Employment Holdings to TZP Group.
Employee benefits counsel to American Medical Response, a subsidiary of Envision Healthcare Holdings, in its acquisition of MedStat EMS, a Mississippi-based ambulance company.
Assisted in obtaining judgment against pension plan’s investment manager and investment consultant for overcharging commissions and engaging in prohibited transactions. Trustees of Nevada Resort Ass’n – Int’l Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving Picture Mach. Operators of U.S. & Canada Local 720 Pension Trust v. Grasswood Partners, Inc., No. 2:11-CV-00044-MMD, 2013 WL 1249617 (D. Nev. Mar. 27, 2013).
Employee benefits counsel to DigitalGlobe in its acquisition of Spatial Energy, a leading source for digital imagery and related services to the energy industry.
A bond held by ERISA employer was found liable for ERISA employer’s debt to multiemployer benefit trust funds and for attorney’s fees in excess of penal sum. Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters v. Pyles, A663410, 2013 WL 6222083 and subsequent order entered on Jan. 28, 2014 (Nev.Dist.Ct.).
Obtained judgment against a bond company for ERISA employer’s debt to multiemployer benefit trust funds and for attorneys’ fees in excess of bond limit. Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters v Pyles, No. 12A663410, 2013 WL 6222083 (Nev.Dist.Ct. Oct. 18, 2013)
Employee benefits counsel to RGS Energy in its acquisition of Mercury Energy, an east coast solar integrator.
Assisted in obtaining judgment against a company created to avoid multiemployer benefit trust fund obligations owed by a prior alter ego company. Trustees of Const. Indus. & Laborers Health & Welfare Trust v. Pro-Cut LLC, No. 2:12-CV-00205-APG, 2013 WL 4049662 (D. Nev. Aug. 9, 2013).
Employee benefits counsel to a multi-platform media company in its equity sale to Lee Equity Partners, LLC.
Employee benefits counsel to KSL Capital Partners in the sale of five iconic resort properties to TRT Holdings, owner of Omni Hotels & Resorts in a series of five related transactions. The properties included in the sale are Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin; La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad; Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, California; Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina; and The Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Advised tax-exempt organization in the re-design of chief executive’s employment agreement and application of IRC 409A.
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Assisted in obtaining judgment against employer for delinquent contributions, interest, liquidated damages and attorney’s fees on behalf of multiemployer benefit funds. Trustees of the Const. Indus. & Laborers Health & Welfare Trust v. Advanced Traffic Safety, Inc., No. 2:10-CV-01602-KJD, 2012 WL 938652 (D. Nev. Mar. 20, 2012).
Served as employee benefits counsel to Alliant Energy Services, LLC in its disposition of 100% of the stock of its subsidiary, RMT, Inc. to Infrastructure Energy Services, LLC (IEA).
Served as employee benefits counsel to a healthcare company in a joint venture ownership structure for in vitro fertilization labs.
Served as employee benefits counsel to Republic Financial Corporation in its sale of Griffith Enterprises, LLC to Amphenol Corporation. Griffith Enterprises is a Cottonwood, Arizona-based aerospace systems and components manufacturer specializing in the production of mission-critical interconnect harnesses, electrical sub-assemblies and engine and system controls.
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Provided ERISA and employment advice in connection with Vail Resorts, Inc.'s $63 million acquisition of Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort in California.
Counsel to Graham Packaging Company, L.P. in a $568 million strategic acquisition of another manufacturer and supplier. In the transaction, Graham Packaging Company acquired all of the limited partnership units of the target company from the company's limited partners and all of the stock of each of the company's three corporate general partners from their stockholders. A manufacturer and supplier of technology-based, customized blow molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care/specialty and automotive lubricants product categories, Graham Packaging Company is a portfolio company of Blackstone Capital Group.
Served as employee benefits counsel to Strategic Analytics Inc., a global software and services company in the retail lending industry, in connection with the sale of all of the outstanding stock of the company.
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Successfully defended a manufacturing company in a U.S. Department of Labor investigation/audit of group health plan compliance with ERISA, including HIPAA, WHCRA and other applicable laws. The investigation was closed after several of the plan's insurers made revisions to their participant disclosure documentation. No fines or penalties were assessed.
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Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Trust Funds, 125 Nev. 16 (2009). ERISA trust funds have standing to assert Little Miller Act bond claims; ERISA trust funds were not required to provide prior notice to general contractor of claim for subcontractor's delinquent trust contributions, owed under Nevada's general contractor liability statute, unlike Little Miller Act bond claims.
Trustees of the Utah Carpenters' and Cement Masons' Pension Trust v. New Star/Culp, 2009 WL 1351580 (D. Utah). ERISA plan's motion for attorneys' fees, interest, liquidated damages and costs, was not subject to the 14-day filing limit for attorneys' fees motions, which did not apply to ERISA actions; plan awarded all fees, interest, liquidated damages and costs sought.
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Trustees of the Utah Carpenters' and Cement Masons' Pension Trust v. New Star/Culp, 2009 WL 321573 (D. Utah). Employer waived all withdrawal liability defenses by failing to arbitrate its claim that it had not withdrawn under the construction industry rules; employer's counterclaim against plan fiduciaries for alleged failure to investigate circumstances of withdrawal also had to be arbitrated, and was not timely raised in any event.
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Trustees of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525 v. Developers Surety, 84 P. 3d 59 (Nev. 2004). Trust fund could recover attorneys fees from bonding company in excess of bond amount where bonding company litigated directly against the trust regarding liability.
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Smith Green Corporation v. Trustees of the Construction Industry Laborers Health Welfare Trust, 244 F. Supp. 2d 1098 (D. Nev. 2003). ERISA preempts state law claims against ERISA plan for intentional interference, breach of contract, etc. and defendant would be sanctioned for asserting them after ERISA plan's counsel provided defendant's attorney with preemption authorities.
Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Health and Welfare Trust v. Desert Valley Landscape, Inc., 333 F. 3d 923 (9th Cir. 2003). Jurisdiction over ERISA plan's pendent party claims against non-ERISA defendants is constitutional and lower court erred in dismissing the state claims even though ERISA claims were resolved.
U.S. Design v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Trust Funds, 50 P. 3d 170 (Nev. 2002). General contractor was liable for unpaid ERISA trust contributions owed by its subcontractor, pursuant to state law, and all trust's attorneys fees, after general contractor lost on summary judgment.
Trustees of the Operating Engineers Pension Trust v. Tab Contractors, Inc., 224 F. Supp. 2d 1272 (D. Nev. 2002). ERISA plan cannot be sued by employer under Labor Management Relations Act.
Trustees of the Cement Masons and Plasterers Health and Welfare Trust v. Fabel Concrete, Inc., 159 F. Supp. 2d 1249 (D. Nev. 2001). A bond held by ERISA employer's alter ego was liable for ERISA employer's debt to ERISA plan.
Trustees of the Construction Industry and Laborers Health and Welfare Trust v. Desert Valley Landscape, 156 F. Supp. 2d 1170 (D. Nev. 2001). ERISA trust can recover defaulted subcontractor's ERISA plan liability from its general contractor although merits of claim were never proven.
Guthart v. White, 263 F. 3d 1099 (9th Cir. 2001). ERISA health plan participant who sued plan for benefits did not perform qualifying work and, although contributions were made to ERISA plan on his behalf, was not entitled to plan coverage or benefits.
United Association v. Grove, Inc., 105 F. Supp. 2d 1129 (D. Nev. 2000). ERISA does not preempt state law allowing benefit plan to recover plan contributions from employer's general contractor.
City of Hope v. Teamsters Local 631 Security Fund, 141 F. 3d 1174 (9th Cir. 1998). Unpublished decision: hospital that had received assignment of ERISA claims from patient could not recover money damages in breach of fiduciary duty case, but was limited to equitable relief, and res judicata prevented hospital from bringing separate suit on same claims.
Blackwell v. Transamerica Occidental Life, 707 F. Supp. 437 (D. Nev. 1987). Successful suit against ERISA plan administrator for breach of fiduciary duties in failing to maintain eligibility records in a readily transferable form and to take adequate steps to verify eligibility before authorizing coverage and accepting premium payments. According to the court, this case "presented difficult question of first impression".
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Book Review: The Case of Vanitas Volume 6
I hope everyone is doing well, and managed to get the
holiday shopping done.
Things have been going fairly well here, as I can still do
A while back, I had preordered some titles from Amazon and a
couple titles or so got pushed back by the publisher.
Fortunately, the last title I was expecting this year
recently arrived, so it is time to get down to business.
Today, I will be reviewing that title, which is called The Case Study of Vanitas Volume 6
by Jun Mochizuki.
After recovering from the recent events that transpired,
while trying to find a creature, Noé and Vanitas find themselves separated,
with Noé meeting a strange woman who has lived in the area long before the
creature of legend.
However, when Noé encounters the entity that took his friend,
he starts wondering what is going on, while Vanitas, who is searching for Noé, finds
himself in a different past than the previous one.
While this series has been able to maintain my interest
quite well, I am still a little wary that it could go downhill, with how many
things have disappointed me this year.
Thankfully, after reading this, I can say that I enjoyed
this, though not quite to the level that I would have liked.
From the moment that I opened up this volume and started
reading, I found myself engrossed enough that I did not want to stop reading
for any reason.
As I have said a countless number of times, one of the most
supposed to pull the reader into another world, thereby giving the audience the
temporary escape that they desire.
this, like many other manga series, was originally published in a serial
publication, which means that it has to pick up in a way that makes sense,
based upon how the last installment ended.
volume, Noé and Vanitas were separated, with Vanitas being in terrible
condition and Jeanne trying to take care of him and Noé waking up in a strange
place with a strange woman, and this volume started off with the situation
involving Vanitas and Jeanne.
Even though I am not particularly fond of how things started
out, seeing as the final panels of the previous volume ended with Noé waking to
see a strange woman greet him, which did cause me some confusion in this
volume, it still did a good job of pulling me back into the world, making me
wonder how and when Vanitas would be reunited with Noé, which was a lot better
than the last time I found myself just as confused as I was here, which was with
9 of The Ancient Magus’ Bride .
If things had started out any worse than they did, I would
have been very disappointed, because Jun Mochizuki is usually good about starting
off the first chapter in each volume in her series, and by making readers feel
confused it in the beginning, that would have made it hard for people to get
into it, regardless of whether they are a newcomer or a fan of the series.
Fortunately, Jun Mochizuki did not mess things up too badly,
which makes me want to give her some minor applause.
Hopefully, future volumes will be able to start off a little
better than this one did, as that will help maintain interest, especially because
it seems like the volumes are now released by Yen Press on a yearly schedule,
seeing as how nearly a year passed since the last volume was release.
I also liked how the past of the characters introduced were
explored.
One of the things that I really like about Jun Mochizuki’s
work is how she seems to know the proper time to reveal the past and in a way
that can add more to the overall mystery of her stories, making me want to find
out more about what is going on, and possibly making me feel pity for the
characters.
Here, in this volume, after we meet the woman that Jeanne
was chasing and Noé starts wondering what is going on and Chloe starts doing
something, a flashback occurs showing Chloe’s past from when she was young,
where the family’s research, for the purpose of making her human again, began up
to the point where Jean, Chloe’s current attendant, met her.
Within that flashback, we see that Chloe had met Ruthven
himself, who seemed to be a rather nice fellow at the time, though he did warn
her to be cautious of him, and even made contact with another vampire who had
only recently been mentioned earlier in the volume.
Later on, within the same flashback, Ruthven returns, after
Chloe was told that he was as good as dead, and tries to do the same thing he
did to Noé in the present, after calling himself a fool for chasing after a
dream, to try and get his hands on the research her family conducted.
Seeing all of this, it makes me wonder just when he forged
connections with Charlatan, as well as why he said what he did when Chloe put
up a fight, as well as helped me to understand a bit of why she would voluntarily
become a curse bearer, though the reason she seeks revenge is not really
talked.
Even though this probably does not tie back to the mysteries
surrounding Vanitas of the Blue Moon or the book of Vanitas itself, which are
way bigger mysteries in my eyes, it does a good job of capturing my interest,
giving me more reason to want to continue on with the series, just to find out
what is going on.
If Jun Mochizuki had not included this flashback, which makes
up most of the volume, I think I would have very disappointed, as nothing else
really happens in the volume that would have really piqued my interest, such as
what the book of Vanitas can do in the wrong hands, though that is still
possible because Vanitas has not recovered it yet.
Thankfully, Jun Mochizuki did make this flashback, which
makes me want to give her some applause for not making it obvious that very
little had occurred.
Hopefully, things like this would continue to happen as the
series progress, so that things would not start to get boring, but because Jun
Mochizuki and those helping her bring this series to the masses are only human,
I would not be surprised things get worse.
Another thing that I liked was how it was revealed that not
all vampires became curse-bearers involuntarily, like a disease.
Throughout much of the series, every vampire Vanitas
encountered and helped seemed to be suffering from something like a disease,
though it was shown that Charlatan was involved with those curses, which gave
me reason as to why vampires would attack their own kind, seeing as Ruthven has
already been revealed to be connected with Charlatan.
However, in this volume, when Noé found out the entity that
cursed his friend was now connected with Chloe, the person suspected to be the
sought after beast, the entity, known as Naenia, reveals that not just anyone
could become a curse bearer.
Now, some people may be thinking that the are some sort of
requirements, much like how Baskervilles in Pandora Hearts could form
contracts with chains without consequence, but rather than individuals not
meeting the right requirements, Naenia says it is because some vampires are
stronger than others to the point where it cannot do anything to them,
regardless of how badly it wants that vampire’s true name, thereby making it so
that such vampires can only become curse bearers voluntarily, and two of those
vampires were Chloe and Noé.
After hearing those words and being offered a deal of
anything in exchange for his true name, Noé asks Naenia if that was what it did
to his friend, Louis.
Even though this is a situation that makes sense to me, it
still makes things very interesting because I am wondering why Ruthven was able
to hold influence over Noé but Naenia could not, especially because Chloe had
fought of Ruthven’s attempts to curse her and allowed Naenia to curse her.
If Jun Mochizuki had not introduced this puzzling mystery, I
think that I would have been disappointed, as the series would have eventually
become more akin to a monster of the week series, rather than having any
questions that keep the readers interested, since Vanitas would have been just
going from one afflicted vampire to the next.
Fortunately, Jun Mochizuki did shake things up a bit, which
makes me want to giver her some more applause for a job well done.
Hopefully, there will be more moments like this in future
releases, because I would like to be taken for another ride like I had in Pandora
Hearts , and I am sure other fans of hers are expecting the same, but I know
better than to let my satisfaction with one work delude me into thinking that
it would be true of anything released after.
The thing that I liked the most though was how this ended.
Aside from how things begin, another thing that is very
important is how things end, as it is supposed either leave the audience
satisfied, if it is a standalone work or the final installment in a series, or
give them an incentive to continue on, if it is an installment to a series.
While I would not say that the way this volume ended was how
I would have liked it to end, seeing as it just gears up for a fight, rather
than leaving me with more questions that I want answered, the way things
progressed right up to that moment managed to get me excited to see just what
exactly would happen, while not pushing the questions I had while reading this
volume to the side, making me want to get my hands on the next volume as soon
as possible.
This is how a work like this should end, when the big
questions to be had have already surfaced, and Jun Mochizuki and Square Enix, or
whoever they had put this volume together, chose a great place to end the
If Jun Mochizuki or Square Enix, or whoever put this volume
together for them, had not ended things like they did, I would likely be very
disappointed, as the intrigue behind what is going on could have been greatly
diminished, thereby hurting the overall quality of the series.
Thankfully, that did not happen and both Jun Mochizuki and
Square Enix, or whoever they had put the volume together, made a good choice on
how things should end, which makes me want to give them a good round of
Hopefully, future volumes will be able to end just as well
as this one did, if not better, because I and many other people would like to
see this series end just as well as Pandora Hearts did, but I am ready
to pounce when things become disappointing.
Outside of those things, I can think of anything else that I
particularly liked, at least that stood out as much as what I talked about.
Because my interested was captured quickly and held right up
to the end, there were tons of questions I had by what was revealed, from
flashbacks involving new characters to conversations that happened, and that the
ending had me on edge while reading through it, this was a fairly decent read.
such as typos, and two things that could be easily overlooked without any
problems, and were already noted, nothing really bothered me too much.
talking about.
to really hate, unless you want to get real nit picky, this was definitely
I mainly recommend this to fans of The Case Study of
Vanitas and Jun Mochizuki, as they will like this the most, though Vanitas
fans might be more pleased with with it.
As for everyone else, this may be worth giving a try, but I
strongly recommend reading the previous volumes first, to be able to really
enjoy this.
The Case Study of Vanitas Volume 6 from Book Depository, who offers
free shipping to many countries around the world, so I can find more worthwhile
reads for you guys to check out, and, hopefully, on a more regular basis.
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Jordan takes Islamic State battle to Internet, mosques
Looking to avoid the fate of its Islamist-overrun neighbors Syria and Iraq, Jordan is cracking down on firebrand preachers and online extremism to tackle jihadists after joining U.S.-led air strikes on the Islamic State group. Its decision in September to join the anti-IS coalition has put Jordan in even graver danger, but authorities insist its borders are secure and have launched a sweep against jihadists that extends to the Internet. Jordan, which passed its first anti-terrorism law in 2006, mandates that preachers must promote moderate Islam and refrain from making political statements.
Jordan is waging a war against jihadist ideology and amended the anti-terrorism law… because the Internet has become the main tool for mobilizing and recruiting.
Hasan Abu Haniya, analyst on Middle East affairs
Wary of terrorist threats, authorities have also moved to bring some of the country’s nearly 6,000 mosques under tighter control by weeding out preachers who deliver fiery pro-jihadist sermons. As in many other Arab countries where fears are mounting over the growing influence of jihadists, Jordan’s ministry of Islamic affairs appoints imams, pays their salaries and monitors their sermons.
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Volume 443: Symposium H – Low-Dielectric Constant...
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I. Goswami ,
I. J. Malik ,
T. Mallon ,
R. Emami and
B. Withers
D. Mordo
Novellus Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA 95134
I. Goswami
I. J. Malik
OnTrak Systems, Inc., Milpitas, CA 95035
T. Mallon
R. Emami
A characterization of Plasma-Enhanced CVD Fluorinated Silicate Glass (FSG) is presented. This study investigates the behavior of FSG film in the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) environment and compares those characteristics to undoped TEOS (UTEOS), Thermal Oxide and Si-Rich oxide capped FSG films. The removal rate, refractive index (RI), surface roughness, contact angle, water content by FTIR and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) were studied.
The FSG films are polished ˜ 10% faster than the undoped PECVD oxide films. Their composition was slightly changed after CMP as can be seen by the minor increase in the RI. A layer of Si-Rich oxide (SRO) was found to have a stabilizing effect on the FSG film during CMP and post CMP cleaning operations, and thus can be used in the intermetal dielectric schemes that require low dielectric constant FSG layers.
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 443: Symposium H – Low-Dielectric Constant Materials II , 1996 , 127
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Report for SNP rs6280
1 Nicotine Reinforcement and Smoking-Cue Reactivity: Association With Genetic Polymorphisms
Background: - Researchers have been studying behavioral components of nicotine addiction by looking at how drugs have a reinforcing effect, connecting the stimulation provided by the drug (nicotine) to the behavior that produces it (smoking). Based on previous studies, researchers are interested in learning more about how nicotine affects current smokers' responses to psychological tests and smoking-related cues, and in studying whether certain kinds of genetic background may affect smokers' responses to these kinds of studies. Objectives: - To compare the effect of nicotine versus denicotinized cigarettes during specific psychological tests. - To compare the effects of smoking cues versus neutral cues on craving, mood, and autonomic response. - To study the effect of genes on nicotine reinforcement and smoking-cue reactivity. Eligibility: - Individuals between 18 and 64 years of age who are current smokers (at least 10 cigarettes per day for at least 1 year) and are not currently interested in reducing their smoking or seeking treatment for tobacco dependence. Design: - Pilot session: - Participants will practice smoking using the measuring equipment that will be used in the study. - After successful practice, participants will read or listen to music for 1 hour, during which they are not allowed to smoke. - After the 1-hour period, participants will sample study cigarettes that have different levels of nicotine, and will be asked to guess whether the cigarettes are normal study cigarettes or denicotinized cigarettes. - Baseline session: - Blood, urine, and breath samples will be taken at the start of the session. - Participants will smoke part of an initial cigarette, and then will read or listen to music for 1 hour, during which they are not allowed to smoke. - After the 1-hour period, participants will give another breath sample and will complete questionnaires about mood and concentration levels. - Trial sessions: - Participants will smoke study cigarettes, and will be asked to either respond to questions about perceived nicotine levels in the cigarettes or press a lever for the chance to be rewarded with additional puffs of the cigarette. After the session, participants will give another breath sample and will complete questionnaires about mood and concentration levels. - Participants will also participate in cue-reactivity sessions to test the body's physiological response to smoking cues (a pack of cigarettes) and neutral cues (a pack of unsharpened pencils). After the session, participants will complete questionnaires on mood and concentration 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes after the session. - At the conclusion of the last experimental session, participants will discuss the study with researchers, and may receive a referral list of smoking treatment programs.
MeSH:Tobacco Use Disorder
Genetic Measures The following genetic polymorphisms will be assayed: 1) C/T rs2023239 variant of the CB1R gene, 2) the Ser/Gly rs6280 variant of DRD3 gene, and 3) variants of the CYP2A6 gene.
Measure: Choice of nicotine cigarettes; cue-elicited craving
Measure: smoking history measures; variants of several genes related to nicotine additions
2 The Impact of Supplementation With Multi-vitamins/Minerals, With and Without Fatty Acids, on Impulsivity and Aggression
There is a series of well designed studies that have reported, in those with a history of anti-social behavior, that supplementation with vitamins / minerals, omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 FA), or both, reduces the incidence of aggressive behavior. Although there is evidence that all these nutrients have a role, to date the relative contribution of fatty acids and vitamins / minerals has not been considered: for example the possibility of a synergistic interaction has not yet been examined. In addition the topic has to date been studied under real-life condition, such as a prison, making the topic difficult to study. The major aim of the present study was to develop a paradigm that would allow the study of the topic in a sample from the general population without a history of anti-social behavior. Subjects received either a vitamin/mineral supplement, a fatty acid supplement, both or neither for three months, Measures of impulsivity and aggression were assessed before and after supplementation. Although in the past measures of actual behaviour have proved to be sensitive to supplementation, questionnaire measures have not. The second major objective was therefore to consider whether such phenomena can be studied in a sample without a history of anti-social behavior, using standardized, sensitive laboratory based measures and to compare these with questionnaire measures. POLYMORPHISMS AND THE RESPONSE TO MICRO-NUTRIENT SUPPLLMENTATION The data set were subsequently used to test an a priori hypothesis not related to the initial hypothesis. A meta-analysis found a consistent pattern that micro-nutrient supplementation improved mood (Long SJ, Benton D. Effects of vitamin and mineral supplementation on stress, mild psychiatric symptoms, and mood in nonclinical samples: a meta-analysis. Psychosom Med 2013; 75: 144-153). To produce evidence of possible mechanisms the extent was determined, to which the impact of micro-nutrient supplementation was influenced by a range of polymorphisms associated with neurotransmitter systems known to modulate mood. The primary outcome measure was the General Health Questionnaire, a 30-item self-report questionnaire that was developed to detect, in a community sample, those who would benefit from seeing a psychiatrist. Given the literature that relates polymorphisms to mood disorders, and the known pharmacology of anti-depressant drugs, a range of polymorphisms were chosen associated with serotonin and catecholamines. Dopamine The SNPs associated with the metabolism and functioning of dopamine were: Dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH, rs16111115); Dopamine transporter (DAT1, rs2550946); Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, rs4680, rs6269). Dopamine receptor D1 (DRD1, rs4532); Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2, rs1079598, rs1800497); Dopamine receptor D3 (DRD3, rs6280); Dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4, rs1800955). Serotonin Ten SNPs associated with different aspects of serotonin metabolism were also considered. Rs1843809 is a SNP of the TPH2 gene that encodes Tryptophan hydroxylase. Rs1050565 is a SNP in the BLMH gene that influences the activity of 5HTT (SLC6A4), the serotonin transporter. SNPs associated with various serotonin receptors were also examined: genetic variations of the HTR1A gene (5-HT1A receptor, rs6295); HTR1B gene (5-HT1B receptor, rs6296); HTR2A gene (5-HT2A receptor, rs6311); HTR2B gene (5-HT2B receptor, rs1549339); HTR2C gene (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2C, rs518147); HTR3A gene (5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3A, rs1150226); HTR3B (5-HT3B receptor, rs1672717); HTR4 gene (5-HT4 receptor, rs2278392). Adrenergic mechanisms Finally six SNPs associated with adrenergic receptors were considered: ADRA2A (adrenoceptor alpha 2A, rs553668); ADRB1 (adrenoceptor alpha B1, rs1801253); ADRB2 (adrenoceptor alpha B2, rs1042713; ADRB3 (adrenoceptor alpha B3, rs4994); SLC6AC (noradrenaline transporter, rs5569 and rs2242447). Analysis The data will be analyzed using analysis of variance with a change in GHQ from before to after supplementation as the dependent variable: Micronutrient/placebo X Polymorphism.
Dietary Supplement: Placebo
Dietary Supplement: Multi-vitamin/mineral
Dietary Supplement: Docosahexaenoic acid
Dietary Supplement: DHA plus vitamins/minerals
MeSH:Aggression Impulsive Behavior
HPO:Aggressive behavior Impulsivity
Dopamine receptor D1 (DRD1, rs4532); Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2, rs1079598, rs1800497); Dopamine receptor D3 (DRD3, rs6280); Dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4, rs1800955).
Description: The GoStop Impulsivity Paradigm measures the ability to inhibit an already initiated response. A number of five digits are presented on a computer screen for 500ms followed by a 500ms blackout. A second number then appears for 500ms followed by a 500ms blackout. If the numbers are identical the mouse button has to be pressed before the second number disappeared. However, the response has to be with-held if a "Stop" signal appeared; that is the second number was identical but changed from black to red. If the two numbers were different then no response was required.
Measure: Go Stop Impulsivity Paradigm
Time: Change from before to after supplementation for three months
Description: This is test of the tendency to respond in an aggressive manner. A series of cartoons are presented that present an intentionally frustrating situation. The participant reports what he or she would say in that situation. Blind the responses are assessed in terms of the extent to which the responses are aggressive in matter Note that the use of two primary outcomes reflects the aim of the study to contrast performance and questionnaire measures
Measure: Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Test
Description: The Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire assesses four aspects of aggressive behavior: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. Participants rank statements about their temperament using a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (extremely uncharacteristic of me) to 7 (extremely characteristic of me).
Measure: Buss Perry Aggression Scale
Description: The Perceived Stress Scale assesses the extent to which stressful thoughts and feeling had been experienced during the last month. For example: "In the last month, how often have you been upset because of something that happened unexpectedly?" The participant responded on a scale ranging from 0 = Never to 4 = Very Often. An overall score is calculated.
Measure: Perceived Stress Scale
Description: A measure of the subjects ability to forgo initial reward for a later larger reward. The subject can choose to wait for a reward and get more points or alternatively respond more quickly and get fewer points sooner. The longer a subject waits the higher the reward; that the more points are earned. A mouse click began the task and a second resulted in a reward. Two counters display the most recent and cumulative reward over a 20 minute session. Subject are able to infer that responses at a faster rate earn smaller rewards.
Measure: Single Key Impulsivity Paradigm
Description: Polymorphisms associated with the metabolism and receptors of dopamine and serotonin will be related to the response to micro-nutrient supplementation
Measure: General Health Questionnaire
Time: Further analysis of existing data - considers changes from baseline to three months
HP:0000718: Aggressive behavior
Genes 241
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Protein Mutations 0
SNP 23
rs1042713 rs1079598 rs1150226 rs1549339 rs16111115 rs1672717 rs1800497 rs1800955 rs1801253 rs2242447 rs2278392 rs2550946 rs4532 rs4680 rs4994 rs518147 rs553668 rs5569 rs6269 rs6280 rs6295 rs6296 rs6311
HP:0100710: Impulsivity
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(Alternative Software, 1989)
Anyone who's played the travesty that is Count Duckula II will wince in fear at the prospect of another Count Duckula game. But thankfully, its predecessor is not quite as awful! Based on an episode of the dire cartoon series, the aim is to wander around a huge pyramid, find keys to unlock doors, solve basic puzzles and get the magical saxophone at the pyramid's peak, which can transport Duckula back to his castle – all within a pretty tight time limit. I said this wasn't as bad as Count Duckula II, but it's still pretty bad – the graphics, though detailed, are boring and bland, and the sound... well, the hilariously bad rendition of the show's theme tune says it all! Too 'mazey' and too dull; avoid.
See also: Count Duckula II.
Count Duckula II
How could something like this ever have been released as late as 1992? To say this game is rubbish is scratching the surface. It's an absolute insult to my intelligence; I thought it was written in BASIC! It's a slow and crushingly boring platform game with awful graphics and animation, poor collision detection and ping-ping sound effects, and the tomato gun that Count Duckula is armed with is useless. The tune is the only thing that's worth talking about. If you want to see an even funnier review of this game, you should look at Amstrad Action's review, where they gave it 3%.
See also: Count Duckula.
Watch a YouTube video of this game by: ChinnyVision.
(Sterling Software, 1984)
Country Cottages is a pretty simplistic strategy game where you and another player must buy, improve and lease out country homes until one of you is the first to reach a predetermined level of profit and so is declared the winner. It's about as interesting as it sounds. Apart from occasional still shots of your cottage – created using 'revolutionary' Landscape Creation technology (whatever that is) – the entire game is just boring facts and figures. And even if you're into that kind of thing, the game itself is too simplistic and shallow to offer any real challenge or depth. And so, as a result, it ends up pleasing nobody. To its credit, it's an original concept, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it.
(PSS, 1985)
You are the last survivor of your race, and deep within a labyrinthine subterranean complex there are 64 pieces of a parchment, known as the covenant, that will enable you to repopulate your planet. In each of the 64 sections of the complex, you must find an anaesthetic and then stun and collect all the creatures that live within it. Once you've done that, you need to obtain a key to open the chest that contains a piece of the covenant, which then opens passageways to enable you to go to new sections. The graphics are colourful but rather chunky, and the sound effects are nothing special. The major problem is that you only have one life, and your energy drains very quickly – and some of the energy points actually drain your energy instead of restore it! This is an extremely frustrating game to play and most players will quickly give up and play something else instead.
Cowboy Kidz
(Byte Back, 1990)
A consignment of gold is being delivered across the desert and you have to follow the train on your horse, and grab some of it when it reaches the next station. However, there are other cowboys who are out to get you! The music sets the scene nicely and the graphics are quite colourful, too, with some impressive animations. However, the game is a little difficult and it is really beneficial if you remember the layout of each level exactly – the timing is crucial!
CPC Aventure
(Ludovic Deplanque/Christophe Petit, 2005)
Reviewed by Missas
CPC Aventure, as its name implies, is an adventure game with a very interesting storyline. You wander around in the world of the CPC and interact with almost all the famous heroes and characters with which we grew up. The game features nicely drawn graphics and it is quite big. There is almost no sound, but the feeling of meeting again with the most memorable sprites of the CPC era is an unprecedented experience that elicits strong emotions. The grab factor is very strong and the dialogue is very well written. It is a very well conceived game. In my opinion, this is one of the best CPC adventures ever.
Rating: 10/10
CPC Soccer
(VoxelTower, 2020)
Do you remember how sad we were when we CPC owners did not get a port of Sensible Soccer in the early 1990s? Nearly thirty years later, this misfortune is corrected thanks to VoxelTower. CPC Soccer arrives as an incarnation of one of the best football games ever in the history of video gaming and it sure is fantastic. The graphics are very close to their 16-bit counterpart. They move very fast and smoothly and the player you are controlling flashes so you do not get confused. The scrolling is fantastic, but where the game excels is its gameplay. It is truly entertaining and there are many options and teams. In my humble opinion, this is by far the best CPC football game ever.
Watch a YouTube video of this game by: Saberman.
Crack Down
(US Gold, 1990)
The evil Dr. K is planning to take over the world with a race of biogenetic humanoids. Enter Andy Attacker and Ben Breaker, two guys on a mission to fight their way through sixteen levels of mayhem in Dr. K's fortress. Don't you just love original plots? Anyway, this is a reasonably good game. You (and another player if you can find one) must explore each level and plant some detonators at specific points, and find the exit quickly before they explode. Fortunately, there's a map which shows you where to plant them. There's a lot of shooting involved as well, and the humanoids are rather nasty as well. The graphics are pretty good and the sound effects are OK, but it's a bit too difficult (although you get plenty of credits) and the collision detection could be better.
Crack-Up
(Atlantis, 1989)
Breakout has been around since 1976, and this version of it is probably deliberately based on the versions from the early days to give it that retro feel; all the bricks are blocks of one colour, and the ball is simply a square. The sound effects are few and far between as well. OK, so the presentation might be minimal, but the levels are rather badly designed, and it's very difficult to clear all the bricks from each level; often you rely on collecting a power-up which sends you to the next level. At least you can choose which level you want to start on.
CRAY-5
(Topo Soft, 1987)
An asteroid colony has been struck by a meteor, and the CRAY-5 supercomputer which controls the colony's atmosphere has been damaged. The only way to save the colony is to activate thirteen interrupters scattered around nine zones of the complex within a time limit. You will need to collect keys in order to unlock doors within the complex; however, there are three types of door, and only the correct type of key will unlock them. Other hazards include magnets, spikes and walls marked with a skull and crossbones symbol, all of which drain your energy if you touch them. The graphics and music are both rather basic, but everything is recognisable. The main problem is that you will often have to fly through some very narrow passages, and it's almost impossible to avoid contact with aliens or the aforementioned energy-sapping walls, which makes it extremely difficult to make much progress in the game.
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Daley Thompson's Decathlon
This is the first in a series of three Daley Thompson games. All of them became notorious for breaking more joysticks than any other game. I know I broke one or two of my own! Daley Thompson was a famous British athlete back in the early 1980s, breaking several records and winning gold medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. In this game you get to take part in a decathlon, which as you should know, consists of ten events. However, to progress to the next event without losing a life, you have to qualify by setting a result within a certain time or distance. The sheer effort required for this is such that most people won't progress beyond the third event – and why does Daley look as though he's jogging rather than sprinting?
See also: Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Daley Thompson's Supertest.
Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge
Unfortunately, Daley was beset by injuries in the 1988 Olympics at Seoul and came fourth, but maybe you can do better. The same ten events are here in this decathlon, and thankfully it is possible to progress in this game, even with the keyboard! Before you start the decathlon, you can do training; this affects how well you'll do in the events. You also have to choose the right trainers from a set of four before each event; choosing the wrong ones makes qualifying for the next event extremely hard, if not impossible. The graphics aren't bad (and Daley actually runs this time!), but the music and sound effects leave a lot to be desired.
See also: Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Daley Thompson's Supertest.
Daley Thompson's Supertest
Taking a change from the decathlon style, this game consists of eight very varied events (pistol shoot, cycling, diving, giant slalom, rowing, penalties, ski jumping, and tug of war), none of which feature in a real decathlon. All but one of them feature yet more frantic joystick waggling, and like Daley Thompson's Decathlon, it's almost impossible to qualify for them; you'd need to have Daley's strength to be able to do it! To add to the problems, the graphics aren't even good, and Daley seems to be noticeable by his absence in most of the events.
See also: Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge.
Dame Scanner
(Chip, 1988)
Dames is known as draughts in the English-speaking world, and this is a pretty good version of the board game. You can play against another friend or the computer, and allow it to use one of four different strategies for playing the game (although what with knowing very little about draughts, I don't know what differences there are between them). The graphics are about as good as they can be, and you can choose between either a 2D or a 3D view of the board. The only complaint is that selecting which piece you want to move is a bit awkward.
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
(Virgin Games, 1986)
Reviewed by Chris Lennard
Help Dan Dare, the pilot of the future, to defeat the Mekon, evil leader of the Martians, in this comic styled platformer. The notorious green-hued brainbox has planted an atomic bomb inside a heavily guarded fortress on an asteroid and set it on a collision course with the Earth. Dan has to make his way around the innards of this celestial missile's inner complex and collect five keys held in different locations in order to activate the self-destruct system before it destroys its target (sadly you don't have the option of playing the hapless Digby). Formulaic stuff that's only slightly rescued by the characters involved, with the graphics not particularly endearing and naff sound effects to boot.
See also: Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge, Dan Dare III: The Escape.
Watch YouTube videos of this game by: Axelino, Xyphoe.
Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge
This time the Mekon has created an army of Super Treens and sent them to conquer Earth on board a large spaceship. Dan must find and destroy all the Super Treens that are in stasis, while taking care to avoid the traps, force fields and normal Treens littered by your nemesis – all against a time limit. This time our hero rides a nifty laser-armed pod accompanied by Earth troops helping him in the firepower stakes. Alternatively you can amusingly play the Mekon himself in his own pod and set about activating the Super Treens instead with your Treens to aid you. A great looking and sounding CPC game with solid, albeit difficult, gameplay with double the challenge.
See also: Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Dan Dare III: The Escape.
Dan Dare III: The Escape
Dan Dare is back and he's now equipped with a handy jet pack and armed to the teeth with a variety of weapons. A good thing, as the landscape he's been left in is populated with weird looking very un-Frank Hampson-like mutant creatures. Dan proceeds to the following levels by defeating a facsimile of the misproportioned evil alien genius, the Mekon, in order to obtain a transport key. Transportation then involves guiding our hero successfully through a virtual tunnel made of suspended boxes in a vortex. This game heavily resembles another Probe Software game, Trantor, in both style and gameplay – not that this is bad. It plays well and is gorgeously presented.
See also: Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge.
Watch YouTube videos of this game by: Axelino, ChinnyVision, jgonza, Xyphoe.
(Electric Dreams, 1987)
Dandy is yet another in that long line of dungeon-based arcade adventures that tries to emulate the mighty Gauntlet and fails at just about every opportunity. The graphics are colourless, bland and extremely flickery and it's often hard to see what's going on. Even the Spectrum version had better graphics than this! The sound effects are pitiful – just a few zaps and explosions – and worst of all, the gameplay is spoilt by the sheer unresponsiveness of the controls. You'll know what I mean when you play it! And on top of this, you'll often come to doors that you can't open because you've just used your last key to open a door that leads to a dead end – very frustrating! I love a good dungeon exploration game and this is nothing like a good one.
Danger Mouse in Double Trouble
(Creative Sparks, 1985)
Baron Greenback has built an android version of Danger Mouse which is due to be released at tea-time today! Danger Mouse and Penfold must thwart the Baron's plans in this three-part action game. The first part is a simple shoot-'em-up where you destroy the Baron's flying robots by playing the appropriate tune from the jukebox in Danger Mouse's aerocar (!). The second part is a platform game in which Danger Mouse must jump across swamps and climb trees, although if you're playing the easy version of the game, you don't have to complete this part, so you can go on to the third and final part, where you must extinguish all the yellow lights on a grid. The graphics are OK, as is the rendition of the Danger Mouse theme tune, but the levels are much too short, and once you complete it – which won't take long – you won't want to play it again.
See also: Danger Mouse in Makin' Whoopee.
Danger Mouse in Makin' Whoopee
Danger Mouse has just received a telegram informing him of Baron Greenback's latest plan to take over the world. The Baron is manufacturing whoopee cushions to place in every seat in the United Nations building. The chaos that will ensue at the next meeting will allow him to become the leader of the world! Danger Mouse must travel around Chicago in his aerocar and shut down the Baron's network of electricity stations and gas manufacturing plants. Chicago is represented as a gigantic maze which is shown on the screen, and if you head towards the dead ends, you will enter either a store room where you can exchange objects, or one of the factories where you must reach the top of the screen while avoiding the obstacles. The game overall is better than Danger Mouse's previous outing, but driving around Chicago becomes rather monotonous.
See also: Danger Mouse in Double Trouble.
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National Horse Show main overall prize for three years. This is the first of the two horses I have made. The first casting was awarded to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Museum had recently devoted an exhibit hall to a show about the history of the National Horse Show. This was meant as a thank you token. Just at the time I was putting the finishing touches on the original clay carving, an official of the Show invited me to attend the show for some close ups of perfect animals in the flesh. They set me down in front of the judges stand!! Best seat in the house—WOW! One of the judges pulled me aside at the end of the day and whispered to me that she had watched me carving more than the contests. I now have a piece in the back offices. But it is a ‘piece in the Met’.
‘Golden Boy’— This sculpture I made for AT&T before the company broke up. It was called the Arthur Page Award, and was given to subsidiary companies for excellence in matters that were important to the parent company. I made almost fifty of them before ‘Ma Bell’ was broken up by our federal government and this trophy was no longer relevant. An advertising account executive for AT&T was at my studio one day and saw the female legs that I did on the ‘Leaping Vulva’ piece. He said to me that “anyone who can do legs like that, can certainly do the Ma Bell piece.” After securing the contract I was later told that the issue of whether the sculpture would have genitals was brought up at a board meeting. After some debate the story goes that the Chairman ended the conversation with this quote: “I’ll be damned if anyone will accuse AT&T of having no balls.” Luckily the sculpture is now not an eunuch.
‘Bull Eagle’—Made for a land owner in Colorado where I stayed after my 4 years at the Bricklin Ranch, in exchange for a couple of years’ rent. This ranch was 9,000 acres! Nan and I lived there alone for the duration. It was the site of a massive elk herd. The horns on this sculpture were faithfully copied from a photo of the worlds’ largest American Elk rack. The only difference between the real set and mine, is that my, over 8 feet wide set, is a couple of inches wider than the real ones. Carved from dead Rocky Mountain High Altitude Pine branches and stump, with a composite inlay. My biggest completed sculpture to date. I did not use a live stump or branches.
The side view shows how the over 4 foot distance, from the wall, to the tip of the beak, makes this piece very, very imposing.
A woman came into my studio and described this piece one day, gave me a photo and a deposit. She came by a couple of months later, gave me the rest of the money and I gave her the clay. She said it was great and all I have is a picture.
‘Excellence’—A portrait of Malcolm Bricklin in stainless steel. About 4 feet from the tip of the forward hoof to the tip of the tail.
The first casting in cold poured composite, airbrushed silver and black, of ‘Excellence’ looking out on the beautiful high mountains of Colorado. Flat topped 10,000 ft. high peaks could be seen on the 5,500 acre property, off camera to the right of this shot.
‘Excellence’— This shot of the first unfinished clay was conceived in my studio, at Spring Street, New York City. Malcolm altered the concept and I finished it in Colorado at his ranch.
This scene in Colorado is in front of my vinyl collection of Rock music. This clay is the second iteration of ‘Excellence’ with Malcolm’s Colorado dog. The dog mascot is a portrait of ‘Bear’, Malcolm’s gentle giant St. Bernard watchdog in Colorado. This magnificent animal would chase away the local resident brown bears. I wish that I could have preserved this clay original; it was the most expressive and closest to my vision.
This version of a rough-draft eagle on Malcolm’s arm gives the whole portrait a majestic feel and dynamic presence. The eagle will be proportionally made somewhat larger than is shown in this model.
‘Excellence’—These shots were taken at the foundry while the over 3,000 degree stainless steel was being poured into the ceramic shell molds. The top shot is the pouring, and in the bottom picture, are the glowing castings immediately after being poured. That color is really intense!!! I could really feel the scorching heat when I got close enough to get this shot. Wow what a day!!!! I am grateful to the Excalibur Foundry in Colorado for giving me the privilege to be present and take pics while they poured my piece.
This picture was taken at the foundry about a half an hour after the stainless pouring shots were taken. Here they are cracking away the ceramic shell from the grey unpolished metal. (You can see the blurry hammer coming down towards the piece at the top of the picture.)
This shot was taken in the log cabin that was my residence during much of my stay at the ‘Bricklin Ranch’. Malcolm Bricklin is posing behind the finished original clay sculpture, ‘Excellence’. His assistant-copywriter Paul Lambert looks on. This was my dream home realized! Right out the back door was the spectacular White River—50 feet away.
A close up shot of the White River. It ran through the over 7,200 ft. in altitude ranch. A truly magnificent setting. Home to many Bald Eagles, American Elk, Large Brown Bear and Native Golden Trout.
The Buford, Colorado, finished ‘Kravis Map’ This was commissioned by Henry Kravis of KKR fame. Mr. Kravis bought the ‘Bricklin Ranch’ (formerly owned by non other than Eleanor Roosevelt and then the Bell family) property from Malcolm Bricklin. Henry Kravis then commissioned me to make a map of the general area and the the second acreage he purchased nearby. The Roosevelt property is most of the area between the ‘Y’ formed by the North and South branches of the White River. The site of the oldest and largest aspen tree in the world is above the river at the extreme left of the map. I used very detailed Arial photos of the region and faithfully placed the streams, paths, roads and just about every individual tree. I also color coded the main four types of tree species found there. Lake Avery, the water reservoir for the town of Meeker is also shown with transparent imitation water, color coded for depth. This property is magnificent to say the least; Eleanor and Malcolm chose well!!!. I stayed there for about 4 years.
This shows the steel weights , holding the freshly glued contours to the next layer.
This is showing the construction technique of the Kravis Map. That is my wife, Nan, gluing a mountain top to a section of the suspended map. Notice that the semi-finished wooden layered contour section is suspended above a printed version. The table part that Nan is sitting on moves up and down. The layered section is anchored to a framework above the map. We placed each pre-cut (I used a specialized very accurate saber saw) thin successive plywood cutout of the next elevation to rest on the corresponding elevation on the paper map. We then put glue on the underside of the suspended map and raised the lower table to meet the upper semi finished piece, thereby fastening it to the upper stack. There are 85 layers and I calculated well over a mile of accurately cut contour edges. It took 9 tedious months for the two of us to complete it.
Top photo shows the next wooden contour cut-out, set on the appropriate geological survey map contour line just before it will be lifted and glued to the above model. Bottom shot is a view of the ‘Kravis Map’, showing the framework of the 7 foot by 14 foot finished map.
These ‘Figurehead Portraits’ were installed in Malcolm Bricklin’s bedroom in NYC. They are 24 carat gold and hard chrome plated, set in the middle of a pink mirror over the fireplace.
A front view of the ‘Figurehead Portraits’. The room was completely surrounded by pink mirrors, including the ceiling. A stunning setting for my work!
One of the ‘Figurehead Portraits’ before polishing and plating.
The first of two Mega-car dealership models for Malcolm Bricklin. Malcolm designed this one and I, the other. This one has separate departments, each with specialized sales staff; I told him that I had a different vision, hence the one below.
My idea for this one is to have the vehicles stored together with surrounding test track and a centralized location of all personnel.
Close up of car shaped central sales center, all my idea!
This was made for one of Malcolm’s car ventures. Too bad it was never used.
A row of skis in front of the bar. The owner asked me if I could bring his idea to life. He said that he was happy with my interpretation. In reality that is all that counts. It was a fun job, but cold!!!
A snow sculpture in front of a PJ’S Bar in Steamboat Springs. A couple frolicking in a very large cocktail.
‘Donald T. Regan Commemorative Award’—Commissioned by Merrill Lynch, 1980. The medallion was awarded to MLPF&S Chairman Mr. Regan, at a farewell going away party upon his appointment to Secretary of the Treasury by Ronald Reagan. They are 2.75″ in diameter; 3 were cast in bronze, 150 in pewter. He was given one bronze; I have the other two. It was a rush job and I had to make the original in three days. I happily didn’t get much sleep in those three days.
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Appetite For Seduction
September 4, 2018 - Francois
NEW RELEASE – THE WHITE BLINDS
If you like your groove hefty and in-your-face, try Get To Steppin’ by The White Blinds.
Carey Frank (organ), Matt Hornbeck (guitar), Michael Duffy (drums)
in 2018 at Rich Uncle Records
as FSPT 2001 in 2018
A Walk Through Echo Park
Get To Steppin’
Cold Heat
Ask a random passerby if he knows who is Zigaboo Modeliste. In all likelihood, he/she’ll raise an eyebrow. Obviously, serious music lovers will answer that he was the drummer of The Meters, the legendary New Orleans Funk outfit whose greasy and clever funk had a pervasive influence on popular music, inspiring a diversity of acts from The Rolling Stones to hiphop posses. The White Blinds KNOW their Meters, as well as music akin to it, like late 60s/early 70s soul and funk jazz. Underlined by the sustained energy of punk rock, the tight-knit trio from Los Angeles is off and running. The White Blinds are drummer Michael Duffy, organist Carey Frank and guitarist Matt Hornbeck, fixtures on the Californian soul and funk scene. The trio has released its debut album Get To Steppin’ on F-Spot Records in the summer of 2018.
Even if soul jazz may not be, as it was in the sixties, music for Afro-American folks to have an exciting evening after a day of hard labor, the contemporary audience can relate to high-quality jazz meant for relaxation. It ideally includes a certain kind of sexy vibe, capable of making people feel loose and receptive for their surroundings, not necessarily for orgasm, instead for playfulness, desire, communion. Erotica then, instead of sex, is the word in this respect. Tailor-made for inhabitants of Erotic City, this set of White Blinds soul jazz and jazz funk is uplifting, the pull of the sleazy Hammond organ, spicy guitar and roaring rolls and tight pocket of Michael Duffy’s Idris Muhammad-meets-Bernard Purdie-drums rather irresistible. Lurid grooves mark tunes as Chico, Hip Hugger, The Hustler and Get To Steppin’.
The old-school Hammond/Leslie speaker-sound of Blinded is underscored by a healthy cluster of screamin’ phrases by Carey Frank. He showcases a variety of sounds throughout the album. Matt Hornbeck, a relaxed architect of concise funk-blues stories, utilizing sly bending of notes and the occasional chickin’ pickin’ lick, gets a chance to stretch out during Jimmy McGriff’s blues line Blue Juice. ‘Jazz rockabilly’ might be the appropriate term for Little Giant, which is distinguished by varied opposing rhythm and tacky breaks. The Doc is the kind of soul tune Quincy Jones could’ve written in the early seventies for young couples to slow dance to nervously, bereft of swag and sweating like pigs.
A bit of transpiration never hurt anybody, not least the customers of the good-ol’ soul jazz genre, which Get To Steppin’ is a fine expansion of.
Check out the album and website of The White Blinds here. Also available on vinyl, including a 45rpm single.
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Author Topic: Season 2014/15 (Read 300343 times)
barticus
Re: Season 2014/15
Quote from: Tes on May 24, 2015, 05:32:45 PM
Have we lost by a higher score in the entire Premier League era, you know, the time we've been a pale shadow of our former selves? Worst ever start to a season. The achievements are endless.
Worst defeat since 1963...we are a laughing stock.
Too old to be a
I hate defending
He was right when he said we wouldn't 'do a Spurs'. They finished with 7 more points than we have.
He's saying he'll leave if the owners want him to. Nonsense. If they want him to he's got no choice. I hope they call his bluff and tell him they want him to.
Let's hope they learn. You need experience in this league. In the dugout and on the pitch.
We're not some centre for youth training or a vehicle on which to 'cut your teeth'.
Don't make the same mistake twice, there's plenty of new ones to choose from.
Those who choose to preach would do well to take note of their own sermons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/11627606/Who-could-be-the-next-Liverpool-manager.html
Photo 1 - Brendan finally realising his 'philosphy' is stinking the place out.
Some downright obvious, some interesting and some downright lazy journalistic choices in the candidates put forward.
Rodgers on dropping Sterling: "I just felt there were other players mentally in a better position to play in the game. It was as simple as that."
So that was our 11 best players who were mentally in a better position to play? Only Brendan obviously forgot to tell them they were at Stoke on Trent this afternoon to do that.
Maybe we ought to just change our nickname from 'The Reds', to 'The Shambles' and the Liverbird to a Dodo.
Our shirts shouldn't be too hard to change from 'New Balance' to 'No balance'.
Quote from: barticus on May 24, 2015, 06:16:20 PM
Got that wrong. Worst since 1954! It just gets better...
Is someone making up the football results,
I simply can't believe the scoreline.
This is how we stacked up this time last season.
People call me cynical. Nah, I'm just an old-school Red
Quote from: Ed on May 11, 2014, 06:59:01 PM
Anyway, I'm under no illusions how we got to where we were this season, ditching cup
campaigns, no Europe or United, Mourinho's first season back. Well at least Brendan got
his contract extension to 2018...
Next season's target surely has to be establish ourselves in the Top 3
Quote from: the dude abides on May 11, 2014, 04:42:35 PM
Brendan has finally caught on to how this footy game works.
Quote from: Martinmarx on May 12, 2014, 09:58:09 PM
We're on our way to glory. He built the team like Shankly did, the kids will have a story.
Another good piece on the state of things:
http://www.thisisanfield.com/2015/05/brendan-rodgers-must-pay-price-managerial-mistakes-humiliating-end-season/
that rug really tied the room together
me thinks Ed has done a serious amount of industrial editing, of old posts!
Pure and utter propaganda.
Lord Haw Haw lives!
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was, in me, an invincible summer.
There’s no next time. It’s now or never.
It loses the drama if I include the surrounding context of your and Tes's posts.
Mind, I'm probably doing a Marx a favour leaving some stuff out.
Oh well, hopefully within the next few days we'll all get the manager LFC deserves
and we can get back to talking about footie!
Apparently our target was only to finish in the top four. And we failed.
I seem to remember a certain fella called Dalglish being set that target and failing. Didn't he lose his job despite a trophy and another final, not a brace of semis.
Surely FSG aren't hypocrites.
Ed, you should be a journalist or a politician, or Brendan's PR guru with creativity like that.
Martinmarx
the wheels came off the wagon at that point, the reason as yet unclear.
the players just lost all belief at that point.
I think it's pretty simple, actually. I believe for most of the players, the United game was the straw that... in terms of going into a big match game poorly prepared in evey aspect ot this game. Like was said above, there was EVERYTHING to play for in that game. Yet we did pull off one of the most lacklustre and lethargic displays of the season (there are, admittedly, quite a few of them). So it seems as something had gone wrong even before those games. I don't know about you guys but unlike last year's run this season it was something desperate, something just, something everything-going-our-way about those wins. I don't know but I have a feeling many of the players felt all along Rodgers are using them in a fundamentally dysfunctional system.
You may laugh, but I fear we will fight to avoid relegation next season. This club's at the brink of collapsing all together. There's nothing to build on, no link to our illustrous past, no quality players, no balance in the squad, no central midfieldes of any quality worth mentioning, no dito strikers, no prospect of us signing the quality players we need to challenge for 4th. This is not a knee-jerk reaction. In a way I realised all this back in September when it dawned on me we had wasted whatever progress we made last season.
If you offer me a top 10 finish next season I'll bit your arm off. Today LFC became an ordinary club. Tragic indeed.
The modest Oracle of the Anfield Road Forum sometimes mistaken for Judas Iscariot.
At half-time, with Liverpool already trailing 5-0, the travelling support erupted in chants of "RAAAFA Benitez" which wouldn't have come as music to the ears of the Brentmaster General.
see the video below:
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/video-liverpools-travelling-support-sing-rafa-benitezs-name-during-6-1-defeat-to-stoke/25930
I don't know but I have a feeling many of the players felt all along Rodgers are using them in a fundamentally dysfunctional system.
You may laugh, but I fear we will fight to avoid relegation next season. This club's at the brink of collapsing all together. There's nothing to build on, no link to our illustrous past, no quality players, no balance in the squad, no central midfieldes of any quality worth mentioning, no dito strikers, no prospect of us signing the quality players we need to challenge for 4th.
Today LFC became an ordinary club. Tragic indeed.
yes, when you look at the spine of the team, Martin, it is very scary.
If you take out Coutinho and the injury-prone-Sturridge, there is not a helluva lot.
Our management have sold our very best players, and allowed know-nothing-yankees and a third division manager, and his athletics mate, Alan Pascoe, plus a trainee 4th division chief scout, to replace these top players (using a massive amount of money) with pensioners and kids.
Pascoe, Hunter and Rodgers should be at somewhere like Bournemouth or Darlington. They have no place being at a top club. It's like appointing David Brent to lead ICI.
And the yanks should sell up and go home, if they refuse to bring in top people.
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Performer: Nathan Milstein
BRUNO WALTER: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Bruno Walter) (Review by James A. Altena)
THE ART OF VIOLIN A FILM BY BRUNO MONSAINGEON: (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz)
BACH/BUSONI: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (Review by Susan Kagan)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (Review by David K. Nelson)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004. Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Partita No. 2 (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Solo Violin Partita No. 2 (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in g. Solo Violin Partita No. 3 in E (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Solo Violin Sonatas (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1001 (Review by David K. Nelson)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Solo Violin, BWV1001 (Review by David K. Nelson)
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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata No. 3 in C (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata and Partitas for Solo Violin (Review by David K. Nelson)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonata in G Minor, BWV1001 (Review by Robert Maxham)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Hungarian Dance No. 2 (Review by Robert Maxham)
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor for Violin and Piano, op. 108 (Review by Susan Kagan)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto in D (Review by Mortimer H. Frank)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto in D. (Review by Jerry Dubins)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto (Review by David K. Nelson)
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BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Violin Concerto (Review by Jerry Dubins)
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Previously published studies on levels of the transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) protein and mRNA of the corresponding gene in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) gave varying results, leading to contradictory conclusions. To solve the contradictions, we aimed to assess longitudinally TGF-β1 protein and mRNA levels at different stages of the disease in children suffering from IBD. The study group consisted of 19 pediatric patients with IBD at the age between 3.5 and 18.4 years. The control group consisted of 42 children aged between 2.0 and 18.0 years. The plasma TGF-β1 concentration was measured with ELISA. mRNA levels of the TGF-β1 gene isolated from samples of the intestinal tissue were assessed by reverse transcription and real-time PCR. Levels of TGF-β1 protein in plasma and corresponding mRNA in intestinal tissue were significantly higher in IBD patients than in controls. TGF-β1 and corresponding transcripts were also more abundant in plasma and intestinal tissue, respectively, in patients at the active stage of the disease than during remission. In every single IBD patient, plasma TGF-β1 level and mRNA level in intestinal tissue was higher at the active stage of the disease than during remission. Levels of TGF-β1 and corresponding mRNA are elevated during the active stage of IBD but not during the remission. Longitudinal assessment of this cytokine in a single patient may help to monitor the clinical course of IBD.
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FZ and feminism
Jakeobs
Post subject: FZ and feminism
What were FZ's views on feminism? From what little I've been able to glean, I'd say that while he didn't oppose it, he wasn't entirely for it either.
just plain doug
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
I believe he felt men and women should be equal. After all, he did say that women have just as much right to be assholes as men do.
You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)
swiftkicknow
Post subject: Re: FZ and feminism
Location: Attempt the absurd to achieve the impossible
Jakeobs wrote:
What were FZ's views on feminism?
Refer to "Planet Of The Baritone Women"
“The person who stands up and says, 'This is stupid,' either is asked to behave or, worse, is greeted with a cheerful 'Yes, we know! Isn't it terrific!" -Frank Zappa
Batchain1001
Location: Just N. of Boston, MA, USA
swiftkicknow wrote:
But that was a commentary on the ridiculousness of women feeling that to be on an equal footing with men they had to take on the mannish appearance of what would be seen as throngs of stomping bull dykes. ("A slightly more voluptuous version of fucking somebody's father!" -- "Harry-as-a-boy".)
--Bat
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jamesE
Germaine Greer, that well known feminist, was a friend of Zappa's according to a radio show she did lately. She's not known for suffering fools gladly, so my guess is Zappa respected the idea of feminism but gladly took the piss out of it when deserved.
debutante_daisy
Location: Washington DC Burbs
Batchain1001 wrote:
Batty, I was just thinking about you when I was pondering my thoughts on the state of the Forum.
Anyway...back to the subject at hand.
It is not like Frank was sexist, he was just writing songs based in reality, not some romantic dreamland like every other artist under the sun.
I know many of my "girl friends" did find a lot of his music shocking. Trust me, they were forced to listen to it if they wanted to hang out with me. I likened turning people on to his music in the same way i would regard hiding in the closet to look at National Lampoon or reading Everything You Need to Know About Sex But are Afraid to Ask.
Songs like Dinah-Moe-Hum, Bobby Brown, Jewish Princess, Keep It Greasy, I Have Been In You are not necessarily easy to relate to when you are in you are a young girl in your teens. At least that is they way it was when I was growing up **born in 1967**. I had older brothers who listened to Frank and many other fine artists so I was predisposed at an unusually young age for the time. I was the exception and still remain the exception seeing that the vast majority of Zappa fans are men. My guess is that every show there are 95% men. Of the 5% of women that are there 3% of them are girlfriends that are obliged to be there and 2% of us are actual FZ fans.
Now that there are old Zappa fans having kids who are also exposed to his music at a young age, I imagine things are completely different? The content young viewers are able to see on tv/internet/cable puts an entirely new spin on what is real today vs. what seemed real 30 years ago. That, coupled with the fact that girls are having sex at an earlier age, are more aware of reality at a younger age, perhaps they can relate to his music better and not be so shocked by it. Hell, the music by itself is shocking enough!!
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible"- Frank Zappa
hvacdude
Location: Detroit MI
I heard a interview that Frank did on the radio with a guy called "the beemer" {I think that was his name} from the '80's. He told a story about two women {feminists} that were interviewing him and "were out to get him". He said he wrote Bobby Brown after that interview. He said that women like them { feminists} would turn a guy into A Bobby Brown. I think the interviewers first name was Michael. I had the interview on a cassette tape that was in a tape player stolen from my truck. It was around the "you are what you is" days. I remember Frank swore ,and the D.J. bleeped it and Frank said bleeping him was childish. Anyone rember that one ?
Music is the best!
FZ: Golden shower is a sexual abberation or sexual activity, where one person pisses on another person. So You get the idea that Bobby Brown in this song as the result of following the advice of Womens Liberation, has wound up sitting on a stool with a thing up his ass while somebody pisses on him. And that´s why I think that´s unusual that the song is so popular here. I mean, when I go to a disco and see people dancing the Bobby Brown, I had to laugh.
Heres the link http://home.swipnet.se/bengt-jonsson/zappaint.htm
debutante_daisy wrote:
What surprised me was how disquieted, ill-at-ease and uncomfortable guys became if I played "that fuckin' sick shit" such as "Penis Dimension", "Shove It Right In" or "B'wana Dik" at 15 and wondered, "What's with these guys? All they ever talk about is 'fucking', 'pussies', 'tits' and 'having big cocks' -- why do they nearly shit themselves when it's in a song that's cleaver and funny?" I was very glad that someone was consistently not writing more silly love songs and I could depend on that!
Oh, the strictly musical portion was just "crazy sounding noise" done by "some crazy guy joke music" whether it was "Little House I Used To Live In", "Willy ThePimp" or "King Kong". It was all just summarily dismissed as "sick shit" with no room for disagreement, case closed. So it's still a minority even of the male population who'd ever be open to Zappa at all on any level. Even I was different. Hah! I'm sure that if there was something just about roundly understood as weird by the conventional majority anyone who knew me from day one would just roll their eyes and think, "Figures!", if I took an interest in it. I was "incorrigible", as I so often heard the word.
Now, as for girls, not a one would ever so much as give that "Zappa-horror" a tiny fraction of one second of a listen -- and I've always had the sneaking suspicion that it was not what they'd heard Zappa do, but largely fecause they were warned by friends, most of whom had never heard a single note directly from Zappa! It was later that I found a few who would listen and two who actually went to the '84 and '88 FZ concerts! I know there was a minor female attendance at those concerts but I swear that nine-out-of-ten were zonked on street drugs and going primarily because of their boyfriends and husbands and just didn't care where they were as long as it was a concert and somebody was performing live.
(A glaring exception I know personally is a friend of one of my sister's for whom I burnt a "YCDTOSA" CD, but she plays albums the way most people read paperback books: listen, enjoy, and store away until 'whenever' if 'whenever' comes. The book: I read it, liked it and tossed it on the pile; the album: I heard it, liked it and tossed it on the pile.)
One who passed by me in '88 was so excited about the number of concerts she had lined up for that week shrieked, "I can't believe this! Zappa tonight and Terrence-Trent Darby tomorrow night! That's just totally un-fucking-believable!" Someone who was with me looked at me and said, "She probably doesn't care where she is so long as she's wasted out of her skull and there's somebody onstage playing something, but to go from Zappa to Terrence-Trent Darby sounds really strange."
But the cry that, "Girls are so young today when they start having sex!", was loudly and clearly heard 30 years ago as much as it is today. As absurd as it is from the laughably ridiculous basis from which it was concocted by the CDC (CDC&P) and trumpeted recently by the hungry media's stenographers concerning how "1-of-every-4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease!", they still never learn how their credibility sinks lower.
What's different today is just a whole pile of visual nonsense right up front with just an incidental musical background going on. "It's not a song unless it has a video!", I remember one girl about 14 saying to a news reporter over 15 years ago when the local news was covering an appearance by some big-name with a month-long career at long-defunct local Tower Records and Video.
It's very hard to shock a lot of kids today because they're ore like their moms and dads at earlier ages and that's not as astonishing as we might think when we look back in history and find the average life expectancy to be around 35 to 40 years and having kids actually was done as fast as biologically possible.
What's warped today is the ever-accelerating telecommunications and the inability to process that information, just ingest it. ("I just realized my professor is full of shit but if I tell him that and why he is he'll ruin my chances at having a career!") Entertainment? "Who's the hottie?", has become the largest factor.
--Batty
sabrinaIII
Location: The Blue Light
Feminism is a dead issue.
Country music + Black music = Rock and Roll
Location: EINDHOVEN
sabrinaIII wrote:
There are still people who study it. I wonder why... when I took a feminist class I ran away after a week. It was not academical, just plain bullshit.
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brainpang
BBP wrote:
The Diversity Industry is the new feminism.
Huck_Phlem
I look at Feminism and all those ethnocentric courses as nothing more than hate groups!
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:16 am
Someone call?
Oh!.....Sorry,....thought I heard my name....
Hah! Quite the little authoritative judgement there. So how do you figure that? Based on what?
Yes to all of that. There are entire degrees in Women's Studies which amount to nothing more than sending out droves of women (and neutered men) with the belief that the answer to everything comes down to "it's all your fault, you bastards!" It's far from dead. It's more militant and whiney and one-sided and hateful than ever.
Feminism (or "gender studies"), dear Swifty, is studying art and history of females. It is definitely true that there are very little women whose work belongs to any form of canon (list of things you must know/be familiar with).
Unfortunately it means their work is not looked into from an academic viewpoint. It just means their lives are being looked into, not their products.
In other words, it could've been good, but it's crap. Also remember: it's a young science. Science take decades, even centuries, to become interesting/useful. Feminism has changed a lot since it started. Maybe it'll become a respected science someday. Or not.
SteveD
apparently 'Planet Of The Baritone Women' is about 'metrosexual' (before the term was invented) yuppie MEN...
can't recall where I read that, but I'm sure we could find the reference if necessary
anyway... I think it's presumptuous to say feminism is a dead issue... it'd be nice to think it would go away because all those hairy ugly annoying women aren't particularly pleasant to look at or converse with
but to suggest it's gone away because women are now emancipated from the multiple stupidities they're encouraged to participate in, isn't really supported by the facts... we can have a big debate about it, but female role models are more appalling than they've ever been...
I don't think FZ was particularly 'sexist' because he looked down with disdain on everyone who wasn't Frank Zappa (or married to or the offspring of Frank Zappa)... and because he was driven to be especially fair-minded, didn't feel the need to leave stupid women out of his social commentaries... arguably that's not sexist
and his stuff about the difference between women and ladies etc is fair enough... he was identifying a strand of society that expects men to kiss ladies' asses in order to get laid.. again, fair game and not sexist
but let's not kid ourselves that women in western society aren't subject to all manner of bullshit they have to contend with... anyone who's pondered the existence of make-up, high heels and Paris Hilton as a prime role model knows this to be not true
look, most of us guys don't like feminism because it's all about ugly women who're even less likely to give up some pussy than normal women... right? yuk... we don't want to deal with that... but let's not pretend that there are no issues to be looked at here
I mean, I assume some of you people have heard of a song called 'Beauty Knows No Pain'...? "beauty is a coloured pencil scribbled all around your eye..."... that's about how society likes women the best if they shut up and look pretty, cover themselves in all kinds of pink stuff and keep smiling while we treat them like shit
far from being sexist, I think FZ showed remarkable empathy for women, and it's NOT an issue that's got better
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Feminism (or "gender studies"), dear Swifty, is studying art and history of females.
That sounds fine. But that's not how it comes out in America. It's a different thing here.
Do you study gender issues then? Or have you recently studied them? There's a large difference in the "power to the busts" movements and the people that try to stay on the intellectual side of it, though they initially were the same.
I just graduated from a university in 2006. I talked to a lot of people while I was there. Some of them were people who took these classes. I listened a lot. I looked at text books that people showed me or that I picked up off the shelf and browsed when I was over in the textbook services. I also heard how femist agendas were weaved into MY classes that had nothing to do with feminsm but the professor was a feminist so it got shoved in anyway. So I think I have a real good idea about what is going on and what agendas are being pushed and how they're doing it. It's warped and manipulative.
I'm 100% for recognizing the achievments of an individual who has done something great. I'm also 100% for equal pay for equal skills and results. I'm totally opposed to the rest of the bullshit that has been tacked on. Again, I think it's going to be a LOT different in an American school than in a European school so what I'm saying probably won't match up with what you experience over there.
Yes... like in high school, the quality of a subject is largely depended on the teacher, so it's different per college really. Maybe some colleges in the US are more mild.
I understand Utrecht, where I study, has one of the better gender issues studies. If the Mrs Babs Butter was really giving good classes, why did she base her lectures on a handbag, and spend half an hour on talking about women in the canon using our street names? It's a pathetic image it's making.
Maybe some colleges in the US are more mild.
I wouldn't call them mild in regards to gender (and race) issues, I'd call them aggressively biased.
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To me, feminism seems like any other social issue, whether it's race, religion, sexual orientation, lifestyle, masculinism (insert social issue) ect. Any of these, depending on the individual, can be a useful asset in moderation, but when one loses touch with moderation, they take on extreme views by letting themselves become consumed to the point where they adopt an elitist mindset and look down their noses at those who may either not share their views partially or entirely.
Is the woman's place in the home, taking on the role of human incubator or to don the suit and tie and run an international corporation? It's not my place to say one way or the other. In this day and age, at least in civilized societies, everyone is free to choose the lifestyle that best suits themselves (though it's not like this everywhere). Equality is a no brainer in regards to incomes and professional status. I'm hardly an authority on this subject but this is my impression from personal observations.
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Q: in 'harry, you're a beast,' you lampoon what you call 'american womanhood.' would you be that blunt today?
FZ: oh, easily. I would change some of the lyrics, but there's no reason why I wouldn't comment on american womanhood. in fact, I'll make a comment for ya right now. the female of the species is divided into three sections. girls, ladies, and women. a girl waits around for a boy to kiss her on the lips. a lady expects every guy to kiss her ass. and a woman likes to have a man kiss her pussy. and that's how you can tell them apart.
Q: and american manhood?
FZ: well, the male of the species is divided into three sections. there are boys, guys, and men. a boy has the option of staying a boy all his life, growing up to be one of the guys, or he can grow up to be a man, okay? a guy wants to be with other guys because they do guy things and a man doesn't give a shit. and so, you can see that the girls pair off with the boys, the ladies pair off with the guys, and the women pair off with the men - if they can find each other. some people think that I'm just down on women. I am not. I'm down on anybody who wants to waste my time, whether they're a man, woman, dog, frog, vegetable, mineral, gas or liquid. I think that the only thing you're not gonna get back is time. If somebody's wasting your time, you gotta be a generous son-of-a-bitch to let 'em do it.
"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."
The more militant, whiney, one-sided and hateful the feminist, the sooner and more likely she'll be a ribbon magnet covered SUV driving Stepford wife and mother of 3 before she hits 30.
That, my friend, is why feminism is a dead issue.
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Student-led initiatives aim to promote dining sustainability
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Several Mason students have led the cause to increase sustainability at dining facilities on campus (Claire Cecil/Fourth Estate)
Two student-led programs on Mason’s campus, The Campus Kitchen Project and GMU Cups Up, are answering the call to go green. Both programs are designed to increase sustainability in Mason’s kitchens and dining venues.
The Campus Kitchens Project allows university students to turn food donated from campus dining halls into meals for low-income families and individuals in the Fairfax community.
The program is an initiative of the D.C. Central Kitchen, a Washington D.C.-based organization that provides meals to homeless individuals and provides culinary job training among other services. It has so far been implemented on 36 college campuses nationwide, with Mason’s branch due to launch in mid-October, coinciding with National Food Bank Week.
“This project is really incredible in that it works to promote sustainability on all fronts,” said Clara Everett, the president of the student group coordinating the program at Mason. “By repurposing unused food, we are reducing needless waste and simultaneously helping those who need [food].”
The idea to start a Campus Kitchens Project at Mason has been gaining traction over the past few months. Everett’s group recently received a grant from Auxiliary Enterprises and receives support from multiple Mason departments and offices, including Mason Dining and the Office of Sustainability.
The Mason Campus Kitchen Project will be based in Southside, where student volunteers will prepare meals during off-hours. In addition to meal preparation, these volunteers will plan menus, organize cooking and delivery schedules and conduct community education.
Everett says the group also plans to compost or recycle much of their waste – increasing the sustainability of the project.
“It would be awesome if ultimately we end up using the composted soil to create or expand a garden at Mason,” Everett said.
The GMU Cups Up program, slated to debut at the end of the fall semester, will operate similarly to the existing Choose to Reuse program sponsored by Mason Dining. Participants can participate in the program by buying a reusable cup for sale in the Johnson Center. Every time the cup is used to purchase a drink at a designated Mason Dining facility, a discount will be given on the price of the drink.
“This [GMU Cups Up] is creating an environmentally-friendly alternative for getting fountain drinks on the go on campus and allowing hundreds of disposable cups to be put out of the waste cycle,” said Emily Novack, an environmental and sustainability studies major who is developing the program.
The idea for GMU Cups Up came from a group project Novack conducted during a New Century College course she took this past spring. She and a group of classmates were tasked with creating a project that would help increase sustainability in the community. They chose to focus on the large amount of disposable cups being thrown out daily in the Johnson Center.
“Single-serve disposable cups that are used around campus account for a lot of the litter and trash found on campus,” Novack said. “The cups in the Johnson Center can’t even be recycled due to the wax coating on them and the beverage residue that is usually left on them.”
According to Novack’s research, about 200 disposable cups were sold in one hour at the Johnson Center.
After presenting the project to her class, Novack brought the idea to Caitlin Lundquist, Mason Dining’s marketing and sustainability manager, to see if it could be implemented on Mason’s campus. Novack has been developing the project since then, with Lundquist serving as an advisor.
To supplement the program, Novack is also trying to create a smartphone app that will track the environmental impact of GMU Cups Up participants and offer additional discounts and coupons.
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At Loudoun Brewing, Fust is Turning Up the Tap
Loudoun Brewing Company, the pioneering nanobrewery that helped launch downtown Leesburg’s craft beverage scene, will celebrate its fifth anniversary this fall.
During most of those years, Phil Fust has been concocting his recipes—more than 160 of them—in a 30-gallon system, pushing out small batch after small batch. Fust upgraded this spring to super-efficient, high-tech system imported from Sweden.
The result is a savings on his grain and hops bills, but, more importantly, double the beer in half the time. That doesn’t mean any less work for Fust, who can be found at the East Market Street brewery almost every day.
The system is one of less than two dozen in operation in the U.S., but it fits well into the small space available.
“This building, obviously, was never meant to be a brewery,” Fust said of the small office building that most recently housed a title loan company. “But it is and it works pretty good.”
Perhaps as much as the brewery space differs from others in Loudoun, Fust isn’t your typical brewer. He never even achieved home-brewer status before showing up to as a volunteer at the brewery.
“I never got my home system completely put together. I brewed in a couple people’s houses and then when I volunteered with the original owner here.”
Patrick and Alamna Steffens opened Loudoun Brewing Company in 2015, but their plans changed with the arrival of a new baby. Fust took over the brewing responsibility and then, took over as co-owner along with his wife, Shannon.
Among the most popular brews over the years have been the Loudoun United-branded Unified golden ale, the #LoudounLove collaboration red ale, the Loud & Brewing IPA, and The Dog’s Bollocks dry Irish stout.
While continuing to refine the use of the new brewing system—“I have to tell you, I was pretty intimidated when I first got it”—Fust also is looking to expand beyond downtown Leesburg.
“I’m having a good time, but it is a lot of work though,” he said. “I’ve been self-employed since I was 25 so hard work is not a problem.”
Loudoun Brewing Company is located at 310 E. Market St. in Leesburg’s Historic District and is opens at 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon on weekends. Learn more at loudounbrewing.com.
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What’s the biggest, freakiest thing you have ever overcome?
Think about it for a second.
If you’ve had any “good life experience” (as my father-in-law calls it), you’ve probably had those moments that seemed insurmountable… when the big wave was going to crush you and pull you under.
Surfer Laird Hamilton faces those waves every time he pulls on his big boy shorts, crawls on his board and waits for a swell. If you don’t know much about the sandy-haired, muscle-bound surfing kamikaze who attacks waves the size of seven story buildings raging at 30 miles per hour — you should.
You see, back in the day, surfers thought itsy bitsy waves of 20-30 feet were gnarly. Then came guys like Hamilton who thought those looked like a day at the beach. They wanted to push the limits.
At 6’3″ (1.90m) and 220 pounds (102kg) Hamilton is the wave king, able to take on larger waves which many smaller surfers could not physically handle. Perhaps the greatest big wave surfer of all time, he’s stretched the limits adding training, technology, jet-ski tows, and yes, some shear grit to set the big wave surfing records.
Seventy-footers now seem to be an average day’s work.
He conquered Tahiti’s Teahupo’o (which the pros call “pure liquid evil.”) when his death-defying drop into the big wave caught the world’s attention. This cemented his reputation as the greatest big wave surfer of all time.
Segue back to your own freak out. Most of us will never face anything quite like what Hamilton does for a living, but lately we may feel like it.
What are the big waves you are facing?
For many of us, the impact of the “Great Recession” and ghostly recovery has made everything else dwarf in comparison. We’ve seen our organizations, teams, families, bills and budgets reach beyond what we thought were our limits.
When I started tracking what I call the “10 Trend Tsunami™” about seven years ago, these emerging socio-economic trends seemed distant and remote. Now, the data is coalescing – and leaders need to learn how to surf by adapting their minds, enhancing their skills and leveraging their talent and teams.
One of my favorite quotes is from humorist Patsy Clairmont who says, “Normal is just a setting on your dryer.” I love the phrase, but, how do we get to this “new normal,” where the 70-footers are routine? How do we, and our organizations, find a new set-point? That’s what I’ll share with you during my keynote address, “Tsunami Success™” at the IAWP spring conference on April 8, 2011.
I think what’s so interesting about Laird and athletes like Laird,” said his wife Gabby Reece in the 60 Minutes piece. “They are just as afraid, but they deal with it differently — because if they didn’t have fear, I don’t think they’d be as good as they are.”
A bit of fear is probably healthy, but we can take a lesson from Hamilton and learn how to deal with it differently. Together, we will look at some of the trends, share best practices and lean how to surf the big waves and seize success. And, I may just share my own surfing lesson story with you.
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Author Susan Casey, wrote a great book titled THE WAVE: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, where she talks about Hamilton and other risk takers. Sports Illustrated has a great excerpt.
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We are all QEers now
Richard Nixon famously said in 1971 that we are all Keynesians now. Within a decade, the unintended effects of Keynesian stimulus were plain to see for everyone as inflation raced upwards and out of control.
Today, as the world holds its breath for the results of the ECB's LTRO2 auction later in the week, we are all Quantitative Easers. The Bank of Japan, Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and Bank of England have all embraced quantitative easing, or money printing. Recently, both the BoE and BoJ have announced further rounds of quantitative easing.
In the short run, there are clear benefits to the US federal government of the Fed's ZIRP and quantitative easing. In 2011, the US paid $454 billion in interest payments under ZIRP and, despite skyrocketing debt, interest expect was less than it was in parts of the 1990's.
Moreover, L Randall Wray points out that the Federal Reserve holds assets equal to one-fifth of GDP. What's more, an astounding 50% of its assets have maturities of 10 years or more.
Governments of the developed world are trapped by their central bankers dual policies of ZIRP and QE. If central bankers were to raise rates, interest costs would spiral out of control and overwhelm budgets. Just read Reinhart and Rogoff to see what happens next.
This has resulted in a binary investment environment of risk on, when central bankers are engaged in QE, and risk off, when they are not. The endgame will either inflation or debt default - and I don't know what the result will be.
For investors, this means becoming more tactical in understanding the risk on/risk off backdrop and participating in the trend of the day. Right now, central bankers are engaged in another round of QE around the world. Despite what you may think of the ultimate costs of such policies, the right thing for an investor to do is to party and worry about the consequences later.
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Mario Draghi reveals the Grand Plan
Policy in Europe has generally been done in the back rooms, with the theatre, e.g. PIIGS debt re-negotiations, done in the front rooms. Last year, the markets were panicked because they perceived the backroom elites had lost control of the situation and events were spiraling out of control.
Today, it appears that the elites have calmed things down and there had always been a Grand Plan. We got hints of this when Angela Merkel said that there was no silver bullet to the eurozone crisis, but resolution was a "long process".
Now ECB head Mario Draghi, in a WSJ interview, reveals the Grand Plan. Not only does he speak on monetary policy, I found it more important that he touched on fiscal policy and micro-economics, which is an indication that he was speaking about the European Grand Plan.
The Grand Plan involves austerity, but it's not all austerity all the time. Draghi distinguishes between "good austerity" and "bad austerity".
WSJ: Austerity means different things, what’s good and what’s bad austerity?
Draghi: In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A “good” consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.
WSJ: Bad austerity?
Draghi: The bad consolidation is actually the easier one to get, because one could produce good numbers by raising taxes and cutting capital expenditure, which is much easier to do than cutting current expenditure. That’s the easy way in a sense, but it’s not a good way. It depresses potential growth.
Lower taxes and less government expenditures? That sounds positively...Anglo-Saxon (excuse my French).
Draghi went on to say that the next step, after austerity, is structural reform "because the short-term contraction will be succeeded by long-term sustainable growth only if these reforms are in place". Draghi went on to say [emphasis added]:
WSJ: Which do you think are the most important structural reforms?
Draghi: In Europe first is the product and services markets reform. And the second is the labour market reform which takes different shapes in different countries. In some of them one has to make labour markets more flexible and also fairer than they are today. In these countries there is a dual labour market: highly flexible for the young part of the population where labour contracts are three-month, six-month contracts that may be renewed for years. The same labour market is highly inflexible for the protected part of the population where salaries follow seniority rather than productivity. In a sense labour markets at the present time are unfair in such a setting because they put all the weight of flexibility on the young part of the population.
In other words, union busting and going after all of the entrenched interests of the old with their lifetime jobs and gold-plated pensions at the expense of the young jobless. It sounds positively Thatcherite. Draghi went on to say that the old days of the European social model are gone [emphasis added]:
WSJ: Do you think Europe will become less of the social model that has defined it?
Draghi: The European social model has already gone when we see the youth unemployment rates prevailing in some countries. These reforms are necessary to increase employment, especially youth employment, and therefore expenditure and consumption.
WSJ: Job for life…
Draghi: You know there was a time when (economist) Rudi Dornbusch used to say that the Europeans are so rich they can afford to pay everybody for not working. That’s gone.
Mario Draghi is an important central banker and chooses his words carefully. I can't believe that he would go rogue and speak so frankly about fiscal and other government policy outside the ECB's mandate without the consent, or at least informing, the likes of Merkel and Sarkozy. So you have to believe that he is speaking on behalf of either the Elites or at least Merkozy in detailing this Grand Plan.
Can the Grand Plan work?
Today, I see commentary about how austerity is biting and the people of Greece (followed by Portugal) cannot possibly survive with a policy of all-austerity-all-the-time. They are missing the point. Draghi said that structural reforms must follow because "short-term contraction will be succeeded by long-term sustainable growth only if these reforms are in place."
This sounds like a long and hard road. Can it succeed?
The plan sounds like it was written out of the Maggie Thatcher playbook. It is also somewhat Teutonic in that it is well aware of the link between competitiveness and productivity, as well as the remarkable German technique of achieving a consensus between business, labour and government.
I am cautiously optimistic that the Grand Plan could work, which would lead to a period of European Renaissance. For it to work, however, many things have to go right. First of all, you need all of the actors to fall into line and no one to quit because "enough is enough". So watch the upcoming Greek elections and watch the upcoming French elections for how much support Marine Le Pen gets as important barometers of discontent on the Street. I remain optimistic because we are not at that breaking point because, despite the mass content with the bailout plan, the latest opinion polls of Greeks show that 77% want to stay in the eurozone "at all costs".
As well, you need to have an accommodative Dr. Draghi (and Dr. Bernanke) standing by to inject the patient with additional quantitative easing morphine if necessary while he is still in recovery. That appears to have been accomplished. Note how Draghi did not rule out another round of LTRO despite other quarters of the ECB voiced concerns about the banking system becoming overly dependent on ECB support:
WSJ: Would you be open to doing more, or longer, LTROs if needed?
Draghi: You know how we answer these questions. We never pre-commit.
Also notice how the ECB's LTRO program amounts to de facto quantitative easing and money printing, but there hasn't been a single word of protest from the German hardliners? That's an indication that there is a Grand Plan which the elites are executing.
The jury is out on the Grand Plan but if this all works, Merkel could be lionized as the new Thatcher and Draghi as the new Maestro.
War with Iran:Would you go bankrupt for your country?
There has been a fair amount of chatter about a geopolitical risk premium on the price of oil stemming from a conflict with Iran. While I generally don't agree with candidate Ron Paul on most matters, I do agree with him when he said in a debate last week that America can't afford another war.
The Institute for Economics and Peace (h/t Josh Brown) came out with a paper called Economic Consequences of War on the U.S. Economy, which Josh summarizes as:
Public debt and levels of taxation increased during most conflicts;
Consumption as a percent of GDP decreased during most conflicts;
Investment as a percent of GDP decreased during most conflicts;
Inflation increased during or as a direct consequence of these conflicts.
Fiscal conservatives should be appalled by the march to war, especially when you consider the immense deficits that are facing the government today. I once rhetorically asked if the Pentagon has a downward sloping demand curve and today I very much doubt it. Consider this account of how gasoline costs $400 per gallon in Afghanistan - that's before the Pakistanis cut off supply routes that raised prices roughly sixfold. Are American interests in Afghanistan that important to warrant those kinds of costs? (I read somewhere once that the United States spent $1 million for every Vietnamese man, woman and child during the Vietnam War. Could it have achieved its objectives for a lower cost?)
Instead of fighting wars intelligently, the military industrial complex focuses on the development of gadgets like the iRobot’s Warrior, which is “strong enough to tow a car and dexterous enough to open its trunk using the handle.” Is this the sort of device the military really needs in a counterinsurgency?
Imagine if your local police force deployed such machines instead of real people and you interacted with them through an automated call center. How would that affect your interaction with the police? Would you trust them more? Or less?
Instead of fighting wars intelligently, the military industrial complex is now intent on building the Death Star - and damn the cost!
Star manager Jeff Grundlach compared the US to the Roman Empire. American share of global military spending is 43%, but meanwhile its debt is spiraling out of control.
During times of vital interest to a nation, its leaders have asked its young men to be prepared to die for their country. On the other hand, how many Americans are prepared to lose their jobs and homes and go bankrupt for their country?
Labels: Fiscal policy, Geopolitics
Is ECRI changing its recession call?
Here's an announcement on the ECRI website.
Will Achuthan back off on the recession call? If he did then surely clients would have heard it first but I haven't heard any leaks from the blogosphere. On the hand hand, it does say "updated outlook".
Watch how the ECB acts, not it says
As we await the ECB's LTRO2 auction next week, there was a story on CNBC entitled ECB preparing to close liquidity floodgates:
The European Central Bank wants its second offer of cheap ultra-long funds next week to be its last, putting the onus back on governments to secure the euro zone's longer-term future.
There is no doubt that the ECB would rather not seen banks staying on LTRO life support, but what it wishes for and what it will do are two completely different matters. The story sounds like a plant, intended to warn the markets not to expect another round of LTRO.
The expectations that LTRO will stop on February 29 don't seem credible. Consider this Bloomberg story on February 10 of how Mario Draghi was practically begging banks to participate in the three-year LTRO program:
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi lashed out at bankers who said tapping the ECB’s three-year-loan program carries a stigma, after executives including Deutsche Bank AG (DBK)’s Josef Ackermann said they shunned the loans.
“There is no stigma whatsoever on these facilities,” Draghi said at a press conference in Frankfurt yesterday. “Some have made some sort of statements that I would call statements of virility, namely it would be undignified for a bank, a serious bank, to access these facilities. Now let me say that the very same banks that made these statements access facilities of different kinds -- but still government facilities.”
Which do you think represent the real views of the ECB?
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Preliminary verdict: Consolidation and correction
In my last post, I wrote that I was watching the European bourses and the Hang Seng Index for signs of whether we are likely to see a continuation of the bull move or a consolidation period.
The preliminary verdict is consolidation and correction. You can tell the short-term tone of the market by how it reacts to news. On the weekend, China unexpected cut reserve requirements by 50 bp. The Shanghai Composite rallied on the news, but the Hong Kong market was unable to hold its gains and finished the last few days beneath a key technical resistance level.
In Europe, we saw the Greek bailout deal finalized late in the night. Markets staged a mild rally on the news and then sold off. The Dow rallied to kiss the 13K level and wound up roughly flat on the day. Does this sound like a market where the bulls are in control or does it sound like they're exhausted?
In the wake of the easing of financial tensions in the eurozone, can anyone explain to me why the EURCHF exchange rate hasn't rallied and appears to be slowly declining to the 1.20 level where the SNB said it would defend?
The Swiss Franc has long been regarded as a safe haven and the EURCHF rate is a measure of risk appetite so the above chart appears to be anomalous. What does the FX market know that the equity markets don't know?
I generally agree with Barry Ritholz's scenario for the market, though I believe that the Fed is likely to be proactive on QE3:
If the past is prologue (and that cannot be relied upon), we could see a scenario something like this (Note: Wild ass guessing to follow). Markets kiss 13,000, pullback and consolidate. But they are not overbought sufficiently for anything more serious than a modest retracement, and so they continue higher for several months, until the % of stocks over 200 day MA is near 90% (they are at 75% today). That takes us somewhere between March and June. The next sell off begins, lopping 25% or so off of the SPX. The Federal Reserve waits until after the November election to introduce QE3, and the cycle starts anew.
My base case scenario calls for a short (1-3 week) consolidation phase and a grind upward. After that, we'll have to watch how events unfold.
Breakout or consolidation?
On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrials Average staged an upside breakout to a new recovery high. The move was confirmed by the large cap OEX, but not by many other averages.
The S+P 500, for example, is still struggling with resistance. The intermediate term trend, however, appears bullish as it is in a well-defined uptrend and there are signs of global healing from stock indices around the world. In my mind, there is no question that the bulls are in control of this market in the intermediate term. The more relevant question is whether they have exhausted themselves in the short-term. Can the S+P 500 clear resistance or are we due for a period of consolidation?
More disturbing for the bulls is the narrowing leadership of this rally as it has been led by the large cap stocks. Small caps have not been as strong, which is a bearish negative divergence. As shown below, the small cap Russell 2000 is barely approaching its resistance zone, though it is in a similar well-defined uptrend.
Cylicals say consolidation
To discern the future direction of equities, I turn to the answer from three place. I analyzed the chart patterns of the cyclicals, as well as the other two sources of macro risk, Europe and China. Consider the Morgan Stanley Cyclicals Index. These stocks staged an upside breakout in mid-January, but have started to consolidate as they moved sideways through the uptrend line.
Other cyclically sensitive indices and currencies, such as the Australian Dollar, the Australian All-Ords, the Canadian Dollar and the TSX Index all show a pattern of breakout and consolidation.
Commodity prices, on other hand, have lagged this rally. They broke out of a downtrend in mid-January and they appear to be consolidating. I am watching to see if the sideways pattern continues or if they can stage an upside breakout through resistance.
Are fundamentals improving?
Josh Brown puts the bull and bear debate into perspective this way:
I'm convinced that the single most important decision facing asset allocators right now is whether or not to join The Big Shift or to ignore it and ride it out. Guys like me need to decide if we're going to dance with the sinners in the high-beta, risk-on sectors that have been leading this market or stick with the saints - the defensive, income-heavy non-cyclicals that saved our lives when things got dicey last year.
He went on to say that equity prices may have gotten ahead of fundamental [emphasis added]:
The trouble with this is that while we may yet be able to avoid another recession scare this year, the data simply does not confirm (just yet) what the homebuilders, banks, casinos, REITs and materials stocks would have us believe. Instead, I think we're witnessing a major rotation, one of the biggest I've ever seen, and that it cannot get much further until the data on housing and jobs improves markedly and materially.
Have the fundamentals improved? Well, sort of. On the earnings side, things are improving as reporting season progresses. Thomson-Reuters reports that the "beat rate" for companies have been steadily getting better.
Corporate guidance, while negative, has been improving as well [emphasis added]:
Looking ahead to the next earnings season, in which companies will give investors a glimpse of how they are faring in the early months of 2012, the number of companies offering downbeat guidance continues to exceed those steering analysts’ forecasts higher. So far, 52 companies in the S+P 500 have issued negative earning guidance compared to 20 that have issued positive earnings guidance for the first quarter of 2012; the resulting ratio of negative to positive preannouncements is 2.6. While that’s still not telling investors that corporate executives are bullish, it’s a significantly more positive reading than the N/P ration of 3.6 observed as recently as last week.
Watch overseas markets
The other important "tell" of market direction are Europe and China, which are the two big sources of macro risk. I am watching closely the action of the Euro STOXX 50, which has staged an upside breakout, but it isn't clear whether the breakout will hold. (With the ECB about to unleash LTRO2 that is expected unleash over €600b of liquidity to the eurozone banking system, does anyone want to bet against a breakout?)
Moving east, I pointed out last week that the Shanghai Composite had rallied through a downtrend line. That development had alleviated my concerns of China as a source of tail risk and signaled that a hard landing is less likely. Indeed, China has cut bank reserves another 50 basis points as it followed suit on a trend of global monetary easing by the BoJ and BoE.
Next door in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index has rallied to fill a downside gap and is encountering overhead resistance. I am watching carefully to see if the bulls can stage a rally to overcome resistance.
Is this a period of breakout or consolidation? My inner investor tells me to stay with the bull trend in equities as they are in a well-defined uptrend. Moreover, a glance at the 30-year Treasury yield shows that it is forming a saucer bottom pattern, indicating that the risk-off trade is on its last legs.
My inner trader, on the other hand, is more agnostic on the question of breakout or consolidation. On one hand, he is aware that the combination of under-invested equity investors and bullish sentiment can lead to a series of "good overbought" conditions that result in higher prices. On the other hand, the markets are overbought and they are ripe for a pullback and he is watching market conditions carefully next week for signs which way the markets break.
Labels: China, Europe, Technical analysis
China saves the world
When my Asset Inflation-Deflation Trend Model flashed an asset inflation signal on February 6, 2012 to buy high beta and high octane inflation hedge and emerging market stocks, the major risk to the bullish forecast was a Chinese hard landing. One of the key indicators that I was watching at the time was the Shanghai Composite, which had been in a well-defined downtrend.
All that has changed. Since I wrote those words in early February, the Shanghai Composite has managed to stage a rally through the downtrend, signaling that China's hard landing scenario is becoming less likely.
Indeed, Reuters reported the PBoC indicated that it is prepared to ease policy gradually in order to keep inflation in check:
In its monetary policy implemention report for the fourth quarter of 2011, the central bank said it will use a mix of policy tools, including interest rates, to maintain reasonable credit growth while keeping a lid on inflation.
Next door in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index has already rallied through its downtrend line and the 200-day moving average at about the same time, which is another signal of global healing and recovery.
Now that both the Shanghai Composite and Hang Seng Index have rallied through their respective downtrend lines and the fundamentals are becoming more positive, it seems that China is in the process of confirming the global bull move in risky assets. In fact, it's saving the world as it indicated that it would continue to buy euro denominated debt, which it said it would do once the Europeans got their act together (and it is in the Chinese self-interest as Europe is a major export market).
These developments confirm my recent observations that we are seeing a intermediate term bull market in stocks and risky asssets.
So party on and let's rock 'n roll!
Labels: China, Technical analysis
Interpreting the retail sales number
The retail sales number reported today came in mixed. The headline number came in below expectations, but the ex-auto number was strong. There were revisions everywhere.
What to make of this?
I believe that the American consumer it's would be a mistake to think that the American consumer as down and out. The Consumer Metrics Institute produces a series of figures that tracks American consumer activity on a daily basis. The daily series shows a modest uptick.
Daily numbers are inherently noisy, but the monthly figures show a definite rebound in consumer demand.
For the final word, Nomura (via Business Insider) interpreted the retail sales report positively:
The control measure feeds into estimates for the consumer spending component of GDP and suggests a healthy round of spending to start the year. Lastly, our preferred measure of consumer comfort, the category of dining out, increased by a strong 0.6% in January. Dining out can be seen as one of the ultra-discretionary categories of spending that is typically the first place households will cut back on spending if confidence is faltering.
Remember that we are in a central bank induced liquidity rally. Last week the BoE joined the party, this week it was the BoJ. Enjoy.
Hold your nose and "rent" the junk
The stock rally in 2012 has been characterized by a low-quality rally, or "dash for trash". I wrote here that investors were under-invested in equities and have been rushing for the entrance. They have been chasing the low-quality high-beta names as a way to quickly increase their equity exposure.
If I am right in my thesis that we are in the midst of a buying panic, then the low-quality theme makes sense as a trade. The way to participate is through the use of the Phoenix strategy.
The Phoenix rises again?
I gave a buy list of Phoenix stocks on February 24, 2009, shortly before the ultimate bottom in the stock market in March 2009. The idea behind the strategy is to find beaten down stocks that barely survived the bear market and have the financial or operational leverage to benefit from the coming upturn.
The February 24, 2009 list produced many winners. Notable among them were household names such as the Bank of America (BAC):
Liz Claiborne (LIZ):
...and Saks (SKS):
Different macro backdrop, but still dashing for trash
This time, the macro backdrop is different. We were not in a recession, though arguably it has been a period of anemic economic growth, so the situation for many companies isn't as dire as it was in late 2008 and early 2009. Nevertheless, Phoenix does make sense as a way to participate in the "dash for trash" theme.
With that in mind, I screen the members of the Russell 3000 for the following characteristics:
Stock price below $8 (lower quality, high beta names)
One year return of -50% or less (beaten down stocks)
Market capitalization of $100 million or more (must be "real" companies)
Net positive insider buying (number insider buys - number of insider sells > 0, which should provide some downside support should our thesis turn out to be wrong)
I came up with the following 39 names:
American Superconductor Corp (AMSC), ATP Oil & Gas Corp/United States (ATPG), Aviat Networks Inc (AVNW), Broadwind Energy Inc (BWEN), Central European Distribution Corp (CEDC), Clearwire Corp (CLWR), Cleveland Biolabs Inc (CBLI), Coldwater Creek Inc (CWTR), Demand Media Inc (DMD), EXCO Resources Inc (XCO), Fairpoint Communications Inc (FRP), Frontier Communications Corp (FTR), Gentiva Health Services Inc (GTIV), Geron Corp (GERN), Globalstar Inc (GSAT), Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc (HMPR), IntraLinks Holdings Inc (IL), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS), K-Swiss Inc (KSWS), MEMC Electronic Materials Inc (WFR), Meritor Inc (MTOR), MGIC Investment Corp (MTG), Monster Worldwide Inc (MWW), Office Depot Inc (ODP), OfficeMax Inc (OMX), Opnext Inc (OPXT), Overstock.com Inc (OSTK), Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (PACB), Popular Inc (BPOP), Quepasa Corp (QPSA), Radian Group Inc (RDN), RAIT Financial Trust (RAS), Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc (SVNT), SIGA Technologies Inc (SIGA), Sigma Designs Inc (SIGM), Skilled Healthcare Group Inc (SKH), Sun Healthcare Group Inc (SUNH), TriQuint Semiconductor Inc (TQNT) and Willbros Group Inc (WG).
Important caveats and disclaimers
I know nothing about your investment objectives and risk tolerance so don't construe this as investment advice as this may not be a suitable strategy for you.
This is obviously a high risk approach and I would take the following steps to control risk. First of all, determine how much of your portfolio you want to put into this strategy as 100% commitment is not suitable for pretty much everyone. Second, diversification is critical. I have received feedback when I last issued the call to buy into the Phoenix strategy about this stock or that stock not working out. If you do employ this strategy, you should buy a basket of these stocks and not focus on just one or two names.
Do your own due diligence on the stocks on the list. For some investors, this list could serve as a starting point to do some investigation of their own. As well, define your risk tolerance carefully, either on an individual stock basis and/or on a portfolio basis.
Lastly, this is a momentum dependent strategy that should be rented and not owned. As soon as momentum wanes, that will be the exit signal.
You're on your own.
A shorter list
If 39 names is too much for you to think about, then I winnowed the list down to eight names by requiring that there are no insider sells (instead of just positive net insider buying) and heavy insider buying, defined as more than five insider buys within the last six months:
ATP Oil & Gas Corp/United States (ATPG), Coldwater Creek Inc (CWTR), Gentiva Health Services Inc (GTIV), MEMC Electronic Materials Inc (WFR), Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc (SVNT), SIGA Technologies Inc (SIGA), Sun Healthcare Group Inc (SUNH) and Willbros Group Inc (WG).
Since the market rally has been going on for several months, buying into a Phoenix strategy now is being late in the game. However, as equity underweight investors rush to get into the stocks, this strategy should yield some decent returns if my investment thesis is correct. One important component of this approach is to watch momentum indicators carefully. When they start to turn down, then it's time to get out.
Be bold. This is the time to hold your nose and "rent" the junk.
Full disclosure: I am personally long ATPG and SVNT and may seek to get long the other names mentioned in the days to come.
Labels: Phoenix effect, Technical analysis
Bullish sentiment can be bullish, not bearish
On Friday, US stocks had their worst day of 2012 as the S+P 500 fell by -0.69%. With market conditions overbought and sentiment surveys showing high levels of bullishness, does this mark an intermediate term top?
I don't think so. Let's get back to first principles on sentiment models. When investors are overly bullish, the market declines because there is no one else left to buy. Read that last sentence carefully, especially the last part. Is there anyone else left to buy?
Doug Kass thinks so, because many investors are under-invested in equities:
Today's dominant investor classes -- individual investors, hedge funds and pension funds -- have de-risked and are relatively uncommitted to equities.
A re-allocation into stocks (and out of bonds) represents an underappreciated and potentially massive (and latent) demand that could easily be the catalyst for a move to all-time highs in the S+P 500 in 2012.
Mebane Faber showed this chart of AAII asset allocation on January 27, 2012 showing individual investors were under-weight equities versus their historical average. (The figures have since been updated by AAII and individuals are only at their average weight.) These readings indicate that equity weightings have much farther to run.
Last week, Barry Ritholz spoke with one technician who said that she didn't know anyone who is bearish and even Roubini has become a bull. Ritholz then rhetorically asked, "Where are the bears?" Here is one key comment in response to his post indicating that individual investors are not excessively bullish in their portfolios [emphasis added]:
This is of interest. Helene Meisler, a technical analyst at theStreet.com, conducted a non-scientific survey which I’d guess probably got a majority of responses from the retail folks about how what they were expecting in the near future. Less than 1 in 5 reported they were positioned for further gains, with rest split between people expecting a pullback of less than 5% and a smaller number expecting a larger decline.
I find this interesting because the last I heard the “smart money” was slightly bearish and the “dumb money” was significantly, though not exuberantly, bullish. So either sentiment has changed, I was wrong and her responses drew from the “smart money” crowd, or else her survey sample was distorted in some way.
A series of "good overbought conditions"
The good news for the bulls is that tcombination of high bullishness and a market underweight is a recipe for a buying stampede.
Don't forget that this is a central bank liquidity fueled rally. The BoE, the Federal Reserve and the ECB (through LTRO) are committed to quantitative easing. The best analogue is the QE2 rally seen in the latter half of 2010. The market experienced a series of "good overbought conditions" as it advanced.
So am I overly concerned that stocks encountered resistance for the first time and experienced its "worst" one-day decline of 2012?
No. This is a time to be buying the dips.
Greece is so...last year
As Mr. Market waits for the will they or won't they news on Greece, he is telling me that worrying about Greece is so...last year. Despite all of the angst about a possible Greek default, the Greek stock market has been rallying and outperforming the Euro STOXX 50 in the past few weeks.
Worries in the eurozone has shifted to Portugal, whose stocks have been dramatically underperforming.
All is not lost for the bulls. The Portuguese market is staging a tactical rally and testing its downtrend line.
In addition, Portuguese 2 year yields, which had spiked above 20%, are now in retreat, perhaps indicating that Mr. Market is anticipating further relief from the ECB's LTRO2 program.
That's why I am relatively sanguine about the risk trade. If this is the worst that Mr. Market is worried about, it's time to get long and stay long.
Buy growth and inflation hedge vehicles
Last week, my Inflation-Deflation Trend Model moved from a "neutral" reading to an "asset inflation" reading, indicating that model portfolio should move to an aggressive risk-on trade of growth stocks and commodity producers. This is a somewhat surprising development as the Trend Model only moved to a "neutral" reading from a defensive "deflation" reading in mid-January.
The Trend Model is an asset allocation model based primarily on commodity prices. Trend following models generally don't from one extreme (defensive) to the other (aggressive) in less than a month. From an analytical viewpoint, however, the development is not entirely unexpected as the signs of global healing are abundant.
Firstly, commodity prices have move out of a downtrend and staged an upside breakout from a wedge, which is bullish. As well, I wrote last week (see Time to ride the commodity bull) that long-term fundamentals, medium term sentiment and short-term catalysts are pointing to another bull run for commodity prices.
The global uptrend in the risk-on trade has been confirmed by most stock markets. US equities saw a well-publicized Golden Cross, which is a bullish condition that points to an uptrend in prices.
Looking around the world, there is an imminent Golden Cross in UK stocks as well.
Across the English Channel, the Euro STOXX 50 has shrugged off worries about Eurogeddon and in the process of staging an upside breakout.
The cyclically sensitive South Korean KOSPI has staged an upside breakout.
Even the Brazilian market, which had been a laggard last year, saw a recent Golden Cross.
The only fly in the ointment has been the dismal performance of the Shanghai Composite, which remains in a well-defined downtrend.
Is the Shanghai Composite signaling a dramatic downturn in the Chinese economy? I'm not sure, but I am somewhat comforted by the price action of the Hang Seng, which recently rallied above its 200-day moving average.
Considerable the upside potential
If we are indeed poised for a major bull move in risky assets, then the next question has to be, "What's the upside potential?"
The upside potential can be quite high. Consider, for example, the resource heavy Canadian market as measured by the TSX Composite. One analog might be to think about is the market reaction after the Lehman Crisis of 2008. The Trend Model correctly moved to a defensive "deflation" reading in August 2008 and went "neutral" in late March 2009, about three weeks after the March bottom. It later moved to an aggressive "asset inflation" reading in August 2009.
This time around, the Trend Model moved to a defensive position in late August 2011, but Eurogeddon did not materialize. It went "neutral" in mid-January 2012 and flashed an aggressive "asset inflation" signal last week.
If we were to measure the TSX Composite from the March 2009 neutral signal to the market peak in early 2011, the move was roughly 6,000 points and roughly 4,000 points from the "asset inflation" signal in August 2009. So how far up can the market move up this time?
Another way to think about this is to look at the relative performance of the high-beta and recovery candidate US Broker-Dealer Index (XBD) relative to the stock market in the wake of the Lehman Crisis. From the bottom in 2008 to the peak in 2009, the XBD staged a relative rally of close to 60%.
A more logical technical target for this bull move, should it develop, would be an outperformance of roughly 30% against the market.
My inner investor says that the aggressive signal from the Trend Model is not altogether unexpected. Central banks are throwing parties and it's time to participate. The ECB's February LTRO auction is expected to attract bids of over a trillion. The Fed is standing ready to unleash QE3.
My inner trader is well aware of calls for a correction and he is a nervous bull. He is tempted to wait for a pullback before deploying new cash as some of the short-term measures appear overbought. Should we see a sustained up move, however, the overbought condition could be what my former Merrill Lynch colleague Walter Murphy calls a "good overbought". An example can be found in the bullish impulse that began in late 2010 after the onset of QE2. The market began to move up and saw periods of sustained "good overbought" conditions.
In any case, enjoy the party. It promises to be a good one.
Labels: ECB, federal reserve, Technical analysis
QE3 is still on the table
After the blowout number from Friday's Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) release, there was some buzz that it would lessen the probability that the Federal Reserve would undertake QE3. I don't think so.
According to its statement after its January 2012 FOMC meeting, the Fed has a 2% inflation target but no target for employment [emphasis added]:
The inflation rate over the longer run is primarily determined by monetary policy, and hence the Committee has the ability to specify a longer-run goal for inflation. The Committee judges that inflation at the rate of 2 percent, as measured by the annual change in the price index for personal consumption expenditures, is most consistent over the longer run with the Federal Reserve’s statutory mandate. Communicating this inflation goal clearly to the public helps keep longer-term inflation expectations firmly anchored, thereby fostering price stability and moderate long-term interest rates and enhancing the Committee’s ability to promote maximum employment in the face of significant economic disturbances.
The maximum level of employment is largely determined by nonmonetary factors that affect the structure and dynamics of the labor market. These factors may change over time and may not be directly measurable. Consequently, it would not be appropriate to specify a fixed goal for employment; rather, the Committee's policy decisions must be informed by assessments of the maximum level of employment, recognizing that such assessments are necessarily uncertain and subject to revision. The Committee considers a wide range of indicators in making these assessments. Information about Committee participants' estimates of the longer-run normal rates of output growth and unemployment is published four times per year in the FOMC's Summary of Economic Projections.
Charles Schwab recently published a research note indicating that the Fed is watching inflation as measured by core PCE because it has a lower housing weight than CPI [emphasis added]:
The Fed also announced an explicit 2% inflation target for the first time in its history. This explicit inflation target also helps reduce uncertainty about policy long-term. The Fed will use the 2% annual target, based on changes in personal consumption expenditures (PCE) as their measure. The current year-over-year increase in PCE is 1.8% in the latest numbers. So they're still a touch below those targets. Bernanke was asked in the press conference following the meetings, "why PCE and not the consumer price index?" One reason is that in CPI, housing has a far greater weight. It appears to have understated inflation during the housing bubble and may overstate it now that renting is more popular than buying. The PCE is also adjusted more flexibly to changing consumption patterns. Fed critics might also argue that annual increases in PCE also tend to be lower than changes in the CPI.
Remember, under the Fed's new transparency initiative, we don't have to guess what the Fed is going to do anymore and revealing their methodology. Consider these figures from the Dallas Fed for PCE, core PCE and trimmed mean PCE, which is another technique for excluding the more volatile components of the inflation rate.
Any way you look at it, core PCE and trimmed mean PCE remains stubbornly low and below the 2% target. This suggests to me that the Fed believes it has more room to stimulate without igniting an inflationary spiral. Watch this series for hints that QE3 might be moving off the table and don't fret about signs of a cyclical rebound from economic releases like NFP.
The Bernanke Put still lives, at least for now.
Labels: federal reserve
Apple's problem with the inscrutable Chinese
Last week, the New York Times published an article detailing some of the troublesome working conditions in Chinese factories that makes Apple products:
[T]he workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems.
Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. Under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors.
The article ignited a firestorm of controversy. Consider the reaction that the paper published in a follow up entitled Apple in China: Has iOrwell Arrived?
The inscrutable Chinese
What should Apple do? How should the company react? Before jumping to conclusions, Charles Hugh Smith put the Chinese attitude into context and compared it to the attitudes in an immigrant societies such as America. He writes that in America:
Nobody cares where you're from, or what caste you are, or anything like that. As long as you do your work without being a real pain in the rear-end, are pleasant to your neighbors and workmates, keep your pitbull chained, etc., then you are good to go. Many if not most of the people you interact with also know English as a second language, and since that's burden enough for all of us, we dispense with all the insider stuff. America is on most levels a WYSIWYG culture: what you see is what you get.
Places like China and Japan are on the opposite end of the spectrum: they are not immigrant cultures. Very few nations have a culture that is adapted not to tradition and an opaque mindset but to getting on with immigrants from everywhere. This is one reason people want to come to America; they lose their baggage here and can be themselves, because nobody cares, we're busy with other things, and it doesn't take 15 years to figure out how things actually work here. If it did, the whole thing would grind to a halt and that would be really annoying.
Unspoken attitudes and preferences are far more important in cultures with long established traditions. Smith writes [emphasis added]:
[T]here are always two doors in Asia: the front door, carefully arranged to present a face-enhancing image to the outside world, and the back door, where everything important actually takes place.
A typical front door in China is the banquet with the glad-handing mayor. The back door is for his mistress, the cash "commissions" from various deals and the cover-up of the face-damaging deaths in the local factory. Bad business, that; we lost face. Go take care of it with cash, threats, promises or whatever is required to bury it and restore face.
What is going on at the back door in this Chinese manufacturing operation that makes Apple products?
The truth of the matter is that a class structure exists in Chinese society. Those at the top don't think that "little people" matter. The dirty little secret is the belief that human life is cheap.
The Globe and Mail peeked behind this door recently with the article entitled: In de-coding class in China, cars are your best clue. The story began when Canadian envoy seemingly "lost face" with the locals because he drives a Toyota Camry:
A Toyota Camry isn’t usually the type of car that turns heads. It certainly isn’t considered a flashy ride on the streets of Beijing, where Audis, BMWs and Mercedes SUVs dominate where three-wheeled rickshaws once ruled.
So when David Mulroney, Canada’s ambassador to China, posted online photos of his official car – a silver Camry hybrid – the reaction from the Chinese Internet was something close to shock. Especially when he explained that even cabinet ministers in Canada only have a budget of $32,400 for their official car.
"Face" matters in China. It signals class and status, which matters a lot. The Globe article went on to decode the class structure, as interpreted by a Bejing cabbie:
Toyota sedan – Driven by putongren. Ordinary people. Not so ordinary that they have to use public transport or ride a bicycle, mind you.
Mercedes SUV – Driver Zhao presumes someone who drives one of these ubiquitous (and always black) vehicles is a laoban. The word means “boss,” but in this case laoban can mean anyone who recently come into cash and wants to show it off.
Buick GL8 minivan – Wildly popular in China (though discontinued in North America), these vans aren’t for soccer moms. To Driver Zhao, someone driving a Buick GL8 is a “xiao laoban,” or little boss. Someone who can’t yet afford the Mercedes. Just as often, the driver is a professional and the passengers are Western expatriate families with kids.
Audi A6 – Weibo had it bang on, it’s the automobile of choice for the Chinese bureaucrat. Seeing an Audi A6 in traffic means you’re idling beside part of the country’s power structure. As The New York Times put it , the A6’s “slick frame and invariably tinted windows exude an aura of state privilege, authority and, to many ordinary citizens, a whiff of corruption.” (The Beijing government says there are 62,000 official cars in the city, a figure that seems far too low. The state-run CCTV television station reported last year that the real figure is closer to 700,000.)
Humvees or Ferraris – Driver Zhao says the only people arrogant enough to drive one of these on Beijing’s streets are the well-off children of top government officials. As evidence of that, I once saw a bright yellow Humvee rip the wrong way through traffic in Beijing’s busy Sanlitun bar district, before proceeding to drive through a red light without so much as tapping the brakes. At least three policemen witnessed the same scene, but seemed to conclude from the driver’s brazen behaviour that he was too powerful to be stopped.
When the New York Times article appeared, the Chinese reaction is quite predictable, characterized by Smith as "Bad business, that; we lost face. Go take care of it with cash, threats, promises or whatever is required to bury it and restore face."
For Apple, however, it has a tricky public relations problem with its customers, a problem that may eventually devalue its image and the value of its brand. It too, has "lost face" with its customers. How it responds will be a key test of new CEO's marketing and management savvy. As well, it will be a sign of how far the West has journeyed to meet the East.
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Freedom sure is ready the origins of contemporary the USA – a background of colonizing, paintings and civic id from the beginnings of English presence at the mainland until eventually the Civil struggle. it's a background of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of families and servitude and slavery, and of the liberty all craved and a few stumbled on.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl, and the Crime of the Century
The scandalous tale of America's first twiglet, intercourse goddess, and glossy megastar, Evelyn Nesbit, the temptress on the heart of Stanford White's recognized homicide, whose iconic existence tale mirrored the entire paradoxes of America's Gilded Age.
By the time of her 16th birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was once identified to thousands because the so much photographed lady of her period, an iconic determine who set the traditional for girl good looks, and whose blameless sexuality was once used to promote every little thing from sweets to fragrance. ladies desired to be her. males simply sought after her. but if Evelyn's lifetime of delusion grew to become all too genuine and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry okay. Thaw, murdered her lover, ny urban architect Stanford White, the main well-known lady on the earth turned notorious as she chanced on herself on the heart of the "Crime of the Century" and a scandal that signaled the start of a countrywide obsession with early life, attractiveness, famous person, and sex.
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Extra resources for The Everything American Revolution Book: From the Boston Massacre to the Campaign at Yorktown-all you need to know about the birth of our nation
The annual income of the works was $12,163, while the expenditures The River, the Aqueduct, and the Lake 21 were $29,702. All of the 28-plus miles of wooden pipe that had been laid would have to be replaced, and there were only 2,127 paying customers in this city of well over 50,000 people. The best thing one could say about the system was that it did seem to improve the health and fire safety of Philadelphians. Although yellow fever returned several times in the early years of the nineteenth century, the city appeared to be less prone than it had been to severe attacks by this and other diseases.
Quincy saw the city’s needs for water as going well beyond fighting fire. ” This meant that the water must be “capable of being introduced into every house in the city” and acceptably “soft,” that is, low enough in mineral content to dissolve soap and to cook vegetables satisfactorily. ” Quincy here cited a letter from the eminent physician and Harvard Medical School professor John Collins Warren, who was one of the founders of Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery (which in 1828 became the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal and, a century after that, the New England Journal of Medicine).
The paper hoped that the state legislature would soon approve a plan to empower Chicago to build a public system, one worthy of its ambitions, which were as limitless as the lake. ” This view enjoyed much influential support. In April 1850 a group of citizens, similar to those who had campaigned for a public water supply in Philadelphia and Boston, determined to do likewise in Chicago. As in Philadelphia, if not in Boston, results followed rapidly. The state incorporated the public Chicago City Hydraulic Company on February 15, 1851.
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Effects of waste ground glass and lime on the crys...
Phase separation in alumina-rich glasses to increase glass reactivity for low-CO₂ alkali-activated cements by: Kinnunen, P. Published: (2019)
One-part alkali-activated materials : a review by: Luukkonen, Tero Published: (2018)
Alkali-activated soapstone waste - mechanical properties, durability, and economic prospects by: Luukkonen, Tero Published: (2019)
Mine tailings geopolymers as a waste management solution for a more sustainable habitat by: Paiva, Helena Published: (2019)
Effect of slag on the improvement of setting time and compressive strength of low reactive volcanic ash geopolymers synthetized at room temperature by: Lemougna, Patrick N. Published: (2020)
Abdollahnejad, Z., Dalvand, A., Mastali, M., Luukkonen, T., Illikainen, M. (2019) Effects of waste ground glass and lime on the crystallinity and strength of geopolymers. Magazine of Concrete Research, 71 (23), 1218-1231. doi:10.1680/jmacr.18.00300
Effects of waste ground glass and lime on the crystallinity and strength of geopolymers
Abdollahnejad, Z.1; Dalvand, A.2; Mastali, M.1;
Luukkonen, T.1; Illikainen, M.1
1Fibre and Particle Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Univ. of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, 90014 Oulu, Finland
2Department of Engineering, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
ICE Publishing, 2019
This study investigates the effects of adding waste ground glass and lime on the microstructural properties of amorphous gels transitioning into crystallised zeolites in fly-ash-based geopolymers. Three different mix compositions were synthesised using fly ash, waste ground glass powder and calcium hydroxide. These mixtures were subjected to accelerated aging by thermal curing (at a temperature of 80°C), the treatment lasting for 56 d. Crystalline zeolitic phases were detected by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. The results show that the transition from amorphous gels into more ordered structures readily occurred in the compositions employing only waste ground glass or calcium hydroxide, whereas a combination of waste ground glass and calcium hydroxide hindered the transition. Moreover, the topographical images of the compositions indicate a greater degree of roughness in the mixture with a lower degree of transition from the amorphous gels into more ordered structures. It was revealed that crystallisation had no harmful effect on the strength stability of the compositions cured for 28 d at a temperature of 80°C. In fact, the maximum increase in the compressive strength occurred due to the formation of crystalline zeolites in fly-ash-based geopolymers.
Magazine of concrete research
10.1680/jmacr.18.00300
https://oadoi.org/10.1680/jmacr.18.00300
116 Chemical sciences
212 Civil and construction engineering
216 Materials engineering
cement/cementitious materials
The authors sincerely appreciate the collaborative efforts of the Lorestan University (Khoramabad, Iran) and Oulu University (Oulu, Finland) in implementing the study and for their financial support.
© ICE Publishing 2019, all rights reserved.
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Kogi Info Ministry to Launch “Invest in Kogi” Campaign
The Kogi State Ministry of Information and Communication has said it is ready to launch a campaign that will drive up investments in the State.
The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo, made this known during an interaction with pressmen in Lokoja on Friday, informing investors of the abundant opportunities in the State.
“We have succeeded in putting together areas of opportunities for potential investors,’ he said. “The state government has reformed the Land Administration System to make it more credible and transparent. Security has also been at the apex of government plans to boost the confidence of investors and safeguard their investments in Kogi State. We have laws that assure all of our excellent tax administration.
“With the location of numerous mineral resources in vast quantities in the State, coupled with the tourism potentials here, there is no State in Nigeria that is more viable than Kogi State when we talk investments.
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“With the hundreds of millions of dollars the government is planning to inject into the Alape Crops Processing Zone as well as well as Agricultural Mechanization, our economy is poised to grow into a purse of billions of dollars.
“Apart from pushing back poverty, the current efforts of the government will create thousands of jobs and create wealth.”
Fanwo said a consortium of Turkish investors are currently understudying the state’s agricultural potentials with a view to bringing foreign direct investment to the state that already boasts of the second largest rice processing mill in Northern Nigeria.
“No State Government takes security as seriously as Kogi,” Hon. Fanwo said, assuring the investors.
He further added, “The Ministry is currently in discussions with global television networks to explore the possibility of showcasing the potentials of the state. A lot of investors around the world are not aware of these potentials. While the Internet is filled with less than savoury news about us, it has not got nearly enough information about what makes us so blessed with resources so much that we are home to the largest cement factory in Africa and home of Nigeria’s single biggest investment outside of oil, the Ajaokuta Steel Company.
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“We cannot be sitting on gold and still be talking of federal allocations to develop our state. We need to market our State for what it is: the most culturally-diverse and potentially economic dynamic state in Nigeria.
“Ours is the only state bordered by ten other states including the Federal Capital Territory. Eighty-two percent of trans-national road traffic pass through our State at one point or the other. We have the potentials to be the manufacturing, transportation and logistics hub of Nigeria as our Youth are largely educated and ready to work.
“Our Confluence, our water bodies, our mineral resources, our location and our resourceful and enterprising population are great assets that will soon be transforming the state to the economic hub of Nigeria.
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“When you match that with the efforts of the Federal Government at resuscitating the Ajaokuta Steel Company, you will see that Kogi is ready to take its place at the top of Nigeria’s economic table. Governor Yahaya Bello is totally focussed on securing the future of our dear State.”
The Commissioner called on well-meaning Kogites to join in the campaign by promoting positive vibes and shun negativity in all forms.
“Kogi is all we have. Its greatness will benefit all of us, even children yet unborn. We must do all in our power to make it the pride of Nigeria. It is in our hands,” Hon. Fanwo said.
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Home / Business / Local Builders Speed Up Restructuring to Brace for Industry Slump
Local Builders Speed Up Restructuring to Brace for Industry Slump
Posted on December 5, 2018 by Korea Bizwire in Business, Business Plans, Construction & Real Estate, Industries with 0 Comments
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SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Local builders are resorting to early retirement plans and large-scale manpower reshuffles to weather a possible industry-wide slump going forward, people in the sector said Wednesday.
Samsung C&T has been carrying out staff restructuring over the past two years and recently opened an early retirement package to employees who have been with the company for four years or longer. The company has already reduced its workforce size from 7,962 in 2015 to 5,596 in the first half of this year, having downsized the number of contracts for home construction. Staff numbers for plant construction have also been reduced from lack of overseas orders.
“We are accepting applications for early retirement and pay compensation without specific targets or number of people that can take advantage of the move,” a company official said. “We plan to end early retirement programs after this year, but the reshuffling of manpower will continue.”
Other company measures for the reshuffle include unpaid leave and moving personnel to other departments, officials said.
Daewoo E&C has been shedding its workforce through open-ended retirement programs, reducing the number of employees from 5,804 at the end of last year to 5,415 as of the third quarter this year. Most of the workers who left were contract employees.
The company is also implementing two months of leave with basic pay from October in the plant construction division as a cost-saving measure.
“The purpose is to operate the extra manpower in the most efficient way,” a Daewoo official said.
The belt-tightening is a result of losses in overseas orders, affected by protracted low oil prices, industry officials said. “We can’t be assured of plant construction orders from next year on as new contracts are not coming as expected from Iran and other Middle East markets,” one of them said. “We are minimizing restructuring as much as possible through repositioning of the extra workers, but that has its limits.”
The government’s contraction of infrastructure investment is also a factor, officials say. Such investments this year stopped at 19 trillion won (US$17 billion), 3 trillion won less than last year. The sum will go down further to $18.5 trillion won next year.
The domestic home construction market, which had endured the industry slump relatively well, was also expected to wane as the government cracks down on speculation and large price leaps.
Daelim started accepting requests for unpaid leave and early retirement from Dec. 1, a further effort at slimming down after reducing the number of its employees from 7,619 at the end of last year to 7,255 in the third quarter this year. Unpaid leave is in effect from March for workers in the plant business section, with the company considering whether to extend it to next year.
In case of GS E&C, workers from its plant business have been rechanneled to home construction.
“Restructuring in the construction business will likely pick up speed as the boom in the home building market over the past two to three years loses steam,” an industry official said. “For builders who have over-expanded, it’s time for them to revamp their manpower and organization.”
(Yonhap)
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Communities in Mbire and Mutasa lament politicization of food aid, hail Heal Zimbabwe’s #13MilVoices4Peace campaign
By Heal Zimbabwe24 April 2018Democracy, Elections, Human Rights
Communities in Mbire and Mutasa have expressed grave concern over the politicization of government food aid particularly from the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare. This was revealed during a series of collaborative neutral platforms carried out by community peace clubs established by communities that work with Heal Zimbabwe from 10-21 April 2018.
The collaborative neutral platforms were attended by a total of 14 Village heads, 5 Councillors and 16 Village Development Committee (VIDCOs) members. A total of 600 people attended the neutral platforms. The collaborative platforms included clean up campaigns, harvesting of crops and shelling of maize. Community members highlighted that in most cases, Councillors and Traditional leaders (mostly Village heads) were denying food aid to people who refuse to submit serial numbers of voter registration slips. They also noted that this has created serious political labelling which continues to be a hurdle in the attainment of social cohesion and peace. “Traditional Leaders and Councillor deny food aid if you fail to submit your serial number of your voter registration slip on time”, said one community member from Mbire.
One peace club member from Mutasa pointed that although forcing citizens to submit serial numbers of voter registration slips was illegal, the responsible authorities such as the police were not making effort to deal with reports. “We have reported numerous cases of Traditional Leaders and Councillors to the police but to this day, none has been arrested. This is worrying because as we go for elections, we are worried that the police might not swiftly respond to cases of political violence as was the case in 2008”, he said.
However, Communities acknowledged that from the time Heal Zimbabwe initiated Sports for Peace tournaments as part of its national peace campaign dubbed: 13 Million Voices for Peace #13MilVoices4Peace, there has been relative peace within communities. Community members also revealed that there has been a change of attitude by some perpetrators of violence who pledged for peace and some even expressed desire to organize more peace tournaments within their areas. The national peace campaign is a nationwide peace campaign that seeks to encourage citizens to uphold and pledge for peace ahead of the 2018 elections.
A Peace Club is a ward based community group of people who come together to promote peaceful coexistence in their communities. Peace club membership is drawn from diverse local community members that include traditional leaders, church leaders, women, youth, business people, people with disabilities and village health workers.
Source: Heal Zimbabwe
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2019-2020 Undergraduate Academic Catalog > Undergraduate Programs and Courses > College of Art and Design Courses > IAHIS - Art History > 4000 > IAHIS 4630
IAHIS 4010
IAHIS 4630 Scandalous Art
This course focuses on art works that have triggered scandalous public reactions. Considering about a dozen such cases, the course examines the historical circumstances of the image in question, its role in exposing various power discourses, and its art-historical relevance. Examples include Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Center mural, Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, Andreas Serrano's Piss Christ, and Chris Ofili's Virgin Mary. Identifying the stylistic and conceptual properties of an image, the class meetings will closely examine the reason(s) for the adverse reception, the arguments offered by all parties, backgrounds and roles of the key participants, and the outcome of the debate. In addition to the literature on these cases, students will consult such sources as documentaries and television footage. The course will offer valuable insights into discursive formations of art in a capitalist society.
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Lady Lindy and why does he call you Eeyore
Previously, I mentioned Charles Lindbergh. No-one tried to repeat his solo transatlantic crossing for five years. And then, the someone who did attempt it in 1932, was a woman – Amelia Earhart. Just as Lindbergh had done, she set off on May 20th. In bad weather she was blown off-course but she did make it to Ireland. Not to Paris, but still across the Atlantic.
What I didn’t realise is that she was selected for the role. There were other potential female candidates, but she had the right look, the right image. She even resembled Charles Lindbergh, and the media often referred to her as ‘Lady Lindy’.
There are two monuments in South Carmarthenshire to Earhart. These mark her crossing in 1928 as a passenger, (and keeper of the flight log), in a seaplane called ‘Friendship’. The records in 1928 were for the first female crossing of the Atlantic, not solo and not as pilot. There’s some controversy about the landing place. When this is over, I’m going to visit both Pwll and Burry Port, the two contenders.
The wearing of two hats, or more, is common in this part of the UK. It’s necessary for survival, for making a living, to be versatile and multi-facetted. We have many strings to our proverbial bows. To an extent, this place attracts diversity and eclecticism.
The lady who works at most of our weddings as our bar manager, is a very talented ceramic artist. Her friend is a sculptor and a teller of jokes.
I know how they work, with the pay-off and punchline. Some can remember and deliver jokes with aplomb. I can’t. Or I’ve never really tried. Pretty sure it wouldn’t be my forte anyway.
Apple decided it knew better when I tried to send the husband a text the other morning. I was in still in bed, answering emails and messages, and writing a haiku. It was about 8.30 and he was already in the barn, doing something usefully DIYish. I was trying to ask ‘have you fed the Eeyores?’ but predictive text insisted I was enquiring ‘have you fed the retirees?’ You know – the ones we keep locked in the barn…
Later, after I had explained this example of smartphone interference, my listener started on one of those man-and-mate-went-into-pub stories. The landlord – to clip short a rather unruly shaggy dog – asked, ‘why does he call you Eeyore?’
Man at the bar replied, ‘ I dunno…’ee yoreways calls me that.’
It’s how you tell them really. You needed to be there.
But isn’t it strange how alien a man-going-into-pub anecdote sounds after all this time?
Stardom, Elvis and a dream
Another May wedding which still stands out for me was in 2012. We’ve not had many with themes, but this was a rock ’n roll wedding. The evening’s entertainment was a pocket Elvis, from Malta, via Coventry.
E. P., an encounter.
Darkness over these ripe Welsh meadows,
las vegas, fretted
by strings of fairy lights, solar, blue,
along May hedges, elder-greening,
blossom-bursting,
by cigarette glow, (a rogue few),
by crackle and hiss of logs from the firepit –
where folks huddle warmed by blankets,
chat, whisky.
Well met by moonlight, proud incarnation,
thrusting the King’s torch, rocking ‘n rolling,
owning that suit, spritelike guest
at this night’s nuptuals, starblest,
incandescent, lighting up
the loin-lost gaze of his admirers,
who have seen a vision, divine
and otherworldly, (in fact from Malta),
shimmying gifts – lyric, liquidity
of hip, of lip, filling full his
luminous leathers.
Now, far from home, awaiting his team,
he shivers in built-up shoes –
I AM NOT COLD; I HAVE PERFORMED.
Elvis takes his leave, cash, applause,
his black truck back,
not loving us tender yet still shaking
some chill, silvery spell,
as tail-lights reveal
sequins shed on bluebell, cow parsley
and nettle at the field gate,
our lane pitted with stardust.
This was earlier in a May that was sunny and warm, but not record-breaking. The bluebells have almost gone now, and the tall nettles are to be avoided. Rather than being new and just there as a reminder of my rather haphazard foraging. Cow parsley miraculously renews itself every night, (after being consumed voraciously the day before). Jasmine still intoxicates, but clematis has been replaced by dog and climbing roses. Hot reds and foxgloves are popping up, and lavender is a few days away.
In dreams last night I was saying goodbye to a friend who was off on a space voyage a few days later…as a tourist. Not as a solo passenger, but I think there were to be just six of them. My adventurous friend and I were drinking tea and eating cheesecake outside. Wherever we were, the spectre of C-19 still lurked behind the arras. There was talk of ‘social distancing’.
I think I’ll set myself the task of making a list of all the words and phrases I didn’t know, or need, or use, pre-lockdown. I’d like, if it’s possible, to ban them from my post C-19 vocabulary.
Much to applaud
It was the last scheduled clap last night. There’s been little audible round here, but it’s hard to hear above the birdsong and we don’t have immediate neighbours beyond the tribe. Eight is also a little late for the smalls.
Still, they have painted a sheet with a cheery rainbow message, and it’s suspended from trees facing onto the lane. And there is more to appreciation than applause.
Today began with a call about a donkey escape. One of the cross-rails of their stable enclosure had broken, they’d limboed under it and were off. Happily alternating between chomping on grass quietly, and then, kicking up their heels in joyous come-and-get-me-if-you-can friskiness. They weren’t free-range for long. The lure of two buckets of donkey nuts proved too great, and the bar has been fixed.
Another successful fix is WATER. Late morning the water pressure dropped. We were all planting in the meadow above the polytunnels. We’d sown seed and grown a vast number of wildflower plants. It was time, past time really, to transplant them to the field. But the ground was hard and bone dry. Kids and adults alike were wilting in the heat.
And then the water stopped. The three year old diagnosed the problem as a ‘kink’ (his favourite word this morning) in the hose. Alas, this proved not to be so.
We aborted today’s attempt at meadow prettifying. Miraculously, around 4.30 this afternoon, the water was back on. The explanation? A pump 64 metres down in our bore hole had tripped.
Apparently, it’s the sunniest spring since records began in 1928. And although we’ve still got two days left, it could well be the driest May for 124 years. There are murmurings and warnings about drought…
Red kites and Blue Peter
I’ve been watching a red kite circling this afternoon. I can’t see it now but it’s not far away. There’s that distinctive cry. Back in 2012, when my sister was bottle-rearing the twin lambs, if she saw kites, she would, just to be safe, put Dave and Mildred into the guinea pig run.
We should be getting ready now for our dog show and family fun day. Last year was the first year and it was a huge success. A good turnout, great weather and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. It felt very much like the summer fetes of my childhood. But with no rain.
Today is the third anniversary of the death of John Noakes. Watching Blue Peter, and receiving the latest Blue Peter annual as a gift every year, are clear childhood memories.
Not getting my autograph book signed by John Noakes
I never had a Blue Peter badge,
not one. I wasn’t a joiner,
a taker- part. And as for Brownies,
though the plan was always to get
a raft of badges to buck up
the drab, ditch-water brown dress,
I didn’t. The pony-trekking trip
was also , it must be said, a flop.
Instead I sang, recited, read,
my head full of dreams and stories.
There was a fete once, some wet Berkshire
village green, Bradfield, Burghfield
or wherever, and he was there
with his dog. Was it Patch? What a thrill.
He was there as judge of pets,
art, fancy dress, cakes or carrots.
Or all of them. You know the drill.
And it poured. Relentless.
We sheltered, he and I, under
damp canvas, watching the drips
at the scout tent door, drinking
sweet weak tea, just willing it all
to end. Did I get the autograph?
No. But I stroked the dog instead.
Surely time for shearing
The sheep need a haircut. We’ve got three. They’re pets. The eldest, Blackberry, is a bit scraggy and scruffy now, quite frail with regular foot problems. She still likes being petted, enjoys eating, shouting and she is indisputably the boss.
The highlight of their day is sheep nut time, early evening. Sheep nuts must be absolutely delicious, but, sadly, slugs like them too. Some huge slithery specimens have made it into the dustbin where the nuts are stored and have gorged themselves. We’ve swapped bins today for a newer one with a snug fitting lid. It might keep them out for a while but I’m not holding my breath. What we really need is hedgehogs!
Our first sheep was Dave. My sister, (who lives in Buckinghamshire), was given two orphan lambs to bottle feed. Mildred didn’t survive, however her brother thrived and became friendly and inquisitive. He soon outgrew my sister’s garden. When the farmer next door offered to take him back so that he could fulfil his ovine destiny, my sister and family baulked at the thought of Dave as lamb chops.
So, he came to us. Or rather, the husband collected him. A round trip of 416.4 miles. 208.2 miles of it were spent with Dave bleating on the back seat of the old Landrover, and in the driver’s left ear. Dave, not Dai or Dewi or Dafydd, was a noisy and nosy individual, who charmed both us and our visitors. Although, we hadn’t planned to have a pet sheep, when he died there was a woolly hole on our little farm which had to be plugged quickly.
We’re waiting to hear back from the shearer, hoping he can fit them in soon. It must be unbearable under all that wool.
The old lady herself, Blackberry
Friendship, flowers and heroism
It was the birthday of a very good friend of mine last week. We have decades of shared history and shared memories, children, dogs, holidays and celebrations. We have favourite books in common, and lines from books we both treasure – characters and quotes acting as shorthand for our friendship. Ordinary stuff and special stuff.
In many ways we’re very different – my friend is a practical soul, skilled at her craft, a DIYer, a knowledgeable gardener. She’s visited the Chelsea flower show many times as it falls around her birthday. Not this year though.
In terms of the non-earthly elements – water and air – she is also far braver than I am. She, and her characteristic common sense and helpfulness, featured in a few of my earlier poems.
May 21st, my friend’s birthday, was also the anniversary of the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1927 by plane by Charles Lindbergh. New York City to Paris. Non-stop. His flight was in response to a challenge set by a French-born New York hotel owner, Raymond Orteig. He offered 25,000 US dollars to the first successful aviator. Lindbergh followed six aviators who had died in their attempt to make the crossing. His flight in ‘The Spirit of St Louis’ from Roosevelt Airfield, Long Island to Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris took 33 hours and 29 minutes. Lindbergh was twenty-five. He became a national hero and an international celebrity.
Agatha Christie based her story 1934 story ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ on the mysterious kidnap and murder of baby Charles Lindbergh, Jr two years before. In Christie’s tale, the sex of the unfortunate toddler is changed. Her name in the book is Daisy Armstrong.
Burgh Island in South Devon was a favourite bolthole and writing retreat for Christie. It is also the setting for two of her novels – ‘And then there were none’ and ‘Evil under the sun’. The main building on the island is a fantastic Art Deco hotel which we visited (the husband and I) the day after a Devon wedding in 2011. A trip to the Burgh Island Hotel was a long-held ambition, and the visit and lunch there did not disappoint.
In its blurb the hotel states that it’s been ‘welcoming famous and infamous guests since 1929’. Having been there once for a few hours, and soaked up a little of the very stylish, period ambience, the new ambition, for this neither famous nor infamous woman, is to stay there. Just once. Unlikely, but who knows?
From the delights of Art Deco, back down to earth with a bump. This is what’s happening regularly now with the spaniel. He’s falling. He can’t manage the steps between conservatory and kitchen. We’ve put up a ramp. It’s not helping.
the unsuccessful ramp
Devious cunning or a rare rant
Sometimes I am appalled by cats. So much carnage. Such cruelty.
It must have been a 3-kill morning. There are neat piles of indeterminate innards across the conservatory floor. Now of course, she, the culprit, is stretched out on a sofa, not a whisker out of place, catching the late best of the sun’s rays. Cats have no conscience or moral compass, but equally no subterfuge, no-self-justification, no bending of the rules, as she has none. She is what she is – a killing machine, but she’s our killing machine.
Dreams of trips to Durham and conspiracy theories. I spent a lot of time online yesterday, reading articles and signing a petition or two. The man has to go. I hope he will.
The first thought in my head this morning was that DC’s name, as well as that of Emily Maitlis, (and mine too), all have five syllables. Each one could form either the first or last line of a haiku.
Well done, Emily!
He’s made those who struggled to
keep the rules, feel fools.
Emily triumphs.
‘Deep national disquiet’
speaks for all of us.
Emily Maitlis
says it as it is. He takes
the country for fools.
Savage brilliance
from Emily. ‘Idiots’ –
that’s what the man thinks.
And an attempt at a tanka – why is a five line poem so much harder to write than one with three or six lines?
Gaslighting, I’m told,
is what politicians do,
changing black to white,
making false true, tales of pride,
a long car ride…no-one’s fooled.
Aunt Jane
My cousin Paul died of C-19 a month ago. His mother, Ruby Valerie Jane, my father’s older sister, was a favourite of mine. She was intelligent, rebellious, accomplished, a successful businesswoman and more than a little bit mysterious. Later in life, she painted, researched her mother’s family tree and was, apparently, a champion Scrabble player.
In her youth she was beautiful, an exotic-looking flower blooming in West Wales. There are conflicting family stories about her private life. I wrote this a few years ago about her and found it again recently. Some of it may be true. Or very nearly.
Guests at a wedding on a chilly March day, he stands behind her, leaning ever so slightly over her, head and shoulders and half a chest taller – a long, dark, solemn man with a lean-jawed face gazing at the photographer in the distance. No smile on his face but a hand, broad and bony, is resting on her shoulder, the spread of his fingers claiming all and more of the space between the edge of the velvet collar and the seam at the top of her sleeve. Mine, he says, and aren’t I the lucky one?
The coat is fitted neatly to an obviously neat waist, fastened by a single oversized button. Dark shoes with rounded toes, their platform heels just visible. Gloved hands clutching the handle of a small bag: a hat set at a jaunty angle, perched on formal and elaborate curls. And her eyes are looking at nothing. Even from the distance of over half a century, they’re shiny, dark and unfathomable.
I know now that she married him soon after, that they emigrated to Australia with her three almond-eyed children. Back home, he, her second husband, was seldom mentioned. She moved to Auckland, then back to Western Australia, was mentioned – the grown-ups whispered – in some scandal or other, and moved on again, this time shedding each one of my cousins in a different establishment – boarding school, art college, university – in different countries across the southern hemisphere.
When she returned, briefly, to the country of her birth, she had miraculously acquired money and respectability, along with an ampler girth and a lavender-coloured chignon. This was when I came to know and love her. Aunt Jane’s conversation oozed humour, a certain worldly, pragmatic wisdom, and common-sense. She was a small, powerful woman who was not to be trifled with!
Too hot to trot, or the blackbirds bathe
I’ve put two eco pond-clean sachets in the trough in the conservatory wall. Sadly, all is still green, gloom and murk. Not in any way fish-ready. Hoping for a miracle I checked again earlier and disturbed Mr and Mrs Blackbird, who were cooling off and enjoying their private ablutions. I’m not sure who was more startled.
The husband is walking the boundaries with someone who may be renting three fields to graze her horses on. It’s been over six months since the last ones moved away.
He called to the old spaniel, who was dozing on the quarry tiled kitchen floor, to see if he too would like to inspect the hedges. Enthusiasm – zero. It reminded me of a poem I wrote in a May when we had both spaniels, and they were young and full of energy. But still capable, very occasionally, of being underwhelmed and lacking in enthusiasm. That poem, ‘Against the grain’ was read on Radio 4 in an Ulster accent – surprising to me, but effective. The only time I’ve had one of my poems chosen to be included on ‘Poetry Please’ and a great honour.
Update. We will soon have three new four-legged guests. Their owner pronounced their new residence to be ‘lovely fields’. But we knew that already.
Sister Rosalie -(must have been Mary Rosalie but we missed out the Holy Virgin)- used to take us on a nature walk at least once a week in the Summer Term, but regularly throughout the year whenever the weather permitted. We always followed the same route, wore our hats and walked two-by-two. It was a real treat. Afterwards we emptied the trove of finds onto the nature table, where it was arranged, identified and labelled. Sometimes we’d do leaf rubbings with wax crayons while the lovely sister read to us.
Between then and now, I’ve forgotten many of the names of trees, wild flowers and all the finds I was so familiar with as a young child. So it was a real pleasure when we had a foraging walk and workshop here last year. We love hosting workshops here, whether for a couple of hours, a whole day or a few days. They don’t make us much money, but it is a joy to witness the pleasure they bring to people! By providing the venue and the refreshments, we are sharing, in some small way, the enjoyment felt by the students.
One of the plants we identified with the foraging tutor was very small, bright green, growing in dusty cracks in the yard and on paths. You could easily miss it. Apparently, it can be used to make a pleasant tea. It’s growing everywhere right now. For such an inconspicuous plant it packs an aromatic punch. The name is pretty good too!
Pineapple mayweed,
pinch between fingers; release
the scent which names you.
Low unshowy plant,
an explosion of sweet scent,
pineapple mayweed.
pineapple mayweed in the farmyard
A welly and a gift
The second May Bank Holiday weekend. Like the first, but gustier. The guys did pizza take-out again on Saturday, minus the awning. Wind caught and tore it during Thursday night. A clean rip about a metre long. We’re awaiting tape to arrive in the post so we can repair it.
Wind is the main enemy of a venue with any level of dependence on canvas – whether for food-service, wedding receptions, shelter, accommodation or all four. We’ve had a few issues with wind damage in the past, notably at the beginning of last season, with the triple tipi. Replaced within days of course, no thanks to the insurance company…
I’ve been thinking about the May weddings held here when we first started. There was no pagoda, so no possibility of an outside ceremony. Weddings then were all conducted in the Old Dairy and thus tended to be a little smaller than they later became. One May wedding I remember very clearly, partly because the photographer gave us a duplicate album for us to show to prospective couples when they visit us. The couple were lovely people and, in the almost two-year-run-up to their wedding, we got to know them quite well. The husband (mine) was in awe of the bride’s rich Swansea accent.
Welly boots were everywhere for that wedding. Little ceramic ones in all the colours of the rainbow and more. Some were filled with flowers, others just placed randomly about the farm.
A few days ago I found the last surviving welly, a green one, tucked into a wall niche outside Ceridwen, our self-catering house. Finding the boot brought back lots of memories, including one of an unexpected arrival a couple of weeks after that wedding, a substantial slate disc with our logo carved into it. The bride’s father had made it for us. I see it outside the farmhouse every day and am still touched.
brings a gift: it marks the part
we played in her day.
After the rains return
After the rains return, and children are back
in school, their days circumscribed, filled
with people, vivid with stuff;
and they’ve stopped playing slip-and-slide
or in the mud kitchen, or just
endlessly bouncing on trampolines, will
the arrival of eleven chicks still enthrall?
New life works its magic, especially
on the young, but more so now.
After the rains return, and blue is scarred again
with the tracks of jumbos,
and birdsong and bleating is fugged
a little more by cars;
yet we can hug, go to the pub, get
our roots done, dive into buzz and bustle,
nine-to-five, the full diary, will
we thrill as business beckons?
When ‘new normal’ is bagged and boxed
for the bin men, will we shrug it off,
slip back?
After the rains return, and news is
other than this plague, will
we submit to gaining our liberty,
while losing our balance? When we stop
waiting for the when and how, stop
clapping, will we chat and gossip
at the gates,
but waste less,
less life,
less time,
after the rains return?
Earth, dust and the memory of ghosts
Earth, sand, mud – what’s not to like if you’re a young child? My daughter and son-in-law have just made their two children a mud kitchen for their newly created garden. There’s great excitement about this. A family friend left a box on their doorstep containing pots, pans and kitchen equipment she no longer needed. So the project is completed and ready for play.
One of the donkeys likes to roll anywhere there’s a loose surface – earth, sand, concrete dust. Her morning routine is two rolls in the farmyard. Down to the ground, onto her back, from there to her left side and then up onto her hooves again, with some effort. Now we have no need to keep the camping area donkey-free, the ladies have the run of the whole field. Over the last couple of weeks, Honey has made herself a grassless, dusty, shallow indentation, an earth bath, in the middle of the flat camping ground. She can now complete her ablutions there. Like Baloo the bear, she’s found her perfect place to scratch.
Earth clings beneath my nails. Over the last eight weeks or so, it’s become difficult to keep my hands properly clean, keyboard clean. My excuse for not wearing gardening gloves is that adult ones are just too big for me.
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If there are ghosts here, we’ve not yet met them. Or they’re extremely benign spirits, just minding their own business. We had no ghostly encounters in the last house either. But in the house before (two houses ago), where I planted that pittosporum, there were definitely presences. We all felt something.
When we left that house late in 2002, I planted, (or buried), a glass bottle and this is the poem I wrote about it.
Kitchen comments and weather wishes
As far as culinary success goes, the last couple of days have been mixed. There was fabulous pizza on Saturday evening – take-out again – but that was created by my son-in-law, with my daughter assisting. No, I meant personally. Me. Moi.
My new creation on Saturday was radish greens pesto. Using the leaves on the top of some polytunnel radishes and substituting sunflower seeds for nuts. Absolutely delicious.
The cornflake flapjack experiment today was not a triumph. The plan was to make something simple and sweet to be enjoyed by all ages. And not to waste anything…even if the cornflakes were slightly soggy. And gluten-free. I’d also run out of cupcake cases, so I pressed the mixture, flapjack-style, into a square cake tin. And refrigerated it. Sadly, what went into the fridge as a gooey mess came out of the fridge as a slightly colder gooey mess. No suggestion of setting.
But it’s not all about looks, or even texture. We’ve been happily using fingers to scoop up the stickiness.
Despite the breeze, when we brought the donkeys in tonight, the air was heavy, slightly sticky. The sky was all shades of grey, even bruised grey-purple to the northwest. The right gatepost of the field had rotted away at the bottom. It must have just collapsed today. We felt extremely lucky that the donks hadn’t discovered it, and gone roaming.
May and July are usually are our busiest wedding months. Under normal circumstances, I’d be watching the sky, comparing forecasts and silently willing the weather to hold. or to turn, by the morning of the next wedding. Despite our location – in the west, in the UK – many guests seem to hold us personally responsible for ensuring good weather for their festivities. I blame Pinterest and Instagram.
This desire not to disappoint, meteorologically speaking, weighs heavily on me for the whole season. But, tonight, what we need, what we really need, is a clearing of the air. An absolute downpour.
Three pet sheep and a long Latin name
On Saturday, we moved our pet sheep down from the fields by the bike park to the little paddock opposite the stable. Where they were before they had access to far too much grass. We were concerned for their health. Also, the oldest of them, Blackberry, has recurring foot issues and we wanted to be able to keep an eye on her.
Getting them down to the farmyard was an interesting operation, facilitated mostly by shaking a bucket of sheep nuts. We were also assisted by three small herders, two six-year-olds and a three- year-old. We are now re-familiarising ourselves with how vocal the sheep are.
Over the last few days, bird noise has intensified, but the air has become much clearer of ovine bleating and calling, (from the fields of neighbouring farmers and smallholders). Our three – Blackberry, Gwyneth and Gwilym – are filling the sheep noise vacuum.
The sheep paddock is also close to the new flower bed and to the tyres where we’ve planted seed potatoes. The potatoes, so far, are not doing very well, but I have hopes for the little shrub we planted just pre-lockdown. I’ve always loved any flowers, plants or trees with variegated leaves. Pittosporum tenuifolium variegatum. I don’t know if it has a non-Latin name. We had one before, two houses ago, and it was an absolute corker.
There were lots of odd things about that house. It was beautiful but in the wrong place. It sat awkwardly in a garden which had had two chunks bitten out of it in the name of property development. We planted the pittosporum just after moving in. In the nine years we lived there, it flourished. It grew from a tiny plant to a huge, healthy specimen over eight or nine feet tall. I’m hopeful about this one…
Slow-mo and speedwell.
Sleep and dreams are disturbed and strange. Energy plummeted, then has stayed low for days. I am not alone; we are not alone – in experiencing odd, conflicting symptoms and emotions. So many I know seem to have hit the lockdown wall in the last week.
A friend says – ‘I almost cried yesterday. My toothbrush was taking too long to charge. I felt exhausted waiting for it: the tears were just there, ready, willing me to let go.’
And from another – ‘I’m not even going to try to teach any more. I’m a parent, not a teacher. Juggling classroom, kitchen and office has pushed us to the edge. I want our relationship back. Home-school can wait.’
A third friend tells me she’s given up the news for a fortnight now. TV. Radio. The ever-present phone. She’s given it up. She’s at saturation point. There’s nothing she wants to watch or read or hear. She’s full of stuff, sounds, images, information and misinformation – not sad or anxious, just overloaded.
Meanwhile witch-doctors, purveyors of webinars, gurus and influencers assault our senses. We are urged both to enjoy the slow-mo, to be kind to ourselves but at the same time to be prepared, to get in training for the cut-throat competition on the other side of all of this.
I’m not keeping a gratitude diary or forcing myself to look for any end-of-tunnel lights. When I step away, I’m cheered by a small story about the hoopoe blown off course. And by the sight of bright blue speedwell sprinkled in the hedges.
Pelargoniums and a teddy named Baby
Turns out my son had rescued it. It was on one of the sites where he and his team are building a bike track. They rescued the bedraggled teddy and put it into a digger cab as a mascot. A scruffy mascot which had seen better days. When the site was closed (due to the virus), the bear came back here with all the heavy machinery. It moved from floor to pallet to wall to floor again, too dirty and threadbare to have a small human owner.
At some point in the last week, the elderly spaniel picked up the bear and claimed it, the first toy he’s been near in over ten years. ‘Baby’ now goes with him everywhere, sleeping, dozing, waking. Sometimes we have to take it away from his mouth in order to coax him to eat something. There is smelly comfort there and it’s touching to watch. But, with or without Baby, we are very conscious that the dog is not doing well.
Today was a mostly office-bound day, the furlough payroll again, then moving accommodation bookings made before the lockdown extension to later in the summer, this winter and next spring. These may be the final adjustments, or we may need to change bookings again. No one knows.
I expected to greet today with some clarity and with a plan for the next couple of months, but I didn’t. The feeling of wading through lumpy porridge persisted until late afternoon when we went out. The destination was a bench at the front of a bungalow up the lane. There a nimble 90-year-old is selling pink and white pelargoniums. I was given one of these by my daughter-in-law last week. I bought three more for the conservatory.
The wind has dropped now and it’s going to be a warm evening. Spaniel is fast asleep with his Baby.
Spaniel and Baby
Paper aeroplanes and a concert (or two)
The children had made and coloured in a flag. We brought plates of food. I am surrounded by people who bake often and well, so I’d got out of the habit of baking. But yesterday afternoon I made a passable chocolate cake. The girls wore party clothes and all four kids flew paper aeroplanes in the garden. We had tea and G&Ts.
Our poor spaniel is suffering so no walk last night, or tonight. After putting the donkeys to bed and clearing up the worst of the chaos, we watched some of the VE Day coverage, including Katherine Jenkins. Her dresses were extraordinary.
I think it was the summer of 2007 – definitely no later than that – when I went with the husband and his father to see Katherine Jenkins live outdoors in Aberglasney Gardens. My father-in-law had all her CDs and it was planned as a special treat for him. Because he was in a wheelchair, we were led to the front row. He had an aisle place and we sat next to him. He knew every number, from wartime classics to arias and he either hummed or sang along to all of it. People shifted in their seats and shushed disapprovingly in a very British way. We were embarrassed but my father-in-law didn’t care. Or was blissfully unaware. He was having a ball.
Looking back I think – good for him! He caught shingles not long afterwards, and never fully recovered.
Today, after the First Minister’s announcement, I blocked out booking calendars for another three weeks. Worries nibbled around the edges of my thoughts but I pushed them away. No visitors for a while yet. Don’t know where, don’t know when…
I want to make a giraffe’s head
The donks look awful right now. Their coats are between seasons, and they don’t shed prettily. Twice a year, there’s about a month when they appear unkempt and unloved.
They’ve rediscovered the last dandelions as a tasty snack to nibble on their way out to the field. Herb robert and cow parsley are considered delicacies too, but fat hen is out of favour. They know what they like. Docks of course are a big no, and they avoid most wild flowers with precision. But we have to distract them,( as you would a determined toddler), from eating the oxeye daisies and the willow hedge.
Do most children still know about dandelion clocks, buttercups under the chin – ‘do you like butter’ and making daisy chains? I hope so.
The youngest ones’ mum is feeling better, on the mend anyway. She is enthused by a new project, constructing a giraffe’s head which will hang on the end wall of their cottage. For decoration.
‘Like some people have reindeers on their wall,’ her six-year-old explained to me helpfully. So, while we ladies were using the cottage on the back of the farmhouse as a hair salon yesterday afternoon, the children were collecting oddments of chicken wire for the sculpture.
My daughter-in-law gave both me and my daughter a trim. I can now see out of my fringe and while I don’t feel exactly like a new woman, I feel like less of an old one. We ate cakes again and the conversation moved from giraffes to incubating chicks to the easing of lockdown – the hows, whens and whats.
We’re planning to emerge briefly from ‘quarantine chic’ later today and have tea in honour of VE Day. I’ll bring out assorted vintage tea sets after lunch. Some of us may even put a dress on.
The season advances daily. Jasmine is opening against the wall in the farmyard, joining the clematis and the potato tree ‘Glasnevin’. There’s not a strong scent yet, but yesterday evening I went right up close to inhale the perfume. Sunset was staggeringly beautiful.
Garlic and the fairies
Going to the doctor, or the dentist, is viewed currently as a last resort. Other bugs, illnesses and health problems haven’t suddenly stopped but we like to pretend they have. We’re avoiding surgeries and hospitals, unless we can’t avoid them.
Even the three-year-old knows about the ‘nasty virus’. A couple of days ago I printed out some information sheets for very young children. ‘Coronavirus’ is a character in a picture story designed to explain but not to frighten. I printed out two copies for the youngest. They’ll be able to colour them in as well.
I delivered a box of ‘Celebrations’ to their cottage earlier. Their mother isn’t well so I’m not sure what we’re celebrating, but the children will enjoy them anyway. Walking back to the farmhouse I picked a couple of hedge garlic leaves. And ate them. We’ve got chives in the grass, clusters of wild garlic by one of the yurt platforms, (sadly without its yurt right now), and hedge garlic is growing everywhere. Any passing vampire would doubtless get to the bottom of the lane, sniff the air, have a re-think and turn back. At this time of year anyway.
But the tonic fairies have visited in the night. The bottle crate is full and it’s mostly populated with empty fevertrees. Our secretive visitors may not have found a vaccine for C-19, but they could have picked up a little malaria immunity.
Last night’s supper was gin-free but the garlic was flowing. A vegan mayo experiment changed, due to the addition of ramson leaves, into a runny but tasty dipping sauce for fried potatoes. Mary Tudor famously said that when she died and was opened up, ‘Calais’ would be written on her heart. It might be ‘garlic’ written on mine, but hopefully we won’t find out.
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Dead Until Dark - Sookie #1 makes About.com Top 10...
Cranberry Coffee Cake from Charlaine's Forum Recipes
Crystal Norris is cast
True Blood Music Video of the Day: "Sally's Song" ...
Dead Until Dark - Sookie #1 makes About.com Top 10 books of the Decade !
What were people reading in the 2000s? Here are 10 books that dominated the bestsellers lists from 2000-2009. These books impacted popular culture and were ubiquitous in the 2000s.
1. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' by J.K. Rowling
2. 'Twilight' by Stephenie Meyer
3. 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown
4. 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini
5. 'The Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell
6. 'Three Cups of Tea' by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
7. 'Freakonomics' by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
8. 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy
9. 'The Shack' by William P. Young
10. 'Dead Until Dark' by Charlaine Harris
Labels: Dead Until Dark ( Book one )
Cranberry Coffee Cake
(great for Christmas morning)
1 Stick soft butter
1/2 pint sour cream
1 teaspoon almond extract (can sub vanilla)
1 7 oz. can cranberry sauce
Grease and flour 8" tube pan. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and cream in sugar. Blend in eggs one at a time. Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Add extract.
Put a little more than 1/2 batter in pan. Swirl half the cranberry sauce over batter. Add the remaining batter and then swirl remaining cranberry sauce on top. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 350 for about 55 min. Remove from pan after cooling 5 min.
Topping if desired: 3/4 Cup confectioner's sugar and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract and 1 Tablespoon warm water. Mix together and drizzle over top of cake, allowing it to run over the sides. Enjoy!
And the powers-that-be behind HBO's popular series True Blood still aren't done filling out the character roster for Season Three. Today another new female was added, one named Crystal Norris, who shares an "electric connection" with Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten).
According to The Hollywood Reporter Crystal, a beautiful "barefoot, sundress-wearing woman", will be portrayed by Lindsay Pulsipher, whom genre buffs will likely recognize from the Masters of Horror episode "The Fair Haired Child". Most recently she's been in A&E's The Beast.
In the Charlaine Harris books on which True Blood is based, Crystal is a full-blooded werepanther who is first introduced in the fourth novel and reappears throughout the storyline up until the ninth book, Dead and Gone. We'll see how much showrunner Alan Ball deviates from that formula come June, 2010, when the third season premieres.
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/35058/true-blood-adds-yet-another-recurring-character-season-three
True Blood Music Video of the Day: "Sally's Song" from Nightmare Before Christmas
"Sally's Song" from Nightmare Before Christmas
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UT researchers study red-headed woodpeckers to solve mysteries of the charismatic, declining species
May 22nd, 2017 by Christine Billau
The red-headed woodpecker’s feisty, loud personality fits the reputation of crimson-maned creatures, but the student researcher gently holding the bird bucked the trend.
University of Toledo graduate student Kyle Pagel was calm, steady and methodical as he banded the woodpecker’s legs with tiny, colorful identifying rings and looped a miniature backpack armed with a light-level geolocator and pinpoint-GPS around its legs.
UT graduate student Kyle Pagel holding red-headed woodpecker
“The woodpecker is wearing it like a climbing harness,” said Pagel, who is pursuing a master’s degree in environmental sciences at UT. “The backpack is so thin and light that it doesn’t inhibit flight or movement.”
The bird that flies freely once again from tree to tree isn’t the scarlet mohawked woodpecker regularly spotted in backyards. The red-headed woodpecker is about the size of a robin or ten times larger than a warbler.
This 70-gram, boldly patterned “flying checkerboard” is the seventh bird of its kind in a week that the UT team has examined at Oak Openings Metropark, taken a blood sample from, and outfitted with tracking technology to identify migration routes.
“This is such as photogenic, popular species, it’s surprising how little is known about them,” Pagel said. “It’s fascinating to work with such a charismatic bird.”
Red-headed woodpecker at Oak Openings Metropark
Pagel, along with UT ornithologist and assistant professor Henry Streby, launched a study this month of red-headed woodpeckers that could last up to ten years and solve many mysteries about the species.
For the next several weeks, the birding team’s office will be located throughout the Oak Openings region, including sites along Girdham Road and Jeffers Road at Oak Openings Metropark in Swanton, Ohio. They expect this year to put tracking technology on 20 adult red-headed woodpeckers in Ohio and 20 in Minnesota, and on another 25 juveniles in each of those states.
“They’re in extreme decline, especially in the Midwest and Great Lakes area, maybe because of habitat loss and changes in their food supply,” Streby said. “We’re lucky to have Oak Openings just west of Toledo because it’s a place where red-headed woodpeckers seem to be doing relatively well. We want to figure out what’s working here and see if we can offer recommendations for habitat management elsewhere.”
UT ornithologist and assistant professor Henry Streby setting up the mist net
Every morning the team sets up mist nets and uses recorded calls, drums and decoy birds to attract the woodpeckers.
Researchers are using blood samples to analyze DNA and hormones, as well as measure stress, immune system condition and aging.
The miniature backpack weighs about two grams and uses a light-level geolocator to gather data about when the birds go in and out of tree cavities each day. Pinpoint GPS, like on a cell phone, will tell the researchers where the birds traveled.
“Red-headed woodpeckers are inconsistent,” Streby said. “Some years they migrate for the winter, some years they don’t. We want to know why. We also want to know where they go when they’re not here on their breeding grounds. It could only be as far south as Kentucky or Tennessee. That is what we will learn for the first time when we recover the backpacks from the birds.”
Food availability, specifically acorns, is one of the factors being observed at Oak Openings this season, as well as reproductive success and genetics.
“We’re studying all of this without knowing whether these woodpeckers are going to leave or not,” Streby said. “It’ll take several breeding seasons to be able to analyze their habits and help us know what needs to be done to conserve the species, especially in places where the populations are shrinking.”
Streby also has been studying golden-winged warblers for five years using light-level geolocators that weigh less than half a paper clip to track migration patterns. The songbirds, which are about the size of a ping pong ball, travel thousands of miles once they leave their spring and summer nesting grounds.
This entry was posted on Monday, May 22nd, 2017 at 8:37 am and is filed under News Release .
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British Airways gave us the option of paying extra for carbon credits to make up for our air travel. We didn’t take them up on the offer.
There are a number of reasons why I feel carbon offsetting is a bad thing. The first is that by removing the guilt, it encourages people to continue a profligate lifestyle, rather than actually changing their behavior.
For example, if Al Gore genuinely gave a crap about the environment, he would stop flying by private jet so much. But no, he’s rich and can simply buy carbon credits to salve his conscience. Similarly, John Edwards will happily lecture to ordinary people that they should give up their SUVs, then get into his own SUV secure in the knowledge that he’s bought carbon credits to make up for his own indulgence.
(In fact, Edwards owns 3 SUVs — a Ford Escape, a Cadillac SRX, and a Chrysler Pacifica — plus a pickup.)
The second reason why I dislike carbon credits is that there are much more effective ways to reduce emissions. For instance, if British Airways really cared, they would stop painting their aircraft. A fully painted 747 weighs 443kg extra, compared to around 100kg for me plus my luggage. That’s before you factor in the increased wind resistance from cracked and peeling paint, the chemicals needed for stripping and repainting aircraft, and the disposal problem of the dissolved paint and chemicals. [Update: BA could also stop flying empty planes across the Atlantic.]
The third reason why carbon credits are a dubious idea is pointed out by spiked online. When you buy carbon credits for your flight from Climate Care, what you’re actually doing is paying a bunch of Indian families to dig in the dirt via back-breaking manual labor, and pump water manually, rather than using modern farm equipment. Now, it might not be a bad idea if I personally spent some time stomping on pedals to pump water, but I don’t see why Indians should be bribed to do it so I can feel less guilty about air travel.
But my favorite argument against carbon credits is the parody site cheatneutral. If the logic behind carbon credits is really valid, why not buy some infidelity credits and cheat on your partner with a clean conscience?
Flying back to England
Free market? Pah!
The end of air travel?
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Distracted - Joan Lennon
Charlie Chaplin in Pay Day (1922)
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I am at the two thirds stage of writing a novel, and I am in the sludge. I recognise this stage. I know it's just a question of slogging on through. I am not enjoying the slog. And I am in the throes of excessive distractability. So when I saw an article online on Nir Eval's theories about the nature of distraction, I downed tools and had a read. (Okay, if I'm honest, I read a bit, got distracted, came back and read a bit more, got distracted ...)
I don't buy the whole package Nir Eyal is proposing - for example, I think that not everything we do is "prompted by the desire to escape discomfort." "It's pain all the way down" is not my kind of mantra. But the nub of the argument - that distraction doesn't start with the technology out there - it starts with us - I certainly recognised.
"We use these devices as psychological pacifiers as we are looking for an escape from uncomfortable sensations. And if we don't deal with that fact, we will always find distraction somewhere."
Part of dealing with that fact might be to find out what other people are saying about distraction. There have been, for example, excellent ABBA posts on the topic - have a visit, for example, to Chitra Soundar's Seven Habits of a Highly Distracted Writer, Clementine Beauvais' On Not Trusting Your Future Self, or Andrew Strong's How to Be Creative. (Go on - it's an educational and entertaining way of not getting down to, you know, the writing.)
But, yup, this distractability I acknowledge mine, to paraphrase the Bard. Also, I have no magic cure. I still have to do the slog, in order to get past the sludge. I break it down into baby steps, use the timer, mark up every 100 words achieved, give myself tons of tiny treats, and distract the other people in the house who are also trying to write/draw with corking* challenges.
This too shall pass. (Off now to find out where that comes from ...)
* Corking is a not-quite-yet-Olympic sport where you try to throw Prosecco corks into an empty cat food box from a distance. Feelings run high. It is eminently distracting.
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What are the ingredients of a universally appealing early fiction series? By Chitra Soundar
Before I start, I wish to make a full disclaimer that I wrote this, in 2015, as part of my MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. So it doesn't cite newer series. And that's why it has some clever quotes from academic references. This is not normal for me.
Early series fiction is the staple diet of a newly independent reader. Graduating from being read to with picture books to early readers, children aged 6-8 years old devour stories about everything – from animals to adventures, school life to sports.
At this age, these newly independent readers are not only reading for pleasure, but they are also understanding the new world of primary school, figuring out social life and coping with every-day challenges.
Transitioning from nursery and reception to the big school in Year 1 & 2, these children are discovering and making sense of the world around them. Series fiction in this new world is like a BFF – best friend forever with characters to get to know, make friends with and to return to again and again. And it is more joyful when they can share these characters with their real-life best friends too – as Lauren Child shows us in her Utterly Me – Clarice Bean.
As Denson puts it, ‘a “system of repetition and variation” is the basic stuff of seriality itself.’ (2011:5)
Characters in such series get into all sorts of interesting escapades not unlike the reader’s own life or at least what they hope they’d be able to do. Series fiction gives the reader the safety of the familiar to explore the unfamiliar.
This could be anything from having a pet (in the Lulu series by Hilary McKay) to finding out you have a new cousin who is very different (in the Ruby Lu series by Lenore Look).
As Makowski (1998:2) notes in ‘Serious about Series: Evaluations and Annotations of Teen Fiction in Paperback Series’, ‘single texts of fiction are like “one-night stand[s]”, while series aims to provide the reader with “that same grand experience night after night, week after week, year after year, ad infinitum.”’
I wanted to examine the ingredients that make an early fiction series appealing.
As a child, I too devoured every series I could lay my hands on – which in my childhood in India was predominantly R K Narayan’s Malgudi Days, combined with Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven, Famous Five, Malory Towers and the American Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys collections.
Even though most of these books were set in a different country and in some cases in a different decade, and even though the lives of the characters appeared so different from my own – there was something comforting to return to find out what the characters in these books were up to. This can be compared to children and adults returning again and again to popular sitcoms that revolve around a group of friends or lead characters.
The most conventional narrative series, serials, and sequels for young people are characterized by a constant narrative presence, a common set of characters, the same or similar settings, recurring plot structures, and familiar themes. (Reimer, Ali, England, and Unrau, 2014: 10)
And that is the security blanket that young people want after they have left behind their favourite teddy to go to the big school. Early fiction with familiar characters of family, school and neighbourhood reinforces a child’s understanding of the world. Very often the writer brings the reader into a conspiratorial whisper, perhaps making fun of their family/school situations or the grownups in their lives, just like a best friend does.
It is important that they recognize familiar settings in the stories – so they can learn to read by context more easily. They are newly independent readers and reading and recognizing words through context boosts their confidence immensely.
Philosopher Rolli (2012:96) observes, “many of our everyday experiences are embedded in a structure of repetition; we believe in the world, we believe that the world will continue to exist even when we close our eyes.”
So what goes into a successful young fiction series?
Almost every series written for this age group is funny. That does not mean they don’t have some serious stuff in them – they do. But the approach to voice, plot and cast are aimed to keep the tone light, the humour irreverent and the plot slap-stick. This is true whether it is Steve Voake’s Hooey Higgins or Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry or Joanna Nadin’s Penny Dreadful or The World of Norm series by Jonathan Meres.
Almost all of these books use the white space on the page creatively. The illustrator plays a key role in bringing these characters to life. Whether it involves B&W drawings, lists, doodles or use of font face and sizes, these books are not densely written novels – but more often journals filled with doodles. Whether it is a catchphrase, or disasters caused by character flaws of the lead character or one of the ensemble, the humour and tone of the stories showcase the joy of the writer.
An ensemble cast
A regular ensemble cast supports the main character – either to help or hinder, sometimes both. This includes the friends, family, bully, teachers, friendly and unfriendly neighbours. Some of the cast might come and go. But a few would stay in the core team and in many cases a lead character has a partner in crime.
Cohesive and consistent portrayal of plot and characters
Once the rules of the world are laid out, the characters obey these rules, across different stories in the same series. The characters might discover new strengths and weaknesses as they go along, but they do not contradict themselves across the series.
In the humorous Agatha Parrot series by Kjartan Poskitt and David Tazzyman, there is a cast of characters with specific likes, dislikes and ambitions. Their behaviour in the entire series is driven out of these characteristics and personality traits.
While there is a familiarity and comfort across the series, each book in the series stands on its own. Each story has a beginning, middle and end, with all major plot points tied up. For this age group rarely are crumbs of clues left in to be picked up in a future story. In an early fiction series, when a reader discovers a book out of sequence, he/she finds sufficient introduction of the cast and the premise to follow the story. Of course if they like the book, they go on to read every single book in the set.
A distinct main character with a unique-selling-point
Like all good stories, series fiction is primarily led by character. While the main character has to be distinct and likeable, they must have something special that differentiates them from so many other series. For example, series with girl characters as leads, there are many successful series in print and each main character has to hold her place on the bookshelf.
Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke, Penny Dreadful by Joanna Nadin, Agatha Parrot by Kjartan Poskitti, Iggy and Me by Jenny Valentine, Ottoline by Chris Riddell are just some of the funny ones with girls as leads. Each lead character is different, special and distinctively funny.
Universal themes
The underlying theme of each story should be universal. Whether set in Africa in the family of Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke or the Precious series by Alexander McCall Smith or set in contemporary England in Joanna Nadin’s Penny Dreadful’s life or Horrid Henry in Francesca Simon’s popular series – the themes revolve around the key concerns of this age-group: friendships, new school, losing someone, getting into trouble, dealing with conflict and loss of control.
These books deal with emotions that children of this age group are coming to grips with – from anger and jealousy to empathy, hope and joy; but with a twinkle in the eye, a wink here and a smile there.
Going from here, I also examined what goes into making a successful series with a BAME character as the lead. But as this is my last post for 2018 on ABBA (sorry everyone, life is getting in the way)… I’ve put the part two of my post on my blog. Click here to read, What additional ingredients are required to create a series that is led by a character from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic heritages?
Chitra Soundar writes picture books and series fiction. Her second book in the Prince Veera series, A Jar of Pickles and a Pinch of Justice (Walker Books, illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy) has been shortlisted for the Surrey Children’s Book Award. Her latest book out is You’re Safe With Me (illustrated by Poonam Mistry and published by Lantana Publishing). Follow her on Twitter @csoundar.
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Labels: Chitra Soundar, early readers, ingredients, Junior Fiction, series fiction
A Report from The Golden Anniversary of the FCBG Conference by Chitra Soundar
This year the Federation of Children’s Book Groups are celebrating a big anniversary and I was honoured to be invited to be on a panel with Lantana Publishing who are publishing my next two titles You’re Safe With Me and You’re Snug With Me, both illustrated by the very talented PoonamMistry.
The conference itself runs for three days, each year a different regional group organising it in conjunction with the national committee. I was invited for a panel event on the second day and I was a bit intimidated that we were going to follow James Mayhew and we will be the warm-up act for Jacqueline Wilson, the super-woman of children’s literature, especially writing stories that represent misfits and unique kids, like I was.
So I was proud to collect my badge which said speaker. And then I realised I knew quite a lot of people there, either because I’ve met them before at various school events or friends on Twitter or Facebook.
We setup our presentation with the help of Stewart Jordan, the amazing theatre manager.
Our panel was made up of three women – Alice Curry, founder and publisher at Lantana Publishing, Mehrdokht Amini illustrator of two beautiful books with Lantana Publishing and yours truly, writer of You’re Safe With Me.
We discussed how books can span from local to global and the other way round and what does that mean to Mehrdokht and me as creators. We discussed how sometimes tensions will arise between commercial appeal in the western markets vs. the authenticity of the content. We also discussed how Alice makes choices for her list – which story, which culture and the creators.
The audience was made up of librarians, teachers and people who love books and they not only listened to us tell our stories, they laughed in the right places too.
They also had a hall full of publishers showcasing their books and I was proud to be on three tables – OtterBarry Books, MMS Publishing and Bounce representing all my books. There was also Brenda’s Bookshop and I got to sign advance copies of You’re Safe With Me. The illustrations by Poonam Mistry were a big hit and everyone could see how excited I was about the book.
It was my first FCBG conference and it was fun to be there on their Golden Anniversary. I got to listen to Dame Jacqueline Wilson speak and it was wonderful listening to the master. I got to meet so many other authors, friends from twitter and wonderful people of the book world. And yes there was cake!
Find out more about FCBG here: http://www.fcbg.org.uk/ and find out about their conference here - http://www.fcbg.org.uk/conference/
Chitra Soundar is the author of over 30 books for children. Find out more about You’re Safe With Me and all her new books at www.chitrasoundar.com and follow her on twitter @csoundar
Labels: #diversity, Chitra Soundar, Diversity, FCBG, Global, Jacqueline Wilson, James Mayhew, Local
The Question of Money by Chitra Soundar
I’m still wrapping up the last of the World Book Day events across the whole month. I visit primary schools and spend time with children across Reception to Y5.
This year when I was visiting a school, I had two Q&A sessions with two Y4 classes that had read my books as part of their lessons. The usual questions came up:
a) How old are you?
b) Did you come from India to our school today?
c) Where do you get your ideas from?
Then came the question that I get once every 5-6 schools, “Do you make a lot of money?”
This boy was immediately cut short by another one who said, “That’s not a proper question to ask.”
Normally I would smile, and say not a lot and tell them I do my own dishes, took the tube to their school etc.
But I wanted to answer this time (and I’ve been since that day, answering this question seriously).
Doing what I love - 2016
A job to support myself while writing - 2004
I explained how sometimes you might have to do your art alongside other things. I explained how difficult it can be sometimes and how many writers do have another job. I iterated to them a few times that do not give up on writing or any other artistic pursuit because you can’t make a lot of money. There will always be a way to find an opportunity or avenue if you work hard at it. I told them it was hard work but it was also worth it because I enjoy what I do.
The vigorous nod of heads and big smiles told me they would want to become writers and of course they’d have to become engineers, doctors, teachers, firemen, accountants as well. That is fine, I am one of those people who never gave up writing through my life as a teacher and then as a bookworm stuck in corporate plumbing.
Since then whenever the question of money comes up in Junior School I’ve not been evasive or even embarrassed about how little we make. The school is not the place to discuss what Nicola Solomon has written about in last week’s The Bookseller.
But then I do get a series of questions, which after discussions with fellow authors, I’ve concluded has come from celebrity publishing thrust under their noses.
a) Do you get fans coming up to you in supermarkets?
b) Do you have a limo?
c) Are you a celebrity?
d) Are you famous?
e) Do you live in a castle?
f) Do you have a Ferrari?
And that I worry about. When the majority of books they see in a WBD line-up or in bookshops are from celebrities on TV, then it does create an expectation that only celebrities write books or if you write books, you must be a celebrity.
I’m wondering if a part of my presentation now should include photos of me cleaning the house, taking the rubbish out and being squished in a bus with my WBD gig bag to bring the glamour of being a writer down.
I do take my notebooks into schools and then I show them the ones that I’ve been writing for years without any success. When they see my Work in Progress scrap-books and research notes, my multiple drafts of the same story, they hopefully will realise hard work will get the books on the shelves.
If I also get a TV show before or after, fantastic! I’d love to buy that Ferrari.
While writing this blog, I wanted to provide some resources for those young people who are interested in arts. Here are a few. If you are sharing this with young people in your life, please do research them thoroughly before taking it further.
YPIA - Young People in Arts - https://www.ypia.co.uk/about-us
The Roundhouse Trust - http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/about-us/our-work-with-young-people/
Impact Arts - Cashback to the Future - https://www.impactarts.co.uk/content/our-work-young-holiday/
And finally a teenager's view on how to engage young people in the arts - https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/article/how-get-young-people-interested-arts
Chitra Soundar never knew arts was an option as a teenager. She graduated from university with a degree in commerce and accountancy and a diploma in computer science. As an adult, while working 12-hour shifts, she pursued her writing and she's hoping the day will come when she didn't have to work in a corporate firm for sustaining her arts. Follow her on Twitter @csoundar and on Instagram @chitrasoundar
Labels: a writing life, art, Chitra Soundar, going into schools, money, primary schools, The Bookseller, the business of writing
Thunderstorms and Me by Chitra Soundar
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
As I sit at my table in Singapore and look through the window, what I see mirrors exactly the words of Stevenson. I was excited to leave the biting cold of England to fly across continents to enjoy the sunshine and I’ve been blamed for bringing the grey skies and relentless rain to this hot island.
Thunderstorms in Singapore - A view from the 23rd floor
My relationship with rain and thunderstorms is as fundamental as my roots. I’ve been woken up as a child often to gathering dark clouds and cracking thunder. The stormy winds, the warnings to fishermen and the flooding of our streets are deeply etched in my memory.
Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
The leaves lie thick upon the way
Of memories.
- James Joyce
The crack of thunder and the flash of lightning fascinated me as a child. I’ve never feared the ferocious winds that howl and growl. I remember sitting by my window, listening to the wind, reading a book. I remember making hot pakoras for snacks and hot tea with cardamom and ginger for everyone at home.
Those rains were warm even though they soaked from head to toe in a few seconds. Those rains were welcome on the parched soil, even though they fell in big drops filling the potholes on the street.
Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami and Jamel Akib
But I’ve feared them occasionally. I was perhaps ten and it was one of those monsoon storms and my father hadn’t returned home. The buses had stopped, the roads were flooded and I was worried for him to return. It had taken him four hours to journey the ten kilometres hitching a lift with strangers and walking part of the way.
Another time, I would have been eight, and it was a brutal monsoon. The rains hadn’t stopped in days and a stray dog had given birth to six puppies. She had taken shelter under the roof of our backyard. She was shivering in the cold and her puppies were hungry. Normally dogs were not allowed inside our compound. So I had to fight the elders for permission, to let her stay. We filled a bowl full of milk and put out rice on an old plate. And one of the new-born puppies couldn’t survive the dampness of its surroundings. I cried for days, for a stray puppy, whose life I couldn’t help save.
Photo: C Coxon
These incidents in the rain always find themselves lodged in my memory and turn up in stories. Almost 14 years ago, I wrote a story called Afraid of Dogs – about a little girl who has to overcome her fear of dogs to save the stray puppies. Although I should say the little girl in me is still afraid of dogs generally. It takes me enormous effort to stay calm and friendly even with familiar pets in friends’ homes.
But the fear of the big thunderstorms was washed away long ago when my dad explained to me about parched land, the water under the ground and the well in our back garden. We understood the cycle of rain and the price of crops when my grandmother’s sister visited us from the village. I also valued the rain after many weeks of harsh summers.
The gathering of dark clouds, the rain-bearing breeze and the fragrance of the earth when the first drops of the thunderstorm falls on it will always remind me of home. Scientists call this fragrance petrichor and I agree that it is the fragrance of the fluid that runs inside the veins of gods.
Monsoon Afternoon by Kashmira Sheth & Yoshiko Jaeggi
These thundery rainy days in Singapore, remind me of growing up in India, listening to the crash of the clouds, the unusually grey days and coolness of the air. I remember the croaking of the frogs in the puddles, the flash of lightning and the noise of rain falling on the terrace.
I feel calmer when I hear the thunder and the warm rain doesn’t scare me, it soothes my senses and the dark clouds envelop me in a warm cosy blanket. I would welcome the sunshine for sure. But this thunderstorm doesn’t get me down.
Chitra Soundar writes picture books and junior fiction when she’s not watching the rain through her window. Her next book You’re Safe With Me (illustrated by Poonam Mistry) with Lantana Publishing tells the story of the thunderstorm in an Indian jungle. Follow her on Twitter: @csoundar
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What Might Have Been (Part 9)
Ducal Estate
Lyran Commonwealth
Frederick Steiner stared restlessly through the window at the rain. A man of 38, he felt a bit childish at the caged feeling mere falling water out of a heavily overcast sky still gave him. As if he’d be running around outside playing if it weren’t raining.
“Your expected guest is here, sir.”
Frederick thanked the man — he didn’t recall the name. The fellow worked for Aldo Lestrade, at whose estate he was staying while visiting Summer. He supposed he didn’t see a need to remember the names of minor underlings of minor noblemen. He’d be archon soon enough and Aldo? The fellow might think he would be an easily manipulated puppet, but Frederick knew who had the upper hand in that relationship.
His guest was from outside this situation. He’d never met the man, which had made it an act of some boldness or desperation to approach one of the realm’s highest nobility unsolicited even if he were a Steiner (of a lesser branch, but a Steiner nonetheless) himself. He understood the man to be an ally of his cousin, Katrina Steiner, which made his request for an audience even more interesting. What could his cousin want? Had she decided to come out of hiding?
The doors to the auxillary audience room swung open and his guest — David Steiner — entered. He wore the uniform of an LCAF Hauptmann, which along with his name gave him just enough social standing to have requested this audience. He saluted, a gesture which Frederick automatically returned.
“Are we secure here, sir?”
“As secure as Lestrade’s people and mine can make us, which I imagine should be secure enough.”
“Then may I speak freely, sir?”
He had expected that. His cousin had something to tell him that she wouldn’t want their uncle to know. Perhaps she meant to propose an alliance, or trick him in some way to gain an advantage. Or both. Katrina was tricky, he’d have to ultimately go over any proposal with Aldo.
“Permission granted, Hauptmann.”
“Sir, your cousin is missing.”
Katrina had vanished months ago, rumors had it even the Archon’s agents couldn’t find her. Certainly Aldo’s people had no idea where she was. But everyone knew about that.
“That’s not exactly news to me.” despite his best efforts Frederick Steiner couldn’t quite keep the sarcasm out of his voice.
“General Steiner missed her last check-in, sir. She was supposed to be back in the Commonwealth by now. Sir, we have no idea where she is, and we think the Archon’s people — we think Loki may have been involved.”
“Then you’re?”
“Heimdall, sir. They sent me here to protect you.”
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on July 1, 2010 by JediBear.
Clan Snow Raven Warship Storm Crow
Nadir Jump Point
SLNC-2834
Near Periphery
“Battlestations!” Star Commander Arianna Shu barked out an order she had never expected to issue at this point in her career as the unthinkable happened. In an uninhabited system, nearly thirty light-years from any object of strategic or human significance except for the weak M-class star at the system’s heart, another vessel was materialising less than a thousand kilometers off Storm Crow‘s bow.
Klaxons sounded as her order was put into effect and one of the veteran technicians who manned Storm Crow‘s night shift began speaking calmly over the massive vessel’s Public Address System “All hands man your battle stations. This is not a drill. Repeat: This is not a drill. All hands…”
Arianna had been left in command of Storm Crow‘s bridge precisely because such a situation was vanishingly unlikely. Senior officers had better things to do — such as paperwork — than sit idly on the bridge for days at a time, and it was thought that such a watch was the perfect opportunity for a junior naval oficer to get a taste of command. Storm Crow had had many such watches, punctuated only by drills, since leaving the Homeworlds six months ago. Dispatched by Khan Magnus McKenna in anticipation of the acceptance of his plan to assess the condition of abandoned Star League bases in the near Periphery, Storm Crow was only now approaching its first objective, an antique automated supply yard and drydock.
Had they been followed or their itenerary leaked? Was this an attempt by a lesser Clan to destroy or capture the Sovetskii Soyuz-Class Heavy Cruiser far from support? Taken alone, there were no shortage of hostile vessels that could be expected to overpower Storm Crow herself.
“Based on long-range transit, bogey is expected to be a Merchant-class or similar Jumpship. We cannot rule out a Warship.” That was the report from the sensors section, that last bit undoubtedly meant to remind the rookie commander that she should be cautious. I know that, but what is the right move? If it were a Merchant, keeping her distance until it could be confirmed would be seen as overly timid. If it were a heavier warship, closing with the vessel, still known only as a heat contact since it had yet to fully resolve in the system, could be disasterous, even fatal.
The worst thing a Clan Warrior could appear to be was timid. Brave and dead was considerably better.
“Give me maximum thrust. Close to optimum weapons range and ready for action.”
It was only moments later that Star Admiral Robert McKenna entered the bridge, beating his juniors by luck or foresight.
“Captain on the bridge!” Arianna snapped to her feet in the one and a half gravities of a Warship under acceleration and saluted, moving to one of the bridge tactical stations.
“At ease! Report!” the Star Admiral barked as he took his place at the heart of the bridge and switched on his tactal monitors.
“One Bogey, confirmed Merchant-Class Jumpship with two Dropships. Astrometry guesses those as Union and Fury classes. Range is eight-two-five kilometers and closing.”
“Identify us to the unidentified vessels. My compliments to their Captains and crew and I demand their immediate and unconditional surrender. I will not ask again.”
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on June 22, 2010 by JediBear.
Hall of the Khans
Strana Mechty
“Order, my Khans! Please!” Nadia Winson hammered furiously at the podium with her gavel, in a futile attempt to draw attention that for the moment simply seemed to add to the general din in the Great Hall. Resigned for the moment she just relaxed and let the noise wash over her. It was thrilling in a way, even if it seemed for a moment there that the Khans would come to blows. Magnus McKenna and Thaddeus Jorgensson had not got far into their presentation before the Khans had abandoned their traditional decorum in favor of a shouting match. Jorgensson, for his part seemed to simply be biding his time, waiting for the right moment.
“Silence!” he barked as the moment came. Nadia had no idea how, but it worked. The Khans settled into a kind of constrained, moody mumbling over which the Snow Raven Khan could be heard to clearly state “If you have questions, we will take them, but please, one at a time. Khan Smoke Jaguar.”
This last was directed at the massive Khan of Clan Smoke Jaguar who had thrust his massive hand petulantly into the air in the middle of the statement, and who now proceeded to speak.
“What is the purpose of this general warship refit you are proposing?”
The junior Diamond Shark Khan interrupted before Magnus could respond “Why to force you to spend your resources in his shipyard, of course.” There was another general explosion, but this time Nadia’s furious hammering brought the expected response and she turned the floor back over to Magnus.
“While we suspect that the Inner Sphere lacks large modern Warship forces and thus our older units should be adequate to defeat whatever they may supply to oppose us, They do stil have a large and well-organized aerospace corps. Our ships are of a traditional design and so lack significant small-scale defenses of their own. The proposed refits would simply remedy these and some other operational inadequecies in order to ready our fleet for the kind of action they can expect in the Inner Sphere.”
“Also, our vessels will need to be ready to withstand nuclear strikes.” This comment from Thaddeus Jorgensson might have provoked another roar of confused dissention, but somehow the Khans settled into a kind of shocked silence. Utterly serious and contemplative for once as a group. It was Khan Kerlin Ward of the Wolves who broke the silence.
“You truly believe they would stoop to nuclear weapons to destroy us?” There was a sneer of contempt in his voice, but it rang false against his earlier silence. It seemed clear to all that he had never considered the possibility. And yet…
“Intelser has asserted and confirmed that nuclear weapons played an important part in the devastation of the Succession Wars and that each House maintains a significant stock of weapons as a deterrent. We would be fools to discount this. It is a very real threat, and one we must be prepared to counter.” Thaddeus Jorgensson again.
The Smoke Jaguar Khan waited to be recognized again before speaking “But what is the purpose of spending so much of our effort on Warships? Do you not intend to destroy the enemy on the ground as the Founder intended? Surely you do not mean to answer nuclear weapons with orbital bombardment!”
Magnus shook his head “No, of course not. We intend the Warships to act in a supporting role as troop transports and as part of a blockade fleet. Any destruction of enemy Battlemech forces will be accomplished by conventional means.”
“Any Destruction?” That would be the Khan of the Coyotes. The Coyotes were generally content to remain silent in Council and simply follow the lead of the Wolves. But trust them to pick up on a subtle philosophical point like the implicit possibility that such destruction might not be necessary.
Thaddeus Jorgensson chuckled. “Do not worry. There will be plenty of fighting for our Mechwarriors to do, I expect. The purpose of the blockading forces is to cut down the ability of the Inner Sphere lords to mobilize. If we can destroy enough of their ships, they will be unable to reposition their forces to oppose us. If we destroy their ability to move their forces, we destroy their ability to wage war on an interstellar scale. Ending the enemy’s capacity to wage war is the end goal in any real war, and make no mistake my Khans, this will be a real war.”
Magnus continued “A Successor State exists only so long as it excersises power across dozens or hundreds of worlds. If we can cut off Jumpship traffic, seize hyperpulse stations, and destroy factories, we can topple their regimes simply by rendering them meaningless. A united Lyran Commonwealth or Draconis Combine is a threat, but thousands of individual worlds are nothing. Once we have toppled these pretenders to the Star League Throne it is simply a matter of pacifying our territory, which we may do at our leisure. Intelser even suggests that most planets would not be unwilling to swear allegiance to a Clan as their interstellar protector.”
“This task, of course, is not as easy as it would appear. First we need better reconaissance. To this end, we are proposing that the Grand Council authorize the creation of five new Galaxy-sized units answerable to the ilKhan and to this Conclave. Wolf’s Dragoons have drawn significant attention by their size and by the oddity of their ways, but these new units can put what Wolf’s Dragoons have learned to work to blend into Inner Sphere society. Thus positioned, with one unit seeming to serve each of the Pretender Lords, they will gather intelligence and wait for the signal to strike. When we invade, they will act as our first wave, striking targets of vital import and sowing confusion in advance of our general invasion.”
“Five Galaxies?!” One of the Fire Mandrill Khans, no doubt contemplating the fact that such a force would outmatch his entire Clan, to say nothing of his own Kindraa.
“Five Galaxies. But we know this is a nontrivial force, and that we asked you for five Galaxies before. Therefore, we intend to raise only one such Galaxy every four years, assigning each as it is comissioned to the state that Wolf’s Dragoons has most recently departed. In the meantime, we will be building supply infrastructure for a grand envelopment campaign against the Inner Sphere. We have divided the Inner Sphere into twelve occupation zones, each of which will be the responsibility of a single Clan. If a Clan is unable to meet Grand Council objectives in that zone, it will be replaced.”
The Khans continued to argue over the details for several more hours. Finally, a vote was called. In the end, it was nearly unanimous. The Crusaders felt this would finally give them the promised Return, while the Wardens hoped that the McKenna-Jorgensson plan would delay matters long enough for them to rally support and crush the idea outright. Twenty-five years was a very long time, after all.
But for now, the Clans were officially at war.
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on April 20, 2010 by JediBear.
Katyusha City Comissary (Sven’s Hole)
“I just do not see how we can defeat them” Garrick N’Buta’s otherwise shameful remark could be excused by two facts. First, he was more than a little drunk. Second, his statement mirrored the thoughts of many there assembled, including ilKhan Nadia Winson. The Inner Sphere’s armies were powerful, and they were growing. Wolf’s Dragoons had even discovered evidence that they were beginning to recover the technolgies lost to them since the fall of the Star League.
It would seem that the Clans had no option but to strike now, but no matter how she played it out, the ilKhan of the Clans could see no hope in an all-out assault.
It was Snow Raven Khan Magnus McKenna who broke the heavy silence that followed the drunken outburst “Actually, I can see a path to victory.”
“Yer an opthamist” countered Garrick, his words rendered into a near-incomprehensible slur by two more shots of fine Diamond Shark single malt.
“Oh, it will not be easy, make no mistake. We shall have to abandon some of our prejudices, yet still fight with greater skill and valour than before. But think back to your Trials of Bloodright for a moment. Nadia, when you faced an Elemental, how did you choose to fight him?”
“Augmented, of course.” For a Mechwarrior to engage one of the Clans’ gigantic armored infantry barehanded would be almost a death sentence. Only careful choice of venue would give the smaller warrior a chance. Nadia wasn’t sure she knew where the Snow Raven was going with this, and even less sure she liked it.
“Nikolai Bavros, how did you engage every opponent who won the toss against you?”
“In space, of course.” The Nova Cat Khan seemed confused as well, though he should have known what Magnus was getting at.
“In each case, you leveraged your advantages to ensure a victory, and yet you are all neglecting our two most important advantages.”
Nadia definately did not like where this was going.
“We have a massive advantage in Warship tonnage. Wolf’s Dragoons currently estimate that not more than ten million tons of Warships presently exist in the Inner Sphere, and this number is still unconfirmed. The truth is that they have not seen one Warship since their arrival, not even in orbit of New Avalon.”
Several of the assembled Khans groaned. Trust the Snow Raven to trot out Warships.
“Our other advantage is total strategic surprise.” that was Thaddeus Jorgensson, breaking his characteristic silence to back up the Snow Raven. Had they planned this?
“Of course, we will need more reconaissance. Wolf’s reports suggest that he was dangerously close to being compromised by the weak footwork Intelser provided. For one, his force is too large, and breaking it up now would look suspicious. For another, some of his common designs have turned up absent in the Inner Sphere since the Fall.”
“And we will need to take a serious look at retrofitting our fleet. Our main opposition will come from aerospace fighters, not from Warships, and we will need stronger countermeasures against nuclear weapons.”
Even the Ghost Bear seemed shocked by that one.
“These are Barbarians, no better than the Not-Named. We cannot simply trust them not to deploy the most powerful weapons at their disposal, not when they already did it to themselves!”
A grim consensus settled over the ilKhan and her retinue of moderate Khans.
“With your permission, Nadia, Magnus and I will put together a plan on how to proceed?”
“Granted. Have it ready by the next General Conclave.”
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on March 17, 2010 by JediBear.
“Five years to the day, My Khans, we sent out a reconaissance force to determine the strength of the Inner Sphere. That force has been to the Inner Sphere. Their reports have arrived. Now, if the Wolves and their Star Adder patsies are done wasting our time, I say that the time for the Return has come! I call for a vote for immediate invasion of the Inner Sphere and the destruction of the so-called ‘Successor States’ that defile our legacy. I call a vote to re-establish the Star League!”
Many in the Hall of Khans noded as the Smoke Jaguar Khan finished his rant, but one man stood against the tide.
Kerlin Ward. How I loathe you. ilKhan Nadia Winson thought to herself. That her own Clan could produce such a simpering coward let alone elevate him to Khan was beyond her. She had begun to suspect he secretly sympathised with the Successor States — a crime punishable by death among the Clans, if only she could prove it. But for now he is a Khan, quiaff?
“Khan Kerlin Ward of the Wolves is recognized. Why do you stand before this Conclave?”
“I have remarks to offer against my esteemed colleague’s proposal.”
“You may proceed.”
“While there can be no question that the Inner Sphere is horrifically debased, I submit that the time is not yet right for our return. The Successor States still command potent if diminished armies of Battlemechs. We had originally planned for a twenty-five year survey of their defenses while we built up our own forces. Surely we should wait while the reconaissance force finishes their mission?”
Several more in the Hall nodeed. Nadia had done her homework in preparation for this vote, and knew where each of the Khans would come down. Despite the pro forma speeches, the majority of votes were decided by ideology. The moderates would vote to delay, they always did. The more extreme Crusaders would vote to invade, they always did. The Wardens would vote against any invasion, it was anathema to them. Nadia wasn’t really sure where she’d come down herself, but she knew it didn’t matter. Though there were fewer Wardens in the Hall of the Khans than there had been five years ago, they still formed along with the moderates a bloc of unbeatable power.
She was about to call the vote when another Khan rose.
“Khan Thaddeus Jorgensson of Clan Ghost Bear is recognized. Why do you stand before this Conclave?”
“The Wolves. The Jaguars. Any one of these assembled Khans perhaps. Can you tell me who the King of the Federated Suns is?”
“King Ian?” the Smoke Jaguar answered, with uncharacteristic hesitation.
“Ian Davion.” Kerlin Ward answered, confidently.
King Ian Davion? Something was wrong, but Nadia could not quite put her finger on it. It almost sounded right.
“Have NONE of you read this?” he hurled a datapad, presumably containing Galaxy Commander Jaime Wolf’s most recent report, across the chamber in apparent disgust “The Federated Suns has a First Prince, not a King! How many Regiments does the Draconis Combine Field, Khan Wolf? How many Mercenary Companies hire out of Galatea, Khan Smoke Jaguar?”
The two most powerful Khans among the Clans looked at the Ghost Bear Khan with a poorly-concealed mix of shame and resentment, somewhere between how dare he? and I should know that.
“Any of the Khans, which Successor Lord commands the most force?”
A significant pause followed.
“Perhaps before we go any further, we should take advantage of the intelligence that Intelser and the Ebon Guard have taken such pains to provide us. How can an uninformed decision based on blind ideology be anything more than a shot in the dark? The Founder would be apalled, and you should be ashamed.”
Clan Ghost Bear’s Junior Khan stormed from the chamber. Without him, the Crusaders stood even less chance of passing an invasion vote. Nadia had read the intelligence. She saw it as her duty, and yet the Ghost Bear’s impromptu quiz had left her momentarily puzzled as well. The answers finally came, and she repeated them.
“First Prince Ian Davion. Eighty Battlemech Regiments, with another two hundred in armor and another five hundred in regular infantry, according to preliminary estimates. Over a hundred mercenary companies hire out of Galatea, with no more than a third employed in any given month. House Steiner commands the most significant Battlemech force.”
The ilKhan of the Clans sighed heavily. “Something has been demonstrated to us this day, and I suspect our excitable junior member is right. I will command Intelser to prepare personal briefings for you. There will be a quiz afterward. This meeting is adjourned.”
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on March 8, 2010 by JediBear.
Katyusha City Starport
Katyusha City
Colonel Jaime Wolf looked over the parade grounds to see his command assembled in full — the last inspection before Wolf’s Dragoons would depart for the Inner Sphere. Since they would spend the entire trip sequestered in individual Dropships, this would be the last such assembly for at least a year. Their equipment may have been archaic, but it was proudly maintained and displayed. The five Regiments (they were still Galaxies on the Ebon Guard’s roster, but Wolf had agressively stomped out the tendency to refer to them as anything other than Regiments. That kind of thinking would give them away in the Inner Sphere.) were an impressive force — perhaps not a match for any of their size in the Clans, but certainly a match for anything they would find in the Inner Sphere.
The unit’s senior Galaxy Commander of five, Jaime had refused to accept a promotion to Brigadier, as the Clans had no equivalent rank. Galaxies were only organized together in a Clan’s touman itself, and taking a rank whose position was equivalent to that of a Khan was simply too disrespectful even for an old freebirth like him. As such, his troops had already begun referring to him as “The Old Wolf” (to distinguish him from his brother, also a Galaxy Commander/Colonel) or “The Old Man” (a reference to his position of command rather than to his age, as he was still young even by Clan standards.)
He was proud of his Dragoons. They had had much to learn, and had learned it almost flawlessly in the two years they had had to train. He expected no less from his own Clansmen, but the Dragoons counted in their numbers members from each of the seventeen surviving Clans, even if their bulk (and their highest-ranked officers) were Wolves (and the ilKhan had insisted on that. Jaime secretly admired Nadia Winson for getting the better of Old Kerlin like that.)
As he reached the end of the line of infantry troopers, each perfectly squared away in the new uniform, he saluted their commander, and dismissed the unit. They had prepared as well as they could. Only time would tell if that preparation had been enough.
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on February 22, 2010 by JediBear.
Austral Continent Training Grounds
Star Ca- that is, Captain Natasha Kerensky swore at her ancient MAD-3R Marauder as she desperately danced out of the way of a stream of autocannon projectiles from an “enemy” ANH-1A Annhiliator that had appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
The range was short, almost absurdly short by the standards of the school in which she’d learned to fight a Battlemech; but at just over 300 meters, the Annihilator had difficulty tracking even the sluggish Marauder with its equally antiquated Kali-Yama class-ten autocannons.
Natasha triggered the Marauder’s primary weapons interlock and swore again as the twin Magna Hellstar PPCs sent her heat scale sailing deep into “yellow” territory. The Marauder suddenly felt like a Dire Wolf as its actuators lost contraction efficiency in the intense interior heat.
In reality, the 75-ton Marauder was not all that different from the Timber Wolves she had piloted for much of her warrior career. In many ways, the Timber Wolf was a derivative design, though the Wolf’s chassis was more closely based on the smaller Catapult. It was, however, some 20% slower at a trot, a difference almost as maddening as its thin armor, limited firepower, and crippling heat difficulties.
She had hit, though. In reality, her particle cannons were powered down enough that they would barely give an infantryman a sunburn and the GM Whirlwind Autocannon on the Marauder’s back was firing mostly-harmless “mass simulator” rounds with none of the explosive punch required to penetrate even three century old armor designs. In the mind of the Annihilator’s diagnostic interpreter, however, the shots had hit the massive Battlemech like a hammer-blow, and the DI obediently knocked the ‘Mech’s gyroscopic stabilizer out of phase to simulate the loss of over a ton of aligned-crystal steel armor plating. The Annihilator slowed as its pilot righted it automatically, but did not stop. Natasha backed the Marauder as fast as its protesting legs would take it, barely maintaining the range with the charging Annihilator.
Just who got ambushed there? She asked herself, feeling a little smug. But they were learning, and that was a good thing. After all, it was her job, the job of the Second Agressor Trinary (already known as the Black Widow Company) to teach her fellows among the Dragoons to think and fight like a Spheroid. Or at least, how Intelser thought a spheroid probably thought.
Unlike some of her comrades, Natasha was under no illusions when it came to the reliability of Intelser data. Clan spies (in reality, mostly Merchants with as much skill in skullduggery as Natasha had in needlepoint) had had no direct contact with the Inner Sphere, and most of what she’d learned about managing a Marauder and a Company had been learned from leftover Star League training manuals that the Goliath Scorpions had dug out of a cache somewhere.
Still, how much could have changed?
The Annihilator let loose another torrent of shells, and some connected this time, knocking the Marauder off balance. Natasha disengaged one of her particle cannons and fired again, missing with the autocannon but connecting with the PPC. The Marauder began to cool off, and moved freely again. Even at a fast walk, it outpaced the Annihilator now moving backwards.
And now that she had a little space to think, she realised that her opponent had made another mistake. He might have tried to ambush her, but he was still thinking like a Clanner.
He’d come out by himself.
His Star had three other Battlemechs in it, somewhere. Just not here. Natasha’s friends were somewhat closer at hand.
“Three, Actual. Break.”
“Go ahead Actual.”
“Fire mission.”
“Link Engaged.”
Though antiquated, the Marauder’s Dalban Hi-Res Targeting and Tracking System was a fairly sophisticated device. Among its many capabilities was the ability to link to a compatible TTS to provide real-time targeting data for fire-support missions. Point Three, Lynn Sheridan’s CRD-3R Crusader had just such a system, the Garret A6 tied to its two Magna Longbow-15 Long-Range Missile Launchers.
“Give me sixty birds and have another sixty on standby.”
“Roger. On the way.”
Natasha fired again, this time striking with only the autocannon as she continued to backpedal.
“Fire, Actual. Break.”
“Go Ahead, Actual.”
“Move to grid H5”
“Moving out. ETA Five Minutes.”
Thirty LRMs arrived at or near the target, their dummy warheads wreathing the Annihilator in smoke and convincing its DI to cause another spasm. Natasha followed up with another salvo from the primary interlock, wincing as the Marauder’s heat headed back into the yellow zone. The Annihilator bucked again, overbalanced despite its pilot’s best efforts, and toppled over onto its face.
“Actual, Recon. Break.”
Right on time, Natasha thought.
“Major movement in grid J6” J6 was on her right flank, where she’d set half of her recon lance to guard.
“Five Battlemechs, Heavy Class.”
“Types?”
“Archer. Archer. Warhammer. Marauder. Rifleman.”
“Move to grid I5 and prepare to support.”
She eyed the Annihilator as it began to struggle to its feet. Takiro Akida’s Fire Lance could handle a lone, damaged Annihilator. Natasha was just about disengaged.
“Command, Actual. Follow in formation to grid J6”
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on January 22, 2010 by JediBear.
Leaving one’s Clan was never easy, ilKhan Nadia Winson reflected. She was in a position to know, having now left two Clans. The first had been Clan Wolf, whose Khan was now her chief rival for power. As a junior Star Colonel, she had been captured in action against Clan Ghost Bear. Made bondsman, and eventually adopted into the Warrior Caste, the abtakha Wolf had worked her way up the ranks and finally been accepted by her peers to the point of being made a Khan.
It had been a long, hard road. She had had to learn the ways of her new Clan, and unlearn the ways of the old. A Wolf played her cards close to her chest, never letting others see the nature of her soul. A Wolf played games of dominance. She always fought, and she always won. Or she died.
A Ghost Bear was a different creature altogether. Though she hid from her prey, she was open with her family. For over a decade, she had seen her fellow-Clansmen as brothers and sisters, and then she had been a mother to them. She had even begun a Great Work, a miniature diorama showing the entirety of the Great Father’s Regular Army at its height assembled as if for a parade through the streets of Old Washington. She had never finished it, and doubted she ever would.
And now it was time to set all that aside. She had been elected by her peers– by the Khans of Kerensky– to lead them into war. The coming war would be the greatest challenge the Clans had ever faced, and it was up to her to make sure they overcame it. She wondered how she would compare to the example of the ilKhans that had come so long before. Would she be hailed as another Jerome Winson? Or despised as another Tobias Khatib? Could she ever hope to live up to the example of the Founder himself?
Only time would tell, and her time among the Ghost Bears had taught her the right attitude to apply to the situation. She would be patient. She would wait and see. She would take what came when it came, even as the Ghost Bear did. But it was the Wolf she still remembered who would deal best with the other Khans. Especially Kerlin.
And there he sat, in the corner with his Warden cronies, doubtless plotting her downfall even as he “celebrated” her rise on her work-credits. So be it. The best of the Khans sat at her table as the Grand Council’s newest member entertained them all with his rendition of a 25th-Century rock ballad.
She thought she would never understand Karaoke, but Thaddeus Jorgensson was actually quite good…
“You are recognized, Khan Garrick N’Buta of the Star Adders. Why do you rise before this Conclave?”
The Oathmaster’s ritual words rang out across the Hall of the Khans to the considerable startlement of Wolf Khan Kerlin Ward. Kerlin had been about to call a vote on his most recent proposal, and the Star Adder Khan was, technically, out of order.
Let him challenge me to a Trial of Grievance if he does not like it. Like most Clan Warriors, Garrick was usually unfailingly polite: It never hurt to be polite when surrounded by people who would feel obligated to kill you at the slightest offense. This made the impact of upstaging the Wolf Khan all the more potent. Such a challenge could not properly be made on the floor of the Grand Council. Kerlin would have to wait while Garrick had his say or be embarrassed further. Still, he could well pay the price later. But this is important.
“I find your notion of sending a reconnaissance force to the Inner Sphere intriguing, Kerlin Ward, but I note certain deficiencies in the plan. Firstly, you would have this force placed soly under your own authority. While I cannot say that I do not trust you with such a charge, given your record and known political positions” — this brought a guffaw from the Smoke Jaguar Khan. He could afford to be rude. He was a Smoke Jaguar. “It seems unwise to me to leave a force acting in the name of all the Clans in the hands of a Wolf. Most exalted of Clans or not, Clan Wolf is only one among the many assembled here, and the charge of gathering intelligence for the inevitable Return to the Inner Sphere is too important to be left to the offices of any one Clan.”
Garrick held a hand up to forestall rebuttal while taking a drink of water. He was pleased that it worked. This meant he had the Khans’ attention.
“Indeed, this august body made that same determination when establishing Intelser twenty years ago. Even as Intelser reports only to the Loremaster and the Grand Council, a force of Clan Warriors sent to reconnoiter in force must report only to this Grand Council and its Warlord. My Khans, I second Kerlin Ward’s call for a reconnaissance force to be sent into the Inner Sphere itself, though I will stipulate that it must report only to this conclave. In the wake of this vote, which I trust will succeed,” he paused briefly for dramatic effect.
“I intend to call for the election of an ilKhan.”
This entry was posted in Fiction and tagged battletech, fanfic, What Might Have Been on January 7, 2010 by JediBear.
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Delta Training #1: Tracking
Naomi, Hige
Naomi receives her first lesson in Delta Clan basics.
"Delta Training #1: Tracking"
Toshiba Forest - Clearing
It was time for some learning! It was night time when Hige had told Naomi to meet him out in the training area, in a clearing a bit deeper in the woods, for a lesson in tracking. It was cold which wouldn't help things but at least it wasn't raining. Quite yet. Konsho and Hige were waiting in the clearing, the 'pup' sitting quietly while the boy leaned against him. Konsho might still act a lot like a pup but at over five feet…it just made for easy leaning for the smaller teen.
Naomi had left her home well after sunset, dressed warmly for the cold weather. Kuromaru was bundled up in the front of her jacket, his nose poking out to sniff the air as she ran towards the clearing, using the movement to try and stay warm. It was time for one of many training sessions to get her ready for some real Delta clan missions, so she didn't want to be late. Arriving in the appointed spot, the red-headed girl slowed her run and approached Hige and Konsho, offering them a small bow. "Hige-san.. I'm sorry if I kept you waiting."
"Don't worry about it Naomi, you're right on time." Hige pushes off of Konsho and smiles at the arriving pair. "I hope you're both ready for some training. Excited?" Konsho's tail wags when the two arrive and he offers a happy sounding "Hello!" Hige moves forward and looks between Naomi and Kuromaru for a moment as if he's trying to decide something. "Alright, as you know the Delta pack is in large part a search and rescue group. So our ability to find people needs to be above and beyond the rest of the Clan. Today we're going to practice in finding someone that's gone missing."
Naomi's eyes widen slightly, her focus sharpening. "Who is it? Has someone really gone missing?" Perhaps Naomi was a little too quick to jump the gun, but she sure was excited for some action. Kuromaru let out an ARF!, and almost visibly rolled his eyes. ~Hige-san said we were practicing, you silly girl!~ Naomi blinked a few times down at the pup, then blushed and laughed a little nervously. "Oh… Yeah, I suppose that makes sense…"
Hige chuckles at Naomi's words and shakes his head. "It's this very life-like practice dummy I found the other day," he says with a wink towards the girl. "I've wrapped it in some old clothing I gotten from someone so it will carry their scent for a while. This," he pulls out a scrap of cloth from his pouch, "is a piece of that clothing. You need to find it as fast as possible."
RP: Naomi joins the roleplay.
COMBAT: It is now Naomi's turn.
RP: Naomi transforms into KUROMARU.
COMBAT: Naomi focuses 2900 stamina to turn it into 3000 usable chakra!
Naomi looks down to the scrap of fabric and nods her understanding. "Hai." Unzipping her jacket for Kuro to climb out, she takes the cloth and holds it down for him to get the scent. Once he had it, he raised his nose to the air and sniffed a few times, pawing forward before letting out a sharp bark and taking off, with Naomi close on his heels. No time to lose!
RPCOMBAT: Naomi defends against with a INUZUKA-SENSES…24
Unlike last time, this time Hige follows along after, taking to the trees with Konsho coming right behind as well. "Don't leave it all up to Kuro, Naomi. Your nose is strong as well. Try and channel just a little bit of chakra to your nose to help enhance your senses." The instruction comes from above while they continue to follow after the younger Inuzuka pair.
Glancing up, Naomi nods slightly.. focusing her chakra slowly to her nose and feeling it open up exponentially, her eyes sharpening as she hunts for the scent. Kuro seemed to be on the right track, though he was faltering a little. She guessed it was her turn to help. Sniffing the air a few times, she could catch a trace of the scent from before, and she ran along Kuromaru to lead him in the right path. "This way, Kuro!"
"Much better," Hige says as they turn a little and continue in another direction. "Finding someone is only part of what we do. There's dangers that come with it. Why is the person hurt? Were they attacked? Is someone using them as part of a trap? These are all things you need to consider while at the same time trying to find who you're looking for."
"Hai," Naomi responds shortly, continuously checking the air for the trail of the scent. Up into the trees she went, cutting through some of the denser forest to follow it. Kuromaru followed along on the forest floor, keeping his nose perked as he ran. "So the scent of blood would be something to check for. And anything else like gunpowder or chemicals along the way, that might be part of a trap."
RPCOMBAT: Naomi defends against with a PERCEPTION…23
"Correct. And as you get closer you'll watch for any additional scents that are fresh. If there are any other people around you'll want to take note. IT could mean nothing but it could also be part of a set up." Hige continues with Naomi but Konsho has…vanished? At some point or other he had dropped off. Really he'd snuck ahead to duck under some other clothes that smell of another person and get them moving so the scent was more fresh in the air. A test."
Naomi nodded, and took her nose to the air once more. The further they moved in the trees, the more she slowed with a bit of a confused expression on her face. The scent she was following had changed… It was only slight, but it was apparent. "Refocus," she called down to Kuromaru, and took out the scrap of clothing they were given. After inhaling once more, she jumped down to give it to Kuro, and he nodded. Before long, the pair was off again, seeking out the correct scent behind the fresher one as well as they could. It had gotten a little more tricky, admittedly, but Naomi was determined.
Hige smiled slightly from the trees as he watched Naomi and Kuro verify the scent. IT wasn't always an option but for the moment it was allowed. He said nothing else this time while Konsho continued to try and lead them off the trail a bit. As they neared where the scent was Hige made a hand seal, activating a tag ahead that gave off a very minor explosion to open a bag of goat blood, letting it start to flow and throw the scent into the air.
Naomi's nose wrinkled at the sudden heavy, metallic scent that entered her scope, and she turned her head towards the source with a frown on her face. It was definitely blood… That thick of a scent was going to make it hard to follow the one they needed. Should she follow the scent of fresh blood? Or try to pick out the scent of the clothing that they were already following? Whatever the choice, she knew she didn't have long to make it. "Stay focused," she called out to Kuromaru, who let out a quick "Arf!" as he paused to check the direction of the scent once more. There was no guarantee that the blood belonged to the target, and it could very well lead them into a trap. Though they were moving a bit more slowly, now, Naomi and Kuro moved ahead carefully, taking their time to follow the correct scent through all of the distractions.
Hige wasn't being overly mean for the first time out so, while he was using distractions, he hadn't set any traps or anything. This time. He just continues to follow after the two even when they slow down. They weren't far now. In fact the target was just ahead. Once they get there they'll find a training dummy just like in the training grounds, though it has a face rather poorly painted it to look like an Inuzuka with the fangs and all. Art was not Hige's strong point.
Approaching the training dummy laying on the forest floor, Naomi tried to stifle her giggle. That thing looked ridiculous, laying there with its painted on face. "Is this it?" she asked Hige, grinning broadly as Kuro goes up and sniffs it closely, barking affirmatively. ~We got 'em!~
"Yes it is, good job both of you." Hige moves forward to look at the dummy before he tsks softly and shakes his head. "Man, I don't think this one is going to make it," he laments before grinning over to the other two. "You guys did well. You avoided any distractions and got to your target. Not bad for your first time out." He crouches to give Kuro some quick vigorous pets before standing again. "Any questions?"
"Mmmm… I want to be able to tell the difference between human and animal blood, just in case there were any distractions like that… And if the blood was human, would it have a scent like the person we're tracking? Or would it just cover it up?" Kuro ducked his head into Hige's pets with a soft grunting noise of pleasure, before trotting back to Naomi's heels and sitting down with a curious glance between the two humans.
"We have a lot of things to work on Naomi, that can be one of them. Don't worry, we'll make sure you're ready before you go on any missions by yourself," Hige says with a wink. "But for now I think such a job well done means that you two should get a reward. So how about we head home and see what kind of grub I can dig up this late."
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Coattails tucked into his pants
So let’s talk about Larry Hogan, shall we?
I’m going to start way back in 2009. People tend to forget Larry actually had his eye on running for Governor back then and was briefly in the running until he deferred to his old boss and allowed him to get his doors blown off by Martin O’Malley. (Of course, I chose better in that primary, too.)
After the 2010 Ehrlich debacle – an election where the TEA Party wave somehow missed all of Maryland except for the Eastern Shore – you just had to know that Hogan, a vocal critic of Martin O’Malley during his brief time in the race, would figure out some way to stay in the headlines; thus, Change Maryland was born. I thought it was a great idea.
But when Hogan actually completed the fait accompli of getting into the 2014 open seat Governor’s race, I found he was great at articulating what he was against but not so much what he was for. Given a good field to choose from and one where all the contenders (save Hogan) spelled out their agenda, I supported someone else in the Republican primary but we got Larry. Of course, the rest is history.
I’m going to talk about two memories of Hogan from the campaign and how those issues were resolved.
As the O’Malley administration was heading out of town, one last-minute priority of theirs was an attempt to saddle our farmers with new phosphorus management rules that were basically written by the environmentalist wackos of the state. Hours after being sworn in, Hogan beat a deadline and pulled the regs – much to the chagrin of Radical Green.
But barely a month later, Hogan basically put the same thing into effect with a little bit of window dressing. I will grant that it was in the face of a bill with those same regulations in them but it also put the General Assembly on notice that Hogan could be rolled. And boy, was he ever when he reneged on a promise to eliminate the MOM-imposed moratorium on fracking in Maryland and sold the panhandle of the state down the river by endorsing a ban.
Aside from eliminating some tolls and reallocating money that could have been needlessly wasted on a light-rail boondoggle in Baltimore known as the Red Line, it’s really hard to compile a list of quantifiable, significant Hogan accomplishments but easy to find where he capitulated. We still have to pay for the Purple Line (not to mention a huge subsidy for the D.C. Metro), the “rain tax” repeal really wasn’t one, we got stuck with competing versions of paid sick leave (from a supposedly “business-friendly” governor) and on and on. Even at the end of this term, when he was free to use his veto pen because the terms of legislators were ending and there would be no override votes, he still let a lot of bad stuff through.
But I was still planning on holding my nose really, really tight and voting for Hogan, until he sold Tony Campbell out. That was the last straw. So I looked into Shawn Quinn. Lord knows there is a lot of his platform I didn’t agree with, but there is one key philosophy where Quinn and I are in complete agreement: when it comes to education, money should follow the child.
So thanks to all the betrayals and broken promises, Larry Hogan managed to lose my vote and Shawn Quinn received it – a little bit of unexpected help. No doubt Larry doesn’t really care because he won and now he’s a lame duck until he decides to run for something else (U.S. Senate in 2022?) but look at what he lost. He may blame Donald Trump, but I think Hogan’s reliance on Democrat votes bit him in the behind when it came to downballot races like the ballyhooed “Drive for Five” with state senators. Cases in point:
In District 3B, Bill Folden won with 7,522 votes in 2014 but lost with 8,775 votes this time.
In District 9B, Bob Flanagan won with 8,202 votes in 2014 but lost with 8,311 votes this time.
District 29B’s Deb Rey won last time with 5,334 votes but this time had 6,281 and still lost. That one sucked because Deb was always in the running to be one of my monoblogue Accountability Project Legislative All-Stars and achieved that goal twice, 2016 and 2017.
Glen Glass led all of District 34A with 10,779 votes in 2014 and may lose as the third-place finisher with 11.564 this time. He’s 19 votes out of second.
Glass was a Legislative All-Star way back in 2012 but was more comfortably average of late – still, a significant loss. Senate seat loser Gail Bates was also an All-Star as a Delegate in 2011 – I lost a total of three. One piece of great news, though: two-time mAP Legislator of the Year Joseph Boteler is back in the fold as he was one of three winners in District 8 (and the lone Republican, a net loss of one from the three-seat district), squeezing out Cluster.
Meanwhile, Hogan ran ahead of his 2014 pace in every county. Ironically, Anthony Brown would have killed for the 917,484 votes received by Ben Jealous, as that total would have won it for him four years ago – instead Jealous lost by over 300,000 votes.
But if you do a top 6/bottom 6 list of Hogan gains, it’s rather telling about the electorate.
Top 6 gainers:
Prince George’s – up 13.3 percentage points
Baltimore City – up 10.0 percentage points
Kent – up 9.1 percentage points
Talbot – up 8.0 percentage points
Allegany – up 7.9 percentage points
Montgomery – up 7.9 percentage points
Out of all those counties, though, there was not one Republican gain in the General Assembly because among these are the three most dominant Democrat counties in Maryland – only Allegany, Kent, and Talbot had GOP representatives prior to 2018 and all were re-elected.
Bottom 6 gainers:
Cecil – up 0.4 percentage points
Harford – up 0.9 percentage points
Carroll – up 1.4 percentage points
Baltimore – up 2.7 percentage points
Charles – up 2.9 percentage points
Anne Arundel – up 3.0 percentage points
In those six counties, the GOP lost Delegate seats in several districts: 8 (appointee Joe Cluster lost his election bid), 30A (Herb McMillan retired), 34A (Glen Glass lost his re-election), and 42B (Susan Aumann retired). St. Mary’s County (Delegate Deb Rey, District 29B) fell just outside this bottom 6 list and she paid the price, too. Also losing: Frederick County’s Bill Folden (District 3B) and Bob Flanagan from Howard County (District 9B) – epitomes of suburbia.
The GOP did grab Jim Brochin’s old Senate District 42 seat in Baltimore County as Delegate Chris West vacated a District 42B seat to move up, but that was tempered by the loss of the Senate District 9 seat held by Gail Bates, who was defeated in Howard County. That seat also has a small portion of Carroll County, one of my bottom 6. And of course everyone knows that MBC won in District 38, which I will get to in due course.
As more proof that Larry Hogan was the most popular Democrat in the race, let’s compare federal offices from 2014 to 2018:
Andy Harris (District 1, Maryland’s only GOP representative) fell from 70.4% of the vote in 2014 to just 60.3% this year. On the other hand:
Dutch Ruppersberger (District 2) gained from 61.3% to 65.7%, a 4.4 point increase.
John Sarbanes (District 3) gained from 59.5% to 68.6%, a 9.1 point increase.
Steny Hoyer (District 5) gained from 64% to 69.9%, a 5.9 point increase.
Elijah Cummings (District 7) gained from 69.9% to 76.1%, a 6.2 point increase.
In the apples to oranges category as there was a change in the office between 2014 and 2018:
District 4: Donna Edwards had 70.2% four years ago, Anthony Brown (running for re-election) got 77.6%.
District 6: John Delaney had 49.7% four years ago, but this time David Trone was elected with 57.6%. Republican Amie Hoeber lost to Delaney with 40.1% in the Presidential year of 2016 (typically high turnout) and only had 39.4% for an open seat this time.
District 8: Chris Van Hollen had 60.7% in 2014, Jamie Raskin (running for re-election) got 66.8%.
We always knew a Republican needed Democrat votes to survive statewide in Maryland, but the lack of coattails Larry Hogan had for his titular party was more than ridiculous. Their only two wins were in districts that were already primed for the GOP – District 42 had 2 of 3 GOP Delegates and a moderate Democrat Senator, while District 38 was all Republican aside from the Democrat Jim Mathias, who succeeded a longtime Republican Senator. I’m sure local Democrats are kicking themselves for not challenging Carl Anderton because they may well have won the seat back in this climate.
Indeed, the victory of MBC and the fact our other state legislative incumbents were unopposed or drew token, underfunded opposition was perhaps the only thing local Wicomico County Republicans could cheer about. Out of all the Delegate races locally, the only semi-constant was District 38A’s Charles Otto. While he had more votes this time around, he lost 1 percentage point and fell below 60 percent. Despite the fact his district no longer includes Wicomico, he is often present at local party events.
Looking at District 38, Jim Mathias actually drew more votes than he had in 2014 overall, although it appears he will be right about even in Somerset County. (As of this writing, Jim is 71 votes shy of his 2014 total there.) MBC playing Mathias nearly even (six votes’ difference) there in Somerset was one key, and her domination in Worcester County was the other. Compared to his 2014 race against former Delegate Mike McDermott, Mathias lost 1.6 percentage points in Wicomico, but plummeted 6.3 points in Worcester and 5.8 points in Somerset.
Locally, perhaps the biggest mistake Democrats made was not convincing Jack Heath to run in their primary. For all the angst about his independent bid, you have to call it a failure when Heath outspent his Democrat opponent by a margin of $20,556.63 to $1,266.66. (Bob Culver spent $21,616.99 through the final reporting cycle so financially the race was even between Heath and Culver.) Yet the race wasn’t even close between Culver and Democrat John Hamilton, as Bob won by 19 points with Heath barely breaking into the twenties with 21% – 28 points behind Culver. In other words, Democrats were so determined to elect their own they didn’t inform themselves about qualifications or readiness for office – they just saw the word “Democrat” and filled in the oval. Had he run as a Democrat, Jack could have won (or come much closer) since I suspect he split the Democrat vote.
Yet the GOP has to take some blame locally, too. I’m not sure their candidate recruitment was up to par this time around: two of their primary candidates had scrapes with the law, and while one of them was defeated in the primary the other was unopposed. I know that party preference is to avoid primaries, but I don’t think voters were served well when Julie Brewington didn’t withdraw prior to the primary, allowing the Central Committee to select a candidate with less baggage. She was one I withheld my vote from; instead I wrote in my friend Cathy Keim – who should have been on County Council in 2011 to succeed the late Bob Caldwell because all of us on the Central Committee except the one also running for the job, who recused herself, voted for Cathy. That was a County Council seat needlessly lost, and they were already looking at a tough district race in a heavily D district that, predictably, went for the Democrat. (And a loony-tunes lefty he is, too – grab a hold tight to your wallet and private property rights.) So the previous 6-1 margin for Republicans is now a scant 4-3, with one less-than-trustworthy vote on the R side and a Board of Education lackey there to boot, too. The only two R’s I can trust to generally look out for my interests now are Marc Kilmer and Joe Holloway. (Funny, but things never change.)
Then we had another candidate who refused to knock on doors, and I told him that’s how you win votes. (Ask Carl Anderton or MBC.) Great guy, very qualified for what is essentially an administrative post, but lost by about 2,300 votes (or doors he didn’t knock on.) Now that his opponent is in, good luck winning that office until he retires, just like Mike Lewis or Karen Lemon are lifers where they are at.
And for all that work we did to have an elected school board, I can’t say I’m pleased with the results. Out of seven spots, the two at-large winners were the ones on the teacher union’s “apple ballot” – an automatic vote for their opponents in my book – and we also got a longtime board member when the Republican who was on that ballot could no longer campaign because she took a county job. So right there are three votes for the status quo – or worse. I believe, however, that Gene Malone was the last Republican BoE appointee and, having served with both John Palmer and Ann Suthowski on the Central Committee I think they will be relatively conservative (although Ann may be a squish on the wasteful mandatory pre-K idea.)
The fate of the school board, then, is coming down to District 3. David Goslee, Sr. (who I also know from serving with him on the WCRCC) is literally hanging on by the skin of his teeth – 9 votes separate him and his opponent, who is another mandatory pre-K supporter. I’m putting out the bat-signal to my friend and cohort Cathy Keim – watch that race like a hawk, I don’t want them to “find” another box of provisional votes someplace.
That pretty much covers my ballot. It wasn’t a straight R ticket, since there were a couple Democrats who were unopposed that were worth my vote to retain. (Same for the unopposed Republicans, by the way.) I just wish the person at the top would not have broken the little trust I had in him.
Two more quick thoughts: for all we heard about the “progressive” movement locally, they mainly got spanked at the ballot box. But it could be worse: they could be Republicans in Delaware – who now have literally no statewide offices after the lost the couple they had and saw their deficit in both House and Senate increase by one seat, a casualty list that included both their Minority Whips. Hey, maybe Larry Hogan can move there in time for 2020 and that election.
Author MichaelPosted on November 9, 2018 November 9, 2018 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2018, Cathy Keim, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Agriculture Phosphorus Initiative, Andy Harris, Anthony Brown, Bill Folden, Bob Culver, Bob Ehrlich, Bob Flanagan, Campaign 2018, Carl Anderton, Cathy Keim, Change Maryland, Charles Otto, Chris West, David Trone, Deb Rey, Donald Trump, Dutch Ruppersberger, Elijah Cummings, fracking ban, Gail Bates, Glen Glass, Jack Heath, Jamie Raskin, Jim Mathias, Joe Cluster, Joe Holloway, John Sarbanes, Joseph Boteler, Larry Hogan, Marc Kilmer, Martin O'Malley, Mary Beth Carozza, Maryland General Assembly, Phosphorus Management Tool, Purple Line, Radical Green, rain tax, Red Line, Shawn Quinn, Steny Hoyer, Tony Campbell
The deal with ‘misinformation’
Over the last week or so we’ve been treated to some of the most furious backpedaling we’ve ever seen. I don’t know if it’s the same elsewhere in the state, but the Eastern Shore delegation has been taking an earful from constituents about a bill with the innocuous title “Public Safety – Extreme Risk Prevention Orders.” But that’s not the bill’s original title: as first introduced it was “Seizure of Lethal Weapons – Lethal Violence Protective Order.” Unfortunately, the bill still deals with seizure and arguably does little to promote the safety of the public.
Arguing there “has been some misinformation” about this bill, three members of our local delegation (Chris Adams, Carl Anderton, and Mary Beth Carozza) issued a joint statement vowing that if certain defects aren’t fixed, they won’t back the bill when it comes back from the Senate. Of course, that makes the assumption that the majority in the Senate won’t just pass this unmolested and dare Governor Hogan to veto a bill many in his party detest. (Hint: he won’t. It may not be graced with his signature, but he won’t veto it.)
We’ll come back to Hogan in a moment, but in the last few days since the vote we have heard many excuses from the GOP, most of whom voted for the bill. It doesn’t take the cake of Delegate Barrie Ciliberti co-sponsoring the bill then changing his vote to be against it (unless that change is made for some arcane parliamentary maneuver) but much of the blame has come from being “misinformed” or being “led to believe” Second Amendment groups were behind this. There is an argument to be made that there is so much information being thrown at these elected officials (with this year’s docket exceeding 3,000 bills to be considered over a 90-day period) that mistakes can be made, but then one has to ask: what else are they missing? “You know, the bill sounds good, and it IS public safety…”
It should be noted, though, that the Judiciary Committee in the House did a complete bait-and-switch on this one, perhaps seizing on the hot-button topic of the Parkland shooting. HB1302 was completely gutted and replaced by the Judiciary Committee that the original sponsor (Democrat Geraldine Valentino-Smith) doesn’t sit on. That event happened between the initial introduction and the House hearing, but the bill was marked up in committee on March 12. It passed by a 12-4 vote, and notably several Republicans did not vote on the bill in committee: Delegates Susan McComas, Neil Parrott, and Deb Rey were excused, and Delegate Trent Kittleman abstained. The other four (Joe Cluster, Paul Corderman, Glen Glass, and Michael Malone) voted against it; however, Cluster and Glass were absent from the third reading vote and Malone voted in favor of the bill. Of those on the Judiciary Committee, only Corderman and Parrott voted no.
It’s patently obvious to me that the House Republicans were trying to appeal to the so-called popular opinion that everything gun-related is bad. They read the tea leaves and newspapers and everywhere you turn you’re being assaulted with anti-Second Amendment propaganda. Yet out of our local District 37 and 38 delegation, the only Republican with a really difficult race is Mary Beth Carozza and that’s because she’s opted to try and advance to the Senate. (Valid question: will this vote tip the scale to another NRA endorsement for Democrat Jim Mathias? Ask the liberals in District 38 how they like his receipt of NRA money.) The other Republicans either voted no on HB1302 (Charles Otto) or have stiffer opposition in the primary than they do for the general election – Adams and Mautz have two primary opponents but only one Democrat is in the race.)
Yet this brings up another point about the top of the ticket. Last night I did a bit of research and remembered the 2014 election – you know, that one Larry Hogan shocked the state and won? Well, a significant part of the reason was carrying the suburban counties like Anne Arundel, Baltimore County, and Frederick with over 60% of the vote (collectively, since he was 59% in Baltimore County) and blowing out Anthony Brown in the rural areas with anywhere from 65 to 82 percent of the vote. That made up for soft numbers in the D.C. region and Baltimore City.
The problem Larry Hogan has this time around is twofold, and has a little bit of irony to it: for a Republican to succeed nationally in the cause of limiting government he has to put a chill in Maryland’s economy. Thanks in no small part to the Trump administration, Larry Hogan will be lucky to get 35% in Montgomery County – compared to 36.7% last time. That may not seem like a lot, but out of 300,000 votes losing a 2% share is 6,000 votes.
You can argue, that’s fine, he won by 65,000 the first time. But what if his reversal on the fracking ban costs him 10% of his vote in Western Maryland? The three westernmost counties combined for about 70,000 votes last time and were a significant portion of his victory margin. That could be another 7,000 votes. Taking a similar share from an Eastern Shore upset at his Second Amendment stance and early cave on phosphorous regulations could be another 10,000 votes lost. Without touching the suburban counties, we’ve eroded 1/3 of his victory margin and the rest may come from Democrats who decide to stay loyal and vote for their candidate. (Fortunately for Hogan, the Democratic field seems to all be trying to leapfrog left of each other so turnout may not be as great as the Democrats think they will get. The biggest break Hogan has received in this cycle was not having to contend with either John Delaney or Peter Franchot, either of whom would probably have easily won the nomination against this field.)
Simply put, there are a lot of people who held their nose and voted for Larry Hogan the first time in the hopes he would govern as a conservative. Well, they were surely disappointed and the fear is that they just stay home this time around: why bother voting when you have the same results regardless of which party is in charge, they say. Perhaps it’s an information silo I reside in, but I often see people claiming they won’t vote for Hogan this time (meaning they’ll likely stay home or skip the race) but I never hear of a Democrat who voted for Brown being convinced the Republican is doing the job and will get his or her support. Most Democrats I hear from already voted for Hogan last time.
So this gun bill has really exposed some fissures in the state GOP, and the party brass has to hope their electoral hopes don’t fall through the cracks.
Author MichaelPosted on March 21, 2018 March 21, 2018 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2018, Culture and Politics, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Anthony Brown, Barrie Ciliberti, Carl Anderton, Charles Otto, Christopher Adams, Deb Rey, Geraldine Valentino-Smith, Glen Glass, Jim Mathias, Joe Cluster, John Delaney, Larry Hogan, Mary Beth Carozza, Michael Malone, National Rifle Association, Neil Parrott, Paul Corderman, Peter Franchot, Second Amendment, Susan McComas, Trent Kittleman1 Comment on The deal with ‘misinformation’
Election analysis: how did the slates fare?
If you have read my site over the last couple weeks, you’ll know that I had a fascination with how the slates of delegates and alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention came together. As it turned out, there were four of them:
The Conservative Club slate, which was the first one out. It featured ten Delegate and nine Alternate Delegate candidates, of which only seven actually ran. Four of those on the Delegate ballot were state elected officials.
The Trump slate, which obviously featured more backers of Donald Trump to add to the total he has. Of the 22 they fielded, seven were state (or federal) elected officials. Both the Trump slate and Conservative Club slate featured the soon-to-be-elected as National Committeeman David Bossie, who was the overall top vote-getter among Delegates.
The Cruz slate, which as I was told was an unofficial slate but featured those who worked for and trusTed Cruz. Their 22 hopefuls had just one state elected official, but two others who ran unsuccessfully in recent elections.
And finally, the Unity slate, which was an effort to bring all of the camps together. It intentionally excluded current state elected officials.
Out of 96 who ran, 67 (by my count) were on one of the slates, and while it didn’t guarantee election it bears noting that only Steve Schuh, who had the advantage of hosting the convention, beat the odds and won without being on a slate. The other 21 victors were on at least one slate.
So how did the slates fare?
The Trump slate. It was no surprise that this slate was built for success, as it was heavy on elected officials. All but one of those who ran for Delegate finished in the upper half of the field, with five of the eleven slots taken by Trump backers. Collectively they received a healthy 30% of the vote. The success was even more pronounced in the Alternate Delegate field, where the names were less familiar so voting was based more on the slate. Again, all but one finished in the upper half of the field and an amazing eight of the eleven were chosen, overwhelming the rest with 46.6% of the vote.
The Conservative Club slate. Had they ran with a full field, they would have presented a decent challenge to the Trump backers. Still, all but one of their ten Delegates finished in the upper half and they won four of the eleven slots when you count Bossie. House of Delegates member Deb Rey would have made it five but she just missed the top eleven by an eyelash. They finished with 26.5% of the Delegate vote as a group. As for Alternate Delegates, two of their choices did not actually participate in the election. Of the seven who did, six finished in the top half of the field with one making it to Cleveland. Their 23% of the vote was solid for just seven participants – had they fielded eleven, they may have made the low 30s.
The Unity slate. In a race based as highly on name recognition as this one, not taking elected officials was destined to cut into overall success. Their Delegate field ran the gamut from third overall to 60th (of 61), with nine finishing in the top half and three of the top eleven Delegates. Overall they picked up 23.6% of the collective vote. On the Alternate Delegate side they placed seven in the top half and advanced four to the national convention – Marcus Alzona just missed making it five – scoring 33% of the Alternate Delegate vote.
The Cruz slate. Out of their 11 selections for Delegate, just six finished in the top half and only two in the top twenty – their best Delegate finisher was Deb Rey, who as I noted just missed the field in 12th. Collectively they picked up only 17.8% of the ballots. The news was a little better for the Alternate Delegates – although only three finished in the top 20, two of those made the Cleveland field. The Cruz crew got 23.8% of the Alternate Delegate vote overall.
So in terms of those going to Cleveland, the score was Trump 13, Unity 7, Conservative Club 6, and Cruz 2. This adds up to more than 21 because David Bossie was on both the Trump and Conservative Club slates, Kory Boone was on both the Conservative Club and Unity slates, Cynthia Houser was on both Trump and Unity, and Alirio Martinez, Jr. and Christina Trotta had the trifecta of Conservative Club, Unity, and Cruz. (No wonder Trotta finished third and Martinez eleventh.)
But how did the monoblogue Slate do? Here’s the list I voted for, which began with crossing out the Trump backers and most of the elected officials.
Don Murphy (3rd, Unity)
Deb Rey (12th, Cruz/CC)
Maria Pycha (14th, Cruz)
John Fiastro Jr. (16th, Unity)
Faith Loudon (19th, Unity)
Michael Smigiel (21st, Cruz)
William Campbell (22nd, Cruz)
Julie Brewington (27th, Cruz)
Gus Alzona (34th, Cruz)
Donald Frazier (40th, Cruz)
Patricia Fenati (43rd, Cruz)
Christina Trotta, 3rd (Cruz/CC/Unity)
Gloria Murphy, 6th (Unity)
Alirio Martinez, Jr., 11th (Cruz/CC/Unity)
David Dobbs, 18th (Cruz)
Chike Anayanwu, 21st (Cruz)
Daniel Lathrop, 23rd (Cruz)
C. Paul Smith, 25th (Cruz)
Samuel Fenati, 27th (Cruz)
Luis Puig, 29th (Cruz)
Nathan Weirich, 30th (Cruz)
Robert Charles, 34th (Cruz)
Combined the monoblogue slate received 22.6% of the total Delegate vote and 27% of the total alternate vote – not counting the 100% of the votes that mattered, which would be mine.
So I pray that these folks who are going to Cleveland make some wise decisions for us when it comes to the platform, rules, and even perhaps reconsideration of the presumptive nominee if he continues to drift away from what I’ve always understood to be Republican principles on all three legs of the conservative stool.
Having done this before and not been on any sort of slate, my advice to those of you wishing to try in 2020 is to get on one. Unless you have stratospheric name recognition in the party, it’s highly doubtful you’ll advance to the national convention based on past results. It’s a sad state of affairs that this process generally benefits the “establishment” but it is what it is, and the best way to combat it seems to be putting together a slate. Remember, the bottom half of this field was littered with non-slate hopefuls, distasteful as that may seem.
Author MichaelPosted on May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2016, Campaign 2016 - President, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, National politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags David Bossie, Deb Rey, Don Murphy, Donald Trump, Julie Brewington, Maryland GOP, Michael Smigiel, Ted Cruz, William Campbell
Tales of an election
So now that you know where I was on Election Night (thanks to Muir Boda) let me shine some light on our party. I’m the guy in the McDermott shirt; hopefully it wasn’t a jinx.
Unlike a lot of elections past, I did not work a poll. My outside job had tasks which a) had to be covered Tuesday and b) were up in Dover. I didn’t even get home until almost 8:00; fortunately knowing this a couple weeks in advance I could hold my nose and vote early.
Since I wanted a table to write notes on I sat next to Dr. Rene Desmarais, who has admirably remained in the fray despite his primary election loss. I hope the Hogan administration can use his health care expertise. He’s the guy at the laptop in the checkered shirt.
Taking my seat for a few minutes was Mike McDermott, who was anxiously looking at results and drawing attention.
Mike didn’t stay all that long. I figure he went home to see his supporters and share the bad news with them, since it was obvious from the get-go he wasn’t doing all that well. It turned out that Wicomico was the only one of the three counties Mike won, and it’s a margin which is pending absentees. The difference between Michael James in 2010 and Mike in 2014 seems to be that McDermott did poorly in Somerset County, which James carried but Mike lost by almost 700 votes.
Obviously there were a lot of people who craved information. Bob Culver (center, in white) and Joe Holloway (right) were awaiting results.
As it turned out, Culver erased a slight early voting disadvantage to rout incumbent County Executive Rick Pollitt by almost 3,000 votes, with just under 56% all told. Holloway had much less to worry about as his Democratic opponent withdrew after the primary and was not replaced by the local party.
The two pictured there were the conservative backbone of the local County Council, and hopefully two newcomers are going to maintain the proper direction.
Larry Dodd (in the arm sling) and Marc Kilmer are two of the three “new” Republican members of County Council, although Dodd represented District 5 for 4 years before Joe Holloway defeated him in the 2006 primary. Similarly, John Cannon left County Council after one term in 2010 to run unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Delegates before winning again last night. Thus, Marc Kilmer is one of just two “new” County Council members; the other being lone Democrat Ernest Davis, who was unopposed for the District 1 seat.
As it turned out, County Council maintained its 6-1 Republican edge. But there are definite things to look out for, as two of those Republicans openly backed Rick Pollitt for County Executive.
I don’t think Matt Holloway or John Hall will be opposed to the elected school board Republicans in Wicomico County have sought for years, only to be thwarted by Rick Pollitt and (especially) Norm Conway. Both those obstacles are no more; to his credit Jim Mathias has been supportive of the idea in the past and a Senate bill for the elected school board passed there in 2011. (Conway sponsored a House bill that passed in 2011, but did not in 2012 – nor did a Senate bill that year. No action was taken in 2013 or 2014.)
But Pollitt was quick to point out in debates and forums that four of the six Republicans voted for his latest budget. Two of them, Gail Bartkovich and Stevie Prettyman, did not seek another term, but Matt Holloway and John Hall were the other two. Beginning with the FY2016 budget, it may be a battle to get four votes on County Council if Matt Holloway and Hall maintain their big-spending ways.
I would also love to see the county’s speed cameras become a thing of the past, as Culver was the lone voice of reason to vote against their adoption. It’s called excising that line item from the budget.
The party itself was relatively well-attended, although I’m certain some candidates had their own gatherings. At its peak there were probably 50-60 people in the house.
But while the news was good on the county front, there’s no doubt the star of the show was one Carl Anderton, Jr.
At 9:45 Bunky Luffman, Anderton’s campaign manager, sidled up to me and predicted, “I think we’ve got it.” He explained a particular precinct where they were hoping to get 30% of the vote came in down by just 89 votes.
Anderton’s win, though, was just the tip of the iceberg. A lot of Titanic Democrats went down last night (with lifetime monoblogue Accountability Project scores shown):
After six terms, longtime Blue Dog Democrat Delegate Kevin Kelly in District 1B (mAP = 40) lost to Jason Buckel.
Delegate John Donoghue (mAP = 9), also a 24-year veteran, was ousted in District 2B by Brett Wilson.
In District 6, 9-year incumbent Delegate John Olszewski, Jr. (mAP = 16) lost his bid for the Senate seat held for 48 years by Norman Stone, Jr. (mAP = 28). Three-term Delegate Michael Weir, Jr. (mAP = 28) was also knocked off.
Longtime District 29 Senator (and onetime Congressman) Roy Dyson (mAP = 26) lost his bid for a sixth term to Steve Waugh. In that same district, 15-year veteran John Bohanon (mAP = 6) trails Deb Rey by 115 votes with absentees to count.
District 34’s Senate seat stayed in GOP hands as Bob Cassilly defeated Delegate Mary-Dulany James (mAP =14), who leaves after 16 years.
In District 35A, 20-year incumbent David Rudolph (mAP = 17) lost to Kevin Hornberger.
And we know about 28-year incumbent and committee Chair Norm Conway (mAP = 6) who lost to Anderton.
Most of the damage, though, came from the ranks of “moderate” Democrats. According to the monoblogue Accountability Project, these were the top 10 Democrats and here’s how they did.
Delegate John Wood, Jr. – retired, endorsed Larry Hogan.
Delegate Kevin Kelly – lost re-election.
Delegate Joseph “Sonny” Minnick – retired.
Senator Norman Stone – retired.
Delegate Michael Weir, Jr. – lost re-election.
Senator James DeGrange – won with 59% of vote.
Senator Jim Mathias – won with 52% of vote.
Senator Roy Dyson – lost re-election.
Senator John Astle – won with 51% of the vote.
Senator James Brochin – won with 52% of the vote.
Six out of the 10 won’t be back and only one of the remaining four won convincingly. Not knowing how most of those who defeated these incumbents will vote, the chances are the divide between the two parties will become more pronounced. Only a couple hardline Democrats (those 10 or less on the mAP) were losers last night, while McDermott was the only Republican to lose in the general election. In the respect that Democrats managed to get rid of two perpetual thorns in their side through redistricting (Mike McDermott and Don Dwyer) it was a success, but the GOP still picked up more seats than they did before the new districts were drawn in 2010.
So the stage is set for what should be a very intriguing (and hopefully, prosperous for this county and state) four-year term.
Finally, I want to go through a little of my thinking on these races. I was perhaps less optimistic than most about the outcomes because I figured Democratic turnout would be about where it was four years ago. But as it happens, turnout is going to be about 46%, which is a significant decline from the 54% posted in 2010. If the Democratic turnout followed that pattern it was about 10% less than I figured it would be, and those that were passionate enough to show up may likely have cast a number of votes for the GOP.
Simply put, the Democratic base didn’t show up. Whether it was disillusionment with the candidates or just a general apathy, it looks like the GOP filled the void, to the benefit of the state.
After it was all over, I spoke a little bit with David Warren, who came down here to run the Eastern Shore Victory Headquarters.
He pointed out two key factors that led to Hogan’s win: money from the RNC and Republican Governor’s Association, and the help – both financially and in volunteers – from the College Republicans, from the national level to all the phone calls made by the local Salisbury University CRs. “Teenagers and college kids get it,” said Warren.
David also praised the work of state party Chair Diana Waterman and Executive Director Joe Cluster, saying “what they did was phenomenal.” Similar praise was heaped by Warren onto Andy Harris, who put a lot of money into these local races and helped level the playing field.
Finally, I have one more statement. Eight years ago, it was said that:
(GOP leaders are) “going to be flying high, but we’re going to get together and we’re going to shoot them down. We’re going to bury them face down in the ground, and it’ll be 10 years before they crawl out again.”
I think we’re two years early, Mike Miller. Suck on that.
Author MichaelPosted on November 6, 2014 November 6, 2014 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2014, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Bob Cassilly, Bob Culver, Brett Wilson, Campaign 2014, Carl Anderton, David Rudolph, Deb Rey, Diana Waterman, Ernest Davis, Gail Bartkovich, James Brochin, James DeGrange, Jason Buckel, Jim Mathias, Joe Holloway, John Astle, John Bohanon, John Cannon, John Donoghue, John Hall, John Olszewski Jr., John Wood Jr., Joseph Minnick, Kevin Hornberger, Kevin Kelly, Larry Dodd, Marc Kilmer, Mary-Dulany James, Maryland GOP, Matt Holloway, Michael Weir Jr., Mike McDermott, Mike Miller, Norm Conway, Norman Stone, Rick Pollitt, Roy Dyson, Steve Waugh, Stevie Prettyman, Wicomico County Council4 Comments on Tales of an election
Anderton among Constitutional Conservatives for Maryland PAC endorsees
Yesterday the Constitutional Conservatives for Maryland PAC announced seven endorsements for the 2014 campaign. All seven of these candidates are Republicans and they are seeking office in most corners of the state, so I will cover them in district order. As a hint to what they are up against, I’m featuring the lifetime monoblogue Accountability Project (mAP) score for incumbents.
Robin Grammer, District 6. This Baltimore County district elected three Democrats in 2010 but only Michael Weir, Jr. (mAP = 28), who is seeking his fourth term, decided to run again. (John Olszewski, Jr. decided to run for the Senate seat of retiring Senator Norman Stone and Joseph “Sonny” Minnick opted to retire.) So two of the seats are open in a district which has elected moderate Democrats and just might be amenable to the GOP alternative.
Gordon Bull, District 12. Sliced between Baltimore and Howard counties, this used to be a 2/1 split district. But all three incumbent Democrats, who had a combined 52 years in office, decided to get out so the opening is there. Not the easiest territory but hopefully the district’s conservative voters can unite and sneak Bull into the top three.
Michael Ostroff, District 14. Ostroff certainly has a tough race. All three incumbents are running again: Anne Kaiser (mAP = 3), Eric Luedtke (mAP = 2), and Craig Zucker (mAP = 3) are in the race. But for Luedtke and Zucker, this is their first bid for re-election so the jury could be out on them – Ostroff provides a conservative alternative for MoCo voters.
Philip Parenti, District 27B. Some could write this race off because it’s in Prince George’s County, but a significant part of the 27B district lies in Calvert County, much friendlier to Republicans. It’s the eastern half of the old two-member District 27A, but shifted even a little more eastward into Calvert. Moreover, Parenti is up against a newcomer rather than an incumbent – James Proctor, Jr. is running in adjacent District 27A while Joseph Vallario, Jr. was redistricted himself to District 23B. So this is a winnable race as well.
Deb Rey, District 29B. St. Mary’s County has been trending more Republican over the last four years and the opponent is 15-year veteran John Bohanon, Jr. (mAP = 6). True, her section of the 29th district at the southern tip of St. Mary’s County has a Democratic voter advantage – but so does Wicomico County and we see how Republicans do there. This is a case where the Delegate may be a mismatch for the district in terms of voting record.
Sid Saab, District 33. Saab is in the catbird seat among these contenders. Two of the three incumbents in the newly-restored District 33 (it was a split district) are Republicans who have represented Anne Arundel County well – Tony McConkey (mAP = 82) and Cathy Vitale (mAP = 80) decided to stay on, while Robert Costa (mAP = 44) opted to leave after three terms. It created the opening for Saab, who should hopefully score about as well as McConkey and Vitale, if not better.
Carl Anderton, Jr., District 38B. Most of my readers should be familiar with Anderton, who’s running against a 28-year incumbent in Norm Conway (mAP = 6.) State Democrats tried to assist Conway by excising most of the geography of his old district, removing Republican-heavy Worcester County entirely and centering it in the Salisbury metro area. Voter registration would suggest it’s a leaning-Democratic district but in terms of registered voters it’s also the third-smallest in the state – so the candidate who can motivate best has an advantage and Carl is working extremely hard.
While this PAC isn’t wealthy by any means, they can throw a few hundred dollars into the coffers of each of these candidates should they so choose. But it’s more important to spread the word about these worthy conservative alternatives – imagine what the General Assembly would be like if all six won and pushed the GOP numbers tantalizingly close to 50. Even getting to 47 would be a victory as they could get around the committee process if all stick together.
So those who bought raffle tickets from the group should be pleased with the results.
Author MichaelPosted on October 14, 2014 October 14, 2014 Categories All politics is local, Campaign 2014, Delmarva items, Maryland Politics, Politics, State of ConservatismTags Anne Kaiser, Campaign 2014, Carl Anderton, Cathy Vitale, Constitutional Conservatives for Maryland PAC, Craig Zucker, Deb Rey, Eric Luedtke, Gordon Bull, James Proctor Jr., John Bohanon, John Olszewski Jr., Joseph Minnick, Joseph Vallario, Maryland General Assembly, Michael Ostroff, Michael Weir Jr., Norm Conway, Norman Stone, Philip Parenti, Robert Costa, Robin Grammer, Sid Saab, Tony McConkey1 Comment on Anderton among Constitutional Conservatives for Maryland PAC endorsees
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Last Updated: Friday, 12 August, 2005, 09:25 GMT 10:25 UK
Japan marks air crash anniversary
JAL's president vowed to maintain safety
The people of Japan are marking the 20th anniversary of the world's worst single-plane air disaster, in which 520 people died.
Japan Airlines President Toshiyuki Shimmachi joined 300 mourners on the remote mountainside in Gunma where the plane came down.
"I pledged strongly to the 520 souls that such a disaster would never be repeated," Mr Shimmachi said.
Bereaved families said prayers and lit a candle for each of the dead.
"I wish I could visit here every day to be with my daughters. I miss them deeply," Shingo Tabuchi, who lost three young girls in the crash, told the Japanese broadcaster NHK.
Japan Airlines Flight 123 - a Boeing 747 - was en route to Tokyo from Osaka on 12 August 1985, when it came down on the forested mountainside.
All but four people on board were killed.
Experts decided that the crash had been caused by faulty repairs by the US manufacturer Boeing, which staff at Japan Airlines had failed to detect.
"We vow firmly to maintain safety. This is our social responsibility," Mr Shimmachi was quoted as telling assembled mourners.
The crash anniversary comes soon after a series of safety lapses at Japan Airlines.
In June, the tyres of two front wheels of a plane came off during the landing of a domestic flight. In January, a pilot attempted to take off without being given the required approval from air traffic controllers.
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Last Updated: Monday, 13 March 2006, 19:22 GMT
Reducing troops, changing views
By Frank Gardner
BBC News security correspondent
British troops have come under increasing insurgent attack
The planned reduction of 800 British troops serving in Iraq announced by the UK Defence Secretary John Reid is not the first such withdrawal nor the biggest.
The Ministry of Defence says there have now been five such reductions and this is the largest since 2004. But it is significant.
The number of troops leaving Iraq amounts to a reinforced battalion, or 10% of UK forces deployed there on what the Army calls Operation Telic.
Officially, the reason given for this reduction is progress in Security Sector Reform (SSR), the process of training up Iraqi military units to maintain law and order and tackle any insurgents.
In recent months this process has been proceeding rapidly, with Mr Reid telling the House of Commons that Iraqi government forces numbering 230,000 are now trained and equipped, with a further 5,000 being added every month.
However, even in the Shia-dominated south-east of Iraq, where British forces are concentrated, the security situation is not as placid as British commanders would have liked.
Compelling reasons
British patrols have frequently been ambushed by deadly roadside bombs and there are signs that Iraqi police forces have been heavily infiltrated by militia factions.
The withdrawal amounts to 10% of British troop strength
But there are compelling strategic reasons why Britain wants to start "drawing down" (ie reducing) its military presence in Iraq.
The relatively small British Army is now heavily stretched by its commitments in the Middle East, the Balkans and now Afghanistan, where up to 5,700 troops will be deployed for the next three years.
There is also the question of Britain's global reputation, especially in the Arab and Muslim world where the US-led occupation of Iraq is deeply unpopular.
Despite the fact that Iraq's political leaders have yet to ask Western forces to leave, there is a widespread perception in the Middle East that Britain and the US want to remain in Iraq as "neo-colonial occupiers" intent on taking its oil.
Reducing British troop numbers, and in due course handing over security of the southern provinces to Iraqi forces, will go some way towards redressing that perception.
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where do you think North Korea's missile will land/hit ?
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In the structure of localized government, the single party responsible for fiscal budgeting also regulates generalized policies.
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"Lets get 'em boys!" is a quote from this highly stylized yet controversial movie.
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Sale Museums
Sale Historical Society
SALE MUSEUM
SALE SIGNAL BOX
SALE POWDER MAGAZINE
SALE WATER TOWER
NOTE: Sale Museum and Sale Water Tower Museum are closed until further notice. There will be no meetings for the present time.
Sale Historical Society was first formed in 1964. Although it then languished, acting secretary Stuart Ashton maintained a point of contact for collecting local history. Newspaper man Milton Lewis was the catalyst for its rebirth in November 1970. As the City of Sale gradually relinquished its former Foster St Council Chambers, the Sale Museum was born, opening in 1975.
The Museum has an extensive archive, a collection of local memorabilia, local Honour Rolls, Sale Council records and items on local businesses, events and identities.
The Museum, featuring changing exhibitions on the town and its businesses, is usually open from 1.30 pm – 4 pm each Wednesday and Sunday afternoon but is closed from 26 February until restoration work is completed.
The new Water Tower Museum is open from 2 – 4 pm each Saturday: admission a gold coin donation.
Meetings are held monthly on the second Thursday of the month except January and during some winter months (there will be no June or August meetings).
The next meeting of Sale Historical Society will be held on Thursday 12 March at Stratford to inspect conservation works to our baker’s cart.
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The Nancy Book
Joe Brainard
Essays by Ann Lauterbach and Ron Padgett, collaborations with Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan and more.
46 color & 32 b/w illustrations
There's also a Limited Edition
Brainard was a master of life’s microcomedies, the unheard laughter that courses through any truly alert consciousness. And Nancy, with that bow like a pulsating noodle in her frizzy hair, is as good a Descartes as any for our age.
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Every page of this book will make you smile or laugh—not with recognition but with startled joy. Joe Brainard took an unchanging icon of the American norm and inserted her into countless fashionable or scandalous context, subtly metamorphosing something that seemed eternal into absurdly contemporary forms. He is as funny as only a philosopher can be.
From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence. The Nancy Book is the first collection of Brainard’s Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page reproductions of over fifty works, several of which have never been exhibited or published before.
In The Nancy Book, Joe Brainard’s Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard’s Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality.
These works exude a beguiling balance of mischief and innocence, irreverence and wonder, spontaneity and calculation. Together they accumulate into a sophisticated and complex work of great wit and joy, rich with metaphor, and equal parts surprise and subtlety.
The Nancy Book also includes original essays by Ann Lauterbach and Ron Padgett as well as collaborations with luminary poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Frank Lima, Frank O’Hara, Ron Padgett and James Schuyler. The book was edited by Ron Padgett and Lisa Pearson.
JOE BRAINARD (1942-1994) left Tulsa at eighteen for New York City and soon became a part of the thriving downtown art scene and the New York School of poets and painters. Over his career, Brainard created a prodigious body of work, distinguished by its breadth, originality, and rare alchemy of sensuality and precision, sophistication and sweetness. Admired for his writing as well as his visual art, Brainard wrote the legendary and beloved memoir I Remember, which was hailed as “a masterpiece” by Paul Auster and inspired George Perec’s Je me souviens. His writings were recently published in 2012 by the Library of America in The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. His drawings, assemblages, collages, and paintings are in private and museum collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of America Art, and a major travelling retrospective was organized by the Berkeley Art Museum in 2001 and included a stop at MOMA P.S 1.
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The untold truth of Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Guthrie became co-anchor of NBC's Today show in July 2012. Since then, she's helped keep the morning show at the top of the ratings in the critical 25-54 age group demo, which drives the most lucrative ad rates. While Guthrie sometimes reveals tidbits about herself on the show, she generally keeps it professional, preferring to probe her interview subject's personal lives rather than revealing her own. So let's turn the tables on her and dive into the untold truth of this popular member of the press.
She was born in Australia
Though she grew up in Arizona, Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her family moved down under when her dad, Charles, was transferred there for his job, but they were back Stateside by the time Guthrie was 2 years old.
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"I have no memory of it because I was too young, but growing up and knowing that I was born in Australia was always this interesting exotic part of my history that I love," Guthrie told People.
In May 2015, she returned to her birthplace for the first time as part of Today's Mother's Day programming. Alongside her mom, Nancy Guthrie, Savannah took in the sights of the country, but also went on an emotional trip down memory lane, visiting her childhood home as well as Melbourne's Sandringham Hospital, where she was born. "I think seeing the very place you were born is not something most people get to do or see,” Savannah said. "To get to go back with my mom, it's just really special."
She's terrified of frogs
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Savannah Guthrie's unusual phobia first revealed itself in a 2011 Today show segment featuring a "country fair." The footage included a pretty innocent-looking bullfrog hopping around while Guthrie cowered in fear, pleading with Al Roker not to let it get near her. According to HuffPost, she later bravely participated in a "game of frog-jumping," although she still refused to touch an amphibian, instead spraying it with water to get it to move.
A few years later, talk show host and prankster, Ellen DeGeneres, took full advantage of Guthrie's frog fright by tossing a fake (but extremely realistic-looking) frog into her lap and then chasing her around the stage with it. "It's not real, so this is a way to get over it," Degeneres said.
"Well that worked, obviously," Guthrie sarcastically replied.
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She's a lawyer
It's fairly well-known that Guthrie is a lawyer. After all, she still holds the title of NBC News chief legal correspondent. What's lesser known is the fact that Guthrie absolutely crushed it in law school, earning her "Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude," according to AdWeek. She also aced the Arizona bar exam, receiving the top score when she passed it in 2002.
Guthrie's interest in law actually came after her start in broadcast journalism. According to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she had already been working at local affiliate TV stations in places like Butte, Mont. and Tucson, Ariz. when she was "inspired to apply to law school by watching the Simpson and Menendez brothers trials on Court TV." She then worked for a few years at "a white-shoe D.C. firm" before getting back in front of a camera for Court TV, then eventually NBC News in 2007, where she's worked ever since.
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Her first marriage only lasted four years
As of this writing, Guthrie is married to consultant and PR guru Michael Feldman. They wed in March 2014, and have two children together, a 3-year-old daughter, Vale Guthrie Feldman, and an 11-month-old son, Charles Max Feldman. Guthrie was previously married to BBC News producer Mark Orchard until, according to Radar Online, their marriage ended as dubiously as it began.
A National Enquirer story alleged Guthrie came between Orchard and his first wife, reporter Anne Kornblut of The New York Times. Radar reported that Guthrie and Orchard's 2005 marriage began to unravel relatively quickly, citing divorce documents that stated they were "living apart" in Washington DC by August 2008. The Hollywood Reporter said the split took place when Guthrie was working long, stressful hours as a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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Perhaps the drama surrounding her first marriage was the reason Guthrie and Feldman decided to keep their wedding (and first pregnancy) a secret until after they walked down the aisle.
She's a devout Christian
Guthrie shared in a 2017 profile for The New York Times that she is a practicing Christian who regularly attends Sunday service at Trinity Grace, a non-denominational church in Manhattan.
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"It's a casual church, and I can go in jeans or a simple dress," she said, adding, "Michael is Jewish and usually doesn't come with us so I take Charley and Vale there in our double stroller. The service is about an hour and a half. Vale sits with me in the beginning when the songs are going on, and then goes to Sunday school."
Guthrie previously discussed her faith in a blog for Guideposts, writing, "At 42, I'd been waiting my whole life to have a baby. Every time I woke in the night for a feeding or heard Vale sigh in her sleep, I felt a fresh rush of gratitude for this incredible blessing from God."
She also revealed that throughout the early, uneasy years of her career, she turned to the Bible, copying passages that "particularly spoke to her" into a notebook for future reference. She eventually filled three notebooks, but came to rely on a particular passage in times of stress.
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"Psalm 62:8, became my watchword: 'Trust in him at all times. Pour out your hearts to him,' Guthrie wrote. "I certainly did. I turned my loneliness, my frustration, my mistakes, over to God and told myself to be patient."
She cut her second maternity leave short for Today
Though it was announced that she would return from her 2017 maternity leave on March 3, Guthrie returned to the Today couch four days early, according to Page Six. Though she said she was "delighted" to be back, Guthrie also said, "Yesterday, I admit, I got a little weepy because it's a transition. It's the end of an era," apparently referencing her nearly three-month sabbatical after giving birth to her son.
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As for why she cut her leave a little short? Page Six said Today producers begged Guthrie to return to stave off a ratings slide they believed was triggered by her absence. "They needed Savannah to bail them out, so they rushed her from maternity leave. NBC claimed it was because of the influx of news, but the reality is that the show was down double-digits and they needed her," a source told the tabloid.
It was a surprising move for Guthrie to bend to the supposed whims of the Today show brass, considering her feelings towards her first maternity leave, which she blogged about in 2014. "The biggest surprise for me from maternity leave is how completely and totally I've been able to just check out and be consumed by this little baby and by family and what's happening at home, she wrote. "It's amazing and kind of transforming to give your mind and your heart and your soul a break from the crazy, busy world and just be focused on something that's so simple and true and from the heart. It's just been magical."
She's a diehard Philadelphia Eagles fan
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Though she was raised in Arizona, Guthrie and her entire family unabashedly root for The Philadelphia Eagles every Sunday during the NFL season. They even wear custom jerseys when cheering on The Birds, like any respectable member of Eagle Nation would.
The source of the rabid fandom seems to stem from Guthrie's husband. She once blogged, "Mike insists that [Vale] wear her Eagles jersey for every Eagles football game. One time I didn't put it on. The Eagles lost. Mike said, 'She will wear that Eagles jersey from here on out.' So I don't mess with it."
The real question is: how bad does Guthrie hate the Cowboys?
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She didn't get invited to the prom
During a Today segment (via Twitter) that featured the team sharing throwback prom photos, Guthrie had to share a picture from her 9th grade winter dance instead. She said she was "never invited" to her prom.
The show hosts shared their photos as part of a discussion about an Illinois high school that decided to institute a prom lottery, in which students were randomly assigned dates. Both Guthrie and Carson Daly—who also did not attend his prom—thought the lottery idea was great.
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Guthrie still feels some kind of way about her big dance snub. "Once you're there it's not like you're locked to that person, you can mix and mingle but I like that it involves everyone," she said, adding, "Again, not asked to prom so I think it's explained." Aww, poor Savannah!
She lost her father at a young age
During a 2016 Hollywood Reporter interview, Guthrie revealed that her father died of a heart attack while in Mexico on a "scouting trip" as part of his job as a mining engineer. She was a teenager at the time. "When you're 16, you think you're so grown up, but the first thing I thought was, 'We still need him,'" Guthrie said of the tragedy.
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Her faith helped guide her through the loss. In her blog for Guideposts, she wrote, "To me, at 16, it felt like a betrayal of everything I'd believed in. How could God let this happen to my dad—a good man who was only in his forties? How could he do this to our family?" Her anguish gradually led to acceptance. "Somehow, God comforted me," she wrote. "And there were blessings amid the grief. Mom found a job in public affairs at the University of Arizona, which made tuition more affordable for my sister and me. Both of us lived at home during our college years. We arranged our weekend plans so there was always one of us home with Mom."
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Guthrie has two siblings: a brother, Camron Guthrie, who is a pilot in the Air National Guard, and a sister, Annie Guthrie, who is a poet, as well as a teacher and marketing director at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. In 2014, Annie recited a poem she wrote for Savannah at her wedding, reported People.
In 2015, Savannah supported her sister's craft in a big way by proudly hosted a party to celebrate Annie's first book of poetry, The Good Dark, which took her 15 years to write. "I'm excited for the world to get a taste of the sister I know and grew up with in our little Brady Bunch family," Savannah told People. "Annie was always writing, always so interesting and deep and thoughtful." She added, "In college, we would take some of the same classes–like a humanities course–and Annie would read the same book twice because she was so interested and devoted, and I would barely read it at all."
Savannah's kids will have to wait a while to get acquainted with their aunt's work, as it explores some complex territory. "The book might be a little complicated for Vale right now, but when she's 25, she may be ready," Savannah joked.
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After rising to the top of the Today show in the '90s, Matt Lauer quickly became one of the most successful and enduring faces in morning news. But despite being part of the NBC family for more than 20 years, Lauer has also been consistently painted by the press as greedy, villainous, and selfish—the exact opposite of that friendly face everyone fell in love with all those years ago. In November 2017, Lauer's legacy was upended when he was suddenly fired from the network over sexual misconduct allegations. What happened to this once powerful journalist? Let's take a closer look.
He was terminated from Today for alleged sexual misconduct
After reporting on a recent wave of powerful men brought down by sexual harassment allegations, the longtime Today show anchor found himself among them when he was unceremoniously fired ahead of the show's Nov. 29, 2017 broadcast. The news of his termination came via a memo from NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack, which stated, in part, that NBC "received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer." The memo said that while there have been no other complaints about Lauer's behavior throughout his 20 years of employment with NBC, they have reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.
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At the top of Today's Nov. 29, 2017 broadcast, an emotional Savannah Guthrie, alongside Hoda Kotb, who was filling in for Lauer, announced the termination. Guthrie said everyone else at the program had just became aware of the firing prior to going on the air and that they were all "devastated" by the news. "For the moment, all we can say is we are heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and my partner," she said. "He is beloved by many many people here, and I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague that came forward to tell her story, and any other women who have their own stories to tell."
Did his behavior jeopardize Ann Curry's career?
Lauer's reputation with NBC has taken hits before. In New York magazine's in-depth feature on Ann Curry's messy 2012 exit from the Today show, author Joe Hagan speculates that Lauer's attitude and lack of on-air chemistry with Curry may have been a major contributing factor to her uncomfortable and very public downfall. "Lauer looked awkward and unhappy next to her [on air]—a situation that Lauer himself had also diagnosed," Hagan wrote. "He openly complained about her to NBC staffers and to [executive producer Jim] Bell."
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"It was obvious to Bell and others that Lauer wasn't trying hard enough to make it work with Curry because he simply didn't like her…" Hagan added. "With [former anchors Katie] Couric and [Meredith] Vieira, Lauer could be an easygoing straight man; with Curry, who threw off his rhythm and also threatened his dominance of the hard-news stories, he could often look sour."
Things reportedly got so bad that Lauer allegedly began "getting into fights with producers and tearing the show up in the early-morning hours," Hagan said. "He made it clear to friends that he was miserable with Curry and uncomfortable with his corporate masters at Comcast. He spoke often of downsizing his work life, playing more golf, spending more time with his kids in the Hamptons." How relatable.
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Although Lauer became more involved with the morning news show, around the same time, he was allegedly also flirting with the idea of leaving NBC and Today altogether—a double life within a double life, if you will. Part of the reason reportedly stemmed from a leaked report alleging that American Idol's Ryan Seacrest was gunning for Lauer's job. "So possibly as a negotiating tactic," Lauer "[had] begun working closely with [Jeff] Zucker to develop an idea for ABC: the Katie Couric daytime talk show with Matt Lauer—together again," Hagan wrote in his New York magazine piece. "Lauer met with Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, ABC's parent company, who made a strong effort to recruit Lauer."
"There were issues of both timing and money, but the larger corporate strategy was clear: If ABC could poach Lauer, then Today, NBC's cash cow, would fall from its perch, Good Morning America would be ascendant, and the entire NBC network would crumple like a house of cards," Hagan said. "The ABC deal, in its final form, would feature Lauer in a dual role: co-host of the daytime program with Couric and also as an ABC News personality." Man, that's like a plot line straight out of, well, House of Cards.
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Lauer wound up staying with NBC, and according to New York magazine, he signed a two-year deal that would earn him a record-breaking $25 million per year. The Today show would essentially be "rebuilt" around him. Talk about power. Lauer used ABC's offer as "a negotiating tactic," reported People, and Seacrest joined Today in a different capacity that didn't threaten Lauer.
As for Curry, New York magazine notes that Lauer's contract reboot did not directly lead to her ousting. Curry's name was reportedly not brought up during Lauer's negotiations, and he had supposedly been told in advance that she would be off the show whether he stayed or not, for reasons stretching well beyond their icy relationship, including a steep decline in the morning ratings. Still, the magazine piece alleges Lauer had more than enough leverage to save Curry, particularly given his newfound power—he just didn't use it. "To the contrary, in signing a new contract to remain at the show for at least two more years, he tacitly ratified the plan to remove her," Hagan wrote. "Which doesn't make him a horrible person—it makes him, for better or worse, a pro." Sure, but ugh. Ouch.
NBC agreed to pay for his own helicopter shuttle
Although his name got dragged through the mud after Curry's departure, Lauer weathered the storm—at least long enough to renew his contract for another two years in 2014. By that point, you'd think he would have developed a bit of humility, but no. According to Page Six, NBC News execs were desperate to keep Lauer happy. "They believe Today has turned a corner and he is the key to its continuing success," sources told the paper. How did they allegedly keep a smile on his face? Try this on for size: "They agreed to pay for his helicopter flights to the Hamptons and back, so he can spend more time with his family," a source said.
A spokesperson for the show didn't outright deny the report. "On rare occasions, Matt will fly home, but most of the time you'll find him stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway with everyone else," the rep told Page Six. Again, how relatable.
Did he scoop Billy Bush's breaking story?
Although freshly minted Today show member Billy Bush was the first to get the scoop on Ryan Lochte's alleged robbery during the Rio Olympics in August 2016, NBC quickly turned to Lauer to cover everything that happened next. How did that come about?
Some Page Six sources allege that "anchor animal" Lauer dove in and scooped up the story for himself. "Matt has a history of demanding interviews, and it's Billy's first big story as anchor," a source said. "It was his story. NBC snubbed Billy and let Matt do it. Billy got burned." A second insider added, "This is Matt's story now. Billy got it, but was pushed out." A third source claimed Lochte specifically requested to speak to Lauer because the veteran newsman had interviewed the swimmer multiple times in the past.
Well, if it's any consolation, Bush, the whole thing turned out to be a big, fat lie.
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Why did his wife file for divorce?
Lauer has been married to Annette Roque since 1998, and with three children, he's by all means a doting family man. Still, his seemingly perfect personal life reportedly almost fell apart in 2008 when Roque quietly filed for divorce. The split was called off about a month later, but no one knew about the trouble until 2014, when Radar Online got its hands on Roque's divorce papers.
In the documents, she reportedly alleged that Lauer endangered her "physical and mental well-being…so as to render it unsafe and improper" for her to live with him. She also claimed he "continuously and repeatedly [gave] higher priority to…personal interests than to his family obligations to [her], causing [her] to feel abandoned, isolated and alone in raising the parties' children." If that wasn't enough damning, Roque also alleged Lauer was "extremely controlling," to the point where she was unable to make "even the smallest decisions without his approval, including, but not limited to, decisions regarding finances, travel plans, decorating the parties' homes and domestic help issues."
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Was he having an affair with Natalie Morales?
Lauer's personal life was called into question again in 2016 when Page Six alleged that Natalie Morales was leaving Today for Access Hollywood because she and Lauer were having an affair. "There's speculation it's one of the reasons why she's moving…," a source said. "Matt didn't want to work with her," adding, "There's an awkwardness between Matt and Natalie…He protected her for a long time and now it seems like something has gone awry."
Both Lauer and Morales denied the gossip. Lauer told The Mike Lupica Podcast that he addressed the allegations in order to protect his family. "When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up," he said. "And then you put your head down and go back about your business."
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A year prior, Lauer also shot down rumors that he had an affair with celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis.
He moved seats mid-flight to get away from a passenger
Sitting next to Lauer on a plane might sound like a dream come true for some—so long as you don't annoy him with details about the funeral you just attended. According to Page Six, Lauer was traveling on a red-eye flight when a "mournful stranger in first class started telling him about an all-day funeral." Lauer reportedly got so annoyed, he requested a seat change during the flight. "Lauer asked a flight attendant, 'Is this a full flight?' He just wanted to get away from this weird guy and find a seat where he could sleep," a passenger said.
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Lauer supposedly wanted to move over to a section with two empty seats but was forced to sit next to Morales because the flight attendant had just upgraded two other passengers. "He sat down next to Natalie, put a blanket over his head and slept the whole way," the source said. It seems the anchor's on-air and in-the-air personalities may be miles apart.
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60,000 families will spend Christmas 2014 in emergency housing
More than 87,000 children will spend Christmas in emergency housing such as bed and breakfast accommodation, Labour warned today.
The party’s analysis of Government and council statistics showed that the cost of providing temporary shelter since 2010 is set to rise to almost £2.8bn by next May’s general election. It claimed a 260 per cent increase since 2010 in the number of families with children illegally housed in bed and breakfast accommodation for more than six weeks.
Overall, 60,940 families, including 87,420 children, are expected to spend the festive period in emergency accommodation this year, according to the research – a 20 per cent rise on four years ago.
Emma Reynolds, the shadow Housing Minister, said: “These figures show the scale of David Cameron’s failure to tackle the housing shortage which is central to the cost-of-living crisis.
“It is a tragedy that tens of thousands of families will be spending their Christmas in emergency accommodation but it is also costing the taxpayer more, with local authorities set to spend billions on emergency accommodation over this parliament because of the Government’s failure.”
Kris Hopkins, the Communities Minister, said: “This Government has increased spending to prevent homelessness, making over £500m available to help the most vulnerable in society and has kept strong protections to guard families against the threat of homelessness. Councils have a responsibility to move homeless households into settled accommodation as quickly as possible and statistics released recently show a significant fall in the number of families with children in bed and breakfast accommodation for longer than six weeks.”
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London – We are here at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, where the Harry Potter films were shot, among other works. Working at the studio today are a number of people who participated in that legendary franchise. There is the production designer for all eight films, Stuart Craig; producer of six of them, David Barron; and the director of four (five if you include the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Craig has also worked on), David Yates.
On this September 2014 day, however, Yates and company aren’t telling some improbable tale of a boy wizard, no, they’re telling the improbable tale of a boy who was raised by animals in the jungle and, as a man, finds himself back in that very same jungle to save the woman he loves. They are at work on The Legend of Tarzan featuring Alexander Skarsgard as the legendary vine-swinger. Also appearing in the movie are Margot Robbie as Jane; Christoph Waltz as the villainous Captain Rom; Djimon Hounsou as Chief Mbonga; and Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, who is working with our hero.
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Jeremy Butterfield
I am a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. My main research interests are philosophical aspects of quantum theory, relativity theory and classical mechanics.
Most of my papers from recent years can be found at the 'Los Alamos archive' (look under 'physics', 'quant-ph' and 'gr-qc'), or at the 'Pittsburgh Philosophy of Science archive'. A list of publications is here.
For links and more resources, go to: the Cambridge Quantum Information website, and the Oxford Philosophy of Physics website.
My best e-mail address is: jb56@cam.ac.uk
This webpage was last updated on 14 July 2007
Some Recent and Forthcoming Papers
Click on the following, to download as ps or pdf files.
‘On Symplectic Reduction in Classical Mechanics’, in J. Earman and JNB(eds.) TheHandbook of Philosophy of Physics, North Holland 2006; 1 - 131. Available
at: physics/0507194 and at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002373/
‘On Symmetries and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics’, in W. Demopoulos and I. Pitowsky (eds.), Physical Theory and its Interpretation, Springer 2006; 43 - 99; Available at: physics/0507192 and at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002362/
‘Against Pointillisme in Geometry’, in F. Stadler, M. Stoeltzner (eds.), Time and History; Proceedings of 28th International Wittgenstein Conference, Ontos Verlag 2006, 181-222. Available at: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002552/ or http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512063.
‘Against Pointillisme in Mechanics’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57, 2006, 709-754. Available at:http://philsciarchive.pitt.edu/archive/00002553/ or
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512064.
'The Rotating Discs Argument Defeated', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57, 2006, 1-45; http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002382
'On the Persistence of Particles', in Foundations of Physics, 35, 2005, 233-269; http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0401112; and http://philsci-archvie.pitt.edu/archive/00001586
‘On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter’, Los Alamos: physics/0406021: Pittsburgh: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001760/
‘Between Laws and Models: Some Philosophical Morals of Lagrangian Mechanics’, Available at: Los Alamos physics/0409030 and Pittsburgh http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001937/
'David Lewis Meets Hamilton and Jacobi', in Philosophy of Science, 71, 2004, 1095-1106; http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001191/.
'Some Aspects of Modality in Analytical Mechanics', in P. Weingartner and M. Stoeltzner (eds), Formale Teleologie und Kausalitat in der Physik, Mentis 2004, 160-198. Available at: http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0210081 and http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001192
'On Hamilton-Jacobi Theory as a Classical Root of Theory', in A. Elitzur, S. Dolev and N. Kolenda (eds.), Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?, Springer 2004, 239-273; Los Alamos archive: quant-ph/0210140 and http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001193
‘Topos Theory as a Framework for Partial Truth’, in P. Gardenfors, K. Kijania-Placek and J. Wolenski (ed.s), In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (volume 1), Kluwer Academic, 2002; 307-329; http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000192/
‘Some Worlds of Quantum Theory ’, in R.Russell, J. Polkinghorne et al (ed.), Quantum Mechanics (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action vol 5), Vatican Observatory Publications, 2002; 111-140. Los Alamos archive: quant-ph/0105052; Pittsburgh: 00000204.
‘The End of Time?’, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53, 2002, 289-330 (Ostensibly a review of J. Barbour, The End of Time, this is in effect a survey of some Machian themes in dynamics); Los Alamos archive: gr-qc/0103055; Pittsburgh: 00000104
'The State of Physics: Halfway through the Woods', The Journal of Soft Computing, 5, 2001, 129-130.
'Quantum Curiosities of Psychophysics', in Consciousness and Human Identity, ed. J. Cornwell, Oxford University Press, 1998; 122-157. Also at the Pittsburgh archive:00000193
Some Recent and Forthcoming Book Reviews
Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory by E. Joos, H.D. Zeh et al. in Philosophy of Science and Quantum Mechanics and its Emergent Macrophysics by G. Sewell, Philosophy of Science, 72, 2005, 395-399.
Alternative Logics: Do Sciences Need Them?, Paul Weingartner (ed.), in Contemporary Physics, 46, 2005, 57-58
'Relativistic Quantum Mechanics', by Hartmut M. Pilkuhn in Contemporary Physics, 45, 2004, 89.
'Quantum Dialogue: the Making of a Revolution', by Mara Beller, in Contemporary Physics, 43, 2002, 230-231.
'Quantum Chance and Nonlocality', by W.M. Dickson,in Philosophy of Science 68, 2001, 263-266.
'The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds', by J. Barrett, in European Journal of Philosophy 9, 2001, 230-233.
'The Philosophy of Physics', by R. Torretti, in Physics in Perspective, volume 4, 2000.
'The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics', D. Dieks and P. Vermaas eds., in Metascience 9, 2000, 489-494.
'Interpreting Bodies', E. Castellani ed., in Le Scienze 373, 1999, p. 412.
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The Philosophy of Thermal Physics
This course (given in 2000), available here, discusses the philosophical aspects of: first thermodynamics, and then statistical mechanics. The reading list is a separate file. (Again: the diagrams are missing: one day ...)
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Shale gas exploitation: Status, problems and prospect
by Emanuel Martin - September 15, 2018 October 4, 2018 0
Over the past five years, great progress has been made in shale gas exploitation, which has become the most driving force for global gas output growth. Hydrocarbon extraction from shale helps drive the USA on the road to energy independence. Besides, shale oil & gas production has been kept in a sustained growth by continuous improvement in drilling efficiency and well productivity in the case of tumbling oil prices and rig counts.
Wang Shiqian
Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610051, China
Received 8 May 2017; accepted 25 June 2017
Shale gas reserves and production have been in a rapid growth in China owing to the Lower Paleozoic Wufeng and Longmaxi shale gas exploitation in the Sichuan Basin, which has become an important sector for the future increment of gas reserves and output in China. However, substantial progress has been made neither in non-marine shale gas exploitation as previously expected nor in the broad complicated tectonic areas in South China for which a considerable investment was made.
Analysis of the basic situation and issues in domestic shale gas development shows that shale gas exploitation prospects are constrained by many problems in terms of resources endowment, horizontal well fracturing technology, etc. especially in non-marine shale deposits and complicated tectonic areas in South China where hot shales are widely distributed but geological structures are found severely deformed and over matured.
Discussion on the prospects shows that the sustained and steady growth in shale gas reserves and production capacity in the coming years lies in the discovery and supersession of new shale plays in addition to Wufeng and Longmaxi shale plays, and that a technological breakthrough in ultra-high-pressure and ultra-deep (over 3500 m buried in the Sichuan Basin) marine shale gas exploitation is the key and hope.
During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China learned successful experiences in “shale gas revolution” of North America and made great progress in the shale gas exploitation through sustained endeavor and field tests on the technologies to recover the Lower Paleozoic marine shale gas in the Sichuan Basin. Along with the successive discovery and confirmation of the Upper Oligocene Wufeng–Lower Silurian Longmaxi shale gas in the blocks such as Fuling, Weiyuan, Changning, and Fushun–Yongchuan in the Sichuan Basin, China’s shale gas reserves and production have grown vigorously from zero.
Up to the end of “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the cumulative proved marine shale gas reserves in China amounted to 5441 × 108 m3, and the production of marine shale gas in 2015 was 45 × 108 m3[1]. Shale gas has gradually become an important sector for the future increment of gas reserves and output in China, and made China one of the only four countries that have realized commercial development of shale gas around the world (Fig. 1) [1], [2], [3], [4].
Fig. 1. Shale gas production of four shale gas producing countries in 2015. Note: The data are sourced from Refs. [1], [2], [3], [4], and the data of USA refer to dry gas production.
However, continental and marine–continental transitional shale gas, which was believed to have a great potential in the shale gas investigation in the early “12th Five-Year Plan” period, was not satisfactorily explored and was deemed to be limited in potential. The continental and marine–continental transitional shale gas resources predicted in 2015 were much less than that in the early “12th Five-Year Plan” period, suggesting an uncertain prospect [5], [6].
During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, marine shale gas exploitation in the Sichuan Basin gained a significant breakthrough and the commercial productivity was realized soon after commissioning. Accordingly, the future shale gas exploitation in the periphery of the Sichuan Basin and even in the whole South China is highly expected. On one hand, the National Energy Administration (NEA) adjusts shale gas production in China at the end of “13th Five-Year Plan” period from (300–600) × 108 m3 to 300 × 108 m3, while some scholars propose that a target of 200 × 108 m3 by 2020 is more rational [5], [7].
On the other hand, an optimistic opinion considers a production of 300 × 108 m3 a little conservative and suggests defining the 45 × 104 km2 range covering Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei, including the Sichuan Basin, as a “Special Shale Gas Zone”. If so, China’s shale gas production by 2020 is expected to reach 1000 × 108 m3[8].
Anyway, all of these viewpoints are based on an optimistic prediction on shale gas in the whole South China, although exploration practices and research achievements in shale gas licenses during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period have revealed that shale gas exploitation in many complex structural areas in the South China, other than the Sichuan Basin, is susceptible to huge geologic risks and engineering challenges, and the economy of commercial shale gas development is also uncertain [5], [6], [9], [10].
However, it seems that some departments are too optimistic about marine shale gas exploitation in South China, especially in complex structural areas, when they make shale gas development planning, being less aware of the problems therein. Under this background, for the sake of orderly development of shale gas in the future, it is necessary to comprehensively review the current status of shale gas exploitation in China and abroad and identify the problems therein.
Basic situation and characteristics of shale gas development abroad
Shale gas exploitation has become the main driving force of global natural gas production growth
According to the EIA evaluation in 2013, globally, shale gas was extremely rich, and technically recoverable shale gas resources were up to 206.56 × 1012 m3[11]. Thus abundant shale gas resources laid a solid material foundation for the “shale gas revolution” in the North America. Although only four countries have realized the commercial shale gas exploitation (Fig. 1), it is believed that more and more countries will join the sector along with the technical progress and the constant improvement of policies, markets and infrastructures.
EIA’s prediction in 2016 [2] showed that the global daily natural gas production would increase from 97 × 108 m3 in 2015 to nearly 157 × 108 m3 in 2040, among which shale gas would make the greatest contribution – being tripled from 2015 to 2040, when shale gas production would account for 30% of global natural gas production, and China would rank as the second largest shale gas producer only after the USA. Besides the four countries producing shale gas, Algeria and Mexico will cooperate with IOCs to produce shale gas commercially around 2020 and 2030 respectively. By 2040, these six countries will totally contribute 70% to global shale gas production. Clearly, future natural gas production growth mainly relies on shale gas, and global shale gas production growth mainly depends on China and the USA. In China, key shale gas production and breakthrough are expected in the marine shale areas in the southern part of the country [1].
Shale oil/gas exploitation has led the USA towards energy independence
In the USA, since the discovery of Barnett shale gas play in the early 1980s, 13 shale oil/gas plays have been put into commercial development [12], and shale gas development has grown swiftly especially from the beginning of the 21st century. The substantial growth of natural gas production in the country is mainly contributed by shale oil/gas. The annual production of shale gas (only dry gas) increased quickly from nearly 100 × 108 m3 in 2000 to nearly 4000 × 108 m3 in 2015, accounting for 50% of the total annual natural gas production in the USA [13].
The Annual Energy Outlook 2016 of EIA [3] shows that the imported natural gas of USA was 283 × 108 m3 in 2015, and the supply and demand were basically in balance, with a difference of only 3%; it is anticipated that in 2018 the USA will become a net exporter of natural gas for the first time since the 1950s, and in 2040 the gap between the oil production and consumption in the USA is only 7%, and the daily import only is 1.5 million barrels. Therefore, the USA is now realizing energy independence by virtue of scale exploitation of shale oil/gas. In the past years, under the circumstance of tumbling oil prices, some new characteristics are observed in shale gas exploitation in the USA.
1) Shale gas production in the USA can still increase stably year by year under the circumstance of tumbling oil price, and will keep the trend of stable growth in the following years (2016–2040) [3]. This is benefited from the unique and unduplicated resource and market conditions in the USA as well as the constant progress of the low-cost high-efficient shale oil/gas development technologies [13], rather than the so-called industrial policy guidance, support or stimulation highlighted by the domestic opinions.
2) Since the beginning of the 21st century, especially in the low oil price period, the rapid and sustained development of shale gas in the USA firstly benefited from the rich and highly endowed shale gas resources. Due to the development technology and practices in the Barnett shale gas play which was first developed, “shale gas revolution” spreads quickly throughout the USA, resulting in more and more shale gas discoveries in the petroliferous basins. In 2014, the technically recoverable shale gas resources exceeded 17 × 1012 m3, and the proved reserves reached 5.65 × 1012 m3[6].
According to the EIA data announced in 2016, there are seven shale gas plays (namely the first seven gas plays from left to right in Fig. 2) with an annual production exceeding 200 × 108 m3 in the USA, among which four large shale gas plays (i.e. Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Barnett) delivered an annual production more than 300 × 108 m3, accounting for 70% of the total shale gas production in the USA.
Fig. 2. Annual production of major shale gas plays in the world. Note: The data abroad are sourced from Refs. [14], [15], and the domestic data from Ref. [1]. Except for the Monteney and Muskwa shale gas plays in Canada of which the production data are shale gas production from 2011 to 2012, those of other plays are the data in 2015.
In addition, owing to the sharing of shale gas exploitation experiences among oil companies and the duplication of advanced technologies, the period that shale gas play can be put into scale production is greatly shortened. The horizontal drilling and completion technology and gas reservoir management experience developed in the Barnett shale gas play are copied in other plays successfully with better results.
The data statistics show that the Fayetteville shale gas play in the Arkoma Basin commissioning in 2007 reaches a daily production of 2700 × 104 m3 that takes 22 years in the Barnett shale gas play. The Haynesville and Marcellus shale gas plays developed after Barnett have exceeded the highest annual production of 500 × 108 m3 of Barnett in 2011 and 2012 respectively, and replaced the overlord of Barnett that yields the highest production in the first decade of the 21st century.
3) Hughes analyzed 65000 shale gas production wells and found that the shale gas production decline rate ranged from 23% to 49% on average in the first year of production in seven shale gas plays including Barnett, and from 80% to 90% in the first three years [16]. Therefore, in order to keep shale gas production stability, it is required to drill new wells to make up the rapid production decline of old wells. However, when the oil price goes down, oil companies will inevitably lessen the rigs to reduce the shale oil/gas development cost. According to the data published by Baker Hughes, the number of rigs in the USA decreased from 1859 in November 2014 to 951 in April 2015, while shale oil/gas production didn’t descend but ascended [17].
Under the situation of falling oil price and reducing rigs, oil companies took some effective measures to realize stable production growth and low cost of commercial development. First, they focused the development on the high-quality resources in the “core plays”. Through integrated geological-engineering evaluation on shale gas, they selected the “core plays” with higher production and better profit for exploitation. They deployed the limited rigs in the “core plays”, so as to avoid a great decline of shale oil/gas production because of less drilling workload. Second, they reduced expenditure and improved operation efficiency. Some oil companies reduced the quantity of staff and rigs, and allocated the remaining staff and rigs to high-quality projects, so drilling time-efficiency was greatly enhanced.
According to the statistics [17], the drilling time in the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin shale gas plays was shortened by 5–10% and 20% respectively. The rigs in the Heynesville shale gas play in 2015 was less than the oddments in 2011, and the production declined by 40%, but the shale gas production efficiency in 2015 was higher than that in 2011. What’s more, the drilling time-efficiency in the major shale gas plays, such as Bakken, Marcellus and Eagle Ford, improved greatly in recent years, with the exploitation cost declining year by year [18]. In the Marcellus shale gas play, the rig number dropped from 144 in 2012 to 98 in 2015, but the production was more than doubled.
Third, they effectively reduced the production cost by technical innovation. Under the situation of tumbling oil price, many oil companies devoted to realizing higher production with less wells by virtue of new technologies and new methods. The enhancement of shale oil/gas production per well brought the improvement of economic profit. In terms of drilling operation, a platform well-plant mode was adopted with the support of intelligent rigs with a dual fuel translation system, which greatly shortened the drilling period and reduced the drilling cost. In terms of stimulation treatment, the technologies of horizontal well “zipper” fracturing and re-fracturing were usually adopted; with optimized well track and completion techniques, single-well EUR increased distinctively.
Production practices demonstrate that these measures are effective in the low oil price era and can reduce the break-even price year by year for a majority of shale oil/gas plays in the USA [18]. For example, the single well cost in the Heynesville shale gas play ranks the highest (almost USD10 million [12]) in the large shale gas plays in the USA, but the operation cost reduced by about 25% through technical innovation. The statistics show that the gas price at the break-even point in the Heynesville shale gas play generally declined by USD0.3–0.4/1000 ft3 (1 ft3 = 0.0283168 m3, the same below) from 2014 to 2015, or even by USD0.5/1000 ft3 in some plays.
4) According to the 2016 outlook of EIA [3], the rising tendency of shale gas production in the USA will continue to 2040. Shale gas production growth in the USA at present and in the future is mainly contributed by two shale gas zones in the eastern Appalachian Basin, i.e. Marcellus and Utica, which produced shale gas of about 1650 × 108 m3 in 2015, accounting for 43% of the total shale gas production in the USA, and will exceed 50% in 2040, when daily production reaches 11.32 × 108 m3.
5) When it comes to the future of shale gas, some independent agencies in the USA hold the opinions quite different from the prediction of EIA. A research team consisting of 12 geologists, reservoir engineers and economists from the University of Texas at Austin conducted a systematic research on four shale gas plays (Marcellus, Heynesville, Fayetteville and Barnett) for three years.
The team adopted a production prediction method with a precision at least twenty times that of EIA prediction, and concluded that the gross shale gas production of these four plays will reach a peak in 2020 and then decline rapidly, and only half of the EIA predicted production in 2030 [19]. This is apparently pessimistic in comparison with the predictions of EIA and Goldman Sachs etc. The Post-Carbon Institute also analyzed the production decline in five shale gas plays including Marcellus and concluded that the prediction of EIA is over optimistic [16] and that the prediction of the Institute on shale gas production in the USA from 2014 to 2040 is 46% lower than that of EIA.
Although there are shale gas resource discoveries in some host countries, commercialization is still a long way to go
In the early 21st century, the commercial triumph of shale gas exploitation in the North America rapidly spread to other countries with rich shale gas resources, such as Poland with special geo-politic meaning in Europe, Mexico and Argentina in Americas, South Africa in Africa, China and India in Asia, and Australia etc. [11] except a few countries like China and Argentina where commercial development of shale gas has been initiated, other countries are just slow and even stagnant in the development of shale gas, although they have obtained discoveries in shale gas exploration [20].
According to shale gas drilling and evaluation, the predicted shale gas resources are very rich in some countries, but their shale gas resource endowment is far less than USA. In addition to complex geological conditions, these countries lack shale gas exploitation technologies and experiences, well-trained and qualified professionals, drilling/fracturing facilities and surface facilities. Furthermore, there are no competitive service markets.
As a result, shale gas development effect is not up to the expectations and the drilling cost is too high. In such countries as Mexico and Australia, the commercial development of shale gas has not been initiated even after shale gas discoveries are made. Because the anxiety about the wastewater treatment and environmental impact as well as earthquake induced by fracturing cannot be eliminated, some European countries, such as France and Sweden, don’t support shale gas development or limit the application of shale gas fracturing with laws and regulations.
As is known, the predication of shale gas resources or production is controlled by prediction methods, precision and assumptions etc. As mentioned above, the global shale gas resources published by EIA from 2011 to 2013 are doubted to some extent [9], [16], [19]. Some countries that were deemed with rich shale gas resources in the evaluation of EIA sharply lowered their expectations of shale gas exploration after preliminary drilling and evaluation. Poland is one of the most active countries developing shale gas in the world, and it launched five shale gas projects including the Baltic Basin early in 2010, attracting the participation of many IOCs. After the IOCs, such as Chevron and Exxon Mobile, drilled many exploratory wells, the testing productivity was low and could not reach the industrial standard, hence shale gas development in Poland was suspended. Considering the shale gas development effect lower than the expectation and the lower limit of TOC > 2%, EIA reduced the technically recoverable shale gas resources in the Lubin Basin of Poland from 1.25 × 1012 m3 in 2011 to 0.25 × 1012 m3 in 2013 [11] (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3. Shale gas resource evaluation by EIA from 2011 to 2013. Note: Data in the histogram are sourced from Ref. [11].
Shale gas resources in Poland predicted by Polish Geological Institute were not up to 1/10 of EIA’s prediction in 2011 [19]. According to the prediction of EIA in 2011, the technically recoverable resources of Alum shale gas in Norway were 2.35 × 1012 m3. Shell drilled three exploration wells in the Alum shale with better geologic conditions in Sweden, but failed to get any gas. It is thus inferred that the commercial success upon the complicated Alum shale gas in Norway is not as good as the previous prediction, and in the global shale gas resource evaluation report published by EIA in 2013, the technically recoverable shale gas resources in Norway were cut down to none (Fig. 3).
Therefore, the results of shale gas resource evaluation conducted in the play evaluation and selection period will be ultimately verified by drilling and dynamically adjusted or revised with the E&D progress to suit the E&D practice. Overestimate on shale gas resources will possibly bring about an over-high expectation on the shale gas future. Thus the exploration commitment and investment as well as the E&D index will be increased, resulting in a giant waste of human resources and materials. The evaluation result of shale gas resources in Poland by EIA is a typical example, and there is the same problem in China (to be elaborated later).
Basic situation and problems of domestic shale gas development
Remarkable shale gas progress in the “12th five-year plan” period and a long-way-to-go future development
Shale gas exploitation in China started from the Lower Paleozoic marine shale in the Sichuan Basin in 2009, and rapidly spread to marine, continental and marine–continental resources in South China and even the whole country in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period. Especially, under the guidance of many shale gas policies issued by the government, an upsurge of shale gas exploitation emerged with the guidance of governments at all levels, participation of multiple investors, and engagement of non-oil enterprises like power and coal enterprises, thereby a rapid development of shale gas industry in China has been promoted.
In the 44 shale gas exploration license blocks (including 21 bidding blocks) covering an area of 14.4 × 104 km2, triggered by the exploration evaluation in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, breakthroughs have been made in terms of marine shale geologic evaluation method, drilling/completion and fracturing technology, and shale gas reserves and production management [1]. Some departments and scholars have summarized the major achievements in China [1], [5], [6], [21], which will not be repeated herein. The authors proposed the following remarkable characteristics from different aspects.
Multiple policies, quick implementation and great investment
Since shale gas was listed as an independent mineral category at the end of 2011, relevant authorities have issued some policies successively, such as Shale Gas Development Program, Shale Gas Development and Utilization Subsidy Policy, and Shale Gas Industry Policy, in order to encourage and speed up domestic shale gas development. Some local governments owning shale gas resources also have issued documents related to shale gas exploitation and industry development in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, where shale gas is regarded as an important industry to promote the local economic development and boost GDP growth, and they set up shale gas development companies.
In addition to CNPC, Sinopec, CNOOC, and Yanchang Oil, more than 10 investors including some private enterprises are attracted in shale gas exploitation through two rounds of shale gas license bidding. Compared with other countries and conventional oil/gas or coalbed methane (CBM), the Chinese government provides a really grand support to the shale gas industry. The main possible factors controlling shale gas development in the future are not related to policy or mechanism.
Up to the end of 2015, the national cumulative investment was RMB36.5 billion, including RMB1 billion from central and local finances as well as RMB2 billion from the bid-winning enterprises, and the remaining is all from oil companies. However, in terms of the input–output, all investments were not recovered with shale gas production, expect for the oil companies’ RMB33 billion which corresponded to a cumulative shale gas of 60 × 108 m3[21]. Under the current technical and market conditions, domestic shale gas exploitation is featured by large input, high risk, long return period, slow effect and low profit; some local governments or non-oil companies regard shale gas as an important industry to gain commercial profit, which isn’t a smart choice.
Rapid production of marine shale gas within the basin, and successful “testing ignition” outside the basin
During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, petroleum and petrochemical enterprises closely followed the progress of shale gas exploitation technology in the USA, and actively developed unconventional oil/gas business. They quickly initiated and increased the investment in the Paleozoic marine shale gas exploration and development in the Sichuan Basin, and finished the construction of three national marine shale gas demonstration areas (Changning–Weiyuan, Fuling and Zhaotong) with an annual productivity of 75 × 108 m3.
The great growth of shale gas reserves and production brought about the exploration and development technologies for marine shale gas below 3500 m and the profitable exploitation of marine shale gas. Nevertheless, in some deeply buried shale gas strata (below 3500 m) inside or around the Sichuan Basin or in the complicated tectonic areas, exploitation faces dual challenges of both technology and economy.
According to the national shale gas resource investigation results [22], the central finance, local governments and bid-winning enterprises have invested more than RMB 3 billion in shale gas exploration and development in South China with rich resources, in addition to the Sichuan Basin, including over 50 exploration wells. Unfortunately, there is no commercial discovery made, except for the lately reported Well Anye 1 [23] in northern Guizhou and a few exploration wells which delivered a little shale gas flow (not up to the standard of industrial gas well).
Over 3–4 years, the efforts in many shale gas blocks remained to demonstrate “whether there is hot shale or not” and “whether the shale contains gas or not”, but no recoverable shale gas resources under the current technical and economic conditions were confirmed and no block of shale gas with commercial value was found. Facing the huge financial pressure and investment risk as well as “crop failure”, many shale gas enterprises were impaled in a dilemma and difficult to take a step.
No substantial breakthrough in the exploration of continental and marine–continental shale gas
When marine shale gas in South China advances intensively, the Geological Survey of China (GSC) and some prospecting and oil companies actively conduct shale gas exploitation in favorable zones of continental and marine–continental facies with a great potential, which lives up to great expectations. In recent years, the drilling results in the Carboniferous–Permian and Triassic–Jurassic coal beds as well as lacustrine sand-mudstone in the southern North China, the Ordos Basin and the Sichuan Basin show that except some exploration wells with low-yield shale gas flow after fracturing, a great majority of wells only reveal “good gas shows in testing”, “high desorption gas or gas content” and “successful flaming or ignition” [21], with no substantial breakthrough.
The Jurassic and Upper Triassic formations are key targets for continental shale gas exploitation in China. The Jurassic is dominant among all the formations with recoverable shale gas resources up to 5.54 × 1012 m3[22], mainly in the northwestern China and the Sichuan Basin. In the Yan’an National Continental Shale Gas Demonstration Area, for example, there are tens of wells, but only half of them have obtained gas after fracturing; horizontal well production is generally only (0.4–0.8) × 104 m3/d in testing, and the wells can’t be put into formal development due to unstable production and quick decline; at present, only one gas well is producing for power generation [6], [21].
This can be proved by the fact that this area is classified as an “evaluation breakthrough region” rather than a “key productivity building region” in the “13th Five-Year Plan” [1]. Well Chaiye 1, one of the important shale gas discoveries in 2014, is the first well drilled to develop continental shale gas in Jurassic in the Qaidam Basin [21], and it reveals three sets of shale interval with high gas content and cumulative thickness of 141 m, of which the site desorption gas content is up to 2–5 m3/t, the highest shale gas content is about 9m3/t, and the core desorption gas is successfully “ignited”.
According to the data of GSC, sand fracturing was carried out in two sets of gas-bearing shale with a total thickness of 60 m and the highest gas content, but there was no gas flow during the flowback. Some discoveries even found some wells (mostly unstimulated vertical wells) widely reported domestically with high yield of shale gas in continental or marine–continental formations, which should be assigned to tight carbonate gas or tight sandstone gas, are collectively incorporated into the achievements of shale gas, since sandstone (or carbonate rock) and shale are interbedded or superimposed in continental or marine–continental formations [9].
Although there were attempts on the shale gas exploitation in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Fm and Lower Jurassic Ziliujing Fm in the Sichuan Basin during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, and even the Jurassic continental shale gas exploitation in the Fuling block was earlier than that of the Longmaxi marine shale gas, no breakthrough has been made or no scale productivity has been built due to shale gas resource endowment, horizontal well fracturing, and production testing performance in continental formations.
Shale gas exploitation in the complex tectonic areas in South China
During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, 17 coal-fired power-dominated winners in the first and second rounds of bidding for shale gas licenses conducted shale gas exploration in 21 blocks covering an area of 2.4 × 104 km2. Particularly, 19 of these blocks were marine shale gas blocks in the complex tectonic areas in South China, outside the Sichuan Basin. Under the “13th Five-Year Plan”, key substituting blocks for future shale gas exploitation are concentrated in marine shale gas blocks in the complex tectonic areas in South China, with the target being unexceptionally the Wufeng–Longmaxi [1].
All these blocks are beyond their three-year exploration period, but no enterprise has completed (and actually cannot complete) its original exploration obligations, and two winners in the first round were even penalized economically. Practices show that these shale gas blocks are basically featured by presence of shale without gas, or no gas flow, or no commercial flowrate, and investment without return, making the enterprises impaled in the dilemma. In order to better arrange the work during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period and thereafter, it is necessary to review the exploitation operations over the past years and figure out the problems.
“Rich shale” meaning no “rich shale gas”
One of the achievements in drilling geological information wells, reference wells and exploration wells in the shale gas blocks in South China lies in the wide distribution of black hot shale in the Wufeng–Longmaxi and Lower Cambrian Niutitang formations. In fact, such distribution was previously confirmed in field geological surveys and hydrocarbon prospecting, and a lot of research results in relation to black graptolite shale and source rocks were accumulated [24], [25].
According to the drilling results in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the black hot shale (TOC ≥ 2%) in the Wufeng–Longmaxi and Lower Cambrian Niutitang formations in the complicated tectonic areas in South China is characterized by great thickness, high organic abundance, high evolution degree, and good reservoir physical properties, brittleness and gas-bearing potential. Therefore, these areas have good shale gas exploitation conditions and prospects [26], [27], [28].
Undoubtedly, some blocks are even comparable to the producing shale gas demonstration zones in the Sichuan Basin (e.g. Jiaoshiba in Fuling, Changning and Weiyuan) in terms of static geologic indexes, especially the high-quality Niutitang/Shuijingtuo shale which has remarkable thickness and organic abundance (Table 1). However, rich shale doesn’t mean rich shale gas. Numerous drilling results in the Youyang, Xiushan, Baojing, Fenggang and Zheng’an blocks show that the gas in the Niutitang hot shale is not methane but nitrogen. In the drilled blocks, the nitrogen content of almost 70% of Lower Cambrian black shale is more than 90%. Because of the complicated tectonic conditions in South China, gas presence in black shale is complicated.
For example, Well Tianxing 1 in the Cengong block revealed a low-yield gas flow (with methane content ranging from 76% to 81%) through liquid nitrogen drainage and swabbing after vertical well fracturing in the Niutitang formation, while Well Tianma 1 about several kilometers away demonstrated a dominance of nitrogen (more than 95%) in the Niutitang formation. Furthermore, in some wells in Zhantong and Changning blocks, the Niutitang black shale has a low gas content (<0.5 m3/t) although it has a large thickness (40–50 m) and high organic content (TOC > 3% on average); the gas is mainly nitrogen, and no gas flows out after fracturing.
aThis table is compiled with references [26], [27], [28], [29] and other data. bQuartz + feldspar content. cChangning/Weiyuan.
Table 1. Characteristics of hot shale in marine shale gas blocks in South China.a
General existence of gas in shale but with limited recoverable resources
According to the petroleum geologic theory, shale gas is the residual in-place gas after natural gas generated in source rocks under temperature and pressure conditions is expulsed and migrated (Fig. 4). Therefore, conventional oil/gas is also called “outside-source oil/gas”, and shale oil/gas is called “inside-source oil/gas”. Once source rocks reach a certain maturity, some residual gas always exists, no matter what the expulsion and transport conditions are.
Fig. 4. Pattern of hydrocarbon generation, expulsion and evolution and formation of shale oil/gas (according to the technical communication with Conoco Phillips, 2013).
Accordingly, during the drilling operations of all shale gas wells, both inside and outside the basin, there are always oil/gas shows in the high GR black shale intervals, such as anomaly in gas logging, increased gas content and even well kicking, and other common phenomena such as gas flow-out when cores are taken out, bubbling in the water and ignition of gas desorbed on site. However, these ubiquitous “shale gas shows” are widely reported as great discovery or breakthrough that can prove the “presence of shale gas”. Theoretically, the “presence of shale gas” is not necessarily proved by wells consistently, but can be confirmed with basic oil/gas geology. The “presence of shale gas” should not be deemed as an indicator for success of shale gas exploration.
The practices of marine shale gas exploitation in South China have proved that either good shows, or high gas content, or “successful ignition” doesn’t mean industrial gas flow after fracturing. By far, many enterprises have carried out hydraulic fracturing tests in the target intervals with high shale gas parameters and good gas presence (Table 2), but haven’t obtained industrial shale gas flow from either vertical wells or horizontal wells. The drilling of Well Wuxi 2 in the Dabashan arc fold thrust zone shows that hot black shale with TOC > 2% is nearly 90 m thick, including 51 m shale with TOC > 3%, and 59 m shale with gas content > 2 m3/t, and the highest gas content exceeds 8 m3/t [30].
Moreover, water boiling is observed after the core is soaked in water, and the gas-bearing potential is even better than that in the developed blocks (Table 1). However, the exploration wells deployed near Well Wuxi 2 by oil companies in recent years suffered geological complexities during drilling and failed to obtain any commercial discovery after horizontal well fracturing. In Well Qianye 1 drilled earlier near the Qianjiang block, “successful ignition” after fracturing was realized, but many wells drilled in this block and the adjacent Youyang block showed “outcrop failure”.
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It was an otherwise beautiful, balmy Friday in Hong Kong, if it weren’t for the cross-Channel divorce that put the world under a dark cloud of fright and disbelief. Asia was the first to be hit by the Brexit shock wave. BBC News declared victory for the Leave vote at roughly 11:45am Hong Kong time – hours before London opened – and sent regional stock markets into a tailspin. The shares of HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, both listed on the Hong Kong Exchange, plunged 6.5 and 9.5 per cent, respectively... It ended in divorce ________________________ This article appeared in the 29 June 2016 print edition of the South China Morning Post . Read the rest of it on SCMP.com as " After Brexit, Hong Kong voters should take a careful look at what our own localist parties are really selling localist politics ." As published in the print edition of the South China Morning Post
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America is a bizarre country. To be an American — or to live in America — is to accept a few things that defy common sense. For starters, pizza is considered a “vegetable” under federal law. Two tablespoons of tomato paste on the dough is enough to make the pie healthy enough to be served at every public school cafeteria. Speaking of health, emergency rooms across the country routinely turn down trauma patients who fail to produce proof of health insurance. Facing skyrocketing healthcare costs , the uninsured are left for dead and the insured are worried sick about rising deductibles and annual premiums. Not bizarre enough? Here's another good one: gun shootings have become so commonplace that the evening news no longer reports them unless they are deemed a “shooting rampage.” And each time after a massacre, gun enthusiasts line up outside Wal-Mart to stock up on assault weapons for fear of tougher gun laws. That’s right, in America you can buy a military-style semi-automatic rifl
Dining Out... - Part 1 出街食-上卷
The Michelin Guide published its first Hong Kong/Macau edition in 2009. Since then, the little red book has sparked spirited debate and sometimes even nationalistic rumblings among citizens. Hong Kongers balk at the idea of a bunch of foreigners judging our food, when most of the undercover inspectors sent by the guide can’t tell a fish maw from a fish belly or know the first thing about dun (燉), mun (焖), zing (蒸), pou (泡) and zoek (灼) – to name but a few ways a Chinese chef may cook his ingredients with steam. For many of us, it seems far wiser to spend the HK$200 (that’s how much the guide costs) on a couple of hairy crabs currently in season than on a restaurant directory published by a tire manufacturer. The launch Food is a tricky business. It confounds even the most sophisticated of cultures and peoples. The English and the Germans, for instance, excel in everything else except for the one thing that matters most. Young nations like America, Australia and Canada..
The Art of Profanity 粗口藝術
We react to life’s little vicissitudes – nicking the car door, dropping the phone on a concrete pavement or losing hours of work to a computer crash – with a curse word or two. If some brute walks by and knocks the coffee right out of our hand, the appropriate response is: What the fuck? Swearing is one of those things that we do everyday and nearly everywhere. But like breaking wind and picking our nose, profanity is only bad when someone else does it. Most of us are too squeamish or sanctimonious to own up to it. Rarely in the human experience has something so universally shared been so vehemently condemned and denied. Turning society into a nanny state Profanity exists in every culture. Curse words are the first vocabulary we learn in a foreign language and the only one we remember years later. The linguistic phenomenon can be traced as far back as Ancient Egypt and Babylon. Literary giants like William Shakespeare, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw were known to u
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Born in Hong Kong, Jason is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Europe and various cities in the United States and Canada before settling back in his birthplace to rediscover his roots. Jason is a news columnist, a bestselling author, a practicing lawyer and an adjunct law professor. He is the President of PEN Hong Kong and a member of the Progressive Lawyers Group. Jason lives in Hong Kong and can be contacted at info@jasonyng.com. For more, visit www.jasonyng.com.
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Traffic experiments: to consult or not to consult
New government regulations say councils should be doing more to get views of residents
Camden was accused of not doing enough consultation ahead of new cycles lanes planned for Haverstock Hill
THE Town Hall is under pressure to get more residents’ views on its traffic experiments after new government guidance said there should be more consultation.
New regulations could mean Camden has to go back and survey opinion on its new cycle lanes planned for Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park.
The plans had been approved but work had not started before the publication of new government rules on Friday. They say councils are now being encouraged to consult the “local community, particularly at an early stage, [which] is essential to ensuring the political and public acceptance of any scheme”.
Camden and Transport for London have reworked the roadmap of the borough with a series of experimental traffic orders – ETOs – in a bid to encourage more walking and cycling as use of public transport falls during the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of an urgent response to Covid, the Town Hall has already been able to introduce a series of road changes and closures without full consultation, leading to several flashpoints over traffic jams.
But a Department for Transport spokesperson told the New Journal a second tranche of funding for schemes will come with an expectation that local authorities “engage properly with communities on proposed schemes”.
The new rules stopped short of saying a full consultation should be held before implementation and Camden said it was reviewing the guidance.
“It is too soon since receipt of [it] to assess any implications with respect of Haverstock Hill,” a spokesperson added.
The cycle route was approved last week by council officials after months of controversy.
Parking spaces will be removed from both sides of the hill from Pond Street to Prince of Wales Road in favour of two cycle lanes. Businesses have complained about the impact on them after a difficult trading year, and others have questioned how many cyclists will attempt to cycle up the hill with an average gradient of 3.5 per cent.
Conservative group leader Councillor Oliver Cooper said: “Time and again, Labour have refused to ask the public for their views, sat on these secret schemes, and demanded that residents not even be told about them, let alone asked what they think.
“Labour said Conservative councillors were ‘obsessed with process’ for wanting big decisions to be made in public. This revised guidance shows that Labour’s obsession with secrecy doesn’t just ignore residents, but ignores the law too.”
The Haverstock Hill changes have been supported by the Camden Cycling Campaign who see the bike lanes as part of a wider network of cycle routes.
And Camden’s environment chief Cllr Adam Harrison has endorsed it, saying last week that it would “create new opportunities for kids to ride a bike to school” and “make Camden a more family-friendly borough.”
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15 January — By Calum Fraser
Drivers set to help plug hole in Town Hall’s coffers
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By Erzi Paris | March 28, 2016 - 9:14 pm | March 27, 2016 Featured
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the next instalment in the franchise. Veterans Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher return. New stars include John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron and Daisy Ridler as Rey.
The film starts with a search for Luke Skywalker whose gone missing. The First Order has arisen from the ashes of the Empire and they are taking over the galaxy. In a bid to stop them Princess Leia (Fisher), now General, has dispatched her top operative to track Luke down. As the last Jedi, he is the only one who can save the universe.
However her agent; Poe is discovered shortly after his arrival on Jakku and must store the map he’s been given in his little droid BB8. BB8 escapes as Poe is arrested.
The village square is full of captives. One Stormtrooper seems to not want to blast the innocent people.
Later, he pulls of his helmet and knows he cannot follow the First Order knowing they are wrong. This trooper becomes Finn and rescues Poe from the Star Destroyer. The main villain is Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). He chats to Darth Vader’s old mask somehow salvaged from Endor. He has to contend with General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) as a fellow senior leader and they take orders from Supreme Leader Snook (Andy Serkis). Who or what Snook is remains a mystery but he’s the cause of the First Order.
The First Order have a new terrible weapon, an entire planet is like a Death Star capable of blowing other planets up. Corsucant is destroyed to send a message they are unstoppable.
On Jakku, a desert world littered with old Empire machines left abandoned. BB8 is rescued by Rey who takes him under her wing. She could sell him for extra rations, but she resists the deal. The trader though wants BB8 and a fight breaks out. Finn and Poe have crash-landed on Jakku, Poe is nowhere to be seen so Finn is on his own. He tries to help Rey but BB8 spots Finn is wearing Poe’s jacket.
As the First Order get involved in the spiralling fight, Finn and Rey join together as she thinks he’s a top agent in the Rebellion. Finn does not correct her. They escape on a very well known craft – the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy!
From here they will be tested, they must stop the planet destruction and save the universe and discover what their destinies are. They’ll get help from old hands Han Solo and Chewbacca but have to face off against Kylo Ren in the ultimate showdown!
This movie has everything, it’s a great extension to the Star Wars movie franchise. I’m so glad some of the original stars were there and there are plenty of faces to spot! The new characters bring a new edge.
The Millennium Falcon is still the best spacecraft in the universe and there’s a lot of fun along the way. BB8 continues the adorable droid theme and I’m sure everyone will want one of their own!
Image reproduced from Wikipedia – The Source.
Trailer reproduced from Star Wars.
About Erzi Paris
Erzi Paris lives in London and loves writing, going to the theatre and watching films. Always abreast of celebrity news, his biggest hope is to be a reporter. He likes keep-fit too. His favourite authors are Michael Crichton, JK Rowling, Suzanne Collins and Rosalind Miles.
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Earlier this year, Hasbro announced that they were repopping the original, iconic Kenner Real Ghostbusters Series 1 action figures. I still have a relatively well-preserved set of the originals but sure as heck wanted to get these.
Well, after months and months of checking many of the Wal-Marts in the Indianapolis area, and the one in Avon (near where Ogre works) about once a week, to no success, I'd pretty much given up. Ah well, like I said, I still had a set of the vintage originals, right?
Then, last Tuesday (December 8th) I went into the Wal-Mart in Avon and...lo and behold...
Holy cow!
There were seven in total, two of everybody except Venkman. After I left, there was one of everybody except Venkman.
I thought about pulling some money out of my GenCon fund to go back and buy the rest, to start a set that I could actually open up, but decided against it. Leave those for some other thirsty Ghosthead!
Oh hey...look! A sorta early Christmas present!
Ghostbusters: Picture Imperfect, Part Two
January 1989--Timeline Year Seven
Venkman and Winston are back, and the mystery of the new Vigo painting deepens as everyone's lives get more complicated. Decisions must be made and secrets must be revealed before the Ghostbusters can truly move forward again.
Two thoughts brought me to this story idea. One old, one newer.
The older one was the realization that, with all of the Egon and Janine "moments" that were depicted in RGB canon and in my stories, there was one that hadn't made it in yet: just how did the events of GB2's disastrous turn in Janine's characterization come out? I'd touched on it briefly in Forever as a sort of aside during a flashback, but I thought maybe it was time to "show" that event.
The newer one: in 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game we see what appears to be the same painting of Vigo the Carpathian we'd seen in GB2, spouting menacing dialog and ironic foreshadowing. How did that get there? I kind of ignored it for a decade, until I thought I had a way to make it work for me.
Anyway, I hope you find it interesting, and once again, sorry it took so long to get part 2 done. For the first and last time, I'll just blame it on "Because 2020"
--Fritz V. Baugh
It's that time again: the Ectozone Christmas Fan Fic List!
<!-121-> Ghostbusters: Mr. Stay Puft's Christmas Adventure
December 24, 1983--Timeline Year One
It's Christmas Eve. Venkman's in a foul mood. Ray misses his family. Egon is not sure how to react to Janine's elf costume. Winston has a fateful meeting. And then the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man shows up. Wait, what? How is that even possible?
(First Posted December 12, 2011)
<!-105A-> Ghostbusters: Spirit of the Season
By Jason Knetge
December 17, 2003--Timeline Year Twenty-One
The Ghostbusters (???) are called to help stop a spook during the holiday season. .
<!-106a-> Ghostbusters West Coast: Silent Night
By Mick Nielson
December 25, 2008--Timeline Year Twenty-Six
It's Christmas in LA...and everyone's lost their voices!
Because lots of stupid people think COVID-19 is a hoax and won't wear masks, the pandemic is rolling right along, more stuff is being delayed, and now Ghostbusters: Afterlife is among the things being delayed.
"Ghostbusters: Afterlife," a sequel to the blockbuster comedy, will hit theaters next summer. The movie is now expected to debut on June 11, 2021--exactly 37 years after the original.
Like nearly every film slated for 2020, Sony has hopscotched the release date for "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" multiple times during the pandemic. It was originally scheduled to open in July before it was pushed to March 5, 2021. Given the unpredictability of coronavirus and audiences' apprehension to go to the movies amid a global health crisis, there’s no telling if the latest summer release date will stick.
"Tired of all the winning, yet?"
In better news, I've finally been working on "Picture Imperfect" part two, including a cover picture I'm very pleased with, and hope to have it out by...well, let's just say the end of the year.
It's October 1st, so time for the Pumpkin Head Spice theme and the Halloween Reading List!
Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One
By Bo Holbrook, Ben King, and Fritz Baugh
September 2003--Timeline Year Twenty One
It seems like just another day for the members of Ghostbusters Nightsquad. The original Ghostbusters are out of town, and a few small jobs keep things from getting too dull. But in the shadows, a sinister plot is being hatched...a plot that will change the team forever...
Guest stars Jeff Nash, Vincent Belmont, and Fritz Baugh.
(First Posted July 17, 2006)
Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two
Catastrophe!!! The Extreme Ghostbusters defeated!!! Nightsquad's worst enemy has taken over Central Park!!! And Nightsquad can't do anything about it, because they're in jail!!!
Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Three
As if the Blair Witch wasn't enough...the cult's plot has drawn in another familiar face, one that had nearly defeated the original Ghostbusters more than once. Will Nightsquad, even with the help of Vincent Belmont, Jeff Nash, Fritz Baugh, and Roland Jackson, have a chance in hell against them?!
Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Four
It's the final showdown between Nightsquad, their allies, and the Hain Witch. The fate of the world is at stake (again), and even if the Ghostbusters are victorious they will pay a price in dearest blood...
(First Posted August 7, 2006)
Ghostbusters Nightsquad: Aftermath
By Bo Holbrook and Fritz Baugh
October 2003--Timeline Year Twenty-One
One week ago, the Hain Witch destroyed his headquarters and killed two of his friends. Now, the drunken wreck who was once Bo Holbrook is confronted with the chance to rebuild--problem is, he's not sure it's worth it.
(First Posted September 17, 2007)
(Okay, it technically didn't take place on Halloween...but c'mon, SAMHAIN!!!>
Ghostbusters West Coast: Flipped Out
October 31, 2006--Timeline Year Twenty Four
It's Halloween and something extra weird is going on...as our heroes are confronted with a team of opponents who are both shockingly wierd and very familiar. Not the least of them, a woman named Ellie...
(First Posted October 31, 2006)
Ghostbusters West Coast: HELLoween
By Aidan Munroe
With contributions from the entire GBWC team
October 31, 2007--Timeline Year Twenty-Five
Halloween is the busy season for a GBI franchise, and this year's no exception. It starts with a familiar ship full of ghostly pirates...and then gets even wierder from there!
Ghostbusters West Coast: The Masks We Wear
October 31, 2009--Timeline Year Twenty-Seven
It's Halloween, and sure enough something weird has happened: everybody has turned into their Halloween costume! Join Doctor Who, Deadpool, The Wolfman, Ash Williams, Kitty Pryde, Wolverine, and the Cat Girl as they try to figure out what caused this--and how to reverse it.
Ghostbusters West Coast: One Froggy Halloween
October 31, 2014--Timeline Year Thirty-Two
It's Halloween, which is seldom a quiet time for any Ghostbusters franchise, and this year is no exception for the West Coast office. A literature professor with personal ties to one of their own is being stalked by a froglike monster. Can they save him before he croaks?
Normally, right about now I'd be doing a post with pictures of all the crap I bought during GenCon, but there was no GenCon this year. They had an online event, but that wasn't really my thing--spending hours in the Exhibit Hall, seeing the costumes, chatting with friends we only see in person there--those are the things I look forward to. Sure, I spent a lot less money this month than I otherwise would have, so there is a slight silver lining.
Ah well, only 351 days until GenCon 2021. Hopefully.
I apologize for the second part of "Picture Imperfect" running so far behind; I feel like I owe you a bit of an explanation:
Some of it you already might have noted: I had spent some time in early June working on some code updates on my old, mostly-defunct Digimon fan site. I'd had that basically ready to go for the week before the release of Picture Imperfect, Part One. It was just a passing nostalgia for an old favorite provoked by a few videos popping up on my Youtube feed, and I'd really meant to do that update for literally a decade.
The part I haven't mentioned online is the fact that on Thursday, June 18, I was involved in an auto accident. Somebody rear-ended Ogre and I while we were on the way to pick up dinner; Ogre wasn't hurt, but I'm told I was bleeding profusely from my head and extremely incoherent. I don't know that for a fact: my memories fuzz out in the afternoon about an hour or so before I ordered the pizza, and don't come back "on-line" until sometime in the early morning hours of Friday, June 19th, at a local hospital. Though, you know, there was the wound on my head that was stapled up, so I totally believe that it happened.
I really didn't come out of it too badly: I was concussed and had a head wound, but no other physical damage. And no mental damage. But the vehicle I was driving, which had originally belonged to my later mother, was totaled. Thus, the last two months have been filled with doctor visits, waiting for insurance settlements, and the search for an affordable new vehicle.
Ogre, our Dad, and my two youngest brothers have been a great help during this time. Things do seem to be getting a bit closer to normal--as normal as it can be when we're still in the midst of a pandemic and a Presidential campaign where a shocking number of people are still planning to vote for the fuckturd who botched up the response to that pandemic--and hope I can get this story out to everyone before much longer.
Thanks, as always, for your patience.
I've been writing stories with an emphasis on Egon Spengler and Janine Melnitz's relationship since the beginning; the first fan fic I ever posted on GBN included some strong hints and the second dropped even more. I built an audience as I continued the story, culminating in their wedding and the birth of their twin children, fated to be literally the next generation of Ghostbusters
I sometimes worry that I've gotten myself pidgeonholed as the "Egon/Janine Guy". So having told the "big" stories, I drifted on to other things; other teams of Ghostbusters; Ray Stantz's love live; hobbit mating dances; and even romances that other franchises have fucked up.
Yeah, but some time ago, I realized there was one story I had to tell about the couple that brought me to the dance. One piece of the narrative that, due to a combination of creator politics and a perception of "this is a boys show and they hate this stuff", had barely been touched.
Ghostbusters: Picture Imperfect, Part One
While Venkman and Winston are out of town, Egon and Ray get a call from the Manhattan Museum of Art, site of Vigo the Carpathian's recent defeat. Janine, meanwhile, finds herself questioning a lot of her recent activities while Ghostbusters' newest hire, Louis Tully, gets a surprise of his own.
It's the thirty-sixth anniversary since the debut of the first Ghostbusters movie, and at one point in time we thought that today would be just a few weeks away from the release of the fourth (the third set in the continuity of the original). Well, a global pandemic kind of put the kibosh on that; only nine months until the new release date.
Sony was apparently getting ready to put out some manner of celebration today, but between the continuing pandemic and the spate of unrest caused by people who've had enough of being treated like crap by an orange asshole and those who follow it, that too has been delayed.
While we're at it, in case you haven't heard, GenCon 2020's been canceled. Longtime readers know this is one of the high points of my year, as among other things I get to see Vincent Belmont and his wife in person. Well, not this year, so no post in August with pictures of the crap I bought, which will probably be a silver lining to some people.
They say hindsight is 2020, but personally, I can't wait until 2020 is hindsight.
Stay safe and health out there.
Yes, this time I took a picture of my own toys.
It's the Ectozone's Seventeenth Birthday! It's all moody, and doesn't want a big fuss made over it today "Because bithday parties are for babies!!!" and we can't throw a party anyway because Social Distancing.
No new story today, but I think I'll have one ready soon.
As of this writing, no Kenner repops have made it into my collection, but as you can see above the rerelease inspired me to dig out Ogre and my old Kenner figures from the Eighties and Nineties. Being a little older than most of the kids playing with them, they're in pretty good shape (other than the self-applied paint apps and the fact we snipped off the proton beams). (You can see some more pictures of them here).
I once again, have to express my gratitude to everybody who visits this place. It's because of you that I'm still doing it nearly twenty years later!
Not unexpected under the circumstances, but Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been delayed to March 5, 2021. A lot of movies have been pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic; not much point in putting out a movie when theatres won't be open to show them, after all.
Disappointing, but it's almost certainly the right decision.
Unusual for me to update on a Saturday, I know, but there's a weird appeal to having something out there on February 29th, a day that only comes every four years. Let's see what Isotropic.org says about today:
Gregorian: Saturday, 29 February 2020
Mayan: Long count = 13.0.7.5.6; tzolkin = 4 Cimi; haab = 14 Kayabr
French: 11 Ventôse an 228 de la Révolution
Islamic: 5 Rajab 1441
Hebrew: 4 Adar 5780
Julian: 16 February 2020
ISO: Day 6 of week 9 of 2020
Persian: 10 Esfand 1398
Ethiopic: 21 Yakatit 2012
Coptic: 21 Amshir 1736
Chinese: Cycle 78, year 37 (Geng-Zi), month 2 (Ji-Mao), day 7 (Ren-Yin)
Julian day: 2458909
Day of year: Day 60 of 2020; 306 days remaining in the year
Discordian: St. Tibs Day, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3186
Order of Hermes: X Day of Pisces, XXIX Age of Aquarius
(That last one is made up, and based on the modified Ars Magica dating system I sometimes refer to in my fan fics)
Anyway, the last week has been pretty cool:
Hasbro Reveals Kenner Classics at New York Toy Fair
They also unveiled a line of roleplay toys, some Kenner-esque versions of the movie likenesses (they're even calling them the "Fright Features" line), along with an ECTO-1 (not a repop of the old Kenner; it includes the jump seat as seen in the Afterlife footage), and a slightly more upscale Plasma Series of the four Ghostbusters as seen in the first movie, along with Dana-as-Zuul and Gozer. Nothing spoiling the characters in the new movie yet, other than a ghost named Muncher, but the toys will be made.
As you might expect, I'm most excited about the Kenner repops. I hope they do well enought for Hasbro to consider expanding the line; thanks to the Power Pack Heroes line of figures back in the day, they have everything they need to make a "proper" Janine in uniform with proton pack. (Well, and Louis Tully too, but that's far less of a priority of mine.)
The New Fright Features will warrent a look; it may hinge on how "compatible" they are with the Series 1 repops. I'd be in hog heaven if the new figures used the exact same peg as the Kenner ones, allowing us to swap the proton packs.
Even if the movie blows, we're getting some awesome toys out of it!
So anything of note on the horizon?
Oh yeah, that...
IDW has Ghostbusters: Year One in the works, and it looks to be interesting, especially as it will prove that IDW can do Ghostbusters stories without dragging in guest stars from other dimensions. Most of the crossovers have been pretty good, but man, did it get old fast.
I don't know for sure what will be coming up at the Ectozone. I've been tossing some ideas around in my head, especially after Thirty Five Years Later was finished. I may do some more stories of the not-so-far-in-the-future-anymore Ghostbusters. I'm kicking around some stuff with the dormant Ghostbusters West Coast; not necessarily "reactivation", maybe more finally slaying the White Whale that is the unfinished "Toy Soldiers", a high-spectacle vampire story I started just before I became sick of fucking vampires.
On the other hand, speaking of things I'm fucking sick of...
...there's a Presidential Election this year, and oh fuck, that means we're going to be hearing more about and from Donald Fucking Trump, as though we haven't heard enough from that orange asshole the last five years. I know there are still 40% of the people in this country who think that extorting foreign governments and throwing children in cages are good things, but I think the world will be a better place by ten billion percent when he's gone. I don't drink alcohol, smoke anything, or take drugs not prescibed to me by a doctor, but after the last five years of life in America I understand why people do those things.
Anyway, have a safe and happy thirtieth year of the Age of Aquarius
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Climbing Kinner Kailash. My Quest for redemption.
It was a bright summer morning. The sound of the Parvati River was roaring like always. I quite liked the sound of the river. Kasol was ready for a new day. The place usually gets up late, due to the late night culture here. In the early nineties, young Israeli men and women, who were just out of compulsory Army service would come up here and spend a few days in peace and tranquility. This place suited them as here things were easily affordablewith the stipend they received at the end of their service. By the turn of the century It became a popular Israeli joint with most of the locals learning the hebrew way of life. The natives here learnt catering to these guys, who did not expect much. All they wanted was a transition phase from the super tough compulsory military service back home. Soon the place was flooded with reggie cafes, joints and bakeries catering to their needs. In fact nothing was written in English and Hindi, everything was in Hebrew script. The Parvati area has always been a hub of Marijauna production. The climate and the water from the streams has always been conducive for it’s production. The easy access to which made life more easier for these foreigners. So Kasol became a stress detoxing centre for the few who knew about it. Life was simple here. Most of the outside world did not know about this place.
Kasol in 2005
In around 2005, Domestic tourism stared to flourish. Manali became a household name. Rohtang became the easiest prey for a selfie crazy SUV owner. The crowds started getting into the main Beas Valley, as it had Manali and it was the starting point of the road journey to Ladakh. This was the first time Domestic travelers were introduced to the Parvati Valley. Although Sikh on pilgrimage always crossed this place while visiting a place nearby called Manikaran. So enter the amazing North Indian crowd to this place and yes with loads in their pockets . It was certainly fascinating. No way were these people ever exposed to such open and different culture in their lives. Soon the bars, cafes and joints were invaded by these people, and by the years the Israelis left Kasol to find solace in the villages higher up the Parvati stream. So Moon dance cafe was now is an all Indian affair.
So lets back to the story, It was a bright summer morning and as usual the River Parvati roared. I had come back to this place after 20 years. It was way back in 1997, I was here for a trek across the Pin Parvati Pass, which crosses over to Spiti. Well, those were different years. I will only talk about today. Well, it was all about joints, weed, and chillums here. Everyone seemed to me to be a master of the trade here. Anyone could roll anywhere, and weed was available almost anywhere. You could get many varieties of weed here, from the most common one to the glamorous Malana cream. You could openly smoke in any of the bars, cafes, guest houses or for that matter anywhere. The place looked young and certainly there was a lot of buzz around the market place. Actually my story starts here. I saw a group of young boys rolling a joint. They were all very involved, no one seemed to be distracted as I took a seat next to them. Eventually after the rolling and jolling, it was time to light the joint up. As one of them ignited the rolled joint, all of them said Jai shiv Shankar. The joint exchanged hands after long puffs. Everyone looked happy and satisfied. The usual chants of Jai Bhole and Jai shiv Shankar were on in between. Well now what does Lord Shiva have to do with all this. Now whom to ask. Well a conversation started and I got my answer “This is lord Shiva’s Prasad”. So I learnt an important lesson that day, drive down to Kasol with loads in your pocket, roll a joint and be a Shiva devotee. In fact if you happen to be in the bazars of Kasol there are lots of Lord shiva merchandise, like T shirts, lockets, bags, kurtas and to add a few Shiva cafes. A whole generation of clueless people, smoking weed here only to find solace and disorienting their minds thinking they are devotees of lord Shiva.
But the mind is always on the move. Who is Shiva? Many stories and legends surround this most prominent figure of Indian spiritual traditions. Is he a god? Or a myth constructed from Hindu culture’s collective imagination? Or is there a deeper meaning to Shiva, revealed only to those who seek?
Shrikhand ranges from my house
I was born and brought up in a small village overlooking the Satlej in the Kotgarh region. Kotgarh lies in the upper reaches of Shimla hills. The area is more famous for apples, but I always thought it was more then apples here. The way of life, simple and straight, the work culture, which was very strong when I was a small child. My grandparents always made sure that we as kids had some time devoted to the farm work. It could be small tasks like feeding the grass to the cows or maybe cleaning up the leaves near the house. Evenings came quickly, and they were spent around the fire place, where my grandma would cook the simplest of meals, with the sounds of the local radio station playing Kinnaur songs in the background.
Paap Punya peaks
Mornings were bright and lively with lots of activity in the farm. I always got up to the views of Snow clad mountains from my room window. It almost became a habit to get up everyday to get up and stare at the mountains. I kept looking at them for hours. I would look at the rough ridge lines and the sharp contrast these summits had with the blue skies. There were many summits which stood out prominently. One was towards the south eastern direction which consisted of two major peaks, one of which looked broken from the top. Elders in my village called them Paap Punya. Punya was obviously the one which was broken. So according to the elders in older times Punya peak was higher then Paap, but as over the years Paap in the world increased the Paap peak become higher. Now don’t take my words for Geological implications, I am just saying what I heard from the village elders.
View from Kinner Kailash
There were two other peaks which were prominent , one in the most left corner towards the NE from my house, and the other one more straight. They were like pointed tips on the entire Ridgeline. The one towards the NE is the Shrikhand Mahadev peak and the other one is the Kinner kailash. So what was so important about them. Grandma said “ Kailash is the abode of Lord shiva”. If shiv has a home on earth it has to be on Kailash. She told me that the real Kailash is at Mansarovar, from where this Satlej river flows. It’s here only behind Shipki la, beyond Kinnaur. Well more interaction and I was sure that the two Kaislash tops are the abode of Shiva. Now I was a kid of around ten years, and going to the Kailash was not easy for me at this time. I used to meet people who came back from Shrikhand Mahadev. They told me their tales. I would listen to what ever they would have to say. One man said he took 20 Baturus, and they all finished in two days, and they were hungry after that. Baturu is a fluffy Himachali Bread prepared using Yeast. I was surprised how can a man have 20 Baturus in two days. Well, small bits of information kept coming in, and all of it, I used to record in my brain. Years passed by, and my quest for Shiva was on.
The morraine above Parvati kund
It was a relatively cold morning. I quickly folded my sleeping bag into my rucksack. As we were carrying water as it was not available at the Caves, I did not want to waste it by washing my face. I just threw a handful on to my eyes, so that just could get that tinge of freshness. We were at the caves, which serves as a night halt for going to Kinner Kailash. We had walked about 9 Hours yesterday from Powari near the Satlej, which was all a climb. I was quite fresh. More was the excitement of being near the Shivling on top. I had already been to Shrikhand Mahadev before, but this seemed to be more challenging. We started to walk and there was a well defined path, and we were well into the as I put it in Kinnaur “Bhramkamal Zone” . Bhramkamal is a flower which blooms in high altitude around 3800 m to 4300 m. This flower has significant religious relevance in hindu mythology. Then suddenly a huge moraine appeared, huge rocks everywhere, but they were cairn put everywhere, so we could make out our way. It became tougher and tougher, and after some time we reached a place where the Moraine become relatively flat. Here there was a small water body, which is called Parvati Kund. The place is strewn with huge boulders, and you have to keep hopping over them to cross over, and yes you must be always looking at the Cairns. Cairns are a pile of stones that are made to mark a location on the route.
Kinner kailash
The final climb from Parvati Kund was almost vertical, and I was using both my hands to cling on to the boulders. Slowly and steadily we moved on, and we were on the ridge, and I could see the other side. Kinner Kailash was in front on me, I could feel the vibes in my body. How does one reach here, It was such a difficult climb, but it seemed so easy for me. A human is so frail and small in front of these huge mountains, but still he makes it to the top, to the abode of Shiva. This is shiva, the power of him, who makes you realise, that you are pure and supreme. Only you have to be honest and dedicated, You can achieve anything. The stone was stuck to the top of the mountain, and has remained there since mankind remembers, and will remain there till eternity. I bowed down in prayer, towards the holy rock, and closed my eyes, again I saw I light which seemed to get brighter. It was certainly the abode of Shiva. The basis of existence and the fundamental quality of the cosmos is vast nothingness. How much area does the galaxies occupy. The rest is all vast empty space, which is referred to as Shiva. That is the womb from which everything is born, and that is the oblivion into which everything is sucked back. Everything comes from Shiva and goes back to Shiva. I met and understood My Lord Shiva here.
The two birds which locals beleive is very auspicious.
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Mythos and Logos
There are two forms of knowledge: logos and mythos. From an old post of mine, based on Karen Armstrong’s division of knowledge:
Mythos: “myth”, from greek musteion – to close eyes or mouth. Myth as a mode of Knowledge was rooted in silence and intuitive insight, and gave meaning to life, human existence, but cannot be explained in rational terms. In the premodern world, mythical knowledge was complementary to logos.
Logos: “word” or rational, logical, scientific discourse
Both were essential and complementary ways of arriving at the truth for each had its area of competence. Myth was regarded as primary, for it dealt with the timeless or constant elements of human existence. Myth was about the origins of life, the very foundations of culture and the most essential nature of human mind. However, myth has little to do with practical stuff, or anything other than the meaning of life. If people cannot or do not find significance in their lives, despair is the result. The mythos of a society is the context that makes sense of the daily life, and points at the eternal and universal. Moreover, myth is rooted in unconscious. The various stories of myth, which were not meant to be taken literally, was ancient psychology. All these stories of heroes in the underworld, in labyrinths, and fighting monsters, was the premodern way of dealing with the obscure realm of unconscious, which is completely inaccessible to rational investigation, but had profound effects on experience and behavior. Since myth is absent in modern society we instead developed the science of psychoanalysis to deal with our inner world.
The stories of myth cannot be demonstrated via rational proof as if they were historical events. The insights of myth were intuitive, and much closer to art, music, poetry or sculpture. Myth becomes a reality when embodied in cult, rituals, or ceremonies that worked aesthetic magic on people and evoked a deep sense of sacred significance that enabled them to understand the state of existence.
That is why the pre-modern people saw history differently than we do. They were far less interested than we are about what actually happened, but more about the meaning of what happened. Incidents weren’t considered as unique occurrences but mere external manifestations of constant and timeless realities. Therefore, history repeats itself, and historical narratives emphasized this dimension.
The Israeli exodus was deliberately written as myth, and to link the other stories of rites of passage, the immersion of deep water, gods splitting the sea to make new reality, etc. The Jewish people experience this in every passover. Unless history is mythologized, it cannot be truly religious. To investigate exodus as a historical event, to search for scientific evidence to prove its factual truth is to misunderstand the purpose of the story, and therefore confuse mythos with logos.
Logos was equally important as the rational, pragmatic and scientific thought that allowed people to function in real life. Us moderns have lost the sense of mythos today for we are entrenched in logos, the foundation of the discourse of our society. Unlike mythos, logos must relate to facts and correspond to external realities if it is to be effective. It must work in mundane world. Logical and discursive reasoning is to make things happen, get shit done, or sway others to do something. Logos is practical, and unlike mythos that looks back to beginnings or foundations, it forges ahead to find new and better stuff: elaborate old insights, gain better control of the environment, discover and invent novel stuff.
In pre-modern times both mythos and Logos were indispensable. Each mode would be impoverished without the other to complement it. Yet, both were distinct, which means it is dangerous to confuse myth with rational discourse. Both had separate jobs, in which myth was not amenable to reason, and its narratives were not supposed to be demonstrated empirically. Rather, it provided context of meaning that made practical activity possible.
Furthermore, myth cannot be the basis of a pragmatic policy, because the results are always disastrous. In 1095, the first crusade plan of Pope Urban II was based on logos. But once military expedition became entangled with folk myth, bible stories, apocalyptic fantasies, the result was catastrophic, military, practically and morally. With logos, crusades prospered and did well on battlefield. But when crusaders made mythical vision the very basis of policy, they committed horrible atrocities and summarily were defeated. This is only one from thousands of examples from history.
Logos is limited, it is incapable of assuaging pain, sorrow. Rational arguments cannot deal with tragedy. Logos cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of life. Scientists can make things work, find new facts, but even their best theories cannot explain the meaning of life.
Nicolaus Copernicus‘ theory of a heliocentric universe delivered a fatal blow to the mystical perception that had reigned for thousands of years. Although he, and Galileo thought their science was compatible with religious vision, for logos supplement mythos, the paradigm shift forced people to not trust their perception like the pre-moderns did. Up till then people could just be satisfied with the evidence of their senses, and see through the apparent aspects of the world to the Unknown beyond, because they thought the apparent aspects corresponded to a fundamental reality. But after Copernicus, the seeming static earth is actually moving very fast, and the planets seemed to move only because people projected their on vision onto them. In other words, what seemed objective is actually subjective. Logos and myth ceased to be in harmony, and the rigorous logos of the scientists devalued the perception of the average joe, and made him more and more dependent upon the expert. Where myth placed human beings within the essential meaning of life, Logos pushed them to the marginal position in the cosmos.
By late 17th century, Blaise Pascal was the first to notice this, that modern science had opened up an infinite universe, and its emptiness and eternal silence inspired sheer anxiety:
“When i see the blind and wretched state of men, when i survey the whole universe in its deadness and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, i am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost with no means of escape. Then i marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.”
By the 18th century, the age of reason, thinkers like Locke had faith in human reason enough to be confident that nature would give sufficient evidence for a Creator, and if people reasoned freely, they would arrive at the same truth themselves. The false or superstitious ideas of religion were the fault of the priests who employed tyrannical methods to force people to accept their orthodoxy. Other enlightenment philosophers saw religion rationally, as deism, and rejected older faiths that were based on revelation as naïve versions of natural religion. Faith is rational, they thought, and interpreted the old truths of mythos as though they were logoi.
In the approach to myths, positivists read them literally, and find them false and foolish. But the hermeneutic approach reads myth metaphorically and allegorically and finds them true and profound.
The Christians concern with doctrine turned their myths into scientific facts and established a mutant discourse that is neither scientific nor religious. Today, protestant fundamentalists read the bible in a literal, rational way that is foreign to the mystical, allegorical approach to the pre-modern time. But religious truth is not rational in nature and cannot be proved scientifically. The mythoi of the Bible had never pretended to be factual in the way that American Christians like Arthur Pierson thought. Mythical language cannot be adequately translated into rational language without distorting its raison d’etre. It contains meanings that were too elusive to be expressed any other way, much like poetry. If theology becomes scientific, it ends up with a caricature of rational discourse because its truth are foreign to rational demonstration. That is why protestant fundamentalists tend to overlook the intuitive and mystical, resulting in the loss of touch with the unconscious, i.e, the deeper impulses of humanity.
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Pluto’s Cthulhu mountains look just like the Alps but they’re not made of snow – CNET
October 13, 2020 by Jackson Ryan in News | Comments Off on Pluto’s Cthulhu mountains look just like the Alps but they’re not made of snow – CNET
The methane-capped mountains of Pluto's Cthulhu region. False color images, in purple, show methane across the region correlates with the snow caps.
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Gazing at Pluto's Cthulhu mountain range from space, you could mistake it for the Alps, Europe's picturesque spine of rock dusted with snow. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zipped past the dwarf planet in 2015, it imaged Cthulhu and the region's dazzling, reflective spine of mountains, which ascend to almost half the height of Mount Everest. It's cold on Pluto, way out at the edge of the solar system, and while peaks in Cthulhu may resemble the Alps, they're not capped with snow. They're frozen over with methane-rich ice.
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A new study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday, attempts to understand the mechanisms driving the formation of the Methane Alps, which has been something of a mystery. Some of the regions imaged by New Horizons showed features strikingly similar to those on Earth. Using high-resolution simulations, a team of planetary scientists have shown that looks can be deceiving -- the methane-ice mountains are likely formed in the opposite way to the Alps' snow-capped peaks.
On Earth, winds drive moist air up the side of mountains where cold temperatures cause water to condense and form snow which falls onto mountaintops. But that process is due to Earth's atmospheric conditions. Pluto's atmosphere is much thinner and even collapses as it moves from from the sun. And unlike Earth, temperature increases as you move upward in the atmosphere. The methane-ice can't be explained by processes we understand down here.
But by recapitulating Pluto's climate and methane cycle in numerical simulations, the team were able to create a model that agreed with the observations from NASA's New Horizons and other observations taken from Earth.
The new work suggests Pluto's methane-ice peaks are like a Bizarro-Alps where everything is backward.
The thin atmosphere of Pluto is warmer than its surface and carries methane gas from the northern hemisphere to equatorial plains like the Cthulhu region. The air above these regions is rich with methane gas, which condenses at night across the entire area.
"When it meets the mountains that poke up into these layers, it can condense to the frost [the researchers] see on the mountains," says Helen Maynard-Casely, a planetary scientist at Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation not affiliated with the study.
During the day, much of the frozen methane in the region sublimates, turning from solid to gas. However, at higher altitude, like Cthulhu's peaks, it persists during the day, which allows it to slowly build up over time.
The team conclude that it's remarkable to find two phenomena producing similar landscapes that are formed by such dissimilar processes. Understanding the methane cycle on Pluto, they suggest, might help explain other unique features of the dwarf planet's surface.
The Tartarus Dorsa mountains, photographed by New Horizons, are bizarrely textured, showing "intricate by puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between," according to NASA. This "bladed" texture may be a result of methane condensation.
Updated Oct. 13: Added HMC comment, clarified condensation process
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The regulation of ‘video-on-demand’ programme services is being brought fully within Ofcom to sit alongside its regulation of broadcast content. The move follows an Ofcom review to ensure regulation of broadcast and on-demand content remains as effective and efficient as possible for the benefit of consumers, audiences and industry.
The review included the current co-regulatory arrangements for video-on-demand services. These can include catch-up TV and on-demand services on the TV and the internet. Ofcom designated the Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD) in 2010 as a co-regulator to take the lead in regulating editorial content for video-on-demand services.
Following the review, Ofcom has decided that acting as sole regulator for video-on-demand programmes is a more effective model for the future than having two separate bodies carrying out this work. This will create operational efficiencies and allow editorial content on video-on-demand to sit alongside Ofcom’s existing regulation of broadcasting. Here to read more.
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Born: 21 March, 1944
Height: 1.88 (6' 2")
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Known for: The Tourist , Flash Gordon , Looney Tunes: Back in Action , The Rocketeer , Toy Story 3 and more.
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Toy Story 3 - Mr. Pricklepants (voice) $200M 2010 $109M $415M
The Tourist - Chief Inspector Jones $100M 2010 $16.5M $66.6M
Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Damien Drake $80M 2003 $9.32M $21M
The Rocketeer - Neville Sinclair $40M 1991 $46.7M
Flash Gordon - Prince Barin $35M 1980
American Outlaws - Allan Pinkerton $35M 2001 $4.86M $13.3M
Licence to Kill - James Bond $32M 1989 $34.7M
The Living Daylights - James Bond $30M 1987 $51.2M
The Beautician and the Beast - Boris Pochenko $16M 1997 $4.08M $11.5M
Chanel Solitaire - Boy Capel $7M 1981
Made Men - Sheriff Dex Drier $6M 1999
Sextette - Sir Michael Barrington, Soundtrack (performer: "Love Will Keep Us Together") 1978
Cromwell - Prince Rupert 1970
The Man Who Knew Love - Juan de Dios 1978
The Voyeur - Mark 1970
Agatha - Col. Archibald Christie 1979
The Executioner - Charles Lord 1975
Mary, Queen of Scots - Henry - Lord Darnley 1971
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Agency Leaders: 2014’s most-admired ad agency in SA
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Our annual poll of South Africa’s top agency executives has already revealed which agencies, agency leaders and creatives are most admired by regional peers. Today, we reveal the results of our national poll, which dispensed with regional boundaries and asked execs to nominate their choice of their most-admired peers, irrespective of where in the country they are based.
Some of the results might be surprising, especially given the changes being reflected in the Cape Town results we published two weeks ago. It’s Joburg’s execs who’ve moved the dial to ensure our most-admired agency results mirror those of 2013 (down to the joint runners-up).
Recapping Cape Town results for 2014
Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town and King James Group have tied for most-admired agency, with FoxP2 the runner-up. Justin Gomes, ECD at FoxP2, and Alistair King, founding creative partner at King James Group, have tied for most-admired creative, with Chris Gotz, CCO of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa, the runner-up. Adrian Hewlett, CEO, Publicis Machine, is the most-admired agency boss.
Ogilvy Cape Town has been voted the most integrated, with Publicis Machine the runner up. The latter is also voted the one the watch, followed by Saatchi & Saatchi Brandsrock.
The Cape Town poll has revealed a revitalised King James Group and unanimity in the vote for Adrian Hewlett as the most-admired agency boss in town.
The poll results are dominated by Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town, Publicis Machine, King James and FoxP2.
Recapping Johannesburg results for 2014
Joe Public has emerged as the most-admired ad agency among Joburg-based ad execs, with FCB South Africa the runner-up. The most-admired creative is Pepe Marais, founding partner and CCO of Joe Public, with Mariana O’Kelly, co-ECD at Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg, and Brett Morris, group CEO and ECD of FCB South Africa, tying as runners-up.
The most-admired agency boss is Morris, with Gareth Leck, group CEO of Joe Public, as first runner-up. Our second runner up is Alistair Mokoena, MD, Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg (ex MD, FCB Joburg).
Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg is viewed as the most-integrated agency, with Publicis Machine as runner up.
The poll results are dominated by Joe Public, FCB South Africa and Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg.
Agency leaders in Cape Town and Jozi completed regional polls and were also invited to participate in our national poll, where their nominations were not restricted to the reagion in which they are headquartered. Ad execs in Durban were also invited to participate in our national poll. We also asked them which agency did the best at digital integration and which agency they saw as the one to watch in the future.
Nobody could nominate his or her own agency or staff. All the nominations were then tallied up to see whom adland’s highest decision-makers most admire.
You may find our 2013 results here and the 2012 results here.
and, as runner-up,
Most-admired: Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town
According to Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town MD, Luca Gallarelli, the agency’s strike rate on successful pitches was up there with the best it has ever been, winning every pitch it participated in and, in the process, picking up the following new clients: Allan Gray, Pearson Education, Metropolitan and Metropolitan Health, and 24.com.
Revenue growth over 2014 sat at 16.68% at the beginning of December, which, as Gallarelli notes, “is incredibly strong given our scale”. No business was lost over the same period. Total headcount grew from 278 to 312, representing an expansion of 12.23%. The agency won Agency of the Year at Tony Koenderman’s AdReview awards.
“2014 [is] our strongest commercial year ever,” says Gallarelli. “I’m stoked that we’ve upped our game when it comes to new business. Happy, too, are we that our ambition to build out deep specialisations has gained momentum and is working.”
Runner-up: Joe Public
Runner-up Joe Public saw staff grow from 161 to 183 (12%), the agency achieved 23% annualised revenue growth between June 2013 and June 2014, and it moved into a new bespoke three-storied, 3000m2 building in Bryanston.
Account wins included SAICA, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Times Media, Mandela International Film Festival and Hippo.co.za, among others.
In 2014, the group took home the AdReview Agency Group of the Year, as well as the title of AdFocus Agency of the Year.
Joint second runners-up: King James & FoxP2
King James Group last year won Sanlam, City of Cape Town, New Balance and a cellular offering from Durban-based The Ignition Group, while King James II in Jozi won Garmin, iStore and Altech Node.
The FoxP2 Group, meanwhile, saw FoxP2 Johannesburg start delivering results for Liberty and also won the the FNB business. Other new clients for FoxP2 Cape Town included Unilever, Superbalist, Imperial and Stanlib.
Chris Gotz
Pepe Marais
Most-admired: Chris Gotz, CCO of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa
Chris Gotz, chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa, has been named as the most-admired creative in the country, as voted for by agency execs. Johannesburg-based ad bosses voted overwhelmingly in favour of Gotz.
Gotz came off a big year in 2013, when he was lauded for his work on Carling Black Label. In November 2013 he was promoted from Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy and Mather Cape Town to Chief Creative Officer of the Ogilvy & Mather South Africa group.
Runner-up: Pepe Marais, founding partner & CCO, Joe Public
Runner-up Pepe Marais, founding partner and CCO of Joe Public, is respected both for his hand in guiding agency Joe Public to creative and financial success, and for his interest in having advertising benefit not only brands but also good causes — a notable example being Project English and its One School at a Time campaign.
Agency bosses
Gareth Leck
Brett Morris
James Barty
Most-admired: Gareth Leck, group CEO of Joe Public, and Brett Morris, group CEO, FCB South Africa — tied
FCB South Africa enjoyed a revival of sorts last year, as good news flowed both in terms of new client wins and creative points. Its peers have noticed and have given group CEO Brett Morris a pat on the shoulder for managing well in his first year in the top job.
Morris has tied with Gareth Leck, group CEO of Joe Public.
Runner-up: James Barty, CEO, King James Group
James Barty, CEO of King James Group, is our runner-up in a very tight race — only one vote separated him from from the two front-runners.
Most-integrated (digital)
Most-integrated: Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town
Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town retains its title as the most-integrated agency in the country, local ad execs believe, by a significant margin.
Joint runners-up: Publicis Machine and FCB South Africa — tied
Publicis Machine and FCB South Africa have tied as runners-up.
and, as joint runners-up,
One to watch: Publicis Machine
“One to watch” is where execs got to nominate an agency from which they expect big things in the year ahead. Publicis Machine has won by a comfortable margin…
Joint runners-up: Ogilvy Johannesburg/Gloo and FCB South Africa (tied)
But is being challenged by the Ogilvy Johannesburg/Gloo tie-up, announced shortly before our poll, and FCB South Africa.
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A THIRTY-EIGHTH GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC COMPOSERS
Fur the 38th time we have another varied collation of these light music tunesmiths. We start with one of those many figures who worked in the light musical theatre, CUTHBERT CLARKE, particularly active during the first two decades of this century, conducted in London theatres and composed the music for The Happy Family in 1917. His two suites Round the World and, dating from 1909, A Day in Paris were derived from ballets, but there were a number of individual Clarke genre movements specifically for light orchestra, of which we may instance the march, The Light Brigade, the waltz Midnight Revels, an idyll, Water Lilies, the caprice de concert, Cupidon, the "danse feerique", In Pixie-land, the Intermezzos In the Twilight and Cathedral Memories, the serenade Mon Parades, a dance souvenir, Dancing Moonbeams, the "serenade passionelle", Une Affaire d'Amour and, Cashing in on the British musical public's love of the Far East at the period (and other periods) the Japanese scene, In Fair Tokyo.
Another composer of short orchestral genre pieces, and from roughly the same period as Clarke, was CHARLES HAY whose output included the suite, Scenes of Childhood and the "singles" Twilight Serenaders and the "morceau rococo", The Old Spirit - pastiche "old music" is a frequent standby of light music practitioners. From a rather later period we may briefly mention GRAEME STUART for his polka Eccentric Canter, and the suite Thomas Castles (i.e. the Tower, a "processional", Hampton Court, a minuet, and Windsor Castle, a march). And not only Haydn Wood celebrated the Isle of Man in music as one GEORGE TOOTELL brought out a suite Manx Scenes. Michael Stanton, active in the 1950s, is worth mentioning for his "library" title Sale Time (orchestrated by Harry Dexter). And our present day TV writer, HOWARD DAVIDSON merits brief mention for his atmospheric score for the Channel 4 documentary Station X.
These Garlands have included reference to a number of talented instrumentalists who composed as something of a sideline to their playing. Our representative this time is ALFRED BARKER, born in 1895 (his date of death is unknown to me) and leader of the BBC Theatre Orchestra either side of the Second World War, indeed up to its transformation in 1949 into the BBC Open Orchestra, whose compositions included a Hungarian Rhapsody for orchestra.
Many composers of music for young amateurs are reckonable also as light music composers because young people often appreciate something straightforward and tuneful. Again these Garlands are littered with such people from figures like W.H. Reed and Charles Woodhouse onwards. A more recent example is ALAN BOUSTED, born in 1931, whose titles which are reckonable as "light music" include A Little Suite for piano and the orchestral rondo, Bucks Round.
Our next two composers whenever they are mentioned, suggest the church rather than classic light music locations like the seaside concert hall or hotel lounge. But we have included several composers of organ music in these Garlands, so it is reasonable to add GEORGE THALBEN-BALL (1896-?), Australian-born and for so long associated with the music at the Temple Church for his two Elegies, the Tune in E (in the style of John Stanley) and other organ miniatures. Sir HENRY WALFORD DAVIES (1869-1941), Master of the King's Musick 1934-41, musical educator, especially on the "wireless" and oratorio and service composer, surely earns a mention for two titles, the Soleman Melody for cello solo, organ and orchestra of 1908 (though this has become more "solemn" than it was before by its regular use at Armistice Day/Remembrance Sunday services from the end of the Great War onwards) and the Royal Air Force March Past, a swaggering tune written for the infant RAF, formed on 1 April 1918, by its first Director of Music. The broad central tune is not, however, by Davies, but by his successor at the RAF, GEORGE DYSON (1883-1964). Dyson's work, like that of Davies, was basically serious and his experience was very largely in musical education but he was a writer of good tunes and his At the Tabard Inn (1943), a pendant to his earlier cantata The Canterbury Pilgrims is in the tradition of the busy English comedy overture.
Next, two figures from the mid Victorian-era. ALFRED MELLOR (1820-67) is better remembers as a conductor and he produced ballads like I never Can Forget and dance music, including the Patti Polka, after a great singer of the Victorian period. STEPHEN GLOVER (1813-70) was primarily a ballad composer. Best known of his titles are I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside and What Are the Wild Waves Singing (others were Faith, Hope and Charity - separate songs, apparently - The Blind Girl to Her Harp, The Gypsy Countess The Elfin Call, Friendship, I Heard a Voice and The Sea is England's Glory. But he, too, composed dance music; the Davenport Quadrilles and the Two Friends Quadrille were both published by Cocks & Co in 1864.
Traditionally it is "ladies first" but here I make it ladies last. During the 1940s or thereabouts, IRIS TAYLOR produced light miniatures such as Dreamy Afternoon, Starry Night and Japanese Gown , the first and last being orchestrated by Joseph Engleman, the middle one by Ronald Hanmer. EVELYN SHARPE, not to be confused with Cecil Sharp's sister also Evelyn, had a long career. Some of her ballads, like When the World Was a Garden of Love and Where the Milestones End, from around 1920, even before (other titles included When the Great Red Dawn is Shining and South Wind), while piano pieces such as The Hum of the Bees and Apple Harvest are post 1945. In between came several orchestral titles, individual movements like In Old Quebec and The Wayside Cross, a suite, Tales From Toyland and three topographical suites relating to individual English counties, Devon, Hampshire and Essex. Devon's movements are: Barnstaple, Fairings, Brixham, The Witches' Cave Exeter, Twilight in the Cloisters; Cockington, Harvester's Dance. Hampshire's movements relate to Boscombe, Portsmouth, Beaulieu and Aldershot, Essex's to the rather less well known Mark's Gate, Waltham Abbey, Alphanstone and Little Dunnow.
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Florida man to display ‘Festivus Pole’ at Oklahoma Capitol
Chaz Stevens said the pole pays homage both to gay rights and the famous Seinfeld episode.
By SEAN MUPRHY | Associated Press Thursday, December 17, 2015
Chaz StevensPhoto: AP Photo/Brendan Farrington
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Florida man said Wednesday his plan has been approved to display in the Oklahoma Capitol rotunda a “Festivus Pole” based on a fictional holiday depicted in the popular 1990s sitcom “Seinfeld.”
Chaz Stevens, of Jupiter, Florida, will display a “Festivus Pole” next Wednesday in the building’s first-floor rotunda near an existing display of giant nutcrackers and a gift-laden sleigh.
Stevens said the pole pays homage both to gay rights and the Seinfeld episode in which a character’s quirky father describes a holiday that includes feats of strength and the airing of grievances.
The 6-foot-pole is wrapped in the colors of the gay pride rainbow flag and topped with a disco ball.
Stevens said the original display first erected in Florida three years ago was made of empty Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans, but this year’s pole has evolved to reflect the advance of gay rights.
The approval of the pole in Oklahoma comes just months after the state Supreme Court ruled that a permanent Ten Commandments monument had to be removed from the Capitol grounds.
“Out goes the Ten Commandments. In comes the gay pride Festivus pole,” Stevens said. “It’s a beautiful way to talk about 2015.”
Similar poles are expected to be put up in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and Washington, Stevens said. Applications are pending in at least two other states.
John Estus, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services, the agency that oversees state buildings, said Stevens’ application for a display was considered just like any other.
“It’s the same thing as reserving space: You fill out a form, it’s evaluated, and it’s approved or denied,” Estus said. “This is no different than somebody standing with a sign in the rotunda.”
In Arkansas, Secretary of State Mark Martin’s office denied the request in a Dec. 4 letter that cited several problems with the application, including failure to comply with trademark law and a lack of specifics on how the pole would be anchored.
Associated Press writer Andrew Demillo in Little Rock, Arkansas, contributed to this report.
© 2015, Associated Press, All Rights Reserved.
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APPEAL OF THE FAITHFUL OF SIMNAI
To: K. Tumėnas, Deputy for Religious Affairs, Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian S.S.R.
Copy to: Bishop L. Povilonis, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Kaunas
Statement of the Catholics of the Parish of Simnas
In the fall of 1975, the large parish of Simnas lost a priest — a curate—who was transferred on the order of the government. Only one priest — the pastor — was left to take care of the religious needs of the faithful. We have not been able to get another priest.
There are 85 parishes in Lithuania already, which do not have a permanent priest. In our diocese alone, there is no permanent priest in five parishes (Laukeliškiai, Patilčiai, Išlaužas, Riečiai and N. Uta).
Last year, after a long delay, by permission of the government, twelve candidates were accepted for the seminary; however during that same year, nineteen priests died in Lithuania. Two years ago, twenty-two priests died. Hence, the injury by the government to the faithful of Lithuania is obvious.
The Declaration of the European Council on Security and Cooperation, held in Helsinki in 1975, which was signed by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, L. I. Brezhnev, states that the "participating nations will honor the rights of man including freedom of thought, conscience, religion and convictions, ragardless of race, sex or religion" . . .
We the undersigned believers of the parish of Simnas, ask you, the Deputy for Religious Affairs, whose main duty it is to mediate between the government and the Church, to take the steps that:
1.The quota of candidates to be admitted to the seminary be abolished, that the bishops themselves might select and admit all young men who wish to become priests, so that the church of Simnas might get another priest — curate, who is greatly needed.
2.At least a small catechism be published. Such a catechism was last published before World War II.
3.A larger edition of prayerbooks and of the New Testament ot the Holy Bible be published.
Simnas, April 8, 1976
Signed by Several Hundred Parishioners of Simnas
Issue No. 23
Issue No. 1
About Chronicles
Chronicles - history
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LITHUANIA
LORD, WHAT A BLESSING THAT YOU ALLOWED...
THE ORIGIN AND AIMS OF THE LIETUVOS KATALIKŲ BAŽNYČIOS KRONIKA
KGB STRUGGLE AGAINST KRONIKA IN LITHUANIA AND IN THE WEST
Nijole Sadunaite
A Radiance in the Gulag
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PART II: ORDEAL
Part III: After Her Release from the Gulag
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It's up to the Supremes
By mlq3 Posted in Daily Dose on June 28, 2007 69 Comments 5 min read
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The train, it seems, has entered the station: Zubiri wins Maguindanao; Pimentel pins hope on SC ruling. The thing is, what did Zubiri win, exactly? Anyway, all eyes will be on the Supreme Court today, as Fight for 12th Senate seat shifts to Manila, with the Chief Justice making broad hints: Puno reiterates wish for freeze of canvass. Is he running out of time? Party-list, senatorial winners could be proclaimed June 30. Could, or will?
Meanwhile, PNP: Where’s arrest order on Bedol? Well, maybe Malacañang offers Bedol protection is related?
Revamp? What cabinet revamp? Arroyo reappoints CA’s 12 bypassed Cabinet members (see also 12 Cabinet men get new papers). While there’s this naughty story, Palace in-fighting worsens; Ronnie Puno tipped to replace Ermita, I still believe the real story is one of plain insubordination: the president made a wish, which might as well have been a command -and people didn’t obey.
JDV allies say he is GMA’s anointed, although Jose de Venecia, supposedly, followed the President around Singapore like a lonely puppy. But the President’s still being coy: Ermita: Race for House speakership just a numbers game. The word war continues among her other allies: Shut up, Palace tells Congressman Teves.
A new front? US military offers help in war vs NPA.
My column for today is It’s up to the Supremes. See also my entry yesterday.
There’s a very interesting speech titled Is the 7% Economic Growth Sustainable? by Oscar Lopez. He points out the 6.9% First Quarter growth of the country, and asks, what caused it?
The phenomenon of 6.9% GDP growth, at least during the first quarter, has been explained from the perspective of expenditures, as opposed to production, as follows: first, our economy’s growth continued to be propelled by consumption spending, which averaged 5.9% over Q1, and this was sustained to a large extent by the continued strength of overseas remittances. Second, government spending grew by 13.1%, lifted no doubt by pre-election spending like road building, etc. A third component, surprisingly, was robust 9.1% growth in exports. In contrast, investment expenditures posted negligible growth, a mere 0.6%.
Then he asks, can that level of growth be maintained?
Asking if we can sustain a higher rate of growth is asking if each of these components of expenditure can continue at the same levels. Let’s take them one at a time. Can remittances from abroad continue at the same levels and higher? Well, our overseas partners and friends like Balfour Beatty and British Gas take the view that if the current rates of growth of major world economies continue at their present levels, there will be an increasing shortage of skilled human resources of all types all over the world. You hear of the nurses and caregivers, the domestics, the seamen, the musicians, the pilots and the professionals that we supply the rest of the world, currently running at an estimated eight and a half million strong. What you do not often hear about is that Philippine companies are continually being stripped of our best engineers; our environmental, safety and health specialists; our quality control people; our maintenance mechanics, our commercial contract specialists and many other such hard-to-find-and-train skills. We simply cannot compete with the sort of salaries and benefits they are being offered in such far-flung places like Dubai and Louisiana. Yes, Louisiana. After Hurricane Katrina, Meralco lost many of its senior linemen and leadmen to the southern US utilities.
He goes on to suggest that if the world remains a peaceful place, things might be ok: but there remains a big challenge:
I believe that as long as there is no global recession, no great bubble bursting in China, or other such similar phenomena, then demand for Filipinos all over the world will continue and that their remittances to relatives remaining in the Philippines will also continue to prop up domestic consumer spending. But let me pose this question to you: can our economy afford to continue losing our skilled manpower over the longer term? Remember, we’re not educating and training them as quickly as we’re losing them. I will leave that question with you.
He also then goes on to say he doesn’t believe increased government spending is sustainable; exports can grow, but only if investors maintain their appetite for risk, which would fuel expansion; but that much more needs to be done in terms of actual investments and not merely attracting hot money. Read the whole thing.
The Inquirer editorial takes a look at the China-signed broadband deal and says it’s a steal. Palace trying to wiggle out of its own mess? Broadband network deal not yet final, says Palace.
The Lonely Vampire Chronicles presents two contrasting tales of bravura and machismo.
My Not So Secret Garden points to the inspiring story of Judge Lee of Cebu:
Judge Lee of Cebu rose to the occasion. He was in a ship that was sinking. He organized the distribution of the life jackets. When all available life jackets were distributed, there were still people in line. He took of his life jacket and gave it away. A few days later when search and rescue operation was underway, his body was found floating in the sea. What he did was heroic. He choose to rise to the occasion.
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baycas says:
Both websites dotcdotgovdotph and dotcmaindotgovdotph are inaccessible. The Communication Department is on a self-imposed incommunicado state?
I also wonder why in the profile of the Communication Department’s secretary (over at the opdotgovdotph site where the Batangueño is pictured) the DOTC’s website points to oksnaoksdotdotcdotgovdotph.
Oks na oks? Probably pertaining to the NBN deal?
Bencard says:
vic, you should realize that in combating crime, there are no silver bullets. deterrence or prospect of punishment, while useful, is not enough. many people commit crimes, or violate the law, without regard to the consequences.
i’m not sure what “ready to obey the law” means. the law must be obeyed by everyone (ready or not) or else…
obedience to law is a given in a civilized society. it is not a matter of choice. whether or not it is enforced is not relevant.
ay_naku says:
the law must be obeyed by everyone (ready or not) or else…
What to do if the law enforcers (the executive branch) are wantonly breaking the laws themselves, or more precisely, acting as if they’re above the law? And they have the power, by means fair or foul, to block attempts to hold them accountable for their crimes. Yes the courts (particularly the SC) have severely rebuked them several times, but in many instances the damage has already been done, the sinister purpose already having been accomplished. What should be the “or else” part in such a scenario?
rego says:
If the law enforcers is indeed wantonly breaking the law. Then you just have to substanstiate your allegation file the necessary charges in court. Go after them.
Your pointing out something here. Correct me if Im wrong but you seem to be referring to the declaration of Gloria that were challenged in the supreme court and and as you ve said was rebuked by the court. And yes that was just it. Everything that Gloria did can be challenge very well in a proper forum.
About the damage you should clarify it further….
And oh the perception that the law enforcers or other are breaking the law does not grant anybody the right to break the law.
Jon Mariano says:
And oh the perception that the law enforcers or other are breaking the law does not grant anybody the right to break the law – Rego
But I thought if you break the law and do it successfully, you didn’t break the law? (remember Edsa 1 and 2?)
wher the hell did you get that?
I be;ive you break the law at your own peril. Now you may be able to avoid consequences once, twice, thrice, or for the time being. But you can not do that all the time.
Even the laws that were broken in EDSA 1 and 2 has its own dire consequences that is starting to haunt us now or has been haunting us ever since….
inodoro ni emilie says:
“But I thought if you break the law and do it successfully, you didn’t break the law? (remember Edsa 1 and 2?)”
bencard,
I realized that there will be criminals and there will be criminals, and some will do crimes under the noses of the authorities. Some are habitual, and some just have the propensity to commit crimes, just for the heck of it, and some in our case do, because the figure out they have a better life inside our jails than out.
What I’m pointing out that I have observed, that so many of us immigrants, coming from all over the world, where we used to disregard on an on and off basis every law from traffic, to public peace, to alcohol and tobacco, and even loitering have suddenly become law abiding as soon as we experience the consequence for the first time, or even heard of what could have happened if charged for the offense in our new land. And bribing a public servant or police officer is even unheard of. And election code violations either by candidates or voters in every election as we have many, Federal, Provincial and municipals and they can be called anytime except for municipals that are fixed at four years, are far and between because the last time I heard the Judge sent a town major to jail for illegal election expense. And it just discourage others lest they too may go to jail instead of Mayor’s office.
I also am aware that economic prosperity could bring about the attitudes, but there are many other places that are more prosperous than ours that has higher rate of wrongdoings and crimes.
So, I can after these experience can categorically without any doubt state that Leadership has a lot to do about it. If you look at our leaders, from Federal, Provincial and even our Local Leaders, and our Police; there are not just any negative issues where we can have an excuse to say: follow the Leader… And tomorrow, July 1st, we will be Celebrating our 140th Birthday and I wish One and All a Happy Canada Day…
vic, leadership has a lot to do with it, yes, but don’t discount personal responsibility. it’s easy to blame some one else but oneself. people in a democratic society, even pinoys in pinas, are not robots doing the bidding of their “leaders”. they should know what’s good for them wherever they are. they don’t have to go to canada to learn how to obey the law, and to live in a civilized, orderly society.
and, btw, no one CAN violate the law simply because he thinks somebody in the government violates it. that is irresponsible, juvenile thinking.
I was not talking only us pinoys, but just about every nationality, where the influence of the leadership and the process of which the law of the land is enforced has a lot to do with the changing of attitudes. and the attention the governemts pays wherever there is a particular problem regarding a particular group of nationals. and they are addressed.
and believe me, if one can get away from profitting from violation of the law, even saints will turn into evils.
not because one can get away, another is free to violate the law. one cannot be a copycat all the time.
hvrds says:
The theory of equilibrium finds its roots in the “invisible hand” idea of Adam Smith wherein for some equilibrium scientists individual economic self- interest is the absolute driving force.
It is the individual self-interest of Bedol who transformed his political power into currency. What is good for Bedol is good for Maguindanao. That is the basic theory that drives the idea of free markets. Individual economic self intererst above all else.
He delivered on his contract. The votes that appear to have been manufactured are now the law. They have been included into the legal count of the government institution tasked with canvassing votes. Any party in interest can challenge it later in the proper forum. It now has the force of law. It has become the legitimate vote count as the law says it is for now.
When the social format allows for markets (individual economic self interest) to invade political institutions it is the effect of weak economic fundamentals in society. When the chief executive of the country calls a government functionary involved in elections and counting of the results to inquire if she will get a million vote lead over her opponent, it becomes the politics of command.
Why invest hundreds in millions to get into elected office unless economic self-interest compels one to do so?
Romulo Neri has always complained that vested interest have control of the regulatory agencies of government. So what is new?
The role of government as an equalizer in society pre-supposes broad political support for government. The missing middle who need an equalizer between the them and the power of vested interests should realize that policies are not made by engaging in ideas but who has the means to get his message across.
That means the voices for fairness and equal opportunites are muted. They are replaced by the economics of the “invisible hand.” With apologies to Smith but his ideas had certain parameters before the invisible hand was to benefit society as a whole. In the real world that idea goes berserk. Individual self-interest as an absolute ideal is fraught with dangerous consequences.
Raised to a dogma it results in distorting and debasing what is known as the rule of law and that brings on tyranny.
Shaman of Malilipot says:
The real problem in our country is that Bencard’s “or else” is often an empty threat, especially when the crime or wrongdoing is committed by the rich and the powerful. As Vic has pointed out, the devil is in enforcement.
But, still, it is our individual responsibility as citizens of a civilized society to obey the law, never mind if our leaders are not setting the example, or others are law-breakers, or even if anybody is watching..
Rom, as Bencard has pointed out, making the courts irrelevant is the ideal situation and as we all know, ideals, in the real world, are impossible to attain. But it doesn’t and shouldn’t prevent us from approximating the ideal situation. It’s called progress.
I understand Bencard’s longing to address iniquities within the system of the law: after all, wasn’t it great that Eliot Ness put away Al Capone without compromising his integrity or of that of the law? What a hero!
I also remember the words of St. Thomas More (at least in the movie): “What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? … And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide … the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down … do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”
Having said that, I do not think many people (perhaps including Bencard) would entrust their fate to the law as implemented here, nor should they. Even if you granted the integrity and independence of judges (a dubious proposition to begin with, as any local lawyer will tell you), the glacial pace at which court cases are resolved can thwart even the most Solomonic decision. Just look at the many electoral cases that result in the winnner serving practically no time in office.
Do you disagree, Bencard? Do you trust the Philippine justice system as much as you do that of the US, where you now practice? If not, what should be done about it? Where does one start fixing it?
camry says:
I suggest that advocacy or citizen watch groups (NGO)will work hard to expose ill doings of government workers in the justice department. In this way, the sector who is supposed to interpret/dispense justice might do it in the right way. In turn, publish the identities of good performing judges. If the media will help in this endeavor, we might have a better justice system.
I am afraid of what will happen to our justice system, 10 – 15 years from now if no improvement will be implemented.
Of course nobody wants to see Saints turning into Evils as vic mentioned above.
thanks camry, you made my Canada Day, now after getting a little woozy from celebrating, I go myself to bed and dream that Saints will be forever keeping their wings and hallos instead of growing horns (wherever) and that we all will see that day sooner than later…
Bruce in Iloilo says:
I don’t understand why they don’t just re-count the ballots. Why worry about what the COCs say? Go directly to the source. Go directly to the ballots. The ballots should be the only papers that count. That is all the law should be concerned with. Every other piece of paper should be secondary with no standing without the ballots to back them up.
cvj says:
Umberto (at June 28th, 2007, 11:07 pm), no such ill-wishes, we’re all on the same boat. We just want to be reality-based. Even our two previous NEDA Director-Generals (Cielito Habito and Felipe Medalla) have expressed their concerns on the GDP statistics.
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"This is a dream that I have had since lunch, and I am not giving up on it now."
- Michael Scott, The Office
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"Fool me once, strike 1. Fool me twice, strike 3."
"I can't tell you how much guacamole I have ended up eating, over the years."
- Michael, The Office
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"I ate more fettuccini alfredo, and drank less water than I have in my entire life."
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"Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I HAVE to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need to be liked, like my need to be praised."
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"That's it, I want to talk to this guy. Put me in his ear."
- Jim, The Office
"I sat at my desk all day, with a rifle that shoots potatoes at sixty pounds per square inch. Can you imagine if I was deranged?"
- Dwight Schrute, The Office
"If we have to defend ourselves, I will stab the security guard in the eye with a jumbo chalk."
"The eyes are the groin of the head."
"Those are the money beets."
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Home Curriculum & Environment FROM UNDER OUR BIG TREE: Week 10
FROM UNDER OUR BIG TREE: Week 10
“When I take my expectations out of the equation, every experience is valuable and unique.”
~ Shannon Minor
Wow! This week flew by…just like the rest of 2013! The counting caterpillar shows that we have been in school 45 days, and my how we have grown. Students are finding their way in our environment, knowing where to locate supplies and resources, how we care for our classroom and each other, and how to “keep the flow” in our choice filled environment. Teachers have noticed this growth and are slowly offering more “independent” areas where there may not be a teacher anchored. I enjoyed spending time connecting with our community on Saturday. I look forward to continuing digging into perspectives and lenses!Meeting Discussions
UPSTAIRS(5 to 7)//Tours are beginning and students have created a list of what they want visiting families and their children to know about our classroom: At TKG we learn, we like not mean words but nice words, we model “keeping the flow” (we may not acknowledge the tour if we are engaged in a plan), we like to be called by our names or sometimes animal names. When the topic of order surfaced, Delaney offered, “Well, if you go last you will have more time to think about it.”DOWNSTAIRS(7 to 9)//This week students began to explore the idea of their dream school day schedule. We got to execute Hayden’s plan on Friday, which began with Deep Learning first thing in the morning! Then, we got to explore the far parking lot and just how wonderful it is to kick a ball as hard as you can and make the teachers run and run and run. So much fun! Throughout the year, each student will have the opportunity to plan their dream schedule and then we will work together to pick a day to make that happen.
UPSTAIRS//Our interests ranged from skip counting by 5s or 2s, word problems, place value, subitizing, matching games, and book making. On Thursday Kai and Delaney started bundling (regrouping) sticks to make tens and then hundreds with the goal to make a bundle of one thousand. Anna and Jaiden joined in on Friday and now we have 6 bundles of 100. Tillie recalled a game that involves flying like a bee to collect pollen (beads) to make a 100 string and set it up for us in the hall. Making math books and thinking about shapes seemed to be big sparks so we will dig into these more next week, as well as continue making a bundle of one thousand. With the reminder of kinesthetic learning, teachers will be finding ways to offer whole body or movement with math learning.
DOWNSTAIRS//During Math we intentionally worked on the following skills and habits:
We worked on the idea that we are mathematical problem solvers. We all have so many strategies to solving mathematical problems. Our goal this week was to show on paper what our thinking was in solving multi-step problems so we could share our thinking and teach others our strategies. This happened both in context by playing a new game (Spider Web) and meeting with me in small groups to explore how our knowledge of 10’s and 5’s can guide us in creating our own mathematical strategies.
Language Topics
UPSTAIRS//Persistence in completing books before beginning new ones. Kai created “Book Making Book” which is filled with backgrounds/settings for students to use in telling stories. Sydney and Aiel are in the final stretch of publishing their book, currently they are working on “about the authors”. Lucas and Alex started stories separately, and ended up working together; first starting in block area, and then refining their story in the habitat area. Early in the week Zara, Maiya, and Anna worked on a letter to the downstairs class in preparation of giving them the 100 bead strings we’ve worked so hard on making for them. The gift giving will happen next week.
DOWNSTAIRS//During our Writing time, we intentionally worked on the following skills and habits:
This week we explored the wonders of adjectives! How many words can you think of to describe a scar you have, your pet, a character in a book, yourself? Our books continue to be a source of great pride. If you are inspired to know about the following books, come in, pull up a seat and enjoy!
Teddy- Stick Figure Puzzles
Zoe- Zombies Steal Thanksgiving
Isabella- Auggie Doggie
Maddie- Froggie Buys a Car
Hayden- Birds and Pigs
Simone- How to describe a beta fish and Ozzy the cat
Bennett- Mouse Ball
UPSTAIRS//Our person of the week was Zara and we enjoyed getting to know her. We asked her questions to get to know her better. Did you know she loves apples, and lived in Taiwan? Her favorite drink is water. Her favorite animal is a cat. Her favorite thing is TKG and she enjoys smashing bugs with her own hands. She loves to draw and brought in lots of art work to share. We noticed many mediums, ranging from paint and pastels, to collage and chalk. Our next person of the week is Delaney.Science
DOWNSTAIRS//We continue to add layers of information to our exploration of cartography. We added some new words to our working knowledge of topography by thinking about the different types of water form present on Earth. We then took this information to the creation of our perfect cities by imagining what land and water features we would have in our perfect city using collage materials and clay. The creations were inspired and the thinking deepened with the opportunity to speak through different materials.
Reminder that we have a school holiday next week. Wishing you a restful and safe holiday!
CONNECTION LINKS
Lena Garcia, School Builder/7 to 9 Classroom
Michelle Goldbach-Johnson, Founding Teacher/5 to 7 Classroom
Yvette Fenton/Co-Teacher, 5 to 7 Classroom
Jaclyn Epstein-Calvert/Co-Teacher, 7 to 9 Classroom
Saundi Williams, 5 to 7 Room Parent
Erin Levin, 7 to 9 Room Parent
Shutterfly Info Site: photos, contact information, announcements
Tending the Garden
***FIELD/PARK DAY NOTES
We will be at Hess Park this week! Forecast calls for Partly cloudy. High 69F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Please pack layers for so your sprout stays warm and remind them to stay hydrated and listen to their tummies.
***CLASSROOM SUPPORT NEEDED
Bulletin Board Design – students are interested in designing the board outside 321 and we would like a parent to help lead the project. Please contact Michelle to confirm your interest.
***CLASSROOM SUPPLIES NEEDED
scrapbooking paper scraps for collage
glass jars (washed & labels removed)
Canvas Tipis
old sheets (bedding)
Ogo Sports Disks
TKG Principals
CONSTRUCTIVISM, as teachers and parents, we provide the trellis on which students will build on their existing knowledge
WHOLE CHILD, cognitive, physical and social/emotional are inseparable
BRAIN SCIENCE, students are sensory learners, we honor each student’s unique developmental map
CAPACITY BUILDING, nurturing creative thinkers who are encouraged to solve problems that serve our community
COOPERATIVE LEARNING, small groups, low ratios, mixed ages and generations
We are offering the opportunity to engage:
Counting & Cardinality (K)
Know number names and the count sequence.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
Number & Operations in Base Ten (1)
Understand place value.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:
CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2a 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a “ten.”
CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2b The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
CCSS.Math.Content.1.NBT.B.2c The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).
English Language Arts: Language
Conventions of Standard English (K)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1a Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1b Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1c Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1e Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
Knowledge of Language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (1)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.4a Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5 With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5a Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.5c Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful)
Grade 4 » Number & Operations—Fractions
CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.A.1 Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.
Grade 3 Overview
Measurement and Data
Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
Grade 2 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Grade 3 Reading: Literature
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
FEATURED WORKSHOP Council I: An Introduction to The Way of Council
December 13, 4:00 pm thru December 15, 4:00 pm
Experience the age-old practice of Council and learn ways to use it to enrich all your relationships: couples, families, schools, businesses, communities … REGISTER HERE
From the TKG Office
Parent Enrollment Information Nights kick off on December 5th. Share this REGISTRATION link with friends and family.
Drum Circle, is on for this Friday. Please give $15 to Trish by Thursday morning to confirm you attendance.
School Holiday – No school next week. Safe travels and refreshing rest to you!
TKG Office Hours are this Tuesday from 9 to 12. Monica and Trish are available (weekly) for business and conversation.
Thank you Families! Contact Trish or Monica with any questions.
1. Be Impeccable with your Word
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
3. Don’t Make Assumptions
4. Always Do Your Best
In Education News
The Case Against High-School Sports
In The Atlantic by AMANDA RIPLEY
Every year, thousands of teenagers move to the United States from all over the world, for all kinds of reasons. They observe everything in their new country with fresh eyes, including basic features of American life that most of us never stop to consider.
One element of our education system consistently surprises them: “Sports are a big deal here,” says Jenny, who moved to America from South Korea with her family in 2011. Shawnee High, her public school in southern New Jersey, fields teams in 18 sports over the course of the school year, including golf and bowling. Its campus has lush grass fields, six tennis courts, and an athletic Hall of Fame. “They have days when teams dress up in Hawaiian clothes or pajamas just because—‘We’re the soccer team!,’ ” Jenny says. (To protect the privacy of Jenny and other students in this story, only their first names are used.)
By contrast, in South Korea, whose 15-year-olds rank fourth in the world (behind Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong) on a test of critical thinking in math, Jenny’s classmates played pickup soccer on a dirt field at lunchtime. They brought badminton rackets from home and pretended there was a net. If they made it into the newspaper, it was usually for their academic accomplishments.
Sports are embedded in American schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else. Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America’s international mediocrity in education. READ MORE…
© 2014 This information is intended for the families and students of TKG. We love our families!
TKG LEARN: The Case Against High-School Sports
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Town of Lamoine, Maine
The Official Website of Lamoine's Town Government
Conservation Commission Minutes
December 8, 2020 (Draft, subject to correction)
Members Present: Larissa Thomas, chair; Linda Penkalski, Diane Nicholls, Kerry Diskin, Jack Roubichaud
Alternate members present: Mike Jordan, Diana Cassel
Meeting was convened and held virtually by Chairman Thomas at 7:02 PM.
1. Approval of the September 9, 2020 minutes.
2. GET WET!: Linda contacted the teachers at the Lamoine Consolidated School and tentatively GET WET! 2021 will be held in April with the hope that we will be able to work with the students at the school. This is all dependent upon an easing of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Wednesday, April 7, 2021, Linda will introduce GET WET! to the 5th and 6th grade students. Thursday, April 8, 2021, GET WET! water testing will happen in the gym in the morning. Friday, April 9, 2021 will be a snow date.
3. Conservation Awards: In the past we only have given out the award when we have an outstanding candidate. It was the decision of the Lamoine Conservation Committee members that we have two deserving recipients this year. Larissa made a nomination and members unanimously voted that the award be jointly given to Katherine Dudzinski and Judith Whitcomb for their donation of land on Blunts Pond to become part of Bloomfield Park. The award presentation will be made at the Town Meeting this spring. Larissa will contact the honorees to inform them and invite them to attend the Town Meeting if possible as they both live out of town.
4. Bottle returnables: During the month of January, 2021 revenue from the bottle returnables at the Lamoine Transfer Station will go to the Lamoine Conservation Commission.
Motions and outcomes:
1. The minutes of the September 9, 2020 meeting were approved as distributed.
2. The Lamoine Conservation Commission members moved to give the Lamoine Conservation Award to two deserving recipients.
Follow-up actions and who will do them:
1. Linda will email the people who have helped with GET WET! to alert them about the tentative dates in April.
2. Larissa will contact the two Conservation Awardees and invite them to the Town Meeting this spring. She will contact Stu about the framed certificate and will purchase the frames. Stu will get the plaque engraved with the names of the recipients.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:22 PM.
Minutes taken by ___________________________ and approved on _______________.
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Winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2017
Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2017
Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
Commended, CBC Children's Book Panel Recommendation, 2016
Icarus Down
By James Bow
Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443139137 Paperback
384 Pages | Ages 12 & Up
Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443139144 Ebook
Earth’s survivors cling to life on an unforgiving distant planet, next to the sun!
Three generations after the crash of the colony ship Icarus, Iapyx is barely hanging on: one of thirteen cities suspended halfway down deep chasms. The sun on the diamond lands above will kill a man in less than five minutes. The ticktock monsters in the fog forest below are a little slower — but quite a bit smarter. An electromagnetic wash has disabled the computers, the radios, even the lightbulbs. It’s the steam and clockwork age reborn: a careful society, rationed and stratified.
Which suits Simon Daud just fine.
Simon likes the rules, and knows his place — in the shadow of his older brother, Isaac. All he wants is to earn his wings as an ornithopter pilot and get to work in the flight bays. But on his final test flight, something goes wrong. Isaac is killed. Simon is burned; his body will never be the same.
Neither will his world. Not everything in Iapyx is quite as it seems, and through his rehabilitation Simon falls into the middle of a conspiracy that will bring everything he’s ever known to the ground. Down in the fog forest, monsters await — but so does the truth . . . if Simon can survive long enough to find it.
Map of Icarus Down
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Burns and Allen: Gracie For President
Media: (7) CDs
In 1940, America was still staggering its way out of the Great Depression and war clouds were rolling in from Europe. The upcoming Presidential campaign spotlight turned to perhaps the unlikeliest, but certainly the most entertaining, candidate of all - Gracie Allen.
Politics was perfect for Gracie's particular brand of logical illogic. Join the hilarity, and the throngs of supporters, as George Burns, Gracie, and their entire cast embark on a whistle-stop tour all the way to the Surprise Party's national convention in Omaha, Nebraska. This quirky collection includes 12 surviving �campaign� episodes of the classic Burns & Allen radio program, as well as �campaign stops� by Gracie on the Jack Benny and Fibber McGee & Molly radio programs. Plus, a Program Guide by radio historian Elizabeth McLeod with photographs and background information about the shows.
Episodes Included: Hinds Honey and Almond Cream presents George Burns and Gracie Allen: 02-28-40, 03-06-40, 03-13-40, 03-27-40, 04-03-40, 04-10-40, 04-17-40, 04-24-40, 05-08-40, 05-15-40, 05-22-40, 05-29-40; The Jack Benny Program: 03-03-40; Fibber McGee & Molly 03-05-40
Burns & Allen: Love and War
Burns & Allen and Friends
Burns & Allen: Illogical Logic
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Cover Reveal: Crossing The Line (The GEG #3) by Jacquelyn Ayres
Book: Crossing The Line (The GEG Series #3)
Author: Jacquelyn Ayres
Genre: erotic romance/humor
Psychotherapist, Madelyn St. Claire, has all the answers. At least, that’s what the plaques on her wall say. There isn’t a fear she’s met that she hasn’t helped a client blast through. So, why can’t she work through her own?
Oh, that’s right…
She’s been so busy helping everyone else through their challenges over the years, including her best friends—the GEGs—that she never even realized she had any of her own true fears. Then again, she didn’t have a reason to until he came along. Cellist, Declan Pierce, can hit all the right notes, as long as he’s hitting them on stage. When he’s off . . . well—he’s off. So, he keeps his head down and tries to stay focused on his career and his son, Hunter. They have shared in a trauma that would bring most closer. However, theirs has only weighted their bond down, slowly causing them to drift further and further apart.
That is until a beacon of light shines through. That beacon is about five-foot-nothing, all curves, heart, brains, and no BS. But that is only part of this story.
It’s a long road to Happily Ever After. Maddie and Declan learn that it takes more than just the two of them to get there, and it’s not a smooth stroll. It’s not meant to be, though, is it? Life can give you whiplash. Buckle in and hold tight to those closest to you because, honestly…
It takes a village to make love epic.
I am a domestic engineer (born and raised in NJ) whose sole responsibility is to guide three young, impressionable kids into becoming phenomenal adults. This challenging yet rewarding work requires a lot of love (coffee), patience (wine), and determination (periodic exorcisms). I work this magic from the beautiful state of New Hampshire.
Before becoming a domestic goddess (not really), I spent over a decade in the medical field, where I wore more hats than the Queen.
I have loved the written word and the great escape it provides since I was a little girl. When I wasn't reading about people and the places they lived, I was creating my own characters and adventures.
Finding myself again through my writing in The Lost & Found Series, The One, and The GEG Series has been nothing short of a dream come true. Also, it makes people feel better when I laugh randomly or talk to myself, knowing it's my characters and not "the voices" . . . that would be creepy.
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Under Contract (GEG #1)
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November 30, 2020 Guido Leave a comment
I’ve always found An Autumn For Crippled Children an odd formation, ever since they were introduced to me. Their music feels different, yet clicks with the essential vibes of black metal. Some outlets have described them as a pure proponent of blackgaze, which is a term that not everyone is equally excited about it seems. On ‘All fell silent, everything went quiet’, the band pushes further into the regions in which only a few bands dare venture.
The new album is the eighth full-length release by the Dutch trio in their 10-year run, making them a very productive collective. The warm tones on this release make me think a bit more of Alcest than the scorned Deafheaven. The music flows like a warm bath, particularly the second track ‘Water’s Edge’ tells you everything you need to know about the sound An Autumn For Crippled Children is going for. The mellow vibe, the major key and gentle jamming contrast sharply with the raspy vocals. There’s an element of rawk and roll with that scrappy sound of the guitars as the two collide, but eventually, all flows together like a stream of sonic honey.
I wouldn’t call the music joyous, but there is an exuberance in the sound of songs like ‘Silver’—a drivenness and burning energy. It struggles for release that never really comes. I find myself longing to the moments of release when the blast beats fall away, and the melody soars freely. The vocals are frequently buried in the sound frequency, allowing it to merge together. Check out, for example, the track ‘None More Pale’, which is what black metal sounds like when all sounds are clean. Or maybe I just imagine that. It has a certain pop-sensibility to it, but still carries the epic, dramatic movements I love so much.
What may be an issue for those listening, is that its smooth sound may lack the fire that keeps you ‘onboard’ while listening to a record. To me, songs like ‘The Falling Senses’ work well, due to their relentless pace and energy, but others, like the title track, become hazy summer days. Where your vision becomes blurred, the heat plays tricks on your eyes and you slowly drift off. I think that’s the bridge with postrock, in a very complete and fully immersive manner, but it’s something you have to like and I happen to do. Which is why this is a great album in my book.
Band: An Autumn For Crippled Children
Origin: Netherlands
Label: Prosthetic Records
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Alpha Flight #114-117 Up:
Hulk #397-400
Issue(s): Hulk #397, Hulk #398, Hulk #399, Hulk #400
Cover Date: Sep-Dec 92
Title: Ghost of the Past: "Welcome home" / "Betrayals" / "A convocation of politic worms" / "Deus ex machina"
Peter David - Writer
Dale Keown / Jan Duursema / Chris Bachalo - Penciler
Mark Farmer / Jan Duursema - Inker
Chris Cooper / Matthew Morra - Assistant Editor
Bobbie Chase - Editor
Hulk and his Pantheon friends leave Vegas and return to the Pantheon Mount and find that it is under attack. The attackers are the U-Foes.
Pretty brutal, what the Hulk does here.
The U-Foes are actually trying to get to Agamemnon. It turns out that the U-Foes have been hired by the Leader, who wants an audience with the Pantheon leader.
I liked this scene, where the Leader notes that there are just too many people piling on the Hulk.
The Hulk nonetheless takes some serious damage during the fight.
And there are enough villains to keep the rest of the Pantheon busy.
But the big moment is when Vector goes full power on the Hulk, flaying off his flesh. The Hulk nonetheless manages to reach him and knock him out.
We've known that the Hulk is basically a walking pile of radioactive cancer cells, and so he has a near instantaneous healing factor. This scene almost seems ridiculous unless you recall when Wolverine said in Hulk #340 that the Hulk's skin was never impenetrable; it just heals instantaneously.
Still, Agamemnon ends the fight at that point, so we don't know if the Hulk really could have continued to fight after this. I guess it depends on how angry he was.
The Hulk is extremely pissed to find that Agamemnon has made an agreement with the Leader.
Meanwhile, Rick Jones has lunch with the woman claiming to be his mom, but she drugs him and locks him in a basement with the corpses of her previous "sons".
Betty and Marlo later show up at Jacqueline's house looking for Rick, and Jacqueline stabs Marlo when she gets close to discovering him.
Betty manages to knock Jacqueline out with a fire poker, but Marlo is dead. I should note that when it's all over, Jacqueline still maintains that she's Rick's mother (a claim she doesn't make about the other corpses), but Rick will refuse to do a test to confirm it, because he really doesn't want to know.
Dale Keown leaves the book after issue #398. Jan Duursema does a decent Dale Keown for issues #399-400, especially on #400 when Mark Farmer inks her. Chris Bachalo, also inked by Farmer, draws the second half of issue #400 (it's a double-sized anniversary issue). Duursema will remain on the book until issue #403 when Gary Frank becomes the regular artist.
Issue #398 has Rick Jones going around to various superheroes trying to get them to raise Marlo from the dead.
Rick couldn't find the Hulk because he's returned to the site of the original gamma bomb explosion, where he's sulking after his disagreement with Agamemnon. Meanwhile, the Leader has Marlo's corpse removed from the morgue, and he contacts Rick. The Leader's current gamma energy was taken from Rick while Rick was a Hulk, so they actually share a psychic bond.
So Rick's current despondence is bothering the Leader, and he wants to do something about it. Namely, bring Marlo back to life.
The Leader thinks he can do it thanks to the healing powers of Soul Man, one of the gamma-powered minions he picked up after the gamma bomb explosion in Hulk #345. The Leader reveals that he's already brought General Thunderbolt Ross back from the dead, although he's only in a half-alive state. The Leader has been using him as the current Redeemer.
But the Leader has built a machine that he thinks can be used to amplify Soul Man's abilities and bring people all the way back.
Meanwhile, Agamemnon reaches out to Betty and asks her to bring back the Hulk.
The Hulk is in a mood, and acts like a jackass towards Betty. But that changes when he learns that Marlo is dead.
Rick is brought to the Leader's Freehold, which is populated with people that are dying of cancer.
Meanwhile, a rogue branch of Hydra prepares to attack Freehold. I wondered if the guy on the phone was meant to be Baron Strucker. He's playing the right role, but seems too... accommodating. As Brian notes in the comments, this was probably meant to be the Red Skull as part of the set-up for the New World Order storyline. He still seems too accommodating, and the whole relationship between the Skull and Strucker feels like it wasn't settled. You'd think the Skull would go through Strucker, who would be focused on wiping out or consolidating this branch of Hydra they way he was doing in the Nick Fury series.
At the same time, Agamemnon tells the Hulk that he doesn't intend to honor the deal with the Leader, and he tells the Hulk where Freehold is. Hulk is pleased to "fiiiiinally" be able to take the battle to him. Betty suggests contacting SHIELD or the Avengers, but the Hulk wants to do it himself. But Agamemnon may be manipulating the Hulk into helping the Leader deal with the Hydra attack.
The U-Foes are conspicuously missing at this point, but that will be addressed in issue #401.
When the Hulk shows up, he's not all that interested in Hydra.
But Rick tells him what's going on, and Hulk - very angrily - decides to help.
But the Hulk then changes his mind and goes after the Leader again.
Meanwhile, the Leader seems to be trying to siphon off Soul Man's power for himself while Soul Man is trying to resurrect Marlo. So when the Hulk shows up and wrecks what Soul Man is doing, it's not clear if it would have worked anyway.
The Hulk just goes nuts.
However, seeing the semi-resurrected General Ross gives him pause. But at this point it's too late, and Marlo is brought back only to the same semi-alive state that Ross is in.
Peter David continues to do great stuff. The Leader's motivations are nuanced enough to keep him interesting, and of course the various fights with the villains are fun. But the stuff with Rick reacting to Marlo's death is moving while also acknowledging in a fun way the reality of the Marvel universe that Rick, especially, lives in. I wouldn't want an average person to go around to various super-characters asking for someone to be resurrected, because that breaks the "world outside your window", but since Rick is deeply involved in the weirdness of the Marvel universe, it makes sense. And, ultimately, does him no good. It's villains that dabble in bringing people back from the dead, of course. What i like the most is the Hulk getting angry that he's being manipulated again and then totally losing control. Despite his current merged status, there's still a monster in him, and that comes to the forefront here. Really well done.
I probably disliked Chris Bachalo's art when i first saw it, but i'm more familiar with his style now, so i appreciate it in a different way. The rest of the art is great. It's sad to see Dale Keown go, but i know that Gary Frank is coming.
Issue #400 also reprints Tales To Astonish #63.
Quality Rating: A-
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: Hulk (and some of the Pantheon) are still in Las Vegas at the start of this arc, so he shouldn't appear elsewhere in between and it shouldn't be too long since last arc. Some time passes between issues #398 and #399, but the Hulk probably shouldn't appear anywhere else in between, so i've kept it all in a single entry.
Iron Clad says that the last time the U-Foes fought the Hulk, "some stupid puffballs saved you". That's a reference to Hulk #305.
The Hulk killed the original Redeemer in Hulk #345, although he doesn't know it since he's seen a Redeemer since then.
When Rick shows up at Dr. Strange's, acting rudely, Strange wonders if he's again been possessed by Namor, as in Hulk annual #18.
For Dr. Strange's return from the dead, i'll link to his fake funeral in Doctor Strange #1.
For Wong, how about when he was turned into a vampire in Doctor Strange #14.
Rick came back from the dead in Hulk #385.
While Hulk is off moping, he makes reference to the mind games he played on Igor in Hulk #393. The Hulk himself is reliving scenes from circa Hulk #1.
The Human Torch tells Rick his own tragedy, having learned that his wife Alicia was really a Skrull, which happened in Fantastic Four #357-360.
Rick thinks Marlo's death is karma for him killing Farnoq Dahn in Hulk #392.
The Leader drained the gamma energy from Rick in Hulk #332.
General Ross died in Hulk #330.
The Leader points out that Rick Jones was once cured of cancer. That happened in ROM #72.
Hulk remembers Freehold as the place where the Leader brought him when he was poisoned by Madman, in Hulk #364-367.
As Vincent notes in the comments, the scene of the Hulk losing control was foreseen by Delphi in Hulk #382.
Hulk #405
Characters Appearing: Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax, Atalanta, Betty Ross, Dr. Strange, General 'Thunderbolt' Ross, Hector, Henry Pym, Hotshot, Hulk, Human Torch, Ironclad, Jacqueline Shorr, Jailbait, Leader, Marlo Chandler, Mr. Fantastic, Ogress, Omnibus, Paris, Prometheus (Pantheon), Rick Jones, Rock, Scarlet Witch, Soul Man, Suzie Berengetti, Ulysses, Vapor, Vector, Wong, X-Ray
Dr. Strange's "Morpheus" line refers to Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and one of Chris Bachalo's most visible projects before this was one of the Vertigo Death miniseries.
Posted by: Mark Drummond | April 23, 2016 12:15 PM
The panel with Hulk with blood on his hands (the HA HA HA one) is a repeat of a premonition shown in an earlier issue, that's why it looks a bit out of place since it's Chris Bachalo aping Dale Keown in order to recreate it.
Posted by: Vincent Valenti | April 23, 2016 1:17 PM
@Fnord The voice that the "Supreme Hydra" is talking to is Red Skull, who is organizing the New World Order.
Posted by: Brian C. Saunders | April 23, 2016 1:25 PM
Very bad of Marvel to kick Dale Keown off when he gave them notice he'd be doing Image. They should have let him finish the series to # 400.
I have an inordinate fondness for the U-Foes mainly because I think they are the best FF origin knock off (better than the super apes, and the Frightful Four did not get their powers that way) and their powers are very unique and challenging. Good to finally see them again, but I always wanted them to be more prominent (and be more than goons, Vector is supposed to be a successful businessman).
Peter David really overutilizes the healing aspect of the Hulk. It should be just that - healing, not regeneration. Especially super healing is Wolverine's thing, the Hulk's should be much less. It's one of the few bad legacies of David's writing.
Never liked the Rick Jones subplot here or what happened to Marlo.
Posted by: Chris | April 23, 2016 1:30 PM
Inasmuch as I've never seen Chris Bachalo do anything wrong, I'm not certain he was the right person to draw the last chapter of this issue. Of course, the problem is that Dale Keown was the right person and he left at the prodding of Todd McFarlane. Marvel did not remove Keown, he quit. This decision to leave 3 months early was to accomplish nothing except to kneecap this issue and the big moment that had been foreshadowed in HULK #382, which is why the panel with bloody hands Hulk comes off as a swipe instead of the call back it was supposed to be. Not Bachalo's fault.
Vincent & Brian - thanks. I've added a reference to Hulk #382 and put the equivalent scan on that entry. And i've added the Red Skull as a character appearing and added some thoughts about that in the entry.
Posted by: fnord12 | April 23, 2016 1:47 PM
Mark, the "Death" miniseries was actually Bachalo's next project after this. "The High Cost of Living" was published in Spring 1993 while these issues were from Fall 1992. He was also the regular artist on "Shade the Changing Man" at the time, so I'm not sure how he came to draw this issue too.
Posted by: ChrisW | April 23, 2016 1:58 PM
Agreed that Marvel was really short-sighted to kick Dale Keown off the series two issues early when he'd committed to penciling the entire story before leaving for Image. But that was the general trend at Marvel at this time. There seemed to be a heck of a lot of resentment towards the Image founders. Jim Valentino actually had Guardians of the Galaxy plotted out up to issue #51. He really wanted to stay on GotG as the writer *and* go to Image to write & draw Shadowhawk, but Marvel would not let him.
Posted by: Ben Herman | April 23, 2016 2:34 PM
Looking at the prophecy from 382 it seems PAD chickened out a bit. Where is the soul no longer sane? Originally the implication was that merged Hulk would lead to a truly torn apart and scary Banner/Hulk. The callback is very weaksauce even if he does basically kill the Leader here. Who never officially returns during David's run but then gets resurrected all the time in the stupidest ways afterwards.
Posted by: PeterA | April 23, 2016 3:15 PM
I must admit that the Leader's revamped look made it very hard for me to treat him seriously. He looks way too cartoonishly with that mushroom-like head of his...
Posted by: Piotr W | April 23, 2016 5:07 PM
That Leader redesign looked better when McFarlane did it.
I loved Bachalo's work here...I'm still getting used to his new style. Works very well for Dr. Strange.
Posted by: Vin the Comics Guy | April 23, 2016 9:28 PM
I wasn't a big fan of Bachalo's early work, but I think he became one of Marvel's best artists by the late 90s when he started working on Uncanny X-men.
Posted by: Red Comet | April 23, 2016 10:13 PM
Must... resist... urge to make... One More Day jokes...
Posted by: Morgan Wick | April 24, 2016 1:03 AM
"Peter David really overutilizes the healing aspect of the Hulk. It should be just that - healing, not regeneration. Especially super healing is Wolverine's thing, the Hulk's should be much less."
Absolutely. The thing with Hulk should be that he's almost impossible to injure, but when he IS injured, he shouldn't just get better in a few minutes. Wouldn't it make the character more interesting if, say, after getting slashed by adamantium claws, he had to leap away for fear of bleeding to death if slashed again, and then had to stay out of action for a while? You could have him need a top-up dose of gamma rays, too. He could worry that turning back to Banner might be lethal, or that hulking out again might aggravate his injury. The main point is, though, he usually doesn't need to heal at all, so why bother giving him that power?
Posted by: Dave77 | April 24, 2016 10:22 PM
That reminds me of an early Hulk story where Banner got shot in the head, turned into the Hulk to survive then spends an issue or two doing his damnest to remain as the Hulk.
Posted by: david banes | April 25, 2016 4:42 AM
In #400, Hulk moans "you need me... the Pantheon need me... the Avengers need me". Would the latter count as a reference to Infinity Gauntlet/War? Was trying to work out if it was a reference to anything in particular.
Posted by: AF | June 15, 2017 11:50 AM
I think it is a reference to The Hulk having been one of the founders of The Avengers. He left in issue #2 after deciding his unstable personality was too dangerous for the rest of the team to function well.
Posted by: James | June 16, 2017 6:50 AM
Regarding the Hulk's healing power, Peter David built up the idea that the Hulk was a truly indestructible force, over the course of his writing the series. That could make for a boring character, but David made it work, by exploring the idea that this indestructibility is more of a hindrance (particularly to Bruce's mental health) than a benefit.
The healing definitely sees to be part of this. It peaked with the Future Imperfect story, where Hulk has even survived a nuclear war that wiped out almost all of the other superheroes. The same story arc also peaked with #400, with Bruce genuinely afraid of losing control and becoming a malevolent force.
How does that translate to the Avengers needing him thouh? Betty and the Pantheon both are wanting his time and attention right then and there and to lump them in with a metaphorical allusion doesn't make any sense?
Posted by: AF | June 16, 2017 5:52 PM
It could have been a reference to the Infinity Gauntlet series. I don't know for sure. I remember thinking it was a reference to the Hulk having been a founder of the Avengers, because they were the only team other than The Pantheon that included The Hulk as a member (The Defenders not counting, as they were never an official team).
PeterA - I've wondered if Keown leaving the book affected how David planned to pay off Delphi's prophecy. As it is, I thought the art in #400 looked very rushed and atypically messy for the book at the time. Peter David often wrote to the strengths of whoever the penciler was (Purves, McFarlane, Keowen), even fill-in artists (Sam Keith), and that seemed to be missing here. I definitely remember thinking that the story seemed "off," as if it wasn't quite what was intended, though I couldn't put my finger on the reason why I thought that way.
I take it to be a general reference to the Avengers calling on the Hulk a fair amount recently (Evolutionary War, Atlantis Attacks, the Infinities).
Posted by: fnord12 | June 28, 2017 9:12 PM
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"Madonna con il Bambino e San Giovannino" Virgin with Child and young Saint John the Baptist by Francesco Francia
The precious tablet was part of the collection of Count Paolo Tosio, inherited by Brescia Municipality in 1844 and founding core of Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. The Tosio collection
was mainly composed of paintings, but also sculptures, prints, and drawings. The distinguished owner distributed it in his house with the help of Rodolfo Vantini, who arranged some dedicated rooms with the most important pieces. The Count’s taste oriented him towards Neoclassical artists (among contemporaries) and to painters who, in the past, embodied the same ideals of beauty and harmony. He is responsible for the acquisition of two paintings by Raphael, among the most valuable pieces of Pinacoteca and also of this Virgin with Child and young Saint John the Baptist, which in the 19th century was one of the most admired paintings of the collection.
"Santa Giulia crucified", Carlo and Giovanni (?) Carra
Written sources from the 17th century – by Bernardino Faino (1630-1669) and Francesco Paglia (1660-1701) – record the excitement in front of Santa Giulia crucified in the new church of the Benedictine nuns. These sources also mention the artists: Giovanni and Carlo Carra, sons of Antonio, who owned the most important sculpture workshop in the 17th century Brescia and province. The Carras are responsible for the Ark of Saint Faustino and Giovita in the church in Brescia of ‘Santi Faustino e Giovita’ (1618-1626). When Antonio died (1632), Giovanni and Carlo – the third brother, Stefano, would succeed as an architect – followed the steps of their late father and worked in a sort of symbiosis. The only exception that is worth noting is when Giovanni proudly signs the Altar of Saint Benedict in the ‘Santi Faustino e Giovita’ church (1645-1648).
Therefore even the Santa Giulia in the City Museum is an output of that workshop – but before 1630, when Faino recorded it – though the delicacy in the marble descriptive technique, the fine expression and the gentle progression of shades on the sculpture reveal a different touch from that of Saint Benedict signed by Giovanni. Here the rough outline is sharper and the drapery very schematic, though fascinating. It is only a hypothesis, but Santa Giulia crucified may have been sculpted mainly by Carlo, who worked as only responsible for the building activities of Duomo Nuovo between 1621 and 1659, in the role of “inzegnero soprastante alla fabbrica” (responsible engineer). Carlo also signed the majority of the contracts that survived until today, thus marking his role as coordinator of all activities related to the family workshop.
Desiderius' Cross
Desiderius’ Cross is a processional cross that used to be carried on a tall staff by hand or on carriages. Considered its use, it was built in wood and covered with golden metal plates. Tradition recounts that it was a gift to San Salvatore and Santa Giulia monastery from the Longobard king Desiderius, who founded it between 753 and 760 together with his wife Ansa.
Among the examples of crux gemmata survived to the present day, this is the largest and it is covered with 211 gemstones set on the four arms. As unique case for this type of decoration, the goldsmiths here reused numerous ancient gems – about 50 – many of which came from other decorative pieces.
'Working Women', by Giacomo Ceruti, known as 'il Pitocchetto'
The large canvas “Working Women” is part of a 14 canvas collection that was documented for the first time in 1931. Back then it belonged to Bernardo Salvadego’s collection and was located in the Martinengo castle in Padernello, in the province of Brescia. Later on, the canvases were separated and acquired by different private collections such as the Lechi Museum in Montichiari and the Tosio Marinengo Art Gallery. The identification of these masterpieces led to the actual rediscovery of their author, the Milanese painter Giacomo Ceruti, who is today considered one of the major artists from 18th century Lombardy.
Known as the “Padernello cycle”, these canvases were conceived as decorative pieces for various noble palaces in Brescia only to be subsequently grouped in the 19th century. They depict humble people intent on everyday chores. This could be ascribed to the tradition of genre painting, which typically represents scenes from ordinary life: such paintings were particularly appreciated by aristocrats especially for their light and inviting tone. Nevertheless, the paintings by Ceruti dedicated to such themes (all dated to the period he spent around Brescia, between 1724 and 1735) are characterized by a completely different atmosphere.
Antonio Callegari Antonio Paglia Averoldi capitolium Castle cathedral church clock tower complesso monastico San Salvatore-Santa Giulia Floriano Ferramola Foppa Francesco Prata da Caravaggio Gian Domenico Tiepolo Giorgio Massari Jacopo Bellini Jacopo Sansovino Lattanzio Gambara Loggia Ludovico Beretta Mercato mille miglia Moretto museo di Santa Giulia Paolo da Cailina Paolo Veronese Piacentini Piazza Vittoria Pier Maria Bagnadore renaissance Romanino Sanctuary San Salvatore San Salvatore-Santa Giulia Santa Giulia Tagliaferri The Chapel del Santissimo Sacramento The New Cathedral Tintoretto Tiziano UNESCO
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Attend the Africa-ASEAN Business Expo & Forum in Johannesburg,South Africa
By Kenneth Omeruo November 4, 2017 6528 views
Africa-ASEAN Business Expo & Forum in Johannesburg,South Africa is designed to be the strategic platform that links businesses between ASEAN and the African Union.Investors, manufacturers, importers and distributors will meet their counterparts from ten South East Asian (ASEAN) nations at the inaugural Africa-ASEAN Business Expo (AABE) and Forum.
DATE: 6 to 8 November 2017
VENUE: Sandton Convention Centre
The two-day conference and exhibition will address the opportunities available to increase bilateral trade and review current trade and investment policies and opportunities, while the free-to-attendbusiness expo and multiple networking opportunities will allow delegates to explore new import and export potential across sectors including environmental, construction, infrastructure, water, ICTs, transportation, and a multi-sectoral Singapore Pavilion.
South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt have the largest import markets for ASEAN goods. Significant bilateral investment has also taken place in recent years, with Singaporean companies the largest ASEAN investor in Africa. Singaporean investment in Africa passed the US$16-billion mark in 2012, followed by Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Over 300 ASEAN companies operate in Africa, primarily in manufacturing, oil and urban development.
Under the theme “Creating strategic partnership between African and ASEAN countries”, the expo will be addressed by South Africa’s Minister of Small Business Development, Lindiwe Zulu, in the morning of 6 November 2017.
The forum will include talks on trade and commerce with ASEAN nations, South Africa, Ghana, and Rwanda, as well as the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Singapore Manufacturing Federation and local organisations including the Black Business Council, South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI).
The exhibition is free to attend, while seats at the Africa-ASEAN Business Forum (AABF) should be reserved.
The AABF is co-organised by the Singapore Manufacturing Federation and Conference & Exhibition Management Services in partnership with the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
See full details on the 2017 Africa-ASEAN Business Expo & Forum in Johannesburg,South Africa
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Omeruo Ndukaku Kenneth is an Innovation Management expert,the CEO of Emerging Media,a new media company.He is a member of ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management and the US-Africa chamber of Commerce.He is the Founder of TechTrends Nigeria Blog,Nigeria Innovation Summit and the African Innovation Academy.Kenneth is a highly sought-after Internet Marketing Consultant who has through his seminars, articles, training and consulting, helped many organizations, Individuals, Businesses maximize the Internet for business purposes.Kenneth has also being featured as a guest on the TV show TODAY ON STV Nigeria and on Bloomberg Africa TV.He is the author of the best –selling Internet Book: How To Create Unlimited Internet Wealth. He is a syndicated columnist with the following Newspapers in Nigeria: Daily Independent, Financial Standard, PUNCH, BusinessDay, and Sun.Kenneth organises the EduNet Conference for Universities in Nigeria. Kenneth is a member of Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria( ISPON ) Roundtable For Capacity Development in Nigeria,member pre-selection committee for Nigeria at the UN World Summit Awards,a Panelist for Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria(YouWIN)-a Federal government initiative created by the ministry of finance,supported by ministries of Communications Technology,Youth Development,Worldbank and DFID. A 2013 Judge at the Google Cloud Developers Challenge for Sub Saharan Africa.He has been a contributing editor of Nigeria Communications Week,Africa Telecom and IT Business Magazine,ICT Today magazine,M2 magazine.Kenneth has been invited to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation Forum, Oracle Open World Conference USA, Oracle Cloud World Dubai, and GITEX Dubai. He now lives in New York with his family and presently working on an Open Innovation project for Nigeria. You can contact Kenneth through email: (kenneth (at)techtrendsng.com) Facebook:www.facebook.com/Kenneth.omeruo On Twitter:www.twitter.com/kennethomeruo Skpe:Kenneth.Omeruo
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HomePolitics and Governance"I feel very safe everywhere in the Philippines, while I cannot say the same about Belgium.” -Mr. De Blaere
"I feel very safe everywhere in the Philippines, while I cannot say the same about Belgium.” -Mr. De Blaere
The PH Chronicles December 15, 2019
This one is for the books.
Remember how the political enemies of the Duterte administration would paint the country bad in an international forum or media?
Here it is a different since, a foreigner has just made a direct comparison between the Philippines and his home country as regards the peace and order.
Mr Ronny De Blaere from Belgium
(photo credit to owner)
Hands down, the Philippines is much more safe for him than his own beloved country- Belgium.
“I am terribly angry (and disappointed) because during my trip back to the Philippines I heard that our Belgian leaders had to criticize the Filipino leaders once again.
“In the Philippines, the main focus is on "old school policework". A person who is considering to commit a criminal offenses knows what consequences are and the punishments are actually executed if a perpetrator is caught. As far as I know, little effort is put into ethnographic approach and, unfortunately, there is no budget for the Star Wars toys such as ANPR cameras.”
Well know Duterte supporter/Blogger Mr. Marl Lopez shared the Facebook post of Belgian national- Ronny De Blaere .
For the complete blog post, we are quoting in full said post below for transparency and information of our reading public.
Peeps, came across this FB account of a Belgian national who is married to a Filipina.
Mr Ronny De Blaere has just returned to Belgium after a visit to the Philippines, and he posted a running commentary after founding out that his house in Belgium was robbed.
Read his heartwarming take on the Philippines compared to Belgium, especially in the light of the recent Iceland Resolution in the UNHCR, which we learned Belgium co-sponsored.
Here is what Mr. De Blaere has to say:
“Thank you for all your support.”
“The fact is that I am not terribly angry that my house has now been broken into. Of course, coming home in such a way is not pleasant.”
I am not in the habit of communicating about this via social media, but this time, I would like to make a comment on this.”
“My father has always taught me to first look into my own plate. I would also recommend this to our political leaders.”
“In Belgium, autodidacts are talking about raising the feeling of insecurity among citizens as a solution for lowering criminal offenses. Numerous visible elements (such as ANPR cameras, Neighborhood information zones, more blue on the street, etc.) are added to the street scene to convince the people that the government is working on the fight against crime. I also note that people nowadays put a lot of effort into the ethnographic approach, especially within big cities.”
“And yes, the crime statistics are dropping, but the questions is how real our the crime statics? As the society is adapting to new circumstances, victims fail more and more to report criminal offenses to the police. A burglary in a home has no monger the same impact on our society than the same burglary 20 years ago. However, the facts stay the same.”
“Another point is that the basic elements of the statistics are no longer the same as 10 years ago, which means that people will start comparing apples with pears.”
“Belgian police can (give)you all kind of Star Wars gadgets, but there is no final punishment for someone who gets caught.”
“Yet Filipinos are clearly behind their leaders, while this is clearly not the case in Belgium.”
“Yet I feel very safe everywhere in the Philippines, while I cannot say the same about Belgium.”
“Yet the sense of security among the local population in the Philippines increases, while this decreases in Belgium.”
“So it seems very strongly that the old school policework does the work, while our major studies and our star wars gadgets apparently don't work.”
“I can only conclude that our Belgian leaders should visit the Philippines with an open mind rather than voicing unfounded criticism. I am convinced that a lot can be learned there.
In the meantime, I want to thank everyone for the many statements of support.”
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Before I consider the exciting new War Against The Jews - it might be a little premature to write about it - a little clean-up of links:
Making movies to promote Zionism at the expense of making money has put Hollywood's greatest businessman almost out of business. But hey, if it can allow the shooting of one Palestinian child it's worth it, right?
From Greg Bacon in the comments, arrests have been made in the Venezuelan 'anti-Semitic' synagogue attack, and the arrested include "at least one security official from the synagogue". Like clockwork: Chavez complains about the slaughter in Gaza so the Jews attack themselves to try to garner sympathy. It has happened so, so many times it is almost a joke.
The Jew-controlled American publishing industry is also pulling its weight. This is not just an attack on the fake memoirs; it is also surprisingly 'anti-Semitic', especially as it is published in the New Yorker (remember when the New Yorker used to be relevant?).
Speaking of finding things in odd places, an excellent photo essay on Gaza published in in the New York Times, kinda like opening Der Stürmer in 1943 and finding a similar article on the suffering of the Jews. Published where it is, I assume it is just Jewish sadistic porn.
Also from the comments, a good analysis of the BBC's refusal to allow an appeal for Gaza relief. The BBC couldn't allow Gaza relief to be mentioned as that might cause people to ask why the people of Gaza need relief, which is, by definition, an 'anti-Semitic' question. My question: why does Mark Thompson still have a job?
In the same vein, it is apparently now illegal in Britain to express an opposition to genocide. Just another example of how the JIZ will eventually wreck everything until they are stopped.
Rowan Berkeley said...
Knesset: 120 seats
The final Haaretz poll before the election suggested a strong right-wing bloc of at least the following 60 seats:
Likud with 27 seats,
Yisrael Beiteinu on 18 seats,
Shas with 9 seats
National Union Habayit Hayehudi (the Jewish home) on 6 seats. According to the poll, a center-left bloc would only be able to muster 54 seats:
Kadima with 25 seats,
Labor on 14 seats,
New Movemment-Meretz on 7 seats, Hadash on 3 seats,
United Arab List-Ta'al on 3 seats Balad with 2 seats.
11:45 AM, February 10, 2009
All the Zionist parties being more or less genocidal, these projected returns are largely devoid of interest.
JA, these thoughts are VERBOTEN. If you persist in these heresies, you VILL be tracked down and burned at a stake. JA! Nein, VE VILL crucify you like the dog you are, you heathen!
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – World Jewish leaders told Vatican officials that denying the Holocaust was "not an opinion but a crime" when they met on Monday to discuss a bishop they accuse of being anti-Semitic.
My Catholic grade school teachings are a bit rusty, but I believe that one can commit a sin by commission--actually doing the act--or by omission--only thinking about the act.
Does that mean that practicing Catholics have committed a sin if they had thoughts about the Holocaust™?
And is that a venial or mortal sin?
Since Israel and her lackey's are always using the issue of the Holocaust™ to shut up anyone pointing out that they are murdering Palestinians en masse, does questioning Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine also count as a sin? Or does asking questions about Israel's murderous campaign against Palestinians only count as a crime?
One can question or even deny the existence of a God, but it's not a crime. But one can't ask questions about the Holocaust™?
Will the Holy See issue guidelines on what questions are a crime and or a sin?
What's next? Crucifying people for having asked questions about the Zionist version of the Holocaust™?
I agree. Does it really matter if Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahlmer is voted in to head the Tel Aviv Terror Masters?
The closest Israel got to a peace maker was Rabin and you see what they did to him.
Aletho News said...
Interesting juxtaposition in news stories:
Differing narratives on killings ~ AP opts not to report the use of dogs on civilians
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/02/differing-narratives-on-killings-ap.html
exit polls will begin appearing as soon as polling closes, at 10 p.m. Israel time.
I can promise you all that they will be utterly devoid of interest.
Sorry, fellows, but you guys realize the US is having a cardiac arrest after Timmy Geithner's folderol speech, don't you?
DOW down 4.6%, 2:33 pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&t=1d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
The Babylon-credit system is broken beyond repair, and soon a large number of Americans will be homeless, destitute and living on food-stamps.
I hope the good people here has already taken the necessary precautionary measures concerning water and food supplies.
If the Mad Max scenarion actually happens, the American ire that will be unleashed on the criminals will be something to behold.
When food shelves in grocery stores are no longer filled or you can't afford to buy the basic necessities thanks to Zimbabwe like inflation, let's see how many of us dumbass Americans still know more about "American Idol" than what's happening in DC.
At the fire house I was stationed at, try and talk about the economy or some bill being passed in DC and all you'd get would be blank stares.
But bring up last night's "Big Game," and the table would erupt with conversation.
Not picking on firefighters, since this disease of stupidity is across the spectrum
The ignorant, spineless and the apathetic are getting just the kind of government they deserve.
Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.
According to a Rafi Smith exit poll commissioned by Ynet,
Kadima won 28 Knesset seats,
Likud won 26 mandates,
Yisrael Beiteinu won 16 seats,
Labor won 14 mandates.
According to Channel 1,
Yisrael Beiteinu won 14 seats, Labor won 13 mandates.
As Orwell already mentioned Greg.
If each of the main blocs (Kadima/Labor, Likud/Beiteinu) only has 42 seats, that gives maximal play to the small parties (primarily Shas) to make idiotic demands in return for agreeing to join anybody's coalition - as usual.
My children keep urging me to move to the city, but I suspect it's more likely that they'll end up joining me here, where we do have food, water, fuel and shelter. Once the electricity is gone, of course, I'll have no way of letting you all know how we're getting on.
but reality is this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/4571961/Israel-election-Arabs-to-overtake-Jewish-population.html
already an apartheid state in my opinion, but I remember, long ago xymph made the point on this reality...
An article from the propaganda war?
SO, WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THE HOLOCAUST?
Most people have been shown the film footage taken by American/British propaganda teams who accompanied troops as they liberated the Bergen, Belsen, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps.
The footage, especially from the Belsen camp, features large numbers of emaciated prisoners and corpses.
At this point, nearly everyone is deliberately (mis)led to the (false) conclusion that Jews were exterminated by gas chambers.
That this conclusion is false, is clear, if you are aware of the universally agreed fact, that there were no extermination camps in Germany. Even the extremist, Simon Wiesenthal, admitted this (in a letter to the respected British periodical Books and Bookmen, April 1975, p5, where he says "there were no extermination camps on German soil..."). No historian, Jew or otherwise, any longer claims that there were extermination camps in Germany (the Jew historians still claim that there were extermination camps, but now they claim that they were all located in Poland).
In particular, this means that there was no genocide, and no gas-chambers, at the camps Bergen, Belsen, Buchenwald or Dachau (as these camps were in Germany).
So, the above mentioned film footage from these German camps cannot be evidence for genocide, because, according to ALL the historians, there were no extermination camps in Germany
Clearly then, this US film footage (contrary to what you are told) DOES NOT, and NEVER DID, prove genocide of Jews.
So, the emaciated prisoners and corpses shown in the US film footage, had to have some other cause, or causes.
In fact, the other causes have long been known, but hidden by the Jews. Generally, the Germans managed to adequately feed the prisoners of the concentration camps, even with the transport system under sustained attack. Many photos are available which show thousands of reasonably well-fed prisoners. For example, this photo from Dachau (taken on liberation):
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/dachau-inmates.jpg
Or, this photo from Buchenwald (taken on liberation).
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/buchenwaldsurvivors.jpg
Or, this photo from Birkenau (Auschwitz) taken on liberation.
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/birkenau09.jpg
What actually happened, was that procedures aimed at holding various diseases in check, broke down under the pressures of war. The main killer, was disease, in particular, typhus.
Typhus is spread by lice. Zyklon-B was an insecticide used to kill the lice that spread Typhus. The Typhus epidemics that raged through the camps (in both the first and second world wars) killed many thousands. If you suffer from Typhus, your body wastes away and you look as if you are starving to death. Typhus, is the reason for most of the severely emaciated prisoners and corpses.
Typhus, explains the mixture of severely emaciated prisoners and healthy prisoners. Those who caught the disease, became severely emaciated, and often died, those who didn't, remained reasonably healthy prisoners.
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/hoax-fig-11.jpg
Derrick Sington, a political prisoner at Belsen, stated:
"Towards the end of February 1945 my own situation changed completely.
By that time typhus had become a serious danger for the whole camp. It was the species of typhus which is transmitted by lice. At one time all the transports which arrived at Belsen had had to pass through a "human laundry" and this disinfection seems to have been effective enough to keep the camp free from lice until the autumn of 1944.
At the end of October a big transport had, for the first time, been admitted to the camp without being disinfected, because there had been some damage to the machinery of the shower-baths. Unfortunately the people of this transport were louse carriers, and from that day the lice gradually spread over the whole camp. [...] Typhus broke out in Camp I about the end of January. At first there were only a few cases, but a month later a dozen had appeared, and it became impossible to check the disease [...]."
From "Belsen Uncovered," Duckworth, London, 1946, by Derrick Sington, pages 117-118.
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/hoax-fig-9.jpg
Of course, this unchecked Typhus epidemic, meant that the death rate at Belsen, was very high, and that there were plenty of emaciated prisoners and corpses to film, in order to feed the lie, that Jews had been systematically exterminated.
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/dachau-prisoners.jpg
A few more reasonably well-fed Dachau inmates (photo taken on liberation).
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/dachau-corpses.jpg
And, some emaciated corpses at Dachau (photo taken on liberation).
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2009/01/buchenwalddead.jpg
Some emaciated corpses at Buchenwald (photo taken on liberation). This should be compared to the reasonably well-fed Buchenwald prisoners, pictured above.
Here are a few of articles that may help explain what happened:
A Quick Proof that the Holocaust Story is a Lie.
http://linux.50webs.org/holocaust/jew-math.htm
http://guardian.ifastnet.com/holocaust/jew-math.htm
The Jews Declare War on Germany (in 1933).
http://linux.50webs.org/holocaust/jews-declare-war.htm
http://guardian.ifastnet.com/holocaust/jews-declare-war.htm
Death Certificates issued at Auschwitz.
http://linux.50webs.org/holocaust/auschwitz-data.htm
http://guardian.ifastnet.com/holocaust/auschwitz-data.htm
Looks like Netanyahu won. Does that mean he'll celebrate the win like Judeofascists celebrate their holy days by butchering some Palestinians or bombing some Beirut apartment buildings?
Reuters, Steven C. Johnson, Feb.10:
The US on Tuesday rolled out a revamped bank rescue plan that may ultimately cost more than $2 trillion and moved a step closer to enacting an aggressive package to stimulate the world's biggest economy and help reverse the global slowdown....
Geithner and Bernanke in the cash room of the US Trashusury
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090210/tpl-uk-financial-20b2d2f.html
The U.S. Treasury intends to set up a public-private fund that could absorb up to $1 trillion in toxic assets from banks' books, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said....
the European Commission said European banks should be pressured to declare the bad assets on their books in return for government aid.
hold a minute - aid for bad banks?
Another idea would be to make denial of economic progress a crime as in case of h-locust and make the Vatican pay reparations for that bishop Williamson's disbelief and the Swiss?
European shares ended 2.9 percent lower after the U.S. rescue plan came out and banking giant UBS posted the biggest one-year loss in Swiss history, saying it would cut 2,000 investment banking jobs.
far away from my days.
Jesus: "The truth will set you free"
Actually, no ... just the opposite, it will land you in jail, and you will be excommunicated from Mother Church, Jesus, you goddamn Denier, you.
While both Kadima and Likud cautioned that it was necessary to await the final results, both did their best to spin the results in their favor. Kadima insisted that its apparent emergence as the largest party showed that the public wanted Livni as prime minister. Likud countered that the victory for the rightist bloc overall was a clear repudiation of the current Kadima-led government's policies and a vote for a Netanyahu-led government. Both parties rejected the idea of sharing power via a rotation government. At Labor Party headquarters, in contrast, the atmosphere was one of unrelieved gloom: The party had been fighting desperately to hang onto third place, and it apparently lost the battle. Before the vote, party chairman Ehud Barak had been angling for the post of defense minister under either Netanyahu or Livni. But Labor officials said Tuesday night that the party's poor showing made it virtually impossible for it to join a Netanyahu government. (Haaretz)
I think that in Israel's case, the more right-wing the government, the easier it will be to isolate the country, because despite everything it is objectively so tiny,
Also, it will be interesting to see whether there is an increase in Jewish emigration from Israel to western Europe, the USA, or elsewhere. The hebrew term for this is 'yerida' ('going down').
I am imagining a big influx of 'Tel Aviv Trustafarians' to Amsterdam, like during the first reign of king Bibi in 1996-1999, if anyone keeps track of this sort of thing.
especially as it is published in the New Yorker (remember when the New Yorker used to be relevant?).
I've collected every issue of the New York Times for the past few months and could most certainly open a New World Order museum and exhibit with some of the pages..fully framed, of course. So now there is no debating it: U.S. journalism is dead and the Neocons and Zionists killed it..
Right Bloc:
27 - Likud
15 - Beiteinu
11 - Shas
05 - UTJ
03 - Jewish Home
04 - National Union
65 - Total
Left Bloc:
28 - Kadima
13 - Labor
03 - Meretz
04 - Hadash
04 - Ta'al
03 - Balad
The question is, what will Shas do?
Lemme see if I can dial this number ... Click! Whirr ... Click!
"I'm sorry, the government you have elected is inoperative ..." Click! Inoperative!"
- Gil Scott-Heron, "h2o gate blues" (1973)
"Starved to death in the Jew run concentration camp called Gaza."
That should make a great Hollywood movie.
The hebrew term for this is 'yerida' ('going down').
Ohh, so that's what my congesswoman and Two Senators have been doing to Israel, "yerida."
And here all along I just thought they were giving AIPAC blowjobs.
Recall the scene from "Schindler's List" where the evil Nazi commandant shots the Jew prisoner in the concentration camp.
Now imagine the exceedingly EVIL Jews doing the same thing to the Gaza concentration camp prisoners,... EXCEPT WITH ONE TON BOMBS.
Imagine that,... the EVIL Jews are dropping ONE TON BOMBS on their caged prisoners.
Makes the Nazis seem positively humane.
Stupid kikes. They can't even manage to elect a government (izzy) let alone run one (U.S. gov. into the ground). Between Bibi & livi there will be a battle about who is the more right-wing i.e. murderous. Parasites, every last one of them.
Number 'Two of Six' of Ezra Pound's Money Pamphlets is up here
proof that 69% of europeans are retarded:
Poll: 31% of Europeans blame Jews for global financial crisis
jew-logic 101:
"(...) and the fact that so many of the defrauded investors are Jewish has created a perfect storm for the anti-Semites," Foxman said
yeah, that is foxman at his weirdest.
i am sick beyond belief of the phrase 'perfect storm'. it's hollywoodese.
"...and the fact that so many of the defrauded investors are Jewish has created a perfect storm for the anti-Semites," Foxman said
and what percent would 'so many' be?
"perfekt sturm und drang" is what foxman was itching to say and tried to communicate subliminally
from angry arab:
War criminals and fascists compete:
NBN TV today talked about the Israeli elections by saying that "Israeli war criminals and fascists are competing."
Here's one of the more rational and educated replies to that story:
Before you accuse Europeans of anti-semitism, ask whether it is true that there are many Jews in the finaincial industry and whether they were responsible for anthing. It is a factual question that can be answered factually. Then make the argument one way or another, instead of jumping to conculusions about anti-semitism.
If we are taking measures against ALL Arabs because 19 of them comitted a criminal act on September 11, we can talk about ALL JEWS.
You cannot have it both ways.
Amen. Whatta say to that, Abe?
from alana smith at counterpunch:
Fahad Hashmi is a 29-year-old Pakistani man who received his bachelor's degree in political science from Brooklyn College in 2003 and his master's degree in international relations from London Metropolitan University in 2006.
In 2004, he allowed an acquaintance, Junaid Babar, to stay at his London apartment for two weeks. While there, Babar kept raincoats and waterproof socks in his luggage, which the U.S. alleges he later gave to a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda.
Simply because of this--raincoats and socks--Hashmi was arrested by British police at London's Heathrow Airport on June 6, 2006, and charged with providing material support to al-Qaeda. He was not accused of providing money or resources to al-Qaeda, or personally giving anything at all to any member of al-Qaeda, or o being a terrorist himself. Yet he was held in the general prison population of Belmarsh Prison in England for 11 months, and then extradited to the United States, where he has been held in solitary confinement for over a year.
Extradited by "Mikey" Chertoff, then head of the DHS and imprisoned by "Mikey" Mukasey of the DOJ.
Maybe he'll wind up like another victim of Judeo facism, Sami Al-Arian
greg, an argument could be made that all gents who are not "anti-semitic" (in broad, foxmanian sense) are retarded.
the rest either landed on their heads or have sold ass to jews (and are thus secretly anti-semitic, e.g., joe biden or condi rice).
recognizing this reality should be the starting point of gentile liberation front (glf).
i think it's irrelevant, shlomos, b/c hardly any jews were defrauded, it's a shell game ending in israel, where they can reclaim their investement + interest (stolen goy money).
why do you think that of all the countries, only israeli banks have 100% bulletproof secrecy protection and cannot be challenged by the us (read: jew-run) authorities.
the kosher butcher is standing there with his axe in plain sight of uncomprehending cows.
THE FRAUD ELIE WIESEL (A WELL-KNOWN HOLOCAUST LIAR).
Elie Wiesel states in his book "Night" that when the Germans evacuated Auschwitz, he was given the option of staying at the Auschwitz hospital, with his father registered as a patient, to await the arrival of the Soviets, or to join the evacuation with the "mass-murdering" Nazis to Germany.
Guess what? Elie Wiesel chose to go to Germany with the "mass-murdering" Nazis.
Amazing,... eh? Elie Wiesel chose to accompany the "mass-murdering" Nazis on a long march in the middle of a freezing winter, taking his father with him, rather than wait (with about 7,650 other sick or disabled Jews) for the Soviets to arrive.
Wiesel's father died because of his choice. The actual quote is:
"The choice was in our hands. For once we could decide our fate for ourselves. We could both stay in the hospital, where I could, thanks to my doctor, get him (his father) entered as a patient or nurse. Or else we could follow the others. 'Well, what shall we do, father?' He was silent. 'Let's be evacuated with the others,' I told him."
Isn't it hilarious,... that the Jew Elie Wiesel (whose books repeatedly describe horrendous Nazi "mass-killings" of Jews at Auschwitz) should choose to go with the very same Nazis that had been "mass-killing" his fellow Jews, rather than wait for the Soviets.
Collapse of entire (almost) world economy in 24 hours, thanks to 550 BILLION being stolen. Bet there was one SLC whose economy wouldn't have collapsed, eh?
$550 Billion Dollar Bank Run - Collapse Of The Entire World Economy In 24 hours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKPcyvlfnc&feature=related
But the bloodsuckers aren't giving up, they've still got a few trillion left in the US Treasury to cart off to Khazaria, aided and abetted by their oh so friendly lackey's in Congress and the White House.
It is fair to ask why the Nazis didn't bother to kill off these last 7,650 witnesses to "genocide" (those left behind when Auschwitz was evacuated).
7,650 witnesses to "genocide" just let go by the "mass-murdering" Nazis.
It is also fair to ask why the Nazis didn't bother to kill off the other 60,000 witnesses to "genocide" that they transfered to other camps in Germany.
Another 60,000 witnesses to "genocide" just let go by the "mass-murdering" Nazis.
It is also fair to ask why the Nazis needed the hospitals at Auschwitz and Monowitz, since they could just kill the Jews who got sick and were unable to work. Of course, killing all Jews who were sick and unable to work, is part of the Jew Auschwitz myth.
Imagine that, the "mass-murdering" Nazis tried to heal sick Jews. Surely they should have just killed them.
someone is dumping some very mouldy looking 'holocaust denial' leftovers on here for some reason.
Instruct me. I find the holocaust swindle comments apt. To be sure the comments repeat common knowlege for anyone who has done a little reading, but they have new point when we recall the actions of the murderous children of the "holocaust", and their equally murderous grandchildren today. I am content to see to what sort of point "anonymous" is leading.
Your blog gains daily. First rate work.
Lobro,
You are flat out wrong until you distinguish between the predator Jew and the innocent who was raised from birth, just as you or I, with preconceptions which are, on closer inspection a pack of lies.
It seems to me to be the worst sin in all the world to punish a man for what was done at another time by someone else.
In more practical terms, anyone with more than five millions should hang.
Grettir, none of them are remotely new.
OK Rowan,
I'm throwing in the towel. Do try to recall in your Hegelian miasma, that not everyone is blessed with your intellectual clarity and certainty. (Hmmm, miasma, clarity; thesis, antithesis, ... .)
Geh shoin!
A must read for all
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KB13Ak01.html
You know xymphora, it becomes more difficult to read your blog during work hours (no access internet home)with the larg boycott poster.
I agree. At first, I just ignored the comments, but the seem to be getting more virulent.
Which would give someone somewhere the excuse needed to censor this blog.
And maybe that's the whole point of the "Jew this, Jew that" posts.
Anon, if you feel so strongly about the HD issues, then why not identify yourself with a REAL name and not some lame ass pseudonym?
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=14220
Grettir,
... synthesis
Presumably it's being presented as evidence, Rowan. It's subject to evaluation and refutation, but shouldn't be dismissed out of hand as propaganda.
above, saw couple of almost forgotten names: chertoff and mukasy. anyone know where these rats have landed. surely somewhere high up on the taxpayer welfare payroll
well, i for one applaud anonymous repeating what to some are rehashed stories - lest we forget, eh?
and i for one do tend to forget, only remember that there were 6 million virulent lies spun out of it, 60,000 from katowice alone, entire families and extended families of lies, begging to be heard and seen by the weeping, popcorn crunching world.
Why aren't they naming the people who performed the electronic withdrawal of the 550Billion$? That can be done can it not?Jocelyn Braddell www.thehandstand.org
The facts, anonymous has collected again about the extermination of people during WW-2, are not disputed by historians today. I suppose. Gitta Sereny wrote e.g. in the NYT years ago, that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp (but claimed them further east).
But the impression people have today usually is dominated by 1-2oo movies and countless publications that lately have appeared.
So it is a clarification to sometimes remember some factual history, as more, as the "victim-survivor" narrative is used today, to justify "Israel's right to defend itself" ( against almost unarmed Palestinians behind fences and Walls for generations now).
Myself not author of anonymous contributions, mostly agree with him.
So, while no one be-littels the the suffering of so many during second Worldwar, it is correct to set the weights according to facts.. opposed to the false impressions the movie-industry is spilling out.
sorry the last anonymous, 8:31 AM, was Fritz
grettir, i postponed response until i figured out what irks you, i think i got it now.
the core concept is the one of in the broad foxmanian sense.
instead of chopping into uselessly minute parts what is quite simple logic, i will ask you whether indeed, you'd qualify as "antisemite" in that broad foxmanian sense, i.e., would foxman claim that grettir is an antisemite.
if the answer is yes (and how could it fail not to be), then welcome to my camp, although you always were there.
in a broad lobrovian sense, people disliked and despised by foxman (some > 99.7% of the planet) should all declare themselves as such, parallel to the movement of self-reporting to authorities as holocaust doubters.
after all, if foxman says i am an antisemite, it would be antisemitic of me to resist his authority.
a good choice of reply to mossad's "by deception you shall wage the war" might be "the truth shall be your sword, the logic your shield".
rats, fail to be, not NOT to be.
Lobrovianism fails,however, if Foxman criticises anti-Zionist Jews, any of them, as or in the spirit of "self-hating." I don't follow him closely enough to make the determination which I'm guessing is the affirmative.
you must be yockeying, ken.
and i can attest that i am not an anti-self-hating-semite
Anonymous, you MORON, the camps had hospitals because during the entire war, they denied the existence of the camps. ALSO, if you will remember, Nazi experimenters such as Joseph Megele did inhuman experiments on Jewish inmates in the camps - something NO human being should have been subject to.
The "hospitals" existed to experiment on people, not to heal them, idiot.
And as for you folks referencing "hollywood movies" for your accusations that the facts are incorrect, perhaps you should be reading HISTORY BOOKS instead? You will find ample FACTUAL evidence of the camps and the horrible things that happened there - no movies need to be seen to know this.
Lastly, you ask why did the Nazis leave people alive at the end of the war? Because they turned tail and ran - many to Argentina and other havens for Jew haters.
Perhaps YOU should consider moving there.
You people have to rely on lame suppositions to justify your completely ridiculous and false statements. OF COURSE you cannot research the facts: they would show you to be wrong.
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Why sudden increase in terrorism in Pakistan? Part 2
Posted date: November 21, 2020 In: Articles | comment : 0
By Asif Haroon Raja
Upsurge in terrorism and its reasons
There has been a sudden increase in incidents of terrorism in Karachi, North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Baluchistan. In Karachi, Chinese Consulate and Stock Exchange were attacked. In Baluchistan 24 soldiers lost their lives in last Oct? After an attack in Quetta on Oct 15, another cowardly attack occurred in a Madrassa in Peshawar on Oct 27, in which ten children died and 100 were injured. The terrorists succeed in striking the chosen soft targets with ease and seldom are nabbed beforehand.
The question is, why it is so when Pakistan security forces have broken the back of terrorism, improved their expertise in counter terrorism and intelligence skills, improved border management, and fenced almost two-third of the border. There is no lack of will to fight terrorism and soldiers are laying down their lives valiantly. No other country involved in war on terror has rendered so many sacrifices as Pakistan has done. 83000 fatalities including 9000 belonging to security forces is a colossal loss which has traumatized 83000 families. From 2001 till now, 19,130 terror attacks took place in Pakistan. India has spent Rs 22 billion in the last 3 years to destabilize Baluchistan.
Terrorism was easier when the safe havens were in FATA; but has become cumbersome from the bases and training camps in Nuristan, Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktika and Khost in Afghanistan because of long distance, crossing of the border and fence, and presence of highly trained and motivated Pak security forces as well as patriotic tribesmen and village guards who refuse to cooperate with them.
The terrorists devoid of any religion are from the poor class and majority of the victims are also from the deprived class. One thing is clear that no terrorist howsoever motivated would risk his life unless he is badly in need of money for himself or his family, or is brainwashed. Young boys fed with the promise of heavenly rewards are used for suicide attacks. While the poor are used as cannon fodder, the heartless masterminds have their own selfish materialistic agenda.
Cross border terrorism cannot take place without terror infrastructure installed by RAW-NDS, where physical and motivational training is imparted, funds given, weapons/ explosives/IED/suicide jacket provided, facilitation and handling at the site of occurrence arranged. Cross border terrorism by militant groups is almost impossible without the patronage of the Afghan regime, NDS and RAW. They cannot undertake covert operations secretly right under the nose of US-NATO troops, ANSF and CIA. If this is the ground reality, it implies that the US which is the initiator of war on terror, it is strategically aligned with NATO, Israel, India and Afghanistan, has defined objectives against Pakistan, as such its involvement is beyond doubt.
After the clearance of FATA from the presence of TTP in 2015 through Operation Zarb Azb, RAW has been arming, funding and launching TTP, Jamaatul Ahrar (JuA), Lashkar Islam, Hizbul Ahrar and Lashkar Jhangvi into northwestern Pakistan from the safe havens in Afghanistan, and Baloch proxies BLA, BRA, BLF in Baluchistan. In order to rejuvenate the splintered and demoralized TTP as well as Baloch dissident groups, RAW in league with NDS and assisted by CIA managed to unite BLA, BRA and BLF under the banner of Baloch Raaji Asjoi Sangar (BRAS) in Nov 2018, and also reunited JuA and Hizbul Ahrar with TTP this year. Heavy funds were given to the two setups and the rates of terrorism were substantially enhanced. In Sindh, MQM London has married itself with rural based Sindhi nationalist parties including SLA and its target killers as well as RAW agents are still active in Karachi. Current rates for suicide attacks and vehicle borne explosions are Rs. 10 million each, for IED, target killing Rs. one million each. The terrorists are paid monthly salaries and provided shelter, food and medical cover.
Joint Press Briefing – Nov 14, 2020
The DG ISPR Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a joint conference on Nov 14 in the wake of devastating firing and shelling by Indian forces across the LoC in Kashmir on Nov 14-15 in various sectors, causing extensive destruction and damage to civilian property. Scores of civilians and soldiers were also martyred and injured. One reason behind this madness was the sudden rise in clashes between Kashmiri Mujahideen and Indian forces in IOK and the latter suffering casualties. Ceasefire violations has become a routine for India ever since Modi took over power in June 2014. In 2020 alone, xx violations occurred across the LoC and Working Boundary under a calculated design to exert pressure on Pakistan on multiple fronts.
Gen Babar and Qureshi brought out the state terrorism of India in comprehensive details and stated that a dossier is being handed over to the UN, OIC, P-5 and other international bodies to highlight Indian state terrorism against Pakistan and human rights violations in occupied Kashmir. While a neighboring collaborating country was mentioned, Kabul was not named; and Tehran was omitted. So were Washington, London and Tel Aviv, the silent backers of India. The massive bloodshed in Pakistan in the last 19 years couldn’t be inflicted by India alone. It was and still is a joint effort. Silence must be broken and the whole truth spoken.
Devastations caused by the war
To avenge the deaths of less than 3000 Americans, millions of Muslims who had no hand in 9/11 were killed in the 19-year war on terror, millions were injured and millions displaced. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia were destroyed and Pakistan profusely bled but terrorism instead of getting eliminated has spread all over the globe. Islam instead of getting discredited has expanded and flourished. The world instead of becoming safe has become more unsafe and the war continue to smolder and fester.
The US dual role
Despite being the most allied ally of USA, Pakistan has been crudely insulted, ridiculed, bashed and humiliated time and again by USA. It has been subjected to cruel drone war. On the other hand, the US went out of the way to bolster the economic, technological, military and nuclear capabilities of India and made rigorous efforts to make India the leading player in Afghanistan and policeman of Indo-Pacific region. Its biased policy has heavily tilted the military balance in favor of India, which has repeatedly threatened to break Pakistan into four parts.
Pakistan’s myopic stance towards trouble makers
Magic spell of USA
A lot has been written on this subject and nothing is secret. The US has all along pursued highly discriminatory policy which disfavors Pakistan and favors India and Afghanistan. Pakistan is an ally in name only and in reality a target. The US will rest only when it has disabled Pakistan’s nuclear Pakistan, disrupted CPEC, and made Pakistan a satellite of India. If every Tom, Dick and Harry in Pakistan know about the motives of USA, how come the ones entrusted with the security of Pakistan are unaware of it?
Well-knowing its track record and open ended hostility, how come our successive leaders starting from Gen Musharraf have been bending over backwards to remain in the good books of the US. To earn its goodwill, Pakistan has been putting up with the hostility of India and the Afghan regime and have left no stone unturned to befriend them. Our rulers never shirked from doing more in response to the dictates of Washington even if their demands were against the national interest. The infatuation is so strong that human loss of 83,000 and financial loss of $ 126 billion doesn’t bring even a frown on their foreheads. The US has made use of its pawns Afghan regime and India and is wholly responsible for these huge losses.
One fails to understand as to what is the compulsion of our rulers to remain glued with USA. One may have reconciled with this strange behavior if the people also had similar inclinations. But the fact is that great majority of people detest USA and holds it responsible for their woes. Extraordinary tilt could be digested had the US provided security umbrella and helped Pakistan when it was splitting apart in 1971, or extended help when its assistance was needed the most; or made Pakistan economically self-reliant. These expectations by Pakistan which has been the most allied ally for 66 years and had put its security at risk twice to safeguard the US interests were not unrealistic. On the contrary, India never put its national interests in jeopardy to protect the US interests and had remained in the Soviet camp for 43 years.
With this mindset of blindly trusting USA, terrorism can never be eliminated. As such, the problem is not terrorism, the real problem is the weak willed leaders who irrationally feel comfortable and safe by remaining under the magic spell of USA.
Today the US needs Pakistan’s assistance and not vice versa since it can neither win the war in Afghanistan, nor stay there, or exit safely. Time has come to convey to Washington that if it needs its support in Afghan peace efforts, it will have to reciprocate by way of dismantling the terror infrastructure installed by RAW in Afghanistan and to help Pakistan in completing the border fencing.
What is hurtful is Islamabad’s stance of generosity towards Kabul when the latter has never reciprocated Pakistan’s goodwill gestures and cooperation and has missed no opportunity to harm Pakistan. The regime is a puppet of the US and India and it follows their dictates obsequiously. By now after having collected all the evidence, we should have named it without any hesitation and tailored our future responses accordingly. The 1973-78 insurgency in Baluchistan was backed by RAW, KGB, KHAD. The Al-Zulfiqar terror organization was assisted by Kabul. In the ongoing war on terror, main base of operation for the covert war launched by multiple anti-Pakistan agencies is Afghanistan. The Baloch rebel leaders Balach Marri followed by Brahamdagh Bugti had taken refuge in Kabul and had fomented terrorism in Baluchistan. Maulana Fazlullah after escaping from Swat in 2009 had taken refuge in Kunar and later became the head of TTP. After the clearance of FATA in 2015/16, all the leaders of TTP and the militants as well as IMU, ITM (Uighurs), Asian Tigers and other affiliates took refuge in Afghanistan and all are being patronized by NDS and RAW. While the Pak military has conclusive evidence of RAW’s involvement it also has concrete proofs of NDS involvement. It is high time that the ruling regime in Kabul is clearly told to dismantle the terror infrastructure of RAW-NDS, to close the Pakistan specific Indian Consulates involved in terrorism, and to hand over Pakistani terrorists residing in safe havens of Afghanistan. Pakistan’s assistance for Afghan peace should be made conditional to fulfilment of these demands.
It is no secret that RAW has been using Iranian soil as an auxiliary base and used proxies to strike targets in Baluchistan, Makran Coast, Gwadar and Karachi. Serving Wing Comd Kalbushan Yadhav who had been arrested in March 2016 was deployed at Chahbahar in 2003 by Indian NSA Ajit Doval. RAW has been making use of Indian Consulates in Seistan, Zahidan and Mashad for conducting covert operations. Given the changed alignments wherein Iran has gravitated away from India and has got closer to China, and the changed attitude of the Arab Gulf States towards Pakistan, Islamabad and Beijing should jointly impress upon Tehran to stop RAW’s meddlesome activities in Baluchistan from its soil.
Will USA withdraw troops?
Outgoing President Donald Trump had signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2019 and had pledged to end the 19-year war and bring home all the troops by this Christmas. He will be in command till mid-day January 2021 after which he will hand over the baton to Joe Biden. It is to be seen whether Trump fulfils his promise or agrees to the proposal of partial withdrawal given by Pentagon. It is to be seen whether the new team of Biden-Kamal Harris pursues the same old Zionist-Pentagon driven militarist and materialist policies or bring a change to make the turbulent world peaceful. Indications are that Zionists will have their say.
Since terrorism has a direct bearing on the security and integrity of the country, it is the military and not the civil leadership that should be more concerned. Instead of chasing the faceless enemy which amounts to chasing shadows, the military being the real power should exert decisive influence to break the magic charm and stop trusting and depending upon USA. Given the weak state of economy and host of issues, Pakistan can no more afford to indulge in this expensive war on terror and should urgently chalk out a strategy to pullout 180,000 troops from the combat zone and take steps to extinguish the fire of terrorism.
The writer is a retired Brig Gen, participant of epic Battle of Hilli in 1971 war, defence & security analyst, international columnist, writes exclusively for Veterans Today, author of five books, Chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan, Director Measac Research Centre, Member CWC PESS, & Veterans Think Tank.
Email: asifharoonraja@gmail.com
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Healthcare Economy
American COVID-19 Deaths Approach Annual Stroke Deaths
According to the Bing COVID-19 Tracker, almost 140,000 people have died from the disease in America. Medical experts say the first of these occurred on February 6, in Santa Clara, California. At the current rate of daily deaths from COVID-19, the total will pass the total annual deaths from strokes within a matter of days. The data on strokes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists the cause of these deaths “cerebrovascular diseases.”
The last year for which total stroke deaths are available is 2017, when they numbered 146,383, which makes it the fifth largest killer in America. The stroke deaths number is just short of deaths from chronic lower respiratory diseases at 160,201. It is just above deaths from Alzheimer’s disease at 121,404.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington has one of the most widely regarded forecasts of U.S. deaths. Its prediction is that COVID-19 deaths will reach 208,255 sometime around November 1, with a range of 186,087 to 244,541, depending on circumstances like wearing masks that could bring the figure down to the low end of the estimate. The higher-end number is as much as 100,000 more than current fatal cases.
At a figure of 186,087, deaths would pass the fourth-largest cause of annual deaths in America, as previously mentioned, chronic lower respiratory diseases at 160,201, and in third place accidents (unintentional injuries) at 169,936.
As another measure of the spread of the disease, it has caused over 590,000 deaths worldwide. The second leading cause of death in the United States is cancer at 599,108. At the current rate of fatal coronavirus cases worldwide, within a month global deaths will top 650,000. The leading cause of annual deaths in the United States is heart disease at 647,457.
The number of COVID-19 fatalities measured against the leading annual cause of death in the United States and the world shows just how deadly the disease has become and how fast it is spreading.
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With a larger 10.2-inch display, Apple Pencil support, and compatibility with smart connector accessories, this is arguably one of the most compelling iPads in Apple’s stable currently. Includes an A10 Fusion chip, 8MP camera, and support for 1080p HD recording. Head over to our announcement coverage for additional details.
We also spotted that Amazon is currently offering Apple’s latest iPad Pro 12.9-inch Wi-Fi 256GB for $949.99 shipped. Or, opt for the iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi 64GB at $649.99 shipped. This is down from their $1,149 and $799 going rates, is a match for our last mention in new condition, and is the best available. Offering support for the latest Apple Pencil, this iPad is perfect for taking notes in class, sketching your latest masterpiece, or editing a picture in the just-released Adobe Photoshop app. Plus, you can easily turn it into a laptop with Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio, which is still on sale for $180.50.
For better or worse, Apple’s latest iPad still supports Lightning cables. Put your savings from today’s pre-order towards a new cable with 10-feet of length, so you can easily browse from the couch and still stay plugged-in throughout your power-up session.
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2020 Election Results: Eyes on Pennsylvania ballots in Trump, Biden presidential race
Tracking Pennsylvania Races
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania -- President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have been battling it out in the battleground state of Pennsylvania this Election Day, hoping to claim its 20 electoral votes on the way to the 270 needed to win.
The Keystone State is a big prize for Trump, because even if he wins Florida and holds battlegrounds he won in the South and Southwest, he would still be short of 270 electoral votes without it.
Biden, meanwhile, has several paths to victory without winning Pennsylvania.
As of Wednesday afternoon, ballots were still being counted across the Keystone State.
The Trump campaign announced that it was suing to stop the vote count, charging "Democrats are scheming to disenfranchise and dilute Republican votes."
In a statement, Trump 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager Justin Clark wrote, "We are suing to stop Democrat election officials from hiding the ballot counting and processing from our Republican poll observers-observers whose only job is to make sure every valid ballot is counted, and counted once. The eyes of the country are on Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania has kept eyes off of the absentee ballot counting process all along, and that must stop today. In Philadelphia and elsewhere, Democrat officials forced our observers to stay 25 feet or more from the counting process, leaving no meaningful way whatsoever for our observers to do their jobs. We are also suing to temporarily halt counting until there is meaningful transparency and Republicans can ensure all counting is done above board and by the law."
The campaign is also suing Pennsylvania for allegedly changing state election code regarding first-time voters providing identification in order to vote.
Pennsylvania's three largest counties - Allegheny, Montgomery, and Philadelphia - which sent out the most absentee ballots to voters, will continue counting their mail-in ballots through the night, and into Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf gives an update on ballot counting in the state on Wednesday.
State Secretary Kathy Boockvar said Wednesday all Pennsylvanians' votes will be counted, including military ballots.
"And again, I'll also just remind everyone, military and overseas ballots are not due until a week after Election Day. So next Tuesday is the deadline for military and overseas voters to cast their ballots. And we want to make sure that not only every civilian absentee and mail-in valid voter is counted, but also that every man and woman who are serving our country, that their votes are counted," Boockvar.
Philadelphia Continues Counting
Philadelphia City Commissioners, elected officials who oversee elections, announced Wednesday morning that ballots will continue to be counted after experiencing a delay with counting in-person votes.
Election officials said as of about 4 p.m., they've counted more than 230,000 absentee mail-in ballots and still have more to go. They aren't saying when exactly they expect to be done, but said sometime Thursday morning is a good target.
Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt tweeted Wednesday morning that, "Philadelphia will NOT stop counting ALL legitimate votes cast by eligible voters. And we will report and report and report until the last vote is counted."
Counting continues in #Philadelphia. @6abc #Pennsylvania #Election2020 https://t.co/noQseTqdY0
— Corey Davis (@CoreyDavis6abc) November 4, 2020
Two hours later, he said the city's results page was updated to "include more than 65,000 mail-in votes cast by Philadelphia voters."
Moments ago, we updated our results page to include more than 65,000 mail-in votes cast by Philadelphia voters, with many more yet to count. You can follow our results page here: https://t.co/Acrk5q3sYy
— Commissioner Al Schmidt (@Commish_Schmidt) November 4, 2020
Election officials are describing it as an army of people working behind the scenes overnight and into the morning to get all votes counted.
Commissioners said there was a delay getting in-person voting machines back to regional centers to finish counting votes after polls closed.
Democratic City Commissioner Lisa Deeley said they must get those remaining votes into the counting machines before adding additional mail-in ballots because of how the system is configured.
They hope to get back on track while managing the record number of more than 400,000 mail-in ballots returned in Philadelphia.
"We've never had to count this large number of mail-in ballots and have an in-person election. We thought we had timed it right, but truthfully we've never done it before in this large number," Deeley said.
Officials in Pennsylvania had to wait until polls open on Election Day to begin counting absentee mail-in ballots because Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Republican leaders of the state legislature could not agree on a plan to allow ballot processing before Election Day.
President Trump spoke after polls closed and pledged to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop any further counting of ballots across the country.
City Commissioners said the next update is planned to happen around 9 a.m. and that they expect to have large number of results.
Allegheny County has scanned and uploaded 151,022 mail and absentee ballots, less than half of the 340,000 mail in ballots received as of this early this morning. In addition to finishing that process over the next few days, they will also have to process any ballots they receive between now and Friday. While the in-person vote could be fully uploaded by Wednesday, it's likely that it will take several additional days for a full count of absentee mail-in ballots.
Elections in Pennsylvania
*Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about how the vote will report this year.
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While campaigning in Pennsylvania on Monday, the two men broke sharply on the voting process itself.
The president threatened legal action to stop counting beyond Election Day. If Pennsylvania ballot counting takes several days, as is allowed, Trump charged that "cheating can happen like you have never seen."
Biden, in Pittsburgh, pushed a voting rights message to a mostly Black audience, declaring that Trump believes "only wealthy folks should vote" and describing COVID-19 as a "mass casualty event for Black Americans."
"We're done with the chaos, we're done with the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the irresponsibility," said Biden, whose campaign has focused on increasing turnout for Black voters, who could prove the difference in several battleground states.
All of Pennsylvania's 18 members of Congress sought reelection, and as of 1 a.m. Wednesday, at least 11 won - Republicans John Joyce, Fred Keller, Guy Reschenthaler, Glenn Thompson, Lloyd Smucker and Dan Meuser; and Democrats Mike Doyle, Dwight Evans, Brendan Boyle, Mary Gay Scanlon and Madeleine Dean.
The race for Pennsylvania's Attorney General is very close.
With 66% of the precints reporting, Republican Heather Heidelbaugh is leading incumbent Democrat Josh Shapiro by 9 points.
Republicans and a voter outside Philadelphia filed a federal lawsuit accusing Montgomery County officials of illegally processing mail-in ballots before Tuesday for the purpose of allowing voters to fix problems with their ballots.
A federal judge in Philadelphia set a hearing for Wednesday morning on the Republican bid to stop the count of 49 ballots that were amended and returned in the suburban county.
The state's high court has not prohibited counties from allowing voters to fix their ballots, said Kelly Cofrancisco, a county spokesperson.
And in a lawsuit filed Tuesday night in a statewide appellate court, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania and five other plaintiffs asked to block counties from allowing voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified to be able to cast a vote by provisional ballot.
The lawsuit said the state Supreme Court has already ruled that state law provides no such avenue for a voter to fix a disqualified vote. In Oct. 21 guidance to counties, state elections officials said a voter whose mail-in or absentee ballot was rejected could still vote in person by a provisional ballot.
Boockvar insisted that the practice singled out by the lawsuit is legal. Regardless, she said there aren't "overwhelming" numbers of voters who cast a provisional ballot after their mail-in ballot was disqualified, but she did not give an exact figure.
The state Supreme Court - citing Postal Service delays, the huge number of people voting by mail because of COVID-19, and the strain on county boards of election - ordered counties to count mail-in ballots received as many as three days after the vote, so long as they were mailed by Election Day.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to block the counting of late-arriving mail-in votes, but it could revisit the issue.
Control of the state House was also at stake, with Democrats needing nine seats to seize the majority from Republicans after a decade out of power. Democrats also had a gap to make up in the state Senate.
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1st Congressional District: Brian Fitzpatrick, Christina Finello
In the Bucks County-based 1st District in suburban Philadelphia, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is being challenged by Democrat Christina Finello. She maintains that Fitzpatrick hasn't stood up to President Donald Trump, while Fitzpatrick says he's independent of Trump.
Finello was a top official in Bucks County's Division of Housing and Human Services before she ran for Congress.
Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent who succeeded his brother in the seat, is one of just three House Republicans in the entire country running for reelection in a district won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016's presidential contest.
Fitzpatrick won 2018's election by 2.5 percentage points in 2018, when he was outspent nearly four-to-one by his wealthy Democratic rival and millions flowed in from outside groups.
Fitzpatrick voted with every other Republican against a $2.2 trillion relief bill that passed the Democratic-controlled House on Oct. 1, and has stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.
As of Wednesday afternoon, ABC News projects Fitzpatrick will win.
6th Congressional District: Chrissy Houlahan, John Emmons
As of Wednesday afternoon, ABC projects Democratic incumbent Chrissy Houlahan will win the race against Republican John Emmons.
The district includes almost all of Chester County, and parts of Berks County.
7th Congressional District: Lisa Scheller, Susan Wild
As of 12 a.m. Thursday, with 85% of precincts reporting, Republican Lisa Scheller is leading Democratic incumbent Susan Wild 51% to 49% in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district, in Lehigh and Northampton Counties as well as parts of Monroe County.
17th Congressional District: Conor Lamb, Sean Parnell
A Biden backer, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, a Pittsburgh-area Democrat who has pushed back against the party's left wing on energy, recalled hearing concerns about Biden's position on fracking during events at union halls and elsewhere.
But, Lamb said he is satisfied with Biden's position on fracking and his commitment to blue-collar labor union jobs after three decades of Democrats losing clout among working-class voters in western Pennsylvania.
"He's picking up ground," Lamb said. "We'll see how much he's picked up, but I'm definitely enthusiastic that he's out there fighting for it."
Lamb is running against Sean Parnell, an Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Parnell spoke at the Republican National Convention.
As of Wednesday night, Lamb had 188,523 - 49% of the votes, and Parnell had 195,161 - 51% of the votes, according to the Associated Press.
10th Congressional District: Scott Perry, Eugene DePasquale
In Pennsylvania's 10th District, Democrats have long been enthused about their recruit, state Auditor Eugene DePasquale. He's trying to unseat GOP Rep. Scott Perry, a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
As of Wednesday night, DePasquale had 160,818 - 45% of the votes and Perry had 195,717 - 55 % of the votes, according to the Associated Press.
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Pa. Campaigning
In a persistent gambit to win the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Trump has worked to peel off voters connected to its booming natural gas industry and accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of plotting to shut it down.
Biden calls that attack a flat-out lie. It's not clear how many votes are being decided by Trump's fracking claims in a contest where the vast majority of voters had already made up their minds.
The gas industry has flushed money into some local economies, but it has inspired a backlash in other communities, most notably in Philadelphia's suburbs, and, for many voters, it simply doesn't rank as deciding factor in the race.
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Episode 3.1: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession – Laura Nyro – Columbia – 1968
The source of inspiration for her peers and generations of songwriters to come, Bronx-born Laura Nyro has a legacy that has only grown in legend and mysticism since her untimely death in the early ‘90s. Lauded by Carole King, likened to Joni Mitchell, and emulated by some of today’s cleverest singer-songwriters, her style was singular, speaking of and to the female experience in a way that was at once specific and universal, relatable and abstract.
In this episode, we comb through her 1968 album Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, a collection of songs so rife with evocative imagery and sense of self that it brought up many of our own memories, connections to our own experiences as young women in 2018, and of course, musical earworms. For a 50-year-old album recorded and produced by a 20-year-old girl, this prodigious record still remains astonishingly relevant.
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Episode notes and postscript corrections
Hello, and welcome to a new season of the pod! Literally nothing has changed; we’re just calling it a new season because we took a break (because we are our own bosses who determine when and why we go on hiatus and when and why we come back!)
Some things we mentioned to check out:
The Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City is a dope book if you’re into New York and music and history and where they all intersect and want to know where everything happened. We were pleased to moderate the discussion for the book’s launch at Rough Trade this week.
‘80s Redux is a dope book if you’re into music and the ‘80s and photography of cool people doing cool things.
So, uh, more than a year into this pod and this is the first time we’ve actually covered a ‘60s album. Can you believe?
We’re gonna talk about this a lot because we’re so shook by it, but something to keep in mind during this whole thing: Laura Nyro was just 20 when this was made. TWENTY.
Lol here we are again debating an album’s season.
Is Eli and the Thirteenth Confession a fall? Or a summer?
Do other normal people classify music like this?
Don’t forget to hit up and follow our master playlist on Spotify to hear all these songs, the covers that actually made money, and more!
“YES, WE KNOW.” — all of you when Carrie says she hates flutes
See our further watching links below to see the debut of “Poverty Train” at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Cry your eyes out when you hear they were yelling “beautiful” at her, knowing she spent her whole life since thinking they were booing.
Hit up the lyrics here.
They’re heavy as hell.
Moral of the story: Be careful if you take drugs.
Evergreen Take: “Dated” doesn’t always necessarily mean bad or unenjoyable.
“Lonely Women” clearly created a divide in interpretation between the two of us. Slide into our DMs or email us to let you know what you think. It’s complicated and we’re interested.
In case you missed it, this album is feminist as hell, and it’s fascinating and surprising to see how much of it translates to today.
See our further reading links below for some more info about Laura Nyro’s relationship with Maria Desidero, who may or may not have been the inspiration for “Timer” and “Emmie.”
We definitely have very specific wishes of songs that we’d want other bands or artists to cover — so specific we can hear how they’d sound in our brains — that will likely never, ever happen. Message us to find out / Please tell us if you’ve done this too so we don’t feel too weird.
Don’t listen to “December’s Boudoir” unless you’re ready to get the Sunday Sads.
Talk to us about anything and everything ~feminism~ we covered re: “The Confession” — i.e. second wave feminism vs. fourth wave, “as a father of daughters…” — ANYTHING! We love to talk about this stuff.
Favorite track(s): Luckie and Timer (Carly) | Eli’s Comin’ and Stoned Soul Picnic (Carrie)
Least favorite track: December’s Boudoir (Carly) | December’s Boudoir (Carrie)
Laura Nyro — piano, vocal, harmonies, “witness to the confession”
Ralph Casale — acoustic guitar
Chet Amsterdam — acoustic guitar, bass
Hugh McCracken — electric guitar
Chuck Rainey — bass
Artie Schroeck — drums, vibes
Buddy Saltzman — drums
Dave Carey — percussion
Bernie Glow, Pat Calello, Ernie Royal — trumpet
George Young, Zoot Sims — saxophone
Wayne Andre, Jimmy Cleveland, Ray DeSio — trombone
Joe Farrell — saxophone, flute
Paul Griffin — piano on “Eli’s Comin'” and “Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)”
Further watching:
Laura Nyro in the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame | 2014
Laura Nyro’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction | 2012
Alice Cooper discusses his love for Laura Nyro (ed note: OH MY GOD) | 2011
“Poverty Train” at the Monterey Pop Festival (with current intro from D.A. Pennebaker, Michelle Phillips, and Lou Adler) | 1967
Laura Nyro remembered: “A musical force of nature” | Uncut (June 2017)
Laura Nyro’s Lasting, Eclectic Musical Legacy | NPR (December 2011)
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, Maria Desiderio | Rabdrake Blog (October 2009)
An Enigma Wrapped in Songs | The New York Times (October 1997)
Laura Nyro’s legacy of passion | Entertainment Weekly (April 1997)
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3 thoughts on “Episode 3.1: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession”
Mike Katz says:
Also recommended: Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro by Michele Kort (2002)
Den Knee says:
Loved the podcast re: Laura Nyro. She’s been my favorite for nearly 50 years. But as far as that reference to Maria and Laura in their younger years: that is a complete fabrication from a mind that believes his own fantasies as truth. A number of us came to that conclusion some years ago.
Tony Camilletti says:
Your commentary on Nyro’s “Eli/13th Confession” masterpiece is both refreshing and perplexing to many of her tribe-followers (the “Nyrotics”) from the beginning. Thank you for paying and giving attention to this most
critical, classic artist of our times.
First – please disregard everything you have researched and gleaned from “Rabdrake”. He is a fraud and has no basis for his conjecture about Laura Nyro’s life or career. Please.
Second – I would love for you to do a deep-dive perspective into Nyro’s following album, “New York Tendaberry”, considered by many to be her most triumphant, quintessential work.
Thanks again for bringing Laura Nyro’s genius into the contemporary spotlight.
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NYT’s Bret Stephens Quits Twitter After Throwing Fit Over Being Called “Bedbug”
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens has apparently quit Twitter after his response to a professor backfired on him. Red State reports Dave Karpf, an associate professor at George Washington University, tweeted a joke in response to a story about bedbugs infesting the New York Times, saying that the bedbugs were a metaphor for Stephens.
Stephens was apparently so offended about Karpf’s bedbug joke that he emailed him to complain and then copied Karpf’s boss, the university provost.
Stephen’s later tried to defend himself on MSNBC, calling Karpf’s tweet “dehumanizing and totally unacceptable,” and claimed he wasn’t actually trying to get Karpf in trouble by tattling to his boss.
Stephens now says he has quit Twitter over the backlash.
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what is milk thistle called in igbo language
It can help prevent elevation of liver enzymes, which can be a side effect of the medication. Farsi words for milk include شیر, دوشیدن, شیره کشیدن از, شیره گیاهی, شیر دوشی, شیردان and شیردار. This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. vnacarenewengland.org. Milk thistle is a plant that contains silymarin, a substance that improves liver function. The herbs milk thistle and fenugreek have been used historically to promote milk supply, but no studies have [...] been performed to [...] establish whether or not they actually provide any benefit. Milk thistle is sometimes used as a natural treatment for liver problems. Milk Thistle Protects Your Liver. To learn more about Healthwise, visit Healthwise.org. milk teeth. It's known for its violet thistle-like flowers and glossy green, white-veined leaves. Clove … kindly send me best price offer and mode of trade. Silymarin is the main active ingredient in milk thistle. Translation services are available in more than 130 languages. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate dietary supplements in the same way it regulates medicines. Yoruba Medicine – History The medical traditions of the Yoruba people of western Nigeria developed within a culture that deeply respects and venerates ancestors.The orishas, or gods of the Yoruba, were former ancestors such as Oduduwa, the legendary ancestor of all Yoruba people, and his son Ogun. Advertisement. what is the indian name of milk thistle. 6 years ago I NEED TO KNOW INDIAN NAME OF MILK THISTLE. Hepatitis C: A focus on dietary supplements. Find more Farsi words at wordhippo.com! Milk thistle is native to Europe and is also sometimes called Mediterranean thistle or Holy thistle. Milk thistle can also be taken in conjunction with cholesterol lowering medications, like statins. This is especially important for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Re: What Is The Yoruba Name For Milk Thistle Leaves And Dandelion Leaves? Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read PDFs. Not all treatments or services described are covered benefits for Kaiser Permanente members or offered as services by Kaiser Permanente. This is the translation of the word "milk" to over 100 other languages. Silybum marianum has other common names including cardus marianus, milk thistle, blessed milkthistle, Marian thistle, Mary thistle, Saint Mary's thistle, Mediterranean milk thistle, variegated thistle and Scotch thistle (though not to be confused with Onopordum acanthium). Milk Thistle Supplement 1000mg - 200 Capsules, Max Strength 4X Concentrated Extract 4:1 Milk Thistle Seed Powder Herb Pills, 1000 mg Silymarin Extract for Liver Support, Cleanse, Detox & Pure Health 4.6 out of 5 stars 824. It can help prevent elevation of liver enzymes, which can be a side effect of the medication. To bring back the Liver to a normal functioning state, you have to follow the following: Radish, Milk Thistle, Dandelion Take the juice of Radish for 3 days continuous. Miliki is only a yorubanised version of milk. Milk thistle is generally used for the detoxifying and strengthening of the liver. Milk thistle can also be taken in conjunction with cholesterol lowering medications, like statins. THISTLE, MILK Botanical: Silybum marianum Family: N.O. Research on silymarin suggests that it may protect the liver from inflammation. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2012). Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo are trademarks of Healthwise, Incorporated. Women who are breastfeeding or pregnant should avoid using milk thistle. Usually, milk thistle causes few, if any, serious side effects. These liver problems include cirrhosis, jaundice, hepatitis, and gallbladder disorders. Silymarin is where the curative advantages lie. More rarely, it may cause nausea, bloating, gas, and upset stomach. Some people also call it Mary thistle and holy thistle. In A DerMarderosian et al., eds., Review of Natural Products. Sign Up to Receive Our Free Coroanvirus Newsletter. Advertisement. Since milk thistle may mimic the effects of estrogen, some women should avoid this herb. Silymarin is an extract from the milk thistle plant. Take 1 teaspoon. Take a gap of 7 days and then take the juice for 3 days again. Milk thistle (2010). Milk thistle is a plant that contains silymarin, a substance that improves liver function. Talk to your doctor before taking any supplements, as they may interfere with your medication. Dandelion plant (Taraxacum officinale) is not wild lettuce (Lactuca capensis) called "efo yanrin" or "yanrin oko" in Yoruba. At this point, there is not enough scientific data to say whether or not milk thistle can help liver problems. © 2020 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Kaiser Permanente health plans around the country: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., in Northern and Southern California and Hawaii • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, Inc., Nine Piedmont Center, 3495 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30305, 404-364-7000 • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc., in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., 2101 E. Jefferson St., Rockville, MD 20852 • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, 500 NE Multnomah St., Suite 100, Portland, OR 97232 • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington or Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Options, Inc., 601 Union St., Suite 3100, Seattle, WA 98101. Many thanks Samuel Nwaireh Are you Yoruba if you're Yoruba then go to this elewé omo they sell it. Silymarin is both an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. Steps to Take, Slideshow: Visual Guide to Liver Problems. Always tell your doctor of any supplement you are taking. People with diabetes often have high cholesterol. Milk thistle is indigenous to the Mediterranean and is a member of the Asteraceae plant family (along with sunflowers and daisies). Milk Thistle is a common weed with a distinctive white marking on its leaves, and the plant puts out adistinctive purple flowering heads. Compositae. Milk thistle may cause nausea, diarrhea, bloating, pain, or allergies. $14.99. It is an anti oxidant, which means that it is more powerful than a lot of vitamins. It is the intention of the author not to address the issue of tones, dialects, prefixes and suffixes otherwise this english to igbo (or igbo to english) website will not be published like many others - Igbo Dictionary. Milk thistle can be taken orally in supplements or in tea. © 2005 - 2019 WebMD LLC. If you have a ragweed allergy, you should also avoid milk thistle. can we grow it in our house. Milk thistle can be combined with other herbs. Silymarin is a mixture that contains several closely related compounds , including silybin (consisting of the silybins A and B), isosilybin (consisting of the isosilybins A and B), … One study found that milk thistle appeared to help some people with cirrhosis live longer than they would have otherwise, while another found no benefit.footnote 2. Aromatherapy and Alternative Medicine. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for FarmHaven Milk Thistle Capsules, Max Strength 30:1 Concentrated Extract with 80% Standardized Silymarin, Natural Supplement Promotes Liver Health, Non-GMO, Made in The USA - 120 Vegetable Capsules at Amazon.com. For a list of covered benefits, please refer to your Evidence of Coverage or Summary Plan Description. Learn more about natural remedies for type 2 diabetes. Milk Thistle is also called Our Lady’s Thistle. What is milk thistle? One of the most common uses of milk thistle is to treat liver problems. Medicinenet.com: "Generic Name: Milk Thistle â Oral.". Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information. شوك. Drug interactions are reported among people who take Amoxicillin and Milk thistle. People tend to mistake one for the other. This herb contains a potent substance called silymarin which is very helpful for treating symptoms of dementia in persons suffering from this disease. Smart Grocery Shopping When You Have Diabetes, Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Dogs and Cats, Coronavirus in Context: Interviews With Experts. close menu, Colorado - Denver / Boulder / Northern / Mountain areas, Whoops, something went wrong with access to our non-public page. St. Louis: Wolters Kluwer Health. (NCCAM Publication No. Showing page 1. Milk is actually called WARA in Yoruba. Some studies also show milk thistle may offer a possible benefit for people whose liver is damaged by industrial toxins, such as toluene and xylene. A 2016 … Milk thistle may lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 … However, studies on possible heart benefits only have been done in people with diabetes. It may not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on a dietary supplement. Milk thistle is a plant that contains silymarin, a substance that improves liver function. Can Milk Thistle Help People With Diabetes? Hepatitis B is a problem of Liver. The medicinal ingredient found in milk thistle is silymarin, an extract of milk thistle seeds. Common interactions include dental caries among females and anaemia among males. Some early research suggests milk thistle may aid people with alcohol-related liver disease. They are clearly two different plants and I doubt if there is any local name for Dandelion because the plant is not native to Nigeria. Milk Thistle by Nature's Bounty, Herbal Health Supplement, Supports Liver Health, 175mg, 100 Softgels 4.7 out of 5 stars 191. The active component in this seed is known as silymarin. A dietary supplement can be sold with limited or no research on how well it works. ... which helps protect the body from cell-destroying substances called free radicals. But it does not have a direct effect on viruses that cause hepatitis, such as the hepatitis C virus.footnote 1, Preliminary research suggests that silymarin is an antioxidant, which helps protect the body from cell-destroying substances called free radicals. Milk thistle is often promoted for its liver … Additionally, women with breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers should not take milk thistle. The milk thistle’s black seed are cropped for medicinal utility. Itâs unclear what benefits, if any, this may have in the body. Description; Medicinal Action and Uses---Synonym---Marian Thistle.---Parts Used---Whole herb, root, leaves, seeds and hull.The Marian, or Milk Thistle, is perhaps the most important medicinally among the members of this genus, to which all botanists do not, however, assign it, naming it Silybum Marianum. It is often used as an herbal remedy for a variety of ailments. The Victorian Language of Flowers identifies Thistle as the flower of intrusion (or perhaps more distinctly a warning against unwanted meddling. You can take milk thistle in capsules or as a tincture (combined with alcohol). Find out more on the side effects of statins. noun شوك. Always tell your doctor if you are using a dietary supplement or if you are thinking about combining a dietary supplement with your conventional medical treatment. what is it called in india. As with metaphysics, milk thistle and blessed thistle are the two varieties most frequently used in folk medicine. Milk thistle definition is - a tall thistle (Silybum marianum) having white-veined dark green leaves and large purple flower heads that is native to the Mediterranean region but has become naturalized elsewhere including the U.S.; also : an extract of milk thistle and especially its seeds that is held to protect the liver from damage or disease. Have you ever heard the proverb “Onisuuru ni nfun wara kiniun” meaning, only the patienct can milk (that is squeeze out the milk of) a lion. I need clove seed and oil Cloves ,called kanafuru in yoruba language. This includes women who have fibroid tumors or endometriosis. Found 1 sentences matching phrase "milk thistle".Found in 1 ms. wheather it is a herb where can it be found in india . This means that how well they work or any side effects they cause may differ among brands or even within different lots of the same brand. Let me give you some names of some stuffs in Yoruba Black pepper - iyere. Please find below many ways to say milk in different languages. Itâs unclear if milk thistle may have the same effects in other people. National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM): "Milk Thistle." Medical research does suggest that milk thistle, combined with traditional treatment, can improve diabetes. Milk thistle may cause diarrhea. Originally from Europe, milk thistle now also grows in the United States. milk thistle for the liver and gallbladder, Gastroparesis: What to Eat and What to Avoid, Newly Diagnosed With Crohn's? Your use of this information means that you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Other studies show no improvement in liver function in this group of people. Learn how we develop our content. The seeds are most often used for medicinal purposes, … The seeds and leaves are used to create a variety of forms, including extracts, pills, powders, tinctures, and teas. Like conventional medicines, dietary supplements may cause side effects, trigger allergic reactions, or interact with prescription and nonprescription medicines or other supplements you might be taking. People use milk thistle as a complementary treatment for liver problems, particularly hepatitis and cirrhosis and inflammation of the bile ducts (cholangitis). Milk thistle may interact with certain medications. WebMD does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. When using dietary supplements, keep in mind the following: Author: Healthwise Staff Medical Review: Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine, Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine. by dasparrow : 6:05pm On Sep 26 , 2013 Here is a picture of the Dandelion plant. Get the facts. For recommended treatments, please consult with your health care provider. Share on Pinterest. How Long Does Coronavirus Live On Surfaces? $29.99 #50. Dietary supplements may not be standardized in their manufacturing. All rights reserved. Dear Eric. SOURCES: Note that the plant must be indigenous to Nigeria This's what real education looks like- knowing what things are called in our native languages and making sense of them first as Africans. They come from many sources and are not checked. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database: "Milk Thistle Monograph." The form you buy in health food or grocery stores may not be the same as the form used in research. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. what is the indian hindi name of milk thistle Studies have shown a decrease in blood sugar levels and an improvement in cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes. Navigation Menu - Opens a Simulated Dialog, Button close - press enter or select to This herb is also known as Marian Thistle and Mary Thistle. The study is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 36 people who take Amoxicillin and Milk thistle from the FDA, and is … Available online: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/hepatitisc/hepatitiscfacts.htm?nav=gsa. Originally from Europe, milk thistle now also grows in the United States. Igbo language is difficult because of the huge number of dialects, its richness in prefixes and suffixes and its heavy intonation. Diabetes is a serious condition. © 1995-2020 Healthwise, Incorporated. Researchers also have found that milk thistle improved insulin resistance, a key characteristic of type 2 diabetes. what is indian name or hindi name ('hindi'is national language of india)so hindi name of milk thistle. Silymarin also may reduce inflammation and block the effects of toxins that harm the liver.footnote 2, Two studies on milk thistle presented conflicting results. You can take milk thistle in capsules or as a tincture (combined with alcohol). In the United States, it is sold as a dietary supplement. Translation memories are created by human, but computer aligned, which might cause mistakes. The Health Encyclopedia contains general health information. D422). Studies show that itâs safe when taken for up to 41 months. Get more information on milk thistle for the liver and gallbladder. A side effect or interaction with another medicine or supplement may make other health conditions worse. Be warned. This species is an annual or biennial plant of the family Asteraceae. By lowering LDL "bad" cholesterol levels, milk thistle may help decrease the chance of developing heart disease. vnacarenewengland.org. Goat head in Isoko language is called u-zoh ewe while pig head is called u-zoh esi (both lsoko & Urhobo) More greece to your elbow. Milk thistle may produce allergic reactions, which tend to be more common among people who are allergic to plants in the same family (for example, ragweed, chrysanthemum, marigold, and daisy). Milk thistle (silymarin) is a flowering herb related to the daisy and ragweed family. IN HINDI LANGUAGE WHAT CALLED MILK THISTLE A.D IN GUJRATI LANGUAGE WHAT CALLED MILK THISTLE? Milk thistle may cause a rash or lead to severe allergic reaction. Other than in vitamins and minerals, the long-term effects of most dietary supplements are not known. Get the facts on milk thistle for the liver. Translate Milk thistle to English online and download now our free translation software to use at any time. Nearby Translations. shuk shock, thorn, thistle, briar, acanthus. It is native to Mediterranean countries. Milk Thistle tablets provide support to ease the symptoms of over-indulgence of food and drink such as indigestion and an upset stomach (based on traditional use only) Supports liver health. Here is a picture of the milk thistle plant. Milk Thistle is known by the scientific name Silybum Marianum. Black pepper is iyere in Yoruba, Oziza in igbo Thorny pigweed/prickly amaranth is tete eleegun in yoruba Pls post yours. See Also in Arabic. Originally from Europe, milk thistle now also grows in North America. Repeat this for 1 month. It has been widely used in Europe and Germany, where it is a common complementary treatment for liver problems such as hepatitis and cirrhosis. Milk thistle (English to Greek translation). More information is needed before doctors can say milk thistle actually benefits the liver. Buy Capsules of Milk Thistle.
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phablet Stories December 1, 2015
Sketchy rumor suggests Huawei could manufacture a new Nexus 7 in 2016
- Dec. 1st 2015 8:46 am PT
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The last two Nexus 7 tablets were manufactured by ASUS, but if a new sketchy rumor (originating from none other than Chinese social network Weibo) is to be believed, Huawei — maker of the well-received Nexus 6P — could be next in line. Rumors from random users on Weibo aren’t usually the most dependable source of information, but this particular user seems to have experience in IC design and has more than 34,000 followers (and, to boot, seems to have at least some internal knowledge of Huawei, Oppo, and other Chinese companies)…
phablet Stories September 22, 2015
Opinion: Now is the perfect time for another Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Cam Bunton
- Sep. 22nd 2015 1:08 pm PT
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This year, Google is rumored to be partnering with a Chinese manufacturer for the first time on its Nexus lineup. The Huawei Nexus isn’t just an experiment, or giving a new OEM a chance at making a device. If rumors are correct, the partnership was chosen because of Huawei’s influence in China. Google’s Play Services are limited in China, in that they’re basically non-existent. But still, as a consumer, I can’t help but feel this year should have been Samsung’s year, and next year definitely should be…
phablet Stories August 18, 2015
Best Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ cases already available to order
- Aug. 18th 2015 9:33 am PT
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After first unveiling its new phablets five days ago, Samsung will start selling the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ smartphones this week. Some carriers will be selling it already, while others are waiting for the official August 21st release date. Chances are, you don’t want to take any risks with damaging your precious and ludicrously expensive smartphone. It may fare better than the S5 in drop tests, but it’s probably best for you not to test that, on purpose or by accident. With that in mind, check out some of the cases already announced by some of the best accessory makers around.
Samsung’s first Galaxy Note 5 commercial airs: It’s all about that S-Pen
Cam Bunton - Aug. 15th 2015 1:07 pm PT
Samsung pushed its first Galaxy Note 5 TV commercial to YouTube today, and no surprise, it’s all about what you can do with that S-Pen. Set to a fast-paced percussion soundtrack, with speedy cuts in the edit, it has been designed to make you excited at all you can do with the stylus as well as convey a sense of productivity and speed.
Samsung Galaxy S6+ August 21 preorder date ‘accidentally’ leaked
Cam Bunton - Aug. 11th 2015 3:51 am PT
Samsung is set to announce the brand new Galaxy Note 5 alongside the Galaxy S6 Edge+ at an Unpacked event on Thursday, this week. Although the company hasn’t officially shed any light on what it intends to reveal, we’re pretty certain by now that the aforementioned phones will be shown off. With the number of leaks, including the most recent retail photos, it’s hard not to be confident of that fact. What we weren’t entirely sure of was the exact retail launch date.
Thanks to some sharp eyes from Dutch Samsung blog, Galaxy Club, we can see that the French Samsung site accidentally revealed the pre-order time frame, before promptly removing the information. Roughly translated, Samsung’s site says the phone will be available to pre-order between August 21st and September 3rd, perhaps suggesting a September 4 retail launch. What’s more, there’s a special where customers get a free pair of Level On headphones and three months of Google Play music with the Galaxy S6 Edge+.
While this leak seemingly confirms the pre-order date for French customers, it doesn’t reveal anything pertaining to its global launch schedule. We’re yet to discover if the US, UK and other nations will all receive their devices on the same date. Although we’d hope Samsung would synchronize the launch multi-nationally, we can never be sure with the giant Korean tech giant. It has prioritized Europe often in the past. Thankfully, we only have two days left to wait before Samsung reveals all.
Samsung’s Note 5 and S6 Edge+ are expected to share similar specifications, including a 5.7-inch QuadHD AMOLED display, an octa-core Exynos processor and 4GB RAM alongside a 16MP main camera and wireless charging. The one feature that should set the Note 5 apart from its sibling is the redesigned S-Pen, which will again act as the unique selling point for Samsung’s flagship phablet.
phablet Stories July 18, 2015
Galaxy Note 5 S-Pen leaks, it’s all shiny [Gallery]
Cam Bunton - Jul. 18th 2015 8:55 am PT
While there are tons of phablets on the market now, Samsung still manages to remain unique by equipping its Note series handsets with the versatile S-Pen. In my experience, it’s been great for making quick notes or grabbing quick screenshots to edit and share. It goes without saying then, that the Galaxy Note 5 will also ship with the advanced stylus. Judging from these most recent leaks, it’s going to be much shinier than previous versions and could have a press-able, or clickable end at the top.
Take a look at the pictures below. They were originally shared on Chinese social media site, Weibo and picked up by Steve Hemmerstoffer at NWE. If you look closely at the two images showing the top end of the S-Pen, you’ll clearly see that the gap between the end and the main shaft of the stylus is bigger in one than the other.
If I had to guess as to why it was designed this way, I’d suggest that it’s almost certainly to help release the S-Pen from its silo. The way the phone has been designed (based on leaks) suggests that the stylus sits flush with the metal chassis of the smartphone. Case leaks have suggested that there’s not going to be any special room left for you to pry the stylus out with your fingernail. So, perhaps the end of the pen — when pressed — clicks and extends, so that you can easily remove the S-Pen from the body of the phone.
Other possibilities are easily eliminated. It’s clearly not replacing the Air Command button, since that’s still built in to the shaft of the pen. And it doesn’t extend the tip of the S-Pen either, since that’s ever-present, and visible in the photos, regardless of whether or not the top end is extended.
Rumors so far have indicated we’ll see this new Galaxy Note 5 launch alongside a Galaxy S6 Edge+ at the end of August. Both devices will essentially look like the S6 and S6 Edge, except much larger and with the inclusion of this redesigned stylus.
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TRANSFORMED BY TECHNOLOGY
MATERIAL MUSE
BLOSSOMING BOTANY
CRAZES IN QUILTS
DOMESTIC BATTLEGROUND
Virtual Quilt
DR. SYNTAX AQUATINIT ENGRAVINGS, 1812-1821
Thomas Rowlandson, one of England’s premier caricaturists, illustrated all three Dr. Syntax adventures. The quilt combines elements from these eleven prints, which are just a selection of the first tour’s illustrations. Some illustrations lent just a small detail or background figure to the toile fabric design, other figures are more prominent.
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), London
Friends of the Museum Purchase 2018.7.1-11
Corresponding Quilt
VASE, ABOUT 1891
Japanese porcelain styles influenced this vase’s shape and decoration. First Lady Caroline Scott Harrison is said to have given this as a wedding gift in 1891.
Friends of the Museum Purchase, 66.96
BOWL, 1840-1890
Japanese ceramics were appreciated for their beauty, but also became status symbols, indicating the owner’s refined aesthetic sensibility and awareness of current decorating trends.
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration
3” diameter
Gift of Helen E. Fretz, 86.144
ANDREW JACKSON MOURNING RIBBON, 1845
Public figures’ deaths often inspired the production of mourning badges (ribbons) like this one. “The Union Must & Shall Be Preserved” refers to a crisis shortly after Jackson took office in 1828 when the South vehemently protested huge tariffs passed by the previous administration. Jackson threatened military action if South Carolina seceded.
5” x 11.25”
Gift of Leo Schwartz, 90.23
Click Here: Look for the portrait of Jackson in his military uniform
ANDREW JACKSON MEDALLION QUILT, 1820s
The Politics
Andrew Jackson was the first candidate to produce commercial campaign goods, appealing to voters who had increasing sway in elections. Prior elections had depended largely on state legislatures to select the Electoral College. Jackson, embittered after losing the four-way 1824 election despite winning both the popular and electoral vote, immediately began an aggressive campaign for 1828.
Jackson’s record is mixed, his democratic reforms overshadowed by the atrocity of his removal of Native Americans from the Southeastern states, collectively known as the “Trail of Tears.”
The Quilt
Two colorways of a print with tiny portraits of Jackson between American eagles adorn this quilt. Quite a few quilts, and at least one dress, survive with this fabric in a total of three known colorways, suggesting large output.
Loan courtesy of Debby Cooney
PORTRAIT OF ANDREW JACKSON, 1815
Nathan Wheeler (American, 1789-1849)
Courtesy Library of Congress
Corresponding Objects
MACHINE-QUILTED APPLIQUÉ QUILT, 1850s
Women embraced sewing machines for everyday use. Mary Sneed used hers to machine-stitch a tiny grid on the white squares and outline the basket weave print. Family tradition stated that Mary Sneed made this with one of the first sewing machines in Texas, suggesting the pride women felt in having the latest technology.
Made by Mary DeLoach Sneed (1807-1905), Waco, Texas
Gift of Martha Hunt in honor of the descendants of Mary Deloach and George Washington Sneed, 92.1
SEWING MACHINE, 1868-75
Sewing machines were marketed with layaway plans and other lures, making them increasingly affordable. Machines sped up tedious sewing, allowing time for creative needlework. Few inventors managed to design machines viable for home use and also market them successfully. Along with Isaac Singer, Wheeler & Wilson dominated the market.
The Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Cast iron, steel, and walnut
Friends of the Museum Purchase, 96.73.1
“STARS AND STRIPES” BEDSPREAD, 1861-1863
Long assumed to be a decorative riff on the American flag, this pattern’s source was recently identified by a quilt historian as the flag flying over Fort Sumter, South Carolina, when Confederates besieged it in 1861. “Garrison flags” flown at forts commonly arranged the stars in a central diamond design. Fort Sumter’s toured the country and became a rallying symbol for the Union, so its design was well-known.
Margaret Dodge made at least four patriotic bedspreads during the war; the DAR Museum owns two. A third was displayed at Brooklyn’s 1864 Sanitary Fair which raised money for the troops, and was afterwards presented to President Lincoln.
Margaret English Wood Dodge (c1781-1873), Brooklyn, New York
Gift of Elsa S. Dorrance Lockwood, in memory of Nellie T. Sutton and George Alfred Sutton, 87.67.1
“THE FLAG OF FORT SUMTER,” 1861
Copyrighted by S.T. MacDougall
Months after South Carolina seceded, United States troops still held Fort Sumter in Charleston. Confederate troops, firing the first shots of the Civil War, eventually took the Fort. The fort’s flag became famous, inspiring this print and the quilt pattern, which adapted the flag’s diagonally-oriented field of stars.
PETERSON’S MAGAZINE, 1861
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Courtesy of Dawn Ronningen
WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION QUILT, ABOUT 1880-1900
At the turn of the 20th century, many women became involved in social and political issues. Using their perceived role as moral compasses of society, they advocated reform in areas such as temperance, child welfare, birth control, labor conditions, and suffrage. The WCTU was one of many organizations which eventually succeeded in getting the 18th Amendment to the Constitution passed, banning alcohol until its repeal in 1933.
Despite quilting being a widespread feminine activity, few of the women’s reform movements used quilts as fundraisers or as statements of support. Many progressive women preferred activism not linked to traditional domestic endeavors such as quilt-making.
Beaver and Vernango Counties, Pennsylvania
Loan courtesy of Julie Silber
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR QUILT, 1898
The ten-week Spanish-American war, mostly forgotten today, was fought off the coast of Cuba to support Cuba’s war of independence from Spain. US-Spanish relations were tense, with the sensationalist “yellow press” media stirring anti-Spanish sentiments. When the naval ship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, the United States went to war supporting Cuba. With Spain’s defeat, Cuba gained independence while we took over control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain.
Despite its short duration, the war inspired patriotic items like this quilt. Several in this exact design survive, suggesting a pattern may have been printed in a nationally distributed media outlet.
HENRY CLAY CAMPAIGN QUILT, 1844
As a Presidential candidate in 1844, Henry Clay opposed the annexation of Texas, a move many feared would lead to war with Mexico. His campaign reached out to women who, though lacking the right to vote, might sway male relatives’ votes. Women, Clay believed, would prefer a candidate who kept their men out of a war.
Rebecca Lombart made this while living in Philadelphia, with two Clay ribbons in the border and another saying simply “Abstinence.” Clay’s anti-abolitionist stance hurt him in anti-slavery Philadelphia, but Lombart and others apparently found enough in his platform to win their support.
Rebecca (Lombart) Williams (1819-1880), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gift of Grace Ann Gartland, 2003.24
HENRY CLAY LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT, ABOUT 1840
New York, New York, John L. MaGee
Gift of Hannah Weston Chapter, NSDAR, 5401
Many ribbon designs were made available nationwide for the Clay campaign; printers could add text specific to their area’s campaign events. This ribbon’s design is the same as one of those on the quilt, but announces a barbecue in Pennsylvania.
PORTRAIT, 1825-1845
Jackson is depicted here in the rank he held at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, Major General, though with the gray hair of his Presidential years. Reverse paintings on glass depicting American political and literary figures were exported from Germany and China to the American market; this one may be either German or American.
United States or Germany
Reverse painting on glass
Gift of Rolfe Towle Teague, 87.45
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON CAMPAIGN BANDANA, 1840
Anti-elitism and branding are nothing new in politics. Born a wealthy Virginia landowner, William Henry Harrison was re-branded as a frontiersman. The opposition insultingly called Harrison a provincial sitting “in his log cabin drinking hard cider,” but Harrison correctly predicted this folksy depiction would play well with the American voter.
Probably made in the United States, Design by “A.M. Williamson”
Gift of Marion Ashby Buck, 52.92
Although Clay never won the presidency, he gained lasting national popularity among members of the Whig party. Many homes and businesses displayed printed portraits of political figures. This one purportedly hung in the Burnham Tavern in Mathias, Maine.
TOY BOAT, ABOUT 1898
The USS Oregon, one of the United States’ first battleships, became famous for its part in the Battle of Santiago, the attack on Cuba’s harbor in July of 1898. She went on to participate in our military actions in the Philippines and the Boxer Rebellion in China, in 1899-1900.
Probably made in the United States
Tin and wood
Gift of Jacqueline Ernest Merritt, 2006.15.35.2
HENRY CLAY CAMPAIGN CUP PLATE, 1844
By the 1840s, mass production of glass, ceramics, and other goods was well underway in America, making ephemeral goods like this affordable to a wide consumer base.
Sandwich, Massachusetts, Boston and Sandwich Glass Co.
Pressed Glass
3.5” diameter
Gift of Katherine Wyman Vaughan, in memory of her mother, Bella Ristine Wyman, 59.111
SHEET MUSIC, “THE BANNER OF CLAY,” 1842
Political songs promoting presidential campaigns first became popular in 1830 with the presidential race of William Henry Harrison. This 1842 melody was written for the 1844 Clay campaign.
Boston, Massachusetts, Oliver Ditson, Publisher
10.5” x 13.875”
Gift of the Rhode Island State Society, NSDAR, 84.75
VASE, 1828-1836
Foreign manufacturers were well accustomed to making goods for the American market. This vase was likely available in Europe without the inscription “Gen. Andrew Jackson” added for American customers.
Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic)
Wheel-cut glass
2.75” diameter
Gift of Cincinnati Chapter, NSDAR, 68.209
PLATE, ABOUT 1830
According to family tradition, Andrew Jackson gave a set of these plates to his friend James Buchanan, the donor’s great-grandfather, whose home in southwestern Virginia was said to be a stopping point for Jackson on his journeys between Washington and his home in Tennessee.
Staffordshire, England
Pearlware with copper luster and transfer printed decoration
Gift of Lucy Susong Clark, in memory of Charles Claiborne Buchanan, 70.84
JUG, ABOUT 1830
“General Jackson, the Hero of New Orleans” is inscribed above a portrait of Andrew Jackson, who despite the military reference is depicted here in civilian dress. It was probably produced during his presidency, as it is based on an 1828 engraving. The plate nearby uses the same design.
Gift of Carroll Campbell Strickland, Marvin Harrison Campbell, Joseph Andrew Campbell, and Davis Allan Campbell, 2013.18.3
BEDSTEAD, 1790-1810
Gift of the Wisconsin State Society, 91.98
SILK HEXAGON QUILT, 1879
Boldly colored, machine-woven silks used recently developed chemical dyes to make a striking quilt. When Maria Key made this for her ten-year-old grandson, she had been using the latest fabrics in her quilt making for at least forty years. Her quilt of about 1840, now at the Maryland Historical Society, used cottons reflecting the latest design and technology trends of its day.
Maria Louisa Harris Key (1804-1879), Leonardtown, Maryland
Silk with cotton backing
Gift of Nelly Key Thompson, 2010.47
RED AND GREEN BETHLEHEM STAR QUILT, 1840-1860
Colorfast dyes available after 1840 spurred the mid-century red and green quilt craze. “Turkey red,” a complicated dye process, was widely available to American calico printers by 1840. Green had to be dyed in two steps (yellow, then blue) until late in the 1800s, but a more reliable option called “chrome green” provided the leafy and emerald hues seen in mid-century quilts.
Sarah Hall Gwyer (1819-1882), North Carolina or Omaha, Nebraska
Gift of Jack and Patricia Glass honoring the Glass, Schlossberg, Gwyer, and Yates Families, 85.62.3
Click Here: How many different prints can you count in this quilt?
UNFINISHED QUILT TOP, 1835-1850
Approximately fifty different prints in just one quilt testify to the proliferation of roller-printed cottons available to quilters by this time.
Probably made in Maryland
Gift of George S. and Catherine Waring Barnes, 95.99.1
Click Here: Can you find this portrait of the Lindbergh family embroidered in the crazy quilt?
LINDBERGH QUILT, ABOUT 1932-1935
All of America was enthralled in 1932 by the tragic story of the kidnapping and death of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Media across the country followed the story from the investigation through the eventual trial of the alleged kidnapper.
Why would anyone commemorate this tragedy on a quilt? Just as countless quilters made quilts after the attacks of September 11, it is more about process than product. Sewing and embroidering allow for meditation and the processing of horrific loss. The result becomes a respectful memorial.
Cotton with cotton embroidery
Loan courtesy of Polly Mello
The Lindbergh quilt’s blocks copy photos that appeared in newspapers covering the kidnapping investigation and trial. Two versions of this four-generation photo can be seen in the top and third rows.
Click Here: Can you find this portrait of Oscar Wilde embroidered in the crazy quilt?
Crazy Quilt, 1885
Japanese vases and fans on this quilt testify to the craze for “Japonisme.” Other motifs popular in the 1880s seen here include old-fashioned children taken from popular illustrators, and favorite designs of the Aesthetic movement (peacock feathers, a sunflower, and even a portrait of Oscar Wilde).
Amelia Trowbridge (1858-1931), Melrose, Massachusetts
Silks with linen lace, silk and metallic embroidery thread, cotton backing
Gift of Helen L. McGilvery
“CHILDREN LEAVING SCHOOL,” 1880
Ralph Caldecott, The Three Jovial Huntsmen, Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
The crazy quilt era was also a golden age of illustration. Kate Greenaway remains the most famous illustrator of old-fashioned scenes today, but others were equally popular at the time. Crazy quilts were dumping grounds for popular culture trends, and old-timey children, now generically called Kate Greenaway figures, appeared on numerous “crazies.”
“MY AESTHETIC LOVE,” 1881
Alfred Concanen and Stannard & Son, lithographers, Charles Sheard & Co., publisher
Color lithograph and ink on paper
Victoria and Albert Museum, # S.3931-2013
Many crazy quilts motifs were taken from the Aesthetic Movement. This design movement rejected mass-produced goods and poorly-designed revivals of older eras, preferring patterns inspired by the natural world. Its adherents also embraced new (to the West) Japanese forms and motifs.
Look for many of the Aesthetic Movement’s—and crazy quilts’—favorite motifs on the cover of this comic song’s sheet music: sunflowers, peacock feathers, lilies, and Japanese ceramics and fans.
OSCAR WILDE,” 1882
Photograph by Napoleon Sarony, New York
Oscar Wilde, the most famous Aesthetic Movement adherent, toured the United States in 1882 and 1883 to widespread publicity, with both photos and caricatures published in newspapers. His long hair, velvet jacket and breeches, and effete manner fascinated all, and offended many strait-laced provincial Americans. Amelia Trowbridge may have attended his lecture in Boston in 1882. The same embroidery appears on another “crazy,” suggesting a commercial pattern source.
Click Here: Look for a roller skate in the border of the crazy quilt
CRAZY QUILT, 1875-1890
Women personalized their crazy quilts—which otherwise look very similar—by adding embroidered or appliqued motifs chosen for aesthetic reasons or to express their interests.
Helen Dounce included two popular sports in her “crazy”: the high-wheeled bicycle and roller skates. As she was in her late thirties to early fifties at the time she made the quilt, it’s unlikely she herself engaged in these sports. The high-wheeler was dangerous and mostly ridden by men.
Helen L. Dounce
Gift of Virginia Mayo Herrick, 86.47
“District of Columbia … a fashionable roller- skating rink,” 1880
After Georgie Davis, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Roller skating and bicycling were huge crazes, but skates were cheaper, while offering similarly thrilling speed. Roller skating rinks opened up in cities across America.
DOCTOR SYNTAX TOILE QUILT, 1820s
Illustrating a popular story of its day, this quilt is akin to a Disney princess or superhero bedspread. The source here is the bestselling comic poem Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, which inspired two sequels. Author William Combe spoofed the era’s fad for dramatic landscapes and their supposed power to inspire deep emotional reactions in the viewer. Pastor Syntax embarks on a trip to seek “the picturesque,” only to fall into a series of unheroic mishaps.
Cotton possibly printed by John Marshall & Sons, Manchester (U.K.)
Gift of The Bargain Loft, 91.61
FOLDING FAN, 1870s
Japanese women in kimono, and butterflies cut to partially emerge from a leaf, decorate this fan undoubtedly made for the export market.
Paper leaf with bamboo guards and sticks
Gift of Eleanora T. Velenovsky, 86.121.8
PATCHWORK FAN, 1880-1900
With the shape of one type of Japanese fan and the pattern of a crazy quilt, this fan combines trends of its day. Fans of this shape are often embroidered on crazy quilts.
Silks with metal spangles, wood handle
Friends of the Museum Purchase, 2001.8
CHILD’S BICYCLE AND STAND, 1885-1890
Cyclists enjoyed high-wheelers’ speed. Less fun was tumbling over the top after hitting any small obstacle. By 1890, the bicycle design we are familiar with had eclipsed the high-wheeler. Meanwhile, it was a brave parent who allowed her child to ride this bicycle.
Metal and wood
Friends of the Museum Purchase, 2000.53.1-2
COPY BOOK, 1820s
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler’s watercolor accompanies her transcription of a contemporary poem about a ruined English abbey, a typical topic for romantic poetry and art. Many women collected quotations and poetry that they found moving or meaningful. Chandler, an award-winning poet and writer in her own right, wrote mostly about slavery and abolition.
Assembled by Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Pennsylvania
Watercolor and ink on paper
Gift of Margaret Merritt Broecker, 83.8.2
TEA BOWL AND SAUCER, 1810-1830
Pearlware with transfer printed decoration
2” x 5” diameter
Gift of the Mary Mattoon Chapter, NSDAR, 89.37.9A-B
PLATE, ABOUT 1825-1840
Harriet Thorne Gibson of New Hampshire took her set of blue plates with her as she moved to homes in Vermont, Québec, and Wisconsin.
M.T. & Co, England
Gift of Alice Given Brenton, 5087
“THE HIGH-METTLED RACER” TEXTILE YARDAGE, 1820s
Popular culture had inspired textile designs since the 1700s, when handkerchiefs illustrated popular songs, and this yardage continues the tradition. It traces the decline of a horse’s fortunes from racing thoroughbred to aged cart-horse in the popular opera “Liberty Hall.”
Although this looks like a copperplate print, using an older, more labor-intensive process, its shorter 20” repeat indicates it is an imitation produced by roller-printing.
Roller-printed cotton
Gift of Mrs. John Elliott Jr., 91.166.1
DR. SYNTAX PLATE, ABOUT 1821-1835
Like many English ceramic factories, James and Ralph Clews exported their wares to the United States. Popular motifs of the day included the
Dr. Syntax series. Syntax’s second sequel, “Dr. Syntax in Search of a Wife” (1821), was the source of this scene, with the bachelor minister dandling a parishioner’s baby on his knee.
James and Ralph Clews, Cobridge, Staffordshire, England
7”/10” diameter
Gift of Catherine Scott Hills, 6987
WHITEWORK QUILT, 1840s
Did Sarah Hewlett enjoy gardening as well as quilting and embroidery? Her exquisitely drawn and detailed flowers are accurately depicted calla lilies, morning glories, tiger lilies, pansies, water lilies, and fuchsias: all were popular in nineteenth century home gardens.
Sarah Varick Hewlett (1807-1867), Long Island, New York
Gift of Helen Jones, 87.43
BALTIMORE ALBUM QUILT, ABOUT 1850
Mid-century quilters embroidered roses in green wool to resemble the moss rose (rosa muscosa), whose buds and stems are covered in a moss-like substance which emit extra fragrance. Long familiar to botanists, its popularity in quilts appears to be the result of its becoming more widely available to American home gardeners about this time.
Made by a member of the Hayden family, Baltimore, Maryland
Cotton with wool embroidery
Rosa Muscosa (Moss Rose)
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Paris Les Roses,
1817-1824, no. 124
PRINCESS FEATHER APPLIQUÉ QUILT, 1850s
The prince’s (or princess) feather quilt design, one of few named patterns in the 1800s, imitates the drooping plumes of the Prince of Wales species of the amaranth plant. The three plumes in the English Prince of Wales’s emblem inspired the bloom’s name, but the quilt design is American. Another amaranth species, “love lies bleeding,” has varieties blooming in both red and green, like the fronds in this and many other princess feather quilts.
Gift of Consuelo Carnes Atkins, 80.89.2
Amaranthus hypochondriacus (Prince’s feather)
Amaranthus caudatus (Love lies bleeding)
The graceful droop of the prince’s feather flower is stylized in the curve of the quilt design’s fronds. The use of green as well as red may have been suggested by the green varieties of the love-lies-bleeding species of amaranth.
Click Here: Look for the marigold in Anna Maria Garnhart’s quilt
CHINTZ REVERSE APPLIQUÉ QUILT, 1830s
Like many quilters, Anna Maria Hummel Markey Garnhart cut up several floral prints to create her own floral arrangements. Costlier multicolor chintzes are paired with more modest-priced, small-scale calico prints used in the baskets and leafy vines. Markey Garnhart made similar quilts for eleven grandchildren, using many of the same chintzes and calicoes. Compare the striped marigold at the very top with the botanical illustration nearby.
Anna Maria Hummel Markey Garnhart (1773-1860), Frederick, Maryland
Loan courtesy of the Maynard Family, L.91.355
“Tagetes Patula. Spreading Tagetes, or French Marigold”
Sydenham Teak Edwards, London
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Vol. 5, 1792
English chintz designers often copied flowers from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, including this marigold seen in the appliqué quilt nearby. The United States’ textile industry was not advanced enough to produce these prints; they were imported from England and to a lesser extent, France. Many chintzes can be found on multiple surviving quilts.
CHINTZ APPLIQUÉ PANEL, 1820s
Quilt makers created new, unique floral designs by combining multiple chintzes’ flowers into new arrangements. Here, four different chintzes have been carefully cut and reassembled. The chintzes can be distinguished by their backgrounds: cream, tan, brown, and striped.
Gift of Jan Whitlock, 2007.18
HAND-HELD FIRE SCREEN, ABOUT 1820-1840
Silk, watercolor, wood, gilt
Gift of Elizabeth Rush Porter, 267.1
CHEST, 1785-1800
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Walnut with poplar secondary
51” x 23” deep
SAMPLER, ABOUT 1800-1820
Made by Rachel Ruggles Warner or Mercy Warner, Connecticut or New York
Silk on linen
Gift of Helen S. Cartledge, 1613.3
BEADED PURSE, ABOUT 1835-1850
Glass, Silk
DAR Museum, 87.66
FRIENDSHIP ALBUM, 1820s
Flowers were linked in popular culture to sentimental and spiritual thoughts. Here, a poem moves from literal flowers of spring to “a flower more sweet more fair,” identified at poem’s end as “love.”
Women often invited friends to contribute poems, quotes, drawings, and watercolors to their friendship albums. Friendship albums were the inspiration for album quilts whose blocks, inscribed by friends, are the fabric equivalent of a friendship book.
Assembled by Alletta Van Nest (1787-1875), Somerset County, New Jersey
Gift of the Abigail Bartholomew Chapter, NSDAR, 97.20.2
TUREEN AND STAND, 1815-1825
Wedgwood, Staffordshire, England
Cream-colored earthenware with transfer printed decoration
Gift of Hazel Longshore, in memory of Florence Kling Harding, 92.205.A-C
“AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BOTANY,” 1835
Botany was considered the best (or to some, the only) science for women to study. It was genteel and feminine (no killing or dissecting animals); required little specialized equipment; was “easy” for the feminine mind to grasp; and was allied to female pursuits like flower painting and arranging. Botany instruction books like this one were plentiful, for use in schools or by enthusiasts at home.
J.L. Comstock, Printed by Robinson, Pratt & Co., New York
Leather and paper
4.625” x 7.625”
Gift of Hazel K. Hoggett, 62.13
“THE BOQUET,” 1845
Bouquets appeared as often on paper as on textiles, although a hand-colored print like this could not offer the delicate, complex shading of a printed cotton.
Nathaniel Currier, New York
Hand-colored lithograph
Friends of the Museum Purchase, 2003.40
APPLIQUÉ QUILT, 1850s
The unusual birds here are unmistakably similar to those in the adjacent coverlet. Did Mary King copy a “fancy weave” coverlet made by a local weaver? There were coverlet weavers nearby, but we don’t know whether any of them used this design. Did a neighbor own such a coverlet brought from another area? Or did Mary and the coverlet weave designers both use a third source of the design?
Mary Swearingen King (1811-1902), Findlay, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Gift of Ama J. McElhaney Chambers in honor of Marie McElhaney and Edna Harper 2005.25
TEXTILE FRAGMENT, ABOUT 1840
Printing shaded colors like this blue became possible in the 1820s, but became widespread by about 1840. Known then as “rainbow prints” and today as “ombré” or “fondu” (French for shaded and melted), they became enormously popular in both dress prints and quilts.
Probably printed in the United States
Gift of Zelina Comegys Brunschwig, in honor of her mother, Elise Comegys, 5662
QUILT FRAME, ABOUT 1870
“CYLINDER-PRINTING,” 1844
Cylinder-printing revolutionized fabric and fashion. Passing fabric through a series of engraved metal cylinders, each printing one color, took a fraction of the time required by hand-printing, making it cheaper. Colorful, trendy cottons became affordable to the vast majority of Americans.
George Dodd
British Manufactures
DOLL QUILT, 1840s
The yellows here appear to be two of the many new dye colors developed at a rapid pace starting in the late 1700s. The solid is probably chrome orange, produced after 1840, while the ruffle’s design is earlier, suggesting its yellow may be quercitron, developed about 1790.
Gift of Mary Vail Collier, 54.171
Click Here: Look for pairs of birds feeding their young in the quilt
FANCY WEAVE COVERLET, 1843
Weaver Abram Allen, an Irish immigrant, lived in several locations in central Ohio: nowhere near Verlinda Mary King. Several other weavers in Pennsylvania and Ohio also used this “Bird of Paradise” design. Coverlet designs could be mixed and matched by weavers in widely disparate areas, as they were commercially produced for use by local weavers.
Abram Allen (1796-after 1860), Ohio
Cotton and wool
Gift of Mrs. Philip K. Russell, 96.93
FRAMED MEDALLION QUILT, 1820s
Birds often accompany “Tree of Life designs,” but the bird of prey used here had personal resonance for this quilt maker. It was probably included as a nod to the quilt’s recipient, Edward Harris, an ornithologist and financial backer of John James Audubon. The Harris Hawk was one of two birds Audubon named after his friend.
Probably made by Mary Lang Harris (c.1797-1830) or Sarah Harris Spencer (c.1796-1826), Moorestown, New Jersey
Gift of Edward Harris Darrach, Jr., 96.69
PALAMPORE, 18th CENTURY
“Tree of Life” designs originated in China, but it was Indian palampores imported into England—and to a lesser extent Colonial North America—which had enormous influence on American quilt designs well into the 1800s. Quilters cut and re-arranged branches, flowers, and often birds from one or several imported chintzes, creating their own exotic “Tree of Life” designs. Botanical accuracy was abandoned; both palampores and quilts display multiple flowers blooming from the same tree in joyful abundance.
Painted cotton
72.5” x 110”
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A humble idea to propose for discussion
Freefall84
Cabin Boy
Dec. 2, 2014 09:50
I'm very new around here but downloaded the game last night and have been enjoying it a great deal. In the past I have played many of those browser based text games such as Planetarion etc which involved several thousand people all taking control of a planet/kingdom/army etc and fighting against other people. After spending a few hours playing airships it occurred to me that this game could have huge potential as an MMO following the same formula.
Basically, the game would be played over the course of several weeks and would involve everyone playing on a single map (or a group of maps depending server demand) the action would take place during 30 minute ticks, you would need to build defensive and attacking structures and fleets much like now although you would need to rely on AI to control your fleets when you are not there, you would be notified on when you will be attacked and you would need to arrange defense between your allies. The obvious differences are that flight time between locations and construction time would need to be hours and not seconds, this gives both attackers and defenders time to analyze the situation. There would also need to be another way to acquire resources asides from overtaking peoples cities. Obviously there are a lot of things to consider and this is only my half baked thoughts but in theory if done well and all little obstacles are overcome, it could make for a really interesting and exciting MMORTS experience. Imagine coming home from work one day to discover you have several enemy fleets incoming, only to have your allies band together and intercept the enemy on route and crush them out of the sky then you all create an attacking fleet to crush the enemy base in retaliation.
My theory is that some of the game play could be done within a browser (arranging attacks, defensive fleets, and building vessels) while everything else is done withing the game client, such as designing ships and defense, then people could play most things on the move or at work etc, while many battles could be fought in real time, mostly against an AI but sometimes against the enemy themselves (depending on whether they want to command the defense/assault themselves) Oftentimes the battles will be AI vs AI and will allow the players from either side to "watch" a replay of the action, this would of course need to be done server-side.
If your city gets taken over then you're either forced back to your nearest city, or you are destroyed and are then allocated a new city near the edge of the procedurally generated map with some extra money etc depending on how well you did before you died.
Anyway, just thought I'd stick that out there and welcome myself at the same time. Let me know what you think, Personally I think there would be a lot of difficulties to overcome but the end result could be epic :D
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