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Microsoft offers view into ODF 1.1, Open XML implementations for Office 2007 SP2
Microsoft seems to be in the spirit of giving this holiday season.On Tuesday, the company released details about its implementation of Open Document Format 1.
By Paula Rooney for Linux and Open Source | December 17, 2008 -- 12:10 GMT (04:10 PST) | Topic: Developer
Microsoft seems to be in the spirit of giving this holiday season.
On Tuesday, the company released details about its implementation of Open Document Format 1.1 -- and Open XML -- for its forthcoming Office 2007 Service Pack 2, due early next year.
More specifically, the Redmond, Wash. software company has shed more light on its implementation decisions -- and variances on those decisions -- to assist in the integration process and provide to third party developers more information about additional data that is written into files. This information should allow developers to make their applications -- proprietary and open source -- more interoperable with Office 2007. The ODF 1.1 notes are available now. Information about Microsoft's Open XML (ECMA 376) will be available within weeks, Microsoft promises.
"This type of information enables developers to see which direction a vendor is taking and make informed decisions about their own efforts to interoperate, " according to a Microsoft statement about the documentation's release.
And this is what it says about the release of additional information written into files. "File format standards typically allow additional application-specific information (such as certain user customizations) to be written to file," Microsoft said. "By providing this information vendors allow developers to correctly interpret the additional data."
It's Redmond's latest gesture at providing more transparency and interoperatibility, as part of its sweeping Document Interoperability Initiative, announced last March just before the ISO anointed Microsoft's controversial Open XML as a standard.
Earlier this month, Microsoft released a viewer and translator designed to improve interoperability between OOXML documents and applications such as OpenOffice and Firefox.
Summing up these efforts are mere PR stunts for regulators would be a mistake, said one Microsoft platform executive at a dinner meeting recently.
Robert W Duffner, a former IBMer who nows serves as a senior director of platform strategy for Microsoft, emphasized that the last batch of goodies included a viewer that allows uses to view OOXML-based Microsoft Office documents from a web browser like Firefox or OpenOffice desktop -- without having Office installed. To him, it proves that Microsoft is opening up for real.
Developers have complained for years that Windows and Office are too closed and that the secret sauce to integration --the so-called hidden APIs -- never made it to documentation. More recently, ODF backers claimed that Microsoft's OOXML was too flawed to be conferred the status of a standard, and poorly documented.
We shall soon see if the new documentation is of any value to the open source world.
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LICENSING ACT 2003 APPLICATION FOR A PREMISES LICENCE
On the Pulse of Perfumery Ltd has applied to Cheshire East Council for a premises licence for Pulse of Perfumery, 25 Princess Street Knutsfbrd WA166BW So that the following Ifcensable activities may be provided on the following days and hours: The sale by retail of alcohol (for consumption on the premises): Mon-Sat 10.00 to 2100 Sun 11.00 to 1&00 Trie application may be viewed in full by appointment, during normal office hours at: The Licensing Section, Municipal Buildings, Earie Street, Crewe, CW1 2BJ. Any representations for or against the application must be made in writing and received by The Licensing Section at the above address, by no later than the 10th April 2018. Individuals, businesses and other bodies may make representations in relation to the application. Representations must be relevant and can only be on the licensing objectives of the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, the prevention of public nuisance, and the protection of children from harm. Copies of all representations will be sent to the applicant Persons making representations may have to appear at the Councils' Licensing Sub-Committee. Note: It is an offence, liable on conviction to a fine up to £5,000 for a person to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with the application. Mark Worthington Licensing Consulant www.worttiingtonsls.co.Ji
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Bredesen holds event at Nissan Stadium, speaks on migrant caravan
Posted: Oct 28, 2018 / 03:34 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 28, 2018 / 03:35 AM CDT
For 20 years now, the Titans and Predators have competed on the biggest stages.
Former governor and current Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen celebrated the achievement Saturday. It was under Bredesen that the teams came to Nashville.
Just days away from the election, Bredesen spoke on a number of issues, including the migrant caravan bound for the U.S. border.
An attack ad by Bredesen’s opponent, Republican Marsha Blackburn, highlights Bredesen’s previous comments that the U.S. is the world’s strongest country and “a few thousand very poor people” aren’t a threat to our security.
“A caravan of a few thousand poor people without weapons, working their way slowly toward the southern border of the strongest country in the world, is not some huge national emergency like suddenly Russia decided to threaten us with nuclear weapons or something. Let’s just keep this stuff in context, let’s just handle it in a smart way,” said Bredesen.
Republican Marsha Blackburn will hold an event Sunday and News 2 will be there as well.
by Valencia Wicker / Jan 15, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As Metro Public Health works to execute their roll out plan for the COVID-19 vaccination, some are reporting a lack of correspondence from the department in trying to nail down an appointment.
"It hasn't been an easy feat," said Delbrita Greene, owner of Premier Funeral and Cremation Services. "I have literally had to call so many people from the health department… and, I have literally gotten the run around."
TWRA: Crews searching for missing boater on Chickamauga Reservoir
by WKRN Web Staff / Jan 16, 2021
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - Emergency crews with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency are searching for a missing boater on Chickamauga Reservoir near the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant.
The TWRA says calls of an overturned boat with three boaters in the water came in around 4:30 p.m. central time Friday.
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Directors' Intent
Coming from different backgrounds, countries and with different motors of motivation the three directors found eachother to make the documentary ‘WOOD’.
There was Monica’s urge to speak out about the huge Romanian forest problem, about poor transilvanian farmers who do whatever they can to make a living in this transitional period after the fall of the communist regime. The fact that the main motor in this disaster were mainly Austrian companies which grabbed the opportunities of cheap land and a corrupt bureaucracy to establish a kind of WILD EAST CAPITALISM was Ebba’s motivation to participate in developing WOOD. It indeed was a handful of Austrian companies who actually fuelled the extent of the clear cuttings by paying better prices after having built huge saw mills for processing immense quantities of wood. Ebba and Michaela met during the production of a different documentary project. After having done the short film about Sasha von Bismarck, who went undercover before to reveal forest crimes, Michaela felt that his work should be shared with a wider audience. We all believed that Sasha and his NGO would have the potential to interfere in this mess and to provoke political change in Romania. We described the situation to them. They were interested and got involved. That’s how our film began.
Director Monica Lazurean-Gorgan is coming from deep rural Romania, a village in the North of Transylvania, where her grandparents were very religious and hard working people. She writes:
“One day, in the church, the prayers were desperately asking God to save their village. I was already away from the village, a student in Bucharest studying film directing, enjoying life and grasping for a new existence when my mom called and said that the hill near my grandparents’ house is about to fall on all the houses around. That hill was originally covered by an oak forest. But for some years then, the hill was empty because in that area, as in most of rural Romania, the forest is being cut at an unimaginable speed. Eventually my grandparents house was saved, but the house of Adi, my childhood friend, was half destroyed by floods and landslides. Adi is now working in a sawmill, sending logs to a big company that is buying big quantities of wood from Romania and exporting timber to many European countries. This is why I decided to make a film about the legal and illegal cutting and trade of wood. It is is dedicated to my childhood and to my village in the North.”
Director Michaela Kirst, who comes from a small town in West Germany and whose grandfather was a farmer and small forest owner in poor Nether-Bavaria writes:
“It was my grandfather, who owned a tiny farm and some small patches of wood in a poor part of Nether-Bavaria, who brought me to our small family forest every summer and ignited a deep love for trees and the complex life in forests by sharing his knowledge of nature with me. And coming from a catholic household in a small town in West Germany I was naturally infused with the idea of responsibility for gods creation. Which is still influencing my work as a documentary filmmaker: From my early work documentaries like ‘Jesus Loves You’, I realized that my passion as a filmmaker is to explore what drives people to leave their comfort zones and contribute to a greater cause. During my ten-year stay in NYC I was surprised to witness how civil society can operate in a super competitive environment driven by market forces, where self-promotion and selfoptimization are crucial components of any success. Getting to know our main protagonist Alexander von Bismarck, who – after his parents divorced – grew up sharing his time between Germany and the USA, I became especially interested in how he brought the idea of civic responsibility into this turbo-capitalist setting. While filming a first short documentary about his struggle against the timber cartels in China and Madagascar, I became fascinated by how he leveraged his unique secret agent approach of documenting environmental crimes to successfully lobby policymakers into meaningful changes of legislation. To me, seeing this, was a healthy antidote to the rather repulsive excesses of Western consumerist society spread around the world. While humanity fails on so many levels and the survival of the planet seems more and more at stake, I found in his approach and work a kind of optimism against all odds, which I felt an urge to share with a wider audience. ‘
Director Ebba Sinzinger, who has an urban background, writes:
‘I was born in Linz - the Austrian “steel” city Hitler had developed to become his “Führerstadt” and his place to retire. But I spent the summers with my brothers and sisters on a nearby granite mountain in the middle of pine tree woods. We were playing with the moss, picking berries and mushrooms, many mushrooms, because the summers were wet then and the rainy forest embraced us with a gorgeous smell. Intellectually I’ve always been interested in structural violence, in systems that make people suffer or do what they do. This is why I shot my first documentary TREASURES OF ETHIOPIA in the mountains of this war-ridden country in 1991, a couple of months after the communist regime had collapsed and the civil war had ended. On the one side we filmed hard working farmers who meticulously produced genetic diversity of wheat, barley and coffee while their kids were playing on stranded tanks, on the other side multinationals who disregarded the concept of farmers rights, and stole those genetic resources which have a huge impact for Western plant breeding. The Ethiopian farmers did not get any compensation for their work. What they received, if at all, is food aid as if they were nothing but poor victims of circumstances. In a three hour long interview the indian manager of Pioneer Hi-Bred in Addis Abeba disclosed his martial plans to us Europeans who he considered his equals. He bragged on how he will conquer Ethiopian agriculture and knock out the ignorant barbarians. We handed this document over to the new Ethiopian parliament as a tool they could use in “democratic” policy making and nation building. This taught me that while films might not be able to make a change, inconspicuous cut outs can be real treasures if used efficiently.
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DANCING WITH THE STARS – (ABC/Justin Stephens) CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
Here is the official statement that was released Monday morning:
“While rehearsing for the premiere of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ Christie Brinkley suffered injuries which required surgery to her wrist and arm. She is unable to continue her planned participation on the show. Keeping it all in the family, her daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook, a Sports Illustrated model, has chosen to quickly step in with hours to learn the entire routine and will compete in her mother’s place for the remainder of the season. We wish Christie a full and speedy recovery and look forward to seeing her in the audience, whenever possible, proudly supporting Sailor.”
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During the series premiere entitled, "Pilot", Jean, an empty-nester mom, wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides her place is with her family, and as she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need her more than they thought!
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOTV) - Tuesday night's episode of "The Bachelor" dove a little deeper into the personalities of all the women competing for Matt James' heart. The self-proclaimed "Queen" Victoria had fans ready to turn their TVs off, there was an intense game of paintball/capture the flag and the episode ended with Sarah taking a stumble and starting to black out. With the Rose Ceremony cut short, it's unsure as to which women will be sent home.
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Green Party National Women’s Caucus Bans Feminists from Discussion
Two women were banned from the NWC Listserv for attempting to discuss women’s sex-based rights
By Kerri Bruss
Feminists in the United States are increasingly finding themselves politically homeless. Of the two major political parties, one has made clear its intent to enshrine “gender identity” into federal civil rights law via the so-called Equality Act which as written, would completely negate the existing sex-based rights of women, while the other stands in opposition to the Act, though for what many consider to be the wrong reasons.
This dichotomy has led some left-leaning women to seek refuge in alternative parties such as the Green Party (GPUS) which, in addition to its commitments to grassroots democracy, social justice, ecology, and peace, also includes “feminism” among its 10 Key Values.
Yet for those of us who assert that a woman is an adult human female, and hold that women are oppressed based on their sex and reproductive capacity (as opposed to whatever sex-based stereotypes they do or do not adhere to) the GPUS has not been particularly welcoming. I would go so far as to say that we Greens with gender critical views, and even those who take no position in this debate but call for dialogue not expulsion as a preferred means of resolving political disputes, have been met with outright hostility in most GPUS spaces.
In mid-September of this year, I and Thistle Pettersen, feminists and Wisconsin Green Party members in good standing, joined the GPUS National Women’s Caucus (NWC) intending to generate support for the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, a document which reaffirms commitment to international standards on the rights of women and girls. On September 24, we each responded to a post contributed to the Work List of the NWC which advocated that the NWC host a workshop or panel discussion on what was termed “gender 101.” The workshop would in essence be further indoctrination into “gender identity” ideology, which is in direct contradiction to GPUS’ key value of feminism.
One caucus member diplomatically responded that perhaps a more open discussion that included all points of view on this topic might be more beneficial to the NWC and the Party as a whole. Thistle concurred and asked if caucus members were “familiar with the efforts of WoLF, FIST, and the WHRC USA to protect gender nonconformity while also protecting women’s sex-based rights.” I joined my sisters in their commentary and stated that, “I would very much like to see an open discussion ensue re: the sex-based rights of women and girls and how they are being negatively impacted in the current political climate.”
“I would very much like to see an open discussion ensue re: the sex-based rights of women and girls and how they are being negatively impacted in the current political climate.”
Considering we were contributing to the listserv of the NWC, we assumed that the perspectives of all female caucus members would be valued. We assumed that the NWC’s alleged “respect for diversity” also included respect and tolerance for diverse opinions, particularly in a political party that claims feminism as one of its 10 Key Values, and most importantly in an identity caucus that exists to engage women on issues of personal and political import to them as an oppressed sex class.
We apparently assumed wrong. Co-chair of the Women’s Caucus, Ann Link, immediately asserted that the mere mention of any organization that advocates for the sex-based rights of women “goes against” the Green Party platform plank which states:
“The Green Party affirms the right of all persons to self-determination with regard to gender identity and sex.”
It appears that Link’s stance is that because this particular platform plank exists, and because the NWC has issued a statement “affirming” this principle, (despite the fact that conflicting platform planks also exist that clearly support the rights of women, as well as the fact that the platform is a living document that changes over time), no party or caucus member is allowed to express an alternative point of view without being met with harassment, disparagement, doxxing, threats of violence—or other foul, well- documented, maneuvers intended to silence dissent—and eventual banishment from Green Party spaces, including the National Women’s Caucus.
Our suspicions were confirmed on October 11, when we received notice that Thistle and I had been, “removed from the National Women’s Caucus email list for violating caucus bylaw III.2 – respect for diversity and respect for NWC members.” The email further stated:
“This is because of a series of posts you sent initiating discussion on the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights and similar content, which denies that people should have the right of self-determination with regard to gender identity and sex. This right is supported by our platform and a statement approved by our caucus. These posts have created a threatening environment in our caucus, which should be a safe and supportive place for all our members.”
To be clear, what did not make for a “safe and supportive place” was simply “initiating discussion” on women’s sex-based rights. This is despite the fact that recent poll results show that an overwhelming majority of registered third-party voters support measures that the Declaration calls for, such as protecting women’s single-sex sports, prisons, and shelters.
We were also told that unless we recant our alleged heresy and promise to sin no more, we will not be reinstated to the listserv and would be officially removed from caucus membership—metaphorically burned at the stake. How this provides a “safe and supportive place” for women, lesbians, and those who don’t conform to sex-based stereotypes within the Green Party is unclear.
On October 27, Thistle and I published this open letter in response to our expulsion from the Women’s Caucus Work List. We find the co-chair’s stated position with regard to this matter to be invalid and we request that our full participation in the Work List for the National Women’s Caucus and hence our full participation in the business of this caucus be reinstated without delay and without conditions.
We maintain that defending the sex-based rights of women is not hate and that biology is not bigotry. We further maintain that “respect for diversity” also includes respect and tolerance for diverse opinions, particularly in a party that claims feminism as one of its 10 Key Values, and most importantly in an identity caucus that exists to engage women on issues of personal and political import to them as an oppressed sex class.
We join hundreds of other public signatories calling for “Dialogue Not Expulsion” in response to the silencing of feminist voices within the Green Party of the United States. Their statement reads:
“We ask that all member state parties, caucuses, candidates, and locals of the party take a step back from any suggestion that state organizations or their members be decertified, sanctioned, or silenced for positions they have adopted, or for concerns which they may have expressed on these important issues. We value decentralization, grassroots democracy, and a united Green Party—which will be especially important in this difficult election year. The political principles that unite us remain far more important than the questions where we clash, significant as those questions might be.”
If you are a member, volunteer, contributor or supporter of the GPUS, you can sign the Dialogue Not Expulsion statement (or sign the statement and also join the caucus) to show your support for allowing dialogue on issues affecting women here.
Green Party National Women’s Caucus Bans Feminists from Discussion first appeared on 4W.
It is republished here with permission.
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women and tagged Equality Act, Harms to Women, Kerri Bruss on November 8, 2020 by Guest Author.
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Push Progressives to Protect Women’s Sex-Based Rights: Sign the Petition
By Jeanne F. Neath
In February 2020, the Georgia Green Party endorsed the very feminist “Declaration of Women’s Sex-Based Rights.” Immediately, the LGBTQIA+ caucus of the Green Party (Lavender Caucus) called for the expulsion of the Georgia Greens from the Green Party of the United States. A group of Greens are now calling for democratic discussion about the issues involved in this conflict. If you are interested in getting progressives in the Green Party talking about gender critical and radical feminist perspectives, you can sign the petition sponsored by Greens for Dialogue Not Expulsion. You do not need to be a member of the Green Party to sign.
What Did the Georgia Greens Do?
What is going on between the Georgia Greens and the Lavender Caucus? At their February meeting, the Georgia Greens modified their platform stating that policy makers should find nuanced approaches that can both protect trans-identified individuals and protect the sex-based rights of women. Among other changes, their Human Rights plank now concludes:
“The Georgia Green Party here endorses the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, as developed and publicized by the Women’s Human Rights Campaign, and encourage our members, our national party, policy makers and the general public to do the same. We will regulate access to gender-affirming therapies to protect Georgia children from medical experimentation, prosecuting ethical violations involved with subjecting children incapable of fully informed consent to such life-changing and irreversible procedures. We will protect women and girls from unfair competition in sports by male bodied athletes. We will protect girls and women in the enjoyment of female-only facilities, programs, or services, particularly in places where women have a need to be in a state of undress, or where their privacy may be compromised or their safety may be at risk from male-pattern violence.”
Lavender Greens Go Over the Edge
As you might expect, the Lavender Greens were a bit ticked off! On February 28th in an “Open Letter to the National Committee of the Green Party of the United States” this LGBTQIA+ caucus argued that the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights would “force children to undergo permanent physical changes that exacerbate their dysphoria, inflicting trauma that could last the rest of their lives.” (Note that the “permanent physical changes the Lavender Greens are concerned about are those of going through a natural puberty!) The Lavender Greens go on to say they can’t “stand by while one of our state parties aligns itself with a hate group.” (And now note that the “hate group” they are speaking of is the Women’s Human Rights Campaign.) The Lavender Greens demand that the Georgia Greens:
Rescind its endorsement of the Declaration of Women’s Sex-Based Rights.
Apologize to transgender and gender nonconforming members of the Green Party and commit to “centering trans people who have the relevant experience and are directly affected by gender affirmation policy before issuing a statement.”
Commit to educating themselves and their membership about the necessity of gender affirmation to protect the lives of trans youth and trans adults. Any member of the Green Party of Georgia Coordinating Committee who does not undergo this training must resign.
The Lavender Caucus called on national Green Party to disaccredit and disavow the Georgia Green Party unless that party grovelled as requested and met all three demands.
Georgia Greens: No Way!
A letter on April 7th from the Georgia Greens to Dario Hunter provides a look at the unfolding conflict. Hunter is the delegate of the Lavender Caucus to the Green National Committee. He is also seeking the 2020 Green Party presidential nomination. Although Hunter published a video condemning the Georgia Greens, he still felt he could propose a “reconciliation retreat.” The Georgia Greens found Hunter’s terms unacceptable, replying:
“The private nature of the conversation you have framed, and its stated design to limit participation to a handful of participants seem better designed to browbeat and reeducate the single spokesperson of the Georgia Green Party your proposal invited to this reconciliation retreat; or at best to engage him in an ad hoc group therapy session to assuage the hurt feelings of Lavender Caucus leadership over our refusal to comply with an ideology we understand as destructive to the rights of women and children.”
The Georgia Greens described the hostility directed toward them by the Lavender Caucus, including “incessant namecalling,” sexist slurs, actual threats of violence, and efforts to silence and censor their voices on social media channels of the Green Party. They note that:
“Many folks, including those far beyond Georgia, have noted that the often heated exchanges in party channels on this subject seem to be driven by the hostility of people who demonstrate no familiarity with the document we endorsed, and which they dismiss as hateful, bigoted and transphobic.”
In their letter to Hunter, the Georgia Greens invite discussion of the Declaration of Women’s Sex-Based Rights, and especially a written critique from the Lavender Caucus.
“We welcome an opportunity to participate in dialogue on the issues raised by the Platform amendment which has been the subject of this recent controversy. But we would prefer to do so with people who have actually read the language we have adopted, and the document we have endorsed, not just the hyperbole and derogatory misinformation being spread about it.”
Georgia Greens call for engagement of the entire Green Party on the issues raised by this conflict:
“Georgia Greens feel many in our party might benefit from a Feminism 101 refresher course, a reminder that feminism, as bell hooks taught us, is ‘a movement to end the sexist oppression of women’. We believe it is important to remind ourselves that as feminists, we understand gender as a social construct and a tool for the patriarchal oppression of women; that we see gender not so much as a spectrum but more of a hierarchy which limits the lives of both women and men; that as feminists it is our job to abolish not celebrate gender…”
Greens for Dialogue Not Expulsion: Sign Their Petition
A new caucus of the Green Party, Greens for Dialogue Not Expulsion, has formed to support the Georgia Greens and promote democratic discussion on issues such as sex, gender, gender identity and women’s sex-based rights among the Greens and their supporters. The Greens for Dialogue Not Expulsion Caucus has already issued an invitation to Dario Hunter and the Lavender Caucus to discuss these issues through a public forum and a well-moderated online discussion bulletin.
To support and promote these discussions you can sign their petition. You don’t have to be a member of the Green Party to sign. There is also an option to join the Greens for Dialog Not Expulsion caucus if you want to be more involved. Expect to work with a wide variety of people having a wide variety of opinions if you do join the caucus.
Having a large number of signatories on this petition is important to getting the Green Party to take these issues seriously. I see influencing progressives to understand gender critical and radical feminist thought regarding sex, gender, gender identity and women’s sex-based rights as a top priority and this is a chance to impact the conversation taking place in a national and progressive political party.
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women and tagged Harms to Women, Jeanne Neath, Transgender Movement on May 3, 2020 by Jeanne Neath.
Trans Ideology: The Newest “Trojan Horse”!
by Paula Mariedaughter
The Trojan Horse is one of history’s most famous tricks. The Greeks were laying siege to the city of Troy, and the war had dragged on for ten years. The Greeks built a wooden horse, which they left outside the city. The Trojans believed the horse was a peace offering and dragged it inside their city. Later the Greek soldiers, hidden in the horse, killed the guards and opened the city gates to their army. The war was won with this clever trick.
Browsing at my library, I found this book, Misogyny: The New Activism by Gail Ukockis (Oxford University Press 2019). Both curious and wary I brought it home. I was wise to be wary. Much of her anaysis of sexism is quite valuable. But, reader, beware! Read her words and note her strong bias, evident when she willingly refers to gender-critical feminists as TERFS!
“Trans issues were weird to me as a child, and it took me years to develop enough knowledge and sensitivity to become a trans advocate. Hopefully, my story proves that positive change is possible. Gloria Steinem also went through a similar change of heart regarding trans women. In 1977, she had publicly attacked Renee Richards as a ‘frightening instance of what feminism could lead to’ and “living proof that feminism isn’t necessary”. She asked, ‘If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?’ She even praised the book Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male in 1983. Today, though she is a strong advocate of trans rights. Some of my readers may be trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFS) who believe that trans women are not “real” women. However, I posit that it is a human rights issue for people to claim their own gender (or nongender) identity.” p.224
This is followed by three pages of glossary of “Terms and Issues” all from the trans-inclusive perspective! We know the trans ideology is ubiquitous! Young lesbians report having been involved in the queer/trans community and have put aside their own doubts and questions in the name of “inclusiveness.” Young lesbians are not encouraged to read earlier feminist writings and to then decide for themselves. (Note: Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, edited by Barbara A. Crow, would be a valuable place to start because it is comprised of pivotal documents written by U.S. radical feminists in the 1960s and 1970s.)
This author describes herself as an educator and a social worker. She has taught a course on Women’s Issues for over a decade and authored a textbook, Women’s Issues for a New Generation: A Social Work Perspective. Young people are continually exposed to the misogyny of instructors and texts that pretend that biological females are irrelevant in any definition of woman. She is educating with a strong anti-radical feminist bias! She dares to write a book about misogyny that will please the patriarchial institutions which published it and who will then use it to instruct young people. Let’s remember that her livelihood in academia depends on her endorsement of the trans ideology.
I see the acceptance of the trans ideology as a modern “Trojan horse”! One source explains that a “Trojan horse” is anything that looks innocent but, once accepted, has power to harm or destroy. In a similar vein, the Trojan horse effect is described as any disastrous result of an anticipated gain; or, the masking of a dangerous agent within an innocent garb.
The “innocent garb” here is the pretense of inclusiveness. Women and Lesbians who value women’s spaces and organizations and festivals are denigrated, threatened and dismissed. Our thoughts and feelings are not considered worthy of “inclusion”. Perhaps with enough “knowledge and sensitivity” (as the book author said earlier about her conversion), the woman-hating of the trans ideology will become clear and that awareness will create the next generation of trans critical feminists.
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women, Uncategorized on September 8, 2019 by Paula Mariedaughter.
Sign the Open Letter to PantheaCon in Solidarity with Max Dashu
From Max Dashu:
Join us in signing this statement opposing no-platforming, defamation and intimidation, forged by a council that began meeting after I was banned from the Witches Confluence and PantheaCon conferences last year. These purges were in turn fueled by smears spread after the hounding of old lesbians at the SF Dyke March last June. You can read the whole statement at the link, and I hope you’ll sign and share it, helping form a new consensus that misogynist bullying, sexist insults and character assassination are unacceptable. Here’s the bottom line takeaway:
“It is urgent for us to dialogue with each other in good faith. We cannot afford not to, under the current direness the world is facing—the attacks on human rights, on the Earth, and all living beings. We need a coalition more than ever before. This cannot be accomplished by demonizing, name-calling, or by sowing fear and intimidation. We seek justice for everyone, across all the axes of oppression. To do so, we need to re-learn what the ancients knew: how to hold council on a foundation of mutual respect.”
See the full text and sign the petition.
Posted by Jeanne Neath
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women on April 7, 2019 by Jeanne Neath.
OMNI Center Claims To Be “Fair”? Apparently Lesbians and Women Don’t Count
By Jeanne Neath
In 2017 the OMNI Center in Fayetteville Arkansas and the Goddess Festival de-platformed the XX Amazons, Paula, Susan and Jeanne, preventing us from giving our workshop on “The Disappearing L – Lesbians Rise Up”. This was the result of transactivists and their supporters protesting the workshop. (See “The Story of the Goddess Festival” for details of the de-platforming and our resistance.) A few days ago I received the OMNI Center’s weekly newsletter touting itself and its members on their fairness: “You and your neighbors are right here, working our tail ends off to make the world FAIR, FREE and HEALTHY.” OMNI always advertises itself as the “Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology.”
I find OMNI’s continued absolute favoritism toward the transgender community difficult to stomach on an ordinary day, but this kind of self-congratulatory lie coming from a group that is so unfair and unjust made me angry enough to email the OMNI director and OMNI Board of Directors the following statement.
Jeanne Neath’s Letter to the OMNI director and Board
OMNI is not doing everything it can to make the world “fair, free and healthy” (as you pretend to be at the top of your recent newsletter) when OMNI will not even allow women-only groups to meet at OMNI and you host a so-called Goddess Festival that silences and excludes radical feminist voices. OMNI has taken sides in the conflict between transactivists vs lesbians and all the many women who want and need women only space. This is an incredibly unfair position.
I don’t think the OMNI board has a clue as to what a woman hating and lesbian hating position it has taken (or if they do understand, then I am even more appalled at OMNI’s behavior). I suggest that OMNI educate itself on the harm that transactivists and their supporters are creating or at least stop pretending to “work its tail off” to make the world fair. Women only space is an essential prerequisite for a women’s liberation movement to exist. OMNI is acting to prevent the liberation of women and at the same time pretending to be fair. Pretty appalling!
Lesbians attacked at 2018 San Francisco Dyke March.
For starters, I suggest you inform yourselves about the attacks by transactivists on lesbians at the 2018 San Francisco Dyke March. (See the accompanying image showing what happened to a lesbian’s sign at the SF Dyke March which said “You can’t silence us with violence. Resist Lesbian Erasure.”) I also suggest reading the blogs (including one about the SF Dyke March) and other materials on xxamazons.org, reading relevant materials on feministcurrent.com, and reading the book Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett and now available at the Fayetteville Public Library. There is no excuse for OMNI Board members to be informed only by the transactivist political perspective!
I don’t particularly want to hear back from you about this correspondence until OMNI is prepared to start making things right in its policies and practices toward women. I would appreciate an invitation for women’s groups to once again be able to hold women-only events at OMNI (and women-only means no “transwomen”). I am still waiting for a real apology from OMNI regarding the events around the 2017 Goddess Festival.”
Jeanne Neath, Former OMNI Board Member
OMNI Director Responds
The director of the OMNI Center responded in a semi-private, personal email to me saying only that she was sorry I was badly hurt. This was not an official OMNI response. I have no idea if the OMNI Board of Directors will even read or discuss my communication to them or respond in any way.
However, members of a local group of women who are resisting transactivist domination and fighting for women only space jumped into the fray with their own comments to the OMNI director.
Darlene Clubb writes to the OMNI director
What kind of response is this? This is a dismissal in my opinion. Please do not lay this at Jeanne’s feet like she is some isolated, wounded individual. From where I stand, OMNI has totally been positioning itself in support of the trans view of reality and appears to have dropped all pretense of concern or interest in the issues raised by lifelong lesbians and radical feminists concerning serious violence against women and the destruction of women’s legal standing/rights that the trans ideology poses. Billionaires are funding the trans agenda. Billionaires from corporate, pharmaceutical dynasties are funding think tanks that are designing and coordinating this homophobic and misogynistic social engineering project that is having devastating effects on lesbians and women’s very basic concerns in general (such as the ownership of the legal term “woman”, issues concerning birth and midwifery, menstruation,etc.)
Paula Mariedaughter’s comments to the OMNI director
Your crass dismissal of Jeanne’s concerns is an indication of your own loyalties. The war on women includes the war on women only spaces! Omni is a collaborator in the efforts to silence women and our strong political differences with all of you so ready to redefine woman.
In Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett, she wrote, “Political disagreement is an opportunity for discourse that is part of a free society, and should be encouraged. When any questions or concerns are written off as hate speech, bigotry or ‘transphobia’, discourse cannot take place.” This is the situation here in Fayetteville, Arkansas where your “fair-minded” organization refuses to sponsor any opportunity for discourse that differs from your political decision to support trans activist’s version of reality.
“As part of the conservative backlash, segments of the left have shifted away from political and structural analysis of oppression and injustice, towards an individualistic politics whose primary demand is for the recognition and validation of individual identities. Gender becomes an identity based on an internal set of feelings that must be believed and accepted without question, and that is unrelated to biological sex. They claim that one set of traits is inherently masculine and another set of traits is inherently feminine, and our identity is dependent on how we align with those traits. Gender identity is seen as innate, and being transgender is entirely a matter of self‑identification. They do not see gender in our patriarchal society as a hierarchical construct of a male supremacy.” This is a quote from Pelican Lee written on the XX Amazons website.
We will not be silenced by the exclusions and expulsions and the threats. Women and girls, our children and our grandchildren are depending on us women!
Linda Barnes writes to the OMNI director
The fact that we are even having to discuss who is a woman is really unbelievable to me. A man can never be a woman and vice versa. We know that is biologically impossible. The confusion seems to be with the word sex and gender. A person may change their appearance to look like a woman (in some cases) because society says a woman should look and dress a certain way and men should look and dress a certain way, but that is not sex, that is gender straitjacketing. We know from the beginning of time there was a man and a woman because otherwise there would not have been anyone else. So we know there are two sexes, but race has been a social construct, yet when Rachel Dolezal tried to present herself as a black person and was found out to be white, she was removed from her job and highly criticized for trying to cross a racial barrier. And, yes, blacks have been and still are an oppressed race, but women have been oppressed and held back and their long history of matriarchy almost erased from history. The black man got the vote before women did. And yet the left and the many trans sympathizers seem to have no problem with men saying they are women. Yes, let them go into women’s bathrooms and changing areas, even though most of them still have penises. They are now trying to develop uteri to implant into male bodies so they can have children. The midwifery is eliminating mother from their vocabulary and using birthing parent instead. Have you read “Female Erasure”?
Here is a quote from Jenn Smith, a male to trans person, “It is my contention that young people today are being brainwashed and turned into Orwellian servants of the state for a much larger agenda. It has been suggested by others that the assault on sexual distinctions and on the perception of basic biological reality is part of a game to give absolute power to the state in the interpretation of reality itself. If the state can force people to admit that men are women, they can force them to believe anything. War is peace. Slavery is freedom. Men are women. All of these are equally contradictory.” I truly believe there is much more to this trans movement than we know and it is really scary. Have you questioned how this has come about so fast and tracked down where the money is coming from? Many lesbians and gays feel that the T should be removed from LGBT because they are just out for themselves and care nothing about gays or lesbians, except to try to force lesbians to have sex with the male to trans so they can feel more validated.
I think you and Omni are going to be on the wrong side of history when this mess gets straightened out. When people try to change the very definition of half of the world’s inhabitants then they are trying to distort reality itself. If the trans people had really wanted to be non-controversial they should have called themselves what Ruth Barrett suggested, “gender non-conforming men, a no less sacred expression of humanity.
Jeanne Neath Sends a Second Communication to OMNI
After reflecting on the OMNI director’s condescending response and the obvious ignorance of the OMNI Board about gender critical thought, I decided to send a second communication in an attempt to educate the OMNI leaders about just how deadly the transgender ideology they are supporting is.
Jeanne’s second communication to the OMNI Director and OMNI Board:
Everyone – women, lesbians, “transgender” people, OMNI, you and me – is being seriously harmed by the misunderstandings about sex and gender that transactivists are proclaiming as a truth that no one is allowed to question. OMNI is not doing itself, or anyone else, including “transgender” people, a kindness by unthinkingly subscribing to an inaccurate view of reality AND silencing the women who have legitimate criticisms of the transactivist position on sex and gender. What does it mean for OMNI and you, its director, an organization and woman concerned about justice, about “fairness”, to take sides in a conflict between oppressed groups and act to silence lesbians, radical feminists and me, a former OMNI board member with over forty years of experience as a feminist activist investigating the problem of sex and gender in patriarchal society? Every day you and OMNI continue on this misogynist path you are on and then congratulate yourselves on how “fair” and just you are, you stray further and further from your mission of “justice.”
“Gender,” the sex-typed behaviors and characteristics society trains males and females to perform, is constructed by society. The behaviors considered masculine and feminine change over time within a society. Do you think that girls were showered with pink clothes and toys one or two hundred years ago in this society? Gender is set up differently in different societies around the world too. The transgender movement is built around the notion that people have an innate, biological “gender identity,” but this is impossible because what is masculine and feminine is set up by each society. Do you think that our foremothers living in gathering and hunting societies over the millenia prior to the development of agriculture wore pink? But, more important, do you think OMNI should be silencing women who want to talk about gender and the ways that patriarchal societies use gender to maintain male power over women?
People who identify as “transgender” are being terribly hurt by their own movement and ideology. Feminists have fought for decades to eliminate the constrictions of gender for everyone. Since gender has been created by society, society has the power to do away with gender and free girls and boys, men and women from being forced into harmful sex roles. But, transgender ideology insists that gender (and “gender identity”) is not changeable and that, instead of changing (eliminating) the social institution of gender, the people who are unhappy with the gender prescribed for their biological sex must become transgender. This would not be problematic – many lesbians, for example, identify as butch and act in so-called masculine ways – but the transgender movement advocates changing one’s body to correspond to (socially constructed) gender (as well as confusing sex and gender and appropriating – stealing – the identity of being a woman). Because trans ideology is supported by progressive organizations like OMNI, by powerful national non-profit organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, and by obscenely wealthy individuals, many of whom are tied to the pharmaceutical industry, being transgender has become “cool” and more and more children and young people are identifying as transgender, especially girls and young women. Many of these children and young people are taking hormone blockers and hormones and having irreversible surgeries to remove breasts, testicles and to reshape genitals. Children are being sterilized and given off label drugs with unknown long-term effects. When OMNI supports the transgender movement and silences lesbians, silences radical feminists, silences me, OMNI supports all of these dangerous, often irreversible medical treatments and the sterilization of children, children who probably would outgrow their desire to become “transgender” (a likelihood demonstrated by the scientific evidence).
______, you were seriously off-track in your comment about being sorry I am (supposedly) hurting so badly. Stop trying to dismiss my concerns! OMNI took a serious wrong turn when it bowed to pressures by transactivists and their supporters to de-platform Susan, Paula and me at the 2017 Goddess Festival for our workshop on the “Disappearing L – Lesbians Rise Up”. Your attempt to have a “dialogue” group to bring transgender people and gender critical women into discussion was deeply biased from the start when you selected two trans supporters who were completely ignorant of gender critical thought as moderators. I am asking the OMNI director and OMNI board members to educate yourselves about gender critical/radical feminist perspectives and to make reparations to the women and lesbians you have silenced. Making space at OMNI for women to hold publicized women-only events (that exclude “transwomen”) is a necessary part of these reparations. I, personally, would like a real apology from OMNI once your organization has educated itself enough to understand the great harm you have done to women, to lesbians, to the people who identify as transgender, and to everyone else who is being harmed day in and day out by the pressures to conform to “gender” prescriptions
I am proud of all the women in northwest Arkansas and at XX Amazons who are resisting the silencing of women, transgender ideology, and transactivist attacks. We stand together fighting these patriarchal forces attempting to control women.
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women, Trans Gender Critical on August 19, 2018 by Jeanne Neath.
Domination by Trans Rights Activists at Dyke March in San Fransciso
Twelve old lesbians marching in the June 23, 2018 San Francisco Dyke March were verbally harassed and two of them physically assaulted by transgender rights supporters. Instead of supporting the lesbians being harassed, both the Dyke March and the National Center for Lesbian Rights are falsely claiming that the old lesbians were the ones acting in a threatening and violent manner. As I understand it, the dyke marches across the country have been largely taken over by persons who are not lesbians. How has this happened?
Bats carried at marches by the Degenderettes, an international transactivist group active in San Francisco. Local chapters of the Degenderettes are forming.
In her XX Amazons’ blog last week, Paula Mariedaughter described how “Lesbians [are] Not Welcome at a Women’s Center started by Lesbian Feminists.” That unnamed women’s center in Fayetteville, Arkansas is under the spell of lesbian trans supporters who have abandoned lesbian feminist politics in favor of the transgender politics of so-called “inclusion.”
So far, the board of directors there is all female and may be all lesbian. Some board members support women only space, but are unable to allow women only events due to the power of the trans supporting faction (and the fear of attack on the center by transactivists and their liberal, progressive, and “feminist” supporters). It looks to me like the Fayetteville center is in the early stages of losing its female and lesbian identity and sliding into trans domination. If they are successful in becoming increasingly “inclusive” it may just be a matter of time until lesbians who value women only space are purposefully excluded from the board and a male to transgender person is invited to join the board. Read Paula’s blog for more details of the situation there.
I believe this process of liberal lesbian trans supporters gaining increasing sway over a lesbian organization, adopting a policy and politics of “inclusion”, welcoming transgender persons into the organization, and, finally, welcoming male to transgender persons who claim to be lesbians onto the board of directors has become commonplace. Once this process has been completed, what was once a lesbian organization begins to put the interests of transactivists front and center. If the lesbian organization is considered a valuable enough target, powerful forces from outside the organization may become involved, perhaps training transactivists to infiltrate the organization’s board, providing advice on strategy, or supplying funding.** Some are calling this kind of trans takeover a “transjacking”. Whoops, there goes another piece of our once thriving lesbian culture!
Male to transgender persons are not only appropriating our identity as women, but are stealing our organizations.
Male to transgender persons are not only appropriating our identity as women, but are stealing our organizations. Many women and lesbians are doing our best to stop these thefts. Awareness of what is transpiring is a key part of our resistance.
We offer below links to several personal accounts by lesbians of what happened to them at the San Francisco Dyke March, the Women’s Liberation Front’s (WOLF’s) open letter to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and a link to a Change.org petition from one of the women whose sign was torn up by the trans rights activists at the San Francisco Dyke March (see photo below).
WOLF’s open letter to the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) demands that the organization retract its slanderous and false allegations against the 12 lesbians who were harassed at the 2018 San Francisco Dyke March. In a classic reversal, “demonstrating a stunning degree of anti-lesbian bias”, NCLR falsely claimed that the lesbian marchers had “chanted transphobic slogans and violently harassed and threatened other marchers.”
See Max Dashu’s account of what happened at the San Francisco Dyke March. Max Dashu writes: “All of the old lesbians in our group were quickly surrounded, subjected to chants of “TERFs go home!” and blasted with hatefulness for the entire course of the march. Young queers berated, hounded, and crowded in on us. Most of them refused to speak with us, only glaring, chanting, and screaming.”
In “Young Women Attack Dykes their Grandma’s Age” Lavenderjoan writes: “It was a nightmare scenario. Imagine the Lavender Menace meets Lord of the Flies. Twenty-something participants in the Dyke March swooped down on our small contingent of old lesbians like crazed predators thirsty for blood…”
Here is Sherri Golden’s petition calling for The San Francisco Dyke March, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Bay Area Reporter to retract their “defamatory and libelous statements” claiming that the lesbian victims of threatening and violent behaviors by trans rights activists were instead the attackers. See Sherri Golden and what happened to the sign she carried saying “You can’t silence us with violence – Resist lesbian erasure” in the photo below.
** Interview with Mary Lou Singleton, Women’s Liberation Radio News Edition 16 transcript
** Sue Donym, Inauthentic Selves: The modern LGBTQ+ Movement Is Run By Philanthropic Astroturf And Based On Junk Science
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women and tagged Jeanne Neath, Lesbian space on August 12, 2018 by Jeanne Neath.
Response to the Exclusion of Max Dashu from the Modern Witches Confluence
By Chelsea Byrd
Thank you for making the effort to create this amazing event. I understand that you have been unexpectedly caught off guard by the political state currently transpiring in the LGBTQ and feminist communities. I am writing to you as a member of the witch/pagan community, a feminist, and a member of the LGBTQ community. I have been an active participant in each of these communities for about 25 years, since I was 15 years old. I came out as a witch slightly before I came out as bisexual, which was before I came out as a lesbian. I have always thought of myself as a feminist, but what I know, think, and feel about feminism is constantly changing and evolving.
Please consider that you have jumped to conclusions by blackballing Max Dashu. The argument against feminists is not as clear-cut as it may seem when you are only listening to one sensationalistic side of the story.
There are actually a lot of reasons why various people consider themselves to be radical feminists, or allies. And there is solid reasoning why this feels threatening to some trans activists. The primary issue of safety in this community is that the law requires a black and white categorization of the definition of male and female. Currently, at a legal level, sex has been completely conflated and replaced with gender. This is a win for trans activists who want trans women to get to go to women’s prisons, and play women sports, etc. However, the other side of the story is that this means that there are no longer any external indicators of who or what a woman is.
Currently, legally, anyone is a woman who says that they are. The result of this is that males are competing in women’s sports against females, and male rapists and murderers are occupying female prisons. From the standpoint of feminism this is a threat to women’s rights and safety. It is true that radical feminists want males to be excluded from women’s sports and women’s prisons. This is a complicated topic that still has years worth of work in progress needed.
XX Amazons’ Who Is a Woman Brochure is available for download.
The perspective of feminists is that it is unsafe for men to be the ones who say what a woman is. Currently, legally, if a man gets convicted of a crime and doesn’t want to go to men’s prison, he can just say that he is a woman and he will get to go to women’s prison. There are documented examples of men being kind of bad at sports, not having the skills to compete at a men’s level, so joining women’s teams, claiming to be trans women. There are many documented cases of males in women’s prisons, and trans women committing acts of violence against women.
In an attempt to keep trans women safe, the term TERF has been codified, in order to target and attack any woman perceived as a threat to the legal replacement of the category “sex” (male/female) with the category “gender” (self-identified man/woman.) The results of this have been real world physical violence, where lesbians and feminists have been punched, pushed down, and beaten up. Lesbians and feminists have also been fired from their jobs, not for doing anything wrong, but for having the opinion that sex is still a category of oppression in America. And lesbians and feminists have been denied venues for performances and academic presentations.
The most common exclusionary act that supposed terfs commit is being lesbian. Lesbianism is considered an exclusionary sexuality. It is frequently said that having a sexual preference is thinly veiled transphobia, and sexual preferences actually do not exist.
When you removed Max from your conference, you cited that you had not done your research or realized that she is a “terf”. TERF is an acronym for “trans exclusionary radical feminist.” The most common exclusionary act that supposed terfs commit is being lesbian. Lesbianism is considered an exclusionary sexuality. It is frequently said that having a sexual preference is thinly veiled transphobia, and sexual preferences actually do not exist.
It is unfounded slander to consider somebody to be violent or hateful without any evidence to support that allegation. Lesbians and radical feminists are not performing acts of violence against trans women. Max has never done anything to harm or exclude any trans person from anything. Trans activists are commonly saying that it is the equivalent of actual violence to have the “exclusionary” sexual preference of lesbianism, or to hold the political ideology of radical feminism. Without intending to or realizing it, you have upheld this targeted attack against lesbian radical feminists. This is not ok. You’re being used as a tool to yield darkness and damage, against an extremely marginalized, extremely small community.
In very short order people are going to realize that terf is a misogynistic slur, it is the equivalent of the new McCarthyism.
I understand that you run an incredible risk if you choose to stand on Max’s side, because there are more and louder trans activists speaking up at this point in history. However, in very short order people are going to realize that terf is a misogynistic slur, it is the equivalent of the new McCarthyism. Any woman can be called a terf at any time for any reason, and if a woman is outed as a radical feminist she can lose her job, housing, and live with constant threats of actual physical violence.
Please do your research, and tread carefully as you move forward. I know you are a small organization, but please do not set the precedent of harming women by denying them a livelihood for being feminist lesbians. Please take this opportunity to support women’s basic human rights, rather than pandering to bullies who are threatening, committing, ignoring, denying, and excusing violence against women.
Thank you very much for your time,
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women and tagged Silencing on August 11, 2018 by Guest Author.
Lesbians Not Welcome at a Women’s Center started by Lesbian Feminists!
Lesbians Not Welcome at a Women’s Center started by Lesbian Feminists! How could this be? This local women’s center in Fayetteville, AR began three decades ago. It was funded, in part by a lesbian organization, the Lesbian Natural Resources.
Here is an excerpt from the Fayetteville public radio program describing the organization in an interview on June 3, 2015. The “intentional retirement village for elder lesbians and women in rural Madison County, conceptualized thirty years ago, is finally being established–but as a senior women’s community center in Fayetteville.”
Two years later, The Gayly newspaper on October 1, 2017 in an interview with the manager of that community center declared that the organization “has come to be an inclusive retreat for people of varying genders/orientations”.
However, lesbians and feminists who wish to have women only meetings or events are rejected based on our desire to experience women only groups. For over a year, many of us have tried to work with the board of directors. We are denied meeting space because we do not wish to include male to trans persons as women. We are considered noninclusive and our position is considered unacceptable. Therefore the board of directors continues to deny us women only meetings. The lesbians and women who support the claims of men to be women refuse to see our stance as a legitimate political disagreement.
In Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett, she wrote, “Political disagreement is an opportunity for discourse that is part of a free society, and should be encouraged. When any questions or concerns are written off as hate speech, bigotry or ‘transphobia’, discourse cannot take place.” This is the situation we are facing as members of that un-named organization here in Fayetteville, Arkansas!
Early last February, several member women who want space for women only events spoke about our strong desire to use this facility to meet with like-minded women. We attended the organization’s annual meeting, but we entered a hostile environment that night.
Proud to be women identified and women centered!
This is my statement to the board and the members at the annual meeting:
Discrimination as Boundaries
I am a lesbian. I came out in 1973. Choosing to be with women is the best decision I have ever made. Being a lesbian means I discriminate against men every day of my life. I do not wish my life to be dominated by the needs and desires of men.
For forty-five years I’ve lived as a dyke. I am a gender non-conforming woman! I am proud to call myself a Radical Lesbian Feminist. At times, I have been considered too “femme” by some of my dyke friends. At the same time, I have been considered too “butch” by the straight world. My desire is to live as my authentic self. I want this for everyone. Socially enforced “femininity” and “masculinity” are straight-jackets meant to restrict all of us.
I cannot accept the view that there are people born in the wrong body. The biological fact of being born female or being born male is based in physical reality. Discomfort with the roles assigned to each sex is a healthy rebellion to sex role stereotypes, otherwise known as “gender.” The world view of people pushing transgendering as a solution to the oppression of sex roles is a dangerous concept — especially for young people.
I understand that others have embraced another world view. I do not condemn those people. I am an advocate for peaceful coexistence. Women like me, who want to meet in women only space, must be respected. We will resist every effort to allow men to claim womanhood for themselves. Male domination is central to patriarchy. Men claiming to be women is stealing our birthright.
I want women like me to have equal access to the use of the space since we are members. I want young women to experience the reality of women supporting each other in women-only space. I welcome male allies to all open events. We all need for this women’s center to thrive as a unique community resource.
I have a right to set my boundaries. Yes, I am willing to discriminate against men. As I said earlier, I do not wish my life to be dominated by the needs and desires of men, especially the men who call themselves women.
I left that meeting depressed and numb. I walked alone, in the dark, to find our car parked a block away. I could not tolerate another moment in that threatening space.
In trying to comprehend how exactly this disregard of women’s and lesbians’ strong desire to meet together has become illegitimate, I found understanding in these words from Pelican Lee: “In response to the conservative backlash, segments of the left [including women, my addition] have shifted away from political and structural analysis of oppression and injustice, towards an individualistic politics whose primary demand is for recognition and validation of individual identities.” Full article: https://xxamazons.org/emperors-clothes-radical-feminist-view-gender-transgender/
Women and girls are victimized daily by men and by the male dominated institutions of patriarchy. By refusing to acknowledge this reality, many on the left and many liberal lesbians deny the oppression of women and name women and lesbians as oppressors when we refuse to accept the notion that men can be women if they so choose.
In reading and thinking and feeling about all these events and my own experiences, I’ve often encountered a disdain or dismissal of those of us who have lived as lesbians for decades and powered the lesbian feminist rebellion of the 1960s, 70s ad 80s. How did this happen?
Jocelyn Macdonald helped me see into today’s queer culture in her article, “Today’s Shameless Lesbians Won’t Be Queered”. Macdonald provided me with vital information about myself as one of those lesbians who will not even consider being “queered”!
She explained in that Feminist Current article that, “In queer circles, ‘lesbian’ is synonymous with second wave feminism. In a way, this is right on, as it was during the second wave that women fearlessly occupied what it meant to be woman-loving and many of radical feminism’s fiercest sisters are members of the “lavender menace.’ Queer women owe their rights to the radical resistance and separatism of their lesbian foremothers, but are embarrassed by lesbian culture and history.” Read the full article on Feminist Current here: https://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/01/13/todays-shameless-lesbians-wont-queered/
I’m going to close with a favorite photo sure to embarrass those young and middle-aged queer women who have turned their backs on lesbians like me who choose women, not men, as the center of our lives. To be embarrassed by us and to dismiss our radical feminist analysis of the oppression of women is directly related to their attitudes of ageism, misogyny, lesbian-hating and especially to their worship of pop culture! We are led to believe that, as old dykes with our unfashionable dress and generally uncool image, our determined loyalty to women and girls is outmoded. However, we are the dykes who can boldly testify to the rich connections we have built with other women in our woman-loving lives. Queer women have no idea what they are missing. Come join us! We need all the lesbian energy we can get!
Paula (on left) and Martha carrying our Lesbians Unite sign at the Anita Bryant protest in downtown Kansas City MO, 1977.
This entry was posted in Trans Gender Critical, Women Only Space and tagged Paula Mariedaughter, Women-only space on August 5, 2018 by Paula Mariedaughter.
Attempt to Shut Down Feminist Current
By Meghan Murphy
Hey everyone. A few weeks ago, I received the following email from the company that facilitates the ads featured on Feminist Current, SheKnowsMedia:
“Dear Ms. Murphy:
After careful review, pursuant to the SheKnows Publishing Network Agreement, attached for your reference, we are terminating your account effective immediately due to Feminist Current’s failure to comply with the Agreement’s quality guidelines regarding content that attacks a group on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Specifically, this articles https://www.feministcurrent.com/…/must-trans-activists-sme…/ and https://www.feministcurrent.com/…/trans-activism-become-ce…/ as well as others of similar tone are in violation.
Please remove all ad code from your site as soon as possible…
CHRISTY ROSENSTEEL
SheKnows Media”
We chose to have ads hosted by SheKnowsMedia (previously BlogHer) because these companies claim to aim to support and empower women AND because I was able to limit ad categories that showed up on Feminist Current, meaning that I was able to exclude ads for things like dieting, makeup, the oil industry, the meat industry, religious ads, “dating” ads, and a myriad of other categories of ads I didn’t want showing up on a feminist site. This, of course, limited the income we were able to access via ad revenue, but still allowed us a base revenue that could ensure we were guaranteed a certain level of sustainability, from month to month. We have had ads hosted on the site via BlogHer/SheKnows since 2012.
Feminist Current is Canada’s leading feminist website.
They provide a unique perspective on male violence against women, pop culture, politics, current events, sexuality, gender, and many other issues that are often underrepresented or misrepresented by mainstream, progressive, and feminist media sources.
Recently, I have had several issues with the ads popping up on Feminist Current, some of which were unsuitable (anti-ageing ads and makeup ads, for example), others which were outright racist and sexist. When I contacted SheKnows about this, which I did numerous times, the problem was not addressed and the company claimed not to be able to do anything about these ads, despite the fact they were showing up via *their* ad network. As a result, I had been planning to get rid of ads on the site entirely, but needed to make sure we were able to sustain ourselves after that loss, so had tried to do some fundraising over the past month, in order to make up for the loss. (Thank you to everyone who donated!)
Before I was able to do this, I received the above email, which referenced two posts, one of which challenges violent, misogynist threats against women and lesbians, the other that challenges the unethical and dishonest tactics trans activists use to shut down critical questions about the transitioning of children and around transgender ideology that reinforces sexist ideas about males and females more broadly.
Neither post “attacks a group on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.” Rather, one post directly opposes attacks and violent threats against a group of people based on sex and sexual orientation (women and lesbians), and the other defends journalism/journalistic ethics and good faith debate, and opposes censorship and attacks against journalism that challenges popular discourse and the status quo. Both posts, of course, support a feminist analysis that says gender is not innate, neither men nor women are stereotypes, and that women are oppressed under patriarchy on account of being born female, not on account of their feelings, clothing, or behaviour.
It is incredibly important, particularly now, that journalists are able to report on issues and trends independently and with integrity, no matter how it may upset certain groups. It is also incredibly important that women be allowed to defend their sex-based rights without being beat up, smeared, and threatened. These are fundamental ideas that *should* be supported by those who support democracy and human rights, as well as by those who oppose hate speech and fascism.
I responded to Christy Rosensteel at SheKnows Media, saying I was confused by her email, as the two posts in reference did not attack any group of people, and asked if she could please specify which aspects of the posts constituted an attack on “a group on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.” I told her that our mandate at Feminist Current is to advocate the liberation of women from patriarchy and male violence, and that I felt both posts fit this aim. I added:
“I find your claim to be quite a serious accusation, especially considering Feminist Current’s longstanding and dedicated work to opposing male violence against women and supporting the global feminist movement. If SheKnows is opposed to feminist analysis, that would be good to know, as I’d assumed your organization did not support male violence against women or sexism, in general.”
I received no response.
The good news is, we will no longer have to deal with a company that allows sexist, racist ads to pop up on the site, which I have no control over, and who refuses to be accountable for said ads, and will no longer be beholden to anti-feminist companies who revoke revenue because we publish articles opposing misogyny, male violence against women, and the shutting down of feminist debate/discourse. The bad news is that, more and more frequently, women who speak out against gender identity ideology, ask questions about the short and long term effects of transitioning children, and try to host discussions and debates about the impacts of gender identity legislation on women and girls are being systemically persecuted, slandered, silenced, threatened, fired, and rendered unemployable.
It is unacceptable to try to shut down feminist media, simply because feminist ideas offend the sensibilities of some. And this is exactly what has happened. It is clear that someone who opposes the work we do at Feminist Current, who has connections or power at SheKnows, complained, and demanded they cut ties with the site. Our content has not changed substantially in the past few weeks. We have been opposing violence against women and asking critical questions about transgender ideology for years now. We are under constant attack, as a result. This was a direct attack against us by one individual who wished to attempt to shut down the site, by rendering us unable to pay our bills and support ourselves.
Luckily, we have an enormously supportive readership around the world, are independent, and are part of a powerful, global women’s liberation movement that has more integrity and courage in its pinky finger than these self-interested, cowardly, dishonest, greedy, misogynist neoliberals.
Fuck SheKnowsMedia. Fuck these capitalist pigs, who care more about their income than their integrity. Fuck this disgusting cooptation of feminism that bends over for men while throwing women under the bus. If they think this bullying will shut down Feminist Current and the hundreds of thousands of people who support our work and contribute to the site, they underestimate the power, courage, and steadfastness of women.
In the past year we have seen attacks on our sisters amped up, as warrior women like Max Dashu, Nina Paley, Thistle Pettersen, Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Yuly Chan, and countless more are being smeared and no-platformed because they dare stand in solidarity with women. Women are being beaten up in the streets because they wish to *speak* about gender identity legislation and an ideology that says there is no such thing as a woman or a female body. Women are being threatened at the Dyke March and at Pride because they stand up for lesbians. Women are receiving death threats for supporting women-only spaces.
These women are not wealthy, they are not powerful, they are not “privileged.” They are regular women and lesbians fighting to survive and to have a voice and to protect our and YOUR hard-fought-for rights.
We stand in solidarity with women and in defense of free speech and democracy. We oppose the misogynist, capitalist bullying that dictates the editorial content of the vast majority of publications in North America, including those publications that claim to be “feminist.” At Feminist Current, we have always been accountable only to the feminist movement, and that will never change, no matter how many try to shut us down. Solidarity with our sisters in the struggle. Until we win.
Republished with permission from Meghan Murphy. See her original post. Visit her Facebook page. Don’t miss Feminist Current!
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Liars Need Silence to Support Their Lies!
By Paula Mariedaughter. New Flash from Feminist Current! On July 18 Max Dashu, feminist historian, was deplatformed (due to complaints by trans activists and allies) by the Modern Witches Confluence to be held this fall near San Francisco, CA! Many of the ancient female goddess images on our site come from Max Dashu, so you are familiar with her powerful work. Additionally, an event showcasing the work of artist Nina Paley has been cancelled after complaints about her feminist politics by trans activists.
This feminist news source, with a variety of up-to-date articles, can provide you with more details. Visit here:https://www.feministcurrent.com/
As an investigating blogger, I went to the Modern Witches website and found their description of their organization and of their event called the Confluence.
The Modern Witches Confluence is an educational gathering that honors all walks of the witch. The witch is our spirit and our soul. The witch is awakening and leading us on our healing journey. She invites you to join us…
Our circle is founded upon inclusion, and in order to foster inclusion we must be willing to share and be willing to listen to experiences that are different from our own.
Our circle is created by a diversity of voices and beliefs. (The entire text appears below.)
Denying our Reality as Women by Deplatforming Us One by One!
Deplatforming is a political tactic favored by transgender activists and their allies on the left. Pressuring groups and venues to cancel contracts with speakers, artists and musicians who advocate for women-only space is the central strategy for silencing our dissenting voices. Women who express any trans-critical opinions are labeled terfs, a derogatory term meaning trans exclusionary radical feminists. We, who resist male intrusions into women-only space, are now labeled a “hate group”. We see ourselves as “resistance fighters” and claim the right to female centered culture that existed for thousands of years before the violent patriarchies destroyed our communities and, during the so-called Renaissance, burned 11 million women as witches.
Please note the use of both “inclusion ” and “diversity” used by the organizers of the Modern Witches Confluence event in describing their purpose. These two words are now understood to mean that any “trans critical voice”, especially from lesbians, will swiftly be excluded from any participation. It reminds me of a loyalty oath that might read, “I assert my undying loyalty to men and any harebrain idea they truly identify with. Therefore, men must be women because they say they are women!”
Witchy Paula during her presentation at the 2016 Fayetteville Goddess festival before she was part of the group deplatformed there in 2017 and refused entry in 2018.
The organizers declared the Goddess Festival was inclusive, but not of anyone who desires women only space!
Pelican Lee has responded to our silencing. “Demanding that we remain silent about our own bodies and our place in this world is unconscionable, especially during the backlash that we are experiencing. Women are not born with a female gender identity – we are born with female reproductive biology.” Pelican Lee wrote this strong statement in her recent article, The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Radical Feminist View of Gender and Transgender. Read the full article here: https://xxamazons.org/emperors-clothes-radical-feminist-view-gender-transgender/
Once I read that Starhawk was still invited to be the keynote speaker at the Confluence, I decided that writing Starhawk could be helpful. As a well know writer about feminist witchcraft and as an earth activist, perhaps she could work some magic, or at least accomplish some diplomacy that would enable co-existence. I’d already written to the Confluence giving my opinion. Below is my letter to Starhawk:
Here is the link, https://starhawk.org/contact/to send Starhawk a message about using her keynote address at the “confluence” this fall that just deplatformed Max Dashu.
Starhawk,
Please know that your readers are expecting that you will take the initiative as keynote speaker at the Confluence this fall to address the current attempts by witches there and at other witchy gatherings to silence women and lesbians because of our beliefs in the rights of women to hold women only gatherings.
How can this be seen as anything but a new form of woman-hating? How about brewing up some dialogue at the Confluence about this conflict between several oppressed groups? Of course if you do bring this up, you will face the same punishment–threats of being deplatformed yourself. Your silence will not protect you.
Excluding those of us with unpopular opinions, ie something as radical as “men are not women” is clearly unacceptable. This policy is a policy of appeasement–men must have whatever they want–even women’s identity!
We must look for solutions instead of bowing to the pressure of trans extremists.
Blessed be, Paula Mariedaughter
Perhaps every woman reading this account could write to one or both places to add your opinions and preferences. Please use your voices! Here is the link, https://starhawk.org/contact/to send Starhawk a message about using her keynote address at the “confluence” this fall that just deplatformed Max Dashu.
Honor the female-centered life cycle that follows the moon: birth, death, and regeneration. Blessed be.
from the Modern Witches Confluence on July 18, 2018 declaring their intent to deplatform Max Dashu
We sincerely apologize for involving Max Dashu in our workshop line-up. Since your community concerns have been raised regarding Dashu’s trans-exclusionary views, we have removed Max Dashu from our teaching line-up, and she will no longer be an influence on the Modern Witches Confluence. We appreciate you voicing your concerns, and we apologize for not responding to them sooner.
We should have done our research before asking Dashu to join us for our event, and after this incident, we know to do our due-diligence. We do not support or endorse those who shame, oppress, or exclude others. The success of our gathering will be built on a shared vision of inclusion, and the collective desire to liberate ourselves from societal rigidity, hatred, and separatist categorization.
We hope that by righting this wrong, the LGBTQ community and beyond will feel safe and welcomed to join us for our event in October. Please keep letting us know how we can do better. This is a community of many diverse voices, and we will need to keep voicing concerns, and listening, in order to grow and evolve.
Contact us at: info@witchesconfluence.org
MWCfrom the Modern Witches Confluence on July 18
Three days later, more information from The Modern Witches to their membership about this issue:
July, 21, 2018
We would like everyone to know that we are working with Starhawk and others to facilitate a community dialogue in the hopes of catalyzing healing for all involved in the Modern Witches Community and beyond.
This page is for honoring and loving the lives of witches ~ in all of their multifaceted manifestations.
This is the full Statement of Purpose from Modern Witches Convergence’s website https://witchesconfluence.org/our-story/
Our circle is created by a diversity of voices and beliefs.
Our circle welcomes those who are beginning their spiritual journey, and those with lineage and deep roots.
Our circle is radical, and acknowledges that spirituality and justice are interconnected.
Our circle is a safe space to explore our individual paths.
Our circle is complex and beautiful.
We do not support those whose lives and beliefs are grounded in hate and division.
We are an anti-racist, anti-fascist community.
We are showing up for collective liberation, peace, radical love, and personal growth.
The Modern Witches Confluence is a gathering that aims to heal the collective’s trauma around The Witch. The witch is our midwife, nurse, wise woman, bruja, grandmother, herbalist, empath, storyteller, and weaver of the worlds. Witches are here to help us work with our innate power, and through community, they guide us closer to collective healing.
Written by Paula Mariedaughter
This entry was posted in Current Assaults on Women, Feminist Resistance, Trans Critical, Trans Gender Critical, Women Only Space and tagged Paula Mariedaughter, Silencing on July 22, 2018 by Paula Mariedaughter.
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Large explosion in Beirut
Beirut explosion has killed dozens and injured thousands, officials say, with hospitals struggling to cope
Latest: https://t.co/9YUPmiVIkI pic.twitter.com/aNbX4MggsJ
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) August 4, 2020
BBC: Summary
A huge blast in Beirut has killed at least 27 people, Lebanon’s health minister says
More than 2,000 others have been injured
The cause of the explosion in the city’s port area is not yet known
Reports suggest the blast was at a warehouse housing explosives
It comes at a sensitive time with the country’s economic crisis reigniting old divisions
Tensions are also high ahead of Friday’s verdict in the trial of four suspects for the murder of ex-PM Rafik Hariri
by Pete George on 5th August 2020 • Permalink
Tagged Beirut, explosion, Lebanon
Posted by Pete George on 5th August 2020
https://yournz.org/2020/08/05/large-explosion-in-beirut/
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The video is horrific, those poor people.
The warehouse clearly contained military munitions, the orange cloud suggests to me it was rocket fuel. We do know that Israel has been for a long time been targeting Iranian Rocket supplies for Hezbollah. Their airstrikes were normally on convoys carrying rockets that came by the overland route from Iran. Maybe they found out that some were arriving by ship in a more clandestine way and stored dockside , or it may have been the ship itself that went up. There apparently wasnt any preceding air strike so it could have been an accidental initial explosion or Israeli sabotage.
Call me Ishmael...
I’m not so sure of your sources Duker
What I’m hearing on Al Jadeed TV is that the fire started near a fireworks factory and the secondary explosion was a chemical store containing 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been unloaded from a ship in the adjoining port area.
BASF built a large facility in Oppau, Germany, at the end of the 19th century. They ran a large Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation operation there until 450 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in 1921. The blast from that explosion damaged buildings in Frankfurt, 85kms away.
Any fire near a storage area for ammonium nitrate should be considered a potential disaster.
From AlJaz
19:13 GMT – Israel: No reason not to believe Beirut blast was an accident
Commenting to Israel’s Channel 12, Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi says the massive explosion in Beirut “was an accident caused by a fire. I suggest caution with speculation – I do not see any reason not to believe the reports from Beirut”.
18:08 GMT – Ammonium nitrate stored in the port:
The Lebanese Interior Minister has said that ammonium nitrate was stored in the port, which is what caused the explosion, local media reported. He said Lebanese customs should be asked about why it was there. Lebanon-based broadcaster Mayadeen cited the country’s customs director saying tonnes of nitrate exploded.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/huge-explosion-rocks-lebanon-capital-beirut-live-updates-200804163620414.html
as to the orange cloud, that’s post-blast fumes. The colour is typical of a rocket fuel explosion, esp. the nitrogen tetroxide fuel component.
But they’re also a product of an ammonium nitrate detonation, which has a yellow-to-orange post-blast nitrogen oxide fume cloud. Used to see a bit of this in surface blasting in Aussie coal mines when blast design parameters weren’t calculated properly, or when the explosive was contaminated in the blast hole.
The fumes are typically due to incomplete detonation of the explosive product.
From your link above. Updates.
“21:11 GMT – ‘Unacceptable’ that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored without safety measures: President Aoun
In remarks published on the Presidency Twitter account, Lebanese President Michel Aoun has said that it is “unacceptable” that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were stored in a warehouse for six years without safety measures and vowed that those responsible would face the “harshest punishments”.
21:00 GMT – 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port when they exploded: Official
General Security Chief Abbas Ibrahim says 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate were in Beirut’s port on the way to Africa when they exploded.
Ibrahim made the comments after a meeting of Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council, which brings together the president and all major security agencies.”
Reporting is still very confused, unsurprisingly. One commentator said the orange explosion is consistent with a nitrate explosion. Another said that half of Beirut has been destroyed.
2,750 tonnes makes it larger than the 1947 Texas City disaster, when a consignment of 2,300 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded… which, correct me if I’m wrong, means the Beirut explosion was the largest non-nuclear detonation in human history.
Initially reported as near a fireworks factory but now suggesting it was at an oil storage facility or a chemicals storage facility.
FFS, petrochemicals stored alongside a 2,750 tonne heap of ANFO precursor????? What the fuck were they doing?
Lebanon & Beirut itself are basket cases. There’s no working city administration. Corruption is rife, there’s no enforcement of building or safety standards. Not even road policing. Daily power cuts.
Still not clear who imported this ammonium nitrate. Aljaz tv commentator said it was confiscated off a ship by Cout Order in 2014. All very murky.
no argument there Gezza – the whole place is rife with corruption, etc., and still technically at war with Israel (who are now sending humanitarian aid to their “enemies” as a result of this).
21:00 GMT – 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port when they exploded: Official General Security Chief Abbas Ibrahim said some 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate were in Beirut’s port on the way to Africa when they exploded. Ibrahim made the comments after the meeting of Lebanon’s Higher Defence Council.
Meanwhile the worlds ‘greatest expert’ on pandemics claims “it looks like a terrible attack” – must be Duker’s source…
Yes, I noted that report that the AN was on its way to Africa but it’s been stored in a port warehouse for 6 years, after a court ordered confiscation, apparently while there have been legal moves to get it released. But I’ve not yet seen or heard who was importing it, why it was stored for so long, or which country it was headed for. So nobody seems to know these things yet.
Dont you think the AN story is getting bigger lies upon smaller lies.
This was a much smaller quantity that blew at at chinese port Tianjin in a dangerous chemicals facility
As explosions go, that explosion & blast wave is quite slow moving. That could be consistent with fertiliser expanding / exploding / burning as it is blasted upwards. But as to what set it off – who knows?
Cellcam video & some early witness reports suggest it followed an initial smaller explosion and fire, in which multiple small, brilliant white explosive flashes can be seen going off. Then there’s that huge blast with the orange / black burning rising cloud.
A very early female witness on Aljaz tv said when she heard the first explosion she thought she heard an aircraft or drone & looked out her window at the sky but then was blown across her room by the 2nd huge blast as her windows and the whole room were wrecked.
I don’t think anybody knows enuf yet to answer all the questions arising.
Largest man made explosion….the winner is …Halifax Explosion
“On 6 December 1917 SS Imo and SS Mont-Blanc collided in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mont-Blanc carried 2,653 tonnes of various explosives, mostly picric acid. After the collision the ship caught fire, drifted into town, and exploded. 1,950 people were killed and much of Halifax was destroyed. An evaluation of the explosion’s force puts it at 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ).[26] Halifax historian Jay White in 1994 concluded “Halifax Harbour remains unchallenged in overall magnitude as long as five criteria are considered together: number of casualties, force of blast, radius of devastation, quantity of explosive material, and total value of property destroyed.”
The munitions were much more explosive than AN
https://theconversation.com/five-of-the-most-explosive-non-nuclear-chemicals-ever-made-72702
Pink David
Yeap. Fertilizer is dangerous. Large amounts of it in one place is really dangerious.
Texas City etc.
Halifax Canada- port ammunition explosion
Port Angeles, San Franciso Bay – ammunition explosion
Port Chicago , San Francisco Bay
This may have been bigger
“Many very large detonations have been carried out in order to simulate the effects of nuclear weapons on vehicles and other military material.[57] The largest publicly known test was conducted by the United States Defense Nuclear Agency (now part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) on 27 June 1985 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This test, called Minor Scale, used 4,744 short tons (4,304 t) of ANFO, with a yield of about 4 kt (3,900 long tons; 4,400 short tons).[58] Misty Picture was another similar test a few years later, slightly smaller at 4,685 short tons or 4,250 t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
And the fireball
Wonder if there was an ‘orange smoke cloud’
Updates as at 10am, NZT
– the Lebanese PM says 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in port
– 73 dead, 3,700 wounded
– hospitals unable to treat wounded as they have been too badly damaged
– blast felt in Cyprus 250kms away
” fireworks factory and the secondary explosion was a chemical store containing 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ”
Flimsy cover stories …fireworks factories arent in major cities like that for obvious reasons
ammonium nitrate is just a cover story
Back in 2015 a similar cloud from a chemical explosion in Spain in Igualada near Barcelona.
“Firefighters said the chemicals were nitric acid and ferric chloride.”
Guess what the rocket fuel the Nazis used ? Nitric acid and ferric chloride ( The fuel is important not the nazis)
“S-Stoff, a WW2 German rocket fuel, is made by mixing nitric acid with ferric chloride. It was the fuel used in the experimental Ruhrstahl X-4. It is also known as red fuming nitric acid.”
The modern equivalents maybe slightly different.
you need help Duker
Initial stories of disaster are always wrong… half the city isnt leveled…just glass blown out over a wide area
I have a similar coloured toxic cloud , wheres your ammonium nitrate cloud picture?
Lebanon has other small ports to bring in ammonium nitrate fertilizer any way more stories are now mentioning ‘other chemicals’
By the weekend the useful idiots who follow the fertilizer angle will have egg on face
The useful idiots who follow the fertilizer angle will have egg on face?
And the useless idiots?
“At a news conference, President Trump called the explosion a “terrible attack” and said U.S. generals seemed to feel that it was the result of a “bomb of some kind.” But military officials said they had yet to make a solid assessment of the explosion.”
The fact-free fun never ends with Duker:
Dear Duker, tell that to:
– the city dwellers of Guanghan in China’s Sichuan province (June 2020),
– or the city-dwellers of Yichun in Heilongjiang province (August 2010),
– or of Tangerag City in Indonesia (October 2017),
– or Enschede in the Netherlands (May 2000)
– or Mexico City (December, 1988)
– or San Pablito Market, in the city of Tultepec, Mexico (Dec 2016)
Within the past 100 years there have been nearly 40 lethal explosions in fireworks factories located in cities.
I knew that there had been quite a few, but not that many !
Hello, Blazer 🙂
“The warehouse clearly contained military munitions, the orange cloud suggests to me it was rocket fuel.”
Comical. Truly comical.
well to be fair if the ammonium nitrate was stored alongside petrochemicals then it did amount to a loose form of munitions – only more in the homemade style of the Oklahoma City bombing.
my heart goes out to the people of Beirut – after everything they’ve been through, to have much of their city leveled in such a devastating accident. Poor buggers.
Much of the city isnt leveled, the port area badly damaged , that claim is TV and newspaper hyperbole
“The larger explosion, at 6:08 p.m., blew out the glass from balconies and windows of buildings several miles away from the port and at least one building collapsed from the force of the blast. One resident said the streets looked like they were “cobbled in glass.”
” loose form of munitions ”
Yes, chemicals go bang in the right situation. Chemicals are no munitions until they are actually munition, for which evidence is completely absent. Given Dukers many, many posts about facts and being ‘right’ and such like, it’s very funny to watch him just pull shit out of his ass. He will now spend much time trying to prove he was right, looking for any detail he can leverage, while never addressing the fundamental errors. I do wonder how well that worked in his career.
Rocket fuel can be as simple as kerosene and O2. The thing that makes it rocket fuel is an actual rocket.
The first clues to ammonium nitrate are simple, it’s a port, it’s a very, very large explosion. Weapon explosions on that scale are rare, large ammonium nitrate disasters are very couple of years.
I’ll give you a big uptick for that PD – rare, so treasure the moment, but you’re spot on 😀
Next thing Duker will be trying to pull a shotfirer’s ticket out of his fundamental to justify … whatever .
Ammunition blast are rare ?
https://www.dw.com/en/huge-explosion-at-damascus-airport/a-38605392
Except for this part of the world
“Syrian state TV said an Israeli airstrike targeting a Hezbollah arms depot caused the blast.”
“An anonymous regional intelligence source speaking to Reuters said the blast site contained a weapons depot operated by Hezbollah, which was regularly stocked with supplies sent from Tehran. Iran is also an ally of the Syrian government.”
And what is the other country where Hezbollah is very very active…. you have the shot tickets which tell you everything except the obvious …Im not denying its an enormous explosion of some sort and the ME is known for what type of major explosions?
https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/drone-attack-suspected-iraqi-shiite-ammunition-depot
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2006/oct/11/explosions-from-fire-at-us-ammo-dump-shake-baghdad/
See above pictures of the Spanish explosion which mentioned the chemicals involved. last laugh to me as usual
https://yournz.org/2020/08/05/large-explosion-in-beirut/#comment-438663
Middle east ..it must be ( initial blast) fireworks factory …Im making my omelette for you right now
[Initially]”A rising cloud of white smoke featured crackling and bright pops consistent with when small munitions – rockets, for instance – begin cooking off, he said.
“Then a fireball erupts, followed by an orb of white that quickly expands from the blast zone. That is the pressure of the shockwave condensing the moisture in the air, he said.”
Small munitions …hmmmm
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/300074509/heres-what-the-videos-of-the-beirut-blast-tell-us-about-the-explosion
Heaps of compilation videos on Youtube now. Many longer than this one. This must be one of the most widely videoed events of an explosion in history. This one shows several views of the initial fire & smaller explosions going off like a box of firecrackers before the really big blast.
Looks like all sorts of explosive stuff was stored there – may have included some munitions. In here is one of the first video clips shown on Aljaz tv. Nobody has explained what all these bright small explosions everywhere were yet.
Usual story , first news reports are mostly wrong…sometimes deliberately so.
Its a symbol….its all over for Donald.
Brian Johnston
You guys are all arguing over disinformation. If the nitrate was on its way to Africa why not mention which country. I suspect the explosion was deliberate. An attack. Duker’s first comment makes sense. Sabotage.
I was accused of having a vivid imagination the other day. The theories are coming thick and fast about what it was, why it was there, what happened, who was involved and their motivation.
Are there prizes for the most accurate and the most extreme? Maybe it was the Woodhouse homeless man. Maybe it was the junior staffer. Maybe it was an apprentice who’s worked on the roof of a faraway convention centre.
Griff.
Anfo is a commercial explosive used in mining.
Amonia nitrate and fuel oil aka Diesel and chicken shit
In this case it looks like a Fire then primary explosion that set of the stored AN
Even flour or milk powder can explode in those circumstance.
Nitric acid and cotton is also an effective explosive. Google myth busters exploding trousers for a kiwi example .
Very extensive damage
Beirut explosion aftermath… pic.twitter.com/5FKBkzv6Uz
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 5, 2020
Years ago, two children broke into the caretakers shed at a school in NZ and mixed fertiliser and (bleach ?)
The result was an explosion that blew them and the building to pieces. I remember it because I had had no idea that fertiliser could do that.
Making stuff up again…..you need help
NZ fertiliser isn’t the explosive kind
Did you saw it on the….News!
Something not right here.
Slow down guys. The caretakers shed may have had chlorine in it and that stuff can explode, I’m just not sure how much as in lethal.
Update. Latest by The Donald, he suggests it may have been a bomb of some sort. Well I am glad we have that sorted, after all, he is the man. Go The Donald.
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Do you know the most-photographed mountain in the world? Do you remember a background mountain from Ricola commercials? If not, how about the picture from the wraps of Swiss chocolate? The name of the mountain is the Matterhorn. It proudly stands in a resort town of Zermatt in the Swiss Alps. The whole area is a major tourist attraction, famous for excellent skiing in winter and hiking in summer. Despite its popularity, Zermatt may require more than average preparation to visit, if only for the fact that it is a car-free zone. Learn how to visit Zermatt Switzerland and how to enjoy its attractions.
Matterhorn Switzerland – the most recognizable peak in Europe.
My visit to Zermatt was one of a kind. I was traveling with my sister, for the first time ever just the two us! She lives in Poland, I live in the USA, so opportunities like that are not often. The last time we spent so much time together was when we were girls sharing a bedroom in our hometown Gdynia in Poland.
Spending uninterrupted time together 50 years later turned out to be a real treat. Despite living apart, we developed the same appreciation for traveling and life in general. Both cancer survivors, we tend to look at the bright side of things and enjoy them deeper. (Learn more about: Living and Traveling with Cancer).
We took a 3-week long tour through Europe starting in Amsterdam, then Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, and finally Poland. The deal was simple, she drove her car and I was a navigator and a tour guide. In this post, I am sharing what we learned during our 4-day visit in Zermatt.
The Matterhorn can easily be seen from many points in Zermatt.
How to get to Zermatt Switzerland
How to get to Zermatt by car
On a day of our arrival to Zermatt, we had 80 miles to cover in The Swiss Alps. Everything was going smoothly, then suddenly there was a toll. We paid it thinking it was a paid road, but when we passed the booth, there was no more road, just cars standing in line.
We were told to get into the line too, so we did. Then in a minute or two, we started moving! Turned out we were the last car to embark on Lötschberg Car Train, that we didn’t know existed. I stuck my head out to take video, but quickly returned to my seat as we were approaching a tunnel! A very narrow one, nine miles long and completely dark. We could not stop laughing during that journey.
The most important thing to know about Zermatt, that it is car-free! You must park in Täsch, from where there is a shuttle train or taxi into Zermatt. Trains leave every 20 minutes and take 12 minutes. If you park in the adjacent Matterhorn Terminal, you can wheel the luggage carts onto the train.
You can also park your car with one of the taxi transfer companies, who will then transfer you to Zermatt. We took a train. In Zermatt, we decided to take an electric taxi to our hotel. It was expensive, but worth it if you have a lot of luggage.
Zermatt is car free but electric taxis are available.
How to get to Zermatt by train
The Swiss Rail network is world-famous for its efficiency and is a convenient way to travel within Switzerland. Trains are clean, fast, reliable, and frequent. Rail connections run to Zermatt from all major gateways, including directly from Geneva and Zürich airports.
From either direction, one change of trains at Brig or Visp is required. From Visp, you change onto the Matterhorn-Gotthard Railway and travel to Zermatt along the scenic Matter Valley.
Beautiful and convenient shuttle train from Täsch to Zermatt.
When to visit Zermatt Switzerland
Zermatt is famous as a ski resort. Peak winter season is from December until Easter and it is the most expensive time to visit. For hiking and climbing, the best time is between the end of June and the beginning of October. If you visit any other time of year, you would love it too.
We took our trip in April and really enjoyed it. People were still skiing, but the springs flowers were already showing in the lower hiking trails. Hotels and restaurants were open and even outdoor dining was available. Lodging at that time of year is much more affordable.
April, when spring is the air, is a good time to visit Zermatt. The Matterhorn peak hiding behind the clouds.
Where to stay in Zermatt Switzerland
Surprisingly there are a few affordable hotels in Zermatt, but the majority of them are expensive, especially in ski season. I used my Hotel.com free nights to pay for a two-room apartment called Apparthotel Casa Vanessa. We loved its location, a short walk to the main street, and a grocery store. This off-center location gave us a feel of the mountains.
We enjoyed a nice balcony and easy access to hiking trails. With high-quality finishes, the hotel delivered on what we were looking for: the Swiss chalet charm, but without compromising on modern conveniences. It seems that the whole town is built without shortcuts. The architecture and details are exactly what you should expect from a top-notch ski resort.
Apparthotel Casa Vanessa in Zermatt delivered on views, quality, and charm.
What to do in Zermatt Switzerland:
Skiing – #1 activity in Zermatt
Matterhorn ski paradise is the highest winter sports area in the Alps. Apart from guaranteed snow conditions, the region is one of the best developed and extensive ski resorts anywhere in the world. It sits at the foot of the Matterhorn and on the flanks of the heavily glaciated Monte Rosa.
Three main ski areas offer wide-open slopes for beginners while the more advanced skiers enjoy the challenge of the internationally known Tiefbach, Aeroleid or Momatt. You can ski over the Theodulpass to Cervinia, Italy for lunch.
The Klein Matterhorn cable car, ascending to 12,533 feet—the highest cable car station in the Alps—has opened up new glacier ski runs that provides Zermatt with year-round skiing.
The Matterhorn is a paradise for skiers.
Climbing the Matterhorn
Zermatt is a mecca for mountain climbers. At 4,478 meters (14,692 feet), the Matterhorn is only Western Europe’s 12th-highest peak, but it is taller than Mt. Whitney, the highest summit in the Lower 48 of the U.S. It is one of the world’s most famous and iconic mountains to climb, despite being neither the highest nor the most difficult.
Because of its popularity, it is also one of the deadliest mountains in the world. About 3000 climbers summit the Matterhorn per year. In the summer, up to 150 climbers can attempt an ascent each day. Learn more about climbing the Matterhorn here.
Seeing Matterhorn without climbing it
You will be happy to know that the Matterhorn can easily be seen from many points in Zermatt. If the peak is not visible, wait! Even on a cloudy day, you have a chance to get a glimpse of it. For the best view take Europe’s highest cogwheel railway, Gornergratbahn. Sit on the right-hand side of the train, face uphill, to photograph the mountain.
Europe’s highest cogwheel railway, Gornergratbahn.
This Europe’s highest open-air cog railway brings passengers directly from Zermatt station to the summit of the Gornergrat, all year round. The ride takes 33 minutes. The line leads over bridges, tunnels, across forests of larch and Swiss stone pine, and past rocky ravines and mountain lakes.
The Gornergrat is a starting point for many hikes, as it lies surrounded by 29 peaks rising above 4,000 m (13,123 ft) in the Alps and several glaciers, including the Gorner Glacier – the second longest glacier in the Alps.
At the summit station on the Gornergrat, visitors find Europe’s highest-altitude hotel: the 3100 m Kulmhotel Gornergrat. Facilities include a restaurant, an astronomical observatory, and an attractive shop. With its wonderful terrace, it is a perfect place to soak up the sun, have a beer, and enjoy the classic view of the Matterhorn.
Can life can get any better? Sunny April afternoon with a view of the Matterhorn.
Hiking in Zermatt
Hiking is a top summer activity in Zermatt. Before hitting a trail, start with a visit to a tourist office to see which paths are open. Unless you visit in the peak of summer, some trails may be closed due to snow.
When we visited in April, the majority of trails were still closed, but we were able to hike beautiful lower trails accessible right from Zermatt. I can only imagine how rewarding it could be to hike higher in the mountains. Here is a list of top hikes Matterhorn and Zermatt.
Meadows around Zermatt Switzerland.
There is a single main street in Zermatt called Bahnhofstrasse and it is a great place to shop. This is where you can find the standard Swiss souvenirs such as watches, Swiss army knives, music boxes, and cuckoo clocks. There is also a wide range of designer fashion stores and jewelry boutiques.
For chocoholics, Zermatt is a paradise. We did mostly window shopping but managed to buy deeply discounted last year’s summer hats. The reasons for our modest excitement? Zermatt is very expensive. Still, walking its shops is a pleasant experience.
Zermatt is a heaven for chocolate lovers.
Dining in Zermatt
We decided not to save on dining. If you do not look at your bill, dining in Zermatt is a delight. Its cuisine is a mix of Swiss, German, and Italian dishes and everything is delicious. Fondue is a must if this is your first visit to Switzerland. What we loved the most was an afternoon coffee and desserts, plus of course Swiss beer and Italian limoncello.
Outdoor dining at its best – Swiss delight, fondue!
Nightlife in Zermatt
Not much was going on between the peak seasons when we visited, but it looks that in-season things change. Per Zermatt Tourism: “Regular visitors to Zermatt know all about the village’s legendary nightlife and unforgettable nights on the town.
Evening comes and, after sports and a spa visit, the village is waiting. The more than 100 restaurants, 60 bars, and countless nightclubs are the places where our international guests gather. And one thing is certain: If someone has not danced on the top of the barrel in the Broken, she has not really been to Zermatt.”
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Jim Cook says:
Great photos and informative!
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Ticker Eats The World says:
Brilliant and very detailed article on Zermatt! I only spent one night in the town but fell in love with it, even though I don’t ski. Live the small town vibe.
Thank you. I loved it too. I would like to come back for more Alpine hiking.
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Mr Upgradable says:
Wonderful photos and I especially like how you described how to get to Zermatt.
Thank you. Getting there is was different but worth it.
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EU security mission blocked as EU stresses internal causes of war
"We are waiting for the green light from Mozambique to send out a security experts mission who have been appointed since November and who are ready to leave. We are just waiting for authorisation," EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell Fontelles told the European Parliament Tuesday (16 Dec). "We have problems in Mozambique: we cannot move, we cannot travel around." He went on to announce that in light of Portugal soon becoming EU president, he had asked Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva to go to Mozambique as his special representative to try to resolve the problem.
Josep Borrell went on to sharply, and very non-diplomatically, criticise the Mozambique government and stress corruption and the internal causes of the war. "We cannot say that everything that is happening in Mozambique is a simple extension of the so-called Islamic terrorist movement. To a certain extent that is true. But the armed violence in the northern part of Mozambique was triggered by poverty and inequality and by the population of the area losing respect for a state which could not provide it with what it needed. … Mozambique has 3rd largest natural gas reserve in Africa after Nigeria and Algeria. You can imagine that this leads to citizens feeling alienated. It is a rich country and they are mired in poverty. Their expectations are frustrated by their government and because of lack of development."
"Mozambique is only keeping operating because of massive international aid. It has had serious corruption problems and problems ensuring that there is proper control of companies. We had a financial aid programme and as the result of the corruption the international community reduced its aid," he noted.
Josep Borrell's formal title is High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, which makes him effectively the EU Foreign Minister. That means his strong statements have particular standing. His full statement is here.
Meanwhile, Portuguese Foreign Minister Silva in an interview with VoA (11 Dec) said the problem of Cabo Delgado reveals "unfulfilled expectations" and "the dangers of an extractive economic logic [where] you go to a place, you take away the resources with an enormous indifference to the fate of the population and the other dimensions of development".
South Africa foreign minister says deal with root causes
"Silencing the guns in [Cabo Delgado and elsewhere] requires dealing with the root causes of conflicts, which invariably includes governance deficits, human rights abuses and contestation over resources," said Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, in a media briefing on 14 December.
Comment: Bilateral or multi-lateral?
"They are not sure if they prefer EU experts or bilateral relations with certain European countries," said an annoyed Josep Borrell in his statement to parliament. This is one reason why the EU mission has been blocked, he said.
Is this division within the government, or simply saying one thing publicly and another privately? Officially and publicly Mozambique has asked for help from the EU and SADC, and there have been a number of statements from foreign diplomats saying there should be a formal role for SADC, the EU or the UN. But in private Mozambique is telling diplomats they only want bilateral support and do not want a formal role for international bodies, except to help with people displaced by the war.
There is a similar split in the rhetoric. The president and ministers repeatedly say the war is due entirely to foreign terrorism - which they carefully do not identify so as not to offend Muslims linked to Frelimo. But they know they will mainly gain foreign support if stress they are fighting the new global enemy, Islamic State.
Josep Borrell's statement underlines the problem. Mozambicans know that the EU and UK will want to stress root causes, and also create large and autonomous structures that Mozambique cannot control. That is unacceptable. So all agreements will be bilateral and remain under Mozambican control. Mozambique wants equipment, money, air support, coastal protection and perhaps some elite foreign soldiers acting as "trainers" but accompanying Mozambican troops. In exchange the foreign government could stress that they are combatting the global enemy, but would agree not to criticise internal issues like corruption and inequality. jh
US will help only if Mozambique joins its anti-ISIS coalition
The United States is offering "to equip our partners with the capabilities and tools they need to get terrorists under control", but it is demanding a high price -"partnering with us rather with others" such as Russia or China. "The United States wants to be Mozambique's security partner of choice". And it is specifically a partnership against ISIS, Nathan Sales, US Coordinator for Counterterrorism, told a press conference on 8 December, after his visit to Mozambique. https://www.state.gov/telephonic-press-briefing-with-ambassador-at-large-nathan-sales-u-s-coordinator-for-counterterrorism/
"The United States wants to be Mozambique’s security partner of choice" Sales stressed. He then claimed that the US has been "demonstrating across the globe that [it] is the indispensable counterterrorism partner; that the United States brings capabilities that no other country can match. … The United States brings capabilities that nobody else can bring." The BBC's Andrew Harding called it "an advertising pitch".
In Cabo Delgado "what we’re seeing today is a committed ISIS affiliate that embraces the ISIS ideology, that embraces the ISIS tactics and procedures, and that embraces the ISIS vision of a caliphate with territorial control," Sales continued. Economist journalist John McDermott said that when he was in Cabo Delgado he found that "many Mozambicans and analysts think of it as a locally driven civil war" while another journalist cited the problem of unemployment. Sales denied this: "we don’t see the link between lack of economic opportunity and jihadist terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaida."
One other thing Sales offered was "sophisticated counter-messaging campaigns to really defeat the ideology that inspires people."
Private military contracts underline Defence-Interior battle
Two private military contracts reported by Africa Intelligence (3 Dec) point to the way two different military forces are fighting the Cabo Delgado war. The armed forces (FADM) under the Defence Ministry are to receive equipment and training from the South African company Paramount, while the riot police (UIR, Unidade de Intervencao Rapida) under the Interior Ministry are to receive more air and other support from the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG).
This history of this division goes back a decade. The Makonde dominated military seems still caught in its conventional Soviet training of four decades ago, with little anti-guerrilla capacity despite the experience of the liberation war. In the 2013-4 and 2015-6 small Renamo wars in which the Renamo attacked the main N1 road, the FADM largely just shelled the bush area around the Renamo main base, while Interior developed the more mobile paramilitary riot police which largely fought the war.
This continued with the start of the Cabo Delgado civil war in 2017, with the better paid and trained UIR doing most of the fighting. When he began his second term, President Filipe Nyusi did key changes as he named non-Makondes to head Defence and Interior. To reduce Makonde control of the military, he replaced Atanasio Salvador Mtumuke, a Makonde liberation veteran from Muidumbe, Cabo Delgado, as minister with southerner Jaime Bessa Neto, who has a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences and had never been in the Mozambican army. As new Interior Minister Nyusi named Amade Miquidade from Zambezia, but with experience in the liberation war, the Ministries of Defence and Interior, and the security services (SISE). But the two have not cooperated in Cabo Delgado.
Above the two ministers are two senior players, who are both Makonde from Mueda. Alberto Chipande, age 81, fired the first shot of the liberation war, is on the Frelimo Political Commission, and is the biggest Frelimo oligarch and most powerful man in Cabo Delgado. He is also the patron of President Filipe Nyusi, age 61, whose parents fought in the liberation war and who attended a Frelimo school in Tanzania during the war.
Frelimo's greatest success is that it has never split and never expelled people, no matter how corrupt, so the factions and divisions remain inside and the Party stays superficially united once a decision is reached. So Nyusi's main task as party head and President is to herd the cats, and keep the nomenklatura satisfied.
Nyusi's role in keeping the factions satisfied is underlined in Africa Intelligence's report the Nyusi and Neto personally and together negotiated the Paramount contract with company director Eric Ichikowitz - clearly making sure that it would not offend any group.
Paramount has already delivered two light tanks and five Marauder armoured cars with seven more on Marauders order. And it will provide four Gazelle helicopters and train 15 Mozambican pilots. Meanwhile DAG has also upgraded and is now flying three Mi-8 helicopters.
+ "Resort to private military companies to fight the insurgency in Cabo Delgado: without transparency and with disastrous results" is the title of a 14 December CIP report, in English here.
Portuguese 'military personnel' to be involved
Mozambique continues to stress that it has not asked for formal foreign military intervention in Cabo Delgado, and that it wants training, equipment and support in specific areas. But Portugal continues pushing, and succeeded at a meeting between Portuguese and Mozambican defence ministers Joao Gomes Cravinho and Jaime Neto in Maputo on 9-11 December.
"From the beginning of January a team of Portuguese military personnel will come to work with the General Staff of the Mozambican Defence and Security Forces on the design of the project, which we want to start very quickly," to support "the formation in Mozambique of rapid intervention forces, special forces, marines, and tactical air control."
Even the Aga Khan is involved, mediating between Portugal and Mozambique on military asssistance, according to Africa Intelligence (11 Dec). Nazim Ahmad, born in Maputo, is seen as the Aga Khan's senior diplomat. On 9 December he gave evidence to a Portuguese parliamentary commission discussing possible military aid to Mozambique.
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is extensively involved in Mozambique, including owning the iconic Polana Hotel in Maputo. AKDN moved into Cabo Delgado in 2002 in an attempt to counter what was already seen as growing Islamic extremism. Its agricultural institute in Bilibiza was destroyed by insurgents in January, which could be seen as insurgents attacking the Ismaili wing of Islam.
In the war
Tightening the noose around Palma and Afungi
The main fighting in the past week has aimed at tightening control of access to the key gas town of Palma and the Total gas installations on the Afungi peninsula south of Palma. So far the insurgents show no sign of attacking either, but rather of creating an island of gas company control in a sea of insurgency.
On 7-8 December insurgents attacked Muite and Ngueo, just 23 km south of Palma and Afungi on the main road linking Palma to Mocimboa da Praia (which has been occupied by insurgents since August). Some of the contract workers on the Total project in Afungi live in these villages. And the insurgents are taking control of the road from Mueda to Palma, with a string of attacks in Nangade district which killed 15 people and destroyed vehicles.
Meanwhile boat traffic has been banned along the coast from Palma south to Ibo. Insurgents control the islands and have been using boats captured from Mocimboa da Praia. So the government declared a free fire zone against coastal marine traffic, warning fishers and traders to stay away, and helicopters have been in action to destroy insurgent boats in the area. (Cabo Ligado 7-13 Dec)
The effect is to cut off Palma and Afungi, with is no road or sea access, so now only access by air.
Meanwhile the fighting in and around Muidumbe district continues, with villages attacked and changing hands, as well as just to the east. On 15 December a military force trying to reopen the Mueda-Macomia road (N380/381) was ambushed at Awasse and forced to retreat to Mueda. And Chai on the N380 was attacked on 9 December. (Carta de Mocambique, Pinnacle News) This fighting continues to put pressure on Mueda town, further up the hill to the west of Muidumbe.
Refugees top 560,000
There are now 560,626 displaced people in Cabo Delgado, the Council of Ministers said Tuesday (15 Dec). That is a major increase from the government’s last public estimate in October of 435,000 displaced. Refugees are not just flooding into Pemba, where there are no facilities and informal camps are squalid, but also into Montepuez and near the walls around the Afungi gas development, hoping they will be protected by Total's guards.
Meanwhile international relief agencies say they are being blocked. Government announced a special visa for humanitarian aid workers, but this does not apply to Cabo Delgado. In any case, apparently no one has been able to obtain the new visa. And agencies complaint they are not being allowed to import medicines, house-building supplies, etc.
Attacks on journalists who report Cabo Delgado
Nasty attacks are increasing against journalists who report on Cabo Delgado and are critical of government, after President Nyusi criticised reporting of the war on 25 November. (See Bulletin 509, 3 Dec)
Tom Bowker, editor of Zitamar, had his press card revoked on 9 December, in an apparently unprecedented action. But the procedure was totally irregular. He was summoned to the government media office (Gabinfo) by phone. As Zitamar is a British registered company, Gabinfo demanded his British press registration, and simply did not believe that Britain (like the US) has no media registration. So they cancelled his press card. Everything was done verbally, with nothing in writing, which is highly irregular. The revocation of the press card has already provoked some diplomatic response - in part because embassies read and use Zitamar.
But it also seems harassment. Zitamar is part of the group publishing Cabo Ligado, the weekly report on the Cabo Delgado civil war. And Bowker recently started The Week in Mozambique, with an emphasis on media freedom issues.
Since the Nyusi speech, Facebook attacks have increased from a group that was once the G40 attack dogs savaging the critics of Armando Guebuza when he was president, and have become the praise singers of Nyusi.
Lenon Arnaldo cited the Nyusi statement as he led an attack on a Carta de Mocambique journalist Omardine Omar, accusing him of "lying/misleading news". Comments on the Facebook post included these from "Alen Maia": "We will deal with your threats to the security of young Mozambique. Lower the volume of your propaganda against state security … Omardine Omar: If you suffer an accident, the country will not notice you missing. As a terrorist you are aware of this. We know how to deal with terrorists."
Leading praise singer Egidio Vaz attacked Bower: "Tom, go home. This is not your country. Why do you insist on staying in a country just to profit by selling lies and misery? Go to your country, where everything's good. Work there. Wouldn't that be better?" Lenon Arnaldo went on to attack Bowker for having "cheated everything and everyone."
The attacks also included false information. Omar was accused of a conviction for unpaid debts (someone of a different name) and Zitamar of not being a registered company in the UK (in fact listed on the Companies House website as a "news agency").
Juliao Joao Cumbane went on to attack Carta editor Marcelo Mosse for defending Bowker: "Freedoms of the press and expression have limits. Mozambique is a sovereign state. Combating terrorism in Cabo Delgado is our task, we Mozambicans."
These Facebook attacks on Mozambique media set an important agenda. Journalists and commentators first attacked on Facebook have been beaten and shot. The offices of Canal de Mocambique were destroyed in an arson attack in August.
(Zitamar has identified Egidio Vaz as the man behind the Ministry of Defence supporting website http://defesamoz.info/. But in a note to me on 11 Dec, Vaz denies this. jh)
Source: J.Hanlon : Mozambique News Reports and Clippings
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The Gamma protagonist, part I
As some of you will recall, I have applied my theory of socio-sexuality to literature on occasion, and in doing so, discovered that it actually serves as an effective predictive model for how a novel will unfold on the basis of the socio-sexual rank of the male writer.
Delta Man has taken that concept and applied it to science fiction, and made a few observations about novels that feature Gamma protagonists:
The Gamma Protagonist in Science Fiction and Fantasy:
High IQ. The GP possesses what the author imagines a +2 or +3 standard deviation to be like. Even if it is never mentioned by number, the protagonist’s cognitive ability will always approximately coincide with this level of ability. Key word: "imagines". Most Gamma writers are not as intelligent as their GPs.
Average height and build, often "could stand to lose a few pounds", and is not athletically gifted unless the character is specifically written as being athletic, in which case the GP is better than everyone at everything.
The dialogue is full of snarky comments by the protagonist which are used to put everyone in his place, no matter who they are. Women who are not villains will always find the snarky comments to be inordinately funny and attractive.
Both the demonstration of the Gamma Protagonist's intelligence and his bonding with other characters is demonstrated through the GP's frequent resort to pop cultural quotes. The GP always recognizes a quote and will always respond to it with an appropriate quote.
The GP is agnostic or atheist without any meaningful reason to be so, and can shut down the greatest theologians in the world with a witty retort.
Will be especially technically competent at engineering or high technology, depending upon the genre.
Will have a love interest who throws herself at him. Always sexually passive and is far more prone to pine away after a woman than pursue her.
He will either save the love interest from some peril and become a white knight in the process, or she will be “strong and independent” and find his recognition of this to be incredibly attractive.
In other words, the Gamma Protagonist is a Gary Stu, a figure of Gamma wish-fulfillment that is the male equivalent of the female Mary Sue protagonist who almost invariably enjoys the devoted attentions of two Alpha males competing for her affections.
The most interesting aspect of the GP is how he reveals the psychology of the author who writes him, specifically, how he exposes the author's wishes that are fulfilled by the GP.
Labels: Gamma
I don't bother to read the drivel that passes for SF these days, so no examples of GPs are coming to mind.
Happy Housewife said...
"High IQ. The GP possesses what the author imagines a +2 or +3 standard deviation to be like. Even if it is never mentioned by number, the protagonist’s cognitive ability will always approximately coincide with this level of ability. Key word: "imagines". Most Gamma writers are not as intelligent as their GPs."
I notice this often coincides with the GP making connections or mental leaps in the story that come out of nowhere and makes no sense; it's very confusing to the reader.
Gammas saving the day, while completely implausible, is also very boring. There is zero tension because you know they're going to overcome the meathead villains; for some reason, the antagonists are usually described as handsome and athletic, sometimes in great detail (interesting). Asking the reader to believe that an average looking doughboy can not only beat the better looking, better equipped bad guy, but also gets the girl for no discernable reason, is pure fantasy itself.
Student in Blue said...
Related to 4,7 and 8: Gammas believe virtue-signaling to be sexually attractive to women, so their protagonist does the same. If a woman does not find virtue-signaling to be attractive, it is because she is being deceived by some other man who must be "defeated" or she's a villain who often gets redeemed and falls for the GP.
Looking forward to Alpha. My personal favorite is Nicholas van Rijn. He'll give you tons of material to work with.
By the way, just to be clear, when you say "Gamma Protagonist", do you mean that character is Gamma, or that the author and/or intended audience is Gamma and the GP is what the Gamma imagines success to be like?
Forgot to mention this in the earlier post, but:
Even if the Gamma author doesn't intend to write a Gary Stu, it will still come out with many of these characteristics because of their very stilted, immature concept of what the world is and how men and women relate to each other.
Their product also invariably turns out to be far more black-and-white than anything they decry, due to said incomplete, immature concept of the world.
@Krul
Yes, yes, no, yes. Remember the Gamma is the Secret King, and so to have a real hero in the author-who-is-Gamma's eyes, the protagonist also has to be Gamma. The intended audience is for everyone because, gosh golly everyone needs to see how right and virtuous they are! They're just deluded or not quite smart enough if they don't see how brilliant the Gamma Protagonist (and by extension, the author) is.
A Gary Stu can work but a lot of that depends on the author.
Prime example; James Bond.
Or to be accurate James Bond as written by Ian Fleming.
James Bond as written by Anthony Horowitz is a tragic henpecked broken shell of a man whose wife has him completely under her thumb. He is probably allowed to have sex twice a month.
The character is Gamma. This reliably, though not always, means the male author is Gamma. The intended audience is everyone. The GP is what the Gamma imagines success to be like, which in most cases is a woman who is out of his league inexplicably seducing him without warning.
Thinking of Gamma characters, if not protagonists, in the classic literary canon. Maybe some of Shakespeare's lesser villains.
It's been a while since reading it, but Hamlet himself?
Exactly. Owen from Monster Hunter International is a total Gary Stu. But, as I have told Larry Correia, that works remarkably well when the author happens to be an oversized gun nut.
"It's been a while since reading it, but Hamlet himself?"
I'd put Hamlet at Sigma. What with seducing Ophelia, manipulating everyone with "crazy act" mind games, willingness to fight Laertes one-on-one, and the whole revenge quest thing. He's also moody and artistic, so yeah. Sigma or Lesser Alpha.
@VD
Perfect example.
Larry does great action stuff. Very much a page turner. Very hard to put down. And yes his protagonists are total Gary Stus no matter what he says.
The only place he collapses completely is the love interest side. Which is invariably, gorgeous girl falls hard for the big galoot due to the intrinsic nobility of his character.
Rek. said...
I've always had a strong liking for sigma characters. Lone wolf badass in a burn it to the ground revenge plot who goes back to his life without looking for any recognition. I don't really read SF so I couldn't even come up with a title (if someone has any books for me to read please do share). Movies: The Crow, John Wick, The Equalizer, Law abiding citizen, the three next days or straw dogs. Or maybe that's just a different form of gamma entertainement.
I love their fearlessness, their discipline, the control the have over their lives, the fact that they are outcasts who can stand up for themselves and others. Maybe straw dogs is your typical gamma movie though, but the way the central protagonist (who in my opinion is more of a delta, low beta to start with) finally decides to face reality for what it is, stop living in fear is a rare transformation. In this case, it is all a shift in mindset. "L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être." Voltaire, which is always a central element in these movies. One decision.
Vox, I thought Owen from MHI started out as a Gary Stu...but about halfway through the book, Correia realized that he had an idea with real potential and his writing skills kicked in. Which required steering the character away from the Gary Stu model.
Having said that, I looked over this list. My thoughts are:
1. High IQ is likely for an SF hero. I don't care who he is.
2. Height, build, and other characteristics can be used to set the character up with interesting flaws and quirks...but need to be credible.
3. No argument. And heroes are heroic, not snarky.
4. Stay away from pop culture references. They date a book too easily. And they make the character look like he HAS no character, just a list of quotes he copied from someone else.
5. No argument with this one.
6. SF heroes are very likely to be engineers, scientists, etc. It's the nature of the genre.
7. No argument with this one. Most unlikely...though you could have a lot of fun with a character who is so manly that women DO throw themselves at him. Naturally, such a character should be watchful for knives in the back...or be married and faithful to his wife.
8. No argument.
A comparison to the great SF heroes may be in order.
On to the Gamma Protagonist.
Our first contestant is John Perry the seventy-five year protagonist of John Scalzi's Old Man's War.
A decent enough soft-reboot of Forever War resprayed to look like a Heinlein book. Decently written, plot is well structured.
But John Perry is clearly a Gary Stu. He starts out with his life sucking ass because his wife is dead and he's old physically inferm from age.
It's been years since I read the book but I seem to recall "Perry" tested
well. Perry gets a superman's body and his old broken, substandard one is destroyed in the process.
The new body is a total sex machine. Perry gets invited to spontaneous orgies now.
Snarky dialog? Check! It's a Scalzi novel.
Perry wins a battle by "inventing a tactic" (*Cataline rolls his eyes until only the whites are showing*).
He gets the shit beaten out of him by his wife's new body, "Sagan". Who falls in love with him after beating him up. It is always clear that Perry is no match physically for his wife. I don't remember the religious aspects but I'm sure there weren't any. The guy didn't think twice about greasing out his old body. It was more or less suggested that the soul didn't come along for the ride because it didn't exist.
The big thing about Old Man's War is that the military in Scalzi's world never and I do mean never felt like the military that I know.
Not like Starship Troopers did or even for that matter Forever War.
@Hammerli280
While likely, it is not required by any means. For the "softer" SF, was Luke Skywalker a mental genius? By no means.
Even in hard SF, the protagonist doesn't need to be high IQ to be compelling or even explore the world that is, or for events to unfold that detail the consequences of whatever technological advance is being considered.
So, always having a high IQ protagonist is... lazy on the writer's part, and making a big deal about how smart the character is happens to be a large sign of a Gamma Protagonis.
Here's a variant on the Gamma Protagonist.
The Gamma Male who clearly fantasizes about himself as a woman.
S.M. Stirling's early stuff was really bad about that. The protagonists of his early stuff were almost invariably kick ass women who found other women sexually attractive.
Better known example: Pretty much every fucking thing by Joss Whedon. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to Alien 4 to Firefly to Dollhouse. Everyone of his female protagonists can kick the shit out of any MAN who crosses their path. The more sexist the man the better.
Avengers must have been hell for him. Black Widow was it and she hardly got to beat up anyone.
In my experience, those people tend to be only lower Gamma, bordering on Omega.
I don't know if Joss Whedon is an example of that however, because every Gamma pays homage to the 'amazing, fairer, better sex'. Hell, a lot of lower Deltas do that too.
It's really feminist dogma that facilitates the amazon woman crushing the patriarchy themes, and a whole swathe across the sociosexual spectrum are host to that. Gammas and those around their target area are just far more accepting of it because they already feel deep down they're worthless.
...a woman who is out of his league inexplicably seducing him without warning.
Perhaps the strongest Gamma tell of all? Gammas are more uncomfortable than other men in making the approach, so the ultimate fantasy for them is a sexually aggressive woman picking them for a boi toi.
It makes me thing of old hardboiled detective stories. What were the authors there - Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler? In those stories, dames often threw themselves at the protagonist, but usually with an ulterior motive, trying to play the guy. The staple was that an aggressive woman was intriguing, but very dangerous. Only the most confident and composed men could play with them without getting badly hurt.
Not quite the only place. Owen's jealousy of the younger Alpha, who is of course revealed to have feet of clay and lose the girl to Owen, is also indicative.
Not a critique, merely an observation.
Certainly the pinnacle of Game unawareness. They live in a world where the PUA is some sort of arcane sorcerer who knows magic words that make women like them.
They have no experience at all with the thrill of making an approach. Maybe you'll get shot down. Maybe you'll get delaying tactics. Maybe you'll get a phone number (I realize,I'm dating myself badly). Maybe you will rapidly escalate to the Close all in one night.
None of those things is real to the Gamma except getting shot down. Their mindset simply doesn't allow for any other possibility. The pickup isn't real to them.
I quite agree.
The unworthy Alpha had to be shown to the reader to be unworthy of the girl. I'm afraid Larry also committed the worst of kind of Anti-Game there is in that book.
Winning over the girl by a confession of your True Love.
In the real world that is an extinction level event.
@Jack Amok
Perhaps the strongest Gamma tell of all?
You're right on the money with that being their ultimate fantasy. Whether or not it's a Gamma tell I'm hesitant on, because sexually-aggressive women are fantasies of weak males, not necessarily Gamma. The key component of Gamma is reality rejection, after all.
My current theory is that it's a strong indicator of low sociosexual rank, but that could include mid-to-low Delta and below.
Only the most confident and composed men could play with them without getting badly hurt.
There's a lot of similarities, because Gammas think themselves as Secret Kings. One of the glaring differences is that in the Gamma world, women are pure angelic beings. If she's coming on to the Gamma, it's either because she saw his awesome virtue or that wacky mysterious force of "love" compelled her to do it.
Then again, I think an overdependence on mysterious-force-"love" is more of a delta tangent.
"I'm so lucky to have her!" = Delta
"I'm so scared of her!" = Gamma
"She's damned lucky to have me." = Alpha
"I wonder what she would look like if she was Japanese?" = Sigma
Actually, Gamma is more: "My wife is so scary, you do NOT want to mess with her!"
Ugh. I see that garbage all the time in amateur fiction.
Granted, there's a comedic time where "ha ha, the wife sure got mad and in a twist the husband had to beg for forgiveness" and it's a slight chuckle. Gammas do that all the time in their writing and that trope is now practically canon. The husband becomes a sad sack that can't do anything and boy you better not cross the Missus!
It's revolting to see what used to be comedy played straight.
For clarity, "Gammas do that all the time in their writing"
should be replaced with: "Where it becomes tedious, unamusing and offensive is when it's done all the time by Gammas in their writing"
For some guys it's an issue.
Please. She's only half-troll. That's not scary... unless you're a halfling, I suppose.
S1AL said...
VD - Out of curiosity, what's the Beta response?
And to be fair to Larry, when the book isn't written from Owen's perspective, the character comes across as much more of an annoying prick. And Grant becomes a non-caricature in Nemesis.
She's only half-troll. That's not scary... unless you're a halfling, I suppose.
Some guys have worse problems than that.
Villains written by Gammas are always pompous, overblown, and talk too much. Originally, the cartoon villain making a big speech was to help explain the plot to kids, but it fits so well with the Gamma's ideas about what alphas are actually like.
If the gamma was the big mean alpha, he would spend time mocking his lessers and explaining his too-complicated-for-you plans. When it comes to conflict, real alphas and sigmas say very little. In fact, they're short of words in general.
I'd say Hamlet is actually gamma rather than sigma. He is overly intospective and continually rationalizes his failure to avenge his father. Alpha Hamlet kills Claudius in a duel within the hour. Sigma Hamlet either ignores his father's ghost, or Claudius dies mysteriously several weeks later. Beta Hamlet defects to another country and tries to convince them to invade and overthrow Claudius. Delta Hamlet follows Claudius but nurses regrets and bitter doubts over whether the ghost's words were true. Gamma Hamlet broods and mopes and grumbles knowing that revenge is the manly, alpha thing to do but rationalizes his inaction. Stages an elaborate public ploy to shame Claudius that turns out to do nothing. Fucks up and gets everybody killed.
Megamerc said...
For those of you write fiction, SFF or not, you can easily look back at your protagonists and analyze them. I'm not certain that the protagonists socio-sexual rank is as indicative for other ranks as it is for the GP, but it could be of interest to you to do so.
But, as I have told Larry Correia, that works remarkably well when the author happens to be an oversized gun nut.
I laughed. Not many people who write Mary Sues are actually interesting in any way, so most Mary Sues are also uninteresting. I suppose Larry Correia is one of the exceptions that prove the rule.
@sigsawyer
I'm not sure I agree with your analysis, since you've left out most of the sexual part of the socio-sexual hierarchy. Hamlet totally messes with Ophelia's mind without particularly caring one way or another, and Ophelia falling in love with him without too much provocation is reasonable if he's an Alpha/Sigma. Hamlet clearly has some success with "the fair Ophelia," an apparently good-looking girl. A Gamma wouldn't. Remember, Gamma's are sexual rejects rather than social rejects.
I should also mention that it was not Hamlet's but Claudius' and Laertes' plan that gets fucked up in the end resulting in everybody's death. He also kills Polonius because he thinks it's Claudius, and refrains from killing Claudius while the man is praying because he believes that would send Claudius to heaven rather than hell, which would be the ultimate revenge.
@Peter Pan
I'm not sure I agree with your analysis, since you've left out most of the sexual part of the socio-sexual hierarchy.
Never, ever, try to identify a fictional character's ranking by who the author pairs them up with. It's fiction, not reality, and very often characters will be paired up "just so" for plot reasons, not because said male character was actually suave.
Austin Ballast said...
The really early Bond villans are gamma villans?
Except Gamma Villains take what's normally understood as camp and plot exposition... and play it straight.
Gammas have a horrible sense of morality for the most part. Their protagonists wind up being more ghastly than their intended villains, and the Gamma authors don't even notice it.
[Hamlet] refrains from killing Claudius while the man is praying because he believes that would send Claudius to heaven rather than hell, which would be the ultimate revenge.
A popular counter-interpretation for that scene is Hamlet just rationalizing his continued failure to act.
@Student in Blue
I know why you're saying this, and I agree for the most part. However, it is a mistake to ignore entire pieces of the definition of a sociosexual hierarchy. It has to be taken as a whole, or it is only a social hierarchy or sexual hierarchy. Plot device or not, how women interact with a male protagonist will help identify the character's ranking--even Vox's own metric uses that interaction as a way to help identify a GP. (See rule #3,#7 and to some extent even #8) The difference is that the interaction may not reflect reality (women do not throw themselves at Gammas IRL) but that does not mean we can't use it as a tell to help identify a character's ranking (women do throw themselves at Gammas in fiction). But if the fiction does a good job of reflecting reality, then it is fair to say that we can more reliably take such interaction at face-value.
@paworldandtimes
Yes. @sigsawyer already mentioned it in his original analysis. I was offering the other as an additional interpretation counter to his.
Ron said...
You forgot Omega
"REVENGE" = Omega
"It places the lotion in the basket!" = Omega
Leo Littlebook said...
Will spend lots of time lugubriously and loathsomely explaining away any advantages in ability or outcome he may possess or acquire, eliciting universal reassurance and affirmation from those around him. Will regularly abase himself to his inferiors as a means of achieving deep connection, thus establishing his goodness. In sum, prestige rather than hierarchical competition.
Will consistently liberate those locked in oppressive hierarchical relationships, allowing them to flower into full actualization beneath his beneficent prestige leadership with nary a hitch.
Fucks from the bottom (even when he's on top).
Whereas an ALPHA fucks from the top, even when he's relaxing beneath and letting the lady do the work.
I almost forgot!
Will spend pages on impractical moralizing introspection.
As a result of said moralizing, will make many stupid decisions, but not pay for them.
Will explain his deepest innermost motivations and personality to any non-hierarchical character.
Never dumps a girl. But frequently unsuitable girlfriends die.
Often declines sex, leading to strong platonic relationship unless villainess.
Is not permitted by plot to exhibit authoritarian, competent, undramatic, successful control over significant situations. Exercises of authority must be excused by dramatic inner journeys, heartfelt self-revelatory speeches and stupidity-derived narrow scrapes with disaster.
Inevitably shows up all those engaged in hierarchical dominance behavior as deeply insecure frauds and/or heartless villains.
Unless it's a woman doing it, in which case she retains a degree of sympathy and/or sexual attraction to the protagonist.
@PeterPan:
Shakespeare was sociosexually aware, even game-aware, and I have to interpret Ophelia's desire for him as a result of his mindgames and indifferent attitude towards her. He could only be aloof because he wasn't interested. If Hamlet had affection for her and tried to pursue her I suspect he wouldn't have been nearly so successful. Brooding artists can be any sociosexuality, from the gamma Faulkner to the alpha Hemingway.
"Remember, Gamma's are sexual rejects rather than social rejects."
Not necessarily true, at least not when you take society at large instead of social circle by social circle. There are no gammas on my rugby team. There are a couple alphas, a large number of betas, a few deltas, and one or two sigmas. Gammas are at least 30% of the men in the sci-fi club I sometimes show up to, which has a single "low" sigma, one man who is socially alpha in the circumstances but is better described as a sexual beta, and several deltas and gammas. Even in that group the gammas are merely tolerated; most people pretend that their attention-seeking behavior doesn't exist and only interact with them when they're being somewhat normal.
Gammas make up the low-end of low-end social groups. They don't exist in high-end social groups except for the "greater gamma", who has a single exceptional talent which makes him highly arrogant while the rest of his socio-sexual skills are low. Gammas cannot tolerate alphas, and vice versa. Alphas recognize the gamma's attempts to inflate his own status and slap them down, often humiliatingly. The gamma either leaves for pastures without 'bullies and douches' in his words, or is broken, humbled, and becomes a delta.
I remember when I first started playing rugby, the team captain, an alpha, tried to hit me with one of those little status jabs that alphas use to test for compliance. It's like shit tests from guys. I brushed it off, and I could see him tense up, thinking I was another alpha, but I denied him the fight, parrying his shit tests without amplifying or throwing any back. I could also tell when he realized that I wasn't challenging his status; his body language subtly relaxed. The next day he started acting really friendly with me and we're good buddies now, which is why I contest Vox's claim that sigmas don't get along with alphas. If you get it across that you're not after their status they'll be happy to have a friend who they respect as a sociosexual equal.
(I'll break down the whole exchange if Vox or any commenters want it, it's really illustrative of sociosexuality in general and was the thing that convinced me of the model's truth.)
My point is that gammas have a glass jaw and too many insecurities to spar with an alpha: getting shit tested by them causes the gamma psychic pain, so they run from any social circles that contain alphas free to compete with them, making them both sexual and social rejects.
@Austin Ballast: It's possible that Fleming wrote low sociosexual villains to make Bond look better. The assassins who come after Bond don't pontificate, they're Bond's equals. I've only seen the early movies, so I'd bet that for expediency the screenwriter crams extra exposition into the villain's dialogue that was presented in another form in the novels. And I'm afraid that yeah, gammas take that lazy writing seriously because it appeals to their need to spew verbal diarrhea.
Derrick Bonsell said...
If protagonists written by Gammas are Garry Stu's, this would imply that the character has no personality flaws, at least none the author considers flaws?
@Derrick Bonsell
If the protagonist has any "flaws" that the author acknowledges, it's something along the lines of being hated by his hierarchical superiors for being better than them, or being so exceptional that he alienates people around him.
Alternatively, the gamma protag's flaw is being "too good a person", and as a result he's constantly screwed over because of his moral superiority.
Classic projection, as the gamma envies and hates his betters. Naturally, the gamma is in reality the one alienated from the group but he rationalizes it to himself with "if it weren't for those douchebags and assholes keeping me down", or "I'm uncool because I won't sink to the level of those douchebags, sigh, I'll have to shoulder my cruel fate of being a nice guy"
The protagonist being "chosen by destiny" is borderline gamma. Some of those protagonists have to live up to that choice by showing great personal strength and courage, or by improving themselves to become worthy, but characters who were born Special for an Important Destiny are gamma. Don't mistake it for the "ordinary man who accidentally gets caught up in important events and muddles through them", that's delta.
Protagonists who get their lives fixed by a magical Special woman who has all the agency in the relationship are gamma
I don't debate the glass-jaw traits of the Gamma. Merely the classification of Hamlet as a GP. Furthermore, I would even agree that the sexual rejection that Gammas experience is often partially, even wholly, due to their social ineptitude. But Hamlet doesn't fall into this category in my opinion. He smoothly games Ophelia (read his lines to Ophelia during the "Mousetrap" play), does not run away from Laertes' challenge to duel, and essentially dominates most social circumstances he is put in up until the end when everyone is poisoned. It sounds like a GP, but it's not. GPs don't die, and if they do, it's probably a "noble" death. GP's also always get the girl, but in this case Ophelia also dies.
And, perhaps most telling of all, Hamlet never gets to be King.
You might be right, I haven't read Hamlet in a long time. My only argument is that Shakespeare wrote a character of a lower sociosexual rank intentionally and wasn't totally accurate. Difference between a protagonist who's gamma, in a tragedy, and dies for his flaws, and the protagonist of a gamma author, who mirrors his creator's insecurities and self-delusion and is rewarded for it.
Convo plz
Re inability to model u+k sd cognition. I've met some me+(>2). I have *no* idea how their minds work. That's pretty much the point.
Sadly enough one of them was a Caltech EE, who decided to go become a lawyer (instant acceptance at Boalt) because "If you saw a village being ravaged by Huns would you rather be a Hun or a villager?".
It feels kinda autistic now that I start breaking it down, but whatever
Started off when me, him, and a couple others were sharing a hotel room on the road for playoffs (ended up getting stomped by Duke but who doesn't)
I was swiping Tinder waiting for the shower and ended up getting matched with a ratchet looking 19-year old who had two kids already.
"Hey guys, I just matched with a 19-year old single mom. Two kids. This is a classy town, huh?"
(In hindsight, I think the captain took it as alpha-signalling, bragging about my sex life. I wanted to test my teammates for signs of shitlordery)
He replies with:
"That's what you're into, huh? Am I gonna get the bed to myself tonight?"
(At this point the beta/delta response is something like 'nah man, I didn't see her kids, I just swipe right on anything that looks halfway decent.' You're starting rapport by bending to his frame and creating the opportunity to have a chat. An even lower-status response would be to balk at his suggestion of fucking her that night.)
"Says here that she and her kids are a package deal... Think I'll return to sender. Unless you want her? I want the bed to myself too"
(Not directly addressing his response creates a new frame, but I didn't directly challenge him either. Offering her to him is a slight jab but also a recognition of status. It's not a 'you never get laid so I'll be magnanimous' tone, it's one guy offering up the last slice of pepperoni cause he's full. I wanted to say something along the lines of 'the kids are cute though, haven't you ever been called Daddy? Maybe its time for you to settle down and be a father'. That's as direct an attack on his manhood as alpha-shit tests go, and I didn't want a fight. To the uninitiated it just looks like friendly banter, but so does Game)
I look him in the eye and I can see him tense for a fight, it's the same look as any semi-serious sparring session or match. It's half a look of surprise, like "shit this guy is the real deal", but that could be my ego talking. He knew what he was doing and knew that I just parried it.
"I'll pass. It's too bad for you, I hope you like to cuddle"
(Playing "gay chicken", where you sarcastically come on to another guy to gross him out and make him uncomfortable is being used as an alpha status game nowadays, at least in liberal U's. Not a good sign for society, but neither is casual sex. It's actually kind of pyrrhic, since you have to agree and amplify to 'win', so both come out looking gay. Unconcernedly calling him a fag in a flat voice isn't a bad option if you're in shitlord company)
"I sleep naked. Hope that's cool"
Too big for one comment, I'll break it up
He clicked his tongue at me and laughed, so did the other guy in the room. After a couple seconds he says something like:
"Oh man Tinder... those were the glory days"
(It's bait. He's trying to suss out how much I actually get laid by implying that he does. If I agree to enthusiastically it sounds like posing, if I ask him for tips on using it I've beta'd myself. It's a good chance to show him I'm not trying to fight with some rapport though)
"Yeah. It was more fun when it was new and sleazy. Nowadays it feels like any dating site"
"Sounds like you have some experience with dating sites"
(Which are low-status for a young guy to use.)
"My dad used 'em after my parents got divorced. I watched him. Sometimes I'd sneak on and send fake messages to the girls"
(Too fast an answer to be a lie, and since it's actually true, it rings of truth)
"Anyway, I have a girlfriend now."
"Oh yeah? I know her?"
"Remember Veronica from the Halloween party?"
"The blonde with the huge tits? Last thing I remember was singing that song"
"No, not her, she was the redhead. Dude, you straight up told the blonde she 'had nice cleavage'."
"HA! I don't even remember that. I stick by my words then"
"Sam, you ended up takin her home, didn't ya?"
Sam chimes in from the other end of the room:
"Yeah man that girl was fuckin' nuts. Not seein her again"
That's the gist of it. Later on he tried to hit me with another one, but that was the last. We were about to go out drinking:
"Don't drink too much tonight man I don't want you to wet the bed with me in it"
(Too silly a shit test for any serious response, which would legitimize the notion that I piss myself. It's time to crank it up to 11)
"Don't worry, I usually dangle my massive cock over the side, so no danger."
(ridiculously overexaggerated alphaness is a bit gamma, but throwing it out with some irony and the right unhesitating confidence is powerful if you have the right personality. I got the same eyes-widened laughter that you get when you say something outrageous to a chick)
شركة شام لخدمات التنظيف
شركة تنظيف وعزل خزانات بالطائف
شركة تنظيف سجاد و موكيت بالرياض
This description rather fits Sherlock Holmes.
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THEY LEFT--AND WE CRIED
THEY LEFT—AND WE CRIED
A year ago I never would have guessed it would end this way—that two families, strangers to each other when the year began, would shed tears as one family went back to Norway twelve months later.
Last night I hugged two little boys over and over, trying not to notice their tears, fighting a lump in my throat because I was uncertain when I would see them again. Cornelius and Constantin—only 11 and 5 when we first met. Back then their names seemed too elaborate for their small bodies. Yet today the names evoke images that have become a palpable ache, linked to all the moments we spent together. Those elegant names: how quickly they seemed to wrap around each boy until they fit exactly right, and how inevitably Rob and I came to love the boys themselves. Though the two were unique, the older a serious student, the younger an imp, they both had a sweetness that drew us in.
We first met the Norwegian Glittenbergs a year ago, when they moved in across the street from my daughter Tracy and her Paul. Our first glimpse of Constantine, who’d just turned five, was like finding an adorable, pet child who spoke no English. He was tow-headed and small, with a button nose and a child-actor’s assortment of expressions: wonder, humor, dismay, delight, all enhanced by a missing front tooth. When we spoke, all of us around Tracy’s dinner table, Constantin leaned toward Cornelius, an elf with eyes on his brother’s face as he awaited a translation. Had he been old enough for kindergarten in Norway, he might have known some of what we were saying.
On that first get-acquainted supper, Tracy brought in her next-door neighbors, the Bowers, who also had four children. One of them, Elizabeth, has a voice so lovely that a few years ago at age twelve she sang at Tracy’s daughter’s wedding. Tracy announced to the group, “I hear that the Glittenbergs also have a girl who sings. Mathea-Mari, can you and Elizabeth go in the house together and find a song you both know?”
For fifteen minutes, the two girls—one Hispanic the other Norwegian--disappeared. When they came out, the two joined in a harmonic version of a popular melody, which was so lovely it stunned the whole group. Only later did we learn that Mathea-Mari, now sixteen, is famous all over Europe as a solo performer . . . and that her family picked a leased home in Tustin, partly because it was close to an airport from which her father could take her back to Europe for frequent, scheduled concerts.
“How lucky,” our family remarked later that evening, “that we didn’t know about Mathea-Mari in advance, or we’d have all been intimidated.”
The year became a miracle of increasing closeness between the two families—which often included Rob and me. We saw less of the two older girls--Olivia, a senior, and Mathea-Mari, a junior, who were consumed with homework at Beckman high school. But we spent hours with their younger brothers. Early in the year, Tracy taught the boys a card game, ‘golf,’ in which the lucky card is a joker. One of the first things five-year-old Constantin learned to say in English came with a cry of joy, “I got a joker, Mama!”
Cornelius, a slender eleven, displayed an awareness of everything around him. He wore glasses, and he was half an actor, playing a quick succession of roles as he responded to every idea that flew by. We always knew what Cornelius was thinking. He and I quickly became buddies, exchanging hugs with each new encounter. One day Rob and I found him on a nearby road, walking home from school. We stopped to give him a ride. When he jumped into our car, he said, “Your car smells like my Grandma’s car.”
“Is that good?” Rob asked, and he said, “yes.”
How often we arrived at Tracy’s to find little Constantin dashing into the house and flying with a great leap into Tracy’s chaise lounge . . . where he didn’t exactly sit, but splayed out into a disorganized pattern of white, skinny arms and legs.
Frequently invited to dinner with Tracy and Paul, Rob and I often found the party included two small boys as additional guests . . . and an evening that ended with games of golf. As I sat across from the two blond kids, I was mesmerized by a parade of shifting facial expressions, as though our family had been touched by budding movie stars, by two faces lit with a kaleidoscope of emotions, every change of thought or mood expressed more vividly than with words.
Even Tracy’s small, black-and-white dog, Ollie, became part of the entertainment. On days when she walked Ollie, Tracy fetched Constantin to go along, the boy only slightly larger than the pet. Soon she and Constantin went on errands together, and she even brought him and Ollie to the park, letting them entertain each other as she played tennis. And he spent a day with her at Videoresources . . . becoming an instant mascot for the company.
Charming kids don’t happen by accident. We became warm friends with their parents, J.P. and Katherine, both young, good-looking, and solid in their own skins. Increasingly, the two families spent more and more leisure time together—visiting California sites, like beaches, an “escape” room, friends of Tracy’s, and even our son Chris’s ranch. And the family was with us on multiple holidays—Easter, Mother’s Day, the Super bowl, Christmas.
Thanks to kindergarten and all those two-family adventures, Constantin became steeped in English. By year’s end, now age six, he knew everything we were saying--and he’d even learned to read in English. Sometimes when I arrived at Tracy’s, I heard a tiny voice calling from a window across the street. Though I couldn’t see him, I knew it was Constantin, spinning out a greeting.
Our last day with the Glittenberg’s was both memorable and poignant. Around noon, the two daughters borrowed my Prius to take their driver’s tests, hoping, before they left, to earn California driver’s licenses. To our delight, both succeeded. When I got my car back, they’d had it washed.
Dinner at Tracy’s that evening was bittersweet. The two boys couldn’t stop weeping . . . the younger, still no bigger than a puppy, curled up in his father’s lap, the older leaning against J.P.’s shoulder . . . a tableau momentarily interrupted by the arrival of “Addie,” Constantin’s fellow kindergartner. He’d mentioned her occasionally, and now her mother admitted, “One day they went to the park. And they (she spelled it out) K.I.S.S.E.D.” We all burst out laughing.
Later, mother Katherine read from her laptop, a long tribute to our family, and especially Tracy. And then came gifts from the Glittenbergs to all of us, among them cookies from Hawaii. Rob and I returned home, already feeling nostalgic and sad.
If only sadness hadn’t been part of the departure . . . but it was. As Tracy drove them to LAX, everyone in the car was singing except the two boys. “It was so heartbreaking,” Tracy said. “They couldn’t stop sobbing."
The consoling part is, we know we’ll see the Glittenbergs again, either in California or Norway. Feelings as strong as we all felt for each other can’t be entirely eliminated, either by time or space. For that we’re grateful.
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Featured Children's Book: The Dirt on Dirt by Paulette Bourgeois
Submitted by clelia on March 12, 2008 - 3:15pm
By Paulette Bourgeois and illustrated by Martha Newbigging
Kids Can Press, 2008
Dirt. It's in the air, under your bed, on the street and between your toes. Most of the time, you're trying to get rid of it. Does showering make you feel squeaky clean? Sure you are — for now. Read this book to find out why you just can't escape dirt — and why it's important for more reasons than you think.
Earth, mud, grime, soil — whatever you call it, dirt is everywhere, even where you don't expect it. Did you know that without dirt, there would be no rain? Or beautiful sunsets?
The Dirt on Dirt covers not only what you think of as dirt, but also everything on and around the planet relating to dirt, from dirt homes big and small to secrets the dirt hides and much more. Youngsters will also find a bucketful of fun things to do with dirt, including how to build a bike racetrack, create fossil footprints and grow a garden playhouse.
From the catalogue. Read more about The Dirt on Dirt and Paulette Bourgeois at the Kids Can Press website
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Art School(ed): JISD, a RISD neighbor in the blogosphere
By: Edith Young / November 23, 2013 / 1 Comment
In the spring of 2013, a new blog erupted on the RISD cyber scene. Down the hill from the Main Green, Jen Berry started posting a comic series, JISD, informed by all she had experienced throughout RISD’s Foundation year. (Foundation year is RISD terminology for the freshman class’ mandatory, studio-intensive curriculum. Along with two introductory liberal arts courses per term, freshmen must take all three of the 8-hour long Foundation studio courses in the fall and spring semester: Drawing, Design, and Spatial Dynamics. RISD freshmen can be recognized by the charcoal under their fingernails and the bags under their eyes.)
JISD took the bounty of absurd material from this sleepless year and transformed it into an entertaining and witty comic series that can make any Foundation year rosier and more bearable. JISD pulls back the curtain and serves as an accurate lens into the lifestyle of a typical RISD student (if such a thing as a “typical RISD student” exists). Now a sophomore, Berry pens more about rising from the bottom of the RISD food chain and spending her first year in a declared major. Art School(ed) got up close and personal with this art school blogging legend, after the jump.
Art School(ed): What inspired you to start this comic?
Jen Berry: I’ve been following a lot of web comics for a long time, and always wanted to start my own, but it’s a hard decision trying to figure out what you want to write about, especially if you want to keep it up for a long time. So I said, hell, something along the lines of, “write what you know” and what I knew was just how freaking bizarre RISD can be. Also, I guess I’ve always been struck by the fact that nobody I knew in high school is pursuing art — so it’s always mind-boggling to them when I try to explain what goes on at art school… I just wanted to capture that.
AS: I know your comic is called JISD as an acronym for “Jen Is Super Dumb,” but after reading your comics, it seems like you’re funny and not super dumb. Did you also name your comic JISD (jizz-dee) to coincide with RISD’s phallic school spirit (our mascot Scrotie, and our primary sports teams the Balls and the Nads) or was that unintentional?
JB: That was completely intentional—in fact I came up with “JISD” before I came up with an acronym. I just always thought that RIZ-DEE sounds so funny, and the “J” just happened to come from my name. The actual name’s kind of a throwaway, to be honest. But I really enjoy humor that’s a bit crude, a bit uncomfortable. I’ve had so many people ask very carefully if I realize what my blog name sounds like (as if I would be offended if I found out!)… that’s pretty much exactly the response I wanted.
AS: What is your personal favorite of your JISD comics?
JB: I think it’s a toss up between “the stages of charcoal face” and the one about design crits because they are pretty much the two comics I made the blog for. I was already a semester and a half deep in Foundations, and those comics had been kicking around in my head for ages, a sort of joke I wanted to last longer than just saying it out loud.
AS: Favorite Providence spot?
JB: There’s this couch in Carr Haus that is the best couch, even though half the time somebody is taking a nap there… literally I wish I had four of those couches in my house. It’s the comfiest spot to nap but it’s also facing one of the big windows that look out on the intersection of Benefit and Waterman so you can watch freshman as they learn the RISD art of jaywalking. It’s a full-sized couch but I never see more than one person on it because when you have a couch that good, who wants to share?
AS: Do you create your comics manually or digitally?
JB: I use brush and ink, and then scan them into Photoshop to add color! I was really inspired by one of Lynda Barry’s books lately, where she suggests using an ink stick and stone (in an exercise in which you draw out your “demons”)— so I’ve been using that lately—you get this inkstone and a solid stick of sumi ink and you grind the stick on the stone with water to make your ink. It’s a pretty soothing task, and I enjoy that I have an excuse to carry a rock around in my purse. (Also, side note—I’m sure that the content of any RISD student’s purse/backpack is TERRIFYING. Or rather, the stunning amount of razor blades & x-acto knives you will find.)
AS: Who is your biggest illustration inspiration? I personally love the work of Joana Avillez (a RISD grad), and I think you two could be illustration soul sisters, especially with this post.
JB: Craig Thompson is pretty much my hero — his work has the best marriage of gorgeous brushwork and storytelling — my real dream is to create a graphic novel, because of him. Also, I’ve always been super fascinated by Marlo Meekins — she’s really well-known for her Vines now, but I’ve always been super inspired by her comics because they are just so weird. Again, it’s that kind of crude humor that I guess I first (sort of) was exposed to while reading MAD Magazine standing in the grocery store when I was little.
AS: What do you think was the most important thing you learned Foundation year?
JB: Really, just to be kind of fearless with my work — if an idea came into my mind, I just sort of flat out pursued it, no matter how crazy ambitious it was. Foundations year is the time to really really push yourself, and I was pretty fortunate that first semester I had a pretty good group of professors that really pushed our sections, but second semester came around and it wasn’t really the same… so the development of a good work ethic was important.
AS: What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever had to do in a RISD class?
JB: All the weird things I’m thinking of are mostly projects I decided to do on my own — they really didn’t need to be weird. It’s just sometimes you’re given an assignment and you’re like, hell, I’m at RISD – I might as well make it weird. First semester freshman year I made a giant self portrait out of frosted cookies and my class ate my project in class.
I also made a giant squirrel out of chicken wire and fabric for an installation piece. When I moved in this year, I tried to throw it away in the dumpsters by Charles Landing, but I found it nestled in a tree a good couple hundred feet down the road a couple days later.
AS: Charcoal or gouache?
JB: Gouache! I’m obsessed. I’m really sorry to anyone out there who hasn’t made peace with gouache yet – it’s a beautiful medium once you get a handle on it.
AS: What is the weirdest thing to have happened to you since you started this blog? Have you experienced any backlash from publishing autobiographical comics online?
JB: It’s really all been very positive – people come up to me on the street and ask me if I’m the one who does JISD. One freshman asked me if I was “the girl that does the thing” and I had to be like, “Yes? Yes, I do a thing.” And I got e-mails from alumni that had been out of RISD a good 15, 20 years, telling me how relevant the comics are, even to RISD back then — that’s probably been my favorite thing about posting these comics. I guess the most backlash I get is when people ask me why they aren’t featured in JISD…
I do remember getting one piece of biting criticism — I posted a comic about how I was sort of gaining perspective — that to draw comics, you don’t necessarily have to be the greatest artist. A lot of comics I really love rely heavily simply on the writing! Somebody sent me an anonymous message that this comic made me come off “rather snobbish” and that I should “examine myself” after writing that. It really wasn’t that terrible of a message, but at the time, I was really just starting the comic, so it kind of hurt, especially knowing that the majority of my readers were my classmates!
AS: What is your favorite blog (besides your own)?
JB: There’s this blog called “RISD KIDS” which has photos of just that, the culture of RISD – and I don’t know who runs that blog, but it is like the National Geographic of RISD. I’m crazy about it, and I wonder how long I have to stand in Market Square wearing something cool until they put me on the blog…
Also, Deep Dark Fears has the most wonderfully dark comics.
AS: How did you decide to major in Printmaking?
JB: I had taken an Intro to Intaglio Wintersession [Ed–apparently this is how RISD stylizes its winter period] class and sort of fell in love, but at the time I still was heavily considering Illustration because it was the obvious choice. I was walking by Benson Hall one day in spring semester and I was whining how much I missed being in that studio – and my friend (one of the few that aren’t in Illustration) turned and said to me, “Jen, why don’t you go into Printmaking?” and it sort of clicked. I just really enjoy the labor that goes into making a print.
AS: Do you ever hand in your JISD works as assignments for class, or do you keep it separate from your studies?
JB: It’s pretty separate. It’s sort of like I’m still trying to figure out how to shape my work in a way that incorporates aspects of comics, but it’s not really there yet. I’m working on a series of six short autobiographical stories for my bookbinding class and they’re sort of JISD adjacent, but they’re definitely more personal. When I was doing the comics every day, I did sort of consider it to be work, but it was like this weird unpaid self-employment where I had to set aside nearly two hours a day.
AS: Which comics do you read?
JB: I think my favorite webcomics right now are Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant, Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran, and Three Word Phrase by Ryan Pequin. I’ve been very into reading autobiographical graphic novels/comics lately — Lynda Berry, John Porcellino, Adrian Tomine.
AS: Will you make a comic or an installment of JISD about Brown?
JB: I’m sure I’ll come around to it! I think I’ll probably have to take a Brown class to sort of absorb the culture – it’s probably as mystifying to me as RISD is to Brown.
[AS: Brown has had its honorary mentions from time to time…]
AS: Anything else you’d like to share?
JB: Just a shout-out to whatever glorious person writes the signs out in front of the First Baptist Church. I’ve considered writing a comic about them but how can you when they are just so perfect and bizarre?
Swoon.
Posted in: News / Tagged: art school(ed), blog on blogs, charcoal, comics, Foundation year, gouache, JISD, RISD, RISD beach, squirrels
Duncan J. Berry
November 23, 2013 at 9:33 pm /
Dad speaks… about the squirrel. It was quite a production when we moved down the hill into Charles Landing. The sculpture went from storage into the dumpster… (In the spirit of Duchamp) …It was still in the tree the last time I visited in September. I’d like to see if it is still there.
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The Netflix Files: September 29, 2011
By: Mike Makowsky / September 29, 2011 / No Comments /
The Netflix Files works to find the hidden gems of Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature, the films and TV shows that have gone largely unnoticed by the streaming community. We do not cover Qwikster, but we will point you in the direction of Acme Video if you buy us booze at Campus Fine Wines on your way there.
FX (or, as three people on campus like to call it, Channel 046 on IPTV) has recently emerged as the AMC of television comedy. It all started back in 2004, when Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton, three struggling young actors, brought their pilot (shot for a meager $200) in to the network. FX saw potential in the three guys, revamped the pilot and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was born. Since then, FX has placed faith in low-cost, high-quality comedies — namely Wilfred, Louie and Archer (the latter two are also available on Watch Instantly). The best of them all might just be The League.
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Army captain killed in Kashmir gave up private job
By IANS-CT / February 24, 2010
Ghaziabad, Feb 24 (IANS) Captain Davendra Singh, killed in a gun battle with separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, had given up a cushy private job to join the army, the slain man’s grieving father said Wednesday.
Devendra Singh had completed his engineering course, was on the verge of completing his MBA and had got a private job through campus placement when he decided that he wanted to be a soldier.
On Tuesday, the captain was killed while fighting militants in Sopore.
‘When he told me he had been selected in the army after he had got an appointment letter from a reputed company, we backed his decision to join the army,’ said Bhupendra Singh.
A former general manager of Dabur India Ltd, Bhupendra Singh said at the family residence in Indirapuram that his son was passionate about joining the army.
‘The difference in pay (between what the company and what the army offered) was more than double. But the family had to bow to his will and passion,’ Bhupendra Singh added.
In December 2007, the young man was selected in the Signals regiment. He was later selected for a commando course.
He visited his family when his grandmother died last year. At that time he was posted in Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
‘On Saturday he talked to me and said he would come for Holi. It was our last telephonic discussion,’ the father said.
‘We are proud on him. It was his wish. It was his childhood passion. The entire family agreed with him in all his decisions during his 26-year-old life,’ he added.
Two landmines recovered in Jharkhand
Pakistani delegation hopeful of ‘positive outcome’ of talks
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Art & Culture, Interviews, Lifestyle, Music, The Pulse
Izaline Calister Does Her Powerful Voice Still Ring True? 2007 Interview
“…Support means providing information, workshops and lectures so that everyone may have access to all the tools and opportunities I used to reach my goal. This is a very hands-on type of support. I believe it is also important to have an educational system kids can turn to, to develop their talents. This is the only way to keep local music alive, interesting and developing. It needs to grow, develop and be injected with new blood and ideas.”
Name: Izaline Francisca Juanita Calister
Date of Birth: 9th of March but the year is a big big secret
Place of Birth: The beautiful sunny island of Curacao
Your connection to the Caribbean: I was born there and lived there most of my life, the most important formative part of my live there. I love the vibe, the sounds, the colours, the music, the people……need I go on???
Highschool attended: Radulphus College. Willemstad, Curaçao
Current Studies /Occupation: Well I finished studying a few years ago. I studied Business Administration in Groningen and when I finished this I studied Music in Groningen as well and graduated in 1998.
What is or are the accomplishments you are most proud of up to now?
Bringing the music that I write and sing in my own language papiamentu, to all parts of the world. There is no greater feeling than noticing that it works everywhere and people leave the concert with a happy smile on their face even if they don’t understand a word I am singing.
Who has been your inspiration?
Oswin ‘chin’ Behilia, Richard Bona, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Sara Tavares. Artists from different parts of the world who create by mixing and matching different influences in a unique way.
What are the choices you made that you believe have brought you to where you are today?
Early on in my career I decided to be a true professional; to always be on time, always well prepared, always fair and straight, always friendly….and artistically always follow my gut feeling and my heart.
What do you feel about the state of Antillean music in General?
There is a lot happening and brewing underground. I can’t wait to hear and see what is going to come up in a few years.
How do you feel you are contributing to the evolution of Antillean music?
That is one of the things I am most proud of. I know that even if it is for a small part, my music and my success abroad, a lot of young musicians on my island are now daring to dream bigger dreams. People are now more aware of the richness of our music and culture even though we are a small island. They are finding more and more ways to express their pride.
What do you prefer to do on one of those “I have nothing else to do, no obligation,chill out type of days” in Holland? Those days are very rare for me. But when I have them I love to go see a concert by artists I admire, catch a movie or just curl up on the couch and watch a nice series on DVD. Nowadays I have two addictions: Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes.
How do you feel about the state of contemporary music on the islands/or Holland? Well, sometimes I miss some originality I guess. I think people are too obsessed about being succesful instead of being original. Thank Goodness you always have special quircky individuals that will try something new and make it hip to be special for a while. I love real musicians, real singers, and real songwriters. I hope they are the ones who will keep on prevailing in this world filled with plastic, computer enhanced artists.
How do you think we can improve music education on the islands?
I hope the government realizes how important music education is for it’s people. We need a proper way of teaching so children can get a good basic music education. We need a way to detect kids that have a special inclination or talent early on. We need ways to make sure gifted children fully develop their talents.
For this we need a methodology that fits our culture and people. This has to be designed and thoroughly thought over. This requires money, determination, tools and knowledge. We also need to realize that this should be an ongoing process with a long breath. The government is the first who can help in this process. Then we need rolemodels who are willing to teach, talk, advise, listen and form. Here is where I see a big role for me and my fellow musicians.
Why do you believe it is important to support local music, and what does Support mean to you?
Support means providing information, workshops and lectures so that everyone may have access to all the tools and opportunities I used to reach my goal.
This is a very hands-on type of support. I believe it is also important to have an educational system kids can turn to, to develop their talents. This is the only way to keep local music alive, interesting and developing. It needs to grow, develop and be injected with new blood and ideas.
What’s the top five on your Play List?
- Eyala-Richard Bona
- Lisboa Kuya- Sara Tavares
- Be still my heart-Silje Nergaard
- When morning comes-Dianne Reeves
- James-Pat Metheny
What is your favorite song in Papiamentu?
No bai by Oswin ‘Chin’ Behilia
Any new projects or new sounds? I am preparing a new CD. I want to try something new but don’t know what yet. I’m thinking, trying, experimenting, writing, tossing and turning…….so I guess it’s 2008 were watching out for.
Message to the Global Community:
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Keep supporting the music from lesser known parts of the world. You
might never know what kind of gems you may encounter and be very pleasantly surprised by music from the smallest of islands.
Shout-out to the Caribflava (The UCC) community:
Hi guys, I feel honored to be part of this community. With ears and eyes wide open to what is happening in the Caribbean region and beyond. Thank you for making me feel so welcome!
( UPDATE: Watch her perform for the King and queen of the Netherlands in April of this year 2014)
Art & Culture, Lifestyle, Music, The Pulse
The Caribbean is HAPPY! (Videos)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLqVKCQlCUI
Art & Culture, Music, Reviews, The Pulse
Love You To Bumboclat (video)| Jamaica
Gabriella Reno
As posted on Youtube:
My first music video!!! :*
Buy the song here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gabriellareno
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Chantry Hodge A.K.A DJ Outkast | SXM
Chantry Hodge
Name: Chantry Hodge
Date of Birth: September 19th, 1983
Place of Birth: St. Maarten
Where have you been living the passed two years? All My Life I have Been Living On St. Maarten
Where are you living now? Of Course.. St. Maarten
Current occupation: Professional Dj/ Owner & Executive Producer Of Un Authorized Studios & 187 Music
How would you describe yourself?
Well.. Dj Outkast is a down to earth, easy to talk to, and a soft spoken person who life’s passion has always been music. My father used to own a record store in St. Maarten named ” Al Hodge Records & Electronics ” where he establised a name and reputation from mix cassetes and record sales, My father has already met and worked with artists such as Bob Marley, Yellow Man, Micheal Jackson, & many more great legends. So as i got older and got more interested in dj’s, watching them on tv doing scratches and tricks and stuff.. i got so facinated with it and decided to go for it.. My start was in my basement with some old turntables from my pops, a cassette player and a portable cd player.. I started with nothing and slowly built my self up and training myself in not only technique, but in knowledge of music.. but to make a long story a little shorter… I went from nothing and built myself into what u see today… I put my mind to it and decided this is what i wanted.. and no one would stop my dream and destiny.. and it surly paid off..
How was the Heineken Green Synergy experience like for you?
The Heineken Green Synergy Experience was like nothin else in this world..Heineken really and truly gave me my big break.. i was always known as a Dj in St. Maarten.. but it was my first involment in 2004 at the very first Heineken Competition that really gave me the big break I needed.. I was approached by veteren Dj here on St. Maarten named ” Party Dude Jason ” who saw potential in me and asked me to sign up.. i didn’t want to at first but then decided it’s now or never to do this.. so I entered as the underdog going in against big names like ” Mix Master Pauly ” and ” Dj Blaze “.. and I won’t that night and it did so much for me and my career I then then moved on to the first grand regional finals in Antigua where i placed 2nd that year representing St. Maarten.
I started traveling all over the place, I was on TV and news paper here in St. Maarten on a regular basis, I became a house hold name… that really boosted my career.
I then entered it again this past year and again advanced to the grand finals in the Bahamas and again places 2nd in the caribbean. And now with the great thing we have in the caribbean now called ” Tempo” even more people now knows who Outkast is and what I am about… So The Heineken Green Synergy Experience was definitely a great step in my life and career.
What type of music do you prefer to mix with?
Well.. You can’t really have a liking to a certain genre of music too much in this profession, You really have to play for the people. It’s not about what I like.. It’s what they (the audience) like and what they enjoy themselves with.. but personally, I love Hip Hop and Dancehall.. those are my real favorites… I love the way u can mix and create different sounds when u mix hip hop, r&b, dancehall, Reggea, Soca and Zouk..
Dj’s in other different parts of the world are only known for one genre.. One can be known as a Hip Hop DJ, the other a reggeaton dj.. BUT Caribbean DJ’s know how to put everything together in one flow with out stopping… Once u can play dancehall, Hip Hop, R&B, Zouk, Soca, Disco oldies, and a little House into your mix.. So here you definitely have to be a versatile DJ and entertainer.
So you are producing music in St.maarten. Tell us a little about your company.
Well, I own a little recording establishment in St. Maarten that I like to call ” Un Authorized Studios ” I started it due to the fact that St. Maarten has many many many young and very talented local artists in Hip Hop, Dancehall and R&B but yet… all the studios that were open at the time charged very high prices that no young person could afford. But yet.. they really wanted to record, so I open my little establisment so the young and up coming artists would have some where to go that they can get their material down and be heard with out having to dig a hole in their pocket
Who’s your inspiration?
The Lord above is who really gives me the strength and patience to keep doing what I love to do, as hard as it has been and continues to get harder. My parents have also really backed me and inspired me to go on and keep doing what I love to do.
Your musical inspiration?
I looked up to many local greats here in St. Maarten growing up… such as Mix Master Pauly, Dj Sheff, Dj Dave Nice, Party Dude Jason, Nachum Frank and & Dj Wilson.
How do you feel about the evolution of music in general?
As times have changed, so has the music, the artists and the mindsets of the artists and the people who listen to music has subsequently changed dramatically. Today’s music is all about how many man in they crew, who all they killed, how shiny their gun was when they killed the guy, the car they were driving, the size of they rims, and the chains they wear…
What happened to enjoying the party, and girls, and the love that was put in to the music? Same thing with dancehall, back then it was more fun and more love was involved..it has changed a lot. Don’t get me wrong.. I love the music of today still.. It’s just that the artists of today really need to get their priorities straight… and so do the people who listen to music.. Even Soca and calypso have changed.. People really need to start listening to how music used to be before they release their material.
How do you feel about the future of Antillean bourne music?
There is no future for Antillean music until Antillean people themselves start supporting each other. Other islands support their own local talent and give them all they need to reach the top.. Antilleans on the other hand would bad talk and put down each other then actually helping and supporting each other.. The Antillean talent is getting better and better every day. But the people need to wake up and realize what they have in front of them and support them.
What is the project you are most proud of?
In 2005 my group 187 and I released a song here on St. Maarten called ” T.I.N.T ” which started as a joke.. but when it was released.. It was one of the biggest local hits on St. Maarten… and after 2 years of playing.. It is still being one of the biggest local hits.. and I am proud to be involved in such a project to effect the island as that song did..
When did you decide to start your recording studio?
I opened that studio in early 2001 and have been doing it ever since. It has had many more upgrades since I opened it though ( trust me.. ha ha ha )
So what type of music are you producing?
Well.. basically I work a lot with young people… so I do a lot of Hip Hop, R&B, and dancehall but over the years I have also worked with some Calypso and Soca artists and projects as well.
Who are the 187 Boys?
This is my crew, my organization, and most of all.. my friends.. we were always just a group of friends that chilled together.. the name 187 actually came from when we first formed the group. It was 18 people, and 7 cars.. ( but it’s a lot more then that now.. trust me ) ha ha.. but we do music of course..releasing hits such as T.I.N.T, Still Tippin On 187, Shake Dat A, and Chicken Leg & Johnny Cake..
We keep it really local and comical that every can enjoy it at any age. We also organize parties and social events to give back to the community. But basically 187 is a group of friends that like to have fun… period…he he
What events should we look out for in 2007?
A lot of stuff I have planned, I plan to do a lot of parties for the upcoming year.
I also want to do a concert and bring an artist down to st. maarten to perform, a new radio show on fm radio and online streaming. A Dj Outkast & 187 Clothing Line, a lot more mix cd’s, releases from a lot of local artists that are under my studio Un Authorized/ 187 Musc, and much much more to come.
What do you do on of those rare slow you don’t have ANYTHING else to do type of days In St.Maarten?
Ha ha.. well.. your right.. those days don’t really come around often.. but when I do get those times..I take that time to get sleep.. haha.. I work a lot, during the week I’m in the studio and I DJ at night.. So the days I do have off.. I do get as much rest as I can.. I also spend a lot of time with my family, because they mean a lot to me. But personal time is important to me so I just relax and make some ” Me ” time to just chill and relax a bit before I go crazy.
I like sports, cars, hanging and chillin with my friends, some video games, or just taking a drive around to clear my head also works for me..
Shout out CaribFlava community:
Well..Definitely a big big shout out and big up to the Carib – Flava Community for taking the time out to find out a little more about me.. I sure do appreciate it..keep it lock for much more and keep it real..
Never give up on your dreams or your goals in life. If there is something u want in life reach out and grab for it. even if it takes a little more time then others… If you really want it and work hard enough for it.. it will eventually come your way.
Music, The Pulse
(Video) Warm – Kris Berry & Perquisite
Official video for ‘Warm‘, the third single of the album ‘Lovestruck Puzzles’ by Kris Berry & Perquisite
Art & Culture, Interviews, Music, The Pulse
Tamara Nivillac (video) – CURACAO
Tamara Nivillac sits down to chat with carib-flava during her Single Gosa’s Debut.
Special thanks to Evolution Studios Curaçao.
Willemstad, Curaçao.
By Deya Mensche
Tamara Nivillac’s first single “Gosa” (available on itunes : https://itun.es/nl/w8G9X).
Written and produced by Stanley Alejandro Clementina. Art Direction and video production by Junior Tecla.
Videoclip by INNOVATIV Productions (Lennon Aniceta).
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Lyrics: “Gosa”
Basta tempu b’a entreg’é
Kada momentu bo ta anhela riba dje
Den bo body bo ta sinti’é
Surrender to the rhythm of your heart and soul
Koro: Gosa 4*
Gosa gosa gosa un bes
Den e bida aki bo tin mester
Kur’é herida den bo ser
Enjoy the life your given
Bebe un gota no kremench’é
Consume life don’t throw it away
Kada un paso bo marka bo a vense
Lanta para no lamenta bo rekompensa ta prepara
Cherish life, don’t ever let go
Koro:
Gosa bo ta gosa
M’a mirabo bo ta sinta wak
Kada un paso pa dilanti b’a persevera
Bo ta sinta wak pero no lubida
Bo ta sinta bo ta sinta
Bo n’ ta gosa bo n’ ta gosa
Bria pa bo mes
Lanta bo move
Ta bo mes tin ku traha riba dje
Hasi esfuerso pa logr’é
M’a mira bo blo ta sinta
Ai dikon bo no ke bringa?
M’a mira bo blo ta sinta ta sinta no warda riba mayan
DATAPANIK (video) – FUENTE
Gee Money – SXM
Name: Gee Money
Date of Birth: Sept. 25 2007 (Not yet born, still a work in progress)
Place of birth: Staten Island (Shaolin) N.Y.C.
Current location: St. Maarten N.A. (We’ll have to see about the N.A.)
Current Occupation: Radio Host for St. Maarten’s #1 Radio station Laser 101 FM and the St. Maarten correspondent for KikoTaKiko TV.
What is your connection with St.Maarten? My mother is from the French side of the island; so most of my mother’s side of the family lives here in St. Maarten including my grandmother who just passed away this past November (Miss ya Nana!). My father is from Aruba but was born in Curacao; most of his family is in Aruba.
So who would you say is Gee Money? I’m a very down to earth person once you get to know me. Most people who don’t know me would say that I’m very stuck up or I act like my sh*t don’t stink, but that’s because they never met me or never had a good chat with me. My zodiac sign is Libra and everyone loves a Libra! (That’s what they say.)
After many years you have decided to stay and live in St.Maarten, why? Where else in the world can you have the best of both worlds? A French side and a Dutch side, the only island in the Caribbean that has two carnivals every year, 36 beaches, every night a different club is jumping, nice cool weather all year round, some of the best concerts in the Caribbean and over 100 different nationalities living on 37 square miles. You can’t beat that with a baseball bat!
You do have a few music collabos out. Who were they with? Where can we find them? I have done a few unofficial remixes with some of the hottest songs and artist such as: Akon “Ghetto”, Chris Brown “Yo (Excuse Me Miss)”, Alicia Keys “You Don’t Know My Name”, Slum Village “Selfish”, B2K “Girlfriend”, The Game “One Blood” and Ne-Yo “When You’re Mad”. The Ne-Yo remix I got to perform with Ne-Yo for Summerfest here in St. Maarten. I heard the Slum Village remix of “Selfish” I did was a big hit on radio down in Curacao, thanks to all the radio stations and DJ’s for playing it. I have done a couple of intros also for DJ Spinderella’s (Salt & Pepa fame) syndicated radio show called “The Back Spin”. You can check out some of my remixes on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/wwwlaser101fm).
So what’s an average day like as a DJ at laser 101 St.Maarten? First of all I don’t consider myself a DJ cause I don’t play in clubs but I can rock the mic with a DJ spinning in the club. Now back to the question, I have it really good here working for Laser 101. I have to be at work for 10am so my ass don’t get out of bed till 9am cause I live pretty close to the station. Every weekday I have my show from 10am to 2pm called “The Workload Show” where I do horoscopes, celebrity news called the 411, sports, weather, giveaways and the hottest tunes on radio. On Saturdays I also have a mix show from 8pm to 12 midnight with DJ Nonstop (DMX’s DJ) and DJ John J (Canada).
What keeps you loving what you do everyday? I love music and entertaining people. I tell people I have the greatest job in the world!
What are the top 5 songs on your top ten lists right now? I’ll give you 6 because I have to be different, so these are my top 6 songs, not Laser’s so don’t get it twisted!
Nas Feat. Jay Z “Black Republicans”
Buju Banton “Driver”
Robin Thicke “Lost Without U”
Snoop Dogg Feat. R. Kelly “That’s That Sh*t”
Monica “A Dozen Roses”
Collie Buddz Feat. Busta Rhymes “Come Around (Remix)”
What events are you looking forward to this year? This year again I’m hosting the 27th Heineken Regatta (March 1st-4th) here in St. Maarten and they have Ziggi, Orange Groove, Shurwayne Winchester and Stephen & Damian Marley all performing. It should be off the hook this year! I’m also looking forward to SoulBeach this year cause it will be in St.Maarten this May, where it all began! (I just gave yall some exclusive info.)
What events/cafe’ etc. would you recommend people to come to if they were to visit St.Maarten? You have to come and see our carnival (Dutch side), one of the best in the Caribbean! You have to come and experience our village, which is open 24 hours a day. It’s where you can get all types of food, see some great concerts and shows and meet just about every and anybody there. This year they are making the village a permanent structure so in the future it will hold other events throughout the year.
What would you do on an average nothing to do no responsibilities, lean back type of day in St.Maarten? I’m a big sports fan, so I might just sit home and watch a game. If there is no game on TV I will watch a DVD (Dave Chappelle show seasons 1, 2 or 3) or surf the Internet. I love to stay home and just chill.
You are also somehow linked to MTV Tempo events. Could you tell us little more about that? You were also the host for the Heineken DJ competition last year am I right? When it comes to Tempo I just happen to host some events that they were filming at and they used me, but they did ask me to host there opening party here in St. Maarten. I went to NYC to audition for Tempo back in 2005 so all the staff; hosts and the CEO know me very well and like when I host an event for them.
I have hosted the Heineken Green Synergy DJ Competition since its inception back in 2004 when it was in Antigua. In 2005 it was in St. Lucia and last year it was in the Bahamas (Bananas!). This year it will be in Jamaica (some more exclusive info!) and I’m very excited cause I never been there before, so I hope Heineken uses me again to host!
What would you like to achieve in your career over the next couple of years? I’ve done so much in my career from TV commercials, hosting concerts and pageants, acting in plays, that if it was all to end today I would be satisfied, but what I really want to do is act in a major motion picture (next to Halle Berry of course). I’ve acted in an independent picture called “The Panman” which comes out this year.
What do you feel about the state of popular music in general? I’m a big Rap fan and I’m not feeling it at all! Today’s Rap is so garbage that I really don’t listen to it much unless I’m playing it on the radio. All these new rappers are just talking about their white tees, jewelry, cars, sneakers or a new dance step. It’s the same thing over and over again and the videos are also the same. Right now I’m listening to a lot of old school Rap and R&B. I like to listen to other types of music like Soca, Reggaeton and R&B. See music is like fashion and it comes in cycles, I can’t wait for this cycles to be over!
What do you feel about the evolution of local/Antillean music production in the upcoming years? I feel our music has come a long way and still could go much further. The production has really improved and I would love to see Antillean music become global like salsa and merengue or even to the point where Reggaeton is right now. But that might be wishful thinking on my part, because today’s youth is much more interested in Rap and Dancehall music. So I hope Antillean music doesn’t die a slow death.
Always remember to be yourself or you might just find yourself by yourself, so don’t player hate just congratulate and always put GOD first in everything you do!
Big up’s to Carib-Flava for showing me some love and representing the Carib people all over the world. I hope to get back down to Curacao to see all those beautiful and sexy women.
Chat Bout It, Interviews, Music, The Pulse, Throwback
Izaline Calister Joe’s Pub, NYC 2007
The legendary performance of Izaline Calister in Joe’s Pub in New York City marked an important milestone in the career of our beloved jazz extraordinaire. It was the firs time that she preformed as a soloist together with her talented band in the Big Apple.[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″ p_margin_bottom=”20″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]
[mk_dropcaps content=”T” style=”fancy-style” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]The legendary performance of Izaline Calister in Joe’s Pub in New York City marked an important milestone in the career of our beloved jazz extraordinaire. It was the firs time that she preformed as a soloist together with her talented band in the Big Apple. To celebrate this occurrence, renowned percussionist Pernell Saturnino, who is currently living in New York , also joined her onstage. Approximately 150 people, consisting of a cozy, yet diverse blend of “yu di Korsou” or Curacao people and American music lovers, got together to enjoy her rhythmic presentation. Continue Reading…
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Answered by Sarah Scoles
What will eventually happen to the interplanetary probes Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which are now on an escape trajectory from our solar system? Will they ever escape the Milky Way?
The probes will continue out of our solar system and will travel through space in the same direction in which they left the solar system. Pioneer 10 is heading toward Aldebaran and will get there in approximately two million years. Pioneer 11 is heading toward the constellation Aquila and will reach a star in four million years.
It is doubtful that the spacecraft will ever be able to leave the Milky Way, as they would have to attain a velocity of 1000 kilometers/second, and unless they get a huge, huge, huge velocity boost from something unexpected, they will probably end up being in the Milky Way's rotation forever. However, even if they could leave the Milky Way, it wouldn't be for millions and millions and millions of years, and we would long ago have lost communication with the Voyagers, with which we will theoretically be in contact until 2020.
Page last updated on June 25, 2015.
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Sarah Scoles
Sarah has a B.A. in astrophysics from Agnes Scott College, where she worked in the field of radio astronomy, and an MFA from Cornell, where she now teaches.
Why did the Pioneer and Voyager take only 2 years to reach Jupiter, while Galileo and Cassini took more than 5 years? (Intermediate)
Is the gravitational force exerted by the Earth on the Moon equal to the centripetal force acting on the Moon? (Intermediate)
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définition - EURASIATIC
Eurasiatic (adj.)
1.relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia"His mother was Eurasian, and his father Chinese" "the Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world"
définition (complément)
synonymes - EURASIATIC
↗ Eurasia
Eurasiatic languages
qui est (autre...) (fr)[Classe...]
qui est relatif à une région ou un pays (fr)[Classe...]
zone géographique supra-continentale de la Terre (fr)[Classe...]
peuple européen (fr)[Classe...]
peuple asiatique (fr)[Classe]
(mestizo; mestiza)[Thème]
peau de l'homme blanc (fr)[Thème]
geography[Domaine]
LandArea[Domaine]
cappadocien (fr)[Classe...]
continent - Asian, Asiatic - European[Hyper.]
Asia - Eurasia[Thème]
Eurasian, Eurasiatic[Dérivé]
eastern hemisphere, orient - northern hemisphere[Desc]
qui est issu du croisement de races (fr)[Classe]
peau de l'homme blanc (fr)[termes liés]
Asie (fr)[termes liés]
Eurasia[Rel.]
Eurasian[Dérivé]
Eurasiatic (adj.)↕
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Eurasiatic
distribution: northern Eurasia
Subdivisions:
Uralic-Yukaghir
Gilyak
Eurasiatic is a language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups all of the language families historically spoken in northern Eurasia into a single macrofamily, with the sole exception of the Yeniseian languages, spoken in part of Siberia, but including the Eskimo-Aleut languages, spoken in northernmost North America and Greenland with a toehold in easternmost Siberia.
1 The branches of Eurasiatic
2 Relation to other language families
3 Reception by linguists
4 Morphosyntax
The branches of Eurasiatic
As laid out by Greenberg (2000:279-81), the branches of Eurasiatic are:
Korean-Japanese-Ainu
Gilyak (= Nivkh)
Chukotian (= Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
These groupings, except for the first two, are the native languages in various parts of northeast Asia. Eskimo-Aleut is moreover spoken across the subarctic region from northeast Asia to Greenland, and the Uralic languages are also spoken westward as far as into Scandinavia and Hungary.
Relation to other language families
According to Greenberg, the language family that Eurasiatic is most closely connected to is Amerind. He states that "[t]he Eurasiatic-Amerind family represents a relatively recent expansion (circa 15,000 BP) into territory opened up by the melting of the Arctic ice cap" (2002:2). In contrast, "Eurasiatic-Amerind stands apart from the other families of the Old World, among which the differences are much greater and represent deeper chronological groupings" (ib.).
Eurasiatic and Nostratic include many of the same language families.Vladimir Illych-Svitych's Nostratic dictionary did not include the smaller Siberian language families listed in Eurasiatic, but this was because protolanguages had not been reconstructed for them, and Nostraticists have not attempted to exclude these languages from Nostratic.Most recently Nostraticists have accepted Eurasiatic as a subgroup within Nostratic. (2005:331)
Reception by linguists
The Eurasiatic hypothesis is dismissed by many linguists, often on the ground that Greenberg relies in his research on mass comparison, a method he developed in the 1950s that remains extremely controversial and attracted sometimes considerable criticism (i.a. by Stefan Georg and Alexander Vovin. Others, citing the wide acceptance of his classification of African languages (cf. Nichols 1992:5), are taking more of a wait-and-see attitude. Greenberg also has his supporters, among them the American linguists Merritt Ruhlen and Allan Bomhard.
One of the basic difficulties to proving a genetic relationship between two languages is that contact between populations often results in exchange of words, so that similarities in vocabulary do not necessarily indicate a common origin. Greenberg addressed this question in his Essays in Linguistics (1957:39).
Morphosyntax
Winfred P. Lehmann (2002) and others have recently argued that Proto-Indo-European descended from a language characterized by active-stativeness, Subject-Object-Verb word order, use of agglutination, and absence of grammatical gender.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 1957. Essays in Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 2000. Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family. Volume 1, Grammar. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 2002. Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic Language Family. Volume 2, Lexicon. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 2005. Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method, edited by William Croft. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lehmann, Winfred P. 2002. Pre-Indo-European. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man.
Nichols, Johanna. 1992. Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Georg, Stefan/Vovin, Alexander. From Mass Comparison to Mess Comparison: Greenberg's "Eurasiatic" Theory, Diachronica 20/2, 331-362
Nostratic languages
Indo-Uralic languages
Uralo-Siberian languages
Ural-Altaic languages
"Indo-Uralic and Altaic" by Frederik Kortlandt (2006)
Regions Based on Social Structure: A Reconsideration
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définition - List of Navarrese monarchs
List of Navarrese monarchs
See also: List of Navarrese consorts
Coat of Arms of the Kings of Navarre since 1212. Currently it is used as Coat of Arms of the French Basse Navarre and the ville of Donapaleu - Saint Palais, in Basse Navarre (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
This is a list of the kings and queens of Pamplona, later Navarre. Pamplona was the primary name of the kingdom until its union with Aragon (1076–1134). However, the territorial designation Navarre came into use as an alternative name in the late tenth century, and the name Pamplona was retained well into the twelfth century.
1 House of Íñiguez, ? 824–905
2 House of Jiménez, 905–1234
3 House of Champagne, 1234–1284
4 House of Capet, 1284–1349
4.1 House of Évreux, 1328–1441
5 House of Trastámara, 1425–1479
5.1 Claimants against John II, 1441–1464
6 House of Foix, 1479–1518
7 House of Albret, 1518–1572
8.1 House of Bourbon, 1572–1620
9 Current claimants
House of Íñiguez, ? 824–905
The Íñiguez dynasty founded the Navarrese kingdom (of Pamplona) in or around 824 when they rebelled against nominal Frankish (Carolingian) authority.
Íñigo Arista
? 824–851/2 4 children 851/2
García Íñiguez
851/2–882 son of Íñigo Arista 5 children 882
Fortún Garcés
882–905 son of García Íñiguez Oria
5 children (deposed 905)
House of Jiménez, 905–1234
In 905, a coalition of neighbors forced Fortún Garcés to retire to a monastery, and enthroned in his place a scion of a new dynasty. Under their reign, the name Navarre began to supplant that of Pamplona.
Sancho I Garcés
905–925 son of García Jiménez and Dadildis de Pallars Toda of Navarre
6 children 11 December 925
Jimeno Garcés
925–931 son of García Jiménez and Dadildis de Pallars Sancha of Navarre
3 children 29 May 931
García Sánchez I
son of Sancho I Garcés and Toda of Navarre Andregota Galíndez of Aragon
Teresa Ramírez of León
3 children 22 February 970
aged 51
Sancho II Garcés Abarca
970–994 after 935
son of García Sánchez I and Andregota Urraca Fernández
4 children December 994
García Sánchez II
994–1000/1004 son of Sancho II Garcés Abarca and Urraca Fernández Jimena Fernández of Cea
4 children 1000/1004
Sancho III the Great
son of García Sánchez II and Jimena Fernández of Cea Muniadona Mayor
4 children 18 October 1035
García Sánchez III
son of Sancho III the Great and Muniadona Mayor Estefanía of Barcelona
9 children 15 September 1054
Sancho IV Garcés
son of García Sánchez III and Estefanía of Barcelona Placencia
3 children 4 June 1076
Peñalén
With the assassination of Sancho IV, Navarre was partitioned by his cousins Alfonso VI of Castile and Sancho Ramirez of Aragon, and the latter made king, leading to more than half-a-century of Aragonese control.
Sancho V Ramirez
son of Ramiro I of Aragon and Ermesinde of Bigorre Isabel of Urgel
Felicia of Roucy
aged c. 52
son of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragón and Navarre and Isabella of Urgel Agnes of Aquitaine
Bertha of Aragon
No children 28 September 1104
Aran Valley
Alfonso I the Battler
son of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragón and Navarre and Felicia of Roucy Urraca of Castile
No children 8 September 1134
The death of Alfonso led to a succession crisis in Aragon, and the nobles of Navarre took advantage to reestablish an independent monarchy, crowning a grandnephew (through an illegitimate brother) of the assassinated Sancho IV.
García Ramírez the Restorer
1134–1150 son of Ramiro Sánchez of Monzón and Cristina Rodríguez Díaz de Vivar Marguerite de l'Aigle
Urraca of Castile
2 children 21 November 1150
Sancho VI the Wise
son of García Ramírez and Marguerite de l'Aigle Sancha of Castile
6 children 27 June 1194
Sancho VII the Strong
son of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile Constance of Toulouse
6 children 7 April 1234
House of Champagne, 1234–1284
See also: Count of Champagne
The death of Sancho VII, the last of the Jimenez kings, led to the crown of Navarre being inherited by the son of his sister Blanche, Countess of Champagne, she having been regent during much of her brother's reign.
Theobald I the Posthumous
1234–1253 30 May 1201
son of Theobald III of Champagne and Blanche of Navarre Gertrude of Dagsburg
Agnes of Beaujeu
Margaret of Bourbon
6 children 8 July 1253
Theobald II the Young
son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon Isabelle of France
No children 4 December 1270
Henry I the Fat
son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon Blanche of Artois
2 children 22 July 1274
Joan I
1274–1305 14 January 1271
daughter of Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois Philip IV of France
House of Capet, 1284–1349
See also: Kings of France
Henry's unexpected death left his infant daughter Joan as the only heir to the throne, whose mother Blanche of Artois served as regent for the next ten years. In 1284 Joan was married to Philip IV, ending Blanche's regency, and Philip IV assumed the throne of France a year later as "King of France and Navarre".
Philip I the Fair
son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon Joan I of Navarre
Louis I the Quarreller
1305–1316 4 October 1289
son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre Margaret of Burgundy
Clementia of Hungary
1 child 5 June 1316
John I the Posthumous
1316 15 November 1316
son of Louis X of France and Clementia of Hungary never married 20 November 1316
Philip II the Tall
son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre Joan II, Countess of Burgundy
7 children 3 January 1322
Charles I the Fair
1322–1328 19 June 1294
son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre Blanche of Burgundy
Marie of Luxembourg
4 children 1 February 1328
Joan II
daughter of Louis X of France and Margaret of Burgundy Philip III of Navarre
8 children 6 October 1349
House of Évreux, 1328–1441
See also: Count of Évreux
Philip III the Wise
1328–1343 27 March 1306
son of Louis count of Evreux and Margaret of Artois Joan II of Navarre
Charles II the Bad
1349–1387 10 October 1332
son of Philip III of Navarre and Joan II of Navarre Joan of France
Charles III the Noble
1387–1425 22 July 1361
son of Charles II of Navarre and Joan of France Eleanor of Castile
8 children 8 September 1425
Blanche I
daughter of Charles III of Navarre and Eleanor of Castile Martin I of Sicily
John II of Aragon
House of Trastámara, 1425–1479
See also: King of Aragon, King of Valencia, Count of Barcelona, and King of Sicily
John II the Great
1425–1479 (de facto)
1425–1441 (de jure) 29 June 1397
son of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque Blanche I of Navarre
Juana Enríquez
daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre Gaston IV, Count of Foix
11 children 12 February 1479
Claimants against John II, 1441–1464
John II retained the Crown of Navarre after his wife's death, but his son and elder daughter were claimants and de jure monarchs.
Charles IV
son of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre Agnes of Cleves
Blanche II
daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre Henry IV of Castile
House of Foix, 1479–1518
See also: Counts of Foix
Francis Phoebus
1479–1483 12 April 1467
son of Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana, and Magdalena of Valois never married 12 February 1483
daughter of Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana, and Magdalena of Valois John III of Navarre
House of Albret, 1518–1572
John III was defeated by Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1512, who then conquered southern Navarre for the Crown of Aragon and was crowned king. See the List of Aragonese and Spanish monarchs for this line. The monarchs of Navarre after 1512 thus only reigned over Lower Navarre, the part of Navarre north of the Pyrenees.
son of Alain I of Albret and Francoise of Châtillon-Limoges Catherine of Navarre
13 children 14 June 1516
son of John III of Navarre and Catherine of Navarre Margaret of Angoulême
2 children 25 May 1555
Joan III
1555–1572 7 January 1528
daughter of Henry II of Navarre and Margaret of Angoulême Antoine of Navarre
House of Bourbon, 1572–1620
La Fère, Picardy
son of Charles, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise of Alençon Joan III of Navarre
Les Andelys, Eure
Henry III the Great
1572–1610 13 December 1553
son of Antoine of Navarre and Joan III of Navarre (2) Margaret of Valois
no issues
(2) Marie de' Medici
Louis II the Just
1610–1620 27 September 1601
Château de Fontainebleau
son of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici Anne of Austria
Henry III of Navarre became Henry IV of France and thereafter the crown of Navarre passed to the kings of France. In 1620, the Kingdom was merged into France; however, the French kings continued to use the title King of Navarre until 1791, and it was revived again from 1814 to 1830 during the Bourbon Restoration.
The Bourbon Carlist pretenders to the throne of Spain had Spanish Navarre as a stronghold during the Carlist Wars, but their claim was to all the Spanish royal titles in general.
Current claimants
Princess Alicia of Bourbon-Parma, Dowager Duchess of Calabria, Infanta of Spain, is the current claimant to the Crown of the Kingdom of Navarre in accordance with its traditional male-preference cognatic primogeniture, as evidenced by her son and heir's official website.[1] Alicia is the only surviving daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma (1880-1959), whose father Robert I, Duke of Parma (1848-1907) was the son and heir of Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois, granddaughter of Charles X of France. Robert inherited the Navarrese cognatic claim on the death of Henry, Count of Chambord (1820-1883), the last male-line descendant of Charles X.
Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, is the current Legitimist claimant to the kingdoms of France and Navarre. His claim is based on the Salic law, since the Kingdom of Navarre had merged with France under Louis XIII. Legitimists consider the renunciation of Anjou's ancestor Philip V to the French throne invalid, being contrary to the French fundamental laws of succession.
Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France, is the current Orleanist claimant to the kingdoms of France and Navarre. His claim is based on the Salic law, since the Kingdom of Navarre had merged with France under Louis XIII. Orleanists claim the French throne on the basis of nationality, which they claim to be a part of the French fundamental laws of succession.
Juan Carlos I of Spain uses the title King of Navarre as part of his more extended titulary, inherited from earlier monarchs of Spain (Castile and Aragon) and based on the conquest of the majority of the ancient kingdom by Ferdinand II of Aragon.
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List of Asturian monarchs
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Year of the jungle
Collins, Suzanne. (Author). Proimos, James, (ill.).
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Scholastic Press, 2013.
Summary, etc.: Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home.
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*Starred Review* Collins mines her own experience to tell a tender personal story of war seen through a child's eyes. First-grader Suzy's father is deployed to Vietnam. At first, though she misses him, she dreams of the exotic jungle. But as the year goes on, marked by Christmas trees and candy hearts, things get harder. His postcards arrive less and less frequently, while news of the war, and its real dangers, comes more and more often. In the end, Suzy's father returns, and while some things are different, some things are the same. Collins' unflinching first-person account details the fears and disappointments of the situation as a child would experience them. And where more realistic illustrations would feel overwrought and sentimental, Proimos' flat, cartoony drawings, with their heavy lines and blocky shapes, are sturdy and sweet, reflecting a child's clear-eyed innocence. While small personal details and specific references to Vietnam fix the story in one child's individual experience, it is these very particularities that establish the kind of indelible and heartfelt resonance that is universally understood. Indeed, children missing parents in all kinds of circumstances will find comfort here. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Heard of a little series called The Hunger Games? Yes, well, this is by the very same author. Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews.
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Khaldun
on: December 05, 2012, 06:51:06 AM
So Marvel redid all their books, but not so much a giant continuity reboot, just a lot of 'fresh takes' on characters where the creators are authorized to not pay so much attention to continuity. There are, as you might expect, some real turkeys in the bunch, but also some pretty interesting and enjoyable stuff.
My favorite so far is Jason Aaron's Thor, which is pretty fucking awesome. The initial arc tells a split story of Thor in three eras--as a god of the Vikings, joining in their plunder and raiding (and hoping that some gods of their victims will come down and brawl with him); Thor in the Marvel 'present', on an alien planet where they don't believe in their own gods; Thor in the Marvel future, the last of the Asgardian gods. In all three eras, he is stalked by a mysterious enemy called the God Butcher who does pretty much what his name suggests. Really recommend it.
The new Deadpool book is hilarious--the character is enlisted by SHIELD to fight an army of Undead American Presidents who were raised up by a sort of Tea Party sorcerer who immediately regretted doing it.
Captain America is a bit weird but I'll stick with it for a while--going for a sort of 1950s era "sci fi adventure" feeling to it. (Cap is thrust into a strange dimension.)
New Hulk book is good--very strongly derives from the Avengers movie in its feeling.
The rest is either eh or actively bad (the new X-Men book is terrible).
CmdrSlack
Reply #1 on: December 05, 2012, 08:27:11 AM
The new Deadpool is great, but I think Deadpool is probably the most fun of the Marvel IPs to write. Even during that terribad Fear Itself event, the Deadpool arc was the best thing about it.
The new Iron Man isn't bad, but not super-great yet either. We'll see where it goes.
ETA -- Ok, this new Avengers book could have legs.
« Last Edit: December 06, 2012, 01:20:08 AM by CmdrSlack »
I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
Mattemeo
Reply #2 on: December 08, 2012, 09:17:55 PM
Quote from: Khaldun on December 05, 2012, 06:51:06 AM
Which X-Men book? From what I've read of Bendis' All New X-Men so far it's looking fantastic; the premise is so high concept I can't wait to see where Bendis is going with it. Immonen's art is also gorgeous, his take on Beast is one of the best yet.
If you party with the Party Prince you get two complimentary after-dinner mints
Margalis
What's the deal with buying these digitally? Is it all one-offs or can you sub? I know there is some sort of Marvel digital sub thing but it appears to be only for back issues?
I used to collect comics as a kid, the idea of collecting boxes of comics is really not appealing these days. The space to content ratio is just not there.
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
You can get them the day they come out via Marvel's app. The iPad app works quite well, you can do panel by panel reading, or the entire page, etc.
The cost for new comics seems to be full price, which is a bit lame. The real value seems to be access to old runs, etc. You can also buy trades, which seem to be a bit cheaper than purchasing them at a shop.
The digital sub is something totally different, I have no experience with it at all.
The "original X-Men come back to the present" book. Hated it.
Hickman's big-screen Avengers is more or less a continuation of his big-screen Fantastic Four.
(Really hate Fraction's new Fantastic Four books--I love Fraction's independent books but his Marvel work has been almost uniformly terrible.)
I'm surprised we'd have such opposite reactions to it; both my flatmate and I have really enjoyed the first 2 issues. In fact I don't want to read any more singles so I can pick up the TPB and enjoy it as a whole. That said, we live in the UK and I don't know how much further into the story you might be if you're in the US so perhaps it either jumps the shark or you're just not a fan of the entire idea. Or possibly not a fan of Bendis?
We are only up to issue #3 here in the states. Today might change that. Or not. Looks like a slow week for Marvel and DC, but with a load of indies of various worth.
My purchase list for the week looks like: Massive, Walking Dead, Supurbia (issue 2, we'll see how long it lasts for me), Batman, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, and ASM. I have two back issues of Stumpville to track down and perhaps one of The Secret Service. I'm most excited about the Secret (Strange?) Talent of Luther Strode TPB that they got in for me.
I used to love Bendis, but yeah, I'm off him now. I just found that the X-Men book more than any other was bent by having to carry water for AvX, particularly its conclusion.
Quote from: Khaldun on December 12, 2012, 12:47:09 PM
AvX was by far the worst event Marvel has done in a while. The stupid Divided We Fall thing in the Ultimate universe is better, and it is pretty awful on the whole.
Reply #10 on: December 12, 2012, 01:44:58 PM
Can you give me a spoilered rundown of AVX that made it so stupid? Not doubting it's stupidity. Bendis seems to revel in really stupid ideas that ignore everything a character has ever done in the past to make it fit his idea of a story.
So, the Phoenix Force is spotted heading for Earth. It stops to fry some planets and shit along the way, but it's basically coming.
Cyclops, having recently gone more to the Magneto side of things (heading up a splinter faction of X-Men who were more and more unsubtly willing to hint that if humanity fucked with what was left of the mutants, the mutants would punch back), is convinced that the reason the Phoenix keeps coming back to Earth looking for powerful red-headed women mutants to possess is that it wants to help mutants out. He particularly thinks it is coming to work through Hope, who is yet another child of Jean Grey from some future or something like that. Captain America and the Avengers don't think so and want to take Hope off-planet until they can figure out how to beat or kill the Phoenix.
The X-Men and the Avengers fight (Wolverine siding with the Avengers). Then they fight some more and play "hide-and-seek Hope Summers" in between rounds. Then the Phoenix Force arrives and Iron Man does some supersciency thing and accidentally splits the Phoenix Force and it ends up divided between Cyclops, Colossus, Magik, Emma Frost and Namor.
The Phoenix Five make new costumes for themselves and proceed to make Earth a utopia. (Stop me if you've heard this one before.) Captain America thinks it's all a cheat and the Avengers and the X-Men fight some more. The Avengers kidnap Hope who is now on their side and it turns out that the Phoenix used to go to K'un L'un so Iron Fist has some magic anti-Phoenix techniques he can teach her or some bullshit like that.
The Phoenix Five turn on each other and become nastier. Cyclops absorbs all their powers and gets ready to destroy Earth. He kills Professor X out of irritation (stop me if you've heard this one before) and there's lots of Avengers and Phoenix Force fighting inbetween. Then Hope steps in and she and the Scarlet Witch work together and then fight and at the end the Scarlet Witch (formerly dead) reverses her House of M No More Mutants curse and there are lots of mutants again. Cyclops ends up in jail, having been proven kind of right actually that it would be good for mutants to have Phoenix back, and Captain America acts like a clueless dick towards the one superhero who actually is getting punished for being possessed by an evil superbeing ever in the history of comics.
Fuck me. I'm sorry I asked.
It was basically Marvel does Dragon Ball Z, and no less stupid or enjoyable. I think Bendis just has fun with the event stuff, and it neatly bookmarks the period between AvX and House of M. Beyond that, one half of the event was essentially 'Who would win if X and X got in a fight' issues, which is as dumb as it sounds. I've had my expectations considerably lowered since Millar put the whole show on cruise control into the sun with Civil War so I just roll my eyes at the stupider stuff and wait to see where the event takes the rest of the universe afterwards. That said, I love Bendis' writing, especially his dialogue (no one else is in the same league) so I am willing to admit I let him off for some things I might not a writer I have less love for. Kirkman and K. Vaughan get a similar reprieve.
I like Bendis' dialogue when he's doing crime fiction/Daredevil street level heroes. His Avengers stuff? Absolutely and utterly wrong for that book. It was such a weird, ill-fitting tone and yet now it's stamped on just about everything Marvel does.
It's nice that Marvel is doing this reboot right now, because I just discovered how TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME the Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics from 1970-71 were. I plan to nerd out on Oliver Queen (while avoiding the Kevin Smith bits -- I fucking hated his Daredevil run) trades to placate my rage regarding a new Spider-Man book called Superior Spider-Man, which I cannot stop myself from buying.
Yes, that just conflated DC and Marvel comics, but dammit, I am just now discovering that DC doesn't suck. After digesting all of the classic Batman stuff (and even that DC reboot of Batman was cool -- the Court of Owls stuff was neat), I'm learning that DC has other worthwhile stuff.
Smith's run on Green Arrow is pretty decent, from what I remember. It gets overshadowed by the hate his writing got for more ...popular characters.
His Daredevil run was just so terribad.
Bendis, on the other hand, is awesome when he writes Daredevil. The End of Days limited run that's going on right now is kickass.
Quote from: Mattemeo on December 12, 2012, 08:27:34 PM
It's ok I think up until he does something really dark and nasty with Stanley and His Monster.
But it's coherent at least and has a fun nostalgic vibe. His later comics writing is basically a stoner giggling at himself in the corner, which is all Smith is good for these days. I don't use drugs but I don't have any particular beef about pot or other softer stuff--however, you could pretty much just show kids Smith from the beginning of his career to now and have that be 'don't be a pothead, QED'.
Denny O'Neill GA/GL was insanely important to the history of comics but I don't know that it's aged very well.
Lantyssa
Reply #19 on: December 13, 2012, 08:23:15 AM
Quote from: HaemishM on December 12, 2012, 01:44:58 PM
I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmB_N3J-0Vk
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
The dated language is what makes it so awesome.
Quote from: Lantyssa on December 13, 2012, 08:23:15 AM
2 Things.
She's so goddamn hot.
And fuck me, Bendis is a retard.
Gotta do my bit to up her potential stalker quotient.
Ha, you've really got a crush on her now, don't you?
palmer_eldritch
I actually read AvsX but I think I've blanked some of it out. Did we ever learn what Hope actually is? Clone of Jean Grey, daughter of Jean Grey, Jean Grey, creation of the Phoenix, creation of Scarlet Witch? Is it still a mystery?
Hope featured in a bunch of dumb X-Men crossover stuff before AvX. She started as a continuity mess and got even messier. Basically she's the first mutant born after the Scarlet Witch magicked mutants out of existence except for all the popular ones. Cable took her into the future and gave her the surname Summers, just so he'd have someone as stupidly complicated in backstory as he is. Then she came back to her time, the "present" of the Marvel Universe, and mutants started to be born again slowly and there was a bunch of stuff about the new characters she finds. And then AvX, more or less. The whole X-Men continuity is hopelessly borked in any event and she's a symptom of that.
Quote from: Nevermore on December 13, 2012, 12:17:32 PM
Guilty. I've actually refrained from watching all of her shows to keep it from getting worse.
Furiously
She looks like she could ba a little bi-curious to me....
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Quote from: Furiously on December 14, 2012, 04:00:47 PM
Curious? Hell, she looks like she could teach Lant a thing or two to me.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
The Generation Hope book was kinda decent. I'm a bit pissed that it abruptly ended when AvX began. CBG19 seems to love the Wolverine and the Xmen series, but I dumped it during AvX. My local shop has a "give us a pull list and get 10% off" deal. It has been like two years since I got back into comics and I'm still slacking on that.
I need to focus the list.
In other news, I scored Deadpool #3 and #4 today.
Deadpool is staying great. But of course he's already in another book where the take on him is completely different and mostly serious.
These are early 90s issues of Deadpool. "In honor of Hillary, call me Dead Rodham Pool!"
Reply #32 on: February 12, 2013, 06:24:39 AM
A lot of the Marvel NOW! books are really quite good. The distinction between how Marvel's handling the ongoing publishing of comics and DC is really striking. The word coming out of DC is that there is massive editorial interference, some of it directly by Jim Lee and Geoff Johns, or by Didio. They've rehired virtually every 90s Marvel editor with a bad reputation and revived some of the worst storytelling emphases of the 90s. They're emphasizing plot over characterization and situation, and trying to make everything even MORE continuity-dependent. The requirement to have 52 titles is causing them to cycle through tons of low-selling, terrible books (I think maybe they're about to give up on the 52 concept though with the latest wave of cancellations).
Marvel is letting its writers do what they want, they're not terribly worried about continuity, they're emphasizing a big diversity of art styles and aesthetics. Fraction's Hawkeye couldn't more unlike Hickman's Avengers, but nobody cares. Lots of the NOW! books you could walk in and start fresh without having read a boatload of earlier things but they haven't formally 'restarted the continuity' or anything of that kind.
Velorath
Reply #33 on: April 12, 2013, 05:23:53 PM
Quote from: Khaldun on February 12, 2013, 06:24:39 AM
Just read through the first 9 issues of Fraction's Hawkeye books the other day and they're really damn good. Has a very deliberate "indie book" sort of feel to the point where it barely feels like a superhero book (and really it's not) let alone a superhero book that's recognizably Marvel.
Reply #34 on: April 13, 2013, 01:00:10 AM
Just wanted to quote that as thanks to the Marvel free #1 promotion, I got a chance to read some of the first issues of the AVX stuff for free.
Had I paid for this, I'd have wanted my money back as well as the opportunity to cockpunch Bendis. It is so UTTERLY IDIOTIC on its face. Cyclops starts the book as the biggest raging dickhead I've ever seen and if I've missed some continuity that explains why he has suddenly turned into Magneto's douchier son, it still could not explain why the fuck he would choose to protect the Phoenix Force against the Avengers. FFS, the goddamn Phoenix Force tricked him into thinking he was banging his girlfriend, then killed her in front of his fucking eyes. There's no goddamn way he'd think "Oh great, we can use this uncontrollable cosmic force to make more mutants that everyone hates because that won't start a war with humanity or nothing."
SO... MUCH... STUPID.
The vs. books which were essentially Marvel Team-Up/Two-in-One only devoid of any plot were even more fucking retarded. Magneto vs. Iron Man and Tony Stark suddenly channels the goddamn magnetic field of JUPITER from Earth via satellite. I'm sorry... LOLWUT? That's not even comic book LOLWUT that's just bad bad bad handwaving sciency-wiencey shit. I don't think I can blame Bendis for that, but I can blame an editorial staff who didn't dickstab the writer when that script was brought to them.
Look, comics have often been over the top and a lot ridiculous. But... just no. NO.
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The doom of the telecomms carriers
Forward-thinking technologists, including me, have been predicting for some time that adaptive mesh networking would be the doom of the telecomms-carrier and broadband oligopoly. Now comes a scientist from Australia with an idea so diabolically clever that I’m annoyed with myself for not thinking of it sooner: put the mesh networking in smartphones!
For those who came in late, “adaptive mesh network” is shorthand for a way to do Internet everywhere by building cheap wireless Internet routers that communicate over unlicensed radio spectrum and self-organize by handshaking with their neighbors. Such a network can relatively easily be engineered to autoconfigure and heal itself against point failures.
In Dr. Gardner’s scheme, smartphones equipped with adaptive-mesh hardware and software take the place of the dedicated mesh nodes everyone else has been imagining. Here’s what makes this diabolically clever:
By pitching it as a backup in case a power outage or disaster takes out cellphone towers, Dr. Gardner makes it an easy political sell and hard for the carriers to oppose. Regulators might even mandate it as a way to solve the 911 problem!
Smartphones already have to have most of this capability anyway; adding one more frequency band and adaptive-routing software is no big deal.
The scheme amortizes the cost of the mesh support across the smartphone vendors’ huge production runs, lowering cost per unit way past anything achievable for dedicated mesh nodes.
Very clever attack on the power-distribution problem; people will solve it every day because they want to keep their individual phones running!
This mesh would be self-deploying; instead of fixed node locations, it goes where the users are.
There would still be a place for fixed-location mesh nodes as a backhaul network to increase aggregate bandwidth and service reliability. And they’d get much cheaper, because cellphone production volumes would pull the cost of the repeater hardware down to zip. People would buy sixpacks of booster nodes at supermarkets; banks would give them away like they do calculators now.
This idea is beautiful. It is made of goodness and winnitude. It’s technically feasible, should be politically viable, and gets on the right side of economics of production scale. Hey, Google! Want to really undermine the bandwidth monopolists? Throw some funding at this guy now – better yet, hire him and put the mesh support into Android!
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67 thoughts on “The doom of the telecomms carriers”
Matthew King on 2010-07-14 at 17:14:17 said:
Every hacker everywhere should be annoyed he didn’t think of this.
Tom DeGisi on 2010-07-14 at 17:17:23 said:
The one laptop per child people did this, right?
It doesn’t help if you are out of Wifi range of your nearest neighbor.
guy on 2010-07-14 at 17:47:58 said:
What does the extra traffic do to your battery life?
Max E. on 2010-07-14 at 17:49:27 said:
So it’s like extending phone coverage via P2P?
ESR says: More like extending Internet coverage via P2P. Then you do voice over that.
I know there was a prototype wifi router that tried to do the same thing with Internet connections, but I can’t remember if it was ever put into production or what it was called.
Damn it! I feel stupider now.
Actually, the only bad thing I can see about this is that it would work really, really well in densely populated areas, but not so well in more rural areas. Modern digital cell phone radios are fairly low-powered devices, and the WiFi radios in them are even lower-powered: the WiFi tethering on the EVO 4G, for instance, feature only works for about 30 feet.[*]
In rural areas, you’re either going to be tied to the cellphone network or another available broadband connection.
Rural areas is the one thing mesh networks always fail to address. It matters for me personally, because while I live in a fairly densely populated area, about 2 miles directly east of me there are horse ranches, cattle ranches and blueberry farms.
[*] I have yet to test this, however, this is what the manufacturer and Sprint both claim.
@guy:
That was my first thought — do I really want my cellphone viable life reduced from 20 hours to 1 hour just to let some (insert favorite antisocial descriptive mild expletive here) watch a movie?
I think it’s a great idea, but we’re still dealing with the social implications of people who talk on the phone while in line at the grocery, driving, etc. Now, they’d be wasting other peoples’ batteries (and bandwidth) as well. I almost think the idea would work better if we got back to the grandparent’s party-line mentality. This might require actually having a “party line” or, in modern parlance, if you want to ship your bits through my phone then (a) they better be unencrypted so I can see if you’re wasting my battery on drivel; and (b) they better be signed so I know who to cut off…
My second thought was — the article claimed they needed some funding. If they have anything worthwhile, you’d think google would be all over that…
BTW, Sprint sells some iDEN (formerly Nextel) network phones which work like walkie talkies where there is no service.
Sometimes old but good technology is best.
Quasi-related: the smartphone as primary computing device seems to be a bit closer to reality. Wireless PCIe.
That solves my main objection: insufficient graphics performance. Nice.
>Quasi-related: the smartphone as primary computing device seems to be a bit closer to reality. Wireless PCIe.
>That solves my main objection: insufficient graphics performance. Nice.
I knew it! External discrete graphics acceleration for your phone!
>In rural areas, you’re either going to be tied to the cellphone network or another available broadband connection.
And that’s why the second-order effect of making dedicated mesh nodes really cheap matters. Having spotty coverage in your rural area? Give some nodes that plug into wall sockets to your neighbors; helps you, helps them.
It would also be foolish to assume that the repeater spacing will have to be WiFi like. Consider what such a network would look like if it started with WiMax base ranges, then added dirt-cheap Pringle-can antennas.
Beth Lynn Eicher on 2010-07-14 at 19:02:24 said:
Did you hear about the mesh potato?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/mesh-potato
People in the 3rd world need the democratized grid more than us in the west.
Wow… that is brilliant, yet simple and elegant!
The only issues I see:
1) battery requirement — if the phone is constantly routing data, it will draw more power. This will likely get fixed as battery tech gets better.
2) low-density areas. Sure, in urban and suburban areas, the distribution of phones will be good enough to provide for this case. What about more rural areas where people could be a mile or more apart? Yeah, I know in some they have zero signal anyway, but in others, mostly due to government subsidy, the carriers have towers available.
pdb on 2010-07-14 at 19:21:54 said:
I dimly recall Bob Cringely pitching something similar about 5-6 years back, but installed in new cars. Like most of Bob’s pitches, it went nowhere.
Another thing that needs to be done, and probably will be in 5 years: no more dedicated voice networks. All cell phones should be IP devices that use VoIP. This will make the voice calls more network agnostic, and will be able to automagically route over LTE/WiFi/mesh network/whatever.
smitty on 2010-07-14 at 19:38:10 said:
[mild_sarcasm]
We can be confident that the despised oligopolies won’t engineer incompatibilities to render all of these wonderful possibilities moot.
Also, look for the FCC to magically redesignate everything in such a way as to put a mailed fist around the tender parts of all these gadgets.
And your enthusiasm.
[/mild_sarcasm]
Crawling out from under my wet blanket, let’s get to work on doing this. Up the oligarchs.
WiMax has to get more affordable first, but, yes, I see it.
I dimly recall Bob Cringely pitching something similar about 5-6 years back, but installed in new cars. Like most of Bob’s pitches, it went nowhere.
Nope. That’s a non-starter. Margins are tight in the car business (even for the Japanese) and anything that increases the cost of the car without providing some benefit for the car maker will be immediately rejected. Why do you think the car makers get all up in arms whenever they talk about increasing CAFE standards or requiring some new piece of equipment? They’ve had enough regulation to last several lifetimes as it is.
Nope. That’s a non-starter. Margins are tight in the car business (even for the Japanese) and anything that increases the cost of the car without providing some benefit for the car maker will be immediately rejected.
If we’re talking about twisting telcom arms to get this in smartphones, why not? The hardware is mostly there already.
I don’t think that battery life will be too much of a problem, at least in cities. In a crowded area, there will be lots of phones available to route through, and yours will only get hit a small part of the time.
(This assumes that everyone isn’t yakking at the same time. In that case, even the regular cell networks have trouble. Mesh networking is still going to be vulnerable to overload in emergencies.)
msb on 2010-07-14 at 22:08:17 said:
I’m not sure this will scale well over large distances. Imagine a cross country phone call over this network. You will have to go through hundreds if not thousands hops. For low latency activity, such as voice traffic, it would be a nightmare. You could, of course, have points of transfer into a regular fiber network which can then take care of long haul. But it would remove a lot of the “ad-hoc” aspect of it.
JamesFromPittsburgh on 2010-07-14 at 23:17:57 said:
I think this concept was used in Charles Stross’s novel Halting State.
If we’re talking about twisting telcom arms to get this in smartphones, why not? The hardware is mostly there already.
Exactly why it’s a perfect match. I was referring to Cringely’s idea of putting nodes in cars, which is a non-starter for the reasons I listed.
Baylink on 2010-07-14 at 23:37:02 said:
> What does the extra traffic do to your battery life?
It’s going to pistol-whip hell out of it.
And that’s probably the number one reason it’s troublesome. You get me 10 or 20 times as much battery life per weight as we have now, and it’ll fly. Til then, probably not. Brilliant phones are hard pressed to make it through the day now.
JB on 2010-07-15 at 01:15:32 said:
“We can be confident that the despised oligopolies won’t engineer incompatibilities to render all of these wonderful possibilities moot.”
My first impression is that if allowed to proceed as Eric suggests, wouldn’t this potentially foreclose (or at least greatly diminish) the possibility of mass media/Internet censorship?
Christian Wach on 2010-07-15 at 04:37:09 said:
The Cybiko had almost exactly this functionality back in 2000. It would be a huge boon for connectivity at events like music festivals, where traffic is mostly internal to the gathering.
Scott Lawrence on 2010-07-15 at 06:41:55 said:
Damn! And now I’m tempted to buy an android, just so that if/when this happens, I’m ready…
The battery life thing will probably be moot in suburban areas – many if not most people and businesses will install wall-plugging nodes to save their own battery life, improve speed/latency, whatever.
Once this sort of network becomes common, I could envision carriers being forced, by one mechanism or another, to turn their towers into nodes, improving the battery/latency/rural-area problem further.
>The battery life thing will probably be moot in suburban areas – many if not most people and businesses will install wall-plugging nodes to save their own battery life, improve speed/latency, whatever.
This is right. Everybody who’s thinking this won’t work because battery life is limited is forgetting the second-order effects of pulling down the cost of the repeater hardware.
William B Swift on 2010-07-15 at 07:16:15 said:
A bit off-topic, but here’s sonething about the new Droid, http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07/14/droid-x-actually-self-destructs-if-you-try-to-mod-it/
If you want to be on the bleeding edge of this phenomenon, you might get involved with the Open Mesh project:
http://open-mesh.com/store/
Open Source hw and fw, cheap, robust. I provide internet service to several of my neighbors this way.
techtech on 2010-07-15 at 09:11:15 said:
> Every hacker everywhere should be annoyed he didn’t think of this.
Hmm, I thought of this years ago but rejected it as a clumsy idea. Too hard on our already-limited phone battery life, bandwidth, and available CPU power. Too complicated to build and route through a constantly-morphing network. Too many network hops to reach anywhere important.
I mean, seriously, your smartphone is slow enough today. Do we really want to see what happens when ten nearby strangers are downloading anime porn through your uplink?
Of course, it’ll happen eventually, on the scale of decades. It’ll be too useful when your phone has a poor/non-existent connection to the real network to find a backup route through a nearby peer. But by the time this morph networking is deployed we’ll probably also have a cell tower network or satellite network that’s much more reliable than it is today.
Also this will be useful for P2P applications like gaming. Much better to send a wifi packet straight your buddy playing Mario Kart next to you on the train, than to route through a cell tower and back.
Mike E on 2010-07-15 at 09:20:16 said:
The US military has put a fair bit of research into this sort of architecture for battlefield communication. As far as I know, they haven’t deployed any of it, and the COTS systems may beat them to it, but there might be some useful public papers from those programs…
Dallas J. Haugh on 2010-07-15 at 10:01:04 said:
The main problem this would face would be the fact that there are TWO powerful lobbies to go after: we can’t forget that the media has a big interest in keeping ISPs around, so they can pump out DMCA notices without regards to the actual situation. When the carriers of “pirate” traffic are so diverse and changing by the very nature of the system, individual liability becomes difficult to establish precedent for. Not everyone with a smartphone is going to have a legal office, and fewer are going to keep logs of incriminating evidence.
The key is to get this deployed so quickly that none of the legal incumbents can react quickly enough to squash it.
Once deployed, once I can actually do low-key web browsing over the local mesh, it’s going to very hard to stuff that genie back in the bottle.
Liberty on 2010-07-15 at 11:50:09 said:
Jeremy Bowers Says:
Yeah! That’s the ticket. Force it on people before they know what happened! I love how people look at something they believe to be a good idea, then want it forced on everyone, often with “funding”–you know, the money that just grows on trees. Why don’t we do the same for the trucking industry? Think about how many big trucks we could get off the road if everyone took a package for delivery with them when they drove somewhere. I don’t use Skype (Stickam rules!) for the very reason that I want to control what passes through my computer. Why would I want your porn and spam to take its place? So like Patrick Maupin says:
“…if you want to ship your bits through my phone then (a) they better be unencrypted so I can see if you’re wasting my battery on drivel; and (b) they better be signed so I know who to cut off…”
Ditto for the “free” node the bank is going to give me.
>Force it on people before they know what happened!
I don’t think anyone here would object to a having a software switch in the phone that says “don’t route peer-to-peer traffic” so you could opt out. The point here isn’t to force anything on anyone, it’s to give users a way out from under the thumb of the telecomms monopolists.
# esr Says:
“I don’t think anyone here would object to a having a software switch in the phone that says “don’t route peer-to-peer traffic†so you could opt out. The point here isn’t to force anything on anyone, it’s to give users a way out from under the thumb of the telecomms monopolists.”
Question is, how many here would object to an opt in policy? Why make people opt out of something when it is just as easy to give them the opportunity to opt in? No matter how you slice it, someone is tasked with supporting whatever infrastructure is used to get calls (and data) from sender to receiver. Having to opt out means that unless I choose otherwise I am basically an employee of the company that maintains that infrastructure. If they pay me for performing that service, it’s one thing. Turning people into unpaid labor unless they take some action is another. Everything being discussed here and in the article can be done voluntarily, without making cell phones part of a P2P network. Every existing cell tower could become a fixed node of the network. Developers and businesses could put them on the exterior of their buildings. If people wanted to they could buy as many “sixpacks of booster nodes” they wanted, or get the free node from the bank and plug them into an outlet at their business or home to achieve the same goal. And you could also provide incentives for people to opt in, rather than having to opt out–price breaks on phone service. If it’s such a cool idea then there should be no problem getting people to *want* to become a part of the mesh. One person here has stated that they provide free Internet to their neighbors with nodes they installed. I bet 90%+ of the others here have their wireless networks secured and buttoned down as tight as possible.
Casey Barker on 2010-07-15 at 13:04:51 said:
I feel uniquely positioned to contribute to this discussion, having spent 5 years building the technology behind a startup company called “MeshNetworks, Inc.” and having spent another 5 years at the company that acquired us, called “Motorola.” (Check the redirect of our old web site: http://www.meshnetworks.com.) We built a fairly successful line of outdoor wireless mesh networking gear in both licensed and unlicensed bands for both public safety and municipal data systems, using both proprietary and standard (Wi-Fi) radios. We turned that proprietary technology into a software library that could be dropped into any product in a few weeks, including cell phones. We spearheaded the effort to standardize our approach inside IEEE, in the meshing standard that will be called 802.11s, if it ever makes it out of committee. If anybody was positioned to pull this off, it was us.
And I’m here to burst your bubble.
Trust me, I’ve drunk the kool-aid. I spent years studying at the feet of PhDs and professors in their ivory tower classrooms, listening to them describe the elegant beauty of ad-hoc mesh networks. This stuff was old news to me by the time Cringely published his article around 2002-ish. And I’ve spent a total of 10 years refining the protocols and systems. I think it’s fair to say I’ve seen how far the technology can go, and for many use cases, it’s really terrific stuff. Awesome. Fantastic, even. I’m still the world’s biggest supporter of mesh networking, even though I left Moto last year.
However, w.r.t. purely ad-hoc meshing between consumer devices, the problem with this utopia of “Mesh everything!” can be found in the word “unlicensed.” All the unlicensed bands are unlicensed because, from a physics perspective, they suck (resonance of water, etc.). And because there aren’t that many bands/channels available, they’re chock-a-block full of crap. Sure, your spiffy 802.11n AP gets you ~300 Mbps in an open green field with no civilization for miles. Carrying a voice call is easy! But in a tree-lined downtown where everybody has a microwave oven, a baby monitor, a portable phone, and a few dozen Wi-Fi/Bluetooth devices in their house, the band starts to break down quickly, even at 5 GHz. And 5 GHz really sucks at penetration. That means you need more energy and high-gain antennas to pierce through the noise and walls. That means that devices stop Tx’ing at 300 Mbps and drop down to lower data rates in order to overcome the noise through coding gain. And both of those factors mean that the data that does get sent takes up more time on the air, and consumes a larger radius. Think about those two factors: As you might imagine, they begin a *very* vicious cycle, especially once your Wi-Fi signal leaves the protective Faraday cage that is your house or the corner Starbucks.
In addition, although it was amazingly cool to build a protocol that could sustain a dozen or more hops and keep the mesh functional when nodes were moving at 90 MPH (and we did it!), in reality, nobody will tolerate that kind of latency for full-duplex voice, and the out-of-order packet arrivals from the dynamic route changes are enough to really screw with TCP. So in the real world, all the successful mesh deployments limit their wireless hops to just 2 or 3, and seed the mesh with fixed, wire-backhauled infrastructure with big antennas and 120V feeds. We had some success with vehicle-mounted and handheld nodes, but beyond some very niche scenarios (er, think “black hats” and “desert camo” and other people who can freely ignore FCC power limits), they usually don’t work out as well.
I could go on for days about the real-world issues and how we solved or didn’t solve them (security, latency, jitter, doppler, multipath, interferers, split horizon, hidden-node, multicast/broadcast distribution…), but IMHO, here’s what it would really take to implement your mobile phone mesh utopia: A licensed band with a mandatory channel fairness protocol and mandatory dynamic output power control algorithm, opened up by the licensor to allow sub-licensed consumer gear to operate. The possibilities are amazing, but the chance of it actually happening, I’m afraid, is near nil. I hope I’m wrong.
Casey Barker
>The possibilities are amazing, but the chance of it actually happening, I’m afraid, is near nil. I hope I’m wrong.
Would these problems be effectively addresses by opening up more spectrum to unlicensed use, or do you see the problems as more fundamental than that?
The reason I’m asking is because if more spectrum in different places (e.g. with better non-line-of-sight propagation) can solve the bottleneck, then the problem is subject to political attack by a big player like Google.
M. Smith on 2010-07-15 at 14:45:27 said:
I had exactly the same reaction as esr: It must be obvious to all the technical people involved that this won’t stop at being just a “backup system for emergencies”.
> it’s to give users a way out from under the thumb of the telecomms monopolists.
Mesh networks don’t solve the need for long-haul network backbones.
You don’t want to browse the web over a mesh network built mostly out of people’s cell phones. Too much latency. Even a super high speed, super reliable mesh network would have too many hops to comfortably connect to web sites across the country or even across town.
Just like with cars, the only sane way to travel long distance is to get on the highway as soon as possible. And the on-ramps to the internet’s highways are tool booths controlled by the telecoms. How does putting a public wifi hub in every smartphone solve that problem?
esr Says:
Question is, from who do you take the bandwidth? Virtually all the broadband providers are now lobbying to take it from the UHF band, claiming that it is not currently being used “efficiently”. Years ago there was a commercial warning against the “monster” of cable TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYL2PW_fjE). That commercial has been resurrected because of the drive to take bandwidth from the UHF part of the spectrum. Do we eliminate free, broadcast TV (all broadcast TV is now UHF) to feed the desire for Internet access wherever we happen to be standing?
> Do we eliminate free, broadcast TV (all broadcast TV is now UHF) to feed the desire for
> Internet access wherever we happen to be standing?
Considering the Internet actually achieves what TV was originally envisioned and intended for all, I’d answer ‘yes’ to that.
If mesh networks would work for cell phones, they would work even better for home networks. You’d only need a few houses per neighborhood and a few buildings per office park to provide public mesh-fi nodes, and the whole industrialized world could stay connected through the mesh.
Why hasn’t this happened yet?
(One reason is that current wi-fi tech has a range that is an order of magnitude too short. A modern G or N router can barely serve one house reliably. But that doesn’t sound too hard to solve.)
kiba on 2010-07-15 at 15:34:33 said:
>>Do we eliminate free, broadcast TV (all broadcast TV is now UHF) to feed the desire for Internet access wherever we happen to be standing?
All TV shows should be on the internet in the first place and be easily be accessed by anybody in the world. Of course, it will be supported by advertisements and whatnot.
As of right now, it is still not easy to watch TV shows on the internet like people flipping channels.
> Would these problems be effectively addresses by opening up more spectrum to unlicensed use, or do you see the problems as more fundamental than that?
Full disclosure: I am a software and protocols geek, not a modem/radio expert. Anything I say about modems and spectrum should be taken with an appropriate grain of salt. But like I hinted before, I think the big issue with unlicensed is that there’s nobody dictating how to “play fair” in the spectrum.
Sure, FCC puts raw dBm caps on the bands, but to make a system efficient enough to support The Vision, I really think you’d need a mandatory power control system, so that two near nodes talking over 20 feet won’t pollute the spectrum for a quarter-mile. I also think you need a channel fairness system, so that nodes gracefully relinquish the band and let other nodes access it. Technically, those are both solvable problems (although I admit, dynamic power control is a bitch, and something we never really got right).
In pure unlicensed bands, though, there’s absolutely *no incentive* for a device manufacturer (or a user) to “play fair” in either the power or time dimension. Every Wi-Fi manufacturer runs their designs at the bleeding edge of output power (usually butting up against the output mask and distortion in their amplifier), since power benefits both range (duh) and throughput (by overcoming noise, thus allowing higher modulation rates). No user ever turns down the power. And sure, Wi-Fi has QoS and inter-frame spacing standards to relinquish the channel, but cordless phones and microwave ovens don’t much care for your Wi-Fi standard. Even standards-compliant Wi-Fi devices default their settings to the minimum-allowable frame spacing because, again, that benefits throughput. (Go pull up the web page on your Wi-Fi access point and dig into the low-level settings. If you see any IFS parameters, I bet they’re set to basically zero.)
So the reason I think you need “licensing” is to enforce effective power/time limits on the precious spectrum resource. Maybe not the “Google-pays-$1B” kind of licensed–perhaps there’s some middle ground, but it would probably involve the FCC picking a winner in the technology game, and that makes me cringe.
Now, the Libertarian in me says that if you unlicensed the whole damned spectrum, from kHz to visible light, that might allow UWB modems and new-fangled soft radios to render the whole throughput issue moot. But so long as we’re talking about little 100-MHz blocks of spectrum here and there, it just doesn’t seem to work out. The resource is too constrained to enable The Vision.
> The reason I’m asking is because if more spectrum in different places (e.g. with better non-line-of-sight propagation) can solve the bottleneck, then the problem is subject to political attack by a big player like Google.
So, I’m self-aware enough to realize that, just because we couldn’t solve the problems, doesn’t mean someone else won’t. I just think it’s a much harder problem than most “armchair hackers” realize, and at the heart of the problem is spectrum.
And as it turns out, I just started a new job at Google a couple of months ago. It’s a big company, but if I can find the right ears to bend, I’m on it. :)
# jsk Says:
“Considering the Internet actually achieves what TV was originally envisioned and intended for all, I’d answer ‘yes’ to that.”
I’m not sure what you mean by “originally envisioned and intended for all”, unless you mean envisioned in such a way that everyone has to pay a monthly fee to watch TV. If that’s what you mean then there is no way a mesh network of the type being discussed will take shape. Geezers who never leave their home and people who refuse to pay for cable (and often broadband Internet access) would rise up and revolt. You can also take your idea to the extreme and snatch all the bandwidth from AM and FM broadcasters (including ham and CB folks), as well. But forcing people to pay a monthly fee for not only phone and internet, but to view TV or listen to the radio is just nuts. The whole point of the broadcast spectrum is so people *don’t* have to pay to get access to news, information and entertainment. There is also the anonymity factor. You watch broadcast TV or listen to the radio and no one logs, or even knows what you are doing. Force everyone to get this from the Internet via a mesh network and all of a sudden what you watch gets logged and studied by people who want all up in your business so they can advertise and tailor marketing to you personally. Not only does it give me the creeps to think that some entry level doofus fresh out of college has been tasked to personally induce me to increase my spending by X%, but I consider my viewing, listening and Internet surfing behaviors to be proprietary. If people want to observe and analyze them they can pay me cash. A whole lot of cash. I guess if you are one of those utopians who believe Internet access should be free for everyone the cost argument carries little weight. But the idea that Internet access should be free to everyone is nuts on its face.
> I’m not sure what you mean by “originally envisioned and intended for allâ€
Nix the ‘all,’ that’s a typo on my part. Television was originally hoped to be a decentralized communications tool, but turned into something else.
“Nix the ‘all,’ that’s a typo on my part. Television was originally hoped to be a decentralized communications tool, but turned into something else.”
How is it not a decentralized communications tool? Programming producers are decentralized all over the world. Ditto for broadcasting networks. Broadcasting stations are decentralized and spread all over towns, even though all the transmitters might be located on the same high point. Television receivers are decentralized in every home. There is programming of all sorts, good and bad being broadcast to those homes. I think you can still get the equivalent of the Sony Watchman so you can watch TV as you move about. And it all uses the ultimate mesh network: High power broadcasting that penetrates virtually all environments. Where has broadcast, i.e. free television fallen short?
> How is it not a decentralized communications tool?
Sorry, rephrase: decentralized, two-way communications. If you only want to consume, it’s fine. But, frankly, I’ll take the monthly cost of the Internet that allows me to potentially reach and communicate with millions and millions of people over the staggering cost of licensing and power to effectively broadcast via televsion.
“Sorry, rephrase: decentralized, two-way communications. If you only want to consume, it’s fine. But, frankly, I’ll take the monthly cost of the Internet that allows me to potentially reach and communicate with millions and millions of people over the staggering cost of licensing and power to effectively broadcast via televsion.”
The beauty of living in the 21st century, especially in the United States is that things like this aren’t an either/or proposition. We can choose how we consume media. If I’m trying to reach people I choose the best vehicle for that purpose. But when I’m watching Lost or Stargate or some show it’s not a two-way behavior. How would it be different watching those shows if the utopian mesh network was in place, other than I would have to pay to see something that was previously free? You talk about the “staggering cost of licensing and power”, but those costs are paid for by the people who choose to invest in those businesses, and recovered through advertising. And they make a profit, otherwise they wouldn’t still be in business. The whole mesh idea can be disposed of with simple technology. It just takes time. When radio first started each station took up a lot more bandwidth than they do now. Technology improved the ability to broadcast in narrower ranges. That’s why you can have more radio stations, closer together now. Same for digital TV. When the Internet first went public there was no way to play interactive online games unless you loved Microsoft Hearts of some similar minor game. Technology and greater efficiency has made it possible to play all sorts of online games now. The spectrum didn’t get bigger. We got more efficient. The same will happen with portability for mobile devices. You don’t have to take more spectrum to make it work. You just have to wait.
Go pull up the web page on your Wi-Fi access point and dig into the low-level settings. If you see any IFS parameters, I bet they’re set to basically zero.
I have Linksys WRT54G, but I can see my AIFSN parameters because I run the DD-WRT firmware on it. You’re sort-of right in my case. DD-WRT uses different AIFSN values for different traffic types through the use of WMM QoS shaping; the values are definitely closer to 0 for some types of traffic. Here is a screenshot of my current values, which I believe are the defaults. I’ll bet the default firmware uses a different AIFSN value.
The traditional solution to this problem is to what Seattle Wireless does: have a bunch of volunteer monkeys to configure and tune everything. Obviously this won’t work on a much larger scale, however.
> DD-WRT uses different AIFSN values for different traffic types through the use of WMM QoS shaping;
Neat! Leave it to the open implementation to do it “correctly.” :) I guess they don’t have a marketing dept. sitting on their shoulders screaming “make it go faster!!!”
> The traditional solution to this problem is to what Seattle Wireless does: have a bunch of volunteer monkeys to configure and tune everything. Obviously this won’t work on a much larger scale, however.
I guess my point is, in a diverse ecosystem of end-consumer devices, where manufacturers compete in simple terms consumers understand, range, reliability, and throughput drive the features and design decisions. And that means that devices tend toward poor spectral efficiency in unlicensed applications–consumers wouldn’t recognize spectral efficiency if it hit them on the head, and they have no incentive to care for anything but their own packets. A cohesive group deploying a purpose-built network can do it properly (we had several large-scale examples), but the sort of ad-hoc organic collection of consumer devices that the original article envisions isn’t likely to play so nice or, in the end, work so well.
Richard on 2010-07-16 at 06:18:39 said:
Fascinating comments thread!
I’ve worked in this field too, on experimental roaming mesh-networks deployed in much more constrained circumstances than are being discussed here, and I recognise the technical issues that have been described (power usage at key nodes; latency; coverage). I agree the spectrum issues of such a wide-scale deployment would be insurmountable by the market; regulation would be required. I hope for an eventual move to UWB and adaptive software radios however I think there are too many commercial interests vested in the spectrum-allocation arena for this to be possible in the short-term.
What I haven’t seen yet is a discussion on what happens to the carriers’ charging models and revenue streams if groups of devices can avoid using their fixed infrastructure to communicate. Do devices become more expensive as carrier subsidies reduce? Do charges for backhaul network access increase in proportion to the amount of peer-to-peer traffic? Or would the peer-to-peer capability instead enable communication only in niche circumstances while leaving the fixed infrastucture as the default and majority transport mechanism?
Dennis on 2010-07-16 at 10:35:31 said:
All this stuff about licensing bandwidth would be obsolete if we could get the old guard out of the way, and implement technologies like ultrawideband without ridiculously-low power limits. Way more bandwidth, way less power usage, and not a lot of concern about interference. (Google “open spectrum.”)
If we still have concerns about people eating up our phone batteries unfairly, we could implement some form of digital currency micropayments.
A couple of quick thoughts:
For battery power, have an option which only enables mesh access if the device is currently plugged in. A lot of people charge their phones in the car, at home, etc.
For emergency use, there is a need for communications, not necessarily voice communications. If you can merely route email/text messages reliably and without too much latency (tens of seconds), you can readily communicate with your family/friends to make sure that everybody is okay, or not. We can grow better uses/efficiency overtop of that as time goes on.
> For battery power, have an option which only enables mesh access if the device is currently plugged in. A lot of people charge their phones in the car, at home, etc.
I don’t think I’m giving away any technical secrets to say that there’s actually a lot of cool things you can do in routing protocols if everybody “plays fair.” You can use routing metrics to bias toward/against certain paths/nodes, if those nodes are being honest about their capabilities (power, connectedness, backhaul, etc.), and being honest about their QoS demands. For example, you don’t route through a battery-powered mobile device unless your traffic is emergency-class, like a 911 call. Only problem is, in fully unlicensed systems, there’s nothing stopping you from calling your pr0n downloads an “emergency.” Again, this goes back to “playing fair.” Perhaps there’s some social/market solution to this problem. I’m a big fan of the micropayments idea–I’ve tossed that one around many times–but it’s not clear to me how to keep secondary “undernets” and other protocols from consuming the spectrum.
Oh, and so long as we’re talking about fanciful ideas like UWB, I should toss in beam-steering antennas. Those could dramatically improve spatial efficiency, but they’re really tough to do for mobile consumer devices. Like I said, someone might be able to solve these problems, but I just don’t think we’re there yet.
I just want to throw in one more quick sentence here before I head off to bed, seeing how the topic has veered:
There are a *lot* of not- and not-very-well documented assumptions, both societal and technical, that are baked into our present systems of terrestrial broadcast radio and television, and as we evolve those, we’d better damned well give some pretty high-level thought to what they are.
A good example of what I mean is the assumptions we’re finding break as we slowly transition from a central-battery analog POTS telephony system to one with not only distributed intelligence, but distributed power.
Anyone who doesn’t think we really *need* the positive attributes provided by these historical designs has not been in a *big enough* disaster. (Think: Katrina, and if you need more on that, see here:
http://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/27/ )
Mark Essel on 2010-07-18 at 06:19:38 said:
As you can read I’m also a big fan of the adhoc net idea. Even though we can see a clear goal, it’s the path forward that we’re caught up in. Your strategy (a backup in case of emergency), is novel and it may have a chance.
All this network needs is two folks and a smart phone app to begin.
Mark on 2010-07-18 at 06:48:29 said:
As an incentive to allow use of a user’s hardware, perhaps use a digital currency like Bitcoin. CPU power used to route traffic also generates DC credits.
Christy on 2010-07-18 at 10:43:15 said:
Huh. I thought of this months ago. I just figured that (like most of my best ideas) everyone else had thought of it before. *facepalm*
[quote]By pitching it as a backup in case a power outage or disaster takes out cellphone towers, Dr. Gardner makes it an easy political sell and hard for the carriers to oppose. Regulators might even mandate it as a way to solve the 911 problem![/quote]
Right. Because the people running the telecom industries are f’ing morons and won’t see through this.
Telecom providers, ESPECIALLY cell phone companies are f’ing dirtbags. ALL OF THEM. They are not stupid, they are evil.
I wish something like this would work, I really do–mostly for anonymity and anti-censorship reasons. However I suspect that you’d have a better chance skipping the cellphone companies and doing it just as a 802.11 pocket sized device that had the ability to talk to multiple access points at once, and would auto-connect to access point or ad-hoc network available, then make it “cool” to provision an open, public access point.
James on 2010-07-18 at 23:07:56 said:
This sounds suspiciously like the network from Cory Doctorow’s “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.” But with the ideas from the One Laptop Per Child project thrown in. Awesome.
db48x on 2010-07-19 at 12:36:52 said:
@JamesFromPittsburgh: yea, Stross’ Halting State was my first thought too. Great book.
Dave Täht on 2010-07-21 at 16:35:21 said:
This is indirectly aimed at Casey, because for all I know we met way back when I was in Florida and I’ve spent the last 10 years basically working on the same stuff, and would love to talk about where I’m at with what I’ve been working with…
0) I worked on the mesh potato project for a while, gave up for a variety of
reasons. I’d have argued that the design team for the hardware have moved
to Timor before even starting the spec, as I was living in Nicaragua at the
Still, the project shows potential. David rowe had an excellent series of blog entries on the first deployment of the mesh potato:
http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=166
(10 blog entries, this is the last, with an index to the prior)
1) Power for mobile nodes is a serious problem, but there are plenty of other
ways to build a mesh network using fixed nodes – two nanostation M5s eat .14 ah
of power, for example, easily handled by a small solar cell and a battery.
The power problem is going to take a long time to solve, if ever, and can’t be solved inside
the 2.4 ghz spectrum, period.
2) 2.4 ghz is JUNK spectrum, made all the worse by everything else on it, and everybody piling on it even more. Bluetooth doesn’t even work well between your belt and your head nowadays.
3) Everybody is too USA centered. Wake up, people! 4/5ths of the people on the planet don’t have internet yet. There are cheap, and mesh based solutions to many of the problems that the rest of the world faces. (mesh is useful in a certain circumstances, anyway)
4) USA’s IP regime and licensing standards are too hard to cope with. I spent
95% of my time in my last 5 years here working out ways to avoid patents
rather than actually doing engineering.
So in answer to all this, I left the USA, moved to Nicaragua, and began to
develop a greenfield, 5.8 ghz, ipv6 enabled, meshed network, and got it
working a few months back on the nanostation m5’s with openwrt… (as well as a few other
pieces of hardware – the sheevaplug and ubiquity 2HP primarily)
The nanostation m5s cost 84 dollars each. Currently. They have a stated range of 12km. (I have tested 6km under good conditions) They can do 802.11n (300 mbit!) and 802.11a…
Nica has no rules regarding this spectrum and nobody using it in the rural (and mountainous) areas I was targetting. I imagine this is the case throughout much of the non-developed world….
I’d deployed 3 nodes and was working on getting the rest of 11 initial nodes
deployed before the rainy season hit… so I could test thoroughly in the
most terrible conditions possible…
…when the survivor tv show rented my house out from under me. It’s a long story.
I have been travelling the USA with 3 nodes in my backpack ever since, trying
to figure out who to talk to about getting the test deployment done.
I already have access to a 3 towers down there to test with, and another dozen, readily available…
For my network map, there’s a google earth map here:
http://www.teklibre.com/~d/b4barrios10.kml and zoom in below San Juan Del Sur,
Nicaragua. (it puts you in the center of the planet for some reason, to start)
For the most recent generation (sorry, untested in the field) of the code, see http://opkg.teklibre.com/
The Babel protocol is neat, it does both ipv4 and ipv6 cleanly…
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/
So is ahcp…
I’m in Redwood City, California next week….
Anthony Williams on 2011-01-05 at 10:43:17 said:
It appears that this is now happening….
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=2698_Software+to+turn+every+phone+into+a+cell-tower+
>It appears that this is now happening….
Read the article, saw the word “proprietary”, and immediately lost interest.
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Call Diversity, Spatio-Temporal Patterning And Masking Interference In An Assemblage Of Acoustically Communicating Ensiferan Species Of A Tropical Evergreen Forest In Southern India
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Diwakar, Swati
The present study provides the first description of the calls of a multi-species ensiferan assemblage in a tropical evergreen forest of the Indian subcontinent. I have identified and described the calls of twenty ensiferan species constituting the nocturnal acoustic community of a tropical evergreen forest in KNP. I found that the multi-species ensiferan assemblage consisted of diverse taxa representing subfamilies of the families Gryllidae, Tettigoniidae and Anostostomatidae. Eight acoustically communicating species of the family Gryllidae were found. Two species belonged to the family Mogoplistidae. Interestingly, each subfamily was mostly represented by only one genus. In the tettigoniids, representative species were found only from subfamilies Pseudophyllinae, Phaneropterinae and Mecopodinae. The species richness of the acoustically communicating cricket assemblage in the tropical evergreen forest of Kudremukh was found to be low. This study did not include non-calling and ultrasonic species of crickets. The gryllid and tettigoniid species analyzed exhibited different frequency (both narrow and broadband) and temporal patterns. Species belonging to the family Gryllidae had narrow band calls (with bandwidths not greater than 1 kHz) and had dominant frequencies mainly between 3 and 7 kHz. The calls of tettigoniids covered a wide spectral range reaching far into the ultrasound in species of the genus Mecopoda. Interestingly, of nine tettigoniid species, the calls of four (Onomarchus sp., Phyllomimus sp., Brochopeplus sp. and ‘15 kHz’) were narrow band and in the audible range, similar to those of gryllids. Although there was a high overlap of call frequencies between 3 to 7 kHz, gryllid species separated in their syllable repetition rate, which varied from six syllables per second in Landreva to 60 syllables/second in Gryllitara. Species with overlapping syllable repetition rates of 10 – 20 syllables per second separated along the frequency axis. There were species such as those of Phaloria and Gryllitara, Scapsipedus, Xabea and Callogryllus that overlapped both in the spectral and syllable repetition rates. These species however, differed in the other temporal features such as call duration, call period and number of syllables per call. This study also provides the first description of the calls and stridulatory structures of an Indian weta species (Family Anostostomatidae). Both males and females of this species were found to stridulate. The calls of the two sexes had similar spectral features. Male calls consisted of four syllables each, while female calls were bisyllabic. Stridulatory structures were similar between the sexes. I also quantitatively validated the reliability of human listener - based psychoacoustic sampling as a technique to monitor species richness and relative abundance of acoustically communicating ensiferan species that are within the human hearing range. I have shown using controlled psychoacoustic tests in the laboratory that a trained listener is capable of identifying the species as well as the number of individuals of Ensifera with high accuracy. This study suggests that trained listener - based psychoacoustic sampling may be preferable to carry out rapid assessments and species inventories of gryllids and low frequency katydid species in tropical forests. My study also suggests that acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera should be done using both the trained listener - based spot sampling and ambient noise recordings using ultrasound detectors for accurately estimating species richness and relative abundance in an area. Using focal animal sampling, I have shown that most species in the tropical forest ensiferan assemblage of Kudremukh National Park did not move more than a metre in a span of half an hour. The acoustic sampling should be designed in such a way as to cause minimal disturbance to the calling animals and could be limited to ten minutes to avoid re-counting individuals and counter the problem of pseudoreplication. I also investigated the spatial dispersion of calling sites in the vertical dimension. This study revealed vertical stratification of the calling heights of the twenty ensiferan species. Calling heights of both gryllid and tettigoniid species ranged from the ground to the canopy, although more gryllid than tettigoniid species occupied the ground and herb layer. Post hoc comparisons and cluster analysis indicated the presence of discrete calling height layers corresponding to the canopy, understorey, herb and ground layer. These clusters emerged from the raw data of calling heights of individuals of each species without a priori distinction of layers. This is in contrast to other studies on vertical stratification in arthropods and bats where baits, traps and mist nets are placed at different vertical layers, thereby demarcating the layers beforehand. Previous studies on crickets, cicadas and frogs have shown preference for the height of calling sites qualitatively. To my knowledge, this is the first study to quantitatively establish vertical stratification in calling heights in an ensiferan assemblage of an evergreen forest. No correlation between the calling heights and mean dominant frequencies of the species were found. Cricket species with relatively low frequency calls (3–4 kHz) occupied both the ground layer (Callogryllus sp. and Scapsipedus sp.) and the canopy (Xabea sp. and Onomarchus sp) suggesting that these narrow-band, relatively low frequency signals may be optimal for sound transmission in the cluttered habitat of the forest floor (due to leaf litter) and the canopy (due to high leaf density). Species with high frequencies such as Brochopeplus sp. and ‘15 kHz’ called mainly from vegetation in the understorey. Species with broadband calls (Mecopoda sp., Pirmeda sp. and Elimaea sp.) called just above the ground layer and from the understorey suggesting that calls with higher frequencies and bandwidths may be used in the somewhat less-cluttered microhabitat of the understorey. Calling height stratification in the ensiferan assemblages of tropical forests could also be due to other ecological factors such as predation by spiders, mantises, bats, birds or primates. The wide range of duty cycles, presence of high duty cycle callers (such as Mecopoda) and the lack of correlation of duty cycle with calling height found in our study site are interesting. Studies on acoustic transmission in different microhabitats at different heights and on predation pressure on the ensiferan species will provide further insight into the selective forces influencing calling height stratification. The multi-species assemblage constituting the nocturnal acoustic community was found to be calling in the same time period between evening to midnight and no species was found to have a unique calling time that is different from that of another species. There was no diel partitioning of calling time between the acoustically communicating ensiferan species. Frogs and cicadas that can be considered as acoustic competitors of the ensiferan assemblage appeared to be separating from crickets on a seasonal and diel scale respectively. This study has quantified the amount of masking interference in three dimensions viz. temporal, fine temporal and spectral, between sixteen species belonging to the nocturnal acoustic ensiferan assemblage of an evergreen forest. Frequency histograms of overlap, bar graphs of overlap on a species by other species and Mantel’s test results on matrix correlation suggest negative relations between the temporal, fine-temporal and spectral overlaps. Species with high overlap in one dimension had very low levels of overlap in any of the other two dimensions, suggesting acoustic resource partitioning in the ensiferan assemblage of the evergreen forest. I also tried to quantify the extent of spatial overlap between species based on calling intensity and inter-specific distances. However, spatial overlap could not be analysed further as there were some species pairs for which I did not have the inter-individual distances despite carrying out the field work for six months. The procedure of estimating spatial overlap between species pairs and the result along with missing gaps is presented in appendix 2. It will be interesting to investigate the extent of spatial overlap between species pairs as the fourth dimension in which species could separate to avoid acoustic competition. It is also important to estimate the relative abundance of species in the evergreen forest to obtain a realistic representation of masking interference between species. Partitioning of acoustic resources among ensiferan assemblage could also be better explained by analysing all the dimensions.
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(McDonough, GA – 10 September) On Tuesday 8 September 2020, suit was brought by the Georgia Minutemen, LLC, a Georgia corporation, against all four Henry County commissioners who voted in July to remove the Confederate Monument from the McDonough Square where it had stood vigilant for more than 100 years. This suit is different than other suits that have been brought against public officials this year for removing Confederate monuments around the state in that it names all four commissioners in their individual capacity who voted for the removal.
Other lawsuits filed around the state, including Henry County, to force the restoration of monuments moved by public officials have been unsuccessful as yet owing to the onerous doctrine of “sovereign immunity” which protects any subdivision of state government from lawsuits in most cases. The new lawsuit filed by the Georgia Minutemen does an “end around” with regard to the sovereign immunity issue by naming the commissioners in their individual capacity where immunity is limited to lawful acts. Georgia’s Monument Protection Act, arguably the strongest in the nation, allows for both civil and criminal suits against public officials who violate its stringent protections of monuments in Georgia.
This suit is important in that it would be a precedent-setting case which could be used as a tool for preventing the unlawful removal of monuments in other places. If the Minutemen are successful in the prosecution of this suit, public officials everywhere will be reticent to consider removing any monument protected under Georgia Code 50-3-1. If the commissioners lose this case, they will be on the hook as individuals for “treble” (triple) the cost of replacing or restoring the original monument to its rightful place on the McDonough Square, all attorneys fees, and exemplary damages in an amount decided by a jury. Monies collected from the verdict will first be applied to restoring the Monument to its home of more than 100 years before any other distributions are made.
The attorney for the Georgia Minutemen is Todd Harding of Maddox & Harding. The Defendants in the case are the four commissioners who voted unlawfully for the removal of the Monument: Dee Clemmons (D), Vivien Thomas (D), Bruce Holmes (D), and June Wood (R-chairman); and the Henry County Manager, Cheri Hobson-Matthews, who effected the removal.
Speaking to local reporters, Georgia Minutemen founder Ray McBerry had this to say about the new filing: “It is sad when we have reached a point in America when even monuments to our heroes that have stood for more than a hundred years are under attack. It is time that Georgians, and all Americans, begin to stand up together and say, ‘No more!’ Our legislature last year wisely gave the people of the sovereign state of Georgia the tools necessary to prevent this very thing in the form of the strongest monument protection bill in the country… and we intend to use it. Let this be a warning shot to all public officials in this state who are considering removing our monuments… you will be next. We’re coming for you in the courtroom.”
Minutemen founder McBerry is personally facing a state obstruction charge for refusing to vacate the sidewalk in McDonough on the evening that the County brought a crane company to remove the Confederate Monument. He was told that the crane company could not begin work until the sidewalk was cleared, and he refused to move. Mr. McBerry pointed out to the more than 20 officers present at his arrest that the construction permit they were ostensibly using as their authority to clear the Square could not exist because it was nowhere posted publicly on the site as required by law. Officers arrested and detained him anyway, only to learn the following day through Open Records Requests that the County had, in fact, dropped the ball and failed to obtain the permit as required by law. Although Mr. McBerry’s statements to the officers have proven true, the Henry County solicitor’s office have thus far refused to dismiss the charge against him.
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Basil’s June 7th Voting Guide
By hburkelegal@gmail.com on May 25, 2016 in Uncategorized
*** Heather’s Note:
If you’re from Nevada County, you are hopefully lucky enough to know and love Basil McMahon, an inspiring local artist and advocate. Basil put out his voting guide for the June 7th election, and he’s on such point that I had to share. See you at the polls!
Basil’s Voting Guide:
Here are my (Basil’s) endorsements for the California primary ballot. This is a voter-guide “cheat sheet” for down-ballot and local Nevada County races, so you don’t have to go out and do the extra research. Investigate. Speak up. Own your beliefs. Question Authority. Always vote, even if you spoil the ballot.
Fight like hell for your right to vote!
Thank you to everyone whose reached out to ask me- I’m honored that you would take my opinions into consideration. Take them with a critical awareness, and a grain of salt. I’m always open to learning, listening, and changing my mind. This time around, the ballot is pretty short, so I added some extra commentary. These are my own opinions and do not reflect those of any organization.
FOR MORE INFORMATION on progressive candidates to support in other races you can start here:
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Bernie F*cking Sanders
Never in my life have i felt so proud to be able to support a presidential candidate. This is the kind of moment that defines a generation politically. Back on the day when he announced and I was posting left and right about feelin the bern, I would never have guessed he would get this far. RESPECT. If Bernie wins California by something like 75% to 25%, he could mathematically overtake Clinton in the pledged delegate count. That, unfortunately, is extremely unlikely to happen. Never give up if there’s still a mathematical possibility, but don’t fool yourself of the chances. If Clinton secures the nomination, low information voters and young millenials who have internalized their disenfranchisement and become disillusioned with the democratic process (heres looking at U!) will be quick to look for explanations as to why Bernie diddn’t win- and the most convenient explanations will be the ones that reinforce their worst suspicions about the election process being rigged. My only hope is that enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders, the dude who has been fighting from within the system for social and economic justice since before your parents were born, doesn’t turn into jaded apathy and suspicion of the “system” just because the results don’t reflect your preferred outcome. Are you going to give up fighting just because of the results of one rigged primary battle? Bernie wouldn’t do that 2 u now would he. He’s in it for the long haul.
Keep in mind, whoever the democrats nominate will be the last and only person standing in the way of a neo-fascist clown assuming the presidency. Yeah, it blows. Fun times!!
Fortunately for you, California Voter, you live in a safely democratic state, and you can vote for whoever you damn well please come november without worrying that voting for your conscience might run the risk of letting Trump win. Unless everyone else does, in which case, your American Individualism is running right up into your need to vote strategically. I know, i know, its hella awkward.
I will not however, in good conscience, recommend any vote that would increase the chances of a Trump presidency.
— UNITED STATES SENATOR
The current Attorney General of California is running to replace retiring senator Barbara Boxer (D) in a crowded field. The top two candidates will go to a runoff in November. Expect Harris (frontrunner) to go up against Loretta Sanchez, another democrat with less reliable ‘progressive’ credentials (every democrats’ favorite buzzword). Some people jokingly suggest Kamala Harris is the new female Obama. Elizabeth Warren has come out with a full force endorsement. A (relatively) progressive woman of mixed ethnicity in the United States Senate? we could use more of those.
— UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE- District 1
Jeff Gerlach (NPP)
This is our “House of Represenatives” Congressperson seat. District 1 covers the entire north-eastern part of the state. Doug La Malfa, often photographed with his cowboy hat, is firmly entrenched in this safe republican seat. Unfortunately, due to partisan gerrymandering, District 1 is drawn up to be extremely difficult for a progressive candidate to win. Heidi Hall (now running for a Nevada County Supervisors seat) put up a formidable effort against La Malfa in last election cycle in 2014. Watching Hall debate La Malfa during this campaign, I learned that our current House Rep denies the existence of global warming, supports fracking, vilifies the obama EPA and generally personifies the worst characteristics of a tea-party obstructionist in congress. Yee Haw. I also gained alot of respect for Heidi Hall, who spoke persuasively and forcefully for not just progressive ideals, but simple rational thinking.
Unfortunately, La Malfa’s seat is a safe republican seat that no democrat, no matter how centrist, is likely to be able to steal away. Fortunately, that means you get to vote your conscience!
Jeff Gerlach has been a visible and consistent participant at local events concerning medical marijuana and has supported the efforts of the Nevada County California Growers Association. He has endorsed Bernie, stands for many progressive causes and has as good a chance as any unaffiliated candidate to stick it to the man.
— STATE SENATE Distrct 1
Rob Rowen (DEM)
Rowen is the only democrat running against Ted Gaines, the republican whose held the seat since 2011. Gaines diddn’t even bother to show up at a recent local candidates forum, hosted by the league of women voters- and shows his disdain for public deliberation. Jerkface.
-MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY District 1
Brian Dahle, the republican whose held the seat since 2012, is running unopposed. Write in a candidate. Perhaps “Banksy,” or “Hunter S. Thomson.”
— NEVADA COUNTY
— COUNTY SUPERVISOR District 2
Richard W. Harris
Richard Harris, a local insurance company professional, decided to step into the county supervisor race last minute against Ed Scofield, who is running for his third term in office representing the South County district. It takes a great deal of courage and character to stand up and offer yourself to public service, especially when competing against an established incumbent. I am especially grateful that Mr. Harris decided to stand for office, considering Ed Scofield ran un-opposed in the last election cycle (and did so only months after pushing hard to enact the highly restrictive marijuana growing ordinance of 2012). It was a unfortunate reflection of how poorly organized the progressive opposition was at the time that the community could let Scofield and his favored special interest groups stand unopposed in south county.
Scofield has been a stalwart opponent of medical marijuana ever since i moved to Nevada County. He was, notably, the only one out of the 5 supervisors who refused an invitation from the NC Cal Growers Association to have a one-on-one meeting after measure S failed in 2014. Unfortunately, the loudest and most influential voting bloc in South County is the ASPOA (Alta Sierra Property Owners Association), and Scofield is their main man.
Harris has reportedly been fighting back against a smear campaign, claiming he is a “big time” grower and one-issue candidate. Characters like Sheriff Keith Royal, Supervisor Ed Scofield and Don Besse of SAM have been implicated in accusations of slandering Harris, who recently penned a letter attesting to the fact that he has in years past grown 12 plants- and no more than 12 plants- to support the medical needs of his daughter, who has a debilitating disease.
This all speaks to the courage and character that it takes to put your hat in the ring and stand for local elected office. It is a sad testament to the tenor of county politics that a good citizen’s character would be impugned for simply being a cannabis provider for his own daughter’s medical needs. Dirty politics indeed.
Heidi Hall
Dwane Strawser
In District 2, two candidates are competing to replace retiring incumbent Nate Beason. Regardless of the outcome of the race between Hall and Strawser, the county will be much better off with Beason in the rear-view mirror. He has been an obstacle to progress in more ways than I can count. He played a principal role in pushing through the county’s outside events sound ordinance, which dictates that if you host more than 50 people on your private property after 10PM, you have to obtain a special permit from the sheriffs department. The consternation caused by this contentious edict alienated even some of the board’s more traditional allies, like the vinyards, the wedding industry, and the NC chamber of commerce. Nice work.
Now District 2 (which includes Nevada City and much of municipal Grass Valley) is presented with two very different options for who should take over the vacancy left by Beason. Heidi Hall- manager with the State Department of Water Resources (endorsed by the NC Democrats), and Dwane Strawser- Grass Valley City Councilman and bike shop owner (Endorsed by the NC Republican Party).
There is much ado concerning who is best suited to demonstrate leadership and effectiveness in Nevada County’s open supervisorial seat. In an era of conservative dominance on the county board AKA the Old Boys Club, some suggest that an outspoken advocate for progressive issues (especially if their voice is only one out of five) will be sidelined and marginalized- this is the spectre of political isolation that candidate Heidi Hall is combating. This veiled accusation- that she might be an ineffectual leader because she is outspoken and would be politically marginalized- is compounded by the fact that she is, of course, female, unlike the rest of the cowboys that runs the BOS.
This to me seems to be a classic example of patriarchy operating in the political sphere, which functions to dismiss and minimize the potential of a woman’s competency and efficacy in public roles of leadership traditionally reserved for men. Basically, its hella wack and I personally think that a woman’s voice, and wisdom, on the Board of Supervisors is sorely needed- particularly if that female voice speaks out in support of environmental justice, community diversity and democratic transparency. Mrs. Hall has shown courage and a willingness to be proactive and transparent in stating her positions, including a No vote on Measure W. If she is successful in her election, she will be an integral ally in the cause of smart and effective MMJ regulations in the county.
Dwane Strawser, her opponent, also running for District 1 Supervisor, does not fit into the neat “Republican” box that most people are trying to stick him into. He was recently a democrat, but changed his party affiliation to “Decline to State” shortly before this election. He has been endorsed by the local republican party, and has received a significant amount of funding from a tea-party affiliated PAC called Citizens for Good Governance. He has accepted these endorsements without protest, and it brings up concerns about the influence of money in politics that mirror the concerns clearly evident on the national political scene. Clearly, many on the right think he is a good safe investment.
Strawser has so far been unwilling to take a position on Measure W. This has been a red-line that many in the community view as disqualifying- they complain, rightfully so, that if you are going to stand as a public official, you should at least stand for something- one way or another. He has been accused of not having principles, and of wanting to play each side off the other for political gain.
My sense, after talking with Mr. Strawser about Measure W for some time, is that there is more nuance here than most people are willing to see. Strawser has shown a concerted effort to educate himself on the issue of Medical Marijuana in the county and what I feel like is a sincere intent to engage on the issue with the NC Cal Growers Association. In short, he has been alot more interested in dialogue and problem-solving than Nate Beason. He understands that Medical Cannabis is a big part of the local community and that we won’t be backing off this issue, even if measure W passes. He has shown a willingness to listen and seems sincere in his desire to find common ground to work through some of the problems the community is facing. If he ends up winning the election, he will be a key ally (despite whatever political stripes you want to paint on him) in crafting local policies which provide a regulated path forwards for good stewards of MMJ cultivation in Nevada County.
— BALLOT MEASURES
— Proposition 50, SUSPENSION OF LEGISLATORS
Yes. I think.
— MEASURE Y
Vote No
— MEASURE W
Vote Hell No
Thanks for reading. 🙂 ~Basil.
Patricia Smith says:
I agree with all your choices except Kamala Harrris. She is establishment through and through. She was dismissive of MJ patient rights and stood by while our civil rights were being trampled. Steve Stokes is a Berner and got my vote.
Tamara J Luckinbill says:
Your ideas lost credibility when I saw you endorsing Kamala Harris. Steve Stokes is worth considering your vote, unless you actually beleive all the BS Hillary dishes out….
Anyone have more of an opinion on prop 50 it seems with a “yes” the higher ups could kick anybody out that they wanted to ?
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The Return of the Rings
14 pale-bellied Brent were feeding on the north side, out from the childrens play area, on incoming tide. There were no rings on twelve of these, the remaining two were swimming.
They arrived at Red Nab at 10:00. By that time they had been joined by three more birds. Resulting in a count of 17 pale-bellied Brent. Two of these were the ringed birds, so the 14 must have picked up the two adult ringed birds with accompanying juvenile, or the two swimming birds on the north side were ringed and the 14 were joined by the 3 regular birds, who seem to remain to their own agenda.
10:02 - 17 Brent arrive at Red Nab from north side.
10:28 - last bit of Rocks about to be covered. One of these is ringed.
10:29 - Brent leave Red Nab towards Pott's Corner. You can just make out the red ring on two of these. The feeding window at Red Nab will be even shorter on tomorrow's higher tide. 10:30 will be about the optimum time.
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Talent and hard work is sparking at centre of trade and technology
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Mark Goodacre, an instructor in the Welding Techniques certificate program at the Centre for Trades and Technology on Carrier Drive, welds metal together. (HARMAN SINGH GURM)
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Humber’s Centre of Trades and Technology provides an opportunity to advance their career in technology.
“Centre for trades and technology is a place, which provides a real life working environment to help the students to succeed in their careers,” said Michael Auchincloss, the associate dean of the School of Applied Technology.
“We provide students a place with the real-life exposure of the worksites with help of various labs, machines, up to date technology and equipment, where they can learn, practice and master their skills,” he said.
Auchincloss said Carrier Drive has eight skill trades program, which includes electrical, welding, boiler making, millwright, plumbing, home renovation, woodworking and cabinet making.
Sandy Gerolimon, the program coordinator of electrical techniques at the Humber Centre for Trades and Technology, said all the trades are divided into two categories of programs, Post-Secondary or Techniques, and Apprenticeship.
“Apprentice programs consist of three levels, which are eight to 10 weeks long,” he said. “To study in an apprentice program, students must be hired by a skilled employer, who must sponsor them.
“Students must have nearly a year of working experience prior to join the trades at Carrier Drive,” Gerolimon said.
He said, for example, an electrician requires 9,000 hours of working experience to become licensed. Apprentice students work for nearly a year before they join the trade.
“After the year of working with the employer, they join the level one, which is eight weeks long and after completing it they go back and work again for a year,” Gerolimon said.
He said students return for level two and after completing it, they work for another year and come back to do level three. The complete process requires four to five years.
“Once the students are done with it and clear the course with 70 per cent and all the certifications, they proceed to become a licensed electrician,” Gerolimon said.
He said the apprenticeship process is similar for all the trades.
Gerolimon said the post-secondary and technique programs are two semesters long and provide the basic knowledge about a particular trade along with the necessary practical hand work.
“Techniques is for the students who want to get in trades but they don’t have any experience,” he said.
James Carey, who is a professor in plumbing, said the post-secondary programs are essentially the same as the apprenticeship course but are taught at a slower pace to students with no experience.
Carey said post-secondary programs leads to the apprentice program as the students get their certificate and are hired by companies.
“After a year of work, their employer sends them back to school as an apprentice, where they go through their training, they practice and learn about new innovations and methods along with latest technology,” Carey said.
Auchincloss said he thinks that the interaction between the students is very important.
“Students from various trades interact with each other like they would, get to meet each other on real job sites, which lets them know each other and most importantly it teaches them to work in a collaboration,” he said.
Auchincloss said all the labs, whether it be plumbing, home renovation or electrical construction, are open for all the students.
“Our courses are designed in such a way that students migrate from one lab to another irrespective of their trades, which allow them to see all the areas of all different trades that are present at the centre,” he said.
“I am from electrical trade and when I went on the job site, it was not just me that was doing the work,” Auchincloss said. “There were plumbers, renovators, people from framing and having to work along with them and tie all the things back together is the most important task and this is what Centre of Trades and Technology focus on.”
He said the demand to be accepted at Carrier Drive is high as there is a wait list for about 90 per cent of the courses.
“Our courses are full at all times,” Auchincloss said, adding some courses are expected to be streamed online by the fall.
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by Landon Buford April 10, 2017, 8:08 pm 23 Views 0 Votes
RESPECT. had the opportunity to chat with Trip Lee about his new mixtape “The Waiting Room.” During the interview, Trip broke down every one of his 10 track singles off of the project starting with the emotions, the concepts, and the message he is trying to deliver to the public. The Waiting Room is the follow-up project from to his 5th album “Rise”, which debuted second on the Billboard Rap chart and peaked at 16th on the Billboard 200.
In addition, to being a very talented musician Trip is also, husband, father, author, and pastor. He recently relocated from Dallas to Atlanta to help establish a church within the community to help spread hope and commitment. You can see what Trip Lee had to say at about each single below!
RESPECT.: Can you tell us what was the message wanted to get a cross with the single “Clouds” ?
This song is about the roller coaster process that comes with big dreams. You might wake up in the morning feeling like a million dollars, only to have your dreams dashed as the day goes on. Chasing dreams is always a tough road, but it’s worth it— because when you’re headed in the right direction it feels like you’re “way up in the clouds.”
RESPECT.: Why is Too Cold an Anthem ?
This song is an anthem for those who stand firm and can’t be moved. Those around us may push us to conform and be like everyone else, but “we ain’t gon let the world mold us.” Even when they turn up the heat on us, we’re frozen in place & moving forward.
RESPECT.: When you came up with the concept for “Lord Have Mercy” what social issues were you trying to address?
This one calls attention to all the brokenness in our world, and calls out for God’s mercy. I start out talking about me in the first verse, the second verse hits on our hatred for one another, including racism in America. And the final verse points towards our hope for Heaven. All throughout the repeating cry is “Lord have mercy!”
RESPECT.:what were some the emotions you were feeling in the production process of IDK?
This song is a soundtrack for those times when everything seems to be going wrong, and God doesn’t seem to be listening to our prayers. I’m basically playing an exaggerated version of myself, emphasizing the pain and abandonment we often feel. The intro and outro quote Psalm 13, where David asks a similar question, “How long, O Lord, will you forget me? Forever?”
RESPECT.: What is your single “Ready” about ?
This song is two letters in one— a grieving letter addressed to my dad, and a defiant letter addressed to death. In the verses I reflect on my dad’s life and death, and how tragic it is that he died early. But in the hooks, I speak directly to death, saying that I’m ready whenever it comes. Verse 3 is the culmination of the song, where we’re reminded that death has died, and no longer has real power over us.
RESPECT.: What is your single Still Unashamed a reminder of ?
This song is an anthem for the unashamed. Some have questioned whether or not Romans 1:16 still characterizes what we do. This song is a reminder that our anthem hasn’t changed, and we’re still as unashamed as we’ve ever been.
RESPECT.: During the creation of Money Up what were some of the roles that you were play ?
In this song, I do a bit of role playing. I speak from the perspective of a typical rapper who hopes to make it big and get rich so all his problems will go away. Throughout the song the character makes more money, but doesn’t get rid of all of his problem. It’s meant to challenge the false narrative that more money is the solution all of life’s woes.
RESPECT.: what were some of the things that you were aiming at with Out My Way?
This is a song aimed directly at any weights, weaknesses, and sins that stand in our way. In the first verse I focus mainly on problems in the world, and in the second verse I focus mainly on internal problems. All of them are only obstacles to living the life I was made to live. So I tell them to “get out my way.”
RESPECT.: What do want your listeners to take from Longer ?
This is another song full of lament. It’s meant to express the grief that comes with prolonged suffering, and I cry out to the Lord, “How long will it be till you take it away?” The hooks are the response to my cries. The listener can take them as words from a friend, or from God himself. It’s a reminder that the problems we face, don’t have to last for eternity. Healing is on the way.
RESPECT.: How would describe your single Billion Years ?
This song is the climax of the whole mixtape. The songs have been filled with lament and grief, with hope sprinkled throughout. This final song points to the ultimate hope that answers all the questions I raised. Though our life’s journey is hard, our future is bright. We can endure the pain in this world because we have hope for a brand new one. Why dwell on the past, when we have forever in our future?
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RESPECT. Speaks with KD Communications’ Kela Hall About 2017 Events & More!
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Music Videos, New Music, New Releases, Premiere
Tinashe Brings The Summer Heat With Ty Dolla $ign & French Montana On ‘Me So Bad’!
Tinashe has delivered on her promise to drop three new singles leading up to the reveal of her long-delayed sophomore album, Joyride, which is finally set to see the light of day on April 13.
Following “No Drama” with Offset and “Faded Love” featuring Future, the Aquarius singer taps Ty Dolla $ign and French Montana for her latest output, “Me So Bad.” The summer-ready, island-flavored bop finds Tinashe flaunting her assets confidently.
“You want some me so bad/ You want some me so bad/ Come get this body,” she seductively purrs before Dolla $ign matches her unapologetic raunch with his verse: “I want her face down,” he sings. “Turn around, let me lay down / You want another round / Let me taste that.”
Finally, French rhymes about a girl who rejected safe sex after seeing his safe. “You know we the flyest, that’s a fact,” he raps. “I need a new crib for the plaques.” The song is truly solid, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that this is the third song we’ve gotten from this era that includes a special guest. Could you allow yourself to be the only talent on your next single, Tinashe? Don’t get me wrong, ya’ll know I love me a solid collaboration, but I’d really love to hear what Tinashe can do on her own this era. Ya dig?
As for the sexy visual, Tinashe shows off her moves on the tennis court in a plaid yellow skirt and blonde braids. She changes into a magenta velour tracksuit before going for a ride with Ty in a golf cart. She and French then break out the furs before Tinashe hits the locker room with her girls. It’s straight-up fun from start to finish – Get into it below!
Tinashe’s “Me So Bad (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & French Montana)” is available on Apple Music and Spotify!
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Vadbhagee
(c) J. Singh, 2016
From the late fifteenth century until the late eighteenth century, a resplendent light manifested on this Earth in the form of ten spiritually enlightened beings that came to be known as the Great Gurus of the Sikhs. They walked the Earth amongst us, in human form, each one succeeded by the next, until the last one, the Tenth True Sovereign, after which there were to be no more human Guru's.
They brought healing to an ailing world, the light of divine wisdom and mercy, and showed people the path from suffering to peace. They revealed the secrets of Universe and the meaning of Life, and taught us to love, honor and serve mankind. They upheld the values of justice and equality and taught people to be free. It is said that even a glance from the Guru can redeem a hell-bound soul and deliver emancipation from slavery. To this day, Sikhs the world over maintain the highest reverence and deepest respect and love for their beloved Guru.
Gurpreet Kaur was beaming. It had been several weeks since the ceremony, and she still couldn't stop smiling. She was sitting in her cubicle at work, typing an email on her laptop. But her mind was preoccupied. Since the ceremony, her life had felt completely different, even though nothing tangible had essentially changed. She still worked at the same job, drove the same car, and lived in the same house. But it felt like everything had changed in way that was indescribable. Colors seemed brighter, the air seemed fresher, food tasted more delicious, and she felt more energetic. It seemed like she had been asleep all her life, and had only just woken up to realize the beauty and joy of life all around her.
At first, she thought that the exhilaration would eventually dwindle and fade away, and she even had a sense of dread about how she might react when it did. But here she was, weeks later, and she still felt as if she was floating on air. Never in her life had she had such a sustained feeling of euphoria. She eventually decided that she would give herself fully to this feeling, and surrender to it. If it stayed, she would welcome it. If it faded, then she would also accept that without disappointment.
Immediately before, during and after the ceremony, she had felt a varied mixture of feelings: fear, panic, peace, calm, joy, bliss, happiness, excitement, and overwhelm. Even now, so many weeks later, she still felt herself often times tearing up, unable to contain the immense feelings that kept welling up and surging inside her. In the days and hours before the ceremony, she had felt that her entire life had been preparing her for this. When she had stood with head bowed, surrounded by the fellow abhilakees, enveloped in the yearning sounds of simran , and the doors had finally opened, she had felt that her destiny was finally being fulfilled.
And now, everything was different in her life. She was forever changed. She had received a wide variety of reactions from everyone in her life. Most of her friends were happy for her, others were confused, and a few derided her choice. Her family was very pleased, with her parents being especially delighted. They made it a special point to announce her new status to every family friend that happened to visit.
While she didn't speak much about it with her immediate family or friends, Gurpreet did share her enthusiasm with her newfound sangat, who were very welcoming and loving. At times she felt wistful, wondering why she hadn't taken this step years ago. But she was glad that she was finally here now.
It would be another several weeks before she started to talk about her experience and articulate her feelings, even with her new sangat. One of the members of the sangat, Harpal Kaur, had been especially helpful to her before the ceremony and had stayed in touch afterward. Gurpreet and Harpal had become friends and would often speak. She felt she could confide in her, and ask for advice. She had encountered challenges in adopting her new lifestyle and Harpal was the one person she could turn to for help. Harpal had been through these challenges and she could relate to Gurpreet and what she was going through. She listened with empathy and always offered practical advice. Most important to Gurpreet, though, was Harpal's warm and non-judgmental nature. It felt to her like she was talking with the older sister she never had. She was so grateful for having such a friend. But then again, since the ceremony, her life had been full of gratitude for so many things.
Gurpreet sighed and looked at her watch. It was almost time to leave the office. She finished typing the email and clicked on the "Send" button, then shut down her laptop and packed it into her bag. As she stood up, she heard the familiar chime from her phone indicating that she had received a text message. She glanced at it and saw that it was from Harpal.
Come over for dinner. Gurcharan is cooking! Bring Uncle and Aunty. The kids have been asking to see you :-)
Gurpreet smiled. She loved visiting Harpal's family. As she was heading out the door, she rang her Mom.
At Harpal and Gurcharan's house, it was the usual chaos with three young children giggling and playing, chasing each other, and causing the general ruckus that only children can create. As Gurpreet walked in the front door with her parents, she could smell the delicious hot food being cooked in the kitchen. All the spices and flavors reminded her of her Mom's cooking and distant memories of childhood and home in India, before her family had migrated to the United States.
Harpal and Gurcharan were splendid hosts, even with the distraction of all the children. Or perhaps because of it. The whole family seemed to have a knack for making visitors feel welcome and immediately at ease and relaxed.
After dinner, her parents and Gurcharan sat on the comfortable couches in the living room and had tea and talked, while the kids played and watched cartoons. Harpal and Gurpreet sat in the relative quiet of the dining room and talked.
"I guess I thought this feeling would pass," Gurpreet said, "I mean, not immediately, of course, but eventually. But, it hasn't. And I'm really grateful."
Harpal smiled warmly. "You're blessed."
"I keep thinking about it," Gurpreet said. "When we were all waiting, how nervous we were. And then those big double-doors opening. Walking inside...just remembering it, it makes me feel so emotional."
Harpal nodded, listening.
"I still remember the Panj Pyare. They looked so amazing in their bana. And the sevadars were so helpful. I don't think I could have made it through without all their support. They're all members of the local sangat, aren't they?"
"Yes, all of them are," Harpal mentally counted the sevadars who were present during the ceremony. "You've probably seen all of them at the Gurudwara at some time or another. Of course, you wouldn't have noticed them before."
"I feel so grateful, I feel like thanking them for all their support and help."
"You don't have to do that."
"I know, but still. At the very least, I want to say thanks and show my appreciation."
"You can do that by helping others."
"I knew you were going to say something like that!" Gurpreet laughed. "Maybe this weekend I will see some of them at the Gurudwara?"
"Yes I'm sure. Harmit Kaur will be there."
"She was the one wearing the blue dastaar, right?"
"Yes, and the tall, slender one is Prabhjot Kaur."
"She was so sweet. She got me some water when I was thirsty."
"Let's see, there was Sukhjeet Singh..."
"Yes, with the gol pagri!"
"Yes, and Ravneet Singh was also there."
Gurpreet furrowed her brows as she struggled to remember the details. Then she asked, "What about that other Singh?"
"Which one?" asked Harpal, counting the sevadars mentally again.
"He was the one who helped the older Uncle when he was too tired to stand. He brought him water, and helped him to get up and sit down again. I'm trying to remember his face but I can't."
"Hmm...that wasn't Ravneet?"
"No. I can recall everyone else's faces. It wasn't Ravneet. I just can't remember exactly what he looked like..."
Harpal looked around for her phone. "Let me check," she said, "be right back."
While Gurpreet waited for Harpal to return, she tried to remember more details about that day. She clearly remembered how she felt, but it was proving more difficult to remember the exact details of what she saw. She remembered sitting down immediately after being initiated, feeling overwhelmed. And then a voice whispering in her ear, 'Bol Vaheguroo!' Then her eyes closed, and she began speaking Vaheguroo, Vaheguroo, Vaheguroo. Eventually, that meditation was in her thoughts, that simran kept going on in her mind, even until this moment.
After several minutes, Harpal returned with her phone in her hand. She seemed to be restraining herself. She seemed visibly shaken. She sat down and quietly asked Gurpreet, "That Singh you saw, what else did he do?"
"I'm not sure. He just seemed to be helping everyone. I remember that his clothes were so bright, it seemed almost like he was glowing, he was so radiant! He was so graceful. You really got a sense of peace and comfort, like everything was going to be ok. He had a very calming presence. Very warm."
Harpal was looking at Gurpreet very intently now. "Did he speak to you, or say anything to you?"
Gurpreet thought for a moment. "I think so, but I can't remember what it was. He was helping everyone, and I remember when it was my turn to be initiated, I was trembling and hesitant, I was really scared. He said some words to me, I can't remember what he said, but I felt warm and safe and knew that I would be protected and that even though I was scared, I would be taken care of. And that everything was going to be okay. It gave me the confidence, you know? And then I took my first step. After that, all my fear was gone."
Harpal was staring at Gurpreet.
"What?" Gurpreet asked, taken aback.
"Gurpreet bhenji (sister), I called Harmit, and also Ravneet, and all the other sevadars. I talked with all of them, and they all said that there was no one else there that day. Nobody saw anything like what you have described. There was no-one like who you just described."
"Then who---" Gurpreet stopped mid-sentence, confusion and hesitation showing on her face.
Harpal laid her hand on Gurpreets arm.
"Bhenji," she whispered, her voice trembling and full of emotion. "You are indeed blessed!"
Tears welled up in Harpal's eyes.
"What do you mean?" asked Gurpreet.
"I've only heard about this, but never knew anyone that it actually happened to. That Singh you saw--" Harpal took a deep breath. "You had Darshan of Kalgidhar Patshah! (The Tenth Sovereign)"
J. Singh
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Musicologist
Meri Chahat
Dr. Madhumohan presenting a paper "On Some Adaptations of Western Concepts of Intonation to South Indian Music.” at an international conference organised by university of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dr. Madhumohan presenting lecture demonstration "Svara as an Abstraction” at the Madras Music Academy, Chennai, India.
Receiving MA Gold Medal from the then Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Honorable Shri Krishnakanth, from Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, India.
Receiving Ph D from the then Governor of Tamilnadu,
Honorable Shri Surjit Singh Barnala, from University of Madras, India.
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Research Works
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2020). “An Exploration of Indian Musical Conscience.” A lecture–demonstration given under the auspices of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD), Government of India. An online lecture series, organized by Osmania University, Hyderabad, for the teaching staff in Humanities across India. Dec 12, 2020. .
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2013). Pitch Analysis in South Indian Music. Book published by Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-215-1262-6.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2012). “Digital Tools for Pitch Analysis.” Accepted for the 43rd IASA Annual International Conference. India International Centre, New Delhi. Oct. 6-11, 2012.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2011). “Vocal Intonation Tendencies in the Classical Music Tradition of South India” Accepted for ICTM, 41st World Conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. July 13–19, 2011.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2011). “Departures from the Acoustical Parameters in the Intonation of Indian Musical Intervals” Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association-Journal de I'Association Canadienne d'Acoustique, Canada. Pages 3-11 Dec 2012 Vol 40. No.4.
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2011). “Analyzing same svara sequences in different rāga-s.” International Music Conference “Rhythm and Melodies in World Music.” Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha, Bangalore, India. Pages 156-160. Jan 22nd – 26th, 2011.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2010). “Svara as an Abstraction” Paper and demonstration presented at the Madras Music Academy, Chennai, India, 24th December 2010.
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2010). “On the Applicability of the Ancient Śruti Scheme to the Current Fixed-Tonic, Variable-Interval Mēla System.” Journal of the Madras Music Academy, 2010, Vol. 81, pages 135–143. Chennai, India.
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2010). “On Some Adaptations of Western Concepts of Intonation to South Indian Music.” Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, Pages 66–75, Volume 40, 2009–2010, Mumbai, India. Edited version of the paper presented at the International Conference on “India and the World: Intercultural Performing Arts” Department of Musicology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Nov 20–22, 2008.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2005). Doctoral Dissertation. “Pitch Analysis in Karṇāṭaka Music – An Examination of Intonation and Modern Theories of 22 ,Śruti-s” Accepted and the doctoral degree awarded in 2005 in the Department of Indian Music, University of Madras, Chennai, India. The main library catalogue number is Ph.D. 2785 and the Indian Music department library catalogue number is Ph.D. 55 in the year 2005.
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2005). Synopsis of the Doctoral Dissertation “Pitch Analysis inKarṇāṭaka Music – An Examination of Intonation and Modern Theories of 22 Śruti-s” by Madhu Mohan Komaragiri, Madras University, India.
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2005). “An Empirical Study of Intonation in Raga Kalyani.” Proceedings of the international symposium “IT-to-Mass: Speech and Music” Pages 65-68. FRSM–2005, Jan 6–7. Bhubaneswar, India.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (2003). “A Compendium of Scientific and Western Music Terminologies” Submitted to Madras University, India, as part of the doctoral program.
Participated by invitation in the workshop, IGNCA-SRC 2003, PROJECT: SRUTI WORKSHOP, with Prof. N. Ramanathan and Dr. R. Sathyanarayana, Bangalore, 2003
Komaragiri, Madhu Mohan (2000). “Sound System Basics for Live Indian Classical Music.” Winter 2000, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pages 29–32, KALA, Toronto.
Komaragiri, Madhumohan (1996). “Perspective on Raaga System in Relation to World Music” A lecture-demonstration, by invitation at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.
Table of Diacritical Marks
Prof. N. Ramanathan
A site with serious musicological research papers, hosted by the highly regarded Musician - Musicologist Prof. N. Ramanathan, retired HOD, Department of Indian Music, Madras University.
Shri. M. Subramanian
You can find quality research papers of Shri. M. Subramanian, retired Postmaster General. He is a competent vina vidvan and an insightful musicologist. You can also find information on the popular Rasika-Gayaka software here . This site provides many useful related links. For computer synthesis of gamaka-s, please click here
Shri. Arvindh Krishnaswamy
A list of discerning research publications of Shri. Arvindh Krishnaswamy on śruti-s and svara-s (intonation) in Carnatic music. He is with Stanford University. He is a violinist; student of vidvān T N Krishnan. His site also gives other related links
Pitch Analysis
Madhu Mohan
Dr. Madhumohan Komaragiri is trained in both Carnatic and Hindustani classical vocal music genres having learnt from several leading teachers in India.
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Concert Photos, Concert Reviews April 5, 2016 April 5, 2016
Photos + Review: Citizen at The Irenic (San Diego, CA)
by Janeth Gomez
Turnover (Virginia Beach, VA), and Citizen (Toledo, OH/Detroit, MI)
The Irenic in San Diego, CA
I arrived at The Irenic as Turnover took the stage. They had a very chill indie/emo vibe so there wasn’t a great deal of movement in the crowd with the exception of lots of head bobbing and a few people swaying their bodies to the beat. They played the type of melodic tracks that I enjoy listening to on relaxing night drives. I’m currently kicking myself for not having listened to this band earlier because I really dug their sound. That’s one of the great things about going to shows, you can be introduced to bands and really get a feel for how they sound and the energy they give off.
After the crowd had crammed themselves as close to the stage as humanly possible, Citizen began to play. They started with “The Summer,” a track from their first studio album titled Youth, which they played all but 2 tracks of.
The crowd was restless as they pushed and shoved, creating a collective swaying motion. There was no lack of crowd surfers, but the band and security were there to make sure they were okay. At one point Mat Kerekes, the band’s singer, helped a girl who was being squished up front. She got out, drank some water provided by security, and dove right back into the craziness. The band constantly asked if the crowd was doing alright, seeing all the shoving and surfers landing hard on the stage.
It’s amazing what this passionate audience was willing to withstand in order to scream along to their favorite songs, but fighting to stand in the middle of a rowdy crowd is just the norm for a Citizen show. The band’s raw emotional sound makes them great to see live, even if you’re surrounded by sweaty people.
CA, Citizen, March 24th 2016, Photos, Review, San Diego, The Irenic, Turnover
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Boubakary Soumare reportedly torn between Manchester United and Chelsea; is he what United needs?
Manchester United have been linked to a whole host of footballers since the summer; many have no chance of becoming true but others seem to have something to them with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer taking a different stance when it come to the rebuild of the Old Trafford club. Boubakary Soumare of Lille is a player who was linked to the club last week, after being linked at the tail end of 2019.
The 20-year-old is reportedly ‘due to decide between United and Chelsea‘ before the end of the month. Lille will face Paris Saint-Germain on the 26 January and nothing will be decided before that match. It almost sounds the same as Bruno Fernandes and the fact he was going to play for Benfica before leaving Sporting CP, which again turned into nothing – as it did in the summer. Rumours following the same script, maybe?
Arsenal were said to be interested in the player but last week they removed themselves from contention and both Real Madrid and Valencia followed suit. Soumare played against Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League this season, seeing Lille lose 2-1 to the London club. He is a box-to-box midfielder and has been likened to Paul Pogba, a player who himself is linked with an exit from United, however not in this transfer window.
Soumare, 20 has key attributes which include ball recovery, winning possession and his general distribution. Based on that, before even thinking about United’s thin midfield offering this season, he would seem to be a player, based on his attributes, that would fit into this team and help raise the club’s game massively. United have so few options in the midfield, which will be the same for at least a month.
This season, Soumare has played in a total of 25 matches for Lille, playing in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the Coupe de la Ligue. The Frenchman has one assist to his name this season, playing 1,748 minutes of football. When he’s compared to Pogba, it is in a much different way as the French World Cup winner can create and score goals, whereas Soumare, at this time, is not offering that.
Soumare has played 64 times in his career so far at first team level, scoring one goal in total, one assist playing 3,525 minutes of football in total. He may not be the big name that some crave – which is also a direction that has not worked all that well in the past but in saying that, United could have a player similar to Soumare in the club’s academy; James Garner and Dylan Levitt, for instance.
If Soumare was a valid option for United, his passing accuracy, currently 89.1%, could help with United lack of creativity and work well with the pace available at the club. However, with creativity also lacking at the club, just bringing in Soumare would not solve the major issues that United are suffering from at this moment in time. If he was part of two or three transfers this month, it might be worthwhile.
However, the possibility of two or three players coming to the club this month seems to be slim. United have not yet been able to secure the signing of Bruno Fernandes from Sporting, despite speculation being rife over the past two weeks. If Ed Woodward cannot sign a player the club needs, despite that player being available, how could he sign a player that would need convincing to join the ailing club?
The main thing is that United is a club that has not been invested in by the owners and with the debt the club is currently in and the fact that star players, such as Pogba, seem unhappy, it could spell bad times heading to the club. Of course, it all gets worse before it gets better but the depths United have plunged since Sir Alex Ferguson retired more than six years ago may not be anything yet.
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Best iPhone 2019: which Apple phone is the best?
3:02 am | January 24, 2019
Author: admin | Category: Cameras | Comments: None
Picking the best iPhone got a bit more complicated in late 2018 after Apple launched three new picks in the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR.
We’ve ranked these three new flagship iPhones, as well as the older handsets, so you can find the best iPhone for you.
Our recommendations round out the top 10 iPhones you can buy (yes, there’s more than 10), because buying the newest might not be your best option if you wanted to save money or don’t want to worry about losing a cutting-edge phone.
For example, 2017’s iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are still great picks, and you’ll find the iPhone X on sale in certain places for a cheap price – even if you can’t pick one up directly from Apple.
Good news, the top 10 iPhones we recommend run iOS 12, Apple’s latest big operating system update for its devices. It’s therefore a bit different from our prestigious best phones list and the best Android phones list. Apple’s prices vary wildly, but you’ll probably have to treat them as more of an investment than lower-cost Android phones.
Our top iPhone list highlights the different specs, screen sizes, and price points. Each of these handsets has something to offer for every kind of Apple fan – so we’ve boiled down the choices for you in a simple-to-read format.
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Best iPhone: which one should you buy today
The iPhone XS Max is the best iPhone you can buy right now. It’s Apple’s biggest and best iPhone – if you’re hands and wallets and large enough. It has an expansive 6.5-inch OLED screen with HDR10 support to make colors pop. It’s the perfect phone if you want a giant screen.
Behind that huge screen is an improved dual-lens 12MP camera. Apple outfitted it with Smart HDR and increased the sensor size to capture larger pixels. Don’t let that static 12MP number fool you. The iPhone XS Max (like the XS) has new depth-sensing capabilities for adjustable bokeh (background blur) during and after a shot.
The TrueDepth camera returns with faster Face ID recognition, and your 7MP selfies get better depth control and Smart HDR, too. And, of course, Animoji returns with the iOS 12 benefit of having Memoji now.
The iPhone XS Max is more expensive than the iPhone X and iPhone XS that replaces the X, of course. But if you’re paying for it over the course of two years in a contract (or through the Apple Upgrade Program), it’s not that much more month-to-month.
Read our in-depth iPhone XS Max review
Believe it or not, the iPhone XS is Apple’s best ‘small’ phone. It has a 5.8-inch screen, so it’s more one-hand-friendly than the Max, but still a sizable upgrade for some people.
It’s an upgrade over last year’s iPhone X, our previous best iPhone recommendation, though you’ll have to look more closely for the changes – the design isn’t different at all. It has a Smart HDR-capable 12MP camera, enhanced TrueDepth front-facing camera, and a fast A12 Bionic chipset, exactly like the larger iPhone XS Max.
In fact, this all-screen phone is pretty much the iPhone XS Max in last year’s smaller form factor. It does have a smaller battery than the Max and obviously a smaller screen, but you will still capture the same great photos and videos on this device and play the same games. There’s no different there.
Read our in-depth iPhone XS review
The iPhone XR is a great upgrade for the average consumer who doesn’t want to pay for the most expensive iPhone money (a lot of money) can buy. This is Apple’s ‘cheap’ iPhone, at least when it comes to recently launched handsets. It’s also the best iPhone of the new trio for battery life.
It stands out with a variety of iPhone XR colors: Blue, White, Black, Yellow, Coral, Red. This contrasts heavily with the rather muted colors of the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. Yet it shares the same internal specs: Apple’s fast A12 Bionic chipset and a 12MP dual-lens camera with a single lens on back.
You don’t get the dual-lens camera like you do on a higher-tier iPhone, so you miss out on telephoto shots. But Smart HDR is the real perk to taking great photos, and that’s here.
It’s cheaper, it’s more colorful and it has a big 6.1-inch screen. That’s enough for most people, especially those who aren’t insistent on an impressive OLED screen.
Read our in-depth iPhone XR review
The iPhone X is as impressive as it is expensive, but if you really want the best iPhone today and don’t want to wait for the iPhone XI, this is the one to get today. Millions of Apple fans already have since it launched almost seven months ago. It’s the future of Apple’s smartphone.
It has a large all-screen display, except for a notch cutout at the top that houses a new TrueDepth Camera. This takes selfies to another level and can also map your face to an iPhone X-exclusive Animoji. If you don’t know what that is by now you probably won’t care.
The iPhone X is Apple’s 10th anniversary smartphone and has just about everything iPhone users have been asking for, from a more forward-leaning design to faster specs and new features. You’ll just have to get used to Face ID instead of reaching for that non-existent fingerprint sensor.
Read our in-depth iPhone X review
The iPhone 8 Plus is the best iPhone if you’re not willing to take the plunge into Apple’s proposed smartphone future and need that Touch ID fingerprint sensor. It remains popular due to its screen size, cheaper price and physical home button.
It does have several key features you’ll like, however. It’s among the first iPhones to have both wireless charging and fast charging, and the camera has improved. Its dual-lens camera doesn’t have OIS in the telephoto lens (a feature saved for the X), but it’s still a great way to snap a photo at long distances.
It won’t turn nearly as many heads with its bezel-heavy design, but the iPhone 8 Plus is the iPhone built for big hands and slightly smaller wallets than the new iPhone X.
Read our in-depth iPhone 8 Plus review
This is actually the best-selling iPhone from Apple, and for several good reasons. First, we get it, you refuse to budge from the 4.7-inch iPhone screen size and, frankly, we don’t blame you. Every time we go back to this iPhone with ‘normal’ dimensions, we feel like we just went on a smartphone vacation. Second, its price is way more reasonable for a lot a folks than the iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus.
Just because the size is the same as iPhones of old, doesn’t mean the technology behind it is, though. The iPhone 8 features the same A11 Bionic chipset as the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X, and it too debuted wireless charging and fast charging on an Apple smartphone.
The camera is still fantastic, even if it doesn’t have the dual-lens capabilities that are exclusive to the X and Plus, and you’ll dig iOS 11 at this size more so than the even smaller iPhone SE.
Read our in-depth iPhone 8 review
Back in 2016 the iPhone 7 Plus was the best phone Apple had ever made, and it remains a winner for its longevity and price. It’s larger than the iPhone X though despite its smaller display, so if you’re after a smaller phone with a bigger screen, this won’t be the best choice for you with its 5.5-inch 1080p display.
The big upgrades over older iPhones are the waterproof design and a new dual-lens camera that allows you to snap with two 12MP lenses at the same time. It allows for better optical zoom as well as a bokeh mode to blur the background of your photos and put the main focus on the foreground.
Battery life on the iPhone 7 Plus is much improved upon the iPhone 6S Plus, and while it’s still a costly option it’s much cheaper than it was at launch, making it one of the best iPhone choices for people looking for a deal.
Read the full iPhone 7 Plus review
Despite the iPhone SE’s small size and relatively modest price tag, it’s still an upper mid-range phone. It has the same boxy yet premium design as the metal-clad iPhone 5S and the same powerful Apple A9 chipset and rear camera as the iPhone 6S.
It lacks the 3D Touch features and higher-resolution front-facing camera of the iPhone 6S and beyond. The screen is also less impressive all round, thanks in large part to a lower contrast ratio. But it compares well to many mid-range handsets.
It’s also the most powerful 4-inch iPhone you can get, so for fans of compact form factors this is an obvious choice. But the best bit is its price, as it’s one of the cheapest iPhones you’ll find on the market and it’s something of a bargain by Apple standards.
Read the iPhone SE review
Don’t fancy the large iPhone 7 Plus above? Why not opt for the iPhone 7, which is a smaller and cheaper alternative.
This was one of the first iPhones to lack a headphone jack, but it does come with a water-resistant design that means your phone is likely to survive the odd dip in the sink rather than just being frazzled right away.
There’s no dual-lens camera on the iPhone 7, but you can still take some absolutely incredible photography with the 12MP sensor.
If you own an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6S, you may not see much difference with the this phone but the newer processor and camera tech may be enough to entice you to buy it if you can’t stomach the high price of the iPhone 8.
Read the full iPhone 7 review
The iPhone 6S, as you probably know, is Apple’s flagship from 2015. The Apple A9 chipset and a chunky 2GB of RAM, up from 1GB on the previous model, make it far superior in raw power to 2014’s model and still reasonably speedy by today’s standards, and it’s got some other tricks too.
It has a 12MP rear camera and a tried-and-tested 8MP front-facing camera, which at the time was the best selfie shooter Apple had on a phone.
It does sport largely the same design and screen as the iPhone 6 though and the latter in particular is starting to feel a bit dated in the face of super sharp QHD screens from rivals – and from the newer iPhone X.
This was the first iPhone to sport 3D Touch though, which makes the screen pressure-sensitive and offers new tricks for enhanced emailing and shortcuts around the home screen.
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NEWS: This is the production 2020 Toyota Supra
Posted on January 14, 2019 by Ben Hsu
After a 17 year hiatus, the Supra nameplate has returned to the automotive kingdom, unveiled today at the Detroit Auto Show. A poorly kept secret and incessantly teased, the reveal is perhaps no longer really a surprise, but here are the details Toyota provided at today’s press conference.
CEO Akio Toyoda took the stage to tell a personal story about how Toyota master test driver Hiromu Naruse taught him how to race. During lessons at the Nürburgring, Toyoda was put behind a JZA80 Supra, even though it was already out of production at the time. With the Nürburgring being a popular venue for prototype testing by all automakers, Toyoda said he wondered why automakers from Audi to GM were in test mules of future sports cars, while he was driving a used car.
Toyoda jokingly referred to the new Supra as the “worst kept secret in the industry” before telling its origin story. When Toyoda saw that designers at his company’s Calty stuido had come up with a beautiful sports car concept, he knew that this would be the next Supra. Toyoda said the design inspired by 2000GT, which is more apparent in the production version than in the FT-1 concept.
Most of the specs have been known for a while, but also leaked over the weekend was that the starting price would be $49,990, which is lower than what many expected.
Wheelbase 97.2 in.
Overall Length 172.5 in.
Overall Width 73.0 in.
Overall Height 50.9 in.
Track Width Front 62.8 in.
Track Width Rear 62.6 in.
Curb Weight 3,397 lbs.
Weight Distribution: 50/50
Power: 335 horsepower @ 5,000 rpm
Torque: 369 lb-ft at 1,600 rpm
Transmission 8-Speed AT
0-60 mph 4.1 seconds
Front tires: 255/35R19 Michelin Pilot Super Sport
Rear Rires: 275/35R19 Michelin Pilot Super Sport
Brakes: 13.7-in. front rotors, 4-piston Brembo calipers
Adaptive Variable Suspension
So there you have it. After an interminable wait, it’s finally here. We’ll have to get a turn behind the wheel before we decide whether it lives up to, or is a better value than, its predecessors.
Toyoda closed with one last tease. “SUVs are nice, but at the end of the day, is there anything better than a tight, rear-wheel-drive sports car? In fact, between you and me, I hope this isn’t the only sports car you see with at Toyota badge in the future.”
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34 Responses to NEWS: This is the production 2020 Toyota Supra
Khoua said:
Awesome. Glad Toyota is still in the sports car market. The new Supra is very photogenic too. Really diggin’ the body lines of it.
Zuhair Ahmed said:
Long live the SUPRA!!!!!
For me aesthetically it doesn’t quite click. It seems a little too bulbous. Also the front light’s aren’t aggressive enough.
daniel said:
very good toyota with the new supra. now to wait for the news of the Mazda rx-9 with rotary engine to hydrogen and hybrid system to complete the panorama of Japanese sports cars (which will be the most beautiful in terms of design)
Wise Wizard said:
Well, they managed to fully eclipse Honda’s half-baked effort called the NSX.
It’ll look better once privateer tuners and the aftermarket get ahold of them.
Eric Hyland said:
Sooo proud and glad to call Akio my boss, seriously can’t wait to see the first ones hit these shores.Super excited to say i’m the one that gets to drive them first at my work!!! My boss said the first one coming in is going into his collection!!! Can’t wait!
Toyoda closed with one last tease. “SUVs are nice, but at the end of the day, is there anything better than a tight, rear-wheel-drive sports car? In fact, between you and me, I hope this isn’t the only sports car you see with a TOYOTA BADGE in the future.”
Great! In the future we can look forward to many other non-Toyotas with Toyota badges!
If only Toyota themselves have a rich, world-class heritage of engineering, building and designing their own sports cars…
bryan kitsune said:
As a Toyobaru owner…I agree. I wish Toyota had just made the 86 themselves. Maybe with a new evolution of the BEAMS 3S-GE or maybe something like the 8AR-FTS.
But I do have a valve spring recall to look forward to now…(yes, I realize Toyota has had recalls in the past…but, what can I say…I’m prejudiced).
In the same vein, a flagship like the Supra seems like it should have a proper Toyota engine. I mean, aren’t engine series like the A, R, S, T, JZ –etc– (and their G heads) a big part of what made so many nostalgic Toyotas so special?
Oh well. I’m just a grumpy middle-aged man.
Bill Wilkman said:
To me, this design is a miss. The Darth Vader look at front and narrow duck tail at the back just don’t compute. Very unlikely to go down as one of this era’s great designs.b
Mind Synthetic said:
Sorry this isn’t a Supra, not with a BMW drive train and interior. Its a fail for me, as an enthusiast. they shouldn’t have called it Supra, anything but. and don’t get me started on over done exterior design.
Duderino said:
I’d say save your judgements until you drive the car, but you seem like one of those guys who goes into something already expecting it to be bad. Lighten up a little.
Why do we need to drive it to verify that it is in fact a BMW? That point is not open for argument, it quite literally is not a Toyota underneath the badges. To many of us, that makes how it may or may not drive totally irrelevant.
Yuri said:
“SUVs are nice, but at the end of the day, is there anything better than a tight, rear-wheel-drive sports car?”
A manual transmission, tight, rear-wheel-drive sports car?
I’ll still probably get one after the kouki version comes out down the road. Looks great and I have high hopes for it.
Craig said:
Man, that’s ugly.
XRaider said:
man, you’re in the way…..can you add “in my opinon” to that response please….some people will definitely disagree with your simple (and useless) reaction
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man
Some people, but not many. I’ll say it again, that is one ugly car.
Sabin Simard said:
Please dear MR X something… If you’re not enough mature for accept disagreement with your opinion, or read something that will hurting your ears of child, please can you go playing outside with your mother, it seem to me that your childhood playing time has not been satisfactory enough on this point and by the way, I’m TOTALLY with Craig opinion, this car will never worth the four generations before who was A LOT more beautiful and desirables, nothing to do with this one and YES IT’S UGLY.
with all due respect,not all people accept your opinions…..don’t add anymore trouble will you…that includes you sabin
YOU HAVE BEEN THE FIRST ONE OF TREATING ME OF MORON SOME WEEKS AGO, please DON’T TALK RESPECT of any kind with me, i have absolutely NO LESSONS of getting about that FROM YOU. I have absolutely no records about your adhesion to this website (really don’t want it), I’m not talked at you this bad because of the time you are there in this site, it mostly because it’s the first thought that came in my mind when you did called me moron and you DON’T accept any contradictions, THIS IS JUVENILE. And by the way, of what troubles you may refer??? And yes, this car may be one of the worst looking car ever made by Toyota, they made a lot since twenty years, and it’s even not really a Toyota, what a joke like one said yesterday!! Have a nice day MR X something.
also sabin, stop treating me like a kid……I’ve been reading this website for a long time and you think I’m new here just because of that?
ok. I apologize right now…..but let’s not go too far seriously….however have you already knew the similar front between the bmw 8 series(not the new one)and the a70 supra……someone on facebook pointed out or something
Yes let’s talk about the real things and Yes this time you’re all right with your way of thinking. MA70, BMW 840 and 850 have about the same theme front end .They were all absolute beautiful cars and became instantly classics but not many have survived, like a lot of beautiful BMW, and like a lot of MA70 Supra. I bought an MA70 brand new when i was 26 and I’m now 54 and still have it and she’s still new today. And you will never know of how is the feeling of coming to the dealer and take possession of a car like this!!! We were in the end of a period of cars that were desirables, a period of cars that were designed by real HUMANS who was really passionate about what they were doing, cars that were halo cars when parked in showrooms of those days. NOTHING to do with insect (to not say infect) styling which will never inspiring and provoke ANYTHING but make pleasure to Akio Toyoda, one of the same guys that asked all of us to put our classic Toyota to the junk yard, (please remember the FJ60 ad and cash for clunkers) and after stopped to making parts for keeping them alive. And by now, this same guy have an absolute need of all these classics to impress the gallery and making beautiful pictures and drama at Sema show, Barrett Jackson (just watch next weekend) etc. Please, just don’t let anybody decided for you what is now desirable and beautiful, please believe me, we can again say NO to these individuals sinister. And by the way, it’s again impossible by now to get original parts for my MA70 and mostly my MX32, it’s even harder to get parts for these two cars than getting parts for an AMC Javelin, a carmaker that is no more on business since near forty years!!! It’s my way of thinking and have a nice day.
Those torque numbers…lordy. The design doesn’t really do it for me though. In proportions, it looks like the Toyota sportscar has exactly followed the American adult from 1968 to 2018. The 2000GT is scrawny by modern standards, while the new Supra looks overly larded up or swoll. I don’t like that. And its just busy. The JZA80 was a great example of 90s style smooth simplicity. There are a lot of timelessly styled cars from that era because the styling trend was for smooth, curvaceous simplicity. The current crop of cars are just completely festooned with all kinds of pointless creases and dented bits and angles sunken in. I expect this car to sell pretty well though, and I hope it drives mkIV prices down. I personally really don’t want BMW anything.
O said:
This has got to be one of the worst looking sports cars on sale right now, maybe ever. What a joke.
worst? be careful of what you said…..
YES WORST…
RX626 said:
It impressed me that they regained the trim levels of ’SZ’, ’SZ-R’, ’RZ’.
It might just be a name. But it is very important.
Bro Dayat said:
waiting for the Celica to coming in..
The interior looks exactly like a bmw, even the infotainment system.
https://youtu.be/Ka4Vo_ZvUaM
Spirit Road said:
The last Supra was offered with a ridiculous high price when the market was going down. The economy is going down again whether you folks believe it or not. Releasing this Supra at the $50k price might be another risk, but a good risk this time. The past several years the US economy was doing well, and folks started buying up all kinds of expensive cars. What happens when the market shifts again? You will see guys unload their exotics and go back to something manageable. I think this new Supra, is going to be awesome in the next few years. I can already picture all the aero, wheels, power upgrades, and everything for it. Personally I love the body styling, perhaps it reminds me of the Batmobile. Haha.
Isaac James said:
My initial reactions to the look of this new “Supra” are not good, but I’ll reserve final judgement until I see one in person. That being said, the contemporary 86 is ugly in photos & in person IMO.
Lasse J. Nordvik said:
I know I’m reading way too much into it, but I can’t help but feel that Akio’s comments about other Toyota sports cars in the future hinted at the much rumoured MR2 revival. Oh, and as much as I want to dislike the strong BMW presence in the Supra, I can’t help myself: I’m in love!
I wonder who they will collaborate with for the MR2?
I do have mixed feelings about the Supra…but it is also set as my computer desktop background at the moment. I also had mixed feelings about the Subaru boxer engine (etc) in the 86. But I really like my FR-S (and rationalize that the Toyota S800 was a boxer and that helps make sense of the partnership). So, I probably just need to join the modern world and get over my biases. (Incidentally I’m an American of German/Scandinavian descent…but I prefer Japanese vehicles).
I also tell myself that Akio Toyoda has much, much stronger ties and relationship to the Supra and its heritage than I do (considering I’ve never owned or driven one, and he is Toyota President and Master Driver), so if he is OK with the route they took…maybe I should be too!
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Now, I know that I’ve said I’m hanging up my Fifty Shades of Grey critique hat. And I meant it. But just because I’m done with a thing, that doesn’t mean that thing is done with me (see also: Catholicism, ice cream with too many wacky ingredients, my three separate lifetime bans from the Sprinkle Rd. Denny’s). And last week, whoo boy. Last week, Fifty Shades of Grey was certainly not done with me.
Are you ready to venture down one of the deepest, darkest rabbit holes you’ll ever find in fandom?
The day after the Oscars, I noticed something that really grossed me out.
This post is going to be wildly image heavy, so follow the cut if you’re curious to see how this all plays out.
So, horrified beyond words, I added my two cents about these asinine tweets from thoroughly asinine real-person shippers:
In the spirit of the internet, those first two tweets were ignored, while the last two were roundly chastised. Allegations that I was a “Damie” shipper myself rolled in, prompting me to correct them:
And read them all the Damie shippers did, opening the floodgates for what resulted in four days of insults, tweet-n-runs, and full out delusions.
Many of them assumed that I didn’t know what ships and shipping were about:
Clearly, my advanced age was the issue:
If you were here during the Great Fifty Shades of Grey Recap Of Basically The Entire Last Five Years, you know that one of the supposedly insurmountable obstacles in Christian Grey and Anastasia Rose Steele Grey Limited Holdings Incorporated was their vast age gap. After all, Ana was twenty-two and Christian was…twenty-seven.
And if you weren’t here for that? Yes, it was a major point of contention in the series.
So basically, I’m just too ancient to understand the appeal of publicly rooting for the demise of a real person’s marriage. Although, they have confused “public” with “private”:
One might think that I pawed tirelessly through great swaths of internet to uncover these meek, harmless shippers keeping to themselves, but in reality, I just found them posting all their nonsense on a heavily trafficked hashtag. And despite the fact that I didn’t hashtag the tweet they were replying to, they somehow found it. How? By obsessively combing social media, looking for people to pick fights with. I was warned by several 50SoG fans that this wasn’t exactly the most…reasonable fandom to deal with. In fact, they informed me of that, themselves:
They weren’t really as dangerous as they wanted me to think they were. More like really, really annoying. I received hundreds of tweets from people who really didn’t care about my opinion or want to talk to me:
They cared so little, all over the world:
They didn’t care at all! They didn’t care for four whole days of non-stop non-caring, by which time fans of Fifty Shades of Grey were out in force defending me. It was like the Joker protecting Batman from the other Arkham inmates because they were just going way too far.
Of course, their behavior wasn’t their fault:
They weren’t responsible for flooding my mentions for days with their nonsense. I was responsible because I made them mad. If I hadn’t made them mad, they wouldn’t have spent four days hurling abuse at me.
Huh. That sounds like some books I read once.
A weird contingency of the shippers insisted that “Damie” is real, and that there’s plenty of proof that Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are in a romantic relationship:
Tweets like this were sometimes accompanied by photographic evidence of the alleged affair. And by “photographic evidence” I mean pictures of the pair posing on magazine covers, the red carpet, presenting at awards shows, or actually filming the movie in which they pretend to be in love. While some people might think those photos from the set are just examples of the pair “acting,” the Damies know what’s really going down.
Despite my advanced age, a few people thought I just didn’t understand the concept of internet fandom because I was too new at this or too sheltered or…something:
(Veritaserum has contacted me to explain that this tweet wasn’t condoning the Damies’ behavior, but reacting to the “UR SO OLD” tweets. My bad.)
Since they brought Star Trek into this, I decided to ask someone who might be familiar with the history of “shipping”:
And Mr. Shatner is absolutely correct. Because of concentrated abuse from his “fans,” Jamie Dornan and his wife (Amelia Warner, but known to Damie shippers as “the hag”) have had to leave social media due to people saying “disgusting things” about them and their children.
Eventually, the Damies got distracted and wandered away, as toddlers are wont to do. But the experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth. At one point, I joked that E.L. James needed to come pick up her trash, but only hours (and many, many tweets) later, that didn’t seem funny to me anymore. After all, she just wrote a book. She didn’t cast the actors or encourage the Damies to behave this way. And that’s something I find terribly frightening. Once someone creates something, be it a book or a movie or a space captain character who travels distant galaxies with beads of sweat glistening on his manly, manly brow, it’s out of their hands. What fans choose to do with it–for example, weaponize it against people in real life–is up to the fans alone.
And I really, really mean that.
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Probably late to the party, but I just wanted to comment that the blog redesign looks nice.
Also, I appreciate that you are prepared to publicly shame fans who act this creepy towards some people who are clearly just trying to make a living by playing pretend in public.
OH! it’s nice except for the way blog comments are centered. That’s pretty terrible.
I thought I should probably have a blog like many bloggers do where they like, actually promote their paying gigs in ads on the side? Like a grown up? LOL.
But yeah, I hate that comments center. I love the way they’re nested (because the old format was hard to follow when threads got long), but the centering is blech.
If you wanted to send me a copy of your stylesheet, I can probably find the part in it which is telling the comments to center and tell you what to change. Should be a literally one word change.
Someone sent me the code. Now I just have to go in and plug it in. 😀
I’m laughing so hard at these dumbasses who thing “old people” can’t understand fandom or shipping. Nah, man, it’s just that their ship is gross and they should feel gross. Looks like you hit a nerve with them, or else they wouldn’t have bothered you for so long. I recall this same thing happening around Passengers–people shipping Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, even though Pratt is married to Anna Faris.
I told a few of them that I had been in fandoms since before they were born, and they just *lost it*. Because that PROVED I was too old to understand shipping!
Jennifer Lillian
Although maybe there’s some kind of connection there to 50 Shades, after all, Passengers is basically a movie-long how-to for Stockholm Syndrome.
People are wacky when it comes to this stuff, I don’t know what it is about certain books/movies/TV that just drive this insane behavior against anyone with a different opinion… or the need to pair up the actors that play the roles. I didn’t realize “damie” was a thing, because it seemed to me like they had no interest in eachother during the promotion for the first movie, and though I didn’t know he was married, I don’t automatically jump from they play love interests on screen so they must have fallen in love (even if sometimes when it happens, it’s sort of adorable, IMO, like Sookie and Beeeeel).
Sorry you had to go through the twitter storm, but it is amusing to read as a bystander!
Sookeh and Beel as a couple just mystifies me, because after they hooked up IRL, their chemistry on the show went out the window. Like, how did that happen?!
It’s like that old thing from Friends when Joey was explain how you can tell if actors are sleeping together- if they have a ton of chemistry on screen, they haven’t hooked up… but once they hook up, the chemistry disappears ;P
Though I do think their chemistry was a little better in the later seasons, despite the terribleness of the later seasons… but I wonder if it’s because they were more adversarial instead of schmoopy in love.
That was another fandom that got a bit scary when it came to people hating the RL couple because it didn’t fit what they wanted on the show… or the shipping of Anna Paquin with Skarsgaard despite the fact that she was married and pregnant etc.
Isn’t there a bit in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, where once Sibyl Vane falls in love with Dorian she loses all her onstage ability because now she knows what real passion is?
Five years from now, when they are all very very old (in their early 20’s), they will think about these tweets and be very embarrassed. I hope.
What absolutely terrifies me is that many of these people are already in their twenties. If people listed their ages in their bios and they were under 18, I didn’t post or retweet them.
The fact that these Twitter commenters think 27 is ancient suggests that they’re like… 13… distressing and embarrassing all in one.
There were a few who listed themselves as like, 15 in their bios, so I was careful to check out ages before responding. But oh. My. God. I had one lady who literally had grandchildren calling me old. I’m like…you’re 19 years older than I am. Plus, Jamie Dornan is only two years younger than me.
Jennie, u cant gandle the truth.
OK, it’s probably not nice to make fun of people who can’t spell, but it makes it soooooo much easier to dismiss them.
And also, the “men cheats the most when there married” (sic) comment cracked me up because… yeah, it’s called cheating because they’re IN A RELATIONSHIP. (Not to dismiss non-married relationships.) Still.
THANK YOU. Like, how the fuck do cheat if you don’t have a partner? It’s like saying “water falls from the sky most when it’s raining.”
if 27 is ancient, my 32 year old ass wants to go up to them and go “behold the ravages of age” as I point to one of the 5 or so grey hairs I have. Omg- what a bunch of thin skinned obtuse creeps.
Honestly, I don’t know how I manage to get on this newfangled doodad and even send the tweets through the interwebs.
Why did these dummies name their ship “Damie” when they could have gone with “Jamkota”?
See, it’s people like us who should be in charge of ship names.
Spockchick
Lol! I like Jamkota 😉
I hate these stupid shipping names: Bennifer, Brangelina…..But Jamkota is pretty damn cool
Katsuro Ricksand
Fandoms, man… Fandoms. When they go dark, they go DARK. Obviously most fans are nice, sure, but some? Some of them make you remember that the word “fan” derives from “fanatic.”
I assume the “-atic” half comes from that other word…
ViolettaD
Give Dornan and Johnson credit for unsuspected talent. They managed to conceal their True Love for each other all throughout the actual MOVIE, during which there is, according to consensus, apparently no sign of it, nor indeed of any chemistry whatsoever.
Like smashing two Barbies together.
Jenny, please please PLEASE get us all bootleg copies of part 2 and do a live-blog while we simul-view….
And in real life where they usually have a face like the other one smells bad when they have to stand next to each other.
Westie80
Hi jenny I am a first and foremost a fan of Jamie and Millie. The damies are just sick disgusting very jealous adolescent group of young teenagers I would love for their parents to find out what they do on Twitter and IG as many of them have said they still live at home.
They have no respect for the marriage of Jamie and Millie and they keep saying we are attackimg their ‘queen’ Dakota. They also say all they (Jamie/Dakota) got to do is say something against them (damie) and they will stop well Jamie did and they have done nothing but attack Jamie and Millie they have also made death threats to Millie and have attacked the couples daughters which I think should of had their accounts removed but Twitter won’t delete their accounts
The fact that they refer to you guys as…I don’t remember what the name is, but the combination of him and his wife’s names? Like they think you guys need to have a ship name for a married couple? That blows my mind.
Yes Jenny they call us jamlias or jams. It’s really bizarre lol
AltoFronto
I will never understand “fans” who are so vile as to drive the people they supposedly idolise away from Twitter.
If more creators put their foot down over stuff like this, as you propose to do, it might curb the problem – but it shouldn’t really be the creator’s job to manage all the weirdos of the world.
But more importantly, Jenny – How did you incur THREE lifetime bans from a Denny’s?? I thought that was, like, one of those limbo places that you only ever “end up” at, around 4am – what the hell did it take to get banned from such a place as Denny’s?
It’s a long and complicated history, but one involved me telling a waitress to wring some cottage cheese out of her panties, so…
I basically deserved all them.
Goddesstio
I so desperately want a blog post about your Denny’s bans now
Second that!
Thirded!
Fangs for the Fantasy
There are not enough popcorn gifs in the world!
Honestly, I think I saw all of them during those four days.
Wow, bless your heart. People just really have no empathy or compassion sometimes. The same thing happened when Gene Wilder died, and people were sharing all these memes about how he and Gilda Radner could finally be reunited – that must have felt awful for his current widow, who he was married to for 25 years! Yes, sometimes actors are really good at their jobs and have amazing chemistry onscreen, but publicly hoping they’ll cheat on their spouses or partners with each other is taking it too far.
This actually happened to me in real life (sort of.) We heard that an ex-girlfriend of my husband had been getting pressure from her family to “settle down” either with the man she’d just broken up with, or my husband. I was like, “So … Did they just forget about your current wife and our three children, then?” It was very strange to know that people who had actually met me and seemed to like me would be just fine with their daughter or granddaughter (his ex) attempting to bust up our marriage.
That is wild. But yeah, the thing about Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner was gross as fuck.
Madridista
Wow, I can totally relate to that, on a smaller scale. One of my boyfriend’s long-time friends repeatedly tried to set him up with a friend of hers, and sent him her photos, after not only knowing that he was dating me, but that I spent Christmas with his family just couple weeks before! Now I’ve only met this friend once in the middle of our first date (she stopped by the same restaurant with her date/boyfriend), so I thought maybe she’s doing it because to her I exist only in abstract sense, but knowing it happened in your circumstances as well, leaves all kinds of bad taste in my mouth. My boyfriend also revealed that a lot of married women (wives of his business associates) and his ex-wife’s friends (attached and unattached) have hit on and propositioned him while he was not single and available! It astounds me that someone would go behind their friend’s or S.O.’s back like that. It astounds me even more that someone would root for a man to leave his wife and kids, so he could recreate onscreen romance in real life with his colleague. How is that appealing even in fantasy? “You left your wife for me? Great. Let’s see how long it’ll take you to do the same to me.” Seriously, how’s that romantic?
It sounds like some of these people don’t know the difference between the fictional CHARACTERS in a franchise and the real life of ACTORS portraying them. I write and read about a romantic pairing that would never have been possible in either the books or the movies of Harry Potter franchise. As much as I adore my OTP, I would never, ever take it outside of fiction and try to apply my fantasies to the actors portraying the characters. I’m not going to be on twitter and other social media wishing for the actors to get together or creating a fan page for their (wishful) relationship. I thought in fandom it’s understood that you’re fan of characters or actors who play them, or both, but it all stops short of actually wanting actors to BE the characters. I can see how when both romantic leads are single, but when they’re in relationships, it feels gross and intrusive, like Jenny said — it’s no longer about fictional ship, but real people’s lives and feelings. Entertainment industry is full of stories of onset affairs and flings without the need to invent more. To me, it’s very disrespectful to the people involved and their partners.
I had an experience recently that made me really sensitive to stuff like this. My boyfriend has married and unmarried women proposition him a lot while knowing that he is in a relationship with me. It happened in his first marriage as well, some of his ex-wife’s friends even did that. While it’s not anyone’s job to safe-guard or like other people’s relationships, any decent human being would at least be respectful about it; posts on social media with photoshopped pics and insinuations about one look (out of a 1000s that night) are opposite of that. If some people wished for the significant other of these shippers to leave them for that person’s colleague, would they be so dismissive then, I wonder?
Know what you mean. I started crushing on Alan Rickman long before Harry Potter, when I saw him play Valmont in “Liaisons” on B’way, but it had nothing to do with Rickman himself. If I’d met him, he’d have been, um, an ACTOR, although obviously a brilliant one. He could play likable guys just as believably (i.e., Col. Brandon in “Sense and Sensibility,” the hiardresser in “Blow Dry”). It was the FANTASY I liked.
It’s funny how ships are something only young people understand and at the same time they have been around since Star Trek. So all the young people who shipped Kirk and Spock suddenly forgot what a ship was when they turned thirty. Or something.
This situation reminds me so much of a teenager stomping their foot and telling their mom “you just don’t understand what it’s like to be in love!” and running off to their bedroom and slamming the door.
I got into it once with someone regarding an actor’s sexuality. They thought the actor was gay and should come out. I am of the opinion that sexuality is a persons private business and to make assumptions is to act as though you have a right to the information, which you don’t…ever. And no one has to share any part of their personal life that don’t wish to share…ever.
Plus the fact that those “Damie” shippers wish to actively hurt another human being so they can have their little fantasy makes them the lowest form of life. I hope karma rebounds on them like the Nemesis she is!
I see that A LOT in Supernatural fandom. I get really annoyed at some of the Cockles shippers because they take it way, way, waaaaaaaaaay too far.
As someone who was once involved in an incredibly toxic fandom and shipped the actors in it, I have SEEEEENN SOME SHIIITTT. Thankfully I got myself out of it (and probably said stuff I’d be embarrassed about if I ever looked hard enough). There was one girl I came across through Tumblr after jumping over from LiveJournal who had all of this “I’m a super great ally because I love shipping two dudes who have never said they’re queer” nonsense on her blog and her Twitter. She also liked to tweet horrible things about their wives – often directly at these women. Of course she had a “love is love” rainbow icon. *intense eye rolling*
Run Squidling
I liked RPF fandoms much much better back when they were sequestered on their own little websites that you could only get to if you knew about them.
And they didn’t try to contact the actual real-life people like. At all.
Social media changed things, man.
(also Google but that’s a whole different thing. Pre-Google fandom was a trip.)
The idea of ‘shipping’ real people bothers me a LOT, let alone when you throw in that one of them is already happily married with kids. It’s one thing with characters in fiction; you’re privy to their thoughts, their private behaviours, in many cases, you’re metaphorically being asked to put yourself in that characters shoes, so they’re in a way an extension of yourself in a lot of the time. But when it’s REAL PEOPLE, that’s an entirely different story. You have no idea how they like to spend their alone time, or what they find attractive, or whether or not they could handle someone who never does their own dishes…
You’re essentially creating characters out of real people, and then expecting those real people to live up to your creation. It’s gross, it’s intrusive, and it’s CREEPY. Having been the ‘other woman’ in a somewhat similar situation, even when you’re not the one with a significant other, I assure you, this is really unpleasant. My roommate was of the opposite gender, and I lived with him for several years, but he had a very long term gf. But a disturbing number of people were convinced that because we’d been friends and roommates for so long, CLEARLY we were meant to be and it was simply a matter of time. It made me not want to be around him… It also made me not want to be around the people who were clearly paying more attention to my love life than I was.
He and his then gf are now married and I am living in another country :p Time did not prove me wrong and those people right. But it did make me a smug bastard who will happily shove that in their faces >_> <_<
I find it really funny how they are showing one side when I have seen attacks and threats on Dakota and her family since 2014 by the lovely innocent fans of Jamie and Amelia fans. They go on Dakota’s families and friends accounts trolling vile comments, making threats even against her dog. They posted a pic of her throat slashed, they have attack Melanie who has nothing to do with fifty shades but targets her from day one and these are the same folks that retweet your tweets! Their “boss queen” Amelia is a former actress very much was in the media but people like Mr shatner thinks it’s acceptable for Dakota to get hate from Jamie and Amelia fans and it’s unacceptable for the same for Jamie and Amelia. Dakota left social media, she deleted her private accounts due to being targets by the 30+ hate accounts which distort Dakota’s pictures and call her ugly, shaming her and her mother for doing nudity from his fandom. Their fans even admitted the hate they do to Dakota is the same hate the fans learned from them! Stop being a hypocrite!
Yes, how hypocritical of me to talk about the Damies sending me four days worth of incessant abuse without also writing a post about the four days of incessant abuse other people did not send me.
Sorry but didn’t you go seeking them out to gain attention for your book? Definitely a convenient timing considering the 2nd installment of the film is trending!
What about Jenny’s tweet says anything about her book? She noticed something trending after the Oscars and commented on it… that’s sort of how twitter works…
And I assume she was not expecting the tweet storm that followed, so random people attacking her for sharing her opinion on something that I think many people would agree is a good opinion, must have been a bit unexpected… and frankly kind of frightening.
And nowhere does Jenny say anything negative about Dakota (or Jamie) because she understands that they are people who are doing their jobs by playing characters in a movie….
So she said she is not a fan of fifty shades, after seeking out damies shippers she tweets about her book lmao ok whatever you say!
1) I never sought you Damie freaks out. With the exception of the two tweets I quoted, I never hashtagged anyone. The two tweets I quoted weren’t even the ones that got a response. All I had to do was tweet the word Damie, and my mentions filled up.
2) I tweeted about my book after legions of you Damie freaks insisted I was trying to get my “fifteen minutes of fame.” I even said in the tweet about my book that as long as you weirdos were going to insist I was using your pathetic delusions to get famous (you guys really, really are not going to help anyone get famous because you’re not as important or well-known as you believe you are) that I might as well take advantage of you.
Coming here, leaving repeated, rambling messages about how evil Jamie Dornan’s wife is or whatever is not going to convince anyone that you’re all reasonable people. You’re not helping your cause. You look ridiculous and believe me, most of the readers here are laughing at the spectacle you’re making of yourselves.
Just so you know, Shel, my comment below was directed toward Mary.
Jemmy
I don’t see Jenny “seeking out” the Daime shippers. She didn’t hashtag the tweet. If she wanted them to notice her she would have hashtagged it to get attention.
The Daimes were on the prowl for someone to attack. Four days worth of harrassment towards someone who wasn’t talking to them in the first place.
The second movie hasn’t trended in the U.S. since its release day.
“‘I tweeted about my book after legions of you Damie freaks insisted I was trying to get my ‘fifteen minutes of fame.'”–Well, shame on you, Jenny for writing a satire of a notorious H’wood backstory–as opposed to El James, who ripped off an entire series by another author to get HER fifteen minutes of fame, and wasn’t apparently even trying to be satirical.
BTW, the satire of H’wood is a classic trope. “Adaptation,” “Hollywood Shuffle,” and “S.O.B.” all took a crack at it. Back in the ’30s, Clare Boothe Luce (author of iconic bitchfest “The Women”) wrote a script called “Kiss the Boys Goodbye,” about the effort to cast a Civil War Epic obviously based on GWTW. One of the main characters is a demented Southern belle wanna-be starlet who punches people in the stomach whenever she doesn’t get her way–sounds like the role model for some of these shippers.
Atrista
The only hypocrite here is you. You denounce the harassment of Dakota but at the same time come and harass Jenny. Do you have any self awareness?
The arguments Jenny made in her post against the damies apply to people who harass Dakota and her family in the name of warped fandom. Both are wrong and should be discouraged. We don’t need to discuss all of the problems with fandoms gone wrong in order to make a valid argument about one in particular that falls closer to home. It’s the same problem with people discrediting feminist movements in the US because they don’t solve all of feminist problems around the world. It is derailing the conversation and doing more harm than good.
Not to mention the fact that this post was about the Damies because they were the ones sending hate to me for four days.
You should visit these accounts on Instagram @123freddyscomingforyou @sarcasm_666.6 @bestofyouxo and see the other side of Jamie and Amelia “angelic” fans!
Damies are wrong but Jamie and Amelia fans are the same…they both are shit! I can’t wait until these franchise is done!
Just wanted to drop a quick thanks for all the image descriptions, especially in this post. They’re appreciated!
I try to make sure to post them!
The fans are expecting these two to be together just like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. After all, 50SoG is Twilight, no?
In fact that a sector does this kind of stupidity, does not give them the right to, to defend Jamie and Amelia throw shit in Dakota and all his family and that is what many fans of Jamie and his wife do,Call her a whore for the movie of fifty or say that she is a loser because she is not married and has no children,This happens to many couples is not the first, obviously not justified but at least the fans of the other couples do not shoot to kill the co-worker,And I’m talking about Sam (outlander), charlie hunnam, benedict, etc, etc.At least the fans of those couples are a little more intelligent and do not fall to the same level as those crazy clinging with their ship,But jamie’s fans and his wife are on the same level as the damies, even though they act as the most innocent in the world
Not all of Jamie and Millie’s attack Dakota. My friends on twitter and I respect Dakota and feel sorry for her to have fans such as damies they are wanting her to break up a marriage ffs they (damies) are basically calling her that not us
The damies want and admire Dakota just to have something more with jamie and I agree they want to make it look like a homes break,But the fans of Jamie and Amelia despite knowing and having the truth in their hands, even though they call the damies, idiots, mentally retarded, pathetic to insult amelia, for wanting to break a family,In spite of all that they insult Dakota denigrate her for everything if she dresses low is a whore, if she touches a hair to jamie is a whore, if she wins a prize is a garbage prize or her parents bought it,That she can not hold a man is a loser and Amelia a winner, that she is not a woman to admire because she dresses with neckline, because she likes fashion, because she has no children and husband,
Jamie’s fans and his wife have changed too much, from being intelligent beings, they became a circus in the same shit as the damies
Thank you Amanda! I couldn’t have said it better myself! Jamie and Amelia fans have are disgusting even wishing death threats on damies who are equally the same level as them, but constantly saying they should died, threatening them with bombs, wishing they could have cancer is the lowest form of humanity!
But Ofcourse Dakota Johnson Fans do absolutely nothing I mean they just trash Jamie and Amelia. Make fun of them or Hate Leonardo Dicaprio because he is the producers of Jamie’s new project. Want his kid to die aww so innocent and lovely Queen fans I mean goong on every article bashing Jamie’s existence and Amelia is daughter of satan etc 90k way to kill or bash Amelia I mean gow imsecure they all are?Even Recently when Jamie’s sister share their late mother and tell us Her mother was adopted. Lovely and classy DJ fans even don’t let the Dornan’s late mother get some peace and said thank God one Dornan is less in the world and His late mother(who was a Nurse) was a whore because she don’t knew her birth mother name?Wow classy aren’t you all. Dakota Johnson fans are obsessed fanatics who I am sure are active in criminal activities, the way they talk and abuse is speechless. They want a reaction out you so they can play victim. How innocent they are is just show how blind and characterless they are. Thankfully fifty is done and both parties can live in peace. One can hope.
First of all NoahLakes with your 35354356436436 accounts all over social media trolling hate about Dakota and her family, why don’t you stop spreading lies lol who the hell hated on Leo? He was tagged a several screenshots of YOU hateful Jamie Dornan and Boss Queen fans who post about Dakota and her Family daily you must have forgotten he is good friends with Dakota and boy was it funny seeing you all in a panicking knowing your idol might lose his job because of the you VILE trash fans do to his actual friend. Don’t worry Leo’s step sister Emily you know Dakota’s BFF was also included in the message. Kisses!
Um…who in the name of Cthulhu ARE you people?
Why, you do not save this at the end of the day is not the first couple to go through this … and last minute news will not be the last … there are still girls clinging to kristen and robert
Why you do not just tell us … read my books, I’m starving
blue bean
I mean, just because it’s happened to other people doesn’t mean no one should call it out now.
Is nobody else totally squee-ing over WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER responding to Jenny?!
I did!!
Nope, he trolls daily for Outlander shippers.
I found the whole thing really entertaining off on the side where I didn’t have to manage any of it. The premise of their ship is awful, it makes me wonder if any of them are in relationships and how they would feel if people were actively hoping their relationship ended badly.
It is scary how people must proactively comb social media looking for things to get upset about and attack others.
Not my friends we don’t insult Dakota by calling her a whore we feel sorry for her for all the hate she gets yes her dresses are low cut but it’s her choice to wear them Dakota loves wearing Gucci and most of them have been beautiful everyone has the right to say if they dislike a dress but all this hate towards Dakota and Millie has to STOP its getting ridiculous and life threatening that has been made towards them is bang out of order from both groups of so called fans. I will be glad when FSF has been released and hopefully one day the hate will die down and the accounts who are directing all the hate for both Millie and Dakota will be closed down for once and for all they don’t deserve it and the craziness of it started because of a certain French woman!! . The damies are delusional to think Jamie will leave his wife. It’s clear to see in every photo you see of them together the love they share for the other.
I hope Dakota will find that someone special who she wants to spend the rest of her life with I know there has been speculation that she has kissed a woman resently if she did good for her.
I am sorry don’t you roll with the same haters that attack Dakota and her family daily, don’t go acting innocent because “you don’t insult her”, many of you have several dummy accounts, spit your insults and act like angels like you never had a hand in the reason why your “queen” excuse me Boss Queen Amelia gets hate.
No I don’t roll with haters. I don’t go round spreading hate towards Dakota. And Millie isn’t our queen or boss queen she is just a wife and mum who is trying to get on with her career and raise her girls with her husband Jamie away from the madness. I respect Dakota if you don’t believe that is your choice. I’ve said what I wanted to say as far as I’m concerned the madness started with a certain French woman spreading her lies about everything fifty and that’s when all the hate started
Im sorry but this ➡ I hope Dakota will find that someone special who she wants to spend the rest of her life with I know there has been speculation that she has kissed a woman resently if she did good for her ⬅. Sounds exactly like a fan of Jamie and his wife who hates Dakota, but uses the Damies as a shield so that we do not see that their true hatred is towards Dakota, if they only hated the Damies, they would stop speculating about the Dakota’s love life, they would stop seeing things where they do not exist …. also speculated that Jamie and his wife were going to divorce and that I care? it worries me? The answer is not because # 1 is her life not mine # 2 because I do not believe in speculations
i don’t care if you believe me or not I know I respect Dakota I also have a IG account for the two women and if she is gay that is also her business I know what I saw in the photo on Twitter so stop attacking me about it. All the hate just has to stop. All of you people with the hate accounts grow up all of this started with you and don’t care who started what just stop it!
LMAO westie80 you are exactly the problem with Jamie and his wife’s fandom don’t act innocent now. That’s what you all do 24/7 for Dakota for having friends when she is not filming and far away from your favs yet you still bring up her name instead of focus on your “idols”.
I’m just defending my self. So I don’t give a damn what you and the damies think. I’m sick of being accused of hating Dakota I don’t. I’m even friends with a massive Dakota supporter on Twitter. She sees everything I tweet do you think she would be friends with me if I hate her? No she wouldn’t
Jesus Christ this comment thread. Why do all you people care so much about the lives of someone you’ve probably never met and who doesn’t give a shit about you? That goes for either side of this stupid shipdom.
I’ll say this much for the 50SoG fandom, it makes the Steven Universe folk look sane, calm, and reasonable.
book__wyrm
Jesus Christ these people. There’s a big difference between shipping celebrities in your own private spaces (still kinda weird but I guess to each their own) and straight up harassing them and rooting for a relationship to end.
Tez Miller
How did they find this post to fill up the comments? Are they stalking you, or do they have “Damie” on a Google Alert or something? Either way…that’s disturbing 🙁
All these “Daimie” people coming on here to say that they’re not so bad because some fans do the same to Dakota is mind boggling. To me that’s like going to court for assault and saying “Well yeah I assaulted that guy but Jeffrey Dahmer killed people” Like ok that’s totally irrelevant. Besides, saying “other people do equally awful things” just means you’re admitting you’re doing awful things.
Dear Shippers of any persuasion:
Since you have apparently come to this page ready to defend your particular brand of shi–um, shiP, oblivious to the fact that many people find this blog specifically because a friend referred them to Jenny’s classic takedown of 50SOG, please start at:
http://jennytrout.com/?p=3208
and read through the entire series until she gave up midway through “Grey” (thank God; the pain was too great by then, at least for me).
Have a Magical Day.
Thing is, some (most?) of these shippers are not fans of the books. They’ve seen the movie and started shipping the actors. They don’t care about the books, they think the love story happening on screen is not between the characters, but between the actors (some believe the sex scenes in the movies are real…). Some shippers even hate the author because, you know, she’s behind the “conspiracy” hiding their “true relationship” and she “doesn’t respect the fans” by doing so. *eye roll*
?!! DaFARQ?
There are 1940s tales of listeners sending present to the radio station when soap opera characters got married or had a baby, and of course there’s that classic moment in “Show Boat” when an overwrought cowboy tries to pop a cap in the on-stage villain demanding the heroine pay off the mortgage, but aren’t people supposed to be a little less naive now?
Do they not realize actors have rehearsals? That they have to learn their lines and their blocking, and RE-learn them if the script changes?
I know not everybody is into theatre, but don’t elementary schools still have assemblies where you have to play a toothbrush or Sacagawea and talk about how you are good for teeth or how you guided the Louis & Clark expedition? Don’t they even play pretend at recess anymore?
Oh, and there are SO many better reasons to hate the author than this supposed conspiracy….
They’ve completely lost touch with reality, it’s frightening. They come up with the craziest things, their delusion knows no bounds (and I’m not exaggerating here).
It just boggles the mind how many of these conspiracy ships there are. The one I see the most is about Louis and Harry from One Direction “Larry”. It practically drove the two guys to stop speaking or being close to each other in public at all and there’s still this cadre of tinhat shippers that hardcore believe they are together and harass Louis girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his child and the family of the mother of his child on a daily basis. You can barely look at anything related to either of them without scrolling through an endless barrage of “Larry is real” comments underneath.
Oh yeah, not to mention “baby gate” which is the conspiracy that a bunch of them still believe about how Louis’ baby was and is fake. At first they said it was a doll and then once it became clear that he was a real baby they changed their minds about a hundred times about whose baby it “really” was. Most of them are still convinced that Larry is going to come out any time now and denounce Louis son as not his and say that all their girlfriends were beards payed to closet it them by Simon Cowell.
I honestly thought that Larry was a special tinhat case until I was that people did the whole fake baby thing about Benedict Cumberbatch as well, and then I saw all the outlander conspiracy people.
I only ship real people in very rare circumstances and never to the point where I actually think it’s happening. And I would be beyond mortified if any of the people involved even got a whiff of what was happening, let alone actively harassing them about it.
RealisticShipper
I am one of a group of shippers who ship two actors from a show, but the actors are never tagged in anything “steamy”. We know one of them is happily married and we love that about him and everyone in the “fandom” thinks his wife is lovely and super hot.
The actors though know about it and joke about it regularly. We all know it’s a total bromance/friendship between them though and we ship it hard but very lightly if that makes sense. I have never come across a shipper of the two actors that was hateful or disrespectful. We love to joke that the one actor is single/in short term relationships because of his love for the other actor, but only jokingly. We know they don’t have a secret romance. We are hardcore shippers of their characters but none in this group had any hate when the one character ended up with someone else. Because we respect the actors and characters too much.
The same cannot be said for shippers of one of the actors and another costar, but that is a shit show we dont want apart of.
I love that William Shatner got in on it too. 🙂 What I find really ironic is that in that photo it’s really obvious that both Jamie and Dakota are looking at Jamie’s wife, as she’s speaking. It looks like Dakota is actually quite friendly with her.
I’m quite old and haven’t heard the term ‘shipping’ before except in relation to parcels, but it’s not as if nutcases wishing the costars of their favourite film were together is anything new. I can remember that back in the 80s…
Fauxmances were featured in movie magazines as long as they have existed. Golden age H’wood studios regularly had co-stars going on fake dates to get the rumors going. Often, the actors couldn’t stand each other, or sometimes they were friends in real life, but one or both privately played for the other team romantically, etc.
Remember in “Singing in the Rain” where two girls in the audience are drooling over the latest Don Lockwood-Lina Lamont silent swashbuckler, unaware that the stars hate each other and the “refined” Lina is actually a shrew with a voice like something on a back fence you’d throw a shoe at?
I notice many of Jamie and his wife’s fans still ship “Robsten” when they all about sacred of a marriage but willing to insult FKA Twigs with nasty racist comments that I won’t even begin to mention after so many years since Twilight has been over and both have clearly moved on! I don’t even understand their logic! How can they be a hypocrite attacking other shippers when they project the same garbage!
LOL its so funny how Dakota Johnson comehere to blame Jamie fans like they are so innocent. Damie Queen is Dakota/ They worship her to daeth lol and Hate On Jamie. God bless her to have lovely fans. I mean tempz9 and her co (Just see there lovely accounts) who hate Dornans 24/7 and all Damies who trash Jamie. LOL if they were his fans why would they even ship him with anyone? DJ fans who make jamie and his Wife run away from Social media. Harass his sister and friends on IG. Harass anyone who talks good about him. Hypocrites asses. Its laughable how they cry about hate when they go around and hate on Dornans. Funny they were saying to see those IG acounts about hate on DJ I encourage you to go and see them and read the comments of lovely Dakota Fans. BTw there are 100+ hate accounts on Amelia. As I remember they give death threats to amelia / jamie even his kids since 2014. When Amelia was pregnant with second kid their was nasty manips of her pregnancy being terminated. Because Amelia’s ex is a director she sleep around according to them funny how funny when you see the past of someone you find so much shit. I hope you go to those Dornan hate accounts by Dakis. I just laughed on Dakota Johnson fans who Spread hate on Dornans 24/7 but Someone say they don’t like DJ thereis nuclear war. Don’t worry Next year they will find some else to hate. I am sure they will be a proud mother of their daughters in future and tell them that we bash ” a wife” and “mother” called her all names in books and wanted her dead because someone said They don’t like my fav actress. Cheers till then.
Ah, crap. It’s so embarrassing finding other brazilians making fools out of themselves online (the “br” in the username is usually a tell). I mean, we’re pretty passionate people and proud of it and all, but for some, that translates as being a senseless jerk.
So many love these books here, BTW, it baffles me. I try to convince myself that the portuguese translation somehow made it seem not as awful, but I’m pretty sure it’s the old “feeling protected by a man”, or the “he can totally change” things… Some probably never had the guts to read erotica before.
By the way, I’ve been lurking here for about a year or more, since someone recommended me your recaps. Thanks for sparing me to actually reading the book to critisize it (sorry you had to!) and for making my English reading practice so much more entertaining!
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I hope that was intelligible/helpful.
You want to see some crazy ass shipping, check out the Sherlock fandom. Whoa. Everything from Sophie Hunter being a beard for Benedict Cumberbatch to accusations of the writers “queer baiting”. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, do these people not have jobs and lives????
Usually a lurker, not much for commenting, but I just randomly read this:
http://defamer.gawker.com/50-shades-of-sigh-the-disastrous-50-shades-of-grey-p-1683492446
and it reminded me of this post, so I felt the urge to share.
Have several Seats!
LOL at this Jones and a pathetic Jamie Dornan stan all over social media, daily mail, IMDb with hundreds of different accounts trashing Dakota and her family. That’s rich coming from you pointing the finger on the shit you create. Godforbid one person is not kissing Jamie’s ass or calling him the world’s best actor his stans throw a fit. They attack editors from magazines for not putting him #1 as the sexiest man alive, they attack Bradley Cooper because Jamie was cut from a movie, they attack other actors who won awards because Jamie didn’t win. These marriage fans go on all Dakota’s family and friends accounts attacking them, leaving death threats, even on Dakota’s Birthday they posted comments they hope it was her last birthday. The attack her 16 year young sister with death threats now she can’t post a picture on her Instagram with the comments on. They attack her brothers who are not even teenagers yet. Ameliawarnercolombia attacked Dakota’s deceased grandfather, Angwood15 (whose account has been suspended several times), gypsy_soul_93, sabri930, anggrass5030, poppy_gzf, jamietheirish, amelia_jamie, bdluna_de, mama51598, backatyou11, jake1976, and more post nasty shit about Dakota and her family everyday it’s like they don’t want her to breathe anymore. Soon as Dakota’s name is mentioned they get triggered to trash her all over social media! They have attacked Times 100 influential people Alessandro Michele Gucci’s designer and Dakota’s good friend to the point he had to block Jamie’s marriage stans hate accounts they have for Dakota!
Now don’t sit acting holier than God you disgusting Jamie Dornan and his wife obsessed with Dakota stans! You are pure trash and never forget that!
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There are a lot of things I know: story structure, Hollywood trivia, what makes a director great… It’s the stuff I didn’t know–who my real father is, that my uncle is a demon, the fact that I’m not human–that’s gotten me into so much trouble.
After ripping my crush’s heart out–literally–I discover that I’m not just a normal autistic seventeen-year-old. I’m the daughter of the King of Nightmares, the cruel and excessively goth ruler of the Nether. Now, I’m stuck at Miss Perkins’s School for Girls, learning how to exist in a world where things really do go bump in the night.
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Homepage Liverpool Life > Research uncovers drinking problem
Research uncovers drinking problem
Andrew McKenna, JMU Journalism
– January 21, 2014Posted in: Homepage Liverpool Life, Liverpool Life
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Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University have found that in 84% of cases, alcohol was served illegally to actors who pretended to be drunk in pubs and clubs across the city.
The four actors were trained to act in a drunken manner, using techniques like slurred speech, unsteadiness on their feet, lack of eye contact and focus and fumbling around.
The actors, who entered and tested 73 bars across Liverpool, found that in the vast majority of cases bartenders still served them, even though they were visibly inebriated.
LJMU’s Professor Karen Hughes, one of the leading researchers for the study and Manager of Behavioural Epidemiology, told JMU Journalism: “The actors portrayed an extreme level of drunkenness when attempting to purchase alcohol, and while we expected that some bar servers would sell alcohol to them we were surprised at just how easy it was for them to get served.
“Over 80% of attempted alcohol purchases were successful despite bar staff clearly often recognising that the actors were ‘drunk’.”
The actors attempted to buy the alcohol in the selected establishments from Wednesday to Sunday between the hours of 21:00 and 03:00.
The UK law preventing the sale of alcohol to drunks is constantly being broken, and health professionals say this is placing, “enormous burdens” on health services.
Professor Hughes added: “Although authorities in many areas have made large strides in increasing safety in nightlife, much less has been done to tackle the excessive drunkenness that leads to problems in the first place.
“Legislation preventing the sale of alcohol to drunken people has been in place for hundreds of years yet is hardly ever used, with the number of prosecutions across the country each year rarely reaching double figures.”
The UK Licensing Act 2003 states that it is illegal to knowingly serve alcohol to a drunk person, or to obtain alcohol for a drunk person on a licensed premises.
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Critical Theory Versus Critical Thinking
capitalism, critical theory, critical thinking, Erich Fromm, feminism, freedom, ideologies, individuality, liberation, Max Horkenheimer, oppression, The Frankfurt School
Alan Karbelnig
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Several years ago, a student at Occidental College told me his major was:
I’d never heard of it.
I looked into critical theory, motivated by my fear that the rapid evolution of culture will leave me behind.
The Red Queen, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, complains:
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.
Or, briefly put:
Evolve or die.
Since I’m not ready to die, I evolved, a bit at least, and explored the meaning of critical thinking.
Here it is in a nutshell:
A set of German sociologists writing in the decades before WWII, suggested that history always contains a slant. Max Horkheimer, one of the founders of the field, considered a theory as critical insofar as it sought to:
liberate human beings from circumstances enslaving them.
Most significantly, critical theory maintains that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation.
In other words, critical theory is a variant of the idea that history is written by the victors. It adopts a critical attitude towards any idea, or set of ideas. No big surprise, the primary critical theorists moved to the US to avoid Nazism, settled primarily in New York, and became known as the Frankfurt School. Major critical theorists include Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Jergen Habermas.
One dramatic example of critical theory would be to critique the student loan crisis in the US. Unlike most European countries, we’ve developed an ideology, or, say, a custom, for students to borrow immense amounts of money to attend college. As a result, many become imprisoned—including working in unsatisfying jobs they hate—because of their student loan debt.
I once had a patient, a lovely woman who went to medical school in her mid-30s—rather late to attend medical school. She went into internal medicine, became a hospitalist, and told me years later that she would be paying off her student loan well into her 60s.
Awful, don’t ya think?
And, absolutely a form of oppression.
What does critical theory have to do with critical thinking?
Here, I rely on a source of controversy I’ve encountered with some young female colleagues who consider gender as entirely culturally based. They adhere to a theory of social constructivism, meaning that gender, including identifications such as male, female, gender fluid, or bigender, is an entirely socially constructed phenomenon.
My friend, Maria, a gender studies graduate from UCSB, taught me that sex is what exists between your legs, and that gender exists between your ears.
I’ll never forget that distinction.
I find it accurate.
BUT, here is where critical thinking clashes with critical theory.
Feminist critical theorists might argue against the idea of biology influencing gender. Worse, they might say, that line of thinking emerged from the belief systems of white, privileged males who, in turn, sought to oppress women by reducing them to their biological roles as mothers, caregivers, and loving, agreeable humans.
I respectfully disagree. Reducing the unimaginably complex phenomenon of gender to social constructionism is as problematic as reducing it to biology, culture, parental influences, or any one factor.
We humans are influenced by the hormones pulsing through our bodies. Men have tons of testosterone; women have tons of estrogen. These hormones create all kinds of physiological differences from the tone of voice to the shape of bodies.
I defensively proclaim to any radical feminists reading this post that I am in no way saying that biology is destiny!
Au contraire, I’m simply arguing that biology must play some role in gender.
How can it not?
Men undergoing gender reassignment surgery must take hormones to facilitate the transition; the same goes for biological women seeking to become men.
The older I get, the more I realize we humans know almost nothing.
The world is more complicated than we can even imagine. We have a penchant for reducing the endless complexity to singular categories. Perhaps it keeps us from going insane.
Returning to the one topic of gender, I believe the variables influencing it approach infinity. Moreover, all of those variables exist in dynamic interaction with one another.
What types of factors apply? Here’s a limited list of factors influencing gender that immediately come to mind:
Early childhood experiences, role modeling, trauma (like sexual assault, molestation, adoption, death of one or more parents or siblings), hormones, genes, cultural trends, disease, and historical period.
Critical theory holds that an ideology can be oppressive, and that includes, of course, phallocentrism, feminism, capitalism, etc.
Critical thinking invites you to think for yourself, to encounter the endless, dynamic interactivity of all things, and to face the way our lives unfold in a mostly unpredictable manner.
What’s the moral of this exploration?
Beware your own, mostly unconscious adherence to ideologies, uncover them, and apply your own critical thinking to them.
It’s a never ending struggle.
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The Demands of Gratitude (Portion Tzav)
Ritual, Ethics, and Our Gun Problem (portion Vayikra)
Liberations, Physical and Spiritual (Portion Vayak...
What does an attitude of gratitude ask of us?
This week’s Torah reading, Tzav, raises this question in an indirect but important manner. The portion continues last week’s lengthy and detailed description of the sacrifices offered up by our Israelite ancestors. Our focus this Shabbat is on a class of offerings known as shlamim—offerings of well-being. In this list, the todah—the sacrifice of gratitude—stands out in one significant way. Whereas other sacrifices of well-being may be eaten until the third day, "the flesh of [the] thanksgiving sacrifice of well-being shall be eaten on the day that it is offered; none of it shall be set aside until the morning" (Leviticus 7:15). Whatever is left over until the following morning must be destroyed.
Given our propensity to associate American Thanksgiving with leftovers, why does Torah uniquely forbid the consumption of leftover gratitude offerings?
Drawing on the medieval commentator Isaac Abravanel, Rabbi Shai Held suggests that by banning leftovers, Torah strongly encourages the celebrant to share the meal with friends and family. He writes: “The nature of gratitude is such that it is inherently outward-looking. Think of a moment in your life when you have had an overwhelming sense of gratitude to God or to another person. Imagine especially a moment when you received something - whether a much-needed meal, a kind word, or a gesture of deep love - that you were not at all sure would be forthcoming. You may well notice that when you fully inhabit the sense of gratitude, you feel an urge to share the gifts you have received with others. When we are moved to the depths of our being by having been given something, we seek to become givers ourselves. A grateful heart overflows. . . . The simple requirement that there not be any leftovers from the thanksgiving offering thus teaches us a fundamental theological and spiritual lesson. We are not meant to rest content with being recipients of God's gifts but are asked to becoming givers ourselves. God's gifts are meant to flow through us and not merely to us.”
In other words, gratitude and hoarding are completely incompatible. As one of my favorite prayers in our Reform siddur, Mishkan Tefilah, teaches: Teach us, O God, to give thanks for what we have by sharing it with others.
This coming Shabbat is known as Shabbat Ha-Gadol, the Shabbat before Pesach. It’s fitting that we read about the gratitude offering, as Pesach asks that we open our homes and our hearts to others. “Let all who are hungry, come and eat.” Indeed. To be grateful is to share.
The Eternal One called unto Moses, saying: “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: ‘When any of you bring a sacrifice to the Holy One, you shall bring your offering of cattle. . .’”
-Leviticus 1
The sacrifices that you bring are futile; your incense is an abomination to me.
My soul loathes your celebration of the new moons and appointed festivals;
they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.
Even though you offer up many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
-Isaiah 1
This coming Wednesday, March 14—exactly one month after the horrific Parkland shootings—students across America will walk out of their schools at 10:00 am
to protest the callous failure of our state and federal governments to take real action to halt the epidemic of gun violence plaguing America’s schools and neighborhoods.
Last week, my son, Jonah, asked Janet and me if we would support his participation in this protest.
I weighed his question in light of this week’s Torah portion, Vayikra. From beginning to end, this parshah—which opens the book of Leviticus—is taken up with all the gory details of how our ancestors were to offer up their animal sacrifices. It is, at first glance, a difficult portion to mine for meaning in our modern world, a lengthy description of rituals that are archaic for the vast majority of contemporary Jews.
Yet the portion takes on significant resonance when viewed through the words of prophets like Isaiah. The prophets railed against the hypocrisy of those who are punctilious in their ritual observance yet lax in their social ethics. They did not mince words in denouncing those who brought the sacrifices exactly as prescribed in our portion while oppressing the poor, widows, orphans, strangers and other vulnerable people living in their midst.
The prophets thus remind us that ritual observance must be coupled with ethical behavior, or else it becomes an abomination in God’s eyes. This concern remains all too relevant.
Many of our political leaders have responded to gun violence by offering their hopes and prayers. This is the epitome of what the prophets—and God—deplore: pious words paired with immoral behavior. To fail to address the sources of gun violence while praying for its victims is to profane the name of the Holy One.
So. . . How did I respond to Jonah’s question about participating in next Wednesday’s walkout?
I told him that I would have been deeply disappointed if he didn’t participate.
Liberations, Physical and Spiritual (Portion Vayakhel-Pekude)
Begin with degradation and end with praise.
-Mishnah, Pesachim 10:4
In this week’s double portion, Vayakhel-Pekude, we complete the book of Exodus. The content of this parshah reminds us that two-thirds of that book is not about the exodus at all. Once we leave Egypt and cross the Red Sea, the emphasis shifts, first to our receiving Torah at Mount Sinai, and then to the central topic of the last five portions of Exodus: the building of the portable sanctuary that we will carry through the desert and the instructions and vestments for the priestly class (cohanim) who tend to its service.
Is there a thematic link between these seemingly disparate sections of Exodus? The medieval commentator, Nachmanides believed so. He writes: “The unifying theme of the book of Exodus is redemption from exile, both physical and spiritual.” For Nachmanides, our release from physical servitude comes with the exodus from Egypt, but our spiritual liberation does not arrive until we receive the Torah and then welcome God’s presence made manifest in the mishkan.
This interpretation has a timely parallel in the Passover haggadah. The Mishnah instructs that in telling the story of our liberation at the seder, we should begin with degradation and conclude with praise. Being Jewish, from the start, two of our greatest sages differed on which dishonorable event marks the start of this journey toward freedom. Rav proposes we open the tale with Our ancestors were idolaters, thereby recalling our roots in the pagan practices of two infamous Arameans: Abraham’s father, Terach, and Laban, the father of Rachel and Leah. With this approach, Rav suggests that our servitude actually commences with the intellectual and spiritual slavery of worshipping false gods, long before Pharaoh physically enslaved us. Shmuel, by contrast, argues that we should begin with We were slaves in Egypt and move from physical enslavement to political liberation.
In good—and somewhat confusing—Talmudic fashion, the haggadah includes both Rav and Shmuel’s versions of the story. Shmuel’s comes first (Avadim hayyenu) followed shortly thereafter by Rav’s (Arami oved avi). Thus our Rabbis remind us that servitude comes in numerous guises, and there are many paths to liberation.
This week—as we finish the multi-faceted book of Exodus and begin our preparations for Pesach, we might well consider all kinds of exile, physical and spiritual. Let us ask ourselves: What holds us back from reaching our goals, individual and communal? What are the external challenges? And which obstacles lie within ourselves? May this sacred season move us toward liberation from all that binds us.
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J Church Construction To Delay Traffic, Disrupt Transit This Weekend
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Starting at approximately 7 p.m., Friday, April 16 and continuing around the clock until Monday morning, weekend work on the J Church light rail line will be required at the intersections of Church and 18th streets and San Jose Avenue and 30th Street. The work will continue at San Jose Avenue and 30th Street only over one additional weekend, April 23 – 26.
Throughout the weekend of April 16 – 19, construction will require the use of Muni bus shuttles on the J Church Line from Church Street Station to the Balboa Park BART/Muni Station. Traffic diversions off of Church Street, 18th Street, 30th Street and San Jose Avenue will be required during construction hours.
Muni Service Impacts
Over this weekend, beginning April 16, regular J Church light rail service will end at Church Street Station.
From there, Muni bus shuttles will substitute for rail service to serve Muni customers to the end of the line at Balboa Park Station.
Outbound J Church trains traveling in the subway will not exit at Duboce but instead will continue in the tunnel to Church Station for customers to transfer to bus shuttles on Church Street south of Market.
The J trains will then continue to Castro Station.
Inbound J shuttles will stop on Church Street just south of Market for transfers to the subway.
Customers can get on and off the J shuttle bus at all regular J Line stops except stops near the construction sites as well as Randall Street and Glen Park Station.
Alternate J shuttle service for Randall Street and Glen Park customers can be accessed on 30th Street (via 36 Teresita) and at San Jose and Santa Rosa avenues.
BART service to Glen Park Station will not be affected.
Traffic Impacts
Over the weekend of April 16, Church Street will be closed to through traffic in both directions between 17th Street and Hancock Street.
18th Street will be closed to through traffic in both directions between Church and Dolores streets.
During both construction weekends, San Jose Avenue will be closed to through traffic in the southbound direction between Day Street and Dolores Street.
One lane of northbound San Jose Avenue will remain open; the rest will be closed during construction.
During construction hours, 30th Street between San Jose Avenue and Dolores Street will be closed to through traffic in both directions.
Local access to businesses and residences will be provided for all closures. Detour signs will guide drivers to alternate routes. Police officers will detour traffic onto parallel streets.
Some street parking will not be available in or near the construction sites.
Slow traffic is expected in the area. Motorists are advised to use alternate routes when possible.
Muni Bus Shuttle Schedule
8 p.m., Friday – 1 a.m., Saturday
6 a.m., Saturday – 1 a.m., Sunday
8 a.m., Sunday – 1 a.m., Monday
Additional Muni routes affected
24 Divisadero
24 Owl
33 Stanyan
36 Teresita
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hydrangea seemannii climbing hydrangea
8-12 metres, Ultimate spread Woody, evergreen climber, clinging by aerial roots, with elliptic to lance-shaped, leathery, mid-green leaves that grow to 6" long. Have a look at a different type of hydrangea you may not have known about as an option for shade and screen. Seeing how hydrangea blossoms are very big, deadheading a hydrangea makes a noticeable difference in allocating energy to the parts that are more important for plant growth. You can grow climbing hydrangea vines to climb up trees, garden arbors, trellises, pergolas, or fences. If you select any attributes with or without a plant name, you will see a much narrower selection of results taken only from the old RHS Plant Selector database. New foliage is tinted bronze, held by red petioles. An evergreen climbing hydrangea with new stems pubescent with brown hairs. Hydrangeaceae, The Taxonomy of Hydrangeas, Taxonomical History and Botanical Descriptions of Hydrangea species, Copyright 2018 Heritage Hydrangeas | Award Winning Hydrangeas Surrey BC. Propagate by layering, Suggested planting locations and garden types Hydrangea seemannii. This plant does very well in many locations, especially those with lower levels of light, where other vines would wither and die. Inflorescence: Irregular, up to 180mm across, with white fertile flowers and white asymmetrical sterile florets. The extensive shade makes climbing to sunlight imperative. This week: looking after climbing hydrangea and more. It clings to brick or wooden walls without support, and does equally well in shade or sun. Glabrous above, slightly pubescent below. Mexico, Toxicity May cause mild stomach upset if ingested, contact with foliage may aggravate skin allergies, All ratings refer to the UK growing conditions unless otherwise stated. Many a person has planted one of these and watched it do absolutely nothing in its first year. 4.0 out of 5 stars 3. Minimum temperature ranges (in degrees C) are shown in brackets, Aspect South-facing or North-facing or West-facing or East-facing, Ultimate height The attractive leaves are mid-green and leathery and will provide year-long interest. The Climbing Hydrangea sends out thick stems, which branch regularly to cover a large area of wall. We are happy to answer your questions. It wasn't long before we got one for ourselves. Delivery options. Divided into 3 groups these lists, linked below, are maintained by a team of RHS staff and are reviewed annually. Get it as soon as Mon, Dec 7. The most popular and well-known climbing hydrangea is Hydrangea anomala subsp. Previously known as H. peruviana, H. weberbaueri, H. trianae, Whether you grow, a big leaf, panicle, smooth, or oakleaf variety, a well-tended hydrangea will give you lots and lots of gorgeous blooms throughout the season. Hydrangea seemannii is native to cloud forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. This makes an ⦠Join It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by RHS experts. Most, if not all, species belonging to the section Cornidia, are dioecious (having male and female ⦠They will grow 30 to 40 feet long, or even more, spreading upwards and outwards, and the thick stems have rough, flaking bark, in a glossy red-brown color. The Hydrangea Seemannii . Slightly scented. It can make quite a bit of difference, especially in those first few years. The Hydrangea seemannii species belongs to the Cornidia section of the Hydrangea genus and is native to the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico (an area within the Neotropics), at altitudes of 1800-2200m. Ray florets: 4 sepals, irregular shapes and sizes, entire, overlapping, 30mm diam. Pale green bracts enclose the flower bud, opening to reveal elegant, domed heads circled by a ring of large, white florets. petiolaris, is a useful low-maintenance climbing shrub, perfect for a shady or north-facing wall.Itâs slow to get going, often making little new growth in the first few years. Seemann's hydrangea, Family Hydrangea seemannii. It has a slow growing, shrubby habit until established, then becomes quite vigorous, producing long, fast growing stems. Hydrangea 'seemannii' is a lovely evergreen climbing hydrangea from Mexico, introduced to the UK in the 1980s'. Hydrangea seemanii are an evergreen climber that comes from the Mountains of Mexico. RHS members can get exclusive individual advice from the RHS Gardening Advice team. Because the vines become so large and heavy over time, be sure that the host structure can support the weight of the vines. Native to Mexico. Most, if not all, species belonging to the section Cornidia, are dioecious (having male and female reproductive structures on separate plants). It has very attractive lance-shaped serrated leaves and beautiful lacecap white flowers from June until September. A vigorous climbing vine that clings to surfaces by aerial rootlets. in stock (shipped in 3-5 working days) 3 litre pot; £26.99 Add to basket. Perfect for a north facing wall ⦠Lush green foliage is blanketed with magnificent, white lacecap blooms in summer. Origin: Mexico. The Hydrangea seemanii is a climbing hydrangea vine that can get 30 feet (9 m.) tall. Virtually all of the features of the old searches are still available and in addition we have added several new features to create a more comprehensive and user friendly search experience. Mon – Fri | 9am – 5pm, Join the RHS today and support our charity. Itâs slightly tender, so let it climb over a sheltered wall. It will grow in shade, however will flower better if given some sunlight. Dark green leaves cover walls and fences, providing the perfect backdrop to the creamy, lacecap flowers. How to Grow Climbing Hydrangeas . The Climbing hydrangea has white, fragrant, hydrangea-like blooms throughout the summer. Because it flowers, it can make shady locations colorful and pretty. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. 2.5-4 metres, Time to ultimate height H. goudotii, H. durifolia, H. caucana. FREE Shipping by Amazon. It has small white, fragrant flowers through summer, and small, rounded, dark green leaves. Read on to learn about climbing hydrangea pruning. The vines' bark was not as fascinating as that for the deciduous climbing hydrangea,& this evergreen variety would compare leaf-wise more to evergreen clematisthan to other hydrangeas; although, I think, it's a little prettier, the hydrangea's shiny leathery leaves not as pointy as the clematis. Wall-side Borders Low Maintenance In midsummer it bears huge, white lacecap-style hydrangea flowers, which can almost completely cover the stems. Part -Shade to Shade. This elegant climber will beautifully cover vertical surfaces with glossy evergreen leaves, the vigorous stems clinging by means of aerial roots. 10-20 years, Cultivation Hydrangea anomala subsp. Hydrangea seemannii Seemannii is a self climbing evergreen hydrangea that grows to about 6 meters to 7 meters in height and a spread of 5 Meters. The extensive shade makes climbing to sunlight imperative. Noteworthy Characteristics. Hydrangea anomala, commonly known as climbing hydrangea, is a vigorous, sprawling, deciduous, woody vine that clings and climbs by twining and aerial rootlets along the stems, typically maturing over time to 30-40â long.Horizontal lateral branching often extends several feet beyond supporting structures. If planted free standing, it can grow either as a bush or a vine. They contrast beautifully with the creamy blossoms. City & Courtyard Gardens Cottage & Informal Garden, Pests Can get aphids, capsid bug, glasshouse red spider mite and hydrangea scale, Diseases climbing hydrangea. One of its best features is it's not high maintenance! The plants can also be ⦠These plants will have a lot more details displayed including an image. Description: Jasmine 'Clotted Cream', together with 'Hydrangea 'Seemanii' give you one of the most exciting Scented Evergreen Climbing Plant Collections suitable for any garden situation. Zones 8-10. H. seemanii is a woody, evergreen climber with aerial roots and leathery leaves up to 15cm long. Because they are hardy growers with strong aerial rootlets that cling to all surfaces, you can plant them on sturdy structures, like stone or brick walls, chimneys, and houses; avoid wooden shingles and clapboard, which can be damaged by these rootlets or "holdfasts." Ask us. This hydrangea may have two types of growth patterns. It has big, thick, rounded leaves that look more like they belong on an evergreen magnolia than a hydrangea. This hydrangea may have two types of growth patterns. Our Botanical team are working hard to increase the number of plants with detailed information. Hydrangea seemannii All climbing Hydrangea s and their close relatives (Pileostegia and Decumaria, for example) have one particular thing in common - they're all terribly slow to get established after being planted. Will only tolerate a few degrees of frost, Propagation Hydrangea can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, or self-clinging climbers, with flowers in clusters usually comprising both small fertile and more showy sterile flowers; often good autumn colour, Details Its foliage is bold, clean and shrub-like and a rich dark green color. Yes, it's true! Domed flower-heads, composed of greenish-white, fertile flowers surrounded by white bracts, appear in summer, Plant range petiolaris. Hydrangea Seemannii from Burncoose Nurseries available online to buy - Information: excellent evergreen climber for shade or north wall, flowers white. If planted free ⦠H. schlimii, H. platyphylla, H. panamensis, H. oerstedii, H. lehmannii, An evergreen climbing hydrangea with new stems pubescent with brown hairs. Eventual height & spread. climbing hydrangea. Another rare evergreen climbing form, this vigorous Mexican Hydrangea is quite handsome with its leathery, very shiny, laurel-like dense growth of leaves. The Climbing Hydrangea. This process should be carried out all through the blossom season if you want your plants to look fresh. The climbing hydrangea is a lovely vine grower that flowers. 99. The Hydrangea seemannii species belongs to the Cornidia section of the Hydrangea genus and is native to the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico (an area within the Neotropics), at altitudes of 1800-2200m. Name: Scented Climbing Plants Offer - Two Of The Best Scented Evergreen Climbing Plants. Domed flower-heads, composed of greenish-white, fertile flowers surrounded by white bracts, appear ⦠Climbing hydrangeas. Native of Mexico. Grow in sun or shade, in a moist but well-drained soil enriched with well-rotted organic matter. The buds are shaped like ducks eggs and soon develop to blooms of 6" across with a delicious evening scent. Seemannii Evergreen Climbing Hydrangea seemannii Hydrangea seemannii is native to cloud forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. Hydrangea seemannii is a rare and hardy evergreen climbing Hydrangea. From early summer interesting clusters of greenish-cream flowers appear and grow up to 15cm across. Climbing Hydrangea Varieties. Hydrangeaceae, Genus times, Need more criteria? White (no change). 020 3176 5800 petiolaris . RHS Garden Hyde Hall Spring and Orchid Show, Free entry to RHS members at selected Copyright 2018 Heritage Hydrangeas | Award Winning Hydrangeas Surrey BC Join the RHS today and support our charitable work, Keep track of your plants with reminders & care tips – all to help you grow successfully, For the latest on RHS Shows in 2020 and 2021, read more, RHS members get free access to RHS Gardens, Free entry to RHS members at selected times », Reduced prices on RHS Garden courses and workshops, Our Garden Centres and online shops are packed with unique and thoughtful gifts and decorations to make your Christmas sparkle, General enquiries Climbing hydrangea is a spectacular plant, but it has a rambunctious nature and get easily get out of control if you arenât careful. They are: This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. Website Design & Development by Ivoryshore Vancouver BC. 222879/SC038262, If you enter just a plant name, you will see results from the old RHS Plant Finder and Selector databases. By Helen Yemm 11 April 2012 ⢠06:30 am . We have combined these two powerful search tools into a single Find a Plant service searching over 250,000 plant records. Jasmine 'Clotted Cream' & Hydrangea 'Seemannii'. AGM plants have been through a rigorous trial and assessment programme. suppliers. Climbing hydrangeas love rich soil and do well in full sun, partial shade, and even deep shade. The hydrangea is the undisputed Queen of the Southern Garden. Excellent for ordinary use in appropriate conditions. Climbing hydrangea, Hydrangea anomala subsp. Evergreen - elliptic to lance-shaped, leathery, mid-green leaves to 15cm (6in) long.White - greenish-white flowers $37.99 $ 37. It is Hydrangea seemannii ⦠Hydrangea seemannii and H. serratifolia are vigorous evergreen climbers that are perhaps less known as they need to be grown in a sheltered spot and in milder parts ⦠the RHS today and get 12 months for the price of 9, Other common names The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. Leaves: Evergreen, 50-200mm long x 30-80mm wide, on long petioles. Pruning climbing hydrangeas isnât difficult and will keep the vines looking their best. Introduced by Neil Treseder circa 1985. Mature plants produce showy, white, lace-cap blooms. Decumaria sinensis (Chinese climbing hydrangea) Decumaria sinensis (Chinese climbing hydrangea) An evergreen, climbing hydrangea, with self-adhesive aerial roots. Though slow growing to start with, it is a vigorous climber that can cover outbuildings or brighten up shady house walls. See beautiful Climbing Hydrangea varieties here! 4.0 out of 5 stars 31. flowers in summer with a white lace caped flower. Generally disease free. Different to other climbing Hydrangeas, seemannii won't drop its leaves in winter, providing year-long interest. However, itâs well worth the wait. Color in acidic soil with AI present: Climbing Hydrangea Plant - Hydrangea anomala petiolaris - Shade - 4" Pot. Search by plant name, key attributes or both to find plant details and a list of We recommend the Climbing Hydrangea for northwest walls or places where shade is dense in summer. Hydrangea seemannii. Genus Hydrangea can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, or self-clinging climbers, with flowers in clusters usually comprising both small fertile and more showy sterile flowers; often good autumn colour Details H. seemanii is a woody, evergreen climber with aerial roots and leathery leaves up to 15cm long. In summer, bears greenish white ferile flowers surrounded by white sterile flowers in domed corymbs that grow to 6" across. Try an advanced search, RHS Registered Charity no. You will typically find white, frothy flowers throughout the summer but if you want your plant to continue growing in terms of length and width, you can remove the flowers as soon as you see them encourage energy two other parts of the plant. An invaluable, woody, evergreen climber, which can attach itself to walls and fences by producing aerial roots. Hydrangea anomala petiolaris (Climbing Hydrangea) Vine, white lacecap flowers, #2 - Size Container. Hydrangea seemannii (Climbing evergreen hydrangea) will reach a height of 10m and a spread of 4m after 10-20 years.
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posted Friday, July 18 2014 - Volume 42 Issue 29
An LGBT pioneer marries
by Mark Segal - Philadelphia Gay News
Something happened last week that I thought would never happen in my lifetime: I got married. And now, a few days later, it still is an amazement to me.
I never thought that little piece of paper and ceremony would mean this much. If I had any questions about that, it was answered when all of our wedding guests had gone home Saturday night, and Jason and I had time alone. The look of joy on his face was the most beautiful expression I've seen in our 10 years together. It was pure joy and empowerment. His look was so reassuring and loving that, in all honesty, even after 10 years, it melted my heart. You can talk all about those 1,100 rights that that piece of paper gives you, but to me the most valuable it thing it gave was that one look - that look of joy on Jason's face.
For Jason and me, it all started May 20, when our city was about to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The man in charge, Register of Wills Ron Donatucci, had honored me by having me deputized to assist in handing out the forms. It was reported on the news and Jason called to ask if I'd like him to join me. I think we both knew at that moment that we were helping other couples, so why not us?
Unfortunately, in the rush to get to City Hall, I had forgotten my wallet. City Councilman Jim Kenney (who wanted to be a witness on this historic day for the LGBT community) and Ron heard Jason and me talking and since, according to law, the $80 license fee must be paid in cash, Ron and Jim each paid $40 so Jason and I could get a license. Then, we noticed that the license was only good for 60 days.
Since we live a very public life, we decided at that moment that we wanted a very private and small wedding with no hoopla - no public officials, celebrities or press - and all our invitees were sworn to secrecy. Family came in from six states and our friend Judge Dan Anders was the only choice to perform the ceremony. That led to the question of who cried more during the ceremony - the grooms or the judge.
We each spoke our vows, and when Judge Anders uttered that line, 'By the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,' and then he added 'and Judge Jones,' a chill of joy and emotions hit me hard.
We had planned to take all the relatives from out of town to brunch on Sunday but, during the reception, Jason explained that the family wanted to keep this private so we were hosting the brunch at home. This meant that, after the reception, Jason and I had to go shopping. In our suits, and freshly married, off we went to the only store we knew that would be open at midnight: Walmart. We were the happiest people you would ever see at a Walmart.
Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation's most-award-winning commentator in LGBT media. You can follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MarkSegalPGN or Twitter at https://twitter.com/PhilaGayNews. www.epgn.com
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Edward Earl “Eddie” Parks
Oct. 13, 1954 - Dec. 12, 2020
Edward Earl “Eddie” Parks, 66, passed away at his home in Sheridan, surrounded by his loving family and caregivers on Saturday morning, Dec. 12, 2020.
Born in Lebanon, Ind. on Oct. 13, 1954, he was the son of the late Willie Ernest and Phyllis Joan (McDole) Parks.
He attended Marion Adams High School (now Sheridan Community Schools) and worked for Biddle Manufacturing in Sheridan, retiring after 20 years of dedicated service.
Family, friends, and sports were some of Mr. Parks' favorite things, and not always in that order. He lived for his kids. He always looked forward to baseball season and the years he was able to coach as his son was growing up. In later years, his grandchildren became his focus; he tried his best never to miss any of their activities or sporting events.
As for friends, Mr. Parks never met a stranger. You could always spot him on the porch waving at just about everybody who passed by. He also had a soft spot in his heart for animals, especially dogs.
However, sports sometimes took on a life of their own. Mr. Parks was a die-hard Sheridan Blackhawks fan. He was proud to have played for Coach Wright, and never stopped supporting Blackhawk Football. He was also an Indianapolis Colts fan, but where things started to go off the rails is when it came to college basketball. He was an IU superfan with cream and crimson flowing through his veins, and no matter what kind of season the Hoosiers were having, when March rolled around the madness always took over.
Mr. Parks would save up all his vacation days so he could stay home and watch the NCAA Tournament.
Survivors include his son Cody E. Parks (Melissa) of Sheridan; daughter, Crystal (Marc) Catron of Sheridan; grandchildren, Keegan Catron, Korben Catron, Wade Catron, Evelyn Catron, Axel Schilling and Jasper Garrity; brothers, Ernest (Anna) Parks of Noblesville, and William (Laurie) Parks of Indianapolis; sisters, Patricia Risden of Noblesville and Jeanette Hopkins of Noblesville.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Private family services were scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 at Kercheval Funeral Home in Sheridan.
Mr. Parks will be laid to rest at Spencer Cemetery in Sheridan with Pastor Steve Carlock officiating.
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Social Services on the Brink of Collapse
Social care services in some areas of England are so fragile that they face complete collapse next year unless the government commits substantial extra investment in next week’s one-year spending review, Age UK has warned.
“Growing levels of desperation described by those individuals, families and professionals on the sharp end bear testament to a system working at full pelt, stretched to its limit and still failing people left, right and centre,” the report said.
It also highlighted fears that the market for residential care in many areas was failing, with half of councils witnessing the closure of domestic home care providers in their area in the past year, and a third seeing residential care homes shut down.
Age UK’s charity director, Caroline Abrahams, said the report painted a “frightening” picture of what might happen to social care unless the government intervened decisively to lift massive pressure on local authority social care budgets.
“When you strip out the complexity the story is really very simple: demand is going up but funding and supply are going down, leaving increasing numbers of older people to fend for themselves, rely on loved ones if that’s an option for them, or pay through the nose via a hefty stealth tax without which many care homes would not stay afloat,” Abrahams said.
“Things are so bad in some places that it is becoming impossible to source care, however much money you have. Certainly, the idea that there will always be a care home or home care agency able to help you in your neighbourhood is increasingly out of date.”
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said in June that the system was adrift “in a sea of inertia” as Brexit dominated ministers’ energy and attention.
A cross-party Lords committee including two former chancellors called in July for an immediate £8bn investment to tackle the long-neglected “national scandal” of social care that had left more than a million vulnerable older people without proper support.
The Health Foundation thinktank said the English social care system needed £1bn from next week’s spending round to stabilise it financially and prevent collapse, although this would be a sticking plaster and not the long-term plan that is required.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/31/social-care-services-in-england-under-extreme-duress-says-age-uk
Helping the Rich
More than 5,500 households with an annual income of over £80,000 have been given help-to-buy loans in the past year compared with 4,142 households earning less than £30,000, the government’s own figures have revealed.
Well over 2,000 of the richest households who were awarded taxpayer-funded loans, allowing them to buy new-build houses with only a small deposit, had incomes in excess of £100,000.
Whitehall figures now show that average renting households, with an income of £27,000, are missing out and a mere 0.2% of England’s private renting households used help to buy in 2018-19.
Shelter, the housing charity, which analysed data from the English Housing Survey, said it shows the policy has done little for the large majority of private renters looking for a stable home.
“Help to buy is often touted by the government as a major success, when in truth it’s a major failure,” said Polly Neate, the chief executive of the campaigning charity. “It’s a policy that boosts the bank balances of big developers but has nothing to offer the average renter. At the crux of this crisis is the desperate shortage of genuinely affordable social homes,” said Neate. “In fact, 3m more social homes are needed in the coming years. This is where the new government should be taking decisive action, and where the greatest opportunity to help trapped renters lies.
With a friend like Trump, American workers need no enemies.
When it comes to wooing workers, Trump convinced millions of American workers that he is their true friend, fighting hard for them, even though he and his appointees have taken one anti-worker action after another—dozens of them. In reality, not so much courting workers but using the courts against them.
Trump has effectively scrapped the “fiduciary” rule that required Wall Street firms to act in the best interests of workers and retirees in handling their 401(k)s—a move that could cost many workers tens of thousands of dollars.
Trump erased a rule that extended overtime pay to millions more workers, a move that will deprive many workers of thousands of dollars per year. While Trump boasted that he is the best friend of miners, his Labor Department pushed to relax rules for safety inspections in coal mines, but was stopped by a federal circuit court. Trump has made it easier to award federal contracts to companies that are repeat violators of wage laws, sexual harassment laws, racial discrimination laws or laws protecting workers right to unionize.
Trump has reversed a ban on a toxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos, that causes acute reactions in farmworkers and does neurological damage to children. He has greatly relaxed requirements for employers to report workplace injuries, making it harder for workers to know how dangerous their workplace is and what hazards need correcting. His administration is hurting gay, lesbian and bisexual workers by urging the Supreme Court to rule that federal anti-discrimination laws don’t cover them, which would give employers a green light to fire them. His administration has rolled back rules that sought to prevent payday lenders from preying on financially strapped workers.
Trump has repeatedly pummeled federal employees—he precipitated a 35-day government shutdown that left many dedicated federal workers desperate, without paychecks. He ordered a pay freeze for federal workers, only to have Congress reverse that move. His administration has also maneuvered in myriad ways to weaken federal employee unions.
Trump’s Labor Department is even allowing many employers who violate minimum wage, overtime and other wage laws to avoid any penalty by volunteering to investigate themselves. In a blow to workers of color and women, the Trump administration scrapped a rule that let the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collect pay data from large corporations so it could obtain insights into possible pay discrimination by gender and race.
Trump’s appointees have eased safety requirements for oil and gas drilling workers. His Administration has even relaxed child labor rules, allowing 16-and 17-year-olds who work in nursing homes and hospitals to operate power-driven patient lifts without supervision— even though thousands of experienced adult health-care workers get injured each year moving and lifting patients.
Trump has done next to nothing to make good on his campaign promise to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure—a promise that had excited many workers. Nor has he lifted a finger to raise the federal minimum wage, which hasn’t been increased in a decade, the longest stretch without such an increase since Congress first enacted the federal minimum wage more than 80 years ago. Nor has Trump done anything to enact a paid sick days law or to increase the earned income tax credit. But, of course, he pushed repeatedly to gut the Affordable Care Act, a move that would jeopardize millions of workers and their families by leaving many more Americans without health coverage.
The list goes on and on.
Trump’s appointees to the federal courts and federal agencies have moved aggressively to undercut workers and unions. Trump’s first Supreme Court appointee, Neil Gorsuch, cast the deciding vote in the Epic Systems case, which went far to gut workers’ ability to enforce their rights against wage theft, sexual harassment or racial discrimination. That ruling gives companies the court’s blessing to prohibit workers from bringing class action lawsuits and instead lets employers require workers to resolve their grievances through closed-door arbitrations, which, according to numerous studies, greatly favor employers. Gorsuch also delivered the deciding vote in the 5-4 Janus v. AFSCME case—the most important anti-union decision in decades. In that 2018 decision, the court’s conservative majority ruled that teachers, police officers and other government workers can’t be required to pay any fees or dues to the unions that bargain for them.
Trump’s National Labor Relations Board has also moved to weaken unions and undercut workers’ ability to band together. By making it far harder to define companies like McDonald’s as joint employers, the NLRB has made it far more difficult for workers employed by subcontractors and franchised companies to unionize. Trump’s NLRB appointees have said gig economy workers like Uber and Lyft drivers should be considered independent contractors and not employees, thus blocking any possibility for them to unionize under federal law. And now Trump’s NLRB appointees seem intent on stripping graduate student workers at private universities of their right to unionize and bargain collectively.
Nor has Trump hidden his disdain for unions and union leaders.
Last September, he attacked—and insulted—AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in a tweet, writing “some of the things he said on television]were so against the working men and women of our country and the success of the U.S. itself, that is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly.”
In another anti-union tweet, Trump absurdly blamed Dave Green, the president of the UAW local in Lordstown, Ohio, for the closing of G.M.’s huge auto assembly plant there, even though no one worked harder than Green to keep that plant open.
In yet another tweet Trump savaged Chuck Jones, the president of a steelworkers local in Indianapolis. Jones had criticized Trump for not making good on his promise to save all the jobs at a Carrier plant there after Carrier announced plans to move the Indianapolis operations to Mexico. Trump wrote that Jones “has done a terrible job representing workers.
Taken from here
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/30/workers-friend-heres-how-trump-has-waged-his-war-workers
“Evo, Murderer!, Evo, Murderer!”
The SOYMB blog has previously exposed Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, as a champion of corporate interests, hence his low profile in the US hit list of foreign leaders.
This article highlights that his ecology credentials are not as genuine as he claims them to be.
"...In a strongly worded statement, the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) declared both Evo Morales and Jair Bolsonaro “personas non gratas”: “We, indigenous peoples, hold the governments of Jair Bolsonaro and Evo Morales responsible for the disappearance and physical, environmental, and cultural genocide currently present in the Amazon.” Further, the statement condemns the policies of both governments, which “only aims to benefit the interests of powerful economic groups that seek to convert the Amazon into land plots for agricultural megaprojects, mines, dams, and energy projects.”..."
"...While international attention and ire has focused on the burning of the Brazilian Amazon and responsibility of the ultra-rightwing government of Jair Bolsonaro, across the border in eastern Bolivia, equally devastating wild fires in the past three weeks have destroyed nearly 1 million hectares. Response by the ideologically leftwing government of Evo Morales has been forced, instead, largely due to domestic pressure by Bolivians that increasingly view the response as not only as too little too late, but also directly blame Morales’ pro-development policies for ongoing destruction of the Amazon..."
"...Morales’ waited until Sunday morning, only hours before national protests were held in cities across the country, to announce that Bolivia would accept international aid, reversing his previous position...At a public rally Monday, Morales ridiculed the protests of environmentalists as the “electoral nuisance of small groups”..."
"...Indigenous leaders and civil society organizations point to government policies for encouraging deforestation and forest fires. In July, one month before the start of the forest fires, Evo Morales issued a presidential order (Supreme Decree 3973) further loosing restrictions for land clearing fires in the Bolivian Amazon from 5 to 20 hectares, modification to a 2015 law permitting land clearance. Pablo Solon, former Bolivian ambassador to the UN and director of the Foundation Solon, points out that deforestations rates have spiked in recent years, more than tripling this year from 295 thousand hectares in 2016, while 420 thousand hectares were lost last year. Under current regulations, the fine for illegal land clearing is as little as $6.60 per hectare, while the estimated cost for seeding the reforestation of one hectare is $1,000..."
"...Evo Morales has carefully cultivated his image on the world stage as an indigenous defender of the “Pachamama (Mother Earth)”, but his domestic policies belie another reality...In the same manner as Bolsonaro, Bolivia’s Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera accuses detractors of Amazonian development as engaging in paternalist “ecological imperialism”..."
"...Morales demonstrated where his interests lie by attending the annual meeting of the regional ranchers’ federation of Beni in the Amazonian city of Trinidad. At the meeting, federation president Abdon Nacif denounced calls to repeal the controversial Decree 3973, stating that prohibiting forest clearing would harm regional development. Earlier this year, the Morales announced alongside private business leaders in Santa Cruz the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Bolivian Amazon by an additional 250 thousand hectares, largely destined for the cultivation of transgenic soya. Starting this month, Bolivia will export as much as 200 thousand tons of beef to China’s growing consumer market. Only last week Morales’ boasted that businessmen tell him they earn more now with his leftist party than during previous neoliberal governments..."
"...Evo Morales has defended land clearance permits by justifying the importance of using fires (chaqueos) for rural subsistence, “small families that don’t use chaqueo, what are they going to live on?”. However, members of indigenous communities see this condonation as an affront to their livelihood and methods of cultivation. “For us, this is something disastrous. We have planted mahogany, chestnut, many trees and are repopulating the forest. Now as consequence, everything we have worked to create is going to be stripped down and burned. Practically, this decree is sweeping away everything we have created”, said Lidia Anti from the Communal Organization of Amazonian Women of the Beni..."
"...According to the director of Foundation TIERRA, Gonzalo Colque, the fire zones in the Chiquitania directly correspond with expansion areas of the agricultural frontier and colonization. The government has accelerated land donations in the region, waving the requirements of regulatory process. Between 2011 and 2018, 7 million hectares have been titled in the region. According to official figures, the majority (57 percent) of new land titles in the Chiquitania have gone to medium and large property holders, while only 28 percent have benefited small property holders. “Those that have received land are not agricultural workers. They don’t live there, and many have deforested without management practices. This is dangerous. The beneficiaries are members of the ruling party who do not live from agriculture but instead have fattened up to later sell the land to industrial agriculture”, maintains Colque…"
"...Sunday’s rally for international aid in Santa Cruz transformed into an impressive and large protest as thousands flooded the city’s central plaza into the evening. Demands for the repeal of Decree 3973 were ubiquitous and chants for justice reverberated across the crowd. “Evo, Murderer!, Evo, Murderer!”..."
Cigarette giant, Philip Morris International (PMI) calls for never-smokers to stay away from cigarettes, for smokers to quit, and for those smokers who do not quit to change to better alternatives. PMI is now navigating consumers away from cigarettes and towards its own e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn products, although serious concerns about the safety of the smoke-free alternatives are mounting.
Yet, controversial marketing strategies targeting young people and ongoing forceful rebranding of cigarettes in low-income countries indicate an unprecedented degree of corporate hypocrisy.
The tobacco industry is notorious for misleading consumers and the general public about the addictiveness of nicotine and the harmful effects of tobacco smoking. PMI no longer denies that tobacco smoking causes life-threatening cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, but it justifies with an unbearable lightness the role it has in fuelling the enormous disease burden that is directly related to smoking. In 2015 alone, smoking caused more than one in ten deaths worldwide and killed more than 6 million people, resulting in a global loss of nearly 150 million disability-adjusted life-years.
The business continues, PMI says, because fully informed consumers make personal choices to start smoking regardless of the health risks, and as long as there is a demand for cigarettes, PMI will supply them. With sales of more than 740 billion cigarettes each year, 90% of revenue stemming from cigarette sales, rising sales and expanding market share in developing countries, aggressive lobbying, and relentless efforts to curtail controls and restrictions on smoking put in place to protect the public, never has there been so duplicitous or nonsensical a corporate manoeuvre as PMI's campaign in promoting a smoke-free future while whitewashing its role in subverting global tobacco control efforts.
Blaming others—the consumer, health advocates, authorities, other tobacco companies—is a recurring theme. Claiming to be clearing the way for change is hypocritical for a company that refuses to end its cigarette production until it makes enough money from smoke-free products or as long as other tobacco companies exist to fill the market gap.
PMI continues to thrive on a global addiction to tobacco. It is a tragedy that profits trumps good health when it comes to taking corporate responsibility.
Towards tipping point
Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to stabilise the climate and prevent ecosystems from declining to a point of no return, with dire consequences for humanity.
“The Amazon fires make the point that we face a very serious crisis,” she told the Guardian. “But it is not just the Amazon. We’re also concerned with what’s happening in other forests and ecosystems, and with the broader and rapid degradation of nature. The risk is we are moving towards the tipping points that scientists talk about that could produce cascading collapses of natural systems.”
The collapse of pollinator populations and growing awareness of human dependence on forests and other ecosystems has started to make an impact.
“We need to address the root causes,” she said. “Even if the amount involved in extinguishing fires in rainforests was a billion or 500 million dollars, we won’t see an improvement unless more profound structural changes are taking place. We need a transformation in the way we consume and produce.”
“This is not just about biodiversity conservation, it’s about finance and trade and changing the model of development. We need to put biodiversity and natural capital at the centre of the economic paradigm.”
Requiem for the Planet (3)
A mysterious kidney disease that has killed thousands of sugarcane workers and other tropical laborers is a sign of the growing public health threat posed by climate change, warns a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Chronic kidney disease of undetermined causes (CKDu) is now the second leading cause of death in both Nicaragua and El Salvador, afflicting mostly working-age men who labor in hot, humid conditions. Scientists are still studying the disease’s causes, but a growing body of evidence points to heat stress and dehydration as key factors in its development.
“Heat stress is what is pushing this epidemic over the threshold,” said Dr. Cecilia Sorensen, a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and lead author of the New England Journal of Medicine article.
While CKDu’s correlation with temperature and climate conditions may be unusually strong, it is one of numerous maladies that occur more frequently during times of extreme heat. Heart attacks and other cardiovascular ailments, adverse birth outcomes and mental health problems have all been shown to happen more often during heat waves, said Sorensen, the author of the New England Journal of Medicine article.
She describes CKDu as a “sentinel disease” for a future shaped by climate change, and urges health professionals and health agencies to begin planning not only for more CKDu but for the broader public health consequences of extreme heat.
“The fact that all these things are emerging suggests that things are going to get worse before they get better,” Johnson said.
The emergence of CKDu as an international public health threat was first reported by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in its 2011 Island of the Widows investigation. The project found that the disease was devastating farmworkers along a stretch of Central America’s Pacific Coast that spans six countries and nearly 700 miles, while wealthy nations imported high quantities of sugar from the region and resisted pleas to fund research into the ailment.
A 2012 investigation by the Center for Public Integrity examined a similar malady affecting farmworkers in Sri Lanka and India, widely believed to be part of the same lethal phenomenon.
Yet the evidence does not explain why CKDu occurs among some laborers in hot, tropical areas and not others, leading many scientists to believe that exposure to a toxin, such as a pesticide or heavy metal, may also be contributing to the disease.
In addition, researchers believe that they are finding CKDu in a growing number of countries beyond Central America and South Asia. Data on these cases is sparse, but reports indicate that CKDu may be afflicting workers in Mexico, Egypt, Sudan and even in the United States among farmworkers in California and Texas.
Leading CKDu researcher Dr. Richard Johnsonsays the common factor among the affected areas is extreme heat and humidity. Johnson says that even more than rising temperatures, the intense heatwaves associated with climate change place workers at risk when they occur.
“The epidemic seems to rise in correlation with heatwaves and higher temperatures,” Johnson said.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/island-widows/deadly-kidney-disease-linked-to-climate-change-in-new-report/
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In A Fit Of Rage, Trump Advisor Admits To Consorting With Wikileaks During Campaign
March 5, 2017 by Samuel Warde No Comments
Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone launches vulgar Twitter tirade against multiple individuals and admits to having a back channel to Assange.
Republican strategist and long-time Trump advisor Roger Stone unleashed a vulgar Twitter tirade against multiple people on Twitter Saturday night that included insults, misogynistic slurs and the stunning admission that he had a “perfectly legal back channel” to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange “who indeed had the goods on #CrookedHillary.”
Keith Olbermann posted a screen capture of the tweet early Sunday morning, writing: “Unclear if Trump Advisor @RogerJStoneJr deleted his admission to consorting with an enemy agent and by extension an enemy nation, so, a cap:”
Unclear if Trump Advisor @RogerJStoneJr deleted his admission to consorting with an enemy agent and by extension an enemy nation, so, a cap: pic.twitter.com/kWofo5RMCj
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 5, 2017
Stone, who worked as a campaign advisor for Trump and remains a close confidant, lashed out at @RVAwonk, who describes herself as a”feminist, scientist, statistics professor and a health equity & racial justice advocate.
A screen capture of a particularly disturbing conversation between Stone and @RVAwonk was posted by Lili Loofbourow, a writer and media critic whose work has appeared in various media, to include: “The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, PMLA, Salon, Slate, Al Jazeera America, The Awl, Post 45, The Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Oyster Books, Boston Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Inquiry, Avidly, Buzzfeed, The Hairpin, Refinery 29, Racked, and PressPlay.“
He also insulted Republican political commentator Ana Navarro:
And he had this to say to Yashar Ali, a columnist who has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
This isn’t the first time he has been in trouble for his online activities, nor is this the first time he has lashed out at Ana Navarro.
As WBUR reported last November, “Longtime Donald Trump advisor and political consultant Roger Stone has been formally banned (for now) from appearing on cable networks CNN and MSBNC after a series of offensive tweets about other political experts who regularly appear on air. He addressed those tweets… in an interview with On Point host Tom Ashbrook.“
“I would have to admit that calling Roland Martin a ‘fat negro’ was a two-martini tweet, and I regret that,” Stone told Ashbrook. “As for my criticism of Ana Narvarro not being qualified… I don’t understand why she’s there, given her lack of qualifications.”
You can check this article published by Gawker, “CNN Should Stop Inviting This Horrible Bigot to Talk on TV,” at the time for a more complete accounting of his various Twitter attacks leading up to those bans.
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Nikor 30.11.2018 3
Gutter sex
Tojalar 30.11.2018 3 Comments
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The Lembah Pantai MP also advised party members to refer to the leadership and not share such unverified information or salacious videos. Writing in an engaging, conversational style, she discusses such politically charged topics as motherhood, the genetic basis for adultery, the female orgasm, menstruation, and homosexuality. And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. She would be more strong and resilient in the face of adversity. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. Responding to the latest case of a sex video being wielded as a political weapon, many party leaders have called it gutter politics. Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has since issued a strongly worded statement denying he was in that video. Nation Thursday, 13 Jun by martin carvalho , hemananthani sivanandam , zakiah koya , mazwin nik anis , ivan loh , joseph kaos , jr , rashvinjeet s. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? Sexual Selections exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases. Selected pages. This highly provocative book clearly shows that these are the wrong kinds of questions to ask about animal behavior. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Mazlan Mansor told Bernama that the police would be conducting an investigation into the case, adding that a report was lodged on Tuesday. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Fahmi also said he was certain PKR would cooperate with the authorities if there were any investigations. She shows how feminism can give us the tools to examine sensitive issues such as these and to enhance our understanding of the natural world if we avoid using research to champion a feminist agenda and avoid using animals as ideological weapons. Several politicians also said the matter should be investigated. In addition, the senior private aide to a deputy minister alleged that a federal minister was the other person in the video. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Both PAS leaders reminded members to stay clear of the scandal by not spreading false accusations against fellow Muslims. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages?
Fahmi also said he was certain PKR would cooperate with the authorities if there were any investigations. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages? We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. They want action to be taken against Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, who claimed to be one of the two men in the sex video. Rajevigneswaran said Haziq must be suspended immediately from all posts. As she tells many amazing stories about animal behavior--whether of birds and apes or of rats and cockroaches--Zuk takes us to the places where our ideas about nature, gender, and culture collide. Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has since issued a strongly worded statement denying he was in that video. Sexual Selections exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases. In the second clip posted on Facebook at 2. This knowledge will give us a better understanding of animals and can ultimately change our assumptions about what is natural, normal, and even possible. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil said as far as the party leadership was concerned and to his knowledge, no reports or complaints were made with the party regarding the matter, which went viral on social media. And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin expressed her undivided support for the minister implicated in the video and vouched for his credibility, integrity and leadership. She would be more strong and resilient in the face of adversity. Marlene Zuk, a respected biologist and a feminist, gives an eye-opening tour of some of the latest developments in our knowledge of animal sexuality and evolutionary biology.
In addition, the senior private aide to a deputy minister alleged that a federal minister was the other person in the video. And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. This highly provocative book clearly shows that these are the wrong kinds of questions to ask about animal behavior. PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin expressed her undivided support for the minister implicated in the video and vouched for his credibility, integrity and leadership. Marlene Zuk, a respected biologist and a feminist, gives an eye-opening tour of some of the latest developments in our knowledge of animal sexuality and evolutionary biology. She would be more strong and resilient in the face of adversity. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. As she tells many amazing stories about animal behavior--whether of birds and apes or of rats and cockroaches--Zuk takes us to the places where our ideas about nature, gender, and culture collide. Writing in an engaging, conversational style, she discusses such politically charged topics as motherhood, the genetic basis for adultery, the female orgasm, menstruation, and homosexuality. Responding to the latest case of a sex video being wielded as a political weapon, many party leaders have called it gutter politics. Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, in a Facebook post, told members and party supporters not to get involved with the issue or take advantage of it by making it worse. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages? Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Mazlan Mansor told Bernama that the police would be conducting an investigation into the case, adding that a report was lodged on Tuesday. Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. Several politicians also said the matter should be investigated. The Lembah Pantai MP also advised party members to refer to the leadership and not share such unverified information or salacious videos. Haziq said the recording of the alleged sex act was done without his consent on May 11 at the Four Points Hotel during the recent Sandakan parliamentary by-election. This knowledge will give us a better understanding of animals and can ultimately change our assumptions about what is natural, normal, and even possible. They want action to be taken against Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, who claimed to be one of the two men in the sex video. Nation Thursday, 13 Jun by martin carvalho , hemananthani sivanandam , zakiah koya , mazwin nik anis , ivan loh , joseph kaos , jr , rashvinjeet s. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? In the second clip posted on Facebook at 2. Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has since issued a strongly worded statement denying he was in that video. She shows how feminism can give us the tools to examine sensitive issues such as these and to enhance our understanding of the natural world if we avoid using research to champion a feminist agenda and avoid using animals as ideological weapons. Sexual Selections exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases.
Sexual Selections exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases. Responding to the latest case of a sex video being wielded as a political weapon, many party leaders have called it gutter politics. Some PKR leaders expressed disgust at the video making its rounds, urging action against Haziq. The Lembah Pantai MP also advised party members to refer to the leadership and not share such unverified information or salacious videos. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, in a Facebook post, told members and party supporters not to get involved with the issue or take advantage of it by making it worse. She would be more strong and resilient in the face of adversity. And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. Haziq said the recording of the alleged sex act was done without his consent on May 11 at the Four Points Hotel during the recent Sandakan parliamentary by-election. Marlene Zuk, a respected biologist and a feminist, gives an eye-opening tour of some of the latest developments in our knowledge of animal sexuality and evolutionary biology. Selected pages. Fahmi also said he was certain PKR would cooperate with the authorities if there were any investigations. Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. Nation Thursday, 13 Jun by martin carvalho , hemananthani sivanandam , zakiah koya , mazwin nik anis , ivan loh , joseph kaos , jr , rashvinjeet s. Rajevigneswaran said Haziq must be suspended immediately from all posts. Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has since issued a strongly worded statement denying he was in that video. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. She shows how feminism can give us the tools to examine sensitive issues such as these and to enhance our understanding of the natural world if we avoid using research to champion a feminist agenda and avoid using animals as ideological weapons. Both PAS leaders reminded members to stay clear of the scandal by not spreading false accusations against fellow Muslims. Writing in an engaging, conversational style, she discusses such politically charged topics as motherhood, the genetic basis for adultery, the female orgasm, menstruation, and homosexuality. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Mazlan Mansor told Bernama that the police would be conducting an investigation into the case, adding that a report was lodged on Tuesday. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages? They want action to be taken against Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, who claimed to be one of the two men in the sex video. In addition, the senior private aide to a deputy minister alleged that a federal minister was the other person in the video. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin expressed her undivided support for the minister implicated in the video and vouched for his credibility, integrity and leadership. In the second clip posted on Facebook at 2.
Selected pages. The Lembah Pantai MP also advised party members to refer to the leadership and not share such unverified information or salacious videos. Writing in an engaging, conversational style, she discusses such politically charged topics as motherhood, the genetic basis for adultery, the female orgasm, menstruation, and homosexuality. Several politicians also said the matter should be investigated. Fahmi also said he was certain PKR would cooperate with the authorities if there were any investigations. In the second clip posted on Facebook at 2. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. She would be more strong and resilient in the face of adversity. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. Sexual Selections exposes the anthropomorphism and gender politics that have colored our understanding of the natural world and shows how feminism can help move us away from our ideological biases. They want action to be taken against Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, who claimed to be one of the two men in the sex video. Nation Thursday, 13 Jun by martin carvalho , hemananthani sivanandam , zakiah koya , mazwin nik anis , ivan loh , joseph kaos , jr , rashvinjeet s. PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin expressed her undivided support for the minister implicated in the video and vouched for his credibility, integrity and leadership. Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, in a Facebook post, told members and party supporters not to get involved with the issue or take advantage of it by making it worse. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Mazlan Mansor told Bernama that the police would be conducting an investigation into the case, adding that a report was lodged on Tuesday.
And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. This knowledge will give us a better understanding of animals and can ultimately change our assumptions about what is natural, normal, and even possible. PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin expressed her undivided support for the minister implicated in the video and vouched for his credibility, integrity and leadership. Several politicians also said the matter should be investigated. Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has since issued a strongly worded statement denying he was in that video. She shows how feminism can give us the tools to examine sensitive issues such as these and to enhance our understanding of the natural world if we avoid using research to champion a feminist agenda and avoid using animals as ideological weapons. Fahmi also said he was certain PKR would cooperate with the authorities if there were any investigations. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. In the second clip posted on Facebook at 2. They want action to be taken against Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, who claimed to be one of the two men in the sex video. Rajevigneswaran said Haziq must be suspended immediately from all posts. Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. In addition, the senior private aide to a deputy minister alleged that a federal minister was the other person in the video. Both PAS leaders reminded members to stay clear of the scandal by not spreading false accusations against fellow Muslims. This highly provocative book clearly shows that these are the wrong kinds of questions to ask about animal behavior. The Lembah Pantai MP also advised party members to refer to the leadership and not share such unverified information or salacious videos. Selected pages. Zuk passionately asks us to learn to see the animal world on its own terms, with its splendid array of diversity and variation. Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, in a Facebook post, told members and party supporters not to get involved with the issue or take advantage of it by making it worse. As she tells many amazing stories about animal behavior--whether of birds and apes or of rats and cockroaches--Zuk takes us to the places where our ideas about nature, gender, and culture collide. PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil said as far as the party leadership was concerned and to his knowledge, no reports or complaints were made with the party regarding the matter, which went viral on social media. Responding to the latest case of a sex video being wielded as a political weapon, many party leaders have called it gutter politics. She would be more strong and resilient in the face of adversity.
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Edith Wharton, The Old Maid
Posted on November 16, 2019 by Simon Lavery
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Old New York. Virago Modern Classics, 2006. First published 1924.
The Old Maid (pp. 75-172) The 1850s
Running through three of the four novellas comprising Edith Wharton’s Old New York is the fear and presence of disease, in particular tuberculosis; it seems to be a metaphor for a number of things (as well as being an ever-present danger and cultural motif, as so many Romantic poets, Victorian novelists and artists attested in their own lives and work).
The cover shows a detail from ‘The Reception’ by James Tissot (also known as ‘L’Ambitieuse’ or ‘Political Woman’, from a series done 1883-85, ‘La Femme à Paris’
In The Old Maid the disease has a central significance: Charlotte Lovell, an impoverished member of one of the ‘prosperous, prudent and yet lavish society’ of New York, falls ill and is feared to be “going like her father” – he’d died at thirty of ‘lung-fever’ – another name for TB or ‘consumption’. She has ominous ‘rounds of brick-rose on her cheek-bones, which almost (preposterous thought!) made her look as if she painted’.
This description early on in the novella is focalised through the narrator, her married cousin Delia Ralston. Delia’s patronising appraisal – that hint of the ‘painted woman’ or courtesan – invokes perhaps the stereotypical Camille/Violetta figure. Charlotte’s sickliness arises from her contaminated character in Delia’s old New Yorker’s eyes.
Robert Koch published in 1882 his microbiological findings on the tubercle bacillus (hence TB) as the contagious cause of tuberculosis. Until then it was believed to be inherited – hence the assumption about the physiological (as well as the metaphorical) etiology of Charlotte’s disease. Susan Sontag points out in Illness as Metaphor (1978) that TB was long thought to produce ‘exacerbated sexual desire’, afflicting ‘the reckless and sensual’ – a disease of passion or, paradoxically, repression.
Having the disease was ‘imagined to be an aphrodisiac, and to confer extraordinary powers of seduction.’ Charlotte could therefore be seen as representing a dangerously sexual woman, ‘consumed’ by passion. Her confession to Delia that she had an illegitimate baby daughter would confirm such a view.
It would also add weight to the interpretation that her disease is a consequence of the suppressed secret of her shame. A melodramatic plot follows (it was made into a stage play in 1935, and filmed in 1939 with Bette Davis in the title role, and Miriam Hopkins as Delia; life imitated art, in that they apparently strove to upstage each other on set with barely concealed mutual jealousy).
The baby’s father is revealed to be the man Delia had rejected as being too ‘reckless’; he was that unthinkable combination as a potential husband: a penniless artist and living in Italy. He’d not consented to ‘give up painting and Rome’. As in all the novellas in this collection, Italy is perceived as only good for taking the Grand Tour (as in False Dawn) and a suitable climate for consumptives to be shipped off to. As Italian-born Treeshy Kent says to her lover in False Dawn:
“My uncle Kent says the European countries are all wicked, even my own poor Italy…”
Delia chose instead the safe, unadventurous Jim Ralston, a stalwart of her ‘safe, friendly, hypocritical New York’, and settled for ‘the insidious lulling of the matter-of-course’, a marriage to a dull man whose forebears ‘had not come to the colonies to die for a creed but to live for a bank-account’. His ancestry is described in one of Edith Wharton’s more acerbic images:
Institutional to the core, they represented the conservative element that holds new societies together as seaplants bind the seashore.
As I suggested in my post on False Dawn, there’s an obsession with breeding in these top New York families that verges on eugenics. This is made clear in the opening pages of The Old Maid, and the description of the Ralston heritage. Marriages with Dutch Vandergraves:
had consolidated those qualities of thrift and handsome living, and the carefully built-up Ralston character was now so congenital that Delia Ralston sometimes asked herself whether, were she to turn her own little boy [after four years of marriage she’s the mother of two children] loose in a wilderness, he would not create a small New York there, and be on all its boards of directors.
The wittiness of this image is darkened by Delia’s uneasy acceptance of the underlying snobbishness and moral atrophy – characteristics of old New Yorkers that are skewered throughout the four novellas.
As for that racial purity: Delia warns off Charlotte’s fiancé, Joe Ralston, her husband’s cousin (there’s that obsession with blood purity again) – not by telling him about Charlotte’s baby, but that she’d recently coughed up blood. She knows what the outcome will be:
The bridegroom who had feared that his bride might bring home contagion from her visits to the poor would not knowingly implant disease in his race…[W]hich one [of the top New York families] had not some grave to care for in a distant cemetery: graves of young relatives “in a decline”, sent abroad to be cured by balmy Italy? The Protestant grave-yards of Rome and Pisa were full of New York names; the vision of that familiar pilgrimage with a dying wife was one to turn the most ardent Ralston cold.
The gender inequality in what were considered acceptable social mores is spelled out starkly when Delia justifies to herself her action in thus ‘sacrificing’ Charlotte as the only honourable thing to do:
Social tolerance was not dealt in the same measure to men and to women, and neither Delia nor Charlotte had ever wondered why: like all the young women of their class they simply bowed to the ineluctable.
One would hope that Delia’s subsequent taking in Charlotte and baby Tina to her household results in a rare case of female solidarity in Wharton’s world; instead their ménage becomes unbearably strained. Delia is fondly called ‘Mamma’ by the growing girl, which makes her biological mother jealous (she calls her ‘aunt Charlotte’); meanwhile Delia is jealous of Charlotte because she’s the biological mother. Charlotte’s acquiescence and abasement in the dowdy title role, sacrificing the possibility of a loving maternal role with her daughter to take on that of a shamed, sterile outcast, and is treated with condescending pity by the other two women, is painfully dramatized by Wharton.
This entry was posted in American Literature and tagged Edith Wharton, Illness as Metaphor, La Traviata, Old New York, Susan Sontag, Tuberculosis, Virago Modern Classics by Simon Lavery. Bookmark the permalink.
13 thoughts on “Edith Wharton, The Old Maid”
HOWARD LEE LEVINE on November 16, 2019 at 4:14 pm said:
You made me want to go back to the book, which I read in college. Wasn’t Delia described after her marriage as a “young matron?” Imagine anyone using such a term today.
Simon Lavery on November 16, 2019 at 4:17 pm said:
That’s good to know, Howard. And yes, Delia is referred to as a young matron!
kaggsysbookishramblings on November 16, 2019 at 6:48 pm said:
Fascinating about the image of TB – I don’t think I was aware of that and obvs need to go off and read some Sontag pronto. The social mores that Wharton’s characters endure *are* really painful; she captures them so well.
Paula Carr on November 16, 2019 at 7:46 pm said:
Growing up post-antibiotics I was never aware of how prevalent TB used to be. It was everywhere, and anyone could get it (duh, it’s extremely contagious). It’s difficult for me to comprehend just how terrifying a disease it was. A much lighter-hearted, but fascinating, account of the affect of TB is Betty MacDonald’s “The Plague and I.” She was better known for her first book — “The Egg and I” made into a film with Colette Colbert and Fred MacMurray and the first appearance of Ma & Pat Kettle — but “The Plague and I” was much more interesting to me. After her diagnosis, she was forced into a sanatorium, and the bulk of the book is about her treatment, her interactions with staff and other patients, and her eventual recovery. Fascinating. With penicillin, all those sanatoriums disappeared — a world I can barely imagine.
Simon Lavery on November 16, 2019 at 10:38 pm said:
Paula: thanks for the pointer – I wasn’t aware of those texts. Thomas Mann has Avery different take on TB in The Magic Mountain, published the same year as This collection
Lisa Hill on November 17, 2019 at 9:43 am said:
And if you read the bio of Katherine Mansfield by Kathleen Jones, you will realise just how dreadful TB really was in those pre-antibiotic days…
Lives of so many artists and writers ended horribly with TB – Chekhov, Edvard Munch’s young sister…T Mann’s account in The Magic Mountain is salutary, too.
Paula on November 17, 2019 at 7:13 pm said:
I want to read The Magic Mountain, but still haven’t gotten around to it yet.
It’s well worth the effort, Paula
Maureen Murphy on November 17, 2019 at 1:12 am said:
Fascinating. There was a public television special on TB in America and how its presence (then, later, polio) shadowed life for all.
Ironically, in hospitals and nursing homes, epidemiologists just DOUBLED the estimate of new deaths over next few years from superbugs (some original fungi in particular) that resist ALL antibiotics. There are also notices in the DC subways warning of the signs of TB. Apparently, there are some antibiotic-resistant strains brewing. Nothing like increasing the homeless population while cutting back funding to the Center for Disease control, plus Putin Trollbots pushing the anti-vaccination line.
Yikes, a bit depressing. P.S. The Bedbugs are back as well!
I love Wharton, even when I don’t always “like” some of her more punctilious views. What an amazing eye she had!
Take care, Maureen
Simon Lavery on November 17, 2019 at 8:39 am said:
Maureen: the rise of antibiotic-resistant strains of TB and other diseases is worrying. I’m old enough to remember isolation hospitals and recall having inoculations against TB, polio, etc., as a child. There’s an antivax movement here, too, despite all the scientific evidence. Fake news seems to have more appeal for some.
JacquiWine on November 17, 2019 at 6:53 pm said:
This is not the first time I’ve been struck by the idea that Wharton may have been using the idea of ‘disease’ as a comment on the toxic or suffocating nature of the upper echelons of New York society at the time. I think it’s there in some of her short stories too, certainly in ‘A Journey’ in which a wife is accompanying her desperately ill husband on a train trip home to the city. It’s a brilliant story, almost hallucinatory in terms of mood.
Thanks for the tip, Jacqui. I’ve not read her stories yet, but shall do
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Beltia talaga new species Flowers, R. Wills, 2018, A review of the genus Beltia Jacoby (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Eumolpini), with descriptions of fourteen new species from Costa Rica, Panama, and northwestern South America, Insecta Mundi 672, pp. 1-43: 21-22 21-22
Argia selysi n. sp. Garrison, Rosser W. & Ellenrieder, Natalia Von, 2018, Damselflies of the genus Argia (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from Ecuador with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 4470 (1), pp. 1-69: 30-34 30-34
Callipia wojtusiaki subsp. septentrionalis subsp. nov. Brehm, Gunnar, 2018, Revision of the genus Callipia Guenée, 1858 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with the description of 15 new taxa, European Journal of Taxonomy 404, pp. 1-54: 41-42 41-42
Argia philipi new species Garrison, Rosser W. & Ellenrieder, Natalia Von, 2018, Damselflies of the genus Argia (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from Ecuador with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 4470 (1), pp. 1-69: 24-28 24-28
Argia schneideri n. sp. Garrison, Rosser W. & Ellenrieder, Natalia Von, 2017, New species of the damselfly genus Argia from Mexico, Central America and Ecuador with an emphasis on Costa Rica (Insecta: Odonata: Coenagrionidae), Zootaxa 4235 (1), pp. 1-93: 25-27 25-27
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Tehri dam oustees to be rehabilitated again; threat of landslides
Citation: Tehri dam oustees to be rehabilitated again; threat of landslides. (2007, June 30).
Tags: dams
Bidisha Kumar Down to Earth, June 30, 2007 People living near the Tehri dam on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand are in trouble. Villages on the slopes overlooking the reservoir are threatened by increasing landslides and those living downstream, once ousted for the building of…
Endangered Uttarakhand
Citation: Endangered Uttarakhand. (2007, June 28).
Tags: development, environment
The new Government needs to give a sharp, critical look at the existing pattern of development Hiranmay Karlekar Daily Pioneer June 28, 2007 The complaint was frequent and loud in 16th and 17th century England, “sheep are driving out men”. The reference was to the…
Visit to a Place of eternal beauty?
Citation: Visit to a Place of eternal beauty?. (2007, June 28).
Tags: tourism
BY Jagmohan Kathait It is a pleasant drive from Dehradun to Rishikesh via Jolly grant. Barring few chaotic clusters it is an amiable route. We took the bypass before Rishikesh to reach the edge of Laxman Jhula, This bypass further connects to Tehri through well…
NDTV: Uttarakhand’s green man inspires many
Citation: NDTV: Uttarakhand’s green man inspires many. (2007, June 5).
Tags: environment, forests, personalities
Tania Saili Bakshi NDTV, Tuesday, June 5, 2007 (Garhwal) Environment activist Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani has single-handedly regenerated once-barren hills in and around Pujargaon in Uttarakhand into lush green forests. Nestled deep in the Garhwal hills of Uttarakhand the Pujar village echoes with the voice of…
DtE: Van Gujjars will be homeless next summer
Citation: DtE: Van Gujjars will be homeless next summer. (2007, May 23).
Tags: forests, rights, rural
ARCHI RASTOGI / CSE Down to Earth, May 31, 2007 in the first week of May, 200-odd Van Gujjar families started moving towards their summer homes in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand. They had been stranded around Vikasnagar near Dehradun before a response to a right to…
A Meeting in Memory of Kunwar Prasoon
Citation: A Meeting in Memory of Kunwar Prasoon. (2007, May 19).
Tags: culture, personalities, rural
Chipko Pustakalaya Evam Sanghralaya and Beej Bachao Andolan organized a meeting on 8 May 2007, which was attended by about 50 people from nearby villages besides individuals from Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkashi, Rishikesh and Dehra Dun. As most of local people reach such meetings only…
Durga Charan Kala is no more
Citation: Durga Charan Kala is no more. (2007, May 14).
Tags: culture
On May 14, esteemed author and historian Durga Charan Kala passed away at his home in Ranikhet at the age of 84. His recently released biographical study of “Pahari Wilson”, the British forester and adventurer who made Uttarkashi his home in the 1800s, won the…
ANI: When a banyan tree married the peepal tree
Citation: ANI: When a banyan tree married the peepal tree. (2007, May 14).
Tags: culture, local
Melaghat Khatima (Uttarakhand), May 13 : Amid the rhythmic beating of drums and singing, many villagers in Uttarakhand married off two trees in a specially organized wedding ceremony on Sunday. As a banyan tree’s branches got entwined with that of a peepal tree, many superstitious…
HT: Uttarakhand hopes to benefit from Mayawati win
Citation: HT: Uttarakhand hopes to benefit from Mayawati win. (2007, May 13).
Tags: governance
Utpal Parashar Hindustan Times Dehradun, May 13, 2007 Every cloud has a silver lining. Although Mayawati’s unexpected win has sent shockwaves in the BJP, Uttarakhand is hopeful of getting its long-pending issues with the neighbouring state resolved soon. Despite terming BSP’s return to power in…
ANI: Rampant constructions mar serenity of Badrinath shrine
Citation: ANI: Rampant constructions mar serenity of Badrinath shrine. (2007, May 9).
Tags: environment, tourism
Badrinath (Uttarakhand), May 8: Uttarakhand’s holy town of Badrinath, known for its beatific and peaceful surroundings, is facing the threat of loosing its serenity to rampant urbanisation. Scores of constructions sites have sprung across the city. The Himalayan town has seen deforestation owing to accelerated…
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Why do you support the killing and
torture of over 60 million babies. Don't you think God owns your body and my body, and the body of the one you support the killing and torture of?
Old School (views: 90) -- GTrojan (47.158.152.241) -- 1/13/21 03:28 PM
The video, Really? (views: 55) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 04:16 PM
Hey, Old School, believe what you want (views: 44) -- GTrojan (47.158.152.241) -- 1/13/21 04:35 PM
AntiChrist lol (views: 27) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 05:08 PM
Dumb Donkey (views: 42) -- August West ® (45.19.130.35) -- 1/13/21 04:22 PM
Projecting logic (views: 32) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 04:32 PM
Why do you support the killing and (views: 33) -- GTrojan (47.158.152.241) -- 1/13/21 04:42 PM
where are the babies? (views: 29) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 05:03 PM
You realize the left supports the post (views: 16) -- GTrojan (47.158.152.241) -- 1/13/21 06:41 PM
Wow - right to the Nazis (views: 11) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 07:55 PM
Believe me I understand where you (views: 19) -- GTrojan (47.158.152.241) -- 1/13/21 08:27 PM
In your scenario (views: 12) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/14/21 12:19 AM
Anyone that thinks (views: 33) -- August West ® (45.19.130.35) -- 1/13/21 04:37 PM
Yeah Western Chauvanists (views: 27) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 04:46 PM
oooooh, the Ok sign!!! (views: 26) -- August West ® (45.19.130.35) -- 1/13/21 04:53 PM
So much evidence (views: 27) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 04:58 PM
Oh, back to the race card (views: 24) -- August West ® (45.19.130.35) -- 1/13/21 05:42 PM
You don't even understand the race card (views: 14) -- Old School SC (67.254.247.137) -- 1/13/21 08:08 PM
Dumb donkey (views: 7) -- August West ® (45.19.130.35) -- 1/14/21 05:53 AM
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Worldview Productions
Natasha Lili Klauss, founded Worldviewtv in 1998 as a small freelance videography and production company, aiming to create media to change the world.
To date she continues to work primarily as a freelance videographer specializing in live events, performance videography and interview style set ups.
Her range of skill sets include multi-camera Directing, Videography, work in Producing, Associate Producing, Production and Post-Production Assistance for various not-for-profit and corporate projects.
She also consults and mentors aspiring filmmakers and has taught video production.
Worldview Productions is a small full service production company specializing in:
Live event and performance style videography
Documentary and corporate style interviews
With additional services in:
Associate producing
Logging and post-production assistance
Since its inception in the late 90's, the company has been committed to creating positive programming and serving the not-for-profit community by offering affordable production packages.
Natasha Klauss' Resume
Present & former clients include:
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Joy of Motion Dance Company
Georgetown University Dept. of Performing Arts
The National Parks Service
Widmeyer Communications
Spark Media
The Justice Department
The Smithsonian Institution
Health Uniformed Service University
"Natasha knows how to fit into any shoot and get the best footage without inserting herself into the situation - an important trait both in documentary and corporate work. She is a true professional who comes up with a creative solution whenever she encounters a technical glitch. Her integrity and persistence distinguish her."
- Jody Hassett Sanchez
Documentary Filmmaker and Media Strategist
"As a director, choreographer and arts educator for over 10 years, it has been rare to work with someone as talented, professional and responsible as Natasha. She not only delivers excellence in video documentation but she goes the extra mileage to make things happen to please her client. Her work is meticulous, poetic and sensitive to the client's particular needs, which in dance can be challenging. She always with a smile on her face, so positive and inspiring to work with. I first met Natasha over 10 years ago as a videographer at the Kennedy Center, and since have continued work with her with my Company CRDT, El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea de El Salvador and at Georgetown University. We plan to continue our working relationship with her always!
- Miya Hisaka
Founder Artistic Director of The Classical Rep Dance Theatre (resident ballet company of JOM)
Faculty at Georgetown University
Founder/ Director El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea de El Salvador
www.teatrodedanza.org
Natasha lili Klauss
World View TV 2012
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Book Tour – “The Blackstone Legacy” by Apryl Baker
Title: The Blackstone Legacy
Author: Apryl Baker
Cover Designer: Angela Fristoe of Covered Creatively
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Since stabbing her brother, Alexandria Reed has lived at Compton Academy, a mental institute disguised as a school. But it wasn’t her fault…was it? Her night terrors had become as real to her as breathing, and she could no longer distinguish reality from her nightmares.
After a long road, her doctor has declared her well enough to leave Compton and rejoin her family in the outside world, but she’s worried she won’t be able to handle it.
Turns out she’s right, and the monsters are back. The sights and sounds of the horrific creatures snarling and snapping cause her to regress. To hurt people.
She’s strapped down to a bed again, the victim of her own insanity. With the help of Dr. Marcel, she’s hopeful she can once again put the nightmares to rest.
Only things aren’t as they seem. There’s something off about the doctor, and she’s having strange dreams—even stranger than the monsters that haunt her. Dreams of a reality where she’s happy and content, but also full of magic and danger.
In the end, she will have to choose one reality over another.
But where does she belong? In the safe, normal reality—or the one that calls to her insanity?
So who am I?
Well, I’m the crazy girl with an imagination that never shuts up. I LOVE scary movies. My friends laugh at me when I scare myself watching them and tell me to stop watching them, but who doesn’t love to get scared? I grew up in a small town nestled in the southern mountains of West Virginia where I spent days roaming around in the woods, climbing trees, and causing general mayhem. Nights I would stay up reading Nancy Drew by flashlight under the covers until my parents yelled at me to go to sleep.
Now, I live in a small town in West Virginia where I entertain my niece and nephew and watch the cats get teased by the birds and laugh myself silly when they swoop down and then dive back up just out of reach. The cats start yelling something fierce…lol.
I love books, I love writing books, and I love entertaining people with my silly stories.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorAprylBaker
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AprylBaker
Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/user/AprylBaker7
Website: https://www.aprylbaker.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apryl.baker
Newsletter: https://www.aprylbaker.com/contact
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5173683.Apryl_Baker
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Apryl-Baker/e/B005L9YKY2
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Blog: https://www.mycrazycornerblog.com/
Reader Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AprylsAngels/
Book Tour – “Kiss of Fire” by Catherine Vale
Book Tour – “Saving Grace” by Vi Carter
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First Look: NINJA-K #2 – Christos Gage & Tomás Giorello Play Spy Vs. Super-Spy on December 20th!
Posted on November 20, 2017 by The Valiant Voice
Who is hunting the agents of MI-6’s most elite intelligence unit?
Valiant is proud to announce your first look inside NINJA-K #2 – the next daring 40-page mission for the EXPLOSIVE NEW ONGOING SERIES from acclaimed writer Christos Gage (Netflix’s Daredevil) and superstar artist Tomás Giorello (X-O MANOWAR)! On December 20th, Valiant’s next essential series charges forward as Colin King, the fearless super-spy known as Ninjak, faces an enemy that threatens to topple the most elite branch of Britain’s secret service!
One by one, the operatives of MI-6’s covert “Ninja Programme” are being murdered by an unseen threat that is as mysterious as it is deadly. But who could possibly have the knowledge and expertise to eliminate the lethal men and women of Britain’s most secret service…and why are they hellbent on reaping revenge against Colin King and his predecessors? As the walls close in around him, Ninjak must confront the bloodstained legacy that spawned him… before his own name gets crossed off the list…
Plus: Beginning in NINJA-K #2, veteran artist Ariel Olivetti (Punisher War Journal) joins NINJA-K mastermind Christos Gage for the next installment of an essential back-up feature revealing the top-secret origin of NINJA-A, the operative that birthed the “Ninja Programme” amidst the raging fires of the First World War’s Western Front!
Jump on board Valiant’s stunning new spy thriller here to find out why fans and critics worldwide have been stunned by the action-packed, espionage-laden mystery at the heart of NINJA-K:
“✮✮✮✮✮… Absolutely magnificent… Gage and Giorello are a masterful team, and their rendition of Valiant’s master spy has started strong.” – AiPT
“✮✮✮✮½… It’s gorgeous. It’s dynamic. It’s a perfect example of why you need to be paying attention to Valiant.” – Graphic Policy
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“Beautiful… Valiant’s best spy gives [NINJA-K] a novel quality that should be solid ground for new and returning readers.” – Multiversity Comics
“✮✮✮✮✮… A+ for [NINJA-K]… A carefully written book…[and] a pleasure to read…” – Comics: The Gathering
On December 20th, Christos Gage and Tomás Giorello – plus special guests Roberto de la Torre and Ariel Olivetti – draw the circle close around Valiant’s deadliest super-spy for a 40-page orchestra of spycraft, stealth, and steel as the winter’s adrenaline-laced adventure dares onward, only in NINJA-K #2 – featuring covers by Trevor Hairsine (DIVINITY), rising star Lucas Troya, Kenneth Rocafort (The Ultimates), and Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night)!
For more information, visit Valiant on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and ValiantEntertainment.com.
NINJA-K #2
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE
Art by TOMÁS GIORELLO with ROBERTO DE LA TORRE and ARIEL OLIVETTI
Cover A by TREVOR HAIRSINE (OCT171919)
Cover B by LUCAS TROYA (OCT171920)
Interlocking Variant by KENNETH ROCAFORT (OCT171922)
Ninjak Icon Variant by BEN TEMPLESMITH (OCT171923)
Blank Cover Also Available ( OCT171921)
$3.99 | 40 pgs. | T+ | On Sale DECEMBER 20th (FOC – 11/27/2017)
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Sensitive to all things creative and linked to fashion design; Anita was thrust towards the world of fashion immediately after schooling. Although the initial years of University were geared towards a Commerce degree, she simultaneously enrolled into the prestigious Indian fashion design school S. N. D. T. and completed the course with flying colours in 1983. Wanting to give back to her Alma Mater, she began teaching at SNDT and continued to do so for 2 years. Anita Dongre has been a part of the fashion industry for the past 15 years. Armed with a degree in fashion design from SNDT. Anita shot into the limelight in 1999 when she decided to enter the branded market with her western wear prêt line for women. The AND label, consists of comfortable, stylish and affordable western wear priced to appeal to the working women. The brand's popularity can be attributed to the price and design sensitivity that Anita has managed to hit upon with utmost clarity. Today Anita Dongre has the unique distinction of designing and selling ensembles. AND, retails from one of India's premier mall Crossroads and linking Road and a Franchise in Bangalore. AND also retails from all Lifestyle and Pantaloon Stores and soon to be launched at select Shopper Stop outlets. Subsequent to the popularity of AND, Anita launched a line of Fusion Wear under the label AND EAST. The brand consists of Indian Ethnic Wear with international contemporary Silhouettes. AND EAST is available at the AND stores at Linking Road and Bangalore. It also sells from Shoppers Stop, Lifestyle and Pantaloon Stores. Anita's couture label ‘ANITA DONGRE’ was launched in August 2000 at the CPD Dusseldorf, garment fair in Germany. Anita was the first Indian designer invited and honored to showcase her collection in the final of the CPD Fashion show. The ‘ANITA DONGRE’ label sells from her store at Om Chambers, Kemps Corner and is a fitting combination of the exemplary world of Indian creative crafts with a line that is known for its clean cuts and simplistic value. True to the couture culture, the garments at the store are limited editions and is in keeping with the loyal client requirements. Anita also does a special prêt line for the West side chain of stores. Consistency in design values and a growing appeal within the fashion conscious is not all the Anita has achieved. She made a soft and impressionable entry into the world of beauty pageants. In 2001, Anita provided the casual wardrobe for all the Femina Miss India contestants and designed the pageant gown and the eveningwear wardrobe for Shamita Singha representing India at the Miss Earth Contest. She also designed formal wear for Kanwal Toor who represented India at the Miss International contest in 2001. Optimizing the capacity of the manufacturing facilities is priority for the sharp business acumen that Anita Dongre possesses. She has successfully designed and manufactured uniforms for leading national corporates. These include reputed companies like Lakme, BPL, Sunsilk, Calvin Klein, Sahara and Dhirubhai Ambani International School. With just three years of being in the public eye, Anita Dongre has strategically carved a niche for herself and is a name to reckon with.
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Mumbai pay for the Bangalore hangover
Thread: Mumbai pay for the Bangalore hangover
As soon as I went in, I spoke to KL and we said that if we get another 50-60 run partnership, we can definitely put them under the pump: Mayank Agarwal © BCCI
Bumrah and Malinga were as good as fiction in Bengaluru, so to not have expected them to do it again in Mohali would be fiction too. "It should be a walk in the park for Punjab unless Bumrah does something extraordinary," stated Cricbuzz's ball-by-ball commentary, with a hint of caution, when 25 runs were needed off the last four overs. If you shrugged that off at the time, laughing at the sheer chutzpah of it, you aren't alone. And if you secretly wanted to see the Bumrah extraordinaire, ready to lay down arms just to see 'em yorkers, you aren't alone either.
That's how hungover we are on that magical bowling performance at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. But this night in Mohali was different. "In terms of bowling performance, not too many positives to be fair," Mumbai's bowling coach Shane Bond summed it up after the game. And even while praising Bumrah, he made sure he talked about how well he bowled the first couple of overs, "which he always does."
Mohali was a challenge so different to Bengaluru. The IS Bindra Stadium isn't your pocket-sized T20 ground in India that embraces the universal game plan you can carry in your pockets, hoping that your form on the day will be all that matters. Mohali demands you to have new game plans. Andrew Tye had shown earlier what needed to be done, bowling it short and slow, asking the batsmen to generate their own power and take on the long square boundaries. The pitch being at the centre of the square meant no biases too but Mumbai, spoilt by bowling on flat pitches in small grounds - when did that become a bad thing?! - were left wanting for clues.
"I think we bowled well in Bangalore game on a small ground. We didn't ask them to play great shots. We dished out too much for them and they were good enough to put them away," Bond admitted. "We were reasonably confident that 177 was a winning score if we bowled better than we did today."
It wasn't that Mumbai had their plans off all along. They were on the mark against KL Rahul, who finished unbeaten on 71 off 57 but that strike rate of 124 belies the struggle his innings looked for the large part. Or was it an innings laboured out of choice? "To be really honest, no," Mayank Agarwal was candid when asked if Rahul's decision to dig in the heels was a conscious effort. "They bowled well and they didn't give him too many loose balls, bowled tight to him.
"For us, the thought process was to play good cricketing shots. The wicket was good, the ball was coming onto the bat. We had already gotten a 50-run partnership. As soon as I went in, I spoke to KL and we said that if we get another 50-60 run partnership, we can definitely put them under the pump because we will have lots of wickets in hand and on a good wicket, we can put the pressure on them."
Mayank was the reason KL Rahul could afford to be ugly. Chris Gayle was going good when he got out, finding a boundary too long for a ball in his zone - "Krunal worked perfectly," Bond said - and Punjab at the time couldn't have two people trying to find their timing in the middle, especially when it's your first home game and you have to win it at all costs. So Mayank stepped it up, blowing to life the oft-talked camaraderie he shares with Rahul off the field. "Once we recognised that it wasn't easy for KL to go and get runs, we rallied around and that's what a good team does. We are very happy we could do that as a side," he would go on to say.
And so Rahul got off the strike with singles and Mayank laid into their spinners, Krunal Pandya and Mayank Markande -- a tactic that came back to bite Mumbai. Holding back Bumrah and Malinga at that time pointed to how Mumbai believed that Bengaluru could happen again.
It never did. When Malinga finally got hold of the ball in the 16th over, Punjab needed only 37 runs off five overs. Bumrah came on in the next over, got the length right but the lines terribly wrong. Rahul scored three boundaries off the next seven balls he faced from Bumrah, and that was it.
"We bowled too much width, too full and KL Rahul took his time and they batted around him. We know how Chris was going to play: he would try to see off Bumrah and Malinga and then he'd go after our spinners. We tried to delay it for as long as we can," Bond explained. "Mayank Agarwal played beautifully. We weren't accurate enough to him and he took the game away from us at a point where they required 10-11 runs an over required and he dragged it back to eight an over and we struggled to get back the momentum." And there was no coming back from there.
Harry Blackstone Jr, the magician son of a famous magician, once got it terribly wrong during the 1987 Superbowl halftime show at the Rose Bowl Stadium. Sporting grounds just don't seem to take kindly to second-hand magic. Mohali didn't want to be Bengaluru. Bring it something new.
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Estonia's Tallink to end operation of Victoria I on Tallinn-Stockholm-Riga, Tallinn-Helsinki routes from January 1
Listed Estonian shipper Tallink Grupp on Tuesday announced that it will suspend the operation of its vessel Victoria I on the Tallinn-Stockholm-Riga-Stockholm-Tallinn and the Tallinn-Helsinki routes route from Jan. 1, 2021, writes LETA/BNS.
The vessel has been operating on the two temporary routes since this fall, providing additional cargo capacity between Estonia and Sweden and the only maritime transport route between Stockholm and Riga on a temporary basis, Tallink said.
Since October, it has also provided weekend cruises on the Helsinki-Tallinn route without disembarking in Tallinn for the Finnish market.
The company’s decision comes as the operation of the vessel between Estonia, Sweden and Latvia has become financially unfeasible in the current pandemic situation and due to tightening travel restrictions once again in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Latvia, making passenger numbers plummet.
The company will contact any customers impacted by this decision at the first opportunity.
During the time when Victoria I is suspended from the Tallinn-Helsinki route, it will be possible to take a five-hour mini-cruise without disembarking onboard Megastar and Star every day and it will be possible to travel to Sweden on Tallink Grupp ferries from Estonia and Finland via the ports of Paldiski and Turku respectively.
According to current plans, the vessel will return to the Tallinn-Helsinki route during weekends from Feb. 19, 2021. The company will notify of operations resuming on the routes between Tallinn and Stockholm and Riga and Stockholm at the first opportunity when such decisions are made.
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Kat Ball: Stitching the Stars
Every so often in life, you catch a thread of something and if you follow it, you’re led deep into a Wonderland of Magic.
Has that ever happened to you?
It has happened to me recently.
I followed a silver trail into the breathtakingly beautiful world of textile artist, Kathryn Ball.
Gazing around her treasure trove home and hearing Kat weave tales about history, fabrics, secret finds from secret walks, vintage frames and beaded gowns, it is clear that to understand the magic Kat stitches into her embroidered brooches, you must first experience the qualities that create the artisan herself.
And early this December, walking from room to room in her house (whilst stroking cushions and touching curtains like some sort of supressed-sense-starved seamstress), this is what I attempted to do.
“These are gorgeous!” I whisper, touching the unusual curtains.
“They’re called Kantha quilts,” Kat replies. Her knowledge and passion for fabric and its artisan roots bubble up as vibrant as the quilted curtain itself. “They are made from saris that are stitched and quilted and then given to young couples on their weddings day in India. I just love them. They make the most gorgeous curtains and they are so beautiful.”
It is here we sit, in a shard of winter sunshine, surrounded by vibrant cushions and colours that Kat tells me how her love affair with fabrics began.
“My mum was extremely creative and had she not gone down a teaching route, would probably have followed a much more artistic path. My paternal grandmother, on the other hand, had a unique eye for textiles. This was apparent in the beautiful things she’d collected and preserved, but it was only when she died and I walked around her home feeling the textures and looking at everything that I realised I’d inherited this same appreciation of fabrics.”
Kat's grandmother, Betty Ball.
Kat’s grandmother, Betty, lived in a tiny cottage in the New Forest with her mother and four sons.
“They had no heating, the toilet was outside and that is how my dad grew up. You can see why Nan would have had a real care for her belongings. Even though she didn’t have a lot of money, she’d never have let that come across to anyone. That’s partly why she was a good hand with a sewing machine and able to make everything.”
Kat continues, “My Grandma was an unusual lady. She was the only person I’ve known who has gone out and bought a Christmas tree and then put all the decorations on it, but it didn’t look right so she took the Christmas tree back again! She really had an eye for visual beauty. She appreciated things. I have this amazing Welsh woollen rug that we have hanging in our dining room and a Navaho rug too. She collected and was drawn to fabrics. I think she appreciated the art of it.”
Kat's inherited Welsh Rug that hangs on her dining room wall.
And this love has been undeniably inherited by Kat.
“As a child I was drawn to unusual clothing and it always seems that the things I really like are very expensive!” she laughs. “I loved textiles and clothing but throughout school, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I didn’t enjoy high school and it didn’t make me feel academic. I felt restricted. In the end I thought that if I learnt to do hairdressing I could possibly get into the fashion industry doing back stage work, so after my GCSEs I trained in that.”
Following her training, Kat worked in an Island hairdresser for one year before heading up to Brighton.
“Brighton called to me,” she smiles nostalgically. “I felt like it was a place I could belong. The music, vintage clothing, alternative fashion …. it all excited me. I had a great time and Brighton was fun, but it didn’t work out and nine months later I decided to come back to the island. I got a job in a little café and decided to have some time out from hairdressing.”
By coincidence Kat’s boss’s mother worked at Portsmouth University and one day, after chatting about her passion for fashions and textiles, she enrolled Kat on a course.
“I commuted across from the island and following that first year decided to stay on and do a degree in fashion and textiles.”
The first year of her degree gave Kat the opportunity to explore both textiles and fashion. Believing that fashion was where her passion lay, she decided to opt for the latter.
“I wanted to learn how to pattern cut and make my own clothes,” Kat tells me. “I knew that I didn’t want to follow the rat race to London. I liked the idea of opening a vintage wedding shop. But then, right at the end of the degree and I was faced with my final end of show, I decided to combine both fashion and textiles. “
“The tutors told me NOT to do it,” Kat groans. “Bearing in mind I’d done fashion for the last two years and this was the final project to get my grade and suddenly I’ve chosen textiles – it was crazy! But I took a risk, combined both textiles and fashion and based my end of year show on birds of prey.”
As Kat talks about the formation of feathers, the layering of patterns and the feathering and structure of the birds, her face lights up.
“To make the print design, I visited the falconry at Appuldurcombe house. I took pictures of the Tawny Owls and then digitally manipulated the print. Then I got to work on creating the garment itself. At this point, I realised that textiles really were where my heart is. I looked around at my peers, who were all planning on being the next big thing in London, and I knew I wasn’t destined for that path.”
On the very day that Kat completed University, she was commissioned to make a wedding dress for her close friend, Sophie Honeybourne.
“I designed Sophie’s dress from a couple of different 1950s dresses. We went to London and brought this beautiful fabric; original 1930s beaded fabric and it was gorgeous. Following Sophie’s dress I was then commissioned to make another one for someone else. Things had been non stop since I’d finished University and I’d begun to feel quite burnt out.”
Still hairdressing, Kat decided to have a rest and just enjoy her creativity without the pressure of bridal deadlines and commissions.
She eventually picked up her needle and threads around the time of her grandmother’s birthday.
“I decided to embroider her a picture as a gift,” Kat smiles. “The picture I made was of her little cottage in the New Forest where she had brought up my dad and his brothers.”
“The cottage had this amazing garden, filled with foxgloves and flowers. I felt compelled to embroider it for my Grandma as I felt it was a time that she was truly happy.
When I gave it to her, she was moved to tears which was completely out of character for her. A week later she felt very ill. Then she passed away. Later her friends told me that in those last few days of her life, the little embroidered picture hadn’t left her side.”
It wasn’t long after this that Kat’s dear friend, Sophie, fell pregnant. “I’d seen some gorgeous baby blankets where friends of the expectant mother all hand stitch a square. Inspired by this, I contacted everyone we knew and facilitated the making of Sophie’s baby blanket.”
Kat confesses, “I got carried away and did a couple of cross stich squares. Then I remembered a story that Sophie told me about daisies and how she and her husband had met there were daisies everywhere. I stitched an embroidery of Sophie and Raff in a meadow, surrounded by daisies and a stork carrying in their little baby boy.”
Having received her baby blanket, Sophie – who is a successful silversmith and jeweller – looked at Kat’s embroidery and suggested turning them into some sort of wearable piece.
“Sophie found a little silver plated brooch that had embroidered daffodils in it,” Kat says. “She gave it to me and suggested that I encase my work into it to make it wearable in a similar way.
Throughout all of my life, ever since loving vintage clothing, I’ve always been obsessed with embroidery. It had always been there but I just wasn’t the one doing it.
I loved leather jackets with leather that had embroidery, Hungarian traditional clothing that had embroidery and if I find a blouse with embroidery on it I’ll buy it. Even at University I knew I really loved the texture of embroidery.
I love the craft of it, but it’s more than that!
If you think back to the Tudors – before that even – before they were able to print digitally or screen print, everything would have been embroidered to create images and design.
I suddenly realised that whilst I’m not the best drawer I can create an image using thread and that is my pen and the fabric my paper. Suddenly it was really easy to create these beautiful images and I was so excited!”
All of a sudden, I was embroidering these beautiful brooches. Just like my Grandma’s picture of the cottage, my subjects were moments, memories, places that I really liked or had seen. I realised that I was capturing magical moments … leading me to describe my work as a moment or memory that has been captured in these beautiful wooden bezels.”
One of my initial challenges was how to secure the piece inside the bezel and still keep it fine like jewellery. I took the pieces down to Sophie and asked her how to secure the pieces. Sophie then taught me a few little skills and I used Betty’s husband’s tools to fix the embroidery into the bezels with silver fastenings.”
Since that time Kat’s embroidered brooches have gone from strength to strength. She began by selling them in shops and at pedlars markets, but as word has spread, has opened her own Etsy Shop and taken on private commissions.
Moving to idyllic St Lawrence on the Isle of Wight offered Kat a whole new landscape to explore.
“There are new flowers, new breeds, new places to walk and a whole world has opened up. I don’t just decide what I want to do with my embroideries. I am literally jotting down with thread on fabric what inspires me.”
Occasionally I take photographs, but I mainly do everything from memory and what I feel at the time.
The Sunset Meadow Collection was created this autumn. Everything was so gold and yellow and mustard and burnt orange. The colours on the brooches almost seem farfetched, but for me that was exactly how beautiful it was.
Another collection, called Blue Moon, was from earlier in 2105 when my partner, me and a few friends went up to St Lawrence Downs. The moon was providing enough light for us to sit, have a glass of wine and create the most stunning view.
In my line of view the moon was shimmering on the sea and its reflection looked as though it had been spun in silver. Just in front of me were these beautiful purple flowers and green grasses. I thought, I am embroidering that tomorrow – and I did.
These are my memories and moments, but the people who love and buy my work can identify and feel those moments too.”
A lover of wildlife, Kat and her man can often be found strolling through the quiet leafy lanes of St Lawrence, enjoying the great expanse of starry skies at night. Indeed it has been these incredible skies melding with the wild grasses and meadowland that inspired her Starlight Meadow collection and the little fox families along the way that continue to inspire her Midnight Foxes (below).
It is with a sense of wonder and gratitude that I tie up my chat with this wonderful artist of word, perception and thread.
In fact, I’m kind of hankering to come and hang out in her beautiful sanctuary pretty soon again.
Instead, I’m going to make do with heading over to her Etsy shop and purchasing my very own bit of Kat Magic for Christmas.
And if I were a fox, sitting under a massive sky and making a wish on a star, I’d wish that you’d head over and capture one of Kat’s Moments too. XXX
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SOURCE: "The Poetry of Louise Bogan," in The Southern Review, Louisiana State University, Vol. 19, No. 1, January, 1983, pp. 73–87.
An American critic and educator specializing in Renaissance literature, Peterson is the author of The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne (1967). In the following essay, he traces the connection between the themes and formal aspects of Bogan's verse.
In the years following the publication of Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923–68 Louise Bogan has been all but forgotten. The reasons are obvious enough. She was a formalist during a time when the main lines of development in American poetry were radically experimental. There is little evidence in her verse to indicate that she was much interested in Imagism or the experimental techniques of Pound, Eliot, and Williams, or that she found much that was useful to her in the works of the Symbolists. She was a poet who relied mainly on the old modes...
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Some secrets can come back to haunt you…
Principal Emily Taylor feels safe in the friendly little town of Burchill—until she finds a body in her school. The murder of caretaker Nathaniel Ryeburn brings back memories she'd rather forget and plunges Emily into a mystery that involves a secret diary, an illegal puppy mill and a murderer innocently disguised as an ordinary citizen.
As fear rips through the traumatized town, Emily's investigation inadvertently leads the police to her door, and to her husband Langford, who is hiding a secret of his own. It becomes clear to Emily that many of Burchill's residents are merely wearing masks. And it's time for those masks to be ripped away…and for a killer's identity to be revealed.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. School Principal Emily Taylor has lived in the little town of Burchill for two years. She feels that she and her husband have finally found their perfect home and safe haven, that is, until the school caretaker Nathaniel Ryeburn is found murdered. The townspeople are filled with fear as the reality of a murder in their midst is realized. Who could this killer be? Is it someone they all know? As Emily begins to investigate on her own, she learns that as Bridgeman, Nathaniel was also the town counselor, and knew everyone’s secrets, something she didn’t expect because the Nat she knew was reserved, shy and quiet. Then Emily comes across evidence and a shocking discovery. Sadly, her curiosity brings investigators to her home, while she and her husband try to hide from their own secret past.
This was a great novel; I was drawn in from the very beginning. The author was very detailed in her descriptions, that you could actually feel like you were standing there right beside her. The characters were believable and realistic, especially for a small town. The mystery uncovers a twisted secret that completely stunned me! I loved the story and plot, but I wish there was more added about Langford’s past, that portion felt incomplete. Hopefully, future books in the Emily Taylor series will expound on this. I was also disturbed by the graphic nature of the animal abuse; the author’s descriptive nature was a little too intense in this instance. Needless to say this is not a book for young readers.
Catherine Astolfo retired in 2002 after a very successful 34 years in education. She can recall writing fantasy stories for her classmates in Grade Three, so she started finishing her books the day after her retirement became official. Her short stories and poems have been published in a number of Canadian literary presses. Her story, "What Kelly Did", won the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Crime Story in 2012.
In the fall of 2011, she was thrilled to be awarded a four-book contract by Imajin Books for her Emily Taylor Mystery series (previously self-published), and has never been happier with this burgeoning second career!
Catherine's books are gritty, yet portray gorgeous surroundings; they deal with sensitive social issues, but always include love and hope. They're not thrillers, but rather literary mysteries with loads of character and setting. And justice always prevails.
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Debbie Jean March 4, 2013 at 3:33 PM
sounds like an awesome mystery!
Aunt Nonna March 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Another book to add to my wish list :)
Savannah March 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM
This sounds like a great book! HOw much do they talk about puppy mills? I think I would have a really hard time reading those parts it would break my heart :(.
april March 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM
this books sounds very interesting
JT and Amanda March 4, 2013 at 7:38 PM
I don't usually like books like this but this one sounds really good!
This mystery sounds a must read... I love mysteries! =)
Victoria March 4, 2013 at 8:34 PM
This sounds like a book that I want to read.
This sounds like a book my mother in law would like.
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BURBANK, Calif. (Nov. 1, 2017) – The all-star lineup for director Jon Favreau’s new take on Disney’s 1994 classic animated film “The Lion King” includes stars from the film, TV, theater and music arenas. Featuring pioneering filmmaking techniques, the film welcomes back to the big screen iconic characters that audiences have long treasured—but in a whole new way. From Disney Live Action, “The Lion King” is slated for U.S. theaters on July 19, 2019.
“It is a director's dream to assemble a talented team like this to bring this classic story to life,” said Favreau.
Lions rule the African savanna in “The Lion King,” which welcomes Donald Glover(“Atlanta,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”) as future king Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter(“Dreamgirls,” “Lemonade” visual album) as Simba’s friend-turned-love interest Nala, and James Earl Jones (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Field of Dreams”) as Simba’s wise and loving father, Mufasa, reprising his iconic performance from Disney’s 1994 animated classic. Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Twelve Years a Slave,” Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange”) was called on to portray Simba’s villainous uncle Scar, and Alfre Woodard (“Juanita,” Marvel’s “Luke Cage”) portrays Simba’s no-nonsense mother, Sarabi. JD McCrary (OWN’s “Tyler Perry’s The Paynes,” Apple’s “Vital Signs”) fills the shoes of Young Simba, a confident cub who can’t wait to be king, and Shahadi Wright Joseph (NBC’s “Hairspray Live,” Broadway’s “The Lion King”) brings tough cub Young Nala to life.
Every kingdom comes with a trustworthy advisor or two. John Kani (“Coriolanus,” Marvel Studios’ “Captain America: Civil War”) was cast as the wise baboon Rafiki, andJohn Oliver (HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”) was tapped as hornbill Zazu, Mufasa’s loyal confidant. When Simba goes into exile, he relies on two newfound friends—Seth Rogen(“Sausage Party,” “Neighbors”) lends his comedic chops to naïve warthog Pumbaa, and Billy Eichner (“Billy on the Street,” FX’s “American Horror Story”) joins the cast as know-it-all meerkat Timon.
While most of the animals in the kingdom respect the king, the hyenas have other plans. Florence Kasumba (NBC’s “Emerald City,” Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther”) portrays Shenzi, Eric André (Adult Swim’s “The Eric André Show,” FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman”) is Azizi, and Keegan-Michael Key (“Predator,” Netflix’s “Friends from College”) plays Kamari.
“The Lion King” is directed by Favreau (“The Jungle Book,” Marvel Studios’ “Iron Man”) and produced by Favreau, Jeffrey Silver (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Edge of Tomorrow”) and Karen Gilchrist (“The Jungle Book,” “Chef”). Jeff Nathanson (“Catch Me If You Can,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”) penned the screenplay based on the 1994 screenplay by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton. Tom Peitzman (co-producer “Kong: Skull Island,” “Alice in Wonderland”) and Thomas Schumacher (“The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast”) are executive producers, and John Bartnicki (“The Jungle Book,” “Chef”) is co-producer. The award-winning team of artists tapped to bring the African savanna and its animal inhabitants to life include visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, who conceived the virtual production on “Avatar,” won Academy Awards® for his work on “The Jungle Book,” “Hugo” and “Titanic,” and was nominated for an Oscar® for his work on “Apollo 13.”
The film’s animation supervisor is Oscar®-winner Andrew R. Jones (“The Jungle Book,” “Avatar,” “World War Z”). VFX supervisor is Adam Valdez ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”), who won an Oscar for his work on “The Jungle Book.” Five-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel, ASC, (“Jack Reacher,” “The Patriot”), is director of photography, and James Chinlund (“War for the Planet of the Apes,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”) serves as the production designer. Oscar winner Ben Grossman (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Hugo,” “Star Trek into Darkness”) is virtual production supervisor, and Mark Livolsi, ACE, (“The Jungle Book,” “Saving Mr. Banks,” “The Blind Side”) and Adam Gerstel (“Transformers: The Last Knight,” “The Jungle Book”) are editors. Hans Zimmer (“Dunkirk,” “Hidden Figures”), who won an Oscar for his score for the animated classic, will score the adventure.
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From Disney Live Action, director Jon Favreau’s all-new “The Lion King” journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his. The all-star cast includes Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Billy Eichner as Timon and Seth Rogen as Pumbaa. Utilizing pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring treasured characters to life in a whole new way, “The Lion King” roars into theaters on July 19, 2019.
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Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: I Put A Spell On You; Clever Cakes; Private Peaceful; Psychodrama
29 October, 2020 — By Lucy Popescu
Emily Costello in Private Peaceful
JOIN Amy Hart, Paul Taylor-Mills and West End stars for a one-off spooky spectacular on Halloween. I Put A Spell On You, a streamed fright-fest concert, costs £10 and will be available to view for seven days only. Tune in from Saturday, October 31: thetheatrecafe.co.uk/event/i-put-a-spell-on-you/
• Little Angel theatre is partnering with Michael Rosen to produce an online puppetry adaptation of his story, Clever Cakes. A little girl called Masha outwits a massive, greedy bear. It will be broadcast on Little Angel’s YouTube channel from Sunday at 11am. Visit: littleangeltheatre.com/online-shows-and-activities/watch/clever-cakes/
• Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful will play a limited two-week season at the Garrick Theatre from November 7. A young First World War soldier is awaiting the firing squad at dawn. He looks back at his past, including his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war. The theatre is following Covid-19 secure guidelines. Visit: PrivatePeacefulPlay.com
• Psycho Productions and Cusack Projects Ltd in association with High Tide present Psychodrama, written and directed by Matt Wilkinson, performed by Emily Bruni (Peep Show). A ripping revenge tale about an actress in her 40s under investigation for the murder of a theatre director. It’s on at Never for Ever (formerly Pizza East) in Kentish Town, from November 12-22 Visit: neverforeverkt.com/psychodrama
• Death of England: Delroy, by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams starring Michael Balogun, is playing at the National Theatre until November 28. Set in London, 2020, Delroy is arrested on his way to the hospital. Filled with anger and grief, he recalls the moments and relationships that gave him hope before his life was irrevocably changed. Visit: nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/death-of-england-delroy
• Check out Monkey Business Comedy Club & Camden Cabaret upstairs at 67 Pizza & Lounge Bar (opposite Camden Stables market) Thursday to Saturday. Doors open at 6.30pm for dining. Shows start at 8pm. Visit: wegottickets.com/monkeybusiness
• Talos Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns with socially distanced shows at the Cockpit Theatre, online interactive sci-fi and Zoom parties beamed directly into your home. Visit: thecockpit.org.uk/Talos-2020
• Watch out for the Shaw Society’s online events marking the 70th anniversary of George Bernard Shaw’s death on November 2 and December 6. For info visit: shawsociety.org.uk
• The Arcola Theatre is building Arcola Outside, an outdoor performance space and bar in the heart of Dalston, designed by award-winning stage designer Jon Bausor. Scheduled to open for a series of trial performances in December, the space will be constructed near the theatre’s main building in Ashwin Street.
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Dagang Net receives Industry Excellence Award in E-Commerce at ASEAN Business Awards Malaysia 2016
The award has been conferred to Dagang Net
Kuala Lumpur, 31 May 2016 – Dagang Net Technologies Sdn Bhd – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dagang NeXchange Berhad (“DNeX”) – has been named the recipient of the Industry Excellence Award in the E-Commerce category at the ASEAN Business Awards Malaysia 2016.
The award has been conferred to Dagang Net in recognition of the company’s performance and achievements in the sector. Dagang Net’s Executive Chairman Datuk Samsul Husin received the award on behalf of the company at a Gala Dinner held in Kuala Lumpur and scheduled to be officiated by Prime Minister of Malaysia YAB Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak.
“We would like to express our sincere and deepest gratitude to ASEAN Business Awards Malaysia 2016 namely its organiser the ASEAN Business Advisory Council Malaysia for this honour,” said Datuk Samsul, who is also Executive Deputy Chairman of DNeX.
Dagang Net’s achievements and accomplishments, according to him, are attributed to effective teamwork among staff who are driven by a collective vision, mission and core values diligently nurtured within DNeX Group.
Dagang Net has pioneered and spearheaded initiatives aimed at creating paper-less, electronic Customs-related services to ease facilitation and streamlining of trade processes.
The company currently operates Malaysia’s National Single Window for Trade Facilitation, a project led by the Ministry of Finance that facilitates electronic Customs-related transactions and duty payments, and electronic document transfer between members of its trading community made up of manufacturers, importers & exporters, forwarders, shipping agents, terminal & port operators, banks, port authorities, permit issuing agencies and Customs.
“This is certainly a most welcome surprise for us. With our wealth of knowledge, expertise and operational know-how in the provisioning of e-commerce services for Trade Facilitation accumulated from more than 25 years of experience, we will continue to contribute to this sector, and efforts in increasing competitiveness of the country as a trading nation,” Datuk Samsul added.
The ASEAN Business Awards Malaysia 2016 – the seventh ASEAN Business Awards Malaysia – recognises outstanding businesses and entrepreneurs that have created a positive impact on the growth of the Malaysian economy and helped elevate the country’s image in ASEAN.
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Following the recent announcement on the Movement Control Order (“MCO”) in several states including Selangor from 13 January 2021 to 26 January 2021, we would like to assure customers that services offered by Dagang NeXchange Berhad (“DNeX”) in particular the National Single Window (“NSW”) for Trade Facilitation will operate as usual throughout the MCO.
Please be informed that Royal Malaysia Customs Department (RMCD) technical problem has been resolved.
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Latest update : 9 October 2020.
Obituary: Reuven Kaminer, our teacher of politics
26 September 2020 , by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
Two Israelis of the same generation passed away last week: Meron Benvenisti and Reuven Kaminer. I know both, but only Reuven was a friend, a comrade. Benvenisti was a politician, a dignitary. As deputy mayor of Jerusalem, he was architect of the annexation of East Jerusalem, with everything (...)
By going vegan, Israelis can avoid talking about human rights
22 May 2019 , by GOLDBERG-Shenhav Rachel
By choosing an ‘easier’ cause to fight for, some Israelis have decided they can have it all. By showing compassion to animals and their suffering, we can live with the continued blindness to the pain of the humans among us.
Israelis have taken to vegetarianism and veganism perhaps more than any (...)
Israel: Meretz facing internal pressure to become Jewish-Arab party
21 May 2019 , by ZIV Oren
As the Zionist left struggles to stay relevant, some members of Meretz are proposing a new way forward.
Top members of the Zionist left-wing Meretz party are trying to transform their party into one based on full Jewish-Arab partnership, just a month after it passed the election threshold (...)
Attacks on NGOs and Israel’s Putinisation – “Colonial rule is corrosive in its effects”
11 February 2016 , by SHATZ Adam
Ahmad Tibi, a long-standing Arab member of the Knesset, once remarked that ‘Israel is democratic towards Jews, and Jewish towards Arabs.’ For many years, that soundbite nicely captured the contradictions of ‘Jewish democracy’: fair elections, press freedom, cantankerous debate and due process for (...)
Public sector unionists arrested in Palestine – « We call for their immediate release »
9 novembre 2014 , par DWRC
DWRC denounces violations of freedom of association and the right to organize of public sector employees by the Palestinian Authority, and calls for international solidarity.
Media Release, 9 November 2014
The Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center in Palestine condemns the detention of (...)
Rising Up in Israel
25 October 2011 , by PRESS Eyal
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Twelve, 304 pp., $26.99
The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century, by Paul Rivlin, Cambridge University Press, 288 pp., $90.00; $31.99 (paper)
The Political Economy of (...)
Time for Israeli Social Protest to Make Political Choices, End Illusion of National Unity
28 August 2011 , by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
Less than a year ago, the whole Arab region, from Tunisia in the West to Yemen in the Southeast, was the arena of a gigantic and extraordinary popular uprising for freedom and democracy.
The decades-old dictatorships of Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali were thrown out in a matter of (...)
Israel: “What is being called into question, and this is already very important, is the dismantling of the Welfare State and its disastrous impact on education and health”
Israeli State: Five questions to Michel Warschawski. This interview about the social movement in Israel with journalist and author Michel Warschawski was conducted on August 11. International Viewpoint: For several weeks now a large-scale social movement has been demanding “social justice”. Do (...)
Israeli Social Protests: Talking About a Revolution, But Not the Occupation?
8 August 2011 , by WESTON Mark
Israeli social protests reached critical mass on Saturday when hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cites throughout Israel for affordable housing prices, higher wages and better standards of living. But despite their legitimate claims, the protests convey a chaotic message that remains (...)
Social protestors: Do we share a vision for Israel’s future?
8 August 2011 , by SCHEINDLIN Dahlia
300,000 is a dizzying number. It was thrilling to see so many citizens on the streets suffused with hope. But I still grapple with uncertainty amid all the excitement, unsure of what connects me to them to make an ‘us.’ Beyond some increasingly specific policy demands, in the big scheme, are we (...)
450,000 Israelis Take to the Streets Demanding Social Justice
4 August 2011 , by FORTUNATO Marta, LEVIN Mikaela
Saturday night was the test Israel’s protest movement needed to show that social justice can and should be stronger than fear. Around 450,000 people took to the streets in Tel Aviv and throughout Israel to demand a real change from the neoliberal policies imposed by successive governments over (...)
Israel: Social/housing protesters won’t defeat capitalism
My friend Boaz Gaon wrote a beautiful longing prayer for the day after the citizen uprising around the country, outlining a progressive’s fantasy (posted on the Hebrew women-issues web-zine Saloona). In his day-after scenario, cultural and intellectual professions will earn dignified salaries, (...)
Israel’s social protests: the key to changing everything?
17 July 2011 , by SCHEINDLIN Dahlia
For the first few weeks of the housing-cum-social protests in Israel, nothing else seemed to matter. For at least a week or two after the “J14” protests began (on July 14, in Tel Aviv), the press happily let it muscle out everything else – Palestinians, Iran, September, democracy barely reached (...)
Palestinian trade union movement applauds the Scottish Congress of Trade Unions (STUC) for heeding the Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS and calls on the STUC to sever links with the Histadrut
15 April 2011 , by Trade Unions (Palestine)
Occupied Palestine, April 15th, 2011 – The Palestinian trade union movement, as a key component of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), salutes the Scottish Congress of Trade Unions for their principled and historic decision in April 2009 to heed the Palestinian civil (...)
Attending the World Education Forum in Ramallah
9 December 2010 , by BHADURI Aditi
On a lovely autumn day in late October I landed in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Mellow sunshine bathed the town in a warm glow. I was back there after five years and I saw signs of change all around – in the spruced up new houses, in the ATM (...)
Why caregivers in Israel refuse to return to RP
8 November 2009 , by ABANO Rhodora A.
MANILA, Philippines—Since around Israeli aircraft dropped some 100 bombs on the Gaza Strip in December last year, less than a hundred Filipinos have come home, mostly wives and children of Palestinian residents.
No caregivers have come home from Israel.
Even during the bombing of Lebanon in (...)
Report on new unions in Palestine
1 February 2009 , by RICHARDSON Tony
Contribution at the international seminar held at the International Institute of Research and Education (IIRE, Amsterdam) on Palestine. This is a personal report on my relations with new Independent Democratic trade union movement in Palestine.
I first went to Palestine, in solidarity, in (...)
Labor / Labour movement
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Skinny Puppy at The Fillmore, San Francisco
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The Skinny Puppy show was amazing. The boys were in top form and sounded fantastic. The opening band, Baal, started promptly at 8:00. I like a punctual band. They were pretty good but they got repetitive after a while, just a lot yelling, screaming and bass. After about half an hour they cleared their equipment off the stage and Skinny Puppy started setting up. Cevin’s keyboards and equipment were on the right side of the stage with a white cloth draped in front, the drums on the left, and in the middle was a box with what looked like blank canvas sides. There were some other props around the stage, a widescreen monitor on the left that was showing video from several small cameras set up around the stage, and there was a big screen behind everything.
Skinny Puppy took the stage just after 9:00 and went straight into Illisit. Ogre came onstage wearing an elaborate costume and holding a machete and an umbrella with a big radiation symbol on it, the video projecting patterns onto the umbrella. It looked so cool. I lost track of the set list but I do remember they played a mix of songs from Weapon and earlier stuff from before Too Dark Park. Ogre changed costumes several times, always wearing twisted masks. There were guys wearing radiation suits and face masks wandering around the stage like they were trying to capture and examine Ogre, and then someone with a red laser came out and chased off Ogre when he got too close. They unfolded the box into a sort of 4-piece Tetris shape with what I realized was a different video from the background video playing on it. Ogre brought out a skinny puppy model at one point and played around with it, then set it on a tall box on the left that had a green, I dunno, sphere or something under it. For another song he played with glowing blue liquid in a bottle. He also sang through a little bullhorn with purple led lights inside it. For the first encore they played Far Too Frail, Glass Houses, Smothered Hope, and Overdose, and for the second encore Assimilate.
Right after Assimilate I went over to the merchandise stand and got a t-shirt and tour poster, and then when I left I got a free Skinny Puppy Fillmore poster. I’ve never been to the Fillmore before but apparently they give out free posters for sold out shows, very cool.
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The Anita Gunning and Robert C. Hunt, Jr. Historical Postcard Collections
Memorial Library Postcard from the Gunning and Hunt Postcard Collections
Gifted to the Library by Anita Gunning and Robert C. Hunt, Jr., the Library’s collection of historic postcards consists of over 2000 depictions of Falmouth, its villages, and other noted landmarks within our beautiful town.
Postcards from Falmouth: A Local History Project
The foundation of Postcards from Falmouth is based upon a grant awarded to the Falmouth Public Library with the express goal to capture, collect and digitally preserve and share the evolving history of Falmouth, its rich and varied environment as seen through its landmarks and villages, and its unique local stories as experienced by the diverse voices within our community.
The project includes the production of a series of oral histories that revolve around the Library’s collection of historical postcards of Falmouth, various programs and presentations that not only focus on the postcards and Falmouth history, but that invite the community to share their memories of Falmouth, and digital exhibits prepared and curated by library staff.
Visit the current exhibit, NOTES ON FALMOUTH HISTORY , to learn more about–and add to–our local story!
Postcards from Falmouth is a Library Services Technology Act grant, administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners [MBLC].
Falmouth at Home Exhibit
Falmouth at Home is a collection of photographs taken by the Falmouth community that documents how we spend our days while we stay close to home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Falmouth residents are invited to share photographs of the following:
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Please email photos to fpldigital@falmouthpubliclibrary.org , make the subject “FALMOUTH AT HOME”, and provide a title, your name, and a description of your photo, if you wish.
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Honoring Falmouth Veterans is a collection of images depicting the monuments and plaques along Memorial Lane, which leads up to the Library’s front entrance. The Library collects and preserves photos of Falmouth residents who served in the United States military during a World War.
Please email photos to fpldigital@falmouthpubliclibrary.org, and make your subject “Honoring Falmouth Veterans”. Most importantly, please include the veteran’s name, branch of service, and the war in which they served.
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America, by Hiram Powers from the Falmouth Public Library Art Collection
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Read the logbooks of Falmouth whalers! According to the Falmouth Historical Society, who house the original ships logs, thirteen whaleships sailed from Falmouth for at least 51 voyages. Dating back from 1806 to 1879, the logs were scanned and are available to view. Click on the image to view the logs:
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While almost every edition of the Falmouth Enterprise from 1896 to 1962 is now archived in a searchable online database, the Town of Falmouth Annual Reports from 1873-1961 are also available for viewing .
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An MGM Grand Welcome For Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley: Photos & Quotes
Isaac Barrio / May 4, 2011
Photos: Chris Farina/Top Rank
LAS VEGAS – They started hovering around the make-shift ring in the lobby and the front entrance at MGM Grand an hour before the first of the custom-designed buses were scheduled to arrive.
First, a little after 11 a.m., came the Shane Mosley bus. Then, at a tad after 1, the bus carrying Manny Pacquiao and his team rolled onto the property.
By the time Pacquiao stepped inside the MGM, several hundred vocal, animated fans, most carrying cameras and chanting his name, and media, including dozens of TV crews, had jammed into the area.
This Saturday, May 7, at the sold-out MGM Grand Garden Arena, eight-division world champion Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), of General Santos City, Philippines, will defend his WBO welterweight title against three-division world champion Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs), of Pomona, Calif., in the main event of a four-fight telecast produced and distributed live by SHOWTIME PPV® beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
The eagerly awaited event also will be available online at www.toprank.tv, www.sports.SHO.com, www.cbs.com and www.sports.yahoo.com.
Those who buy the event online will get features unique to the digital platform through NeuLion’s technology. The enhanced and unique viewing offers a four-shot, multi-angle dynamic player that will allow viewers to interact and feel an enriched experience. The online pay-per-view is exclusive to U.S. viewers. Select cable and satellite TV systems will also be offering the pay-per-view live stream.
Closed circuit tickets, priced at $50, are on sale and available at all Las Vegas MGM Resorts properties.
In other bouts on the telecast, WBO junior featherweight champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (20-0-1, 17 KOs), of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, will make his Las Vegas debut and third title defense when he faces five-time world champion Jorge Arce (56-6-2, 43 KOs), of Los Mochis, México, former world middleweight champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik (36-2, 32 KOs), of Youngstown, Ohio, meets undefeated WBC Continental Americas super middleweight titleholder Alfonso “El Tigre” Lopez (21-0, 16 KOs), of Cut and Shoot, Texas, in a 10-round super middleweight battle; and Mike Alvarado (29-0, 21 KOs), of Denver takes on “Sugar” Ray Narh (25-1, 21 KOs) of Accra, Ghana, in a 10-round super lightweight match.
The mega-event is promoted by Top Rank, in association with MP Promotions, Sugar Shane Mosley Promotions, Tecate and MGM Grand.
What Pacquiao and Mosley and their trainers said during an informal Q&A session with the media.
“I never thought I could achieve what I have. My dreams before were to help and sacrifice for my mother and family, helping us survive.
“I’m sure some (in the Philippines) are jealous of my success, and I can’t blame them. But I just try and stay humble.
“I don’t try to compare what I’ve achieved in boxing. I’m just happy to contribute to the history of boxing. My best memory is probably knowing that my fights make fans happy,
“I remember watching Shane Mosley when he fought De La Hoya. I’ve always respected his ability and I know I can’t underestimate him. I’m most impressed by his hand- and foot-speed.
Lots of people criticize him but he has trained very hard for this fight and he wants to prove he is still good and is still strong.
“It’s an honor to hear that Mike Tyson says I’m one of his idols because he’s one of my idols, too.’’
FREDDIE ROACH
“The Diaz fight was the first time (that everything came together), then the Oscar fight was perfect.
“He’s not slowing down yet. You ask me, I’ll be the first to tell him.
(Is that when Manny should stop)?
“I think so – that would be the healthy answer.”
Pacquiao: “Freddie, just tell me and I’ll stop. Freddie is not only my trainer, he’s also like my father, my brother. He’s like family. Freddie and my father are almost the same age.”
SHANE MOSLEY
“People forget about my punching power and speed. (Actually) They forget a lot. (But) I think one of my main advantages is experience.
“I had a great camp. Pacquiao throws a lot of good punches, gets his power from his strong legs, and can throw punches for 12 rounds. But I’m ready.
“I think the perception is that Pacquiao is a small guy because he once fought at 106, but I fought at that weight, too. I used to spar with Paul Gonzales when I was a teenager.
“(Antonio) Margarito hit him with more shots than I got hit with by Margarito.’’
NAAZIM RICHARDSON
(on whether it’s impressive that Pacquiao won his first title at 106 pounds)
“No, it’s not impressive. I was 106 pounds at one point. He was a kid. If Shane turned pro at 16 he would have been the champ at 112 pounds.”
“You make adjustments when you get older. Naturally, you get smarter and make the necessary adjustments. Shane doesn’t get the credit that he has a high IQ. I was taken back when I started working with him. He has a high IQ and he can apply it. He can carry out those game plans.”
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Vampire Week: Closing Thoughts
Well, vampire week has finally drawn to a close. I am now rather sick of watching vampire movies, like a bloated vampire who gorges himself on a nunnery. Actually, I’m a little tired of making vampire metaphors, too, so I’ll just cut that out. I’d like to finish with some closing thoughts, including a list of the vampire films that didn’t make it to the top 35 (in the form of short shameless rants) and a list of vampire films I didn’t get around to watching.
I was surprised that putting a seven-hour silent film with no vampires as #13 and a movie that could reasonably described as lesbian vampire porn as #17 elicited silence, but “Versus” and “Underworld” managed to draw decent controversy. I really was expecting more outcry at my preponderance for ponderous vampire “art films” than at my concessions to mainstream action fare. However, I’m glad for the discussion and alternative opinions and I’d like to send a special thanks out to all the usual suspects: Kathryn, Mad Dog, Exactly Why and Magus.
I probably wrote and stressed too much on this whole project, but moderation and perspective are not really my strong suits. An extra special thanks to my girlfriend for putting up with some late nights, clacking keyboards and a couple really awful rentals. When all is said and done, I certainly had a lot of fun, too, and I hope my readers enjoyed the results. There really are some great films in the list (though few would agree on every choice) and I’m sure there’ll be no shortage of interesting (and not so much) vampire pics in the future.
Movies that should have made the list:
There was one movie that I didn’t watch in time to make it on the list, but which would have gotten in (at #18). The film is Michael Almereyda’s “Nadja” (1994) starring Elina Lowensohn, Galaxy Craze (!), Peter Fonda and Martin Donovan and with David Lynch in a cameo role. It’s a dry, deadpan comedy in which detached NYC denizens deal with relationships and vampires (often both at once). It’s very stylized, self-conscious and understated and plays more like a Hal Hartley film than many Hartley films. The soundtrack has a nice disenchanted enchantment quality, featuring My Blood Valentine, Portishead, Spacehog and The Verve. About 70% of the B/W cinematography is excellent, while the remaining 30% is marred by a needless pixilation filter whose motivation I could never quite figure out. If you enjoy Jarmusch or, of course, Hartley, you’ll like this one as well.
And now for the list beyond 35, and the neglected movies that didn’t even get watched. This should help alienate the few people who enjoyed the list so far, but the advantage of writing in the darker corners of the internet is that there are less people tracing my IP address and beating me up for lunch money (which is what I still imagine internet predators do).
The rest of the vampire list (in roughly descending order):
Note: I left out most sequels to movies in the top 35, because I despise the sequel concept so greatly.
Interview with a Vampire – I hated this movie when I first saw it, but it’s really not that bad (mostly just overrated). Kind of makes you feel bad for Anne Rice that nobody can make a decent film from her work. I could describe the plot, but every person on the face of the world has already set through it and besides, it more interesting for its themes than its content or execution.
Immortality – Jude Law plays a vampire who feeds off love (which sounds like an autobiography)… and also blood. Considering all the hype around his brief nudity even I was hoping to see more skin than this delivered.
Lifeforce – Now here’s a movie that delivers on its promises. It’s about space vampires, with copious amounts of special effects and breasts. If you haven’t decided to see this movie yet, because you are waiting for me to describe the cinematography, script and acting… then this movie is not for you.
From Dusk Till Dawn – This director/writer collaboration between Tarantino and Rodriguez, respectively, has an interesting premise: the first half is a post-heist road trip following criminals (George Clooney and Tarantino) fleeing towards the Mexican border while the second half is a standoff against a vampire army in a strip club. This movie wastes an ungodly number of good ideas and at least one Harvey Keitel. The last shot, though, is pretty good.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Francis Ford Coppola cast everyone famous in Hollywood to be in his highly accurate adaptation and it still turned out boring and riddled with blank performances. Rated on Coppola’s career scale (with “Jack” equal to 0 and “The Godfather” equal to 10) this would be roughly a “Peggy Sue Got Married.”
Salem’s Lot (1979 version) – You’d think that thrice bitten, I’d be quadruply shy, but I still watched a TV miniseries Steven King adaptation against all instincts. It’s not really that bad, but who has the time or patience for a lackluster three-hour rehash of “that house is evil” and “my neighbor is evil” stories (apparently the guy who spent seven hours with “Les Vampyres.”)
Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter – How can a film about Jesus Christ, Mary “Magnum” and Mexican pro wrestler El Santos saving Canadian lesbians from vampires go wrong? Well for starters it can be filmed without a budget and burdened by an anemic script and a sense of humor that fizzles out after ten minutes. The theme song is pretty memorable and the tagline, “Let the power of Christ impale you,” still gets a smile.
Plan 9 From Outer Space – Ed Wood’s sci-fi/horror “masterpiece” is still widely cited as the worst movie of all time despite the fact that it’s silly, bankrupt badness is hilariously enjoyable to cine-trash lovers (which can’t be said for some other bad films). Bela Lugosi’s name appears in the credits, but don’t be fooled, it’s actually Mrs. Wood’s chiropractor behind the cape.
The Lost Boys – Seeing this film after being told by countless fans about its greatness was pretty disappointing. Everyone in this movie needed to stop trying so hard to be cool. I suspect the director had never heard the sage advice, “spare the backhand and spoil the performance.” I would have also smacked away the entire finale while I was at it.
Innocent Blood – A vampire gangster comedy with some good ideas, yet unable to hold a candle against “Vampires in Havana.” John Landis, who is known primarily for his comedies, displays his incompetence at handling all material that isn’t comedy. Oh, and the comedy parts are worst of all. Meanwhile Anne Parillaud is completely miscast in the lead, looking more like an elf on heroine than a vampire.
Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind – It started the whole Chinese hopping vampire craze, but the kung fu, comedy and horror is all so clowny and caricatured that its kind of embarrassing to watch. It has a few highs, but mostly low-brow lows.
John Carpenter’s Vampires – I saw this on TV way back when and I don’t even think I finished it. I seem to recall that it felt a lot like “Armageddon,” but with vampires rather than a comet. It was asking too much of even James Woods to save this one.
Omega Man – Somebody apparently thought it was a good idea to remake “The Last Man on Earth” with Charleston Heston and more motorcycles (a common folklore medicine for flagging productions). That person was very, very wrong. In fact, the only way you could make that worse is if you’d tried to cast Will Smith instead.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It – For all the vitriol that I want to spew at this film, I actually laughed several times. Leslie Nielson and Mel Brooks are not exactly on my good side, but this is one that I can notice lying in the $2.99 bin without feeling the desire to spit on it.
Daughters of Dracula (Vampyres) (1974) – This is pretty much a straight mixture of vampires and soft-core pornography that was actually pretty successful when it first came out. It’s slow, boring and redundant with a plot that goes nowhere, but I doubt the audiences that flocked to this in theaters really cared. In the interest of equal coverage, there’s also “Gayracula” (1983), (Tagline: He’ll suck you dry) but it was too awkward to acquire this one by any method.
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula – I’m pretty sure I saw this Vlad the Impaler bio on TV some Halloween night a few years back and it ruined the whole evening. It reinforced my distrust of TV stations other than the History Channel trying to teach me historical fact because I’m pretty sure acting this bad wasn’t invented until “Camp Nowhere.” Peter Weller is in it.
Blacula – This movie is really not that bad, which is exactly what’s wrong with it. I was hoping for something about seventy times as over the top and instead it’s just a numbingly bland modernization of the Dracula legend with a mostly black cast. The villain could just have well been any serial killer or costume monster from a million other B-movies.
Vampyros Lesbos – Of the handful of Jesus Franco’s movies that I’ve seen, this one is probably my favorite. That doesn’t say much. It’s sleazy, but there’s an ambition behind it all that wants to make a arty mood piece as much as an exploitive cash-cow.
Fearless Vampire Killers – Considering that this film has a large cult following, there must be a whole subculture of people who laugh when exposed to the exactly same set of stimuli that makes me shake my head and moan for the sake of humanity.
The Night Stalker – A reporter comes to believe that a recent series of killing is the work of a vampire operating in LA. Every other character remains skeptical even after seeing the vampire, watching bullets bounce off it, seeing it fly and hearing it cry, “Kneel, puny mortals. I, your vampire lord, shall suck your blood!” (or some such nonsense). Statistics tell me that this was once the most successful TV movie of all time, but it sounds to me like audiences could have used some extra skepticism themselves.
Van Helsing – I went to see this at a drive-in double feature with “The Day After Tomorrow.” The two movies had about as much combined continuity as the outtakes from a five-minute Bugs Bunny cartoon. The same goes for realism. However, the cartoon would win hands down for character development and enjoyment.
Ganja and Hess – It has a lot of grainy shapes doing drugs and whining about living forever and vaguely defying their own philosophical concepts or something. This one was a long lost cult film that won some indie acclaim when it was discovered and restored for DVD, but I kind of wish the celluloid termites had found it first.
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave – I skipped the first and second sequel to “The Horror of Dracula” (1958) secure in the knowledge that most series really climax on their fourth feature. This stagnant, recycled flop convinced me not to find out what I’d missed or to watch sequels four through eight.
Lips of Blood – Jean Rollins is famous for having made dozens of ethereal French, X-rated lesbian vampire movies and his reputation inspired a fair deal of curiosity in me. I mean… dozens? How much of his life did he commit to making those? Did it always stay fresh and new to him? As for me, I could hardly stay awake.
Fright Night – I put this on my list of vampire-movies-to-see because it won a Saturn award for best horror film. What I forgot was that winning a Saturn award in the 1980’s is about as prestigious as tying for third place in “Shakiest Use of Shaky-Cam” category of the MTV movie awards. Dear lord, I hated this film.
Some films I didn’t get around too:
The Bat (with Vincent Price) – I didn’t watch this, but Katie saw the second half and the first. Don’t ask.
Dracula 2000 – Considering that everybody skipped this back in 2000, I didn’t feel any obligation to watch it either.
Embrace of the Vampires – Knowing that this was purely as a vanity project for Alyssa Milano to do sex scenes still wasn’t enough to get this on my priority list. I think that bodes well for there being shreds of dignity somewhere inside me. Then again, there’s always next year.
I Am Legend – It’s not out yet, so you really can’t blame me.
London After Midnight – I don’t think I can be blamed for not seeing this one either. The last copy was destroyed before I was born. Still, the title lives on.
Queen of the Damned – Rice’s sequel to “Interview with a Vampire” has Aaliyah (in her final performance) as a vampire who becomes a rock star and plans a massive live (evil) concert. If I were going to see another vampire film any time soon, it would be this one for sheer gutsy premise alone.
Ultraviolet – Rarely has a preview ever backfired so badly. Had I never seen the trailer, I might have accidentally watched this movie. I gave Milla Jovovich a chance with “Resident Evil,” but this just goes too far. Why not try a Joan of Arc sequel?
Posted by FilmWalrus at 9:31 PM
Labels: Personal Life, Shameless Rants, Vampire Series
FilmWalrus said...
If there are some vampire films that anyone would recommend and you didn't see them anywhere on vampire week or the closing thoughts, let me know. I have no intention of watching them for about 11.9 months, but I'm still curious.
Mad Dog said...
Joan of Arc: THE GOLDEN AGE
Your commentary here breaches into even further depths of obscure nerdhood... awesome.
Joan of Arc: Martyrs Gone Wild?
If I were you, I wouldn't be surprised at which movies got the most comments. What was I going to do, say, "That wouldn't even make my top ten list of seven-hour vampire movies"?
Ultraviolet and Van Helsing are among the worst crimes wrought upon humanity.
Ugh, screw humanity. Wrought upon ME.
MAGUS.
Mad Dog,
You make an excellent point. However, I usually expect people to complain and argue against movies even without seeing them.
Magus,
I was thinking of suing the studios to cover my PTSD treatment bills. I still wake up in a cold sweat screaming "Turn off the projector! My god, who did that unbearable CG!?" My girlfriend has to talk me down.
Actually, Magus, if you thought THOSE were bad...
FRIGHT NIGHT. omfg, if there ever was a movie to grump about, that's it.
Or Fearless Vampire Killers.
Or...all of the ones on the didn't-make-it list.
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Husband and I got married in June many years ago. It was a hot, sultry summer. Temps were in the upper eighties and nineties, and humidity felt like 100%. We didn't have AC in our first two places together, and we never turn it on in this house because it makes his sinuses hurt...he prefers the heat. He always says that when it's that hot, it's too hot to sleep. So you might as well amuse yourself and eventually you'll pass out from the exertion. It works for us
We celebrate every year with some private time for just us, away from our kids. We've done weekends in romantic hotels. For example, Canoe Bay in Chetek, Wisconsin, is a wonderful place...very expensive, but worth it for the amenities and the beautiful natural surroundings. We've also done weekends camping, revisiting places we used to go to BC (before children.) Be sure to pack the video camera, to film some memories you'll want to savor in the future (wink).
We've stayed overnight at various hotels and motels. Sometimes just being in a new venue can bring a sparkle to your long-term relationship. Especially fun is when you pretend you don't know each other by going separately into a bar nearby, preferably in a nice restaurant. He sits near you and starts a conversation. You talk...he moves closer. He asks you to dinner. You really shouldn't, but your husband isn't with you, and his wife isn't either. (Feels naughty already, right?) You flirt through the meal, toying with his ankle under the table. He gropes you under the tablecloth. By the time you finish coffee and dessert, you will both be ready to pop! Then it's back to the motel for some "extra-marital" fun...with your spouse!
The one place we go back to year after year, is a chain of romantic places called the Sybaris. There are five places, and we've been to three of them. One is very close to us, so we like to take advantage of the "afternoon nap rates". Yes, that's just what it sounds like. We have the room from 1-5 in the afternoon. The smallest rooms have a whirlpool next to the bed. Larger ones have a bigger whirlpool. We really like the pool suite, which has a private swimming pool, with a whirlpool next to it, and a sauna. The bed is in the other room. There's even a deluxe pool suite with three floors, where a slide starts in the top floor, where the bed is, and you slip down three floors to splash into the pool. All rooms have a bathroom with shower and bidet. Don't get me started on the bidet! Husband noticed how much I like...I mean really like bidets and offered to put one in our house. I said no, because I'd never leave the bathroom!
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▸ News ▸ New proposal to add fouls to replay will not fix no-calls
New proposal to add fouls to replay will not fix no-calls
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After just over two months of NFL fans, coaches, and players calling for changes to the sphere of plays covered by instant replay, the Competition Committee has proposed making fouls for pass interference, roughing the passer, and hits on a defenseless player subject to review, the first proposal of its kind under the current replay system. While many may believe that this is a proposed fix to the no-call for defensive pass interference in last season’s NFC Championship Game, Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay and executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent suggested in a news conference Friday morning that this is not necessarily the case. The Committee’s proposal only makes such plays reviewable if the ruling on the field was a foul.
McKay and Vincent iterated a recurring narrative that the Committee does not want a flag to be thrown in replay, especially when it comes to certain calls that fall in that covering official’s judgment. In the text of Proposals 6 and 6A, the latter of which includes roughing the passer and hits on a defenseless player in addition to pass interference, the added language to the list of reviewable plays states “fouls for” pass interference, as well as the other two fouls. This means that only the plays ruled as fouls are able to be challenged by a head coach or reviewed by the replay official.
While this proposed rule would not have changed the outcome of last season’s NFC Championship, it would have reversed a call from the AFC Championship. During the fourth quarter, Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones was flagged for roughing the passer by referee Clete Blakeman for contacting the head of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, although Jones barely grazed Brady’s facemask. Under Proposal 6A, Kansas City could have challenged that call, and it would have most likely been reversed, resulting in a third down for New England.
Another play that this proposed rule could not have corrected was a no-call for a facemask during the Week 16 game in Philadelphia between the Texans and Eagles, where Eagles quarterback Nick Foles was seemingly tackled by his facemask on a two-point conversion. Not only would this not be reviewable since no flag was thrown on the play, it is also non-reviewable since there was no pass interference, roughing the passer, or a hit on a defenseless player on the play. Even though this play and the Jones/Brady play above both involve contact to the facemask, only the Jones/Brady call is reviewable since there was a flag thrown on the play, and it was for roughing the passer as opposed to grabbing the facemask.
McKay also stated that the Committee does not support the implementation of a SkyJudge, as used in the Alliance of American Football. Although Troy Vincent said on NFL Network earlier this month that it may be time for a SkyJudge-like official to be brought in to the NFL, McKay announced that the Competition Committee unanimously rejected the creation of a SkyJudge position.
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by Andy Roth in Trout Stream Reports, Wisconsin (Western)
Sorry I’m late. Although I never made it far enough east to look at the Rush, conditions elsewhere tell me it is probably fine for fishing this weekend. The reports I received tell me it was a bit more off color than the Kinni but looking good. Look for BWO’S in size #16-20 to show up somewhere. You could also see some little gray caddis if it warms enough. I am guiding today, see ya out there.
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in April 19th, 2014 at 5:40 pm
I was on the Kinni off of Quarry Road yesterday. Only one fish was caught on a zebra midge right under the bridge.
Greg said,
Andy, you were right on about the BWOs! They made for great fishing today,despite the wind. Thanks!
Joel said,
in April 20th, 2014 at 10:58 am
Great day on the water. BWO hatch in the early afternoon, before the rain; dry and emerger both worked well. They’re still in the deep pools and slower water. Ended the evening with two hook-ups on a muddler minnow…love that jolt.
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in April 22nd, 2014 at 6:12 am
A bit of everything, sounds like April!
Wind was fierce yesterday. Sometimes tough to get out of it. I am surprised the bugs did not get blown off the water.
Keep banging away at them. The more time you spend out there, the better your chances.
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QNU Receives Letters from Overseas Cooperative Universities Expressing Support to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic
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As the Chinese people have joined together as one and united their efforts against the novel coronavirus, Quanzhou Normal University's cooperative universities abroad keep sending letters and videos to express their condolences to all teachers and students of QNU, as well as their belief in defeating COVID-19 with solidarity and cooperation.
Letter from University of Chester (UOC) said that the life safety and health of teachers and students are their greatest concerns. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, UOC has paid close attention to it, actively followed the guidance of Public Health England and the World Health Organization to combat the virus, and created a healthy and safe learning environment for students. Professor Phil Harris, vice president of UOC, expressed in the video, University of Chester will be working with you to tide over the difficulties together! We support you! . UOC student representative also cheered with deep emotion in Chinese Come on, Wuhan! Come on, China!
Professor Kaïs MABROUK, director of the International Department of Central University of Tunisia (CUT), sent a condolence message on behalf of the university. He said that CUT and QNU will stand together in the battle against the epidemic, hoping to defeat the pandemic and resume the teacher-student exchanges between the two.
Three universities in Taiwan, i.e. Pingtung University, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology and Yuan Ze University, said that they are going to work hand in hand with QNU to face difficulties and to ensure that Fujian and Taiwan students will not be suspended from their studies despite the epidemic.
Humanity shines through the dark cloud of the epidemic. These words from the bottom of heart touch all teachers and students of QNU, demonstrating profound brotherhood and enhancing both confidence and strength to fight and win the battle against COVID-19.
( Foreign Affairs Office)
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Black Star Riders release Heavy Fire fan video
The Black Star Riders have released a fan video for the title track to their third album, “Heavy Fire.”
After asking fans to submit photos of themselves meeting the band on the road, around 150 photos were picked from over 600 that were submitted to create the special fan video.
“To all our dedicated, loyal and magnificent following, thank you for making the Black Star Riders roll and enabling us to rock ...Here’s to ya!!,” says frontman Ricky Warwick.
“Heavy Fire” earned the Thin Lizzy offshoot their highest UK chart position at No. 6, after 2015’s “The Killer Instinct” peaked at No. 13 and their 2013 debut, “All Hell Breaks Loose”, reached No. 25.
The fan video arrives ahead of Black Star Riders’ UK tour, which will open in Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Hall on November 8.
“There's nothing more exciting than playing live”, adds Warwick. “Black Star Riders are absolutely thrilled to get back out in the U.K. A wonderful way to round out a great year!”
UK tour 2017
Nov 08: Wolverhampton, UK - Wulfrun Hall
Nov 09: Edinburgh, Scotland - Queen’s Hall
Nov 10: Warrington, UK - Parr Hall
Nov 12: Hull, UK - University
Nov 14: Middlesbrough, UK - Empire
Nov 15: Sheffield, UK - O2 Academy
Nov 16: Leicester, UK - O2 Academy
Nov 18: Cambridge, UK - Junction
Nov 19: Portsmouth, UK - Pyramids
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STATEMENT FROM MAYOR ZIMMER ON SOUTHWEST PARK EXPANSION
Office of the Mayor announces:
Yesterday evening the Hoboken City Council voted 8-0-1 on first reading for an ordinance to authorize the use of eminent domain to acquire Block 10, a vacant property in Southwest Hoboken, for the expansion of the Southwest Park. The second reading and public hearing on the ordinance will take place at the Council meeting on Wednesday, February 1st.
“Thank you to all Hoboken residents who took the time to come to the City Council meeting last night to support giving the City the tools it needs to negotiate a fair price for the long-promised expansion of the Southwest Park,” said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. “Thank you also to the eight City Council members who voted yes on first reading of the ordinance. I hope that Councilman DeFusco, who voted ‘present,’ will after reviewing the materials provided to him, join his colleagues in providing unanimous Council support on the second reading at the Wednesday, February 1st Council meeting. I encourage residents to come out again to the February 1st meeting to voice their support for eminent domain as a negotiating tool as well as for the Green Acres grant application for the purchase of Block 10.”
View the memo from Mayor Zimmer to the City Council on the Southwest Park expansion and funding strategies, Southwest traffic circulation plan, and Newark Street safety improvements: www.hobokennj.gov/docs/mayor/1-18-17-Memo-Zimmer-Council.pdf.
Posted by SmartyJones at Thursday, January 19, 2017
City Council initiates eminent domain in 8-0-1 vote against Academy Bus
The big takeaway last night is the Hoboken City Council's action to allow eminent domain to proceed against the downtown acre owned by Academy Bus.
The lopsided 8-0-1 vote is unlike the previous contentious 5-4 vote in 2011 for the one acre parking lot the City of Hoboken is working to complete as a southwest park.
The action is not the end but the beginning of a process where negotiations may find a reasonable alternative to legal proceedings. The City of Hoboken and Academy Bus have waged public campaigns for support as the two sides are far apart in any potential sale of the property.
The City values the property in the ballpark of $5 million and Academy Bus is reportedly seeking north of $12 million. An appraiser will independently provide a valuation either kick starting further negotiations or lending credence to legal arguments in a court action.
Members of the public have varying opinions on the use of eminent domain for a second acre and park in the southwest. Some voiced their desire to see an additional park but without the application of eminent domain.
Others are critical of using eminent domain and spending in the ballpark of $7 million for another park in the southwest corner of town while critical infrastructure is overlooked.
Hoboken water main breaks are a common problem with accidents on an almost regular basis. While Washington Street will see its water mains replaced, others around town critically require similar attention. The cost to complete is reportedly similar to an the cost for a second southwest park.
Hoboken residents also recall a plan put forward to repave and enhance Sinatra Drive and the surrounding park areas. Some argue the funds for a second southwest park will see far less usage than the riverfront area.
All of these choices are likely to see some rigorous debate among the council, the public and vying election campaigns this year. The mayor's chair and three at-large council seats are on the ballot come November.
On the council appointment side, Ed Freidrich was unanimously selected as the new North Hudson Sewerage Authority commissioner. The term runs five years.
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Olympic gear, all winter long
Official PyeongChang Olympic goods are now available at 29 licensed outlets at major tourist spots across Korea, as well as online. The photo above shows the Olympic kiosk at the Lotte Department Store in Jung-gu District, downtown Seoul. (Yonhap News)
Official goods for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, from long padded coats to “finger heart” gloves, have been flying off the shelves ever since their release.
The opening of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is just around the corner, but some of the official goods are already sold out. “Although many of the products had been out-of-stock, they were restocked in late January, except for the long padded coats, umbrellas and hand fans,” said a PyeongChang Organizing Committee official.
One of the most popular products are the ankle-length padded PyeongChang coats. Launched on Oct. 24, the coats were sold out in two weeks both offline and online. It was the first product in the PyeongChang stores to be out-of-stock.
The coats, available in black, gray and white, are popular because of the reasonable price for a goose down full-length coat, around KRW 149,000/ USD $140. It's winter wear that keeps the body super warm for many years to come.
Long queues outside the official PyeongChang merchandise kiosks at the official shops in Seoul, Busan and Daegu snaked around the block on the last day of the jacket's release on Nov. 30. The stores even had to limit purchases to one coat per person.
Inside the Games, an online news outlet dedicated to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, wrote an article titled “Pyeongchang 2018 Padded Coat Proves far More Popular Than Tickets.”
Also available are sets of “finger heart" gloves, available in navy blue, pink and gray, and they’re flying off the shelves. The red tips of the index fingers and thumbs create a heart shape when held together, a popular gesture to show affection or cuteness.
Also on sale are items featuring the two official mascots of the Games, Soohorang the white tiger and Bandabi the Asiatic black bear. One of the hottest mascot items is the Soohorang stuffed animal. The white tiger comes dressed in traditional Hanbok attire, as both the bride and the groom. Many more products, ranging from sweatshirts to snow globes, are also available featuring Soohorang and Bandabi.
Traditional Korean motifs and patterns are featured on many of the Olympic goods this year. There are placemats and table settings embroidered with traditional Korean paintings, and fan-like bookmarks inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
With the growing demand for PyeongChang Olympic products, counterfeits of some of the more popular products, like the padded coats, have been reported. To protect yourself and to guarantee that you get official PyeongChang Olympic merchandise, make sure to purchase your items at the official online shop, pyeongchangolympics2018.com, or at one of the 29 PyeongChang Merchandise kiosks at major tourist spots across Korea.
You can also get your Olympic swag at Olympic venues during the Winter Games.
More details about the products and stores are available at the PyeongChang2018 Official Online Store (http://store.pyeongchang2018.com/index.html#none).
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In this companion volume to Wobbly Barstool, Wobbly’s dynamic, mercurial son Wiggly seeks to promote veganism in Edwardian Britain while matching wits with a scampish Irish baronet.
Tiring of his photographic portraitist profession as of many other brief careers, an enterprising and ever-restless Edwardian Englishman, Wiggly Barstool, travels to Ireland accompanied by his self-effacing cousin Sebastian. The two there seek “The Miracle of Tipperary”, a cow fabled to bear the perfect likeness of a shamrock on its flank. Their quest brings them in contact with Fiona, an ethereal animal-rights enthusiast, and Lucy, a spirited American zoologist. The four team up to advance the principles of “strict vegetarianism” and animal liberation, cinematically employing the unusual cow as a poster child, and putting themselves at odds with Sir Patrick O’Dell, a brilliant rascal determined to thwart them. Adventure, romance, mystery, and psychological analysis await in this droll turn-of-the-century romp.
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Happy Birthday Aistear!
Play gives children opportunities to be in control of what is happening and what they know. (Levin,1996)
Through play, children exercise self-control, develop previous related knowledge, take turns, co-operate and socialise with others. (Glover, 1999)
It's hard to believe that Aistear; the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework celebrates its tenth birthday soon. It's safe to say that the curriculum framework has helped bring the teaching and learning methodologies in our primary infant classrooms on in leaps and bounds. For the most part, teaching in the early years of primary school in many classrooms has a significantly different appearance now, compared to what it did over a decade ago. More formal ways have been set aside and a more playful approach adopted. I know, my own practice and my approach to teaching and learning have been immensely enhanced by elements of the Aistear framework.
As primary school teachers, we definitely have a lot to thank Aistear for. The concepts of 'play' and 'playful pedagogy' are still undergoing a journey of their own in the Irish primary educational context. Over the past decade, play-based practice with less an emphasis on didactic, formal approaches has indeed been a source of rejuvenation to our teaching at the junior end of the school.
Through my own experience with the Aistear framework, as an infant teacher, I felt more and more equipped on a year-to-year basis contending with the ever-evolving, ever-diversifying Irish infant classroom. Our classrooms are in a constant state of evolution and while this can be a challenge, there-in lies a need greater than ever for a playful approach to teaching and learning to meet the different learning needs of the children.
From the perspective of a teacher who spent several years dedicating immense effort (proudly) into getting an Aistear approach up and running in an infant classroom, it was (without a shadow of doubt) a truly beneficial learning curve but didn't come without its challenges. The biggest challenge of those, being simply, the attitudes towards play.
'How would you be bothered?'
'There isn't enough time.'
'There aren't enough resources.'
And my favourite of all...
'It's an awful lot of mess.'
One thing is for sure, when you look beyond what a small few may see as 'mess' and appreciate the sheer amount of skill development, language development and interaction at hand, the immense value of play in the primary school stands before you.
Where are we going with 'play' at primary level?
As stated in the Aistear Framework (p9);
"Early learning takes place through a reciprocal relationship between the adult and the child – sometimes the adult leads the learning and sometimes the child leads. The adult enhances learning through a respectful understanding of the child’s uniqueness. He/she alters the type and amount of support as the child grows in confidence and competence, and achieves new things."
To fulfill the aims of the Aistear framework, it is imperative that playful pedagogy is valued and prioritised at primary level as a natural transition support for the children. The Aistear hour was of its time but it worked! It helped people get into the 'swing' of things and let go some of the overly formal classroom practices. But is the notion of the ' Aistear hour' restricting the potential of playful learning across all the elements of the infant school day? We must strive to ensure that the the precious elements of 'child-led' play so evident in our early childhood contexts are maintained and continued to be wholly fostered at primary level. Child-adult ratios are a significant and unavoidable factor. After the transition from ECCE contexts to primary school; and with brimming class sizes, tackling the best 'led' approach to play can be a concern. As primary school teachers, ensuring that the child-led element continues to be fostered is important yes, but using our role as facilitator of play by embracing open-ended invitations that playful pedagogy awards will only continue to maximise the intentional teaching opportunities that play provides. Finding the balance and recognising the balance is key. We can play, teach and observe learning simultaneously.
Intentional teaching involves educators being deliberate, purposeful ad thoughtful in their decisions and action. Intentional teaching is the opposite of teaching by rote or continuing with traditions simply because things have 'always' been done that way. (Duncan, 2009)
Those of us who have embraced playful pedagogy in classrooms can most definitely recognise and agree that play is not a simple, singular term. It is indeed a very multifaceted teaching methodology.
Is there a need for child-led play? Absolutely.
Is there a need for playful learning? Definitely.
Is there a need for intentional teaching through play? Without a doubt.
Do I need to go on? Surely not.
Play is play and it is here to stay. It is serious business – it is the work of the child and it involves serious learning.
Our new Primary Language Curriculum (2019) recognises the significance of 'appropriately playful learning opportunities' when developing literacy skills in junior and senior infants which is a welcome inclusion for many.
What is evident in schools now, is that children, who have been immersed in playful learning and instruction framed by Aistear's themes, are now journeying through the senior end of the school, armed with the learning skills and dispositions practiced and embedded during their play-rich learning experiences. A scenario which can only but blossom over the coming school years.
Happy birthday Aistear, we have learned a lot- the children have benefited significantly- here's to the next decade!
Portraying Playful Learning:
Are you interested in Aistear or playful pedagogy in the primary setting? Many wonderful teachers share their journeys through playful learning online - particularly on Instagram. They play an extremely important role in promoting good practice and through their platforms are inspiring many young and long-standing teachers to embrace playful learning and highlight the benefits of the Aistear framework and playful pedagogy at primary level.
Look out for:
@aistearinaction
@infanteducation.ie
@all_things_primary
@playful_classroom
@infantsaistearlove
Fuss-free play dough recipe
Halloween - 8 ways to get your class writing!
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Sebastien Loeb Pulls a Victory Out of His Sombrero at WRC Mexico
Leon, Mexico, March 2-6th. Sebastien Loeb claimed a fifth Rally Mexico victory on Sunday, driving Citroen's all-new DS3 World Rally Car to its maiden victory in the WRC. The triumph is Loeb and co-pilot Daniel Elena's 63rd success at world championship level, out of 140 starts in the series (that's 45 percent, if you're keeping track).
The Citroen Total Team stars began the final day of the event locked in tight battle with teammates Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia, who were 10.5 seconds ahead. Then in an incredible stroke of rotten luck, Ogier crashed on stage 20, allowing Loeb and Elena to move in front, where they were able to preserve their advantage for two stages until the finish in Leon.
The rally gods must have been smiling on Loeb and Elena. Though they ultimately benefited from Ogier's retirement, it wouldn't have mattered had they not fought back so brilliantly after a 50-second time penalty incurred when they were late starting stage 15 following a transmission problem.
While Ford didn't lock out the podium in Mexico, the Abu Dhabi World Rally Team did score valuable podium real estate; Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen finished second in their Fiesta RS WRC, with teammates Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila third.
Rally Mexico began with a special ceremonial street stage through the city of Guanajuato on Thursday night. By the end of SS1, Petter Solberg and Chris Patterson had a slender lead of two-tenths of a second heading to Friday's first gravel stage.
The 2003 world champion was fastest on the stage in his Petter Solberg World Rally Team Citroen DS3 WRC, emerging through the short tricky city course in a time of 53.2 seconds.
Cheered on by thousands of spectators, Solberg just edged Loeb on the stage, held under the cover of darkness, despite reporting nudging a wall in the tunnel section; the damage was restricted to a scuffed tire and Solberg was able to make it to the finish line. Ogier took third fastest in his DS3, and Latvala was fourth quickest in his Fiesta RS.
American superstar driver Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino meanwhile had to contend mechanical gremlins with the Monster Energy Ford Fiesta RS literally just feet from the start line. An electrical issue left the car dead, forcing the pair into a situation where they were too late to start, leaving them to Superrally for Friday morning with a 10-minute penalty.
"I'm really bummed about the car leaving us stranded at the start," said Block. "Not only did we miss out on taking part in Rally Mexico's awesome opening ceremonies, the 10-minute penalty has pretty much killed our chances of a good overall finish here. And after all the work and preparation, it's tough to start off like this, but we're here and we are still looking forward to getting back out onto these amazing roads tomorrow."
After a late night three-hour service, M-Sport had Block and Gelsomino back in the rally for Friday morning.
DAY-1
Ogier completed the two runs over the Super Special Stage at Leon's race circuit with an overall lead of 2.3 seconds heading into day two of Rally Mexico. The 27-year-old Frenchman eclipsed factory Citroen teammate and countryman Loeb, with world championship leader Hirvonen, the top Ford driver, in third.
Ogier was fastest on four of the six all-gravel stages, and Loeb was fastest on two. Hirvonen spent day one cleaning the road in his Fiesta RS, indicating it had been a huge struggle to remain in contention.
Solberg was on course for completing day one in third place, but an electrical glitch on stage six cost him almost seven minutes and dropped him out of contention.
Latvala was fourth heading to the final day of the rally, albeit almost three minutes off the lead after he picked up a puncture on stage four in his Fiesta. Block returned Friday only to encounter another reported mechanical fault with his Ford.
Saturday closed with Ogier 11.3sec ahead of Loeb after a wild day that saw Loeb claim the overall lead for a time starting with SS11. With his advantage over Ogier increasing, Loeb prepared to line up for the start of stage 15 only for the car's gear selector pin to break, leaving the Frenchman's DS3 WRC stuck in third gear.
With the stage featuring several uphill hairpins, Loeb knew it would be impossible to complete the stage without making repairs. Although Loeb and Elena were able to fashion a temporary fix, they were five minutes late starting the stage and incurred a 50-second time penalty as a result.
Having led by 19.7sec, Loeb now trailed Ogier by 24.1sec after the 15th stage. It appeared Loeb's challenge was done until Ogier's car suffered an intermittent power loss with 3.1 miles of stage 16 left to run and dropped some five seconds.
Ogier's misfortune and Loeb's pace meant the gap was down to 10.4sec with one gravel stage remaining. But any hopes Loeb had of trimming Ogier's lead still further evaporated when he stalled on the final hairpin of stage 17 as a result of his car's handbrake not working and lost vital time.
Hirvonen in third led the Blue Oval camp, followed by Latvala, who suffered a puncture on Saturday's first test but bounced back with Ford's first stage win of the rally when he went fastest on the second Derramadero run. Block crashed out on Saturday.
The deciding moment of Sunday's final three stages came when Ogier left the road eight miles into the Guanajuatito morning test, damaging his DS3's front-left wheel. The off gave Loeb a Rally Mexico lead he would not relinquish.
Hirvonen also benefited from Ogier's exit to inherit second place. The result means the Finn maintains his lead in the world drivers' championship following his triumph on Rally Sweden last month. He ended the event by winning the Power Stage to secure three bonus points in his bid to become world champion for the first time.
Latvala completed the podium in his Fiesta and secured his second stage win of the rally with the fastest time on the penultimate test of the event.
Up next for the WRC is the Vodafone Rally de Portugal, March 24-27 in the city of Faro (MFL photography provided by Citroen, Ford Abu Dhabi WRT and Monster WRT).
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An Analysis of Factors Affecting Utilisation of Moodle Learning Management System by Open and Distance Learning Students at the University of Eswatini
Mthethwa-Kunene, Khetsiwe Eunice 1
Maphosa, Cosmas 1 , ,
1 Institute of Distance Education, University of Eswatini, Eswatini.
The use of technology in teaching and learning for students in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is important in bridging the gap between the student, the lecturer and the content. Furthermore, technology enhances communication between staff and students and among students to improve the quality of learning experiences. The study sought to establish institutional and personal factors promoting or hindering ODL students’ utilisation of the Moodle Learning Management System at the University of Eswatini. A concurrent triangulation design located in the pragmatic research paradigm combining the quantitative and qualitative research approaches was utilised in the study. One hundred and ninety-eight (198) students studying different programmes offered through ODL responded to a questionnaire. The semi-structured questionnaire was administered to a stratified random sample of ODL students at different levels of study in the university. Quantitative data were analysed using the SPSS software and reported in descriptive statistics. The identified factors were correlated with students’ usage of the LMS to assess whether there was any relationship. Thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data. The study found that ODL students’ perceived usefulness and ease of use, trust and satisfaction affected their usage of Moodle albeit there was weak to moderate positive relationships. Qualitative data on challenges experienced by students in using Moodle unearthed institutional factors such as inadequate technological infrastructure and insufficient student training and support. The study recommends improvement of the institutional internet bandwidth soon as well as continuous training and support for both students and course instructors.
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HTC to Introduce an Octa Core MediaTek Phablet Similar to Desire 816
Posted on September 8, 2014 by Abhinaya Prabhu Leave a comment
At the last week’s IFA 2014 tech show, Taiwan based tech firm HTC announced the launch of Desire 820 that carries the credit for being the first ever 64 bit Android smartphone. While the availability of the device is yet to debut, early rumors regarding the next device from HTC’s stable have started surfacing.
Well, the Twitter user @upleaks tips that HTC is in plans to announce a new phablet soon. The source claims that the device will be powered by an octa-core MediaTek processor under its hood. The tweet reads, “hardware spec is almost the same as Desire816 except Chipset and RAM.” However, the name of the device in the making remains unknown and the source has provided more details regarding the upcoming phablet claiming, “… almost the same as Desire816.”
With this information revealed by the leakster, it is clear that we can expect the device to feature a 5.5 inch HD display with an octa-core processor as mentioned above. It should be packing in at least 8 GB of internal storage space that can be expanded externally by another 128 GB using a micro SD card.
Similar to the Desire 816, the phablet might arrive with a 13 MP primary camera with FHD 1080p video recording and a 5 MP front-facer for video conferencing and selfies. Also, the unknown device is believed to pack connectivity features such as Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi and GPS and a 2,600 mAh battery.
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Terenure Sports Club / Terenure Tennis Club – Guidelines for Using the Tennis Courts
The guidelines below are in addition to the general COVID-19 guidelines provided by the government. They do not replace them. Terenure Tennis Club expects all its members to abide by the government guidelines with regard to social distancing, limitations on the numbers of people who can gather in one place, hand hygiene, travel distances and the recommendations regarding cocooning for the over-70s, self-isolation if you have symptoms or if you have been in contact with someone who has symptoms of COVID-19.
Further guidance can be found at Tennis Ireland at the link below
https://www.tennisireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Guidance-for-Tennis-Players-1.pdf
The tennis community recognises that they are in a privileged position to be able to resume play in the early stages of the return to normality. Continued access to the courts will be dependent on all members adhering to these guidelines. All members are asked to remain vigilant regarding social distancing and ensure these guidelines are adhered to at all times.
Before you Play
Courts may only be used according to government guidelines. Those that live more than 5km from the courts should not travel to the club. This is on an honour basis and will not be policed by the club.
Use of courts is permitted for singles play only; Doubles is permitted if partners are from the same household. Children under 18 may play if they are accompanied by an adult from the same household.
Access to the courts is limited to members only. No guests permitted at this time.
You are required to book a court before coming to the club for the whole period of your play using ClubManager. The names of all players must be listed on the booking, to facilitate future contact tracing if necessary.
Courts will be closed at 9pm. Hours may be extended in the future.
To avoid too many people congregating in the same place, and to facilitate as many people playing as possible there will be limitations on bookings as follows:
All bookings will be for a maximum of 1 ½ hours. Players are requested to vacate the courts 10 minutes before the end of the booking, to allow space for the next players to arrive at the courts;
Court bookings will be staggered to avoid players starting and ending at the same time at adjoining courts;
Player are asked not to book more than one period during any weekday evening.
Arriving at the Courts
Access is to the courts only. There is no other access to the Club facilities, including the bar or the White Building. Toilet facilities will not be available to members at this time.
Please make sure that you bring water with you as access to the drinking water taps will not be available at this time
Please arrive at the courts no more than 5 minutes before the booked start time for your session.
The first person to arrive at the courts each day should open the gates and leave them open – gates are to remain open all day.
There is a one-way system to enter and leave courts. Please follow directions at the courts.
Please maintain a 2 metre (6 feet) social distance when entering the courts.
Hand sanitiser must be applied before entering the courts area. This will be provided by the club but members are encouraged to bring their own also.
Court Lighting is not available at this time.
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Players must use their own tennis balls. Please mark your tennis balls to ease identification and only pick up your own balls.
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Golden Earring Five Zero Concert - 12-12-15 The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
Horace Cordier
GOLDEN EARRING - The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam 12/12/2015
The Five Zero.
Approximately one year ago I received an intriguing email in the middle of the night. GOLDEN EARRING, a Dutch band I've loved since I was a teenager in the 80's, were having their 50th anniversary concert at the biggest stadium in Amsterdam. Within 10 minutes, despite not having a current passport or having been on a proper vacation in well over a decade, I bought a VIP ticket. And booked a trip to Amsterdam.
To most Americans, and many others around the world, this band is the ultimate two hit wonder: "Radar Love" in the 70's and "Twilight Zone" in the 80's. But it's a vastly different story in the Netherlands and the rest of the Benelux countries. GOLDEN EARRING are a hugely popular band with a rich history that dates back to the early 60's beat pop era. They still release albums even today - in fact, they released an EP to coincide with this gig called "The Hague" - a nod to the ancient Dutch city they originally hailed from. And unlike their contemporaries THE ROLLING STONES, EARRING still deliver quality new music. I encourage anyone who loves classic hard rock to explore this band's amazingly diverse and enormous catalog: from early pop to their psychedelic period to their brilliant complex heavy progressive era to the hard as nails commercial period that gave us "Twilight Zone" all the way through their more recent acoustic and quirky commercial efforts like "The Naked Truth" and "Millbrook USA". Their heady mix of WHO style power chords, the commanding vocals of pure rock star Barry Hay and the best currently working rhythm section in rock were on perfect display Saturday night.
The Ziggo Dome is about the size of Madison Square Garden. Tonight's gig of 17000 people was sold out and the atmosphere in the hall was electric. About four generations of primarily Dutch and European fans milled about excitedly. The Ziggo has stunning acoustics and massive video screens were put up to accommodate the fans in the back. Vocalist Barry Hay, at 67 in better shape than your gym rat brother strolled onstage and the band kicked into an early favorite, the stomping "Back Home" which was the perfect opener. Hay - intricately tattooed and wearing black sunglasses looked like the ultimate rock star and watching him play the flute was a huge kick. Next up was guitarist George Kooyman's vocal showcase "Buddy Joe" which was a great jam with a memorable spaghetti western lyrical slant. Sticking with he the 70's vein they jumped right into "Just Like Vince Taylor" from the "Moontan" Lp before playing the nights oldest number - an acoustic themed bit of folk pop called "In My House" from 1967's "Miracle Mirror" which predated Barry Hay's joining the band in 1968. Most amazing part? The audience sang along to the whole number!
At this point, the band was pretty much on fire and laid into the ferocious "Identical" with its ringing guitar riff from 2012's "Tits N' Ass" with guest saxophonist Bertus Borgers and then onto their 80's heyday with the brooding "Future". From this point it was a headlong rush to the intermission with "Long Blonde Animal", cool new song "Je Regrette", and two highlights of the entire show: a stunning "Vanilla Queen" - one of the band's most accomplished big ass 70's jams which saw a small horn section pop up for the moody middle section of the track - and then their massive hit "Twilight Zone" which had the whole stadium on its feet in a state of euphoria. This would have been most band's encore but the show wasn't even half over!
Barry Hay to the crowd - "Get a drink!"
While I was in line for a full strength Amstel (no light ones here!) I ended up in a conversation with two older gents who had been following the band since the 60's. They told me a couple of cool stories of seeing the band in The Hague in their Dutch hippy heyday. When they realized I had come all the way from the USA for this they grinned broadly, and one slapped me on the back and yelled delightedly "Crazy American fan!"
Back to the show for part two we got the acoustic set with the highlight being "Weekend Lover" with the many beautiful Dutch ladies in the audience singing along and dancing in the aisles. This song, along with the catchy "I can't sleep without you" seem to be the most popular with the female EARRING fans. My favorite songs of this section was the brooding "Just A Little a Bit Of Peace In My Heart" with its moody DOORS vibe and the perky "Johnny Make Believe".
Heading into the final stretch, the band switch back over to electric for the dramatic "Turn The World Around" and a couple of songs from their 80's MTV days - 'The Devil Made Me Do It' and the infamous "When The Lady Smiles" which had the huge video screens showing images from the music video that almost killed the band's career with its outrageous storyline. After the pounding pop of "Heart Beat" (with additional guest guitarist Frank Carillo) and the swaggering "Bombay" with its infectious drumbeat, EARRING play their evil classic "Kill Me (Ce Soir)" - a strangely haunting song about a murdered rock star, Jesus Christ, and "political chicanery", all with a French twist... and a violin.
And then Rinus Gerritsen is all alone on stage delivering a stunning bass solo on a double neck that shows he's the most underrated bassist in rock and why he's Steve Harris of IRON MAIDEN's favorite bassist. Set closer "Radar Love" is about what you'd expect from a sold out crowd of 17000 fans at a 50th anniversary concert - complete insanity. Cesar Zuiderwijk, who has played amazingly well tonight finally gets his drum solo here and he's terrific and playful.
The final encore sees the band play a new song from the mini-Lp and their progressive classic "She Flies On Strange Wings" with its gentle opening and later blistering power chords that showcase the full range of the EARRING style. The final song of the night is a rollicking "Holy Holy Life" that has the entire stadium stamping their feet and singing along.
A brilliant gig with some unforgettable moments. I have to say, seeing this triumphant show in their native country for this band that I've loved for so long for their 50th anniversary was something I'll never forget. Watching these four guys interact you could see the friendship, humor and amazing musical skill.
Long live GOLDEN EARRING.
The great photos taken at this concert were provided by the talented Cindy Tuijtelaars.
Back Home/Buddy Joe/Just Like Vince Taylor/In My House/Identical/Future/Long Blond Animal/Je Regrette/The Vanilla Queen/Twilight Zone
Weekend Lover/Another 45 Miles/Going To The Run/Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart/Johnny Make Believe/I Can't Sleep Without You/Turn The World Around/ The devil Made Me Do It/When The Lady Smiles/Heartbeat/Bombay/Kill Me (Ce Soir)/Rinus Gerritsen bass solo/Radar Love (with Cesar Zuiderwijk drum solo)
Encores: That's Why I Believe In Her /She Flies In Strange Wings/Holy Holy Life
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Official Partnership: UK firm Solar Water Plc and JPMC
The British Ambassador Edward Oakden, hosted on Tuesday a signing ceremony of the official partnership between the UK firm Solar Water Plc and the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC).
The ceremony was held to celebrate one of the largest UK technology exports in recent years and the first since UK’s exit from the European Union. Solar Water Plc has been selected by Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) to produce low cost, environmentally friendly water and supply fresh water to its phosphate plant on the Gulf of Aqaba.
The project promises to revolutionize the water desalination process, helping solve one of the country’s most pressing problem – access to fresh water. The technology provides a major breakthrough in helping to solve the world’s growing water shortages while being completely carbon neutral and sustainable. Its unique technology is based on nature’s own hydrological cycle – evaporation, condensation, precipitation. This means that seawater desalination no longer has to be costly, polluting and unsustainable. We will be able to produce unlimited amounts of pure clean water without harming marine life.
For the next 25 years, freshwater will be supplied by a Solar WaterTM desalinator dome, positioned right next to the JPMC plant. Work will start this spring, and we expect the desalinator to begin supplying freshwater by mid-2021.
“Ground-breaking science, high technology, environmentally friendly, meeting a real business need. What more could we ask from this latest UK-Jordan business deal, signed this morning, within a few working hours of Britain’s exit from the European Union? Today’s agreement, between the UK’s Solar Water PLC and Jordan’s largest exporter, the Jordanian Phosphate Mining Company, involves ground breaking technology of potentially wide application throughout the region to combat climate change.”
British Ambassador to Jordan, Edward Oakden commenting on the project.
“We are proud of our Jordanian partnership with JPMC, Jordan’s largest exporter. This is sustainability in action, solving freshwater needs through our uniquely carbon neutral technology. We are committed to solve some of the freshwater shortages answering the global call for zero carbon neutral solutions in the provision of freshwater. We look forward to further involvement with Jordan and its people. ”
CEO of Solar Water Plc, David Reavley stated.
About Solar Water Plc
Solar Water Plc is the provider of breakthrough, innovative technology for the generation of fresh water in a carbon neutral and completely sustainable manner, utilizing the concentrating power of sunlight. The technology will help reverse climate change as it can displace some traditional carbon inefficient technologies and will help the development of carbon sinks. In January 2018, Solar Water Plc received the prestigious Rushlight Water Treatment Award at a ceremony held at the Royal Geographical Society, London. This was in recognition of the project being a world first for carbon neutral hydro-infrastructure.
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Alec Thomson
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Alexander Thomson (9 March 1873 - 18 November 1953) known as Alec Thomson was an Australian politician and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1914 until 1930 representing the seat of Katanning and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the South Province from 1931 until 1950.
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Lucky Whitehead Broke His Foot In Jets' Camp, And Desperately Needs A Name Change
Bowles: WR Lucky Whitehead suffered broken foot. Whether surgery is required is TBD. Will be out for an extended period of time. https://t.co/ksmtFLl8RE
— New York Jets (@nyjets) August 15, 2017
July 17: Whitehead took to Instagram to announce his dog had been stolen and held for ransom. A rapper by the name of Boogotti Kasino had Whitehead’s dog but claimed he wasn’t holding it for ransom. He returned the dog the next day.
July 24: Virginia Police announced that it had issued a warrant for Whitehead’s arrest for shoplifting.
July 24: The Cowboys release Whitehead following the announcement.
July 25: Virginia Police announce that Whitehead was not the man they were looking for. It was a case of mistaken identity.
August 15: Jets coach Todd Bowles announces that Whitehead suffered a broken foot in practice.
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Was the fact that Lucky Whitehead got cut for a crime he didn't commit after someone used his personal information not enough of a sign that the dude needed some new personal information? I'm not a big believer in omens, but after having that rough of a month could switching your nickname to literally anything even slightly less ironic really hurt? At his point, he should just change things up so that he doesn't have to go on the internet and see people that somehow think they are original make the same nauseatingly repetitive joke over and over again.
If I were him I would just cut ties with all of my most attention-worthy characteristics. It's not that I think doing so will end help his streak of head scratching misfortune, but at least if it continues it won't be attached to the name that now universally serves as a paradox. As a kick returner on a talentless wasteland of a roster he's just forgettable enough to get away with shaving his dreads, creating a brand new government alias, and having his next couple of seemingly inevitable unfortunate circumstances fly under the radar on a (potentially) winless team. At least that's what I would do as a luckless 'Lucky' in a world in which everyone with an online presence thinks they are a comedian.
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Organising to end homelessness
The Centre for Theology & Community l December 10, 2019
Shermara Fletcher heads the William Seymour Programme at CTC, engaging Pentecostals in community organising. She is also the community organiser in The Open Table at St George-in-the-East. Last night, at a gathering of leaders from a wide range of congregations across London, she reflected on the role of community organising in the struggle to end homelessness.
Good Evening, it is great to be here amongst you. For the next five minutes I’ll sharing with you why community organising is a powerful tool in addressing homelessness.
This will be primarily based on the community organising that we have done here with the local homeless and ex-homeless community in Shadwell through the Open Table Project at St George-in-the-East. The Open Table project consists of homeless, former homeless and housed individuals who are committed to welcoming their neighbours and building the leadership capacity of former homeless and current homeless communities to be public leaders in the church and community. We also gather around a meal several times a week in the church and on the streets of Shadwell which welcomes all. As part of St George’s, we are members of TELCO Citizens.
Through our experience there are two key reasons why organising has been such a powerful tool to help us address homelessness and can be used by you in the room who work with a diverse range of homeless communities. The first is
The organising craft of one to ones ‘which seeks to build public relationships to find common issues that individuals can act together on’ has helped us at the Open Table to build relationships with homeless individuals who are beyond our sphere of influence and life experience. It has also helped us to find out what some of the pressing issues are within the community.
For example, I had a 1-2-1 with a homeless individual over a three month period that got involved in the life of the Open Table and heavily taught and shaped our approach. He used to refuse to engage with services due to a lack of trust with institutions, but since building his ability to be relational with the mainstream society through weekly trips to London restaurants he has since accepted housing in Mayfair and is getting his life on track.
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Community organising has also been a powerful tool that has helped us to develop former and current homeless individuals to be leaders who have a voice in the debate and rather than solely being recipients of change are at the heart of and shape the change. This goes beyond empowerment or advocacy, but transforms our systems of homeless engagement, our theories of change and helps people to share their powerful stories to implement change.
For example, three members in our team have openly shared their former homelessness or severe vulnerability with substance abuse and they are now key leaders in our Open Table movement. They are key agents of change.
Organising has been a powerful tool in helping us to engage and transform some of the lives of our current and former homeless community. However, we believe there is more to do. Organising can be a powerful tool in helping us to shape policy – and with our homeless communities at the heart of that change, if we work together it will be achieved.
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105 years ago today - Dec 17, 1914; Thursday
While in Rexburg [Idaho], Bro[ther]. Whitney said, a young couple called to see him named Bergner. The young woman had been a plural wife of Bro[ther]. [former apostle] M[atthias]. F. Cowley, whom he married in 1905, the result of this union being one child. She had since left Bro[ther]. Cowley and married Bergner. They told Bro[ther]. Whitney that Bro[ther]. Cowley had spoken to Pres[iden]t. Austin, asking him to see that this child was baptized in his own name, that of Cowley and not Bergner, but Bro[ther]. and Sister Bergner wanted the name of the child changed, and in fact they had had him baptized under the name of Bergner and confirmed under that name, he having been baptized in one ward and confirmed in another. Bro[ther]. Whitney said he told them he could not give any council regard to this matter.
President Smith now raised the question of the right of Bro[ther]. M[atthias]. F. Cowley to claim Sister Bergner's child, she not having been sealed to him by the authority of the Church.
On motion of Bro[ther]. Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr., seconded by Bro[ther]. Talmage, the council sustained the claim of the mother, that the child belonged to her, and that she therefore had the right to call it after her name. ....
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