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St. Winifred`s Well Walk
Message from Steve Owen, Ruyton XI Towns Local History Society
A WALK TO ST WINIFRED`S WELL, WOOLSTON
Saturday 6th July
A walk along the Shropshire Union Canal from Queens Head to St. Winifred`s Well at Woolston.
At this ancient well, famous for the healing properties of its water, we will learn the history of the site from our expert guide.
Meet at the public car park opposite Queens Head pub at 11am The walk should take around 45 minutes each way and is mainly along the canal towpath but the final few hundred metres are across a grassy field. Suitable footware advisable. The well can be reached by car however, parking space is limited; anyone arriving by car should aim to arrive by 12 noon to meet the walkers.
Society members free, visitors and guests welcome. £2.50 each, payableon the day.
Entertainment on our doorstep
Message from Marg Kynaston of LADS
Roleplay Theatre Workshop
proudly present
by Alan Parker and Paul Williams
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British Musical Gangster film, directed by Alan Parker. Set in 1929 New York City, the film is very loosely based on events in New York City from the early 1920s to 1931 in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema. Featuring only child actors (with singing voices provided by adults),
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st July at
Llanymynech Village Hall
Tickets - Adults £4, Children £2 - from Llanymynech Village Shop, The Village Hall or
Phone 01691 839 421
Come in 1920s clothes but NO GUNS!!
All profits to go to Llanymynech Village Hall for the rehabitation ofthe community.
Please stick the attached poster up on a wall, gate, fence, door, or even a noticeboard near you.
Paper Engineering at Booka
Sent by Booka Bookshop, Oswestry Paper Engineering Workshop with Robert Crowther Saturday 29th 10.00 am to 12 noon. This event will now be held at Booka Bookshop and not The Qube. Please come along if you or your children are interested in how to make pop-ups - we would love to see you.
Children of the Gaza Strip
Sent by Ros Slowly
Hermon, Chapel Street, Oswestry (not far from the library), will be hosting an
EXHIBITION OF CHILDREN`S ART FROM GAZA
on Saturday 13th and 20th July, 10.00am to 4.00pm.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a talk by Rod Cox, at 7.30pm on Friday 19th July, on the lives of the children who painted the pictures following the 2008-09 Israeli invasion of Gaza.
The exhibition is organised by Oswestry Coalition for Peace.
Please display the attached poster on a wall, door, gate, fence or even a noticeboard near you.
Events at Booka Bookshop, Oswestry
From Booka Bookshop, Church Street, Oswestry An Exciting Programme of Events for Independent Booksellers Week. Just in case you missed our newsletter, we wanted to quickly remind you about the events we have coming up for Independent Booksellers Week: Saturday 29th June Paper Engineering Workshop with author Robert Crowther 10.00 am to 12 noon at the Qube - booking required. Saturday 29th June Vinylette Jilly Hartshorn will be performing and playing records at Booka 2pm to 3.30 pm Monday 1st July Author and Bradt Travel Founder, Hilary Bradt will be talking about her travels across Ireland on horseback 7 pm (for 7.30 pm) start. Tuesday 2nd July Illustrator Rebecca Cobb will be hosting a paperdoll workshop and book signing at 4 pm. Come along and join in the publisher's attempt to break the World record for the longest paper doll chain. Wednesday 3rd July at 4 pm Launch of Booka Bookshop's new Children's Bookclub with Rosie and Carrie. Booking required. For further information on any of the events, please call in to the shop, visit our website - www.bookabookshop.co.uk or telephone us on 01691 662244
More about the Parish Plan Steering Committee
You are cordially invited to attend Ruyton XI Towns Parish Plan Steering Committee AGM, "the future direction of our Parish", on Wednesday 10th July at 7.30pm in the Victoria Room (opposite the church gate, entrance on Little Ness Road).
The guest speaker is Peter Clarke, chair of Kinnerley Neighbourhood Plan, who will talk to us about Kinnerley's experience in producing a Neighbourhood Plan.
Ros Slowley, on behalf of the PPSC
Yoland Brown
Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR
ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club
www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.com www.ShACC-uk.org
Tel: 01939 261 121 Fax: 01939 260626
R XI T Parish Plan Steering Committee
Ruyton XI Towns Parish Plan Steering Committee
invite all interested parishioners to consider:
“The future direction of our parish”
On Wednesday, 10th July at 7.30pm in the Victoria Room
when there will be a presentation from Kinnerley Neighbourhood Plan
Followed by the AGM
Refreshments will be available
Margaret Lycett
e-mail: margaret@doctorsmeadow.freeserve.co.uk
or: margaret@rxit.org.uk
Telephone (home): 01939 261177
Much Ado about Nothing - a fun production
Message sent by Pam Johnson
Just a reminder that Much Ado about Nothing is on soon – as follows –
A fun production with dancing, music, masks, lots of actors …. and real horses!!
Do come – it is an open air production with a marquee for the audience – and a bar within walking distance – what more could you want?
Knit for Life
Knitting together for those in need
www.knitforlife.co.uk
Bridge Field open space
Message from Clive Dean, Countryside Sites and Greenspace Officer, Sh CC
Tel: 01743 255909 Mobile:07582 003561
THE BRIDGE FIELD
I visited the fields the other day and thought I would write to you all, not all good news though I’m afraid!
You will have noticed no benches have arrived on site yet. Work has been pretty hectic as usual and I haven’t had time to order them yet, plus our practical team has lost a few members of staff to new jobs so I know they won’t have time to put them in at the moment but I will get onto it soon.
The new mowing regime is in place and I hope it is making the place more useable. I am still having problems getting a circular path mown at the top end of the field but I am working on it.
The trees seem to be doing very well. The bigger ones are struggling but they had been hanging around for a while before I put them in so I’m surprised they are not all dead! The ones we put in as a team all seem to be doing well so well done!
I have inspected the areas where I had the ground prepared and sown with hay meadow seed and the results are extremely disappointing. I can find no seedlings coming up from the mix, a result that is really inexplicable. Even if the conditions were really poor I can’t explain why there wouldn’t be at least some germination. I would like to try spreading hay from a flower rich meadow this year to see if that works better. I am currently looking around to source hay from some appropriate Shropshire Meadows and will organise a hay spreading day in July or early August so I hope you can all come and help.
On top of this the show of flowers down by the bridge is very poor even though I was assured that they would persist for quite a while, I may try seeding this again for next year, another job for us all in October?
The one glimmer of hope is that I have found patches of hay rattle and eyebright (see attached images) in the sward. These are semi-parasitic plants that are normally found in meadows and help to reduce the vigour of the grasses so allowing more wildflowers to grow. They will have arisen from some hay meadow seed I spread last year near the bridge. It would be beneficial to spread the seed from the hay rattle throughout the rest of the field later on in the year.
There is another problem I could do with some volunteer help with! Where we prepared the ground near the bridge a lot of stones were unearthed and are sitting on the surface. These could cause a lot of damage to the mower and I worry that the contractor will refuse to cut it. If we were to spend an hour stone picking we could probably clear them and put them on the pile of stones by the bridge.
If I organise a stone picking evening one Tuesday or Wednesday at 6pm who would be prepared to come and join me? A couple of wheelbarrows would be useful.
Well I would love to hear from you and I hope to see you all soon.
Jazz at The Talbot
Why travel for entertainment when it is available on the door step!
the LUDLOW JAZZ QUARTET
playing at
The Talbot Inn, Ruyton XI Towns
Wednesday 26th June from 8pm
Food will be available as usualat The Talbot - why not book a table?
Shrewsbury Food Festival
Message from Andy Richardson, organiser of
29th & 30th June
We're just over a week away from the inaugural Shrewsbury Food Festival. It will take place on June 29 and 30 in The Quarry and around town. So far, preparations for the event have exceeded expectation. The festival had hoped to attract 70 exhibitors - in fact, 130 will be present on June 29 and 30 and organisers we applications from a further 30.
As we near the date of our event, I trust you won't mind me emailing you. While not all of you will be able to attend, I hope some will be able to forward this email to other contacts so as to increase the likelihood of a good crowd. For those who work in large corporate organisations, or councils, we'd be grateful if you could forward this information to your intranet or similar communications system. we're keen to let as many people as possible know about the event - our marketing campaign will have failed if there are people who, on july 1, say: 'that sounded like it was really good, i wish i'd known about it'.
The event will feature celebrity chef demonstrations from the likes of Will Holland (La Becasse, James Martin's Saturday Kitchen, BBC Great British Menu) and Marcus Bean (ITV This Morning, Channel 4 What's Cooking, Brompton Cookery School at Attingham, BBC Good Food Show), plus many more. They will feature on the Wenlock Spring Chef Demonstration Stage.
There will be a children's education marquee, sponsored by Darwin Matthews, which will provide educational activities and fun things for youngsters.
Live music will be on site in the form of #ShropshireUnsigned, which is being sponsored by The Armoury. It will feature plenty of local bands, all keen to play to an audience of thousands.
There will also be a bursary area, sponsored by Rowlands, which will provide a shop window for small artisan businesses. Additionally, there will be numerous craft stands, talks and demonstrations and much, much more.
The event will be opened by Boycie, from Only Fools And Horses, at 10am on June 29 and will continue that day until 6pm. It will run from 10am to 5pm on June 30.
The event will provide community benefit: we are providing free-of-charge stands to a number of good causes, such as Fair Trade, and have developed other partnerships with not-for-profit concerns. The organisers also plan to make a donation to a local school, so that it can build a market garden as part of an on-going Shrewsbury Food Festival educational programme.
The organisers have been supported by more than 60 volunteers from the town, who will help to manage the weekend's activities. The event aims to support independent businesses in Shrewsbury and many restaurants, bars and food shops are taking part. It is estimated that the event will generate more than £100,000 for the local economy. We have received support from a number of local businesses and other organisations, for which we are extremely grateful.
All it needs now is your support - please tell colleagues, forward this email to as many people as possible and make people aware that on June 29 and 30 we'll be glad to host each and every one of you. Admission is deliberately low - tickets are a tenner for families, a fiver for adults or a quid for kids under 16. Children at local primary schools will be given coupons, so that they can attend free of charge. Tickets are available now and can be booked at www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk. Free programmes are also available at that website.
Word of mouth will be the event's strongest ally in its first year - so we'd be enormously grateful if you'd distribute this email to others, so that people are aware that the Shrewsbury Food Festival takes place on June 29 and 30 at The Quarry.
We've paid for 15,000 free programmes, 10,000 of which have been distributed around town. We've also paid for around 30,000 A5 flyers, in addition to banners and similiar. We put 5,000 free tickets into local primary schools. We're in it for the long term - The Quarry is booked to 2015 for future events - and the intention is that it will run for several decades.
Book your tickets now at www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk and we hope to see you there.
Andy and Beth
TOMORROW - Tuesday 18th June
BROWNHILL HOUSE GARDEN will be OPEN
for the National Gardens Scheme - 1.30 to 5pm
Admission £3.50 - Children free - Teas - Plants for sale - Not suitable for Wheelchairs - Sorry, no dogs
Have you visited this famous garden right on your doorstep in the last 30, 20, 10, 5 years???
If you think you can see it all from the pavement you must be BONKERS!
If we could just get some support from our friends and neighbours in the locality, we could reach
£50,000 for the NGS since we first opened 30 years ago. All proceeds go to the National Gardens Scheme
Saturday 22nd June - Edwardian Tea Party at Powis Castle
Food and craft stalls, fairground and lots of competitions to enter see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/PowisCastle events
Sunday 23rd June - Plant Hunters` Fair at Whittington Castle
- Have a go archery at Battlefield 1403 with Milles des Marches
Saturday and Sunday 29th & 30th June - Shrewsbury Food Festival
More information next week but FORECAST MARQUEES, a local company, are the official marquee provider and co-sponsor of the SHREWSBURY FOOD FESTIVAL
Save Baschurch Fire Station
Sent by Sarah Richards on behalf of Paul Ridgley and John Lloyd who are co-ordinating the campaigns to save the Baschurch Fire Station.
Just to let you know that the website has now gone live – please visit www.SaveBaschurchFireStation.co.uk
Letters objecting to the closure should be sent to our local member, Councillor Nick Bardsley, and our MP, Rt Hon Owen Paterson.
There will be some banners going up very soon to promote the campaign and a limited number of flyers have also been ordered. I have attached the images for anyone who wishes to print and use them.
Sarah Richards
Maple Business Services
Sarah@MapleBusinessServices.co.uk
www.MapleBusinessServices.co.uk
Maple Business Services Ltd
Maple Cottage
Weston Lullingfields
SY4 2AW
Registered in England Number 6738412
West Felton Carnival
West Felton Carnival is always a great event - and it is in one of the XI Towns so the rest of us should support the huge amount of effort which goes into putting on the event.
Sunday 14th July - starting from the Punch Bowl pub at 1.30pm
Carnival King and Queen leading the grand procession of decorated floats through the village.
The parade winds its way around West Felton to the playing field on Tedsmore Road
Very Nice Production Company - Belly Dancers - Scout Drummers - School Choir - Caricaturist - Blacksmith - Birds of Prey Display - Basket Weaver - Woodcarver - BBQ - Bar - Porth-y-Waen Band - Tea and Cakes - Tombola - Fun Fair - Hoola-Hoop Dancers - Craft Stalls - Mini Train Ride
Admission £2 - kids and OAPs FREE
Please stick the attached poster on a door, gate, wall, fence or even a noticeboard near you
Proposed closure of Baschurch Fire Station
Email from Mike Robbins, Milford, Baschurch.
Please pass any comments on the closure of Baschurch Fire Station to the Baschurch Parish Clerk, Mrs. Anne Howls
BASCHURCH PARISH COUNCIL
Clerk: Mrs Anne Howls
The Newlands ~ Crosscut Lane ~ Stanwardine-in-the-Fields ~ Baschurch ~
Shropshire ~ SY4 2DD
Telephone: 01939 260442 ~ email: ellesmerepc@supanet.com
Clerk to the Parish Council
Dear Parish Clerk,
CLOSURE OF BASCHURCH FIRE STATION
You may well be aware that due to stringent cutbacks by the Government, the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are considering the closure of Baschurch Fire Station. If this action takes place, the effect regarding the area of your Parish Council will be enormous.
At present, the first fire engine to attend any fire or serious road accident in your area, as well as a host of other emergency situations where peoples’ lives are in danger, is the Baschurch fire engine. The time taken to arrive in your parish area is quite reasonable. With the fire station closed, any emergency requiring the attendance of the Fire and Rescue Service will require fire engines to be mobilized from Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Wem or Ellesmere. The time lag effect will be increased by many minutes, each one being crucial in a life threatening emergency.
Shrewsbury fire station is crewed by whole time firefighters because it is a very busy station. If the fire crews are already attending an emergency situation in their area, they will not be able to respond to any other incident. Similarly, Oswestry fire station, which is crewed by part time firefighters, is the busiest part time fire station in the county. As well as the possibility of their being unable to respond, due to them already being committed at an emergency, there is also the likelihood that, being part time, they may not have enough firefighters available to form the minimum number of crew needed to permit a fire engine to attend an emergency. In these instances, fire engines from fire stations farther away would be sent to your area, increasing again the time taken to arrive at an emergency.
Baschurch Parish Council is deeply concerned with the possibility of the fire station closure, and is making efforts to ensure that residents, schools and businesses in the area are aware of the situation, and asking them to voice their concerns by lobbying their District Councillor, Member of Parliament and the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. We would wish that you also take action likewise, and also make every effort to ensure that the opinions of both your council and the general public in your council area are heard by those who are considering endangering our lives, property and livelihoods.
Anne Howls
(Clerk to the Parish Council)
Some coming events in June
For more information on these events contact Mile End Information Centre, Oswestry 01691 662 488 or oswestrytourism@shropshire.gov.uk
15th Oswestry Sinfonia at Holy Trinity Church 7.30pm Adults £8.00
15th Shrewsbury Carnival & Show, www.shrewsburycarnival.co.uk
15th – 16th Clwyd Veteran & Vintage Machine Event Oswestry Showground. Tel
Tel 01978 756354 www.cvvms.co.uk
15th – 16th Ellesmere Food Festival. 10am-4pm. Free. www.ellesmerefoodfestival.co.uk
15th – 16th Borderland Visual Arts open studio weekends10am – 5pm www.borderlandvisualarts.com
16th Hodnet Hall Gardens Open 12:00pm-5:00pm Adults £6.00 Child £3.00,Dogs on lead Tel:01630 685786
16th Fathers Day at Cambrian Heritage Railway Llynclys Tel: 01691 688763
22nd Orthopaedic Hospital Fete (To be confirmed)
22nd – 23rd Country Food and Craft Fair at the Plassey, Wrexham 10.30am – 4.30pm
tel 01978 780277 Free admission www.plassey.com
22nd- 23rd Powys and Mid Wales Military Vehicle Show at Park Hall Countyside Experience Tickets- Adults £2.00 Child £1.00 Tel:01691 718075
22nd – 23rd Borderland Visual Arts open studio weekends10am – 5pm www.borderlandvisualarts.com
23rd Brass Band in Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 2pm – 4pm
23rd Plant Hunter’s Fair, Whittington Castle www.whittingtoncastle.co.uk
23rd Hodnet Hall Gardens Open 12:00pm-5:00pm Adults £6.00 Child £3.00,Dogs on lead Tel:01630 685786
27th An Introduction to Healing Dogs and Horses at The Heritage Centre, Oswestry £5.00 to include Drink Tel 01691 662753
28th - 29th Limey’s Memories, Llanymynech Heritage Area and Church
28th “Songs from Pirates of Penzance” at St Michaels Church West Felton followed by Buffet Supper £10.00
29th Cantiones Summer Soiree (venue to be confirmed) www.cantiones.org.uk
Brownhill House Garden open
Extend - come and enjoy the 5th anniversary
Plant Hunters` Fair- Whittington Castle
Kinokulture June screenings
Steel band in Shrewsbury Quarry park
LADS are planning their next production
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Are Halsey and Yungblud Back Together?
Allen Berezovsky, Getty Images
Halsey and Yungblud's latest Instagram posts have fans convinced they're back together.
The reconciliation rumors all started this weekend after the "You Should Be Sad" hitmaker shared a photo of a meal on her Stories, which consisted of a traditional Yorkshire dish, including pudding and Banoffee pie. (Yungblud, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, was born in Yorkshire, England.)
"My first crack at making a Sunday dinner #YorkshireCertified," Halsey captioned the shot.
The 22-year-old artist then further fueled speculation after he re-posted Halsey's photo on his own Instagram account and wrote "can confirm" along with a checkmark and heart emoji.
Naturally, fans of the former couple are celebrating via Twitter.
Fans also noticed Halsey deleted her birthday post for boyfriend Evan Peters, leading many to believe the two may have called it quits. Neither of them has confirmed the split, but sources say the actor is the one who broke it off.
As for Halsey and Yungblud, they broke up in September 2019 after the singer was spotted on a date with Peters at Six Flags. At the time, she denied rumors that she cheated on him with the American Horror Story star and sources said the pair decided to go their separate ways due to conflicting schedules.
Halsey and Yungblud's Cutest Couple's Photos
Source: Are Halsey and Yungblud Back Together?
Filed Under: Halsey
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Georgia and Ukraine will become NATO members sooner under Joe Biden’s Presidency – Paul Goble, former Special Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State said in an interview with Ekho Kavkaza.
Speaking about the issue, Goble explained that Russia returned its troops to the South Caucasus that needed a response on part of western countries. Moldova’s new president supported West rather than Moscow that made it easier for the alliance to expand.
According to the American diplomat, NATO wanted to look as being a group of western democracy and would like to incline countries for changes, to make them more democratic, to have free market economy.
As for occupation of Georgia’s regions and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea, Goble said that the U.S. new administration would carry out a renewed non-recognition policy of these regions.
“The Russian government violated the rules of international order. President Biden is committed to international law, and Americans talk about it a lot. Whether this will bring change to Russia, no one knows. At the same time, it will not be something that will simply disappear,” said former advisor to the US Secretary of State.
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Home Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo SA reveals pricing and line-up of the all-new Giulietta
Alfa Romeo SA reveals pricing and line-up of the all-new Giulietta
100 years in the making…
It’s here! The wait is finally over – undoubtedly this year’s most highly anticipated new car is officially unveiled. A fitting symbol of the brand’s 100-year motoring evolution, the all-new Giulietta appropriately enjoys pride of place at the impressive, glass-domed Alfa Romeo Centenary display at Melrose Arch Piazza, Johannesburg.
This latest incarnation of the Giulietta shares the ‘stage’ at Melrose Arch with seven of its iconic predecessors: ranging from a 1982 Giulietta 1.8 to an extremely rare 1959 Giulietta Sprint Speciale (Low Nose) owned by Dawn Manelis with an estimated value of around R1 million.
The Giulietta story began in the 1950s when this extrovertly-styled sedan caught the imagination of the driving public with its racy appeal, attractive looks and accessible pricing. Now, over 50 years later, the Italian sporting car manufacturer is celebrating its centenary with an all-new namesake which goes on sale in South Africa. (All 16 Alfa Romeo dealers across the country will shortly have demonstrator Giuliettas – sales, however, only begin in earnest in January 2011.)
The latest incarnation of the Giulietta has been designed to beat the best in the mid-size C segment – and that’s no easy task considering the excellence of the competition in a category that now accounts for the second largest number of passenger sales in South Africa.
To take on this challenge, Alfa Romeo has penned an all-new car that sits on an all-new Compact platform. This employs a combination of advanced engineering and sophisticated technical solutions to ensure the Giulietta can accommodate the needs of all customers in this category. The result is a model that combines impeccable safety credentials, Italian style, comfort and functionality with the dynamic qualities taken for granted in Alfa Romeos.
In addition, every customer can adapt the new car to their specific driving requirements thanks to Alfa Romeo’s D.N.A. (Dynamic, Normal or All-Weather) selector. But this is just one of the electronic systems that the Compact platform was designed to integrate and exploit. Others, fitted as standard to every model in the range, include the Electronic Q2 differential and the VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control) system.
At launch, the new Giulietta range comprises three turbocharged petrol engines (all Euro 5 compliant) with complementary high levels of kit:
1.4 TBi Progression – 88kW @ 5000rpm /206Nm @ 1750rpm
MultiAir 1.4 TBi Distinctive – 125kW @ 5500rpm/ 250Nm @ 2500rpm
1750 TBi Quadrifoglio Verde – 173kW @ 5500rpm/340Nm @ 1900rpm
Highlighting the eco-friendliness of the new Giuliettas, it’s noteworthy that both 1400 turbo variants combine Start&Stop technology and a gearshift indicator to enable drivers to achieve the best economy possible. The most powerful petrol engine in the range is the 1750 TBi, a twin overhead camshaft, direct injection, variable valve timing engine that brings the classic 1750 capacity back to the Alfa Romeo range but with a modern twist. This innovative turbocharged unit provides more horsepower and torque per litre than any other four-cylinder petrol engine found in this class of car. The resulting performance is equivalent to a three-litre while economy remains in line with a compact four-cylinder engine.
But the Giulietta isn’t just about being fun to drive or having an interior trimmed with all the creature comforts one has come to expect from a premium brand (electric windows, remote central locking, high-end stereo system, steering wheel controls, and Blue&Me communication are just some of the standard interior niceties). Whichever the model, owners will get one of the safest cars on the road. The new Alfa Giulietta was recently awarded a Euro NCAP five-star crash safety rating and an overall score of 87/100: an impressive result that makes it the safest compact car built to date.
Evidence of this, for instance, is provided by the adoption of the most advanced electronic dynamic control systems (for braking and traction): the Vehicle Dynamic Control system which manages key functions like Hill Holder, traction control and emergency braking; the MSR system which prevents wheel locking when the throttle is released; the DST (Dynamic Steering Torque) system; Electronic Q2 which electronically simulates the presence of a self-locking differential, and the brand-new Pre-Fill system, which alerts the braking system that the accelerator pedal has been released, to decrease intervention time and consequently braking distance.
88kW 1.4 TBi Progression – R243 000 (incl. VAT and emissions tax)
125kW MultiAir 1.4 TBi Distinctive – R279 900
173kW 1750 TBi Quadrifoglio Verde – R330 275
As a first for a premium brand, Alfa Romeo offers a five-year 150 000 km warranty on the new Giulietta. Linked to this is a six-year/90 000km service plan for the 1.4-litre models (with service intervals of 30 000km) and a six-year/105 000km service plan for the flagship 1750 TBi which features 35 000km service intervals – once again a benchmark in this class.
The new models are covered by the AA Fleetcare roadside assistance for three years. The service is active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is available by calling the dedicated toll-free number 0800 223 727.
THE HISTORY OF GIULIETTA
The 1954 Turin Motor Show was a particularly special occasion for Alfa Romeo. Talk of the Show was a stunningly beautiful coupé styled by Bertone and powered by a new twin cam engine that was to become the heartbeat of Alfa’s bright future. The timing was perfect for the car-hungry mass market. With its delightful mechanicals, hyper-responsive driving charm, and price positioning, the new model, compared to its rivals anywhere in the world, was unbeatable.
These early Giuliettas are highly significant in Alfa Romeo’s glorious history, and were very influential to car designers for decades to come. In 1998, during the selection of the award for Car of the Century, the jury of 135 respected automotive journalists voted the 1954 Giulietta Sprint Coupé among the top nominations. “One of the great things about the Giulietta was the way it brought elegant Italian looks to a showroom where buying, rather than looking was possible for many people,” claimed the Car of the Century panel.
Work on this automotive jewel, called Project 750, started at the end of 1951 with a team of passionate and talented engineers headed by Orazio Satta Puliga and Rudolf Hruska, a pupil of the great Ferdinand Porsche. With a light aluminium block and crankcase, the engine was designed to be adaptable for a wide variety of models from commercial van to sports car. Until 1954, only Jaguar had put a twin-cam engine into true quantity production, but by the start of the 1960s Alfa Romeo had overtaken Jaguar’s figures.
The Bertone coupé was the first of the Giulietta family, but its brilliant qualities of superb engine, good handling, and great value were present in all the body styles including Saloon 1955, Spider 1955, Estate 1957, and even a long wheelbase ceremonial version by coachbuilder Colli.
When introduced in 1954, the newly-designed four-cylinder engine produced 80bhp from just 1290cc and gave the little car a top speed of 164km/h. At the time, this was outstanding performance and naturally made the Giulietta an excellent competition car.
In 1956 Alfa modified the engine to give an extra 10bhp and introduced the Sprint Veloce model which gave a top speed of 180km/h. Seven years after its introduction, the Giulietta was still competitive, as proved by a Ti saloon winning the 1300cc class of the FIA Grand Touring Championship, beating much more modern cars.
The Giulietta also inspired some of Italy’s most illustrious coachbuilders, with Bertone creating the memorable Sprint Speciale, and Zagato the formidable SZ. These limited production, high performance versions are among the most coveted classic Alfa Romeos.
More than any other model, the Giulietta changed Alfa Romeo’s public image, moving away from exclusive, expensive cars to affordable thoroughbreds with world-wide appeal.
ALFA ROMEO CENTENARY
Seductive style and rewarding performance have been synonymous with the peaks of Alfa Romeo’s rich history. From Grand Prix winners to city taxis, Alfas are renowned for being great driving machines that have always inspired a passionate following. Throughout the illustrious manufacturer’s last century, Italy’s most renowned engineers and stylists have created some of the greatest cars which are now prized in top automobile collections around the World.
From the earliest 24 HP designed in 1910 by Giuseppe Merosi for the newly formed Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili (ALFA) of Milan, to the latest Giulietta unveiled 100 years later at this year’s Geneva Motor Show, the great Italian marquee has consistently stirred the soul of automotive enthusiasts world-wide.
1910 The first company A.L.F.A (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili) is started at the Portello factory in Milan
1911 Alfa competes for the first time in the Targa Florio.
1914 Count Marco Ricotti builds the amazing streamlined 40-60hp saloon with egg-shaped bodywork by Castagna that looks like it could have landed from space.
1915 Industrialist Nicola Romeo takes over the company.
1918 The cars built after WW1 carry the name Alfa Romeo for the first time.
1920 The first sporting Alfa, the 20/30ES is launched, with a top speed of 87mph. Enzo Ferrari finishes second in the Targa Florio driving this remarkably fast car.
1923 First four wheel brakes are fitted to the handsome 3-litre RL range. Ferrari wins the Circuit of Savio, a performance that so impressed the parents of fighter pilot Francesco Baracca that they gave Ferrari their son’s prancing horse badge. This was carried on all Alfa team cars which Ferrari managed.
1924 Alfa Romeo wins the French Grand Prix with the P2 designed by a talented ex-Fiat engineer, Vittorio Jano, who would be responsible for such greats as the 6C 1750, 8C 2300 and the Tipo B.
1926 Jano, one of the greatest automotive engineers, replaces chief designer Giuseppe Merosi.
1927 The 6C-1500 touring car designed by Jano goes into production.
1928 The supercharged 6C Gran Sport established Alfa Romeo as a premier sports car manufacturer, particularly when fitted with beautiful bodywork by Zagato. Campari and Ramponi win the Mille Miglia, the first of 10 dominant victories in this epic Italian road race before WW2.
1931 The 8C-2300, the ultimate pre-war sports car, is ready for sale. Only 188 of these exotics were made in four years and Alfa made no profit from them.
1931 British aces Earl Howe and ‘Bentley Boy’ Henry Birkin win the Le Mans 24 Hours in an 8C-2300. Alfa dominated the French endurance classic in 1932,1933 and 1934.
1935 The great Tazio Nuvolari beats the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams to win the German Grand Prix in a Tipo B.
1935 The 8C-2900 with all-independent suspension and supercharged 180bhp engine has spectacular 120mph performance. With bodywork by Touring, this is one of the most beautiful cars of the 1930s. Just 30 were built in spider and coupe form.
1950 Production policy changes result in a move to mass production on a new assembly line with the new 1900 designed by Orazio Satta. With unitary construction, this was the first Alfa to have left-hand drive. Over 17,000 were built.
1950 Giuseppe Farina becomes the first World Champion driving the unbeatable Alfetta Tipo 158, taking three Grand Prix wins at Silverstone, Bremgarten and Monza.
1951 Juan Fangio is World Champion driving the Alfetta in its last season.
1951 Alfa returns to sports car racing with the Disco Volante (Flying Saucer), so named after its distinctive streamlined bodywork by Touring. The great Fangio drove a 6-cylinder version to victory in the 1953 Supercortemaggiore GP.
1953 Turin coachbuilder Bertone creates the sensational BAT 5 dream car which launched a brilliant young stylist called Franco Scaglione into the limelight. The design recorded a low drag coefficient of 0.23. With scrolled body form and wild tail fins, the BAT Alfas 3,5 and 7 were the sensation of motor shows in the 1950s.
1954 The Giulietta is born, a landmark in Alfa history. Designed by Orazio Satta Puliga, this twin-ohc 1290cc engine is the smallest twin-camshaft motor to be made in such quantity. The exquisitely formed Sprint GT was the star of the Turin Show.
1963 A new factory at Arese near Milan is opened to produce the Giulia in greater numbers.
1966 The new Pinin Farina-styled Duetto 2-seater spider is launched and stars in the cult movie The Graduate, in which it’s driven by Dustin Hoffman. Production continued in various forms until 1994.
1967 The Tipo 33 Stradale, a road-going version of the sports prototype appears at the 1967 Monza Racing Car Show with stunning bodywork by Franco Scaglioni. Just 18 of these 160mph supercars were built by Autodelta, and were the most expensive cars in the world at that time.
1971 The Alfasud is announced at the Turin Motor Show with plans for production at a new factory in the south of Italy. With brilliant styling by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Ital Design, this front-wheel drive, flat four cylinder 1186cc powered small car was a new direction for the marque.
1976 The Giulietta name was revived for new, boxy saloon using Alfetta engines and transmission.
1985 To celebrate Alfa Romeo’s 75th anniversary the Giulietta is replaced by the 75.
1986 Alfa Romeo is sold by the government-backed IRL to Fiat.
1989 Historic links with Zagato are revived with the dramatic SZ. This chunky coupé was powered by a 210bhp version of the glorious Alfa V6.
1998 Alfa Romeo wins Car of the Year with the stylish 156 saloon.
2001 Alfa Romeo wins Car of the Year with the 147 compact hatchback.
2003 The fabulous 8C Competizione concept car is introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Production starts in 2007 with a limited series of 500, which sell out immediately.
2010 The evocative Giulietta name is revived for a dazzling new Alfa five door compact that is launched to great acclaim at the Geneva Motor Show.
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Lodge History
Masters Message
The Brotherhood: What Is Expected of You
Freemasonry has been characterized as fraternity devoted to high ideals and admirable benevolence. Community service and charitable work are, in fact, principal Masonic activities.
Easily the best-known is the world's largest single charitable institution, the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children and Burns Institutes, which are located throughout Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.
Other Masonic bodies support their own statewide and national foundations for research, teaching, and treatment or rehabilitation services for children with learning or speech disorders, cancer, visual problems, and need of dental restoration.
Masons everywhere assist distressed brother Masons and their families. They also sponsor or support local projects ranging from the recognition of the achievements of others to scholarship programs. Masons serve as community volunteers and quietly extend help for countless thousands-from providing a child with shoes to assisting the handicapped.
Altogether, the budgets for these community services exceed two million dollars per day, which Masons support without regard to the Masonic affiliation of their recipients. With this spirit of working together to serve mankind, brotherhood works well, indeed.
TWO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT IS ASKED
Is Freemasonry a religion?
No, Neither is Freemasonry a religion, nor does it require a religious affiliation. However, Masons worship in congregations of their choice. Some are ordained priests,, ministers, or rabbis; many serve in lay capacities; and, others have no affiliation. With origins in post-Reformation England, Freemasonry's allegories and rituals are rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition. They exemplify mankind's universal experience and inculcate an admired moral and ethical value system. With respect to religion, Freemasonry simply teaches the "Fatherhood of God" and the "Brotherhood of Man."
Is Freemasonry a "secret" society?
No. Freemasonry is a fraternity of men who are proud to be known as Masons. Since our inception, the world has known of speculative Freemasonry and its work. Freemasonry does, however, have some secrets, all extending from historic tradition. Our modes of recognition, opening and closing ceremonies, and rituals of conferring the Degrees of Masonry are our only secrets. Thousands of works discussing Masonic history, traditions, craft, and proceedings are widely available to the public.
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Meet Connor ‘Xindy’ Holloway of Ballerina Book Club
August 13, 2020 | Britt Stigler
POSTED IN Words
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Connor Holloway is a producer, co-creator and bestie of Ballerina Book Club. Connor is also a dancer with American Ballet Theatre, gender non-conforming, a Pisces, Brooklynite and a lover of strong, black coffee!
“I wish I had more hours in the day so I could read more. When I can, I love chewing on The New Yorker and then spitting it out at everyone I know. Those articles are long, and people need to know I can hack my way through to the other side.”
Read on below to learn more about the Ballerina Book Club co-founder’s reading habits and — extra, extra — tune in to Connor’s “Listen While You Read” playlist.
What was the last book you recommended to a friend?
“Beyond the Gender Binary,” by Alok Vaid-Menon. I recommended it to a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group that I am a part of at work. It is part of a collection published by Penguin Random House called the “Pocket Change Collective.” They are these little books you can literally carry in your pocket, or your hipster fanny pack, and they are super informative. This one is written by one of my favorite gender activists and speaks to the history and reality of gender in the world and our society today. 10/10 recommend!
Photo: Connor Holloway.
What’s your reading style?
My favorite place to read is on the subway. It makes commuting tolerable and actually makes me look forward to getting on the train. I live in Brooklyn and have at least a 45-minute commute into the city; so I can really turn some pages. I like to have my over-ear headphones on with something chill playing so I can really drown out the world around me.
What was your relationship to reading like as a kid?
I absolutely hated reading as a child. It was a total chore and actually uncomfortable to do. My brain just couldn’t focus the way it needed to absorb the information on the pages. I loved the idea of being a reader and made many attempts, but almost never completed a book.
How do reading and books inform how you relate to your career as a dancer?
I have always enjoyed reading the librettos of the classic story-tale ballets we frequently perform at American Ballet Theatre. For those that don’t know, a libretto (Italian for booklet) is a short written text used for musical works. They explain the setting, characters and the storyline. Mostly you hear of these being used for opera. But what many people don’t know is that classical ballets have them as well.
Historically, the libretto would be the first piece of a ballet production that came to life. Choreography, musical composition, set design, casting were all to follow! In today’s world any one of those subsequent elements could be the initiating catalyst. So once upon a time, ballets began as books! I highly recommend checking them out; it is fascinating to see how the character and storylines have evolved with time. Perhaps intentionally, perhaps not.
How did you get into ballet as a profession?
I got into ballet by way of musical theater. As a kid, I always imagined myself on Broadway. Singing while dancing and acting was what made me feel most alive. At a certain age, musical theater got sidelined and ballet got serious. I still dream of returning to it one day. I love ballet a lot, but sometimes the silence of it can feel limiting. As with literature, I adore the beauty of words and what they can express.
What advice would you offer to someone trying to break into your field?
Have other interests! Other hobbies! Ballet is an incredibly wonderful career. There is so much beauty in the daily life of a dancer. Also a lot of struggle. But on the whole — wonderful. What keeps me happy and keeps me sane is passion, practice and interest in other things. When you can see a greater picture and have a more holistic understanding of your potential and worth, it is life-changing. The hardest thing for me about ballet is feeling trapped inside my body and its limitations. See your world and your life as bigger, greater and more beautiful than yourself, and you are set for success!
What’s a passion outside of your public persona that people might be surprised to know about?
I am pretty passionate about religion. I don’t talk much about it, but I have a curiosity that runs deep to my core when it comes to religion and spirituality. I have read, researched and attended services of more religions than anyone would likely care to know. I think there is something really incredible and beautiful about spirituality; and I am fascinated at the innate human inclination towards it.
Favorite book store?
It’s a New York City classic and undeniably one of my favorites: The Strand Book Store. Every time I’m there it’s an adventure. I really like that you can purchase used books for a discounted price. I also love how it’s always so crowded with the most eclectic crowd of New York’s bookworms. I frequent the one near ABT’s studios at Broadway and 12th Street.
Favorite books?
“The Alchemist,” by Paulo Coelho
I believe that “The Alchemist” is one of the most translated books by a living author. And after reading it, I absolutely understand why. It is simplistic in its language and its message but meaningful in a very deep and existential way. This book, to me, is to believe in good, to trust in the universe, and to trust in myself and my personal journey. As a person who lives with pretty perpetual anxiety, this book brought me relief and comfort. It felt like a book I would want to read to my children at a young age and revisit at an older age.
“Giovanni’s Room,” by James Baldwin
I could not put this book down. In fact, I think this may be the only book I have ever read in one sitting. This book is absolutely transportive in all of the best ways. Baldwin truly has a way with words. 1956. Paris. Smokey bars. Sweeping love affairs. This conflicted queer romance novel took me on a trip, and when I turned the final page, my heart ached for days.
“Flowers for Algernon,” by Daniel Keyes
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” — Daniel Keyes
Thinking about this book makes me smile. It was recommended to me by one of my best friends, Skylar Brandt. Apparently, it’s a classic for middle school readers but somehow my Catholic school curriculum deprived me of this treasure. It poses a question I have often wondered: How blissful can ignorance be? The book is centered on Charlie Gordon. The walking embodiment of joie de vivre but with very limited intellectual capabilities. A surgeon offers to make Charlie the smartest person on Earth, and I offer you a kind demand to read it and find out what happens!
“The Lost Language of Cranes,” by David Leavitt
I found this book on the subway! True story! It contained a Housing Works receipt with the owner’s name on it, and I found him on Facebook. Turns out, we have similar taste in literature, he’s a fellow performer in the city, and now we swap likes on social media. The universe can be really fun sometimes.
I knew from the moment we had our chance encounter I was going to love this book. I just wasn’t prepared for it to become one of my favorites. Almost anything that is set in NYC in the ‘80s has my heart; but this also hit a soft spot because much of the plot is centered on a young man’s coming of age, coming out and coming to see his parents as people. Truthfully, I think this book found me.
“The Left Hand of Darkness,” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Isabella Boylston actually told me to read this book! And I did! This book is so epic and also happens to be considered one of the founding books of the genre Feminist science fiction. Le Guin’s vivid character and world-building just blew my mind. Talk about inventive.
The story follows an envoy who is trying to convince the leaders of a foreign planet to join their confederation. The success of the envoy’s mission quickly becomes dependent upon his ability to communicate and understand a culture vastly different from his own. “The Left Hand of Darkness” puts a magnifying glass to the over-arching effects that sex and gender play on society and relationships. The ideas posed in this book opened my mind’s eyes in the most exciting of ways.
A book you’ve always wanted to read but for whatever reason haven’t?
Hard to say … I think anything that is over 500 pages intimidates me. I don’t think of myself as a person having commitment issues, but when a book that weighs more than a small cat is recommended to me, I politely ghost. But I do hope to get over this someday because many great works of literature exceed this personal limit of mine. I’ll keep you posted!
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Lamar Jackson Battles the Clemson Defense: College Football Week 3 Preview
Joe Student
The 2017 college football moves into its third week with key battles in the SEC and ACC. Here’s what to expect:
Is South Florida Ready for Post-Irma Football?
Illinois at (22) South Florida | Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Fla.; 7 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
After powerful Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Sunshine State last weekend, Floridians can be excused for not making football a priority these days. However, 22nd-ranked South Florida (2–0) will host Illinois (2–0) in Tampa as scheduled on Friday night. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN; it’s sure to be emotionally compelling television.
USF cancelled last week's game against Connecticut because of the storm, and its team hasn’t practiced since Thursday. The Bulls must quickly ready themselves to play against a Fighting Illini squad that topped Western Kentucky last Saturday. Running back Darius Tice is South Florida’s key offensive weapon; the Bulls defense needs to stop Illinois running back Mike Epstein, who had 111 yards in last week’s win.
Will Tennessee or Florida Drop Out of the Rankings?
(23) Tennessee at (24) Florida | Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, Fla.; 3:30 p.m. (ET) on CBS
Twenty-fourth-ranked Florida will host No. 23 Tennessee in an Southeastern Conference (SEC) battle in Gainesville on Saturday. The status of the game was in doubt after Hurricane Irma washed over the Sunshine State last weekend. Florida (0–1) cancelled last Saturday’s game against Northern Colorado, their first scheduled contest since a disappointing season-opening loss to Michigan. The Gators need to win this week to stay in the AP Top 25.
Led by quarterback Quinten Dormady, the Volunteers (2–0) have scored 42 points per game in consecutive wins over Georgia Tech and Indiana State. They’ll face a tougher test with a Florida defense that scored two return touchdowns against the Wolverines. Like the Gators, Tennessee needs this win to stay in the AP rankings.
Can Lamar Jackson Pass the Clemson Test?
(3) Clemson at (14) Louisville | Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, Kent.; 8 p.m. (ET) on ABC
Reigning Heisman Trophy–winner Lamar Jackson has been putting up video-game-like stats as his 14th-ranked Cardinals have rolled to a 2–0 start. Jackson now has more than 1,000 yards of total offense thus far in 2017, but he’ll face a much stiffer challenge when third-ranked Clemson visits for an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) game this week. The Tigers (2–0) registered 11 sacks in last week’s dominant victory over Auburn. They’ll likely try to keep Jackson in the pocket — and in their sights — throughout the game.
Just as important for Clemson: quarterback Kelly Bryant must stay protected and in control of the offense. Louisville’s defense has been suspect thus far and putting up points is one way to incentivize Jackson to drop back and pass, instead of run. If the Cardinals can get a win, they should stay in the college football playoff picture throughout the season.
Will USC Play at Home Every Week?
Texas at (4) USC | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles; 8:30 p.m. (ET) on Fox
The schedule-maker obviously loves fourth-ranked USC (2–0), which will play its third consecutive home game this Saturday when it hosts now-unranked Texas. The Trojans, who will finally play a road game at Cal next week, were impressive in beating Stanford last Saturday. The key: quarterback Sam Darnold, who completed 21 of 26 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns against the Cardinal. Darnold could have another huge day against a Longhorns defense that was victimized for 51 points by Maryland in Week 1.
Texas (1–1) did shut out San Jose State 56–0 last week. The Trojans defense won’t know if the Longhorns’ stud quarterback Shane Buechele or freshman QB Sam Ehlinger will start. Buechele sat out last week’s win with a shoulder injury. Running back Chris Warren III took over the load, rushing for 166 yards and two touchdowns. If he does that again, USC is in trouble, even at home.
Hurricanes-Seminoles Rescheduled for October 7
(17) Miami at (11) Florida State | Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, Fla.
Florida residents would much rather be focused on the annual meeting of Miami and Florida State than Hurricane Irma cleanup, but that’s what many fans will be doing this weekend. The game between the 17th-ranked Hurricanes and the 11th-ranked Seminoles in Tallahassee has been postponed to Oct. 7. The three-week delay will give both Miami (1–0) and Florida State (0–1) time to work through their schedules and perhaps be more focused. Either way, FSU will be without quarterback Deondre Francois, who was lost for the season to a knee injury suffered in the team’s Week 1 loss to top-ranked Alabama.
These teams aren’t the only Florida schools coping with scheduling issues due to Hurricane Irma’s wake: Central Florida canceled its home game against Georgia Tech on Saturday, and Florida International cancelled its road game at Indiana.
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I landed a shooting star!
October 11, 2016 October 11, 2016 | amygelsthorpe
I am super excited to announce that I just signed another Children’s Book CONTRACT!!!!
For those of you who are bad at math like me…
This means I have signed TWO book contracts in the last two months!
I am so excited to announce that STAR-FISHING will be published in late 2017 to early 2018!
Again, I am thankful for my literary agent Sandy Fuller with Alp Arts without her this would not be possible! Also, to Tannya Derby my publisher at Maclaren-Cochrane Publishing- thank you for another opportunity and for the love you have of my first two books!
Star-Fishing holds a special place in my heart. I chose the name “Billy” in honor of my daddy who passed away almost 9 years ago with pancreatic cancer. Although, he wasn’t an avid star gazer and this story is fictional- he taught me how to fish and chase my dreams. He was a hard worker and loved the many accomplishments of his children. I know he would be very proud of me landing my shooting star!
My dedication page:
Star-Fishing summary:
When Billy decides he wants to know what stars are made of, he seeks to catch one of his own. Billy doesn’t consider the obstacles that come when one attempts to catch a star… He can only dream about what he’ll learn when he catches his star. Mommy plays into Billy’s ideas and makes a game out of his Star-Fishing experience, a smart and fun strategy to encourage Billy’s imagination… Together they imagine the shooting star visiting exciting places and creatures like Mt. Everest, the North Pole, a hopping kangaroo and more… The outcome is pleasing, sentimental, and unique!
Undoubtedly, Billy isn’t the only child who has contemplated such adventures… No doubt children will make up their own shooting star adventures after reading Star-Fishing!
I’m so thankful to God for leading me to fulfill my dreams of becoming a published author! If this were not in His plan and His will it never would have happened!
Looking forward to many more contracts!
< My future illustrator is 9…
New Focus… Decision >
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That’s fantastic Amy I can’t wait to see them both on the shelves. I loved your first two books for women!
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Three colors: white
“Sergey Kiselev & Partners” the architectural bureau has completed the interior project of the public zones of an apartment complex at Ostozhenka. For the building with for different facades the architects chose a mostly white minimalist interior.
Anna Martovitskaya
Sergey Kisselev & Partners
Public zone interiors of the residential complex at Ostozhanka
head of the group of authors: S.B.Kiselev; architects: A.V.Medvedev, M.B.Serebryanikov, O.V.Ponomarenko; engineer: U.I.Braslavsky
The building is located at Ostozhenka, among Pozharskyy and 1st Zachatievsky side lanes. The new building preserves the original scale of the street: following the historical plotting, visually the objects is split into three parts. Different shades and individual pattern of windows of each part of the building load its façades with such a rich plasticity and texture, that the architects wanted to its interior design to be different. "Clean and free of complicated theme and excessive materiality of the facades - explains Alexey Medvedev, the chief architect of the project. - The only "external" idea seemed appropriate in the interior was the light wood, which is the decoration of the courtyard façade, but later we gave up the idea and preferred white". Really, the white color is dominant here: white walls and ceilings, white floors of large-size slabs of agglomerate. Thanks to uniform coloring the spaces visually flow from one to another. Glass makes it more solid and airy - walls, staircase railing, and illuminated decorative panel. However, this does not mean that the public areas of the new residential complex remind of a hospital ward. In the kingdom of purity and sterility the architects introduced a sufficient amount of color and light accents accurately indicating the interior typology and stressing the status of its owners. The stretched parallelepiped of the reception desk is made of dark Spanish marble “Emperador Dark”, which “coffee with milk” shade favorably contrasts with the surrounding sugary white. Behind the concierge there is an illuminated panel of frosted glass with a picture of enlarged fragments of paint of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. The hall wall joining all the five lift blocks is also turned into such panel. “We wanted to give the wall a meaning and we came to more textured but simple idea. Incredible plasticity expressiveness of Michelangelo’s works seemed appropriate, - explains Alexei Medvedev. –The first idea of a wall with illuminated spots was not intense enough. Enlarged and translated into a large screen and gray, the figures haven’t lost texture richness and surprising lightness, but gained abstract twist and, in fact, became the hangings we’ve been looking for. "
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Papurau Ap Nathan,
GB 0210 APNATHAN
1868-1959 (crynhowyd [c. 1905]-1959) /
Papurau'r Parch James Ednyfed Rhys (Ap Nathan), a phapurau'r unigolion canlynol a ddaeth i'w feddiant: y Parch. Evan Rees (Dyfed), Jonathan Rees (Nathan Wyn), David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morganwg) a Thomas Jones, Trealaw. Mae papurau...
Y Parch. James Ednyfed Rhys (Ap Nathan); y Parch. Evan Rees (Dyfed); Jonathan Rees (Nathan Wyn); David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morganwg); Thomas Jones, Trealaw.
Augusta Berry Collection of Deeds,
GB 0210 AUGRRY
1753-1865 (accumulated [1939]) /
Deeds collect by J. Augusta Berry, mainly relating to properties in Glamorgan, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, 1753-1865.
Berry, Augusta.
British Record Society Collection of Welsh Deeds,
GB 0210 BRS
1465-1883 /
Deeds, relating to properties in the following counties: Anglesey, 1737-1871; Cardiganshire, 1736-1780; Carmarthenshire, 1684-1838; Caernarfonshire, 1831-1878; Denbighshire, 1591-1837; Flintshire, 1465-1855; Glamorgan, 1597-1883; Merionethshire, 1...
British Record Society.
Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire Deeds,
GB 0210 CARIRE
Deeds relating mainly to Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, 1782-1951, including deeds of the Johnes family of Hafod, Cardiganshire, and rentals of manors in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, [c. 1891]-1925, including the manor of Tal-sarn and Si...
Johnes family, of Hafod, Cardiganshire
Coleman Collection of Deeds,
GB 0210 COLEMAN
[16th century]-[19th century] /
Deeds and other documents collected by James Coleman relating to Anglesey, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Merionethshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, and Rad...
James Coleman.
Cwrtmawr Deeds,
GB 0210 CWRTMAWR
1515-1898 (accumulated [1891]-[1926]) /
Deeds and documents, 1515-1898, relating principally to Wales, in particular Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorgan. The collection does not relate to a single particular family or estate, but the Cardiganshire documents mainl...
Davies, J. H. (John Humphreys), 1871-1926
Cyfarthfa Papers,
GB 0210 CYFHFA
[1706]-1878 /
Records relating mainly to the industrial concerns of the Crawshay family of Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, [1706]-1878, including leters and letter books of William Crawshay I and II and Robert Crawshay, 1806-1877; cash books, ledgers and ...
Crawshay family.
David and David Valuation Records,
GB 0210 DAVONS
Records of Messrs David and David, comprising records of valuations of properties in South Wales and the adjoining counties of England made during the period 1846-1933, including Breconshire, 1872-1912; Carmarthenshire, 1865-1884; Glamorgan, 1846-...
David and David of Cardiff, land agents.
D. Gethin Williams Collection of Deeds,
GB 0210 DGETHWIL
Collection of deeds acquire by D. Gethin Williams, relating to properties in Carmarthenshire and Glamorgan, 1687-1889.
Williams, D. Gethin, [alive 1960s]
E. Williams Collection of Welsh Deeds,
GB 0210 EWIAMS
Deeds acquired by E. Williams of Hove, relating to premises in Brecknockshire, 1564-1823; Cardiganshire, 1663-1778; Carmarthenshire, 1437-1790; Caernarfonshire, 1437-1822; Denbighshire, 1507-1743; Flintshire, 1469-1761; Glamorgan, 1612-1775; Merio...
Williams, E., (of Hove)
Frederick Holland Collection of Kemeys of Monmouthshire Deeds,
GB 0210 FREAND
1398-1793 (accumulated [early 20th century]) /
Monmouthshire deeds and documents, 1477-1761, some concerning the families of Thomas, Kemeys and Gardner (later Gardner-Kemeys) of Bertholey, Llantrissent; together with a small number of deeds and documents relating to properties in Denbighshire,...
Holland, Frederick.
Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Deeds,
GB 0210 GLAMON
Deeds and documents, 1727-1940, of the clients of Bythway and Son, relating mainly to properties in the counties of Monmouthshire, 1727-1940, and Glamorgan, 1823-1937; material relating to properties in Merionethshire, 1876; and Cardiganshire, 184...
Bythway and Son.
Glen A. Taylor Collection of Pencreeg and Glamorgan Deeds,
GB 0210 GLELOR
1528-1833 (accumulated [c. 1932]-1934).
Deeds relating to Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, 1528-1833, notably to the families of Morgan of Pencreeg, Monmouthshire, 1621-1679, and the Mackworth family of Neath, Glamorgan, 1724-1795.
Jeffreys and Powell, Brecon, Deeds,
GB 0210 JEFELL
Title deeds and other documents of depositor's clients, 1557-1939, relating to properties in Brecknockshire, 1557-1939, in particular to the Little Bell, Brecon, 1759-1883, and to the Pant Griffith estate, Merthyr Cynog, 1705-1856; in Glamorg...
Jeffreys and Powell (Solicitors)
John Jenkins Collection of Neath and Cilybebyll Deeds,
GB 0210 JOHINS
Papers collected by John Jenkins, mainly records of the manors of Neath Ultra and Cilybebyll, Glamorgan, 1632-1831; and deeds relating to Glamorgan and Brecknockshire, 1546-1933.
Jenkins, John.
John Lloyd, Dinas, Collection,
GB 0210 JOHLLOY
Documents collected by Col. Sir John Conway Lloyd, including over a thousand deeds, 1323-1870, relating to properties in the counties of Brecon, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Radnor, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Gloucester, and London; together with var...
Lloyd, John Conway, Sir, 1878-1954
Kyrle Fletcher deeds (First Group),
GB 0210 KYRLE1
The collection comprises: deeds and documents, 1617-1848, relating to properties in the Manor of Usk, Monmouthshire and Breconshire; and deeds and documents, 1586-1785, relating to properties in the county of Glamorgan.
Jones family, of Llanarth, Monmouthshire.
William Le Hardy Collection of Deeds,
GB 0210 LEHARDY
Deeds relating mainly to Carmarthenshire, 1531-1857, and to other Welsh counties including Brecknockshire, 1655-1800, Cardiganshire, 1628-1819, Glamorgan, 1673-1792, Monmouthshire, 1636-1795, Montgomeryshire, 1675-1702, Pembrokeshire, 1724-1811, a...
Le Hardy, William, 1889-1961
Michael Wilson Collection of South Wales Deeds,
GB 0210 MICSON
[15th century]-1880 (accumulated [c. 1972]) /
Deeds, 1542-1797, relating to properties in Glamorgan, Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire; memorandum book of ?Samuel Owsley and William Owsley of Brecon, with notes on rents, taxes and local events and history, 1679-1768; fragment of an antiphona...
Wilson, Michael, of Pencader.
Pontypridd Miners' Agents' Papers,
GB 0210 PONERS
Papers of Goronwy R. Jones, 1941-1969, including correspondence, 1941-1969, files relating to trade union activities at several collieries, 1958-1967, notes and notebooks, typescripts relating to the South Wales coal industry, 1962-1967, and print...
Jones, Goronwy R., of Ynysybwl.
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Principles matter – not just in principle
How many times have you seen ads asking for donations to Syria lately? What about ads asking money for the crisis in the Central African Republic?
Chances are high the answer is that, out of the two conflicts, Syria is the one that's been bothering you the most. According to a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a crisis in a geopolitically strategic area normally receives more funding for humanitarian work than a protracted crisis.
December 4th the Principles in Practice: Safeguarding Humanitarian Action conference, organized by NRC took place in Brussels. NRC's report Tools for the Job: Supporting Principled Humanitarian Action provided the foundation for the conference, stating that, even though official funding for humanitarian relief reached 11 billion dollars in 2011, distortions in the way it is allocated mean that distribution is neither efficient nor equitable. According to the report, a crisis in a geopolitically strategic area normally receives more funding for humanitarian work than a protracted crisis.
At the conference in Brussels, donors, state representatives and humanitarian agencies gathered to discuss humanitarian principles. What are they, how and why are they used and where are they headed?
In her opening address, NRC Secretary-General Elisabeth Rasmusson used the situation in Congo to illustrate the importance of humanitarian principles; "Goma is a very concrete example that we are able to stay, independently of who is in control, because both parties know us and trust that we are there only to deliver humanitarian assistance. This shows that adhering to humanitarian principles works," she said, going on to highlight that this adhering is however not easy in a changing humanitarian sector.
"With all these challenges, pressures and dilemmas, there are few clear answers. My organization is participating in this project because we are looking for new answer to these questions," she said.
Among the participants debating such new answers December 5 were the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Kristalina Georgieva, Norway´s Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer and Atta Almanan Bakhit from the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation.
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Gyms closed, no in-person dining as tough restrictions come into effect in Halifax area
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Published Thursday, November 26, 2020 1:48PM AST Last Updated Thursday, November 26, 2020 4:06PM AST
Argyle Street is seen in Halifax's bar district in this file photo.
HALIFAX -- Starting Thursday, most Halifax and Hants County residents won’t be able to dine at their favourite restaurant or work out at the gym, and they could see lineups at their local grocery store.
At 12:01 a.m., the Nova Scotia government implemented sweeping measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The measures will see the end of in-person dining at restaurants, while public libraries, museums, gyms, yoga studios and casinos will close in parts of Halifax and Hants County.
On Thursday, the province reported 114 active cases of the novel coronavirus, with most cases confirmed among people between the ages of 18 and 35 in the Central Zone.
After months of low case numbers, Nova Scotia has seen a spike in cases this month, with 148 cases of COVID-19 recorded since Nov. 1.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang recently confirmed there is community spread in the Halifax area, and Nova Scotia Health has issued a number of advisories this month, warning of potential exposures at dozens of locations in the region -- mostly restaurants and some gyms.
As a result, the province has introduced the tough restrictions in an attempt to curb the rise in COVID-19 infections.
"New restrictions have come into effect today in much of Halifax Regional Municipality and parts of Hants County to help us to slow the spread of COVID-19," said Premier Stephen McNeil in a news release.
"Please make yourself familiar with the new restrictions. We all have a responsibility to follow public health measures and keep each other safe."
Patrick Sullivan, CEO of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, believes the province has struck a good balance with the latest lockdown.
“I think we’re definitely concerned some businesses may not be able to survive a second lockdown,” said Sullivan. “However, if we can get through this quickly, if everyone jumps on board and we have the massive testing that we seem to be having now, and if people slow down their social activities, hopefully we can get out of this relatively unscathed.”
HOW WILL THE RESTRICTIONS AFFECT ME?
As of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, the following measures will apply for two weeks in the western and central Halifax areas, which the province defines as HRM from Hubbards to, and including, Porters Lake and communities up to Elmsdale and Mount Uniacke in Hants County:
The gathering limit in public is five, or up to the number of members of an immediate family in a household.
Face masks must be worn in common areas of multi-unit residential buildings, such as apartment buildings and condos.
Restaurants and licensed establishments are closed for in-person dining. They may still provide takeout and delivery.
Retail stores must restrict shoppers and staff to 25 per cent or less of allowable capacity.
Wineries, breweries and distilleries cannot hold tastings or in-person dining and must follow retail rules in their stores. Delivery and curbside pickup are allowed.
Organized sports, recreational, athletic, arts and cultural activities and faith-based activities are paused.
Profit and non-profit fitness and recreational facilities are closed.
Libraries and museums are closed. This includes the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The casino and First Nations gaming establishments are closed.
Stronger enforcement of illegal gatherings. Each person who attends an illegal gathering could be fined $1,000.
The restrictions will continue for two weeks until midnight Dec. 9, but they could be extended.
Staff, volunteers and designated caregivers at long-term care facilities in HRM will undergo voluntary, bi-weekly testing, starting Friday.
Schools, after-school programs and childcare will remain open. Certain personal service businesses, such as hairstylists, estheticians and nail salons, in western and central HRM can continue, except for procedures that cannot be done while a patron is wearing a mask.
NEW RESTRICTIONS ACROSS NOVA SCOTIA
As of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, the following new restrictions apply across Nova Scotia, in all zones:
No visitors, except for volunteers and designated caregivers, will be allowed in long-term care facilities, adult residential centres and regional rehabilitation centres licensed by the Department of Community Services.
Sports teams are restricted to local or regional play only.
NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL
Nova Scotians are being urged to avoid non-essential travel in and out of the western and central Halifax Regional Municipality.
They are also being asked to avoid travelling to other Atlantic provinces for non-essential reasons.
PROVINCE OFFERS GRANT PROGRAM TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES
The province is offering a one-time grant of up to $5,000 to support businesses in HRM and Hants County that have been ordered to close under the new restrictions.
The grant will support small, independently owned dine-in restaurants, bars, and fitness and leisure establishments affected by the new measures.
“I don’t think it’s going to be the solution that’s going to have people feeling easy, but it will certainly cover some of their overhead during these next couple weeks,” said Nova Scotia Business Minister Geoff MacLellan.
Businesses must be in operation as of March 15, 2020 and have total annual sales of between $25,000 and $300,000
Eligible businesses will receive a one-time grant of 15 per cent of their average monthly gross revenues for April 2019, or from February 2020 if it is a new business, up to a maximum of $5,000.
Businesses must experience a revenue decrease of 30 per cent or more in November as a result of the public health order or expect at least a 30 per cent decrease in revenues in December 2020 resulting from the new measures put in place this week.
The grant can be used for any operational expense such as wages, supplies and other costs.
This program is funded through the Nova Scotia COVID-19 Response Council with the program funds of $50 million announced in March.
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Kelly Clarkson Reportedly Sued by Ex Father-in-Law
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Kelly Clarkson separated from her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock over the summer. Now, it appears she is in hot water with Blackstock's father, Narvel. Narvel runs the singer's management company, which is reportedly suing her for millions in alleged unpaid commissions. (via Cosmopolitan)
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Demi Lovato Says Ex-Fiance's 'Intentions Weren't Genuine'
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Dynamic removal of replication protein A by Dna2 facilitates primer cleavage during Okazaki fragment processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Stewart, Jason A. and Miller, Adam S. and Campbell, Judith L. and Bambara, Robert A. (2008) Dynamic removal of replication protein A by Dna2 facilitates primer cleavage during Okazaki fragment processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283 (46). pp. 31356-31365. ISSN 0021-9258. PMCID PMC2581594. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:STEjbc08
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Eukaryotic Okazaki fragments are initiated by an RNA/DNA primer, which is removed before the fragments are joined. Polymerase d displaces the primer into a flap for processing. Dna2 nuclease/helicase and flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) are proposed to cleave the flap. The single-stranded DNA binding protein, replication protein A (RPA), governs cleavage activity. Flap-bound RPA inhibits FEN1. This necessitates cleavage by Dna2, which is stimulated by RPA. FEN1 then cuts the remaining RPA-free flap to create a nick for ligation. Cleavage by Dna2 requires that it enter the 5'-end and track down the flap. Since Dna2 cleaves the RPA-bound flap, we investigated the mechanism by which Dna2 accesses the protein-coated flap for cleavage. Using a nuclease-defective Dna2 mutant, we showed that just binding of Dna2 dissociates the flap-bound RPA. Facile dissociation is specific to substrates with a genuine flap, and will not occur with an RPA-coated single strand. We also compared the cleavage patterns of Dna2 with and without RPA to better define RPA stimulation of Dna2. Stimulation derived from removal of DNA folding in the flap. Apparently, coordinated with its dissociation, RPA relinquishes the flap to Dna2 for tracking in a way that does not allow flap structure to reform. We also found that RPA strand melting activity promotes excessive flap elongation, but it is suppressed by Dna2-promoted RPA dissociation. Overall, results indicate that Dna2 and RPA coordinate their functions for efficient flap cleavage and preparation for FEN1.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M805965200 DOI Article
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581594/ ADS Article
© 2008 the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Submitted on August 1, 2008. Revised on September 16, 2008. Accepted on September 17, 2008. Papers In Press, published online ahead of print September 17, 2008, 10.1074/jbc.M805965200. We would like to thank Drs. Sara Binz and Marc Wold for the purified yeast and human RPA proteins. In addition, we would like to thank the Bambara laboratory for valuable discussion and Dr. Judy Campbell and her laboratory for critical review of the manuscript. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant (NIH) GM024441 to R.A.B., with additional support from NIH GM087666 to J.L.C. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. J.A.S. was supported by NIH Grant T32 GM068411 from an Institutional Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
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Track-by-track: Broken Chanter
September 5, 2019 By Balloon Machine
Skye, Donegal, The North Atlantic – just some of the places that informed the making of Broken Chanter’s self-titled debut. The songs found there are just as large and epic as these landforms, their mountains, their oceans. They build and build until like a wave they crest before finally bowing out in a poetic trough.
The opus of David MacGregor, the principal songwriter of Scottish Alt-Pop darlings Kid Canaveral, it’s a real labour of love, comprising of MacGregor’s feelings when they‘re felt hardest. These unashamed sentiments are expressed in his distinctive vocal, he rolls his ‘r’s’, lengthens his ‘o’s’, harnessing his Scottish accent to produce something incredibly emotive.
Collaboration is at its heart though. To make this Explosions in the Sky/Sigur Ros-esque sound, he drafted in an array of amazingly talented friends, including Audrey Tait (Hector Bizerk), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop, bdy_prts); Emma Kupa (Mammoth Penguins, Standard Fare); Kim Carnie (BBC Young Trad Musician of the Year Finalist 2017); Hannah Shepherd (eagleowl, Withered Hand); Gal (Galchen); and Gav Prentice (ULTRAS, Over the Wall). They all contribute amazing moments to the universe McGregor dreamt up. Kim Carnie sings in Gaelic beautifully on ‘Mionagadanan’, in a moment nearly as heart-wrenching as Else Torp’s vocal on Nick Cave’s ‘Distant Sky’. Balloon Machine-fave Emma Kupa lends her guttural, nude singing to ‘Beside Ourselves’, while Gal’s synth-work throughout is truly staggering.
The spirit of the record is truly emphased when MacGregor brings the whole gang back together – all the contributors bar Kupa – for closer ‘Free Psalm’. The record’s most hopeful song, MacGregor vows to “Dust himself down / And start again” atop a beautifully, meandering violin and rolling toms. With his self-titled debut, he’s utilised the skills of others to bring something from his mind into the world just as he’d envisioned it. A truly beautiful record.
Broken Chanter exclusively explains each track for us below!
Nineteen Ninety-Eight
I started writing this using a wee synth on my phone in the middle of the night. I think the simple keyboard motif a wide-eyed, hopeful air about it. The whole thing has a nostalgic, cinematic feel to it. Jill [O’Sullivan] and Hannah’s [Shepherd] strings are soaring and Audrey [Tait] just drives the whole thing masterfully from behind the kit. It’s Spotify suicide to start your album with a six minute instrumental apparently, but I’m not making albums for Spotify, the robbing bastards. 1998 was quite a year. I think. Father Ted’s third series (long before Gl1nner went on his hateful crusade), Scotland at the Men’s World Cup, and my first winch. Through rose-tinted specs, the acne looks less severe.
Should We Be Dancing?
That’s the North Atlantic you can hear at the start. If you listen carefully, you can hear it overwhelming and filling my boots. I’d horribly misjudged the tide. There are a couple of wee instax photos that Audrey [Tait] and Gal [Producer/Engineer] took of me whilst having a good laugh. I’m a black dot surrounded by grey ocean, grey clouds and drizzle. The song was my attempt at writing a hopeful, love song and it ended up with this hand-wringing, demented waltz. Jill’s vocals make me well up in the last chorus.
I recorded the warped guitar (that most folk assume is a synth) at the start, and that continues throughout, in a cottage on Skye. My brother, sisters-in-law and wife had all gone out on a hike in the sleet and snow to leave me to get some work done. January was not the best time to visit the fairy pools, apparently. We recorded the bulk of it out in Donegal. I absolutely love the unrelenting throb of Gal’s synth-work on the chorus of this. The whole thing has turned out so foreboding and I am very much into that. The world is tipping into the fascist dystopia Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mid-period work warned us that it would, and there are still some folk wringing their hands about the politeness implications of punching actual, literal nazis.
Don’t Move to Denmark
I wrote this song on the stairs in Glenwood Studio in Glasgow, where we finished the record, while Gal was sorting out a mix. The music and melody came out in a oner. I just had to write the lyrics. That happens rarely, but when it does it’s normally a keeper. It’s about how all men are wide-os. And how I’m fucking useless sometimes. The synths on this give me an exceptionally nice feeling in my skull around the temples.
Cheering in the Distance
I’d had the main riff in this one for years. It’s the only bit of ‘old material’ that’s on the record. I could never get it to go anywhere, or more accurately it always dwindled away to nowt and I lost patience. I sat down with Gav [Prentice] to batter it out, as a way to actually get it used. It’s one of two co-writes on the record. Gav put this spidery proto-metal riff over the top of it and we went for a sort-of disintegration of the song for second half before finishing with delicate acoustic rendition of the chorus. Oh god, is this prog?!
Mionagadanan
MIN-ah-gad-uh-nan – the atoms seen in a ray of sunlight coming into a house. We recorded a long atmospheric droning piece out in Donegal. I’d been using an e-bow and some lovely reverb on my guitar the speckly electronic, glitchy percussion at the start really chimed with a word form a book I was reading at the time – Mionagadanan. Between takes, I’d been reading Catriona Black’s book Sly Cooking, a selection of some of the Gaelic words collected by 19th century priest, poet and folklorist, Fr Allan McDonald, in South Uist and Eriskay. I wrote a lyric in Gaelic [I’m a gradual student] and got my fluent sister-in-law to look it over for me. I was delighted when Kim Carnie agreed to sing it. I love the juxtaposition of her fantastic clear voice with the Moog and Audrey’s beats.
Occupy My Hours
I wrote the main guitar part to this one in a glorified cupboard in my flat, in a bit of a ‘i dOnT hAvE eNoUgH sOnGs YeT’ panic. Turns out that fear was quite helpful. Originally called Jazz, Eh? (needs to be said in a Lothian accent for the shite joke to work) because of its looser feel compared to the rest of what we’d recorded. Absolute percussive workout from Audrey towards the end and some delightful bass and synth work from Gal underpinning it all. It had a delightfully sweet guitar part at the end that I was initially sad to chop off, but it was exactly just that: too sweet. I often feel like perhaps I don’t react to things the way that I am ‘meant to’. Is this how I’m supposed to feel about that? Tired, angry and sad.
Beside Ourselves
This was the first song that we started. I had a small window were Emma [Kupa] was in Glasgow for a show we were doing together the next night in Edinburgh, so I got her in to sing the chorus over the backing track, as that’s all I’d finished writing at that point! This one was the most drawn out recording process compared to the other tracks, most of which had drums, bass and guitar recorded live in Ireland. It’s the poppiest song on the record. I’ve always loved Emma’s voice. Everything she sings has this raw soul to it.
Free Psalm
I wanted to end the record with something hopeful. This is the other co-write on the record. Gav sent me some things and this chord sequence/riff just got me straight away. I wrote some lyrics, pretty much at the mic, after doing some guitar noodling. and the whole thing just melds together wonderfully [imho] and also features everyone from elsewhere on the record [bar Emma] coming together. For my mother.
Broken Chanter is out 6th September on Olive Grove and Last Night From Glasgow
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Category: Advocacy
Members Make It Happen: Thank You from Baltimore Heritage
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We at Baltimore Heritage cannot say it enough. This year has been challenging for everyone and we could not have navigated it without your support. Our new Five Minute Histories video series and our ongoing Legacy Business and Centennial Homes programs, to name a few, are possible only with your help. If you haven’t yet done so, please consider joining or renewing your membership today.
Here are just a few of this past year’s projects made possible with your support:
We produced over 100 Five Minute Histories videos. Beginning the first day of Maryland’s Covid lock-down, we have traveled all over our city covering topics such as the Civil Rights Movement, mercantile history, immigration, religious development, Native American history, LGBTQ heritage, transportation, landscape design, women’s rights, and even some geology.
We expanded our Friday afternoon history lecture series and went virtual. In partnership with the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, we held engaging talks by Charlie Duff, Nancy Proctor, Jackson Gilman-Forlini, Aaron Henkin, Anne Bruder, Meg Fairfax-Fielding, and more.
We handed out 5 micro-grants and 18 preservation awards virtually. We pivoted to a Zoom pitch party to continue to make preservation a participatory sport with micro grants. Thank you to member Brigid Goody for making this yearly event possible. And we have been featuring our 2020 preservation awards winners on our website and on our YouTube channel.
We continued to fight to preserve Baltimore’s heritage. Restoration has begun at the Bruce Street Arabber Stable. Construction continues at the Lafayette Square bathhouses. And the Center for Health Care and Healthy Living at the Baltimore Hebrew Orphan Asylum will soon be 100% occupied by the Baltimore City Health Department and Behavioral Health System Baltimore.
For all of you who volunteer, log-on to our programs, email us kind words (and correct our mistakes), and support our advocacy work in Baltimore, please accept a sincere thank you from all of us at Baltimore Heritage. Your time, talents and financial support make a difference. Please consider joining or renewing your membership.
We wish you a safe holiday season and thank you again for doing so much for Baltimore.
P.S. Need a holiday present idea? Get in touch about how you can get a gift membership for a friend or family-member!
by Molly Ricks
New Preservation Project: Announcing Partnership to Support the Bruce Street Arabber Stable, and a Baltimore Tradition Too!
Baltimore Heritage is delighted to be partnering with the Southwest Partnership and the Bruce Street Arabber Stable to help keep the historic stable on Bruce Street from collapsing.
Current owners Dorothy and David Johns wish to continue the tradition of arabbing (a-rab-bing)–in which melodious vendors sell fruit and vegetables from colorful, horse-drawn wagons–out of this stable, but their endeavors are threatened by a tree growing in the rear wall. This project will help protect the stable and allow it to continue growing into a vital community gathering place.
This two-story, brick stable has been in operation since at least 1897 when this street was still called Bruce Alley. Since then the property has changed owners more than seven times before landing in the hands of Dorothy and David Johns. Dorothy’s grandmother, Mildred Allen, was one of Baltimore’s most successful arabbers, and the first female stable owner in Baltimore. Dorothy wants to celebrate her family’s past, and Baltimore’s unique arabbing culture, by continuing to shelter horses and wagons at the Bruce Street stable.
The Baltimore Sun, December 9, 1897
Last year, Baltimore Heritage became aware of the need for stabilization of the building. After a site visit in November 2019 with staff from Baltimore Heritage and the Southwest Partnership, the Southwest Partnership retained a structural engineer to provide a preliminary assessment of the necessary work. The engineer concluded that there were three primary areas that needed to be addressed: the rear wall, the roof, and the internal support joists.
We worked with Dorothy and David and the State of Maryland to secure funds and now work has begun. Check back to get periodic updates on its progress!
For more on Baltimore arabbing:
The Arabbers of Baltimore: A Photo Essay by Roland Freeman
The Arabbers of Baltimore City: A Market on Wheels by Madeline Ross
Read our position on this issue
In 2017 then Mayor Catherine Pugh removed three memorials to the Confederacy and one statue of the author of the infamous Dred Scott decision that were erected with racist motivations and caused pain for many in our Baltimore community. Standing in our city today, there are other public monuments whose presence memorialize the oppression of Black people and people of color. These are also painful. For too long, too many people in the historic preservation movement have either discounted the ongoing harsh suffering that some public memorials are causing, or have remained silent. Since 1960, Baltimore Heritage has been Baltimore’s city-wide historic preservation nonprofit organization. We believe that we have an obligation to address this issue directly and that now is the time to speak out clearly. Below is our position.
We support the removal of public monuments that were erected with racist intent to memorialize white supremacy.
We believe that there are monuments standing in Baltimore today that continue to cause pain for many.
We support a process to discuss steps that we as Baltimoreans can take regarding our public memorials that is open to all, validates different points of view, considers creative approaches, and has goals of fostering reconciliation and creating a public realm where all feel welcome.
We believe that any actions taken to standing monuments should be done by city officials to ensure public safety.
We believe that our elected officials in Baltimore City have an obligation to lead a discussion over public memorials and we as an organization commit to participating.
—Johns Hopkins, Executive Director
by Johns
Help Us Protect Historic Woodberry
We at Baltimore Heritage are pleased to be helping neighbors in the Woodberry community protect this wonderful 19th century mill town and we are asking for your help. The neighborhood is on the cusp of being designated an official local historic district and one of its signature historic buildings, the Tractor Building of the former Pool and Hunt Foundry and Machine Works, is in line to become a designated city landmark.
Both efforts need public support to get the green light from the Mayor and City Council. Please help us by sending an email to the local councilman, Leon Pinkett, thanking him for his past support for Woodberry and urging him to do all he can in the weeks ahead. The historic mills, workers houses, general store, and other buildings are a treasure for all of Baltimore (we believe for all of Maryland and beyond), and even if you are not in Councilman Pinkett’s district (Council District 7), contacting him will help.
Thank you for helping protect historic Woodberry!
Call for 2020 Preservation Award Nominations
We are happy to share that Baltimore Heritage has begun accepting nominations for our 2020 Preservation Awards. Please send us a nomination and help us celebrate award-worthy work, from rehabbing buildings to volunteering as a tour guide or on an archeology dig. Nominations are due February 21 and self nominations are encouraged.
Our awards recognize preservation work of all kinds. Our Heritage Achievement Awards honor people who have made a contribution to Baltimore’s historic buildings and neighborhoods, including authors, advocates, community organizers, and neighbors who volunteer their time and talents.
Our Preservation Project Awards honor owners, architects, contractors, and craftspeople who have completed bricks-and-mortar projects, from restoring a historic rowhouse to creating new spaces in a former brewery or factory. We know that preservation work comes in all sizes and often requires a whole team of people, and we seek to recognize everybody who makes a rehab project happen.
Please take a look at our award categories and guidelines or go ahead and submit a nomination for a project award or achievement award today. We try to keep the process quick and easy, but if you run into trouble, please give Johns Hopkins a call at 410-332-9992 or send him an email at hopkins@baltimoreheritage.org.
Thank you for helping us recognize Baltimore’s heritage stewards. Stay tuned for details on our annual awards celebration this spring!
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Strong & Mighty – Praise Africa
Sheldon Banks says
“Wow I am moved by the standard of this project considering how long ago it was done. I remember being there proud moments for South Africa. Well done pastor Lionel, Trevor, Janine, Lyndell, You guys paved the way for so many young song leaders leading worship in their respective Churches today”
Modisana says
“Thank you for uploading this. Reminds me of when the album first came out and I could not afford to buy both the CD and the video tape. I have been listening to this album all these years and finally getting to see the video feels like I am experiencing all the songs and the worship for the first time all over again. Thank you once again and God bless you. :-)”
Sherphard Tizirai says
“remembered back then playing this cd on repeat.mwaaaaaa …”
Delon Madlala says
“This was a beautiful album….Blessed …”
Strong & Mighty – This is the first South African live album recorded at Rhema Church, produced and arranged by Steve Thompson. This album went on to become one of South Africa’s bestsellers, featuring artists such as Lionel Petersen, Janine Williams, Carol Mundy, Trevor Samson, David Klassen and many others.
Two songs written by Steve & Velveta were also featured on the album, ‘We lift our hands to worship you‘ and ‘Increase in me‘ (co-written with Andy Mitchell).
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Category Archives: The Cruel Capital
By View from the Mirror on February 23, 2019 | 5 Comments
To date, I’ve written and posted over 270 articles on this site.
Due to the nature of blogging software these posts get pushed further and further back as time progresses meaning it can be tricky to discover older content.
To overcome this problem I’ve developed a new contents page where links and brief descriptions of every single article can be found.
Please click here or on the link in the menu bar above to access…
Entrance to Lower Robert Street… see a Ghostly Tunnel in the Heart of London
Brydges Place… see Covent Garden’s Cramped Alley
An old London cab… see London Taxis in 1960
The Tower of London in the 1600s… see The Gunpowder Plot
Jimi Hendrix posing on Montagu Place… see Jimi Hendrix’s London, Part 1
The Battersea Peace Pagoda
Tunnel on Abbey Street…see Secrets of the Viaducts, Part 2
Basing Hill, north London… see Suburban SOS: An Early Aviation Disaster
Victorian depiction of the Waterloo & City Line… see Waterloo Station Part 3
Mural of Vincent Van Gogh, Stockwell… see Van Gogh’s London
Two mice eating cheese… see London’s smallest statue
Ship’s figurehead… see Tobacco Dock: Wapping’s Ghostly Mall
Artist, Francis Bacon drinking in The French House, Soho… see Disturbing Daubs: Francis Bacon’s London (image: The Guardian)
The Sweeney… Euston Films’ Greatest Hits
George Washington’s statue… see Trafalgar Square’s American Patch
Nelson’s Column… see Buffing Nelson’s Column
Bill Sikes… see Fear & Loathing in Shad Thames
The Dublin Castle, Camden- see Euston Station, Part 1
David Bowie Mural, Brixton… see
Quintessential London film, The Long Good Friday… see a Tribute to Bob Hoskins
The Caning on Conduit Street… see Lord Camelford: Gentleman Thug, Part 1
Tube poster advertising ‘2001 a Space Odyssey’, 1968… see A Monolith in St Katharine Docks
God’s Own Junkyard… see The Man Who Made Soho Glow
St Alban’s Tower
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By View from the Mirror on December 20, 2018 | 6 Comments
The late 1980s were notable for a relentless string of disasters which affected Britain; the Zeebrugge ferry capsize, the King’s Cross fire, the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion, the Hillsborough Disaster and, as seen recently on this site, the Clapham rail crash.
Christmas 2018 marks the thirtieth anniversary of another of these appalling catastrophes: The Lockerbie bombing.
The bar at Heathrow’s Terminal 3 heaved with Christmas travellers as Jaswant Basuta enjoyed a drink with his brother-in-law.
Heathrow in the late 1980s
As Sikhs, the consumption of alcohol was discouraged but that late afternoon of December 21st 1988 was an exception as Jaswant- who’d been visiting relatives in Southall, west London- was about to begin a job in New York and a merry send off was in order.
Jaswant Basuta in 2018 (image: UGC/The Daily Record)
The beer flowed too easily however and before long Jaswant realised he was running late. After hasty goodbyes he jogged through Terminal 3’s seemingly endless corridors and arrived breathless at Gate 14– only to find it’d just closed.
Despite his pleas, Jaswant was refused entry to the flight that he could now see backing away from the gate: Pan Am 103.
Jaswant wasn’t the only person to miss that fateful flight bound for New York’s JFK Airport.
Also booked on Pam Am 103 were Motown legends, The Four Tops.
The Four Tops in 1968 (image: Wikipedia)
On December 21st the group were at BBC Television Centre, Shepherds Bush recording a performance of their latest release, ‘Loco in Acapulco’ for a festive edition of Top of the Pops.
A second recording- this time of their classic 1967 hit, ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’ which was to be broadcast on the show’s new year special- was also scheduled and the group were hoping to get it in the can as quickly as possible so they could get going to Heathrow.
The show’s producer however cared little for the Four Top’s travel plans and refused to rush the schedule.
Although the group were understandably frustrated at the time, the delay saved their lives.
In Harrods meanwhile, actress Kim Catrell, who was in the UK working on ‘The Return of the Musketeers’, was purchasing a Wedgwood teapot for her mother. She too had a seat on Pan Am 103 but switched flights at the last minute in order to complete her Christmas shopping.
A clip of Kim discussing her decision can be viewed below:
Elsewhere, former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) who, despite his anarchic image, was a self-confessed stickler for time, was embroiled in a heated row with his wife, Nora whose slowness in packing meant they too had no chance of making the flight.
John Lydon in his punk heyday
The couple would soon realise just how lucky they were.
Back at Heathrow, Pam Am 103- a 747 Pan-American Jumbo Jet named ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’- taxied on the crowded tarmac.
The jet was a real workhorse, having flown in to London from San Fransisco just a few hours before. Now cleaned and refuelled, it was ready to head back out across the Atlantic.
Pan Am’s ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’ pictured at Frankfurt Airport in 1986 (image: Wikipedia)
The Boeing 747 was one of the earliest built, having been delivered to Pan American Airlines in 1970. The company had originally christened the aircraft ‘Clipper Morning Light’ but changed the name to ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’ in 1979.
The 747 under its original name, ‘Clipper Morning Light’ at San Francisco Airport in 1978 (image: Wikipedia)
Shortly before its name was changed the aircraft appeared in the 1978 BBC documentary ‘Diamonds in the Sky’; a series which explored the history of aviation.
The specific episode- ‘Conquering the Atlantic’- featured footage from both inside and outside the 747 as it made a routine flight from London to New York; the same route it was set to travel ten years later on December 21st 1988.
This now extremely poignant episode can be viewed in its entirety below:
Onboard Clipper Maid of the Seas were 259 passengers and crew, including 35 students from New York State’s Syracuse University who’d just completed an international semester in London.
At 6.18pm the 747’s engines howled into life, powering the huge aircraft along the runway. As it lifted and began to climb through the dark winter sky over west London, air-traffic controller, Richard Dawson watched from Heathrow’s tower and, over the radio, wished the crew goodnight.
Unbeknownst to all, a brown Samsonite suitcase belonging to nobody onboard lurked within the jumbo’s hold.
A Samsonite case similar to the one loaded onboard Pan Am 103 (image: The Telegraph)
Inside the case, bundled amongst clothing, was a Toshiba ‘Bombeat’ radio-cassette player packed with a small, but lethal amount of Semtex.
At around 7pm, 38 minutes after departing Heathrow, Pan Am 103 reached its cruising altitude of 31,000 ft and radioed Scotland’s Prestwick air-traffic control to request clearance across the Atlantic Ocean.
The communication was handled by controller Alan Topp who, moments later, saw Flight 103 vanish from his radar screen.
Reconstruction of the moment Alan Topp saw Pan Am 103 disappear from his radar screen
At the same moment residents in Lockerbie– a small, friendly town in the Scottish borders just north of Gretna Green and approximately 70 miles south of Glasgow- heard a deep rumble of thunder overhead which rapidly crescendoed into a deafening roar.
Several miles above, the Semtex bomb onboard Pan Am 103 had detonated, causing a catastrophic structural failure which ripped the 747 apart.
With its engines still running and wings fully loaded with aviation fuel, the aircraft’s devastated sections plummeted towards Lockerbie in flames, smashing into the ground with terrifying force.
An animation depicting the moment the device detonated can be viewed below:
At around the same time, a British Airways flight from Glasgow to London passed high overhead.
Glancing down from the cockpit window, pilot Robin Chamberlain saw an inferno thousands of feet below, later describing the sight as “Something that looked like the burning oil fields you see in the Middle East.”
A BBC newsflash reporting the disaster can be viewed below:
Wreckage and bodies from the doomed flight were spread over a wide area; across fields, in trees, on rooftops and in back gardens.
Homes were reduced to rubble and 11 residents on Lockerbie’s Sherwood Crescent were vaporised in an almighty fireball.
According to one of the first reporters on the scene, the immediate aftermath of flaming rubble set against the night sky resembled “the London Blitz of 1940”, whilst a Lockerbie resident likened it to “Walking into hell”.
Another Lockerbie resident, Ella Ramsden– who narrowly escaped with her life when her home was destroyed- was convinced armageddon had been unleashed.
A blazing impact crater at Lockerbie
All onboard Pan Am 103 perished.
Combined with victims on the ground, a total of 270 people were killed.
It wasn’t until 2000 that the individual accused of the terrorist act- Libyan national, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi– was tried at a purpose built court in the Netherlands, the witness box of which is now displayed in the Imperial War Museum.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Found guilty of the deaths of all 270 victims, al-Megrahi was sentenced to life but was controversially released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Al-Megrahi however always protested his innocence and there are many- including some relatives of those killed- who believe he was framed and that many questions remain unanswered.
The circumstantial evidence for example used to convict Megrahi was dubious, based upon the testimony of Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci who claimed to have recalled the Libyan purchasing clothing (fragments of which were found in the wreckage at Lockerbie) in his shop.
It was later revealed that Gauci had been secretly paid a huge sum for providing this evidence.
The late Tony Gauci whose statement was key in securing a guilty verdict
It was also said that al-Megrahi had planted the bomb by checking it in at Malta’s Luqa Airport from where it travelled to London via Frankfurt.
At the trial however no mention was made about a mysterious security breach which had occurred within Heathrow’s baggage during the early hours of December 21st 1988 when a door lock was found to have been snapped with bolt cutters.
Also, according to Heathrow baggage handler, John Bedford, an out of place brown Samsonite case was spotted on a Pan-Am 103 luggage container before the connecting flight from Frankfurt had even landed.
Sadly, 30 years on, it seems we will never have full closure over what precisely lay behind the Lockerbie atrocity.
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By View from the Mirror on December 11, 2018 | 14 Comments
(Please note this article contains details and images which some readers may find upsetting)
30 years ago, just before 7.20am on the chilly morning of Monday December 12th 1988, the characteristic sound of doors slamming shut on an old-style British Rail train echoed along the platform at Basingstoke station as hundreds of commuters crammed into a service bound for London Waterloo.
Two ‘slam-door’ trains in 1986 (image: Wikipedia)
For the next forty minutes the train rattled along without incident.
View from a slam-door train compartment
That was until it approached a green signal which suddenly flickered to red without warning.
Unable to stop in time, the driver- Alexander McClymont– halted the train in a cutting on Wandsworth Common, just before Battersea Rise and about half a mile south of Clapham Junction station, where he climbed down from the cab and used a trackside telephone to inform the nearest signal box of the problem.
After being told there was nothing to worry about Alexander hung up but as he did so a second train- this one heading up from Bournemouth- roared around the corner at approximately 50mph.
The time was 8.13am.
The railway cutting through Wandsworth Common
According to witnesses onboard, the driver of this train- John Rolls– barged through the door of his cab in the final seconds before impact, no doubt realising it was impossible to brake in time.
The Bournemouth train ploughed into the Basingstoke service, killing John and many others instantly. To those nearby, it sounded like a bomb had gone off.
Lee Middleton– a survivor on the Bournemouth train- described the moment: “I heard a deafening noise and then all hell let loose. We were getting thrown around the carriage like rag dolls… I heard crying and moaning… I thought it was curtains for me.”
Lee found himself pinned beneath the wreckage, his gaze forced towards the clear winter sky which had been exposed after the carriage roof was, as another survivor put it, “split open like a ripe tomato.”
Rescuers amongst the twisted carriages
Back at the trackside meanwhile, Alexander could only watch in horror as carriages from his Basingstoke train were thrown into the air, hurling a number of passengers out. He immediately snatched the phone back to alert the signal box and call for emergency services.
To make matters even worse a third train tore into the area moments later, smashing into the already tangled wreckage. Mercifully this train was empty, although tragically a number of people who’d been ejected from the Basingstoke carriages were crushed beneath its wheels.
It was only by sheer fortune that a fourth train managed to stop in time just yards from the carnage.
Diagram of the crash site printed in The Times newspaper shortly after the disaster (image: The Times)
Alongside personnel from London’s emergency services- including doctors who performed a number of operations and amputations on site, the greatest heroes that day were pupils from the Emanuel School which is located on the embankment overlooking the disaster zone.
The Emanuel School today (image: Google)
Upon hearing the terrifying smash, teenagers far too young to witness the horror they were about to encounter scrambled down the slope to help. The very first person to enter the stricken carriages was Terry Stoppani whose birthday it happened to be that day.
He’d just turned 12 years old.
Terry Stoppani being interviewed about the role he played in rescuing victims (image: The Times)
“There was a huge bang, just like a bomb explosion” Terry explained when interviewed. “I saw all parts of the train flying into the air…we jumped over the railings and climbed into the train through a broken window. The first thing I saw was legs with jeans and shoes on. There was no top half of the body… In the train people were screaming and too frightened to talk. We started pulling people out through the window.”
Rescue workers at the disaster site
Another pupil- 18 year old sixth former, Simon Murie– yanked wreckage away with his bare hands, comforting victims as he did so.
Another un-named 14 year old held a trapped passenger upright in their twisted seat for several hours before they could be freed.
Many of the passengers were in a deep state of shock, so much so that they were unable to comprehend where they were or what had happened.
Ariel view of the crash site alongside Spencer Park
The young rescuers from the Emanuel School were praised by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and visited by the Secretary of State for Education who thanked them personally for “Their immense courage and maturity.”
A BBC news report from the evening of December 12th 1988 detailing the catastrophe can be viewed below:
Overall 35 people were killed and hundreds more injured in what became known as the Clapham Rail Disaster.
Amongst the dead was technician Michael Newman whose glittering theatre signs for shows such as ‘Cats’, ‘Singing in the Rain’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’ earned him the nickname, “the man who brought the West End to light.”
On a personal note, my father knew Mike and had worked alongside him installing these famous displays.
Several victims of the Clapham Rail Disaster were pictured in the news the following day. Michael Newman, who my father knew personally, can be seen in the bottom right hand corner (image: The Times)
It was determined that the cause of the accident- the light which had inexplicably flicked from green to red- was down to faulty signal wiring housed within a unit that was approximately fifty years old.
The electrician who’d overlooked the fault had been on voluntary overtime which had seen him working seven days a week for the past thirteen weeks; a regime which had inevitably led to exhaustion. It was also noted his training, assessment and supervision had been woefully inadequate.
As a result, British Rail were fined £250,000 although many believed the company should’ve been prosecuted for Corporate Manslaughter.
In 1989 a memorial to those who were killed and injured was unveiled on Spencer Park which overlooks the site of the tragedy.
The Clapham Rail Crash Memorial at Spencer Park (image: Geograph)
At 8.13am on Wednesday 12th December 2018, the train drivers’ union, ASLEF will be staging a two minute silence beside the memorial to mark the disaster’s thirtieth anniversary.
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GLO ~ Gay Lit Oz: An LGBTQ+ Author Event; coming to Sydney, March 2021
GLO ~ Gay Lit Oz
LGBTQ+ Author Event;
coming to Sydney, 12 & 13th March 2021
And the line-up keeps getting
bigger and better!!!
LGBTQ Author Event; coming to Sydney, March 2021
GLO or Gay Lit Oz is the first, large scale LGBTQ+ genre book & author event to be hosted in Australia. We have a wide range of authors from all over the world coming to Sydney to meet readers, fans and to explore and discuss the stories that have touched our hearts and create a collective space for readers and authors to interact. The idea for this unique author event came from a strong desire for passionate readers and authors to interact and discuss all the beautiful stories created.
GLO Founder, Sheridan Brettle teamed up with bestselling author Nora Phoenix and brainstormed a way to indulge Austalia and New Zealand’s reader’s desire to meet all the great authors from around the world in one, must-attend event, and GLO was born.
GLO will be held at City Tattersalls Club, 198 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000
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All proceeds from this event will be supporting The National LGBTI Health Alliance and some of their very important partners.
We are happily still seeking sponsors and supporters, so if you are interested in becoming involved please email Sheridan (gaylitoz@gmail.com) for more information.
Tickets are on sale now!!!!
Expressions of Interest (EOI) for all Authors are still open (but filling up fast). Please don’t hesitate to become a part of this must-attend event and your chance to visit Austalia.
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More about The National LGBTI Health Alliance
The National LGBTI Health Alliance is the national peak health organization in Australia for organizations and individuals that provide health-related programs, services and research focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people (LGBTI) and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse people and communities.
We recognize that people’s genders, bodies, relationships, and sexualities affect their health and wellbeing in every domain of their life.
Healthy lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans/transgender, intersex, and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse people and communities throughout Australia and the world, free from stigma and discrimination.
As the national NGO peak body for LGBTI health in Australia, our particular mission is to provide a national focus to improve health outcomes for LGBTI people through policy, advocacy, representation, research evidence, and capacity building.
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GLO WILL BE SUPPORTING THESE VERY SPECIAL COMPANIES
QLife provides anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people in Australia wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.
QLife services are free and include both telephone and web chat support, delivered by trained LGBTI community members across the country. Our services are for LGBTI individuals, their friends and families, and health professionals. Beyond the telephone, QLife offers web chat for people who prefer online interactions or for whom the phone is impractical.
QLife is funded by the Australian Government and operates as a unique partnership model.
Central to our service is our commitment to maintain and strengthen the proud history of LGBTI community-based phone counseling. Although QLife is only six years old, QLife partners have been delivering phone counseling across Australia for many years. Anonymous peer counseling has, and always will be, an important contributor towards better mental health for LGBTI Australians.
The National LGBTI Health Alliance is the contract holder and works in collaboration with four state-based partner organizations who deliver the services. Each of the partner organizations has a long history of providing counseling and support within their local LGBTI communities.
MindOUT develops and delivers national suicide prevention initiatives aimed at building the capacity of the mental health and suicide prevention sectors to meet the support and wellbeing needs of LGBTI populations, thereby improving the mental health outcomes and reducing suicide and suicidal behavior amongst LGBTI people and communities.
LGBTI people have a heightened risk of mental health diagnosis, psychological distress, self-harm, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts. For an overview of statistics on mental health outcomes and suicidal behaviors of LGBTI populations, please refer to the Snapshot of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention for LGBTI People
Silver Rainbow provides national coordination and support activities promoting the well-being of LGBTI elders and the ongoing delivery of the LGBTI awareness training to the aged care sector.
Silver Rainbow was formed in 2013 to initially respond to the National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Strategy. Silver Rainbow works collaboratively with the government, aged care providers and related services, LGBTI older people and elders and organizations to create an LGBTI inclusive aged care sector. We do this by providing policy and program advice to the Department of Health and the aging and aged care sector and working in partnership with LGBTI organizations and individuals across Australia and internationally.
GLO is proud to be supporting such a great alliance and such important resources.
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Dominic Purcell is A Man of Yogurt
Dominic Purcell is known for acting rugged and tough.
Yoplait Greek 100 yogurt is known for being smooth, creamy and sometimes fluffy.
So, you probably wouldn’t expect the two to be paired up in an ad campaign, right?
Well, the Yoplait Greek 100 brand team and Wieden+Kennedy want to clear up some misconceptions about Greek yogurt and they enlisted Purcell to help them get their point across.
Purcell, who is best known for his acting roles as a beefy tough guy, shows a softer side in the new Yoplait Greek 100 campaign where he portrays “A Man of Yogurt.”
Watch the spot about how Yoplait Greek 100 satisfies his hunger, here.
Clearly, the tone of the campaign is tongue-in-cheek, judging by the official description:
“Americans have a very big problem. They’re not taking their tum-tums seriously. If they were, they wouldn’t need a man of intensity, a man of pure protein, A Man of Yogurt to tell them about all the ways that Yoplait Greek 100 and Yoplait Greek 100 Whips! can and will make their tummies very, very happy.”
Despite the serious look that never leaves his face, A Man of Yogurt doesn’t take himself too seriously, as he uses words like tum-tum and fluffy cloud to describe his love of Yoplait Greek 100.
And A Man of Yogurt isn’t afraid to call out those who think Greek yogurt is too heavy or tart. In one spot, that will help extend the campaign in the coming weeks, A Man of Yogurt explains, “You don’t know anything about Yoplait Greek 100 Whips! The texture’s quite light. It’s like a delicate lace embroidery you dip a berry into. Go ahead, dip the berry.”
The idea for the tough guy character came about when the Wieden+Kennedy creative team was brainstorming ways to avoid using the typical smiling yogurt spokesperson.
“Where the most fun came in was when you took what makes Yoplait Greek 100 so unique – its great taste, its unique flavors and its light and fluffy texture when it’s whipped – and applied those softer, gentler attributes to our tough guy,” said Karl Lieberman, creative director, Wieden+Kennedy. “Suddenly, this man of pure intensity gained a lighter, softer side that made the whole thing pretty funny and interesting in our minds. We talked about various potential ‘tough guys’ for the campaign, but Dominic was inevitable.”
Lieberman said his creative team’s writing, art direction and attention to detail brought a lot of backstory to the spots, giving the campaign the right balance of quirk, humor and information.
“What we like about A Man of Yogurt, and Dominic in particular, is that he’s a nuanced character,” says Cody Wolkowitz, associate marketing manager, Yoplait. “It’s fun to see the unique attributes of the product applied to our ‘tough guy.’ Yes he’s intense, but Yoplait Greek yogurt brings out his softer side, which we found funny.”
Hungry for another video from A Man of Yogurt?
In this spot, A Man of Yogurt declares his love of Yoplait Greek 100 Whips!
“It’s always great when you can find a memorable and entertaining way to deliver a product benefit. We’re talking about Greek yogurt that helps fill you up, protein that keeps you satisfied, and of course a delicious taste – that could go very boring, but this campaign is certainly not,” says Cody.
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Behind the Scenes: Reaching one million Polish customers
Katarzyna Dyrcz
Karol Sadaj joined Revolut in February 2018 with a hunch that Revolut could be a huge hit in Poland. He had faith that the tech-savvy Poles, open to innovation, would embrace all that Revolut had to offer. His intuition paid off: Poland went from 40k customers in 2018, to one million in 2020. Country Manager for Poland, Karol, credits the team he’s built over the last two years as a major contributor to Revolut’s achievement as one of Revolut’s top European markets.
From the day he made his first Revolut transaction, Karol knew that this app would be a major disruptor in the financial industry. With roles at Uber and Google already under his belt, he was hungry for a new challenge. “It wasn’t easy in the beginning,” he smiles, “especially when my family and friends started asking if this meant I was leaving an established job in a major tech company to go sell cards.” Even if they couldn’t understand his decision, Karol followed his instincts to join the young start-up.
In the beginning, he was one of the first on the ground in Poland, at the start of an intense roller coaster. Through playing different roles and juggling a multitude of tasks, Karol had the determination to ride it out. He took an active role in promoting Revolut, taking on media appearances to raise the app’s profile, as well as continuing his marketing initiatives. These efforts, as well as word-of-mouth, helped Revolut spread like wildfire, leading to the million-customer mark earlier this year.
His passionate and dedicated attitude is shared by many fellow Revoluters, and is one of the things Karol appreciates most about them. He channels his energy and hunger into ensuring that the system is responding to the truest customer needs, solving everyday problems for them with Revolut. This is something he looks for when building his team, describing it as an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’. Just like a founder, these people can balance the mission and company wellbeing against the drive to make the impossible a reality. “I was looking for experienced professionals, real team players who embody our core value Never Settle.”
Karol understands that the company has matured and evolved over the last two years, but he insists whether customer-facing or internally “our DNA doesn’t change.” Looking out, he puts emphasis on adapting and finding new ways to attract new customers: “Market tricks and tactics that worked yesterday may not work today.” As for his team, he believes patience is the most important quality we can have for our new joiners: “even if they don’t know how things were done in the past, this can be an opportunity to hear great, fresh ideas on how to improve our offering and processes.”
If you’re interested in joining Revolut to build the next million-customer market, why don’t you take a look at our Careers page and explore job opportunities?
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Art Historian’s Cat Destroys Prized 17th Century Painting
By Matthew Russell
Bendor Grosvenor loves art. Of this, we can be certain.
His cat, not so much.
Grosvenor, an art historian, bought a prized portrait by John Michael Wright in 2015. While restoring it, his cat Padme decided it didn’t like the treatment and jumped right at the 17th century antique.
“Wright is one of my favorite artists, and I bought this example because it was in excellent condition, with all the original glazes and details wonderfully intact,” Grosvenor told the Telegraph. “Now, it’s obviously in less good condition – but at least the cat landed on his clothing, and not his face.”
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Grace Wilbraham by John Michael Wright.
“As I stood back to admire my handiwork, up jumped our cat, landing forcefully in the centre of the painting with a crunch,” Grosvenor said. “Disaster.”
Grosvenor believes Padme’s work renders the painting a total loss. There’s little he could do to return it to its original state, Artsy reports. A full restoration would likely cost as much as Grosvenor paid for the painting, around $6,680.
Lord Mungo Murray [Am Morair Mungo Moireach], 1668 – 1700. Son of 1st Marquess of Atholl, by John Michael Wright.
There’s no telling what Padme found wrong with the painting, though Grosvenor insists she’s just a discerning cat.
“[Padme] is not a fan of John Michael Wright, and regrets nothing,” he says.
Source: Pexels
Canvas, meet cat.
Art collectors beware, your feline friends may seriously doubt the value of your John Michael Wright. You may want to hang them a little higher from now on.
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Japan PM Suga trips up with messy reversal on tourism campaign
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's abrupt decision to partially pause a domestic travel campaign amid rising COVID-19 cases - after insisting it would go ahead - looks likely to cost him support and may cloud his chances of a long-term tenure.
Suga, who took the top job in September after Shinzo Abe resigned citing illness, has enjoyed solid ratings of over 50%, buoyed by an image as a down-to-earth leader pushing popular policies such as lower mobile phone rates.
But critics said his reversal on a programme he has backed to bolster the economy even as new cases spiked was too little, too late, and risked leaving the image of a leader both stubborn and indecisive, without due care for public health.
"It's a display of indecisiveness that gives people a lot of reason to be resentful," said Sophia University professor Koichi Nakano. "At this point, they (the government) still sound like they don't know what they are doing."
Abe's own support ratings never recovered after sagging on the public's perception that his response to the pandemic was clumsy and slow.
Suga is currently serving out Abe's remaining term to next September and must win a ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race then in order to remain premier.
The policy fumble threatens his standing just two months into his premiership, with stiffer tests ahead, including the extent to which COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise, and whether Tokyo can host the postponed Summer Olympics in 2021.
"His ratings will decline, almost certainly," said independent political analyst Atsuo Ito, pointing to the delay in partially pausing the campaign. "The view may spread that he puts a priority on keeping the economy running rather than protecting people's lives."
In brief remarks on Saturday - after a three-day holiday was underway - Suga said the government would suspend new travel reservations to areas hard hit by COVID-19 under its "Go To Travel" programme, which subsidises tourism.
Critics of the programme have said it risks spreading the infection from major cities to the countryside.
On Tuesday, the government said Osaka and the city of Sapporo in Hokkaido would be excluded as target destinations in the travel subsidy programme. No decision has been made on the capital of Tokyo.
Government officials have repeatedly said travel itself does not spread infections if steps such as wearing face masks are taken.
However, Kyoto University professor Hiroshi Nishiura, an infectious disease expert and member of a government advisory board, said it was clear greater movement of people boosted infection risk.
Experts advising the government - who on Friday had finally urged a partial pause in the Go To programme - had been "somewhat forced" to accept policies to help the economy despite such increased health risks, he told Reuters.
Opposition parties, who are also linking Suga to an alleged Abe funding scandal, quickly chimed in with criticism.
"The timing of the announcement was too late and both the timing and target areas are not clear," Tetsuro Fukuyama, secretary general of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said on television.
Suga's long-term future hinges on the outcome of a general election that must be held by October 2021.
"If the LDP loses a lot of seats, he may be held responsible," said University of Tokyo political science professor Yu Uchiyama.
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Giveaway: A Festive Evening in Chicago, Including Dinner at Opus and Tickets to Joffrey Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’
by Better November 27, 2019
Photo by Cheryl Mann.
What better way to kick off the holidays than with an evening out to see Joffrey Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” and enjoy an amazing dinner in the city?
We are partnering with Opus and Joffrey Ballet to give one lucky reader two tickets to a performance of their choice and dinner for two!
Simply fill out the form below to enter. Giveaway begins Sunday, Dec. 1 and ends on Friday, Dec. 6. You can also enter for a chance to win on Instagram (entries are combined and one winner is chosen). Winner, who is chosen at random, will be notified via email. “The Nutcracker” performance tickets exclude weekend matinees. Tickets and vouchers have no monetary value.
About “The Nutcracker”
The holiday classic returns to Auditorium Theatre this holiday season for 29 performances, from Nov. 30 through Dec. 29. In this reimagined performance by Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, the cast tells the tale of Marie and her immigrant family at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Marie embarks on a whirlwind adventure with the Nutcracker Prince through a dreamlike Fair, along with a festive Christmas Eve celebration and two acts of Tchaikovsky’s classic score. New this year is the addition of a “Worker Girl” role played by two of Joffrey Academy’s Adaptive Dance Program students, creating a permanent new role for children with disabilities. Purchase your tickets and learn more here.
Photo courtesy of Opus.
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HEARINGS ON LEGISLATION TO OUTLAW CERTAIN
UN-AMERICAN AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
HEARINGS uis, conguss. House COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES.
EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS
H. R. 3903 and H. R. 7595
MARCH 21, 22, 23, AND 28, 1950
Printed for the use of the Committee on Un-American Activities
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
JOHN S. WOOD, Georgia, Chairman
FRANCIS E. WALTER, Pennsylvania RICHARD M. NIXON, California
BURR P. HARRISON, Virginia
FRANCIS CASE, South Dakota JOHN MCSWEENEY, Ohio
HAROLD H. VELDE, Illinois
MORGAN M. MOULDER, Missouri
BERNARD W. KEARNEY, New York
FRANK S. TAVENNER, Jr., Counsel
LOUIS J. RUSSELL, Senior Investigator
JOHN W. CARRINGTON, Clerk of Committee
BENJAMIN MANDEL, Director of Rescarch
March 21, 1950:
Statement of Peyton Ford, the assistant to the Attorney General of
the United States.-
Testimony of Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt-
Testimony of Omar B. Ketchum, Veterans of Foreign Wars.---
Testimony of James F. Green, American Legion----
Testimony of Marvin L. Goldberger, AMVETS.
Testimony of George D. Riley, American Federation of Labor.. 2162
Testimony of Benjamin C. Sigal, Americans for Democratic
Action-
Testimony of Arthur Garfield Hays, American Civil Liberties
Union.
Testimony of Father Clarence Parker, Civil Rights Congress--- 2193
Testimony of Michael Straight and Leonard A. Nikoloric, American
Veterans Committee.
Statement of Prof. William G. Rice...
Testimony of Harrop A. Freeman, Society of Friends Committee on
National Legislation.--
Testimony of Thomas E. Harris, Congress of Industrial Organiza-
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Testimony of Thomas I. Emerson, Progressive Party--
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Testimony of Harry C. Lamberton, National Lawyers Guild -
Testimony of Norman Thomas, Socialist Party --
Testimony of Clarence Mitchell, National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People
Testimony of Mrs. Alexander Stewart, Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom.---
Testimony of Simon Federman, American Federation for Aid to Polish
Jews..
Statement of the American Bar Association.
Statement of Zechariah Chaffee
Statement of William Green, American Federation of Labor.
Statement of Hon. Arthur G. Klein, of New York, in opposition to
H. R. 3903
Statement of James G. Patton, president, National Farmers Union. 2353
Statement of National Civil Liberties Clearinghouse
Statement of Dames of Loyal Legion of the United States of America - 2355
Statement of the American Labor Party--
Statement of Rev. William H. Jernagin, National Fraternal Council
of Negro Churches, U. S. A., Inc., and National Baptist Sunday
School and Baptist Training Únion Congress -
Statement of Loran Transue, president, Friends of the American
Constitution.
Statement of Mary Church Terrell, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People..
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Statement of Methodist Church, Boston Area, Bishop John Wesley
Lord ----
Statement of Benjamin C. Marsh, People's Lobby-
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What’s happening with BOOM?
Go to our Home page.
BOOM TV Archive on YouTube!
Posted: January 2, 2020 – by Tom Conklin
Production of BOOM TV is on a bit of a hiatus, but you can watch the full archive of our shows at the BOOM TV YouTube page.
If you have an original band, ensemble, or solo act and you are interested in being a guest on BOOM TV, send an email with a description of your act to our show producer, Peter Loboda at peter@peterloboda.com
Posted: Sunday, January 2, 2020 – by Tom Conklin
You can find BOOM on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!
Like us and follow on Facebook HERE
You can also join our Facebook group and post your shows here at BOOMblog
PCTV still in need of your music…
Post Updated: Monday, January 09, 2017 – by Tom Conklin
BOOM is teaming up with Pittsfield Community Television to feature your music on the public access channel’s Community Calendar! PCTV has asked us to help them gather music from our members to play in rotation, as people tune in to see what’s happening in the Berkshires. Cool right? You can’t beat free promotion! If you would like to have your music featured, send us an email at info@boom413.com or fill out our contact form.
book your own gig
We’ve put together a list of venues in the area who support our local music scene.
We are building a list of local resources for musicians. Feel free to make a suggestion.
Check out our curated playlists of original music by bands from all over the Berkshires.
What BOOM Does.
BOOM is dedicated to increasing the viability and visibility of original music in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. We are a non-profit company, part of Columbia Arts Team.
Our mission is to highlight, showcase, and cultivate the original music scene in Berkshire County and environs. This includes promoting local venues that feature local original music; providing access to information about the music business, songwriting, and other important subjects of interest to area musicians; and coordinating resources within the region, including local media, in order to promote local original music and encourage the patronage and support of the community at large.
You can contact us here.
What You Can Do.
Musicians can Register Here.
Friends of BOOM
Calling all business owners, venues, institutions, and organizations that wish to help promote the arts in the region, or could benefit from an active local music scene – We encourage you to get in touch with us!
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Pilot, Wright Field P project officer George Price, saves prototype with deft belly-landing, damage mostly limited to the propeller. This prompts an immediate crisis in the Low Countries and amidst the French and British authorities, whom the Belgians notify of their discovery; however the crisis abates relatively quickly once the dates mentioned in the plans pass without incident.
It has been argued that the incident led to a major change in the German attack plan, but this hypothesis has also been disputed. Luftwaffe observer Peter Leushake on the He killed by gunnery, gunner and flight engineer Johann Meyer, gunner Unteroffizier Karl Missy both wounded.
Although salvaged, it never flies again. Corby attempts landing of L of No. Aircraft stalls, bounces on water several times, starboard wingtip float breaks off, airframe capsizes. Water pours into hull through open windows, pilot Corby drowns but body recovered, three crew missing, two survive.
Crash is determined to have been caused by tail flutter due to missing mass balance weight on elevator. This was the first fatality in the type. Unprotected fuel tanks in fuselage belly rupture, pilot Rouland and his mechanic perish in fire.
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Starboard propeller pitch mechanism inadvertently went into reverse on power increase causing loss of control. The aircraft's wreck still exists, but remains undisturbed as it is designated a War grave. Inone of the engines was raised as it had been caught in a fishing boat's nets and dragged away from the wreck, into shallower water.
It is currently an exhibit in the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum. Aircraft grounded for several weeks for repairs. It was believed that during the first roll, the main landing gear became unlocked, causing it to crash through the wing during the second roll.
It has been theorized that Piontkovskiy's deviation from the flight plan was caused by frustration that his aircraft was being used for engine testing while I, built with the lessons of I in mind, was already performing aerobatics.
Test pilot Philip G. Lucas manages to land damaged fighter safely, is awarded the George Medal. Airframe repaired, flying again a month later. Over the channelPlt. Brown, test-fires his front gun but after a few rounds the muzzle explodes, holing his fuel tank. He jettisons his bombs and attempts to return to Hawkinge, but runs out of fuel and force-lands on Herne Bay golf course.
Boeing as a replacement. Unexpectedly, Kain begins a "beat-up" of the airfield, performing a series of low level aerobatics in Hawker Hurricane Mk. Commencing a series of "flick" rolls, on his third roll, the ace misjudges his altitude and hits the ground heavily in a level attitude.
Kain dies when he is pitched out of the cockpit, striking the ground 27 m in front of the exploding Hurricane. Kain is buried in Choloy Military Cemetery.
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17 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon Febru List, Moon Dan Apparently, one of the biggest problems a lunar colony will have to face (in addition to air and food and water and temperature and cosmic radiation and not enough personal space and getting there and getting back home) is lunar dust, which is so fine that it gets. NASA Debuts New Moon Rocket. NASA’s first version of the rocket slated to replace the space shuttle and send astronauts back to the moon will make its debut test launch Oct. 27, four days early, the space agency announced Tuesday.
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Already, one of the last barriers to lunar flight has been overcome by the successful development of rockets with thrust, or power, enough to break earth's gravitational hold.
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Rockets, Moon Landings, and Rockets on Moon Island. book Bible Interpretations. March 3, March 3, by Zach Bartels. Today, I am reviewing an incredibly important and relevant book, which you have probably never heard of.
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Moon Island by Rosie Thomas is a fascinating read about a tiny beachside community in Maine where lives are lived both permanently and by annual holiday makers. Widower John arrives with his two daughters Ivy and May for a much needed holiday break/5.
The book starts out by giving a brief background on rockets before delving deeper into the history starting around the end of World War II. From there the book goes full speed ahead ultimately cumulating with the successful landing of astronauts on the moon.
That the book ends there helps to highlight the real purpose of this series. Reading at bedtime entertains and relaxes your child, helps to build his or her imagination, makes bedtime something to look forward to, and builds a lifelong enjoyment of reading.
But most of all, it's an opportunity for quiet cuddle time with your son or daughter. In honor of this important tradition, bedtime classics both old and new are featured in these recommended books for children ages. Estes Rockets is the world leader in model rocketry. We offer a variety of amazing rockets for first time fliers and experienced rocketeers.
Rocket to the Moon is a graphic novel on the complete history of rockets and space travel, and the animals and people who made it possible.
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Two women from different ends of the earth encounter destiny, and one another, on a South Pacific paradise. When Boston securities broker, Annabel Worth inherits remote Moon Island, she travels there to solve a mystery that has haunted her family.
A NASA Journey to the Moon May Need to Find Another Rocket or Two. Mounting delays to the Space Launch System, primarily built by Boeing, are. She rashly decides to take the money and run, and Moon Island seems like the perfect hideaway.
Annabel Worth has just inherited the island, a tiny women-only resort, from an eccentric aunt. She travels there determined to uncover secrets long hidden by her very proper Bostonian family, but soon finds herself distracted by an attractive guest.
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Provides an account of what went on at the Baltic island research and development center as Germany’s brightest scientists began developing and testing the V-1 and V-2 rockets that would become Hitler’s most powerful weapon against Britain.
Created by Nick Leather. With Joe Gallucci, Jordan Benjamin, Helen Daniels, Sydney Wade. On a beautiful, secluded island farm, Rocket Boulsworth has his own cave where wishes actually come true.
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First UK Web-Rage Conviction
October 18, 2006 Jyoti
The internet, earlier today
An internet user has been found guilty of what police said was Britain’s first “web-rage” attack.
Paul Gibbons, 47, tracked down John Jones using details obtained online after the pair exchanged insults in an internet chatroom, a court heard.
He travelled 70 miles to Mr Jones’ home in Clacton, Essex, and beat him up with a pickaxe handle in December 2005.
(Source: BBC News)
Isn’t web-rage an exceptionally clumsy neologism? Web-rage is such an ugly word… I prefer homicidal attack.
Remember, kids, it’s a wild and woolly world out there, full of people who’ll take violent exception to your choice of footwear or definiton of permanent revolution.
So, hey, let’s be careful out there!
Moral Law?
Cluster bombs – used in our war crimes against Iraq
In the early hours, two days before the attack on Iraq began, two men in their 30s, Phil Pritchard and Toby Olditch, cut through the fence surrounding the air base at Fairford in Gloucestershire and made their way towards the B52 bombers which were stationed there. The planes belonged to the US air force. The trespassers were caught by guards and found to be carrying tools and paint. They confessed that they were seeking to disable the planes, in order to prevent war crimes from being committed. This year they were tried on charges of conspiracy to commit criminal damage, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. Last week, after long deliberations, the jury failed to reach a verdict.
(Source: The Guardian)
Here’s a simple scenario:
You see a man about to shoot a child dead. So, without harming that man in any way, you seize his gun off him and stamp it into pieces. You’ve saved the child’s life simply by damaging someone’s property.
Have you committed a crime?
If you’re saying “no,” then should your answer be any different simply because the man happens to be a soldier? Why should the state, through its armies, navies and air forces, have any more right to carry out murder than an individual?
In summing up, the judge told the jurors that using weapons “with an adverse effect on civilian populations which is disproportionate to the need to achieve the military objective” is a war crime.
Please read Monbiot’s full article, linked above. It seems that juries and judges are thinking morally – whatever will Butcher Blair and his government of murderers and liars do about that?
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Two households, both alike in dignity
Years have passed since the close call to a battle in Edward and Bella’s meadow, and the Cullen family has finally been able to relax once more. Their small town of Forks, Washington, hasn’t been bothered in years, and things are going quite well. Renesme is growing up, Jacob and Edward have finally started to get along, and Emmett and Rosalie have even considered adopting a baby of their own. Everything is going smoothly as the coven lives quietly outside the town limits of Forks, and sometimes receives visits from their vampire friends who have been supportive of the family. All is well.
On the other end of the spectrum, La Push hasn’t been doing so well. Sam and Emily have been getting into spats more and more lately, and although Sam can control his anger for now, there’s no telling what may happen if he lets his guard slip again. Leah Clearwater is as bitter as ever with everyone imprinting except for her, and refuses to lighten up about Kim and Jared’s approaching wedding. If she can’t be in love, then nobody else can. As for Billy Black, he doesn’t approve of his son spending so much time over at the Cullen’s house, but he won’t stop Jacob from making his decisions and choosing his paths. He just hopes that someday he’ll realize something that will tell him to stop.
In fair Volterra, where we lay our scene
Caius has been sick of being overshadowed by his brother Aro for centuries. For once, he’d like to be the ones calling the shots, leading the coven, and deciding the fate of others. In his eyes, Aro is nothing but a coward for taking alternative ways from fighting, and thinks that he could be a better leader any day. He’s been gaining support from Jane and Marcus, who are also fed up with Aro, and also from other members of the coven. But rather than attempt to overthrow Aro, Caius has a different plan. Consulting Vladimir and Stephan, Caius convinced them to allow him and his small group join there Coven and plan an attack on Volterra, rendering Aro and the city vulnerable and overtaking the city for the greater good. However, Stephan and Vladimir have a plan of their own, which entails executing not only Aro, but Caius an Marcus as well…
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
The Cold Ones have not been the only species of vampires to walk the Earth. There is a new coven that has entered the town of Forks, Washington, claiming their superiority to the type of vampires the Cullens and other Covens are. They look like gods and goddesses in human form sent to walk the Earth, and have skin that doesn’t sparkle in the broad sunlight. Their only weakness is blood, and that’s exactly why they’ve decided to intrude on the state of Washington. Shortly after their arrival, area teenagers start going missing, and then are found dead with multiple lacerations and bite marks that suggest being mauled by bears of some sort. The Cullens know better, and Carlisle is fully aware of the threat The Red Ones pose. Not only are they extremely powerful, but they walk both day and night, and can manipulate their appearance at will to portray a helpless old woman, a handsome teenager, or a looming authority figure. The only way to tell a Red One from a regular vampire is by locating the underside of the right wrist- a tattoo of a scarlet crescent moon outlined in silver is located there. Even worse than that- The Red Ones have placed themselves as students of Forks High School, putting the students there at even more risk.
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
Two separate wars are brewing in the world. One takes place in Italy, where two ancient families battle it out to see who can win- will the Romanian Coven take back the throne, or will Aro prove to be more than just a benevolent vampire? This is one of the more important wars taking place, but that doesn’t mean the ones involving the Cullens and the Red Ones aren’t any less important. Even though they have the support of their own kind, there are two problems that take place with the pack of shape-shifters, both involving imprints. Seth and Leah Clearwater cannot bring themselves to fight when they imprint on Marjorie and Absolom in the meadow, and, to couple with this, The Red Ones haven’t only been killing humans, but also changing them into their own kind for this sort of situation. Who will prevail, and who will pay the price?
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend
With all this war and murder taking place, will love be able to shed it’s light on the world, or will it be hidden by darkness? Only you can decide.
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Symbolizing a Journey ─ Learning Lessons ─ Letting Go ─ and Gaining Insight . . . tools that lead to relationships. Relationships are formed with people, alcohol, animals, battlefields, diseases, drugs, environments, and even our emotions. Whether toxic or nontoxic they’re an integral part of daily living. Follow Author Nina Norstrom through the journey as she peels off those toxic relationships. The story takes you through the experiences of grief, pain, trauma, and forgiveness. The story weaves lies with love, betrayal with deception and drama with murder. As the shoe prints are molded in and out of a variety of unhealthy relationships, they’ll leave behind a blazing trail of lessons. Teaching an ultimate lesson for the meaning of relationships, that builds honesty and compassion. The story in its raw image projects a remarkable voice to the heroic fight and bravery gained when striking back to wipe out the toxicity of deadly relationships. Through its reading, you will discover the importance that life brings many challenges, and that each challenge provides lessons to be learned. Inside the Excerpts, are sneak previews of what's bubbling: Preorders are available for April 5, 2016 DETAILS ABOUT THE JOURNEY Why is the topic so important? What we do in our everyday experiences brings about important life lessons. We’re living inside the topic each day we inhale anew breathe. In These days and times, toxicity has settled in the environment. Just think about it: every day we wake up we’re on the battlefield fighting a war. And just feeling where there’s: good against evil; sons against fathers; daughters against mothers; nations against nations; drugs against diseases; and the list goes on and on.
As an award-winning author, Not a Blueprint: It’s the Shoe Prints that Matter is a @bookexcellence Award Finalist! Check it out here: www.bookexcellenceawards.com Over three decades, Norstrom has unmasked the levels of relationships: pain; abuse; emotions, diseases; work environments; trauma; and its poison of unforgiveness. In the artistic world, it is those literary creations that demonstrate a measure of personal growth that magnifies those hurdles conquered - from darkness to survival, even her release from incarceration. While growing and blossoming, she has maintained a healthier lifestyle . . . staying free of unhealthy relationships. Through her experiences, Norstrom has encountered a complete metamorphosis ─ releasing one identity for another. Living inside this transitional lifestyle she states, “I see myself as that long-blooming, rich flower waiting to attract those butterflies. It is there, I’ve come full circle having realized the dangerous effects of toxicity."
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During the pandemic, we've seen an alarming rise when it comes to domestic violence. Knowingly, it can be as deadly as COVID19. Confession time for me,"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Read this excerpt from Chapter Six . . . Don’t let that personality from my ex fool y’all. He was still a #devil in disguise. You are so right! I picked him and should have known what I had. Like so many others, we don’t see the trees for looking at the forest. When this happens, it becomes a lesson learned. Often times, toxicity will come in your circle, and you don’t realize it’s toxic . . . Until you start dipping and dabbing in it. There is beauty in that realization; it’s when you can give it up and move on. For sure, toxicity appears in all forms, shapes and fashions. #Toxicity has no shame, no gender, with no preference who it targets. You may think you’ve found quality in a person; but wind up with the devil himself. No matter how they tend to dress themselves up in character; some things never change! Available in audible version
. . . and stood about five foot seven. His hair was black and gray (particularly his sideburns), and he had a medium-toned complexion. He wore black, rectangular glasses which contrasted with his oblong-shaped face. Many of his front teeth were missing, so he had a mouth full of gums. He wasn’t a looker, that’s for sure. Another thing, his outfits left a lot to be desired. That brown and beige checkered suit he sported had faded out of fashion many years ago.
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On November 18th the Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) drew record numbers for its fourth quarter meeting, continued to address key safety topics in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and recognized safety excellence with its 2020 CDMCS Leadership in Safety Awards.
USACE was represented by headquarters, the Institute for Water Resources, and the following districts and divisions: Baltimore District, Chicago District, Detroit District, Galveston District, Memphis District, Mobile District, New Orleans District, Norfolk District, Philadelphia District, Rock Island District, St. Paul District, Mississippi Valley Division, and Southwestern Division.
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, and the State of Louisiana Pipeline Safety Office attended for an update on CDMCS Pipeline Task Force activities.
CDMCS Executive Director Michael Gerhardt welcomed the organization’s founding board members and discussed the year ahead. The board consists of the following safety leaders: President – Devon Carlock (Cottrell Contracting Corporation), Vice President – Howard Cooper (The Dutra Group), Treasurer – Nate Woods (Inland Dredging Company), Secretary – Jackie Luedtke Borozan (Luedtke Engineering Company), Director – Christiana Couvillion (Quality First Marine), and Director – Erik Haruch (Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting).
Mr. Carlock and Mr. Gerhardt then recognized this year’s recipients of the 2020 CDMCS Leadership in Safety Awards – individuals who went above and beyond in advancing a safety-first culture and leading by example. The Government Leadership in Safety Award was given to Mr. Keith R. Jones, Floating Plant Program Manager, USACE HQ; the Individual Leadership in Safety Award was given to Mr. Nathaniel C. Woods Jr., Safety Manager, Inland Dredging Company; the Corporate Leadership in Safety Award was given to Mike Hooks, LLC of Westlake, Louisiana; and Mr. David W. McMasters, PHMSA Compliance Manager, Chevron Pipe Line Company was honored with a Safety Appreciation Award for his contributions to the CDMCS Pipeline Task Force.
“These recipients have distinguished themselves over the past year in safety. Their leadership and promotion of safety have been exceptional amidst the COVID-19 pandemic,” Mr. Carlock said.
The meeting continued with Jenny Burke of the National Safety Council and CDR Tom Janisko, USACE Command Surgeon, discussing mental health challenges and psychological first aid during COVID-19. Members then discussed incidents that occurred during the last quarter and trends to date. 3M led attendees through an in-depth presentation on best practices in welding and use of protective eyewear. PHMSA’s Annmarie Robertson rounded out the agenda with an update on the August 21 pipeline incident at the Port of Corpus Christi, as the public awaits the results of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation.
“Like many, we began the year with a pre-COVID agenda,” says CDMCS Executive Director Michael Gerhardt, “but thanks to our members and our ability to be a nimble organization, we were able to quickly change gears and lead the collective industry response to the pandemic, holding weekly calls between industry and USACE beginning March 5, building an online resource center, sharing best practices, and engaging world-class experts in infectious diseases and outbreak response. As the nation’s unified voice for safety in our industry, we’ll remain laser-focused on COVID-19 in 2021 and also embark on other initiatives. Our strength is in our growing membership and our partnership with USACE and other federal and state partners. We look forward to working with all of you in the new year as we advance safety for the dredging and marine construction industry together.”
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Look back on Autumn Phillips and Peter Phillips's relationship as they split
In 2005, Peter and Autumn – then known as Autumn Kelly – were pictured looking happy and laid back at the Gatcombe Park Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park near Tetbury.
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Later that year, the couple watched Peter's sister, Zara, compete for Britain in the final show-jumping section of the European Eventing Championships held at Blenheim Palace near Woodstock, England.
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Autumn fit right in with the family at that point, and was pictured talking to an excited Princess Anne, Zara's then-boyfriend Mike Tindall and some friends.
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The couple looked very much in love at the Cheltenham Festival Race Meeting in March 2006.
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Later that summer, Autumn went with the Royal Family on a cruise of the Western Isles to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday.
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In 2007, she attended Royal Ascot with Peter.
They announced their engagement at the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park that August.
They were married in a beautiful service at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 17, 2008.
Autumn's first Christmas as a royal was a very happy one.
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About a year later, the couple's first child, Savannah, was born.
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The two were – and still are – doting parents.
2012 saw Autumn pregnant with her second child.
Isla arrived that March.
Over the years, Autumn developed not just a strong friendship with her sister-in-law Zara and brother-in-law Mike, but also with Princess Beatrice (pictured right) and her sister, Princess Eugenie. The two were frequently seen smiling and laughing at each other in photos at events such as Royal Ascot (above, in 2012).
Autumn attended Royal Ascot with the Queen in 2013.
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The two also helped support Prince Harry at the inaugural Invictus Games in London in 2014.
They were pictured cheering on a wheelchair rugby match with Duchess Kate's brother and sister, James Middleton and Pippa Middleton.
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The two looked very much in love at the ISPS Handa Mike Tindall celebrity golf tournament in 2015.
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Two years later, they were pictured cheering daughters Savannah and Isla (not pictured) on as the girls eagerly took to rock climbing at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in 2017.
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Autumn and Peter held hands on May 18, 2018, 10 years and a day after their wedding day, when they arrived at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle for Harry and Duchess Meghan's nuptials. It's the same place they tied the knot.
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Autumn and Peter's last royal event together was the Braemar Highland Games in August 2019. They were pictured laughing happily with the Queen, Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla.
We were saddened to hear Autumn Phillips and Peter Phillips are set to divorce. The two announced their plans this week after a story emerged in the press that they had separated. They plan to seek joint custody of their children, Savannah and Isla.
Autumn and Peter first met in 2003 at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. Autumn is originally from Quebec's largest city, and she brought a lovely bit of Canadian spirit to the family when she married Peter in 2008.
Through the years, we've loved seeing the couple's mutual affinity for horses, their friendships with Peter's sister Zara Tindall and her husband Mike Tindall, the care and attention and kindness with which they've raised their daughters, and how beautifully Autumn has fit in with the Royal Family. We will truly miss them as a couple, but we're glad that they're going to continue to parent together.
Scroll through the gallery (or click through if you're on desktop) to see some of the milestones and our favourite moments from their relationship.
Photos: © Anwar Hussein/Getty Images, Dave J Hogan/Getty Images, Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage
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January 2, 2020 Cameron Fields
John Henson ties career-high 7 blocks in leading Cavaliers’ defense in comeback win over Memphis Grizzlies
By Cameron Fields, special to cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – John Henson was as effective as he’s been all season in his role of rim protector during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ game Friday against the Memphis Grizzlies.
A quality shot blocker throughout his career, Henson tied a career-high seven blocks during the Cavs’ 114-107 win. According to Basketball Reference, Henson’s seven blocks are the most by a Cavalier since Zydrunas Ilgauskas had seven against the Chicago Bulls in 2005.
Henson missed much of the early part of the season with ankle and groin injuries. He played in the Cavs’ second game against Indiana, but went back on the injured list and missed 17 games due to a right hamstring strain.
Since then Henson has played in 10 games. In the nine games before Friday, Henson had six blocks. But against the Grizzlies, he demonstrated his potential impact on Cleveland’s defense.
“I think my niche is just kind of do the small things off the bench, finish when I can and protecting the rim,” Henson said. “That’s kind of the role it’s shaping up to be, and I gotta be good at it.”
With 10:02 left Friday, a bucket from Jordan Clarkson cut the Grizzlies’ lead to 93-83. On the next possession, Henson blocked a shot by 7-footer Jonas Valanciunas. With 8:43 left and the Cavs down 93-86, Henson victimized Valanciunas once again. It sparked a transition opportunity, and Larry Nance Jr. slammed a putback dunk of a Darius Garland miss.
Henson finished with four blocks in the fourth quarter, three against Valanciunas. The two have some history, going back to Henson’s days with the Milwaukee Bucks and Valanciunas’ time with the Toronto Raptors.
Henson, traded to the Cavs in mid-season, missed most of last season with a wrist injury. In 2017, he played for the Bucks in a 4-2 first-round loss to the Raptors.
“We know each other, man, so it was fun,” Henson said.
By the time Henson returned to the bench, the Cavaliers were down by five points but carried the necessary comeback momentum. An energetic defense forced three turnovers but just as importantly slowed the Grizzlies’ pace.
“The group that usually plays at that part of the time, the start of the fourth quarter, did a great job of creating those turnovers,” coach John Beilein said. “John (Henson) was huge with that.”
A young team that’s still learning how to execute on both ends of the floor, particularly late in close games, the Cavs showed needed growth in establishing a winning identity.
“We gotta be a little scrappy,” Henson said. “And I think we gotta move the ball and play hard on defense. That’s kind of a recipe for success and that’s what we’ve been doing last couple of games.”
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Coconuts launches brand studio Grove
By Coconuts Nov. 29, 2019
Today we are excited to announce the launch of our new in-house brand studio, Grove.
Our specialty is producing fast, funny, and digitally native content for brands as a service, leveraging our expertise as a publisher with a highly engaged audience. Our core competencies are video production — from 15 second branded videos to hour-long travel documentaries, copywriting, and graphic design.
The impetus for Grove grew out of the volume of requests from advertising clients we received to create content for their social media, websites, and campaigns.
Grove will continue to produce all Coconuts branded content and advertising, but we are positioning ourselves to produce content for brands that is not necessarily distributed to the Coconuts audience.
Wherever our work appears, we will harness our publishing expertise and audience of millions across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to inform our content strategy.
We are ROI and target oriented with all our content production, whether that means delivering an engaging video for social media, a microsite which drives traffic, or a written story with a high time on page. We ensure that targets we set for clients are met and exceeded.
Grove will be led by managing director Tara Rattanaphas, based in Bangkok, and our 16-person staff is spread across Bangkok, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Tara Rattanaphas, managing director of Grove
“We believe there is a gap in the market for content production between creative agencies, which are often quite expensive, and online freelancer platforms, which often produce work of varying quality,” says Rattanaphas.
Grove clients already include Hilton, Moet Hennessy Diageo, Genting Cruises, Siam Piwat, and more.
Contact Grove to discuss your brand’s content creation needs at advertising@coconuts.co.
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The Old Testament equivalent to taking communion in an unworthy manner would be a priest who offered incense that was not commanded (Lev 10:1-2), or someone who was not a Levite offering a sacrifice or burning incense (1 Sam 13:7-13; 2 Chr 26:16-21)..
They don’t repent and reconcile with God, and without having done so, feel uncomfortable with participating just out of obligation and habit, to fit in. Or conversely they might believe that the church they are in has unrepented sin and do not wish to participate with them in that state.
A person gets to heaven by believing in the salvation message in the bible, and THROUGH Jesus Christ (becoming saved/born again). Not by any other way, and that includes being baptised; being baptised does NOT earn you a ticket to heaven. Neither does being a good person, or doing good things.
In the book of Matthew, Jesus says “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery”.
Church teaching holds that unless divorced Catholics receive an annulment — or a church decree that their first marriage was invalid — they are committing adultery and cannot receive Communion. For a variety of reasons such annulments often cannot be obtained.
In other words, only those who are united in the same beliefs — the seven sacraments, the authority of the pope, and the teachings in the Catechism of the Catholic Church — are allowed to receive Holy Communion.
A person who is to receive the Most Holy Eucharist is to abstain for at least one hour before holy communion from any food and drink, except for only water and medicine.
“People who sip from the Communion cup don’t get sick more often than anyone else,” said Anne LaGrange Loving, a New Jersey microbiologist who has conducted one of the few studies on the subject. “It isn’t any riskier than standing in line at the movies.”
The general rule of canon law is that “sacred ministers cannot deny the sacraments to those who seek them at appropriate times, are properly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them”; and “any baptized person not prohibited by law can and must be admitted to holy communion”.
Though the community led by the pope in Rome is known as the Catholic Church, the traits of catholicity, and thus the term catholic, are also ascribed to denominations such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East.
Most Protestant churches practise open communion, although many require that the communicant be a baptized Christian. … The official policy of the Episcopal Church is to only invite baptized persons to receive communion. However, many parishes do not insist on this and practise open communion.
The most appropriate way to refuse Communion during the Eucharistic portion of the mass is to remain in the pew. Typically, members of the congregation stand, exit the pew in the center, receive Communion at the front of the church, then circle around to re-enter the pew from the other side.
Can you be a Christian without going through baptism? Yes, but the Christian must obey Jesus, Jesus ordered baptism. In Baptism is a public alliegance to the triune God and each person in the Godhead. It means we die and come to life with Jesus.
I thank You, O holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who have deigned, not through any merits of mine, but out of the condescension of Your goodness, to satisfy me a sinner, Your unworthy servant, with the precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
I try to take communion every day. … However, communion is one of the things Jesus does command us to do. It transcends time and place. This commandment is for every believer, in every time, everywhere.
Requisites to receive Holy Communion worthilyBe in the state of grace.Observe one hour of fast (water does not break the fast)Be sufficiently devout and prepared.
Jesus makes it very plain, you must be baptized to enter heaven, and if you are over the age of 7, you must partake of His Body and Blood – without which you cannot enter heaven. Of course JUST getting baptized means nothing if you do not change your life and live as He commanded but you must be baptized.
The Catholic Church treats all consummated sacramental marriages as permanent during the life of the spouses, and therefore does not allow remarriage after a divorce if the other spouse still lives and the marriage has not been annulled.
Therefore, anyone who is conscious of having committed an actual mortal sin, and who has not yet been to confession, generally cannot receive Holy Communion. (For a grave reason, and if such a person is repentant, he may say an act of perfect contrition, returning him to a state of grace, and then receive Communion.)
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November 8, 2015 – Final Thoughts
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In Chicago this week, a 9-year-old boy was lured into an alley, shot, and killed in a gang-related attack. Police are certain that this was no accident, that this was premeditated execution. Tyshawn Lee was killed in a gang dispute.
This news was sickening to me. Not just because the boy was in grade school, a “non-combatant” in the violence that has overtaken Chicago. Not just because cruel individuals planned to murder him. Not just because of the street execution.
No, the worst part of this story to me is that when it broke, there was no outrage. There was no call for action, there was no new hashtag, we haven’t seen community leaders and national leaders stand up and condemn ALL violence against ALL people.
If black lives matter, then lives like Tayshawn’s matter most of all. The youngest lives taken matter most, because the most life and the most potential disappears when these young lives do.
Where is the outrage from the Media elite? We saw it all over the place at the recent mass shooting in Oregon, as we should have. But this act in Chicago was not that of a mad man – it was an execution, cold and cruel, lacking any humanity or meaning. And yet we didn’t hear about this, even though things like this happen every week in Chicago.
It’s unacceptable. It’s sickening.
If we are truly, truly serious about violence, and if the liberals are truly serious about gun violence, then why is it that Chicago is crumbling, sagging under the weight of its own body count?
Law and order has disappeared in that city. People are afraid to step forward and share potentially valuable information because the gangs are running that city, not the mayor, not the police, not city hall. Yet where is the weekly call to end violence in Chicago, most of which is perpetrated by criminals with guns?
The same people after my guns don’t seem to care about the violence in Chicago. Why? Because Chicago already has strict gun laws. They’ve already stripped citizens’ second amendment rights in that city.
Look what happened as a result.
More guns equal less crime. Go out and buy yourself a gun. You’ve been listening to Come and Talk It! with Michael Cargill.
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Posted on January 15, 2021 by John D | Leave a comment
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits & Pieces 82 – March 1978
The Railway Preservation Society Newsletter
Chasewater News 23 – Part 1
The operating season is now a mere fortnight away as I write this Newsletter and despite a fair response to the appeals in the last Newsletter, the purchase of the line is still as precarious as ever. To date we have raised £1,200, less than 25% of the total amount of £5,400 required. It is quite clear that some drastic action will be required during the next six months in order to effect the purchase of the line, the favourite course of action amongst the ‘hard-core’ at Chasewater being the sale of the E1 locomotive ‘Cannock Wood’ for reasons already expanded upon in these pages and elsewhere. Suffice to say it is time for those who care to stand up and be counted (many members already have) or accept the consequences.
(No, we haven’t!)
News from the line
Much activity during the winter has been centred upon putting in a new siding leading up to the platelayers’ cabin. Access to this siding is controlled by a two lever ground frame which marks the start of interlocking on the railway.
It is intended to extend the siding up to the crossing at a later date and outline planning permission is available for construction of a building over the siding.
The present end of the siding has a railbuilt buffer stop – another first at Chasewater.
Work is now concentrated upon improvements to the two points leading into the compound and the installation of their associated control gear which will, in due course, be controlled by the platform lever frame after the running line has been slewed to clear the extension to the platform.
The extension to the platform will be built once the worst of the frosts are over.
The platform fence has been painted black, Midland style, and a box-van body is being acquired to be used as a waiting room and to provide some much needed shelter.
The bookstall now sports a new roof, by courtesy of Adrian Pearson, and it is actually waterproof! The brothers Grimm have been noticed performing strange exercises which, apart from resulting in the bookstall being repainted in Midland Railway colours, are reputed to be in readiness for the ‘forthcoming influx’ (of visitors I presume!).
The rear compartment of the DMU coach has undergone refurbishing, which has included repainting the roof, seat frames and heating ducts, re-covering the seat backs and a thorough clean. The rest of the coach is to receive similar treatment next winter.
(I don’t know if it’s just my reading of this section, but it gives me the impression of being much more optimistic than past articles.)
Locomotives.
Invicta – this is currently being prepared for the new season, its yearly boiler test not being due until July, when it is hoped to give it a final top coat of paint.
Alfred Paget & Invicta – Gricers’ Day 9-10-1977
Alfred Paget – currently being prepared for its annual boiler test and it should be back in service by May.
Asbestos – The hydraulic test will take place within the next few weeks, when a final decision will be taken as to whether the necessary firebox repairs can be afforded. Hopefully the money will be forthcoming as ‘Alfred Paget’ is due for its six yearly hydraulic test next year.
Work involved entails lifting the saddle tank, stripping of boiler cladding and lagging to expose the boiler, repairs to the saddle tank and overhaul and refitting of all boiler and cab fittings. Mechanically the loco is sound. The loc is to be renamed ‘Colonel’ using the nameplate off the now scrapped Hudswell Clarke loco, latterly at Granville Colliery, as a pattern.
Lion – Following a change of ownership, plans are being made to give this loco its six yearly major boiler test during the summer, with a view to steaming it at the tail end of the season.
05406 The Colonel 0-6-0ST HC 1073-1914 at Granville 12-6-1964
The name is doubly appropriate as ‘Lion’ started its working life at Woolwich Arsenal, whilst the name ‘Colonel’ conjures up visions of Colonel Holman F. Stephens the godfather of light railways, and who would probably be highly delighted at the current set up at Chasewater.
Long standing members will recall that the loco was originally purchased minus safety valves. Happily the recent sale of loco spares held at Chasewater was of particular value, as a pair of Ross pop safety valves were obtained suitable for the loco.
It is considerably less than pleasing to report that on the afternoon of Monday 23rd January someone broke into the compound and deliberately set fire to the brake end of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln coach. There can be no doubt that this was a deliberate malicious action and if it wasn’t for a sharp-eyed resident of Hednesford Road then every wooden bodied vehicle in the compound would have been razed to the ground.
The damage is estimated to coast at least £1,000 to repair. Allied to this fire, has been the theft of several items from the museum coach on three separate occasions. It is interesting to note that all three break-ins occurred during the school holidays. Two vacuum gauges, lettered MSL, were not recovered from the wreckage of the coach, though it is of small comfort that they were, in fact, BR gauges with false lettering.
The nature of the break-ins suggest that the person(s) responsible were familiar with the way things are run at Chasewater and the nature of the stolen items suggests that they knew what they were after and knew where to get it from.
The Police have been informed, but as it was the 270th crime reported in Brownhills in the first five weeks of the year, it is unlikely that they will have any success.
Changing the subject, it is indeed pleasing to report the acquisition of two more locomotives for use at Chasewater.
More about these next time!
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Tagged Alfred Paget, Asbestos, Break-in, Brownhills, Burntwood, Cannock Wood, Chasewater Railway Museum, Colonel, Fire, Invicta, Lichfield, Lion, MSL coach, Staffordshire, Walsall
Posted on December 24, 2020 by John D | Leave a comment
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits and Pieces No 79.
These ‘Bits and Pieces’ were taken from old magazines and publications going back over more than 40 years. If anyone should want to do this in another forty years time they will obviously struggle because these days there are very few magazines to get information from.
This can create difficulties for the Museum as we get queries from time to time and sometimes refer to the magazines for dates, ets.
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits & Pieces 79 – Aug/Sept 1977
To continue – Enthusiasts’ Day October 9thIn past years the last steaming date of the year has seen unfamiliar activity, usually the use of the Maryport & Carlisle coach and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln coach instead of the DMU. This year it is proposed to put on a few extra attractions in the hope of attracting a good crowd of gricers and general public alike. It is proposed to have two locos in steam, one on passenger trains and one on a freight train, with photographic runpasts at suitable intervals. Several vintage vehicles, notably buses and cars are expected to be on display and a ‘mini mart’ of upwards of six sales stands will be present, offering a variety of goods of railway interest. Several ‘dead’ engines will be on photographic display and several relics, not normally on display will be visible. In addition, the ‘Merryweather’ fire pump will be doing its thing, perhaps even roasting chestnuts. There is little else of steam interest this late in the season, so please make every effort to attend and tell friends, etc., and let’s end the season on a memorable note.
Admission – 30p for adults, 15p for children, including a free train ride!
On a grander scale, the Severn Valley Railway holds its ‘Enthusiasts’ Weekend’ on September 10th & 11th. 12 locos will be in steam. Of special note are:
BR2-6-4T 80079 – recently restored and immaculate.
GWR 4-6-0 6960 ‘Raveningham Hall’ – recently arrived from Steamtown, Carnforth.
GWR 4-6-07819 ‘Hinton Manor’ – the latest ex. Barry engine to be restored and making its debut on public trains.
Raveningham Hall
There are many other attractions and a frequent train service employing five makes of coaches will be in operation. The best chance to see ex. BR steam in a genuine setting and thoroughly recommended.
Transport Scene 23rd & 24th July
This was certainly the most important event on the RPS’s calendar in the last five years and although it was hard work I think its success is proved by the fact that everyone spoken to enjoyed themselves immensely, whether members of the public or members who spent three days on site to help in the multitude of tasks that needed doing. It is unfair to single out anyone for praise as it was teamwork that made the event a success, ably led by our captain, Andrew Louch, who reports as follows:-
“Well as some of you will know, this event has been a success, although I must admit it had us guessing right up to Sunday morning. Over the weekend we netted a grand total of £1,014, which is our best ever for a single event. However, expenses came to £764.84, which left a profit of £249.16.
I would like to thank all our members who helped, including some less familiar faces, which goes to prove that our pleas for help don’t go unheard. I would personally like to thank our Chairman, Albert Haywood, for organising the arena events and making up the original commentary which put the BBC to shame!!
We have decided to hold another ‘Transport Scene’ next year, so if you have any ideas for improvements then please let me know!”
Tagged Brownhills, Burntwood, Invicta, Lichfield, Manchester Sheffield & Lincoln, Maryport & Carlisle, Railway Preservation Society, Raveningham Hall, Severn Valley Railway, Staffordshire, Transport Scene, Walsall
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits & Pieces 77 – June 1977
Chasewater News 20
The Editorial pointed out that the more active members of the RPS are just getting over the ‘Jubilee Weekend’ to be straight away flung into the run in to the ‘Transport Scene’ weekend – the same dozen or so have to carry on the normal operating season as well! There followed the usual appeal for more help, but explained that ‘if the response to this appeal is the usual one, then I’ve been wasting my time, but unless we get more active support then the Chasewater Project will go backwards, not forwards, and disillusionment will set in amongst the members, ending in the folding of the RPS in the not too distant future. I’m not being alarmist but unless we are able to purchase the loop line then the active membership will be decimated and that is fact, remember ‘Bridge that gap – buy a Yard of Track’.
There’s been plenty going on at Chasewater since the last report. On the locomotive front ‘Invicta’ passed its boiler and steaming tests and is in the final stages of a repaint, whilst ‘Alfred Paget’ carries on regardless, being smartened up in between steamings. ‘Asbestos’ has had its tank jacked up and boiler lagging removed in preparation for an ultrasonic boiler test, which will ascertain what, if any, repairs are necessary. Depending upon what the result and cost is, it will be reassembled as a static exhibit or be returned to traffic, hopefully the latter.
The DMU vehicle has been professionally repainted in maroon livery at great expense. It is to be lined out and have transfers added as and when time permits. The repainting of this vehicle has, in my opinion, been the greatest step forward taken by the railway for some considerable time. The interior of the vehicle is to be refurbished during the wintertime.
The extension to the platform continues and the lever frame is being installed with associated interlocking and track improvements.
Stop Press: it is hoped to acquire Hednesford No.3 signal box to house the lever frame, negotiations with BR are underway. The station has been improved by the installation of two gas lamp standards and a few cast iron signs to give a more business like appearance. The present terminus will be named ‘Brownhills West’ on completion of the platform.
Further up the line much packing and levelling, along with spot sleeper replacement, has gone on in order to finish off the present stretch of line and to give a smoother run.
As you may realise we are chronically understaffed on operating days with the brothers Curtis performing sterling work in the bookstall as well as being the usual guard/ticket collector crew and managing to be in three places at once.
Train receipts are down on last season, mainly due to the inclement weather of our operating days. Easter Monday has been the most successful day, over 700 people taking a journey.
Over Jubilee weekend, another RPS first was notched up, with trains being run on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, all being hauled by the Neilson locomotive ‘Alfred Paget’.
No.11 Neilson 0-4-0ST 2937-1882 Taken at either Bedlay or Gartsherrie, still working for a living!
Receipts were poor and the Tuesday steaming was done mainly for good public relations, 93 people from the Hednesford Road street party being given free rides to strengthen relations between the railway and the local people. This has also resulted in a good publicity plug, as we were the only railway to run in conjunction with a street party.
The TPO roof is now watertight and re-panelling of the sides will take place in due course, whilst its tarpaulins have been placed over the LNWR 3rd brake coach in order to hide it as it continues to fall apart!
The GWR brake van has suffered at the hands of some juvenile delinquents who set fire to it. Fortunately damage was confined to the verandah but restoration will not be speedy unless someone volunteers to take it on – outside of the usual workforce.
Chasewater Light Railway Company notes
The Kraken hath awoke and the first AGM for eighteen months was held in April. The Board are now trying to formulate future policy for the railway in conjunction with the RPS Committee and hopefully sensible plans will emerge in the next few weeks, details of which will be placed in the newsletter for members’ comments.
Track Fund
Only £120 has been raised so far, a pathetic reflection upon the concern about the future of the Society by the members. Money is needed now as time is running short.
E1 Fund
Most of the money so far raised has been spent on advertising. If you feel you can contribute anything to this fund contact us.
The locomotive has been inspected by Messrs. Barlow of Warrington, a reputable firm of boiler makers, who have given an extremely reasonable set of quotes for repair of the locomotive boiler. Time is running short if this locomotive is to remain at Chasewater as the AGM two years ago instructed the committee to dispose of the loco as a last resort to buy the loop line, and unless someone pumps a hell of a lot of money into either the E1 fund or the track fund, then the Society will have to face what seems to be inevitable – the loss of our only ‘local engine’ which is also our only ‘main line’ loco, and the most interesting of all our locos.
Notes from Barry Bull Hon. Sec.
The arrival of a complete 7¼” gauge railway, with a steam loco, heralded a possibility of something being in steam every Sunday at Chasewater this summer. Unfortunately the loco blew its superheaters on a trial steaming and has been relegated to a static display. The loco is based on the Southern Region ‘Schools’ class of loco and was one of a pair built in 1934 and so is a worthy exhibit in its own right.
Items purchased or donated during the past few months include an LNWR ‘Beware of the Trains’ sign, a concrete GCR boundary post, a few items of LNER cutlery, a selection of Kent & East Sussex Railway paper work, a Wemyss Private Railway rule book and a sign of LMS origin.
Transport Scene July 23/24
Rapid developments regarding this event have taken place and the organiser sent the following note for inclusion:-
‘This event is aimed at raising money towards our track fund and towards giving our railway a publicity boost. This is perhaps the most important event to have been organised by the RPS so far, so I would have thought that some of our armchair members would have offered their services to our already hard pressed stalwarts. However, this does not appear to be so. In fact, so far, I have received only three offers of help. We are in our most critical year, which could literally make or break our Society, so please, please help us, even if it is only in a small way’.
‘Chasewater News’ is written by Ian Patterson, typed by Dorothy Ives and printed by Rob Ives.
Tagged Andrew Barclay, Brownhills, Burntwood, Chasewater Railway Museum, Invicta, Lichfield, Miniature Railway, Neilson, Railway Preservation Society, Staffordshire
Chasewater Railway Museum – Bits and Pieces No. 76
Posted on December 7, 2020 by John D | Leave a comment
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits & Pieces 76 – April 1977
With the operating season nearly upon us, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the same few regular volunteers will be responsible for the operation of the railway during the coming season. Appeals for extra help during the closed season have had the usual minimal response but the usual crowd have ensured that the railway will reopen as scheduled on the 10th April. In many ways the RPS is the Cinderella of the operating preserved railways, but it reflects great credit upon the dozen or so people who have turned up week in, week out, enduring rain, sleet and snow, that we have entered our sixth season of steam-hauled services, which promises to be our most successful yet.
Pride of place must go to the ancient Neilson ‘Alfred Paget’. Although built as long ago as 1882 it passed its steam test on 17th March with flying colours. This was the result of much hard work by the engineering department in re-machining parts of the motion, which had earned it the nickname of ‘shake, rattle and roll’ in some circles. The planned repaint for the Neilson has had to be delayed due to the adverse weather conditions.
‘Invicta’ the Andrew Barclay saddletank has passed its visual inspection and now awaits re-assembly of cab fittings, etc., and then a steam test before re-entering service again. Its owner is still threatening to complete its restoration by giving it a uniform coat of Great Western green!
Unfortunately ‘Asbestos’ repairs are beyond our financial resources at the moment and so it has been put to one side until we have the necessary cash.
The next major locomotive job is to strip the Peckett 0-4-0ST ‘Lion’ in preparation for its major hydraulic test. The two Worthington diesels have had repairs as and where necessary and are both serviceable at the moment.
Lion in 1978 with ‘Colonel’ Plate
It is pleasing to report that the Company are financing a complete repaint of the DMU trailer coach by a local firm of contractors, in the early stages of the season. The expected final livery is grey roof, crimson lake bodywork and black underframe and running gear. Great progress has been made with regard to trackwork with the construction of a point for a siding at the crossing. This took less than a month despite the fact that the recently restored petrol crane broke its main shaft whilst lifting the first piece of rail into place. Several crossing timbers were obtained by our general manager at a bargain price. Ballasting and packing has been completed, considerably eased by the use of the tractor and bucket scoop, kept in trim by Brian Hames.
The footings of the lever frame have been laid. The necessary walls should be built during Easter week, enabling the platform to be extended to its full length.
Other work carried out on site has been mainly in tidying up in preparation for the coming season. A scrap drive resulted in a load of scrap being sold to bolster the Society’s coffers. The sale of the engine out of the scrapped J4 van realised £25.
The Travelling Post Office has been partially re-roofed, with more to follow to make it water-tight again. Re-panelling of this vehicle is to commence when the weather becomes drier.
The visit to South Yorkshire area of the Coal Board 9mentioned in the last Newsletter) was not entirely unsuccessful, as, although we failed (only just) to obtain the locomotive ‘Beatrice’, the Hon. Sec. was successful in obtaining many locomotive spares, notably boiler tubes and firebars from Rockingham Colliery.
Stroudley E1 Locomotive Centenary FundNo.110 Southern No. 4
Not a lot to report this month, but ads in Railway Magazine have been paid for to counter the apathy amongst Society members. A rather neat handout has been produced and is obtainable. Certain preservative work has been done on the locomotive and a repaint is planned before the high season. More help and money is urgently needed for this project to succeed.
Negotiations within Walsall Council continue and a final decision is awaited.
The Chasewater Light Railway Company has awakened from its apparent siesta and a general meeting will shortly be arranged.
Meanwhile all members are urged to take up the offer of buying a yard of track, as the success of this fund will decide the fate of our Society. Albert Haywood is the person to contact regarding the track fund and every £10 donation is certified.
Thanks are due once again to Mr. Clift of Chase terrace, who has donated a 25 ton locomotive jack, once used in the Central Workshops at the far end of our line, and a pile of magazines for resale. On the museum front latest acquisitions have included a Great Western and Midland Railway joint cast iron notice and two very nice bridge numbers of Manchester South Junction and Altrincham and West Riding and Grimsby Joint origins. Smaller items include a GWR paycheck, an LNWR (Walsall) paycheck, an LNWR 1894 handbill, LSWR carriage blind, a small GWR cream jug complete with crest and six LMS tickets, mostly from the Brownhills area.
The March meeting was a slide competition and there were close on 100 entries of varying quality, though every entrant had at least one slide in the last twenty. The competition was won convincingly by Nigel Canning’s photo of ‘Asbestos’ taken from within the dark confines of the cab of the Hudswell Clarke.
Tagged Andrew Barclay, Asbestos, Brownhills, Burntwood, Chasewater Railway Museum, Invicta, Lichfield, Neilson, Railway Preservation Society, Staffordshire, TPO
Chasewater Railway Museum – Bits and Pieces 72, December 1976
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Chasewater Railway Museum Bits & Pieces 72 – Dec 1976
Chasewater News – Part 1
From the ‘Editorial’
Less than 24 hours ago, I was standing in the compound with a group of members, discussing the lack of recent Society literature, when jokingly I suggested I could piece together a newsletter. Well here I am trying to write one.
Sincere apologies are due for the non-arrival of ‘Chasewater Express’ No.3, due to printing problems, etc. Hopefully the next edition will revert to the magazine format, which has produced some favourable comments. (Sorry folks – it didn’t!).
Much activity has taken place at Chasewater during the long dry summer and the short wet autumn. No less than three engines have been seen in steam at Chasewater this year, a record for the Society. It is estimated that over 8,000 people visited us, so there is every confidence of getting into five figures in 1977. ‘Alfred Paget’ the Neilson 0-4-0ST handled the bulk of the season’s traffic faultlessly (well almost!),
Alfred Paget and Invicta
whilst ‘Asbestos’ was steamed on a couple of occasions, but succumbed to rotten tubes in August and so was taken out of service pending the annual boiler inspection.
The big news however has been the completion of the overhaul of ‘Invicta’ the Barclay 0-4-0ST and its use in service pulling the vintage train on a couple of occasions at the end of the season. Already it has proved to be quite powerful, despite its somewhat diminutive size. Many thanks are due to Mike Wood for the purchase of this engine.
The boiler inspector has visited the site and passed ‘Alfred Paget’ and ‘Invicta’ for use next year, subject to steam tests. Unfortunately ‘Asbestos’ is due for a major test entailing the removal of tank and lagging, so it may not steam next year, for the first time in five years.
Paget with Asbestos
It is hoped that work will start on the Peckett 0-4-0ST ‘Lion’ in the New Year, so there is plenty of work for anyone interested in loco repairs – don’t be shy, come and volunteer to strengthen our loco fleet.
Both ‘Invicta’ and ‘Paget’ are to be repainted prior to next season. The little Barclay, ‘Lion’ and the Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST have been repainted this summer, considerably improving the ‘scrap-yard’ image of the compound. The planned repaint of ‘Asbestos’ will also be done, made easier by the need to dismantle it.
The other major scene of activity has been the current terminus of the line where the burning embankment has been dug out and refilled with non-combustible material. The track here has been slewed across to avoid placing stress on the edge of the embankment. Further relaying has taken place using concrete sleepers, extending the line by 50 yards or so. Many thanks to Colin Vincent for the loan of his bulldozer.
Further relaying has ceased pending purchase of the loopline from British Railways. It seems that the purchase will have to be completed without financial aid from the Council in view of the current economic and political climate (sound familiar!). To this end several interested bodies have offered substantial sums of money for the ‘E1’ locomotive ‘Cannock Wood’. A subject of much heated discussion at the moment. (See separate letter. In the next post – cws). The selling of E1 can only be done as a last resort, if all other means fail. Any sensible suggestions regarding fund-raising, etc. should be forwarded to the Hon. Sec.
Other progress has been seen with regard to re-fencing of the compound following two break-ins, when £40 worth of relics were stolen from the museum vehicle. The police have the addresses of the probable culprits so the items may be recovered.
Major Olver of the Railway Inspectorate visited the line and was reasonably satisfied with the current state of affairs – the full report will appear in the next magazine. It is to be hoped that the Chasewater Light Railway Company will finance the repainting of the DMU coach, so that it can match the current excellence of the two six-wheelers.
The Model Railway Exhibition held in September was another financial success, though the level of help, especially of the Friday night, was poor. Many thanks to Andrew Louch, the organiser and to Mr. and Mrs. Duffill for the refreshments.
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Tagged Alfred Paget, Asbestos, Chasewater Railway Museum, Invicta, Lichfield, Neilson, Railway Preservation Society
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits and Pieces No. 71, April 1976
Posted on October 27, 2020 by John D | Leave a comment
Chasewater Railway Museum Bits & Pieces 71
From the ‘Chasewater Express’ April 1976
I have no idea where the picture of the LP came from – it’s not on my preview or anywhere else on this post??
Steve’s Bit
Considerable activity has been occurring on site in recent weeks. This is no doubt due largely to the long stretches of dry and sometimes mild weather. I hardly need say however, that those present were more or less the usual crowd. Still, spring is near, and the prospect of a few more members turning out occurs as a dream to those of us tied to the site every weekend. There are many fingers to be pulled out and bumps in the track to be smoothed, as well as a crossing and a siding to be laid, engines and carriages to be cleaned, painted, steamed and pulled in order to grab any stray waif, family of four or local loony for a ride, on which we depend so very much for our cash intake. The Society has ‘just about’ ticked along financially – we must this year raise enough cash for active members to realise their ambitions, i.e. re-panel and refit what is known as the ‘Football Special’
The LNWR compo brake; and more importantly, the TPO, which is in a shocking state for a vehicle of its importance.
Travelling Post Office at Hednesford.
Engines too need cash, which they tend to consume in greater quantities than coal during the period of their restoration – not to mention Keith Sargeant.
Steve Organ – Editor, Station Master and Order of the most meritorious school of tipyng errrorz.
(Listen for loud popping noises as people pull their fingers out in what for many will be their only physical response to this apple peel!)
Not to mention K.S. who complained that he wasn’t mentioned enough in the last mag!
Chasewater Site Notes
Some lunatic has stuck pieces of wood in the platform, painted them pink, and left them – saying nothing to anyone regarding them. (This is a sight worth seeing! Ed.)
Invicta arriving 1975
Mike Wood has been seen in his role as scrubber extraordinaire (Special duties – preparing his engine Invicta for painting prior to its introduction to Chasewater service, at… well let’s say ‘as soon after April 11th as possible. Said scrubber Mike, ‘this is going to look the most impressive engine at Chasewater. It is going to be rather lavishly lined over Easter, you know’. (Not to mention this last bit to Keith Sargeant, the Neilson freak!)
The LNWR full brake has been completely painted and laid out as a museum. Nearly 1,500 square feet of wall space is now devoted in this vehicle to the exhibition of relics, as well as exhibits in cases therein ( not to mention the nameplates of Alfred Paget, which are to be fixed by K.S. to the Neilson at some point in the future, we are given to hope). (Vaguely).
Concrete sleepers? Bloody ‘ell mate, what do you think we are, main line to Euston? I mean – what? Donated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries? Lying in the grass at Lichfield for years? Enough for seven lengths did you say? Bloody ‘ell mate, how many? 22 letters to get them? Three cheers for DEREK JUNIOR!
The Midland is being spruced up externally and painted properly internally in order to preserve it until we have time and money to do it properly. If any member would like to dismantle and rebuild two of the doors on this vehicle, would he please come to the site and report to Andrew Louch or Steve Organ? Ta.
The Great Western water tower, complete with tower, tank and cap were cut up on site and removed during the week ending 20th February. We know not the perpetrators of this terrible deed – the police have no idea. What to do? Someone buggered off with two tons of steel and no-one saw them. We have our suspicions but no proof.
Pink posts – Steve Organ
Invicta scrubbing – Mike Wood
LNWR brake – Albert Haywood, Derek Junior, Nigel Canning, Steve Foster, Barry Bull, Richard Louch, Andrew Louch (who painted the doors a different green to the rest of the vehicle – is this man colour blind?), Adrian (I don’t know his surname but he’s nearly always here).
The Midland – As the LNWR brake, plus Steve O. Not to mention K.S., who is preparing Invicta, in league with Derek Luker and Brian Hames. Advertisements
Occasionally, some of your visitors may see an advertisement here,
Tagged Brownhills, Burntwood, Chasewater Express, Chasewater Railway Museum, Invicta, Lichfield, LNWR 50′ brake, MR 4-wheel Passenger Brake, Railway Preservation Society, Staffordshire
From the ‘Chasewater Express’
Here we are, into 1976, and once again the Society is crying out. Crying for cash and for help. Once again it is up to members to try and help us over the winter patch, which, as in other years, is hit by poor attendance of volunteers. Our Society is by no means unique in this respect.
I ask you then to do this: there is enclosed in this mag a loose membership form: persuade a friend to fill it in and send it to us. If each member gets just one new member, then our workforce should double. Sounds glib – but is it too much to ask?
Hope you like the new magazine. This is the ‘cheap’ winter edition, with duplicated insides, but the summer edition – in April – which will be on wide sale to non-members, will be a classier affair altogether.
Your adverts are welcome – send them to me. I intend to widen our circulation by acting as a ‘Notice Board’ for vendors and collectors of Railwayana.
Steve Organ, Hon.Editor
Steve Organ has now taken over the editorship of the newsletter, though he tells me that he is going to modify the format slightly. I must thank Steve for relieving me of the job, which has at times been rather difficult to achieve due to business commitments,
We are in the winter now and a difficult time to try and maintain our stock and locomotives at Chasewater due mainly to a lack of covered accommodation.
We are now in our sixteenth year, and can be fairly called a viable society; we do emphasise, however that we must have all the help that anyone can give, to continue to be viable.
Laurence Hodgkinson and I made a very enjoyable trip to Ludgvan, near Penzance, during November, and collected six gas lamps intact from an old GWR clerestory body – this entailed a lot of hard work, particularly for Laurence, who had to cut through all the plumbing. We returned through fog, gale and rain to offload the lamps at Chasewater around midnight that evening.
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Davey Thomas who owned the coach body for his generosity and hospitality.
May I wish everyone a prosperous and happy New Year – Dave Ives – President.
I hope that at least one of these lamps will be restored and on the exhibition stands this year – Editor.
Recent Happenings at Chasewater
A pump handle trolley (YES, BUSTER KEATON STYLE!) has been restored to working order after many years of use as a timber stand. Already, since being commissioned around 1st January, it has claimed two victims. First Rob Duffill, who has a wrenched arm, and now Barry Bull, who the Machine’s handle lifted from the platform and hurled him through the air, to be deposited, muttering oaths and obscenities, into the Chasewater quagmire. (No photographs are available so I may ask them for an action replay!!). Thanks are due to John Elsley for the restoration of this museum piece for our torture-chamber exhibit.
The line has now been relaid and ballasted to the BR Boundary, but much packing is needed.
Negotiations twixt BR and the Council continue – developments hoped for very soon.
The compound is now fully lit by 240 volt lighting equipment – thank you Brian Hames.
Invicta arriving July 1975 – D.Bathurst’s collection
Invicta, the 0-4-0ST Barclay, ex Chatham Docks, has passed its hydraulic test – steaming soon.
Staging has been erected alongside the MSLR coach for public viewing.
Harold Wilson, the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister has made a donation to Society funds (true!)
Original Stones lighting equipment for the ‘Paddy Train’ LNWR bogie brake compo is on order – thank you J.C.James
The TPO has been re-roofed and glazed.
Once again we are well into the closed season, a time when the Railway has to be made ready for the next season of passenger operation. This is a vital time for the Society, for if we are to operate trains we must make good the wear and tear of last year and make improvements where necessary, and whenever possible, and to do these things, we need YOU! You are the Society’s greatest asset – without you we do not exist!
Working members are about 5% of the Society’s membership – a good percentage when compared to other Societies – i.e. SVR’s 4%. Unfortunately for us, our membership as a whole is much less than the SVR, so I would urge you to take up the Editor’s scheme – with the enclosed form get just one new member, more if you can, and really help the Society in this way – if you can’t help on site, is this too much to ask?
We will start the season with two steam locomotives and soon there will be three, next year probably another will be added – these are as well as diesels – never before has the Society been in a position of such strength, but this alone is not enough. We need track to run on, serviceable vehicles, coaches, to carry fare-paying passengers and station staff.
Come and help us then. Make 1976 a year to remember. If you cannot come to Chasewater but can offer us some other service, or have constructive proposals to make, please write to us via the editor. Best wishes for the New Year – Albert Haywood, Chairman.
Tagged Barclay, Chasewater Railway Museum, Hand Pump Trolley, Invicta, Lichfield, Railway Preservation Society, Staffordshire
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OffHeGoes132 Posts: 594
footsteps86 wrote:
Alternative Press gave Handwritten a 4-1/2 star review. The band posted a scan from the magazine on its Facebook page.
Awesome, thanks for the info. Def looking forward to this album and agree with whoever said they are one of the best new bands out there. Hoping to see them in DC on 20 July.
sickgirl Posts: 139
This weekend can't come fast enough
Fuck Cancer, fucking jerk
joberschlake Columbus, OHPosts: 1,135
Gaslight Anthem's Super Deluxe Boxset (autographed copy) is for sale on their website. Limited to 300 copies.
2000: Cincinnati, Columbus
2003: Cleveland, Columbus
2004: Toledo
2006: Cleveland, Cincinnati, Gorge Night 1
2008: Washington D.C.
2009: Chicago Night 1, Seattle Night 1, Philadelphia Night 3, Philadelphia Night 4
2010: Columbus, Indianapolis, Cleveland
2011: Detroit EV, Chicago 1 EV
2012: Atlanta
2013: Chicago, Pittsburgh
2014: Cincinnati
Umbertotamba Posts: 1,350
http://www.thegaslightanthem.com/handwrittenstore/
Super Deluxe Boxset looks nice first 300 are signed!!!!
Springfield MA 94, Hartford CT 96
Of The Aggie The ATXPosts: 1,339
I'm not interested in buying the Super Deluxe set but how can you call it "Super Deluxe" and not include the vinyl? Never seen that before...
Magnitude Posts: 384
Broke down and ordered last night even tho the price tag with shipping and tax was 73.00 for me. Seems that as of this morning the autographed copies have sold out.
No retreats, No regrets.
POP POP!
So I'm heading up to Portland in a bit for the show tomorrow
It's gonna be a blast. It's a new venue for me, I haven't seen anyone there before.
Indifference71 ChicagoPosts: 13,710
sickgirl wrote:
That's awesome. So all of these venues on this tour are like 300-400 people max. Pretty cool. Hopefully they'll start playing some more songs from the new album now that it is pretty close to release.
chitty Posts: 448
"Hopefully they'll start playing some more songs from the new album now that it is pretty close to release."
In an FB post they said that this small tour will have couple new songs, but mostly they want to give back to the fans in a small venue and play LOTS of old songs. Bring on Seattle tomorrow!
dustinpardue Las Vegas, NVPosts: 1,827
I'm still trying to find affordable tickets, or ticket, for the U Street show in DC. If anyone has extras or knows where non-astronomically priced extras can be found, please point me the way!
"All I Ever Knew" available now in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.
solace23 Posts: 704
Would love to see them in a small venue. Really digging sink or swim ATM
Daron Oshay Middletown, NJPosts: 2,366
solace23 wrote:
Love Sink or Swim
Angry Johnny and We're Getting a Divorce are probably my favorite tracks
What a great show! Saw them in Portland at the Hawthorne Theater, first time I've been to that venue, small for sure, perfect! A great set list , played most of my favorites for sure They covered baba o'riley, and while it was awesome, wasn't as intense as when Pearl Jam covers it. Met some great people. Also loved his commentary.
When he pulled out his 12 string rickenbacker he goes, "I really wanted to buy this guitar, but can't really go around buying shit just because, so we wrote a song that needed a 12 string. Then I had to buy it." Missed what he said right after, but then he said, "and now we're going to play a Tom Petty song, well, not really, but it might as well be." He also commented on all the guys with mustaches and "little tiny girls, with tattoos, wearing mom jeans, they go all the way up, what's the deal with that?" It was really a great show, and totally worth all the random things that went wrong on my way to the show
Gonna have to go see these guys a lot more.
Here's a few pics, they're just from a disposable camera. My phone decided to stop charging, so couldn't use that, anyways though...
The show in Seattle was phenomenal. Always great to see a band in a small place! This band has alot of similarities to PJ and of course how I found out about them was on this forum.
THey played some rarely played songs (divorce and senor and queen), which was nice to hear.
Anyone know why they never play probably my favourite song of theirs, We did when we were young?
Bronx Bombers Posts: 2,208
Got this email today
Dear 45 RPM Club members,
About three weeks ago the 45 RPM Club was officially linked from The Gaslight Anthem's website to the InfiniteMerch.com web store. Sometimes people under-estimate the speed of the net and we were guilty of putting something up in final testing stage before we were ready. As soon as we posted the club in the store, all of you were very much ready. However the size selection was not up that morning and you did not have an opportunity to make a size choice because of this. If you wrote to us and we confirmed the size addition to your membership, there is nothing to do. If you did not write to us, please send a note to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e -->. We will notify you directly of your membership update. It's just as important to us as it is to you that we get this right.
Thank you for your patience, and we sincerely apologize for this inconvenience,
FC Staff
Has anyone heard any of the previewed tracks off the new album yet? I'm trying to stay away until official release.
I've been staying away as well. The only one I've heard was "here comes my man" and that was live...
Bilioxi and 45 were also played at the show.
Post edited by sickgirl on July 2012
Been avoiding them. I hate preview tracks. I've heard (obviously) 45, Here comes My Man and Biloxi Parish. The last two being heard live. 12 days and I'm kind of surprised the album hasn't leaked yet. Really looking forward to it.
jervin007 Posts: 3,177
Bronx Bombers wrote:
Joined up yesterday. When I emailed them about the shirt, they told me is was going to printed on Gildan Heavy Cotton and would be pre-shrunk. Also said there were going to be plenty of shows on the horizon!
PJ:
2003 Mansfield: July 2
2004 Boston: Sept 28 & 29
2005 Montreal: Sept 15
2006 Boston: May 24 & 25
2008 Hartford: June 27, Mansfield: June 28,
2010 Boston: May 17
2013 Worcester: Oct 15, Hartford: Oct 25,
2016 Hampton: April 18, Raleigh: April 20 (cancelled), Columbia: April 21. Quebec: May 5. Boston (Fenway): August 7
EV Solo: Boston 8/2/08, Boston 6/16/11
Dear 45 RPM Club members... and we sincerely apologize for this inconvenience,
Cool. Weird that I didn't get that e-mail but I have received every other e-mail from them. I emailed them about this issue a week or so ago and they got back to me within a few days and confirmed my shirt size. Seems we should be getting this package not too long after Handwritten is released.
I just got shipping conformation, from them. So we should start getting it soon. I'm pretty stoned to find out my membership #. my pearl jam membership lapsed about ten years ago so my number here isn't fantastic, but since I signed up with these guys the first day its got to be good.
I lied, just an an order update. That's what I get for getting on here before I'm all the way awake....
Has the new album leaked yet? I haven't seen anything out there yet...
I don't think it has, but I haven't looked, really.
No leak yet.
Here is an acoustic performance Brian did for 96.5 The Buzz in Kansas. He plays "Smile" saying he just learned the song 2 days ago.
http://podcast.965thebuzz.com/krbz2/355 ... dlink=true
Here's the response I received from the GA fan club when I asked what my number was(I signed up the first day). Gotta love the Cust service they responded to my email within 15 minutes. Hopefully well see a bunch of US shows in the fall.
We're sending out the ID cards with random numbering out in two weeks with the T-shirt and sticker pack.
With random numbering?
I'm sure they just wanted to get the word out and give a little more time to fans who may not have heard about the initial launch. It kinda stinks for all the people who signed up right away myself included but who knows maybe you'll get a better number.
That kinda sucks in a way. I joined the very first day..
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Label: Virgin Records America, Inc. - VL4-3066 • Format: Cassette Album • Country: Canada • Genre: Rock • Style: Alternative Rock, Acoustic
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8 thoughts on “ See A Little Light - Bob Mould - Workbook (Cassette, Album) ”
Arriving after years of sonic bombast in Hüsker Dü, the reflective, acoustic nature of Bob Mould's first solo album, Workbook, was a bold statement of condownhudisamirederstonfirsdehe.coinfo all of Mould's work, it's an intensely introspective record, finding him purging demons left over from the dissolution of Hüsker Dü.Instead of relying on raging guitars, Mould explores a wide variety of styles, from pure pop.
Sabei says:
I see a little light, I know you will I can see it in your eyes, I know you still care I see a little light, I know you will I can see it in your eyes, I know you still care See a little light, I know you will I can see it in your eyes, I know you still care But if you want me to go You should just say so Now I see a little light, I .
Zujas says:
Workbook was an introspective collection, featuring keyboards, acoustic guitars, and even strings. The record received excellent reviews and spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at ; "See a Little Light" became a Top Ten modern rock hit. Mould returned to loud, guitar-driven rock on his second solo album, 's Black Sheets of Rain.
Grozilkree says:
See A Little Light Written-By – Bob Mould: 2: All Those People Know Written-By – Bob Mould: 3: Shoot Out The Lights Written-By – Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson: 4: Compositions For The Young And Old Written-By – Bob Mould:
Najinn says:
It’s only that for some indefinable reason I’ve never quite been able to figure out, Workbook, Bob Mould’s debut solo album he cut after spending nearly a decade in Hüsker Dü, hit me where I lived, and has been a perennial favorite ever since. Keep in mind when I say this that this is the first Mould .
Kagazahn says:
"All those things I've done before," Bob Mould sings, dismissing Hüsker Dü, the band he toiled with for most of the '80s, "it doesn't matter anymore." That's partially true--Hüsker were always much more brutal than "See a Little Light," the wistful, catchy pop song on Mould's solo debut/5(58).
Sajas says:
See A Little Light Lyrics: Listen, there's music in the air / I heard your voice coming from somewhere / But look how much we've grown / Well, I guess I should have known / As the years go by.
Goltishicage says:
“See a Little Light,” the song after which Mould named his book, was Workbook’s lead single. Accordingly, it’s the album’s brimming cup of pop hooks.
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Lil Pump Calls Out Eminem: “Ain’t Nobody Listening to Your Old Ass”
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Lil Pump is calling out Eminem on Instagram.
On Thursday afternoon (Dec. 24), Lil Pump hopped on his Instagram Story to share his negative thoughts on Em in a brief, expletive-laced video.
"Aye, fuck Eminem," Pump said in the clip. "You is lame as hell. Ain't nobody listening to your old ass. You lame as fuck, bitch."
It's unclear what prompted Pump to come for the Detroit rhymer via social media, but it can be assumed that he is referring to Em's latest album, Music to Be Murdered By - Side B (Deluxe). However, the South Florida rapper has utilized the app to make noise on several occasions in the past without prior prodding, so this mini rant isn't surprising.
Yesterday (Dec. 23), Lil Pump also posted a photo of himself on IG, proclaiming that he's the modern-day Michael Jackson.
"IM THE NEW AGE MICHAEL JACKASON," the former 2018 XXL Freshman wrote in the caption of the image, in which he can be seen rocking burnt orange-colored dreadlocks while wearing a gray and tan tweed jacket.
Earlier this month, Lil Pump posted a photo of himself holding a toddler and alluded that he was the father of the child. Instead, the kid Pump shared a picture of is a well-known baby on social media whose real dad is Andre Malek, a yacht captain who operates chartered boats in Miami. According to a report from TMZ on Dec. 20, the child takes pictures with celebrities when they book his father. The baby even has his own Instagram account, which is @CaptainAdorable305.
Lil Pump also made headlines last month after saying he's voting for Donald Trump. Following Pump showing support for No. 45, he attended a rally for the current POTUS, who referred to the rapper as "Little Pimp."
Shortly after the 2020 presidential election took place, it was revealed that although Pump was rooting for Trump over President-elect Joe Biden, he isn't registered to vote.
See Hip-Hop Fans Name The Most Disrespectful Diss Track of All Time
Source: Lil Pump Calls Out Eminem: “Ain’t Nobody Listening to Your Old Ass”
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Behind the scenes at Comedy Central
At Bell (Photo courtesy of Ulysses Press)
Working on anything that has the word “comedy” in the job description should be fun and a laugh a minute or at least every 15 minutes.
But unless you are in the cable television business or part of the SNL group (I don’t really have to say what that stands for, right?), you learn by reading Art Bell’s memoir that working on a show or channel devoted to making people laugh is akin to falling down Alice’s rabbit hole. You don’t know what’s behind an innocent-sounding “eat me” lunch invitation sign or an executive’s Cheshire Cat grin.
Having grown up in my dad’s “Mad Men” world of advertising where clients are fickle and public trends change with each phase of the moon, I thought I knew what to expect when picking up Bell’s memoir.
The book was a surprise.
It read like one of the well-plotted mysteries I’ve been enjoying during the Covid crises that has kept me from reviewing shows in person.
A former cable television channel executive who had done everything from finance and marketing to creating and managing shows and channels, Bell takes readers behind the scenes of the tumultuous world he navigated while creating the 24-hour comedy network that became Comedy Central. (*He later joined and became President of Court TV.)
Each turn of his navigation that seemed promising in the beginning of a chapter turned so problematic that you wonder what will happen next. Will the hero find a new route?
Usually, reading a non-fiction book takes me at least a drawn-out week. And I’m a speed reader. Instead, Bell’s memoir was in my “can’t-put-this-down,” can’t-dinner-wait category.
Art Bell Memoir (Photo courtesy of Ulysses Press)
Constant Comedy: A Memoir by Art Bell. Subtitle: How I started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor. (Ulysses Press Berkeley CA, September 2020.)
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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on February 06, 2008, 07:36:59 PM
Title: DUmmies salute to the South.
Post by: Carl on February 06, 2008, 07:36:59 PM
Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 04:28 PM
Original message
Question from a 10 year old
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My 10 year old daughter is a big Clinton supporter (and quite peeved at her parents for their Obama support). We live in Alabama which means that the vast majority of her friends come from Republican families. She told me today that her best friend said,
"Hillary Clinton only wants to be president because she just wants to be the first woman president."
Upon asking me if that was true, I told her that while I'm sure that Senator Clinton would like to be the first female president it is certainly not why she is running. She is running because she cares about US citizens and wants to make sure that children are well educated, that families will have health care, that we all can find good paying jobs, and that America's reputation in the world is repaired after 7 years of a disastrous presidency of George Bush. She agreed and wondered why her friend's family hates Clinton so much. Evidently when she was over at their house the other day her friends father was watching a news story about Bill Clinton speaking in Birmingham. My daughter excitedly said, "I was there and on the front row!" to which the father said, "Hrrumph..". I told her that many in the South are not fond of Democrats so don't be surprised if she hears that more and more during the run up to the General Election.
My daughter then asked a question that I have had a hard time answering. She asked:
"Why do people in the South support the Republicans more than the Democrats?"
How would you answer that question from a 10 year old?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2826598 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2826598)
And they call conservatives bigots.
TrogL (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 04:29 PM
Response to Original message
1. Because the majority of Southerners were raised with an Authoritarian mindset
Authoritarians tend to vote fascist.
YOY (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 04:30 PM
2. Religious values voters
Edited on Wed Feb-06-08 04:32 PM by YOY
The easy answer. The "pious attitude" that Pubs like to play wins them over. Of course it's all a show of the worst proportions...
That and rednecks tend towards the "tough guy attitude" that the Pubs like to play wins them as once again a show set by a bunch of chickenhawks.
Response to Reply #5
10. Then say those with a severe provincial mindset (Villagers) with severe nationalistic tendencies.
Fits them to a tee.
Explaining ignorant nationalism doesn't take a college degree.
You know: "Some people are proud of something that takes no personal accomplishment: Nationality and Religion in this case." Republican's tend to aim for those
BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 04:32 PM
6. Pride. Ignorance. They are easily manipulated
by nonsense like "patriotism" and "values." They think voting for republicans is manly. And my number one reason, they buy the gop line: "Government does not work, put us in charge and we will prove it."
aphopkin (220 posts) Wed Feb-06-08 04:34 PM
8. In my opinion
Way back when, the Republicans decided how to take the South. They figured out that most southern people were against the Civil Rights Movement. Voila - instant issue. The Republicans came out against Civil Rights and promised that it would not pass. The people of the south voted against Civil Rights by voting FOR Republicans. Then they taught their children to vote for Republicans and to identify themselves as Republicans. Its hard to change an identity that has been ingrained this way.
How do I know? I'm a child of a bigoted southern family who was raised to be a Republican.
Guess that means Al Gore Sr and Robert Byrd are Republicans and never knew it.
elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 04:48 PM
15. A: They don't. It's ignorant, LOUD people who support Republicans.
This explaination worked fine on our tween daughters.
DCKit (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 05:15 PM
19. Too bad you can't tell her that all the men want to be pResident...
'cause they all think it makes their penis larger.
Hmmm, I wonder how many of the failed candidates, over the years, have bought convertibles or muscle cars after dropping out.
digitalbuddha (15 posts) Wed Feb-06-08 05:39 PM
28. Because they are confused
and are unable to tell the difference between what is good for the majority and what is good for the minority. That should be simple enough for a ten year old.
If more detail is needed, just explain that the right does not want to share their wealth and seeks to accumulate more wealth through evil means. (wars, prisons, poverty)
I understand the desire to not disparage your daughters friends, but you can only sugar coat descriptions of the right wing so much.
Parenting 101 from a DUmmie...teach them to hate.
Title: Re: DUmmies salute to the South.
Post by: Chris_ on February 06, 2008, 08:44:00 PM
Hey DUmmies... :bird:
F.O.A.D.
Post by: BEG on February 06, 2008, 08:59:29 PM
Funny, the other day my 9 year old asked me, "Are we Republican or Democrats" as we were watching some election coverage on TV. I said "WE" aren't anything, your Dad and I are Republicans but you can be what ever you want. She asked me what the difference was and I used the "teach a man to fish vs. give a man to fish" analogy. I didn't say anything bad about Democrats. Then she asked me if we knew any Democrats....I said of course and named a few. Then she went back to playing her game.
Post by: Crazy Horse on February 06, 2008, 09:03:32 PM
Quote from: BEG on February 06, 2008, 08:59:29 PM
Two quilts...............no conversion, bushes or cops.
and for telling the truth I subtracted 8 quilts
Quote from: Crazy Horse on February 06, 2008, 09:03:32 PM
I'm not so sure I want to be known as the crazy quilt lady.
You're not the Crazy Quilt lady.............just the quilt lady
I don't even want to be known as the quilt lady.
Fine then, you are known as the good lady
Boring. ::)
You are known as 1/2 of the sex and booze crowd
Post by: BamaMoose on February 06, 2008, 10:14:53 PM
I love when they invoke the knee-jerk racism argument. How do they reconcile this:
Obama 302,684 votes
Clinton 226,454 votes
Edwards 7,933 votes
Yet Clinton got more delegates.
So how do they reconcile a vote in Alabama that clearly favors a black man. Well obviously it's a North/South thing....oh wait both Chicago and NYC are in the North. How about misogyny....well Edwards only got 1% of the vote. Must be Diebold....oh wait they were cheating for Clinton in New Hampshire. What could explain this????
And how does Clinton get a delegate advantage that is contrary to the popular vote? Why would the Democratic Party do that????
Lot's of questions that don't seem to have an answer in the punchline to a Redneck joke.
I'm guessing this one has never studied history or was too stoned during the 60's to remember which party fought tooth and nail AGAINST Civil Rights legislation. It certainly wasn't Republicans.
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 07, 2008, 07:09:26 AM
Perhaps it's because there is a lower concentration of brain-damaging volatile chemicals in the air away from the major urban metroplexes where the Democrats seem to have their main strength.
Post by: Texacon on February 07, 2008, 07:19:25 AM
Ahhhh but your family doesn't carry the DU Intellectual Superiority Gene. IF you had the GENE then you would have gone into the Economic Development of the nation and how the housing industry is affecting nearly every thing through the stock market ..... Which as we all know is Bush's fault. :whatever:
Post by: jtyangel on February 07, 2008, 07:28:52 AM
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WyntonHall/2008/02/04/the_unknown_history_of_civil_rights
Black History Month is about informing citizens of the hurdles and heroes of America’s climb toward civil rights and equality. How interesting, then, that so many race-related political myths continue to be perpetuated by Democrats who know better.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the Greater Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, Mo., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Consider the recent fracas over Senator Hillary Clinton’s contention that President Lyndon Johnson was the driving force behind the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As any fair examination of history reveals, a large share of the legislative credit for the bill’s passage must go to that other senator from Illinois—Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen.
Just look at the historical record. As Lyndon Johnson told Hubert Humphrey: "Now you know that bill can't pass unless you get Ev[erett] Dirksen.â€
Indeed, LBJ biographer Robert Caro notes that prior to 1957, Johnson “had never supported civil rights legislation—any civil rights legislation,†including anti-lynching legislation. His private behavior toward blacks was appalling. Robert Parker, LBJ’s longtime black employee and limousine chauffeur, claims that Johsnon blasted him daily with a blizzard of bigoted slurs. And even as LBJ was being praised by liberals for his appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, behind closed doors LBJ’s cynical brand of “identity politics†became clear. As presidential historian Robert Dallek recounts, LBJ explained his decision to a staff member by saying, “"Son, when I appoint a nig—r to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nig—r."
Still, despite his record and rhetoric, LBJ fought hard to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But those he had to fight against were Democrats, not Republicans. Democrats like former Klansman Senator Robert C. Byrd and others launched a filibuster to kill the Civil Rights bill. The chances of stopping them seemed bleak. Never in the history of the United States Senate had members mustered enough votes to stop a filibuster (a procedure known as “cloture†that requires 67 votes to invoke) on a civil rights bill. more at link
Historical records are included in this gentleman's piece. One of the few times I caught Oprah she discussed this and got it wrong too. A BLACK woman who doesn't even know who fought for her right to vote. Shameful. Shameful that a group who claims to care for equal rights doesn't seem to know that history either. I'm a conservative and I know the history. Wait, perhaps this yet another reason why I am conservative.
Post by: Carl on February 07, 2008, 07:46:10 AM
Quote from: jtyangel on February 07, 2008, 07:28:52 AM
That is because you learned the history as it happened jty,without it having to be re-written or re-framed because the facts don`t support the preferred bias.
DUmmies are notorious for being completely ignorant of actual history instead relying on perpetually repeated myths or loony conspiracy nonsense to validate their warped viewpoints.
Post by: Rebel on February 07, 2008, 07:59:12 AM
I'd like for these dumbass mofos to tell me how it is the Republican party that's acting like Fascists. From where I'm standing, the Democrat Party is the party of Fascism and they prove it every day with the regulations, laws, and restrictions they pass and/or introduce. Wanna see Fascism? Go to San Fran. Wanna see true freedom? Visit many towns in the South.
You DUmbasses are just that.
Post by: FlaGator on February 07, 2008, 08:19:37 AM
I perfer the fire analogy. "Build a fire for a man and he's warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." This usually scares kids in to silence.
Quote from: FlaGator on February 07, 2008, 08:19:37 AM
I perfer the fire analogy. "Build a fire for a man and he's warm for the night. Set and man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." This usually scares kids in to silence.
Bwahahahahahaha I'll have to remember that one.
Post by: jukin on February 07, 2008, 09:30:10 AM
My Daddy told me that those strenously claiming to do things are usually doing the exact opposite of what they claim they are doing. If that doesn't fit a DUmpmonkey to the tee, I don't know what does.
Post by: Rebel Yell on February 07, 2008, 10:33:09 AM
I told her that many in the South are not fond of Democrats so don't be surprised if she hears that more and more during the run up to the General Election.
You're welcome. Fighting the good fight.:nunchuck:
Post by: ReardenSteel on February 07, 2008, 12:00:09 PM
Nothing like your gender or your race right? BTW, In America you can choose your nationality and/or your religion! DUmba**. ::)
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CoronaVirus News Review In Brief: Michael Novakhov – SharedNewsLinks℠ – michaelnovakhov-sharednewslinks.com: Early Edition: December 15, 2020
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A curated guide to major national security news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news.
RUSSIAN CYBERESPIONAGE OPERATION
The scope of the Russian hack on US federal agencies has broadened — with the State Department, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and parts of the Pentagon now also reported as having been compromised, following yesterday’s news that the Treasury and Commerce Departments had been the target of the largescale Russian espionage operation. Hackers were reported to have infiltrated federal systems via a widely used network-management software, SolarWinds, which reported yesterday that around 18,000 private and government customers may have been affected. SolarWinds’ customers span some 230,000 and include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the State Department, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Security Agency (NSA), other parts of the Pentagon, and many utility companies. David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth and Eric Schmitt report for the New York Times.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is also among those affected by the hack. Ellen Nakashima and Craig Timberg report for the Washington Post.
The scale of the operation is still unknown but “is probably going to be one of the most consequential cyberattacks in US history … That’s the view from inside government — that we’re dealing with something of a scale that I don’t think we’ve had to deal with before,” one U.S. official said. The hack is expected to intensify attention on the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which since mid-November has been without a permanent leader following President Trump’s firing of CISA director Chris Krebs, and which CNN reported to have also been compromised by the attack. The National Security Council (NSC) yesterday held its second emergency meeting of its Cyber Response Group to discuss the matter and set a plan for assessing the damage, and is said to be assembling a subsidiary body, the Unified Coordination Group, to lead a collaborative approach by affected agencies. Reports indicate email accounts could have been breached from as far back as June. Eric Geller reports for POLITICO.
Lawmakers have called for action to understand the full scope of the cyberattack. The breach is “serious and disturbing … Congress must understand the scope of what happened and what resources Federal agencies will need to secure their networks,” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told The Hill. “While many details are still unknown, the attack emphasizes the importance of strong cybersecurity protections and rapid incident responses across all federal agencies,” Senate Commerce Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Republican Sens. John Thune (SD) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) said in a joint statement. Thompson has called for CISA to brief his committee, with Rep. John Katko (R-NY), the panel’s new ranking member, calling for a “coordinated and cohesive national strategy” to fight these types of attacks. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) described the attack as “devastating,” and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) said in a statement that “we should make clear that there will be consequences.” Maggie Miller reports for The Hill.
PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN’S TRANSITION TO POWER
The Electoral College yesterday affirmed President-elect Joe Biden as victorious in the US election, receiving 308 votes, topping the 270 he needed. Elise Viebeck, Dan Simmons, Amy Worden and Omar Sofradzija report for the Washington Post.
Biden unleashes a verbal attack on President Trump following the Electoral College’s affirmation, describing Trump’s attacks on the election and election officials as “simply unconscionable” and his attempts to overturn the results as an “abuse of power.” Rebecca Shabad, Dareh Gregorian and Dartunorro Clark report for NBC News.
Multiple senior Republican senators yesterday acknowledged Biden’s win following the College’s affirmation, rejecting the prospect of Congress vetoing the decision on Jan. 6. Those senators who publicly recognized Biden include: John Thune (R-SD), the No. 2 Senate Republican; Trump loyalist Lindsey Graham (SC); Rob Portman (OH); Roy Blunt (MI), the Senate’s No. 4 Republican; and Shelley Moore Capito (WV). Patricia Zengerle and Tim Reid report for Reuters.
Four takeaways from Biden’s Electoral College victory are provided by Shane goldmacher and Adam Nagourney for the New York Times.
Biden’s pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is expected to visit the State Department Thursday, where he will meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the first time since Biden’s victory, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The meeting is scheduled for 15 minutes. Kylie Atwood reports for CNN.
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday recognized Biden’s win for the first time. “In his message Vladimir Putin wished the president-elect every success and expressed confidence that Russia and the United States, which bear special responsibility for global security and stability, can, despite their differences, effectively contribute to solving many problems and meeting challenges that the world is facing today,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Isabelle Khurshudyan reports for the Washington Post.
US DEVELOPMENTS
Attorney General William Barr will step down from his position Dec. 23, President Trump revealed in a post on Twitter yesterday. The news comes after a series of complaints by Trump about Barr, although the president’s public remarks yesterday suggested no underlying and lasting animosity. “Just had a very nice meeting with … Barr at the White House,” Trump’s post read, adding “Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!” Trump also posted Barr’s departure letter, in which Barr stated that he would “spend the next week wrapping up a few remaining matters important to the Administration and depart on Dec. 23.” Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney report for POLITICO.
The Pentagon yesterday named eight new members to its policy advisory board, the Defense Policy Board, including Trump loyalists and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, after last month nearly a dozen of its members were suddenly purged, including Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). Others newly appointed include: Thomas Carter, Edward Luttwak, Scott O’Grady, Thomas Stewart, former Rep. Randy Forbes, former Sen. Robert Smith and Charles Glazer. Connor O’Brien reports for POLITICO.
A $1.4 trillion omnibus federal spending bill could be agreed and revealed today, minimizing the likelihood of a government shutdown Friday at midnight. Lawmakers are expected to announce a bipartisan agreement today, with legislative text shortly following, according to those involved in the process. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a call last night that the remaining issues “could be readily resolved,” according to a Pelosi spokesperson. The bill may also include a Covid-19 relief package, Pelosi and Mnuchin are reported to have agreed. Caitlin Emma and Sarah Ferris report for POLITICO.
The US has imposed sanctions on two Iranian intelligence officials over alleged responsibility for the abduction, detention and likely death of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran almost 14 years ago. “The abduction of Mr. Levinson in Iran is an outrageous example of the Iranian regime’s willingness to commit unjust acts,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement, adding. “The United States will always prioritize the safety and security of the American people and will continue to aggressively pursue those who played a role in Mr. Levinson’s detention and probable death.” AP reporting.
The US has sanctioned its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems last year, following legislation pushed last week by Congress for such sanctions to be imposed. “The sanctions target Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB); SSB’s president, Ismail Demir; and other SSB officers. The sanctions include a ban on all U.S. export licenses and authorizations and visa restrictions and asset freezes for blacklisted individuals and the agency,” reports Laura Kelly for The Hill.
Turkey condemned the sanctions as a “grave mistake” and threatened retaliation. The country’s foreign ministry said the move was “inexplicable,” adding, “We call on the United States to revise the unjust sanctions (and) to turn back from this grave mistake as soon as possible … Turkey is ready to tackle the issue through dialogue and diplomacy in a manner worthy of the spirit of alliance.” Tuvan Gumrukcu reports for Reuters.
China has used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil US mobile phone subscribers, exploiting decades-old vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications network, according to Gary Miller, a Washington state-based former mobile network security executive, who said that the attacks have enabled China to target, track and intercept tens of thousands of telephone communications of U.S. phone subscribers. Stephanie Kirchgaessner reports for The Guardian.
The Trump administration offered around $850 million to American victims of terrorist attacks in an effort to reach an agreement with Congress to pass legislation which would remove Sudan from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism and restore Sudan’s sovereign immunity. “The offer, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations, included $700 million for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and up to $150 million for hundreds of naturalized U.S. citizens who are victims of the 1998 twin bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,” reports Laura Kelly for The Hill.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday condemned Iran’s “unjust, barbaric” execution of Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam. Reuters reporting.
The novel coronavirus has infected over 16.52 million and now killed over 300,000 people in the United States, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Globally, there have been over 72.95 million confirmed coronavirus cases and over 1.623 million deaths. Sergio Hernandez, Sean O’Key, Amanda Watts, Byron Manley and Henrik Pettersson report for CNN.
A map and analysis of all confirmed cases of the virus in the US is available at the New York Times.
US and worldwide maps tracking the spread of the pandemic are available at the Washington Post.
A state-by-state guide to lockdown measures and reopenings is provided by the New York Times.
Latest updates on the pandemic at The Guardian.
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS
Russian state security agents are responsible for poisoning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August, according to open-source investigative research group Bellingcat, which said that spy agents with expertise in poisonous substances had trailed Navalny for years and were in the area at the time he was poisoned by a highly toxic nerve agent. Tim Lister, Clarissa Ward and Sebastian Shukla report for CNN.
The Boko Haram group today claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 300 boys from a secondary school in the northwestern state of Katsina, Nigeria. Al Jazeera reporting.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have begun a prisoner exchange as part of an “all for all” swap brokered by Russia following a 6-week long bloody conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Russia’s defense ministry confirmed today. Reuters reporting.
Kabul Deputy Governor Mahboobullah Mohebi has been killed in a targeted IED bomb attached to his car, security officials have said. Al Jazeera reporting.
The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s Office of the Prosecutor yesterday released its annual report, which said there is a “reasonable basis to believe” that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs operation implicates the country in crimes against humanity committed between July 2016 and March 2016, including murder, torture, infliction of serious physical injury and mental harm. Ted Regencia reports for Al Jazeera.
The Office of the Prosecutor’s also said that it cannot investigate China for alleged genocide and crime against humanity against Uighur Muslims as the alleged acts took place on China’s territory, which is not a signatory to the ICC. “This precondition for the exercise of the court’s territorial jurisdiction did not appear to be met with respect to the majority of the crimes alleged,” the report read. Al Jazeera reporting.
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My Thoughts On This Year’s Critics Choice Nominations
Part 1, The Dramas
As I have mentioned on more than one occasion, I love awards shows. And one of my favorite remains the Critics Choice awards, the platform for the Broadcast Critics picks. Their picks for film awards continue to get more and more intriguing with each passing year, particularly considering that they have room for Best Action Movies, along with Comedy and Drama. But what is more pertinent to this blog has been, ever since 2011, their fascinating picks for television awards. Before the Emmys began opening their doors to more deserving series, they made deep inroads, picking superb series like The Americans, Mr. Robot, Master of None, and Orange is the New Black . And every year, they continue to recognize series that, more often then not, get lost in the shuffle in the years of peak TV.
And as the audience for awards gets bigger, so the platforms for the Critics Choice. When they began giving awards for TV, they aired on satellite network, Reelz. Now, when they air January 11, they will appear on the CW. Granted, this is due mainly to the awards for movies, but that doesn’t change the fact that they have moved up in the world.
So, here is my evaluation of the 2017 Critics Choice Nominations. As always, I’ll start with the dramas.
The Handmaid’s Tale and This is Us have earned their spots, given how well they did at the Emmys last year, and I’m incline to agree about Stranger Things. I haven’t seen The Crown yet (I’m a little amazed its eligible considering it started streaming this week) but still, its a good show. Game of Thrones, well, its always been a good candidate, despite my personal feeling towards it.
American Gods appears to be the wild card, even though its early reviews bordered on the extraordinary. I would’ve expected The Leftovers or The Americans, two of this groups stalwarts to prevail here. But a pick like this is far from out of character for Critics Choice, particular considering how well regarded it was.
Best Actor, Drama
Interesting selection. Sterling K. Brown more than deserves to be here. Ditto Bob Odenkirk. I’m glad that they nominated Freddie Highmore for the right series (it wouldn’t shock me if the Golden Globes nominated him, but for Good Doctor, rather than Bates Motel. And I’m overjoyed that Paul Giamatti, whose work on Billions has been superb, finally got some award recognition.
Ian McShane isn’t a bad choice, at least by association, and I’m glad to see him back in awards competition. But will someone explain to me the fascination with Liev Schreiber? Matthew Rhys or James Franco would’ve been far better choices.
Best Actress, Drama
Another interesting group. Claire Foy deserves to be here, as does by extension, Elisabeth Moss. Tatiana Maslany’s final season of Orphan Black was magnificent, and given that she triumphed here twice before getting her Emmy, I think she’s the favorite here. I’m delighted to see Christine Baranski back for The Good Fight, and Robin Wright, despite the controversy associated with House of Cards, should be here.
I’m still not certain what to do about Catriona Balfe, but I am more in favor of her being nominated than Viola Davis or Taraj P. Henson. I really thought Carrie Coon would be here for The Leftovers, but she didn’t get ignored, as you’ll see below.
Best Supporting Actor, Drama
This is where things truly get fascinating. Michael McKean more than earned his spot with his work on Better Call Saul. Ditto David Harbour for Stranger Things. I’m over the moon that Delroy Lindo was recognized for The Good Fight. And I’m glad to see Asia Kate Dillon grab a nomination for their superb work on Billions. (Although, given what we know about them, will they accept the award if they win?)
Bobby Cannavale is a bizarre choice for Mr. Robot, he did superb work, no question, but couldn’t they have honored Christian Slater instead? And I’m not as upset that Peter Dinklage is here, by now he’s earned his place at the table. Still, couldn’t they’ve found room for Ron Cephas Jones?
Best Supporting Actress, Drama
Another eclectic group. Would be odd if Ann Dowd wasn’t here after her win at the Emmys. Christy Metz more than earned her spot. And I’m thrilled Cush Jumbo was nominated for The Good Fight.
It gets a little harder to read after this. Emilia Clarke, I can understand. But I would be shocked if even critics saw Amazon’s Sneaky Pete. Still, Margo Martindale has a fan base with this organization. And I’m always glad to see Gillian Anderson nominated for, well, just about anything. Still, nothing for Millie Bobby Brown?
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Of course, until Astrid and Ruffnut go missing on a deadly island. Hiccstrid started to date and life was great at the Edge. Princess Emma is on her way to her wedding when her ship is attacked by the Jolly Roger. But what is it about their wedding night that's amusing Gobber so much? Now back in her own time, Astrid Hofferson uses the experiences she had during her trip through time to guide her. "They say dreams are memories of another life." Emma's stubborn, but so is the man who won't give up on her. Astrid Hofferson always wanted to be a Shieldmaiden and restore her family's honor, but her plans are ruined when her father arranges a marriage between her and Berk's infamous heir.Will the team save them in time or will they be able to work together to save themselves? Rated M mainly for violence.26 one-shots on the life and love of Gray and Juvia. But then an accident happened to Hiccup that made him lose the memory of the past 3 years, all he remembered was the day before he shot Toothless down. Captured by ruthless pirates and miles from home, she is subject to the mercy of the handsome and dangerous Captain Hook. Tribal tradition and personalities clash as the big day approaches... A collection of drabbles highlighting Emma and Killian's struggle to navigate through 21st century dating. While her love for Hiccup continues to grow, no longer suppressed as it had been, Astrid fears that this time, things will be different. And will she catch up to the future she experienced? Sequel to Thor Help Her."Dany hadn't known what to expect when she met the famed White Wolf, The King in the North, slayer of White Walkers, former Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who united the Wildlings and defeated the Bolton army—a man who had faced Death and returned victorious. Domestic bliss was a concept that was completely alien to Sherlock Holmes. Of course, like most false senses of security, they're short-lived. Getting back to Storybrooke is just the beginning, as the two end up in a battle against evil, and a reckoning with fate that force them both to face their own demons. To add to that, mysterious Dragon Riders are attacking the villages in the Barbaric Archipelago.Hiccup and Astrid talk about the details Astrid left out of her 'what if' scenario, which leads to them exploring new things back at the spot where everything changed. Events taking place from the season 7 finale onwards.Mostly Jonerys one shots from what I think will happen in Season 8, but will feature other characters.A story about soulmate timers and how they can go wrong, and then the running of how hiccstrid figure things out. Hiccup learns the hard way what it means to be Chief while dealing with a hostile tribe.rated T (this bit is focussed at a "guest" that called me a scumbag because the mentioning of this being originally created sunnywinterclouds had disappeared in an update or something idk, I am not happy, this IS NOT MY OWN STORY, the original, taken down by the owner)Set a couple days after the final battle, but before the epilogue. Should he do what's 'right' or what he thinks he should do? The main story is complete, but there will be further epilogues.
Overwhelmed by her love for him, Astrid decides to show Hiccup how much she cares... Shocked by the changes around her, especially in Hiccup, Astrid must learn to accept the feelings she denies, or suffer "consequences". He feels her elation as she finds the right point on the circuit, watches the droid whir to life, bleeping its gratitude. He is losing himself in her and he knows he needs to stop. Before his exile, Sherlock goes to Molly, who makes a request of him that he gladly fulfills.
This taller, bolder Hiccup captivates her like she never thought he could, making it impossible to resist his advances... Kylo Ren is Bound to Rey and hides from her, never revealing himself, quietly driving himself mad with her light. He believes in the law of the jungle, in the lions of the Serengeti and the wolves of North America. There's knowing when you've found your match and not letting anything stand in your way...because Blakes fight dirty to get what they want. Way too much information there, Sparky." Zutara Inspired by a photo on Spoilertv of our favorite Grimm and former hexenbiest looking rather cozy and flirtatious together in the next episode, despite the bomb that was dropped on us in 5.6. However, Moriarty is back and Sherlock isn't his first target. Captain Jack Harkness was once a Companion of the Doctor.
Warning: violence, character death, real life problems. Astrid pulls a girl move and wonders why Hiccup doesn't seem to have such an obvious crush on her anymore, as in "you used to pay attention to me and now you don't and I don't like it." Too bad she can't keep her mouth shut about it, but it takes some coaxing to make Hiccup open his. There's a surprising lack of dearth of Nick/Adalind fanfic and the idea wouldn't leave me alone. Ianto Jones once worked at Torchwood London where the Doctor was Public Enemy Number One.
Can they save the world as they know it and what does that mean for our favorite couples. Post season 6/ADWD, marked as completed but might update at some point in the future?
A very confused 19 year old Astrid wakes up in the arms of her boyfriend, feeling the signs of a night of very passionate love-making in her sore body.
Her captor wasn't supposed to be a ghost from her past, and she wasn't supposed to become his ally..his lover. multichap Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen travel northward to fight for their home, their people, and each other.
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Dada's Bookmarks
Annotation: Filipino Diaspora
Annotation: Migration
Annotation: Visual Anthropology
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Balikbayan: Return to the Nation
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Performing Naturalness
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Annotation: Pratt, Geraldine. 2012. Families Apart
Pratt, Geraldine. 2012. Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Based on long-term activist research with the Philippine Women Center-BC, the book follows a feminist and postcolonial framework to argue against the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) in Canada, which is often promoted with a neoliberal framing as a “win-win” solution for both Canada and the Philippines. The consequences of the LCP often appear to be only short-term because of the assumed temporariness of migration. Pratt writes that the real consequences are long-term and can be seen in the effect of the LCP on women’s family and children. For example, the LCP has generated the problem of high secondary education dropout rates and low educational attainment among Filipino youths whose mothers were in the LCP (25). Family separation also occurs over great distances, and thus, the pain and trauma of separation are largely invisible in the Global North (xxiii). Critiquing the rhetorics of freedom and choice that tries to justify overseas migration (163), the book also argues that a look into women’s intimate stories reveals that there is “something rotten” in this kind of policy that leads to the systematic marginalization (i.e. economic seclusion and racialization) of Filipina women and their children–who often become ‘second-class’ Canadian citizens. Another phenomenon remaining largely invisible in Canada is the state violence experienced by many in the Philippines. As the book argues, the violence experienced by the women in both countries provides an understanding of the LCP within the broader framework of global hierarchies. Following San Juan, the book sees migration and transnationalism as “category mistakes that mis-specify the processes involved” (166), and which fail to contextualize the LCP within the “hierarchical alignment of nation-states globally” (167). The LCP effectively “seals the faith” of the women and their children who are destined to join Canada’s low-income classes. Using testimonies from Filipino (current and supposedly former) caregivers and their children, and helping give voice to their fates through public forms such as theatre productions, Pratt’s project contributes to the study of emotions and affect, with the hope of jolting its readers out of their “passive content” (xxvii).
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Kabul Bombing
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Sun Jan 10 2021
A spokesman for an Afghan state-sponsored security firm and two of his colleagues were killed when a bomb went off as they were driving to work, the country’s interior ministry said on Sunday.
Zia Wadan, the spokesman for the National Public Protection Force (NPPF), and his colleagues were on their way to the office when the bomb went off, Tariq Arian, spokesman for the Ministry said.
There was no clash between our operatives and herdmen, says Amotekun
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It was not yet clear whether it was a magnetic bomb stuck to the car or a roadside bomb that was used in the attack and investigations were ongoing, Arian said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but Arian blamed the Taliban for the incident.
NPPF is a semi-autonomous state security firm that provides services for national and international organisations as well as state and non-state economic projects throughout the country.
Kabul has seen a wave of targeted killings in recent weeks, with many of the victims’ journalists, civil society activists or media figures.
Afghan security forces have had little success in preventing such attacks. (NAN)
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Half in the (Mail)bag – Thoughts Halfway through the Red Wings’ 2017-2018 Season
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January 19, 2018 by Christian Schwartz
The Wings after giving up a late goal against Dallas Tuesday. Photo Credit David Guralnick of the Detroit News
Once again we find ourselves half way through a season rife with ups and downs. As of writing the Wings sit at 18-19-7, good for 43 points and, surprisingly, 4th place in the Atlantic. If that sounds like we’re close to a playoff berth, let me set the record straight: we are not. We are 11 points behind Toronto with only 2 games in hand, and only 1 point above both Montreal and Florida. Let’s call this what it is. This is a lottery year, and the only thing we can realistically hope for over the next 41 games is that the young players continue to improve while we stay low enough to get a top 10 pick. In the meantime, here’s some things I’ve thought about this season thus far.
Dylan Larkin Took 5 Steps Forward
(Photo: Gregory Shamus, Getty Images)
If last year was 2 steps forward and 1 step back with Larkin in his sophomore slump, this season was him taking 5 straight steps forward. Larkin seems motivated in showing that he was not just a flash in the pan his rookie season. He has firmly cemented his role as a center in this league and has put together a fantastic 200 foot playmaking game. Last season, Larkin scraped together 32 points in 80 games, this season he has 38 points already and we’re only at the 44 game mark. Currently, his Points Per Game is double of last season, and he has already set a career high in assists. As a center, he’s doing well in the faceoff dot with a 51.3% win rate.
But Larkin’s surge this season is more than just stats. He’s looking like a future Captain, the type of piece that you use to set your team up for a Stanley Cup run. He is tenacious like a dog on a chew toy in both ends of the ice, he has turned our PK into arguably a more dangerous weapon than our PP, and many nights his effort on the ice seems to be leading the team, not Zetterberg’s. All in all, he is one of the most fun players on the team to watch and I hope we get to watch him for years and years to come.
Free Agents Underwhelm
Last season, the only free agent signing I truly liked was Thomas Vanek. Nielsen was competent but I’m still undecided if he is worth the contract away from Tavares, and Steve Ott was a confusingly pointless signing to top it off. This year, Ken Holland one upped that by bringing in no contracts that I truly like: Trevor Daley, David Booth, and Luke Witkowski.
Let me start with Witkowski, as I think he’s the easiest to explain my complaints. He is not a good hockey player. Witkowski is a fighter/penalty earner. He’s a tough guy a la John Scott, who has the bonus of being able to play forward and defense. I say bonus, but I’m lying. He’s a defenseman by experience and yet after Tampa played him on forward because of injuries now he plays forward for the Red Wings. I do not agree with players like this. I firmly believe that icing a player who is out there to be a tough guy starts more fights than it stops, because they have to prove themselves to keep their job. And as it is, he has one of the worst CF% on the team at 45.5 while also producing no points and 48 penalty minutes in just 15 games. There is no one in Grand Rapids I would not rather have on the 4th line than this guy, and Ken Holland signed him to two years.
David Booth earned his one year contract in the preseason and while I don’t love him over one of the kids, you need healthy scratches and mostly I’m okay with him. He’s got 3 goals and 1 assist in 16 games, which is better than Witkowski at least. Not much to this one.
Trevor Daley is a contract that I like on principle. Relatively low cap hit of 3.16M for 3 years, adds a veteran presence to your blue line. Possibly trade chip. But his production has disappointing after seeing him billed as an on the rush defenseman, with only 3 goals and 4 assists, and 6 of those points have been in just the last 15 games according to Ken Daniels. He feels like a signing that was designed to push the team out of the bubble and into the playoff spot, but instead now he’s taking away cap space that could be used to sign all the pending RFAs we have next season. All in all, he has been so unremarkable in every way that I can’t help but wish that we had taken a chance on Joe Hicketts to start the season or something.
Jeff Blashill’s Process is Making Me Pull My Hair Out
Blashill’s line blending is about as effective as my Photoshop skills
This is another tough one to see this season. As a season where you expect to perform poorly, you would also expect the young players to be given more responsibility. This is the time where they can learn through making mistakes, and they can be more well rounded the next season. It’s the ideal time to give them NHL experience, when there’s less on the line.
Instead, Blashill’s process has mostly boiled down to blending lines and punishing the young players ice time for the slightest missteps. It took until around the New Year for Athanasiou to start getting regular time in the top 6, and we can see some of this deployment strategies in this awesome chart from Micah Blake McCurdy:
Chart created by Micah Blake McCurdy
Here we can see that Athanasiou, over this season, is not getting iced when the Wings need to score or when they need to defend a lead, putting him firmly in the “why are you even on the team” section. It’s frustrating as hell when we know what he can do in the offensive zone to see his leveraging closest to Jensen and Ouellet (arguably our worst defenseman and a healthy scratch respectively. Meanwhile, Abdelkader is getting shoved out there for EVERYTHING.
AA is the best example of Blashill’s mysterious process because I don’t understand what it’s supposed to accomplish. You tell a player he has holes in his game, don’t give him the ice time to improve them, and then when he does make a similar mistake again you dock him more ice time. It feels like a vicious cycle of taking away the few bright spots we have. And now that AA is moved up finally, Mantha is starting to be moved down because he’s not producing like he was at the start of the season. I find it interesting that Toronto appears to be going through the exact same thing right now with Mike Babcock, former Red Wings coach (hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…)
There are other decisions I don’t understand either. Our 3v3 OT record is terrible (I think we haven’t even won more than a single game in OT, which was thanks to AA) and yet somehow we started with Nielsen instead of Larkin or AA more times than I can count. Justin Abdelkader is second on the team for average PP TOI a game. Niklas Kronwall is the second PP unit defenseman instead of Daley. Just a lot of weird line up decisions and deployment strategies that, in the end, are not adding up to wins. I don’t think his coaching style works, and I don’t think we’re going to see a change until the end of the season, so I guess just strap in.
Bonus Mailbag Time!
Who do you realistically see as our GM and head coach next season ?
— Симо#19 (@ManxRavens19) January 17, 2018
Look I’m just a reactionary blogger with no inside track, but here’s what I think happens: Ken Holland gets extended and Jeff Blashill stays.
I’M JOKING. There’s probably only a 30-50% chance that happens.
Seriously though, I think that Holland probably retires and Kris Draper takes over. He’s the “special assistant to the general manager” (what is this, The Office?) and I’ve heard rumblings that he is who some upper management would like to bring in. The Illitchs don’t strike me as outside hire people, though it’s hard to say now that Mr. I is gone, and Draper would fit as someone inside the org to promote. He’s got the feel good story with the fans as well. Same with the head coach: if Blashill does get the boot, they may very well just grab Todd Nelson from Grand Rapids.
Now, what would I like to see?
Sergei Fedorov has expressed interest before in an NHL GM job. Bring him in as a fresh outside hire that still makes the fanbase light up when they hear his name. Hire him in the offseason and add his jersey to the rafters next season. Then, in this fantasy world, Todd McLellan gets fired this season and Fedorov scoops him up as head coach. Wings pick 1st overall and snag Dahlin and I can stop being so bitter on the internet all the time.
But yeah, I feel like a Draper/Blashill combo to start next season is fairly likely. Oh, and don’t hang your hopes on Stevie coming back. There’s no way he leaves the Lightning before they win a cup. It’d be like doing all the work on a school project and then letting that asshole who skipped every meetup put his name at the top.
This scenario will never happen but whatever. You have a top 2 pick. Would you trade it to a team that says they will take Abdelkader, Dekeyser, and Helm off your hands?
— Cameron (@AthanasiouLater) January 18, 2018
God, this is Vollman’s Trade Matthews piece all over again. Let me break down what we have here as an asset:
Dahlin or Svechnikov/Zadina (whoever you think is #2, I’m torn on the two)
And giving up we have the follow contract’s cap hit
Abdelkader for $4.25M until 22-23
Dekeyser for $5M until 21-22
Helm for $3.85M until 20-21
Total value of $13.1M/year coming off the cap right now.
At a certain point, you have to agree to a deal because it would be stupid not too. Even the Oilers would be stupid not to trade us McDavid if we offered them Larkin, Mantha, Athanasiou, and our next 5 first round picks. So the shrewd businessman in me says yes, you gotta give up that pick in order to give yourself cap space. And that’s a lot of cap space. That puts you in the market for some serious Free Agents. Karlsson/Doughty free agents. Cap space is power. Couple that with the fact that we’d be losing 3 highly overpaid players that are clogging our roster up right now, and it’s kind of a no brainer to accept this trade.
More realistically would be perhaps one of those players getting taken off the book by a team looking to trade up. That’s a hypothetical where I would be more likely to hang on to it. For example, if the Wings won the draft lottery and moved into the top 2, or even the top 3, and Arizona offered to pull us back to 4-8th in exchange for Abdelkader, I’m not sure I’d take it. His contract is bad, but there’s a lot of money coming off the books in the next 3 years and not a lot of standout prospects to restock the team. Nyquist, Zetterberg, Kronwall, and Green are all probably gone in some way over the next 1-3 years. If I can replace one of them with Svechnikov/Zadina or Dahlin, I think I’d suffer through having Abdelkader signed until the sun burns out.
Thanks for the question Cameron, and for reminding me that I should stick to NHL GM mode because trades are hard. (If you haven’t, check out Cameron’s work for Wings Nation. They are all great reads.)
So that’s it for the first half of the season. Let me know what you thought were the big storylines.
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Activists in Paris are laying out inspiring visions for a fair and sustainable future – with the help of 196 stolen bank chairs, writes Samir Dathi.
NI 21 - December, 2015
Global Village, Paris, France, COP21, December 2015.
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‘Bourget is full of thieves and murderers! They have no interest in the wellbeing of the planet!’ The speaker’s defiant words were met with cheers of approval from the hundreds of spectators that formed a large ring around her in the town square.
I had just arrived at the Global Village of Alternatives in the picturesque suburb of Motreuil in Eastern Paris on Sunday. It was a frosty noon, and Cindy Weisner, organizer with the Grassroots Global Justice Collective, was addressing the crowd.
The Village was a bustling two-day festival, and part of the Citizen Summit for Climate, set up as a counter-forum to the COP21 proceedings at Le Bourget conference centre. The square and adjoining streets were divided into 11 thematic zones, each packed with an array of stalls, tents and activists from campaigns across the world all committed to fighting climate change. Around 28,000 people visited the festival over that weekend.
I edged closer to the front of the crowd as Weisner continued her speech: ‘Tax havens are a black hole of global finance where at least 20 trillion dollars vanish…Tax havens lie at the heart of the global crime economy in all its forms: drugs, weapon trade, terrorism, money laundering.” The theme of this particular meeting was tax avoidance. World leaders regularly complain that the money for adaptation and mitigation isn’t available; but we know that hoards of cash sit undeclared in offshore accounts collecting interest for rich corporations. Not paying one penny of tax. To make matters worse, many invest in fossil fuels. Yet some of these same corporations, such as the French bank BNP, have the audacity to sponsor COP21. A classic example of greenwashing.
To symbolise the people’s requisitioning of this offshore wealth, a procession of 196 international delegates representing a diversity of movements had marched into the square minutes earlier, each one carrying a chair seized through countless acts of civil disobedience from various banks around France in the previous weeks. Those chairs were then used as seats for the meeting (which was dubbed ‘the 196 Chair Summit’)! It was a wonderfully creative and well-organised programme of direct action. When the chairs were brought into the square, the crowd had chanted ‘On est tous faucheurs de chaises!’ (‘We are all reapers of chairs’ – ‘reaper’ being a play on words meaning both the farmers who reap the harvest and the activists who reap the chairs!).
One of the main organisers of the festival was Alternatiba, a grassroots network which discusses concretely what an energy friendly society would look like. It was founded at the first village for the alternative in Bayonne, France in 2013, initiated by the Basque environmental group Bizi!. It has since spread to numerous cities in France and beyond: Switzerland, Belgium and even the Polynesian islands. Their objective is for people to set up independent Alternatiba initiatives all over the world, to enact a vision for a sustainable and just society.
Alternatiba works closely with ANV COP21 (‘ANV’ stands for Action non-Violente), another organizer of the festival. Whilst Alternatiba focuses on the vision, ANV COP21 is all about civil disobedience. One activist explained to me that the two groups act as connected prongs of a single united strategy.
‘Our inspiration is Martin Luther King,’ explained Remy, an ANV activist who I met at their stall. ‘Citizens are frustrated. But we tell them we can use COP21 to organise non-violent action and build a mass movement.’ Remy and his comrades played a key role in the demo at Le Place de la Republique on 29 November where 10,000 shoes were laid following the ban on the march.
Beyond COP21
Everyone I spoke to was clear that we could not put any faith in the negotiations at Bourget. They condemned Hollande’s calling of a state of emergency and his boycott of the march, pointing out that the mass gatherings at the Christmas markets had been allowed to continue; so why not the protest? The ruling class clearly prioritise our inalienable right to shop over our right of assembly. As Remy put it: ‘The real state of emergency is the climate state of emergency.’
Yet the mood that day was hopeful – infectiously so. The climate justice movement has come a long way since Copenhagen. That was a serious wake-up-call for many. Our movement is less naive now: fewer activists are content to meekly petition politicians for change, realising that real change ultimately comes from direct action at the grassroots. And there was plenty of evidence of that at the Village. Activists are currently planning for the big day of civil disobedience on 12 December. One that is non-violent but defiant.
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Revolution beyond the ballot box
Mark Engler argues for acts of determination and sacrifice.
NI 490 - March, 2016
Mark Engler
It was a remarkable development: a January poll in Iowa, the Midwestern state where the US presidential race officially begins, showed that 43 per cent of Democratic Party primary voters identified as socialists.
Iowa is my home state, and I assure you that it is not known as a hotbed of radicalism. Corporate agribusiness is powerful there, and insurance companies make up a dominant industry in the state capital.
The surge of interest in socialism – and a willingness to break with deep-seated American political taboos to openly espouse it – clearly owes much to one man: Bernie Sanders.
As I write, early electoral contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina have yet to take place. Whatever their outcome, Sanders has already accomplished far more than virtually any professional pundit had expected. Calling for a ‘political revolution’, Sanders has reinvigorated the debate over single-payer healthcare. He has rallied 170 economists in support of his plan to break up Wall Street’s biggest banks. And he has made his rivals scramble to articulate how they would be more vigorous opponents of corporate greed.
Republicans claimed for years, to the chagrin of actual leftists, that figures such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were unrepentant socialists. Ultimately, the move may have backfired: in this campaign cycle, the charge has lost its potency as a political slur. When called out, Sanders turns on his accusers and asks why they, too, have not joined the fight against rampant inequality and rule by the rich.
The strength of a presidential run is that it allows a campaign to communicate with a far wider swath of the American public than typically pays attention to politics. It is a moment of peak engagement.
Yet there are downsides as well.
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The winner-take-all nature of the electoral system lends itself to messianic thinking. Fervour for a candidate may burn bright, but campaigns that fall short often leave little behind – and even those that prevail do not necessarily produce lasting movements.
In this respect, the Obama campaign offers a cautionary tale. Famed organizer Marshall Ganz helped to set up team Obama’s grassroots infrastructure in 2007 and 2008. But as the new administration took office, he was deflated by what transpired next.
Ganz charged that ‘the president demobilized the widest, deepest and most effective grassroots organization ever built to support a Democratic president. With the help of new media and a core of some 3,000 well-trained and highly motivated organizers, 13.5 million volunteers set the Obama campaign apart… But the Obama team put the whole thing to sleep.’
In one of his most forceful statements, Sanders has offered a different vision for citizen engagement. He argued that ‘no matter who is elected to be president, that person will not be able to address the enormous problems facing the working families of our country. They will not be able to succeed because the power of corporate America, the power of Wall Street… is so great that no president alone can stand up to them. That is the truth.’
Sanders has instead emphasized the need to involve ‘millions of people in the process who are not now involved’, and to ‘organize and educate and create grassroots movements’.
Ironically, embracing Sanders’ words means looking beyond his campaign and also pushing from outside the limits of electoral action.
In mid-April, thousands of activists will descend on Washington DC as part of an effort known as Democracy Spring, voicing a demand to end big-money control of US politics. Already, more than 1,500 have vowed to risk arrest in what the campaign is calling ‘one of the largest civil-disobedience actions in a generation’.
Whether or not Sanders continues to defy the odds with his insurgent primary run, such acts of determination and sacrifice will remain critical. Indeed, a democratic revolution will require them.
Mark Engler’s new book This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century has just been published by Nation Books. He can be reached via the website DemocracyUprising.com
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The Sundance Channel has a show called “Big Ideas for a Small Planet.” Awhile back they interviewed me for that show, and now it appears that the episode — which is about “green gadgets” — is out.
It’s a $2 purchase in iTunes.… Read the rest
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Carbon nanotubes grown on silicon wafers go in all directions (right), whilenanotubes grown on crystalline quartz are much more orderly, mostly growingin straight rows (left).
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SIS 628: Spring 2014
Tag Archives: #week7
Domestic agendas, international consequences: Coverage of U.S. politics in the media abroad
February 27, 2014 doyley30 8 Comments
Comparative popularity of the United States and China. Source: http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/18/americas-global-image-remains-more-positive-than-chinas/
This entry is a follow-up to a point I made in class about international attention to the domestic politics of the United States,
and what the soft power ramifications of this might be. Here is an example of how even state-level politics gets covered in other countries:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/arizona-bill-gay-discrimination-fears/5285554
One of the concerning tendencies of international coverage of U.S. politics that I have observed is disproportionate coverage of dysfunction or agendas considered unpalatable by most audiences abroad. Examples of this include debt ceilings, government shutdowns, birtherism and most recently, discrimination laws in states like Arizona. I don’t think this is the result of a deliberate media bias, but rather the natural incentive to present the audience with sensational stories.
I think the consequences of media depiction of an hyper-adversarial U.S. political system are mixed. On one side, it tends to give disproportionate attention to the more extreme elements of the domestic political environment at the expense of the far larger moderate demographics (although this criticism is perhaps also applicable to domestic U.S. media). This kind of portrayal gives more oxygen to the “stupid American” stereotype held by many abroad.
On the other side, showing the political divisions of the United States does contradict the erroneous perception of the U.S. government as a monolithic entity. It’s hard to paint pictures of grand U.S. conspiracies when it is evident that both the government and public are themselves divided on matters of foreign policy, such as Syria.
#week7sis628
Un Certain Regard Cannes Festival Prize winner “Omar”
February 26, 2014 maellemafalda 4 Comments
Lately I’ve been becoming more and more aware of the power of competitions. Especially thinking about it in the context of digitalization and globalization, where some see potential for democratic rule, others see popularity rule, resulting in trends which increasingly follow the lowest common denominators (of violence and sex, or kittens); and increasingly simplify information made visually appealing. In an increasingly competitive context where time is perceived as less available in order to succeed/survive, the power of simplification and instant gratification is obvious.
While the media and the market bank on that, it that does not mean we’re all stupid. This is where international competitions come in and divert market forces (channeling Chopard, L’Oréal, HP, Renault, and Akamai, for example, in the case of Cannes), to bring to our attention what they would have otherwise likely kept obscured. This being said, I had never paid much attention to the festival myself, but I do recognize their logo and have found their sub-prizes selection quite reliable so far. One of these sub-prizes is “Un Certain Regard” (A certain look/outlook), which promotes relatively young directors who present daring narratives. An opinion piece on Aljazeera English was written about it by Richard Falk, (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/02/uncovering-occupied-palestine-20142136833212442.html), whether he would have seen it himself anyway, as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, is another question, but the fact that he is writing about a movie that won a Cannes Festival prize and not just a random movie he likes gives his op-ed legitimacy.
I think that this puts an optimistic twist to our discussions about the relation between social power’s link with economic power, which often circle back to the Hollywood quasi-monopoly, despite authors like Van Ham periodically reminding us about the growing importance of Nollywood and Bollywood.
Play nice, America and Japan
February 26, 2014 mp2014 6 Comments
One of my colleagues recently posted a blog about the danger in words and how they can amplify tensions between nations if used carelessly. This post loosely reminded me of an article published in the New York Times last week about the recent strain on Japan-U.S. relations. The Japanese have been discontent with their treatment by the Obama Administration since last year. They feel as though they’ve been kept at arms length and are that the U.S. riding the fence about their dispute with China over the control of islands in the East China Sea.
The article can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/world/asia/nationalistic-remarks-from-japan-lead-to-warnings-of-chill-with-us.html?ref=japan&_r=0
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked in a Youtube video, “Why doesn’t America treat Japan better?,” before quickly taking it down. The video was in response to the Obama Administration expressing disappointment with the Prime Minister’s visit to a shrine honoring war criminals. Instances like this and others are putting stress on relations between the two countries–who have been allies for many years now, despite their turbulent past. Japan feels isolated from the U.S. while the United States views recent actions by the Japanese as being too nationalistic.
Words have undeniable power. Prime Minister Abe made a strong statement about the United States in his Youtube video. While it may have been made more out of frustration than anything, it has caused a big debate and now people are questioning just how stable relations are between the two countries. I’m sure that more can be done on both sides to appease hurt feelings. The article is also a testament to the fact that even amicable nations suffer public diplomacy stumbling blocks. What do you think about the “sticks and stones” spat between Japan and the United States?
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Evoking Godwin’s Law: War of Words in Asia
February 25, 2014 chrysoula90 9 Comments
For those of us who use the internet often, Godwin’s Law is all too familiar in social media. For those unfamiliar with the so-called law, it simply states that by comparing someone to Hitler or something to Nazism, it shuts down the discussion completely.
While Godwin’s law tends to refer to internet discussions, it, unfortunately, seems to be applicable to real diplomatic efforts ( and frankly, failures) between countries. President Aquino of the Philippines has recently been criticized for basically comparing China to Nazi Germany. When rallying support against “China’s claims to its nearby seas” he stated: “At what point do you say: ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it. Remember that the Sudetenland [ Czechoslovakia] was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.”
Read the full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-26048500
We mentioned a few times in class that really image is everything. But what about words? What politicians say ( in addition to what they do) unfortunately can really undermine one’s credibility., especially in an age of information, ( why do you think people get so upset over the usage of “your” and “you’re” on Facebook? Kidding aside there is a danger to name calling and extreme comparisons). President Aquino’s statement may only serve to alienate the Philippines further from potential diplomatic ties with China. Whatever side of the issue one may stand on, for the President to release this kind of statement is dangerous in a PR standpoint and strategically will likely hurts its position in the region. By evoking such a comparison in cyberspace and the real world, the action tends to ignore real concerns and issues that have nothing to do with Nazi Germany. I am sure President Aquino has valid concerns regarding China’s claim to the islands. However comparing this dispute to that of Nazi Germany and France and Great Britain undermines the reality what WWII was.
Additionally, the statement may only serve to create an ever widening gulf between potential diplomatic relations in the region. There are better ways of addressing these territorial issues, but until people can move away from eliciting certain events that have historical and emotional context completely separate from current situations, there will never be real discourse. Words have power, particularly in this day in age where certain statements stand out more than others, for better or worse.
“Qatar is off the message”… And so is FIFA
February 24, 2014 andreproec 7 Comments
This post builds off as a reply to Alona’s insightful comment on Qatar’s PD with respect to labor related deaths in construction of the 2018 World Cup stadiums. I have created a separate post as I extend the analysis into the realm of FIFA and the World Cup itself.
Qatar’s disastrous management of the labour–related deaths scandal, besides raising concerns of blatant human rights violations, profoundly shatters confidence in and support for one of the world’s most popular sports and its most widely watched event. Certainly, it destroys enthusiasm for the next World Cup, at least to the extent to which it appeals to the conscience of billions of fans worldwide, torn between the love for the sport and the demands for respect of human rights. Thus, it is very ironic to analyze this phenomenon, in so far as sports have been identified as a potential vehicle for positive public diplomacy amongst nations.
The World Cup, besides being a thrilling event of passionate matches and displays of genius from the planet’s new and old show offs, is as much an opportunity for nations to come together in “fair play”, not merely showing but exemplifying the values of respect, camaraderie, fraternity, and sportsmanship. Soccer players become ambassadors for their countries at the prelude and during the games. So do their fans, ranging from recognized personalities such as heads of state to outstanding fans that charmed their way into the media, becoming symbols of their respective country’s exoticism. (Paraguay’s Larissa Riquelme, from South Africa’s 2010 World Cup, is a case in point.) One has only to remember the songs that have been recorded for the tournaments throughout the years (the most recent ones being “The Love Generation” and Shakira’s “Waka Waka”), to agree, at least to some extent, that these were songs that spoke of happiness, of forging lasting friendships, of peace, of hope for a better world. It is no coincidence that the song for the upcoming 2014 World Cup is called “We Are One.” (Cultural diplomacy in the World Cup is also played out through music– it’s all about forging global bonds that converge in mutual passions.)
This is what makes the deaths by forced labor in Qatar extra despicable, to say the least. However, Qatar’s compliance notwithstanding, it is important to point out that a big component of abuses committed in preparation for the World Cup can be traced to FIFA’s own power management. FIFA is a very powerful organization, led by a very powerful leader. Joseph Blatter often employs a hard soft power, (building on the notion that soft power is not soft as it involves coercion) shrewdly used to impose his interests and those of his acolytes. The fact that soccer is such a beloved sport for millions throughout the globe makes it an ideal space for the contradictions of power to flourish. However, it also offers a unique opportunity for grassroots movements– the new actors with the potential to transform the PD arena in fundamental ways– to advocate for absolute compliance with and defense for human rights.
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The Halloween Resurrection of Osiris
October 31, 2014 at 11:57 pm (Geopolitics and International Relations, International Espionage, Mystery/horror, Vampire novel) (Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec, Cardinal JM, Dr. Cadbury Rocher, Egyptian Vampiress Isis, Father Oliver Thomas Wardenclyffe, Fox Mulder of Interpol, Halloween, Halloween Hindenburg, Henry Kissinger, Isis, Miranda Singh, Miss Miranda Singh, Mr. Amadeus Emanon, Notre Dame, Notre Dame Cathedral, Osiris, Paris, Pegasus Project, Qonzilqointec, Renfield R. Renfield, Rome, Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Swiss scientist Dr. Fahrenheit Celsius, The Halloween Resurrection of Osiris, The Hindenburg, The Hindenburg At Halloween, The Third Secret of Fatima, The Valet Cedarman, The Vatican, vampire novel, Vampire Set, Vampiress Isis, Vampiress Isis Meets Dr. Cadbury Rocher In Paris, Watson Holmes, Watson Holmes VP)
Peter Whitstable the man they called the Fox Mulder of Interpol was at Interpol’s International Headquarters in Lyon, France.
He was viewing some videos on his office computer.
For a while now, Whitstable suspected that the Paris-based Egyptian Vampiress Isis was up to something in her secret laboratory below Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
His suspicions heightened when he videotaped the Vampiress Isis pushing Swiss scientist Dr. Fahrenheit Celsius to his death off the bell tower of Notre Dame Cathedral on the 1st of this month.
Dr. Fahrenheit Celsius landed on top of a Paris street corner poetry reciter who was reciting John Donne’s poem on For Whom The Bell Tolls at the time killing the poetic thespian in the process.
As Peter Whitstable was busy videotaping the whole thing and uploading it to his YouTube account, a young French woman standing next to him was busy calling 112 (the French emergencyonumber equivalent of the North American 911 emergency number) on her cell phone.
Whitstable saw the Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec fly by as he was videotaping (quite literally fly by for the sexy evening dress wearing Vampiress suddenly turned from a beautiful woman into a midnight black vampire bat).
Then last Friday evening the 24th of October as he sat in a Parisienne cafe enjoying some fresh oysters and sipping champagne, he videotaped the Vampiress Isis having filet mignon and red Bordeaux wine with Dr. Cadbury Rocher the Chief Research Scientist for Set Enterprises in London.
He gathered while eavesdropping on their conversation that Dr. Cadbury Rocher no longer worked for the London-based billionaire ancient Egyptian Vampire Set.
Apparently a dinner of steak and lobster, steak tartare and la viande de cheval at the St. James’ Court Hotel main dining room in London had gone horribly wrong the evening of Wednesday October 22nd 2014.
The result was Dr. Cadbury Rocher stood up at the table, quit his job and left (sticking the Vampire Set with the cheque).
As he exited, Dr. Rocher said he saw Dr. Henry Kissinger sitting at a table and overheard him tell former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on his cell phone that she should really buy herself a nuclear radioactive protection suit and start learning Russian.
“We will deal with the Russians when the appropriate time comes,” Isis ground her Black Sea oyster into fine dust with her bright gold painted fingernails.
Dr. Rocher had accepted Isis’ dinner table offer to come work for her.
On condition that she provide him with the necessary funding for his latest pet project Pegasus- an effort to genetically create the winged horse of Classical Greek mythology.
Isis agreed but first Dr. Rocher must for her re-assemble the sub-atomic particles of her brother, husband and lover Osiris and put them back together again.
Osiris had been vapourized into non-existence by a laser death ray fired at his returning spaceship by a Russian submarine when he attempted to return to Earth on December 21st 2012.
Hence Isis’ intense hatred of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Cardinal JM was gazing at a mysterious envelope placed on his desk in his Vatican office.
He did not recognize the handwriting on the envelope.
And he had no idea who put it there.
For his own personal secretary Father Oliver Thomas Wardenclyffe had gone down to Rome’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic for some reason.
Cardinal JM used his 3-headed dog Cerberus letter opener to open the envelope.
He reached inside.
What he read shocked him.
For it purported to be the text of The Third Secret of Fatima.
Although Cardinal JM did not personally believe in the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary said to have appeared to three shepherd children near the village of Fatima, Portugal on 6 different occasions from May 13th to October 13th 1917 (although he never publicly expressed those views aloud during the pontificates of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI), what he read still intrigued him immensely.
Ever since Italian journalist Antonio Socci published his book The Fourth Secret of Fatima back in 2006, people had always wondered about Socci’s claim that it was only the “vision” associated with the Third Secret that the Vatican had released to the public back on June 26th 2000.
In the previous Two Secrets of Fatima, there were visions that the 3 children at Fatima were alleged to have seen and then there were accompanying texts- words alleged to have been spoken by the Virgin Mary to the 3 children explaining what the visions meant.
But in the Third Secret that the Vatican released back in 2000, there was only a “vision”- a vision of a Bishop dressed in white climbing up a steep mountain at the top of which was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks- while climbing the mountain, the Bishop in White passed through a big city half in ruins and when he reached the top of the mountain- as he was on his knees at the foot of the Cross- he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him.
But there was no text released- or words by the Virgin Mary explaining to the 3 children at Fatima what the vision meant.
Now here in front of him were supposedly the words (accompanying the vision) that were spoken by the Virgin Mary to the 3 shepherd children at Fatima.
As a worshipper of the Ancient Greek gods (in secret of course!), Cardinal JM longed to see such chaos in the Church and the world that the worship of the ancient gods would be restored to bring back stability.
Let’s say he were to fax a copy of the contents of this envelope to say… Russian President Vladimir Putin… would that not bring about the chaos in the Church and the world that he longed to see?
Cardinal JM went over to his old photocopier and copied the document that was inside the sealed envelope.
Then he went over to his fax machine and faxed the copy to Vladimir Putin’s office in the Kremlin.
He then stood at his office window overlooking Saint Peter’s Square.
He noticed a figure in the street below his window wearing a black Venetian masquerade mask, a black cape, a black hat and holding a black walking stick.
The figure looked up at Cardinal JM and spoke in a whisper.
But the words of the whisper seemed to echo through Saint Peter’s Square.
“Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!”.
Renfield R. Renfield went to see his friend Amadeus Emanon in the hospital on this Halloween night.
For Amadeus was still in hospital recovering from shrapnel wounds he received when Renfield led a commando rescue mission on a Cornwall farmhouse to, as the British media put it, “Free his friend from the ISIS terrorists who were holding him hostage here in this sceptered isle.”
Renfield figured his friend would probably be feeling depressed because normally Amadeus liked going out trick or treating on Halloween night.
Renfield brought along a bag of chocolate bar and candy treats that Watson Holmes the Executive Vice-President of Set Enterprises had sent along as a gift for Amadeus.
He also brought along a pumpkin pie that had been baked for Amadeus by Miss Miranda Singh the secretary and office manager for Watson Holmes.
As his own gift Renfield brought along a couple of videos- the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch and the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas for them to watch together as they ate the Halloween treats and the pumpkin pie.
Renfield also brought along a poster that said Halloween At The Hindenburg (The Hindenburg was a nightclub on Canada’s West Coast) and hung it on the wall in Amadeus’ room.
“Ever since a friend of mine sent me this poster a few weeks ago, I thought it would be cool to dress a dirigible up as the Hindenburg on Halloween and re-enact that May 1937 airship disaster,” Renfield beamed as he looked at the poster.
He then put on the video Halloween III: Season of the Witch for them to watch.
Outside Amadeus’ hospital window, a witch flew by on a broomstick.
Inside the secret laboratory of the Vampiress Isis below Notre Dame Cathedral, Dr. Cadbury Rocher was putting the finishing touches on all the equipment.
Rocher had discovered that the problem Isis and the late Dr. Fahrenheit Celsius had in trying to re-assemble the sub-atomic particles of Osiris was that they were not working with an original ET gray’s laser death ray gun.
They were working with a 3-D printer copy of an original.
And Dr. Rocher knew this because he recognized the gun as one he had made with a 3-D printer he had invented.
As brilliant as Dr. Cadbury Rocher was, even he hadn’t reached the level of intellectual sophistication of the ET grays he had to admit.
But Rocher knew how to get the original.
He knew where Renfield R. Renfield kept it on the Set Enterprises premises.
Isis passed this information along to her London private eye gumshoe spy Randall Hopkins who broke into Set Enterprises and stole the original ET gray’s laser death ray gun.
Now with the original in his possession, Rocher fired the laser death ray at the spot in the lab which held the sub-atomic particles of Osiris and then through the use of electromagnets, he reversed the flow of the ray.
Sure enough the sub-atomic particles of Osiris re-assembled themselves and came together again.
Isis shrieked with ecstasy.
Then she looked on in horror.
The sub-atomic particles of the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl also started to re-assemble themselves (Quetzalcoatl was the spiritual godfather of her female vampiric arch-enemy and rival the Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec).
Isis had forgotten that Quetzalcoatl’s returning spaceship had also been destroyed by the Russian submarine’s laser death ray.
And of course Quetzalcoatl’s sub-atomic particles would also have been collected along with Osiris’ when Dr. Fahrenheit Celsius was using his small scale working model of the CERN Large Hadron Collider to collect sub-atomic particles along the beach at Vancouver’s English Beach after the laser attack on the returning spaceships.
Osiris looked down at his re-assembled body and then screamed.
Dr. Cadbury Rocher looked down at the mathematical equation of the re-assembly process he had scribbled on a notepad and suddenly, noticing a slight miscalculation, said in a very very low voice, “Oops.”
“Of all the cosmic bad luck,” the ancient Egyptian vampire cried out in anguish, “it’s once again my phallus that’s missing whenever I’m put back together again.”
Isis screamed as well.
Her valet Cedarman who was on his cell phone immediately cancelled the order of Viagra he had placed on his mistress’ orders to celebrate this happy occasion.
Quetzalcoatl roared and breathed fire.
He then flapped his wings and flew out the air vent of the secret underground laboratory.
He made the air vent a lot larger by doing so due to his enormous size.
As he flew out over the City of Paris, he passed by a dirigible made up to look like the 1930s German airship The Hindenburg.
The Halloween Hindenburg burst into flames near the top of the Eiffel Tower.
-A Halloween vampire novel chapter
during the time period
Friday October 31st
Vampiress Isis Meets Dr. Cadbury Rocher In Paris
October 29, 2014 at 6:24 pm (Geopolitics and International Relations, History, International Espionage, Movies, Vampire novel) (Ancient Egyptian Mythology, Dr. Cadbury Rocher, Egyptian Vampiress Isis, Isis, Mamie Van Doren, Michelangelo, Michelangelo the Psychic Lobster, Miranda Singh, Miss Miranda Singh, Moloch worship, Osiris, Pegasus Project, Professional Chartered Accountant I.M. Boring, Professional Chartered Accountant Ian Mandell Boring, psychic lobster, Randall Hopkins, Randall Hopkins Private Eye, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Set Enterprises, Temple Mount In Jerusalem, The Bohemian Grove Ceremony, The former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, The unedited Alex Jones videotape of The Bohemian Grove Ceremony, vampire novel, Vampire Set, Vampiress Isis, Vladimir Putin, Watson Holmes, Watson Holmes VP, Worship of Ishtar)
The Paris-based Egyptian Vampiress Isis felt like a school girl for some reason as she sat in a white dress in a Parisienne cafe on this Friday evening in mid-October.
And it had been well over 3000 years since she had last been a school girl.
She was about to meet Dr. Cadbury Rocher who was probably the greatest scientific mind of the early 21st Century.
Although few people had heard of him or known about his ability.
For Dr. Cadbury Rocher worked as a research scientist for her brother, brother-in-law, rival and arch-enemy the London-based billionaire ancient Egyptian Vampire Set.
No one knew how much money Set paid him for Set kept it a secret.
That way no government or private individual or corporation knew how much money to offer him to snatch his services away from Set.
Plus Dr. Cadbury Rocher was also bound to Set in some sort of strange Egyptian Black Magic blood oath ceremony involving the burning of 9 tana leaves, the drinking of 100 tea leaves and the smoking of 666 marijuana leaves.
Still that wasn’t as bad as a bunch of wealthy country club Republicans running around in the nude and burning an effigy of an infant to a giant 40 foot owl in a bizarre form of Moloch and Ishtar worship like what happens at the Bohemian Grove every summer near San Francisco.
Whenever Isis went through one of her dieting crazes, she always watched the unedited version of the Alex Jones filming of the Bohemian Grove ceremony which immediately killed her appetite.
She also could never bring herself to shake Henry Kissinger’s hand ever again whenever she met him after seeing the unedited version of that video.
A Parisienne lady of the evening had also given up one of her most frequent fellatio receiving clients after viewing the unedited video in Isis’ Paris penthouse apartment.
However despite Dr. Cadbury Rocher’s blood oath to Set, something had happened this past week that changed the nature of the relationship between Dr. Rocher and Set.
Isis found out about it in a phone call when a constantly yawning Randall Hopkins had phoned her in a very irritating phone call last Friday evening.
( For the reason why Randall Hopkins Private Eye was yawning please read
https://draculvanhelsing.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/randall-hopkins-private-eye/ )
So Randall Hopkins had found out that Set Enterprises (the scientific research and development firm owned by Set) needed to cut $2 billion in expenditures from its operating budget according to an audit conducted by professional chartered accountant Ian Mandell Boring who went by his initials I. M. Boring.
Then two days ago on Wednesday morning Isis received a phone call from her London hired private eye gumshoe spy Randall Hopkins saying that he had just received a phone call from his Deep Throat source within Set Enterprises Miss Miranda Singh who was the secretary to Set Enterprises’ Executive Vice-President Watson Holmes.
Apparently Watson Holmes and the billionaire Egyptian vampire Set would be having a dinner meeting with
Dr. Cadbury Rocher that night in the main dining room of London’s St. James’ Court Hotel hoping that a good meal of steak and lobster would help ease the pain as they gently broke the news to Dr. Rocher that the $2 billion in cuts would be coming out of the good doctor’s laboratory research budget.
Miranda told the private eye that Dr. Rocher had consulted Michelangelo the Psychic Lobster (a lobster with amazing psychic abilities that Dr. Rocher had genetically created in the lab) at the morning coffee break on the Set Enterprises’ premises and asked him what would happen at the St. James’ Court Hotel steak and lobster dinner meeting with Set and Watson Holmes.
Michelangelo used his lobster antennae hooked up with wires to Dr. Rocher’s computer to communicate telepathically to the computer screen the cryptic remark that he had a bad feeling about the whole thing.
Randall Hopkins Private Eye maxed out his credit card by booking a last-minute reservation to the St. James’ Court Hotel main dining room and more specifically to a table right next to where Set, Watson Holmes and Dr. Cadbury Rocher would be sitting.
Fearing that Set and Watson Holmes might recognize him as the man who had sat next to their table at the Savoy Hotel main dining room last Friday night, Randall Hopkins wore a Halloween style pair of dark glasses and Groucho Marx mustache so as not to draw attention by making a spectacle of himself.
At the table on the other side of Randall Hopkins sat former U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who was on his cell phone talking to elderly Hollywood actress and former sex symbol Mamie Van Doren.
Dr. Kissinger cooed and purred in his thick German accent over the phone, “Oooh, baby… I really loved you in that movie High School Confidential” as his glasses fogged up over the phone.
Mamie Van Doren.
That name sounded familiar to Randall Hopkins for some reason.
He had seen an old movie trailer for a Mamie Van Doren film on YouTube.
The announcer’s voice for the movie trailer said, “Mamie Van Doren in 3-D. She’ll knock both your eyes out” as the camera focused in on two huge protruding points near the top of Mamie Van Doren’s tight fitting sweater.
Meanwhile at the table on the other side of Randall Hopkins, Set and Watson Holmes had just informed Dr. Cadbury Rocher the unhappy news that $2 billion would be axed from his laboratory research budget.
“$2 billion?!” The lobster tail that Dr. Rocher spit out of his mouth upon hearing this news landed in Dr. Kissinger’s Baked Alaska as the former U.S. Secretary of State received an incoming phone call from Vladimir Putin threatening a nuclear missile attack on America.
“It could have been worse,” Watson Holmes sent back his over cooked steak tartare, “it could have been £2 billion that I. M. Boring suggested needed to be cut. Lucky for you that Mr. Boring got his accounting degree at an American rather than a British business school.”
“Still $2 billion,” Dr. Rocher wept into his lime sorbet, “this will mean the death of the Pegasus project.”
“I’m afraid so,” said Set who was so hungry that he was eating a horse although the menu listed it as la viande de cheval.
“But after all the things I’ve created and developed for you over the years that made you billions and billions,” Dr. Rocher did his best impersonation of astronomer Carl Sagan, “and this is the thanks I get.”
“Well it’s like the whip-wielding dominatrix said,” Set replied while remembering an experience he had in a nightclub of the Berlin of the 1920s, “it’s the bottom line that counts.”
“But it’s been my lifelong dream,” Dr. Cadbury Rocher licked the whipped cream off the gingerbread cookie gingerbread woman figure of Penelope Cruz, “to genetically create a winged horse like Pegasus of classical myth.”
“Well,” Set sighed as he ate the horse’s tail, “sometimes our dreams don’t always come true.”
He recalled his dream of banging his sister Isis on a hot steamy and sultry Egyptian night millenia ago- a dream that never came true.
(Psychiatrists and reality TV shows would have had a field day if they had been around in the days of ancient Egyptian royalty!)
“That does it,” Dr. Cadbury Rocher stood up to leave, “I quit. I resign my position at Set Enterprises. Blood oath or no blood oath. You can take your blood oath and shove it up your ass.”
Considering the immense constipation problem Set would have that night as a result of eating a whole horse, that might have made for an excellent enema.
And now the Vampiress Isis was hoping to convince Dr. Cadbury Rocher to come work for her.
And put her brother, husband and lover Osiris’ sub-atomic particles back together again.
At that moment a cock crew on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Friday October 24th
Phantom of The Opera: A Poem
October 27, 2014 at 3:19 pm (Entertainment, Musicals, Mystery/horror, Poetry) (Andrew Lloyd Webber, musicals, poem, The Phantom of The Opera)
Watch, watch the chandelier fall
on the rafters Erik does crawl
a sensitive soul ill treated by the human race
now his vengeance is wreaked in this place
The Paris Opera House
Christine his desired spouse
now Christine might have loved the artist in him
but for her- murder is the darkest sin
so Viscount Raoul de Chagny becomes her mate among the human race
for Christine detested Erik’s scar but not the one on his face
(listen to the drum roll)
for the one on his soul.
inspired by the Andrew Lloyd Webber
musical The Phantom of The Opera
Halloween Haiku
October 25, 2014 at 7:47 pm (Horror, Poetry) (haiku, Halloween, Halloween haiku, Halloween poem, poem)
Work the graveyard shift
in graveyard All Hallow’s Eve
DEAD tired by dawn
The Head On The Wall In The Borneo Bar and Grill
October 23, 2014 at 8:27 pm (Horror, Humour, Poetry, The Supernatural) (Halloween, Halloween poem, poem, scary poem)
There was a head on the wall in the Borneo Bar and Grill
looking at it made people want to take a pill
A real authentic head from Borneo said the owner
which made it a head without a boner
so the head was all
making him not tall
the man whose head it was
beheaded by his head-hunting ‘coz
and so it happened on a dark and stormy night
the sort of evening that’s designed to fright
that the customers sat there
and the head without hair
decided to come to life
causing much strife
biting the head off someone’s wife
he attached his head to her body
the look was somewhat gaudy
for there were no transgendered types in this redneck town
seeing one would have caused many to frown
the head decided he didn’t like it either
so it grabbed a sharp screwdriver
and used it to behead the bartender
putting an end to some drunk’s bender
he attached his skull to this new corpse
causing the drunk to metamorpse
and the drunk left
feeling quite bereft
he swore off drink and joined AA
became a sober farmer making hay
but as for the rest of the crowd in the bar
all searched for their keys to the car
but the head and the bartender’s body were swift
it grabbed an axe in a jiff
and quickly beheaded all
moving fast from wall to wall
good thing that carpet wasn’t ordered
as the blood on the wood floor chortled
it would have made for quite the steam cleaning bill
as it was the videotaped crime scene made for quite the Internet thrill.
-A Halloween poem
Haiku About Cpl. Nathan Cirillo
October 22, 2014 at 4:00 pm (Commentary, History, News, Poetry) (Canada, Canadian National Capital, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, haiku, Ottawa, poem, terrorist attack, The Canadian War Memorial, The Hamilton Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier)
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo aged 24 of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was the Canadian soldier shot and killed by a terrorist this morning as he was standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Canadian National War Memorial in the Canadian national capital of Ottawa.
Nathan Cirillo
son of True North strong and free
his torch ever shines
Randall Hopkins Private Eye
October 20, 2014 at 4:03 pm (Detective story, Espionage, Vampire novel) (Egyptian Vampiress Isis, Ian Mandell Boring, Isis, Miranda Singh, Miss Miranda Singh, Paris-based Egyptian Vampiress Isis, Randall Hopkins, Randall Hopkins Private Eye, Set, Set Enterprises, The Chartered Accountant I. M. Boring, vampire novel, Vampire Set, Vampiress Isis, Watson Holmes, Watson Holmes VP)
Randall Hopkins was a Private Eye.
He had been hired by the Paris-based Egyptian Vampiress Isis to spy on the activities of Set Enterprises- the scientific research and development firm owned by the London-based billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set who was Isis’ main rival and arch-enemy.
But after trying to spy on Set Enterprises for the past 2 years, he had nothing to show for it.
Now Isis was threatening to cut him off- financially (in terms of his fees) as well as a certain part of his anatomy.
Randall Hopkins broke out in a sweat when he received this threat from Isis over the phone.
He had no desire to sing soprano in the Saint Paul’s Cathedral Choir.
Then miraculously last weekend he happened to run into Miranda Singh who was a secretary to the Executive Vice-President of Set Enterprises Mr. Watson Holmes.
He ran into Miranda Singh in a cocktail bar in central London.
He remembered she had been wearing a very attractive purple dress.
They had struck up a conversation and then the next thing Randall Hopkins could remember after taking a sip of his Newcastle Brown Ale was waking up naked in her apartment.
There lying on top of her bed in a pink silk nightgown was the lovely Miranda Singh.
“So,” she batted her eyelashes at him, “was it as good for you as it was for me?”.
Randall Hopkins could not remember a single thing that happened so all he said was “Um, yes.”
Miranda said she’d call him if anything came up in relation to Set Enterprises.
Yesterday morning he got a phone call from Miranda saying the owner and CEO of the company Set as well as Watson Holmes would be meeting with a chartered accountant in the main dining room of London’s Savoy Hotel at 6 PM tonight.
So he Randall Hopkins had rented a tuxedo suit and bow tie and after spending the night before reading Mrs. Beeton’s Guide To Etiquette and Good Manners was now sitting at a table trying to remember what fork he should use to eat his starter salad.
He sat next to the table reserved for Set, Watson Holmes and the chartered accountant.
The three came in.
Set was a very sinister looking figure- what one would expect from a 3000-year old vampire.
Watson Holmes looked like the sort of person that might have been produced if actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce had been gay and had a relationship and had been capable of producing a child together.
The chartered accountant looked like a typical chartered accountant- pinstriped trousers, dark suit, white shirt and dark framed glasses.
The accountant whose name was Ian Mandell Boring but went by his initials professionally I.M. Boring dove into his briefcase and brought out a document and read in a monotone voice all the financial earnings of Set Enterprises this past year.
When he had finished, he nudged both Set and Watson Holmes to wake them up.
Meanwhile Randall Hopkins was now on his 21st cup of coffee to keep him awake after listening to I.M. Boring’s riveting reading of the Set Enterprises financial statements.
“So,” Set asked after he had ordered a quadruple cappuccino from the waiter, “what does this mean?”.
“It means,” I.M. Boring replied in monotone, “that you’re going to have to cut $2 billion somewhere in Set Enterprises’ expenditures.”
“I see,” Set downed the quadruple cappuccino in one gulp.
Hm. Set Enterprises needed to cut $2 billion somewhere, Randall Hopkins thought to himself.
He better find a phone booth to telephone the Egyptian Vampiress Isis the news.
For his own smart phone battery had died of boredom after listening to the chartered accountant’s spiel.
-To be continued.
The Pumpkin Patch Chainsaw Massacre
October 18, 2014 at 7:56 pm (Horror, Poetry) (Halloween, Horror, poem, poetry, scary poem)
Nighttime falls
your skin crawls
because you’re in the Halloween Pumpkin Patch
with the date you fancied quite a catch
This is the 13th year of the Trembleton Farms Big Scary Event
you were so excited your dad’s car now has a dent
but you’ll worry about that after midnight
when werewolves howl and vampires bite
but for now you’ll enjoy the scary fun
as you chew on your hamburger bun
Ghosts and ghouls and witches too
jump from behind these gourds shouting boo
you jump and scream
your girl holds you like a dream
and then you notice a little trodden path
so you say to your better half
“Let’s go down here!”
She says, “Really dear?”
so you grab her hand
and say, “It’ll be grand!”.
And down and down you go
What lurks there… friend or foe?
It’s pretty dark
this walk in the park
what’s that you hear?
A noise so queer
Sounds like a chainsaw
cutting pumpkins raw
your knees start to shake
and your belly turns to fear
you look to the ground
and see a severed ear
What the Hell is going on?
Body parts strewn across the lawn
you’re still holding your girlfriend’s hand
in this field of bloodied sand
but then you discover that is all
and then your skin really starts to crawl
where’s the rest of her?
then you see the best of her.
Her lovely head sits astride a pole
her eyes have that fiery glow
you open your mouth to scream
your own head comes apart at the seam
but look on the bright side
as your head rolls on the bloodied tide
your father won’t kill you for the dent when you get home
as your tortured spirit seeks a place to roam.
– A Halloween poem
Cameron’s New Diplomatic Appointment
October 16, 2014 at 5:54 pm (Geopolitics and International Relations, History, Politics, The Supernatural, Vampire novel) (Alex Salmond, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Controller of The Golem, David Cameron, dreams and visions of Kabbalistic rabbis, Israel, Jerusalem, King Robert I of Scotland, Magog Rhys Petley, Mossad, Nicola Sturgeon, Robert The Bruce, Scotland, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, Scottish Independence referendum, Scottish National Party, The Archangel Raphael, The Controller of The Golem, The Heart of Robert The Bruce, vampire novel, Welsh Werewolf, Welsh Werewolf MP, William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas, William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas MSP For The Eildon Hills)
On the advice of Welsh werewolf backbench British Labour MP Magog Rhys Petley given during a post-mortem debriefing on the Scottish independence referendum campaign, British Prime Minister David Cameron named William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas the Scottish National Party MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) for the Eildon Hills to a British diplomatic post in Her Majesty’s Foreign Service.
Magog said it would be good political strategy for two reasons:
First, it would show Scottish nationalists and their electoral supporters that the British government at Westminster in London held no ill will towards them.
Second, and this was most important, Magog pointed out, that it would get a charismatic figure like William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas out of the country.
The Eildon Hills MSP was probably about the 7th or 8th most influential figure in the Scottish National Party and given the party’s loss in the independence referendum campaign, there was a possibility that he could move up in influence as some of the more senior figures in the Scottish National Party retired like Scottish First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond had done.
And given William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas’ innate charisma, there might be no stopping the Scottish independence movement in the future, Magog had warned Cameron.
Magog understood that the post of deputy consul at the British Consulate in West Jerusalem was now available and William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas had always said he found it tragic that the embalmed heart of Robert the Bruce had never found its way to Jerusalem like Scotland’s King Robert the Bruce had requested to his friend and lieutenant Sir James Douglas before the king died on June 7th 1329.
“Therefore,” Magog said to Cameron, “William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas would now go to the city where the heart of Robert the Bruce should have been.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron used that quote of Magog Rhys Petley when he made the announcement the morning of Wednesday October 15th 2014 that he was appointing the Scottish National Party MSP for the Eildon Hills William Wallace Rob Roy James Stuart Douglas the new deputy consul at the British Consulate in West Jerusalem.
The mysterious figure within Mossad known as the Controller of the Golem was reflecting on a dream that an elderly rabbi at the synagogue he had attended had insisted on telling him at the previous Sabbath service.
The elderly rabbinical cleric had been a student of Kabbalah all his life and was prone to many mysterious dreams and visions.
In this dream, the rabbi said he saw the Archangel Raphael standing in a river of fishes while a river of blood flowed by on the other side.
A giant salmon leapt out of the water alongside Raphael.
The salmon went down and then a giant sturgeon leapt out of the water alongside Raphael.
A medieval knight rose out of the river of fishes and opened his suit of armour and cast his heart into the river of blood.
Spoke Raphael in the dream, “The so-called spring in the desert is but a river of blood and Israel will soon be surrounded by enemies seeking its destruction and annihilation. And when the salmon is replaced by the sturgeon, then shall a brave Scottish heart come to the Holy City and soon Israel’s enemies will themselves be destroyed.”
Bizarre dream, the Controller of the Golem thought.
The Controller of the Golem then checked a brief summary of the international news of the day.
Nicola Sturgeon had replaced Alex Salmond as leader of the Scottish National Party and was slated to become Scotland’s next First Minister.
For some reason, that item leapt out at him as he scanned the page.
He put the international news summary aside and picked up a document listing the new diplomatic appointments by other countries to the State of Israel.
The Editor of Pravda Gets A Gift From Australia
October 14, 2014 at 6:41 pm (Commentary, Geopolitics and International Relations, News, Vampire novel) (Australia, Editor of Pravda, Isis In Rome, Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott, Russia, Russian newspaper Pravda, Russian President Vladimir Putin, shirtfronting, shirtfronting Vladimir Putin, The Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, The shirtfronting of Vladimir Putin by Tony Abbott, The Shooting Down of Flight MH17, Tony Abbott, unusual gifts- Trojan horses and Australian koala bear teddy bears, vampire novel)
The editor of Pravda was awaiting a call from his Rome bureau for more news on the mysterious death of the Russian deputy Ambassador to Italy whose bloodless stone cold dead body was found in the apartments of a Vatican cardinal.
(For more details please read yesterday’s vampire novel chapter:
https://draculvanhelsing.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/isis-in-rome/ )
His secretary brought in a package that had just been delivered by courier.
The package read,
TO THE EDITOR OF PRAVDA,
A GIFT FROM HER MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA
Well that was nice of them, the editor of Pravda thought.
Especially given the recent cool relations between Australia and Russia.
In the wake of the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in which all 298 passengers including 38 Australians were killed.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said they were “murdered with Russian support”.
Mr. Abbott was set to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin next month at the G-20 Summit in Brisbane.
Mr. Abbott told reporters yesterday, “Look, I’m going to shirtfront Mr. Putin. You bet I am.”
Shirtfronting is an Australian football term which means aggressively charging and knocking down one’s opponent.
Said Tony Abbott, “I’m going to say to Mr. Putin that Australians were murdered. They were murdered by Russian-backed rebels using Russian-supplied equipment.”
So Pravda had said in an English language opinion piece editorial yesterday that Mr. Abbott was “insolent” and Australia had a “colonial chip on its shoulder”.
And now the Australian government had sent him the editor of Pravda a gift.
That was very nice of them indeed.
Letting bygones be bygones.
The editor of Pravda opened the box
and inside was a little koala bear teddy bear wearing an Australian football team shirt.
The little koala teddy bear had a string attached to him.
So the editor of Pravda pulled the string and the little koala said in Russian, “Give me a hug. Give me a hug.”
So the editor of Pravda gave the little koala teddy bear a hug and the bear exploded emitting the fragrance of koala dung all over him.
Of course it was not only the fragrance of koala dung that was emitted all over him.
“What the Hell is this all over my shirt?” The editor of Pravda screamed.
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The Paul Eliadis Foundation
Latest Clinical Trials
As a leader in the fields of Oncology and Haematology in Australia, Dr Paul Eliadis is active across a number of important clinical trials in these fields as both contributor and principal investigator. Catch up on the latest news in clinical trials involving Dr Paul in Haematology and Oncology below.
Study of the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Antitumor Activity of AK105 in Subjects With Advanced Solid Tumors
This study is to characterize the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), immunogenicity, pharmacodynamics (PD) and anti-tumor activity of AK105 as a single agent in adult subjects with advanced solid tumor malignancies. The study consists of a dose escalation phase (Phase 1a) to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) for AK105 as a single agent, and a dose expansion phase (Phase 1b) in subjects with specific tumor types which will characterize treatment of AK105 as a single agent at the MTD or RP2D.
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After Archie Williams (above) was released from a federal penitentiary last week after serving 36 years not only for a crime he didn’t commit, but after a false conviction that would have been prevented by decisive exculpatory evidence that was available to the prosecution from the beginning. The district attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish, Hillar C. Moore III, said in court, “As a representative of the state, I apologize.”
I’m sure that makes Williams feel all warm inside. As we discussed here just this month in another case of wrongful arrest, trial and imprisonment, the kind of life-destroying mistakes that send citizens to prison for crimes they didn’t commit must involve accountability for those responsible beyond mere financial damages paid by the State.
This case is especially infuriating. It was known at the trial, and admitted by the prosecution, that fingerprints found at the scene where a woman had been raped and stabbed in in Baton Rouge, La. belonged to someone other than the man standing trial for the crime. Under basic prosecutorial ethics, Williams shouldn’t have been charged. The prints guaranteed reasonable doubt. An ethical prosecutor is not supposed to decide, “Well, maybe we can convince the jury to ignore those prints.” Prosecutors aren’t supposed to fool juries. Ethical prosecution demanded that the State acknowledge doubt, no matter how much it wanted to clear the case, The victim of the attack was the wife of a wealthy and powerful man.
Instead, the prosecutor at the trial trivialized the significance of the then-unidentified fingerprints found at the scene. “How many people come through your house?” Jeff Hollingsworth asked the jury, after suggesting that the prints could have belonged to a plumber or a carpenter, “The air-conditioning man, people who clean your carpets, the little girl home from school.”
Then it was the duty of the police to determine who those people were, match the prints, and determine that they didn’t commit the crime. Without that due diligence, there is doubt as a matter of reason as well as ethics.
Technicians in a crime lab eventually ran the fingerprints through a national database, and within hours there was a match with a serial rapist. That happened last week, however, almost four decades after the prints should have been identified. When Williams requested that the fingerprints be run against the national database in 1999, prosecutors opposed his request and no statute required them to comply…just fairness and an interest in justice.
The fingerprints weren’t the only reason the jury should have acquitted Williams. Although the victim was certain that he was her attacker, several aspects of her description of the rapist didn’t match Williams. His lawyer at the trial, Kathleen S. Richey, accurately told the jury that the victim had described a taller man with a scar on his shoulder blade. Williams did not; he had a scar on his upper arm.
The jury found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt anyway. He was 22 when police arrested him. Archie is Williams is 58 today.
It was dawning on criminologists by 1983 that eye witness testimony was less reliable than previously thought, and that identification could be negligently or intentionally be manipulated by police. Combined with the mysterious fingerprints, the shaky ID should have assured Williams’ acquittal. Juries, however, don’t know the law, don’t have experience evaluating evidence, and sometimes, as Reginald Rose pointed out in “Twelve Angry Men,” just want to get home, are misled by their biases, or just aren’t very bright.
I hesitate to call for some kind of sanctions or penalties when a jury botches its job like this; after all, the police screwed up, the prosecution was unethical, the judge let it all happen, and they were doing jobs that they had been trained to do. Nonetheless, it seems like some consequences of a bad verdict might focus jurors attention a bit more, to the benefit of justice. What those consequences might be, I have no idea.
I would support a law mandating the resignation and permanent bar from further prosecuting duties any prosecutor involved in sending an innocent man to prison, however.
It’s fascinating that such a case should come to public attention at the same time that activists, feminists and progressives are arguing that the presumption of innocence for men accused of sex crimes should be reduced. Archie Williams graphically shows where that position leads.
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26 thoughts on “Unethical Prosecution, Incompetent Jury: Once Again, “Sorry” Isn’t Enough.”
Glenn Logan
I’m sure that makes Williams feel all warm inside.
Yeah. Both he and the shades of his friends and family who have passed while he was inside.
No. A jury should never be liable for a finding resulting from bad information, unethical proprietorial behavior, and lame-brained judge supervision. At all.
The professionals in this case are the failure point, not the lay persons. Asking a jury of ordinary citizens to unwind this mess, even if the theoretical possibility existed, isn’t ethical in my view.
I would support mandatory imprisonment for not less than five years any prosecutor willfully involved in a sham like this. Along with permanent disbarment. If we don’t require prosecutors to behave ethically and properly under thread of loss of freedom, they have proven that they will not. I know it’s harsh, but this is becoming all too common. Time to break some metaphorical heads.
Why is it that we’d even think about sanctioning laypeople and letting a prosecutor off with just a firing? I can’t wrap my head around that.
Jack Marshall
I’ve considered a system where we train and pay for professional foremen/forepersons to make sure the other 11 jury members take their role seriously, and to educate the jurors about things like “reasonable doubt.” He or she would also have the power to eject members for cause.
I would support execution of tbe prosecutors involved., as well as the victim who lied.
As an aside, why do not the families of these people take the law into their own hands? Is not vigilantism justified in these cases, where the very rule of law breaks down?
Where is the Punisher? He, not Batman, is the comic book hero that we need.
Boy, you’re strict.
We have to be.
A culture free of accountability inevitably produces those like John Geoghan and Nechemya Weberman.
And it undermines the very system we need to deliver justice to those like Geoghan and Weberman.
dragin_dragon
Top of my head, that is a remarkably good idea. It does not sound at all at odds with the Constitution.
How about two juries- one of laymen, and one of professionals, with both juries voting guilty for there to be a conviction.
Too many people involved. And they would have to have the ability to talk to one another. Otherwise, the layman jury would be right back where we are now.
Actually, they would not have such an ability.
Then you haven’t solved anything.
That is not an unattractive thought. I think I would go for that.
But I still think the consequences for prosecutors refusing to provide or consider exculpatory evidence should be dire enough that the behavior changes. Right now, there are no real motivations for prosecutors to act ethically other than bar ethics. Punishment for misbehavior is so rare as to be effectively nonexistant, and certainly ineffective
If the law refuses to establish these consequences, vigilantes will.
Maybe. I’m not convinced.
It only take one vigilante to deliver justice.
Vigilante’s do not deliver justice; they deliver vengeance, often misplaced. Justice is delivered by a system of laws and courts. Sadly, that is also sometimes misplaced.
PennAgain
I like the idea of someone to educate jurors on what they will need to know and the limits of what they can do. However, it should not be a member of that jury, but a jury “mentor” trained and paid, who could be assigned out of a pool of mentors (covering a wide area or a number of courtrooms) to be available to a particular jury throughout the trial to answer or reiterate information that has nothing to do with the case per se. The questions he or she would deal with would be open to the judge (for approval?) and be a matter of public record – provably not part of the case. In fact, the more I think about it, and recall the three juries I have served on, at the very least, the more necessary a jury “primer” should be available with clear, concise definitions of basic vocabulary and procedure.
The jury has clearly failed. There was reasonable doubt, and they chose to convict.
They should get the Admiral Ozzel treatment.
Harsh for laymen. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t serve on a jury under those conditions. 🙂
There has to be accountability.
mariedowd
I agree the Ozzel is far too harsh. I think it is hard enough to get reasonably educated and alert jurors. Adding a risk for if they don’t really understand the proceedings and follow along when one set of lawyers plays their sympathies or fears better will not improve the issue at all.
1) I think jury should not be attached to voting, as that disincentivizes voting. Non-voters so much don’t want the loss of income and free action AND their vote never accomplishes anything, why bother? I got a prelim call to jury halfway across the state when I had serious mobility problems. Also I was looking at hundreds to thousands of dollars in lost income for a Federal case. The costs and hole in lives pushes away the competent aware people, leaving a higher portion from fringes, all the fringes with axes to grind. Maybe attach jury selection to the SSA as that is a larger pool, and the numbers of citizens are clearer than drivers’ license? Drivers’ license is also possible as that’s also tieing into citizenship and needed on a daily basis. Make it less a problem for people who cannot dump their daily duties for unknown times and income. Decentralize, so travel time isn’t aggravating problems.
For a courtroom 70 minutes away my elderly mother was supposed to travel to a strange town an hour and a half away to take an hour bus for an 8 am call. (yes the court was closer than the bus pickup point) She simply does not have the energy for all that back and forth, even if she is alert. Decisions while on a jury should be the burden, not the act of being there. You can’t concentrate on the case if you ache from the journey. I don’t know exactly how to fix this, but the current system I think sorts for certain types.
2) This also shows a rampant lack of professionalism in many fields. Prosecuters should not be thinking of this as a game where there are no fouls. (Actors are supposed to be excited about a gig and act like a professional to colleagues and patrons. Governers are supposed to be looking out for the commonweal of their state children nearly as much as their own kids, and consult experts for medical issues they don’t have training in. Teachers are not just supposed to teach the basics of how to be a mature adult with a balanced viewpoint, but also have a framework to evaluate new ideas, new people, and new ways to do things- I learned the most from a teacher who I now suspect was diametically opposite because she taught all sides not just her own. The legal gamesmanship regarding human lives was why I could not stand Law and Order or How to Get Away With Murder. Not that there aren’t people like that, but that they are lauded and lionized for it. The overall goal is justice.
There seems to be a major age break, that people under forty have little concept of professionalism. That doing a job, any job can be done efficiently and well. That there is value in work outside the pay or any glory involved. That your ego doesn’t need fawning because you were there. Everyone has had jobs and gigs they didn’t like, but a good person, a professional doesn’t use that as an excuse for acting up. Or cry victim when they get called for their unprofessionalism.
Perhaps, but accountability should reflect capability and expertise.
The idea of getting to the point of punishing prosecutors or police decades after the fact is not practical or logical. The first response will be who’s going to pay for what are essentially “re-trials” with, or most likely, without, original witnesses or even complete evidence. DNA and especially fingerprint evidence is being questioned already. Second is who is going to do it (“it” being the prosecution of peers – a Caesar’s Wife situation. Long before it gets to a punishment level, the general response, within or without The Law, is going to be “shit happens.” At best: The watchdogs will stay busy with enough money and time to take on more cases and the powers that be will be more amenable to listening to them and acting accordingly.
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I’m not, but I’m on a computer with Norton protection. Possibly malware or a virus.
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Longtail latencies affect members every day and improving the response times of systems even at the 99th percentile is critical to the member's experience. There can be many causes such as slow applications, slow disk accesses, errors in the network, and many more. We've encountered a root cause of microbursting traffic which cannot be easily solved by the hedging your bet strategy, i.e, sending the same request to multiple servers in hopes that one of the servers will not be impacted by longtail latencies. In this following post we will share our methodology to root cause longtail latencies, experiences, and lessons learned.
What are longtail latencies?
Network latencies between machines within a data center can be low. Generally, all communication takes a few microseconds, but every once in a while, some packets take a few milliseconds. The packets that take a few milliseconds generally belong to the 90th percentile or higher of latencies. Longtail latencies occur when these high percentiles begin to have values that go well beyond the average and can be magnitudes greater than the average. Thus average latencies only give half the story. The graph below shows the difference between a good latency distribution versus one with a longtail. As you can see, the 99th percentile is 30 times worse than the median and the 99.9 percentile is 50 times worse!
Longtails really matter!
A 99th percentile latency of 30 ms means that every 1 in 100 requests experience 30 ms of delay. For a high traffic website like LinkedIn, this could mean that for a page with 1 million page views per day then 10,000 of those page views experience the delay. However, most systems these days are distributed systems and 1 request can actually create multiple downstream requests. So 1 request could create 2 requests, or 10, or even 100! If multiple downstream requests hit a single service affected with longtail latencies, our problem becomes scarier.
To illustrate, let's say 1 client request creates 10 downstream requests to a longtail-latency affected subsystem. And assume it has a 1% probability of responding slowly to a single request. Then the probability that at least 1 of the 10 downstream requests are affected by the longtail latencies is equivalent to the complement of all downstream requests responding fast (99% probability of responding fast to any single request) which is:
That’s 9.5 percent! This means that the 1 client request has an almost 10 percent chance of being affected by a slow response. That is equivalent to expecting 100,000 client requests being affected out of 1 million client requests. That's a lot of members!
However, our previous example does not consider that active members generally browse more than one page and if that single user makes the same client request multiple times, the likelihood of the user being impacted by latency issues increases dramatically. Therefore, a very active backend service affected by longtail latencies can have a serious site-wide impact.
We recently had the opportunity to investigate one of our distributed systems which experienced longtail network latencies. This problem had been lurking for a few months with cursory investigations not showing any obvious reasons for the longtail network latencies. We decided to take a more in-depth investigation to root cause the issue. In this blog post, we wanted to share our experience and methodology that we used to identify the root cause through the following case study.
Step 1: Have a Controlled and Simplified Environment
We first set up a test environment of the actual production system. We simplified the system to a few machines which could reproduce the longtail network latencies. Furthermore, we turned off logging and persistence cache data on the disk to eliminate IO-stress. This allowed us to focus our attention on key components such as CPU and the network. We also made sure to set up simulated traffic runs that we could repeat in order to have reproducible tests while we performed experiments and tunings on the systems. The diagram below shows our test environment which consisted of an API layer, a cache server, and a small database cluster.
At a high level, requests from external services come in to the distributed system through an API layer. Requests are then made to a cache server to fulfill queries. If the data is not in the cache, the cache server will make requests to the database cluster to form the query response.
Step 2: Measure End-To-End Latency
The next step was to look at detailed end-to-end latencies. By doing so, we could attempt to isolate our longtail latencies and see which component in our distributed system affected the latencies we were seeing. During a simulated traffic run, we used the ping utility between the various pairs between an API layer host, a cache server host, and one of the database cluster hosts in order to measure the latencies. The following shows the 99th percentile latencies between the pair of hosts:
From these initial measurements, we concluded that the cache server had the longtail latencies issue. We experimented more to verify these findings and found the following:
The major issue was the 99th percentile latencies for inbound traffic to the Cache Server.
99th percentile latencies were measured to other host machines on the same rack as the cache server and no other hosts were affected.
99th percentile latencies were then also measured with TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic and all inbound traffic to the Cache Server was affected.
The next step was to break down the network and protocol stack of the suspected cache server. By doing so, we hoped to isolate the piece of the cache server that impacted the longtail latencies. Our end-to-end breakdown latency measurements is shown below:
We made these measurements by implementing a simple UDP request/response application in C and used timestamping provided by the Linux system for network traffic. You can see an example in the kernel documentation for the features in timestamping.c to get detailed information on when the packets hit the network interface card and sockets. It is also worth noting that some network interface cards provide hardware timestamping which allow you to get information on when packets actually go through the network interface card; however, not all cards support this. You can see this document by RedHat for more information. We also used tcpdumps on the system to be able to see when requests/responses are processed at the protocol level by the operating system.
Step 3: Eliminate and Experiment
After we identified that the latency issue was between the network interface card hardware and the protocol layer of the operating system, we focused heavily on these portions of the system. Since the network interface card (NIC) could have been a possible issue, we decided to examine it first and work our way up the stack to eliminate the various layers. While looking at each component, we kept the following in mind: Fairness, Contentions, and Saturation. These three key areas help to find potential bottlenecks or latency issues.
Fairness: Are entities in the system receiving their fair share of time or resources to process or complete? For example, is each application on a system receiving a fair amount of time to run on the CPUs to complete their tasks? If not, is the unfairness or fairness causing an issue? For example, maybe a high-priority application should be favored over others; real-time video requires more time to process than a background job that allows you to back up files to a cloud service.
Contentions: Are entities in the system fighting for the same resource? For example, if two applications are writing to a single hard drive, both applications must contend for the drive bandwidth. This relates heavily to fairness since contentions must be solved through some sort of fairness algorithm. Contentions may be easier to look for instead of a fairness question.
Saturation: Is a resource being over or completely utilized? If a resource is being over or completely utilized, we may hit some limitation that creates contentions or delays as entities have to queue up to use the resources as they become available.
When we tackled the NIC, we focused mainly on looking at a) whether queues were overflowing, which would show as discards and indicate possible bandwidth usage limitations or b) if there were any malformed packets needing retransmissions, which could cause delays. There were 0 discards and 0 malformed packets hitting the NIC during our experiments and our bandwidth usage was roughly 5 - 40 MB/s which is low on our 1 Gbps hardware.
Next, we focused on the driver and protocol level. These two portions were difficult to separate; however, we spent a good portion of our investigation looking at different operating system tunings that dealt with process scheduling, resource utilization for cores, scheduling interrupt handling and interrupt affinity for core utilizations. These key areas could potentially cause delays in processing network packets and we wanted to make sure requests and responses were being serviced as fast as the machine could handle. Unfortunately, most of our experimentation yielded no root cause.
The symptoms we saw in the beginning seemed to imply a bandwidth limited system. When a lot of traffic is produced, latencies increase due to queueing delays. Yet, when we looked at the NIC layer, we did not see such an issue. But after we eliminated almost everything in the stack, we realized that our performance metrics measure in 1 second or 1,000 millisecond granularities. With a 30 ms longtail latency, how could we possibly hope to catch the problem?
Microbursts, oh my!
Many of our systems have 1 Gbps network interface cards. When we looked at the incoming traffic, we saw that the Cache Server generally experienced 5 - 40 MB/s traffic. This kind of bandwidth usage does not raise any red flags; however, what if we looked at bandwidth usage per millisecond! The first graph below is of bandwidth usage per second and shows low usage, whereas the second graph is of bandwidth usage per millisecond and shows a completely different story.
To measure per millisecond incoming bandwidth traffic, we used tcpdump to gather traffic for a set period of time. This required offline calculations, but since tcpdumps have timestamps at the microsecond level, we were able to calculate the incoming bandwidth usage per millisecond. By doing these measurements, we were able to identify the cause of the longtail network latencies. As you can see in the above graphs, the bandwidth usage per millisecond shows brief bursts of few hundred milliseconds at a time that reach near 100 kB/ms. Such a rate of 100 kB/ms sustained for a full second would be equivalent to 100 MB/s, which is 80% of the theoretical capacity of 1 Gbps network interface cards! These bursts are known as microbursts and are created by the distributed database cluster responding to the cache server all at once thus creating a fully utilized link for sub-second time. Below is a graph of bandwidth utilization as a percentage of 1 Gbps speeds versus the latencies measured during the same time frame. As you can see, there is a high correlation between latency spikes and the bursty traffic:
These graphs show the importance of sub-second measurements! Although it is difficult to maintain a full infrastructure with such data, at least for deep-dive investigations, it should be a go to granularity because in performance, milliseconds really matter!
Impact of Root Cause
This root cause has an interesting effect on our distributed system. Generally systems like high throughput, therefore having extremely high utilization is a good thing. But our caching server deals with two types of traffic: (1) high throughput data from the database (2) small queries from the API Layer. Granted, the API Layer requests can cause the high throughput data from the database, but here is the key: It is only needed when the request cannot be fulfilled by the cache. If the request is in cache, the caching server should return data quickly without having to wait on database calculations. But what happens if a cached request comes in during a microburst response for a non-cached request? The microburst can cause 30 ms of delay to any other incoming traffic and therefore the cached request could experience an extra 30 ms of delay that is completely unnecessary!
Step 4: Prototype and Validate
Once we discovered a plausible root cause, we wanted to validate our results. Since this bursty bandwidth usage can cause delays to cache hits, we could isolate these requests from cache server's queries to the database cluster. In order to do this we set up an experimental environment where a single cache server host has two NICs, each with their own IP addresses. With this setup, all API Layer requests to the cache server go through one interface and all cache server queries to the database cluster go through the other interface. The diagram below illustrates this:
With this setup we measured the following latencies and as you can see, the latencies between the API Layer and cache server are actually what we expect — healthy and below 1 ms. Latencies with the database cluster cannot be avoided without improved hardware; because we want to maximize the throughput, bursts are always going to occur and thus the packets will be queued up at the interface.
Therefore, different traffic deserves different priorities and can be an ideal solution to handle microbursting traffic. Other solutions include improving hardware such as using 10 Gbps hardware, compression of data, or even using quality of service.
Finding the root cause of longtails can be hard.
The root cause of longtail latencies can be difficult to find, as they are ephemeral and can elude performance metrics. Most performance metrics that we collect here at LinkedIn are at 1 second granularities and some at 1 minute. However, taking that into perspective, longtail latencies that lasts 30 ms can be easily missed by measurements with granularities of even 1,000 ms (1 second). Not only that, longtail latencies can be due to different issues in hardware or software and can be fairly difficult to root cause in a complex distributed system. Some examples of causes can be hardware resource usage dealing with fairness, contention, and saturation, or data pattern issues such as multi-nodal distributions or power users causing longtail latencies for their workloads.
To summarize we highly encourage remembering these four steps of our methodology for future investigations:
Have a controlled and simplified environment.
Get detailed end-to-end latency measurements.
Eliminate and experiment.
Prototype and validate.
Longtail latency is not just noise! It can be due to different real reasons and the 99th percentile requests can affect the rest of a large distributed system.
Don’t discount the 99th percentile of latency issues as power users; as power users multiply, so will the issues.
Hedging your bet although a generally good strategy where the system sends the same request twice in hopes for one fast response does not help when the longtail latencies are application induced. In fact, it just makes the system worse by adding more traffic to the system which in our case would cause more microbursts to occur. Had we implemented this strategy without a thorough analysis, we would have been disappointed because the system performance would have been degraded and it would have wasted a considerable amount of effort to implement such a solution.
Scatter/gather approaches can easily cause microbursts of bandwidth usage, causing queueing delays on the millisecond granularity.
Sub-second granularity measurements are necessary.
Sometimes hardware improvements are the most cost-effective way to help alleviate the issues but until then, there are still interesting mitigations that developers can do, such as compressing data or being selective on what data is sent or used.
Finally, the most important lesson we learned was to follow methodology. Methodologies give direction to investigations, especially when things become confusing or begin to feel like a journey through Middle-earth.
I would like to thank Andrew Carter for his work and collaboration during the investigation and Steven Callister for providing operational support and feedback. Also thanks to Badri Sridharan, Haricharan Ramachandra, Ritesh Maheshwari, and Zhenyun Zhuang for their feedback and suggestions on this writing.
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Turkey fires over 1,700 military officers, shuts media groups
Jul 28, 2016, 12:16 IST
Those discharged include general to sergeant level personnel from army, navy and airforce.
Ankara: Turkey has formally discharged over 1,700 officers from the military and dozens of media organisations were shut down following the recent failed attempted coup.
Those discharged on Wednesday were 87 land army generals, 30 air force generals, 32 admirals, 726 commissioned officers, 256 sergeants from Land Forces Command, 59 commissioned officers, 63 sergeants from Navy Force Command; 30 generals, 314 commissioned officers and 117 sergeants from Air Force Command have also been dismissed over their alleged links to the attempted coup on July 15 to 16, state-run Anadolu News Agency reported.
The discharge orders come ahead of a meeting of Turkey’s Supreme Military Council, which is expected to agree to drastic changes in the country’s armed forces.
The move is part of new regulations, published in a statement on Wednesday in Turkey’s Official Gazette, and come as part of the country’s three-month state of emergency. The Turkish Coast Guard and Gendarmerie General Command have also been brought under the Interior Ministry’s control, the agency said. The discharge of generals, many of whom are under arrest, comes ahead of a meeting of Turkey’s Supreme Military Council, which is expected to agree to drastic changes in the country’s armed forces. Meanwhile, 45 newspapers, 16 television stations, 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines have been ordered to close by the Turkish government, the agency reported citing the statement as saying.
However, the media outlets to be shutdown were not named. Authorities have sacked, suspended or detained some 60,000 people, mainly public-sector employees, after a small faction of the military tried to overthrow the country’s democratically elected government. They are accused of sympathising or belonging to a religious group led by Fetullah Gulen, an Islamic preacher in self-imposed exile in the US.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL calls for the ‘Allegations of torture in Van must be independently investigated’ WHILE “Three HDP politicians hospitalized over food poisoning under detention
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: ‘Allegations of torture in Van must be independently investigated’
Bianet :: English
Amnesty International has sent a letter to the authorities in Turkey regarding the allegations that Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut were subjected to torture or other ill-treatment after being detained by gendarmes in eastern Van province.
Three HDP politicians hospitalized over food poisoning under detention
Three politicians from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were hospitalized over food poisoning while under detention, deputy Hüseyin Kaçmaz said early on Sept. 28.
Mayor Ayhan Bilgen, İsmail Şengün and Can Memiş were taken to a hospital and Bilgen returned to police headquarters after his treatment was completed, he said.
The party on Sept. 27 said that Bilgen told his lawyers that he was suffering from food poisoning because of the dinner served at the Ankara police headquarters and that he wasn’t taken to a hospital.
OPERATION AGAINST HDP: ‘They want to keep the HDP away from both politics and social life’
Specialized in the Middle Eastern and Kurdish Politics, Prof. Mesut Yeğen, Asst. Prof. Cuma Çiçek and journalists Faik Bulut and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş have spoken to bianet about the recent operation against the HDP.
‘It’s a war on words’: Turks fear new law to muzzle social media giants
World news: Turkey by Bethan McKernan in Istanbul
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s draconian legislation comes into force this week in a bid to censor free speech online
When a team of 20 police officers demanded to search journalist Oktay Candemir’s flat earlier this month, he feared the worst: members of the Turkish media who are critical of the government are often arrested on spurious terrorism charges, and he has been in trouble several times before.
Turkey’s opposition slams government crackdown on HDP
Turkey’s opposition parties have criticized the detention of dozens of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members, saying that the move is politically motivated.
Turkish police on Sept. 25 detained dozens of HDP members, including the co-mayor of the eastern province of Kars, over 2014 violent protests against the siege by ISIS of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.
Turkey seeks to lift parliamentary immunities of 7 HDP deputies
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Sept. 25 that summary of proceedings will be prepared against seven deputies of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in order for their immunities to be lifted over 2014 violent protests against the siege by ISIS of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.
The office, which carries out the investigation into the Kobane protests, said that the summary of proceedings will be prepared against the seven deputies into whom investigations are ongoing.
The deputies in question were the HDP’s Central Executive Board (MYK) members during Kobane protests, the prosecutor’s office said.
Earlier on Sept. 25, Turkish police detained 20 HDP members, including the co-mayor of the eastern province of Kars, Ayhan Bilgen, over Kobane protests.
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Claim that villagers were thrown from helicopter shakes Turkey!
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Despite severe oppression, censorship, detentions, arrests and threats, the Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) recently marked its third anniversary, continuing to report on the assaults by the state and the racists against the Kurds from the field. In fact, a recent story MA has been following for days has left the country appalled. The agency’s story has activated the opposition while the parliament was asked to convene in an extraordinary session. It was demanded that a parliamentary investigation committee be formed to investigate the incident.
Following the agency’s story, nongovernmental organizations and human rights activists sent delegations to the region where the incident took place. The MA story also caused national and international media to send more than 100 reporters to the region. The allegations have also drawn attention from Europe. A delegation from the European Commission was sent to the region, it was reported, to write a report concerning the allegations.
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India's Most Expensive Retail Space Wheezes Under Coronavirus Fallout
The coronavirus crisis has been a severe blow to the economy.
Just six months ago, a battery of breathless headlines bestowed the title of India's most expensive retail space upon Delhi's storied Khan Market. Today, the exclusive U-shaped, double-storey complex set amid the bungalows and apartments reserved for lawmakers and senior government officials, is gasping for breath because of a crisis that no one saw coming.
Despite its uneven paving stones, mass of overhead cables, and narrow staircases and entrances, global property consultant Cushman & Wakefield had ranked Khan Market 20th in the list of the most expensive retail locations in the world with an annual rent of $243 or 18,500 per sq ft just last November.
A tatty shopping centre originally built to house refugees in the heart of New Delhi and named in honour of Abdul Jabbar Khan, the brother of "Frontier Gandhi" Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Khan Market in recent years has faced a fair amount of derision as the den of India's English-speaking elite painted as opponents to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP.
Mostly frequented by New Delhi's politicians, lawyers, top civil servants and journalists, its restaurants served mainly foreign food, even everyday products in the grocery stores were much more expensive than other parts of the city, and the big luxury brand names had been increasingly moving in.
Khan Market has several posh retail and dining outlets in central Delhi.
But no amount of influence proved enough to insulate it from the abrasive realities of a global pandemic and the sudden nationwide lockdown, imposed literally overnight, two months after the coronavirus reached Indian shores.
In recent days, at least three of its well-known establishments have gone public with announcements that they would be shuttering down permanently even as the government finally allowed plans gradual exit from a 10-week lockdown.
The popular bookstore and cafe Full Circle and Cafe Turtle, which opened its doors 20 years ago, announced that after several rounds of negotiations with the Khan Market Traders' Association and the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), the business has decided to shut operations.
Priyanka Malhotra, the owner of the three-storey cafe and bookstore, said it would have been a difficult task to going forward. After grappling in the dark since the pandemic broke, it was difficult to come to a clear solution that was fair to all, she said.
How does one maintain social distancing in a bookstore with a cafe? How do tenants and landlords arrive at fair agreements in times when there is hardly any revenue generation due to the lockdowns? These are among the many difficult questions, Priyanka said, that many restaurateurs or small-cafe owners are also struggling with, as the government move forward with a phased "unlock".
The coronavirus crisis has been an unprecedented blow for the food and hospitality sector.
Full Circle and Cafe Turtle have been followed by restaurants Smoke House Deli and Side Wok. According to owners of several stores in the market, the current times are the toughest the food and hospitality industry has ever faced.
The Khan Market Traders' Association has said that they are trying to mediate between the landlords and tenants to work out mutually agreeable terms. Mall-owners and other landlords across the country have been waiving rent or discounting it substantially so that tenants don't move out. Many know that they won't get new tenants at this time.
"We have tried to mediate between landlords and tenants. We asked landlords to give a rebate during lockdown but now tenants must also come forward as the livelihood of landlords depend on the rent received," the traders' association president Sanjiv Mehra said.
Shop-owners have also voiced resentment about the fact that while they have to face an additional financial burden to keep up with the official guidelines and safety norms, they have been offered little to no support by the government.
The closure of stores at Khan Market has left several of the regular customers nostalgic. "I used to visit stores like Smoke House Deli, Café Turtle on a regular basis. These places were like a second home. Watching them close is heart-wrenching," Ankit Bharti said.
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'Sushant Singh Rajput had 3-4 projects in hand, wanted to do big scale films now,'...
Home / Bollywood / ‘Sushant Singh Rajput had 3-4 projects in hand, wanted to do big scale films now,’ says Kamal Jain
Producer Kamal Jain, who worked with late actor Sushant Singh Rajput on MS Dhoni: The Untold Story claims the latter had 3-4 films in hand, including the one with him. He said the other films included Oscar winner Resul Pookutty’s film titled Sarpakal; while another was Rumy Jafry directorial.
Talking about those films, Kamal told Pinkvilla in an interview, “Vashu Bhagnani’s film with him which was to be directed by Rumy Jafry was to go on floors in April. After that Resul and my film and one more film with Sanjay Puran Singh. So he had 3-4 films visibly with him and then further on discussions. The next two years were going to be quite busy for him.”
Sushant was to star opposite rumoured girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty in Rumy Jafry’s upcoming romantic comedy. Rumy had earlier revealed the shooting of the film was to begin in May but was delayed due to lockdown.
Talking about his last conversation with Sushant, Kamal said in another interview, “I spoke to him last week itself and it was about the film, we were planning together. He sounded very positive about the film too. He was a little disturbed because of lockdown. He was a workaholic, he would like to work 24X7, and now suddenly locked at home, so he was a little tense because of that.”
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Sharing Sushan’t future strategy, Kamal said, “After Chichhore, he used to read like 15-20 scripts in a month but he was very selective and wanted to do big scale films now. On the phone, we discussed about his projects, and he was quite focused on all the films in his hand, hence, I am surprised and shocked when I got the news of his demise this way.”
Sushant was found dead at his Bandra apartment in Mumbai on Sunday. Reports suggest he had cleared the dues of his house help and cook few days before his death by suicide.
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The Never Released “The Boom – 3rd LP” Recorded at Trans Am’s National Recording Studio
October 8, 2013 Expanding the Bookends of NowBoom, Carlo Cennamo, Crownhate Ruin, Fred Erskine, LP record, Music, The Crownhate Ruin Leave a comment
The Boom in Germany 1999
After The Crownhate Ruin broke up, Fred immediately started a new band called The Boom. Initially, they rehearsed in the basement where we lived, and then Fred moved and they rehearsed over there. They released two LP’s, “Movin’ Out” and “Any Day of the Night” on Slowdime and did a US tour.
I ran into Fred in the winter of 1999 at The Raven, and he told me they were planning on a European Tour in the late spring of that year. I jokingly said I wished I was going, and also told him that when I saw them recently at the Galaxy Hut, I loved the new songs where he played trumpet instead of guitar. Maybe I could play guitar with you I asked. And suddenly I was in the band. I learned all the songs from mostly Any Day of the Night, and some from Movin’ Out. The line up that rehearsed in the Spring of 1999 was:
Fred Erskine on trumpet
Carlo Cennamo on saxophone
John Wall on bass
Joseph P. McRedmond on guitar
J. Carrier on drums
I believe we played at a party in Mt. Pleasant, WDC right before we left for the tour. We started the European tour landing in Amsterdam by way of Iceland and had a hell of a time and played everywhere. John Wall was booking more shows to the end of trip as we went along.
After we returned home, Fred and Carlo got to work on writing new songs, and recorded a 4 track demo to show us their ideas. It was at this time also that J. Carrier decided to join the Peace Corps, and he left the band to be replaced by Justin Wierbonski. Josh LaRue joined on electric piano.
We played only 2 shows with this line up. One at the Black Cat, and one in Baltimore at the Ottobar. We also recorded the material at Trans Am’s National Recording Studio, which was broken down into 7 tracks, but meant to be presented as one whole body of music. We had a tour planned of the US in August with this line up, but Justin suddenly left the band just prior to the start date and could not be replaced. The tour was cancelled. The gentleman in Belgium who was going to put the 3rd record out disappeared off of the face of the Earth. Fred and Carlo moved to Chicago to form HIM, and John went to Law School.
The songs are below to listen track by track, and if you like, the zip file is available below that for your downloading pleasure.
https://expandingthebookendsofnow.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/01-track-1.m4a
The Boom 3rd LP in zipfile form
The Boom in Rotterdam opening for The Subhumans
Photo by Pat Graham maybe?
Rather dusty, don’t think I have listened to it since 1985. I’m such a hoarder. Great tune though, his fingers made me a bit dizzy, so I totally get the name.
Chet Atkins “Dizzy Fingers” Flexi disc from Guitar Player Magazine Soundplayer #44 January 1985. Still plays good.
September 19, 2013 Expanding the Bookends of NowChet Atkins, flexi disc, LP record, Music, records Leave a comment Image
“Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles” – The Music of Adolf Wolfli Performed by Graeme Revell (SPK), Nurse With Wound, and Deficit Des Annes Anterieures
September 3, 2013 Expanding the Bookends of Nowadolf wolfli, art, Graeme Revell, LP record, Music, Outsider art, Switzerland 2 Comments
Sometime in the mid 1990s I stumbled across this LP record of interpretations of music composed on paper trumpets, and laid out in strange paintings and drawings by Adolf Wolfli, who was incarcerated in a Swiss institution in the early 1900’s. Found the record at Bonifant Books in Wheaton, MD, which was my favorite record store until they disappeared. The buyer was a former employee at Joe’s Record Paradise and he knew his records.
Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles – The Music Of Adolf Wölfli was released on vinyl by Musique Brut (BRU 002) in 1986.
Of course you’ll want to hear one of the interpretations, this one by Graeme Revell:
If you like this it looks like you can purchase or download the entire record.
It’s worth a visit to the official homepage of The Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
to educate yourself more on Wolfli should you be so inclined.
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Policing Committee embarks on local visits around Scotland
Members of the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing will embark on a series of fact-finding visits across Scotland beginning today in Dumfries. They will visit Elgin and Glenrothes next week as part of the Committee’s examination of the impact of police reform on local policing.
The Sub-Committee is keen to find out whether local policing services have improved, remained the same or deteriorated since Police Scotland came into being on 1 April 2013. It also wants to know whether services have been designed to address the specific needs particular to local areas and if there has been any change to approach since last April.
The Sub-Committee members will meet a range of divisional management teams, community and response officers, community council and safety teams as part of the visits to the south, central and north of Scotland.
Convener of the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing, Christine Grahame MSP said:
“There has been much comment that local policing is under attack, with proposed closures of police counters and an apparent rise in stop and searches. We want to hear first-hand from the police on the front line and in the back rooms if local policing is for better or worse or if there has been no change since Police Scotland was created.
“Communities in local towns and villages around Scotland will also have their views, and that is why we’ll also be speaking to community councils and Victim Support to hear their own experiences of the new arrangements. The views we gather will help inform our future work on local policing.”
Fact-finding visits
On 13 January Graeme Pearson MSP and Margaret Mitchell MSP will visit Dumfries. On 20 January John Finnie MSP and Kevin Stewart MSP will visit Elgin, while Alison McInnes MSP and Committee Convener Christine Grahame MSP will visit Glenrothes on the same day.
This is a sub-committee of the Justice Committee that has been established to oversee the operation of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 as it relates to policing. The creation of the sub-committee meets a requirement set out in the 2012 Act for the Scottish Parliament to make arrangements for keeping under review and reporting on the operation of the Act. The Act replaces the eight territorial police forces in Scotland with one national force, the Police Service of Scotland, to be overseen by a Scottish Police Authority.
Sub-committee members have been selected from the Justice Committee, Local Government and Regeneration Committee and Equal Opportunities Committee to represent these committees’ interests in policing.
Any media wishing to take photographs or interview MSPs on the visits should contact Ann Donald on the number below.
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The history of blackface and why even black people can’t wear it
Bridget Boakye May 30, 2018 at 01:01pm
May 30, 2018 at 01:01 pm | History
Bridget Boakye | Contributor
Bridget Boakye is a writer, activist, and entrepreneur based in Accra, Ghana. Raised in both Ghana and the U.S., she is particularly interested in issues that draw on the experiences, insights, and values from both Africa and the African Diaspora. She is currently an Amplify Africa Fellow and member of the Global Shapers Accra Hub. You can find her on Instagram at @boakyeb
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Canadian rapper, Drake, is in hot fire. Last night, U.S. rapper, Pusha T released a diss track directed at the half-black rapper called Adidon. The content of the rap song has generated significant buzz but it’s the track’s cover art that has taken the beef from the rap gates of hip hop fanatics to the town hall of the “woke” ie. the social activists.
The artwork: a controversial photo of Drake. He is in blackface and wearing a shirt that reads, “Jim Crow”. Although the photo is not new, the recent wave of social activism and “wokeness” has brought new attention and focus to its content.
Today’s ‘gotcha’ woke crowd say the rapper was caught in a compromising position – a position that reveals his true identity to everyone. Pusha T agrees.
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Please stop referring to this picture as “artwork”…I’m not an internet baby, I don’t edit images…this is a REAL picture…these are his truths, see for yourself https://t.co/gd6vRS3HM8 pic.twitter.com/2el58HEZ8F
— King Push (@PUSHA_T) May 30, 2018
According to FactMag, the artwork was taken from a real photo shoot Drake did with photographer David Leyes for a 2008 promotion of the clothing line, Jim Crow Couture, a Canadian fashion label of the brand Too Black Guys.
Leyes appears to have confirmed its validity as well.
And the photographer. Y’all move pic.twitter.com/au67DtZfUA
— F.L.O.W. (@flow349) May 30, 2018
Although Too Black Guys was established in 1990 with a “Fight the Power” and on a mission to use sarcasm to draw attention to social issues, fans and foes say Drake has erred the Black community. Some are going to as far as to say that the rapper should be “cancelled” for putting on blackface. To be cancelled in the Black community means to lose one’s position, power, status, and inevitably financial support from the community, one Drake inevitably heavily relies on.
I’m questioning y’all if y’all don’t “Cancel” him. pic.twitter.com/nCRhLLOBSh
The History of Black Face
To understand the public outrage about Drake in blackface, it is important to know the history of the act.
According to a brief on the subject on BET, Blackface grew out of Minstrel shows starting in the 1830s. The act involved white actors darkening their face with shoe polish or greasepaint, painting exaggerated red lips with makeup, and acting out stereotypically dumb, foolish, or dangerous Black characters – that is the “happy darky on the plantation” or the “dandified coon”. The larger purpose of these shows were to entertain white slave owners, who were humored by acts mocking slaves and free Blacks during the 19th century.
Among minstrel show ‘pioneers’ was Thomas “Daddy” Rice, a white actor who blackened his face and danced a jig for his character Jim Crow in 1830.
From the small stage, blackface made its way to the big screen where some performers like Bert Williams, Al Jolson, and Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who created “Amos N’ Andy” made it widely popular. These white men also performed in “dialect” or ‘African American English’.
Minstrelsy was at its height between 1830 and 1890. Even in the late 19th century when black artists were finally allowed to perform publicly, they had to wear blackface no matter their hue and had to reenact stereotypes of their time (some did find ways to subvert this).
Blackface only went out of vogue during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960. But by then, it had already caught wind around the world, especially in many Asian and European countries where actors still put on the face to perform.
In the U.S., wearing blackface is almost sacrilege. It is met with great criticism because it hearkens to a painful past of slavery, segregation – Jim Crow, and discrimination for Black people. It reinforces stereotypes about Black people that are not true.
White college students in the U.S. are especially warned to not wear blackface on occasions like Halloween, a past time for many.
THROWBACK TO WHEN MY VICE PRINCIPAL GOT FIRED FOR WEARING A BLACKFACE HALLOWEEN COSTUME ?? pic.twitter.com/2o3cVPqvBt
— Synergy Kerza? (@SynKerza) January 16, 2018
Many say Drake is at fault, despite the motivations and intentions of the Too Black Guys brand.
In a day and age where things never disappear from the internet and people are growing ever more conscious and aware of historical and social issues, what can he say? Does he have an out or not?
Marco Polo is credited with naming Madagascar but did not even visit the island – Why?
The one-time fiery top aide of Louis Farrakhan who ‘not even a bullet could stop’
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By Kyle Bain | May 3, 2020
Imagine laying your loved ones down one last time, with the assumption that this would be their final resting place. But instead, they’re actually sharing their cemetery plot with five or more strangers. Starting in 1858, at the Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, this was a reality. This horrifying practice was not brought to light until 1989. Facing East tells the story of nightmares becoming reality as families are forced to revisit the gravesites of their loved ones to exhume the corpses and relocate them to a place where their bodies and souls would be respected (and they would no longer be taken advantage of financially).
Writer-director Tommy Baker creates an interesting story that on the surface appears a bit ridiculous, but turns out to be incredibly compelling. Right off the bat, Baker throws audiences into the courtroom as Eastern Cemetery faces legal consequences for their misconduct and their unbelievable mismanagement. Baker knows that introducing viewers to the ensuing legal battles over said issues is the best way to attract large audiences and appeal to their ideas of an irresistible story. He understands his audience and builds his documentary with them in mind, making the appeal of Facing East strong and broad.
“…nightmares becoming reality as families are forced to revisit the gravesites of their loved ones to exhume the corpses…”
The ridiculousness of the saga brings to mind Netflix’s Tiger King, only with enjoyable and articulate characters. Baker uses the large group of interviewees to paint a horrific picture of bodies being buried on top of others. The choices he makes regarding his subjects make the documentary captivating and enjoyable. Something is often lost in translation in documentaries when subjects attempt to convey information about a particular story. Viewers may find it difficult to appreciate the content due to the subjects’ inability to relate the necessary information to their audience. Instead, Baker’s choices in Facing East are impeccable, as each speaker is capable of being articulate, engaging, and thorough in their explanations of the horrid situation.
Viewers have become numb to many things as cinema often produces far-fetched stories that appeal to the senses of said audience members. Baker and his subjects develop a sense of intensity throughout the film. Their testimonies and appeal to emotion create a bond in which audiences can empathize with the families attached to these stories. Another issue that causes problems for documentaries is that what interviewees say can appear scripted, and therefore loses its impact. Again, Baker’s subjects (whether their lines were scripted or not) appear genuine. They seem to have a connection to the stories that they tell, making the appeal of the movie even more potent.
Facing East moves swiftly through its tale of deceit and creates a sense of urgency that mirrors the story being told. Baker’s ability to convey the emotional weight of the proceedings is incredible and enjoyable. He creates a film that, through his interviews, conveys a sense of realism that many documentaries lack. His finished product will appeal to many and leaves them with the understanding that Baker’s potential in the film world is immeasurable.
Facing East (2019)
Directed and Written: Tommy Baker
Starring: Francis Whitaker, Andy Harpole, Bob Allen, Beth Caldwell, etc.
Movie score: 9/10
"…moves swiftly through its tale of deceit and creates a sense of urgency that mirrors the story being told."
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THERMASET – A LEADING POWDER COATING SPECIALIST
Staffordshire-based Thermaset Limited is the one of the UK’s leading powder coating specialists and a Qualicoat approved manufacturer.
The company has been creating powder coating for more than 30 years -formulating, manufacturing and supplying products to a wide range of customers. It supplies powder coatings direct through a combination of routes to market comprising telephone orders, email and via its online shop. Its powder coatings are renowned for their stability and reliability and stock powders are available for next day delivery across the UK.
As one of the largest stockists of high quality powder coatings in the country, Thermaset has assisted customers on a wide range of technical issues. Through early consultation, we will ensure that not only the right type of coating is selected for a particular application, but also recommend what preparatory work needs to be undertaken beforehand.
With thousands of formulations and over 600 stock colours, there is no colour that Thermaset can’t match and no special requirement that cannot be met – whether it be BS, RAL, custom or match. The company can meet a customer’s needs from a few kilograms of powder coating – for a special order – through to tonnes for a long-term contract.
Among the industrial markets for powder coatings are: automotive, electrical/electronics, scaffolding/form work, general engineering and steel partitioning.
Powder coatings are also extensively used on both commercial and domestic furniture and home appliance industries because of their toughness, hardness and corrosion resistance.
Whilst powder coating applications are not yet widely used on auto bodies, they are finding growing applications on components for both interior and exterior applications.
Within the electrical and electronics sector, powder coatings are used in various applications including: computer casings, computer components, encapsulation and telecommunications equipment.
Key to the continued development of the business is a commitment to invest both in the ongoing development and training of staff, as well as the infrastructure of the factory site. The company has just achieved the international standard ISO 14001 Certification, and is therefore putting environmental management at the heart of its business.
Thermaset has firm plans in place to invest heavily towards the end of 2016 and through 2017 on the redevelopment of existing research and development facilities, as well as the creation of a training school and showroom.
The company launched a new suite of individual A4 size product specification brochures earlier this year for its Spectra range and Ripple Finishes, a description of its Hygienilac Antibacterial powder coatings and a Stock Range brochure. New to the market is its Spectra range – a collection of diverse finishes and an exciting alternative to standard RAL and BS colours.
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Decaffeinated Jedi
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Frede in Vohaul Strikes Back 2 July 27, 2016
So, if Incineration is essentially VSB 2, does that mean the next entry in the series will be Vohaul Strikes Back 3?
Decaffeinated Jedi reacted to skeletor in To Gary Owens voice match, or not to Gary Owens voice match, that is the question.. April 3, 2016
I'm a bit late to the party, but I'd like to make a suggestion as well in case it's not too late. I've been listening to the Space Quest Historian podcasts, and Gareth Millward (the guy who plays Pete Toleman) really cracks me up! He reminds me a bit of Wheatley from Portal 2, who was one of the funniest characters in any game that I've played recently.
Decaffeinated Jedi reacted to MusicallyInspired in Late Last Nite July 20, 2015
And the music is great!
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Blackthorne in Late Last Nite July 15, 2015
Thanks for the kind words! "Mind candy for your drugs" might be my favorite description yet. :)
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Frede in Late Last Nite July 14, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi reacted to Blackthorne in Late Last Nite July 14, 2015
Seriously, give this game a spin. It's like mind candy for your drugs. Or something.
I loved it enough to endorse it without being paid anything, and I'm a giant corporate shill, so this should tell you something.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from MusicallyInspired in Late Last Nite July 12, 2015
In case anyone is interested, we recently released Version 1.2 of Late Last Nite. What's new? Lots of stuff!
Version 1.2 of Late Last Nite:
Looks Better!
We’ve added new animations, updated sprites, and tweaked existing backgrounds! In earlier versions of the game, you might have asked yourself, "Is that talking owl’s trailer made out of cake, or what?!" Well, in Version 1.2, you can cast all doubts aside. Yes, that trailer is absolutely made out of cake, and you’ll know it just by looking at the screen with your eyeballs.
Sounds Better!
Not only have we added more sound effects, but we’ve also remastered the Late Last Nite soundtrack for your listening pleasure. Not impressed yet? What if we also threw in a brand new rock tune that plays over the closing credits? No? Well, what if I told you that original rock tune was written and performed by guitar legend Carlos Santana? Okay, that last part is a lie, but the rest of it is pretty cool, right?
Plays Better!
New puzzles? New characters? New dialogue? New Easter eggs? How is this even possible?! Well, we signed a pact with a certain Dark Lord who will remain anonymous until a predetermined Day of Reckoning, at which time all will be revealed while we roast in the Pit of Suffering. Until then, let’s just say we worked really hard on adding more cool, weird, and funny stuff to the game. We’ve also improved the interface for an overall smoother puzzle-solving experience.
Have you played Late Last Nite before? Well, there’s lots of new content to discover in the latest version. Never played it? Well, you made all those people who suffered through earlier versions of the game look like a bunch of suckers. Kudos!
Seriously, though, give it a spin. We'd love to hear your feedback.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from suejak in Late Last Nite July 11, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from WilcoWeb in Late Last Nite May 18, 2015
There's just one day left to vote for Late Last Nite in the AdventureJam competition! The team would definitely appreciate any votes you could throw our way.
You can download the game here. If you enjoy it, you can vote for it in various categories here.
Here are a few screenshots -- just for fun.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from WilcoWeb in Late Last Nite May 7, 2015
As you may have seen elsewhere on social media, several members of the Space Quest/adventure gaming fan community participated in the recent Adventure Jam event and created an original point-and-click adventure in just two short weeks.
The end result is Late Last Nite, an adventure in excess -- available for download now! I'd provide some details on the plot, but I hate to spoil the surprises. Let's just say that things get weird.
As for the familiar faces who worked on the project, there's Akril, Datadog, drdrslashvohaul, Frede, Resulka, Troels, and me.
We invite you to play the game and let us know what you think! Oh, and if you feel inclined, leave a rating for us on Late Last Nite's Game Jolt page.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from suejak in Late Last Nite April 27, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi reacted to pcj in Space Quest was Sierra's true crown jewel April 23, 2015
Eh, maybe to us personally, but SQ doesn't have the community today that KQ has - look at the Phoenix Online forums, even back in their "Silver Age" versus here. Not much activity round these parts even back then. And it's not like there weren't similar things going on - the SQ7 group shut down about the same time TSL was going through its own cease-and-desist throes, which eventually reversed, supposedly thanks to their fans... And saying it's SQ ignores the following that games like QFG, GK, or even PQ has...
My intent is not to dump on any specific community. Perhaps SQ just appeals to a different type of person than KQ - the underdog.
My opinion as a programmer is that AGI/SCI, as well as Ken's ability to keep developers produce a number of quality games for years, are the true "crown jewels" of Sierra. Without an engine that could let storytellers do what they wanted or a producer that pushed them to succeed, I don't see how Sierra could have been successful. It's only once Ken was pushed out by Cendant that we saw Sierra fall. I don't feel that SQ could have happened at that time without Sierra. SQ helped diversify Sierra's portfolio and probably helped make it a bigger name, but there was Sierra before there was SQ. Ken was the one that let Scott learn how to program and develop his own game after hiring him for random projects. That wouldn't have happened later, or likely at another game company.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from JDHJANUS in Late Last Nite April 22, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from MusicallyInspired in Late Last Nite April 20, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Datadog in Late Last Nite April 20, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Frede in Late Last Nite April 19, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from pcj in Late Last Nite April 19, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Monolith_Pig in Gary Owens is dead February 16, 2015
Needless to say, I'm saddened by Mr. Owens' passing. Even before he came on board as the narrator in Space Quest 4, I was a huge fan of his work on Laugh-In and Space Ghost. As I said on Twitter last night, his performance as the Space Quest narrator was so good that you could retroactively imagine him providing voiceover for the earlier games in the series.
Plus, if I'm going to screw up in an adventure game, there's nobody I'd rather hear admonish me for my stupidity than Gary Owens.
It's a shame we'll never get to hear Mr. Owens' dulcet tones in SpaceVenture; I'm certain he would have knocked it out of the park yet again. That said, we're lucky to have some amazing performances to look back on and enjoy.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from Atomic_Matter in Space Quest Historian Season 3 February 4, 2015
If at all possible, I'd like to use Season 3 as a platform to air out my grievances with Pete Toleman concerning Secret Quiches of the Luftwaffe.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from drdrslashvohaul in Space Quest Historian Season 3 February 4, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from suejak in Space Quest Historian Season 3 February 4, 2015
Decaffeinated Jedi reacted to Datadog in Scariest scenes in Sierra games November 12, 2014
The NPC animations in KQ1, 2, and 3 always freaked me out. Sure, you get a warning about the wolf and even a scary music sting, but the way the wolf jumps out of bed and starts frantically scrambling towards your death is like watching a scene from a Japanese horror movie.
Decaffeinated Jedi reacted to Troels Pleimert in Space Quest Historian podcast - season 2 November 12, 2014
I'm not scared of Prof. Jess.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from BlockMaster in SQ1 VGA: Stop the Hate September 30, 2014
Space Quest 1 EGA holds a special place in my heart as my first Space Quest (and my second adventure game after King's Quest II). When I think "Space Quest," Roger wandering through the 16-color corridors of the Arcada is still one of the first images that springs to my mind.
That said, I like the B-movie style of the VGA remake quite a bit; it always seemed like a good fit for the overall tone of the series. It also made the remake feel markedly different from the original, which I would argue is a good thing. The rather unfortunate King's Quest I remake didn't achieve that. Also, as others have mentioned, the SQ1VGA soundtrack is outstanding.
If you asked me to choose a favorite, SQ1EGA is the obvious choice. I think it's bogus that Sierra didn't involve the Two Guys in the VGA remake, but I can still appreciate it as a new spin on an old favorite.
Also, I wanted to come back to my favorite quote from this entire thread:
The Wilco World Wide Web: European and Confused Since 1995.
Decaffeinated Jedi got a reaction from suejak in SQ1 VGA: Stop the Hate September 30, 2014
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Reviewing Relegated Clubs’ Transfer Windows
Jimmy Cartwright - September 3, 2016
Bright Future Ahead for Chelsea Youngster Nathaniel Chalobah
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The Great Escapes of the 2013/14 Season
Andrew Crawley - June 6, 2014
Sunderland After narrowly avoiding relegation to the Championship last season, it looked as though this season’s relegation battle would be a bridge too far for the Mackems as they occupied the relegation places for much of the season. Paolo Di Canio’s...
Review of the Football League Championship So Far: Part 2
Andrew Crawley - March 17, 2013
Bristol City It’s been another difficult season for the Robins, who currently sit at the bottom of table with their six year stay in the Championship now facing its biggest threat. The year started badly after manager Derek McInnes was...
English Football’s Most Disappointing Teams of the 2015-16 Season so Far
Jimmy Cartwright - December 26, 2015
We're at the halfway point of the 2015-16 campaign and already much has happened. James Cartwright takes a look at some of English football's most disappointing sides this term. Chelsea Premier League champions Chelsea are an obvious candidate as the most...
The Weekly Football World Report: Issue #2
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Premier League Norwich City have agreed a deal for Sporting Lisbon striker Ricky Van Wolfswinkel. The Dutch international will join the canaries in July for a fee reported to be in the region of £8.5 Million on a 4...
The Monetary Challenge Facing the English Football League
Guest - March 31, 2013
As big investment continues into the English Premier League with a reported £5.5bn TV deal soon to be agreed, the queries into Football League funding continue to grow. With countless examples of financial difficulties in the football league for...
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BlogFeaturedTeach Peace EarlyWhat Do You Think Peace Means?
November 9, 2020by Galaxy4Peace0
It is another Monday where we discuss everything about Peace Education, the work we do around this theme in Nigeria and how investing in this education can facilitate in building sustainable peace.
This interdisciplinary area of education whose goal is institutionalised and non-institutionalised teaching about peace and for peace aims to help students acquire skills for nonviolent conflict resolution, learn peace value skills and how reinforcing these skills for active and responsible action in the society can make a positive difference in the society.
Recently we designed a Peace Education “Teach Peace Early Lesson Manual” digital tool that will support teachers and parents in joining peacebuilders across the globe in shaping peace early.
Our focus was to develop a tool that can be accessed by any parent or teachers any where in Nigeria in teaching children with the goal and major aim to prevent a conflict in advance or rather to educate individuals and a society for a peaceful existence on the basis of nonviolence, tolerance, equality, respect for differences, and social justice etc
In view of the above, we are kicking off a blog series titled ” Meet Our Developer” to introduce the designers of the “Teach Peace Early Lesson Manual”
To kick off the series, I will be introducing Janine Classen, a passionate and motivated teacher who happens to be one of our Teach Peace Early Lesson Plan developers and the Project Lead.
We asked her few questions related to the project and what peace means to her and here are her answers!
1. What inspired you to work with Galaxy4Peace, in particular, to create a curriculum to teach peace early? Was there a particular moment in your life that prompted you to take this path?
“I answered Galaxy4Peace’s call because I believe that it is critical to teach all people how to resolve disputes using nonviolent means. Violence simply creates more violence and is a barrier to personal growth. Violence is also a barrier to a nation’s social and economic development.”
2. What does peace means to you?
“Peace is recognising that we all have a place in this world and that we must learn to navigate our differences while respecting the humanity of others. It is human nature to believe that one is right and that the other is wrong. However, all parties must engage in respectful dialogue if there is a dispute. When you love someone, you desire what is best for them. Violence is not an option.”
3. What do you expect from the curriculum? How would you like to see the lesson plans implemented?
I hope that the curriculum will inspire communities, schools, and families to seek and use alternative ways to solve problems. The lessons and activities can be woven into an existing school curriculum or used independently in both formal and informal settings. Ultimately, I hope that the spirit of the peace curriculum, and its ideas, will encourage people to work together to build strong, supportive, and life-giving communities.
4. Do you think world peace can be achieved using peace education as a tool?
Conflict exists because human nature has not changed since the beginning of time. Human beings are still motivated by anger, jealousy, lust, and greed just as they were thousands of years ago. However, we do have the power to control our behavior. We do not have to fall victim to our baser desires. We can choose another path, but we can only choose from what we know. The more we know, the greater our options. People need to be educated about peace so that they know there are workable options for violence. Peace is a choice.
“The more we know, the greater our options”.
A very significant sentence, which contains the meaning and the reason why it is fundamental to Teach Peace Early!
P.S: for the full content of this curriculum that will help in shaping your ward or children’s life positively, I recommend you to send an email to info@galaxy4peace.org! – by Giulia Chiapperini
Giulia Chiapperini is a Content Developer from Italy. Giulia have a Master’s Degree in International Cooperation on Human Rights at the University of Bologna with a Bachelors in Philosophy. Her fields of interest are peacebuilding, immigration and refugee law, and international human rights. She looks forward to an opportunity to work for the United Nations, because she is interested in building a career that would make the difference in shaping a better world.
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Gallery Girl meets Nadia Gohar
Lizzy Vartanian CollierArt, Interviews, Uncategorized8 eleven, brittany shepherd, bunker 2, cairo, canada, canadian art, contemporary art, egypt, egyptian, egyptian art, heritage, identity, little sister, memory, mena, middle eastern, middle eastern art, nadia gohar, painting, sculpture, the table, toronto, videoLeave a comment
A line in the press release for Egyptian artist Nadia Gohar’s most recent exhibition at The Table in Toronto, Canada reads: ‘It is important to consider the dimensions of one’s inherited identity and the ways in which it may have been produced and reproduced.’ Gohar’s work combines sculpture and painting to touch upon her own experiences living in Egypt and Canada. Gallery Girl spoke to Gohar about memory, heritage and the art scene in Toronto.
Mobile, Gohar’s exhibition at The Table explores different facets of a hyphenated identity. ‘This body of work considers familiar spaces and objects in order to recall things experienced and things remembered’, says Gohar. Born and raised in Cairo and moving to Toronto in 2012, it is understandable that she would feel somewhat detached from her homeland. Centred around a video she made of her grandmother this summer, The Table show combined video and sculptural work as well as a dinner that Gohar served amongst her artwork.
The space in which Gohar’s most recent work has been displayed is a special one. An initiative run by Brittany Shepherd, The Table takes an intimate approach to exhibition facilitation by curating a monthly program of site-specific installations and events in a private setting and disseminating the evidence on virtual platforms, with guests at The Table being asked to document their experience themselves and post it online. Scrolling through Instagram and Twitter, you can see images of Gohar’s grandmother preparing dolma in Egypt in the same space as a mobile from which butterfly wings are suspended from a structure that also dangles gold charms and clothes hangers. This mobile consists of a silicone mold which the butterfly is attached to, various found pieces of paper, hangers, a casting of a dragonfly, wax candles, horse brass in the shape of a superstitious hand, and a plastic bag containing containing gum arabic, also known as acacia gum
Only a few days ago, Gohar officially became a Canadian citizen, which she describes as ‘re-inscribing’ her identity. ‘After parting from a place regarded as a point of origin and as the time/distance grows, that place starts to feel like a partial fabrication of memory’ she says, ‘The ways in which I know how to deal with this rift is through my work.’ Thus we see Cairo’s strong influence across Gohar’s oeuvre and social media feeds, with images of her homeland constantly being pasted across a plethora of media, both artistically and virtually: ‘By reclaiming and reprocessing the habits, objects, and language displaced through migration, I am able to transform these things into tangible forms.’ This is shown through two-dimensional paintings morphing into three-dimensional sculptural works.
Gohar tries to return to Cairo every year, with her entire extended family still living there. And, while she is yet to exhibit in Egypt, after hitherto suppressing references to her origins in her work, she is beginning to insert her birthplace: ‘For a while it seems like I subdued my heritage in my work. More recently and especially given the current political climate, it naturally resurfaced.’ The distance between Egypt and Canada has spurred Gohar to connect with other artists from the Middle East and North Africa online, both those who live at home as well as abroad: ‘It’s great to be able to find a community online’ she says, ‘I am currently working towards curating an exhibition of work by artists from the MENA region, as well as archiving art from the region in a publication.’
It may surprise some, especially from the online images of Mobile, to learn that Gohar originally started as a painter. ‘Often, I’ve felt the paintings to be a study that precedes the sculptures’, she says, ‘Generally the medium I choose to work with is more of a vehicle, secondary to the subject. I find that I naturally shift between painting and sculpture, and that my best work happens through this pendulum-like notion.’ Gohar’s pastel shaded paintings illustrate many different objects, much like the hanging sculptures at The Table, fusing influences from East and West and, while Gohar describes the paintings as ‘studies’, they are powerful works of art in their own right.
So, what does Gohar make of the art scene in Toronto? ‘The art scene is definitely growing, fast’, she says, listing The Table, Little Sister, Bunker 2 and 8 Eleven as the top project based initiatives and artist-run spaces to see, ‘All of these spaces push curatorial boundaries by generating a broader dialogue throughout the community.’ It would appear then, that Toronto is a great place for Gohar to present her work in an environment that will generate conversation.
With the prospect of curating her own exhibition and of drawing more deeply on inherited memories and the departure from home within her own artwork, Nadia Gohar is definitely one to watch.
Louise Bourgeois @ MoMA
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DOD braces for space storms
By Gregory Slabodkin
Computer crashes are not the only threat to military and civilian systems come 2000.
Air Force experts and other government scientists have concluded that violent
electromagnetic space storms will wreak havoc on systems at about the same time unfixed
date code fails.
“We’re going to have a huge storm [about] Jan. 1, 2000, so people won’t
know what to blame it on,” said Ernie Hildner, director of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo. The
center’s Space Weather Operations, operated by NOAA and the Air Force, issues
extraterrestrial event alerts to government and industry scientists hourly, much as the
National Hurricane Center issues tropical storm or hurricane alerts.
Solar and geomagnetic events such as ion bombardments and explosions on the surface of
the sun can damage or knock out satellite transmissions, hamper navigation systems, cut
electric power and bring down telephone systems.
Unlike the year 2000 problem, space weather is a natural phenomenon that occurs in
11-year cycles. During the cycles, powerful geomagnetic storms generated by the sun spew
bursts of high-energy particles and clouds of ionized gas that can damage satellites and
affect the Earth’s magnetic field.
Sunspots, flares, filaments, coronal holes and mass ejections emanating from the sun
throw off bursts of electromagnetic particles, radiation and solar wind. Geomagnetic
storms occur when blasts of solar wind bend and stretch the Earth’s magnetic field.
The latest solar cycle—Cycle 23—is expected to reach its maximum strength
around 2000, far surpassing the strength of its predecessor, Hildner said.
Geomagnetically induced current from space weather can be picked up by power lines and
disable transformers, Hildner said. Solar Cycle 22 in 1989, for instance, left more than 6
million people in Quebec, Canada, without electric power for 12 hours, he said.
“We’ve had three pulses now of activity in this cycle, and in all three we
have anecdotal information that the Northeast United States power grid has felt the
effects,” Hildner said. “So far it hasn’t risen to the level of where
anybody has shut down or there has been enormous equipment damage.”
Recent pulses have also damaged navigation systems, especially those that depend on
satellites. “We know that Global Positioning System users such as NOAA have been
unable to carry out high-precision surveying during these pulses of activity,” he
The accuracy of GPS, a constellation of 24 Navstar satellites managed by the Defense
Department for military and civilian use, depends on the transmission properties of the
atmosphere, Hildner said. When those properties change unexpectedly during a geomagnetic
storm, navigational fixes from GPS can be grossly inaccurate, he said.
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information for its guided missiles and bombs, he said.
Even though GPS satellites are hardened against electromagnetic pulses from
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transmit radio waves, from heightened solar activity.
The only way to guard satellites from the sun’s magnetic fields, which are
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plating, Hildner said.
Instead, DOD is turning to cheaper commercial satellites rather than military-unique
systems such as Milstar, designed for strategic communications during nuclear war, he
Iridium, which will be the largest commercial satellite constellation with 72
low-earth-orbit satellites, will also fall prey to the effects of the sun, Hildner said.
The $5 billion commercial satellite communications system is designed to provide
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activity, he said.
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During a solar storm, energized electrons race around the Earth, creating uneven
buildups of negative and positive charges on satellites. The fluctuations can affect the
performance of circuits within the satellites.
A solar eruption in 1995, for instance, disrupted the operations of NOAA’s
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. GOES satellites continuously monitor
space weather by measuring solar X-rays, the Earth’s magnetic field and
electromagnetic particles in space.
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There was a drain covering that was not secured properly after the recent works on the road and I have fallen into it and injured myself. I will be taking this further.
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About Will Hurd
Footprint Architecture & Design
Drexel University Thesis
For Other Firms
Drexel University: B.Arch. with Honors, 2002
Boston University: B.S., Systems Engineering, 1989
Previous Firms:
Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects; Wilmington DE
Significant Projects:
Wilmington Train Station. Coordinated production of over 330 construction drawings for a 47,600 SF $30M complete exterior restoration and total interior renovation of the last major station designed by Frank Furness. Primary client contact, attended and documented design meetings, developed project scheduling to allow continued operations at the nation’s 11th busiest train station.
New Castle Court House & Old State House in Dover. Produced and coordinated construction documents for a $2.5M interior restoration of Delaware’s first court and state capitol and for a $3.5M restoration of Delaware’s original capital building. Both projects were awarded the 2008 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).
Moeckel Carbonell Associates; Wilmington DE
Significant Project:
Rockwood Park Visitors Center. Project Coordinator for 18,400 SF $8M project that consisted of the adaptive reuse of 7,800 SF of an existing carriage house and a new 10,600 SF three-story addition designed to be sympathetic to the historic structure.
Tevebaugh Associates; Wilmington DE
Computer Sciences Corporation; Moorestown NJ
Airlift Mobility Command (AMC) Command & Control Information Processing System (C2IPS)
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Forever Dreaming » Entertainment » Transcripts » Angel Transcripts
5x05 - Life of the Party
1 INT. LOBBY - DAY
Close-up on Lorne's feet as he walks down the hallway talking on his cell phone. Lorne's wearing silver alligator boots and a blue suit. To his right side is another man holding another cell phone and a notepad.
It'll be fabulous. Believe me, Jerry. Yes. It's Grapes of Wrath in outer space. Uh-huh. Oh, it's got heart. Yes, it's got laser battles.
(takes off his sunglasses)
It's got a timely message of interstellar poverty. Uh-huh. Listen, have your assistant call my assistant. We'll set something up. Good enough.
(Chuckles)
(hangs up the cell phone and tosses it to his assistant)
(talks to the other cell phone his assistant was holding)
J.C., Listen, just got off the Nextel with big "B." Yeah, intrigued, but wants to know who's playin' Tom Joad. Uh-huh. Well, I'm pretty sure that Henry Fonda's dead, sweetie. Yeah. Bring him back to life? Let me talk to my science people. OK, no promises.
(hangs up)
(to his assistant) Directors.
(walks up to Harmony's desk in the lobby)
Harmonica!
(smiles, clasps his hands)
Lorney-tunes!
Harmony is incredibly overdressed for a receptionist. She's wearing a pink sequined sleeveless dress. Her hair is done professionally.
Ohh, the eyes, the hair, the dress. It's no wonder the fourth floor has a crush on you. Hey, tell me, priceless, where do I find Angel?
Just called. He's on his way back in from a field mission, though I wouldn't, if I were you. He sounds like he's in a mood.
Oh, don't worry, darlin'. I've pulled the big boy out of many a brood-fest. It shouldn't be that—
(Lorne turns to see Angel walk into the lobby covered in slime)
(walks up to Angel)
Angel, how did the new neural-intercept grenade work?
(hands the grenade to Wes, sighs)
Right. I'll take it down to Fred and have her look at it.
Hey, Angel-heart—
(calls after Wes, who's walking away)
Hey, Wes, if you see Fred, can you have her pencil me in for later? I gotta talk to her about Henry Fonda's big comeback.
(follows Angel, who's walking steadily away toward his office)
Angel, Angel. We've gotta have a confab. Es muy importante—
Uh, or—wha—
Uh, it's about the party? I've done all I can do for the big to-do, but we've still got a few bugs to comb out of the cootie garage.
(Angel frowns and starts to close his door)
A bridge too far? Uh, let me try it again. Uh—
Look, Lorne, I've been out all night, OK? I'm beat up, I'm exhausted, I'm covered head to toe in Thraxis blood, which actually kind of burns, so this is all gonna have to wait until I take a shower.
(starts to shut the door)
You killed the Thraxis?
Shower.
(shuts the door in Lorne's face)
(to his assistant) Hey, Van, look, why don't we, uh, scratch the Thraxis off the invite list, and, uh—oh, hey, you got a copy of that print ad we're gonna run this week?
Yes. Right.
(takes out a piece of paper from his files)
(reading the paper)
What is this? "Wolfram & Hart wants to be up your alley"? Sounds like a bus station pick-up line. Change it. Second thought, burn it. Grab yourself a bagel or something, too. You look a little waxy.
2 INT. LORNE'S OFFICE - DAY
Lorne steps into his office and shuts the door behind him. He breathes deeply and collapses into the chair at his mirrored vanity make-up table. He rests his elbow on the vanity, rubbing his temples and moaning. Suddenly, his reflection in the mirror turns to look at him, concerned, and begins to speak.
LORNE'S REFLECTION
Ooh, ouch. That's an adult-sized bang-a-roo. Hello?
(Lorne groans)
Oh, Mr. Smiles.
Oh, come on, you can't ignore me forever. Oh, well, fine. Looks like you're gonna have to slap a band-aid on that melon, draw a grin on that bewitching green mug, and go right back out there. On the count of 9, sunshine. 1...2...3...
(Lorne glares at his reflection)
The show stops for no demon, Lorne. 4...5...
(Lorne winces)
They're all waiting for you. 6...7... They're counting on you. 8...comin'up on 9. They're gonna eat you up with a spoon because you're so scrumptious!
(screams)
Shut up!
(bashes the mirror with a wine bottle)
(Groans, stands, faces the door)
(singing a slow ballad)
Don't, don't leave me this way
I can't exist
I'll surely miss
your tender kiss
so don't leave me this way
ohhhh...
A very stressed Lorne walks out the door.
3 INT. HALLWAY- DAY
When Lorne appears in the hallway, he's all smiles and energy again, talking on his cell phone, transitioning his reflection's song into an upbeat pop song.
(singing)
Ohhh, baby! Oh, my heart is full of love and desire for you!
Fade to black.
Opening credits.
ACT I:
4 INT. ANGEL'S APARTMENT - DAY
A shower is running as someone enters Angel's office. The doorless shower provides a direct view from the office. Angel turns off the shower and grabs a towel, when he notices Eve sitting on his bed watching him.
Hi. Uh, the door was open. Well, unlocked.
(a naked Angel walks toward her frowning; Eve smiles)
Well... I had a key.
(Angel holds out his hand; Eve gives him the key, which he throws on the table)
So, uh, wow. You take a long shower for a guy.
(Angel wraps a towel around his waist)
Were we having some gentlemen's time?
Gentlemen's?
I mean, I understand. You're running the whole circus now, a lot of pressure, especially with your hands-on policy. No pun intended. I'm sure you could use a release.
No releasing, just bathing. That's what one does after bashing open a demonic piñata full of rancid Tabasco. What do you want, Eve?
You stood me up. We had a 7:30, Angel, a meeting.
Oh. Right. Uh... I'll get my pants.
5 INT. ELEVATOR - DAY
A fully-clothed Angel and Eve, her arms crossed, walk onto the elevator.
So, how's it going, Angel?
(Exhales)
I don't know how to answer that question. I—I don't know. Good. Bad.
(Sighs)
Look, I spent years doing everything I could to bring this company down. Now I'm the CEO, and I have to question every move I make because any one of them could be exactly what the senior partners want, so, no, I have no idea how it's going.
(crosses his arms)
Hey, at least you can still get your nocturnal jollies saving the downtrodden from things that go bump in the night.
Well, you said it yourself. Everyone needs a release.
No. I said you need a release. Not everyone bottles all this stuff up like you.
I don't bottle.
You bottle.
(in her face)
When the elevator door opens, a huge skull is there in the doorway. Angel reflexively punches it, and the man holding the foam skull falls down to the floor, groaning. Angel looks around to see there are many people with similar costumes busily working to decorate the lobby.
OK, why does it look like we're having a party in here?
Well, maybe 'cause we're having a party in here. The Wolfram & Hart Halloween Bash? Ring a bell? The biggest event on the company calendar? I sent you a small forest's worth of memos on it.
We're havin' it here?
(to Eve) You see what I'm up against?
That's what our 7:30 was about, Angel. Your party.
My party?
Yeah, listen. Here's the snafu in a nutshell, top cat. Uh, nobody's comin'. Well, some people are coming, but the right people, the A-list people, they seem to be giving it a miss, and if they don't show up, this shindig is gonna be a bust.
(Insensed)
Good?!
(casually)
I wasn't too crazy about this thing to begin with. I mean, we are talking about our clients, right? Our evil clients.
(Lorne starts rubbing his head)
Not the sort of folks I really like to show a good time. I'd be a lot happier if the whole thing just kind of fell through. Then we could get back to—
(still rubbing his head, laughs out loud)
Ha ha ha! OK! OK! You're killin' me. Can't you just feel up the big picture, Mr. Magoo? It's not about good and evil. It's about party. Party! Capital "P"! Rhymes with "me"?
(yelling now)
About to have a stroke here 'cause you're killin' me!
(calms down)
Listen. I can see that you're in a—a state, a—a mood, a—a snit even,
(stuffs a huge black silk flower into Angel's arm)
so what say we talk about this once you've... calmed down a bit?
Yeah, sure. That's fine—
(walks away)
Great. Your office. 25 minutes.
7 INT. SCIENCE LABORATORY - DAY
Wesley sets the grenade on the lab desk in front of Fred.
Was Angel mad?
Shouldn't he be? We sent him out there with a defective piece of weaponry.
(annoyed)
Which "we" are we talking about?
(softly)
Fred, these techno-mystical hybrids are a complicated affair.
(bounds up to them, joins the conversation)
Oh, I don't know. It seemed kind of simple to me. It's just a little hand-held, spell-casting robot, right? So it's either the robot or the spell that we have a problem with.
Well, the grenade's core enchantment looks operational, so I think we're talking about a faulty trigger mechanism.
No, wait a minute. I designed that mechanism myself.
Yeah, that's right, and I machined it. It was beautiful work, on both counts, if I may say.
(smiles proudly, looks at Fred)
(grins at Knox)
You may.
(Both chuckle)
(irritated)
I agree, as a sculptural piece, but the device's trigger may not have been fine enough to actually trigger the effect.
(walks up, cheery)
Happy Halloween, kids!
And how do you know your spell-casters didn't screw up the payload?
Because I went over the work and I got that knowing feeling you get when you know something.
(claps)
(unenthusiastically)
Hi, Lorne.
Hi. What do you say we put away your little sci-fi toys for a little bit, huh? And maybe we could talk about something a little more important, like my monster mash?
(rubs his hands together)
Oh, yeah, your party.
Our party, tweety bird. Which, by the way, is dying on the vine. I could really, really, really use some help from you guys— some backup?
I wasn't really planning on going.
Wes. Do you hear this crazy talk?
Uh, well, I really hadn't given much thought to going myself.
Et tu, Brutuses? Why is it so hard to get anyone to have any fun around here?
(to Fred) You should go. It's the Halloween blowout to end all blowouts. Last year, uh—
They took a bunch of cows and put them in a giant wicker effigy of Krishna, uh, doused it with sambuca, and it—
(Lorne shakes him off)
Uh, well... anyway, it—it's a hell of a good time.
I really wanna get this operational before Angel goes out again.
Yes. I'll stay, too. I'm sure we can work it out together.
No. No-no-no, no, no, no, no! Wes, Fred, you're coming. Look at yourselves. You're wound tighter than Martha Stewart's swatch. Isn't there anyone else who'd, uh, fix the little boo-boos on this thing?
I can do that. It's probably the trigger mechanism anyway.
Great. Problem solved. I'll see you two in Angel's office, 15 minutes.
(walks out)
8 INT. GUNN'S OFFICE - DAY
There's a knock on the door. Lorne walks into Gunn's office where Gunn is sitting at his desk reading papers.
Hey, Lorne.
Hey, hey. Uh... sorry to interrupt. Not to be a pest, but I just wanted to go over a little stratego, amigo.
Uh, sorry?
Um, you're my big gun, Gunn. Ace-in-hole, ball-in-pocket. You're the key on my kite string.
We gotta turn Angel around on this whole party idea.
We do?
Look, I know he's the boss and everything, but you're up and coming here, and it's time for you to spread your wings, legal eagle. From now on, I want you to stake out your territory, and I want you to keep it staked.
Stake, territory. Sure. Look, um, Lorne, I'm a little busy right now. I have a deposition to get ready for, but I will definitely get to that.
Great. Just what I wanted to hear. Angel's office, 10 minutes.
9 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - DAY
The whole gang has gathered at Angel's office, except Lorne. Angel is sitting at his desk, frowning. Gunn is sitting on Angel's desk. Eve is sitting in the chair across from it. Fred is standing near the windows, as is Spike. Wesley is sitting in a chair in the corner.
(looking out the window at people in costume)
In my day, no self-respecting creature of the night went out on All Hallow's Eve. We left that to the posers, the blighters who had to dress up and try to be scary.
(Angel presses a button that causes the windows to fog)
Magic windows. Will the perks never end?
(walks into the office talking on his cell phone)
Ah, perfetto, Benigni! Perfetto—
(goes back and forth not wanting to walk through Spike)
Ah, si, si, si. Grande. Ciao.
Us. Waiting.
Oh, right. Sorry. So, uh, Angel, we just wanted to take a moment and emphasize how important this party really is to us.
I gotta say Lorne is right. We gotta show all the big bads that the new regime is here to stay, which, for the most part, boils down to image. And image-wise, if this party doesn't kick ass, we lose face.
And believe me, milk dud, speaking as the head of your P.R. Department, we need all the face we can get.
Milk dud?
Said with affection.
OK, listen, I understand the whole "keeping up appearances" concept, but everyone coming to this thing is unrepentant, dyed-in-the-wool evil.
Angel, a good host just doesn't make these sort of judgments.
We don't know how many of them are holding grudges against us or against each other. It's a perfect recipe for an out-of-control bloodbath.
That's describing every good party I've ever been to. Listen, Angel, don't worry about a thing. This is my forte. And I ran Caritas for years, a nightclub with an open-door policy. The good, the bad, the hideously ugly, they all bellied up to my demon bar, but they all played nicely together while they were there.
And this is exactly the kind of ethical tightrope you've gotta walk now, Angel. Which brings up another point— your employees.
Also evil.
(walks in with a mug, sets it on Angel's desk)
Here's your blood, bossy.
(Angel glares at her)
Ahem. Boss.
Some of them, yes, but all of them work hard for this firm, and Halloween, well, around here it's like Christmas. Simply put, this is a morale thing.
(scoffs)
Good luck. The morale around here stinks.
Uh-huh. Everybody thinks you suck. Well, come on, boss. They're all out there, sweating through their matsudas, worried if you're gonna axe them or, you know, axe them.
OK, look, hey, I haven't— OK, look, I may have...killed a couple of them.
And several clients...and maybe some potential clients? Why do you think my R.S.V.P. list is only a fifth of the size of last year's?
It's you, babe.
Come on, what, do they think I'm throwing this thing so I can slaughter them?
(everyone in the room looks straight at Angel)
Fine. I surrender. Go ahead, Lorne. Put on your best dog and pony. I won't get in the way.
I don't want you to sit back and just let it happen, Angel. I need you to get out there and make it happen.
10 INT. LIMOUSINE - NIGHT
Angel and Lorne are riding in a limo at night. Lorne fixes himself a drink.
Archduke Sebassis. Bona fide nobility from the fiery down under. Commands over 40 legions. He's the living end of a pure bloodline of demonic royalty.
Great. Just great.
Well, also, the very peak of the A-list mountain. He's the crown jewel of the underworld jet set. If we convince him to come, all the other glitterati will just domino in right behind him, and then—then we'll be in business.
This really matters to you, doesn't it?
Well, of course. The new Wolfram & Hart— I mean, we have to—
No. I mean, this really matters to you. Personally.
Yeah. You know, Angel, I— I don't have superhuman strength, and I'm not a fighter. Quantum physics makes me nauseous, and I barely made a passing grade at mystical studies, but I'm on your team. This is something I can do. I believe it has a purpose that can help you, even if you don't.
Well, I'm here, aren't I? I agreed to this.
No, you—you did. You did. And I promise you won't regret it. But, hey, let's leave it that you let me do most of the talking, huh? You just kind of smile and try not to rip anybody apart. OK?
(takes a drink)
11 INT. SEBASSIS'S THRONE ROOM - NIGHT
Angel and Lorne are seated in chairs facing a pale demon with horns seated on a high throne. Another similar demon stands at his side.
SEBASSIS
So... this is the mighty Angel. I've been told many things about you. Bit of a restless frog, hmm? Making lots of waves in your little swamp.
Yeah, well, I'm just trying to keep the fly population down.
Lorne laughs.
Yes. Though I do prefer the tales of your counterpart Angelus. Ah, you had flair back then, child.
Well, I guess we all mellow in our old age.
Your contempt is fragrant.
Sebassis sips blue liquid from a wine glass and finishes the drink. He puts his glass down and a smaller, thinner, paler demon walks out to him. The smaller slave-like demon pulls a cork out of his arm and holds his arm out over Sebassis's glass. The blue liquid Sebassis was drinking flows from the slave's uncorked vein into the glass. Lorne witnesses this with great discomfort, although he tries to hide it.
Uh—uh, so, your lordship, we were deeply grieved when you declined our invitation. I mean, we'd love for you to reconsider.
(slaps Angel's arm)
Yeah—ha. Yeah. I mean, a party just isn't a party without the archduke.
You're sure you wouldn't like some—
(taps the slave, who re-corks his vein)
I'm fine.
(Lorne glares at Angel)
But thanks.
Oh, come, come. We're all blood-drinkers here. Ah, but that's right. You choose to drink the blood of swine. Filthy beasts.
Actually, that's a misconception.
Filthy! Yes! Honestly, I don't know how he does it.
(Chuckles, sips from a glass filled with the blue liquid)
Mmm. Wow, this is—
(to the slave) You, uh—you really— you taste great.
Well... in light of this amusing chat, and of my longstanding acquaintance with you, Lorne, I will come to the gala.
Oh, that's wonderful news, your lordship! Well, we don't wanna waste any more of your valuable time.
(stands, sets down the glass)
We'll—we'll show ourselves out.
(Angel and Lorne exit the room)
ARTODE
I still think it's a trap, my lordship.
Maybe, Artode, but I am in the mood for intrigue. So we'll go to their celebration. We'll just make sure we're properly dressed.
Gestures toward a hidden panel in his wall, magically opening it to reveal swords, axes, and other weapons inside.
ACT II:
12 INT. LOBBY - NIGHT
The party has started, and there's disco music playing. A glittery disco ball shimmers in the lights (strangely almost making a smiley face). Pan out to show that Harmony is the only person dancing on the dance floor. Two lawyers are talking, standing on the sidelines drinking.
LAWYER #1
Man, this is lame. I mean, where's the ritual sacrifice? How do you get the ball rolling without a ritual sacrifice?
(walks up to the guys)
Hey, guys, come on. You're representing our glorious firm here.
Dude, it's our night off.
Dude, this is your night on! Now mingle. Mingle, mingle, mingle, mingle, mingle!
The two lawyers walk away. A voice calls to Lorne from across the room.
Lorne!
(Chuckling)
Hey there, Devlin. So, uh, what are you supposed to be?
The demon is wearing a light, smooth mask that appears to have been someone's face at one time. He's dressed in an argyle sweater-vest.
You no get? I human bean.
Look. I do human bean. Ahem. I proud my honor roll student.
Fred and Wesley are standing together, talking, and notice Lorne across the room.
Look at Lorne. I mean, God, he's just so good at this. He fits in with everybody.
(faking a smile)
Oh, right, that's, uh—ah. So, tell me, that mask, uh, it is rubber, right?
My other car a Lamborghini.
(still faking a smile, Lorne's voice cracks)
'Kay, so, uh— then, uh— well, you be good and everything.
(to Wes) I guess I've always hated parties. I never know what to do with myself. I just end up at the hors d'oeuvres table, trying to look occupied.
Hey there, wallflowers!
Wallflowers?
I need you to give me a hand, help light the fuse on this powder keg? Look at the dance floor. The only thing on it is Harmony. Hey, you keep pushing that envelope, baby!
I'm afraid this really isn't our element, Lorne.
Yeah. We're wallflowers.
Oh, no, no, no, sweetie. You're the young, the beautiful, the ready-to— oh. Well, here's one problem. You're totally sober! It's Halloween. You should be 3 sheets to the wind already. Now, try and get into the spirit of things, OK?
(walks off)
13 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - NIGHT
Lorne walks into Angel's office, where Angel is sitting at his desk frowning.
Angel. It's a graveyard out there, and all the guests wanna meet the new guy in charge.
Look, Lorne, I—I— I have things. I'm busy. I'm brooding.
(turns behind him to see the television is on)
Oh, you're watching hockey!
Yeah, but my team is losing.
Get up off your keister and get out there! I can't steer this ship of fools by my lonesome! I just can't do it! I—
(Lorne groans and rubs his temples in pain as his frustration escalates)
Lorne?
(looks up, all smiles again)
Let's boogie, sweet tart.
(Claps hands)
Angel and Lorne walk out to join the party. Lorne points out guests of note to Angel.
Well, so over there we have the Britzai representatives. We can get to them later. Oh, and there's the elder of the Fell Brotherhood. Come on, let's go say hi!
Angel rolls his eyes as he goes with Lorne. Harmony is still on the dance floor, although others are dancing now too. She notices Spike standing around nearby.
Come on, Spikey. Come dance with me.
You have got to be kidding.
Oh, come on!
Listen, chippie, you can gyrate all you like. I'll go to hell before these ghost shoes touch that dance floor.
Ohh, blondie bear, where is your Halloween spirit?
Dearly departed. All this claptrap for a bit of dusty old Druid nonsense. The whole silly lot of you can get hung if you ask me.
What are you even doing here, then?
(goes back to the dance floor)
(starts to walk off, but runs into Angel and Lorne)
Yeah, Spike. I thought you hated these kind of things.
I would've thought the same of you.
Oh, no, he's doing great. He's already not killed, like, 100 guests.
He doesn't have to. Party's already dead.
Oh, really, Spike, would it kill you to be a little more positive? Hmm?
MALE VOICE
(announcing his arrival)
The Archduke Sebassis!
Sebassis walks in, and people gather around him, kneeling and kissing his hands and feet.
(to Angel) Mmm. OK, sport. You're on, and please, for me, can you try to be nice to him? Just this one time, huh?
Yes. Fine. Sycophants, worms. Don't writhe all at once. It's sickening.
Archduke Sebassis!
(Sebassis holds out his hand to be kissed, and Angel shakes it instead)
Thanks so much for coming. Yes, well—
Really, really thrilled that you're here.
Artode, welcome. Welcome. Love the jacket, by the way.
It's Pylean.
Oh, made in Pylea. Ha. My home dimension.
ARTDOTE
Not made in, made from. I skinned it myself. Anybody you know?
(Laughs nervously)
Well, great. Thanks for dropping by. Ha ha.
And you look just— well, I don't have to tell you how awesome you look. You know how awesome you look. He knows how awesome he looks, right?
Angel, hey. We don't wanna be greedy with his eminence. Thank you, your lordship.
Absolutely. Really. Thrilled to have you here.
(pulls Angel away from Sebassis)
Okey-dokey! OK, that'll do it. Thank you. Come on.
(Slurring)
Yeah, for 8 years straight, I went out dressed as Raggedy Ann.
(Chuckles drunkenly)
(stumbles into someone)
Ooh, sorry.
(to Fred) Sounds like fun, I suppose. We never really celebrated Halloween in England.
Oh. That's so sad.
(sees the buffet)
Look, potstickers!
Watch your step, guys. Somebody peed all over there.
Well, that's just— huh. Just wrong.
Revolting.
Castiglio! Hey, how's the family? There you are, Umbrigon. How are ya? Nice to see ya. Nice to see ya.
(Wearily, to the bartender)
Sea breeze, Tony.
(talking to another man)
So, really, look, come on in next week, 'cause I'm sure we can untangle that for you, OK?
(notices Lorne)
Lorne! Looks like this thing's gonna work out.
Yeah. Fingers crossed.
Man, I wish I had a tenth of your energy. How do you do it?
I'll let you in on a little secret. I had my sleep removed. Little procedure they have here at the company. Yeah, well, you know, I haven't slept a wink in, oh, about a month.
You had Wolfram & Hart remove your sleep?
(Lorne nods)
Lorne... that's great!
In and out. 20 minutes, no scarring. I'll tell ya, you ought to think about it. It would go nicely with that legal upgrade of yours.
(takes his drink from the bartender)
Yeah. Yeah, I'll definitely look into that.
All right. See ya later.
(to his guard, Artode) The vampire is setting his trap. Our anti-detection spells worked nicely, Artode. They won't expect us to be armed.
And if he tries something?
Kill them all.
Will you excuse me, lordship?
(on a leash, touches the decorative plants, then smells his hands, breathing quickly)
Pee-pee!
(to Angel) I have to say, I'm impressed. I saw you with Sebassis. I honestly didn't know you had it in you.
Yeah, well, it was an act. I think.
I picked up on that from 100 yards away. Yep. You were bangin' it out to the cheap seats.
Funny. I was gonna say the same thing about that dress.
(walks up to Angel and Eve)
Oh, you two. Really. The sexual tension? Oh, with a knife you could cut it, huh? Get a room.
Angel and Eve are making out inside Angel's office, kissing passionately.
This seems a little sudden.
Uh-huh.
Mmm. (Muffled) I mean, do you even have a last name?
16 INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT
Artode is in a bathroom stall when the door rattles.
(the door shakes again)
Occupado.
(the door is ripped off, and Artode is pulled forward as his blood splatters the wall)
Gaack!
ACT III:
Back at the party, things have livened up significantly. Everyone's dancing and having a good time, including Lorne. Wesley and Fred are even dancing together.
(starting a dance line)
Congo! Whoo!
(to another demon) Find Artode.
The demon walks away briskly to find Artode, and bumps into Fred along the way.
Hey, you want a piece of me, buddy? That's right. Keep walking. You walk alone! You walk alone!
(puts his arms around Fred's waist and pulls her away)
Careful. That thing's loaded.
So am I. I mean, wow. Wes. Wesley,
(puts her arms around Wesley's neck)
I am totally drunk-faced.
Because you can't hold your— what are you drinking?
You can't hold that.
Oh, yeah? Lightweight? How much have you had?
(holds up a beer bottle)
Including this, I've had... about 1/3 of a half of this beer.
That's weird, right?
Yes, I think so. I think that's weird.
There's Gunn. Let's go ask him if that's weird.
Fred and Wesley walk up to Gunn, who's facing away from them.
Hey. Hey, Gunn. Is something weird going on?
(Gunn turns toward Wesley without moving his hands, which are together just below his waist)
Charles, you just peed on my shoes.
(looks down, confused)
I'll be damned.
(zips his zipper)
That's weird.
Hey, is this a great party or what?
OK, something is definitely wrong with this picture.
This might be the greatest song ever written.
(dances, moving his head, singing along)
Yes. We appear to be under the effect of something, a spell.
Spike, how long have you been, you know... this?
It's great, isn't it? I don't know. Happened a bit after I talked with Angel and Lorne. Yeah. Lorne told me to think positively.
(snaps and points)
Lorne.
Whoo! Whoo-hoo-hoo! Hey, kittens. Oh, that dance floor is smoking!
(everyone stares at him)
Wesley, Fred, Gunn and Spike take Lorne into Angel's office.
Come on, guys. I'm telling you I did not do anything.
Angel? You in here? Ang—
(pops his head up from the floor behind the couch where he's naked with Eve)
Ohh! What?
Hey! Angel's getting some! Good on you, mate.
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with— What are you doing with that—
Hey. Watch it, pal.
He must be under the effect of Lorne— and Eve, too, presum— presumally.
(Snorts, points)
Prezoomally.
Lorne's doing it—something to all of us.
Everything he's told us to do, we're doing. Spike's thinking positive, Gunn is peeing all over the office.
And we're a little bit drunk.
Yes. But not because we drank, because Lorne told us to be drunk.
Lorne told you to pee all over the office?
Lord, I hope so.
This is crazy. I am not doing this. I would know if I was doing this. I don't even know what this is.
You know, I really love your desk.
I don't get it. I thought Lorne was just an empath demon.
Territory! Wait. This morning, Lorne told me to stake out my territory.
Right. Territorial marking, taken a little too literally.
(to Angel and Eve who are making out naked in full view of the gang)
Hey, guys, keep it in your pants.
Ohh. Hey, I did not tell Gunn to go water the ferns. I did not do anything.
You had your sleep removed.
Yeah. He hasn't slept in a month.
Oh, dear. An empath demon deprived of sleep for that long—
What does that have to do with it?
Something, apparently.
Lorne, why would you let them do that to you?
(Eve pulls him back to her)
I had to do something, didn't I? I mean, you don't know what I've had to deal with. I'm the center of gravity in a town that's full of borderline disorder celebrities and powerbrokers. All the hand-holding and the ego-stroking and the 4 A.M. Jacuzzi strategy sessions—
(Wesley catches Gunn peeing in the corner)
I just couldn't keep up with it, even without sleeping.
Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell us? I would have—
What? Fired me?
I would've helped you, which is what I'm gonna do now, OK?
(stands)
Ahh.
(realizes he's naked, uses a couch cushion to cover his privates)
Well, I—OK.
Wes, Fred, go find Lorne's sleep and figure out a way to put it back in his head.
(salutes)
Done and doner.
Wesley picks Fred up by the waist as he walks out the door with her.
Lorne, you just stay tight and try not to, you know, talk.
Angel, we still got a party going on. Someone has to make sure there's ice in the drinks.
Oh, right.
Ooh, ooh! Me! Me! I'm your people person.
Gunn, go on the floor, see if anyone else is under the Lorne effect.
And stop with the—
(holding his head down)
Do my best.
And, Eve, you stay here with me, and we'll have more sex.
I'm on it.
Brilliant plan. Excellent.
The bathroom stall where the demon was killed is covered in blue slime. Sebassis and his entourage are staring at the remains of their companion.
Icky.
20 INT. PSYCHE COMPONENT STORAGE FACILITY - NIGHT
Fred and Wesley walk in the room labeled "Psyche Component Storage Facility—Restricted Area".
Lorne's sleep should be in here... somewhere.
(walks toward the opposite wall)
(looks in refrigerator-like cabinets along the walls)
Lorne's sleep. Looking for Lorne's sleep.
(Wes starts looking in the cabinets as well)
You know, I think we have pretty interesting lives.
I'd say that's true, given the average—
And I'm having such a good time right now. We should do stuff like this more often.
(walks up to Wesley, puts her hands on his shoulder, leans in, smiling)
You know, just hang out like we used to. Friend stuff.
Absolutely. Frankly, I always— I always thought we'd be better friends than we are.
Oh, we should be. Let's be better friends than we are right now.
(hugs Wes with enthusiasm, smiling and giggling)
You know, share stuff, talk to each other, tell each other what we're thinking.
Yes, that would be—I would—
It would be nice. We could be confidantes. Confiding confidentially.
(Whispers in Fred's ear)
I've been wanting to do that for some time now.
(Giggling, whispers in Wesley's ear)
What do you think of Knox?
(Wes pulls back to look at her)
Sebassis and gang burst through Angel's office door carring their weapons which resemble crossbows. Angel's still on the floor behind the couch with Eve. Spike and Lorne are still hanging out at Angel's desk.
What a fantastic entrance!
Sebassis?
The nerve, the raw nerve to lay a hand on one of mine!
What is this? Lower your weapons.
These darts are poisoned, vampire. Powerful enough to put you in a coma for a week. Enough to kill any one of them before their next heartbeat. You murdered Artode. I imagine we were to be next.
I didn't murder anyone.
Dress yourself, Angel. You have a public execution to attend.
(putting on his clothes)
Big mistake.
A woman screams from the lobby.
The crowd clears from the dance floor as the woman's screams turn into horrified moans. Sebassis and gang lead Angel, Lorne, and Spike out into the lobby to investigate, where they find Devlin the "Human Bean" demon lying on the buffet table, either unconscious or dead.
Oh, boy.
Yeah. Somebody really dipped his chip.
Sebassis points his poisoned arrow at Lorne, then Angel
OK, Sebassis, I don't know what's going on here, but we are not behind it.
Enough lies, vampire.
OK, everybody, OK. Yes, the party's taking an unfortunate turn momentarily. So let's not...
(Sebassis cocks the weapon)
fight.
Wesley is researching through a book in the center of the room while Fred searches through the cabinets.
Sleep disorders, Edelmyer complex, Eldritch causes, Empaths.
Hey, they don't just do sleep here. Madeline Chu in accounting, she had her ennui removed. Hey, here it is. Lorne's sleep. Now I just have to find the delivery device.
This isn't good. "The effects of long-term sleeplessness on the subconscious mind of an empath can be catastrophic."
Catastrophic sounds not good.
Under normal conditions, Lorne has the ability to read people's destinies. But now I think he's writing them.
So, what, instead of receiving, he's transmitting?
And that's just phase one. "If you sever the empath from his subconscious for too long, that subconscious can"— it can manifest.
What do you mean, manifest?
Sebassis is pointing his weapons at Angel.
Wait! Please, wait. I'm doing this. It's me. I mean, it's not me. But I haven't been myself lately. Somehow, I'm making people do things and I'm controlling them.
(Sebassis points the weapon at Lorne)
Well, then, Pylean, you're making me kill you. Is that consistent with your theory?
Just then, a roar can be heard from the staircase that overlooks the lobby. A giant green creature dressed in a blue suit and purple shirt just like Lorne's jumps down from the balcony, landing right in front of Sebassis. The creature looks like a thick-necked, muscle-man version of Lorne. It growls menacingly at them.
Oh, my God!
ACT IV:
Resume. The hulking version of Lorne has presented itself threateningly to Sebassis in the middle of the party.
(smiling in admiration)
That's one bitchin' big suit.
Hulking Lorne smacks one of Sebassis's demons, knocking him down. Sebassis fires a poisoned dart into the massive creature, but to no effect. Sebassis's slave unhooks his leash from Sebassis's belt and sneaks away while the fight goes on.
Lorne, what the hell is this?
Stop it! Stop killing! Listen to me. Me!
(hulking Lorne smacks Lorne, knocking him down)
Wow, I must really hate myself.
26 INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT
Fred and Wesley are standing in front of the elevator.
Come on, come on, come on.
Did you press—
(presses the call button)
Yeah. Come on, come on, come on.
Hulking Lorne walks toward Sebassis, growling and glaring. Angel backs up, protecting Sebassis.
Sebassis, run.
Sebassis scurries off behind a pole so he can watch the goings on. Hulking Lorne smacks Angel, sending him across the room. Gunn tries to hit hulking Lorne over the head with a statue, but to no avail—hulking Lorne shoves Gunn across the room, where he lands next to Lorne.
Ohh! Oh, sorry about that.
Sebassis tries to crawl away up the stairs, but hulking Lorne goes after him. Angel picks himself up and attacks hulking Lorne, punching him repeatedly, but not really hurting him. The lobby elevator doors open, and Wesley and Fred are inside but facing the wrong way. They turn around and walk into the lobby. Fred is carrying a gun-shaped device.
(pointing to hulking Lorne)
It's here! It's manifested!
Hulking Lorne is beating Angel. Fred and Wesley walk up behind Lorne who's watching the fight with horror. Fred points the gun up in front of her.
Shoot it, Fred. Now!
Fred turns and points the gun at Lorne's head as he watches the fight.
(Fred pulls the trigger and he collapses to the ground)
Oh. Ohh! Ohh.
Oh, my God! They shot Lorney-tunes.
No. I'm OK. Just gonna rest my eyes a little bit.
Hulking Lorne stands over Angel, rears back, ready to pummel him, when he disappears in a puff of blue smoke. Lorne is snoring.
28 INT. LOBBY - DAY
Van, Lorne's assistant, is sleeping in the middle of the dance floor while someone sweeps around him.
Got to hand it to them. I think this is better than last year.
(steps off the elevator, sees Fred collecting glasses)
Uh... We have people who do that.
I fixed our baby.
The stun grenade. I figured it out. What I can't figure out is why I said I'd do it tonight.
Yeah. A lot of us are having that kind of problem. I kind of wished you were here.
Well, the night is still young. Well—I mean, no. It's over, actually. But... did you want to get a cup of coffee?
Actually, I could use a drink.
29 INT. ANGEL'S OFFICE - DAY
Wesley and Angel tuck Lorne in under a blanket on Angel's couch. Spike is sitting on Angel's desk next to Eve, who's talking on the cell phone.
That thing—I think it was a manifestation of Lorne's subconscious. It peeled away from his mind, using Lorne's supernatural powers to punch its way into our world.
"Punch" is the right word. Why was it trying to kill everyone?
I don't think it was. It may have just been processing the conflicts that Lorne normally deals with in his sleep, acting out on the emotional responses he has to the people around him.
(notices Eve hang up the phone and head to the door, he stands)
I guess Lorne makes some judgments after all.
(calls after Eve)
Eve. So I guess we should, I don't know, talk?
About what?
About what happened back there with us.
Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
How you doing?
Wesley looks out into the lobby and sees Fred having a drink with Knox. He walks out past them, toward his office.
(walks in)
Hey, I spoke with Sebassis' people. Explained what I could.
So what do we got? Lawsuit? Demon war?
No. It seems like they enjoy a little blood sport at their social functions. Looks like we're OK.
We're not OK. We've been so focused on the dangers outside that we didn't see the ones within. This place is trying to change us, Gunn. We can't ever forget that.
Pretty damn good party, though. I'll see you tomorrow— well, today, but later. Oh, and your chair.
Don't sit in it. I already called janitorial.
Why can't I—
You pissed in the big man's chair? That's fantastic!
Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy?
What, the Lorne thing? Wore off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
All right, guys, good night. Let Lorne get some sleep, all right?
(to Spike)
All right. Just this once.
Mmm. I'm sorry.
Hey, it's OK, Lorne. Just try and get some rest. Get some sleep.
It's—it's hard. It's hard being the host of the party. Yeah.
Stop trying to be.
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But something is happening and you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?
This would be great even if he hadn’t just won a Nobel.
Bob Dylan – The Ballad of a Thin Man from Vasco Cavalcante on Vimeo.
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Feathered Frog says
Heh. Back in the day, the rumor was that “Mr. Jones” referred to a caretaker/b&g guy/watchman on the Bard College campus. See also “Desolation Row”
Petal to the Medal says
Two thumbs up! One of my favorites!
Not knowing the protocols of the Nobel Prize committee, shouldn’t the award be given to Robert Zimmerman or has he taken Dylan as his legal name? Also, I assume this award was for a lifetime achievement instead of some recent work. I don’t think Dylan has done much note-worthy for quite a while.
petesh says
Dylan has done plenty lately. Many of us feel that Love and Theft (2001) and Modern Times (2006) rank with his very best work. Tempest (2012) is more controversial but, in my opinion, even better, and was been the backbone of his continued intensive touring for three years. But, yes, it’s a lifetime award, and the announcement specifically mentioned Blonde on Blonde, which made me happy since it’s been my all-time fave since 1966.
And his reaction to the award? He played another gig last night. Pretty much the same set he played last weekend at the “Desert Trip” with two notable exceptions: He played guitar (first time in four years; he usually plays keyboards nowadays) on Simple Twist of Fate; and he changed the encore to Why Try to Change Me Now?
Reports from the audience say he seemed happy.
PS Dylan changed his name legally in 1962.
taraskan says
This is weird and a little embarassing, but I didn’t even know he was still alive. I’ve only ever heard his songs discussed in the context of the 1960s-70s, which I wasn’t around for.
ChasCPeterson says
Thank you petesh @#4.
It’s also worth noting that Dylan’s been touring more or less consistently since like 1988. No bullshit Farewell, Reunion, or Farewell-Really-This Time tours for him. If you want to hear the music he feels like playing these days, you can. I saw him last in maybe 2011 at Jones Beach and he sounded great. No nostalgia at all, the old tunes completely re-worked (again).
But of course, it’s a literature prize so it’s for his writing, not performing. I’ve read* that in his early/mid-60s heyday he wanted to be a writer instead; he envied successful writers and spent a lot of time banging away on a portable typeriter (some has been published). So I bet he is happy.
I’ve had the CD changer on a steady diet for a day and a half and in addition to all the classics and the recent gems mentioned by petesh, I have to admit enjoying Infidels and Real Live a lot.
*Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu
btw, while Bob played Vegas, Sir Paul McCartney played to a few hundred people in a well-known roadhouse here in the Mojave Desert.
Good for Paul! And Dylan’s current band is superb. I’ve got a recording of last weekend’s gig and my actual complaint is that the vocal is mixed too high. And I LIKE his voice.
John Morales says
It’s official: song lyrics are literature.
(Advertising jingles are literature!)
What a Maroon, living up to the 'nym says
Obama won the prize for peace before he ever created peace, so I think it’s perfectly reasonable for Dylan to win the prize for literature before he creates literature.
And I’m looking forward to winning the Nobel for math next year.
Rob Grigjanis says
John @10:
They certainly can be. Loreena McKennit has done an excellent job of putting Shakespeare and Tennyson to music, but neither of those blokes could win, being dead and all.
There are living folk who, IMHO, have written lyrics that are bloody good poetry/literature. I’d put, at the very least, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Sondheim, Ian Anderson, and Tom Waits miles ahead of Dylan.
And of course, all of this is ignoring people who actually write literature in the usual sense (novels, short stories, poetry). Like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who I’d never heard of until I looked up other contenders. I guess Dylan needs the exposure.
Rob Grigjanis, indeed. Why get hung up on categories?
(I wonder if a neurochemist will some day get the Prize for physics; after all, neurochemistry certainly can be physics!)
Of course, some song lyrics are more literaturey than others.
By the same token, stuff like ‘Gates of Eden’ or ‘It’s Alright Ma’ or ‘Desolation Row’ are less songy than other ‘songs’.
I heard the Nobel committee had compared Dylan to Homer and Sappho, to which I of course replied wtf?, but they meant only that all of their work was created to hear orally, not to be read. And I guess them Greeks count as Literature.
I heard David Crosby say that our greatest living songwriter was “Joni Mitchell; well, it’s her or Old Weird Bob.”
chigau (違う) says
Chas @14: I like a lot of Dylan’s songs, but as poetry they’re trite and sophomoric. Aeschylus and Joni kick his arse. It’s all about Baby Boomer wankery, not quality of writing.
Rob Grigjanis @16, you’re now disputing the relative merits of his election.
That something may be trite or sophomoric is no indication of its cultural merit.
(Perhaps the times, they are a-changin’)
It’s all about Baby Boomer wankery, not quality of writing
<snicker>
Because literature is all about the quality of the writing, not about its significance — and any writing that’s Baby Boomer wanker could not be quality writing?
In passing, I’m not Mr Jones, but I too have no idea what the point of the featured song is.
(Such a philistine, I, who doesn’t appreciate the evident culture of such a work)
you’re now disputing the relative merits of his election.
I already did that in #12. Keep up, man!
I’m a huge fan of the group Yes (1971-1974 anyway), and would highly rate their cultural merit, but I don’t think there’s a Nobel Prize for that.
Because literature is all about the quality of the writing, not about its significance
Well, Justin Bieber’s oeuvre is certainly significant on more than one level. The point being?
The point being?
The point being that the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to whoever produced “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”, not about the quality of the writing.
(But yes, de gustibus and all that; clearly, what you prefer is not what the Academy prefers)
I want to win the Nobel prize in bowling, now.
He has undoubtedly been a significant cultural presence from early in his career so I guess the award is appropriate but I have kind of lost track of what he has been up to for a few years now and not having studied what the committee has awarded in the past I will not form an opinion on his award though I do wonder what he will do with the money.
his surreal lyrics are often been completely opaque to me any meaning I got from them was from projection on my part.
Of the older songs that I still elicit an emotional response from me is “Chimes of Freedom”
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paulatreides0
valergain said:
While all you say this true this was more true of 40k a little while ago it's become less and less of that setting as GW finds new and inventive ways to ruin the good thing that they have, it's become less and less interesting.
...don't know what world you live in, but if anything, 40K has become LESS ridiculous and over the top and much more mature recently, largely due to contributions of people like Aaron Dembski Bowden, McNeil, and Abnett (may the Emperor Bless Them Thrice).
Over the past few years Space Marines have become more than emotion-less supermen, the primarchs were given actual substance, and there is actual lots of historical context to make the crazy stuff we see in universe make a lot more sense.
Unless you are talking about the arch-idiot of 40K, Matt Ward (May the Emperor, peace be upon His name, destroy him a thousand times over), then 40K lore has improved rather consistently to being more grown up.
Everything is so grim and there is no hope of things getting better there is no point in get invested in the "good guys" struggle as you know they'll lose (for reference the "good guys" in 40k are the Immperium of Man, Craftworld Eldar, and the Tau). Plus as I said GW is running the setting into the ground.
The point is NOT to get invested in the good guys. It's to get invested in whoever you want. You can just easily get invested in Chaos as you can in the Imperium of man. Especially since the HH has started publishing. That's a good thing.
Also, it's hard to call the Imperium or the Eldar, people perfectly happy and, in fact, planning on, complete genocide, as the good guys. The Tau are slightly better, but not by all that much.
All that said 40k fans might want to tame their enthusiasm a bit the vibe I'm getting from the game is clearly more Star Trek/Mass Effect type of thing then its 40k. Honestly I'm surprised that 40k has had the presence it has on this sub forum. Then again 40k is a wargameing franchise so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
It's also probably the biggest modern scifi franchise outside of Star Wars and Star Trek, so its' hardly surprising one of the most popular extent scifi universe around has lots of people talking about a sci-fi game.
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paulatreides0 said:
It's less about the novels the official lore. I don't know maybe it's just End of Times of AoS clouding the way I see the lore changes, but I find that retconning the two unknown legions from unknown to destroyed and having the fall of the Eldar happen right as the great crusade starts(As opposed as causing the Age of Strife) don't sit right with me. I don't know as the years pass 40k looks more and more shallow as a setting. It may just be me "growing up" and my tastes changing.
The space marines are literally among the most boring parts of the lore to me. Aside from the Primarchs which are interesting.
Yes and that's fine and all, I'm just saying my preferences would be to inject a bit more hope to universe, I think it would do it some good.
I put good guys in quotations for a reason. The only reason I call them that is they are the ones that are fighting to defend their way of life, as opposed out of malevolent intent. In any other setting they would the villains.
Yes but then you would expect it to be third behind Star Wars, and Trek but 40k memes dominate. So my point still stands.
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They ruined Fantasy, and I'm not putting it past them to go and turn their energy to ruin 40k. They see themselves as selling models not a game so I'm not putting it past them to bludgeon the lore to sell models.
Fantasy is VERY different . Solely because it was ALWAYS shadowed by W40K in sales and etc. And that is precisely the reason of all that Age of Sigmar thing.
They wont touch W40K. They are clever with it. Opening other series and etc on other time frames such as the Beast Arises series, and the Horus Heresy going on to 30+ novels.
It's less about the novels the official lore.
The novels ARE part of the official lore. They have as much canonicity as the codexes.
I don't know maybe it's just End of Times of AoS clouding the way I see the lore changes, but I find that retconning the two unknown legions from unknown to destroyed
It's always been known that the two unknown legions were purged, just never how. The only thing that's really been added recently is that the Wolves did it and that the Ultramarines probably absorbed all the ones who survived.
and having the fall of the Eldar happen right as the great crusade starts(As opposed as causing the Age of Strife)
No, the Fall of the Eldar happened long before the Age of Strife even. This is, again, absolutely nothing new. The Eldar had already been weakened for centuries, if not longer, by the time the Great Crusade began. The new lore changed absolutely nothing in this regard.
I don't know as the years pass 40k looks more and more shallow as a setting. It may just be me "growing up" and my tastes changing.
This is ironic given that 40K is substantially deeper than it's ever been. The primarchs have actual motivation. The SMs aren't just mindless, brainwashed soldier-monks. The Inquisition's fuckery is a lot more understandable. Lorgar and the Word Bearers aren't 2 Dimensional anymore. The Mechanicum is no longer just a bunch of religious zealots who worship technology just because. The Necrons aren't mindless puppets that kill everything. The threat of the 'nids is significantly fleshed out. The threat of the Necrons and their multi-galactic empire is far more fleshed out. Important events like the HH and the War in Heaven that defined a lot of the events that led to why 40K turned out the way it did have been significantly fleshed out. And so on, and so on.
...that's kind of supposed to be the point. The Space Marines *are* supposed to be extremely plain because they are extremely spartan and hold up asceticism, and have been ever since the HH - mainly because they don't want to fall into the trappings of pride and self indulgence that led to the HH in the first place (not to mention Slaanesh lies in that direction anyway).
...the 40K is the brightest and most hope-filled it's ever been. You have more cooperation between races, you have things like some of the sleeping/lost primarchs potentially starting to come back, you have
Chaos too is fighting for reasons outside of malevolent intent. Hell, even Abaddon isn't fighting out of malevolent intent. Nor are the tyrannids. Or even the Necrons. Hell, even the Orkz who know nothing but war don't fight out of malevolent intent. The 'nids and Orkz fight because they have no other choice - it's their nature. Chaos fights for a multitude of reasons (mainly nature (most of Chaos) or to overthrow what they see to be a corrupt and evil empire and emperor (the CSMs, but most especially Abaddon's faction), and the Necrons largely want to take back the worlds that used to be theirs and reforge their old Empire.
Would like to hear your reasoning on this and continue this discussion in PM's. We derailed this thread enough already.
So the rest of the you what exactly do you think the purge policy is?
ponasozis
dude what the heck are you talking about ?
the aos and end of times have nothing to do with wh40k
in fact wh40k is now getting much better mostly because the dreadful heretic that matt ward was is finally out from the company but not before he ruined necrons trough ;/ rest in pieces space terminators
go to hell space egyptians
Seriously folks if you don t know almost anything about wh40k don t talk nonsense about it or in fact about any other thing you don t know anything about
i thought first researching and then talking about stuff was supposed to be common sense
Kuschelflummi
God Empress of Catkind
I like the new approach to the Necrons, even if they are resembling the Tomb Kings now. But the old Necrons were just... boring. Not really any useful lore or, god beware, some Goal.
Of course, WH40k is not perfect, but the lore makes it very interesting. Some changes never come good other got easier to the players.
Let's see how a WH40K mod will be played out. I just don't really like the idea of a fixed galaxy. Every time the same sounds boring.
One Game to rule them all, One Game to find them,
One Game to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Paradox where the playtapi lie.
petertel123
Will pops be diverse in their preferences? In vicky 2 everyone wanted a social welfare democracy and totalitarian states werent really viable at all
Finally. A grand-strategy game, where I can set a policy on anal probes.
Former Minister of Demographics and Migration of the Victoria 2 Realism and Rebalance Project
Here a picture of the hard bombing campaign against the Seven Colonies. That's how it's done.
TheGrinningMan
What I really want is to stick poor blighters from pre-spaceflight civs in brain cylinders and drag them around the galaxy to experience awe and wonder. Specifically, the sort of awe and wonder that leaves them insane, gibbering wrecks when I stick their think-meats back in their native bodies and drop them ignominiously back on their home planets.
EDIT: Joking aside, brain cylinders are optional, but I suspect this might be what "xeno enlightenment", or at least one possible version of it, amount to in part or full.
"A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend." -Arab proverb
Ethos: Xenophile / Fanatic Egalitarian
aitaituo
哀駘它
TheGrinningMan said:
I figured xeno enlightenment means uplift.
Although it hurts, we must grow up and put aside our outdated notions of morality. There is no 'divine spark' granting special value to a living mind. No object has any intrinsic value apart from what we choose to grant it. Let us embrace the freedom of certitude, and achieve maximum efficiency in all things.
Psychopaths are the boogeymen of our time. Be better than the figments of our imagination; believe that your fellow humans are human.
CptWilly
I hope that there is some mechanism through which democratic government types could have certain policies set by their people via election rather than all governments essentially setting policies in the same way as an autocratic regime. I dare say that in a pure direct democracy, I should have no direct power to implement policies without the voters at least ratifying the action via referendum. This should also make rebels somewhat less likely to spawn and attempt to force policy reforms, as they'd be more likely instead to take their grievance to the ballot box next election.
aitaituo said:
On reflection, that does seem likely, though I'm sure there will be a few variations of that policy where "enlightenment" is a nasty euphemism for "brainwash" or "mold into a servitor race".
Cultist of the Unbidden
Thats one way to look at it i guess.
If anyones wondering where the term really comes from; when the visigoths conquered spain, the natives noticed the clearly visible veins on their arms, in which the blood appeared blue. (This is true for most people with a pale complexion. Much harder to see in southern, tanned or african skin tones). It thus became associated with rulership and eventually turned into a beauty ideal for all of europes nobility during absolutist times, because pale skin also distinguished oneself from the peasants, who usually had rough skin and a tan from outdoor work.
Do you have a moment to talk about our extradimensional saviours?
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ARMA 3 - BETA DISCUSSION
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ARMA 3 - MAIN
Up to my Old Tricks again: God like powers of Vision
By big_t, March 7, 2013 in ARMA 3 - BETA DISCUSSION
johnnygitarr 4
i think a solution for the third person view "cheating" problem could be:
the field of view in first person is like the normal human view,
so BIS should make it possible that when you are in the third person view
you only can see enemies which are in the field of view of first person.
enemies around a corner or behind a wall ... whatever
are invisible in third person. if you walk around the corner your
field of view "first person" changes and the enemies get visible.
but i think its not so easy to create the code for that solution
cheers buddys
dmakatra 1
Master Sergeant
Joined: January 6, 2005
Why the hell are people spending so much time arguing against something that is an OPTIONAL FEATURE? Why do you want to constrain something that, OBVIOUSLY has an appeal for a lot of people when you can just choose to TURN IT OFF?
Get a grip, people.
johncage 29
Joined: June 8, 2009
The fact you joined in March of this year makes your argument invalid. Also, there's this thing called server options. It's where the host can turn off multiple things, such as third person.
sorry, you joined too late as well. opinion discarded.
dsi24 12
Third person is so sad, if they just replaced numpad'enter' with a high FoV zoom (because apparently people refuse to acknowledge numpad-) it'd be exactly the same, minus the wallhacking features.
ProfTournesol 952
People don't care, people can choose to use 3rd person view or not.
Default it to off then so those who are ignorant of options don't use it. It ruins PvP gameplay.
lugiahua 26
Gunnery Sergeant
Why not just have a zoom out option that widens the field of view but still from the same perspective? That way you can be more aware of your immediate surroundings but not have the advantage of being able to see around corners and such.
Zoom out was there since original Arma...press - on numpad.
You really think that people go through all the crap of setting up a server properly and forget to adjust the difficulty settings the way they want them to?
This has nothing to do with what's default and not. It has to do that some people prefer to have 3rd person available on the servers that they host, on their spare time, with their spare money. If you deny them that right, then maybe you should start paying their server fees as well?
I really, really don't see the issue anyway. Most hardcore servers have 3rd person disabled. Hell, most co-op groups I've been in during the past 12 years have had it disabled. I like 3rd person, but you're not seeing me whine about being restricted to 1st person on some servers - because it's not my server. What's the bloody problem?
JDevereaux 1
Joined: March 8, 2013
Might I ask why omnipotent vision that is self-defeating of tactical movement and cautious situational awareness is so essential to Arma 3?
You might ask, all that needs to be said is you're urinating into the wind trying to get it removed.
Play matches with 3rd person view disabled. No games? Set up your own server.
Neus 11
I don't like the fact that you can use it to look over or around objects without placing your body into danger, that annoys me. But I do like looking at my character run when traveling long distances...
Bracketman 10
Yes, 3rd person kills every 1st person game. 95% of the people cannot stand that they might get shot/killed because they don't know where someone is, so they have to use god mode to see.
I think with the new ability to stand in different poses/heights, 3rd person should be cut out from the majority of servers.
Dusty926 1
Oh for the last god damn time, third person does NOT make you IMMORTAL! You are still very vulnerable to gunfire and other shit! Also, aiming with 3rd person without looking down your sights is a huge bitch. That should be enough for you. But no, since you don't like it everyone must not be able to use it because it makes you go wah-wah!
tortuosit 476
hint str position player;
It's a game after all, 3rdP is an option. I like it in SP sometimes, also using too much 1st person makes me sick sometimes. As for MP, I play on dedicated mp servers only. But options aren't bad. "Remove n00bish stupid people options" postings are usually just about dick size.
Please don't polarize the server list by making it a server option. Deep down you know there is no place for it in a realistic game, remove altogether.
For the sake of reality, do you apply headshots to yourself after gaming? Not? Cheater.
This. It's all about "who is the elite" and people love to express that they are the elite. You see that arrogance in every genre and subgenre. I play Dwarf Fortress, I play ArmA (the rpg elite thinks FPS are evil) in COOP but I have not a problem playing slaughtering DayZ PVP mode. Options, people. It depends how I feel. If I play ArmA coop people tend to think something like "reasonable adult"... if I slaughter in DayZ they think I must be a braindead 12 year old child. This is all bullshit.
Edited March 10, 2013 by tortuosit
This, 3rd person is acceptable in co-op gameplay because the bots can't really fight back with it. People cheered when it was announced that 3rd person was being removed from Planetside for Planetside 2, it's just bad for PvP gameplay.
Frankdatank1218 38
Because there are few servers like that. And I just feel being able to play a very realistic tactical combat game where NOT being able to magically see around is the only way of playing seem to make a lot more sense. There is no positive reason for it.
---------- Post added at 11:28 ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 ----------
Oh enough of this forum seniority crap, I've played since OFP's release and this has always bothered me. Don't flatter yourself because you had a forum account longer.
concurssi 11
Because there are few servers like that.
Tough. That still doesn't excuse removing a feature that people want to have in the game.
Go play a less realistic game then. I want to make it where my enemies can only spot me with realistic levels of caution and situational awareness, not cheat vision. This makes way more sense within the theme of the Arma series. The inclusion of infantry third person is an oversight, a mistake. I have played since OFP so I know what the hell I'm talking about. And to the idiotic arguments that they are at a disadvantage in 3rd because of lowered shooting abilities, most people just switch back to 1st when they are going to shoot anyway. So they have the benefits of both. This is just not in line with what ARMA is at its core and since this is on by default I have to get spotted and killed because of something unrealistic and unfair. If you are to afraid of change or aren't good enough to play properly, then too effin' bad the game will benefit from removing this. AT LEAST for infantry.
A lot of former/current CoD and BF players that dabble in ARMA want to make pace-increasing, simplifying, and/or unrealistic changes to the game. I guess we should listen to them too.
Go play a less realistic game then.
Who are you to tell us HOW we should play that game ? Who are you to urge the removal of something that can be removed through an OPTION ? This isn't a matter of seniority or of how long time you've been playing whatever game, it's just that this game is a sandbox game, that fits everyone needs.
dmarkwick 259
Hah - this argument is an old one, and will never go away :) I believe the option should always remain, it's a valid one IMO despite the arguments against, which I understand.
My "fix" would be a simple one - for servers, make the 3rd person off by default. That way, when you see a server that has it enabled, you can be sure its very deliberate.
^^Servers shouldn't be set by default to extreme difficulty, BI has no reason to dictate, which server difficulty their customers chose to host. It's all good, people like different things, some are new to the game, some are skilled and exprienced, no need to enforce anything, no need to judge.
I've been playing OFP too, so I know what you're talking about and what you're talking about has always been a part of the game and the game has always allowed you to dictate the difficulty levels as a server admin. So how about we both play this realistc game, but I don't get to dictate your personal difficulty preferences and you don't get to remove the parts of the game I enjoy, when I'm playing casually.
I don't only play ArmA because it's hardcore extreme, I used to be very active in a community that did, but I also enjoy having fun in third person.
The misconception is that ArmA is a first person shooter, super hardcore extreme milsim realism, well it isn't. You can play it in first person view if you chose to, you can also play it as a third person shooter, you can playing as a tactical shooter, as a real shooter, as a RPG, zombie survival and as a large scale battlefield real-time strategy game. BI and ArmA do limit some of you options, because they want to move towards simulated realism, but they've defended third person as a legit feature, no matter how much some try to portrayal it as a god-mode wall hack.
The game is not broken, the feature is not broken, but you have to accept that third person is very popular on public servers and accept that if you filter server by populations, you'll find popular servers on top.
If third person is unacceptable to you, do not join or stay on third person server and finally since first person view is getting more polish in ArmA 3, maybe you're in for better times with more players trying out and liking first person. However the solution isn't to remove third person, third person isn't the main reason, why so many people are buying ArmA 3 alpha, but it is part of the package and always has been.
Edited March 10, 2013 by Dallas
Well, of course, by even having default settings that's exactly what they're doing - essentially "dictating" (a phrase I disagree with) easy settings. I just suggest that the two hardest levels have default settings of 3rd person off. That would be the purpose of even having Difficulty Settings in the first place yes?
Edited March 10, 2013 by DMarkwick
Now that I agree with. I think veteran should probably look a bit more like this
class veteran
class Flags
Armor=0;
FriendlyTag=0;
EnemyTag=0;
MineTag=0;
HUD=1;
HUDPerm=0;
HUDWp=1;
HUDWpPerm=0;
HUDGroupInfo=1;
AutoSpot=0;
Map=0;
WeaponCursor=1;
AutoGuideAT=0;
ClockIndicator=0;
3rdPersonView=0;
UltraAI=0;
CameraShake=1;
UnlimitedSaves=1;
DeathMessages=1;
NetStats=1;
VonID=1;
ExtendetInfoType=1;
skillFriendly=0.85000002;
skillEnemy=0.85000002;
precisionFriendly=0.72999996;
precisionEnemy=0.72999996;
I'm not really sure about UltraAI or the skill and precision settings though.
calin_banc 19
ArmA is not that realistic as some people think it is. It's enough to go and play some Airsoft games and realize how cumbersome the gameplay is thought and how artificial hard is felt by the player. But leaving this aside, a "cheat" is also the fact that your enemy can have better frame rates and better details than you do, a "cheat" can be the fact that your enemy can play on 3 or 6 monitors at once for a greater field of vision and believe me, those 2 extra peripheral monitors DO make a huge difference, a "cheat" can even be the fact that your enemy has a better ping/latency than you do.
There are a lot of things need it to be done in order to guarantee a "fair fight", some are very hard to apply and some down right impossible.
afp 1
I'm always amused by people asking to remove 3rd person view from the game. It wont happen.
I also use to watch after the corner and then kill these people. It's fun.
Yes. Listen and judge. There are no 2nd class people. Why don't you simply search a clan and play on 1st person servers? Why don't you set up your own?
Aside from this. You think you are elite? I know a lot of people with academic background, who seem to think gamers in general are kind of lazy scum. (They won't say that, the same as you won't say that about COD gamers). I'm having a hard time as a gamer with them. Do you think they should forbid gaming in general? Because gaming in general is not realistic?
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Dragons VS Humans, The Great war
By picknick10, July 23, 2013 in Dragon Cave Role Plays
Master Opportunist
Fayt moved a bit closer as Kathia looked up at him. He was half afraid himself she was going to jump up at him with a gun. Of course, those were disabled now, right? "I'm not going to hurt you..." he paused as three men appeared. Fayt still had the cloth to his nose in case any were bleeding. "Nnngh?" he groaned momentarily, cocking an eyebrow at their initial reaction and tilting his head slightly in a misunderstanding head-shake. So they were afraid of him but the first thing they did was risk pissing him off by coming at him with a knife? He caught the man's wrist with his free hand, holding it firmly. he had the nerve to tell them off for being dense, but calmed himself. "I'm trying to help, thanks. I'm not a dragon... not exactly..." he trailed off, giving him a slight shove back as he released the man.
Albel watched the dragon fly off. He watched the boy move to the door and then decide to stay inside. He wondered if he was injured. Why shouldn't Abel be able to have fun while the other dragons are rampaging? Albel took a running start towards Nick. He reached him quickly, drawing his katana and stabbing it into the wall next to Nick's head, "Hey kid" he greeted with a smirk, staring down at him.
Red Dragonette
Aqua and Terra, the sexy couple!
The man was taken by surprised and murmured, "What?!" He tried to twist his hand free in hopes to get himself away before the creature would attack him, but it was futile under the hybrid's grip. The creature claimed that he wasn't a dragon and that he was just trying to help. "What?! Not a dragon? Then what are you?" the man asked, confused. The creature did stood upright like a human and had the body figure that was unlike that of biped dragons, plus he wore a scarf and goggles. Maybe he was just some guy in a costume? But it looked too real to tell.
((Sorry about the long wait, I was taking a break from the computer. I'll do the Flarina part tomorrow.))
Fayt stared at the man blankly for a moment. He didn't want to say hybrid. That always put people off. He settled for being 'cute'. "I'm a mechanic" he said simply. Fayt looked back to Kathia, "I came out of the shop and saw everything go crazy... I heard her crying and thought she might be hurt..." he continued. Fayt moved in front of Kathia and crouched down in front of her, "So, are you alright?" he asked again. He just hoped she didn't suddenly snap. He hated fighting- even though his brother was so keen on it.
picknick10
It me
Location: Right behind you.
(Take one)
Nick turned his head to the side and took a bite of the sword. He loved the taste of cold steel in his mouth.
((Take Two))
Nick leaned to the side right as Albel stabbed and the sword landed dead center of his skull, killing him instantly
(((Take three)))
Nick's eyes were half closed, but he could hear Albel coming. He kicked himself off the wall and to the side, even though the blade wouldn't have hit him Nick didn't know that. He landed and rolled shoulder to hip ending up on his feet, but he stumbled at the end and had to catch himself on the wall to avoid falling. Turning his head to face his assailant he let out an audible groan. Blade wielding dragons, whats next are they going to start coming at me with guns? "I don't suppose you're here to offer me tea and crumpets are you?" the tired boy rasped, feeling a fresh spike of adrenalin.
Edited September 1, 2013 by picknick10
((Oh Nick goes that way does he? Lol
Take one: Sai supports Nick bot as Nami))
Albel hummed a brief amused sound as Nick rolled out of the way. Just like a little monkey, aren't you... he thought. Albel pulled his sword from the wall easily and turned on Nick. "Quite the opposite, kid. See all the dragons out there are having fun. I figured I'm entitled to some too. I don't care for dragons, they've always hated my kind. But your kind... you were the ones responsible for making this mess in the first place" he held his katana to Nick's throat. His thoughts briefly dwelled on the lab and all of its scientists. He smirked, "Tell me boy, are you bleeding?" he asked, looking for an excuse to go on a blood rampage.
Nick felt goosebumps rise across his flesh as cold metal met the warm skin on his neck. A small flick of the blade and it wouldn't be to pleasant.Now he was starting to get uncomfortable. His muscles tensed and coiled as he readied his magic. "Am I bleeding? No." the boy took a sizable leap back and lifted up his arms to release a flow of energy. Tiles underneath cracked and broke as a slab of earth rose up between Nick and Albel. "But you might be if you don't stay out of my personal bubble." he still had enough energy to fight, but he still had to be careful. If he spent to much energy walking out of the city may even be to great a task.
Nick had jumped away from Albel again. He seemed to have quite a bit of energy despite how tired he acted. A wall raised in between them before Nick through out a comment. Albel narrowed his eyes. His smirk faded. Was that a threat? Albel was one to intimidate others, not the other way around. He growled and breathed magma over his sword before slashing the earth wall in two with the now searing hot blade. He pushed the rest of the rest of the rubble down easily and unsheathed his claws, grabbing at Nick's throat.
Nick leaned forward into the attack, but turned to the right and ducked at the last moment. Claws grazed his cheek, leaving an angry red gash across his face, but the majority of the strike had missed. Slipping right under Albel's outstretched arm Nick placed one hand on the hybrid's elbow to lock the joint and prevent him from swinging his arm back in retaliation, all the while slamming his own elbow towards Albel's side. When the whole manover was done Nick was behind Albel with some distance re-opened between them.
Albel paused as Nick suddenly evaded his attack. He'd at least gotten his cheek. Nick seemed to be trying to block his arm from bending back. He saw Nick's elbow go towards his side and smirked. He let the blow connect to his tough hide, which no doubt would have felt like elbowing stone. He snorted, "Fool, you humans are too weak to harm me on your own. You have to create petty guns to protect yourselves. But they don't work anymore, do they?" he asked, smugness in his voice. Albel turned and swung his arm back with his shoulder joint. His other hand came around to grab Nick and try to pin him to the ground.
Nick was trapped, arms coming from both sides, but he would not let himself be pinned. In a burst of magic his outline blurred, and his entire form became water. Albel's arms passed through him like was.... like he was water. Nick slid away with ease and turned to strike Albel again, his arms freezing into jagged points of ice, but he stopped right as the point was formed. Letting out an agonizing groan the boy arched his back and fell to his knees, the spell ending. He was spent. He had used to much energy. He fall forward onto his chest, bleeding cheek flat against the ground, smearing it as he landed. Through clenched teeth he forced out the words. "You talk about weak, yet you attack me immediately after I get through fighting another. Go ahead finish me, and maybe you can go hunt some crippled fawns after this."
Albel smirked, satisfied as he pinned Nick to the ground, "Yield, worm" he taunted. Nick turned into water and had almost reform to make a blow before collapsing. His ears twitched at Nick's snide comments. He planted his foot on Nick's back, pressing him into the ground. "That's your fault for being a weak whelp. I killed an entire lab of humans, after killing an entire dungeon of dragons and my mother. So tell me, what's your petty excuse for being dead *exhausted* after one little dragon? Pathetic" he removed his foot and sheathed his katana. "I'll give you your petty life. I've no interest in trouncing... weaklings..." his words faltered. What was that smell? Blood. Very faint. His eyes caught the blood smear on the stone floor. He'd lost interest in killing the boy, but that blood lust. That familiar feeling. It felt great and it tugged at him. He spaced out at the floor, his breathing having hints of snarls in it.
Edited September 1, 2013 by Sai
Nick coughed as Albel placed his weight upon him. "Creating takes more energy than destroying, not like you would know though." He spat out as he turned his face away from Albel. His cheek itched for a moment as one of his wards took effect and the broken skin webbed across his face and melded seamlessly, as if he had never been injured in the first place. As he shifted his body the water around him from his transformation began to drain away into the damaged floor below him, washing away the blood as it went. His breathing began to even out, but he still felt to weak to stand.
Albel continued to start blankly at the floor, his face had dusted. He didn't seem to hear nick's comment or at least didn't act like it. His red eyes started to glow in the low light. His mouth hung slightly agape, his breathing almost obnoxious with its growls. His eyes locked on Nick and his tongue ran briefly over his teeth. Nick healed himself suddenly and washed away the blood. Albel had his claws slightly raised, staring still hungrily at Nick. His hazing vision started to clear along with his growls and the glow of his eyes. He open his mouth more to catch his breath. He'd been so close. Straight up murder would have been the last of Nick's concerns had he fully flipped to his hunter mode. It was humorous really, the boy hadn't even realized the serious danger he was almost in. Albel loved a good kill now and again, but he loved toying with people mentally more. In his hunter mode he would just kill them, but in the slowest and most agonizing way to his pleasure.
The family flew fast over the horde of trees as Flarina sent a telepathic message to her sister, 'Atlas, if you're out here in the woods, don't come looking for us, because right now we're being chased by those wretched hybrids. I'll let you know when it's all clear.'
Atlas heard her sister and became worried. 'You're being chased by what?! Flarina, I can't ignore this and let those dragon-killing scums get to you. I'm coming over!' she said telepathically.
'But Atlas, there's only 10 of them and they're all really fast. I'm worried they'll tear you apart if you try to fight them. Please stay down,' her sister warned.
The magi reminded her, 'Flarina, I'm a long-time champion of dragon tournaments and I've fought lots of tough opponents, even a few whiptails. There's nothing I can't handle; even if I'm fighting multiple numbers. I promise you that once those half-breeds see me, they'll be dead and wishing they didn't cross me.'
Kathia heard, but hadn't listening to everything, due to being lost in her grief. So when the creature got near her, she backed away and cried, "Get away from me!"
Edited September 1, 2013 by Red Dragonette
TheTron852
After some time, Rina's blood lust began to fade, and now she, while fighting hunters, analytically counted how many there were. Suddenly, something zapped behind her. Dragoness turned instantly... to find electrified corpse of a hunter with a knife. She quickly found the reason of his death: the emerald-greed dragon. Nodding to him in thanks, she shoved the corpse so he would drop the knife, grabbed the knife and continued to kill the humans, now with less brutality, but more thinking. She carefully watched the number of humans killed.
((Wow, you ninja'd me, Tron.))
Aeolus kept helping the blue dragoness to kill off the hunters until soon there was none left. Time went by with the city becoming more desolated and destroyed with hundreds of human bodies laying dead; the survivors escaped the city and went out into the desert. Aeolus went over to a dying man, who was breathing and bleeding, and stomped down on his head to crush it.
((Uh, I was intending to leave one alive for plot purposes, Red.
Oh well, IMPROVISE TIME.))
After all of the humans were killed, Rina looked around. None of the survivors. She sighed. She was supposed to leave one alive to curse him, but seems like today is not a good day for that. Her clan was annihilated, she thought, so using the Curse would be...
Useless?
She shook away that idea. Clan or no clan, she was going to follow her traditions. And just as she thought that... She noticed one of the bodies try to stand up. A man, presumably around 25 years old, with a gash on his foot. Rina immediately leaped to him, pinned him to the ground, and telepathically said to other dragons not to interrupt. Then she looked at the man. "Drop all of the weapons you have with you. Every single one." - she ordered with grim expression on her face.
"No, you lizard." - snarled the man. Rina just raised her eyebrow and gestured to look around. Human did so... to see a lot of dragons that were staring right at him. "I can just leave you here at their mercy, and I doubt that they will spare you. Now do as I said: drop off. Every. Weapon. You have. NOW." - she said the final word with a growl. Shaken, human began to quickly set aside everything he had: pistol, some sort of a rifle, a pair of combat knives, a phone, a grenade and camera. Rina immediately took away the grenade and knives, setting them out of human's reach.
((Hope I didn't mess up anything.))
((I did not know that I was still logged on to this laptop. After I post, I'm going to move downstairs to the computer. And Tron, you did ok.))
Aeolus looked at the lone human survivor and asked mockingly under his cold and disapproving expression, "So human, how does it feel to have all your technological powers, family, friends, and rule stripped away from you all in one night? How does it feel to have the tables turned against you when all the dragons around the world grew tired of being your harshly-oppressed slaves and retaliate in revenge. You arrogant fools should have thought of the consequences when you first threw us in cages and killed the others for sport. Because of what you've done, your kind has paid for your ancestors' actions in blood. And I doubt my fellow dragons will stop until every last human dead has fulfilled their thirst for revenge."
Human just laughed. "So what? What are you going to do about this? Annihilate all humans or something? I know you want to, ya lizards. Now that you threw out your magic thing and now we can't use even a microwave! SO WHAT?"
"I am not going to kill you." - suddenly said Rina. Human just mockingly laughed. Then Rina added - "But I can make so - and I WILL do so - that you will never be the same as you are now. Tell me, did any human return to your town with a certain mark on their backs?"
"Well... yeah. What of it?" - huffed the man.
"Now tell me: what did you do to those humans?"
"Well, we tortured and killed them, since they... befriended you, lizards... or something... wait..." - suddenly, human's face became ill - "You are not going to..."
"Yes, I am." - nodded Rina. - "And believe me, it is much worse than you think. Even worse than death... well, for you murderers, that is."
She roughly turned him around and exposed his back. There she began to draw her clan's mark with her claws. Of course it was painful for a man, but it was bearable, so he didn't gave any sort of scream. But he was afraid. Very afraid.
Edited September 1, 2013 by TheTron852
Nick noticed Albel's sudden change in behavior, but decided to ignore it. What could he have done anyways, crawl away at the speed of molasses? It didn't really mater anyways though, as the change left as soon as it came. The boy pulled his arms under his own body and began to slowly push himself off the ground. When he got to his feet and began to stand he shifted his weight to the wall and used it to support himself. When he glanced back at Albel he could almost swear the hybrid looked amused. "Why don't you do my a favor and grab me my staff from the security office." he gestured towards the little office next to the front doors. His staff hadn't passed because of the blade hidden within.
Albel watched Nick feebly pick himself up. He glared at him all the way. Humans are so fragile. Weak he thought as Nick was unable to support himself. Albel hated weakness. He looked at Nick as a little Chihuahua. It was then, mildly amusing that like the small dog he viewed him as, the boy had quite an attitude. He seemed to enjoy dragons to a point- having released the dragon earlier. Another bleeding heart for dragons he thought. It was ironic really. Some humans had always been compassionate to dragon, yet when the dragons broke loose from their cages, they killed indiscriminately. Blinded from rage. He came out of his thought as Nick asked if he would get him his staff. Someone was going very retro on the mage thing. Albel made a snort of laughter. "Still pathetic as ever. Can't even walk on a regular basis without a cane then?" he prodded. Albel would rather bludgeon the kid half to death with the staff. Maybe he'll just dangle it out of his reach" he found himself going to find the staff. Albel retrieved it and went back to Nick, holding the staff almost threateningly over the boy's head, daring him to make a comment about fetching. It was almost fun to toy with people again. He hadn't been around others in so long.
Fayt shook his head and picked up one of her hands, holding it firmly in his, yet not to hurt her. His other hand lightly pet the top of her head, "Hey, hey. Just calm down. You're alright" he said quietly, seeing she had no major injuries. "What happened?" he knew it was a dumb question given the situation, but he wanted to calm the girl down somehow.
Aeolus watched the dragoness carve some kind of insignia on the man's back. He didn't know the exact purpose of putting it on the human, but from what the dragoness said about the marked humans who befriended dragons, Aeolus guessed that she was going to frame him as an ally of dragons so that the other humans will turn on him like a pack of wolves. 'This should be a fate quite fitting for someone who kills their own kind, even though these people would side with dragons for some reason,' he thought. Come of think of it, Aeolus found it rather odd and peculiar that there were some humans who would befriend his kind at the cost of getting punished by others, whom a majority were about enslaving dragonkind. He was both curious and suspicious of their motives, because Aeolus had befriended some humans before who pretended to be dragon sympathizers, but in the end they all ended up betraying him.
Kathia immediately calmed down when the creature didn't mean any harm to her. "Dragons... they killed my parents. They ate daddy and they kill my mom with a fireball," she told her story. "They were everywhere; they killed our guards and servants and burned down the neighborhood. It was horrible!"
Nick repositioned himself against the wall watching as Albel left for the staff. He hadn't actually expected the hybrid to help him, but it all made sense once Albel came back and dangled the staff just out of Nick's reach. He didn't bother trying to jump for it, he could hardly stand as it was. "I was walking just fine before you attacked me. The crystal on top serves as a focusing point for my magic, and there is also a blade hidden within the staff, but it'll also work just fine as walking stick very much. His gaze went back up the the staff and he asked "So are you going to give me my staff, or would it be more amusing to watch me crawl through the city, or no better yet I'll just roll through the city like a child down a hill. The dragons will be so bewildered that they will forget to attack me."
Fayt listened to her story. It sounded about right given the situation. She seemed to be high class from the details. He looked around. The crowd was starting to thin as the main horde of people and dragons had already fled. "We should probably move then. Are you ok to walk, or do you need assistance?" he asked.
Abel smirked at Nick. Perhaps his attitude was just a glimpse of Dion. It would explain why he hadn't snapped his neck. Then again, Albel was sure he killed Dion. That always bugged him- he'd never actually checked. That was mostly due to going on a blood rampage. "I've had plenty of things attack me and I walked away after. You're too soft, worm" he growled the last part, letting the staff clunk onto Nick's head. He had to admit it would be very amusing to watch Nick crawl through the city and get snatched up by a dragon in his feeble state, but then his entertainment would be gone.
Aeolus thought wrong. When Rina was done with drawing a sign, she let the man go, but immediately after that she started to quickly chant words that were forming a Curse. As soon as the man stood up, he fell back on the ground, screaming with pain. The mark was glowing now, and with each word chanted, the glow became larger and larger. Soon every dragon nearby began to receive telepathic signals, which were telling them information about the man. His physical and mental condition, emotions, name, thoughts. But most importantly, what he has done: participating in annihilation of the clan of Eternal Wind and personally killing 6 dragons, 2 of them being children.
When Rina finished the Curse, human - whose name was Simon - went limp on the ground, not being able to move from all the pain that was racing through his body seconds ago. "This is your punishment, human." - coldly said Rina. - "Now every dragon nearby knows what you have done. The guilt and the memories of your crime will haunt you, until you'll try to actually think about it and change yourself. Death is a too swift punishment for the likes of you. That means you don't have to worry about being killed by dragons or attempting suicide. And I doubt that you would be killed by another human after the Spell. But don't think that you are free, human. Like I said, the memories will haunt you, and painful memories tend to be sharper, than claws."
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Centered around the town of Stanthorpe the Granite Belt has a long history of viticulture and winemaking. It is one of the highest wine regions in Australia, with vineyards at more than 1000 metres above sea level. Queensland’s capital of cool, the Granite Belt, is just over two hours drive inland from Brisbane and three hours from the Gold Coast. Served by the New England Highway, this is the only place in Queensland that offers four distinct seasons. This distinctive region has been protected through recognition as a “Geographical Indication”. A GI defines an area of viticultural significance that includes particular geographical and topographical characteristics. This means its name can only be applied to wines made from fruit grown within specific boundaries.
The Australian Geographical Indication “Granite Belt” was entered in the Register of Protected Names on 25 March 2002 in response to a direction received by the Registrar from the Presiding Member of the Geographical Indications Committee acting under Section 40Z of the WAC Act 1980.
The very dry textual description of the Granite Belt GI is as follows:
The Geographical Indication “Granite Belt” is located within the State of Queensland, Australia.
The beginning point of the boundary is located on Map Stanthorpe (Sheet 9240) at grid reference LN956998, being the intersection of the New England Highway and the Queensland / New South Wales border in Wallangarra, then proceeds generally westerly and then south westerly along the Queensland / New South Wales border to grid reference LN826970 on the Roberts Range, then proceeds generally west of northerly in a straight line crossing Ballandean Creek, Kelvin Grove Creek, Back Creek and the Severn River to grid reference LP782190, then proceeds generally northerly in a straight line to Mallow on the Stanthorpe Texas Road at grid referenceLP790312, then proceeds west of northerly in a straight line to grid reference LP780380, then proceeds north easterly in a straight line to grid reference LP840450, then proceeds generally east of northerly in a straight line to the edge of the map at grid reference LP844468; On to Map Allora (Sheet9241) at grid reference LP844468, then proceeds generally east of northerly in the same straight line to the unnamed road at grid reference LP850499, then proceeds generally easterly in a straight line to grid reference LP903500, then proceeds south of easterly in a straight line to the New England Highway in Dalveen at grid reference LP991478, then proceeds generally south westerly along the New England Highway to the edge of map at grid reference LP988469; On to Map Stanthorpe (Sheet 9240) at grid reference LP988469, then proceeds south westerly along the New England Highway to grid reference LP982458, then proceeds southerly in a straight line to the Queensland / New South Wales border at grid reference LP982450, then proceeds generally southerly along the Queensland / New South Wales border to its intersection with the Stanthorpe to Amosfield Road at grid reference MP021319, then continue south easterly along the Queensland / New South Wales border to the edge of the map at grid reference MP023316; On to Map Drake (Sheet 9340) at grid reference MP023316, then continues south easterly along the Queensland / New South Wales border to its intersection with an unnamed road at grid reference MP086253, then proceeds generally southerly along the Queensland / New South Wales border to the edge of the map at grid reference MP025017; On to Map Stanthorpe (Sheet 9240) at grid reference MP025017, then continues generally south westerly along the Queensland / New South Wales border to the New England Highway in Wallangarra at grid reference LN956998, being the descriptor starting point.
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Apple and Qualcomm End Global Court Battle and Are Best Buds Again
Patrick Howell O'Neill
The tech giants Apple and Qualcomm avoided extending an already grueling three-continent legal battle by settling their years-long disputes on Tuesday. The agreement includes an undisclosed payment from Apple to Qualcomm, a six-year licensing deal, and a chip supply agreement.
In other words, these multibillion-dollar technology giants have finally buried the hatchet and agree to once again help each other get richer and stop spending fortunes on lawsuits. For Apple customers, it may mean getting your mitts on a cool new iPhone sooner (which also makes them richer).
Apple announced the deal in a press release on Tuesday shortly after the fight went to court in San Diego. Prior to its abrupt end, the case was expected to last until at least next month.
“Qualcomm and Apple today announced an agreement to dismiss all litigation between the two companies worldwide,” the statement read. “The settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm. The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement.”
Here are the gritty details of the fight as reported by Gizmodo:
Two years ago, Apple sued Qualcomm for more than $1 billion in unpaid royalties, claiming Qualcomm engaged in unfair patent licensing practices. Meanwhile, Qualcomm’s claim to fame is that it essentially pioneered CDMA—a type of wireless communication network—in the 1990s and has since made its bread and butter by charging royalties on its 130,000 patents. With regard to smartphones, Qualcomm charges about five percent of a handset’s selling price thanks to its various wireless patents. That means even if a smartphone doesn’t use a Qualcomm modem, smartphone makers like Apple still have to pay that fee. And if a maker does use a Qualcomm chip, it not only has to pay for the chip but also royalties that come along with it.
Qualcomm, of course, views Apple’s claims as bunk. The chipmaker has also filed a countersuit against Apple claiming it’s also owed royalties to the tune of $7 billion. The firm has also asked regulators to ban the import of some iPhone models—basically older phones that used Intel’s chips. It didn’t get the ban, as a judge ruled it would give Qualcomm an unfair advantage in the U.S., but partial bans were put in place in both Germany and China. For a hot second in 2018, Qualcomm also faced a hostile takeover bid from Broadcom that required the intervention of the Trump administration.
The important takeaway from all this is that Apple and Qualcomm will once again work together as the Cupertino technology giant pushes toward releasing next-generation iPhones, including a 5G-capable device. (Apple used Intel modem chips in its latest iPhones.) It also means they can together fight back the 5G powerhouse that is Huawei.
With Apple and Qualcomm back together again, the race for a 5G iPhone is officially on, and Apple has just the credit card for you to charge it to.
Reporter in Silicon Valley. Contact me: Email poneill@gizmodo.com, Signal +1-650-488-7247
Lenny Valentin
Qualcomm makes the best cellular modems in the business, Apple using them again is a win for everyone. I don’t care who won this silly spat between them, these are multi-billion dollar corporations owned and run by incredibly rich pricks, so yeah; I don’t care.
I do care however about the performance of my devices. That’s important, and having access to the best modems is a win for me.
So thumbs up here.
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Keyboard Icon Rick Wakeman To Issue Five New Releases!
London, UK – As prolific as ever, keyboard icon Rick Wakeman will be releasing 5 new titles on the RRAW label through Gonzo MultiMedia in Summer/Fall 2016! Best known for his work with progressive rock legends YES, as well as his illustrious solo career, Rick Wakeman’s four new titles to be released are “Starmus 2015”, “Phantom of the Opera”, “Gastank”, “Gospels” and “Rainbow Suite”
Rick Wakeman “Starmus 2015” (with guest appearance by Brian May)
Starmus is festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child Garik Israelian (The astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of stellar mass black holes). Rick Wakeman has made several appearances at this festival. The most notable was in 2015 where he was joined on stage by Dr Brian May, the iconic guitarist from Queen, where Rick Wakeman and English Rock Ensemble performed amongst other tracks from throughout Rick’s career a legendary version of Starship Trouper. This DVD is a must for all fans of Classic Rock!
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15956
Release Date: 29th July 2016
Rick Wakeman – “The Phantom of the Opera”
The legendary 1925 Lon Chaney film is brought to life with a specially commissioned Rick Wakeman soundtrack. This is the first time this version of the film has being issued on DVD, as such the images have been fully restored and the sound track remastered. The DVD also has several bonus features; Rick Wakeman commentary, Christopher Lee introduction Rick and the Phantom – featurette, original trailer. The soundtrack double CD is the original Rick Wakeman unedited soundtrack and contains the original mixes of the songs which are different to what eventually appeared on his album “Phantom Power”. There are two versions of this project available:
Special Limited Edition boxset containing
Single DVD
Signed by Rick Wakeman
and numbered certificate
2 x Reproduction Lon Chaney
10˝ x 8˝ photos
4 x A4 Reproduction “Lobby Cards” taken from the original artwork
Single DVD and Double CD
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15959/Rick_Wakeman-Phantom_of_the_Opera_Deluxe_Box_Set.html
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15957/Rick_Wakeman-The_Phantom_of_the_Opera.html
Release Date: 5th August 2016
Rick Wakeman – “Gastank”
Gastank was an English television show that aired between 1982–1983 on Channel 4. Hosted by Rick Wakeman the show featured a mix of interviews with 1970s musicians and impromptu performances where the guest artist would join Rick and his house band in playing re-arranged versions of their classic songs, or entirely new pieces created for the show. The format was very informal with the setting likened to a bar where Wakeman would interview the guest over a drink or two followed by their performance in front of a small studio audience sitting in groups at tables. Wakeman would frequently cite the show as an opportunity for musicians from different bands to get the opportunity to work together. During its run, the show featured guests as diverse as Ian Paice, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle, Godley and Creme, Eric Burdon and Phil Lynott. Now for the first time on DVD all the episodes of Gastank along with a CD of these now seminal music performances of Rick and his guests.
Double DVD and a Double CD
Gastank T Shirt
Rick Wakeman – The Gastank Interviews book
Reproduction AAA pass
Double DVD and Double CD
Available to pre-order from http://www.rickwakemansmusicemporium.com
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15960/Rick_Wakeman-Gastank_(DVD).html
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15961/Rick_Wakeman-Gastank_(2CD).html
Rick Wakeman – “Gospels” (Deluxe Box Set)
The Gospels evolved because Rick Wakeman was asked to perform at an organ recital to raise money for the Camberley United Reform Church, which was in desperate need of a new organ. Rick pondered what to play and the more he thought about it and what the evening should mean, the more he felt that something very special was about to take place. Thoughts of the New Testament kept creeping into his mind and he decided to write an instrumental piece to the settings of the four Gospels. He began working but after a couple of hours realised that there was no way he was going to get across the feelings he wished to portray without singing. The music seemed to cry out for an operatic tenor. Amazingly enough, just a few weeks earlier, Rick had met the famous tenor Ramon Remedios at a charity concert in which they both performed and he plucked up courage to ask him if he would kindly agree to perform the New Gospels with him. The concert was a tremendous success and Ramon’s feeling and understanding of the music moved many people to tears. The complete Gospels is a limited edition box set containing all the known recordings of the project both audio and visual. Along with a reproduction A4 x 12 page concert program.
Signed by Rick Wakeman and numbered certificate
DVD containing over 2 hours of footage including an in depth interview with Rick about the project.
Double CD 1, The Original Gospels – with Robert Powell as the Narrator
Double CD2, The New Gospels DVD / CD of The Gospels performed live in California – never seen before
Reproduction A4 x 12 page concert program
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15963/Rick_Wakeman%20Gospels_(Deluxe_Box_Set).html
Release Date: 21st October 2016
Rick Wakeman – “Rainbow Suite”
This is a brand new orchestral piece written and performed by Rick Wakeman and the Orion Orchestra. This is a specially written piece of therapeutic music designed for people with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder to enjoy as well aficionados of good quality instrumental music. This is Rick and Orchestra at their finest !!!
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15964/Rick_Wakeman-Rainbow_Suite.html
Release Date: 25th November 2016
Catch Rick Wakeman on tour with ARW (Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin & Rick Wakeman) this Fall 2016! http://www.arw-tour.com/
Rick Wakeman’s official website: http://www.rwcc.com/
Press inquiries: Glass Onyon PR, PH: 828-350-8158 (USA), glassonyonpr@gmail.com
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Wenyen Gabriel Displays Improved Game In NBA Summer League
By George Klein | July 10, 2019
The Sacramento Kings have gotten off to a fast start at MGM Resorts Summer League, winning two out of their first three games. A big contributor in the early success has been 22-year-old Wenyen Gabriel. The lengthy forward is averaging 12 points and 6.3 rebounds in 24.7 minutes per game for a Kings team that hopes to advance far into the tournament.
Gabriel set the tone early – before the action even began in Las Vegas – pouring in 22 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in a July 1st victory over the Golden State Warriors, his first game at the California Classic in Sacramento. During the three day event, Gabriel averaged 19 points and 8.5 rebounds on 54% shooting. His mixture of speed and strength left the defense struggling to hold him off, as the forward showed glimpses of his ultimate potential as an inside-out force who can stretch the floor at the NBA level.
#GLeagueAlum @WenyenGabriel powered the @SacramentoKings to a Monday night victory at #NBASummer with 22 PTS & 12 REB 👑
Gabriel averaged 10.1 PPG, 6.6 RPG & 1.1 BPG in 42 #NBAGLeague games with the @StocktonKings last season!@KentuckyMBB ↗️ @StocktonKings ➡️ @SacramentoKings pic.twitter.com/h5YVcpCpD7
— NBA G League (@nbagleague) July 2, 2019
Stockton Kings fans will recognize Gabriel from his part in the team’s successful 30-20 record in the G League during the 2018-19 season. He filled a variety of roles, ranging from starter to second-unit spark plug. Overall, he shot 49% from the floor and 36% from three-point range, averaging 10.1 points and 6.7 rebounds in 20.8 minutes per game.
Gabriel’s improvement during his time in the G League has been noteworthy. He played two years at the University of Kentucky and struggled for long stretches to contribute on offense. He averaged 6.8 points and 5.4 rebounds his sophomore year and went undrafted in 2018. His game has come a long way since then.
It seems as though he has found his groove. Gabriel signed a two-way contract with the Kings last summer, and spent a lot of time crafting his game in Stockton, California. Now, Gabriel remains active and involved on offense throughout entire games and never lets the defense off easy.
The forward’s play has put him in contention for a roster spot for the upcoming 2019-20 season. He has the ability to take over a game in a way few others can—generating dunks and layups up close and catching fire from behind the arc.
As the MGM Resorts Summer League continues on and the pressure intensifies, Gabriel will look to keep showing the basketball world his improvements to his game.
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Suncor to improve political lobbying, climate risk disclosure
Posted April 18, 2016 1:58 pm
A pedestrian is reflected in a Suncor Energy sign in Calgary, Feb. 1, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
CALGARY – Suncor says it will be providing more information about political lobbying and how it plans to compete under tougher climate-change policy.
The company said Monday that the information will be included in its 2016 report on sustainability, to be issued in July.
The move comes as shareholders push for more disclosure at Suncor’s annual meeting later this month.
READ MORE: Shareholders press Suncor on climate policy and political lobbying
As part of the changes, Suncor says it will provide information about how it expects “to succeed in a low carbon future.”
It will also publish its policy on lobbying and political donations, as well as list trade associations that lobby governments to which Suncor pays membership dues greater than $50,000 and $100,000 per year.
The company will also continue to disclose its political donations.
READ MORE: Suncor gets nearly 73% of Canadian Oil Sands shares
Suncor’s annual meeting is set for April 28 in Calgary.
The company’s board and management have recommended shareholders support a resolution from NEI Investments that the company “provide ongoing reporting on how it is assessing, and ensuring, long-term corporate resilience in a future low-carbon economy.”
However, the board and management have recommended shareholders vote against a proposal by a group of shareholders co-ordinated by Sum Of Us, an organization that campaigns for corporate accountability.
That one urges Suncor to report annually on its lobbying policies and procedures, the amount it’s paying and to whom, and its decision-making process and oversight.
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