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Hungary builds important relations with Latin America
“Observing the current rapid changes in world politics and the economy, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to speak of the emergence of a new world order,” Hungary's foreign minister said
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Hungary’s foreign minister has said that if an open economy such as Hungary’s wants to perform well, it must build effective ties with fast-developing countries in Latin America.
Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, addressed Hungary’s ties with Latin America at the opening of the 3rd Latin American Forum in Budapest on Wednesday.
“Observing the current rapid changes in world politics and the economy, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to speak of the emergence of a new world order,” Minister Szijjártó said.
The minister added that the changes are testing nation states and their readiness for integration. He said that to reach success a completely new political approach is needed, and it is now legitimate for every government to say that the national interest should take precedent.
According to MTI, the minister said it was clear that Hungarian foreign policy had to be radically transformed in a way that made it capable of recognizing and enforcing national economic interests while supporting Hungarian economic growth and development.
The government was right to focus on building relationships with rapidly evolving parts of the world, and its policy of opening to the south has brought many successes. The minister pointed out that four new foreign missions have been opened in Latin America and 40 honorary consuls are active in the region.
Minister Szijjártó said that bigger countries than Hungary with stronger economies were paying ever greater attention to Latin America, and this is why it was important for Hungary to act in time.
As part of Hungary’s policy of opening up to the south, in the first eight months of the year, exports to Latin America grew by 49 percent, so it makes sense to focus on ties with Latin America, he said.
The minister added that Hungarian companies are making great strides in Latin America in the areas of information technology, water management and the pharmaceuticals industry.
The Press Has More Freedom in Eastern Europe than in the Continent’s Western Half
Reacting to a statement by Sweden’s foreign minister on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in a statement that recently it has become obvious that the press has more freedom in Eastern Europe than in the continent’s western half.
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Reinstating Military Conscription is not Necessary
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One More Thing Off the List
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Wednesday Morning at Base Camp
Wednesday Morning at Hurrah Pass
Got the new generator hooked up and the propane tanks redone on the new pad which were previously sitting kind of haphazardly.
Went over to Last Hurrah and just as I got there they were finishing drinking out of the pond.
This is kind of fun. A couple times a week guests ask me to drive their car over the top of Hurrah at a rough spot that is developing. Sometimes I take the side by side up, sometimes, I hike and wait for them. I get to drive a couple of new types of cars every week. Only for about 30 seconds but it's still fun. San Juan County called me yesterday in response to my calls to them about the road and said they are buying a rock crusher to deal with the spot at the top but it would probably be end of June before they can get out here.
This is what Jax looks like when he doesn't get to go on the motorcycle ride.
The day before check out Michael mentioned he didn't enjoy the road that much on his street bike. I said "I'll drive it out for you." He said "Ok."
Sunday night lying in bed thinking about how to keep that 650 pound machine from tipping over and mapping out the route up Hurrah in my head I started trying to remember how many years it's been since I drove a street bike. Then I realized it was probably my 1973 Kawasaki 500 that weighed in at 450 pounds. I had never driving anything like this. That's when I got nervous.
Still, I had made a commitment and Michael seemed pretty happy about it. After he showed me how to start it and what the gear selection was I teetered down the drive way and hit the sand at the bottom having to drag my feet for the first hundred yards. But I'm a trials rider and I know the road. Once I got a little speed going it felt good and my confidence was growing. I didn't really have any issues until that last part at the top. I had decided I was just going up the left side no matter what but about half way up a rock ledge broke and spun me at a right angle. I gave it the gas hoping to get out of there before it fell and trapped me under it. The front end came up and I threw all my weight forward trying to keep it down. I bounced over the ledges partially out of control. Just before I crashed into the Hurrah Pass sign I got it back under control, packed brake and it began to fall over to the right but the right handlebar landed exactly right on the big rock like I'd put it there on purpose to lean it up against the rock. Linny and Michael came up behind me in the truck and I was looking all calm and collected like there were no issues.
Linny said "Is the front end suppose to come up like that?" Michael came over and said "That was some pretty impressive riding. You want to ride it down the other side?" Before I could think my mouth said "Yes. For sure." Thanks Michael.
Every couple days the Nursery of big horn, two babies, two carrying heavy, and two juveniles come to the pond next to the Main House and hogans to drink.
Have a new wood guy, takes a third of the time to load and cost about half as much. Second time I can think of we ever had a cat stay here, and the Pot Ash plant in the distance.
Linda has been here this week helping Linny and we're catching up. I'm way behind on maintenance but chipping away at one or two things everyday. Each evening I fix the front porch and that night the raccoons dig it up again trying to steal skunk hot dogs. I don't fit it and they leave it alone.
It's almost time for babies, for everyone. I was over at Last Hurrah a few days ago, without my camera, and there are two new baby big horn. So cute. They came down to drink out of the pond even with people there. Fox, raccoon, and skunk will be showing up with their babies soon. Little bands of three to five coming to the Kit&Kaboodle bowls. The evenings are cool but the days hot. I put air conditioners in the rooms the other day. The coolers on the roof hoses keep breaking so at the moment though it would be a savings on power I'm not using them.
A month or so ago a side by side showed up and said they had lost an expensive bag of clothes out Jackson Hole somewhere but couldn't find it. Linny and I dying for a chance to get away from the lodge knew we could find it and took a side by side out to Jackson. We didn't find it either. The people thanked us and headed out. A couple weeks ago, in the mail, I got a package and it said "Thanks for helping us look for our bag. I noticed you were putting lotion on your feet when we were there so I bought you this Miracle Foot Repair lotion." Thank you. All the guests are parking with their engines facing the open parking lot away from where the bushes and the squirrels are and easier for Jax to spot when he sleeps in the window of my office with one eye open and on the parking lot. We've had one vehicle that a squirrel had just started to chew on a wire when Jax found him and that's been the extent of it this year. If you don't know some spark plug wires and starter wires are made of vegetable derivatives, and since all our rock squirrels have long criminal histories it's up to Jax to keep them under control. He takes his job seriously and with enthusiasm. Last nigh sitting out on the porch feeding critters a newly checked in guests brought me something with a lot of value they found hidden in their room and I've notified the last several people that stayed in there to see if they are missing anything. We rarely get bad guests or meet bad people. A few crazies. Usually Hurrah Pass weeds out all the people without heart.
Last evening I was pumping water at the main house next door. It was quiet. Just the bull frogs bellowing away in the pond. Waiting for the last holding tank to fill up I sat back in the side by side and laid against the head rest. The moon was bright but still the stars were amazing. I thought about how just a 15 year old and myself are running the whole operation on 145 acres with 10 rentals and lots of camping. Linny is pretty incredible to be this mature at 15 and blessed with such a strong work ethic. I saw a couple of large passenger jets at 35,000 feet blinking over with little noise. All the people in the planes from one destination to another with mostly hurried lives. I've had hundreds, if not thousands of people tell me how lucky I am but it didn't feel like luck working hundred hour weeks for 25 years and putting everything you have at risk over and over to make the business at the time successful. It didn't feel lucky driving around for 15 years off and on in the boonies looking for what I finally found. Still, that work eventually fed and led me into this and for that I do feel fortunate.
For the fourth time this year (out of hundreds) I had guests that turned around and went back to Moab saying their SUV wouldn't make it to Base Camp. They were very gracious and apologized for not being able to get here and said how badly they wanted the experience but were going to stay in town. It was all good, it happens. But twice this year I've had guests that couldn't make it return to Moab and either call me or send me a scathing email about how I lied to them and it's impossible to get here in an SUV (Jeep Cherokee one time) and you need four wheel drive.........After they're done it's always nice to go out in the parking lot like last night (just in case) and take a picture to send to them. No explanation needed.
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Trump Dump: Internal Policy (Thread I)
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Re: Trump Dump: Internal Policy (Thread I)
Post by Knife » 2019-05-05 02:34pm
And, unlike Clinton who got impeached for a blow job, there are real crimes here.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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Post by The Romulan Republic » 2019-05-05 02:38pm
Knife wrote: ↑2019-05-05 02:34pm And, unlike Clinton who got impeached for a blow job, there are real crimes here.
In point of fact, Clinton was impeached for perjury about a blow job. But still not as bad as Trump's obstruction, violation of the emoluments clause, and violation of campaign finance law, just for a start.
"I know its easy to be defeatist here because nothing has seemingly reigned Trump in so far. But I will say this: every asshole succeeds until finally, they don't. Again, 18 months before he resigned, Nixon had a sky-high approval rating of 67%. Harvey Weinstein was winning Oscars until one day, he definitely wasn't."-John Oliver
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."-General Von Clauswitz, describing my opinion of Bernie or Busters and third partiers in a nutshell.
I SUPPORT A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
Congressman Schiff is considering fining Trump officials 25,000 dollars for every day they fail to comply with subpoenas:
https://www.axios.com/dems-flirt-with-f ... 43372.html
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Post by Ralin » 2019-05-10 08:15pm
The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-05-10 07:26pm Congressman Schiff is considering fining Trump officials 25,000 dollars for every day they fail to comply with subpoenas:
Because the people who haven't been arrested for not complying with Congress's subpoenas will totally pay fines because Congress says to?
Ralin wrote: ↑2019-05-10 08:15pm
I mean, if they refuse to pay the fines, couldn't the courts order their assets seized to pay them? Or even imprison them until they pay up, theoretically.
The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-05-10 08:17pm
If they can do that then why wouldn't they just skip the middleman and arrest them now?
Post by The Romulan Republic » 2019-05-11 01:18am
Because it makes their case look stronger if they show that they made every possible effort to reach a reasonable solution first.
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Post by bilateralrope » 2019-05-11 02:28am
So, how many weeks will it take before the fine it large enough to force a bankruptcy ?
bilateralrope wrote: ↑2019-05-11 02:28am
Depends on the individual. Some of Trump's cabinet are literally billionaires (though IIRC Barr isn't). They'd have to be fined millions a day to hurt them more than defying Dickless Donald would.
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Post by FireNexus » 2019-05-11 08:25am
The entire Republican Party lashing out at Burr is a little weird. Why are they so worried about his subpoena? He informed trump of the fucking FBI investigation, and controls the committee. What has them so spooked by this?
I had a Bill Maher quote here. But fuck him for his white privelegy "joke".
All the rest? Too long.
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Post by Ziggy Stardust » 2019-05-11 08:03pm
I honestly don't think they have a motivation more nuanced than acting out of spite for the Democrats.
FireNexus wrote: ↑2019-05-11 08:25am The entire Republican Party lashing out at Burr is a little weird. Why are they so worried about his subpoena? He informed trump of the fucking FBI investigation, and controls the committee. What has them so spooked by this?
Because NO deviation is permitted from absolutely loyalty to the Fuhrer.
That. Or they are worried about the questions the Democrats on the committee will ask.
Post by Knife » 2019-05-12 01:05am
We're still pretty far out, but it is getting closer to a bunch of Senate elections in 2020 as well. It will stat to put some pressure on some Republicans. Not all, but some.
Things are heating up: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler is evidently sick of Pelosi dragging her feet, and has reportedly privately challenged her to hold a contempt vote on Barr and a vote on beginning an impeachment Inquiry as soon as the House returns from their current break, specifically proposing June 4th. as the date for a vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4454 ... tempt-vote
There is growing daylight between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) over the best strategy for combating a Trump administration that is flouting a flurry of congressional subpoenas at nearly every turn.
The pair of powerful Democrats clashed in recent days over whether to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump and how soon to hold a contempt vote against Attorney General William Barr.
Nadler, spurred by frustrated Judiciary Committee members, has been privately pushing leadership for both an impeachment inquiry, and a contempt vote immediately after lawmakers return from their weeklong Memorial Day recess.
Pelosi is still urging a go-slow approach, concerned that Democrats have not yet swayed public opinion about why such aggressive tactics are necessary. The Speaker is also pointing to a string of court victories over the Trump administration and business entities, bolstering Democrats’ arguments that the law is on their side as they methodically probe the president.
The Judiciary Committee “has to make a stronger public case for moving forward with contempt in a way that would persuade the public, that is disciplined enough to persuade the public, and box in the Republicans and really elevate their level of complicity in the president’s wrongdoing and his campaign of obstruction,” said a senior Democratic source tracking the fight playing out in the 235-member caucus.
“Trump has just given us a gift and we have to use it to our advantage,” the source said. More public outreach “needs to be done before you take a vote on contempt or impeachment.”
In a closed-door emergency caucus meeting this week, Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a Pelosi ally, made a point many saw as pushing back at the pressure from Nadler and others on Judiciary, who are increasingly frustrated by the administration’s stonewalling.
Welch stood up and said that while Democrats may eventually have to move forward with impeachment, they should not do so just because of pique within the Judiciary Committee.
It seems it’s “just the Judiciary Committee that’s getting dissed” by the Trump administration, Welch said, according to a source in the room. Democrats, he added, cannot let that dictate the actions of the entire Congress.
Pelosi has consistently sought to tamp down calls for impeaching, believing the party is better off competing with Trump in the 2020 election over healthcare and other issues.
Polls bolster her position. Only 28 percent of Americans said starting impeachment proceedings should be a top priority for Congress, according to a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll.
Nadler, under pressure to show his committee is winning its war with Trump, has assumed a more aggressive posture in recent days.
In a private meeting with Pelosi and her top lieutenants this week, Nadler explained that the majority of his committee members were clamoring for an impeachment inquiry against Trump and that he, too, thought this was the best course of action now, sources familiar with the meeting said.
But Pelosi and others rebuffed him — a development Nadler later reported back to Democrats on his Judiciary panel during in a separate, closed-door gathering, committee members said.
Nadler has also challenged Democratic leaders on moving quickly to a contempt vote on the floor for Barr, who is refusing to testify to his committee.
During a Democratic whip’s meeting, he said the House should vote on June 4, according to Budget Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who attended that meeting.
Top Democrats were surprised that Nadler was floating a specific date when Pelosi and others had not yet settled on a strategy. Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), who’s panel is nicknamed the “Speaker’s committee” because it works so closely with the Speaker, told The Hill it would be “odd” for lawmakers to vote on contempt as their first act after being away from Washington for 12 days.
The broader 235-member caucus needs to have more debate and discussion before taking such a serious step, he said, adding that Pelosi had not signed off on the June 4 vote.
Pelosi's office declined to comment, but the Speaker told colleagues this week she has “great admiration and respect” for Nadler.
Nadler declined to comment about the contempt vote or impeachment as he left the Capitol for the long recess. His aides declined to comment for this story.
But appearing on MSNBC on Thursday night, Nadler confirmed earlier reporting by the Washington Post that he had pressed Pelosi to act more swiftly on starting impeachment proceedings.
“I urged the Speaker to speed things up and consider an impeachment inquiry,” Nadler told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, though he conceded that Democrats’ recent court victories had made his argument for impeachment “much weaker.”
The 14-term New York lawmaker is backed by an overwhelming majority of his fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) called it a “good sign” that Nadler is aggressively pushing for a contempt vote on June 4. The House plans to adjourn again on June 5 to allow for lawmakers to fly to France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.
“We have to work with urgency. You can’t let people ignore subpoenas, obstruct justice, obstruct the American people getting the truth,” Dean told The Hill. “We have to act with the urgency that that demands.”
“I think the right strategy is to move on all of it as quickly as possible,” added Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), another Judiciary member. Trump is “melting down and the world is starting to see that he just doesn’t intend to allow Congress to do its job; he just simply refuses to accept that there’s a separate and co-equal branch of government at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.”
That sentiment for speedy action is also shared by many fellow Judiciary members, including Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Val Demings (D-Fla.), Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.); Lieu and Raskin are lower-ranking members of Pelosi’s leadership team.
“I support doing [contempt] at the earliest possible date,” Raskin, who also serves on the Rules panel, told The Hill.
But Judiciary Democrats are not unanimous. Some are deferring to the strategy detailed by Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) this month: wait until Democrats have identified a group of individuals who are defying congressional subpoenas, then vote on multiple contempt citations all at once in one big package. That would also clear floor time so Democrats could pursue other legislative priorities.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), a Judiciary member who has called for the start of an impeachment inquiry, described waiting on contempt as a “strategic move.” He pointed to other House committees that are also pushing for documents and weighing contempt citations for those refusing to honor subpoenas.
Raskin, a former constitutional law professor and unabashed liberal, downplayed the disagreements over impeachment and contempt as simply a family discussion about the best way to proceed.
“The whole caucus is in a discussion about which strategy is going to move us forward to counter the lawlessness of the administration,” Raskin said in a phone interview with The Hill on Friday.
“I don’t see us in any way divided or polarized,” he continued, adding that “all of the tools in constitutional toolkit are on the table now.”
Note that Nadler is not some fringe newcomer like Ocasio-Cortez or Tlaib. He is the Chair of the Judiciary Committee and a 14-term Congressman.
Also, Pelosi and her people haven't "settled on a strategy" yet? If that's true, that's fucking pathetic. Carefully building your case and considering your actions is one thing. That's prudent, especially when the stakes are this high.
Dithering, and not having a plan, is something else entirely.
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Post by Tribble » 2019-05-29 09:52pm
So, here is the latest "surprise" move from Mitch McConnell:
In reversal from 2016, McConnell says he would fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy in 2020
(CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday if a Supreme Court vacancy occurs during next year's presidential election, he would work to confirm a nominee appointed by President Donald Trump.
That's a move that is in sharp contrast to his decision to block President Barack Obama's nominee to the high court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.
At the time, he cited the right of the voters in the presidential election to decide whether a Democrat or a Republican would fill that opening, a move that infuriated Democrats.
Speaking at a Paducah Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Kentucky, McConnell was asked by an attendee, "Should a Supreme Court justice die next year, what will your position be on filling that spot?"
The leader took a long sip of what appeared to be iced tea before announcing with a smile, "Oh, we'd fill it," triggering loud laughter from the audience.
David Popp, a spokesman for McConnell, said the difference between now and three years ago, when McConnell famously blocked Judge Merrick Garland's ascension to the Supreme Court, is that at that time the White House was controlled by a Democrat and the Senate by Republicans. This time, both are controlled by the GOP.
McConnell's remarks were viewed by CNN on the website of WPSD TV in Paducah.
McConnell hinted at this position during an October appearance on Fox News Sunday when host Chris Wallace pressed the senator on whether he would fill a vacancy should one occur in 2020.
"We'll see whether there's a vacancy in 2020," McConnell replied without directly answering what he would do.
McConnell has made the confirmation of federal judges a key part of his Senate legacy and a highlight of his stump speech in Kentucky where he is running for a seventh term.
At the lunch, he said overhauling the judiciary is the best way to have a "long-lasting positive impact" because "everything else changes."
"I remember during the tax bill, people were agonizing over whether one part of the tax bill was permanent or not. I said, 'Look, the only way the tax bill is permanent depends on the next election,' " McConnell said. "Because people have different views about taxes in the two parties and they approach it differently when they get in power."
"What can't be undone is a life time appointment to a young man or woman who believes in the quaint notion that the job of the judge is to follow the law," he said. "That's the most important thing we've done in the country, which cannot be undone."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics ... index.html
Well its obviously not a surprise to anyone that's exactly what McConnell plans to do. What I find interesting is how he is confident enough to say so openly, and (if you watch the video) with such an obvious sense of self-satisfaction and smugness. All that Democrat whining and outrage must be music in his ears!
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" - The official Troll motto, as stated by Adam Savage
A conspiracy theorist might think that he has reason to believe there will be a vacancy in the next year and a half...
When the Democrats retake power, we're going to have to either stack the court, or start impeaching Justices for being Trump appointees. I'm honestly not sure which option is worse, but one or the other. Because there has to be a penalty for this flagrant abuse.
Post by Tribble » 2019-05-30 09:27am
The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-05-30 03:19am A conspiracy theorist might think that he has reason to believe there will be a vacancy in the next year and a half...
Well yes, IIRC one of the Republican appointed judges was thinking of retiring next year, so the Republicans obviously want to be the ones to replace him.
Expect Republicans to refuse to appoint judges if they retain the Senate and a Democrat wins the White House.
I wonder if at some point, if we hold the Presidency while they held the Senate long enough, we will get to a point where there is no Supreme Court, because all the Justices have died or retired with the Republicans refusing to confirm any Democrat-appointed replacement.
The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-05-30 09:35am I wonder if at some point, if we hold the Presidency while they held the Senate long enough, we will get to a point where there is no Supreme Court, because all the Justices have died or retired with the Republicans refusing to confirm any Democrat-appointed replacement.
They’d probably prefer that over another Democrat being appointed.
Democratic House Whip says he believes the House will impeach Trump, but they want to build their case first:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... p-democrat
House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn predicted Sunday that the House of Representatives will impeach President Donald Trump — just not yet.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Clyburn said House Democrats are moving methodically to build the type of impeachment case against the president that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called “ironclad.”
“We’re trying to take our time and do this right,” Clyburn said. “I don’t see this as being out of whack with what people’s aspirations are.”
When asked by Tapper if he felt that Trump will eventually face impeachment, Clyburn did not mince words.
“Yes, that’s exactly what I feel,” he said.
Although a number of Clyburn’s colleagues in the House have long advocated for impeachment, those calling for impeachment gained new energy last week after special counsel Robert Mueller said in a press conference that his investigation had not cleared Trump of obstruction of justice. His report, in fact, details several instances in which the Trump administration may have obstructed his federal investigation.
While Mueller did not clear Trump of obstruction, his report also did not recommend the Department of Justice pursue a case against the president, which, in essence, punted the question of Trump’s criminality to Congress.
Events proceeding Mueller’s press conference also led to increased fervor for impeachment. Recently, the White House instructed Don McGahn, former White House counsel, to ignore a Congressional subpoena. Early in May, a House committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after he refused to release an unredacted Mueller report; the vote has yet to go to the full House.
Now Democrats outside of Washington are putting pressure on their representatives to begin formal impeachment proceedings. California Democrats met Speaker Nancy Pelosi with chants of “Impeach!” at the party’s convention in her hometown of San Francisco Saturday. Pelosi acknowledged the growing frustration from the public on the House’s seeming inaction.
“We will go where the facts lead us,” Pelosi said. “President Trump will be held accountable for his actions — in the Congress, in the courts and in the court of public opinion.”
Across the country, Democrats are facing increasing pressure to impeach President Trump at town halls, according to a report from The Hill’s Cristina Marcos.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who represents a swing district in Arizona, met with frustrated constituents who asked her why the Mueller report wasn’t enough on its own to impeach Trump.
“I think it is,” Kirkpatrick told them. “I know it’s a little frustrating because people want something to happen right away.”
Kirkpatrick’s colleague, Rep. Donna Shalala, who represents a swing district in Florida, likewise met with impassioned calls for impeachment.
“I understand what you guys are doing with these bills, and that’s great,” one constituent told Shalala. “But you can’t fix the roof if the house is on fire, so it’s not acceptable that we’re ignoring this.”
Democrats maintain that it is important to carefully gather evidence and conduct investigations so the public sees impeachment as due process and not a political witch-hunt.
“If the public ever feels that we are being political with this, we will have done a tremendous harm to the country, to the Constitution, and to the people that we are sworn to serve,” Clyburn said Sunday.
According to a CNN poll, 76 percent of Democrats support impeaching Trump.
As questions about potential obstruction from Trump pile up, Democrats remain fearful of the divisiveness of an impeachment trial. As Vox’s Ella Nilsen reported, Democratic leaders don’t just worry that the Republican-controlled Senate would kill impeachment proceedings, but that voters might punish Democrats in 2020:
As Vox’s Ezra Klein pointed out, “The founders could have made the impeachment process legal or automatic. Instead, they made it political and discretionary.”
Even though Trump’s 42 percent public approval rating is extremely low, Pelosi and the majority of her caucus only want to move toward impeachment if there’s something so bad that Republicans can also get on board. They remember when Republicans who impeached President Bill Clinton in the 1990s reaped the political consequences in the 1998 midterms, when they lost seats in the House and made few gains in the Senate. Historians later concluded that backlash against Republicans for Clinton’s impeachment resulted in the GOP’s weak showing in the midterms.
That history isn’t lost on Democrats, especially as they stare down a pivotal presidential election in 2020.
“We also have lessons from the Clinton impeachment that when you do impeachment for primarily political reasons, that also causes problems for the country,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), the vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told Vox. “This is not something the country can enter lightly, but by the same token, the country cannot have a president that undermines the rule of law.”
A possible alternative to impeachment is formally censuring the president, which would require a simple majority in the House, but would not remove Trump from office. A censure resolution would likely face difficulties passing the Republican controlled Senate, however. Should Congress decide not to act, legal proceedings against Trump could also be pursued once he leaves office.
Dominus Atheos
Post by Dominus Atheos » 2019-06-04 04:35am
So how much do people in the mainstream and on the left know about the "investigate the investigators" meme that's on the right right now? I make a point to dig into the alt-right bubble as often as possible, and this is getting concerning. Especially because I don't really see any warnings about it in mainstream or leftwing circles, but I do see a lot of dog-whistles by rightwing figures being briefly mentioned and then passed over like everyone else doesn't understand what they mean.
I'm wrong right? Everyone understands what the outcome Barr is shooting for with his "investigate the investigators" kabuki theatre investigation that has been officially started, right?
Its being reported on, but not being taken seriously enough. I'm not sure any level of concern could be enough. This is literally the sitting President talking about charging law enforcement officials (and others) with Treason (a death penalty offense traditionally reserved for those who betray the US in a war) for investigating him, and the Attorney General willingly aiding him in it. This is probably the most deadly attack on democracy and the rule of law in America since the South tried to rebel because they were afraid they'd lose their slaves. There is no ambiguity here- this is despotism.
FYI, Roger Stone also just posted (and then quickly deleted) calling for Brennan to be hanged for treason.
I honestly think Comey, McCabe, etc. would be utterly justified at this point in taking their families, fleeing the country, and requesting political asylum on the grounds that they may be imprisoned or executed for political reasons if they remain in the US.
Barr could do it, too. If he tried hard enough, he could actually arrest Comey, Mccabe and anyone else he feels like and railroad them with a show-trial in which only he is allowed to present evidence because only he has the authority to declassify any actions that they took, and he can selectively declassify only out-of-context things that make them look bad.
I'm pretty sure that when that happens, our side is going to be blindsided. So I'm warning all 10 people who read this thread.
Dominus Atheos wrote: ↑2019-06-04 04:52am Barr could do it, too. If he tried hard enough, he could actually arrest Comey, Mccabe and anyone else he feels like and railroad them with a show-trial in which only he is allowed to present evidence because only he has the authority to declassify any actions that they took, and he can selectively declassify only out-of-context things that make them look bad.
Barr being allowed to selectively declassify whatever evidence he wants is just such a hideous thing on so many levels. He can potentially use it to rig a trial. He can also certainly use it to spin the media narrative.
He can also selectively declassify anything that Trump wants, say, Russia knowing about. That's right, Trump just gave Barr the authority to leak, say, any potential sources the investigation had in Russia to the Kremlin (along with the rest of the world). Legally.
Edit: What I wonder is, how will the intelligence and law enforcement agencies act if they get orders to start arresting their own for what amounts to lack of loyalty to the Fuhrer over loyalty to country. Will there be any resignations? Or more overt acts of disobedience or rebellion? Or have the people who might have done that already left or been purged, and all that's left are the people who, at the end of the day, will shrug and follow orders? Will the people Comey worked with really be okay with being parties to railroading him through a treason trial to a possible death penalty because he did his fucking job (just like they did)?
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Wilmington on Movies: Act of Valor
By Mike Wilmington - Friday, February 24th, 2012
With its cast of real-life Navy Seals playing characters based on themselves, in a script partly drawn from real life, in scenes that the Seals actors helped design and choreograph, Act of Valor should really be the last word in Seals combat realism.
Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: Classic. The Conformist
The Conformist (Four Stars) Italian: Bernado Bertolucci, 1970 (Arrow Video) Bernardo Bertolucci‘s 1970 The Conformist is an art film classic regarded by many cinematographers as the most beautifully photographed movie of its era. Vittorio Storaro, at his best, did the brilliant cinematography and the film’s main visual/stylistic influences include the American romantic/cynic Josef von Sternberg…
Wilmington on DVDs: Tower Heist
By Mike Wilmington - Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Tower Heist. Wheww! That was one hell of a movie. Hell of a movie! Brett Ratner: Rush Hour! Rush Hour 2!!. Rush Hour 3!!! He‘s one moviemaker who can really make a movie move. Didn’t ya think?
Wilmington on DVDs. J. Edgar
By Mike Wilmington - Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
This is a movie you should see both for its storytelling skills and the intense interest of the story it tells. So the hell what if it’s not constructed like the usual movie. Who wants it to be?
Wilmington on Movies: Ghost Rider
By Mike Wilmington - Monday, February 20th, 2012
No screenings for critics here on Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — for reasons that become quickly apparent when you watch it — so I decided to fork over coin of the realm anyway and catch it at a multiplex. After all, I thought, how bad could it be? I mean really: How bad?
Wilmington on Movies: The Secret World of Arrietty
Who, I pondered, were the craftsmen who made all the wonderful furniture and clothes and hand-crafted-looking household items that graced the Clocks’ house? Did these objects come from dollhouses? Are Pod and Homily master artisans as well as brilliant borrowers? As I said, I thought about it, but not much.
Wilmington on DVDs. Mozart’s Sister
By Mike Wilmington - Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The movie begins lyrically, with a scene that recalls the openings of both Bergman’s The Magician and Max Ophuls’ Lola Montes: the Mozart family traveling to an engagement in a nearly broken down coach through the woods. When it does break down, we’re made painfully aware of how vulnerable their existence really is, the dilemma of many artists.
Wilmington on DVDs: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn; A Fish Called Wanda
The movie, despite its hollow dialogue and sometimes punishing slow pace, does look sort of good. But it seems odd at times that this movie was directed by a man who made a movie about the Kinsey Report.
Wilmington on Movies: Safe House
By Mike Wilmington - Sunday, February 12th, 2012
I didn’t dislike it. But I didn’t like it much (except for Washington), and I kept feeling that I should like it — that there was so much fuss being taken over Safe House, and so much obvious talent involved, that I was being somehow ungrateful in remaining unmoved — or in wishing that two or three of the action or chase set-pieces (say, the soccer stadium scene) had been replaced with a few more scenes devoted to character and dialogue and human interaction.
Wilmington on Movies. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Along the way to the credits, The Artist Formerly Known as the Rock treats us to a performance of the Louis Armstrong favorite “What a Wonderful World,” with his own ukulele accompaniment; advises Sean on his love life, smiles constantly, and tops it off by bouncing berries off his popping pectorals, making for an unprecedented 3D experience.
Wilmington on DVDs. The Rest: The Rum Diary, Harold & Kumar Christmas
This sort-of cinematic roman a clef, changed by writer-director Bruce Robinson—considerably, but that’s all right—is a good nasty show pulsing and snapping and exploding with the witty chaos, counter-culture venom and inspired invective that were the Good Doctor’s mock-shock-and-awe stock in trade. Second-hand Gonzo, it’s true, but even diluted Thompson packs a wallop, since the raw unfiltered original blows the back of your head off.
Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: New. Project Nim
By Mike Wilmington - Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Oh Nim. Humans sorry. Forgive us.
Wilmington on Movies: The Woman in Black: Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens
By Mike Wilmington - Monday, February 6th, 2012
So, at least we can go to a horror movie where we don’t have to watch more mock home movie or surveillance camera photography of monstrous stuff, or kibitz on teen/20 actors being slaughtered in another artificial holocaust for sale.
Wilmington on DVDs: The Big Year; Winged Migration; Life of Birds, Transformers and more
By Mike Wilmington - Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Bay and his crew (and a lot of the actors and voice actors) are still able to pump enough wild invention, heavy film technique, weirdo energy and Wowie-Kazowie-Blam-Blam-Blam-Kaboom-Vavoom-Wacka-Wacka-Wacka-Kerboom!!!!!!! into the show to impress the hell out of you at times.
Wilmington on DVD. Pick of the Week: New. Drive
By Mike Wilmington - Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Neo-noir is this picture’s middle name, and its forebears are The Driver (of course) and John Boorman’s Point Blank, with Lee Marvin, and Peter Yates’ Bullitt, with Steve McQueen, and William Friedkin’s The French Connection and Michael Mann‘s outlaw movies Thief and Heat—and even perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville‘s Le Samourai, which has a hero hit man (played by Alain Delon) who’s just as cool, just as silent, murderous and secretly romantic as Gosling’s Driver is here.
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Mavenir Announces Full 2G and 3G Support on Its 4G/5G Converged Cloud-Native OpenRAN and Packet Core
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Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end Network Software Provider for 4G/5G networks, announces the integration of 2G and 3G technologies into its existing broadband suite for 4G and 5G. The new end to end cloud-native solution, that covers the complete stack of all mobile technologies - 2G/3G/4G/5G, in mobile networks for both radio access and packet core, will provide a truly unique fully containerized solution enabling mobile network automation and webscale agility.
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Half Nambe Pueblo and half Non-Pueblo, Robert Vigil was born to parents Joe and Alice Vigil in 1965. He first learned the method of making pots with clay coils while in high school in Texas. Then he returned to the pueblo and began to learn from folks like Virginia Gutierrez, his cousin Lonnie Vigil and then from Juan Tafoya of San Ildefonso Pueblo.
Robert has been active as a Nambe potter since 1990 working with micaceous jars, bowls, vases, figures and polished redware. Robert doesn't create giant storage jars like his cousin Lonnie as he much prefers to work on a smaller, more intimate scale, and coloring his micaceous pots with fire clouds and other variations produced by the reduction method of firing. There is an elegant purity to his simplistic and understated forms, a deep reflection of his soft spoken manner and gentle spirit.
Robert has told us he prefers the simple shapes and forms and even his carving is gentle. He gets his inspiration from the clay: "I just sit down and start and the clay forms itself through my hands." He's lately been teaching others at his pueblo how to make pottery the traditional way as he doesn't want to see that tradition get lost over time.
He has participated in shows at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, at the Eight Northern Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show and at the First Micaceous Pottery Market in 1995 in Santa Fe.
Pieces of Robert's pottery are on display at the Minneapolis Art Institute in Minneapolis, MN, and at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA.
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Nambé Pueblo
The main kiva at Nambé Pueblo
Nambé Pueblo was settled in the early 1300's when a group of Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) made their way from what is now the Bandelier National Monument area closer to the Rio Grande in search of more reliable water sources and more arable land.
At first they settled mostly high in the mountains, coming down to the river valleys in the summer to grow crops. Eventually, they felt safe enough to stay in the valleys and slowly abandoned the high mountain villages.
When the Spanish first arrived, Nambé was a primary economic, cultural and religious center for the area. That attracted a large Spanish presence and the nature of that presence caused the Nambé people to join wholeheartedly in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 to throw out the Spanish oppressors.
When the Spanish returned in 1692, their rule was significantly less harsh. However, the Spanish brought horses into the New World and as the number of Spanish increased, so did the number of horses. That brought more and more raids from the Comanches as they came for horses and whatever else they could carry away. The Comanches were finally subdued by Governor Juan Bautista de Anza in 1776 but by then, the impact of European diseases was being strongly felt. A smallpox epidemic in the late 1820's virtually ended the making of pottery at Nambé.
The Nambé pottery tradition is similar to that of Taos and Picuris in their use of micaceous clay slips but Nambé potters also used to produce white on red and black on black products. When Lonnie Vigil began producing his micaceous clay masterpieces about 25 years ago, he almost single-handedly jump-started the revival of pottery making in the pueblo.
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Clarence Cruz
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Micaceous clay pots are the only truly functional Pueblo pottery still being made. Some special micaceous pots can be used directly on the stove or in the oven for cooking. Some are also excellent for food storage. Some people say the best beans and chili they ever tasted were cooked in a micaceous bean pot. Whether you use them for cooking or storage or as additions to your collection of fine art, micaceous clay pots are a beautiful result of centuries of Pueblo pottery making.
Between Taos and Picuris Pueblos is US Hill. Somewhere on US Hill is a mica mine that has been in use for centuries. Excavations of ancient ruins and historic homesteads across the Southwest have found utensils and cooking pots that were made of this clay hundreds of years ago.
Not long ago, though, the making of micaceous pottery was a dying art. There were a couple potters at Taos and at Picuris still making utilitarian pieces but that was it. Then Lonnie Vigil felt the call, returned to Nambe Pueblo from Washington DC and learned to make the pottery he became famous for. His success brought others into the micaceous art marketplace.
Micaceous pots have a beautiful shimmer that comes from the high mica content in the clay. Mica is a composite mineral of aluminum and/or magnesium and various silicates. The Pueblos were using large sheets of translucent mica to make windows prior to the Spaniards arriving. It was the Spanish who brought a technique for making glass. There are eight mica mining areas in northern New Mexico with 54 mines spread among them. Most micaceous clay used in the making of modern Pueblo pottery comes from several different mines near Taos Pueblo.
As we understand it, potters Robert Vigil and Clarence Cruz have said there are two basic kinds of micaceous clay that most potters use. The first kind is extremely micaceous with mica in thick sheets. While the clay and the mica it contains can be broken down to make pottery, that same clay has to be used to form the entire final product. It can be coiled and scraped but that final product will always be thicker, heavier and rougher on the surface. This is the preferred micaceous clay for making utilitarian pottery and utensils. It is essentially waterproof and conducts heat evenly.
The second kind is the preferred micaceous clay for most non-functional fine art pieces. It has less of a mica content with smaller embedded pieces of mica. It is more easily broken down by the potters and more easily made into a slip to cover a base made of other clay. Even as a slip, the mica serves to bond and strengthen everything it touches. The finished product can be thinner and have a smoother surface. As a slip, it can also be used to paint over other colors of clay for added effect. However, these micaceous pots may be a bit more water resistant than other Pueblo pottery but they are not utilitarian and will not survive utilitarian use.
While all micaceous clay from the area of Taos turns golden when fired, it can also be turned black by firing in an oxygen reduction atmosphere. Black fire clouds are also a common element on golden micaceous pottery.
Mica is a relatively common component of clay, it's just not as visible in most. Potters at Hopi, Zuni and Acoma have produced mica-flecked pottery in other colors using finely powdered mica flakes. Some potters at San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Jemez and San Juan use micaceous slips to add sparkle to their pieces.
Potters from the Jicarilla Apache Nation collect their micaceous clay closer to home in the Jemez Mountains. The makeup of that clay is different and it fires to a less golden/orange color than does Taos clay. Some clay from the Picuris area fires less golden/orange, too. Christine McHorse, a Navajo potter who married into Taos Pueblo, uses various micaceous clays on her pieces depending on what the clay asks of her in the flow of her creating.
There is nothing in the makeup of a micaceous pot that would hinder a good sgraffito artist or light carver from doing her or his thing. There are some who have learned to successfully paint on a micaceous surface. The undecorated sparkly surface in concert with the beauty of simple shapes is a real testament to the artistry of the micaceous potter.
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All the Pretty Horses (1992)
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For the first twenty or thirty years of his career Cormac McCarthy was a little known but critically acclaimed cult author. Hailed as the heir to Faulkner, his books were Southern gothic--drenched in violence, incest, necrophilia, etc. But with the publication of Blood Meridian in 1985, McCarthy began to turn his attention to the American West and in 1992, All the Pretty Horses, the first book in what ended up being his Border Trilogy, established him as a Western author and, not coincidentally, won him the audience and mainstream awards that had previously eluded him. (The novel won the 1992 National Book Award for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1993.) It also lead to the inevitable sniping by his adherents; many said he had sold out, others claimed that the mass audience misunderstood the book and that it was much darker than they understood. The confusion deepened as those of us who had newly discovered him, returned to his earlier work. I couldn't have been fifty pages into Suttree when someone was having sex in a watermelon patch, with a freakin' watermelon! I, for one, disliked the Southern books, but love the Westerns.
All the Pretty Horses tells the story of 16 year old John Grady Cole. The dissolution of his parents' marriage has left him the first of his line in many decades without a family ranch to work, so he sets out on horseback for Mexico to find work. He is accompanied by 17 year old Lacey Rawlins and along the way they meet up with Jimmy Blevins who may be as young as 13. By turns comic (Blevins is deathly afraid of lightning and ends up losing his clothes and his horse in a storm) and tragic (the boys eventually end up in jail), the book is centered around the relationship between men and horses and cattle and the passing of a way of life that was based on that bond.
McCarthy's prose retains traces of his Faulknerian heritage in the minimal use of punctuation (including the absence of quotation marks in dialogue), the coining of many compound words and the general sense of gloom that pervades much of the story. But the mythic qualities inherent in the American Western overwhelm any intent he may have had to write an anti-western or to puncture the myths and the novel ends up being in many ways a traditional cowboy tale, merely refracted through a modern lens.
What finally sets it apart and makes it extraordinary is McCarthy's use of language, which manages to be both spare and poetic. Here is his description of Cole breaking wild horses on a Mexican ranch:
By the time they had three of the horses sidelined in the trap blowing and glaring about there were
several vaqueros at the gate drinking coffee in a leisurely fashion and watching the proceedings.
By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering
along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to
reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that
condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague.
The entire complement of vaqueros had come from the bunkhouse to watch and by noon all sixteen
of the mestenos were standing about in the portrero sidehobbled to their own hackamores and faced
about in every direction and all communion among them broken. They looked like animals trussed
up by children for fun and they stood waiting for they knew not what with the voice of the breaker
still running in their brains like the voice of some god come to inhabit them.
Partisans of his early works can scream all they want about how the book is supposed to be standing the conventions of the Western on their head, but the passage above is very much of a piece with our traditional views of cowboys and the West and thanks to McCarthy's lyricism, it rises to the level of mythopoetics.
I believe that this book will one day be numbered among the American classics, with books like Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn and All the King's Men; it's that good.
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-WIKIPEDIA: Cormac McCarthy
-ENTRY: Cormac McCarthy (Encyclopedia.com)
-TRIBUTE SITE: CormacMcCarthy.com (The Cormac McCarthy Society)
-FILMOGRAPHY: Cormac McCarthy (IMDB)
-WIKIPEDIA: No Country for Old Men
-WIKIPEDIA: No Country for Old Men(film)
-ENTRY: No Country for Old men (Encyclopedia.com)
-The Cormac McCarthy Journal (Penn State University Press
-Cormac McCarthy Papers (Wittliff Collection, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University)
-Featured Author: Cormac McCarthy (From the Archives of The New York Times)
-EXCERPT: No Country for Old Men (BookBrowse)
-READERS GUIDE: No Country for Old Men Reader’s Guide BY CORMAC MCCARTHY (Penguin Random House)
-POEM: Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats (Poetry Foundation)
-WIKIPEDIA: The Road
-BOOK SITE: The Road (Random House)
-GOOGLE BOOK: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
-ESSAY: The Kekulé Problem: Where did language come from? (CORMAC MCCARTHY, APRIL 20, 2017, Nautilus)
-PROFILE: Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious (Nick Romeo, 4/22/17, The New Yorker)
-INTERVIEW: Cormac McCarthy on the Santa Fe Institute's Brainy Halls (NICK ROMEO, 2/12/12, Newsweek)
-PROFILE: Cormac Country: Cormac McCarthy would rather hang out with physicists than other writers. He doesn’t do blurbs, book tours, or even Oprah. But with the publication of his blood-spattered new novel, No Country for Old Men, he gives his first interview in 13 years—since All the Pretty Horses turned him from cult figure into literary star. (RICHARD B. WOODWARD, AUGUST 1, 2005, Vanity Fair)
-ESSAY: Cormac McCarthy, brutal but brilliant The harshness and hope of an American master (Chilton Williamson, Jr., 7/25/20, Spectator USA)
-PROFILE: Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy: Author Cormac McCarthy, 76, talked about love, religion, his 11-year-old son, the end of the world and the movie based on his novel 'The Road.' He was just getting going. (John Jurgensen, Nov. 13, 2009 , WSJ)
-VIDEO: Looking for Cormac
-ESSAY: DARKNESS LAUGHABLE: THE COMIC GENIUS OF CORMAC MCCARTHY: As one of our greatest living writers has his work lifted into the ivory tower, let’s reflect on how it’s the light, not the darkness, that keeps us going back for more. (JAMES MCWILLIAMS, JUL 2, 2014, Pacific Standard)
-INTERVIEW: Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian (Leonard Pierce, 6/15/09, AV Club)
-ESSAY: Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" and McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men": Art and Artifice in the New Novel (Steven Frye, The Cormac McCarthy Journal)
-ESSAY: Cormac and Oprah, Revisited (AUSTIN ALLEN, 16 January, 2012, Big Think)
-VIDEO LECTURE: 17. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (Professor Hungerford, Nov 21, 2008, The American Novel Since 1945, Yale Courses)
-ESSAY: No God for Anton Chigurh? (Jim Emerson March 28, 2008, RogerEbert.com)
-ESSAY: No Country for Old Literalists (Jim Emerson, November 09, 2007, RogerEbert.com)
-PROFILE: Cormac McCarthy: America's great poetic visionary: He is the ultimate pessimist, a reclusive soothsayer who makes even Hemingway look touchy-feely. Now, his apocalyptic novel, The Road, is coming to the big screen, bringing his bleak vision to a wider audience (Tim Adams, 19 Dec 2009, The Guardian)
-ESSAY: Cormac McCarthy doesn't know the American south-west: Despite what he has said, plenty of writers before him had written about this region, and many did so a lot better (Christine Granados, 14 Apr 2010, The Guardian)
-ESSAY: Who is the greatest American novelist? 3: Cormac McCarthy v John Fante (Matthew Spencer, 19 Dec 2013, The Guardian)
-ESSAY: No Country For Old Men: 7 Big Differences Between The Book And Movie (HUGH SCOTT, JUN. 19. 2019, Cinema blend)
-ESSAY: Book vs. Movie: No Country for Old Men (Matt Matros, Ploughshares)
-ESSAY: The Antiwar Theme in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men (ANQ A Quarterly Journal, October 2016
-ESSAY: Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction (Richard B. Woodward, April 19, 1992, NY Times Magazine)
-ESSAY: In the Country of “No Country for Old Men” and On the Trail of Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”: What I Did for My Summer Vacation (William J. Cobb, August 25, 2017)
-ESSAY: "As Full of Grief as Age": "King Lear" as Tragic Ancestor to "No Country for Old Men" (Alexander L. Barron, The Cormac McCarthy Journal)
-ESSAY: Cormac McCarthy’s "No Country for Old Men": Narrative Elements in Film and Novel (INESE ROMANOVA, Master's Thesis, 2013)
-ESSAY: Amphora: American Furies: Justice in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men And the Oresteia Trilogy (Karen Rosenbecker, 05/25/2018, Society for Classical Studies)
-THESIS: Amoral Antagonists: Interrogating the Myth of the West in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction (John Thomas Arthur, University of Denver, 1-1-2017)
-ESSAY: No Country for Old Men (Ryan Parker, october 2007, Journal of Religion and Film)
-ESSAY: DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE, AND TRAGEDY IN CORMAC MCCARTHY'S "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN" (Benjamin Mangrum, Autumn 2011, Religion & Literature)
-PROFILE: Ten things that make Cormac McCarthy special: Novelist, recluse... guest on Oprah. Welcome to Cormac McCarthy country (Christopher Goodwin, 1/20/2008, Times of London)
-PROFILE: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men (TIME, 10/18/07)
-PROFILE: Writer Cormac McCarthy confides in Oprah Winfrey (Michael Conlon, 6/05/07, Reuters)
-PROFILE: When Oprah Met Cormac: He's no Salinger. (Troy Patterson, June 6, 2007, Slate)
-PROFILE: Way out, west: The novelist Cormac McCarthy is the best-kept secret of American letters, but his new book could change all that (GORDON BURN, 4/04/93, Independent)
-PROFILE: Cormac McCarthy (BLAKE MORRISON, 14 August 1994, Independent)
-PROFILE: Cormac McCarthy: American literature’s great outsider: Few writers have captured the grandeur and cruelty of the American frontier more vividly than Cormac McCarthy. As the film of his novel 'No Country for Old Men' sweeps the Oscars (Boyd Tonkin, 26 February 2008, Independent)
-ARTICLE: 'The Road' as Outreach? (Lillian Kwon, 11/13/09, Christian Post)
-ESSAY: Faith, Fear & Cormac McCarthy (Christopher Badeaux, January 7, 2009, The City)
-ESSAY: The Hugo award winner that spawned a Pulitzer prize winner: Walter M Miller Jr's A Canticle for Leibowitz is a direct ancestor of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Sam Jordison, 10/28/08, The Guardian)
-ESSAY: Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of Choice: One Writer, Ten Novels, and a Career-Long Obsession (Scott Esposito , Quarterly Conversation)
-ESSAY: The New Nuke Porn: Our nuclear fantasies have gotten more hard-core. (Ron Rosenbaum, May 8, 2009, Slate)
-ESSAY: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: John Crace saddles his horse and heads into the desert to hunt down Cormac McCarthy's 1985 XXX-rated western, Blood Meridian (John Crace, 9/24/09, guardian.co.uk)
-ARCHIVE: The First Reviews of Every Cormac McCarthy Novel: FROM THE ORCHARD KEEPER TO THE ROAD (Bookmarks)
-ARCHIVES: cormac mccarthy (London Review of Books)
-ARCHIVES: Cormac McCarthy (The Guardian)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (James Wood, The New Yorker)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Walter Kirn, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Keith Phipps, AV Club)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Annie Proulx, The Guardian)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Julie Hale, BookPage)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Alan Cheuse, NPR)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Clive Sinclair, The Independent)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Kirkus)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Dean Polling, Valdosta Times)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Eric iles Williamson, LA Times)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (James Tipton, Mexconnect)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (William Deresiewicz, The Nation)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Richard A. Blake, America)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Publishers Weekly)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Bun Rutter, N+1)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (William J. Cobb, Houston Chronicle)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Ira Boudway, Salon)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Sean Michaels, The Skinny)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Where Pen Meets Paper)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Cult of the New)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Beaverton City Library, OregonLive)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Diana Mican, Pajiba)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Andrew Bannon, The Roundup)
-REVIEW: of No Country for Old Men (Medium)
-ARCHIVES: cormac mccarthy (Daily Telegraph)
-ARCHIVES: cormac mccarthy (Independent)
-ARCHIVES: "cormac mccarthy (Slate)
-ARCHIVES: Cormac McCarthy (Find Articles)
-REVIEW ARCHIVE: for The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Metacritic)
-REVIEW: of The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Phil Christman, Books & Culture)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Janet Maslin, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of The Road (William Kennedy, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Ron Charles, Washington Post)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Chris Cleave, Daily Telegraph)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Todd Shy, Christian Century)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Michael Moorhead, Christian Ethics Today)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Joseph Kugelmass, The Valve)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Ten O'Clock Scholar)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Image)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Jennifer Egan, Slate)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Slate Audio Book Club)
-REVIEW: of The Road ()
-REVIEW: of The Road (John Holt, California Literary Review)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Michael Chabon, NY Review of Books)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Alan Cheuse, NPR)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Clive Sinclair, Independent)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Ed Caesar, Independent)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Adam Mars-Jones, The Observer)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Mark Holcomb, Village Voice)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Alan Warner, Guardian)
-REVIEW: of The Road (George Monbiot, The Guardian)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Victoria Hoyle and Paul Kincaid, Strange Horizons)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Fl;orence Williams, Outside)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Benjamin Whitmer, Modern Word)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Dierdre Donahue, USA TODAY)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Chris Barsanti, PopMatters)
-REVIEW: of The Road (David Hellman, SF Chronicle)
-REVIEW: of The Road (The New Yorker)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Niall Griffiths, Daily Telegraph)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Charles McGrath, The Scotsman)
-REVIEW: of The Road (Gordon Hauptfleisch, Blog Critics)
-REVIEW: of No Country (John Freeman, The Scotsman)
-REVIEW: of
-REVIEW: of The Crossing (Anthony Quinn, Independent)
-FILMOGRAPHY: No Country for Old Men (IMDB)
-FILMOGRAPHY: Ethan Coen (IMDB)
-FILMOGRAPHY: Joel Cohen (IMDB)
-FILM REVIEW ARCHIVE: Ethan Coen (Metacritic)
-PROFILE: Coen Heads (David Edelstein, 9/21/07, New York)
-VIDEO: A discussion about the film No Country for Old Men with Josh Brolin, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Javier Bardem (Charlie Rose, November 16, 2007)
-ESSAY: Rescripting the Western in 'No Country for Old Men': How the Coen Brothers' ostensibly faithful award winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men diverges from its creator's rather questionable politics. (Sergio Rizzo, 13 Jan 2011, PopMatters)
-ESSAY: Why Anton Chigurh is still an iconic movie villain, 10 years later: On the anniversary of 'No Country for Old Men,' we look back at Javier Bardem's terrifying character (Christian Holub, November 10, 2017, EW)
-ESSAY: The ending of No Country for Old Men explained (MATTHEW JACKSON, MARCH 23, 2020, Looper)
-ESSAY: No Country For Old Men Ending Explained: No Country For Old Men is considered a classic by many but the ending was divisive. We explore the final scene and what it really means. (PADRAIG COTTER, MAR 06, 2019, screen Rant)
-INTERVIEW: James Franco on Cormac McCarthy, nasty reviews, and tackling necrophilia,/a> (Drew Fortune, 8/05/14, AV Club)
-PODCAST: No Country for Old Men (Bill Simmons, bill Hader and Chris Ryan, Jul 3, 2019, The Ringer)
-FILM REVIEW ARCHIVE: No Country for Old Men (Metacritic)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Joe Morgenstern, WSJ))
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Peter Rainer, CS Monitor)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (David Edelstein, New York)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Roger Ebert)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (AO Scott, NY Times)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Lou Lumenick, NY Post)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Mick LaSalle, SF Gate)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Ty Burr, Boston Globe)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (James Berardinelli, Reel Views)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Anthony Lane, The new Yorker)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Lisa Schwarzbaum, EW)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Rex Reed, NY Observer)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Jason Cowley, The Guardian)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Adam Sternburgh, Vulture)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Dana Stevens, Slate))
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Michael Smith, Tulsa World)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Michael Wood, London Review of Books)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Richard Schickel, TIME))
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Jamie S. Rich, Criterion Collections)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Todd McCarthy, Variety)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Paul Arendt, BBC)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN, Austin Chronicle)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Tom Charity, CNN)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Jamie Russell, Radio Times)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Josh Tate, LAist)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Stephen Hunter, Washington Post)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Alan Noble, Christ & Pop Culture)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Emanuele Saccarelli, World Socialist Website)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Andrew Sarris, NY Observer)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (jeffrey Overstreet, Christianity Today)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Leo Braudy, Film Quarterly)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Alan A. Stone, Boston Review)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (rahul Hamid, senses of Cinema)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist)
-FILM REVIEW: No Country for Old Men (Andreas Babiolakis, Films Fatale)
-FILM REVIEW: Child of God (Sam weisberg, Village Voice)
-FILM REVIEW: Child of God (Film Threat)
Book-related and General Links:
-The Cormac McCarthy Home Pages (The Official Website of the Cormac McCarthy Society)
-Cormac McCarthy (Random House)
-Cormac McCarthy: A Bibliography (Dianne Luce)
-CORMAC MCCARTHY ( Daniel E. Tingle)
-The Cormac McCarthy Forum
-Defining the Unseen Deity in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy (Paul Mitchell, Shoot The Messenger)
-Reclusive McCarthy in spotlight again (USA Today)
-ESSAY: Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction (Richard B. Woodward, NY Times Book Review)
-Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels ( David Foster Wallace, Salon)
THE BOOK:
-READING GROUP GUIDE: Cities of the Plain and the Border Trilogy (Vintage Books)
-TEACHERS GUIDE: All the Pretty Horses (Vintage Books)
-REVIEW: Boys on Horseback, Loose in Mexico (HERBERT MITGANG, NY Times)
-REVIEW: The Man Who Understood Horses (Madison Smartt Bell, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: Dream Work (DENIS DONOGHUE, NY Review of Books)
-REVIEW: of the whole Border Trilogy Sentimental Journey (Vince Passaro, Salon)
* -REVIEW: of the whole Border Trilogy Horseman, Ride On (Edwin T. Arnold, World and I)
THE OTHER BOOKS:
-REVIEW: of Blood Meridian IS EVERYBODY DEAD AROUND HERE? (Caryn Jame, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of The Crossing Border Crossings, Real and Symbolic (MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of The Crossing Travels With A She-Wolf (Robert Hass, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: Cities of the Plain Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Sara Mosle, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: Cities of the Plain Moving Along the Border Between Past and Future (MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NY Times)
-REVIEW: Cities of the Plain The Sun Also Sets (A.O. SCOTT, NY Review of Books)
-REVIEW: Cities of the Plain (Charles Dove, Sidewalk)
-REVIEW: of Cities of the Plain The West's end (Tom Scocca, Boston Phoenix)
-REVIEW: Cities of the Plain The unsheltering sky (Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe)
-REVIEW: Plain talk about 'Cities' Cormac McCarthy clumsily closes 'Border Trilogy' (Anne Stephenson, AZ Republic)
-REVIEW: Plain Speaking--The Long-Awaited Finale To Cormac McCarthy's 'Border Trilogy' Is Another Tribute To The Impossibly Beautiful (Jim Carvalho, Tucson Weekly)
* -REVIEW: Horseman, Ride On (Edwin T. Arnold, World and I)
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Application Form for the Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program
Supporting Doctoral Study for Underrepresented Students interested in African American Literature, Language, and Culture and Black Digital and Public Research.
DATES: Nov. 13 - 14, 2020
LOCATION: Pennsylvania State University - Virtual Zoom Meeting
Application deadline: October 15, 2020
Join our next cohort of Cooper-Du Bois fellows and learn more about Penn State’s historic cluster hire of 13 faculty specializing in African American life and culture and its fall 2020 launch of the new Center for Black Digital Research.
Apply now for this three-day program to attend workshops on a variety of topics related to graduate studies and the admissions process, to learn about new directions in the fields of African American literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, to hear about opportunities for Black digital and public research, and to meet with faculty, area, and program heads, as well as current and former graduate students and Cooper-Du Bois Fellows.
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Graduate Studies in African American Literature and Language
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Ten years after disagreeing over Seaweed's 1993 album Four, we give the 1995 major label follow-up Spanaway a chance to mend the fracture
If you've listened to this podcast long enough, you know that we are not always in agreement about what works and doesn't work for us on various albums. One of the earliest disagreements was back in Season One when we checked out the 1993 album Four by Seaweed. Thanks to a recent listener suggested poll on our Patreon site, we're back ten years later to check out the 1995 follow-up Spanaway, the band's only release on the Hollywood Records label. While the band faced the tired "sell-out" label for signing to a major, in reality, the band stayed close to what they did well - a bombastic combo of East Coast post-hardcore and PacWest grunge, with some extra nuance thanks to the skilled fingers of Andy Wallace behind the mixing board, as well as guest visits in the drum throne by Barrett Martin (of Screaming Trees) and Matt Cameron (of Soundgarden). The question remains - has anything changed in our diverging opinions?
Intro - Start With
18:45 - Magic Mountainman
22:53 - Assistant (To The Manager)
31:59 - Free Drug Zone
Outro - Last Humans
Can a band still make a masterpiece even as they're falling apart? We revisit the 1995 sophomore self-titled album by Sunny Day Real Estate
Warped Tour in the 90s
To kick-off our new roundtable series on the touring festivals of the 90s, we're going back to 1995 to revisit the start of the Warped Tour
Tours And Festivals - Roundtable
The Promise Ring
The Promise Ring twist and turn pop structures to unique results on their 1997 album Nothing Feels Good
Nothing Feels Good
On their third album In On The Kill Taker, Fugazi expanded and redefined not only their own sound but the post hardcore they helped create
In On The Kill Taker
Emo in the 90s
What is Emo? We try to figure that out by diving into the history, the bands, the unique sounds and more
We were unfamiliar with Braid and their much acclaimed 1998 album Frame and Canvas. Does it live up to the hype?
Frame and Canvas
Mother Love Bone released their one and only album Apple 25 years ago, we revisit with Eric Peterson from the Love That Album podcast
One of the bands often mentioned along with Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam as early members of the Seattle grunge movement.
Clarity represents musical highpoint for not only emo, but rock music at the end of the 20th Century.
Facebook love, or is disagreement on the horizon?
This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
Featuring members of legendary bands like Quicksand, Helmet, Cro-Mags and Murphy's Law.
One of the most influential albums of the 1990s, Diary. Credited as a primary instigator of what would later be known as emo,
Are they punk? Are the emo? Are they pre-emo? Are they post-punk?
24 Hour Revenge Therapy
In the twenty-third episode of the Dig Me Out Podcast, Tim and Jason review the 1995 album Manic Compression by Quicksand
Manic Compression
In the twentieth episode of the Dig Me Out Podcast, Tim and Jason review the 1993 album Four by Seaweed
Gruntruck
In the ninth episode of the Dig Me Out Podcast, Tim and Jason review the debut Gruntruck album Inside Yours.
Inside Yours
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Home / news / Hans Zimmer Announces First World Tour
Hans Zimmer Announces First World Tour
Famed composer Hans Zimmer has announced his first-ever tour with stops in Europe, the US, New Zealand and Australia.
Zimmer said in a press release, “Performing a concert series like this is something that I have always wanted to do… I am very excited to get some of my very talented friends together and give our audiences an experience unlike any concert they have ever been to before.”
Each performance will be two parts. The first will feature his classic scores to The Lion King, Gladiator, and Pirates of the Caribbean, while the second will include reimagined renditions of his work with Christopher Nolan, specifically The Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception.
Hans Zimmer 2017 Tour Dates
04/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Microsoft Theater
04/19 – San Francisco, CA @ The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
04/21 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Park Theater
04/29 – Auckland, NZ @ Vector Arena
05/02 – Sydney, AU @ Qudos Bank Arena
05/04 – Melbourne, AU @ Rod Laver Arena
05/06 – Brisbane, AU @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
05/08 – Perth, AU @ Perth Arena
05/16 – Helsinki, FI @ Hartwall Arena
05/18 – Stockholm, SE @ Ericsson Globe
05/20 – Oslo, NO @ Forum Copenhagen
05/22 – Copenhagen, DK @ Royal Arena
05/24 – Leipzig, DE @ Arena Leipzig
05/26 – Gdansk, PL @ Ergo Arena
05/28 – Lodz, PL @ Atlas Arena
05/30 – Krakow, PL @ Tauron Arena
06/01 – Budapest, HU @ Papp Laszlo Sports Arena
06/02 – Bratislava, SK @ Ondrej Nepela Arena
06/04 – Prague, CZ @ O2 Arena
06/06 – Vienna, AT @ Stadthalle D
06/09 – Frankfurt @ DE @ Commerzbank-Arena
06/11 – Paris, FR @ AccorHotels Arena
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The Cults of the Blood Gods discussion thread
MyWifeIsScary
Originally posted by CTPhipps View Post
I think that we really needed:
* House Carna
* The Ministry
* The Web of Knives
Those three are some pretty famous Blood Cults.
I will say I love the Cult of Eilos and intend to run that one soon.
-The Man just said they're not so culty. So you'll need to figure out a new watsonian reason for them to exist and have power next argument we have over them
-Now they are a very lose collection of cults, many with only a bloodline in common, not a single cult.
-Now they're just mainline Assamites now, but with a -I was trained from childhood to kill in my ninja village/compound- shtick. Loyalists (to Ur-Shulgi) are the cult worth writing about, especially with all the purges, but we've got enough about them from prior editions so there's not so much need for more. I suppose now the caste system got fucked so they could warrant a new write-up...
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Beckett's Jyhad Diary implies that probably a third of Cappadocias is in the True Vessel.
Not just his blood.
So the Specter Cappadocias is destroyed and so is Augustus' portion but there's still a bit left of the Antediluvian's soul.
Actually Cappadocious' plot as presented in the Giovanni Chronicles specifically ensured that Augustus wouldn't devour his soul at all. Which is what led to Augustus hunting for the True Vessel and that Claudius Giovanni may have accidentally destroyed when he was ransacking Erciyes.
And while BJD does bring the Vessel back around, even it doesn't actually confirm that it contains the last of Cappadocious' Blood, just that people believe it does.
So at most, we have a piece of his soul lingering around in the True Vessel while the rest of his soul was destroyed at the end of the Giovanni Chronicles.
Could he come back? A very slim chance, yes. Will he come back? Not likely. Does any of his childer want him back? Doesn't look like it. Even some of the old Cappadocians like Roger Camden don't think highly of their progenitor. Hell, Camden even describes Cappadocious as abusive and manic.
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Originally posted by MyWifeIsScary View Post
Their existence is explained quite clearly in the Carna loresheet. That you do not like it, impose your own headcanon about what it must be like, and then spend dozens of posts complaining that it's nonsense and accuse others of getting it wrong doesn't constitute an argument.
Just do what the rest of us do when we don't like a thing - leave it out of your games.
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5. I do wonder why they chose the Hecata as an example. They're not exactly Greek mythology orientated and necromantic
uh what
Assuming 'Hecata' is from Hecate, she was a goddess very much associated with the necromantic. She was also very popular in the Clan's old stomping grounds of Anatolia, and maybe even originated from the region.
Unless you meant the Cappadocians weren't very Greek, which is still off. We don't have much info about them before Cappadocius became an (un?)born-again Christian, but even with that you still get terms like 'Athanatos' for their undead servants in DA:V, and even as late as the Harbingers using Hades over Roman terms for their stuff in... LotB? Also their homeland was very much on the Greek side of the Greco-Roman divide. They might have gone with a Latinized name for Big C, but I'd be willing to bet his followers were more Orthodox than Catholic.
Originally posted by trueann View Post
Or, considering Cappadocius' connection with Anatolia, Lelwani for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelwani
Could have been fun.
One of the weird things about the Cappadocians, though, is that as a Clan they were fairly young. Cappadocius claimed to not have Embraced until after he abandoned the Second City (or was hinted to have purged any childer he had from back then), and the Clan's lore always seemed to imply Kaymakli and Derinkuyu were pretty early in their history - and they only date back as far as the 8th century BC, far as we can tell. By that point Greeks (Mycenaean or otherwise) had been a fixture on the peninsula for over a millennium.
Or maybe Cappadocius was just a huge grecophile before his obsession changed to eating God, and the survivors only remembered so many name changes back.
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Heketa and Heceta always have heavy and sharp consonants, giving them a slightly sinister sound. Hek-ah-tah.
So Nate, one half of the old Vtm25 podcast did a review of Cults on his new project 2d10
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I've noticed that there are a bunch of people who don't like the concept of the new Clan Hecata - that the Giovanni, Cappadocians, Harbingers of Skulls, Samedi, etc, could "bury the hatchet" and come together to form a brand new clan..... I'm curious as to why.
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Originally posted by Japheth View Post
Probably because they were all a bunch of Paranoid Psychos completely obsessed usually with Revenge, or in the Gio's case after they pogromed almost successfully they obsessed over a doomsday plot, and the Samedi were the only chill ones.
I mean I don't generally expect a bunch of psychos definded by hating each other to form a cohesive friendly family, but they could be having their strings Pulled, I mean who is Hecate? It could be interesting we will see.
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Personally, I always thought that the Cappadocians should have been the Clan and the Giovanni a bloodline of that Clan. In a convoluted sort of way, that is what we have now. We have a general Death Clan and multiple bloodlines of it.
I’m not 100% on how the whole process seemed to have been brought about, but I never really saw a reason for the Giovanni and Harbringers to be enemies.
I kinda like the idea of Cappadocius himself still existing in some way and pulling all of the strings behind these events.
Originally posted by Eldagusto View Post
Actually, I wasn't talking about in game people, but people IRL.
My general opinion is that it makes a substantial change to the canon that isn't necessarily one people found to be organic. The Giovanni were already an immensely popular clan and largely considered one of the best for pure "horror" in a way that didn't involve the supernatural but equally good at it when it did. The Cappadocians are also very popular but merging the two of them after so much bad blood felt like a shocking swerve that put down a lot of Giovanni plots while ending most of the existing Harbinger metaplot. If you liked the Endless Night, it also killed that plot dead (mind you, the "plot to end the world" can only go on for so long until it does or not).
The merging of the Samedi and Nagaraja as well as removing their weaknesses feels like they're effectively "killing off" the Bloodlines and making them more generic.
Also add in the fact that Oblivion is controversial versus Necromancy and Obternation as separate disciplines.
Personally, I like it. The Giovanni as a clan were the clan everyone loved to hate.... I'm excited for the future of the Hecata, and it was the main reason why I backed the project.
Hoho I see. :P
The Gentleman Gamer
Sorry to wade in here with corrections, but:
- The Giovanni were never an "immensely popular clan". Quite the contrary, often polling around the bottom, near bloodlines (even in Paradox's research ahead of V5, which they published and presented at conventions such as the Grand Masquerade and World of Darkness: Berlin).
- The Cappadocians were popular but were largely a Dark Ages-only affair, limiting their visibility in the eyes of the casual fan. Given their treatment prior to V20 was to treat them almost entirely from the view of "this clan is doomed to feed the Giovanni", their play options were limited from the view of sourcebooks, though plenty of Storytellers expanded this. Plus, the prevailing fan perspective of the Cappadocians and Harbingers (as evidenced, anecdotally, above) was that they were just revenge-driven killers. They required more depth and nuance. The changes leading to the Hecata formation laced throughout V20 seemed appreciated, but interestingly, it feels like some fans can't accept the idea of Harbingers achieving their vengeance (which if dragged out would have left them as one-note) or forming an uneasy alliance with other betrayed necromancers.
- The Endless Night plot hasn't been completely killed and is still pursued by some Hecata. We don't go into it in great detail in Cults of the Blood Gods because frankly, it's a dead end plot metagame-wise (it only benefits one clan and will never be the course Vampire: The Masquerade follows) and this isn't Clanbook: Hecata.
- There are points throughout the book referring to Samedi having repulsive appearances (see p. 222 as an example) and Nagaraja consuming flesh (see p. 142 and p. 223), and their Bloodline Loresheets feed into this. They don't all have different Banes / weaknesses because they're all of the same clan, ostensibly.
I understand why older fans may dislike something that changes the metaplot they've come to enjoy over the years. It happens with every edition change of every game, especially when there are setting shifts. That said, I'm much happier we've changed the Clan of Death rather than keeping them on the same narrow track.
On the plus side, the number of people playing Hecata now, based again, anecdotally, on the sheer number of folks interested in this clan on the various WoD Discords and Facebook groups, is staggering. Maybe they're new fans, perhaps they're established fans interested in a clan that's been made more accessible, but from my view, the launch of the Hecata has been a success.
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Are humans overfeatured?
General feedback and discussion of the game.
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Post by Marcgal » April 4th, 2017, 4:23 pm
I know it’s a little bit late to mention this… Though I’m not sure if mainlining Khalifate was such a good idea.
Gameplay wise they might be OK. My objections arise from a slightly different POV…
I have a feeling that humans are overrepresented.
They actually were even before Khalifate: The whole Kingdom of Wesnoth had more unit types than any other race.
Plus, we had human outlaws in the Knalgan (dwarvish) faction, and rogue human mages are prominent (plot-wise and gameplay-wise) in Undead. And also human mages are featured in Rebels.
This would be fine if this applied to other factions as well. Wesnoth could have dwarvish mercs, for example. Elves could divide between wood-elves and high elves, the former being less isolationistic and more open to being featured in other factions. But this was not the case.
And now humans are given one more faction. Exaggerating this a little bit, it will soon seem as if other races are just an addition for humans.
• Humans get two whole factions (Loyalists & Khalifate), plus half of Knalgan, and are featured in Undead and Rebels.
• Elves get one faction.
• Dwarves get half of a faction.
• Orcs get one faction.
• Drakes and Saurians share a faction.
• Undead get a faction.
Do others feel the same that this creates some plot-wise imbalancement, or is it just me?
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Re: Are humans overfeatured?
Post by Gyra_Solune » April 4th, 2017, 6:44 pm
I wouldn't quite count Khalifate just yet - their place in the lore is ambiguous and they're not yet featured in any official story content. They're just a glimpse at what might be 'outside' the normal realms of Wesnoth, and possibly a secondary nexus of the story. As humans ourselves, we are biased towards humans - the game itself is named after the Kingdom of Wesnoth and the story revolves around the Kingdom and its interactions with the other races over the course of its history. I imagine the Khalifate serves a similar role in its sphere - maybe a band similar to UtBS's Quenoth Elves lives there, maybe they could put that neat Minotaur-focused faction there, among other things.
Part of the problem is simply a lack of good, immediately obvious and distinct fantasy races to place! But it's also the role humans serve in the setting - unlike the other races, who are relatively set in their ways, humans are adaptable migrants who are willing to work with anyone or anything depending on the individual. They don't have the inherent strengths of the other races that lead them to be dominant in their climes, but they don't have the inherent weaknesses that prevent those races from being successful outside of them. They're also fractured by nature and don't share a uniform culture. Orcs are bickering warlords but they're all in it to raid and conquer, elves and dwarves have internal conflict but it's never between groups that live in fundamentally different ways. But the Kingdom of Wesnoth lives differently than the outlaws who unified with the Knalgan Alliance, and they're also in conflict with humans who decided to harness the power of the undead, while there's also free mages who decided to throw their lot in with the elves instead, and that doesn't keep in mind the totally different and distant Khalifate who just as well have a totally different culture.
tl;dr unlike every other race who has specific innate qualities, humans in Wesnoth are defined explicitly by adaptability and flexibility and can manage to thrive modestly in just about any environment, which is why you see so many different groups aligned with so many different sides.
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Post by zookeeper » April 4th, 2017, 7:32 pm
Sure, humans are overrepresented. Although I'd argue it's not the simple number of units and factions which is the "problem"; it's more (or at least equally much) the fact that most campaigns have humans or elves (which can to a large degree be characterized as "idealized humans") as the protagonists, and that the world history is pretty much driven by humans. What sort of significant impact have other races had on the world of Wesnoth that isn't a reaction to human action? Not much.
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Post by The_Gnat » April 4th, 2017, 10:35 pm
You have a very convincing argument however I believe you are looking at it from the wrong point of view. Humans clearly are the dominant race in wesnoth which is why they feature in the most campaigns and elves are in fact closely related to humans as zookeeper said. Overall humans should be the most occurring.
Ultimately, though, you have brought up a valid point: the human race in wesnoth is repersented by nomads (khalifate), loyalists, outlaws, sorcerers, and necromancers. All other races are reperesented as a single stereotype (with only minor exceptions). All elves in wesnoth are wood elves. All dwarves are metal workers in the mountains. All drakes are lawful. All orcs are barbarians.
What I believe should be done is not remove khalifate but add more variety of other races. As mentioned dwarvish mercenaries and high elves would be good additions. Similarily, orcish miners, elves and dwarves who have grown up in human cities, Lawful saurians (who have been cast out), elvish mages, merman bounty hunters, intelligent trolls (maybe more shamans similar to those in era of magic), goblin servants (for humans), good ghosts that help people, elvish outlaws, and also halfbreeds (between the human like races).
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Post by Gyra_Solune » April 4th, 2017, 11:13 pm
There's provisions for different kinds of elves - they're listed as wood-elves in image files. I'm in support of the Under the Burning Suns elves being somehow integrated into the regular timeline.
I think halfbreeds are right out though. These are different species we're talking about, attempts at interbreeding would work as well as they would in real life I imagine.
Post by taptap » April 4th, 2017, 11:33 pm
All this can be done and is done in user made content. Different units, different races, completely different eras, sometimes even proper mercenary companies ... and single-player content hardly matches multiplayer factions even in mainline. Just don't obsess over content shipped with the game and you are fine. Plenty user made campaigns to discover are available and while some will disappoint (depending on your preferences), some are not quite finished, others are more fun than most mainline has to offer and are almost as polished as well.
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Post by The_Gnat » April 5th, 2017, 12:45 am
@ gyra - You are right interbreeding is not a very good idea However, i think because UtBS occurs quite a while after the rest of the wesnoth campaigns it shouldn't be integrated. But i do think that other varients of elves would be a good addition.
@ taptap - You are also right, much of what i suggested has already been done in UMC add-ons. However, i believe the point of this thread was discussing the mainline game. (though i have somewhat migrated the discussion away from humans)
In conclusion, i believe the mainline game does not have to be changed but it would be an improvement if minor changes to make the other races (beside humans) more unique were made. What exactly needs to be changed should be considered before anything is implemented. But i strongly believe some changes should be made to further represent other races.
For example the Orcish shamans in [acronym="Son of Black Eye (an Orcish campaign)"]SoBE[/acronym] are a valuable (and in my opinion) important part in showing that the orcs are not merely barbarians. Another example is the masked Dwarves of THoT.
Similar units should be mainlined for the other races.
Post by Gyra_Solune » April 5th, 2017, 4:39 am
There aren't /that/ many of such unit variations really, and their not being mainlined is more about their art and stats not yet being up to snuff. When it comes to non-human units, there's the Merman King, which is IMO good enough to be placed as a generic merfolk lord unit, and the Merman Brawler, who needs some better spritework and probably a level 2.
The Wose Shaman's a decent contender for being mained, it does need some further balancing though since as a possible alt-path Wose promotion, it's pretty bad.
I'm still not sure why the Elvish Horse Archer exists.
Orcish Shamans are weird gimmicky escort units whose art isn't finished and whose design/concept is subject to change.
And the masked dwarves you mentioned are more of a graphical option for the dwarves than a separate unit - keeping them fully animated with the rest will be somewhat difficult to ensure.
And that's just about all there is really. Like honestly? The first step to making a unit is to make a solid reason for their existence and some kind of story, one that fits in with the setting and wouldn't be out of place if they just randomly showed up in some campaigns alongside other units. Then you have to make their sprites. That's the biggest impediment to these units, the art most of all, doing a lot of work for that is a good way to have say in their presence in the main game. Now, if you want them to be in a multiplayer faction? That's a whole other thing - don't count on that moving particularly fast unless you're willing to push other people into doing a lot of rigorous testing.
Post by Bitron » April 5th, 2017, 8:13 am
In addition, I want to mention that it is kind of humans nature to spread everywhere and beeing overpresent.
We are like what seven billion in the world, and how many elves you have met yet? SImply not their nature to interfere in everything. ^^
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Post by Dixie » April 5th, 2017, 9:42 pm
Well, sure, humans are represented a lot, which makes sense since it is the Battle for Wesnoth, aka a human kingdom. It's kinda like arguing that Harry Potter features too many magic users or too many British people. Sure, BfW features stories about event going on around Wesnoth, but if Wesnothian (i.e. humans) were not somehow featured in most of mainline, why should it be the Battle for Wesnoth and not, I don't know, the Battle for Iridia or something?
And then there's the gameplay argument. While I do agree that more variety within other races would be nice, you can only add in so many different factions and so many different unit types per faction before it turns into a balancing nightmare. Such units would have to be solely featured in campaigns and not integrated in mainline. But once again each mainline campaign has to be a certain quality and needs people maintaining them, which somewhat puts a limit on the amount of campaigns you can have.
A simple and elegant solution, provided someone supplies the art of course, could be keeping the same unit lines but mixing in some racial variety. I mean, who says a dark adept couldn't be an elf, dwarf or even an orc? Same goes with outlaws. Kinda like they've done for the zombie line. That being said, it could lead to balancing issues with the various movetypes and totally change some unit lines. I mean, what good would be a 4mp dwarven footpad, really, and wouldn't a high evasion, forest walking elven DA be a bit too much?
So, yeah, both the storyline's focus and balancing imperatives of the game more or less force it to focus heavily on humans...
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The very nature of the kind of magic the various races use possibly prohibits their use of dark magic. Elves and mermen utilize a fae magic heavily entwined with the forces of nature around them, dwarves only use magic via runic enchantments, which are lost to their kind, and drakes are explicitly extremely weak to dark magic. Saurians more or less use dark magic already - that's their augurs, though it's more of an occult hexing sort of affair over the blasts of life-draining energy. The magic of orcs is vaguely similar, but clearly a lot weaker - their shamans don't even have magic to speak of, it's simply a very weak animist curse sort of thing that does the life-draining but isn't as potent. I don't know anything about the troll shaman magic, but I imagine it's similar in nature to the magic forces the Drakes sustain themselves with, just more carefully manipulated, and I don't know anything about the magical capacities of woses, but it's likely akin to that of elves and mermen. Nagas are open to addition of some magic to their ranks since we haven't seen them use any despite them seeming fairly intelligent - I like the idea of them using shadowy magic of some kind, and I doubt ogres can use magic but hey maybe they can do something!
Post by SigurdFireDragon » April 6th, 2017, 3:40 am
I'm happy with Battle for Wesnoth being Wesnoth-centric and human-centric.
It seems reasonable for the game to be human-centric given what it was inspired by & when everyone who plays it is a human.
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Post by doofus-01 » April 8th, 2017, 2:33 am
SigurdFireDragon wrote: It seems reasonable for the game to be human-centric given what it was inspired by & when everyone who plays it is a human.
Yeah. And really, elves, dwarves, and even orcs are basically humans. Would it help if the Kalifate were given pointy ears?
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Post by Temuchin Khan » April 8th, 2017, 3:44 pm
In my opinion, the best way to resolve any concerns about humans being too dominant in Wesnoth would be to revive, complete, and mainline the factions from the old Battle for Meridia project:
I don't think I've seen a Wesnoth project, other than the Imperial Era, that did a better job of creating alternative Elf, Dwarf, and Orc cultures. The original creator, thespaceinvader, always intended to balance these factions with the Khalifate and have them represent the Khalifate's southern neighbors, so I think they would fit perfectly with Wesnoth lore.
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Post by SigurdFireDragon » April 8th, 2017, 5:03 pm
doofus-01 wrote:
SigurdFireDragon wrote: Would it help if the Kalifate were given pointy ears?
That's silly, the elves already have pointy ears. Though if one were so inclined, a mod could be made to add them.
There could even be two flavors of pointy ears:
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{TRAIT_POINTY_EARS_VULCAN} # +5 to logic & quoting starfleet regulations at the captain
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It's the latest taste of the band's 'Let's Try the After' project
We're deep into Broken Social Scene season, as the long-running indie-rock collective recently announced another new EP. Before the band drop Let's Try the After - Vol. 2, they have shared a new tune through the Adult Swim Singles program.
The song features lots of BSS's familiar moves, offering ornate, detail-oriented production and plenty of sonic shifts. This time around, their palette also includes plenty of electronic flourishes and some serious AutoTune.
Listen to "Big Couches" below.
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Hawaiian Common Law
The first Hawaiʻi Supreme Court case to discuss “the rights common people to go to the mountains, and the seas attached to their own particular land exclusively” in the 1850 Kuleana Act was Oni v Meek (1858.)
Oni, a tenant of the ahupua’a of Honouliuli, O’ahu, filed suit against John Meek, who had a lease over the entire ahupuaʻa. Oni brought suit when some of his horses, which had been pastured on Meek’s land, were impounded and sold. Oni claimed that he had a right to pasture his horses (by custom and by language in the Kuleana Act.)
The Hawai’i Supreme Court rejected both arguments. For over a hundred years, the Oni v Meek case appeared to foreclose claims based on custom. (MacKenzie)
In 1892 the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom and Queen Liliʻuokalani passed a law that recognized Hawaiian usage as part of the common law of the Kingdom, together with the common law of England.
An act on November 25, 1892, Act to Reorganize the Judiciary Department, ch. LVII, § 5, 1892 Laws of Her Majesty Liliuokalani, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, provided for exceptions to the English common law that were “established by Hawaiian national usage.”
This law, which is today known as Section 1-1 of the Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes (HRS,) provided the basis for the rights of the makaʻāinana (common people) beyond the rights reserved under the Kuleana Act, so as to include whatever was broadly customary as Hawaiian usage prior to 1892. (McGregor & MacKenzie)
HRS §1-1 Common law of the State; exceptions, states, “The common law of England, as ascertained by English and American decisions, is declared to be the common law of the State of Hawaii in all cases, except …”
“… as otherwise expressly provided by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or by the laws of the State, or fixed by Hawaiian judicial precedent, or established by Hawaiian usage; provided that no person shall be subject to criminal proceedings except as provided by the written laws of the United States or of the State. (Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes)
Effective January 1, 1893 and continuing today, common law was adopted “except as otherwise provided … or fixed by Hawaiian judicial precedent, or established by Hawaiian usage….” (HRS Case Notes)
In 1978, the Hawaiʻi State Constitution was amended to specifically recognize traditional and customary Hawaiian practices by adopting Article XII, Section 7:
“The State reaffirms and shall protect all rights, customarily and traditionally exercised for subsistence, cultural and religious purposes and possessed by ahupua’a tenants who are descendants of native Hawaiians who inhabited the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778, subject to the right of the State to regulate such rights.”
In 1995, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, explained in the Public Access Shoreline Hawaii (PASH) case that “Oni merely rejected one particular claim based upon an apparently non-traditional practice that had not achieved customary status in the area where the right was asserted.” (MacKenzie)
The PASH Court stressed that “the precise nature and scope of the rights retained by (HRS) § 1-1 … depend upon the particular circumstances of each case”.
The Court set out a test for the doctrine of custom, requiring that a custom be consistent when measured against other customs; a practice be certain in an objective sense, “(A) particular custom is certain if it is objectively defined and applied; certainty is not subjectively determined”; and a traditional use be exercised in a reasonable manner.
The PASH Court also clarified that “those persons who are ‘descendants of native Hawaiians who inhabited the islands prior to 1778,’ and who assert otherwise valid customary and traditional Hawaiian rights under HRS 1-1, are entitled to protection regardless of their blood quantum.” (MacKenzie)
In the ‘Kapili’ case (dealing with entering undeveloped lands to gather, without unnecessarily disturbing the surrounding environment, natural products necessary for certain traditional native Hawaiian practices) the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court noted:
“The statutory exception to the common law is thus akin to the English doctrine of custom whereby practices and privileges unique to particular districts continued to apply to residents of those districts in contravention of the common law.”
“This, however, is not to say that we find that all the requisite elements of the doctrine of custom were necessarily incorporated in § 1-1. Rather, we believe that the retention of a Hawaiian tradition should in each case be determined by balancing the respective interests and harm once it is established that the application of the custom has continued in a particular area.” (Supreme Court, Kapili)
Related to this, in the Pele Defense Fund case, it was determined that, “The nature and scope of the rights reserved to hoaʻāina (tenants) by custom and usage are to be defined according to the values, traditions and customs associated with a particular area as transmitted from one generation to the next in the conduct of subsistence, cultural, and religious activities.”
That case also found that residency of a particular ahupuaʻa was not required for gather, noting, “Unlike other areas in Hawaii, Hawaiians historically crossed ahupua`a boundaries in the Puna district. …”
“…The hunting and gathering patterns in the Puna district are unique because they are influenced, to a large extent, by an active volcano, Kilauea. It can be reasonably inferred that volcanic eruptions in the Puna area force hunters and gatherers to change areas to find plants and animals for subsistence purposes.” (Circuit Court, PDF)
The Pele Defense Fund decision extended rights to non-Hawaiians, noting, “Accordingly, non-Hawaiians could have the same right as Hawaiians, irrespective of Article XII, § 7 if they could prove that their rights were based on custom and usage.”
“The Pele Defense Fund decision concluded with “a permanent injunction against excluding the following persons from entering the undeveloped portions of the land and using the developed portion for reasonable access to the undeveloped portions, to perform customarily and traditionally exercised subsistence and cultural practices:”
“(a) Hawaiian subsistence or cultural practitioners who are descendants of the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778; (b) Person or persons accompanying Hawaiian subsistence or cultural practitioners described in (a); or (c) Persons related by blood, marriage or adoption to Hawaiian subsistence or cultural practitioners described in (a).”
Within the same Hawaii Revised Statues is another important law (§5-7.5) ‘Aloha Spirit’.
‘Aloha Spirit’ is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the self. Each person must think and emote good feelings to others. In the contemplation and presence of the life force, “Aloha”, the following unuhi laula loa may be used:
‘Akahai,’ kindness to be expressed with tenderness;
‘Lokahi,’ unity, to be expressed with harmony;
‘Oluolu,’ agreeable, to be expressed with pleasantness;
‘Haahaa,’ humility, to be expressed with modesty;
‘Ahonui,’ patience, to be expressed with perseverance.
‘Aloha’ is more than a word of greeting or farewell or a salutation. ‘Aloha’ means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return.
‘Aloha’ is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. ‘Aloha’ means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable.
Aloha, it’s the law.
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I enjoy and save all your posts. Is it possible to have a key word in your post title so when I look in your folder for a specific subject it will be easier to find? Aloha, Beth
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Legally Undead by Margo Bond Collins
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Title: Legally Undead
Series: Vampirarchy, Book 1
Author: Margo Bond Collins
Publisher: World Weaver Press
Book Length: 278 pages
A reluctant vampire hunter stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can.
Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.
But those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire draining the blood from her fiancé Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs–not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener.
As she slams the improvised stake into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment. Turning around to face them, Elle discovers that Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.
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The worst thing about vampires is that they’re dead. That whole wanting to suck your blood business runs a close second, but for sheer creepiness, it’s the dead bit that gets me every time. They’re up and walking around and talking and sucking blood, but they’re dead. And then there’s the whole terminology problem–how can you kill something that’s already dead? It’s just wrong.
I was twenty-four the first time I . . . destroyed? dispatched? . . . a vampire. That’s when I found out that all the books and movies are wrong. When you stick a wooden stake into their hearts, vampires don’t disintegrate into dust. They don’t explode. They don’t spew blood everywhere. They just look surprised, groan, and collapse into a pile of corpse. But at least they lie still then, like corpses are supposed to.
Since that first kill (I might as well use the word–there really isn’t a better one), I’ve discovered that only if you’re lucky do vampires look surprised before they groan and fall down. If you’re unlucky and miss the heart, they look angry. And then they fight.
There are the other usual ways to kill vampires, of course, but these other ways can get a bit complicated. Vampires are notoriously difficult to trick into sunlight. They have an uncanny ability to sense when there’s any sunlight within miles of them, and they’re awfully good at hiding from it. Holy water doesn’t kill them; it just distracts them for a while, and then they get that angry look again. And it takes a pretty big blade to cut off someone’s head–even an already dead someone–and carrying a great big knife around New York City, even the Bronx, is a sure way to get arrested. Nope, pointy sticks are the best way to go, all the way around.
My own pointy stick is actually more of a little knife with wood inlay on the blade–the metal makes it slide in easier. I had the knife specially made by an old Italian guy in just about the only ratty part of Westchester, north of the city. I tried to order one off the internet, but it turns out that while it’s easy to find wood-inlay handles, the blades themselves tend to be metal. Fat lot those people know.
But I wasn’t thinking any of this when I pulled the knife out of the body on the ground. I was thinking something more along the lines of “Oh, bloody hell. Not again.”
The ballroom was packed. More people had arrived while we were getting dressed. Women in sequined dresses and men in tuxedos sat around almost all the tables. Some of them were even eating. Couples crowded the dance floor. The band was indeed very good–they were playing a version of “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to” and the lead singer, a tall woman in a slinky black dress, had a deep, smoky-sounding voice.
It would be easy to be charmed by this setting, by all the elegance that surrounded me.
Of course, all the vampires that surrounded me weren’t quite so charming. They were terrifying.
And in a room full of people, I discovered that it was easy to tell which ones were vampires and which ones weren’t. Some of the humans were easy to spot–the ones who were eating food were easy to pick out as humans, of course, and many of them had bandages or fresh wounds on various parts of their bodies. The parts where the veins ran close to the surface: the neck, the crook of the elbow, the wrist.
There were other humans there, too, though, humans who weren’t eating and who didn’t have any visible blood-donation marks. But they were clearly human, just as some of the other people moving around the room were clearly vampires. The vampires tended toward pallor, of course. And occasionally one flashed a fang here or there, particularly when they laughed–an effect that I found chilling. They were mostly extraordinarily beautiful, but then, so were the humans. Deirdre seemed to like surrounding herself with beauty.
It had something to do with the energy the vampires projected, I guess. They seemed strangely brittle, yet almost vibrating with a nervous vitality. I’ve seen a similar thing with people who were on the verge of an emotional breakdown but attempting to hide it. I’ve also seen it in people with bipolar disorder. It’s a sort of forced, manic gaiety verging on hysteria.
But that energy was combined with an indolence of movement. They swayed through the room slowly, languorously, all the while virtually quivering with some suppressed power.
All in all, it was just about the creepiest thing I’d ever seen–toward the top of the list, anyway, right after “Seeing My Beloved Eaten.”
I recognized now some of that same energy in Greg himself. It wasn’t as pronounced, but it was there all the same. Perhaps it grew with age.
That meant that I was in a room full of old–perhaps very old–vampires.
God. I was in big trouble.
Margo Bond Collins is the author of a number of novels, including Waking Up Dead, Fairy, Texas, and Legally Undead. She lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
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Last week, MLB union chief Tony Clark again expressed frustration with how last winter’s market played out, with the sluggish business for veteran free agents.
“What we experienced last offseason was a direct attack on free agency, which has been a bedrock of our economic system,” he said. “If that's going to continue, then we have some very difficult decisions to make moving forward.”
As the union begins to formulate a badly needed strategy for the months and years ahead, sources continue to say that Clark and the union leadership have been engaged in substantive conversations with agents, a marked change from how business was conducted leading up to the last Collective Bargaining Agreement. Back then, many agents felt shut out of the process, and after the final CBA terms were revealed, they felt the lack of dialogue and assessment was a serious mistake.
Setting up the second half
• Ranking each division race so far
• Updated realistic goals for every team
• What being in first at the break means
Now, said one source, Clark “is trying” to make it better. The expectation is that the union will restructure its central group in some way, likely with the addition of more legal firepower. Once they get the new team in place, they will presumably try to hone strategy and priorities.
Whatever its composition, whoever is involved, the union leadership should devote some serious thought to how to handle social media -- which has the potential to be a weapon for the players' association, but also a significant problem if the players' association goes to war with MLB in the next round of talks. No major professional sports league has attempted to strike since social media became so ingrained in U.S. culture.
Almost a quarter-century has passed since the last time the union conducted a players’ strike, which swallowed the 1994 World Series and the beginning of the 1995 season. Back then, the oldest and even the youngest players were battle-tested in labor strife, with many having experienced everything from multiple rounds of owners’ collusion to strikes to lockouts, and within the membership, there was a strong belief in the common cause. There was also intense peer pressure, when needed. I remember Tony Gwynn chuckling as he recalled the angry exchanges in some of the meetings, whenever an individual player would question the wisdom of the union’s path. The occasional dissenters were shouted down.
Players such as Lenny Dykstra might have disagreed with the decisions and preferred to be back at work, but generally speaking, players expected each other to fall in line and back the leadership. In the midst of the 1994-95 strike, Orioles pitcher Arthur Rhodes showed up at Baltimore’s camp to say hello to friends -- and when the union leadership got wind of this, he was told to leave ASAP, lest he inadvertently convey the message to baseball owners that the players were desperate to get back to work.
Imagine how much more difficult it could be for the union to hold together a coalition these days, with a thousand-plus members posting on their own Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts. Imagine what a body blow it would be to any union if you had individuals griping in Tweets about being out of work, about paychecks missed, about union leadership choices.
Marvin Miller, the legendary union leader who is primarily responsible for building the strength of baseball’s players’ association, believed in openness, to better educate rank-and-file members. He wanted the players to know what their peers were earning, because owners had kept everything secret for decades and used the players’ ignorance in salary matters against them. He wanted the players to understand when and why it was important to take a stand.
The union could use social media to inform the players, to provide messaging, to reinforce arguments. Hundreds of unleashed players would be capable of swaying public opinion through their social media posts.
But a handful of tweets from disgruntled players would have the potential to devastate the strategy of Clark and his leadership team, depending on their timing -- because the posts could serve to encourage owners to wait for surrender, and look for more cracks in the players’ united front.
The Josh Hader situation the other day was a reminder that the union hasn’t really developed a social media strategy. As one GM pointed out, acknowledging the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it should be standard operating procedure for all new union members to scrub past tweets and posts.
Clark and the players have a lot to sort through and need to do so quickly, given the leverage the union could possess immediately over the issues of tanking teams, the NL adoption of the designated hitter and changes to rules. The players' association likely will have the opportunity to make up for lost ground long before it has to think about a work stoppage, so long as the union engages.
But along the way, this generation of players -- some of whom seemed to embrace the notion of a possible strike in a recent USA Today poll -- should be schooled on the sacrifices that would be required in any work stoppage, and in this era, that might include the suspension of social media posts.
News from around the major leagues
The big question for prospect Francisco Mejia is whether he'll remain behind the plate. (Photo by David Maxwell/Getty Images)
Francisco Mejia, the young catcher acquired by the Padres when San Diego traded lefty Brad Hand and sidearmer Adam Cimber to Cleveland, has always hit in the minor leagues. But moving forward, a key question about Mejia for some evaluators is whether he can play well enough defensively to continue to be a catcher, or if he has to move to another position; of course, a shift to another spot would greatly mitigate his value.
• Baltimore’s Zach Britton is the most coveted reliever available in a trade market that is generally devoid of experienced and big-time closers -- and he is in the crosshairs of a bunch of contenders:
The Cubs, who just lost Brandon Morrow to the disabled list and need a lefty.
The Astros, who thought they had a trade arranged for Britton last July -- and who recently demoted Ken Giles to the minors.
The Red Sox, who need late-inning depth.
The Yankees, who have a great bullpen but might look at Britton as a possible upgrade over Chasen Shreve -- while working to keep Britton away from other contenders.
The Dodgers, who just finished an extensive negotiation with the Orioles.
The velocity and movement on Britton’s fastball have improved markedly since the beginning of the month, and the Orioles are working quickly and could move him in the next few days.
• Kyle Schwarber estimates that he takes anywhere from 30 to 50 swings on an average day -- and he figures he took about 10 times that many in the Home Run Derby last Monday, which is why his arms were sore in the days after the event. Schwarber lost in the finals to Bryce Harper -- and after it was over, the Cubs’ outfielder said he thought this was the best possible result: Harper winning in front of his home crowd.
• Jacob deGrom pitches against the Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball amid a lot of speculation about his future with the Mets. His agent has called for clarification of his situation -- a contract extension or a trade ... despite the fact that the 30-year-old deGrom really doesn’t have a lot of leverage at this moment; he won’t be eligible for free agency until after the 2020 season. But the Mets have been in the vortex of a lot of media and fan criticism this summer, and the pressure to lock up their biggest star might continue to grow.
• Cardinals interim manager Mike Shildt’s first job in baseball was as a clubhouse attendant for the Double-A Charlotte Orioles. In the summer of 1980, it was his job to shine the shoes of Cal Ripken Jr. Shildt's mom worked for the team, and he got his first paid assignment when he was 8 years old -- retrieving foul balls, for $5 a game. Shildt remembers being expected to generate at least two fouls per game, and if he came back with one, well, there was some question about whether he’d get his $5.
Baseball Tonight Podcast
Friday: Tim Kurkjian on the Indians’ acquisition of Hand and Cimber and the Dodgers’ improvement; Paul Hembekides on the legacy of Chase Utley; Indians play-by-play man Tom Hamilton on the Cleveland upgrades; Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports on the Machado trade, the Zach Britton talks and the future of Adam Jones.
Thursday: Keith Law assesses both sides of the Machado trade -- what it means for the Orioles and what it means for the Dodgers; Rob Manfred’s comments about Mike Trout and player marketing; Sarah Langs and The Numbers Game.
Wednesday: Jerry Crasnick looks back on the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game, as well as the Hader tweets; the sounds and voices from the All-Star events; Rob Manfred on the state of the game.
Tuesday: In ESPN’s first live podcast -- from Washington, D.C. -- Karl Ravech and Tim Kurkjian chat about baseball issues; Sarah Langs and The Numbers Game; Todd Radom’s weekly uniform presentation, and quiz.
And today will be better than yesterday.
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Azad Nanakeli: My art work is related to current events
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen’s interview with Artist Azad Nanakeli
By Culture Project Last updated Apr 13, 2018 2,309
Azad Nanakeli Highlighted Memory (10), 2017 Mixed Media, Acrylic on Canva
Azad Nanakeli The other world (1), 2017 Acrylic on Canva
Awaz,(sound), 2015 video installation, 2 channel video and sound, 5'30" The grate game,Pavilion of Iran, 56° Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
ILLUMINATION, 2010 installation performance, variable dimensions
Azad Nanakeli Highlighted Memory (3), 2017 Mixed Media, Painting on Canvas
Crossing, 2015 Mixed media installation, photograph lambda print, video, variable dimensions The grate game, Pavilion of Iran, 56° Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Destnuej (Purification), 2011 video installation, 2 channel video and sound, 7' 02'' Wounded Water, Pavilion of Iraq, 54° Venice Biennale, Venice - Italy
AU(water), 2011 mixed media installation with audio 280 (h) x 320 (w) x 200 (d) cm Wounded Water, Pavilion of Iraq, 54° Venice Biennale, Venice - Italy
What is the question? 2007 digital video, DVD, sound, 2'30''
Azad Nanakeli The other world(4), 2017 Mixed media, Acrylic on Canvas
Outlook, 2006 digital video, DVD, sound, 6'07''
Perfect World, 2009 video installation, 2 channel video and sound, 7' 30'' Planet-K, 53° Venice Biennale, Venice - Italia
Azad Nanakeli The other world(11), 2018 Mixed media, Acrylic on Canvas
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: First of all, could you please tell our readers where were you born, and when did you leave your country?
Azad Nanakeli: I was born in the city of Erbil (Hawler) in Kurdistan. I was Seventeen years old when I left my city and went to Baghdad to study then I left the country entirely and went abroad to Europe.
Azad Nanakeli
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is it possible to share some of your memories about growing up in a country which was dominated by war, dictatorship, and lack of security?
Azad Nanakeli:Since I was a child, my only dream was to see my society living in peace and for Kurdistan to become independent. However, dreams are something; real politics is something else. People of Kurdistan spent their entire lives in war.
They lived under vicious dictators in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey. This is in addition to the fact that the United Nations never supported Kurdistan and its people. Let’s also not forget that our political leadership is also guilty of not caring enough about the new generations of Kurds.
I remember when I was a child sleeping on the roof top of our house, looking at the stars and trying to count them. When suddenly, all we could see are bullets fired in the sky in a fight between Peshmarga fighters and the regimes thugs.
The bullets would mix with the light of the stars in our vision. It became such a norm. That if one night there were no fight then we would be surprised. While I was studying in Baghdad in 1975, this was also the year when the Kurdish rebellion movement was defeated.
The Iraqi government began a new wave of violent attacks against the Kurdish rebels. Life became very difficult for us. I was not a member or supporter of the official Ba’ath Party, which meant I could be arrested at any time.
Despite my opposition and refusal of cooperation with the oppressive regime, I still managed to complete my studies and go into exile outside Iraq and eventually settled in Italy.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You were born in Arbil, Kurdistan and are a prominent Kurdish artist. How did you discover the latent talent?
Azad Nanakeli:From the age of seven, when I was at primary school, my art teacher helped me immensely and encouraged me to use different tools. In the same year one of my art works were sent to an international children’s art exhibition in Warsaw-Poland.
My work won a prize. After this, my teachers helped me more in my art lessons. After completing my high school studies, I went on to study at the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad. I completed my studies there and graduated with honors, first place.
There my teachers were also supportive and advised me to go abroad. At that time, the political situation was very dire in Kurdistan. I traveled to Italy. I started studying at the Academy of Florence and successfully completed it.
My art work was exhibited in various galleries and museums around the world; both in solo and in group art exhibitions.
Jacobsen: When you interact with the media, whether lay people or artistically knowledgeable, how do you convey the purpose and style of your art to them?
Azad Nanakeli:I do not adhere to a particular technique. That is related to the diverse nature of my work. For example: if I want to present a work related to environmental issues, I might use video art because it allows me a better chance to communicate my concept.
Or I can use photograph or installation or performance, or painting on canvas. These and other technical tools can help an artist to convey a message in his/her work. Getting closer, contemporary to modern art is not easy in society, this is why it is important to have involvement from intellectuals, art critics, and cultural organisations to create an atmosphere whereby people and art get closer and interact. The role of cultural centres is vital in commissioning more art work and exhibitions to show case to people.
Jacobsen: As a Kurd, and a long-time artist, do you use art as a means of protest and activism as well as self-expression?
Azad Nanakeli:Without doubt as an artist, I would want to express my own feelings and concepts in relation to environment, identity, war, social unrest, and exile. I came from a place called Kurdistan, from a long time ago my country was divided and has gone through many ordeals.
Colonisers invaded and bombarded our people using chemical weapons. Our people were subjected to genocide and exodus. Our resources were looted.
Jacobsen: Who are some elder and some up-and-coming artists who those interested in Kurdish culture should look out for and learn about their art?
Azad Nanakeli:This is a relative issue, I cannot say which artist should be made a role model in order to learn from them. We as Kurds in order to enjoy art; we need to learn more about the history of art and understand it.
Jacobsen: With a lifetime committed to the artistic life, what have been the most general, consistent principles that you have learned from the representation of your own experience and messages in art, and the ways in which observers interpret the artistic productions?
Azad Nanakeli:As I mentioned above in my answers, my work is related to current events, consumerism, for example, is a disaster in modern day. As an artist, I observe and study this catastrophe and other problems in society. Most artists work along similar lines, I believe.
Jacobsen: Thank you for the opportunity and your time, Mr.Nanakeli.
Azad Nanakeli:Thanks to you too.
Azad NanakaliCulture projectExileKurdish ArtKurdish ArtistScott Douglas JacobsenWar
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