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Saturday ACC Football
Here is the game slate for Saturday, Oct 15th:
MIAMI @ NORTH CAROLINA (-3), Chapel Hill, N.C., 12:30 PM, TV: ACC Network (Sirius 94//XM 190)
FLORIDA STATE (-9) @ DUKE, Durham, N.C., 3:00 PM, TV: RSN (Sirius 136//XM 191)
GEORGIA TECH (-8) @ VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, Va., 3:30 PM, TV: ESPNU (Sirius 113//XM 197)
VIRGINIA TECH (-7) @ WAKE FOREST, Winston-Salem, N.C., 6:30 PM, TV: ESPN3 (Sirius 94//XM 190)
CLEMSON (-8) @ MARYLAND, College Park, Md., 7:00 PM, TV: ESPNU (Sirius 113//XM 191)
Boston College and N.C. State have the week off.
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Labels: ACC Football
ACC Football Links
INJURED HOKIE LB GOUVIEA-WINSLOW #43
By Heather Dinich/ESPN
Maryland offensive guard Andrew Gonnella continues to have an impact on his teammates despite a season-ending knee injury.
Injuries continue to pile up for Virginia Tech's defense heading into the Wake Forest game.
Wake Forest running back Josh Harris missed another practice and remains questionable with a hamstring injury for the Virginia Tech game.
Midway through the season, the ACC race is still wide open.
Miami offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch never played the game. Doesn't matter. He knows his stuff.
DUKE'S JOHN COLEMAN AND DAVE HARDING
(John Rottet/Raleigh News & Observer)
Former Virginia coach Al Groh isn't getting sentimental over his return to Charlottesville this week as Georgia Tech's defensive coordinator.
N.C. State could have some injured players return after the bye week, and that's the hope.
Hey, FSU fans: Telvin Smith has a message for you.
N.C. State is hoping the bye week is a chance to heal.
There are a few bass fishin' Blue Devils on Duke's offensive line, and one of them is a founding member of the Ducks Unlimited chapter.
Occupy Wallstreet Punked By Game Day Fan, Beamer Takes Hit
So, as we have been looking to figure out the whole Occupy Wall Street protest and whether or not a twenty-something dressed like Marie Antoinette really knows jack you-know-what about economic policies, we have been forced to draw a few conclusions about the participants.
We surmise, they are self-disenfranchised citizens frustrated with big corporations and the get rich at all costs mentality that lead to the latest economic meltdown. That said, they should never go to China where the most popular English phrase is "Me gets my money first, screw you."
However, it would seem the overwhelming majority of the “protestors” appear to be college kids, unemployed young people, leftover hippies and one ESPN College Game Day fan.
How do we know this? Easy, the Game Day guy sticks out like a sore “protestor”...
Yes, this lone ESPN College Gameday fan has taken hilarious signs into Occupy Wall Street in an attempt to “Occupy Herbstreit.”
ESPN's College Gameday -- featuring analyst Kirk Herbstreit -- goes around the country to school campuses for the biggest game of the week and shows off different fans, signs, and school alums.
The unnamed fan -- who started an Occupy Herbstreit tumblr account -- took pictures of himself holding signs one of which poked fun at the Hokies notorious lightwieght non-conference schedule at the now weeks-long protest in Lower Manhattan.
Various media outlets have sent a messages to the owner's Twitter account and email listed on the tumblr account, but, so far, no responses.
Here are a few of the best photos from the tumblr account:
You gotta admit, even if you are a Bama fan, that's kinda funny...
Still lookin' for the employed Econ majors and MBAs...
Does she look qualified to make economic policy....? Just sayin'...
Fish: It’s What’s For Dinner
Our favorite Crazy Person (read that motorcycle racer) Casey Stoner whose name is only somewhat better suited for an X Games Snowboarder, is over in Australia with his Repsol Team Honda. Casey and the boys will be racing in Round 16 of the MotoGP World Championship, but before they take to the track in Phillips Island they stopped off at the Rhyil Trout and Bush Tucker Farm for a little fishing...
Don’t ask us how we know...
(Photos by Robert Cianflone/Getty)
Pictures Of The Day
Cal Ripken Jr., Dennis Eckersley and Tony LaRussa of the St. Louis Cardinals talk during batting practice prior to the Cardinals playing the Milwaukee Brewers during Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Busch Stadium on October 13, 2011 in St. Louis, Missouri. Cal looks good, Eckersley REALLY needs a haircut. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images North America)
Milwaukee Brewer second baseman Jerry Hariston, Jr.slides into home plate and scores in the 4th inning of game 4 of the NLCS. The Brewers won and the series ist ied 2-2. (David E. Klutho/Sports Illustrated)
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland watches his chip shot from a bank near the 2nd hole during day four of the Shui On Land China Golf Challenge in Red Flag Valley in Dalian, China. (Great 18 Golf Championships Ltd./AFP/Getty Images)
Detroit Tiger Delmon Young hits a two run home run against the Texas Rangers during the sixth inning of game five of the ALCS. Detroit won, and the series is tied 3-3. (Damian Strohmeyer/Sports Illustrated)
Labels: Pictures of the Day
Picture Of The Da(l)y
John Daly of the USA carrys his own golf bag down the 18th fairway during the pro-am for the Portugal Masters while a small and very low cloud passes by at Oceanico Victoria Golf Course on October 12, 2011 in Vilamoura, Portugal. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Europe)
Labels: John Daly
Tar Heels To Wear New Unis
Change is never all that popular.
The 2005 and 2009 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball National Champion University of North Carolina Tar Heels will be bringing much the same team to the hardwoods on Friday when they hit the court for Late Night With Roy, but they will be donning new threads.
So far, the fan base has been underwhelmed…
While the front of the new jerseys - which were worn during yesterday's media day - are pretty much the same, the back will feature an aerographic design incorporating the Old Well, the outline of the state of North Carolina and a basketball, according to the school's website, tarheelblue.com.
The style should be familiar to ACC fans, and, subsequently, unpopular with UNC fans…In 2009, Duke started wearing Nike's aerographic design as an alternate road uniform. The Blue Devils’ uni features the gothic architecture of their Durham campus embedded on the back of their jerseys. Texas and Kentucky also wear similar uniforms and neither team is particularly popular in Chapel Hill.
Needless, to say folks have opinions. To get some from The Dagger, click here.
Labels: ACC Basketball, North Carolina
“I think you have to continue to explore. Is 14 the right number? Will 16 be? I don’t know if I’m in the minority, majority—I don’t talk to anybody about this—but (it) seems to me that if you’re going to go 14, then you should go 16.”
-- Duke head basketball coach Mike Krzfghjk3ski.
That said, Krzwdfr7ski said he would support divisions of seven teams apiece and a 19-game conference schedule in which schools would play divisional opponents twice and cross-divisional opponents once.
Then Krzyvmn9ski said the idea of four-team pods “makes me vomit” …*
Nice, Coach K, NICE!
*He’s right, four divisions of four teams, while mathematically smooth, is dumb.
Labels: Quote of the Day
The Other Quote Of The Day
(Ethan Hyman/News & Observer)
"There are a lot of questions, a lot of unknowns about this team. You look at some other teams in this league, maybe roles are a little more defined. Where they sit with their program is more defined. To me, ours is a mystery."
-- New N.C. State head basketball coach Mark Gottfried.
Call it step one in the very difficult process of lowering fan expectations to a realistic level…
Johnson Gets Good Guy Award Of The Week
(Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
This week’s good guy award has to go to Paul Johnson.
The Terp’s senior left tackle Andrew Gonnella suffered a nasty knee injury in the game last weekend against the Yellow Jackets. On Sunday, Johnson and the GT AD Dan Radakovich went to visit the injured Terp at the Grady Medical Center in Atlanta.
“We just wanted to go by and make sure he had what he needed,” Johnson said. “I left him my cell number. His dad was there, I didn’t get to meet his dad. He was outside on a phone call. You feel for guys when they get hurt anytime. He may be the first guy we’ve had since I’ve been here that had to stay over in the hospital. That’s something you would want to do. I think that their guys would do that for our guys if they were left behind. I’m sure they would. More than anything I just wanted him to have my cell number in case he needed anything. We’re right here close by and could help him out.”
The Maryland senior left guard returned to campus on Monday night, but then returned to a local hospital with a blood clot on Tuesday night.
Labels: ACC Football, Georgia Tech, Maryland
JOSH HARRIS (Chuck Burton/AP)
Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo apologized for his recent statementsregarding ACC expansion and UConn.
Are Clemson fans watching the fastest team in school history?
Who is going to start at quarterback for Maryland? It remains a mystery until game day.
How's this for a game plan (last two questions)?
Virginia's defense is getting ready for a chess match with master playcaller Paul Johnson.
Injured Virginia Tech defensive end James Gayle is hoping to play against Wake Forest, but defensive line coach Charley Wiles isn't as optimistic.
Miami is taking a "no excuses" approach to its porous defense.
DUKE FANS (Chuck Liddy/News & Observer)
Some said UNC receiver Joshua Adams would never play football again, but with a rare disease now in remission, he has a chance to step on the field again.
Duke running back Desmond Scott is recovering from another injury and could see some more snaps this weekend.
FSU coach Jimbo Fisher is ready to hold his assistants accountable.
Wake Forest running back Josh Harris is determined to play this weekend, despite a tight hamstring.
Nice hat… Mexico’s Oscar Soto trains for the modern pentathlon at the aquatic center in Guadalajara in preparation for the Pan Am Games. (Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters)
Milwaukee Brewer Mark Kotsay is out at second as St. Louis Cardinal second baseman Nick Punto takes the throw on a fly out by Prince Fielder during game three of the NLCS. The Cards won and lead the series 2-1. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
Jorgan Persson of Sweden returns the ball during the final match of the men’s team competition at the 2011 Table Tennis Championships in Gdansk, Poland. (Wojtek Figurski/AP)
Mike Napoli of the Texas Rangers tags out Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers at home plate for the final out of the eighth inning of game four of the ALCS. The Rangers won and lead the series 3-1. (Harry How/Getty Images)
Another nice hat. (Robert Willett/Raleigh News & Observer)
#31 SEAN SPENCE, #3 LOGAN THOMAS
OFFENSIVE BACK – Logan Thomas, Virginia Tech, QB, So., 6-6, 254, Lynchburg, Va. Thomas completed 23 of 25 passes for a career-high 310 yards and a career-high three touchdowns. His incomplete passes were a dropped pass by David Wilson and a flip to Wilson to avoid a sack. He also rushed for a career-high two scores, including the game-winner. He had more touchdown passes (3) than incompletions (2) and his completion percentage of 92 percent is the highest for any quarterback under coach Frank Beamer in 301 games (minimum 20 attempts).
RECEIVER – Chris Givens, Wake Forest, WR, Jr., 6-0, 195, Wylie, Tx. Givens caught six passes for 101 yards in Wake Forest’s 35-30 win over Florida State on Saturday. Givens had one touchdown catch, a 22-yard scoring pass from Tanner Price late in the second quarter that staked the Demon Deacons to a 16-7 lead. Givens had three receptions for 86 yards in the second quarter with all three catches leading to first downs. He had catches for 40, 24 and 22 yards. Four of his six catches on Saturday were for first downs.
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN – Blake DeChristopher, Virginia Tech, T, Sr., 6-5, 311, Midlothian, Va.DeChristopher led an offensive line that put up nearly 500 yards of total offense in Tech's win over Miami. The All-ACC tackle played all 66 snaps, grading out at 93 percent with a team-high eight knockdown blocks.
DEFENSIVE LINEMAN – Joe Vellano, Maryland, DT, Jr., 6-2, 285, Rexford, N.Y. Vellano was all over the field for Maryland in its 21-16 loss to No. 13 Georgia Tech, racking up a career-high 20 tackles, including 14 solo stops and a tackle for loss, as the Terps held the triple option in check. Vellano, whose previous high of 10 stops came in the 2010 season opener, became just the fifth defensive player in the nation to post 20 or more tackles, though he is the only lineman in the FBS to register more than 15 stops in a game in 2011. The junior is one of just six Maryland players to reach the 20-tackle plateau since 1990, including the only defensive lineman.
CO-LINEBACKER – Sean Spence, Miami, LB, Sr., 6-0, 224, Miami, Fla. Spence continued his defensive dominance with a team-best 13 tackles in the loss to Virginia Tech. Spence, who now has a team-best 41 total tackles this year despite missing the opener, also recorded 2.0 tackles for a loss against the Hokies. Spence ranks second in the ACC with a 10.6 tackles per game average.
CO-LINEBACKER – Zach Brown, North Carolina, LB, Sr., 6-2, 230, Columbia, Md. Alternating between outside linebacker and middle linebacker, senior Zach Brown posted a game-high 11 tackles and recorded his first interception of the season in Carolina's 14-7 win over Louisville. Brown, the team leader with 42 tackles, had to call the defensive plays with Kevin Reddick out with an ankle injury. The Tar Heels shut out the Cardinals for three quarters and held Louisville to 273 yards, including just 85 in the second half.
DEFENSIVE BACK – David Amerson, NC State, CB, So., 6-3, 194, Greensboro, N.C. Amerson increased his ACC-leading interception total to six with a pair of picks against the Chippewas. He returned them for 28 yards in total returns. The last time an NC State player had as many as six or more interceptions in a season was 1998, when Lloyd Harrison had seven. In addition to the two picks, Amerson also had five tackles, including three solo hits.
CANTANZARO
ROOKIE – Sammy Watkins, Clemson, WR, Fr., 6-1, 200, Fort Myers, Fla. Watkins had seven receptions for 152 yards in the win over Boston College. He did not score a touchdown, but had two receptions that set up scores, including a 62-yard catch when he was covered closely by a Boston College cornerback. Saturday was Watkins’s third game of at least 140 receiving yards. He is now second in Clemson history in career 140-yard receiving games. Only Perry Tuttle has more with four games of at least 140 yards.
SPECIALIST – Chandler Catanzaro, Clemson, PK, So., 6-2, 200, Greenville, S.C. Catanzaro won the Leather Helmet Award as the overall MVP of the Clemson vs. Boston College game. Catanzaro booted five field goals in the game, just one off the Clemson single game record. He was a perfect 5-5 on field goals, the first Tiger to make at least five since 2009 when Richard Jackson had six in a win over Boston College. Catanzaro made field goals of 38, 42, 18, 20 and 47 yards. He was 2-2 on field goals of at least 40 yards and is 5-6 on field goals of that length this year. He was named National Kicker of the Week by the College Football Performance Awards.
Labels: Players of the Week
Clemson QB Cleared To Practice
(Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
According to the AP, Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd said Tuesday he has been cleared to practice with the strained hip he injured against Boston College that appeared more severe than it turned out.
Boyd sat out Monday’s workout as he recovered from the hard hit by Eagles defensive end Max Hollowayearly in the third quarter of last week’s 36-14 Tigers’ victory.
Coach Dabo Swinney said Boyd will get all the work with starters as the eighth-ranked Tigers (6-0, 3-0 ACC) prepare to take on Maryland this Saturday.
Boyd said he’s not sore, although he experiences some stiffness in his left hip if he sits too long.
“It was a little scary,” he said. “If you look at it, it definitely could have gone a lot of different ways. But fortunately, it turned out in my favor.”
Boyd has a reputation for toughing out injuries. He tore a knee ligament in high school but played out the season before having surgery. He said teammates and friends have joked with since Saturday, saying that Boyd put on a big display when he was helped off the field and driving to the locker room for someone not hurt all that badly.
“It’s something I’ll probably hear about the rest of my time here,” Boyd said with a laugh.
Labels: ACC Football, Clemson
Texas Football Rivals Try To Emulate Tobacco Road Shenanigans
So, the way we see it “plausible deniability” usually doesn’t include clarifying the situation…but, what the heck do we know?
Texas Tech officials "strongly condemned" vandalism that targeted a Texas A&M bus before the Aggies played the Red Raiders, but corrected their rival’s version of the incident saying fish bait, not manure, was used in the incident.
Texas Tech said in a statement Monday that bait was dropped on the floor of one bus parked at a Lubbock hotel before the Aggies' 45-40 victory.
Before Saturday night's game, A&M athletic director Bill Byrne said that manure went "from one end to the other" in one bus and was spread on the outside of three others. He tweeted the buses were "spray-painted."
Tech said washable shoe polish was on the windows of one bus, adding that the buses were cleaned before Byrne saw them and calling Byrne's tweet "careless” which is a code word out in Lubbock for “stupid.”
GUILTY? NAH...
No one has admitted to the prank and Tech was relying on information it received from the hotel management and the bus company.
Here is how an unbiased blogger described the event:
Sometime before the game a dastardly pack of marauding ne’er do wells—and everybody from Kent Hance to Wes Welker to Elmer Tarbox to Will Rogers is justifiably under suspicion—launched a sickening attack on the defenseless Aggie bus. They took a tankard of Kiwi Shoe Polish—and the color was sheep doo-doo brown for added insult!—and they scrawled several graffiti gravely offensive to dainty Aggie sensibilities on the winders of the innocent Aggie bus.
Now that right there is grounds some testy heart-to-heart with none other than Rick Perry, but the rampaging Red Raiders weren’t done yet. Not by a long shot! As if smearing a sickly double T on the winders wasn’t carnage enough, the miscreants had to go and dump a load o’ Quanah Stink Bait in the floorboard of the bus!
And here is how that same blogger described the big picture and the A&M AD’s reaction:
KINDA LOOKS GUILTY...
Yes, my fellow Red Raiders, there is a foul pest a-plaguin’ the land when our fair and saintly brethren from College Station, the veritable polar north of moral rectitude in the macroverse, cannot drive their busses through the streets of Lubbock without being set upon by shoe-polish wielding, stink bait slingin’ barbarian Taliban actin’ in the name of Texas Tech. I’m deeply ashamed and I know you are too.
I’m also appalled that the Texas Tech administration, rather sending an embassy of goodwill and lip-biting apology worthy of Bill Clinton to beg forgiveness for this vile atrocity, has had the effrontery to question Byrne and company. I mean just because the offending substances were shoe polish and stink bait rather than spray paint and fecal remnants as originally reported, and just because the unholy mess was cleaned up before most of the Aggie gang ever saw it, is no reason to question Byrne’s probity.
My word, what will the Tech thugs do next? Threaten a peaceable Aggie corpsman with a saber? For the love of Jackie Sherrill, why can’t we all just get along?
Can you just imagine it?!
Good stuff. Especially liked "effrontery."
(Mark Dolejs/US Presswire)
At 5-1 and unranked, North Carolina's players are feeling a bit disrespected.
Injuries to Virginia Tech's defensive front are a big concern right now.
Virginia's defense is taking all the time it can get to prepare for Georgia Tech's offense.
Maryland freshman Titus Till is well-traveled, but he's new to his home in the starting lineup.
If anyone knew what it felt like to be Clemson backup quarterback Cole Stoudt this past weekend, it was his father.
Some of Miami's players think they're better than they are, according to coach Al Golden.
Based on a comparison of last year's numbers, Georgia Tech has made "slight progress" this year.
Just because Duke is on a three-game winning streak and FSU has lost three straight doesn't mean the
Blue Devils will prepare for FSU any differently this week.
FSU is down, but coach Jimbo Fisher says the Noles aren't out.
Jim Grobe for Coach of the Year? I'll buy it.
ACC In The Polls
Clemson stayed the same, the Hokies inched up two notches, Georgia Tech one and Florida State (to no one’s surprise) has left the building in the AP Poll.
FSU's fall is particularly disconcerting to Seminole Nation considering FSU was ranked No. 6 preseason...oh yeah, and they lost to Wake and they'd tell you to a man "We NEVER lose to Wake!"
Just sayin'...
That said, the ACC still has good representation with No. 8 Clemson, No. 12 Georgia Tech and No. 19 Virginia Tech. North Carolina and Wake Forest both received votes.
Unfortunately for the ACC, Oklahoma is still undefeated, which makes it unlikely that the Tigers can find their way into any BCS Championship game conversations. By most accounts, it come down to Oklahoma vs. the SEC.
Labels: ACC Football, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
How many times has your coach told you to “keep your eyes on the ball?” Here, Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia plays a shot against Zheng Jie of China during their women's second round match of the Japan Women's Open tennis tournament in Osaka, western Japan on October 12, 2011. (Yes, tennis fans we know the ball is leaving the racket so don't leave a bunch of wonky comments...) (Photo by Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
Thee bat of Josh Hamilton #32 of the Texas Rangers flies through the air on its way to hitting a fan after he lost his grip on it during an at-bat in Game Three of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park on October 11, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit won the game and Texas leads the series 2-1. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Hey look, I found Elvis’ pants and his belt...Woo hoo! Actually, it’s just Liang Wenchong (L) of China celebrating an eagle during day 3 of the Shui On Land China Golf Challenge at the Topwin Golf and Country Club in Beijing. Elvis has been living in China the past ten years where he has been seeking alternative treatments for being fat, crazy and dead. (Photo by AFP/Great 18 Golf Championships Ltd.)
Promising juvenile colt Here Comes Frazier fell in the stretch during Sunday’s Grade III Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. Here Comes Frazier was leading in the stretch of the 11⁄16-mile turf race under jockey Julien Leparoux when he shied and fell into the rail suffering a broken hock and sending Leparoux tumbling several yards over the rail. Leparoux was unhurt save for a few aches and pains. (Photo by Amy Wallot/Photos By Z)
A young Milwaukee Brewers fan cheers for his team during Game 1 of the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Photo by Jeff Haynes/Reuters)
Calvin Johnson (Georgia Tech) of the Detroit Lions celebrates his touchdown catch by leaping into the stands at Ford Field during a game against the Chicago Bears. The Lions won 24-13 to go 5-0 for the first time since the French and Indian War. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
R.I.P. Al Davis 1929 - 2011
Al Davis, whose impact on the NFL is permanent, has died at age 82.
He was praised as the trendsetting owner of the Oakland Raiders, who broke racial and gender barriers while winning three Super Bowl titles and preaching his mantra of “Just win, baby!”
Davis was still called “Coach” by many of those around him. Coach Hue Jackson always used that respected title whenever he talked about Davis, saying there was no other owner in the NFL who could talk the intricacies of the game as well as “Coach Davis.”
Davis died Saturday at his home in Oakland, while his beloved team was in Houston preparing to play the Texans. That Davis was not with his team was telling as he is believed to have missed only three games since joining the team as coach in 1963.
Labels: R.I.P.
What A Difference A Week Makes
(Don Petersen/AP Photo)
Last week against Clemson, Virginia Tech’s offense was terribly ineffective. Yesterday, against Miami, QB Logan Thomas played brilliantly. Go figure. What a difference a week makes...
That said, while Virginia Tech's offense was much improved, Miami’s offense put on a show against the Hokies vaunted defense. The combined stats read like 100 yard volleyball.
The Hokies and Canes combined for 73 points at 1,001 yards. That’s not a misprint, that’s 1,001 YARDS!
Jacory Harris was 13 for 21 for 267 yards and three touchdowns. His battery mate, running back Lamar Miller shredded, and we do mean SHREDDED, the Hokies defense for 166 yards and a touchdown. Miller averaged 9.2 yards PER CARRY.
As good as that one-two punch was, the Hokies were better. Logan Thomas came back from one of the worst games of his life and completed 23 of 25 passes. He had more touchdown passes (3) than he had incomplete passes (2). He threw for 310 yards. Against Clemson, he threw for 125 yards, no touchdowns and an interception.
Six ball carriers toted the pigskin for Virginia Tech for a total of 172 yards. David Wilson had 128 of those yards.
Like the Michigan victory over Notre Dame earlier this season, thirty five points were scored in the fourth quarter – actually, 35 points in 13 minutes.
Labels: ACC Football, Miami, Virginia Tech
N.C. State's David Amerson (1) returns an interception 28-yards past Central Michigan's David Blackburn (82) in the third quarter. (Photo by Ethan Hyman/News & Observer.com)
Tajh Boyd #10 of the Clemson Tigers acknowledges the crowd after being injured in the second half against the Boston College Eagles at Memorial Stadium on October 8, 2011 in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson won 36-14. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
A Clemson Tigers fan looks on during the game against the Boston College Eagles at Memorial Stadium on October 8, 2011 in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson won 36-14. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
Mr. Wuf is carried by fans. (Photo by Ethan Hyman/News & Observer.com)
Roddy Jones #20 of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets carries the ball against Dexter McDougle #25 of the Maryland Terrapins at Bobby Dodd Stadium on October 8, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
American Idol winner and Garner, N.C. native Scotty McCreery sings the National Anthem at N.C. State's game against Central Michigan Saturday October 8, 2011, at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C. (Photo by Ethan Hyman/News & Observer.com)
Louisville's Anthony Connor (35) and Hakeem Smith (29) force UNC's Giovani Bernard (26) to fumble in the first quarter on Saturday October 8, 2011 in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Photo by Robert Willett/News & Observer)
Wake Forest's Josh Bush, right reaches in vain as he defends a pass to Florida State's Rodney Smith, left, during the first quarter of a NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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McCarthy for Mayor? This could happen.
Ex-top cop McCarthy: ‘Lot of people’ urging me to challenge Rahm.
"This guy has never shown himself to be a jerk or asshole. He was always pretty damn competent"
Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy speaks to the City Club of Chicago last year. File Photo. | Santiago Covarrubias/Sun-Times
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Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Wednesday “a lot of people” are encouraging him to run for mayor in 2019, but politics is “not in my DNA” and he’s “not very good at that.”
Instead of challenging the man who fired him, the outspoken and frustrated McCarthy offered to do what he views as the next best thing: support a challenger in the event that Mayor Rahm Emanuel decides to seek a third term.
“I would support anybody who would start thinking about performance-based government rather than
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Rahm's Emails
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE - In a surprise reversal that ends a marathon legal battle, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has agreed to release a virtual “treasure trove” of his private emails and ban city employees from using their private emails to conduct city business.
Emanuel’s year-end change of heart follows a parade of Freedom of Information requests denied by the city and lawsuits filed by the Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune.
It also follows more than a year of litigation and two court rulings against the city by Circuit Court judges who maintained that the emails of public officials cannot escape Freedom of Information requests simply because they are on a private email account.
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Emanuel agrees to release private emails, ending court fight
The lengthy legal battle was contrary to Emanuel’s campaign promise to shine the light on city government and run a transparent administration.
Going forward, Emanuel vowed to implement a new city policy that prohibits city employees from “using their private or other non-city email accounts for the transaction of public business.”
The policy will be spelled out in writing to all city employees. It will instruct city employees that, if they receive an email pertaining to city business on a non-city account, the email must be promptly forwarded to the city email account. Failure to comply with the new policy “may subject the employee or officials to discipline.”
To underscore his commitment to the new policy, Emanuel released his private emails after the close of business on Wednesday. The massive information dump was reminiscent of what he did last New Year’s Eve with information pertaining to the police shooting of Laquan McDonald and other controversial police shootings.
BGA President and CEO Andy Shaw welcomed the agreement, even as he acknowledged that it should not have taken this long to persuade Emanuel to honor his promise to be transparent.
“This is a major victory in the fight for transparency at City Hall. It gives us access to information that the public is entitled to. And the policy change should make it clear that you cannot use a private email account to avoid transparency,” Shaw said.
Some window dressing here
Analysis: The key players who will guide Emanuel’s 2nd term until he finds another place to land, because you know he is looking, begging, for any reason to get out of here.
Fran Spielman
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has long maintained that he doesn’t have just one inner circle but a bunch of them on issues pertaining to business, labor, politics and ethnic issues.
It’s a good thing Emanuel is not relying solely on the team that surrounds him at City Hall as he struggles to regain his political footing after the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. That supporting cast has changed dramatically.
Two months after replacing Lisa Schrader as Emanuel’s chief of staff, Forrest Claypool was dispatched to the Chicago Public Schools to clean up a contracting scandal that swallowed Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and straighten out a financial mess that has the system on the brink of
Instead of buying bullet-proof vest
Emanuel moves to acquire, redevelop old Main Post Office
WRITTEN BY FRAN SPIELMAN POSTED: 02/20/2016, 04:00AM
Bill Davies, a British investor and resident of Monaco with International Property Developers North America, Inc., at a 2009 auction for the old Chicago Post Office (File Photo by Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times)
After years of grand plans and empty promises, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving to seize control over a giant civic embarrassment: the vacant Main Post Office that hovers over the Eisenhower Expressway.
British developer Bill Davies, who purchased the dilapidated hulk of a building eight years ago, was notified Friday of the city’s intention to use its sweeping condemnation powers to acquire the building and solicit bids to redevelop it.
The “request for proposals” for the entire building — not pieces of it — is expected to be issued this spring with a winner chosen this summer. The designated developer will be required to bankroll the city’s acquisition of the property and develop the project without tax-increment-financing (TIF) or any other city subsidy, said Planning and Development Commissioner David Reifman.
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Rahm is sorry
This guy is going down fast. People sense his insincerity and contempt. He is looking for a spot on Hillary's campaign staff now. He may be too hot for even that. Cabinet post for Obama?
Labels: Political, Rahm
Mayor Emanuel proposes property tax hike to fix CPS budget woes
Rahm shows his gratitude to the voters of the 19th Ward by
sending in revenue agents on bicycles to write everyone up.
The 19th Ward voters came out in droves to put this clown back into office and this is what he does. We are getting what we deserve.
Revenue agents have been spotted pedaling in N. Beverly, Walden Parkway, 104th Claremont and in Fishers. They are looking for anything to bring in $$$$$$.
Legit violations they are writing,
Pimpy violations they are writing,
Vehicle parked too far from the curb or facing the wrong way
Cracked tail light
Grass not cut
Garbage cans overfilled
Peeling paint
Rumor is that the program to is going to be expanded to include
Revenue agents standing at a stop sign with a camera, watching for people that don't come to an absolute dead stop.
Property owners that don't shovel snow completely
Failure to recycle
Speed radar on a bike
Don't worry. You will get an opportunity to contest the ticket.
I'd like to see Rahm expand this program into the 17th or 9th wards.
Labels: Bankruptcy, Corruption, Rahm
The past Tuesday evening debate……………….
WTTW FORUM RAISES DISCUSSION ABOUT EMANUEL AND WTTW'S PONCE BEING NEIGHBORS. Did Emanuel or his handlers POSSIBLY GIVe PONCE THE QUESTIONS BEFOREHAND? IN the very least, the neighborly relationship has the appearance of impropriety. another black mark for journalism.
TIME TO RETHINK THOSE DONATIONS TO CHANNEL 11?
CHICAGO - The municipal elections are this week's hot topic, and Tuesday night, WTTW Chicago Tonight hosted a forum between Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and run-off challenger Chuy Garcia. Polls show Emanuel with a two-digit lead over Garcia, who is backed by the Chicago Teacher's Union and public sector union employees.
Garcia supporters complain that the debate host Phil Ponce was tough on their candidate, hoisting questions about Garcia's son's arrest record. They also say Ponce was way too easy on Mayor Emanuel - ignoring issues such as the controversial school closings and red light cameras.
Garcia supporters may not have known that Ponce has lived for several years a couple of doors away from the Emanuels on Chicago's northside Hermitage Avenue. However, Ponce knew and didn't disclose the possible professional conflict before the forum.
Labels: Corruption, Rahm
This is Rahm on
Just who is Rahm Emanuel?
Rahm Emanuel
55th Mayor of Chicago
Assumed office
Richard Daley
23rd White House Chief of Staff
January 20, 2009 – October 1, 2010
Mona Sutphen
Jim Messina
Joshua Bolten
Pete Rouse (Acting)
Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus
January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009
Jim Clyburn
John B. Larson
Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Bob Matsui
Chris Van Hollen
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 5th district
Rod Blagojevich
Senior Advisor to the President
January 20, 1993 – November 7, 1998
Henson Moore
Joel Johnson
Rahm Israel Emanuel
November 29, 1959 (age 55)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Amy Merritt Rule (1994–present)
Zachariah
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Rahm Israel Emanuel (/ˈrɑːm/; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician who serves as the 55th Mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, becoming Chicago's first Jewish mayor.
Born in Chicago, Emanuel is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University. Working early in his career in Democratic politics, Emanuel was appointed as director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. In 1993, he joined the Clinton administration, where he served as the Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and as the Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy before resigning in 1998. Beginning a career in finance, Emanuel worked at theinvestment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co. from 1998 to 2002 and served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac.
In 2002, Emanuel ran for a seat in
Who cares what Fioretti says?
FIORETTI IS THE KIND OF GUY THAT TAKES HIMSELF TOO SERIOUSLY. HE'S CHANGED HIS MIND. SO WHAT? NOBODY GIVES A SHIT WHAT HE THINKS. HE BECAME COMPROMISED WHEN HE DISCUSSED CAMPAIGN DEBTS WITH RAHM.
-Mayor Rahm Emanuel welcomed an endorsement by former alderman and mayoral candidate Bob Fioretti, Sunday.
Although, Fioretti has long been a critic of the mayor, he feels Emanuel is the man tohelp the city's financial problems.
"We know the problem, its grave and I don't believe Mr. Garcia is ready to deal with the issues and the problems that face our city here," said Fioretti. "He has not demonstrated it on the campaign trail, in the debates or what he will do after the election."
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have been hitting the streets vying for votes and endorsements.
Fioretti faced questions over why he's choosing Emanuel over Garcia.
He says he plans to ask Emanuel's supporters to help pay off his campaign debt and the mayor says it's certainly a possibility.
"I would be endorsing the mayor anyway..." added Fioretti. "I'm here to endorse the mayor here today. Because I do think, I do think he's the right person."
"The fact is, I did it in the past I know what it's like to have campaign debt. Where you owe other people who are on your staff, their getting paid," said Emanuel. "So the fact of the matter is I've done it before and I'll do it again, but that's not the reason why he's standing here."
Garcia, an honorary marshal at the Greek Independence Day parade spoke about Fioretti's choice, Sunday.
"It doesn't matter. It's about what you build in the field and on election day, you'll see what this campaign has mustered up," said Garcia.
The Chicago Principals and Administrators Association endorsed Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Sunday.
Rahm Emanuel "CAUGHT" with Bodyguards while shaking hands,SHOVED PEOPLE ...
HE IS NOT THE KING
Thanks to 2nd City Cop and Detective Shaved for this video.
TELL RAHM HE IS NOT THE KING
Chuy kicked Rahm's ass in the debate last nite.
Garcia to Emanuel in FOX 32 debate: 'You are not the king' - FOX 32 News Chicago
Spoken from the heart.
" this race has nothing to do with me and Matt Hynes. I have not even seen matt Hynes in over 10 years and to my knowledge none of the Hyneses even live in the 19th Ward anymore. I got involved with Chuy as a volunteer. I am not getting paid a dime. I am working for Chuy because he is much better for our neighborhood. Chuy grew up in a Chicago neighborhood and attended St. Rita High School while the other guy grew up in Winetka attended New Trier and wants to tells us about "Chicago values". The neighborhood I grew up in was safe, neighbors looked out for each other and our public officials demanded the best in constituent services from city hall. Now our police resources are forced to spend much of the time on the east end of the district which isn't even in the ward. Everybody knows somebody or has themselves been the victim of crime. We are paying very high taxes and our children have only a marginal chance of being accepted into the Ag School and Morgan Park is not safe with many out of students living out of the district being allowed to attend because of gang rivalries. The grid system for garbage pick up is a complete waste of money and now instead of neighborhood people doing work and looking out for neighbors,we have some bad actors who live outside of our neighborhood casing houses for burglaries. Matt O'Shea is a very nice guy but it is a slap in the face to Alderman Sheahan and Rugui he sneaks the mayor into the neighborhood to give him undeserved credit. Rahm had $30 million, Obama, every political endorsement, most union officials' endorsements, incumbency, early voting, low turnout and a million dollars negative against Chuy and he still barely broke 40% in the ward. Now Rahm says Chuy is a good man and wants to run a campaign on the issues. A leopard can't change his stripes and now Rahm will attempt to paint Chuy as a nice guy dummy. Really it is rahm who has lied to Chicagoans about hiring 1000 new police officers and if he is re elected he will double our taxes while enriching his big money out town donors. This race has nothing to do with me or Matt Hynes. Chuy will be in the neighborhood plenty between now and the election. I am confident that he will earn your vote".
Sincerely, Mike Joyce
AND QUITE HUMBLE TOO, THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
CAGE FIGHT!!!!!!! April 7, May the best man win.
Look who is standing right behind Chuy Garcia.
Forget the Rahm vs Chuy election. That's a sideshow. The real fight everyone will be watching is between 2 sons of Beverly. Mike "Pickle" Joyce vs Matt "Spoons" Hynes. These guys have been itching for this showdown for years and now it's going to happen. If you live in the 19th Ward, chances are
Too Little Too Late? There is something about these cameras that rubs me the wrong way.
EMANUEL DECIDES TO TAKE DOWN 50 MORE RED LIGHT CAMERAS in a bid to outpace chuy.
I know the city needs the revenue but have they tried the unique approach of cutting expenditures?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Sunday that Chicago will remove 50 red light cameras at 25 intersections throughout the city. No more tickets were to be issued based on what cameras saw at those intersections as of 12:01 a.m. Friday, March 6, according to a release from the mayor's office.
Emanuel's office took down 36 red light cameras at 18 intersections in October 2015. At that time, Emanuel pointed to the safety issue.
“Automated traffic enforcement, whether through red-light or speed cameras, is about changing drivers’ behavior,” said Mayor Emanuel. “The cameras at these intersections are now showing a low level of crashes and dangerous angle crashes, which means an enhanced level of safety."
The Chicago Tribune has an interactive map available for browsing HERE.
Emanuel faces a stiff re-election challenge in April from Chuy Garcia, who recently came out opposed to redlight cameras.
Can Chuy pull it off?
The danger for Rahm in a runoff situation is that his vulnerabilities will be closely examined and eventually exploited. Expect a wild, hard hitting campaign, unlike anything we have had in years. May the best man win.
Our Next Mayor, BUMPED UP
The Daley's have decided to run Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle for mayor next year. The reasons are multiple but start off with Rahm being rammed down their throats and the way he unnecessarily insulted Mayor Daley at the inaugural. Combine that with Rahm terminating Daley inspired contracts, the loss of patronage jobs, etc., and you have an incumbent that is intolerable.
Preckwinkle is the choice mainly because she can be controlled. An added benefit is that her election will open up the presidency of Cook County for the nicest guy in politics, John Daley.
Tom Dart was also in the running but shot himself in the foot by constantly promoting himself by being on TV talking about puppies, corruption in Harvey and John Wayne Gacy. All of it is nonsense when considering the out of control violence in Chicago, for which he has remained silent. The thinking is that perhaps he is not stable enough for the 5th floor, at this time. Preckwinkle's term will be last four years (when she will be 72). Dart may be reconsidered then but being named to the appellate court before that may be a better ending for him.
The battle is being spearheaded by the Chicago Tribune with their biweekly negative reports about Rahm. After Labor Day, expect a full frontal assault. Rahm, knowing he is outgunned and not able to afford a loss, may decide to just take that offer of Ambassador to wherever they have a quick flight.
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TAXPAYER GROUP SAYS EMANUEL IS EITHER IGNORANT OR LYING ABOUT RED-LIGHT CAMERAS
CHICAGO - According to Jim Tobin of Taxpayers United of America, red-light cameras are a scam whose only purpose is to generate millions of dollars for cities and towns, and, furthermore, actually increase accidents, not decrease them.
“Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must have felt a tingle go up his leg when he announced last week that red-light cameras would be coming Jan. 31 at 18 Chicago intersections,” said Tobin. “He is looking forward to the additional millions of dollars that will be funneled into city coffers to fund the lavish, gold-plated Chicago government-employee pensions.”
“Emanuel stated that such cameras have reduced accidents, but this is either a sign of ignorance, or a lie.”
“One report after another has shown the reverse is true: Red-light cameras increase accidents. But they also increase revenues for municipalities, which is why politicians love them.”
“The National Motorists Association website has a sampling of these studies.”
Los Angeles | KCAL TV A local TV station fact-checked the city's claims that their ticket cameras reduced accidents and found that the opposite was true. At 20 of the 32 intersections studied, accidents increased and several intersections tripled their accident rate.
Washington, D.C. | Washington Post This report showed an overall increase in accidents at red-light camera intersections of 107 percent.
Portland, Oregon | KATU News KATU News reviewed city statistics and found a 140 percent increase in rear-end crashes at the intersections where red light cameras were installed.
Fort Collins, Colorado | The Coloradoan Ft. Collins, Colorado has experienced an 83 percent increase in the number of accidents since red light cameras were installed.
Oceanside, California | North County Times This report showed a 800 percent increase in rear-end accidents.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Philadelphia Weekly This article showed an increase of 10 to 21 percent in accidents in intersections with red-light cameras.
“Taxpayers are being nickel-and-dimed to death by greedy politicians, except we’re not talking about nickels and dimes. In addition to having to pay out big bucks, motorists are suffering increased injuries caused by rear-end collisions. Only politicians and orthopedic surgeons are benefiting.”
I had a feeling about this.
EMANUEL TELLS MEDIA HE'S NO FAN OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
Bill Cameron at WLS reports on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's contempt for constitutional government. The Democrat Mayor told the media today:
"The United States government took action on both Somalia and Libya to protect our national interest. As you noticed, the United States Congress was not involved. So anytime the Congress gets involved, the works get gummed up," Emanuel said.
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Audi Sport TT Cup before start of second season
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In two months from now, the Audi Sport TT Cup will be starting its second season at the Hockenheimring. Some of last year’s international talents have again applied for the one-make cup – they are going to meet with promising new entrants.
There is still a lot to be done by the officials before the first race weekend of the Audi one-make cup at the Hockenheimring. The organizational team of quattro GmbH headed by Project Leader Philipp Mondelaers is currently working at full stretch on finalizing the driver lineup. “14 drivers have already been confirmed as permanent entrants,” says Mondelaers. “With the remaining six entries we’re spoiled for choice and are soon going to announce the junior talents that will be completing the field.”
In 2016, five drivers who previously proved their prowess in the Audi Sport TT Cup will be on the grid again. They include the German Dennis Marschall, who finished in third place overall last season, as well as the Finn Joonas Lappalainen. In 2015, 18-year-old Lappalainen was the youngest driver in the Audi Sport TT Cup field and won the two rounds of the season finale at Hockenheim. Nicklas Nielsen is one of the newcomers to the driver squad. The Dane has a track record of numerous successes in national and international kart racing and defeated today’s Formula One driver Max Verstappen on several occasions in his career. Sheldon van der Linde is another rookie. The South African in 2015 won the Volkswagen Polo Cup in his country and would like to follow in the footsteps of his brother Kelvin, who has begun a promising career in Audi’s GT3 racing program.
The first litmus test will be coming up for the young entrants from March 11 to 16 at Oberstdorf, where they are going to meet for a fitness camp to jointly lay the foundations for a strenuous season. “I’m already looking forward to working with our young race drivers and am eager to meet them as a group for the first time at our fitness camp,” says Mondelaers. The camp in the Allgäu region will not only be about developing strength and physical shape, as the participants will also be receiving valuable tips for appropriate nutrition, engineering and information on how to work with social media in various professional presentations.
In April, a driving test in the Audi TT cup, plus media training sessions, are going to complement the preparations. The starting signal for the second season of the Audi one-make cup will be given during the DTM season opener at the Hockenheimring on the first weekend in May.
The provisional field of the 2016 Audi Sport TT Cup
Caygill, Josh (GB, *June 22, 1989)
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Ellis, Philip (GB, *October 9, 1992) – rookie
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Google Podcasts hits 50 million downloads on Play Store
Considering that the Google Podcasts app is effectively an instance of the Google Search app, the dedicated podcast player has now hit an impressive 50 million downloads on the Google Play Store.
There’s no doubt that Google Podcasts isn’t the most featured-packed, nor is it even the best podcast player you can download on Android (or iOS). Heck, it’s probably not even an app that we can fully recommend when compared to the competition such as Pocket Casts.
Criticism aside, it’s a solid client for just listening to your favorite podcasts — which we all know are the 9to5Google Daily and our Alphabet Scoop shows…Over 50 million people have clearly decided that the Google Podcasts app is worth a download on the Play Store though (via Android Police), which is no easy feat for any developer, let alone Google.
The UI for Google Podcasts isn’t terrible, but we’d like to see some more features but one the whole, it is worth a download if you’re looking for a solid overall podcast client with a minimum of fuss and fanfare. The app has actually been around since 2018, meaning that it has taken a good couple of years to reach this milestone.
Back when it launched, it was particularly barebones. Now it has evolved into a competing application that does most things pretty well — including the ability to listen across mobile and desktop. Plus, you can even ask your Google Assistant to play your favorite shows and pick up where you left off.
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13-year-old rescues neighbors on air mattress during Harvey
Imagine it's 2 in the morning, flood water is up to your eyes and you're pushing an air mattress behind an apartment building. You're pushing through water and debris, staying calm, trying to rescue families screaming for help and also you're 13 years old.
13-year-old Virgil Smith rescued 17 of his neighbors during Hurricane Harvey.
When flood waters poured into his apartment complex in Dickinson, he and his mom, Lisa Wallace, took shelter at a stranger's second floor apartment.
Virgil says he got a call from his friend in another building.
"He was like, VJ, can you come help us because you know that we can't swim," says Smith.
Smith says he swam back to his apartment, pulled out the air mattress his family uses for guests, and went to work, rescuing his friends.
"I put him, his two sisters, one baby and his brother, and I had my other friend by the hand right here, and I set his momma and his step-dad on the air mattress," said Smith.
With the help of two other neighbors, VIRGIL says they pushed the mattress holding his friends across the flood water back to where his mom was on the second floor stairway
He then kept going, rescuing other neighbors.
He says they found an elderly woman in a wheelchair in one apartment.
Lisa says her faith gave her the strength to watch her son swim into dark flood waters.
"All I'm thinking about is I know he's able to save. He can rescue, he can swim, and I just had faith in the Lord that everything was gonna be alright," said Wallace.
"I thank God that no snakes or no alligators bit us," said Smith.
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Dear ABC News Fixer: Mortgage Rip Off Nearly Took My Home
A woman says a company said it would help her for a small fee of $2,800.
By STEPHANIE ZIMMERMANN<br>THE ABC NEWS FIXER
ABC News Fixer Helps Save Home
Brian Ross and The ABC News Fixer investigate alleged mortgage rip-off
Sept. 4, 2013 — -- Dear ABC News Fixer: I was ripped off by a company called RMA Legal Network of Holbrook, N.Y. This company promises it will help people with their mortgage payments through the HAMP modification program that President Obama created.
They said they would help me for a small fee of $2,800. After one year of lies, today I'm facing foreclosure, and now there is no more RMA Legal Network to help me.
I don't want anyone else to go through what I am going though. Please help me stop these people.
-Ingrid Soriano, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Dear Ingrid: When we got your letter at the beginning of April, we knew we needed to act fast. RMA Legal Network, which had taken your money and strung you along for a year, was no longer answering its phones. And worse, your bank had already filed foreclosure papers in court.
We called in the big guns on this one: ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross.
[WATCH the full report tonight on ABC News' "The Lookout" at 10 p.m. EST]
We traveled to your home on April 10, and as we stood in your tidy kitchen, you told us how you had moved from the Bronx to provide a better life for your sons – and how, later, after a divorce, you struggled financially.
It was during that rough financial patch that you heard from RMA Legal Network. You said RMA told you that as a divorced, single mom you'd be a perfect candidate for the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which would lower your mortgage payments. They quickly took your $2,800 but never came through with a new mortgage.
Making matters worse, you said they directed you to communicate only with them and not with your bank.
The ABC News Fixer's first step was to get some help from your bank. Since you have a steady job, we were hopeful they'd find some way to keep you in your home.
We started with the executive offices at Bank of America, where they jumped on it right away. They began documenting what had happened and collecting information on your financial status, while your loan moved to Green Tree Servicing.
At the same time, Brian Ross was trying to get answers from Rory Michael Alarcon, the baby-faced lawyer who ran RMA Legal Network and amassed hundreds of consumer complaints. Alarcon recently settled a lawsuit in New York by agreeing to stop practicing in the mortgage modification business and pay $50,000 in restitution, though his company remains under investigation in three other states. When Brian caught up with Alarcon this summer, Alarcon wasn't happy; he ducked into his office and refused to comment.
But we got some good news about your situation in July: Green Tree was able to get you into a trial modification program.
Under that Fannie Mae program, Green Tree lowered your monthly mortgage payments by almost $300. You've already made the first two payments of the trial arrangement, and after you make the third monthly payment, the modified mortgage will become permanent.
Whitney Finch, vice president of investor relations at Green Tree, said that by stretching the loan to 40 years and giving you a lower interest rate, the payments will be manageable and you'll be able to keep your house.
"It's really wonderful for us to have someone we can help," Finch told the ABC News Fixer. "I'm so pleased that there is a happy ending."
Yours is a cautionary tale for any homeowner who may be struggling. So-called "mortgage rescue" schemes can be quite sophisticated, and losses to American homeowners are at least $83 million, according to the Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network, which gathers complaints in partnership with local, state and federal law enforcement.
Homeowners who need help should check out www.preventloanscams.org, the website for the Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network. At www.HUD.gov, homeowners can find certified housing counselors. Another good resource is www.hopenow.com, a joint project of the lending industry and non-profit agencies.
The ABC News Fixer stopped by your house last week. You told us the trial modification is going well. Supper was cooking on the stove, and your youngest son had just returned from summer camp, brimming with stories. You looked hopeful.
We'll check back in October for more on this story.
- The ABC News Fixer
[You can also learn more about how protect yourself from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law's Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network by going to PreventLoanScams.org.]
Got a consumer problem? The ABC News Fixer may be able to help. Click here to submit your problem online. Letters are edited for length and clarity.
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Adam Lambert’s Best Contestant Moments on American Idol
January 10, 2016 by Carol
Now that American Idol has kicked off its final season, let’s take a step back and remember Adam Lambert as the contestant who knocked the show off its bearing and changed it forever.
Picture courtesy of rollingstone.com
Enjoy this step back through Season 8, compiled by rw1234rwrw1234rw. This is what the current contestants need to see. Their genre doesn’t matter. Just give us this level of performance. If you watched the show last week, you saw a few of the former Idol stars pictured during the auditions. I love the respect Adam receives with this!
Picture courtesy of Carol Hagey
My two cents: As I watched it got me thinking. Remember all of Simon Cowell’s knocking of Adam on Country Week with Ring of Fire? Something about people throwing their television sets out the window! But was Adam’s brilliant version of If I Can’t Have You during Disco Week any closer to the genre? I don’t think so, but it was a mainstream version, so no criticisms from Cowell. Hypocrite?
I can’t believe there isn’t similar talent to Adam’s out there. Not someone like Adam, but still a talent, just the same. My suspicion is the producers/judges of the early rounds of the auditions don’t put those contestants through. Thankfully Adam made it through, and hopefully someone else will emerge this season.
So let’s forever be thankful there was an American Idol show, because it gave us Adam Lambert, which gave many of us a new course in life. Adam got a new course in his life too. He’s now a worldwide star! If he was still on the Los Angeles stages, how many of us would have missed him? And don’t you think Roger Taylor and Brian May are thankful too?!
Filed Under: American Idol, More Featured Posts, TV Appearances, Uncategorized
This is awesome! A great reminder of why I voted for him! Thanks
ellen gomberg says
Adam did bring back Music Again for lots of us, plus a whole new group of friends !
Ms shar says
I think he was THE BEST OF ANY AND ALL AMERICAN IDOL CONTESTANTS!
EVER AND FOREVER… FORGET WHO WON THAT YEAR.. What has the winner done with a career since then?? I see his cd’s in a local pharmacy/drugstore for $1.99.
I am hoping that they will bring Adam back for the show this year..
Lila Hayes Zubik says
He’s one in a million! I’m grateful the show brought us all together!
He really was the best contestant AI ever had on the show. No one could compare to him after he was on. I really do not get how the other guy won. That was a real shock. I could not even pick one performance I liked best cause I loved them all. I agree with Lila if it was not for ADAM we would not be on this website right now. Thanks to both of you Carol and Lila.
glitzylady says
And I never would have met so many amazing & wonderful new friends, including Carol & Lila.. And others who I met through this blog way back when in the days before Adam’s first headlining concerts, before his Glam Nation Tour and so many more events shared with friends over the years. .. Adam was “the one” then and he still is, 7 years later.. I’ve watched Idol for a good many of the seasons and he is still the most astonishing and riveting artist to have come out of American Idol for me. Adam being on Idol was literally life changing for me and so many others.. My life was just fine before but the years since Idol Season 8 have been some of the most enjoyable ever.. I won’t even start about the many adventures I’ve shared with new friends, who have become close and cherished. Looking forward to what comes next.. whatever that may be here in Adam Lambert Land!
Beaburns says
Thank you for the article . So right on !
I forced my husband to see his glam nation show in Hawaii. He still would not admit what a talent he was . My husband is stuck in the 6o’s ! Then we went to I Heart, just to listen to Queen with ADAM . Well, that changed everything , for my husband ! That performance made all the performers prior pale in comparison ! We then went to 3 US tours with Queen, each better than the last . Finally, the climax , their performance in London on New Years eve . Unbelievable !!! We then went to Kraków , stood in line hours b/4 the performance just to get up close . People went crazy ! Even my husband, so much so , he made a DVD of both concerts !!!
I believe even Simon said , ADAM will be an international star . I believe he knew this the moment ADAM stepped onstage !
Now , if only the rest of the entertainment world , at least in the US, can acknowledge this , once in a lifetime talent , it would be a perfect world 🙂
It would make no sense for producers to not let through talented singers even if they were different. The truth is there just isn’t another Adam Lambert out there. His talent is unique and original.
carol you did it again that was so terrific ,adam showed them all and is the best idol ever thanks again
I bought a CD on line of all of his performances on Idol years ago & after watching this clip of them brought back all the great moments that had made me a fan. He was great then, but now he is super fabulous & compares to no one else out there. He has grown tremendously over the years & only got better. The world needs to recognize this great talent & give him the recognition he deserves on this side of the ocean. He is just one super talented human being.
I still watch Season 8 sometimes. I purchased a video through Stellar Products that had his season on it. It is really great. I know he was the best contestant of all time.
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LaLa Anthony: Talks Acting, Playing Matchmaker For Jill Scott & “Baggage Claim”
She’s a TV host, entrepreneur, reality star and socialite, but LaLa Anthony is ready for folks to recognize her acting skills.
The 34-year-old talent, who is married to NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony, has guest-starred on TV series like “Single Ladies,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “CSI: NY,” and “Let’s Stay Together.” She also had a small part in the blockbuster, “Think Like A Man.”
But now, Anthony, who currently stars in David E. Talbert’s “Baggage Claim,” is itching for bigger acting roles.
“I want to do more unexpected stuff. Those are the kinds of roles I’m looking,” she told AlwaysAList.com, before adding: “But I’ve done some great, great stuff.”
LaLa Anthony in “Baggage Claim”
While we sat in her hotel suite at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, Anthony shared that landing more and more opportunities is a dream come true for her.
“It feels great, but at the same time I’m just never satisfied. Like, I want more,” she admitted.
Anthony wants a role that makes people take notice, instead of being like “that’s LaLa, she’s acting and it’s cool.”
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“I feel like my purpose in my career, when I really think about it, is to show people that you can really do more than one thing! I think it’s happening more now, but there was a time like when you were on the radio, that’s just what you did. When you interviewed, that’s just what you did. Being able to start from radio, going to being on MTV, going to a reality show, now going into acting, producing, writing a book and doing all these great things, it is showing people you can be multifaceted and actually good at different things. So for me, that’s what’s its about and I’m happy its coming into existence but I’m always pushing myself the most for whatever that next thing is going to be and that next role,” she said.
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Finding Strength in Community
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by Melissa Nix
Amizade’s Director of Health, Safety and Security Rachel Helwig reflects on the impacts of COVID-19, in both her professional life, personal life, and her community.
Hi, everyone. My name is Rachel Helwig — I’m the Director of Health, Safety & Security for Amizade. If you’re a community partner or a participant who has traveled and learned with us recently, you’ve heard from me a lot lately. February, March and April were busy months for me, with lots of late-night phone calls and last-minute flight arrangements. As COVID-19 began to make itself known in our program locations, we worked hard to ensure all of our program participants and community partners had the support and resources they needed to stay safe and healthy. I had a clear understanding of my job and felt proud of myself and our organization for acting quickly and responsibly.
Now, though, as COVID-19 realities have settled into our personal and professional lives, I’m less sure of my role. How do you direct health, safety and security when no one is traveling? Or when the same things that often help me in my job, like staying hyper aware of world events and scenario planning, now create more questions than answers? Like many of us, I struggle with the uncertainty and inability to plan for the future (hallmarks of my anxiety as well as my type-A personality. Quite the combination, right?). This uncertainty lives in all aspects of our lives and feels big and heavy. This year’s timing of Mental Health Month (recognized in May) feels especially timely as we work to protect our physical health, with increasing stress on our mental, social and emotional health.
I am lucky to work for an organization that understands jobs and community broadly. Part of my work right now is to help ensure the participants and partners that engage together in Virtual Service Learning feel supported and safe in their new virtual community. But another part of my work is engaging with my community closer to home — and to make sure my family, friends and neighbors feel safe and supported too. Here’s where I feel lucky again: I live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and I’ve been proud of the ways our city has come together to support each other right now. While some of this support has come from established non-profits and philanthropic foundations, a lot of it has come from outside of these established systems. Mutual Aid organizations and Solidarity Funds have been created — even a bunch of Star Wars nerds have come together to create a new homeless shelter (Rebel Cause Lancaster).
Some of my favorite reminders of our community strength and connection have come through the public service murals around the city. Lancaster’s Office of Public Art, also known as Lancaster Public Art, commissioned local artists to create these murals to share essential COVID-19 messages with the community. For me, these murals embody what makes Lancaster cool — diversity in languages and perspectives, celebration of our neighborhoods’ unique histories, creativity and color, and a desire to make sure each of us are healthy and safe.
These are the same things I want most in my role as Director of Health, Safety & Security — to help our participants and community partners feel welcomed, valued, and safe. COVID-19 disruptions may have changed the ways I do that, but not the need to continue to take care of each other. We’re all in this together. (And since it is National Mental Health month, I encourage you to visit the Lancaster Public Art website and download the mural coloring pages for your own coloring and stress relief).
Here are some additional mental health resources, some national (US) and some Pennsylvania specific, for anyone who might need some extra support at this time:
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 (English) 1-888-628-9454 (Spanish)
Crisis Text Line: text Hello to 741741
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 This helpline provides counselors specially trained in supporting people experiencing mental health needs based on natural or man-made disasters, including pandemics.
Guide for taking care of your mental health during COVID-19
Support our community partners around the world by making a donation to Amizade’s COVID-19 Relief Fund.
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MAGIC AND ALCHEMY
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What is Shamanism?
What is a shaman and what does a shaman do?
In order to understand how a shaman can help you, you will first need to know what a shaman is and what a shaman does, because we’re really not like anyone else. Shamanism is a technique through which we contact intradimensional beings, known to our ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years as the spirits. Shamanism eventually morphed into the Mystery religions and then was driven completetely underground by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century CE.
Shamanism, or shamanic healing, is making a comeback today and I’ve been a practising shaman for a number of years.
A shaman is someone who crosses into other dimensions where he obtains information, guidance and healing from the benevolent entities that he meets in those dimensions. These entities have been given many names throughout history — devas, spirits and gods to name but a few. The shaman then brings this information, guidance and healing that he gleans from these entities back to his tribe or community.
The shaman crosses into other dimensions while in a trance state. This is what’s known as the shamanic journey. It is not a physical journey. The shaman’s physical body does not go on a journey. If you saw a shaman crossing into another dimension, all you would see is his body prone on the floor looking like someone who’s asleep — except for the occasional twitch as power surges through him.
The trance state is also known to scientists as the theta state. They have found that if a person is exposed to a certain rhythm (between 4 and 7 beats per second), their brain will enter the theta state. This is why shamans use drums, and the beating of the drum is the usual, classical way that a shaman enters a trance — although there are many other ways, including the ingestion of psychotropic herbs (datura and ayuhasca, to name just two).
The shaman lives in two simultaneous realities: the inner dream space in which spiritual encounters transform perception of the external world, and the external world which becomes the stage on which the shaman acts out his divine purpose as healer. Each time the shaman enters trance for the good of patients and community and confronts the agents of affliction, there is psychological integration for the shaman. The shaman brings together heaven and earth, spirit and humankind. Shamanism appears in every culture. Amongst Tibetan people, it predates (and is woven into) Buddhist philosophy and practice, and is a vital and living wisdom tradition practiced from ancient times into present day.
From the Ghe-Wa (Tibetan Death Rite) for Pau Karma Wang Chuk Namgyal, by Larry Peters (for Shaman’s Drum.)
Why am I not called a shawoman?
I am not called a shawoman because the ‘man’ bit of the Siberian word ‘shaman’ does not refer to the male of the species. So it is not a gender specific word and that’s why a bunch of shamans are not called a bunch of shamen. The correct collective noun would be a bunch of shamans. Or a gaggle of shamans … or something like that.
Anyway, as mentioned, the word ‘shaman’ comes from Siberia. But thousands of years ago, there were shamanic practises of one kind or another all over the world, in every populated country. And so the shaman and shamanism was known by many different names, and it might be useful to know a few of them, so if the word comes up in different cultures, we’ll know what they’re talking about.
Andean (Quecha) shaman — P’ago
Arab (pre Moslem) — Baksylvk
Australian shamanism — Wulla-mullung
Australian spirit — Budian
Bedouin form of shamanism — Fugara
Celtic shaman – Druid
Chinese shaman —Tang-ki
Hawaiian form of shamanism — Huna Kane
Indian Vedic shaman — Rishi
Indonesian shaman — Dukun
Inuit shaman — Angakok
Jewish shaman — Baal Shem (in Hebrew, it means “Master of the Name”)
Korean female shaman — Mondang
Korean shamanic initiation — Nae-Rim-Kut
Lakota spirits — Wakan Tanka
Meso American shaman — Nagual
Mongolian shaman – Boo
Nigerian shaman — Babalawo
Norse female shaman —Voelva/Volva/Vala/Seidhkona
Peruvian shaman —Sheripiari
Siberian shaman – Shaman
Tibetan shaman — Pa’wo
Tibetan shamanism — Bonpo
Turkish shaman — Sahir-þairl
Ukrainian female shaman — Znakharka
Voodoo female shaman — Mambo
West African spirits — Kontomblé
So how can I help you?
There are lots of articles on here about the different sorts of healing that shamans do, and to make it easier for you, I’ve listed the main ones below. Basically, shamanic healing would not be the ideal first port of call for mending a broken leg ~ it’s more about restoring the health of your mind-body-spirit continuum and overcoming all the obstacles that no longer serve you in your life’s journey, and it is transformative, rejuvenating and revolutionary. If you’re feeling like you’re in the doldrums, shamanic healing will kick start your life.
If you’re new to shamanism and shamanic healing, please do check out these articles as they will give you a good grounding in the subject and also a better idea of what a shaman or shamanic healer can do for you.
The first article, Fire in the Head, is about what a shaman is, and how being a shaman differentiates you from other spiritual healers.
How To Get A Camel Through the Eye of a Needle is about shamanic counselling, or learning to journey to get advice and healing from your own spirits. This is something I can teach you how to do.
Eating People Is Wrong is about how the shaman can help you reclaim your power after it has been stolen from you.
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? is about another role of the shaman, that of soul retrieval, in other words, finding and returning a lost soul fragment to you, after it got lost or was stolen.
The Way of Brigit – An Ancient Route to Self-Transformation is about initiation into the Underworld.
The Weather Shamans of Waterworld is about shamans that control the weather.
The Journey of Coming Forth Into Day describes how part of the role of the shaman is guiding the souls of the dead to their next destination.
The Never-Ending Journey is a personal account of how I became a shaman.
14 replies to What is Shamanism?
Annie Dieu-Le-Veut says:
Yes. Read my book. 😉 https://anniedieuleveut.com/2018/08/16/about-my-book-stories-in-the-stars-out-now-on-amazon/
Tiffany Fire says:
I can be reached on twitter @tiffanyfire888. Thanks..
Hello there, I just found you on twitter. I can’t wait to read all of your blog. I am too experiencing both realms simultaneously but I have zero training. I was told before that I am an “authentic.”. Do you have any information on the “Ram Gods?” Most especially one that may have been “abused?”. You might possible can point me in the right direction. I ran into a shaman on the other side and even there he/she was more concerned about selling their book than answering the question. While there I spoke directly to their spirit guide myself and he/she suggested to me that the “abused Ram God” needed a lawyer. Does this make any sense to you? Thanks..
Elizabeth (@destinycoach) says:
The name most Central Asians used for a spiritual healer was ‘taltos’ -or a derivative thereof. The taltos went into the ‘tengri’: meaning ‘ocean’ to meet up with the ancestors and resolve issues here on Earth. ‘Tenger’ in Hungarian means ocean. Many Native American tribes are also connected to this form of journeying, called in English “tengerism”..
LadyMaverik says:
I now think they were the 7 Deities!
When I was a child 7 figures swarmed around me….all half man half bird, ox, snake, etc. 3 were holding staffs…that week I was trying to catch this white owl only I saw. This relates to the movie the 4th Kind and I could really use some help. Not sure what I am looking for but PLEASE! LadyMaverik@live.com
newborn says:
A sami shaman (Lappland in Norway, Sweden, Finland) is called Noaidi
A sami shaman (Norway, Finland, Sweden) is called Noaidi
milliecrow says:
Agreed about Wakan Tanka. It is difficult to give all the names of Spirit ally healers here. Kam is another name from the Tungus area but I don’t know which clans use it other than Urianchai.
Winyan Staz Wakien says:
You might want to do some research on what you are claiming is the Lakota name for a shaman. The word you used means Great Spirit that Shakes the Ground when he Walks.
Wakan means Sacred/Holy. Tanka means buffalo/Shakes the Ground when he Walks.
tugs says:
and mongolian shaman is called “boo” in mongolia
And also u forgot that, theres a shamanism boom in mongols originated countries. some say ancestral spirits are coming almost to every family leaving no choice to those who are chosen
Mongolian shaman on the 1st photo, Munkh-Erdene zairan (zairan means male shaman), one of the most powerful Khalkha-Shamans, is the one who is responsible for healing “the horse boy”.
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The project “Russian Art 1860-1940 in Western Museums: Information Database on the Internet” is a new development of the major Cultural Heritage Database Project with the web address art-russia.org. The entire project is implemented under the patronage and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
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They were both born and educated in Romania. Petre is currently still living in Romania, but Lacatus left the country in 1990 after his graduation. Lacatus is currently living in Austria, the place where his artistic destiny has been fulfilled.
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For the organisers of Prague’s “first” Biennale (iIn fact there have been other self-styled biennales in Prague. * In particular The Biennale of Young Artists “ZVON,” run by the Prague City Gallery.)* this emblematic figure is a … Read more
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Tiger cut off at the knees. I bet he’ll be back
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As visitors to our house will know, I have not one but six photos of Tiger Woods on the wall opposite the sofa in the kitchen extension where I do a lot of my work.
I bought them from a specialist sports photography agency which often has a stall at Lord’s cricket ground. Taken from behind, they look a little bit like paintings, and record the six stages of what is generally reckoned to be the perfect golf swing. Tiger addressing the ball, Tiger half way back, full backswing, downswing, strike, follow through.
It is therefore, for sports fans, a thing of beauty, and even though I am only an occasional golfer, I like to take the occasional close look at the swing of the master.
Looking at it now, the swing looks as perfect as ever. So studying the pictures in isolation, I feel no differently about him than I did before he became embroiled in his car crash and all that has followed.
But the difference between being a golfer, which is what most pro golfers are, and a global brand like Tiger, is that his golf is not seen in isolation. It is the core of the brand, but not all that it entails.
Accenture are also a brand. Tiger was a key part of their branding, which is why he is so often the first recognisable face you see when you step off an aeroplane.
I had a feeling the writing was on the wall as I walked through Heathrow after getting off a plane from Germany last week. There was Tiger, knee deep in rough, with a strapline suggesting it is always the next shot that counts.
It was a superbly placed piece of advertising, visible to all who were filing down to the Customs Hall via an escalator. You very rarely see people laugh out loud at Heathrow, even in Love Actually. But this became an escalator of laughter and I thought … Mmm, Accenture won’t like that too much.
So they will have been investing a tiny fraction of the sums they invested in Tiger ($7million a year) to find out what their core customers think and then … ‘After careful consideration and analysis the company has determined that he is no longer the right representative for its advertising.’
So, another big blow to Tiger, and there will be more to follow, though none as great as the anger of his wife or the humiliation they have been feeling as the post car crash slow motion car crash has unravelled.
He is still the greatest golfer of all time. His six-frame swing remains a thing of beauty. I will keep it up there for now, and see how things are in the New Year. I have that famous picture of Diego Maradona taking on six Belgian defenders, which might look ok up there. It also shows that in sport, even when the mighty fall, there can be a way back for the really gifted. I have a feeling Tiger will find it. It’s just going to take longer than he might have thought as he hit the hydrant.
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I was speaking at a rail industry dinner recently and there was near universal acclaim for the way Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis was seizing the initiative on rail. He has given real energy and zeal to an issue whose time, surely, has come. In fact, it should have come a long time ago, as it did in France and Japan for example.
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Paul on December 14, 2009 at 11:12 am
I agree that he will find a way back. I always find myself thinking of Kate Moss and *that* photo that was taken of her with a certain substance. At the time people said she was finished, her contracts terminated, but she came back, the contracts came back. Everyone loves a good come back.
Dick the Prick on December 14, 2009 at 11:46 am
It’s certainly a shame that the lad went over the top – for some (like me) it was (and is a bit) booze & drugs, for others, gambling or sex or other vices whereby the first time is the hardest (morally or practically) and thereafter just a dilluted form of that initial escape. I guess as long as he stands by his kids and attempts to spare his wife any complications or conflict in her decisions now then we can’t hold him in any less esteem than we already did.
As per his golf swing – i’m sure I read somewhere that he extends about 20% more than most people are physically able to – that he simply hits the ball harder, faster and (the biggie) with greater control than any of us chumps could handle.
Tiger was never really in it for the money, granted, easy to say now he’s oh soooo minted but on the Saturdays when he was charging – good grief – it was a whirlwind.
Is it that people expected too much? That golf is genteel and for him to act like a footballer is shocking. There’s the famous story about Sergio Garcia at the Ryder having hotel porters move his bed out of the room on the last day for comedy value. The meeja wanted their man and now they’ve got him. All a bit upsetting really but not as upsetting as my mum forcing me to do my GCSE’s and University & shit – I used to play off 6 when I was 17 – uurrrggghh – that could’ve been me but have to content myself with a quick fumble and the occasional Saturday night out!!
Martin on December 14, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Greatest of all time?
Nah!! Check your facts Al – that will be Jack Nicklaus with still more majors under his belt.
And a true gentleman
George Hallisey on December 14, 2009 at 12:33 pm
No lose for Accenture. It’ll take a while for the posters to come down. Meanwhile global exposure for ending a deal. The brand branding by dumping on another brand
Frank Wall on December 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Beckham … dead in the water after the sending off against Argentina … and after Rebecca Loos … and when he left Man U … NOT. People like to see people built up, knocked down, and then come back
Harsh Harry on December 14, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I keep thinking something bad is going to happen to Roger Federer. Thierry Henry’s handball, Tiger’s crash and burn … things always happen in threes and RF is the third of the Gillette trio
Em on December 14, 2009 at 12:46 pm
The problem is the deliberateness with which the Woods brand itself was created. Some bland race-less (I mean, Cablinasian?) blank image for anybody to project themselves onto. Dude set himself up.
I have far more sympathy for the imperfections of a Muhammad Ali who stood for more than sports, a human being with opinions and intelligence, not some corporate-ready construct worth over one billion. Ali was a man who compromised his entire life for his beliefs. Woods screwed his career by screwing around. Compare and contrast.
You mention the humiliation TIiger is enduring but I’d hoped you would spare sympathy for the humiliation and pain his wife and children are suffering. They may not be sports gods (this blog’s archive reveals how much sports gods mean to you) but Woods’ wife and children are the real victims here.
Speaking through his agent Woods says he’s upset at Accenture for dropping him. I must say I can’t begin to contemplate that level of arrogance. Such arrogance is the sort of distorted sense of self that enables one to win.
olli issakainen on December 14, 2009 at 1:47 pm
They say there is not such a thing as bad publicity. These
celebrity obsessed days all publicity is good (as long as your name is written right!).
A Finnish professor of history has said that in the old days things were different. If, for example, someone was caught for stealing, he was isolated outside the community for the rest of his life. Nowadays the punisment for breaking morale codes is two weeks humiliation in the media, and then it is back to business as usual.
Andrew Williams on December 14, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Mentioning Adonis and his handling of railways will connect with voters (despite Labour’s poor commitment to railways under New Labour). Selling the positives rather than focusing on the negative attack on the Tories will be key if Labour are to have a chance, otherwise Labour will make the same mistake the Tories made in 1997 with their ‘danger’ posters.
Alina Palimaru on December 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I second Em on this one.
Alan Quinn on December 14, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Adonis is a good transort minister and didn’t mess about taking failing train companies back into public ownership, it should be remembered that we took the failing Railtrack back too.
What we really need is the high speed trains going all the way up to Scotland via the West Coast Line and repeated on the east of the country. It would be even better if the trains were made over here instead of imported from Japan.
Sadly AC you dissapoint me having a picture of that little sod on your wall (hopefully it has cross hairs on his head). Maradonna was a cheat and a junkie, he will never be remembered with the same affection as Pele, Charlton, Moore, Beckenbauer or Cruyff.
Pity that Terry Butcher never found out that he handballed it until after the post match doping test.
gary Enefer on December 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Dear AC
All these contracts have a morality get out clause. I hope Tiger will feel relieved now the curse of perfection has been broken. A spectactular fall from grace but at least he can get on with real life now.
C Burke on December 15, 2009 at 12:23 am
I’m glad I’m not Mrs Woods but I still think Tiger is an ok guy. He screwed up… he’s not alone there.
Lord Adonis – now there is a good guy.
He is a really decent politician. Can’t praise him enough. Adonis’s focus is not just on rail and the other bog standard modes of transport.
He recently said “Nothing we are doing is more important than promoting cycling at the local level.” His US equivalent, Ray LaHood, made similar comments – “I am committed to investing in programs that encourage bikes to coexist with other modes and to safely share our roads and bridges…Bicycles are a critical part of a cleaner, greener future in American transportation.”
Adonis even passed on the ministerial car… can’t imagine Dave Cameron doing that.
Liz on December 15, 2009 at 5:32 pm
The reason the electorate “has not sealed the deal” with Cameron is that they “sealed the deal” with Blair. They got their fingers burnt then and are not so easily swayed now. However, Brown has had it – and with Cambell taking over from McBride in invective – will make it more so.
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On "This Week in Tech", David Pogue was mad that John C. Dvorak was trying to smear him on Twitter, which Dvorak denied doing. Turns out, they found out later in the show, there is a fake Dvorak on Twitter that said "More proof that @pogue shouldn't consider himself a real journalist". John C. Dvorak has never really mentioned David Pogue on his tweets. David Pogue has been following the "wrong" Dvorak, but since he's currently not on the show, not sure he has realized his mistake yet.
The REAL John C. Dvorak
The FAKE John C. Dvorak
John said he has tried in the past to get Twitter to drop the fake account, but they haven't gotten back to him. He said he has also tried to get a "Verified account", but they haven't responded to his requests. Way to go on "customer service" Twitter... ranks right up there with the overpriced Yahoo Webhosting!
UPDATE: Shortly after I made this post, Twitter removed that second link, of the fake. You now see "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" there... didn't know I had that kind of "pull"! ;-)
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Hagar Qim Temples
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Looking through the two entrances. © Berthold Werner
Period: Neolithic
Site: Megalithic Temple
The first temple complex in the Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Archaeological Park are the Hagar Qim Temples. As with the other Maltese temples, the main entrance to the temple was placed in a concave façade. Unlike the other temples, on the other side of the temple there is a second concave façade with a second entrance flanked by the usual large blocks of limestone. This large, well preserved megalithic structure, built between 5,600 and 5,200 years ago, is flanked by the remains of two other structures.
As with the other megalithic temples on the island, Hagar Qim Temple is internally divided up into semi-circular chambers or apses. In one of these, one of the wall blocks has human-made elliptical hole. At sunrise on the summer solstice a beam of light passes through this hole and illuminates a slab of stone inside the chamber.
Today the temples are covered by a very visible white tent-like canopy. As distracting as the cover may be, it has been installed sensitively and can be removed. As the temples originally had roofs and then lay partly covered by soil until they were fully excavated in 1839, the exposure of the limestone blocks to the harsh coastal elements is not doing the continued preservation of these monuments any good.
Facilities & Visiting Hagar Qim Temples:
The temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra are about five hundred metres apart, in the Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Archaeological Park. Admission to the park includes entry to the Hagar Qim Temples, the Mnajdra Temples and the Visitor Centre. The facilities are located at the entrance to the park.
Where are the Hagar Qim Temples?
The Hagar Qim Temples are close to the entrance to the Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Archaeological Park, on the rugged, southern coastline of Malta.
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Objects & Artefacts in Museum Collections Elsewhere:
Two decorated stone blocks were found during the excavations of the site. On one there is a set opposing spirals, and the other was decorated on all four sides. Replicas now stand in their place. Also, it was here that the so-called ‘Malta Venus’ was found, along with anumber of other stone and clay figurines. The decorated blocks and the figurines are now on display in the National Museum of Archaeology, Valetta.
Check the official website for contact details, up-to-date information on prices and opening hours
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Undertanding SACK and Fast Retransmission
fast-retransmission
robcar
Hello, I was trying to understand how Fast Retransmission works. I downloaded an ISO image from a remote site and was analyzing the trace: sequence numbers, Dup ACKs, SACK and all that stuff. Lots of fun!
I saw how SACK's right edge grows, how another SACK buffer is added in the presence of a new 'TCP segment not captured' to the point where there can only be three buffers, then, when another 'TCP segment not captured' comes, the older seems to be flushed out.
Now, I saw the server eventually send the first Fast Retransmission, with the sequence number that the client had been desperately asking for over 200 ms (that's consistent with RTT). So far so good. But I've noticed something that I cannot explain.
The client was asking for the segment 19903603-19905043 (1440 bytes); the server finally sent that segment with the first Fast Retransmission, but then the client acknowledged 19915123. That's exactly seven segments more than the ones I expected. The SACK buffer, at that point, contained 21538003-21582643 21527923-21535123 21525043-21526483, so values that are out of range the ones that were acknowledged.
Now my question is: where did the client take the seven segments that it acknowledged?
I have to add that, at the beginning of the Dup ACKs, the segment 19905043-19915123 was tracked in the client's SACK, before being flushed out by newer 'TCP segments not captured'
robcar ( 2019-08-04 06:04:00 +0000 )edit
From RFC 2018:
The data receiver SHOULD include as many distinct SACK blocks as possible in the SACK option. Note that the maximum available option space may not be sufficient to report all blocks present in the receiver's queue.
I guess this explains the behaviour I saw, what do you think?
There is no rule in TCP directly limiting the number of SACK blocks that can be present in the TCP header, but there is a rule that limits the size of the TCP header to 60 bytes, which indirectly limits the number of SACK blocks that can be present. If no other options are present, there can be up to four SACK blocks. If other options are present, there will be less room for SACK blocks, which is why you never saw more than three SACK blocks.
The client was asking for the segment 19903603-19905043 (1440 bytes);
It's more accurate to say that the receiver (client) was asking for the segment beginning with sequence number 19903603. The client doesn't know how many bytes are in the segment until it is received.
the server finally sent that segment with the first Fast Retransmission, but then the client acknowledged 19915123. That's exactly seven segments more than the ones I expected
That SACK block means "I have received bytes 19905043 through 19915122 and I expect 19915123 next."
You are correct. The receiver had received all segments through sequence number 19903602, and it was asking for the segment beginning with sequence number 19903603. It had also received the segments containing bytes 19905043 through 19915122. Once the segment beginning with sequence number 19903603 was received, that filled in the gap from 19903603 to 19905042. The segments containing bytes 19905043 through 19915122 had already been received and reported, so the receiver now began asking for the segment beginning with sequence number 19915123.
Even though that SACK block 19905043-19915123 was no longer being listed in the header because of the header size limitation, it had already been reported. The receiver had already received those bytes, and the sender knew (because of the SACK block) that those bytes had already been received.
Ok, thanks for the clarifications. Can we say that SACK blocks are a sort of 'pre-acks', both to the receiver and the sender? Thanks to them the sender doesn't have to retrasmit (with 'normal' retransmission, I guess) those segments, because it knows they are in the receiver's buffers
remove SLE SRE from pcap
Experimenting with No SACK
TCP Out-of-order by server and not Fast Retransmit
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Alex Smith, Rashard Mendenhall, Jeremy Maclin: Injury Updates Week 11
By Corby Yarbrough, 11/18/12, 5:50 AM EST
Who's healthy enough to start for your fantasy football team?
This is the last of the bye weeks. Itâs all up to health and strategy from here on out to get you to a fantasy football championship. Here are some updates on injured players, their status for the Week 11 games or the outlook for their replacements.
Alex Smith, QB, San Francisco 49ers vs. Chicago Bears (Monday night)
Limited in practice all week and questionable on the injury report with a concussion, Alex Smith is still expected to start at quarterback on Monday night. Great. Now go face the Chicago Bears, ranked third in fantasy against the QB position, Mr. Smith. The Bears have allowed just seven TD passes this season â no more than one per game, picked off 19 passes and six QBs have thrown for less than 219 yards. Even if this game was Sunday at 1 p.m. and Smith was healthy, I would look for another option.
Rashard Mendenhall, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens (Sunday night)
Rashard Mendenhall is expected to get the start tonight against the Ravens and the Steelers sure could use him. They are without their starting QB. They are without their No. 2 receiver and their defense is banged up. Enter Mendenhall and ball control. The running back is listed as probable with the Achilles injury that he suffered early in Week 6. Isaac Redman and Jonathan Dwyer will still be in the mix, making it tough to depend on just Mendenhall. But the stars do seem to be aligning for him to be called on to help a Pittsburgh offense without Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown. Mendenhall had 25 carries for 97 yards and one TD in two games against the Ravens last year. But these are not the same Ravens and Sunday night will not be the same Steelers.
Jeremy Maclin, WR, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Redskins
A 44-yard TD pass from rookie Nick Foles to Jeremy Maclin in the third quarter last week certainly did nothing to dampen our hopes of what these two could possibly do today against a terrible Redskins pass defense. A back strain has Maclin listed as probable on the injury report, but the receiver said he expects to start. He practiced in full on Friday and his health should not be a concern in Week 11. Washington is ranked 31st against fantasy receivers this season. Seven receivers have eclipsed 100 yards; three more have had at least 71 and 11 have caught a TD.
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Non-equilibrium ideal-gas dissociation after a curved shock wave
Hornung, H. G. (1976) Non-equilibrium ideal-gas dissociation after a curved shock wave. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 74 (1). pp. 143-159. ISSN 0022-1120. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:HORjfm76a
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Analytic solutions are obtained for non-equilibrium dissociating flow of an inviscid Lighthill-Freeman gas after a curved shock, by dividing the flow into a thin reacting layer near the shock and a frozen region further downstream. The method of matched asymptotic expansions is used, with the product of shock curvature and reaction length as the small parameter. In particular, the solution gives expressions for the reacting-layer thickness, the frozen dissociation level, effective shock values of the frozen flow and the maximum density on a stream-line as functions of free-stream, gas and shock parameters. Numerical examples are presented and the results are compared with experiments.
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Fine-grained, multi-domain network resource abstraction as a fundamental primitive to enable high-performance, collaborative data sciences
Xiang, Qiao and Zhang, J. Jensen and Wang, X. Tony and Liu, Y. Jace and Guok, Chin and Le, Franck and MacAuley, John and Newman, Harvey and Yang, Y. Richard (2018) Fine-grained, multi-domain network resource abstraction as a fundamental primitive to enable high-performance, collaborative data sciences. In: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. IEEE , Piscataway, NJ, Art. No. 5. ISBN 978-1-5386-8384-2. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181120-141045120
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Multi-domain network resource reservation systems are being deployed, driven by the demand and substantial benefits of providing predictable network resources. However, a major lack of existing systems is their coarse granularity, due to the participating networks' concern of revealing sensitive information, which can result in substantial inefficiencies. This paper presents Mercator, a novel multi-domain network resource discovery system to provide fine-grained, global network resource information, for collaborative sciences. The foundation of Mercator is a resource abstraction through algebraic-expression enumeration (i.e., linear inequalities/equations), as a compact representation of the available bandwidth in multi-domain networks. In addition, we develop an obfuscating protocol, to address the privacy concerns by ensuring that no participant can associate the algebraic expressions with the corresponding member networks. We also introduce a super-set projection technique to increase Mercator's scalability. Finally, we implement Mercator and demonstrate both its efficiency and efficacy through extensive experiments using real topologies and traces.
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© 2018 IEEE. The authors thank Kai Gao, Geng Li, Linghe Kong, Ennan Zhai, Alan Liu, Yeon-sup Lim and Haizhou Du for their help during the preparation of this paper. The authors also thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This research is supported in part by NSFC grants #61702373, #61672385 and #61701347; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation #2017-M611618; NSF awards #1440745, #1246133, #1341024, #1120138, and #1659403; DOE award #DE-AC02-07CH11359; DOE/ASCR project #000219898; Google Research Award, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.K. Ministry of Defence under Agreement Number W911NF-16-3-0001.
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Qiao Xiang, J. Jensen Zhang, X. Tony Wang, Y. Jace Liu, Chin Guok, Franck Le, John MacAuley, Harvey Newman, and Y. Richard Yang. 2018. Fine-grained, multi-domain network resource abstraction as a fundamental primitive to enable high-performance, collaborative data sciences. In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC '18). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, Article 5, 13 pages.
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Upcoming Comics: April 4, 2018
Joshua McDonald
Happy Easter! I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday! I’m sure many of you are eating lunch with family, watching your kiddos hunt for Easter eggs, or perhaps the kid in you is having an adult Easter egg hunt (where you hide money or scratch-off lottery tickets inside eggs instead of candy). Whatever you have planned today, I hope you enjoy it. Also… This exists…
Alright, on to business! This week’s releases are listed according to our anticipation scale, with titles listed in alphabetical order within each sub-header. For each title, I’ll include the official solicitation, the talent credits, a random comment (or rant), and the Batman News team member that will be reviewing each book. Following that, you’ll find notes pertaining to other DC Comics titles, as well as our Graphic Novel Watch. And finally, we want to hear from you! What titles are you picking up? Why are you excited? What do you hope will happen in the book? Etc. So, without further ado, review our Anticipation Scale, and comment away!
The Anticipation Scale
NO! – A comic I downright dread reading and if I wasn’t a reviewer, I would never buy it.
“You Don’t Have to Thank Us” – The idea of reviewing it doesn’t make me ill or angry, but it definitely sounds like it’s going to be a chore. Still, I’m reading it for you. I’m putting it at the bottom of the pile, but I’m reading it for you.
Mixed – A middle of the pile comic. It’s probably got the same chance of being dreadful as it does of being stupendous. I’m neither looking forward to it or avoiding it, whatever happens… happens.
Intrigued – I think this comic has potential to be a fantastic read. There’s some slight hesitation there, but it’s definitely going to be at the top of the pile.
TAKE MY MONEY – Everything about this issue has me excited. If I don’t get to read this book on Wednesday, I will be furious. I would pay extra just to have it in my hands right now! That’s how much I’m looking forward to it!
And as a reminder, our review scale is based on a 10-point system. A rating of “5” means the book is mediocre/average, and the more toward “10″ we go, the more awesome/worth buying it is. The more toward “1″ we go the more awful/not worth buying it is. That’s how we rate things. It’s not like most video game review scores where everything under 8 is crap, and it’s not like a school report card where everything under a 7 is failing or close-to-failing. Please keep this in mind when reading our reviews.
Batman: White Knight #7
This issue, it’s Jack versus the Joker! Napier’s identity crisis spins out of control and compromises his grand plans for Gotham City—but not before he strikes a fateful bargain with Neo Joker. A browbeaten Batman accepts a peace offering from Batgirl, and some unexpected advice from Alfred sets the tone for the GTO’s new mission to redeem the city.
Pencils and Inks by Sean Murphy
Colored by Matt Hollingsworth
Cover by Matt Hollingsworth and Sean Murphy
Josh’s Stance: It appears that the fallout in Batman: White Knight #6 has divided some readers. I’m still a huge fan of the book and can’t wait to see what Sean Gordon Murphy has planned for us before wrapping up the title next month.
Batman News Critic: Brian
Injustice 2 #23
Even with the help of Superboy and the Teen Titans, Batman and his team still face desperate odds against the seemingly invincible Amazo. The Atom also uncovers a terrifying secret about Amazo. Meanwhile, in Gorilla City, Damian, Vixen and Animal Man have to make a risky decision.
Art by Mike S. Miller and Bruno Redondo
Cover by Juan Albarran and Bruno Redondo
Written by Tom Taylor
Josh’s Stance: Injustice 2 is big and bombastic with shocking twists, but doesn’t stoop to the level of being careless because Tom Taylor is so careful in crafting his characters and emotional stakes. It’s easily one of the most entertaining and consistently good books being published by DC!
Batman News Critic: Elena
INTRIGUED
“SOMETHING BLUE”! Follow Batman and Catwoman on two separate but parallel paths as their wedding planning kicks into high gear. Selina picks out her dress, and Bruce starts to make arrangements for their new life together—but this being Gotham City, and they being Batman and Catwoman, you can bet that nothing will go as expected!
Written by Tom King
Pencils and Inks by Mikel Janin and Joelle Jones
Cover by Jordie Bellaire, Mikel Janin, and Joelle Jones
Josh’s Stance: King delivers his best work when he writes one-and-done stories or two-issue arcs, so I’m looking forward to this release!
Batman News Critic: Brandon
“DEATHSTROKE VS. BATMAN” part one! Beginning this month, a six-issue series-within-a-series featuring the ultimate showdown between DC’s fiercest rivals! When Batman discovers a mysterious package containing DNA test results proving that he is not Damian Wayne’s biological father, the Dark Knight sets his sights on his son’s true father—Deathstroke! But Damian Wayne can’t really be Slade Wilson’s son—can he? And who sent the package—and why? The ultimate custody battle ensues as the World’s Greatest Detective and the World’s Deadliest Assassin clash in this instant classic!
Written by Christopher Priest
Pencils by Carlo Pagulayan
Inks by Jason Paz
Colored by Jeromy Cox
Cover by Brad Anderson and Lee Weeks
Josh’s Stance: I have high hopes and a little anxiety as well! I want this to be really good, with some intense, visceral action. When Christopher Priest is on in his game, he delivers great work… I just don’t know about this whole “Who’s the daddy?” bit concerning Damian. I almost feel like Bruce, Slade, and Talia are going to the Maury show… Or maybe Jerry Springer would be more appropriate because I expect this to go more of the chair throwing route.
Batman News Critic: Jay
“ANGRY BIRD” finale! Betrayed by one of the last allies she thought she had left from Gotham City’s criminal underworld, Harley’s in a corner in her battle against the Penguin…and that’s the most dangerous place you could possibly put her! Someone’s gonna get killed here, and it ain’t Harley…
Written by Frank Tieri
Pencils and Inks by Inaki Miranda
Cover by Amanda Conner and Alex Sinclair
Josh’s Stance: “Angry Bird” has turned into a story that feels like a missed opportunity, so I’m not overly excited for the finale. Honestly, I wish I could skip this issue, and get “Old Woman Harley,” because the sheer audacity of it has me grinning like an idiot.
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO THANK US”
“JUSTICE LOST” part two! Trapped in the chaos of tribal conflict, the Justice League becomes divided over whether to intervene in a civil war in order to protect thousands of fleeing refugees—and a crucial decision could have dire consequences for one of their members! Meanwhile, Batman and Aquaman clash over how to take down the nemesis known only as the Fan, who holds all of their secrets hostage.
Pencils and Inks by Pete Woods
Colored by Pete Woods
Cover by David Yardin
Josh’s Stance: “Justice Lost” didn’t start well at all, so please don’t get offended when I say I’m just ready to get to the “big change” so we no longer feel as though we’re in this waiting/ filler game.
Nightwing #42
“THE CRIMSON KABUKI”! When Damian Wayne disappears during a solo mission to Tokyo, Nightwing must enter the seedy underworld to save the boy who was once his Robin. But Dick will have to ascend the Crimson Kabuki’s tower of crime and survive a game of death against three of Japan’s most powerful fighters. Can Nightwing defeat an entire building of elite fighters, or will he lose Damian forever?
Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing
Pencils and Inks by Jorge Corona
Colored by Mat Lopes
Cover by Jorge Jimenez and Alejandro Sanchez
Josh’s Stance: I’ll be frank… This looks and sounds terrible.
Batman News Critic: Josh
Additional DC titles releasing this week: Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands #6, Bombshells United #16, Cyborg #21, Green Arrow #39, Green Lanterns #44, Shade, the Changeling Woman #2, and Superman #44.
The Curse of the Brimstone debuts this week under the New Age of Heroes brand.
Graphic Novel Watch:
Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 1 – The Joker comes back to Gotham City with a plot to kidnap Selina Kyle—Bruce Wayne’s girlfriend—and restore her to her true self…Catwoman! The revitalized femme fatale is just the beginning of the rogues returning to plague Batman and Robin; on her heels follow the Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter and Two-Face.
Writer Mike W. Barr (Batman and the Outsiders) and the dynamic art duo of Alan Davis (Justice League of America: The Nail) and Paul Neary (The Authority) present Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 1. Collects Detective Comics #568-574 and #579-582!
Don’t miss out on the companion series, Batman: The Caped Crusader.
Detective Comics Vol. 5: A Lonely Place of Living – For months, Batman has been haunted by the death of Tim Drake, the young hero who fought beside him as Red Robin. Tim helped Batman assemble a team of heroes and misfits to help him keep Gotham safe, then fell in battle defending the city. Or so it seemed.
In reality, Tim has been held captive, snatched from the moment of death by the mysterious Mr. Oz. Now he must escape this prison that exists outside of time, but he isn’t coming back alone. Tim has every reason to trust his fellow prisoner, but when his new ally proves he’s not afraid to kill, Tim begins to doubt everything he thought he knew!
When the duo make their way back to Gotham City, Tim’s escape partner sets a plan in motion to murder one of Batman’s allies. Even reunited with Red Robin, can Batman and his team of heroes protect one of their own from a killer who knows them better than they know themselves?
Writer James Tynion IV (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and artists Eddy Barrows, Alvaro Martinez and Carmen Carnero continue the acclaimed run on Batman: Detective Comics.
Collects Detective Comics #963-968.
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[latimes]Lakers could shut down Kobe Bryant before end of season
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Lakers could shut down Kobe Bryant before end of season
By MIKE BRESNAHAN
The Lakers could shut down Kobe Bryant for rest of the season sometime after the All-Star break
Coach Byron Scott says the team has discussed how to 'preserve' Bryant for the remaining 1.5 years of his deal
Byrant makes only three of 19 shots in a 78-75 loss to the Miami Heat at Staples Center
Don't be surprised if it happens after the All-Star break, maybe in late February or March.
The Lakers haven't yet talked about shutting down Kobe Bryant later this season, but it makes sense.
They're terrible with him. Terrible without him. And there's the unspoken importance of keeping the top-five protected draft pick they owe Phoenix for the Steve Nash trade.
The Lakers are already thinking big picture and have had internal meetings to determine how to "preserve" Bryant over the final 11/2 years of his contract, Coach Byron Scott said Tuesday.
Kobe Bryant had 12 points on three of 19 shooting in a loss to the Miami Heat, 78-75, on Tuesday at Staples Center.
Miami center Hassan Whiteside pulls a rebound away from Carlos Boozer and Jeremy Lin during the second half. The Lakers lost to the Heat, 78-75, on Tuesday at Staples Center.
Carlos Boozer and Heat forward Danny Granger battle for a loose ball during the second quarter of a game Tuesday against Miami at Staples Center.
Lakers trainer Gary Vitti has also been part of the discussions, along with Bryant, who had another rough outing in the Lakers' 78-75 loss Tuesday against the Miami Heat at Staples Center.
"A lot of it is trying to preserve [Bryant] as much as possible," Scott said. "That's the biggest thing, to be honest with you, is just trying to make sure that he can get through this season healthy — relatively healthy — and get ready for the next season as well."
Bryant, 36, will make $23.5 million this season and $25 million next season. He had only 12 points against the Heat on three-for-19 shooting, including a missed three-point attempt that would have tied the score with 1.9 seconds to play. He had missed six of the last 12 games, including the last two, to rest.
"This is going to be game by game," Scott said. "And I think it's going to be that way until the end of the season or until March or February if we ever decide to say, 'OK, let's just shut it down for the rest of the season.' We haven't got nowhere near that point at this particular time."
If the Lakers decided to save Bryant until next season, there would be no guarantee of a vast improvement in the roster. They have enough money for another maximum-salary player, though they haven't been successful in free agency the last two summers, with Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol taking less money to go elsewhere.
Long before this unendurable season ends, Bryant will surely want to play in his 17th All-Star game on Feb. 15 in New York. It's anybody's guess what happens after that in these admittedly "unchartered waters," Scott said.
The Lakers (12-27) will paddle along with some guidelines for Bryant. He won't play both games in back-to-back situations, of which the Lakers have eight remaining. He would be capped at 32 minutes a game even if there was overtime, Scott said, admitting it could be difficult but adding, "I've got to stick to it."
"He's not 20, guys. He can't play 40 minutes a night like he used to and he can't play every single night," Scott said.
Bryant seemed subdued as he sat in front of his locker after the game Tuesday, his feet planted in a now-familiar ice bucket.
"I'm just trying to work through it and get the body moving. The hard part is sitting down for stretches and trying to get back in. You feel like the Tin Man," he said. "It's not something that I'm whining or complaining about. Just get my body loose, being more active throughout the day, get my legs used to playing again."
Bryant has said there isn't anything specific keeping him on the sidelines — no sharp knee pain, no Achilles' tendon issues. Just general soreness.
Even so, it's not easy for him to sit and watch. Or to come out and not play well.
"It's a no-win situation," he said. "You just end up picking the lesser of two evils."
Bryant was one for 10 entering the fourth quarter and two for nine in the final five minutes.
The first half was unbearably bad, the Lakers scoring 34 points on 25.5% shooting. Bryant was one for nine.
Fans seemed bored — when they weren't booing.
The Lakers made a game of it mainly because Miami (17-21) wasn't exactly incredible. Mario Chalmers had 19 points but Chris Bosh made only four of 17 shots and Luol Deng was four for 13. It didn't help that Dwyane Wade exited in the second quarter because of a strained hamstring.
The Lakers shot 31.5% for the game and also had an injury crop up — a hyperextended left knee for Jordan Hill. He will be re-evaluated Wednesday.
Scott wasn't sure he would watch the game video, but if he did he joked he would have a bottle of vodka nearby. "We just couldn't throw a pea in the ocean," he said. "And that's an understatement."
#1 tinman, Jan 14, 2015
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I don't really understand why. If they're tanking, they seem to be worse with Bryant on the floor. What's he going to do? Help him in the playoffs sometime before he retires? Not likely.
Literally the only reason for Kobe Bryant to ever suit up again is to keep adding to his scoring total and letting fans get one last look at one of the greats. That's it. He's never going to be in the playoffs again. The Lakers will not be remotely relevant for the rest of his career.
I just don't get it.
#2 Williamson, Jan 14, 2015
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It's about image and perception around the league. If the Lakers are seen as a team willing to respect their most revered active player and work with his limitations, people (players) take notice.
This is especially important now that Dr. Buss is gone.
#3 shastarocket, Jan 14, 2015
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That would be foolish. The Lakers would lose their Top 5 protected pick! Kobe's assault on the all time bricks record is what's keeping the Lakers pick in tow.
#4 J Sizzle, Jan 14, 2015
mr. 13 in 33 Member
Might as well rest him because the teams not going anywhere.
#5 mr. 13 in 33, Jan 14, 2015
arno_ed Contributing Member
Why?? Do they actually want to win games?
I really am loving the knicks and lakers this year.
#6 arno_ed, Jan 14, 2015
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Then you will really love February 1st and March 12th when they play each other on national TV (ESPN & TNT).
#7 A_3PO, Jan 14, 2015
A_3PO said: ↑
Seriously they are still showing those games??
Why haven't they dropped those games
Roc Paint Contributing Member
He should stay shut down.
#9 Roc Paint, Jan 14, 2015
Ziggy 99ers STAND BY
Lakers could shut down Kobe Bryant before end of season and nobody would care.
#10 Ziggy, Jan 14, 2015
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Kobe quits on the team again?
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#11 Carl Herrera, Jan 14, 2015
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So Harden starts at All-star game, good good
#12 hardenisaboss, Jan 14, 2015
tycoonchip Tilman has Aids!
Didn't he say this season would be epic?
#13 tycoonchip, Jan 14, 2015
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I misread the title as Latinas instead of latimes. Was hoping for a discussion on hot Latinas, was disappoint.
#14 marky :), Jan 14, 2015
There is still time to switch games. Options are limited though.
Charley Barkley went on a rant last week saying he wouldn't show up if TNT showed either the Knicks or Lakers again this season.
#15 A_3PO, Jan 14, 2015
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You feel like the Tin Man," he said.
Does that mean he just complains about Tracy McGrady all the time?
#16 Sooner423, Jan 14, 2015
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Its like Clutch tweeted. THIS guy is supposed to start the All Star Game? What an f'n joke
#17 Junkyard_Dog, Jan 14, 2015
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tycoonchip said: ↑
epically bad!
#18 Warning-Sign, Jan 14, 2015
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tinman said: ↑
Linsanity 2.0 about to happen.
#19 ling ling, Jan 14, 2015
ling ling said: ↑
more like swaggsanity will happen
#20 tinman, Jan 14, 2015
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Elijah Ends the Drought.* 1Long afterward, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: Go, present yourself to Ahab, that I may send rain upon the earth. 2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
Now the famine in Samaria was severe, 3and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, master of his palace, who greatly revered the LORD. 4When Jezebel was slaughtering the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them away by fifties in caves, and supplied them with food and water. 5Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all sources of water and to all the wadies. We may find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, so that we shall not have to slaughter any of the beasts.” 6Dividing the land to explore between them, Ahab went one way by himself, Obadiah another way by himself. 7As Obadiah was on his way, Elijah met him. Recognizing him, Obadiah fell prostrate and asked, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” 8He said to him, “Yes. Go tell your lord, ‘Elijah is here!’”* 9But Obadiah said, “What sin has your servant committed, that you are handing me over to Ahab to be killed? 10As the LORD, your God, lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you. When they replied, ‘He is not here,’ he made each kingdom and nation swear they could not find you. 11And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord: Elijah is here!’ 12After I leave you, the spirit of the LORD will carry you to some place I do not know, and when I go to inform Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me—though your servant has revered the LORD from his youth! 13Have you not been told, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was murdering the prophets of the LORD—that I hid a hundred of the prophets of the LORD, fifty each in caves, and supplied them with food and water? 14And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord: Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!” 15Elijah answered, “As the LORD of hosts lives, whom I serve, I will present myself to him today.”
16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and informed him, and Ahab came to meet Elijah. 17When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it you, you disturber of Israel?” 18He answered, “It is not I who disturb Israel, but you and your father’s house, by forsaking the commands of the LORD and you by following the Baals. 19Now summon all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, as well as the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.” 20So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and had the prophets gather on Mount Carmel.
21Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you straddle the issue? If the LORD is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him. 22So Elijah said to the people, “I am the only remaining prophet of the LORD, and there are four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal. 23Give us two young bulls. Let them choose one, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood, but start no fire. I shall prepare the other and place it on the wood, but shall start no fire. 24You shall call upon the name of your gods, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. The God who answers with fire is God.” All the people answered, “We agree!”
25Elijah then said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one young bull and prepare it first, for there are more of you. Call upon your gods, but do not start the fire.” 26Taking the young bull that was turned over to them, they prepared it and called upon Baal from morning to noon, saying, “Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answering. And they hopped around the altar they had prepared. 27When it was noon, Elijah taunted them: “Call louder, for he is a god; he may be busy doing his business, or may be on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” 28They called out louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears according to their ritual until blood gushed over them. 29Noon passed and they remained in a prophetic state until the time for offering sacrifice. But there was no sound, no one answering, no one listening.
30Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” When they drew near to him, he repaired the altar of the LORD which had been destroyed. 31He took twelve stones, for the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the LORD had said: Israel shall be your name. 32He built the stones into an altar to the name of the LORD, and made a trench around the altar large enough for two measures of grain. 33When he had arranged the wood, he cut up the young bull and laid it on the wood. 34He said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it over the burnt offering and over the wood.” “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time. 35The water flowed around the altar; even the trench was filled with the water. 36At the time for offering sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came forward and said, “LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37a Answer me, LORD! Answer me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God and that you have turned their hearts back to you.” 38The LORD’s fire came down and devoured the burnt offering, wood, stones, and dust, and lapped up the water in the trench. 39Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “The LORD is God! The LORD is God!” 40b Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Let none of them escape!” They seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and there he slaughtered them. 41Elijah then said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” 42So Ahab went up to eat and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, crouched down to the earth, and put his head between his knees. 43He said to his servant, “Go up and look out to sea.” He went up and looked, but reported, “There is nothing.” Seven times he said, “Go look again!” 44And the seventh time the youth reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” Elijah said, “Go and say to Ahab, ‘Harness up and go down the mountain before the rain stops you.’” 45All at once the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain fell. Ahab mounted his chariot and headed for Jezreel. 46But the hand of the LORD was on Elijah. He girded up his clothing and ran before Ahab as far as the approaches to Jezreel.
* [18:1–45] The story of the conflict with the prophets of Baal (vv. 21–40) is embedded in the story of the drought and its ending (vv. 1–20, 41–45). The connection between the two stories is found in Canaanite theology, in whose pantheon Baal, “the Cloud Rider,” the god of rain and storm, was recognized as the one who brings fertility. Worship of many gods was virtually universal in the ancient world; the Israelite requirement of exclusive worship of the Lord (Ex 20:3) was unique. The people of Israel had apparently become comfortable worshiping both Baal and the Lord, perhaps assigning mutually exclusive spheres of influence to each. By claiming authority over the rain (17:1; 18:1), the Lord was challenging Baal’s power in Baal’s own domain. The entire drought story in chaps. 17–18 implies what becomes explicit in 18:21–40: this is a struggle between the Lord and Baal for the loyalties of the people of Israel.
* [18:8] Elijah is here: the Hebrew hinneh ‘eliyahu involves a pun. The sentence means both “Elijah is here,” informing Ahab that the prophet has been found, and “Behold, Yhwh is my God” (the meaning of the name “Elijah”).
a. [18:37] Ex 32:13.
b. [18:40] Ex 32:26–28.
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Readers Write In #83: Would Puthiya Paathai really be a minefield today?
(by Madan Mohan, recreational tennis hack in the early morning, chartered accountant by day and wannabe writer by night.)
In his interview with our BR saar, filmmaker and actor R Parthiepan mentioned that he did not think a Puthiya Paathai could be made today and it was owing to the innocence/ignorance of the times that it was accepted then. I was piqued by this statement and took full advantage of my long commute to work and back to watch the film on the device in the approved fashion of the times.
So, first of all, let’s examine why he suggests it would be a minefield today. The answer, at a very simplistic level, lies in the premise or the conceit, if you will. A ruffian rapes a woman for money and she decides to reform him and marry him. There, there, I should really have included trigger warnings but I presumed the title Puthiya Paathai itself would be a trigger warning. However, this was not by itself a premise that would have been easily accepted even back then. The misogyny of Tamil cinema (or Bollywood for that matter) has usually been of the ‘benevolent’ manner. Of somebody suggesting pengal should be adavadakam in the name of spreading a socially responsible message. Telling the woman what to wear and what not, what to say and what she should not speak, when not to venture out and so on. So what made the conceit of Puthiya Paathai work?
The answer also lies in something Parthiepan said in the interview. That it lies in how the tale is told. This is where Puthiya Paathai also distinguished and indeed distinguishes itself. Parthiepan makes the effort to account for circumstances as best as he can. So, now, consider this. The similarity between Puthiya Paathai and modern misogynist films of Tamil cinema is unkempt dark skinned boy and rich, fair skinned girl. And that’s where the similarity ends. Seetha, playing a character bearing her own name, is no empty headed loosu ponnu. Rather, she has a tragic if somewhat cliche backstory. She lost her mother many moons ago and her father has married and divorced over and over until she is disgusted with him. All her wealth cannot give her happiness or peace of mind.
Her first encounter with Parthiepan is brutal. As a ruffian, he is contracted to rape her in order to ruin her wedding scheduled for the day after. He is completely unapologetic about the deed. There is no excuse made by the film on his behalf to glorify the act. It is depicted as vile and unscrupulous to the core, which is exactly what it is. In a somewhat unrealistic turn of events, her fiancee actually believes her when she says she has never met the person who raped her and insists they ought to still carry on with the wedding, overruling his parents’ threats to disown him if he does so. It is she who pleads that she would not be able to bear the lifelong guilt arising out of such a marriage and wants out. At this juncture, she decides that she would, in her words, rather be a good wife to the bad man who raped her than be a bad wife (burden) to a good man. Again, the character played by Manorama also tries to counsel her against this as she is well aware of the violent ways of this mercenary slumlord. It is by evoking Manorama’s own unhappy tryst with marriage that Seetha convinces her that she is right to try this. That is, the film recognises that her choice is unconventional and controversial and makes an effort to account for this. Now, we may or may not agree with her reasoning but the film at least attempts to make it plausible that a particular character, a particularly remarkable woman has undertaken this endeavour.
More importantly, it is she who pursues this ruffian who thwarts her efforts again and again. It is not he who lusts for her fair skin. It is she who attempts to soften the heart of this otherwise cruel creature who is barely thought of as human by the neighbourhood. Agency. The choices Seetha makes may come across as unrealistic but those are her choices as an independent adult. She is not bowled over by a ‘lover’ who relentlessly stalks her nor swayed or enchanted by masculine charm. She is simply placed in extraordinary circumstances which push her to make extraordinary decisions.
With time and through many acts of kindness that initially stupefy him and eventually warm his heart, she wins him over and marries him. She also persuades him, gradually, to behave better with the people around him and especially with her, to make love to her and to give up his career as a successful criminal and take up hard labour instead. He is deeply grateful to her for giving him dignity and for helping him earn the respect of others which he had never had all his life. In a dramatic scene, he falls to her feet as if seeking her blessings. Once again, the conceit may be fundamentally unrealistic and very filmi but it is also deeply respectful towards the power of the character essayed by Seetha to reform a person once thought of as the devil incarnate.
Very importantly, at no point does the film indulge in giving out morality lessons in the way Tamil films often do. Seetha’s example is not held up as something other women ought to follow. Parthiepan seems to have been aware that doing so would have been construed as placing the burden of reforming rapists on women as the victims. It transcends broad identity considerations by building strong characters so that we identify with these individuals and buy into their story as opposed to extrapolating their behaviour on men and women in general. At its heart is a very positive message (though, again, there is no annoying voice over or monologue to spell it out to us) – that redemption is always possible, no matter how much beyond redemption a person may appear to be. By delivering this message through masterful orchestration of conflict, Parthiepan makes it all the more poignant.
Rather than identity, though, there is an undercurrent of class conflict throughout the film. And in this sense, it is arguably a cousin of Aboorva Sagotharargal (which was also released the same year). In AS, Appu is a humble lilliputian of the underclass who turns to rebellion when he learns of his backstory. Here, the backstory has turned Parthiepan into a rebel who then mends his ways at the prodding of Seetha. On doing so, he runs into the issues that others of his class (who are not ruffians) do and has to watch helplessly as a bomb explosion takes his wife’s life. He memorably pulls out of killing the villain (played by Nassar) when he remembers that doing so would render their child an orphan, just the way he was. By nevertheless killing off Nassar in a road accident, the film attempts to make the import of its climax more palatable and offers karmic retribution as a balm.
Having watched it, I do not know that the film is particularly flagrant or insensitive so as to ‘disqualify’ it as a proposition in today’s times. What I saw was a film that worked hard, uncommonly so for 80s non-art cinema, to make its rather unusual story sound plausible.
It is possible that the very premise may evoke such outrage that the director would baulk at making such a film and decide he would rather not bother. And perhaps that is why Parthiepan feels it would not be possible to make such a film today. But there is one more reason why a Puthiya Paathai may not be made today and that has to do with a much more fundamental change in our cinema. That is that films about the forgotten people (to loan a phrase used by Donald Trump!) are few and far between today. The people represented in Puthiya Paathai still have poignant tales to tell. But there’s nobody to tell them on the big screen anymore.
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Great piece, Madan.
BR: Thanks, means a lot to me.
I agree with BR , this is a terrific piece. Probably an extrapolation of your post on the other board. I know Arjun Reddy is not mentioned here, but I think it will be a while before this blog is exorcised of the ghosts of that film. In my opinion Benam Badshah is more problematic and regressive than AR (purity of woman etc.) , but it is more honest as well. Anil Kapoor’s character is a rapist. But Arjun Reddy , despite being a violent sexual predator is a “troubled genius”.
Anyway coming back to BB , what is this logic – good wife to bad guy vs bad wife to good guy.
I also am not sure what to make of this line –
“It transcends broad identity considerations by building strong characters so that we identify with these individuals and buy into their story as opposed to extrapolating their behaviour on men and women in general”
I think it is unfair to your article, but I am talking about the Hindi version since I have not seen the original, Anil Kapoor was probably a big star at the time of release of this movie. It is hard to imagine that he would have been seen as a character and not as an archetype / hero. This was not an off mainstream movie like Eswar for instance. What I agree as I have earlier noted that an unapologetic depiction of the male lead as a rapist is rare if not the first such instance.
But still , I find the central conceit of the movie, the rape victim wanting to marry and reform the rapist, unpalatable, for the lack of a better word.
vinjk
Wonderfully argued, Madan! I haven’t seen the film but I’m pretty sure this piece and the film wouldn’t pass the test of #MeToo 2019.
Rahul: I have not watched Benam Baadshah and cannot therefore comment on how it was remade into Hindi. As for Arjun Reddy, no, not really and I haven’t watched either that or KS. It was Parthiepan’s interview itself which provoked me to watch and then write about it. Perhaps, we can say the ghosts of AR haunted the interview itself!
“what is this logic – good wife to bad guy vs bad wife to good guy.” – She means the man who is, rightly, willing to look past her rape and still marry her will have to bear the cross all his life. I take that as more an indictment of society than of furthering a patriarchal narrative as two separate people tell her or opine that she has made a mistake by not going ahead with the marriage. It is also a realistic position circa 1980s. Why 1980s, even today I suspect most middle or upper class grooms would run away from such a bride as if she were a time bomb.
What I mean by the line that the film transcends broad identity considerations is it makes us look past our expectations of what a man or a woman should do in these situations and come to accept these unconventional characters for what they are. That can only be achieved by investing time in giving them a backstory. Which many mainstream films neglect to do these days. It’s like set up the dark urchin roaming around with college ATKT gang, setting his sights on a loosu ponnu and then showing how he has this heart of gold that was concealed beneath heaps of sewage all this time. Then how can you, as in the filmmaker, feign surprise that women find this set up offensive.
“It is hard to imagine that he would have been seen as a character and not as an archetype / hero.” – Yes, this was Parthiepan’s first significant performance as actor as well and that definitely made a difference. While Seetha had been around, she was still fresh enough for the audience to accept her without pre-conceived notions induced by type-casting.
“What I agree as I have earlier noted that an unapologetic depiction of the male lead as a rapist is rare if not the first such instance.” – Sure but – and I don’t know if this scene featured in Benaam Badshah – PP features a scene where Seetha openly confronts Parthiepan in front of the rest of the residents of the slum neighbourhood and shames him over his rape. By contrasting it with how he harshly punished a woman who sought to abandon her child born out of wedlock to salvage her upcoming marriage, she puts him on the defensive and weakens his position in the slum as the ‘dada’. I for one thought it was a very interesting discourse on balance of power and how she pushes it in her favour by calling out the bluff on him seeking refuge in his being an orphan to justify all his misdeeds. To me, the difference in the title itself speaks a lot. At no point is the Parthiepan character a badshah in the Tamil original, though he does strut around with helluva swagger.
“But still , I find the central conceit of the movie, the rape victim wanting to marry and reform the rapist, unpalatable, for the lack of a better word.” – Sure but this is exactly what prompted me to watch it. I was curious as to how he could possibly make such a conceit work at all because it sounded extremely risky for his time, for any time per se for that matter. And I had to come away with the conclusion that he did make it work well beyond my expectations. PP is a good demonstration of what is possible in art and that after all is what art exists for. Good art takes risks and then makes the risks work by inventing a logic universe where it fits. I THINK that approach to narration is lost somewhere and that is why our films these days swing from the safe to the wildly outrageous. And the risky propositions that work are usually found to be official or unofficial remakes of foreign films (Badla, for eg).
vinjk: “I’m pretty sure this piece and the film wouldn’t pass the test of #MeToo 2019.” – Possibly so and as an amateur, wannabe writer, I am willing to take that risk as I have no skin in the game. However, to be clear, my write up is really addressed to the defenders of casual, unaccounted misogyny in our cinema. It is a sad commentary on the state of our films if after all these years, the conceit of Mr ATKT vagabond lecturing well educated girls on womanhood is not only tolerated but applauded while Parthiepan has to openly wonder whether he could make a Puthiya Paathai today. Because, notwithstanding the gruesome premise, in terms of sensitivity, PP is miles ahead of these films. The Paathai, verily, is still under construction, just like Indian roads.
“Anil Kapoor’s character is a rapist. But Arjun Reddy , despite being a violent sexual predator is a “troubled genius”.” – Missed this and this line nails it. It is the fact that PP makes no bones about who the male protagonist really is that I appreciated and is what makes the conceit work. After all, in real life, nobody thinks of the Shakti Mills or Nirbhaya rapists as troubled geniuses. So why should cinema play by different rules? If anything, by unabashedly bringing home the reality of rape, PP places our sympathy firmly on the side of the victim, the woman, and that’s as it should be. In a sense, the real narrative of PP is of Seetha fleeing her troubled existence to embrace anonymity as her new identity. In a stable family, she would have received the emotional support she needed after her being raped. But as things stand, the rape probably makes her existence in this household even more unbearable. While the film doesn’t openly say so, this can be reasonably inferred as her motive in taking the unconventional decision that she does.
Well written, Madan. Have to disagree with the ending, though.
“The people represented in Puthiya Paathai still have poignant tales to tell. But there’s nobody to tell them on the big screen anymore.”
Oru kuppai kathai, Kakkamuttai, Merku thodarchi malai are some that come to mind.
Varsha : I did think of them and still went ahead with my conclusion as such films remain indie and no longer attain the critical mass that PP could. You’re right in that such films are being made so I should amend it slightly to say we don’t want to listen to these stories anymore.
Madan: I get your point, and I also hope things will improve with the casual moviegoers, but can it be generalised? For instance, Kakkamuttai and Vazhakku Enn 18/9 were well received by the general public, along with high critical acclaim.
Varsha : It is indeed a generalization so there are bound to be exceptions that prove me wrong. I am looking at the overall change in the industry rather than outliers. Parthiepan also alludes to this in the interview when he says C centre is gone.
Madan, The title of your piece piqued my curiousity, because I’d watched Benaam Badshah with appalled horror. From what you write about the Tamil original, all I can say is that much was lost in the translation. The Hindi version was crass, totally misogynistic and had such gems as: Aurat ke izzat par ek baar daag lag jaaye to woh kabhi nahin dhul jaata (I’m praraphrasing so it might not be the exact order of words, but the sentiment is there) to justify the Seeta character going to be the ‘good wife to the bad guy’. In other words, she had agency.
I can agree with your premise that in the original film, there is a sense of this particular woman taking this unconventional step to turn her life around. The Hindi version was a daag that will not be dhulo-fied on both Anil’s and Juhi’s careers.
And I do think, in a country where a judge still orders a rape victim to be married off to her rapist (case happened in 2017, if I remember right), it would be criminal to bring out a film that seems to endorse this.
But I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article – congrats.
Edit: In other words, she had agency. should have come after the next sentence – ‘there is a sense of this particular woman taking this unconventional step to turn her life around.
Anu Warrier : Thanks for the encouragement. I will check back that scene again where Seetha recalls how she got raped and opted out of marriage. But I don’t remember her using the aurat -mard/aan-pen vocabulary there. Only referred to her own self. This is what impressed me about the film and what I was trying to convey when I said it transcends broad identity considerations. It doesn’t say the character is behaving like this because that is what the aan/pen is supposed to do. And by thus focusing on the individuals, it avoids coming across as encouraging marrying off rape victims to the rapist which indeed is a terrible idea as a form of justice.
Madan: Hmmm. But isn’t it also the case that the total number of such movies, at least in the tamil industry, are so low that which side the exceptions lie itself is debatable?
As I head back from a super late day at work, I checked the portion and indeed, it avoids this aurat izzat discourse completely.
You can check out the portion from around 1:04 to 1:07. Here, as elsewhere in the film, it takes pains to discuss her motive.
I mean 1 hour 4 min to 1 hour 7 min mark.
One of the best Readers Write In article that I have read in this blog. It is not easy to take a stand that seems to go against popular opinion and publically write an article lucidly explaining your opinion. As someone who often tends to do the former and wants to do the latter, I am quite impressed. Congratulations Madan.
Good art takes risks and then makes the risks work by inventing a logic universe where it fits – Madan Saar, Super Saar!
Totally agree. An example off the top of my head – Oldboy. How do you justify keeping a man captive for 15 years for (what appears to be) no reason?
I have not watched any of these films (Puthiya Paathai, Arjun Reddy, Kabir Singh) so this post is just extra reading material for me. Keep ’em coming.
Madan, thanks for that link. Yes, the Tamil version is definitely clear about the choice being hers. The Hindi version had that crappy dialogue I mentioned earlier. Not sure that I would watch this movie since I really have no liking for the subject matter, but I have bookmarked the link just in case I do watch someday. But I will keep your excellent arguments in mind when I do watch. (And see if I agree. 🙂 )
Isai: Thanks. Perhaps the point of both this movie as an example and my write up is that PC need not be a minefield if we think through what we are doing. While Parthiepan attributed innocence to his conviction in making the film and it getting accepted, from the way he wrote it, it would appear that he ACKNOWLEDGED the potential for outrage and worked out a way to contextualise the outrage rather than leave it unexplained and invite criticism. In the same way, if I may flatter myself with a parallel to Parthiepan cough, when I wrote this, I acknowledged the potential for outrage and therefore made sure I explained myself well. Which, going by the reactions thus far, I seem to have achieved. As opposed to self censoring and diluting what I wanted to express. Somebody said this about Bill Burr in an article that he will acknowledge it beforehand when he is going to make a joke that has the potential to offend. It is when the creator says, “No, I never intended to offend and it’s all in your head and you should grow a pair” that there’s an issue.
therag: Thanks. And thanks for the heads up about Oldboy.
Anu Warrier: It is indeed baffling why BB chose that direction as that was clearly not Parthiepan’s intent. Such a shame too coming on the heels of the parallel cinema movement, which Parthiepan acknowledged as an influence (at least going by his reference to Akrosh). I did not know of the existence of this Hindi remake but you and Rahul have convinced me I shouldn’t touch it with a barge pole. But the contrast perhaps help make my point as what PP got right that other films did not.
shaviswa
I remember watching Puthiya Pathai when it was released. I came to know about the plot before I saw the film and seeing Parthipan on the film posters did not convince me how good the film was going to be. But it came as a pleasant surprise. It was very well made, the plot engaging, the characterizations pretty good and more importantly you did not feel disgusted at the turn of events in the story. You actually felt for Seetha who was trying to reform a disgusting rowdy into a mellowed hero.
The sad part however was how Parthipan took the film’s success. Puthiya Pathai was a huge hit not just because of how the film was made. A good part of the success was also how Parthipan’s character was lapped up by the young Tamil crowd. There used to whistles and hoots for the crass dialogues that he spoke. And that IMO was the seed to films like Ullae Veliyae. He realized that there was a market for crassness and he cashed in on those.
rmahalik
Madan Saar, pretty solid read. Like your comments. Do you have your own blog page?
rmahalik: Thanks, do have a blog, but haven’t posted in a long while.
I was 10(definitely pre-tween) when I watched the movie when it was telecasted on TV i,e I had no idea what the movie was about except probably thought seetha looks good, parthiban is usually funny etc. I was horrified even then about the movie. And as a child Iliked reformist story – that part the movie does well.
” she decides that she would, in her words, rather be a good wife to the bad man who raped her than be a bad wife (burden) to a good man.”
Why does Seetha consider herself to be a bad wife for no fault of hers???? I was never able to get out of this line.
I guess sakala kala vallavan was also similar line – get married to a rapist. you might say but that is masala but how can ignore the prominent plot line of the movie? This was such a strong trope of 80s/90s – get married to the rapist. If you are just following the popular trope of the times how is it revolutionary? Yeah it didnt have the usual beat up the villain and get him married to the victim. but it isnt even one step in any positive direction.
To me the fact she would be a bad wife to a good man is worst line ever. That is what drives the plot of the movie.
Indira was the only movie I could think of which dealt with this well. I was so relieved when he called arvindswamy speaks to an anu haasan and treats the incident as it should be. ( damini – i dont remember much of it so cant comment but it does register the true horror of physical assault aspect).
I had to wait for so long to get movie like Pink.
Glad if all the #metoo makes people stop from making movie like that today.
@sachita : Because she can already hear the sniggering from the groom’s family. She can see a life of ostracization ahead. Of always being told behind her back that she was a kettuponava and her husband is saddled with her. She cannot even expect support from her own family because of how her father is. This is the very reason the devilish father character exists. To make such a decision plausible. Had she had a supportive family, her martyrdom wouldn’t have rung true. The point here is rape pushes her to a point of no return from which she makes this otherwise strange, to say the least, decision. There is no suggestion she is subjecting herself to this to prove her ‘purity’ because rape is always the woman’s fault, which is how other films of the time would have handled it. Which is how, I dare say, many would to this day if there was no outcry from the media or the people.
I agree that marrying the rapist was a common theme in the 80s but perhaps reform starts with acknowledging how unfair that is to the woman and IMO this film achieves that. In that sense, the film distinguished itself from the pack by showing sensitivity that was only there in parallel cinema in Hindi or some of Mahendran or Mani’s films. What COULD have been a much bolder film though would have been to show the Indian panchayat /nattamai justice system marrying off the raped to the rapist and showing us how gruesome that turns out to be. Either that film has never been made or I am not aware of it. It is unfortunate if it is indeed the latter.
I will add here that Seetha’s decision isn’t shown as being reasoned and logical and instead as the withdrawal of one in severe trauma. When her groom says her decision is wrong, she says she doesn’t know if her decision is right or wrong but that she knows she is not in a state to marry him now. She later tells Manorama that most girls in her place would have taken their own life and intelligent ones would have taken the rapist to the police. She admits she did neither.
Madan,
“acknowledging how unfair that is to the woman and IMO this film achieves that.” Based on tamil film logic, the next film that followed on this line would have had a dialogue that would say if you are a true woman you need to reform the rapist like seetha did there. So it obviously could never achieve that.
Thought Parthiban said in the interview to baradwaj that he wasnt aware of this thought process ( /issues) against marrying a rapist. And even then there was widespread criticism against this angle. Today he would start the movie where she shoots him. He isnt defending the movie as far I saw. ( He is quite cool actually).
I am glad things have moved in a better direction.
Also, in your following lines.
” She is not bowled over by a ‘lover’ who relentlessly stalks her nor swayed or enchanted by masculine charm. She is simply placed in extraordinary circumstances which push her to make extraordinary decisions.”
Rape and rapist have always been portrayed mostly negative in that era movies except for sagala kala vallavan. Most films even then didnt show victim marry the rapist because they got swayed/enchanted. Like seetha here, in all those movies, this was the option that they were all pushed to.
” Based on tamil film logic, the next film that followed on this line would have had a dialogue that would say if you are a true woman you need to reform the rapist like seetha did there. So it obviously could never achieve that.” – Ha! Thank God for that. But on a serious note, I don’t think you can hold it against Puthiya Paathai if the films following it did not take the lead from it. As shaviswa said, Parthiban himself stooped to the low of double meaning dialogue in Ulle Velliye. The film has outlived its creator. Probably comparable to Mahesh Bhatt making Arth and then taking a different direction from there than what people perhaps expected.
“Thought Parthiban said in the interview to baradwaj that he wasnt aware of this thought process ( /issues) against marrying a rapist. ” – I am not convinced about that and interpret it as him playing it safe. The film he made shows he did realise he was wading into dangerous waters and made efforts to account for it in his script. If he was actually so blissfully unaware of it, he would have gone down the pombla-maanam route that was in any case seen as acceptable in that era.
“Like seetha here, in all those movies, this was the option that they were all pushed to.” – Ah but Seetha isn’t pushed into it. There’s no nattamai telling her she ought to do this and forcing the rapist to marry her. This is what she seeks out herself. Even if the decision is unconventional to the point of being unpalatable, it is at least better to show her opting for it, so she retains agency, than for people around her pushing her into it. If anything, nobody around her thinks this is a good idea. She doesn’t either; she says that a smart woman would have simply complained to the police. That is the logical thing to do but this is art. I don’t see the problem as long as neither the act of rape nor that of victim marrying the rapist are glorified.
PP wasn’t revolutionary. I am not sure if it was meant to be. It is more like teaching a tiger to go fishing. It works only in that individual movie’s particular universe. If the storyteller made you buy the story, then he is a good story teller and that is that.
Yes, the marrying someone off to the rapist was shown as a valid solution for a pressing problem. The victim will look like “Oh good, As my brother/brother-figure is such a hero, he resolved my rape problem by getting me married to my rapist. How I admire my brother/brother-figure”.
The rapist will look like “Oh shit! I thought I could get away. Now I got my due punishment. DAMN”
The problem of rape isn’t her consent or her trauma or her right to own her body. It is her “dirt”. You can’t use underwear and expect to return to the seller. This was much the same thing. You used it. Now pay for it.
Of course, the hero should first save his sister/sister-figure from a suicide attempt. For in the 80s, that was the logical thing any woman would do once she is raped. In fact, if a woman jumps out of the window of a skyscrapper and becomes dog-food BEFORE the act of rape happens, then there would be a line that goes “Oh she saved herself with death”.
And it wasn’t just the movies. From what I am given to understand the novels and short stories weren’t different. Most importantly, this is how the general public was too. This was evident to me when someone narrates the story to another. Like when I ask someone what the story of PP or Sakalakala Vallavan or Pannakaran(?), the way they narrated the story convinced me that this “Rape is dirt” trope is not something that they questioned at all.
There was this novel with the “he only raped so that no one else would marry her, he is actually quite nice” thing going on. It was a huge hit in my PG hostel. Goodness knows how alone I felt in a world that just did not understand. This was 2002. Not very long back.
PP’s first premise is not exactly redeemable. But the taming the beast part is done well enough. Parthiban’s personality changes very slowly and very clearly. He becomes more and more human. IIRC, He lives in a house that has only one wall. He builds it up step by step to give her privacy when changing her clothes. He himself did not need privacy when he changed his clothes. So the presence of a woman make him live in a way he did not do before. When she dies, the house is blown up and so is his life. So this movie made us see things in a “See, how she can build a man from scratch” theme.
But that theme itself is problematic in its own angle. I can be kind to a dog that bit me. But I will make sure he is in a very dignified kennel for the rest of his life. He maybe redeemed with lots of pure love. But hey! These redeemer complex stories are strictly a one-time watch for me.
Also did you hear the “Hey! He is not a beast. He did not do it for the sex. He did it for the money. So he can’t be seen as all bad” argument? — Head to desk —
Can PP be made now? I do believe that it can be. But it will be subject to more scrutiny than it was then. Big deal. If you write a story and direct it, then you should have the what-do-you-call-it to stand up on a twitter bench and explain yourself. People who want to tell stories of brave women who tame dangerous beasts should have the bravery to take a little twitter-storm. It will last for a week or two.
PP can be made out of a non-rape scenario, no? A man broke into a woman’s house and robbed her and killed her parents, she decides that it is her calling to marry the burglar/killer. Because she is a savior. She saves. She is like that. Admirable and all that. She will teach him that life can be happier when you aren’t a criminal.
“Yes, the marrying someone off to the rapist was shown as a valid solution for a pressing problem.”- I didn’t get that anywhere from the film but I will not deny that the potential for it to be interpreted in that way exists and remains to this day.
“Also did you hear the “Hey! He is not a beast. He did not do it for the sex. He did it for the money. So he can’t be seen as all bad”” – Where was this line in the film, sorry? If anything, it makes him even more of a beast since he was prepared to commit such a violent act just for the money with no consideration for the woman, who, as she herself tells him, had never done any harm to him.
“Ah but Seetha isn’t pushed into it. ” Seetha’s choice would have been the guy she was originally going to marry. Due to the rape, she is left with no choice.
This is going back to bad wife to a good person statement. The statement isnt true but that is the how she has perceived the scenario as.
TBH, if he was even a stalker/ gangster she had fallen for that wont be a force because she fell for him, it was her choice. That isnt the choice seetha had here. I mean hero’s thangachi’s went crying to the hero to get them married to their rapist, a lot of them were making this ‘choice’ then. Panchayat wasnt the driving force in lot of those movies.
Indira was revolutionary in that aspect.
Madan, I meant the overall tone of most marry the rapist movies like Sakalakala Vallavan and Panakaran, where the hero saves his sister by ensuring the rapist marries her,
Where was this line in the film, sorry?
Not in the film. It was made in a debate in one of the channels. Sorry I missed mentioning it. There was a program in JJ TV with the formal pattimadram style naduvar. One movie was chosen with a “for team” and “against team”. And this argument was made in so many words there. Around mid 90s.
Rahini David: drops jaw Head desk indeed.
“I meant the overall tone of most marry the rapist movies like Sakalakala Vallavan and Panakaran, where the hero saves his sister by ensuring the rapist marries her”- OK, fair enough. My argument was only that PP took the same essential material but rose above its problems. That does not prevent misinterpretation of the film but then, people watched Wall Street and got inspired to become like Gordon Gekko, which is the exact opposite of what Oliver Stone wanted.
I want to clarify for the sake of removing any doubt that the write up is not an advocacy of marrying the rapist as a solution or a condonation of misogyny in any form. It is simply an exploration of how ONE film can take an incendiary subject and defend itself if only the writing is not lazy in the way it usually is in Tamil cinema. I have already written a version of this clarification before in this thread but it bears repetition.
“I mean hero’s thangachi’s went crying to the hero to get them married to their rapist, a lot of them were making this ‘choice’ then. ” – But do you not see the difference between that scenario, where the woman is bringing in a white knight in shining armour to save her (i.e. reinforcing patriarchy) and this one where she decides to handle it all by herself? To be clear, the concept isn’t revolutionary indeed but the handling is.
Anuja Chandramouli
Really enjoyed this Madan! You made some excellent points. ‘Agency. The choices Seetha makes may come across as unrealistic but those are her choices as an independent adult. She is not bowled over by a ‘lover’ who relentlessly stalks her nor swayed or enchanted by masculine charm. She is simply placed in extraordinary circumstances which push her to make extraordinary decisions.’ Nailed it!
I saw this movie a really long time ago and it was hugely troubling and made such a powerful impression that I haven’t really forgotten any of it. I absolutely loathe the concept of a naatamai/savior type marrying off the rape victim to her rapist and yet in this particular movie as you pointed out, it somehow seemed believable that the Seetha character would do this.
She is so strong, dignified and compassionate you can’t help but root for her. I am not really a fan of the belief that women need to make men their charity projects and reform them, yet the gradual transformation of Parthi from a scumbag to a decent human being was strangely moving.
Love that this film worked so hard to explain the thinking behind the characters seemingly batshit crazy notions. More importantly, it is amazing that Parthi had the cojones to make a film like this back then. I also put Rajini’s Engeyo Ketta Kural in this category. It was a film that was way ahead of it’s time and so progressive.
Nowadays it is unfortunate that the same old regressive crap is being churned out with Jo and Nayan doing whatever it is they do in the name of feminism.
Well written Madan!
On the stream of interesting arguments made above:
Sirai (1984) had a similar concept and PP is a what-if scenario of that movie combined with VandiChakkaram (1980) – both successful movies. Thala BR has written a piece on this where he mentions Rahini’s point.
https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Crime-does-pay/article14401230.ece
While reading on Sirai I came across this, which talks of the problems of making a movie against the conventional norms:
https://cinema.dinamalar.com/tamil-news/55461/cinema/Kollywood/Flashback-:-Sirai-movie-screened-60-times-in-preview-show.htm
Afterall, his guru made the famous, “enda kaadhali unga manaivi aayitu varum.. unga manaivi enda kaadhali aayittu varadhu” 🙂
Ofcourse now you have Puthiya Niyamam (2016), malayalalam, in which the husband helps the wife in killing her rapists concealed and leads a life with her without telling her that he knows.
But yes, PP works because of the way it is narrated…
Anuja Chandramouli: Haven’t seen Engeyo Ketta Kural. Thanks for the heads up.
bart: Ditto about Sirai.
Engeyo Ketta Kural was a movie that stayed true to the traditional views – however it was presented well. Rajinikanth does not try to bring Ambika back to normal life within the society. She is banished and made to live like an outcast for the mistake she did. However, Rajinikanth gives her the dignity of a decent death. It is a good movie but definitely not something that dared to question old mores in society.
“What COULD have been a much bolder film though would have been to show the Indian panchayat /nattamai justice system marrying off the raped to the rapist and showing us how gruesome that turns out to be. Either that film has never been made or I am not aware of it. It is unfortunate if it is indeed the latter.”
The movie Valli, written by none other than our Superstar Rajinikanth, does it beautifully, no? In fact, that is the major twist in the story. Valli kills her rapist and marries the one who truly loves her, after serving time in jail. This movie released in 1993, just four years after Puthiya Paathai. It was a box office failure, but for all those who lament about a rapist marrying the victim, this film must be a cause for celebration. To me, this film was more of a Puthiya Paathai in this sense and this alone! (not the reformist part, or the plight of orphans. Those are the real good points in Parthiban’s film, IMO).
Also, 10 years later, actor Vivek brings up this injustice in the famous minor kunju comedy in Kaadhal Sadugudu. Although admittedly not as effective as Valli, the fact that Vivek had a reputation for strong social messages through his comedy at that time, prompts the audience to look beyond the laughter it evokes.
There could be more. Needless to say, I have given only what I could remember.
Eswar
Nice write up, Madan.
Slightly off-topic. Sorry Madan about the digression. How do you folks view ‘Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal’ compared to Puthiya Pathai and other similar movies mentioned in the comments section. Is it really revolutionary for its time or its the usual depiction hiding behind a revolutionary facade.
I don’t remember watching the full movie. But I have read the book seven-eight years back. Then, I felt it was pushing the norms. The book was published in 1970. But now, listening to all the discussions in this blog, I am not so sure. So just wanted to hear your thoughts.
@Rahini David: From what I am given to understand the novels and short stories weren’t different .
Any particular titles that you could recollect? I am not refuting your statement. Just interested to know what kind of books and authors it came from.
On that topic, I was also wondering if anyone has read Thi.Janakiraman’s ‘Amma Vanthal’ and Ambai’s ‘Amma oru kolai seithal’ which, I think, touches upon some of the topics discussed in the recent posts.
To add to my previous comment, Valli is even bolder than the scenario you have mentioned, Madan. Instead of marrying off to the rapist AND THEN showing how gruesome it is, Valli shows the rapist and others how grave the crime is!
@ Varsha IMO Valli still doesn’t go far enough because revenge is not a form of justice available to most women. A woman cannot be expected to murder her rapist in retaliation. Showing how terrible marriage to the rapist is would expose the flaws in the conveniently accepted solution of marrying the rapist. Unless she does marry him at first. I don’t remember that she did but my memory of the film is hazy.
Also the whole idea of playing a romantic song in the background as the act of rape is depicted (Ennulle, and Ilamayenam Poongatru is the same) makes me uncomfortable. Like the Dracula Lucy love scene from the 1979 film but there were know it’s Dracula and fear what he’s doing to Lucy. In these films, playing these beautiful songs to accompany the act introduces undesirable ambivalence IMO. I love both songs but cannot watch the scene.
Valli probably had a good premise but was a shoddily made movie. The message was not hard hitting and was actually hidden in the farce of a Rajinikanth guest role.
Madan: It’s interesting you call it rape, and now that I think about that VALLI seduction scene, I wonder…
It is consensual. But the woman’s consent is obtained by conning her (i.e. the man makes her think he loves her).
I guess that does qualify as rape, but I wonder how others see it!
I mean, I am asking if the word “rape” can be used here, or is there another word?
“here she decides to handle it all by herself?”
Seetha makes the same decision like all the female characters did of that time. To get married to the rapist. She ‘decides’ isnt even right. Because without the crime she would have even chosen parthiban. She feels tainted and that is why she chooses him – how is she revolutionary.
I cant/wont settle for that settle as path breaking in this aspect.
If he had shown that seetha continued with original groom and trauma she faced after that, that would be path breaking. Or Again Indira was path breaking. It treated as the way it should be looked at by the girl.
PS: I keep thinking of sila nerangil sila manithargal too, but I havent read the book. So dont know enough of the complexity jayakanthan explored there.
Eswar: Wrote about SILA NERANGALIL here…
https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2005/03/27/sila-nerangalil-sila-manidhargal/
Eswer: Sorry, I did not read the novels. Some of my friends narrated them to me and I don’t recollect the names. But what shocked me was not even the content of the novels themselves, but the attitude of the girls who narrated these stories to me.
Perhaps the more reputed writers had a better take on these topics.
BR: In an earlier version of my comment, which I lost when my connectivity disappeared, I had in fact describing conning the woman and later disappearing without a trace as tantamount to rape.
BR: I was about to comment on Valli being classified under rape situation too. This article comes close to my take on it.
http://seemagoswami.blogspot.com/2014/09/sex-lies-and-threat-of-rape.html
sachita : There is some confusion here as I never called the film pathbreaking. I did say it is different, which it is, in terms of the treatment.
“IMO Valli still doesn’t go far enough because revenge is not a form of justice available to most women. A woman cannot be expected to murder her rapist in retaliation.”
One can equate the Valli-rape scenario with the Indian-corruption situation. The point of both movies is not that the solution is murder. The message is that the solution is lawful harsh punishment. They both send a strong message to the viewer about the seriousness of rape/corruption which, IMO, is more effective than marrying a rapist and then punishing. That act(marrying a rapist), in itself, is disgusting to any self-respecting woman, no matter what happens next!
Rahini David : Interesting you say you agree with Seema Goswami’s take on it. Whilst the point is valid as far as women taking responsibility for their choices goes, as a man, I do not accept that men have the right to first promise the moon and then turn around and say I never knew ya. Consent is also subject to the conditions of consent, right? If I accepted to buy a product from a company for a price doesn’t mean I am a customer don’t have the right to take them to task if the product performance is grossly below promise, right? Why would the brave men who battle for men’s rights with the ‘feminazis’ on Twitter even dream of offering caveat emptor as a defence? How is it any different from the patriarchal “girls, stay safe and don’t step out alone after dark ” shtick? For a man’s consent to be valuable at all, there must be a framework that punishes him for not keeping his word. Don’t call it rape if you so wish, I for one don’t get fussy about the exact terminology but it is still horrible if a man makes a promise to marry and then deserts the woman after ‘consensual’ sex. That is deceitful to the core. If you cannot own up to your act, you’re not a man at all. That there are men who do get falsely implicated in rape cases doesn’t change that the problem arises BECAUSE there are, equally, men who seduce and use the woman with no intention of having a relationship with her.
@BR – The Valli seduction is not rape. It was consensual. The boy cheated her and ditched her. Morally wrong, but legally not rape. However, in Tamil movies, sex before marriage is also “kuduthuttaan” and rape is also “keduthuttaan” – so very often consensual sex gets conflated into rape.
@BR
“It’s interesting you call it rape, and now that I think about that VALLI seduction scene, I wonder…
Reminds me of Mayanadhi (Mal movie) dialogue “Sex is not a promise”.
The situation you describe is cheating. But does it classify as rape? I’m not sure because sex is consensual on the condition that he loves her. Hmm…what if there is a change of heart later in their relationship? I think that is the same as “making her think he loves her”.
At the end of the day, people (adults) should behave as adults. Take responsibility for your words and actions.
BR,Shaviswa: The following case may help put things in the right perspective.
Click to access 48211_2018_Judgement_09-Apr-2019.pdf
I have given below separately the most important paragraph in the judgement.
It appears that the intention of the accused as per the testimony of PW 1 was, right from the beginning, not honest and he kept on promising tha the will marry her, till she became pregnant. This kind of consent obtained by the accused cannot be said to be any consent because she was under a misconception of fact that the accused intends to marry her, therefore, she had submitted to sexual intercourse with him. This fact is also admitted by the accused that he had committed sexual intercourse which is apparent from the testimony of PWs 1, 2 and 3 and before the panchayat of elders of the village. It is more than clear that the accused made a false promise that he would marry her. Therefore, the intention of the accused right from the beginning was not bona fide and the poor girl submitted to the lust of the accused, completely being misled by the accused who held out the promise for marriage. This kind of consent taken bythe accused with clear intention not to fulfill the promise and persuading the girl to believe that he is going to marry her and obtained her consent for the sexual intercourse under total misconception, cannot be treated to be a consent. …….19
The judgement concludes that this is indeed rape!
I for one doesn’t see it as rape. I think rape and marriage should be kept totally separate, at least in cases involving mature adults and without pregnancy. But unfortunately Indian Supreme Court looks at it as: if a man never intended to marry a woman but if he promised marriage and had sex, then it is rape. The problem with such a view is that it is somewhat difficult to ascertain if the man NEVER intended to marry a woman or if he had a change of mind later. Thus, the law restricts the man from walking out of a relationship after having sex but a woman can easily do the same without any consequences.
It is even more diffuclt to ascertain if marriage was PROMISED before sex. The traditional view is that a woman wouldn’t have had sex otherwise and hence her word is taken as the truth. IMO, this is unrealistic and unfair and is yet another example of gender biased judgement/laws. IMO, sex is to be considered as rape only when it is done without the victim’s VALID consent. The validity does get nullified if the consent was obtained under coercion or using physical force or by abusing one’s authority or if the victim was not in a state to give consent. But, just as marriage alone can’t be considered as a lifetime consent pass to the wife’s body, a promise of marriage alone can’t be used to nullify the validity of consent given by the woman. Karan Oberoi’s case leading to the #MenToo movement is an example of the damage that is caused by such a biased law. Another example :
https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/11/spare-innocent-men-anguish-india-ruling-aims-to-end-false-claims
Unfortunately, most of the Indian Intelligentsia are uninterested/unwilling to speak about such issues. Even the coverage given by foreign media is not given by Indian media unless women close to the accused come forward to defend him.
Varsha: Thanks. It is definitely a grey area, but I am inclined to see it this way. It may not be physical coercion but there’s an element of mental coercion / manipulation here.
No Madan, conflating consensual sex with rape is terribly wrong. It is not actually similar to that “Well, you were drunk and in room” argument. Not even if the man is saying words like “I love you” and “I will marry only you” etc. with zero sincerity and is doing it only for the OK signal to go ahead with sex on that particular day.
It is deceitful? Is it deplorable? Is it wrong? Well yes. That should NOT be classified as rape. Because it dilutes the meaning of “Rape”. You can’t use the same word for something because you feel it is equally deplorable.
Refusing to acknowledge that any relationship was ever taking place is wrong. Using the word “love” to get what you want is deplorable. But tantamount to rape? Absolutely not.
It is rape if,
1) She was refusing clearly and he uses physical force.
2) She was drugged.
3) She was mentally ill.
4) She was physically trapped and consents out of fear.
4) She was not old enough to give consent and he knew her age. It is rape even if she was literally begging for it.
Refusing to acknowledge that any relationship was ever taking place actually takes place as this attitude of equating romantic break ups with rapes. Men should be permitted to break up with a GF if things are not working out. It is clearly connected to the “used goods” concept.
Valli says it is even ok to kill a man over disappointed love over this.
@”That there are men who do get falsely implicated in rape cases doesn’t change that the problem arises BECAUSE there are, equally, men who seduce and use the woman with no intention of having a relationship with her.”
This looks as if sex is gratifying only for men and women have it only so as to get a man to provide for her. And that women don’t use men and desert them when they find a better provider.
“If I accepted to buy a product from a company for a price doesn’t mean I am a customer don’t have the right to take them to task if the product performance is grossly below promise, right? ”
You have given something (money in this case) and hence inherit a right to demand performance. But, in case of sex, there is no actual give and take unless you subscribe to the provider view that I mentioned above.
” If you cannot own up to your act, you’re not a man at all.”
What about women? Does this principle apply to them or do they get a free pass?
IMHO, expecting higher standards from men means assuming that men are inherently superior species.
Isai:The following article addresses some of the very poignant issues you have raised.
https://www.bbc.com › news
Why India sees sex on false promise of marriage as rape – BBC News
It speaks of the problem from both sides, and also shows that the judges are well aware and concerned about the issue you have raised.
Rahini David : I am certainly not conflating rape and break up after intercourse. But what then is a breakup? It’s a breakup when the partners have had a conversation and one partner has made it clear he/she cannot proceed with the relationship. Is there a difference to my mind between that and the Valli /Tamil movie situation where the whereabouts of the boy cannot be ascertained after the act? Avowedly yes. The latter is simply not acceptable and my reasoning is not unlike that given in the judgment quoted by Varsha. Consent obtained under deceit is no consent at all. I am not talking about the couple breaking up before marriage and the girl then accusing the boy of cheating her. In that scenario the boy has shown bona-fide intention of going through with the promise. But if that intention flies out of the window with no action on the part of the girl to induce such a change of mind and purely because the boy had no intention ever of keeping his promise, it tantamounts to rape IMO. I don’t see the difference between a stranger coercing sex out of you and a guy who pretends to be stranger the day after sex.
@Isai : But men cannot be impregnated. So there will always be a dual standard. Historically this standard came down against women and these days it swings against men. There will be a rebalancing again but let’s get to what you said in the first paragraph.
You are talking about driving gratification from sex. If it was only about that, there would be no issue. No, let’s look deeper into why obtaining consent under the promise of marriage even happens. It is because of the obsession with virginity. Why do Indian men think they are entitled to virgin women and any woman who has has sex is a kettuponava? I am not saying all Indian men think this way but many do and this expectation continues to inform the institution of marriage. If men can get adult and grow up, both partners in the act could have casual sex with no expectation of anything more. In such a scenario, even sex in a potentially long term relationship that happened to break will not be construed as rape. But the obsession with virginity puts an impossible burden on women and any man who deceives a woman into sex in such an environment has committed a wanton crime in my eyes, period.
Varsha, thanks for sharing the judgement. I think the judgement is correct, considering the facts of the case. The key facts IMO are that, there was a public promise of marriage by the accused in front of their families BEFORE sex, the victim was a student (not financially independent and hence bound to parental pressure/social norms regarding marriage alliance) and the fact that it had happened only once, makes me believe that it was an hurried instinctive/impulsive decision by the girl based on fears like what if I refuse and he calls off the alliance etc. Hence, I think this decision was correct mainly because by inviting the girl to his house and then asking for sex under such circumstances, the man put undue pressure on her and didn’t give her sufficient time to take an informed decision.
But the scenario of an urban independent couple getting into a physical relationship where the woman ASSUMED that this is going to lead to a marriage or where there is no evidence to show a formal/public acknowledgement of intent to marry, sex should not be treated as rape.
A part of my mind asks me if I would be okay if this woman became unhappy with the sex and had decided to call off the alliance. When the answer is yes, why should a man be deprived of the same right? But, as someone who has seen how marriages are solemnised in such societies, I feel the circumstances of this case should be considered for arriving at this judgement.
Rahini: As Madan says, the Valli movie scenario and the judgement case I have quoted are different from the romantic breakups that you are talking about. I may just be repeating what Madan has said, but even then I think this bears repetition. There are actually two, similar-on-the-surface, but very different scenarios here. The nature of the relationship is a very important consideration here. If a couple is in a long-term relationship involving sex, with or without the mutual understanding of an eventual marriage, and they break up over differences and the girl cries foul play, then it should not amount to rape. But the cases where sex on false promise of marriage are equated to rape are mostly(not all, surely, though the situation gets complicated when the relationship is long-term) one-day affairs with the guy eloping very soon after sex. I think it is only unfair on the girl to not call it rape in that case. Also, in the judgement case, the prosecution was never denying that a relationship existed. But, of course, proving the nature of a relationship in a court of law can, more often than not, get mighty complicated. But then, when was justice ever an easy affair?
Madan, Consent obtained under deceit is no consent at all. But that is deception. Not rape.
I am not saying that people who conceal their prior relationships or other current relationships or many other aspects of their life should go scot-free. Only that they should be charged with deception. Not rape.
I am not downplaying the emotional trauma or even the social implication to the said woman. Only that it is not rape.
We may think that deception does not sound strong enough considering the offence and its implication. But that thought is wrong. Emotional deception is extremely traumatic and people who undergo this should be treated with the sensitivity they deserve and due justice should be served too. But not under the bracket of rape.
If I met a woman who was threatened and raped. And met another woman who was cheated into a sexual relationship, I’d not for a moment decide that the first woman’s trauma matters and the second woman’s trauma does not matter. The second woman should also sue the perpetrator. No question about it. But not rape.
Now let us say a woman goes to a lawyer and explains what happened and the lawyer says she can sue for rape and not for deception? Can that happen? I don’t know. But if a woman can’t sue the man for the right offence, she will have to sue under the wrong section. That is terrible.
I have no clue what the law is on this differentiation. But the differentiation is important. Words and labels do matter a lot. Pushing different offences under the same bracket definitely dilutes the meaning. And that is never good.
Agree with all that Rahini and Isai have said. Such a scenario warrants a case under deception/cheating and not rape.
Rahini : But rape under threat is only one type of rape. How about a girl’s drink being spiked and her being raped without her being aware of it? I agree that it would still not be exactly like the marriage hoax scenario but it would be closer. The woman would not have suffered the trauma of having tried to forestall the act and still endure rape but she would have still suffered sex that she did not consent to. The question comes down to consent and where we differ is in how we see fraudulently obtained consent. But I understand your motivation in pushing back because we already have this video where a girl is shown claiming she was raped because she saw her father assaulting her mother and other such incidents which brought her no harm directly and your point is well taken that we should not dilute the essence of the word such that it stops being taken seriously.
Madan: I already mentioned drugging in this comment
I hope Anchor hashtag linking works in wordpress. Or search for “She was drugged” in this page.
@Madan, the obsession with virginity was not restricted to Indian men alone. Since it would take a lot of space to elaborate on it, I will share some articles on how virginity was/is perceived by other societies.
https://en.qantara.de/content/virginity-in-egypt-double-standards-and-hypocrisy
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/relationships/article/2018/01/10/historic-tradition-wedding-night-virginity-testing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_female_sexuality
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umhlanga_(ceremony)
I believe it goes back to the times of hunter-gatherer, when the male started acting as a provider. Then, the female had an advantage in that she would definitely know that her child is actually hers. Hence, men demanded fidelity, so that they don’t get ‘duped’ into providing for a child that is not actually theirs (Even today, the word adultery is closely related to adulteration.) Since women didn’t have this problem, they didn’t demand the same exacting standards and instead many women were willing to marry the same man, say a king, provided he was able to provide for all of them. As this society evolved, it started following the hereditary tribal system. Here, since the eldest son was considered the heir, a virgin bride was demanded for the heads of tribes so that there was no issue related to paternity. Also, in small close tribes, when a woman has sex with someone else before marriage, it was considered that she is more likely to have sex with the same person after marriage. Hence, the demand for female virginity strengthened. I think this is what evolved into the Catholic notion that sex is only for procreation purpose.
I believe that as more women become financially independent, with increase in literacy and employment levels, the tendency to see man as a provider would decrease and so would the obsession with virginity.
Curiously, I just stumbled upon this article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-46794269
Rahini: From what I could piece together through a google search, there does seem to be a separate name for it, though not something as plain as deception. It is called sex by deception or rape by deception. As far as I personally am concerned, whatever be the technical/legal name for it, the punishment should be no different from or more severe than that of rape, since the emotional trauma and social implication are the same, if not more. Just to show how heinous such a crime can go, and how people can escape from law if this sex by deception is not given due attention, consider the two cases recorded in California in the following Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception
If diluting the meaning is the issue, by all means, give different names, but not at the cost of reducing the punishment. As far as I am aware, deception is a lesser offense than rape, but sex by deception is no lesser a crime than rape.
Isai: “But the scenario of an urban independent couple getting into a physical relationship where the woman ASSUMED that this is going to lead to a marriage or where there is no evidence to show a formal/public acknowledgement of intent to marry, sex should not be treated as rape.”
I agree with you there as I have already stated in a previous comment, except that the acknowledgement need not necessarily be formal or public. It could even be between the couple, with the guy having promised marriage to the girl. Now, whether such a private acknowledgement can be proven through evidence in a court of law is indeed problematic, but at least, when defining rape, I think this clause should be included.
Isai : I am not singling out India. I am specifying Indian men as my first hand experience is limited to India. I agree that other countries that are more advanced today have also been through this at some point. And yes, financial independence should gradually reduce and eventually obliterate the obsession with virginity. But it’s a long way for the majority. Your and my experience centred around urban middle class seems far removed from rural India or the urban poor.
Thanks BR for the link. I will check it out.
@Rahini David: No worries, thanks.
Regarding Valli, I see it more as a deception rather than rape. I agree with Rahini David’s comment on the definition of rape. Especially the point Words and labels do matter a lot . I remember listening somewhere how a group, I think it’s the Marxists of Tamil Nadu, was particular about using the right Tamil word for rape. They thought the usual ‘கற்பழிப்பு’ (Karpazhippu – literally means virginity destroyed) is a bad choice as the emphasis is on the virginity and came up with வல்லுறவு/வன்புணர்வு/வன்கலவி (valluravu/vanpunarvu/vankalavi) or something similar where the emphasis is on வன் meaning force.
Valli is deceived but the intercourse happened with her consent which I think is a key factor. By consenting one is actively taking part in it. It is that consent and non-coercion that is the key irrespective of whether it is based on a future or past promise. For example, would it be still a rape if a man marries and just disappears after consummation? But it is still a rape if a married man forces himself on his wife but continues to honour a past promise i.e the contract of marriage.
Eswar: “For example, would it be still a rape if a man marries and just disappears after consummation?”
There is a marked difference between this and sex by deception, provided the marriage is registered and/or public. The social implication, especially in a country like India, is less pronounced if the marriage precedes sex. The society will support the girl more in this case. And, there is a very strong legal stand to get a divorce. In sex by deception, proving that a relationship exists, especially in one-day affairs, itself can be hard, not to mention proving that the guy promised to marry before the girl consented to sex.
Filistine
All these discussions bring to mind something I read online – marriage is the price men pay for sex; sex is the price women pay for marriage.
@Filistine – which saying presupposes that men don’t like marriage or that women don’t like sex, thereby doing no favours to either gender. 🙂
Varsha: I see your point. If we exclude this social implication, would sex-by-deception still equate to rape? For instance, in an evolved society, where sex and virginity has no special meaning, sex-by-deception would not be a thing. Even in that society, rape would be a crime as today. Because rape is not about losing virginity and social support but the fundamental violation of one’s right on their body. An evolved society, like mentioned above, might be more supportive of rape victims. But that support, in anyway, would not change what the individual has gone through.
Eswar: I think, even removing the social implication does not make sex by deception any different from a rape. The fundamental violation of one’s right on their body is still very much present in sex by deception too. The only difference is that the victim does not feel she has been violated until the deception holds. Once the truth is revealed, all hell breaks lose in the victim’s mind, just as in rape. In this sense, it is similar to drugged rape. As long as the victim does not regain consciousness, all is fine, at least for the victim. But once she regains consciousness, which she definitely will, unless the rape leads to death/murder or loss of memory, she will definitely feel violated. So is the case with sex by deception. The deception is the mental “drug” that the perpetrator gives to the victim. Instead of tablets or drugs, here it is words. Trust also plays a part in both cases, followed by guilt in addition to the feeling of being violated. If sex by deception is not rape(or worse), drugged sex is also not so. But we have no problem categorizing that as rape. A dis-evolved society only makes the situation even worse. Even in the case of the married man absconding after consummation, in a society where marriage is not given much importance, it is indeed sex by deception. All said, it all finally boils down to the mindset of the victim and the people around her. Nevertheless, I think we can safely assume some things as a given when discussing such sensitive issues, lest these crimes get glossed over.
A lot has been discussed on this thread about sexual assault, and in the heat of the debate, I have talked so much on the side of women and the laws supporting us that I feel a clarification is in order, even if only for my own satisfaction. To use a done-to-death quote from Spiderman, with great power, comes great responsibility. All these issues, all over the globe irrespective of culture, must surely have started with the misuse of power(physical strength) by some irresponsible and unscrupulous men. This is the simplest and most physically violent form of rape, which can be called hard rape(no pun intended 🙂 ), as opposed to drugged rape or sex by deception(soft rape, if you will). This, over a period of many years, has inevitably led to the empowerment of women through laws of the land. If the recent judgements are any indication, this empowerment is still growing, with marital rape, by far the most complicated form of the offense getting increasing attention. And already, one hears of misuse in the opposite direction, with unscrupulous women trapping innocent men using these very laws empowering them. As vinjk said, the situation today warrants responsible behaviour from both genders. On the contrary, we are discovering and naming newer and worse variations of a horrible crime. The relationship between a man and a woman can be so beautiful and elegant that it pains to see it smeared with something as ugly and deplorable as the misuse of both sex and the laws against such misuse. If left unchecked, we may not be able to redeem ourselves from some of the most evil deeds that only a human mind can think of!
@Easwar: Amma oru kolai seidhaal by Ambai, is about how a mother-daughter relationship changes when the girl starts menstruating: Her mother who was a ‘Goddess’ to her becomes a ‘demon’, because she says “enna ezhavukkudee unakku avasaram, idhu vera oru baaram”. This, coming in the heals of the child longing for her mother’s emotional support in such a time. It is a wonderful, sensitive story and the writing is magical. But, it does not have anything to with rape 🙂
Varsha: 👍 for that last comment
Madhu: 🙂. I should have been clearer when I said touches upon some of the topics discussed in the recent posts. . I meant the topics and comments in other posts as well. Also when I mentioned ‘Amma oru Kolai seithal’ I should have specified that I meant the collection edited by Anar, titled under the same name. This particular collection had a number of moving, memorable stories, including ‘Amma oru kolai seithal’, about sex, sexuality and gender imbalance. And yes, I agree. That particular story was very moving.
‘Engeyo Ketta Kural was a movie that stayed true to the traditional views – however it was presented well. Rajinikanth does not try to bring Ambika back to normal life within the society. She is banished and made to live like an outcast for the mistake she did. However, Rajinikanth gives her the dignity of a decent death. It is a good movie but definitely not something that dared to question old mores in society.’
Shaviswa: The movie did question traditional mores IMO. It made the case that Ambika’s plight was unfair and a character says that women pay a heavier price for milder transgressions while men get away with just about anything. (She admits that while she did not betray her husband physically she did so mentally and has opted to punish herself for it. The film makes it clear that this social conditioning favors men while punishing women unnecessarily) As for Rajinikanth he could not really do anything about her situation can he? Her father is the headman and hates her for tarnishing the family honour. But Rajini handles his wife’s rejecting of him and elopement with a grace that is rare not just then but even now. It’s not like he lives for revenge which would have been the traditional approach and the fact that he keeps his word to her despite knowing that he and his family will be ostracized for the same makes him one of the classiest characters of all time.
Madan regarding your thoughts on men who promise marriage in order to have sex being guilty of rape , I couldn’t disagree with you more. On that note, Rahini I couldn’t agree with you more. I wrote about this sometime back and am sharing the link below:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/voices/2019/apr/28/a-supreme-screwup-1968574.html
@Anuja Chandramouli
I opined that Engeyo Ketta Kural did not really question old social mores is precisely because of what you have mentioned.
Ambika runs away from home and then feels guilty, returns home. She returns home only having sinned mentally and not physically. (Why was this needed? Because the director chickened out of saying that she returned after a few days despite having an affair with someone else. The heroine has to be pure.)
Rajinikanth promises her a decent last rites…..and sticks to his promise. So the hero – despite being wronged by his first wife – stays true to his character.
“Kudumba maanam” is more important than the life of a daughter. Did they even try to understand why she may have wanted to run away from the life they chose for her?
Ambika was forced into a marriage with Rajinikanth – and there is nothing in the movie that says what they did with her was wrong.
The only change in the film was like what you said – the way Rajinikanth handles her pre and post her running away.
Madan: Not sure how I missed this earlier but, this is a fantastic piece which opens newer gateways for us to “enter into” this film. I saw Benaam Baadshah as a kid and was quite repulsed by it. Saw the original much later (when it became available with subs) and while I can’t say I liked it, it was clear that the original was much better mostly due to Parthiban’s performance but also because it remained true to milieu in ways how Benaam Baadshah didn’t. Also Parthiban is simply a more persuasive storyteller. But I have never thought of the film this way till I read your piece. Thank you for writing this and thanks to BR as well for posting it.
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Ol' Myrt's granddaughter Aubrey works with new kindergarten vocabulary words every week. And Myrt has added a few new terms of her own to the mix. Aubrey can tell you the definition of the following decidedly NOT kindergarten-level words:
-- evergreen
-- deciduous
-- clarify
I read recently that when faced with life in a "foreign" country, our immigrant ancestors had challenges with language and local colloquialisms.
Ol' Myrt here can certainly relate, having developed a fondness for "sunny, warm beaches" and "balmy sub-tropical nights." In fact, talking with Russ back in Florida yesterday (experiencing 80 degrees Fahrenheit with little humidity) was a stark contrast to the weather here in the intermountain west (snowy, with a high today of 28.) Now I am having to learn such terms as defined by the good folks at Dictionary.com:
-- alpenglow: a reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains.
--wind-chill factor: The temperature of windless air that would have the same effect on exposed human skin as a given combination of wind speed and air temperature.
Last evening the local TV station, KSL Channel 5 talked about the upcoming SNOW storm as being a CAT2. To my Florida state of mind that means category 2 HURRICANE.
HERE IS THE BREAKDOWN OF THE snowCAT scale
From http://www.ksl.com
Average number per year: 23 per yr.
Valley Floor accumulation: .1" to 2"
Accumulation in Benches: .1" to 3"
Average number per year: 7 per yr.
Valley Floor accumulation: 2" to 4"
Accumulation in Benches: 3 to 6"
Accumulation in Benches: 6" to 12"
Average number per year: 1 in 2 yrs.
Valley Floor accumulation: 8" to 12"
Accumulation in Benches: 12" to 21"
Average number per year: 1 in 25 yrs
Valley Floor accumulation: 12" +
Accumulation in Benches: 21" +
To ol' Myrt here, benches are those hard wooden things you sit on at church, though here, benches are the lower not-too-steep portions of the mountains where people have built houses. Since we dont' have mountains in Florida, I have nothing with which to compare. (!)
GENEALOGY ANYONE?
If you need to find the definition of an archaic GENEALOGY term, check out the links at Cyndi's List: http://www.cyndislist.com/diction.htm
My bookmarked favorites include:
-- http://www.acronymfinder.com/
-- Dan Burrow's Genealogy Glossary
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsdigby/lists/glossary.htm
-- The Genealogists Handbook Kentuckiana Common (and not so common) Abbreviations
http://www.kentuckianagenealogy.org/guide/help/abbreviations.html
-- FamilySearch Glossary
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Policy/FSI_sitemap.asp#
-- FamilySearch Word Lists
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/rg/research/type/Word_List.asp
-- How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
A BOOK ON THE TOPIC, WHICH MAY PROVE USEFUL
-- Abbreviations & Acronyms: A Guide for Family Historians (paperback) by Kip Sperry
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Posted by DearMYRTLE on Wednesday, November 30, 2005
DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 29 Nov 2005
Today's new edition of DearMYRTLE's FAMILY HISTORY HOUR internet radio show is now available!
During this show Ol' Myrt here interviews Michael Booth, creator of Personal Historian, where we learn, step-by-step to set up a new project, and have fun learning to use this wonderful software program. Also, hear the reprise of an interview with Katherine Scott Sturdevant, co-author of Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History and author of Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents. Topics include preserving old documents, creating an interview "tote bag," how to make secure purchases online, and a brief tour of the GENUKI website for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Island, Wales, and the Isle of Man.
TO LISTEN either:
- Click the "update" button on your iTUNES or other podcast software if you are currently subscribed to Myrt's podcast
-- Go to http://www.DearMYRTLE.com/05/1129r.htm
That is where you will find the show page, with clickable links to the websites and items discussed during the show.
Posted by DearMYRTLE on Tuesday, November 29, 2005
READERS' FEEDBACK: Implements, Harry Potter & ASSIGNMENT
Ol' Myrt here is gratified at the terrific response to the column "Little known implements." One reader who moved south even offered to send me her old mittens and gloves to keep me warm in this frozen northland. For the original column see:
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/05/1128.htm.
Here is a smattering of your comments, followed by an ASSIGNMENT for everyone.
From: Marlena
I have a two-piece cast iron ruffler. The top part is curved and fluted, whereas the bottom is flat and fluted. One heated it on the coal or wood stove and then put a piece of material between the two halves, rolled the top over the bottom and Voila! ruffles on your clothes. I also have the pieces of a still my grandmother-in-law used to make whiskey during prohibition, but we won't go into that too deeply. And a brush cut and curved to fit into a cream separator from the days when people milked more or less by hand. And a wooden hay fork with a very long handle to put hay on a wagon before the days of balers. And a milk can from the days before bulk tanks. And last of all, 2 very sharp camel nose plugs, for guiding said camel when one is riding it.
From: DeLoris
As a child I churned many churn s full of butter. I am 74 years old and I was born and raised on a farm, where if one did not work, one did not eat. We did not have electric until I was 16 years old. I loved my farm life. Keep your column coming, it is salve to my soul.
From: EGood64137@aol.com
Old "STUFF" -- The All-Bran muffin recipe on the back of the box of Kellogg's(?) All Bran. My chore was to make muffins each week to go with Saturday's home baked beans and brown bread! The trigger-like shifting gear on the steering wheel of the 1936 Terraplane automobile. The butter churn, of course. The "ski-skates" which were about 20 or 30 inches long that would strap onto your shoes so you could ski on the sidewalk in the winter. Remember the rabbit-skin mittens? Guess you can tell, I grew up in the cold northeast part of the country! -- Good luck with your list, there are bound to be many memories stirred at your request.
From: Dolly
I enjoyed this column so much! (Although we live in Maryland now, we are Montanans. And very familiar with s**w and i*e.)
No household implements have been passed down, sorry to say. Mementoes? My granddaughter probably still has doll clothes made from flour sacks about 1944. Interesting memories? On a rural farm, I do remember my mother ironing clothes with a heavy iron (made of iron!) heated on the wood stove, and watching her refill the kerosene lanterns. But thousands of folks my age will have those same memories. Years ago, I bought a reproduction 1897 Sears, Roebuck catalog. It's fascinating to browse -- gift idea for your favorite genealogist?
From: Jknitl@aol.com
LOL There are a plethora of items this latest generation can't even fathom. Like, why would one ever watch a black and white TV. Many don't know what a 5 and 1/4 inch floppy disk is, and soon won't know why we had the smaller floppies.
How about a hand cranked meat grinder? Or a pastry cutter? A meat cleaver? I'll bet I have more things in the kitchen the kids don't recognize as having any purpose than things they do recognize. If it can't be nuked, why would you want it? Yet I tossed out an old microwave popcorn popper the other day and was asked what it was.
A zillion and one things more I could list, but I'm tired of typing!
From: Terry
I loved your story. Just think, you will be ready to go to Alberta [Canada] once you go through boot camp in northern Utah. We had a high school buddy and family that lived across the tracks on a hill in the 1950s, mid century past. They had milk cows and hogs back then. They lived in a wood boarded rental house that had one layer of lumber, no inside walls covering and a pot-belly stove in the middle of the house/living room. That was a warm spot to churn the butter in, as the cold wind whistled through the wall, as they were living on the top of a north-facing hill.
From: Cis1052@aol.com
I do love the ideas that you throw out and we respond to. Thanks for including us in your quests. Happy Thanksgiving. My favorite is the small corn cobs that were used in the outhouses. And you know what for.
From: Mary Finley
Alas! Opportunity passed me by in an antique shop about five years ago. My beloved father and his father before him had an ice business. In that shop sat ICE TONGS, not the bitty tongs in an ice bucket, but those big black iron tongs that gripped [huge] blocks of ice. I said "That's not an antique"! (Translated... "I remember Daddy's ice tongs very well, and anything I remember CAN'T be an antique!") I would love to borrow Hermione's "Time Turner" to purchase those ice tongs.
Your recollections of days gone by have touched my heart and made me giggle. Wouldn't we all wish for Harry Potter's side-kick Hermione's necklace charm, to turn back the hands of time to those happy moments of our past.
OK, now here's your ASSIGNMENT
PLEASE write one paragraph of your recollections of the past and share it:
-- via email with younger generations
-- via email with your siblings to get a conversation going
-- by placing it in notes in your genealogy program under YOUR name.
The folks who've written for today's column are a step ahead of every else. Each can just copy/paste his/her paragraph and distribute this as ol' Myrt here has requested.
PS. The link at Amazon.com to the reproduction 1897 Sears Catalog mentioned by Dolly is:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791046265/102-0699060-8677720?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance
If you like, it also comes bundled with an 1895 Monkey Ward (ooops... Montgomery Ward) Catalog.
Check the courthouse again: Great Falls Montana, case in point
Have you ever been the recipient of a reply from a distant courthouse stating "we don't have those old records anymore" ?
CHECK the courthouse again and again. Maybe the records have been misplaced. Or perhaps the records have been inventoried for a couple of decades or even half a century. Case in point: look what was JUST ANNOUNCED for Cascade County, Montana in the GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE ONLINE today!
Records get a good sorting
By KIM SKORNOGOSKI
Tribune Staff Writer
"For the volunteers with the Great Falls Genealogy Society, the mustier and dustier the better.
The group got what they wanted when they agreed to tackle sorting through the mounds of county documents stored in courthouse and county annex basements, the old and new jails and three semi-trailers.
Since beginning the project in spring 2004, as many as seven volunteers at a time logged more than 1,100 hours indexing, organizing and moving records dating back to the birth of Cascade County in 1888."
To read more about 150 marriage entry books (!!), teacher's reports and dancing licenses found stuffed haphazardly in drawers and cabinets by reading the entire article:
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051128/NEWS01/511280307/1002
No wonder we can't find anything. Staffing problems being what they are, the current workload of any courthouse takes precedence over those old records. In the case of Manatee County Florida, much had been moved to an annex, known as the historical records library. It wasn't fully inventoried until our local genealogy society completed the task in 1991.
Posted by DearMYRTLE on Monday, November 28, 2005
What I learned from great-grampa's death certificate
On my day off this week, ol' Myrt here naturally gravitated to the Family History Library. I decided to go for a quick fix and obtain an easily-found 1929 death certificate in Salt Lake County before I tackled the mysterious identify of the parents of that ancestor's great-grandparents in parish registers of St. Luke's (Old Street), Middlesex, England circa 1750s.
Here is part of what I already knew about my dad's paternal grandfather, from my grandmother Myrtle's family records.
-- NAME: Alma Oades Player
-- BIRTH: 12 Dec 1862, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
-- DEATH: 26 Nov 1929, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
At home in Florida, I have a picture taken just after all of Alma's children attended the funeral. One had been distant from the family for a number of years, but managed to return for the solemn occasion. I also knew that Alma's parents and grandparents were pioneers who made the trek west enduring dire circumstances.
Here's how ol' Myrt located the death certificate
1. I checked the Family History Library Catalog http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
2. I clicked the "PLACE" search button, and specified "Salt Lake" as part of "Utah" (without the quote marks.) Note I did NOT type COUNTY after Salt Lake, as I had previous experience understanding that designation isn't necessary.
3. I scrolled down and clicked on the topic "VITAL RECORDS."
4. I chose to see the details for the record group titled "Death records of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1848 - Sept. 1950 Salt Lake City (Utah). Office of Vital Statistics" since it covered the time period of my ancestor's 1929 death.
5. I noted that the collection was filmed in 1950 by the Genealogical Society of Utah and that it contained 31 microfilm reels.
6. To determine which film covered 1929, I clicked the grey button in the upper right labeled "VIEW FILM NOTES."
7. I scrolled down to make a note that the Death registers 1928-1929 were located on FHL US/CAN Film 26564.
8. I was already on the US/CAN (US and Canada) film floor, so I merely went to the drawer and pulled film #26564.
See thumbnail and full-size copy of the certificate online at:
http://www.DearMYRTLE.com/05/1131.htm
-- My grandfather's name was typed incorrectly as Alma Odds Player.
-- He lived at 522 Grant Street in Salt Lake City.
-- His birth date was listed as Dec 12, 1861. I knew this as 1862.
-- He was listed as 67 years 11 months and 4 days of age, when he was actually 66 years of age at his death according to Grandma Myrtle's records. She was his daughter-in-law and lived across the street from him for many years.
-- Male, white, widower of Mary E. Player; this much I knew.
-- He was a contractor, retired 2 years; this was new to me.
-- His father was Charles Wm. Player, born in England. I had previously only known his father to be Charles Player.
-- His mother was Betsy Odds, known as Betsy Oades to me.
-- The informant was Acel Richardson of 908 West 1st North. I knew of Acel was a son-in-law from my father speaking with his aunts, Alma's sisters Mabel & Nora.
-- Date of death was 26 Nov 1929 as previously known.
-- Cause of death was described as "unknown, but natural" and there was no physician attending.
-- Signed by J. J. Galligan, Assistant Health Commissioner.
-- Deseret Mortuary Co. was in charge of arrangements.
-- The burial permit number was Z-1971.
-- Burial was at the City Cemetery on 12/1/29.
-- There was no number associated with the Salt Lake City death certificates. Fill-in-the plank forms were printed 4 to a page, and completed in rough chronological order.
What's NEXT for ol' Myrt?
-- Check the Salt Lake City birth records in 1861 and 1862 to determine which birth date is accurate.
-- Verify the spelling of his name on the birth certificate.
Just how do we feel about death certificates? Are they reliable? What do you think? Have you also found conflicting info in death certificates? In my opinion, the most reliable bit of information is the death date. Everything else is up to interpretation. After all, although Acel was a much loved son-in-law, he wasn't around to attend his father-in-law's birth, so his report of Alma's birth date is second or third-hand info at best.
STARS & STRIPES: Native American Indian Heritage Month
From: Stars & Stripes
European edition, Monday, November 28, 2005
"November is recognized by the American military as Native American Indian Heritage Month. How important is it for the military to recognize specific cultures and ethnic groups?
Today in European Spotlight, Stripes talks with Col. Bradley Harper, a Native American and commander of the U.S. medical clinic in Vicenza, Italy." See: http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=33311
Posted by DearMYRTLE on Sunday, November 27, 2005
Ancestry.com Class Action Lawsuit
THANKS to Dick Eastman
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/11/ancestrycom_set.html
for being on top of this one. His Nov 22nd newsletter was my first notice that a remedy is being sought by those who signed up for annual membership payable on a monthly basis.
For details of the suit, and to determine if you qualify for benefits see the required notice at the Ancestry.com website:
http://www.ancestry.com/legal/class.aspx?o_iid=21156&o_lid=21156&o_it=20875
To receive the benefits of the proposed settlement, you must ensure that MyFamily.com, Inc. and Ancestry.com are able to contact you by e mail. See Section I.
Little known implements
Last evening here in Northern Utah, as ol' Myrt ventured out to rescue her son-in-law from a broken-down (albeit newer) car, the delight of the falling snow was immediately overcome by the necessity of removing said snow from the back window of the car. Insufficiently protected by the carport, the last 1/3 of the Pontiac was blanketed by the white stuff, and ol' Myrt needed to do something if she was to drive safely with full vision in the rearview.
What seems commonplace to northerners is lost to this grandma from the south gulf-coast of Florida, who had to use her de-mittened hand to swipe away the half-inch of accumulated cold stuff from the rear window. At the very least, one must take care to brush the snow AWAY from oneself, lest the resulting pileup fall unceremoniously on one's foot, only to become melted and seek entry to one's sneakers via the shoelaces. Taylor later explained that job is better completed by the judicious use of the snow scraper stored in the trunk.
Now what self-respecting Floridian keeps a snow scraper in the trunk?
In fact, to complete this article, I googled for a picture of the required implement, and discovered everything from a hefty hand-held "snow broom" for reaching heavy snows on a car's roof, to a gas-powered "snow blower" for the sidewalks. There are ice-scrapers with broom bristles on the opposite side of the blade, a thoughtful appliance ready to meet whatever icy strands or blowy snows these northern US winters might present.
And of course, ol' Myrt here, is ever thinking about her favorite topic -- GENEALOGY.
And since everything in Myrt's view can be likened to family history, please make note:
-- Very few 21st century wives make their own butter at home, but if your ancestor lived at the turn of the previous century, she would have been quite taken by a dog-powered butter churn as advertised in a circa 1906 Sears Roebuck Catalog.
-- Nary a person under 30 even knows of the traditional use of each year's edition of the Sears Roebuck Catalog -- as "papier de toilette" in the proverbial outhouse.
This entire subject makes ol' Myrt's mind spin, wondering what odd household or farm implement may have descended through YOUR family, whose very purpose may escape all except the most ardent students of history. Drop me a line, and share what you know, so that as discerning family historians, we can keep abreast of everything old (aside from our own wrinkles.)
ALL THE BETTER to understand our ancestors, my dears.Happy family tree climbing!
ACROSS MY DESK: ArchiveCDBooksUSA expansion
NOTE: The following was just received from Bob Velke of Archivescdbooksusa.com. All inquiries should be addressed to him at: bvelke@archivecdbooksusa.com
Bob Velke
Archive CD Books USA
9110 Red Branch Road, Suite "O"
Columbia, Maryland 21045
http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com
bvelke@archivecdbooksusa.com
Family history archiving project expands to the United States
Columbia, Maryland – 24 November 2005 - The international Archive CD Books Project today announced its expansion and renewed focus on family history resources within the United States with the debut of a new partner company, Archive CD Books USA (www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com).
The project makes digital reproductions of old family history resources available to the public, donates original publications to libraries and other institutions, and cooperates with those repositories to preserve their existing collections for future generations. Its uncommon focus on book preservation has led to cooperative relationships with some of the most important repositories of family history records in the world, including Trinity College in Ireland and The National Archives of England and Wales.
Many organized efforts to digitize old books result in the destruction of the original so that its loose pages can be fed through high-speed scanners. But the idea of cutting off an old leather binding is unthinkable to historians and book lovers. "The Archive CD Books project focuses on giving the public access to these fragile resources, some of which are more than 400 years old, while protecting the original so that it is still available to scholars in another 400 years," said Rod Neep, who founded the project in the UK in 2000.
In recent years, the popularity of the project has led to the opening of branch offices in Ireland, Australia, and Canada. "The new U.S. affiliate is key to our goal of making these family history resources accessible to researchers around the world," said Neep. "After a false start under different management in 2003, the new U.S. partner company brings respected leadership and renewed focus on the priorities of American researchers," he said.
The principal of the new Archive CD Books USA is Bob Velke, who also founded Wholly Genes Software in 1991. That company’s cornerstone software product, The Master Genealogist, has earned the reputation as the most powerful family history project manager on the market and is preferred by experienced researchers in more than 40 countries around the world.
Archive CD Books USA also benefits from the experience and reputation of Robert Charles Anderson, one of the pre-eminent genealogists in the United States. Anderson is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and is the Director of the Great Migration Study Project for the New England Historic Genealogical Society, editor of the Great Migration Newsletter, and co-editor of The American Genealogist. He serves as Genealogical Consultant to the new company.
"Like others in the genealogical community," said Velke, "we are passionate about old books. But some of the most valuable resources are held in protective custody and out of reach of researchers. By cooperating with libraries, societies, and other book lovers and by applying professional digitizing and preservation techniques, we are very pleased to help put that material back in circulation and into the hands of family history researchers who need them."
In addition to the thousands of digitized rare books which it makes available from its partner companies, Archive CD Books USA has already accumulated nearly a thousand rare books of its own through purchases, gifts, and promised loans to the project. One of the company’s debut products is a digital version of "A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England" by James Savage which was originally published in 1860 and is now offered for just $9.95 on CD-ROM. "Even a hundred and forty years after publication," said Anderson, "Savage's four-volume set remains the starting point for most research problems in seventeenth-century New England. No other single source covers the first century of New England settlement so broadly."
Even experienced researchers would benefit from the full-text search that is supported by the digitized version of this important work. It reveals thousands of embedded references to people and places which are lost to those who rely on the book’s simple alphabetical list of surname headings.
The company web site (www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com) offers a free newsletter for those who want to be notified of special offers and the release of new titles. Dealer inquiries are also encouraged.
For information: http://www.archivecdbooksusa.com
Contact: bvelke@archivecdbooksusa.com
Posted by DearMYRTLE on Thursday, November 24, 2005
Installing PAF on your flash drive
We've simply got to start thinking about regularly using those cute little flash drives when doing genealogical research. I can envision two purposes:
-- to store digital copies of documents from microfilm
-- to store our genealogy databases for quick review
Here is a link to a VERY IMPORTANT paper from the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group on the topic of how to install your genealogy database and the program to read it on a flash drive. In this example, the SVCGG suggests using PAF (Personal Ancestral File) but the principles will probably work with any other genealogy management program. See: http://www.svpafug.org/install.pdf
1. Compared to a laptop, a flash drive is a lot less costly and a lot easier to keep close to your vest when doing research at a library or archive. Of course, I mean that quite literally, since we tend to "wear" the flash drives on lanyards around our necks. We're assuming that the research facility has a computer you can use, with an available USB port. Checking for names in our database is always helpful, particularly as it seems we're more likely to find relevant data (with two earlier generations) on a here-to-fore lesser-known sibling of our ancestors than on our well-remembered direct lines. Confirming a relationship by a quick check of our genealogy database will determine if the new information dovetails with our known ancestry.
2. It would have been great to use a flash drive to store the copies from microfilm that I made last Saturday at the FHL. One of the probate packets I copied had 73 documents (69MB of digital copies.) Those certainly fit on a CD, but the flash drive storage is less bulky, and won't incur additional expense each time I do additional research. In my case, I had closed the first CD before it was full because I thought my research was finished for the day. But as luck would have it during the last hour, I found the intriguing probate file of my Nancy Jane (Swanker) GOERING's mother Mary SWANKER in Union County, Iowa records on film. Because of the argumentative nature of the heirs, there were numerous documents filed with the court. It is with a preponderance of evidence that I can build my case for Nancy Goering and Jane Goering being the same individual, aka Nancy Jane Swanker per her marriage entry to my Ferdinand GOERING, 10 Feb 1875 in Union County, Iowa.
Well, suffice it to say that I need every last document. I DID save $.23 per page over making a paper copy of each of the 73 pages. But without a flash drive, I had to purchase a second CD for the file storage.
WHAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE?
Well, it's just plain cumbersome to protect your laptop when you are in the stacks at a library or archive. Would-be thieves are carrying cable cutters now days! As library computers become more numerous, the use of flash drives will be more readily accepted. The Family History Library here in Salt Lake City has microfilm-to-CD workstations equipped with a USB connection wire to facilitate front-side access to USB ports where their computers don't have them built-in in the front panel.
NOW I know what to talk with Santa about for Christmas.
22 Nov 2005 DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour
This is the lineup for today's show, now available for you to listen to 24/7 on the web. Please also note the "Links We Mention" and "Listening to the Show" directions below. Elizabeth Powell Crowe, author of Genealogy Online, returns to discuss mortality schedules. This may be useful if you suspect an ancestor died during the 12 months prior to census day on some of the more recent US federal enumerations When Myrt Googled for mortality schedules, some of these sites came up on the hit list:
Ancestry's (fee based) U.S. Federal Census
Mortality Schedules database, 1850-1880 "Because
each of the censuses from 1850-1880 began on June 1, "previous year" refers to the 12 months preceding June 1, or June 1 (of the previous year) to May 31 (of the census year). This database contains an index to all individuals
enumerated in these mortality schedules. In addition, each individual is
linked to the census image on which they appear. Not all information that is
recorded on the actual census is included in the index. Therefore, it is
important that you view the image on which your ancestor is recorded to obtain
all possible information about him/her."
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?dbid=8756&htx=List&ti=0
1860 Noxubee County, Mississippi Mortality Schedule http://www.ccharity.com/mississippi/1860noxumortpt1.htm
1850 Washington, D.C. Mortality Schedule http://www.ccharity.com/census/washdcmort.htm
1850 Mortality Schedule Culpeper County, Virginia
http://www.rootsweb.com/~takelley/c1850m.htm
Piedmont Historical Society -- 1870 Mortality Schedule
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/piedmonths/mortintr.html
MIGHTYMOUSE TOUR
PART A - Plimoth Plantation Virtual Tour http://www.plimouth.org Be sure to click VISIT, then VIRTUAL TOUR.
PART B - Download free 30-day free trial version of PERSONAL HISTORIAN (for Windows PCs and Macs running Windows Emulator) to prepare for special guest Michael T. Booth, the developer of the
program. He will be featured during next week's DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour.
http://www.personalhistorian.com/
LINKS WE MENTION
DearMYRTLE - Plymouth Colony Studies
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/99/my951122.htm
General Society of Mayflower Descendants - for lineal descendants of passengers on the Mayflower which arrived in Plymouth harbor in December 1620.
National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants - for lineal descendants of those who came to Old Plymouth Colony prior to 1641.
National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims - for lineal descendants of a settler (Pilgrim) in any
of the colonies prior to 1700.
DearMYRTLE's Blog http://www.dearmyrtle.com/signupwelcome.htm
ACROSS MY DESK
Everton's Newsline (18 Nov 2005) subscribe by going to http://www.everton.com
Genealogy & History Jamboree in St. George Utah where you can have "dinner with Dick Eastman" and view over 60 vendor booths and choose from over 100 classes. See: http://www.myancestorsfound.com
Free Genealogy Forms http://www.everton.com/library
GENEALOGY POINTERS (11-15-05) from http://www.genealogical.com In honor of THANKSGIVING being celebrated this week in the US, the Genealogical Publishing Company is offering discounts on everything Mayflower.
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READERS' RESPONSE: SB Association
RE: http://www.dearmyrtle.com/05/1124.htm THANKFULLY, we've got folks who responded with the following information:
From: jimmy reynolds
My grandfather and great grandfather were Southern Baptist Preachers and were members of Southern Baptist Assn. Both were members of the SB Assn. I checked with the Sonrise Baptist Church here in Santee, CA. I was told It is still active. Hope this will help. Son rise is spelled correctly and they are the head of the Southern Baptist Campground in California.
From: BJSGen@aol.com
"The Union Leagues were a group of organizations formed in the north to support the war and were basically patriotic in nature. They later became a way to shape public opinion, and “became a vibrant political force that left its stamp upon both the Civil War and Reconstruction.” (p 34) The idea grew out of the Wide Awake clubs that were organized in 1860 by the Republican party. (p. 34-5) While the Wide Awake clubs were generally disbanded after the 1860 election, the idea sprang up two years later to counter secessionism, in the form of secret and semi-secret societies. These groups were armed “with ‘knives, hatchets, shotguns, anything they can get their hands on.’” (p. 35)
The so-called exposés of the KGC, OAK, and SoL that were published in the newspapers added to the membership of these Union Leagues, and were good for the newspapers circulation as well. It was a process that fed on itself. The movement was good for politicians too. For example, “Governor Kirkwood [of Iowa] lent a hand to the practice of beating the bushes in search of golden circle members and encouraging the spread of the Union League as a patriotic countermeasure.” (p. 49)
The Spartan Band (SB) was another northern patriotic organization. It was a “semi-military organization” It was organized by John Wilson and John Trimble Jr., an “ex-pedagogue, an ex-abolitionist, and an ex-minister (Episcopalian).” (p. 49) The SB, while a northern patriotic society like the Union Leagues, was more like the unsuccessful KGC, OAK, and SoL, in that it “struggled for existence. The Union Leagues, unlike all the rest, flourished. (pp. 50-51) "
From: Frank L. Klement, Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge, LA. 1984.
Since the original query from Rhonda included a reference to an ancestor's "certificate which made him a Colonel in the SB Association. It was signed by the National Secretary, John Trimble, Jr." it would appear that the Spartan Band is the definition our researcher seeks.
What was the SB Association?
From: Rhonda
Can someone shed some light on the old fraternal association referred to as the SB Association? In October, 1863, my great-grandfather was awarded an impressive certificate which made him a Colonel in the SB Association. It was signed by the National Secretary, John Trimble, Jr. This was during a period when my GGF was a Captain in the Union Army, stationed at Memphis, TN. Would you happen to know anything about this organization?
DearRHONDA,
You get 2 columns with your input this week, I guess. Since he served in the Union Army, we can rule out "southern bankers association." Just kidding.
Ol' Myrt here googled for SB Association, and discovered a lot about Spina Bifida, but your ancestor could hardly have served in the military with this medical history.
When I Googled for fraternal organizations, I came across a site http://www.phoenixmasonry.org that listed abbreviations including:
-- SB Sons of Benjamin
-- SB Star of Bethlehem
-- SB Spartan Band
-- SB of A
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF THE SONS OF BENJAMIN
"This Jewish men's fraternal order was first established in New York City in 1877. It utilized a secret ritual form of initiation for new members, and was headquartered in New York City. It was founded by members of the Order of B'rith Abraham, the Masonic Fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and incorporated some of their ceremonial into their order. The order also established lodges strictly for women. The order is now defunct." From Denis P. McGowan's history of this order: http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/jewish_orders.htm
ANCIENT & ILLUSTRIOUS ORDER OF THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
Wheaton College has a collection, cataloged online as "National Christian Association Archives (SC-29)" with manuscripts about this fraternal organization. See: http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc29/subjectfiles.htm
We're going to need some reader input here, to assist Rhonda. Got any more ideas gang?
CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
From: Rhonda Houston [mailto:rfhouston@mindspring.com]
DearMYRTLE.
Below is the research I have done concerning the CCC and how to find each state's information. At the library you will have to request via interlibrary loan "The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Papers: A Guide" ISBN 0-932486-37-1.
THESE LINKS ARE FROM JAMES F. JUSTIN'S CCC WEBSITE -
-- Online CCC Museum http://members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html
-- Email James F. Justin with any questions.
-- How to research the CCC - Getting Started, Getting Times and Place of Service Next Step, What Did The Camp Do? http://members.aol.com/famjustin/cccgov.html
-- Miscellaneous Federal Government Records - http://members.aol.com/famjustin/cccdesig.html
-- CCC Alumni Groups and Museums - http://www.cccalumni.org/ (National parks are often the central gathering place of the CCC alumni groups. They are also often the site of the CCC Museums.)
CCC-- y Records or Logs - http://www.cccalumni.org/
THANK-YOU for your extensive research, which has been summarized in this column. The CCC Civilian Conservation Corp was similar to the WPA in that it provided employment during the 1930s depression era in the United States. From http://www.cccalumni.org/history1.html we read "CCC enrollees throughout the country were credited with renewing the nation's decimated forests by planting an estimated three billion trees from 1933 to 1942. [...]
In what would later be called "The Hundred Days," President Roosevelt revitalized the faith of the nation with several measures, one of which was the Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Act, more commonly known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. With this action, he brought together two wasted resources, the young men and the land, in an effort to save both. [...]
By April 1934, the Corps, now on a firm foundation, faced the beginning of its second year with near universal approval and praised of the country. This young, inexperienced $30-a-month labor battalion had met and exceeded all expectations. The impact of mandatory, monthly $25.00 allotment checks to families was felt in the economy of the cities and towns all across the nation. More than $72,000,000 in allotments was making life a little easier for the people at home. In communities close to the camps, local purchases averaging about $5,000 monthly staved off failure of many small businesses."
Ol' Myrt suggests going to the Library of Congress website http://www.loc.gov where one can search the American Memories Project to find multi-media info about CCC projects. Some of these projects are part of the "Built in America" collection, but do not limit your review to this collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/index.html
It was in this collection that you'll find specific references to CCC projects, some jointly with the National Parks service or the US Forest Service. Each of these collections include period photos, sketches and typed descriptions of the projects, including this sampling of projects:
-- Hornet Ranger Station, Four Horse Barn, Forest Service Road No. 50002, Council vicinity, Adams County, ID
-- Chattanooga National Military Park Tour Roads, Chattanooga vicinity, Hamilton County, TN
-- Mount McKinley Headquarters, Employee Residence, McKinley Station, Yukon-Koyukuk District, AK
-- Parsons Nursery, South side of U.S. Route 219, Parsons vicinity, Tucker County, WV
-- Grand Canal, North side of Salt River, Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ
-- J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge, Dam 326, Along Lower Souris River, Kramer vicinity, Bottineau County, ND
In my research, ol' Myrt here debunked a mistake in her understanding of the CCC as being a youth only organization. "[...] the President issued Executive Order 6129, dated May 11, 1933, authorizing the immediate enrollment of about 25,000 veterans of the Spanish American War and WW1, with no age or marital restrictions." See: http://www.cccalumni.org/history1.html
Myrt knows of several individuals who were in the CCC. How about writing a summary of your work, including a photo taken at that time? If you send me a copy, I'll make another column featuring your experiences.
ACROSS MY DESK: DNA SWAB & DNA ANALYSIS
[Readers will note that Ugo Perego of the SMGF was a guest on DearMYRTLE's FAMILY HISTORY HOUR 27 Sept 2005. The podcast can still be accessed at: http://www.dearmyrtle.com/listen.htm . Myrt heard more about this offer from Sorensen when attending the Logan Genealogy Jamboree. A representative from Relative Genetics explained some of the facets of current DNA research, which generally is most successful on the direct male line. -- All inquiries should be addressed to SMGF's ]
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and Relative Genetics Team Up to Reward Participants in Non-Profit DNA-Ancestry Database
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2005--Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF), a non-profit research organization dedicated to fostering global family history research and family connections by building the world's largest database of correlated genetic and genealogical information, and Relative Genetics, a leading global provider of genetic testing solutions for private companies, individuals, family organizations and genealogists, have joined forces to reward family history hobbyists who submit DNA samples and ancestry records for inclusion in the Foundation's rapidly expanding database.
Beginning today, those who submit their DNA sample (obtained with a swish of mouthwash) along with a four-generation pedigree chart to SMGF for inclusion in its database will qualify for a coupon for a steeply discounted price on a sophisticated analysis of their DNA by Relative Genetics laboratory. Those who have already donated their DNA profile and family history to the SMGF database will be eligible for the discount as well. By redeeming the coupon, SMGF participants will be able to obtain a 26 Marker Y-chromosome Paternal Line Analysis on their DNA or a mtDNA Maternal Line Analysis for the price of $95, a savings of approximately 40 percent.
All DNA-pedigree donors also have the satisfaction of participating in a visionary project that is forever changing the way ancestry research is done. The relatively new science of molecular genealogy links individuals to their ancestors using genetic profiles, eliminating guesswork and dead-ends caused by surname changes and missing historical records. Today, a visitor to the SMGF Web site (www.smgf.org) can enter the numerical values from their own Y-chromosome DNA profile into the database's drop-down menus and query a subset of 13,489 individual genetic profiles or genotypes. These Y-chromosome genetic profiles are linked to more than 550,000 individual ancestors representing over 9,400 paternal-line surnames. In total SMGF has collected 60,000 DNA samples from around the world with genealogies linked to over 2.5 million ancestral records. This additional data will be made available in future releases.
The research project is a multi-cultural, multi-racial and ecumenical endeavor that collaborates internationally with diverse universities on a database that includes genetic-genealogy information from around the globe. The goal of genetically mapping humanity's entire family tree in a free online database has an idealistic and visionary purpose. "I believe that if people know how closely related we all are, then we will treat each other better," said James LeVoy Sorenson, a renowned medical device entrepreneur who came up with the idea for the Foundation.
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CONNECTICUT WPA EFFORTS - Headstone Inscriptions
From: Dunkhart@aol.com
In Connecticut the WPA performed an invaluable service for genealogists by reading and recording almost all tombstones up to the year 1934. Of course by now many of these [tombstones] are illegible. I don't know if any other states had this service. In Connecticut the record in the state library among other places, is called the "Hale Collection."
DearDUNK,
Funny you should mention the CT tombstone readings through 1934 as a project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration.) Just yesterday I was at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, looking up the results of the effort for a friend with ancestors who lived in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Below is a copy of the report I am sending with the photocopies, as an example of how to report your findings to a distant cousin when doing research for him/her.
Please note the [ ] square brackets are my comments.
I dare not fax this report to my friend, as the result will prove even less readable on the receiving end. I'll send this out priority snail mail in the morning.
THIS IS WHAT I WAS REQUESTED TO FIND & PHOTOCOPY:
-- 974.61/B2/V3h Headstone Inscriptions Bethlehem. Bishop, Susannah, wife of Daniel died Jan 5, 1795, age 40
-- 974.61/B2/V3h Headstone Inscriptions Bethlehem. Cemetery Transcription from Burial Ground next to Bishop house: Daniel Bishop died 7 Jan 1813 age 66
THIS IS WHAT I FOUND 19 Nov 2005
HEADSTONE INSCRIPTIONS of Bethlehem, Conn.
FACILITY: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
CALL #: US/CAN Books 974.61/B2 V3h
The book is a thin volume and was created and bound from a photocopy of the typescript that is barely legible, but is somewhat decipherable. The resulting photocopies are simply terrible, despite working with several photocopy machines and employing the assistance of the copy room staff. Copies are indicated below. Of necessity, I've transcribed each page as well, except for the map. The title page explains the origin of the work:
"This list of inscriptions, Town of Bethlehem, was copied Nov 1934 under the auspices of the F.E.R.A. and the W.P.A. sponsored by the Connecticut State Library, was compiled under the supervision of Charles R. Hale, State Military Necrologist, assisted by Miss Mary H, Sabin, Secretary.
Hartford, Connecticut, December 1937."
-- TITLE PAGE (with publication date of Dec 1937)
-- * NO COPYRIGHT PAGE
-- INDEX (showing only all "Bishop" entries)
-- LIST OF CEMETERIES (page 62)
-- PHOTOCOPIES of pp 16, 21, 22 & 47 (Bishop entries)
-- TRANSCRIPT OF EACH BISHOP ENTRY
-- MAP INDICATING LOCATION OF CEMETERIES (P 63)
CEMETERY & LOCATION
1. Old - 1/4 mile north of center
2. Carmel Hill - West dies of town
3. Bethlehem - 1/2 mile south of center
4. Private - Northwest part of town on land of Leonard Bross
[Transcript of pages 16, 21 & 22 not included in this column]
ITEM: Headstone Inscriptions, IBID (Private Cemetery, Bethlehem, Conn. copied by David Davis, Date Oct 22, 1934)
LINE: 1-3
Bishop, Daniel, died Jan. 7, 1818 [or possibly 1813], age 63 [or possibly 66].
Bishop, Susannah, wife of Daniel, died Jan 5, 1795, age 49 [or possibly 40].
Bishop, Irene, died Jan 9, 1826, age 33.
RECOMMENDATION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
Since the book form of the photocopies I viewed at the FHL is stamped "Bethlehem Public Library, Bethlehem, Conn." I recommend that the original typescript be consulted, by contacting the library. Perhaps a copy closer to the original can be more readily deciphered.
From: MaryAnn Johnson
I would like to know if you know of any site online that has maps of the townships within the counties of the United States.
DearMARYANN,
Indeed there are a number of township map projects on the web. Indeed maps of all sorts are so plentiful, you'll more than likely be able to find references to maps of the area where your ancestors once lived, even if we're talking decades or centuries in the past.
SOME ARE AVAILABLE AT USGENWEB STATE SITES
-- Oklahoma Township Maps
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/twpmaps/
This website also explains how sections within a township are numbered: "Sections measure one mile square. These sections are numbered beginning with sec.1 on the northeast corner and continues to the west, south to 7, east to 12. The pattern is repeated until all 36 sections are number. This represents 36 Sq. miles."
SOME ARE PROVIDED BY STATE AGENCIES
-- Pennsylvania Township Search
http://www.psats.org/tsearch.html
-- Stats Indiana
http://www.stats.indiana.edu/maptools/townships.htm
-- IRAD Illinois
http://www.toi.org/mapsbody.htm
SOME ARE PROVIDED BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
-- Minnesota township maps were prepared by the Koochiching County Engineer's office, last updated 1991.
http://www.titleminnesota.com/townlinks.htm
-- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Maps for sale
http://genealogy.lv/1864Lancaster/townships.htm
-- USGeological Survey Maps
SOME ARE HIGHLY DETAILED
If you are interested in the united counties of Leeds & Grenville in Ontario Canada, check out the highly detailed map showing all the roads within the township, the Heritage Map of the Township of Rideau Lakes http://www.twprideaulakes.on.ca/heritage/rideaulakes-heritage-map.pdf
SOME ARE MODERN WHILE THESE ARE FROM PREVIOUS CENTURIES
-- Canadian County Atlas Project - Maritimes, Ontario & Quebec
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/aboutatlases.html "Between 1874 and 1881, approximately forty county atlases were published in Canada, covering counties in the Maritimes, Ontario and Quebec. Thirty-two of these atlases were produced for Ontario by the following five companies: H. Belden & Co. (17); H.R. Page & Co. (8); Walker & Miles (5); J.H. Meacham & Co. (1); H. Parsell (1). Two types of county atlases exist for Ontario, those which covered a single county or multiple adjacent counties, and those which were published as supplements to Dominion of Canada atlases. In total, 40 Ontario counties were covered by these 32 atlases."
-- USGenWeb Digital Map Library
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/
-- For an example of how boundaries changed over the years we note that on 17 May 1873, the board of supervisors divided the county into eight political townships: Red Land, Lee, Saline, White Oak, Whiteville, Smith, Miller, and Harper in Cleveland County, Arkansas
http://www.rootsweb.com/~arclevel/township_maps.htm
LOCATING MAPS
How did ol' Myrt here locate these map sites listed above? Well, I spent about 10 minutes at Google.com (didn't even use Google Maps) and searched for the term 'townland map' (without quotes.)
I decided to get more specific, and Googled for 'king county township maps' and was given the following useful site:
-- King County WA Map Portal
http://www.metrokc.gov/gis/mapportal/
Indeed, maps (including township maps) are so plentiful, that ol' Myrt cannot possibly mention them all here. Try Googling on your own for a specific locality at http://www.Google.com to see what you can find.
Posted by DearMYRTLE on Friday, November 18, 2005
And speaking of West Virginia
Just received the following announcement from FamilySearch.org. This is the first of the new indexes to scanned images. FamilySearch Archive did the indexing part, and the state of West Virginia is hosting the images. Just a hint of things to come. BRAVO! -- Myrt :)
FamilySearch(TM) News Release
Genealogists with West Virginia Roots Score Big Time
State puts free database of vital records online
Salt Lake City, Utah-Thanks to the help of FamilySearch Archive (Genealogy Society of Utah), searching those elusive ancestors with West Virginian origins or connections may now be just a mouse click away. FamilySearch scanned and indexed the records and the West Virginia Division of Culture and History is hosting them online. The free database consists of millions of West Virginia births, deaths, and marriages - a goldmine for genealogists and historians. Researchers and curiosity seekers can now search and view scanned images of original birth, death, and marriage records from six counties, as well as most statewide death certificates from 1917-54 at www.wvculture.org/vrr.
The database has over 3.5 million names linked to 1.4 million original images of birth, marriage, and death records from Calhoun, Gilmer, Hardy, Harrison, Mineral and Pendleton counties. The record dates vary by county and type of record, but typically range from 1816 to 1929. Birth records are for the period 1853-1930, county death records for 1853-1969/1970, and county marriage records from the creation of the county until the late 1960s, all of which are searchable by name, county, and date.
FamilySearch filmed, scanned, and created the automatic index at the heart of the online database. Paul Nauta, manager of Public Affairs for FamilySearch said, "Birth, marriage, and death records together in a single database are particularly attractive to researchers because multiple generations of ancestors can be found on one document, and you can track their growth and whereabouts over time as noted by births, marriages, and deaths in the family." All users have to do is type in an ancestor’s name to search the free database. They can also view a high quality, scanned image of the original document. The project required 2,500 volunteers and 64,000 hours to complete. West Virginia plans to add records from additional counties in the future.
FamilySearch is a nonprofit entity committed to preserving and increasing access to vital records of genealogical significance and producing high-quality products and services for the family historian. FamilySearch maintains the world's largest repository of genealogical resources with vital records from over 110 countries, territories, and possessions and provides free access through FamilySearch.org, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and over 5000 branches (family history centers) in 70 countries.
Paul Nauta
Manager of Public Affairs
Family & Church History Department
WPA & West Virginia
Tuesday's DearMYRTLE's FAMILY HISTORY HOUR (still available at 24/7 at DearMYRTLE.com) briefly discussed a query from Myrt's message board from Natalie Dailey who states: "Help! My grandfather's Social Security application [SS5] states that in 1937 his present employer was WPA #354. He was Thomas William Dailey and lived in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for anything information offered."
Ol' Myrt's response was to explain that WPA was the Works Projects (sometimes also called Progress) Administration. I Googled for WPA +West Virginia and found all sorts of online links explaining the program including:
-- (WPA), "former U.S. government agency, established in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Works Progress Administration; it was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, when it was made part of the Federal Works Agency. Created when unemployment was widespread, the WPA—headed by Harry L. Hopkins until 1938—was designed to increase the purchasing power of persons on relief by employing them on useful projects. WPA's building program included the construction of 116,000 buildings, 78,000 bridges, and 651,000 mi (1,047,000 km) of road and the improvement of 800 airports. Also a part of WPA's diversified activities were the Federal Art Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Federal Theatre Project. Close to 10,000 drawings, paintings, and sculptured works were produced through WPA, and many public buildings (especially post offices) were decorated with murals." See: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/W/WorkP1roj.asp
-- "While some of these projects are fairly well-known, such as the Soundex Index to the U.S. Federal Censuses (1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920), and Soundex Indexes to Naturalization Petitions in several regions of the country, many of the projects were smaller and may have escaped the attention of many researchers." See:
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=798
MOST NOTABLE, is the Federal Writers' Project, which is housed at the Library of Congress. Online versions of many of these projects are found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html. Here we read the overview as follows: "These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts."
A BOOK ON WEST VIRGINIA was compiled by the WPA. The Broward County, Florida Library has a reference, and scanned image of the dust jacket. The book is described as "WEST VIRGINIA: A GUIDE TO THE MOUNTAIN STATE/Compiled by workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of West Virginia.— New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.—xxxi, 559 p.: ill., maps, b&w photos; 21 cm.—(American Guide Series)." Scroll down the page to see the entry at:
http://www.co.broward.fl.us/library/bienes/lii10227.htm
More about this book and West Virginia history by Jerry B. Thomas is located at: http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh52-7.html
A MESSAGE BOARD POSTING from Chris Dunham explained "I assume that this would be Work Projects Administration Project Number 354. The National Archives has a ton of records from the WPA:
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/069.html
This page says that field-office records from West Virginia alone fill 27 microfilm rolls. It also says that these projects "were planned, initiated, and sponsored by cities, counties, or states." You might have better luck checking West Virginian sources before wading through the federal records. Contact county and state historians/archivists to see what WPA records exist. You might also check newspapers published in the area in 1937, to see if any local WPA projects were mentioned."
South Caroliniana Library Catalog
THANKS to bjsgen for sending me this link to the new South Caroliniana Library website. Why am I excited about this? Well, I discovered when doing research at the South Carolina State Archives that the manuscripts are housed across town at the South Caroliniana Library on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. It was at that facility that I discovered the many file boxes on my GIST family. While mine went from 1679 Maryland to Missouri by 1850, it was marvelous to unearth some original documents, and numerous letters and notes on the Mordeci Gist side of the family.
The South Caroliniana Library
http://libcat.csd.sc.edu/screens/opacmenu_s14.html
If you are searching for the online catalog for future research at a library, consider finding its link by going to: http://www.libdex.com/ It’s the index to over 18,000 libraries throughout the world.
ACROSS MY DESK: "Family Search Scam" - Oh, Really Now?
NOTE: The following article appeared on Leland Meitzler's Genealogy Blog:
http://genealogyblog.com/general/family-search-scam-4547
Leland is the editor of HERITAGE QUEST MAGAZINE, a well-regarded publication/
All inquiries should be addressed to him at: info@heritagequestmagazine.com
Read more at http://www.genealogyblog.com/
Family Search Scam" - Oh, Really Now?
By Leland Meitzler 11/15/2005 9:51 pm
Our access to the online versions of the Social Security Death Index may be in danger if we don’t speak up and let our voices be heard.
I copied the following paragraph directly from the KSTU Fox 13 website today. I don’t know whether our Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff, here in Utah is just uninformed - or if our local Fox affiliate is just trying to make a story where one does not exist. This "story" ran a number of times today on KSTU here in the Salt Lake valley.
Family Search Scam
Are family ancestory websites helping identity thieves? Utah’s Attorney General thinks so. There are millions of family search sites on-line and included with many individual names are also social security numbers. The state attorney general’s office says sites like these are feeding ID thieves. In Utah, where identity theft is a booming business, sites like these are not helping. The attorney general’s office says it will continue to try and get family search sites to avoid giving full social security numbers.
What the heck is the issue? I really don’t know that anyone is putting up social security numbers of live folks at all. Sure - the social security death index is online, hosted by Familysearch, Rootsweb, Ancestry and even the Washington State Secretary of State. However, the last I knew that was public-domain data sold by the federal government itself.
Folks - I am coming to believe that we can very quickly lose access to many of the records that we now take for granted. And this is all happening in the name of national security as well as the reduction of identity theft.
The sad part about all this is that there is little or no evidence that the terrorists and identity thieves are using our open records against us. Come on - show me the evidence. Show me the evidence that taking more rights away from us is going to actually make us more secure. And if it really does - is it worth it?
This is the lineup for today's show, now available for you to listen to 24/7 on the web. Please also note the "Links We Mention" and "Listening to the Show" directions below. Myrt's guests include:
-- BARBARA SCHULZ, Regent of the Osceola Chapter of the NSDAR, and a Colonial Dames of the XVII Century registrar. She will share a great method for being organized when it comes to proving your generations for a lineage society application.
-- GEOFF RASMUSSEN, from LegacyFamilyTree.com and GenealogyDaily.com to discuss his article "Three Proven Methods for Getting Responses from your Living Relatives." One of the methods calls for using Legacy Family Tree version 6 to compose a descendant's report with blank lines so your cousins can "fill in the blanks" in response to your query. You'll want to download a standard version of Legacy to test it out for free. Ol' Myrt here is sure you'll want to upgrade to the deluxe version once you get into this program. Here is a list of comparisons from:
-- "Family Feud" from Smart Computing August 2005 (Need Acrobat Reader for this PDF file)
-- Legacy Family Tree 4.0: Smart Computing
-- PC Magazine Names Legacy "Editors' Choice" in Software Comparison
-- Genealogical Software Report Card
-- Legacy vs. PAF
-- Legacy vs. Family Tree Maker
-- Legacy vs. Family Origins
-- Top 9 Reasons Family Tree Maker users are now Legacy Users!
Our friend, MAGGIE STEWART, editor of the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter joins Myrt on a tour of the main USGenWeb pages located at USGenWeb.com
LINKS WE MENTION see this page for clickable links http://www.dearmyrtle.com/05/1115r.htm
-- NSDAR - National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
-- Colonial Dames of the XVII Century
-- Legacy News Blog
-- FamilySearch Research Outlines
-- Genealogy Calendar
GENEALOGY POINTERS (11-15-05) from Genealogical.com In This Issue:
-- "Two New Works on 'First Settlers.' Part I: Adventurers of Purse and Person VIRGINIA, Volume Two"--an Article by Gary Boyd Roberts
-- New Series Focuses on Highland Origins of 18th-Century Scottish Emigrants
-- Featured Books & CDs for November
-- Three Essential Reference Tools by Elizabeth Shown Mills
-- Sale on CDs & Books for Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & Texas
Those "3 essential reference tools" by Elizabeth Shown Mills include:
-- EVIDENCE! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian
-- QUICKSHEET: Citing Online Historical Resources
-- PROFESSIONAL GENEALOGY: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians
HOW TO CLEAN YOUR LAPTOP SCREEN
All links are found on the show page at:
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/05/1115r.htm
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SDCC 2018–New trailer, Spock to return, a series of film shorts, and Rebecca Romijn joins cast of Star Trek Discovery
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Big news for fans of Star Trek: Discovery at San Diego Comic-Con Friday was the announcement of Librarians and X-Men actor Rebecca Romijn as the new character Number One for season 2 of the series. Number One was the first of three roles taken on by Majel Barrett (and later Barrett-Roddenberry after she married Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry), for the Star Trek original series episode “The Cage” with then Enterprise captain Christopher Pike. CBS All Access released the trailer for the second season showing our first look at the third actor to play Christopher Pike, Inhumans star Anson Mount. He follows Jeffrey Hunter and Bruce Greenwood taking on the role of the captain of the Enterprise before Kirk. In the coming second season we catch up with the crew of USS Discovery, commanded by acting Captain Saru and Commander Michael Burnham as they respond to a “Priority One” distress call from the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, commanded by Captain Christopher Pike. Mount’s Pike seems to borrow mannerisms, voice, and dialogue more from Greenwood’s work in 2009’s Star Trek and the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. The new trailer is filled with more humor and quips than seen in marketing for the first, darker season.
The trailer was unveiled at Star Trek: Discovery’s Hall H appearance today at SDCC, with series’ showrunner Alex Kurtzman also announcing Star Trek: Short Treks, a four-episode spinoff series of fifteen minute short films (like for Star Trek fan film-length features) that will begin monthly in December, to include episodes with Leverage’s Aldis Hodge, Rainn Wilson, Doug Jones, and Mary Wiseman. Kurtzman also revealed that fans can expect Spock to appear next season, as hinted at in the trailer. The panel included actors Sonequa Martin-Green (Commander Michael Burnham), Doug Jones (Commander Saru), Shazad Latif (Lt. Ash Tyler), Mary Wiseman (Ensign Sylvia Tilly), Anthony Rapp (Lt. Commander Paul Stamets), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), Mary Chieffo (L’Rell), Anson Mount (Captain Christopher Pike), Tig Notaro (new Chief Engineer Reno), and executive producer Heather Kadin.
Take a look at a new look at a classic character in this preview for season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery:
Star Trek: Discovery returns to CBS All Access in 2019.
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Home A6 Londonderry to Dungiven dualling scheme Danny Kennedy Regional Development Street Lighting Street Parking Question Time - Regional Development 08 September 2014
Question Time - Regional Development 08 September 2014
The Regional Development Minister, Danny Kennedy, answered questions on a range of matters including cutbacks to services, and updates on a number of road developments in cluding the A6 Londonderry to Dungiven dualling scheme, West Link roads in Armagh and Road Maintenance in Lisburn.
Mr Eastwood asked for an update on the A6 dualling scheme public inquiry, the minister replied " There are proposals to dual two sections of the A6, those being Randalstown to Castledawson and Londonderry to Dungiven. Funding has been provided to advance the A6 Randalstown to Castledawson dual carriageway project to be shovel-ready in 2015 and, when funding becomes available in the future, to allow construction to commence at short notice.
Development of the A6 Londonderry to Dungiven dualling scheme, which includes a bypass of Dungiven, is well advanced. It has been through a public inquiry and the inspector has produced a report embracing various recommendations. I am considering a response to those recommendations and will issue the departmental statement in due course when I am satisfied that all issues, a number of which are complex, have been appropriately reviewed.
Mr Craig asked the minister what impact the recent budget settlement will have on road maintenance budgets in the Lisburn area. The minister stated " As you will be aware, following the recent announcement on June monitoring, my Department’s resource budget, which is used for the day-to-day maintenance of the road network, has been cut. This cut applies equally across the whole of Northern Ireland, including the Lisburn area.
My Department’s operations and maintenance staff will endeavour to keep the road network in as safe a condition as possible. However, as they have resources to complete only around three quarters of the total workload, they will not be able to provide the service that the public would expect in normal circumstances.
Other questions that were asked during oral question time and during Topical Questions to the Minister for Regional Development included updates on the Public Transport Ticketing system, Roads/Street Lighting Budget cuts, the A5 Western Transport Corridor, Legal Claims and Street Parking.
You can read the full list of questions on our website. The full transcript of Question Time is available to read in the Official Report.
Question Time - Regional Development 08 September 2014 Reviewed by NI Assembly on 10:34 Rating: 5
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Android Ideos and QR-Codes, practical limitations
by Nicolas Pottier
We're a huge fan of the Huawie Ideos phones. They are ridiculously cheap, $100 unlocked, and can be bought over the counter at Safaricom in Kenya or about $120 from NewEgg in the states. That is a crazy pricepoint, totally blowing away any other Android phone and really making J2ME handsets mostly irrelevant as contenders for the kind of ICT4D projects Nyaruka undertakes.
Recently we've been working with a client and have been considering using these as a way of managing and tracking inventory. After all, the cheapest barcode scanners are around the same price, and you don't get a built in touch screen, GSM connectivity, GPS and the ability to build the entire application on the device. That makes the Ideos mighty tempting indeed.
One thing we were curious about though is just how well they would perform with high resolution 2D barcodes. In our case, we'd like to have the option to encode quite a bit of data in the barcodes, so we were curious how the inexpensive Ideos optics would fare.
We created and printed 2D bar codes encoding 23, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 characters, then tested them at different sizes. The codes were all generated at Invx.com, which seemed to do a decent job, even for our monster 1000 character barcode.
We printed each using a laser printer and scaled them from roughly 4"s to 2"s and finally 1" squared. This was under normal lighting conditions using the most excellent "Barcode Scanner" app in the Android App store which uses the open source ZXing library. We also tried things out with a Nexus S, and a Sidekick 4G.
Camera Specs
The big knock to the Ideos is that it is a fixed focus camera, despite being 3.15 megapixels. What that means in this application is that you always need to hold the Ideos at a fixed distance from the code in order to get a sharp picture, which means that you start running into the limitations of the sensor resolution for the higher data QR codes.
The Sidekick4G and Nexus on the other hand, have autofocus cameras, which help greatly. The Sidekick also has a 3 megapixel camera, but it is able to focus so fares much better. The Nexus S has a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, so should be the best yet.
For each phone and barcode, we ran a series of tests and ranked the performance as Fail, Poor, Good or Excellent. Fail means that we either couldn't get the phone to read the barcode at all, or it was very, very difficult. Ok means that it took a good bit of searching to read the barcode, but it did so consistently. Good meant the barcode was easily read when well aligned and Excellent meant the barcode was instantly read even when misaligned or at an oblique angle. Excellent readings have that magical quality to them where you just wave the phone in the general direction of the code and it picks it up.
So what did we find?
Not surprisingly, auto focus made a huge difference. Since the Ideos has a set focus point, you essentially always have to hold it roughly the same distance from the code. That is reasonably easy to do and you get a feel for it, but it means that if the QR code is small, then the sensor won't be able to make out the details. Here's a quick example that makes it clear:
That's the Ideos quite easily reading the 100 character 2" barcode and struggling on the 1" version. You can see that the 2" code takes up a greater size so reads easily, but the smaller 1" code doesn't. We can't move closer to the 1" code to make it fill the screen as then it becomes out of focus.
One interesting learning there is that you can work around that resolution if you have the freedom to make larger QR codes. The 'optimum' size for a code for an Ideos is probably around 3"'s square, that would fill the frame at the exact distance where it is focused. We didn't try this out, but I bet you could get a 200 character code reading excellently.
The benefit of the autofocus is obvious when you compare the Ideos results to the Sidekick, which has a similar resolution, though much better optics and autofocus. The Sidekick has no problem reading even 500 character barcodes at 1".
For all practical purposes the Nexus doesn't do any better, which probably indicates that we are reaching the limits of the optics rather than the limits of the sensor sizes.
Practical Limits
So what are the practical limits? On an Ideos, I would stick to ~100 characters or less on a 2" bar code, and ~50 characters or less on a 1" barcode. At those sizes things work brilliantly, instant recognition at virtually any angle.
On an autofocusing device, you have a lot more flexibility. Even at 1" you can easily decode codes with up to 500 characters. For QR codes that seems to be the practical limit, though if you are willing to use a DataMatrix code you might be able to squeeze a bit more in.
QR Codes vs DataMatrix Codes
The two biggest 2D barcode standards for this kind of application are QR Codes and DataMatrix codes. DataMatrix is actually the older standard, but due to leaving out support for Kanji characters, QR Codes were created in Japan and have been taking over.
There are some advantages and disadvantages to each. QR Codes are more tolerant to being read at oblique or rotated angles. The guide blocks in the corners seem to help tremendously here and I definitely noticed faster and more consistent reading for QR codes.
However, those blocks come at the cost of data density. Here are the two 1000 character codes used in these tests, the QR code at left and the DM code at right. You can see that the DM code requires less resolution to read, so by and large the DM codes tended to fail last, at least when good alignment was used.
One interesting feature of QR codes is that they are a bit more tolerant to errors. You can cover up the bottom right corner of a QR code and it will usually still read, the DM codes are more sensitive here. This might be an overstated benefit though, as I didn't have as much luck covering up the top right, left, or bottom left corners of QR codes, where the guide blocks are, so the practical cases where the error correction would come in seem minimal.
Error correction is something you can tune in QR codes, some generators lets you define more redundancy in the generated code. However, this will presumably come with lower data density, so is probably very specific to your application.
Troublesome QR Code
Strangely, the lowest resolution QR code generated, of 23 characters, actually was troublesome to read in many cases. Looking at it closely it looks like it contains one less control block than the 50 character code. You can see that below, the 23 character on the left vs the 50 character on the right.
This might just be a limitation or bug in the scanning software itself, but does point out that real world testing is still really important. The DM code didn't display any such issues.
Finally, here's the full results if you want to see the nitty gritty details:
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‘likely’ israeli strikes on military outposts in hama and aleppo reported by state tv
Posted on April 30, 2018 by wendyedavis | 1 Comment
via RT last night:
“The alleged attacks were reported by Syria’s Sana news agency on Sunday evening. Citing a military source, it said that “a new aggression with hostile missiles” took place at around 10:30 pm local time, targeting military positions in the Hama and Aleppo villages.A Syrian law enforcement source told RIA Novosti that the army’s munition depots were hit, in what was most likely an airstrike.
The source said one of the targeted military sites was a munition depot belonging to the Syrian Army’s 47th Brigade. A fire at the depot broke out as a result of the attack, he said. Another target was reportedly a munition depot to the east of Aleppo, in northern Syria, located between the Al-Malikiayh and Al-Nayrab airport.
There have been unconfirmed reports of injuries and fatalities as a result of the reported strike. Sky News Arabia reported, citing rebel sources, that over 40 people might have been killed.
Videos posted online, allegedly from the scene of one of the strikes, show a massive explosion that lights up the skyline.” (with videos)
“An overnight missile attack in Syria’s northern region has killed 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians, a war monitoring group has said.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack appeared to have been carried out by Israel and targeted an arms depot for surface-to-surface missiles at a base known as Brigade 47. The Observatory said four Syrians were among the casualties.
The death toll could rise as the attack also wounded 60 fighters and several others were still missing, it added.
The attack came amid rising tensions between Iran and Israel after an airstrike earlier this month on Syria’s T4 air base in the central province of Homs. Syria, Iran and Russia blamed Israel for that attack, which killed seven Iranian military personnel. Israel did not confirm or deny it.
The Israeli defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said in an interview published last Thursday that his country would strike Tehran if it was attacked by Iran, escalating the war of words between the two adversaries.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, following Israel’s attacks on Syria last night: “The time of attacking us and fleeing has ended. [Now] your strikes will be met with strikes”
— فراس الشوفي Firas Al Shoufi (@firasshoufi) April 30, 2018
8. Israel is angry at the prospect of Russia potentially providing S300s to the Syrian government – which would limit Israel’s freedom of movement in Syrian airspace – but at the same time their repeated strikes on Syrian army bases are leaving the Russians with little choice.
Yep, the proxy war in *iran* has begun anew, as crown prince bin salman is seeking an alliance with israel, eve while noting that the trump I/P peace plan needs to go through, and that ‘Palestinians Should Come to Negotiating Table or Shut Up’, farsnews english
Borrowing from a recent and fascinating essay of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin’s on gods, goddesses and timelines, ‘The Origins of Violence? Slavery, Extractivism and War’“And the land, hitherto a common possession like the light of the sun and the breezes, the careful surveyor now marked out with long-drawn boundary lines. Not only were corn and needful foods demanded of the rich soil, but men bored into the bowels of the earth, and the wealth she had hidden and covered with Stygian darkness was dug up, an incentive to evil. And now noxious iron and gold more noxious still were produced: and these produced war – for wars are fought with both – and rattling weapons were hurled by bloodstained hands.“
(Ovid, written around 8 AD which laments humanity’s loss of its original Golden condition [Ovid Metamorphoses, Book 1, The Iron Age])
On edit may 1: i’m going to add some of what i’d added in comments to this mess of a diary.
@firasshoufi 4. Through these strikes, and the previous ones, Israel is trying to provoke Iran into a reaction and thus a direct confrontation before the US makes a formal decision on cancelling the Nuclear Deal
@firasshoufi 5. Israel is trying to embarrass Iran– if Iran retaliates it will lose the support/backing of the Europeans regarding the deal, but if it doesnt respond then Israel has been able to change the rules of the game on the Syrian battlefield, exposing Iranian bases & military strength
‘No Iranians Killed in Missile Attack on Syria: Source’
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An informed source denied reports about a missile attack on an Iranian “military base” in Syria and deaths of Iranian military advisers in the Arab country
yeah, it was Israel: @nsanzo ‘After #KSA and #Israel, Pompeo visits the third outpost and colony in the Middle East.’ https://twitter.com/USEmbassyJordan/status/990841781750259714 …
Secretary Pompeo and @KingAbdullahII agree that we must confront #Iran’s destabilizing presence. Their meeting reaffirmed the United States and #Jordan partnership on key regional issues from the defeat of #ISIS to the Middle East peace process: https://t.co/DLFlSeLX8p pic.twitter.com/NBGDNyPrHS
— Heather Nauert (@statedeptspox) April 30, 2018
1:41 AM – Apr 30, 2018
‘Netanyahu shows slides, shelves of docs claiming Iran has nuclear weapons program’, 30 Apr, 2018 , RT
“After his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday, Netanyahu said that “the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons” remains “the greatest threat” to Israel, the US, and the whole world.
Trump has slammed the Iran nuclear deal as “the worst deal ever” and threatened to pull the US out of the agreement. Trump’s threat will be carried out if he doesn’t renew a waiver on sanctions against Iran until May 12.
The leaders of the UK, France, and Germany vowed to defend the Iran nuclear deal in a joint statement on Sunday, calling it “the best way” to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.”
Iran lied. Big time. pic.twitter.com/ojEEpgW33n
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) April 30, 2018
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarks against Tehran and warned that if the Israeli officials do not refrain from plotting against the Islamic Republic, they will definitely regret it.
I’ve been a bit slow on the draw, here, but as increasingly more iranian news agencies are reporting that no iranians were killed in the attack, it seems obvious why western rags report the SOHR figures of 22+ iranians. (SOHR in the UK run by an avowed anti-assadist, funded by UK ad US). iirc. greyson smythe had more information….
zo: it’s exactly to foment rhouhani’s own red line, isn’t it, and retaliate? meanwhile, this: ‘‘IAEA Rejects Israeli PM’s Claims about Iran’s Nuclear Activities’, tasnim news may 1:
‘TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims about Iran’s nuclear activities, saying the agency “had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009.”
and fars news is reporting more US attacks on deir ezzur and southern Hasaka last night, lots of civilians killed.
‘The Real War for Syria is Taking Place in Its Skies’, by Jonathan Cook, april 30
“According to United Nations figures, the Israeli military violated Syrian airspace more than 750 times in the four-month period leading up to last October, with its warplanes and drones spending some 3,200 hours over the country. On average, more than six Israeli aircraft entered Syrian airspace each day in that period.
Powerful rocket strikes reported on two sites in Syria on Sunday were widely attributed to Israel. Since war broke out in Syria just over seven years ago, Israeli fighter jets are believed to have carried out hundreds of offensive missions.
“Israel achieved one major aim early on: Western powers insisted that the Syrian government be disarmed of its large arsenal of chemical weapons, Damascus’s only deterrent against an Israeli nuclear threat.
Since then, Israel’s focus has shifted to Iran and blocking its ambitions on various fronts: to prop up Assad, establish a military presence close to Israel’s northern border and use Syria as a conduit for transferring arms to Hezbollah.
Iran’s aim is to recreate a balance of terror between the two sides and free itself from diplomatic isolation; Israel’s is to maintain its military pre-eminence and dominance of the Middle East’s skies.
In addition, Israel seeks to exploit Syria’s collapse to claim permanent title over the Golan Heights, which it seized from Syria in 1967 and later annexed in violation of international law.”
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‘Whatever happened to the Skripals? UK media and authorities fall silent on Salisbury poisoning’, via RT, 1 May, 2018
“A number of bloggers have spent months questioning the government’s narrative on the Skripal attack. Among them is former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray. Murray pointed out a tweet by Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomsen, who said the only “decisive public move by the authorities has been to censor MSM (mainstream media) via a D Notice… from identifying Mr Skripal’s handler living nearby.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/425600-skripal-poison-update-suspect/
are they zombies? chimeras? ‘i couldn’t possibly comment’ (h/t f.u. francis urquart) did papa help shop for the steele dossier? lol.
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Sex and Cinema in the 21st Century (Fort Worth, Texas; Nov. 2-3, 2012); Proposals due July 19, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 5:50pm
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, Texas Christian University
Call for Papers: Sex and Cinema in the 21st Century
We invite panel and individual-paper proposals pertaining to the theme of sex and cinema in the 21st century, for presentation at this fall's Film and Television in the 21st Century Conference (to be held at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, November 2-3, 2012).
The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that examine noteworthy cinematic representations of sex, gender, and/or sexual orientation from the early years of the 21st century in relation to, and as an extension of, groundbreaking 20th-century representations. Individual paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes in length.
The Sequential Monster: Reading Comics as Monstrous, NeMLA 2013
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 44th Annual Convention, March 21-24, 2013
Comic books, graphic novels and webcomics generally combine words and images to create narratives. Perhaps we can see them, therefore, as monstrous: beasts that combine the elements of verbal and visual, narrative and static communication forms. Like a monster composed of pieces of other animals, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This panel will examine a social understanding of comics forms and the kinds of literacies required to accept and interpret them. Abstracts of 300 words to lauere@sunysuffolk.edu; Deadline: September 30, 2012. Include: name, affiliation, anticipated a/v requirements.
[update] -- Call for Papers for the volume "A Mediterranean Manifesto" on Modernism in the Mediterranean
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 12:07pm
Adam J. Goldwyn, Uppsala Unviersity; Renee M. Silverman, Florida International University
Call for papers for a volume on Modernism in the Mediterranean
Title: A Mediterranean Manifesto: Cultural Exchange and the Formation of a Modernist Aesthetic in the Mediterranean Basin
Eds. Adam J. Goldwyn (Uppsala University) and Renée M. Silverman (Florida International University)
ASECS 2013/Culture and Violence Before the Revolution, Deadline: September 15, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 4:18am
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, April 4-7, 2013, Cleveland, OH
The period of the French Revolution has long been recognized as a privileged moment in which sovereign violence and cultural production come together and erupt into new visions of civilization and history. Yet how is the relation between sovereignty, culture and violence understood in the decades leading up to the Revolution? Where are the contradictions and tensions that inhabit visions of Ancien Régime literature, the arts and Enlightenment thought that make the encounter between culture and violence unavoidable or necessary? What cultural image does violence give rise to and how does violence come to be understood as being a fundamental aspect of culture?
[UPDATE] Imagining Middle Eastern/Oriental women in the West: An Orientalist Legacy Borrowed from the Past?July15/ Nov. 8-11, 2
The 54th Annual M/MLA Convention- Cincinnati, Ohio
Deadline Extended
Imagining Middle Eastern/Oriental Women in the West: An Orientalist Legacy Borrowed from the Past?
This panel seeks papers which investigate the image of the Middle Eastern/Muslim women in the West constructed throughout centuries and the manner in which these images are deployed and interpreted by the Western audiences. Thus, the panel is open to a wide range of literary periods, such as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, Victorian Period, as well as Modern and Post-modern Literatures. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the topic under investigation papers dealing with history, sociology and religion which build on literary texts are welcome as well.
[UPDATE] Imagining Middle Eastern/Oriental women in the West: An Orientalist Legacy Borrowed from the Past? July 2/ Nov. 8-11, 2
2nd International Conference on HR "Exploring Non-Linear Growth through HR Driven Strategies"
Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 12:12am
Institute of Management Studies, Noida,
We feel pleasure to inform you that Institute of Management Studies, Noida (An UGC recognized, AICTE approved, and Government of India) a distinguished professional education Institute and amongst top 10 Business school of Northern India is organizing a 2nd International Conference on HR "Exploring Non-Linear Growth through HR Driven Strategies". The Institute offers courses like PGDM (equivalent to MBA) with dual specialization in various functional disciplines viz. Marketing, Finance, Retail, Human Resource & International Business. Institute also conducts courses in MIB, MCA and MJMC at PG level and BBA, BCA, B.A.LL.B. and BJMC at UG level. We nurture and train our students through industrial visits, live projects and field research.
The Personal is Political Revisited: Investigating Notions of Place and Space, October 6th 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 10:04pm
School of Arts, University of Northampton
"It is at this point a political action to tell it like it is, to say what I really believe about my life instead of what I've always been told to say."
Carol Hanisch, "The Personal is Political" 1969
"We [need to] recognise space as the product of interrelations; as constituted through interactions, from the immensity of the global to the intimately tiny."
Doreen Massey, "Space, Place and Gender" 1995
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jenny Bavidge, University of Cambridge
[REMINDER] Deadline Extension (6/30) for Global Lives Conference
Cultural Analysis and Theory Department, Stony Brook University
3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Stony Brook Manhattan
Keynote Lecture to be delivered by:
Una Chaudhuri
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CFP NEMLA 2013 (March 21-24) - The Western Fascination with Cannibalism
Elena Daniele, Brown University
THE WESTERN FASCINATION WITH CANNIBALISM
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Host Institution: Tufts University
This panel invites papers on the theme of cannibalism – whether a trope within travel literatures of wonders, an ethnographic report, an account of survival, a fiction of horror, an anthropology of the aberrant, a metaphor, or anything between and beyond these categories. Please send 300-500 word abstracts and brief biographical statements to Elena Daniele: elena_daniele@brown.edu
NeMLA 2013: The Originality of Adaptation and Novelization
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 11:47am
The Originality of Adaptation and Novelization
This panel studies how adaptations of literature into film, and novelizations of film into literature, stress their originality. How do such derivative works manage their break with their sources while not alienating their audience?
Marketing and reception studies of adaptations / novelizations are welcome, as are papers on works only re-using characters or loosely borrowing from sources in other media.
Please send 250 word abstracts to Ana Oancea (aio2101@columbia.edu) by Sept. 30, 2012.
This panel has been approved for the 2013 NeMLA Convention. It is listed in areas: Cultural Studies and Film; Theory and Literary Criticism.
Call for Contributions: Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World
Belphégor – Popular Literature and Media Culture
http://etc.dal.ca/belphegor/
Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World
From New Media to Old Utopias: 'Red' Art in Data Capitalism?, Leonardo Electronic Almanac - Abstract Deadline August 31, 2012
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals from academics, critical theorists and artists for an issue investigating the relevance of communist utopianism to New Media Art's ideological dispositions. Relevant areas of interest addressed by the issue's contributors could include, but are by no means limited to:
Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts, and Early Editions
Dominique Hoche
Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts,
and Early Editions – In Memory of Lister M. Matheson
International Medieval Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan: May 9-12, 2013.
For information, contact dominique.hoche@westliberty.edu or dominique.hoche@gmail.com
English Forum: Journal of the Department of English, Gauhati University seeks article submissions by November 2012.
Department of English, Gauhati University
The Editor, ENGLISH FORUM: JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, GAUHATI UNIVERSITY, Guwahati, Assam, India, seeks submissions for its March 2013 issue. Articles that are received will go through a process of peer review before being selected for publication. Articles, between 5000 to 8000 words, can be on any issue concerning English Literature and other literatures in English. The articles should be typed in Microsoft Word and the referencing must be according to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Seventh Edition). Articles should be mailed to sanjeevnath21@gmail.com by November 30, 2012.
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Poet on page and stage. Creator of She Grrrowls. Facilitator. Writer.
Burn After Reading / Kid Glove / Podium Poets. Writer for The Norwich Radical. Published by Nasty Little Press.
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Freelance Reflections #18
As previously mentioned, last Thursday was the Roundhouse Poetry Slam. The results are in and Elliot Waloschek won first place, with the runners up being Syd Wilmot, SAF S2E and Amani Saeed. I was rooting for Amani, as well as Ruth Awolola and Oshanti Ahmed. When it came to it, I voted for Amani, but I wished I’d been able to vote multiple times for the others too. But alas, as host Toby Campion said: the points aren’t the point, the point’s the poetry. Though that prize money…
Anyway, I remember hearing Elliot’s first poem about “stealthing”, and it stood out and it was very rich in language, and I immediately wanted to hear it again. I felt like Ruth’s second poem was really joyous, and that is always refreshing to hear. Whilst Amani packed a punch with both poems, her second poem was really bold, a poem that seemed to be partly about white fragility, its ending open to interpretation, but perhaps there to provoke you into thinking about what the difference is between the list of insults given to white people to those of other races, as well as to feel the weight of hate speech, and what it actually means.
The thing about the Roundhouse Slam is that it has heats to go through, so everyone involved is a high-calibre poet. I remember being so upset at my final chance of being in the slam and I didn’t even make the heats. Roundhouse lovely, comedian and (ex)-spoken word artist (once a poet, always a poet…), Jack Rooke really cheered me up about it. I mean, it wasn’t like I was going to win if I couldn’t even get through the heats, was it? I did meet some amazing poets who I’m still in touch with today, such as Malaika Kegode and Ciarán Hodgers, who are doing great things in poetry still.
Meanwhile, this week has been hectic, and filled with admin and emotional upheaval after thinking I would have to self-isolate from the start of the week, to being told my contact’s positive Covid test was void.
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Last Thursday, I watched R.A.P. Party on Zoom, hosted by Inua Ellams. I was cooking whilst it was on, then treated myself to a drink as the combination of music and poetry lends itself to a tipple. I knew most of the poets in the line-up, as mentioned in my previous post, but I hadn’t heard Gemma Weekes before. I was blown away, and both me and my flatmate said she was our favourite of the night. For me, not knowing what to expect, she really stood out. The content was very relatable for those of us who love hip hop, but remain critical of displays of misogyny, such as ‘Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks’, the Dr. Dre lyric Weekes dissected in her performance. With her arm propped against her knee, her delivery was captivating as the words came out as easily as breathing. This casual posture made you feel like you were literally inside her home, having a conversation over a cup of tea, only with a spoonful of sharp-tongued poetry rather than sugar.
Gemma Weekes
I’ve also had some good news lately, having found out first via Twitter that I’d been longlisted for the Grindstone International Poetry Prize. My poem ‘Computer Generated Images’, recorded by Muddy Feet Poetry, was also in the Top 20 on The Poetry Archive, a competition judged by Imtiaz Dharker, Robert Seatter and Lavinia Singer.
Coming up this Thursday is the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Final streamed online, and it’s Pay What You Can. I’ve just seen the list of poets and know Amani Saeed, Ruth Awolola and Oshanti Ahmed personally, I’ll be rooting for them! There’s also an audience vote, which is exciting!
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Every First Friday: She Grrrowls at The Poetry Cafe, 7.30pm (Host)
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Network Pharmacology Approach to Uncover the Mechanism Governing the Effect of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae on Osteoarthritis
Laigen Zhang1 na1,
Xiaoqing Shi1 na1,
Zhengquan Huang1,
Jun Mao1,
Wei Mei1,
Liang Ding1,
Li Zhang1,
Runlin Xing1 &
Peimin Wang1
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies volume 20, Article number: 121 (2020) Cite this article
This study used a network pharmacology approach to elucidate the molecular mechanism governing the effect of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae (RAB) on osteoarthritis (OA).
Based on oral bioavailability and drug-likeness, the main active components of RAB were screened via the Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology platform. The GeneCard, OMIM, PharmGkb, Therapeutic Targets database, and DrugBank database were used to establish a database of osteoarthritis targets. The interactive active network map of “ingredient-target” was constructed with Cytoscape software (Version 3.7.1). The protein-protein interaction network was constructed with the STRING database, and the related protein interaction relationship was analysed. GO biological function analysis and KEGG enrichment analysis for core targets were performed. Finally, docking of the active components with the core target was carried out.
Sixteen active components of RAB were obtained, and 63 potential targets for OA were identified. Network analysis results indicate that these targets are primarily involved in regulating biological processes, such as cell metabolism, apoptosis, and cell proliferation. Pathways involved in the treatment of osteoarthritis include virus-related signalling pathways, apoptosis signalling pathways, IL-17 signalling pathways, and PI3K/AKT signalling pathways.
RAB has the characteristics of being multi-system, multi-component and multi-target. Possible mechanisms of action for RAB include regulating the immune and inflammatory responses, reducing chondrocyte apoptosis, and protecting the joint synovial membrane and cartilage to control disease development. The active ingredients in RAB, such as sterols and flavonoids, exhibit strong potential as candidate drugs for the treatment of osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic disease with a significant impact on human health. With the ageing of the general population, the incidence of OA has been increasing annually [1]. In 2014, 13% of the elderly were diagnosed with OA according to population-based healthcare data from England and Sweden [2]. In medical findings concerning people over 55, approximately 25% of the population reports at least one knee pain attack every year, which is likely to reflect the potential of OA [3]. Pain and dysfunction significantly reduce patients’ quality of life and cause serious social and economic burdens. In the statistics regarding years living with disability, OA ranks first among non-infectious diseases [4].
Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has a long history and unique features for the treatment of OA; CHM is observed to be effective in the improvement of clinical symptoms, such as pain and stiffness, with few side effects and lower costs than Western medicine [5,6,7,8]. Pan and Huang [9, 10] found that Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae (RAB) is employed most frequently in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis ranked first among other herbs.
The source of Achyranthes bidentata is the root and rhizome of Achyranthes aspera L., which is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant in China [11]. Achyranthes bidentata is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. According to the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine, the main effects of RAB include nourishing the liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, and invigorating circulation. Modern medicine’s research on Achyranthes bidentata primarily focuses on the biological effects on the immune system, nervous system, and bone metabolism, as well as antitumour, antioxidation, and joint-protection properties [12, 13]. Polysaccharides, polypeptides, alkaloids, triterpenoid saponins, organic acids, ketosteroids and various trace elements are known as the primary classes of bioactive ingredients [12].
Achyranthes bidentata Bl. saponins (ABS) can not only promote osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells by activating the ERK signalling pathway but also protect chondrocytes by inhibiting the activation of NF-κB in rat cartilage induced by IL-1B, thereby inhibiting IL-1B-induced apoptosis [14, 15]. Achyranthes bidentata polysaccharides (ABPs) promote the proliferation of chondrocytes and inhibit the production of osteoclasts, possibly by activating the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway and inhibiting RANKL signalling [16, 17]. In addition, other studies have shown that Achyranthes bidentata alcohol promotes the proliferation of osteoblasts in a dose-dependent manner, possibly by activating the ERK signal transduction pathway to stimulate osteoblast differentiation [18].
The pharmacological study of ARB and the mechanism of its treatment of OA have been investigated by a number of studies. However, the drug compositions of ARB are complex, and the specific mechanism of its treatment of OA still needs to be fully elucidated. CHM treatment of diseases has the characteristics of “many-to-many-to-many”, that is, the complex process of multiple targets to multiple channels to multiple genes. At present, it remains difficult to explore the potential molecular mechanism of CHM because of the diversity of its components and the complexity of its interactions with the human body. Traditional single-agent or monomer studies were unable to fully explain the specific mechanism of CHM treatment of certain diseases. Based on the development of systems biology and bioinformatics, modern technology has entered the era of omics and big data. Researchers have attempted to explore the correlation between diseases and drugs from the perspective of network biology. In 2007, Chinese scholar Li Shao et al reported the network regulation effects of the TCM syndrome biomolecular network and proposed a biomolecular network to study the active compounds of Chinese medicine [19]. Then, based on the theory of systems biology, Hopkins first proposed the term “network pharmacology.” Hopkins explained the relationship between drugs and the body from the perspective of improving or restoring the balance of biological networks and built a “drug-targeted disease” network [19].
Network pharmacology is based on the “disease-gene-target-drug” interaction network, which systematically and comprehensively characterizes the intervention and influence of drugs on the disease network, thereby elucidating the synergistic effects of drugs on the human body. The booming development of bioinformatics provides the possibility to clarify the mechanism of TCM for the treatment of diseases.
Based on the network pharmacology approach, this study focuses on the mechanism governing the effect of RAB on OA at the molecular level, attempts to elucidate the specific targets and molecular signalling pathways of RAB acting on OA, and devises new strategies for drug development and clinical applications. A flowchart of this study is depicted in Fig. 1.
Whole framework based on network pharmacology
Compound collection and screening
Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology (TCMSP) is a unique system pharmacology platform of CHM that captures the relationships among drugs, targets and diseases [20]. In TCMSP, we retrieved the chemical composition information of RAB. The active ingredients of RAB were obtained from the screening conditions as follows: oral bioavailability (OB) > 30% and drug-likelihood (DL) > 0.18 [21, 22]. Then, the potential targets of RAB were collected through the TCMSP platform. With the UniProt database (https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/), the RAB gene target was obtained.
Target acquisition for drug and disease-related effects
Using osteoarthritis as a keyword, the OA gene was searched and screened by the following electronic databases: GeneCard database (https://www.genecards.org/), OMIM database (https://www.omim.org/), PharmGkb database (https://www.pharmgkb.org/), Therapeutic Targets database (http://bidd.nus.edu.sg/BIDD-Databases/TTD/TTD.asp), and DrugBank database (https://www.drugbank.ca). The database search results are combined, and duplicate targets are deleted to obtain all the target targets of OA (the results are shown in Supplementary Table 1). RAB matched the target prediction results of active ingredients with the retrieval results of OA-related targets and selected overlapping targets as the related targets of RAB for the treatment of OA. The Venny 2.1 (http://bioinfogp.cnb.csic.es/tools/venny/index.html) online tool was used to map the active ingredient target and the disease target of RAB and to draw Venn diagrams. Then, the intersection targets of RAB and OA were collected as the common genes of RAB in the treatment of OA, which might be the potential target set of RAB in the treatment of OA.
Construction of drug active ingredients and disease target network
The screening results of the active components of RAB and OA targets were imported into Cytoscape [23], and the active components and OA target network of RAB were constructed. The Network Analyzer Apps software was then used to analyse the topology properties of the network, including degree, betweenness centrality, and closeness centrality.
In this experimental study, degree refers to the number of direct neighbours of a node. It is considered that the greater the number of directly connected nodes of a node are, the greater the influence is [24]. Betweenness centrality measures the shortest path between all pairs of nodes through the node [25, 26]. Closeness centrality is defined as the reciprocal of the average of the shortest path distance between a node and all other nodes in the network, and the larger the value is, the greater the centrality of the node is, indicating that the signal is passed from one node to other nodes faster.
The nodes of the network represented the target or active component, and the edges indicated their interaction. The core architecture of Cytoscape software was the network. Each node was a protein or an active component. The edge between nodes represents the interaction between these biomolecules. The degree of nodes represents the number of nodes connected with one another in the network. A node with a high degree of betweenness centrality and closeness centrality values means that the node plays a highly important role in the network.
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) network construction and core gene screening
PPI refers to the process in which two or more protein molecules form protein complexes through noncovalent bonds. PPIs and acquired networks are highly important in most biological functions and processes [27]. The STRING database (https://string-db.org/) collected a large number of protein interactions and contains a range of data confidence (low confidence: < 0.4; medium confidence: 0.4–0.7; high confidence: > 0.7). On this basis, common gene targets of RAB and OA were imported into the STRING database. Using the species-qualified Homo sapiens, a confidence level of 0.7 and hidden disconnected nodes in the network, a protein interaction network analysis was carried out, and the TSV format of the updated results was downloaded. The file was imported into Cytoscape for topology attribute analysis. We then assessed the topological property of nodes in the interaction network by calculating six parameters with the App CytoNCA [28]: “degree centrality (DC),” “betweenness centrality (BC),” “closeness centrality (CC),” “eigenvector centrality (EC),” “network centrality (NC),” and “local average connectivity (LAC).” These six parameters measured the importance of nodes in the network and indicate the nature of the nodes in the network. A node with high DC, BC, CC, EC, NC and LAC values means that it plays a highly important role in the network. Based on the results of topological property analysis of the above PPI, targets above the median were selected as the core targets and screened twice [21]. Based on the above findings, we obtained the core target in the network.
GO and KEGG enrichment analysis
A variety of bioinformatic analyses and visualization of the results can be achieved using the software R project. First, the Entrez gene ID of the core target was obtained by RGUI and org. Hs.eg.db, and then the GO function enrichment (Molecular Function, MF, Biological Process, BP, Cellular Component, CC) and KEGG pathway were enriched by RGUI, DOSE and Cluster Profiler. In the programming language, pvalueCutoff = 0.05 and qvalueCutoff = 0.05 were set. The results of the analysis selected the top 20 items with the highest enrichment and displayed them in the form of bar graphs. Finally, using RGUI and pathview, the top 20 access maps of the enrichment rankings were downloaded through the KEGG database (KEGG, https://www.kegg.jp/kegg/pathway.html, updated on July 1, 2019). The results were screened repeatedly and manually selected based on relevance.
Acquisition of drug-like components and OA target crystals
Through the construction of the target network of the active ingredient of the drug and the disease, the drug-like component of the RAB and the target of OA were obtained. The mol2 structure of the abovementioned drug-like component, celecoxib (positive control drug), was downloaded from the Chemical Book database (https://www.chemicalbook.com/). The protein crystal structure of the OA-related target was downloaded from the RCSB PDB database (https://www.rcsb.org/).
Docking steps and results evaluation
The results obtained in 2.6.1 were sequentially imported into Discovery Studio 2016 3.0 software for pre-processing. First, Prepare Ligands is applied to each drug component, and the parameters are default values and saved as molecular docking ligands. Second, through Prepare Protein, the parameters take the default value, the pre-treated protein structure is obtained, the original ligand is extracted from the target, and the molecule is paired as an acceptor. The receptor active site selects the original ligand extraction position, the docking preference is set to high quality in the LibDock module, the conformation method is BEST, parallel processing is true, and other parameters take the default values. The docking results are given by the scoring function LibDock score. The higher the LibDock score is, the higher the activity of the predicted component binding to the target is.
Screening of active ingredients in RAB
The TCMSP database was searched using the screening conditions OB (> 30%) and DL (> 0.18). A total of 20 active ingredients were found in RAB. Twenty active ingredients were manually searched for related targets, and 16 active ingredients were finally selected, as detailed in Supplementary Table 2. Among these ingredients, phytosterols, such as stigmasterols, berberine and other alkaloids, have been proven to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidation, anticancer and other broad pharmacological effects [29,30,31,32]. Flavonoids, such as quercetin and baicalein, can eliminate cartilage degeneration, inhibit chondrocyte apoptosis in the knee joint, reduce the oxidative stress response and inhibit the degradation of the extracellular matrix of chondrocytes [33,34,35,36].
Construction of the effective active ingredient pool and disease target set
The targets in the TCMSP database were searched, and a total of 513 targets for the RAB were included. The gene names of the targets were collected using the UniProt database, null and repetitive targets were deleted, and 101 effective active ingredient targets were obtained. A total of 2655 OA gene targets were obtained by searching and integrating the GeneCard, OMIM, PharmGkb, Therapeutic Targets database, and DrugBank database. A total of 101 compound targets were mapped to 2655 OA target genes to obtain 63 common target genes, as shown in Supplementary Table 3.
Building a “ingredient-target network” network
Sixteen drug components and sixty-three disease-related target screening results were mapped, chemical components without corresponding targets were removed, and duplicated targets were deleted. The data were imported into Cytoscape to construct an ingredient-target network, as shown in Fig. 2, and the docking results of RAB to the OA protein receptor were shown in Supplementary Table 4. (The octagonal node represents the active pharmaceutical ingredient, such as quercetin; the circular node represents the target of disease action, such as silk mitogen-activated protein kinase 8 (MAPK8).) As shown in Fig. 2, the network includes a total of 79 nodes and 151 sides. Different nodes represent the active constituents of RAB and the target of OA. Figure 2 shows that RAB can correspond to one or more active ingredients for one target, and multiple targets can correspond to the same active ingredient, suggesting that RAB has multi-component and multi-target characteristics for the treatment of OA.
Ingredient-target network of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae. The pink oval nodes are the main active ingredients of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, and the blue rectangle is the potential target for treating osteoarthritis of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae
Target protein interaction network analysis
The common targets related to OA treatment of RAB were imported into the STRING database to obtain their interaction relationship. The interaction network has 58 nodes and 241 edges. TSV data were imported into Cytoscape, and CytoNCA was used to analyse the above PPIs based on DC, BC, CC, EC, NC, and LAC parameters. The thresholds for the first screening were Degree> 6, Eigenvector> 0.084871295, LAC> 3.2, Betweenness> 16.682932, Closeness> 0.243071465, and Network> 4, and the results showed a total of 19 nodes and 91 edges. Then, 19 targets were further screened. The second screening threshold was Degree> 14, Eigenvector> 0.17461096, LAC> 5.7894735, Betweenness> 130.68596, Closeness> 0.2626728, and Network> 8.641908. The second screening result was 7 nodes and 20 edges (Fig. 3), including MAPK8, IL6, VEGFA, EGFR, MYC, CCND1, and CASP3.
Process of topological screening for the PPI network
GO and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis
The MF, BP and CC of 63 core targets were analysed, and the results showed that the key targets of RAB were highly enriched in 79 GO terms. The biological functions and processes involved, including specific sequence DNA binding, RNA polymerase II proximal promoter sequence-specific DNA binding, transcriptional activator binding, chromatin binding, cofactor binding, nuclear receptor activity, steroid hormone body activity, and nuclear chromatin binding, were closely related to biological processes, such as cell proliferation and apoptosis. The top 20 GO analysis results were screened, with P < 0.05 serving as the threshold, as shown in Fig. 4. KEGG enrichment analysis was performed on 63 targets of RAB. The results showed that the targets were enriched in 112 pathways, including viral-related signalling pathways, apoptosis signalling pathways, IL-17 signalling pathways, and PI3K/AKT signalling pathways. These classical signalling pathways play an important role in the occurrence and development of OA. The top 20 KEGG analysis results were screened, with P < 0.05 serving as the threshold, as shown in Fig. 5. GO and KEGG analyses suggested that RAB can act on OA through multiple pathways.
GO enrichment of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae active components in the treatment of common targets of osteoarthritis
Enriched KEGG pathways of potential targets for treating osteoarthritis from the main active ingredients of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae
Target path analysis
The KEGG Mapper tool was used to obtain the pathway map of RAB for the treatment of OA, as shown in Fig. 6. The pathway targets were marked in white, and the targets of RAB for the treatment of OA were marked in red. The pathway map showed that RAB was involved in the treatment of OA, including the NF-κB signalling pathway and PI3K/AKT signalling pathway, with 17 effective targets of RAB in the treatment of OA. It was suggested that RAB may play a role in the treatment of OA by regulating several aspects, and its target may be located in these pathways.
Pathway map of RAB in the treatment of osteoarthritis
The main targets of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae in the treatment of osteoarthritis are located in the apoptosis pathway. Arrows represent the activation effect, T-arrows represent the inhibition effect, and segments show the activation effect or inhibition effect.
Molecular docking analysis
Discovery Studio software was used to validate network pharmacology by molecular docking. The LibDock score represents the degree of docking coincidence of molecules. The higher the score is, the better the binding of ligands to receptor proteins is. Molecular docking results showed that RAB had good affinity for the binding of active ingredients to key OA target protein molecules. Compared with the positive drug celecoxib, RAB had no significant difference in molecular docking fit. At the same time, these findings also indirectly verified that RAB had a regulatory effect on OA targets, such as CASP3 and MAPK8. The results indicated that the molecular docking results were consistent with the network pharmacology screening results, and the reliability of network pharmacology was verified by molecular docking. The docking results of RAB to the OA protein receptor were shown in Supplementary Table 5. The partial docking process was shown in Fig. 7.
Molecular docking of compounds with core targets. (a1) Docking process of quercetin with IL6; (a2) Docking process of celecoxib with IL6; (b1) Docking process of quercetin with VEGFA; (b2) Docking process of celecoxib with VEGFA; (c1) Docking process of quercetin with CCND1; (c2) Docking process of celecoxib with CCND1; (d1) Docking process of quercetin with MAPK8; (d2) Docking process of celecoxib with MAPK8; (e1) Docking process of quercetin with CASP3; (e2) Docking process of celecoxib with CASP3; (f1) Docking process of quercetin with EGFR; (f2) Docking process of celecoxib with EGFR; (g1) Docking process of quercetin with MYC; (g2) Docking process of celecoxib with MYC
RAB has anti-inflammatory, antitumour and immune-enhancing functions and has been widely used in the treatment of OA [37]. Studies have shown that RAB can delay the progression of OA and reduce the pathological damage of OA. The drug-containing joint fluid can improve cell viability, promote the proliferation of chondrocytes, increase the expression of type II collagen protein, and reduce the apoptotic rate of chondrocytes, thereby protecting cartilage [32,33,34,35]. Although the pharmacological effects of the main components of RAB have been studied in depth, the specific mechanism of their action in the treatment of OA has rarely been reported.
The degree of quercetin, kaempferol, wogonin, beta-sitosterol, baicalein and stigmasterol was the highest in the CHM-component-target-signalling pathway network. Quercetin inhibits ER stress by activating the sirtuin 1/adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (SIRT1/AMPK) signalling pathway, eliminates knee cartilage degeneration and reduces knee chondrocyte apoptosis. Quercetin also prevents inflammation and proteoglycan degradation by inhibiting the expression of TNF-α and MMP-9 [33]. Kaempferol has an anti-inflammatory effect and can reduce the production of inflammatory mediators by reducing the activation of p38 and ERK signalling pathways and inhibiting the NF-κB signalling pathway [38, 39]. Wogonin can inhibit the expression of matrix-degrading protease, enhance the expression of COL2A 1 and ACAN in cartilage, and disturb the balance between ROS and GSH levels. Wogonin also activates Nrf2 by inducing the ROS/ERK/Nrf2/HO-1-NQO1 signal axis [40]. Baicalein stimulated the expression of anti-apoptotic genes and reduced the production of pro-apoptotic and pro-inflammatory gene products in chondrocytes [40]. In addition, baicalein decreased the expression of protease in vitro and in vivo and the phosphorylation of p38 and ERK but did not decrease the phosphorylation of JNK [32]. Stigmasterol has anti-inflammatory and anti-catabolic properties [41]. Intra-articular injection of stigmasterol could decrease the expression of MMP-1, MMP-3 and MMP-13 in rabbit OA and upregulate the expression of TIMP-1 [31]. Reports on beta-sitosterol are limited. Therefore, quercetin, kaempferol, wogonin, baicalein and stigmasterol may be the most important components in the treatment of OA by RAB.
The top 8 targets of degree in the CHM-component-target-signal pathway network were MAPK8, IL-6, EGFR, VEGFA, CCND1, MYC, CASP3, and ESR1. The MAPK8 gene belongs to the MAPK signalling pathway and affects the proliferation and apoptosis of articular chondrocytes. By stimulating the MAPK signalling pathway, pro-inflammatory factors affect the level of MMPs and promote the development of OA [42]. IL-6 is a cytokine that strongly activates the immune system and enhances the inflammatory response. Recent studies have shown that IL-6 induces chondrocyte catabolism primarily through STAT3 signalling, and by blocking IL-6 or STAT3, it can alleviate the symptoms of OA mice caused by medial meniscus instability [43]. EGFR is highly expressed in healthy articular cartilage, promotes the secretion of lubricants in articular cartilage, and plays an important role in cell growth, proliferation and differentiation. The expression of the VEGFA gene was associated with early degenerative changes of cartilage and subchondral bone [44]. Studies have shown that synovial vascular endothelial growth factor may be involved in the pain pathway of KOA and may be mediated by apelin [45]. Overexpression of CCND1 reversed the effect of FOXD2-AS1 inhibition on chondrocyte viability [46]. Related studies have shown that Cyclin D1 (a protein encoded by the human CCND1 gene) silencing inhibits IL-1β-induced proliferation of rat chondrocytes induced by OA and induces apoptosis [47]. The MYC gene is a group of previously characterized oncogenes, including C-myc, N-myc, and L-myc. A study found that C-myc gene silencing promotes cell proliferation and inhibits IL-1β-induced rat chondrocyte apoptosis and cytokine expression [48]. CASP3 was determined to play an important role in the apoptosis of articular chondrocytes in KOA rats. The expression of CASP3 is positively correlated with the apoptosis of articular chondrocytes [49]. The ESR1 gene can be expressed in osteoblasts, osteoclasts, chondrocytes and bone marrow stromal cells, as well as bone cells. E2 targeting activation of ESR1 in chondrocytes can inhibit ERK phosphorylation activation, thereby inhibiting the ERK signalling pathway, promoting the formation of autophagic flow, activating autophagy, reducing apoptosis, and causing chondrocyte proliferation [50].
The results of enrichment analysis showed that the main pathways involved in the treatment process are cell apoptosis, the PI3K/AKT pathway, the IL-17 signalling pathway, and viral infection. Apoptosis is the programmed death of cells. Modern studies have found that the signalling pathways that regulate the apoptosis of OA chondrocytes are complex and diverse. Qin et al found that specific inhibition of the SDF-1/CXCR4 signalling pathway can regulate subchondral bone microstructure and attenuate OA pathological damage [51]. Kalaitzoglouë observed that the activation of the TLR4 signalling pathway induces cartilage catabolism in middle-aged female mice, thereby aggravating the progression of OA [52]. MAPK is a serine/threonine protein kinase in cells. As one of the important signal transduction pathways in eukaryotic cells, MAPK participates in the proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of chondrocytes, induces the secretion of matrix metalloproteinases and causes cartilage matrix degradation. The abnormal expression of MAPK can accelerate the process of OA [53].
The PI3K/AKT pathway is an important anti-apoptotic signalling pathway in vivo that can promote the apoptosis and autophagy of chondrocytes and play an important role in the development of OA [54, 55]. AKT, a serine/threonine protein kinase, is activated by PI3K and recruited to the plasma membrane, which plays an important role in regulating cell growth and apoptosis. Recent studies have shown that AKT activation can regulate autophagy and improve cartilage injury and related indicators.
IL-17 plays an important role in OA. Accurate and effective regulation of IL-17 signal transduction can prevent inflammation. A large number of studies have shown that IL-17 is overexpressed in the synovium of RA patients, but there are few studies on the expression of IL-17 in OA patients and its relationship with the severity of arthritis [56,57,58]. Some scholars have found that the level of IL-17 is related to the severity of knee pain in osteoarthritis. Blocking the IL-17 signalling pathway can delay the pain associated with osteoarthritis [59]. A meta-analysis also showed that the pathogenesis of KOA in the Chinese Han population may be positively correlated with IL-17A (rs2275913) [60].
This study has a number of limitations. There are notably few studies investigating the relationship between viral pathways and OA. These results may be observed because the current research data on virus-related pathways are more abundant, and the analysis in the existing database will produce certain bias. Therefore, virus-related pathways, such as Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human cytomegalovirus infection and other viral-related pathways, can also be involved in the treatment of OA.
In summary, this study used network pharmacological methods and techniques to identify 17 kinds of drug components and 101 potential targets in RAB. There were 2515 OA disease-related targets, 63 of which were RAB. Through enrichment analysis of GO biological processes and KEGG signalling pathways, it was preliminarily predicted that RAB may regulate the targets of MAPK8, IL-6, VEGFA, CCND1, CASP3, and ESR1 through quercetin, kaempferol, wogonin, beta-sitosterol, baicalein, and stigmasterol. The regulation of apoptosis signalling pathways, IL-17 signalling pathways, and PI3K/AKT signalling pathways ultimately inhibit the inflammatory response, regulate immune function and regulate cell apoptosis to treat OA. Due to the limitations of database data and corresponding analysis algorithms and software functions of various platforms, confirming these results requires experimental research, and the specific mechanism governing these phenomena also needs to be elucidated by experimental research.
This study investigated the effective active ingredients and molecular mechanisms of RAB in the treatment of OA from the perspective of network pharmacology. The active ingredients of RAB in OA treatment are composed of 16 compounds; among them, quercetin, kaempferol, wogonin, beta-sitosterol, baicalein and stigmasterol are the important active ingredients. There are 63 target genes involved in the treatment of OA by RAB, among which MAPK8, IL-6, EGFR, VEGFA, CCND1, MYC, CASP3 and ESR1 are the key target genes. The signalling pathways of RAB in the treatment of OA mainly include the apoptosis signalling pathway, the IL-17 signalling pathway and the PI3K/AKT signalling pathway. In addition, the results of this study provide a new way to further study the mechanism of RAB in the treatment of OA.
RAB:
Radix achyranthis bidentatae
CHM:
OA:
TCMSP:
traditional Chinese medicine systems pharmacology
OB:
Oral bioavailability
DL:
Drug-likeness
KEGG:
Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and gnomes
PDB ID:
Protein data bank identification
PPI network:
Protein-protein interaction network
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We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Chenghua Zhang and Junyao Xu (Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) in the study design and data analysis.
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This study was supported by the project Leading Talents of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Jiangsu Province (SLJ0207). The present study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81774334) and the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Department Social Development Fund (BE2017774). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Laigen Zhang and Xiaoqing Shi contributed equally to this work.
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No 155, Hanzhong Road, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu Province, China
Laigen Zhang, Xiaoqing Shi, Zhengquan Huang, Jun Mao, Wei Mei, Liang Ding, Li Zhang, Runlin Xing & Peimin Wang
Laigen Zhang
Xiaoqing Shi
Zhengquan Huang
Jun Mao
Wei Mei
Liang Ding
Li Zhang
Runlin Xing
Peimin Wang
ZLG and SXQ contributed equally to this paper, and they designed the study. Experimental work and data collection were conducted by SXQ and XRL. HZQ and SXQ analysed and interpreted the data. SXQ and ZLG drafted the manuscript. WPM and MJ and ZLG provided critical comments and revised the manuscript. MW and DL and ZL helped perform the analysis with constructive discussions. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Correspondence to Peimin Wang.
All authors declare there are no competing interests.
Additional file 1.
Supplementary Table 1: Potential target information of RAB for OA.
Supplementary Table 2: Active ingredient parameters of RAB.
Supplementary Table 3: Common gene of RAB in the treatment of OA.
Supplementary Table 4: Compound-target pair information.
Supplementary Table 5: Results of ligand-receptor protein molecular docking.
Zhang, L., Shi, X., Huang, Z. et al. Network Pharmacology Approach to Uncover the Mechanism Governing the Effect of Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae on Osteoarthritis. BMC Complement Med Ther 20, 121 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-02909-4
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Alan Bradley’s seventh novel featuring the magnificent 11 year old chemist Flavia de Luce comes after the satisfying conclusion of a six book long story arc which culminated in the revelation of Flavia’s mother, Harriet’s, fate. This led to Flavia being inducted into some special secrets and what she sees as her ‘banishment’ from her beloved home, Buckshaw, in the lovely English village of Bishop’s Lacey. We start As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust with Flavia reluctantly on her way to Harriet’s old boarding school, Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy in Canada, to be finished.
The night Flavia arrives at Miss Bodycote’s, she is rudely awoken by a fellow student quickly followed by a dessicated corpse that comes tumbling down from her chimney wrapped in the school’s Union Jack flag. The student is taken away in shock but Flavia keeps her cool and secretes a medallion that has broken loose from the grisly corspe before she is bundled away to sleep in the Headmistress’ living room. The incident is played down and yet there are strange rumours of missing girls and ghosts. As Flavia tries to adjust to her new surroundings and get acquainted with her fellow boarders, she begins to suspect that not all is as it seems at Miss Bodycote’s. Her Aunt Felicity had sent her here to learn the tricks of the trade in order to follow in her mother’s footsteps so Flavia knows this school is nothing but ordinary. However, the air is thick with secrets and the Chemistry teacher, to Flavia’s delight, is an acquitted murderer. Will she get to the bottom of the mystery? Whose corpse is it and why does no one speak of the missing girls?
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust is as delightful as all the other novels in the series. Bradley’s principal characters are so well drawn that I really missed Flavia’s family in England as much as she did. Although there have been some reviews decrying Flavia’s jaunt across the pond, I really enjoyed the rarified and insular air of the girls boarding school which brought back happy memories but with all the twisted friendships and secrets that are part and parcel of boarding school life. Flavia, who normally only has her sisters and the people in her village to keep her company, is suddenly thrust into this new world in which she has to make new friends but be alert enough to know whom to trust. And for someone who likes not to be too noticeable, she is also the daughter of Harriet who is revered like a god at Miss Bodycote’s.
All of Flavia’s schoolmates were given interesting names and characters and apart from one niggling point about a missing girl which didn’t seem to be sufficiently explained, the mystery was pretty good. But what keeps drawing me back to Bradley’s creation is Flavia and her family. Flavia’s pluckiness, this time combined with a barely held back home-sickness, just made me want to go and give her a big hug. And what makes reading these books so enjoyable is you can feel how much fun the author is having writing them. I’m already looking forward to the next book in the series.
Other books in the series:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag
A Red Herring Without Mustard
I Am Half Sick of Shadows
Speaking From Among the Bones
The Dead in their Vaulted Arches
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The Dead in their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
The Dead in their Vaulted Arches is the sixth volume in Alan Bradley’s wonderful mysteries featuring the intrepid sleuth Flavia de Luce and completes a story arc first begun in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. But don’t fret, there is still more to come from Bradley’s pen and a tv adaptation in the works. Because, of course, we can’t get enough of Flavia.
The story arc in question is the mystery surrounding the disappearance and supposed death of Flavia’s mother Harriet, who was rumoured to have crashed in the Himalayas 11 years ago. But Harriet’s body, preserved in the Himalayan ice, has been found and finally she is coming home to be buried amongst her family. For Flavia, this brings as much joy as sorrow as she has little or no memory of her beloved mother. As Harriet returns to Buckshaw, all manner of people start turning up, from Winston Churchill to more suspicious figures as well as Flavia’s scary Aunt Felicity, Harriet’s cousin Lena and her equally strange daughter Undine, who may or may not be as capricious as Flavia. Amidst the dismantling of her father’s carefully built grief, Flavia begins to notice that there are several discrepancies in the account surrounding her mother’s death. What exactly was Harriet doing flying her plane into the Himalayas in the middle of war and leaving behind three small children? And who was she trying to warn in the film Flavia happens to find by chance, one of the last recorded memories of her mother? As the de Luces and almost everyone of importance descend upon Buckshaw to bid Harriet farewell, Flavia begins to realise that the long arm of the war is still reaching out for her and that there are still things about her family which will surprise her.
Finally, we will find out what happened to Harriet. Unlike the other mysteries in the series, this volume is the conclusion of a story told in the last five volumes and not a stand-alone. Although I’ve wanted to know what happened to Harriet since volume 1, I did feel there could have been a little more mystery and substance to the story rather than it being solely a conclusion with an introduction to further mysteries for Flavia (which sound really exciting though!) I don’t want to give anything away so you’ll just have to read it, and although this isn’t my favourite episode in Flavia’s colourful history, it’s still a necessary part, just to offer some closure and I’m glad Flavia finally got to see Harriet again. However, I did wish there was more of a motive and explanation and back story behind Harriet’s tale, which would make fascinating reading and I do hope Bradley would consider writing some short stories with Harriet as the protagonist. I love Flavia but her mother is fascinating too.
One of the strongest things about Bradley’s series is the notion of family in its myriad incarnations from blood ties, honour, loyalty and love to its more ugly side, jealousy, envy and hate. The characters that people the quintessentially English village of Bishop’s Lacey are colourful, compassionate and often full of surprises as are those in Flavia’s family including their faithful retainer Dogger, suffering from shell shock, and whose history we uncover a little more in The Dead in their Vaulted Arches.
I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. Hurry!
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Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
I’ve mentioned before my passion for poisons and my special fondness for cyanide. But, to be perfectly fair, I must admit that I also have something of a soft spot for strychnine, not just for what it is, but for what it’s capable of becoming. Brought into the presence of nascent oxygen, for instance, these rather ordinary white crystals become at first rich blue in colour, then pass in succession through purple, violet, crimson, orange and yellow.
A perfect rainbow of ruin!
‘Cyanide…strychnine…arsenic’ I spoke their names aloud. These were what I called my ‘calming chemicals.’
Aah Flavia de Luce. I’m not sure whether there are very many protagonists who have managed to grasp so many hearts in their competent little hands. With her introduction in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley has created a veritable tour de force of ingenuity coupled with such lovableness that sometimes I wish I was Flavia with her crazy family, crumbling country pile and an abandoned Victorian chemistry lab to die for.
In Speaking from Among the Bones, Flavia is almost twelve and, together with the rest of the village, is eagerly awaiting the unearthing of St. Tancred who is said to be buried in the parish church of Bishop’s Lacey. But when the body of the church organist is found dead inside the organ and weird goings-on are uncovered in the tunnels beneath the church, Flavia sniffs a rat. Or a bat. Using only her wits and her prodigious knowledge of poisons, Flavia vows to uncover the mystery behind the suspicious death and search for the legendary diamond, the Heart of Lucifer, which may spell the end to her family’s financial troubles. For Buckshaw, her beloved home, has been put on the market and they may have to let it go. There is also the matter of the enigmatic Magistrate Ridley-Smith and his strange son who live in the next village and who Flavia’s deceased mother, Harriet, once knew. What’s with all the secrecy and why won’t anyone talk about them?
Flavia is back on form in her fifth adventure, navigating her way through tricky familial politics with her sisters Feely and Daffy, her still-grieving father’s financial woes, making new friends with a flora-archaeologist and renewing her acquaintance with the solemn Inspector Hewitt and his beautiful wife Antigone. And there’s also her touching friendship with Dogger, the family handyman who had fought alongside her father in the Great War and who still suffers occasionally from his ‘episodes’.
The mystery is engaging with its heady mix of village gossip and historical nuggets bound together with useful scientific knowledge that is totally unsuitable for a child. On the book, Taylor on Poisons, Flavia says
I did not mention that I kept this gripping reference on my bedside table as a midnight comforter.
I love the gap between Flavia’s emotional naiveté and her piercing intellect, the way she is so wrapped up in unraveling her mysteries that she often misses what is going on in the lives of the people around her. And the touching way she craves recognition as only a child does.
I keep saying this each time I read one of Bradley’s mysteries but I do urge you to give them a try. They’ve often taken me out of a reading slump, comforted me when things are blue and have made me laugh on the dreaded commute. Bradley’s comic touches are spot on, rounding the harsh lessons of evil, tragedy and murder. And do start with the first in the series just so you get a feel for the community in Bishop’s Lacey as the books do follow a loose chronological order.
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Although it is pleasant enough to think about poison in any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
In Flavia de Luce, Alan Bradley has created an inquisitive little sleuth with a love of chemistry rivalling that of Sherlock Holmes. It’s always such a pleasure to read about her antics.
In the fourth book in the series, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, it is almost Christmas and Flavia is busy plotting how to trap Santa Claus to discover his existance once and for all. However, Flavia’s father, Havilland has let a part of Buckshaw, their ancestral home, to a cinema crew for lucre to pay the taxman and as Buckshaw is turned into a film set, the stage is set for murder. For Phyllis Wyvern, the grand-dame of British film is found dead in her room by Flavia after a dramatic charity performance of Romeo and Juliet for the parish church, St. Tancred’s. As the snow has been piling up, all the guests have had to remain at Buckshaw and are suspects. Flavia is determined to find out whodunnit before Inspector Hewitt and goes about her investigations undercover. Will she unravel the mystery? And can she keep herself out of trouble? And can she trap Father Christmas?
Once again it’s a cosy country house mystery with the added bonus of seeing Flavia’s interactions with her father, still grief-stricken after his wife Harriet’s demise in Tibet, her two sisters Feely and Daffy who seem to be always finding ways of hurting her and of course, Dogger, their faithful retainer still racked by memories of the war but who is more than what he seems.
I love this series with Bradley’s signature playful prose and can’t wait to read the next book, Speaking from Among the Bones, which is due out next year.
And apparently the series has been optioned for TV by none other than Sam Mendes’ production company. YAY.
A big thank you to Orion Books for kindly sending me a copy of this book to review.
A Red Herring without Mustard by Alan Bradley
Flavia de Luce is surely one of the most intriguing characters that has appeared in fiction in recent years. If you haven’t encountered her before, you are in for a treat. In Flavia, Alan Bradley has created a heroine who is enterprising, fearless, inquisitive and utterly adorable. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of chemistry, knows how to make toast using a bunsen burner, uses her fierce intellect in helping solve crimes committed in her village of Bishop’s Lacey and is all of 11 years old.
A Red Herring without Mustard is the third book in Alan Bradley’s series after The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag set in 1950s England. Here we are re-united with Flavia’s family, her self-absorbed father Colonel de Luce, her two elder sisters, beautiful Ophelia (Feely) and bookish Daphne (Daffy), Mrs. Mullet the cook and Dogger, their faithful retainer suffering from post traumatic stress disorder after his experience in the war. At the village fête, Flavia meets Fenella Faa, a gypsy who once knew her mother Harriet and who had fled Bishop’s Lacey twenty years earlier after the disappearance of a child and who is later found lying unconscious in a pool of her own blood. The body of one of the dodgier residents of Bishop’s Lacey is also found strung up from Poseidon’s trident in one of Flavia’s fountains. And there is the mysterious business of missing antiques. While looking for clues, she stumbles upon a forgotten religious sect at the heart of Bishop’s Lacey. And Flavia meets Fenella’s niece, Porcelain, and makes a friend.
As she investigates the weird goings on in her village, Flavia once again tries to stay one step ahead of the dashing Inspector Hewitt while trying to keep her nose clean. But will she be able to stay out of trouble? And what if trouble comes to find her?
This is a much stronger novel than the second volume in the series and once again I laughed out loud at the little jokes and felt touched by Flavia’s family’s need for their dead mother, all shown in different ways. The banter between the sisters is barbed as usual although we do get to witness some instances of sibling unity and a quietly touching scene between Flavia and her father. I also found Porcelain to be an intriguingingly Dickensian urchin and hope she turns up in further adventures. And what a lovely name!
Bradley’s series never fails to remind me of why I love reading. It’s funny, eccentric and with just the right touch of menace.
Thank you very much to Orion Books who kindly sent me a copy of this book to review.
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
You may remember how excited I was at finally getting acquainted with the lovely, lonely, eccentric, resourceful and chemistry-mad Flavia de Luce in Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Any girl interested in science gets my vote big time. So I was equally excited but slightly apprehensive about reading Bradley’s second offering The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag because there have been some mixed review. Granted, it didn’t emulate the same sense of wonder at reading the first book because there you were introduced to the de Luce clan and the other inhabitants of Bishop’s Lacey, but I really enjoyed reading it. It’s cosy, familiar and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like I’m meeting an old friend again.
In The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag, Bishop’s Lacey gets a visit from a renowned BBC puppeteer Rupert Porson and his flame-haired assistant Nialla. Their van has broken down and Flavia stumbles across them near the village church. The Vicar arranges for them to stay with the Inglebys at Culverhouse Farm and convinces Porson to do a show for the village. But in the midst of the show, Porson is killed and Flavia must once again use her wits to find the killer. Bubbling under the shadow of the murder is an earlier tragedy of the death of five year old Robin Ingleby who was found hanging in the woods. What is Rupert Porson’s connection with Robin’s father and who amongst the inhabitants of Bishop’s Lacey is devilishly clever enough to kill Porson?
The story is set in the 1950s with Bishop’s Lacey still recovering from WWII. Although I’m a huge fan of historical mysteries, I liked that Bradley’s novel didn’t weigh you down with too much historical facts. Apart from the presence of a German POW and a land girl helping out at Culverhouse Farm and a wonderful touch where a television is introduced into the de Luce household, you can almost forget the period in which the novel is set and concentrate on the eccentric characters that populate Bishop’s Lacey. In a way it is reminiscent of the Golden Age mysteries set in the land of yore (so comforting and so familiar, isn’t it?) I just love Flavia’s family so I have no complaints.
I, for one, will be looking forward to reading more from Alan Bradley and finding out more about Flavia’s adventures!
Many thanks to the lovely people at Orion who kindly sent me a copy to review.
I read this for the Thriller and Suspense Challenge 2010 and R.I.P. V Challenge.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Can I just say, I loved, loved, LOVED this book. I’d heard many good things about The Sweetness of the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and it’s sequel The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, with lots of great reviews dotted here and there, and was over the moon when I pounced upon it at my library. Of course, it had been reserved but I kept it back for a few days to read it (sorry!) And boy am I glad I did. Flavia de Luce is a true heroine, all 11 years of her: she’s plucky, intelligent, independant and gives as good as she gets (especially to her two elder sisters Ophelia and Daphne with whom she is perpetually at war). She is the proud master of her very own chemistry lab and an expert in poisons. I’m more an astrophysics person myself but even I was drooling over the perfect lab stocked by Flavia’s science-mad Uncle Tarquin where Einstein and Shaw had once taken tea (separately). What more could you want in a main character?
Bradley has created a delightful universe full of intelligence, mystery and such warmth that I just wanted to bundle myself into Flavia’s world and be a part of it. Some might say all the familiar tropes from the golden age mysteries are there, the crumbling pile, errant but brilliant children, a distant or absent parent, faithful servants, suspicious policemen and dastardly villains, but then you can say they are present in all mysteries, just camouflaged. I was happy to meet all of them, especially the valet/driver/gardener Dogger, who is unable to escape his horrific memories of WWII, with whom Flavia has a tender friendship. It was just really nice to read a book where I liked everyone (regardless of whether they liked each other.)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie begins with Flavia bickering with her sisters when a dead bird is delivered to their door with it’s beak through a stamp. Flavia’s father is a keen member of the philatelic society and was once embroiled in a school scandal resulting in the death of a master. A mysterious midnight visitor and a corpse in the morning leads to all sorts of mayhem as Mr. de Luce is promptly arrested for murder. To save her father, Flavia hunts for clues and delves into the past uncovering a story of greed, poisonous friendships and the most elusive and prized stamp of all, the Penny Black. And throughout this, we meet all sorts of characters who populate the village of Bishop’s Lacey including Flavia’s trusted bicycle Gladys.
I learned quite a bit of chemistry reading this novel and Flavia’s bookshelf reminded me of some of the books I encountered as a student. Amongst other juicy bits of trivia, I also learnt that the essential plant oil urushiol was used to make lacquer and it clicked that in Japan, we call lacquerware ‘urushi’.
Flavia also comes out with some great one-liners:
‘Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet’s seed biscuits the way St. Paul hated sin.’
Hysterical.
I can’t wait to read the sequel, The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag (and there’s promise of six books in the series!), and am even contemplating buying The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie just so I can keep it and read it again and again. I think I love this book too much. Just in case you think it’s all sugar and spice (because I’m gushing too much), Bradley’s novel harks back to the golden age of mystery but with a blanket of darkness and menace. Just how I like it.
I read this as part of the Thriller and Suspense 2010 Challenge .
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Built in 1868 by Cyrus and Kitty Hart, the Beyer Home Museum is believed to be one of the first brick homes in the county. The building passed through several owners before becoming the home of George and Fanny Beyer in 1881. Though the original structure was an Italianate-style, the Beyers remodeled it into a Queen Anne style home adding a wrap-around porch, a three-story tower room and entry, a south bay addition, and new windows, many of which included leaded glass.
In 1941, the county acquired this home and turned it over to the county historical society with the stipulation that it become a museum for all to enjoy. During the 1970’s the interior of the home was completely restored to the 1890s and furnished in Victorian fashion.
The adjacent Annex contains Copper Culture artifacts, old Main Street Oconto store exhibits, and early settler and logging items. The urban barn houses carriages and electric cars.
The buildings are open to the public as a fine example of how the small town wealthy lived. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The Museum is open daily for public tours June 1 through Labor Day.
For additional information contact the Oconto County Historical Society at (920) 834-6206 or visit www.ocontoctyhistsoc.org
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Built in 1886, this structure is the first edifice built for Christian Science services in the world. Although the Mother Church in Boston had started a number of years before, no building had been completed for the sole purpose of worship until Oconto’s church was erected.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, was in Chicago in 1884 to teach a class when several women from Oconto went to take instruction, including Mrs. Lovina Milledge. Upon returning to Oconto, Mrs. Milledge opened her home to students of Christian Science and for Sunday worship. The group steadily grew through healings and it was shortly after that they decided to build the First Christian Science Church. With Mrs. Eddy’s permission and community donations, this hard lumbering town received another church for its residents and visitors.
With the exception of modern lighting and heating installation, the church remains virtually unchanged. Built on cedar pilings with a wood exterior, a basement was added in 1916 when a heating plant was installed. The Church maintains a reading room in the basement, containing historical documents related to the church and current publications about Christian Science. Although the congregation has never been large, the church has continuously held Sunday services since 1886. Presently, services are held at 10:30 a.m. Sundays.
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, tours are now available May 1 through October 15. Visitors may arrange a tour by contacting the Oconto Visitor Center (at Wagner’s Shell Station) at 110 Brazeau Avenue or 920.834.6254.
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The Governor Schofield Mansion, a classic Italianate-style home, circa 1865 was the brick mansion of former Governor Edward Schofield. It has been lovingly restored and beautifully decorated. In the past the Mansion operated as a bed and breakfast, which included The Oakwood’s upscale dining establishment. The Oakwood was the title the Governor gave his estate. Today the Mansion is a private home.
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Equality Rules the Galaxy; 10 Year Old Girl Invents Eclipse Toy – Rocket Knobs®
Aug 22, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment
Pleasant View, UT, August 22, 2017 –(PR.com)– 10 year old Adria Johnson certainly believes that girls can do anything; the inventor of Rocket Knobs holds the future in her hands as she celebrates the solar eclipse with a new product, built out of a desire to have fun and make things that remind her of space and the future. She tsays her product is “not about fidgeting!” It happens to be somewhat inspired by solar eclipses and features two orbiting spheres. She and her father developed the small toy that allows for experimentation with the effects of angular and rotational momentum and newtonian physics. It’s a very simple toy that holds some unique properties. Adria points out that Rocket Knobs® are the World’s next super toy with many uses. She says the joy comes from tossing, spinning, flipping, rolling, and using them to massage your sore muscles.
The 10 year old Utah native is unshakable in her feeling that girls can do anything and should reach for the stars when it comes to their goals. She says the current target for her is to reach her funding goals on her Indiegogo® campaign so that she can invest in the manufacturing and distribution of Rocket Knobs®.
“I didn’t realize there was so much that went into making a product, but now that I have started in the process, I totally think I can get this product to market. My artistic dad is helping me with the day to day marketing and project management to see it through to completion." -Adria Johnson
When asked where such an odd product name came from, she replied that “My dad and I had some brainstorming sessions where we tossed around some fun names. I knew the name should be something that recalls the launch of humans traveling to space, and beyond that, to walking on the moon, and seeking to go further out to Mars, or beyond. I really want people to think of the future and all the amazing things that have taken place in the past to break the bounds of gravity and put us in a position to see the cosmos from a different perspective than ground level. We can do amazing things and I want this new product to bring that into focus and be a reminder.”
When it comes to the solar eclipse, Adria points out that the best way to re-live it is to “donate to my Indiegogo® campaign, and then buy some freeze dried ice-cream and listen to “Ticket to the Moon” by Electric Light Orchestra while you watch all the replays online.”
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In the Event of WW3, Oil and/or Renewables?
Dan Warnick June 6, 2020 in Geopolitics
I hope the members approve of this discussion topic. It would seem timely, as sad as that may be to say. But I believe this discussion is relevant to the world and the times we live in.
Given current world affairs, one must ask oneself, IF we were to reach 100% of power generation, or even 70%, from renewables (mainly wind, solar and hydro) and then be thrust into a battle for the survival of our country, would renewables and the renewables infrastructure of, say, 10 years from now get the job done? Would we be able to rely on renewables for 1/2 the job? Or would they fail to provide more than, say, 10% of our Nation's needs during a protracted world war, or even the possibility of global nuclear war? For that matter, if we suffered from a global nuclear war, would that drive everything, or say over 90%, to renewables?
To kick things off, if a real biological attack were launched against the United States in 2025, with 20% (67.6 million) of the U.S. population dead within 2 weeks of the attack, which power generation system would we be able to even maintain for domestic supply of electricity, and heat for the northern portion of the U.S.? Oil or Renewables? Both? (I'd like to take this discussion all the way out to a situation where nuclear war may darken the skies for a long period of time, but that will be up to the participants)
A topic worth discussion? Or one which we should lock away into the hole of "let's not go there"?
Interesting point.
Would renewables allow us to project force outside our borders? Whether you think that the US should operate overseas or not, we are often called on to do so.
Do we have, or are we developing electric armored vehicles? Electric combat aircraft or drones? An all nuclear Navy?
Without fossil fuels, we would not be able to defend our own country, as it now stands.
Possibly in the Navy, with the expanded use of nuclear? But I assume there is a limit to how small a craft can realistically have some sort of reactor on board? Maybe we could power smaller craft with batteries, with the aircraft carrier acting as the charging station? Seems risky. If the carrier was destroyed, the whole flotilla would be rendered useless. I don't think you would want/need a separate nuclear charging station ship, since it would require the same defenses that a carrier already requires. Or maybe reactors of today are small enough that your could spread "charging station" ships across a grid, more expendable and harmless to the environment if attacked?
The whole idea of an electric military machine is farsical.
4 hours ago, Dan Warnick said:
Well, this site predicts that 227 million Americans will be gone by 2025, and the world loses 500 million in total. Doesn't give any reasons why.
I also checked China on this site and they didn't lose any people, so it doesn't seem like there will be a war between US and China. Ditto Russia.
http://www.deagel.com/country/United-States-of-America_c0001.aspx
Edited June 6, 2020 by Hotone
5 minutes ago, Hotone said:
Well, this site predicts that 226 million Americans will be gone by 2025. Doesn't give any reasons why.
That site's projections are based on their belief that the Dems will gain the White House this year and immediately implement a 0.32 children per child-bearing-approved-aged couple (23-23.5 years of age) per demi-decade policy, together with the gift of the fly-over states to Mexico in consideration of an annual payment to Mexico of $5 Trillion and Mexico's promise to feed the remaining 4 United States for another $2 Trillion.
11 minutes ago, Dan Warnick said:
Finally, someone figured out something puzzling me for a long time 😅
0R0 + 5,489
Would have to be predominantly liquid fuel, as both NG and electric/renewables are big networks asking to be hit. Oil and LNG are mobile and do not require a grid or pipelines. Can be transported anywhere.
In the case of nuclear attacks, the solar contribution globally would be minimal. Same for a major volcanic eruption. You can't decommission the fossil fuel and nuclear baseload. It has to stay, at least to cover the solar contribution. There are no alternatives for that but for stacking year's worth of batteries, not a real possibility.
11 minutes ago, 0R0 said:
In the case of nuclear attacks, would wind turbines be knocked offline by EMPs? If so, could they recover quickly, or at all?
Same questions for refineries and carbon fueled powerplants?
Edited June 6, 2020 by Dan Warnick
EMPs would affect everything. It is a matter of what gets hit by the surge in the grid. Presumably the refiners operate off grid at alert conditions. Major generation and pipeline hubs are targets. possibly refiners, Oil fields are not. Only the Russians can waste a nuke for broad area denial of access attacks with a dirty bomb, China would need a hard target to hit.
I'm interested to get @Jay McKinsey's views on the questions as well. Specifically, what positives about renewables, in the event of a WW3 scenario, could prove themselves during such a time/conflict?
2 minutes ago, 0R0 said:
You lost me with "what gets hit by the surge in the grid". Could you explain what you mean by this? Does it mean that EMPs create a grid surge of electricity that could be driven into the powerplant, causing overloads and burnouts?
And back to wind turbines: My understanding of them is that the spinning blades turn an electricity generator, located in the hub at the top of the structure, with the produced electricity fed down to feed into a grid or storage facility. If the generators were hit with EMPs, would they get "fried", and therefore need heavy parts replacement? Or would it be a minor task to get them running again?
That's close enough to what happens. EMP blasts don't need conductors, they'll produce radio waves with tremendous energy behind them. You know that FCC part 15 message you read on virtually every electronic device? That's what will get effected, the EMP will deliver potentially megawatts of RF energy right near the blast. That will happily traverse the grid blowing every transformer along the way.
Even things not connected to power, but configured to receive such as radios, are likely to be fried. The likelihood is quite high that most semiconductors will be fried. That means lots of things will no longer function, like any modern car.
Eyes Wide Open + 1,694
I guess one has to understand the concept of MADD, no matter who launched it would be the end of that countrys civilization..culture what ever one wants to call it. Aside from that one has to understand the concept of Triad, along with the stockpiles of nuclear device across the world.
Nuclear war is a means to a end for any country...taticial strikes are for those that like marketing...just words. Ive often thought of China testing the waters with a conventional navy strike then one has to ask to prove what?
One thing Obama did get right was the navy....in todays world war on the seas would be a standoff missile warfare no direct engagement..
Always remember the US has 7000 warheads China 250....China has no wish to self destruct nor does any country on this planet..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_triad
With that mouthful there is not much defence we have in a geo polictical storm...that is the new frontier.
Edited June 7, 2020 by Eyes Wide Open
Jay McKinsey + 488
A nuke into Cushing, Henry Hub, and some of the big refinery complexes and power stations would take out fossil energy. Solar and wind are very dispersed, what would the enemy target to nock them out?
Ultimately I don't think any energy system or the population to use it will really survive nukes flying so the question is academic. But the best answer I think would be to have as many energy types and locations as possible so that more would survive.
In regard to bio weapons and huge loss of life it comes down to which is more manpower intensive. I don't know which is though my guess is fossil requires more workers.
El Gato + 134
The safest Energy systems are probably is hydro and Natural gas .Natural gas because most of the system is under ground and also because with the advent of cheap gas many small power generators have been set up across the gas generating states. Dams are just a booger to take out unless you have high explosives or a crappy dam and really bad weather.
Nuclear ships in the Navy are currently limited to Subs and Aircraft carriers. They made about 10 nuclear powered Destroyer and cruisers, but all were phased out either due to obsolescence in technology or the cost of running them. The last set of nuclear cruisers were laid up after an average of 15 yrs service due to operating costs. They use them on Subs for fuel endurance and speed.(Primarily endurance), and Carriers because it saves you room for jet fuel(ie flight operations) and power production for speed and generation
The Gentlemen who said EMP as the most likely form of attack is the ones I agree with the most. If it isn't military grade shielded on any and all circuits, it would be cooked. There is a book out written by an former Army officer called One Second After that describes it well. The blast could be delivered from missiles launched from cargo containers imported on ships.(how many containers have you seen floating around the country on trains, trucks and ships?) The Club-K family of Missiles is the name of them
Good Bio weapons are a Bitch to use due to the instability of virus' and bacteria, and their ability to affect the users.(not to mention that Chinese and Russian Bio-weapons expert develop weapons they have no known cure from, confirmed from a former defected Russian Bio-weapons expert)
1 hour ago, El Gato said:
Aren't all inbound containers scanned for radioactivity?
Not if the right people are paid, and it isn't real hard to drive one over the border. I can't speak for all of them, but I imagine with all of the inbound goods to the US, they can't scan them all. Air, sea land, logistically, no way. Seeing as how the US nails Intellectuals every other month for selling national or military secrets, how much would it take to pay off a few dock workers or border patrol? Not saying they are all culpable, but everybody usually has a price.
SUZNV + 783
You cannot do guerrilla in mountain, underground or forest with solar energy. You can hide smoke or light or anything but your panel have to face the sun for charging. Fossil fuel will still be the most important in war for its mobility. Half of the war is in the logistics and supply side. You cannot defense a long line of supply from air strike unless you can disguise your supply line in the forests. That's why the bombing in Vietnam war was mostly in the forest and the use of agent orange.
And the way for the large devices that depends on circuit, it is very hard to repair compares to traditional engines and in war the more mini products in your supply lines, the harder to distribute them.
Missile are too expensive to strike in cheap targets so the frontier will still be foot soldiers, tanks and artillery , Missile can only create an opening or hard to reach land targets far behind the frontiers (bombing in most case will still be cheaper if you have air superiority).
Edited June 7, 2020 by SUZNV
56 minutes ago, SUZNV said:
This is kind of what I'm interested in. In a fight for survival of the country, it seems we would be talking about the ability to defend one's territory over a long period of time. In order to do that one's military on the ground would need to be mobile and, as many are pointing out, well supplied. Being mobile in that scenario would seem to negate any significant advantage from wind or solar.
However, from the perspective of nuclear attack survivors, it would seem viable if not preferable to have mini solar systems, say enough to charge batteries and the like. Is there a small mobile system that could be packed up nightly and moved with a small group of people? One might be able to use gas/diesel/kerosene for a short while until storage tanks run dry, but I believe the military would control any remaining production facilities and product, so it seems a mini solar system might be the survivalists savior? I guess firewood would also be a basic necessity, as always.
There would be the grid equipment itself, particularly transformers and electronic switches, then what is attached on the producing and consuming side. Electronic controls would be fried by the EMP itself if they are close enough to it, but the entire grid will convey the surge well beyond the EMP zone. There you need to worry about the generation equipment and the equipment consuming the power - e.g. a server farm might have a Faraday cage against EMP but needs to be operating off the grid on battery or generator power during the attack.
4 hours ago, Ward Smith said:
EMP blows PV solar cells and their inverters will guaranteed to be fried as well. Only reason Wind power can exist is with computer control. EMP will destroy that for sure. Now you can partially insulate against EMP, but at HIGH cost. None of these systems or any of our NG/Coal/Nuclear generators are safe from EMP. Hydro? Yes, is safe. Maybe some of the Nuclear generators are as well due to effectively being buried under concrete, but... the rest is screwed as is just about everything else including your cars. Cars/trucks more than 30 years old have a chance, but anything else? Dead. 100% dead.
12 hours ago, Dan Warnick said:
People have been speculating on Deagel's prediction for years. Deagel themselves claim that their prediction is based on calamity, economic collapse, mass exodus, and not war. Here is a video of someone analysing Deagel's prediction last year, before the Chinese virus hit America
Who knows, Trump will get re-elected for a second term. Listen to a continuation from Mike Moore's talk and his prediction.😱
Last President of the United States.mp4
Feeling Good!.mp4
Now that's ^^ the Michael Moore we're all used to. Bless his heart. He means well.
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In his first three starts as a Yankee, Gerrit Cole is 3-0 with a 2.55 ERA and 0.79 WHIP. Yet if you peruse Twitter, while the love for him is still there (we’re still in the honeymoon phase), many are quick to point out that he hasn’t been that sharp. Those people would be correct.
The fact that Cole’s basic numbers are still very good shows just how good he is. Even on a “meh” night for him, he still goes out and pitches six innings of one-run ball while throwing less than 100 pitches. But Cole hasn’t dominated a game yet. He’s certainly dominated stretches of some games, but he hasn’t pitched a full game masterpiece yet.
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The thing that pops out first is the diminished strikeout rate. It is down 16 percent from last year. Opponents’ expected slugging percentage is way up as well. The same goes for opponents’ hard hit and barrel rates. But all the others are not too far off.
One thing that has been mentioned is how Cole has yet to harness his fastball command. And we all know how good his fastball is. It makes sense that if his command with that pitch was lacking, the above numbers would be inflated. Any major leaguer should be able to do damage to a fastball not properly located.
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Speaking of his fastball, it simply hasn’t been as effective as we know it can be. From last season, his whiff percentage on the pitch is down from 37.6 to 17.1 percent and his put away percentage is down from 32.8 to 16.7 percent. If you look at the movement, however, it is not too far off:
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Overall, it looks like his fastball has been similarly located the past two seasons. Yet you can see hitters putting some good swings on the pitch this year.
He also hasn’t been able to throw his curveball for strikes as much. He threw it in the zone 49.5 percent of the time last year, while it has dropped to only 25 percent of the time this year.
However, he has actually been getting more swings and misses with his curveball: 31.9 percent in 2019 and 81.8 percent in 2020 (only 40 pitches).
How about the spin? It’s a little below last year, but still very good:
Season Fastball Spin Curveball Spin Slider Spin Changeup Spin
2020 2499 (-1.2%) 2806 (-3.3%) 2568 (-2.1%) 1847 (-1.2%)
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Name Lori Greiner
Date of Birth/Age December 9, 1969 (age 49)
State/City of origin Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Height 5'4
Years active 1996-Present
Occupation(s) Television personality, investor
Lori Greiner’s net worth is $100 million.
How Did Lori Greiner Make Her Money?
Lori Greiner is an inventor, business owner and reality TV personality. Greiner is known to most Americans as one of the “shark” investors on the Emmy-winning reality show Shark Tank, but she was well-established on the Home Shopping Network and QVC long before Shark Tank.
She is the founder of For Your Ease Only, a company devoted to developing storage, organizing and travel kits.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 7 Сен 2019 в 11:04 PDT
Greiner is known as the “Queen of QVC” for her long association with that shopping channel and the many products she has sold on the channel.
The Warm-Blooded Shark
She is also called “the warm-blooded shark,” because she tends to be gentler with the contestants than the other sharks.
Greiner frequently offers helpful advice to the business owners, even if she isn’t doing a deal with them. She has won viewer hearts with her glamorous looks, long blonde hair and bubbly personality.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 15 Авг 2019 в 2:37 PDT
Greiner’s first idea came to her when she was frustrated by her search for a jewelry box. Greiner was trying to figure out a way to organize her many pairs of earrings when she realized that there was no jewelry box that would work for her.
The Jewelry Box
She designed her own. Shortly after that, she realized that millions of women might want the same thing.
She was right. She found a manufacturer for her case and made a deal to sell it through J.C. Penney. Within 18 months, she was able to pay back her $300,000 business loan.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 28 Июл 2019 в 5:41 PDT
She then presented her case on the Home Shopping Network, where it was an immediate bestseller.
Greiner continued designing and selling a series of organizing products. Today, she is one of the top-selling designers on the network and the head of her own design, branding and investment company.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 8 Июл 2019 в 6:36 PDT
Over 100 Patents
She has designed over 350 products and holds more than 150 patents for her designs. Since 1998, she has hosted the monthly show Lori’s Clever and Unique Ideas on QVC.
Queen of Patents
Geiner is known for her expertise on patents, because she has obtained many for her own products. In her books and on her Shark Tank appearances, she regularly stresses the importance of protecting your product idea with a patent so that other businesses can’t copy it.
She has designed courses to help entrepreneurs navigate the legal and paperwork processes for getting a patent.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 30 Май 2019 в 2:37 PDT
Greiner has written the books Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! and Living Inspired: How to Be Fearless.
Greiner has said that she can tell instantly if a product is a “hero or a zero,” and to back herself up, she points to her success with her own products and those she has promoted.
Shark Tank Successes
Her investments on Shark Tank have included the Bantam Bagels, Squatty Potty, Readerest, Paint Brush Cover, Hold Your Haunches, Drop Stop, FiberFix, Simply Fit Board, Sleep Styler and Screenmend.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 10 Май 2019 в 10:29 PDT
Lori Greiner Quick Facts
She was born on December 9, 1969, in Chicago.
She and her husband Dan Greiner live in Chicago.
She has no children.
She is 5 foot 4 inches tall.
Grenier’s father was a real estate developer and her mother was a counseling psychologist. Both her parents had their own businesses.
From an early age, she was encouraged to think in terms of working for herself.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 16 Апр 2019 в 3:37 PDT
In college, she majored in communications and worked on the college news station. She enjoyed the news business and especially enjoyed being on camera.
Greiner graduated from Loyola College in Chicago. She had a job at the Chicago Tribune and considered a career as a writer before she turned to inventing.
Grenier is active on social media. In addition to her own web site, she has over 4 million followers on Facebook, over 1.8 million followers on Twitter and 542,000 followers on Instagram.
At present,Lori Greiner’s net worth is $100 million.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 21 Мар 2019 в 4:42 PDT
Greiner is very private about her personal life. She rarely talks about her husband or her family. She has been married since 2010.
Lori’s husband Dan Greiner told a magazine interviewer that when he first saw Lori’s business plan, he knew it would be huge. He was right. Lori said that he has always been totally supportive of her ambitions and plans.
Once her business started taking off, Dan quit his job in the financial industry to help her manage it. He currently serves as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the company.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 15 Фев 2019 в 5:22 PST
Hundreds of Products
Greiner’s most famous products are her jewelry keepers. The original has been refined into the Safekeeper jewelry armoire, which holds over 350 pieces of jewelry neatly and compactly.
The safe has a tarnish-proof lining, a key lock and interior LED lighting.
She has also created a spinning, tabletop carousel that holds over 100 beauty and grooming products.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 27 Янв 2019 в 6:37 PST
She designed a travel bag called the Ultimate Cosmetic Travel Bag that stores, organizes and protects over 100 cosmetic items. This is one of QVC’s top items, regularly selling out when it goes on sale.
Grenier has not stopped inventing or looking for products that will help people stay organized.
A Great Promoter
Grenier is valued on QVC not only for her own designs, but for her ability to pitch and promote other products. When she pitched the Scrub Buddy on QVC, she was able to sell 7000 units in under 10 minutes.
She has become a reliable source for viewers who know that she will only promote products that she truly believes will make their lives easier.
Публикация от Lori Greiner (@lorigreinershark) 6 Янв 2019 в 10:21 PST
Interesting Facts About Lori Greiner
Her 2014 investment in the Scrub Daddy has been ranked as the most successful Shark Tank investment to date.
Favorite Quotes from Lori Greiner
“You often see a smart man with a dumb woman, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”
“I really feel that when your life is organized, you’re happier. You’re less crabby, you’re less stressed out, and life is just easier.”
Success Tips from Lori Greiner
1.“When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong when you’re running your own business, but it’s how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.”
2.“In business, it is almost always about getting your foot in the door. Once you do, everything opens up, and things start to naturally progress into more and bigger opportunities.”
3.“I had an idea, I was passionate about it, and I had to work hard to turn that into a successful business.”
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Sheriff Clarke: Dems Keep Black People 'On The Plantation' To Win Votes
Uncle Ruckus wannabe, Sheriff Clarke is as unhinged as ever.
By LeftOfCenter
Sheriff David Clarke is a rabidly anti-Democratic 'elected' official from Milwaukee. He was initially appointed to the position in 2002, and as an incumbent, he has subsequently won several four year terms. Clarke's a regular on Fox 'News' who denounces our POTUS, Democrats or lately, the Black Lives Matter movement as fraudulent and illegitimate. Alan Colmes sparred with the Sheriff regarding his assertions that the Democratic Party is using the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to gain African-American voters.
Clarke is a well-known ammosexual who advises people to own firearm(s) and take matters into their own hands rather than call 911. He says that the Democrats are keeping the Blacks on the plantation, which is a God-awful metaphor for welfare and public assistance.
Alan asked him about his racist claim that Democrats intentionally manipulate Black People:
'Don't Blacks vote Democratic voluntarily or are they; you just say that, they're ignorant, they don't know what's best for them, that's why they vote Democratic?'
Clarke thinks of the Democratic Black vote as monolithic and that any one, two, or five point shave off of their vote would mean electoral defeat.
"They are being enslaved mentally. Look, this emotional appeal by Democrat candidates, you can't make it, Black people, without us. If you vote for somebody else other than a Democrat, all of your entitlements will be taken away, all the free stuff we give you will be taken away, that is a very debilitating emotional mindset for people who can not sort things out for themselves."
Colmes asks if he means to be so insulting, by insinuating that the only reason Black people vote Democratic is for the 'free stuff.' He explained to Clarke that the GOP gives handouts to the 1% in the form of generous tax breaks. To this, he blamed this 'boogeyman of racism.' Democrats push the fallacy that Republicans are racist. He mentioned Joe Biden for some unexplained reason, and accused him of manipulating Black people to believe that if you vote for Republicans, they'll have you back in chains. He doesn't believe that institutionalized racism exists. *facepalm
During a recent interview with Judge Pirro on Fox 'News,' Clarke had some inflammatory comments for the BLM.
Image from: FoxNews.com
More specifically, the BLM movement is an offshoot of the 'proven false, hands up, don't shoot' movement that originated from the Ferguson Police murder of Mike Brown in 2014. There's no definitive evidence that this is a proven fact, but the right wing believes in its veracity the same way they believe the doctored Planned Parenthood hatchet job video was authentic. Clarke denies the factual FBI statistics that clearly show a disproportionate number of Black males are killed by cops. When you're a Black Republican in law enforcement, apparently, statistics don't matter either.
Alan asks him to elaborate on his pronouncement that we need another Lexington or Concord type moment, to spark a desperately needed revolution. For inspiration, Sheriff Dave says that he reads the Declaration of Independence every year because he is so fond of the Revolutionary War and the efforts of our Founding Fathers to garner their own liberty and freedom. He's a 'take-America-back proponent,' which clearly insinuates that the current Black President is not legitimate, as are all Democrats who push false narratives to acquire votes.
Clarke happily regurgitates the tired, old GOP talking point:
"I want a country that follows the Constitution, where 'we the people' are in charge, not a small group of bureaucrats in Washington D.C."
Colmes reminded him that our Representatives in D.C. are representative of we the people, but he didn't acknowledge that truth at all. He refused to admit that he specifically wants an armed uprising, hinting that it's not that far-fetched, and we need either a physical or metaphorical revolution; 'you decide.' Sheriff Clarke memorized his right-wing talking points very well, not hesitating at all, while he repeated the trite fallacies espoused by his sham of a political party.
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Universal Protocol Alliance working with SFOX to make UPCO2 carbon credit token more accessible
Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) January 6, 2021 By admin 18Views 0Likes
SFOX, an independent crypto prime broker, and Universal Protocol Alliance (UPA), a coalition of leading blockchain companies, today announced a collaboration to work together to combat global climate change: beginning by taking steps to make Universal Carbon (UPCO2) globally accessible to any digital wallet or exchange that wants to offer its clients the opportunity to buy the world’s first retail-accessible carbon credit token.
In 2020 UPA launched Universal Carbon (UPCO2), the world’s first tradable REDD+ carbon credit token. Each UPCO2 Token represents one tonne of CO2 pollution averted by a certified REDD+ project preventing rainforest loss or degradation. Every Token is backed by a Verified Carbon Unit [VCU], a digital certificate issued by Verra and other international standards agencies, which allows certified projects to turn their greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions into tradable carbon credits.
With demand for carbon credits outstripping supply by a factor of 4 to 1 in 2020, according to the World Bank, the UPCO2 Token aims to democratize an important new asset class, which could lead to the establishment of a global clearing price for carbon (as today exists for such commodities as oil and gold) and more resources going directly into environmental projects.
“From the world’s leading governments and international organizations, to financial institutions and large corporations, there is an understanding that we must make effective markets for carbon credits,” said Matthew Le Merle, Chairman of UPA and Vice Chairman of SFOX. “However, for most of the world’s 8 billion people, there is no easy and efficient way for them to demonstrate their own personal commitment to make their carbon footprints neutral. This is what we are partnering to solve now.”
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InSite Solar Decathlon: Middlebury College
Take a look at a home run solely on solar power!
In its return to the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, Middlebury College created InSite, a house that reconnects people with their community and emphasizes environmental, economic, and social sustainability. InSite offers the privacy and comforts that appeal to 21st-century homebuyers by balancing public and private spaces.
From Beginning to End.
The Middlebury College team envisioned InSite as a house for local living. It symbolizes the team’s belief that community is a natural resource, that sustainability is as much about people as it is about energy, and that by constructing less, we can create more. It is targeted to young Vermont families and was designed as one piece of a larger human and natural ecosystem. InSite can be integrated into an existing walkable community—suggesting a model of living applicable on any scale.
Reclaimed wood materials come from the local region and are historically suited to the local climate.
An exterior solar path replaces the traditional rooftop array to create an exterior walkway shaded by solar panels.
A lush green roof contributes to the thermal envelope of the house, sequesters carbon, and helps manage storm-water runoff.
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A steel skeleton with exposed connections visible in the interior educates visitors about the unique construction.
Thick and densely insulated walls with a dining nook and a window seat create a comfortable refuge for nature viewing.
A centralized energy hearth mechanical chimney consolidates the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems into one modular unit to increase efficiency while reducing the wiring, ductwork, and piping required.
Windows and vents placed high in the mechanical module create a chimney effect for unwanted hot air, while vents placed low on the shaded north side allow cool air to enter and flow through the house on hot days.
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The building-monitoring system allows residents to visualize their energy use and better understand the environmental impacts of their lifestyle.
Content from www.solardecathlon.gov.
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Churchill County Museum Digital Archive: Fallon, Nevada
Lester "Buck" Kirn Oral History
Churchill County Museum Association
Analog Cassette Tape, Text File, Mp3 Audio
Lester Fredrick "Buck" Kirn
2950 Alcorn Road
CHURCHILL COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES
This interview was conducted by Bill Davis; transcribed by Pat Boden; edited by Glenda Price; first draft typed by Pat Boden; final typed by Glenda Price; index by Gracie Viera; supervised by Myrl Nygren, Director of Oral History Project/Assistant Curator Churchill County Museum.
"Buck" tells of arriving in Hazen in 1921 at the age of eleven with his aunt and uncle, Jewel and Doc Kirn, and staying at his Uncle Fred's. He tells of attending Harmon School and working for his uncle on the Williams Estate, and in the Sheckler District and eventually working for Charlie Renfro on the Dodge Island Ranch.
He also relates his adventures as a fourteen year old in helping a cowboy drive a herd of U. S. Cavalry horses from Fallon to the railroad in Lovelock.
He tells of catching a freight train in Fernley and riding it to Wells on his way to Twin Falls, Idaho, to pick up potatoes, baled hay and bean straw, and fed cattle all winter. He returned to Dodge Island where he became foreman. He describes the farming activities there. He moved to town when the Dodges took over the ranch and tells of working on the last horse job on Four and Eight-mile flat road construction and of hauling gravel for the Stillwater road.
He then went to work in the meat business as a butcher. He tells of the slaughter house procedures and of eventually getting ownership, with Sam Beeghly, of the Heck's Meat Market. They supplied tallow to grease the ship launching ramps in the Bay area. They also put in the first freezer plant in town.
He remembers the irrigation problems and early problems with water structures. He recalls the C.C.C. camps and how they upgraded these water structures.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this interview are those of the interviewer and interviewee and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Churchill County Museum or any of its employees.
INTERVIEW WITH LESTER "BUCK" KIRN
DAVIS: My name is Bill Davis and today is December the 13th, 1990. I am at 2950 Alcorn Road, and I'm going to be talking to Lester Fredrick "Buck" Kirn. Buck, let's start out with your earliest memories of Fallon, or what your background was?
KIRN: Well, I was born in Golden Eagle, Illinois, and I came to Fallon when I was eleven years old. We rode out here on a train. I attended the Harmon Schools, graduated. . .
DAVIS: You say "we". Who did that involve?
KIRN: My uncle and aunt
DAVIS: And their name was?
KIRN: Doc and Jewell Kirn. They're taking me to bring me up, brought me from Illinois out here. We came to Hazen on the train. I thought, at that time, Hazen was the most forlorn looking country I'd ever seen--Illinois being beautiful--landed in Hazen, took the train on to Fallon. Stayed at my Uncle Fred's place until my Uncle Doc got a place to live, and attended the Harmon School. I went into the fifth grade and graduated from the eighth there.
DAVIS: Who were your teachers then? Do you remember?
KIRN: My teacher was Justine Hughes, one of the finest teachers, I think, anyone ever had. She taught me for two years and then, Mrs. Sanford who also was a very good teacher. After graduation from the grammar school, or even prior to that, I drove derrick and irrigated and done things on the ranch for my uncle. He got a job at the Danielson ranch--it's called the Stark ranch since then, I think . .
DAVIS: Where was that located?
KIRN: Here in Fallon.
DAVIS: In the Harmon District?
KIRN: Yes, at that time the Williams Estate was in receivership and Graham Lamb was the Receiver. He appointed my uncle to run the ranch and I worked there during the summers --cut the mowing machine and rake seats off four inches so my feet would touch the frame I attended high school for half a year, and at that time they were makin' two and a half a day on the ranches.
DAVIS: That was general farm help?
KIRN: Um hum. I needed some new clothes and my aunt told me my money was all gone that I'd earned in the summer. I quit high school and took a six-horse plow team. Wages then was two and a half a day and I thought, "What would a man want with more money than that?" (laughing) So, as time went on--I got about fifteen-my uncle bought a little ranch in the Sheckler District I stayed there a little while with him. He called Charlie Renfro on the Dodge Island Ranch, which is the Dodge Island Ranch now, and got me a job in the second crop of haying. I stayed there during the haying which was about thirty days.
DAVIS: Now, what were you actually doing? What was the work?
KIRN: Raked hay and mowed hay.
DAVIS: With horse teams?
KIRN: Um hum, worked the horses. I know I worked second-crop hay season. After that--his son, Donald, was doing the chores there--milkin' four or five cows and just general chores around the place--Mr. Renfro said, "I think you're a pretty good boy," he said, "Would you do the chores until Donald gets well?" it tickled me to death. After Donald got well, he said, "I think you're a pretty good boy,"--said, "I think I'll keep you around here and give you a plow team this fall." So I stayed and I worked there until I met a kid from Twin Falls, Idaho. He wanted me to go back up there that fall and pick up potatoes. We caught a freight train in Fernley and rode it to Wells. However, might also tell you, we were jumping from car to car between Fernley and Lovelock to get inside one, and I slipped and almost went down between a couple of 'em. (laughing) Well, anyway, we rode that train to Wells, got off there, and bought our way on to Twin Falls. At that time, it was just a gravel road and very rough and it took us a long time to get over there. I stayed there until the next summer and worked for a man on Rock Creek out of Twin, at Hanson. That's about twelve miles, I think, from Twin to Burley. I worked for a fellow by the name of Bill Haines. Then I came back and went right back to the Dodge Island Ranch ...
DAVIS: You were working potatoes up there--or a little bit of everything?
KIRN: Oh, yeah. We baled hay in the winter time, baled bean straw and fed cattle. Mr. Haines had about nineteen milk cows. There's a lot of snow up there, in the winter time, and it drifts. In fact, it was the year the first talkin' picture came to Twin Falls. The snow drifts were so high you couldn't see the fence posts on either side of the road. We had to go out through a couple of fields to get to a road to get to Twin to see the picture. (laughing)
DAVIS: What were you doing when you got back to Dodge Island?
KIRN: Well, just general things, and, then, Mr. Renfro made me foreman. I ran those hay crews, put up the hay and moved the derrick.
DAVIS: How big a crew was it, and what kind of crew?
KIRN: It'd take about forty men for the stackin' crew and the cuttin' crew and everything--at that time . . . all horses.
DAVIS: How many horses?
KIRN: We had lotsa horses. Those big candy wagons we'd have eight, nine of them on a run to the stack and the loader--take a team on each of them, and five on the loader and then your cuttin' crew. You'd start five mowin' machines and three dump rakes .
DAVIS: Big outfit.
KIRN: . . and a couple of sidewinders to turn the rows ends in and-
DAVIS: You mentioned candy wagon. What is that?
KIRN: That's a big box wagon that the loader just dumped the hay in on a net and then we had big round stacks that had about a hundred and fifty ton in a stack. I had three men on a stack, derrick driver and the wagons hauling in.
DAVIS: And they lifted those nets with the derrick, right?
KIRN: Um hum, lift them, get one man a load, then the next one a load, then a third one a load and then back to the first one. We had a load goin' up pretty near all the time.
DAVIS: How many stacks did they have down there at one time?
KIRN: Well, they had different stack yards scattered around on the thirteen hundred and sixty acres and there would be five or six big stacks, maybe, in each stack yard.
DAVIS: I can remember the big round stacks.
KIRN: I stayed there until Dodges took over the ranch and then a year or two after that. Then I moved to town and I worked on the four and eight-mile flat construction.
DAVIS: About how old were you at that time?
KIRN: I was about twenty-five.
DAVIS: You went into construction then?
KIRN: Yes. I worked in the shop in town and I worked on the Four and Eight-Mile Flats.
DAVIS: What were you doing in the shop?
KIRN: I was just assistin' the welder and washing parts. I drove truck. That was the last horse job that Dodges had--the Four and Eight Mile Flats.
DAVIS: Where are the Four and Eight-Mile Flats?
KIRN: Out at Salt Wells.
DAVIS: Towards Salt Wells?
KIRN: Toward Austin. We widened that road eight feet on each side and, consequently, horses and Fresnoes were diggin' the bar pits out and draggin' the mud up there to eighteen inches of the top and then they hauled the select in.
DAVIS: That's the gravel and heavy rock.
KIRN: The gravel and heavier material. I plowed with a thirty Caterpillar for the teams, drove a team a little bit, put the boundary stakes in on both the flats and the right of way, and drove a sixty Caterpillar--oil it--and then drove truck.
DAVIS: When did they build the causeway out to the salt works?
KIRN: Oh, that was before that.
DAVIS: They'd already had that one in?
KIRN: I don't know I think about--oh, gosh, in the early settlement.
DAVIS: Was it?
KIRN: The first salt works was put out there. But that Four-Mile Flat was pretty boggy. It was a lot of mud. Had a drag line on there and you'd have to stay on pontoons to keep from sinkin'.
DAVIS: Did you have rainy weather out there?
KIRN: Oh, yes, had rainy weather--all kinds of weather. They had a cook shack out there and some of us ate there. We'd get our noon meals there at the cook shack.
DAVIS: That was pretty big job out that way then?
KIRN: Oh, yes. Gosh, I don't know how many of those Fresnoes was workin' there but there was--I'd say--ten or twelve and the trucks . .
DAVIS: How long did that take on those two flats?
KIRN: It took from the fall 'til along towards spring. But when it was finished then we moved over and Smiley had a gravel pit out by the caves
DAVIS: That's Smiley Atkinson?
KIRN: Smiley Atkinson. And we hauled the gravel to gravel the road from right at Stillwater to the Dan Evans corner which was about four miles out here towards Stillwater. That was in 1936 and '7 [1937] and it got so cold we had to shut it down for two weeks. It got twenty-two below that winter and stayed that way for two weeks. In the spring, when that job was done, I went to work for Ray Albee in the meat business.
DAVIS: That's Albee, A-L-B-E-E?
KIRN: Yeah, and, consequently, I was workin' with Virginia's stepdad who was a real good butcher, and he taught me how to butcher.
DAVIS: What was his name?
KIRN: Lee Heffner. I liked that meat business better than anything I had ever done.
DAVIS: How did you start there?
KIRN: I worked at the slaughter house, just as a helper, in the sausage kitchen twisting wienees and stuffin' them and then smokin' them, curin' hams, and things like that. Then an opening came over at Kent's. Harry Marsh was the boss over there then and I got on there. The first week I worked meat business I only made fifteen dollars, then was raised to twenty-eight and the top butchers were gettin' forty-five then. That was in 1937.
DAVIS: What were the facilities like out at the slaughter house in those days?
KIRN: Oh, there was just a killin' floor and most things didn't have no electric saw. You split the beef with a cleaver at that time. You just about had a hoist, a cleaver, your butcher knives, aprons and that was about it.
DAVIS: Running water?
KIRN: Running water, yeah.
DAVIS: That meant most of the meat went here in Fallon or was it shipped out?
KIRN: Well, Albee had a butcher shop in Truckee and he supplied it, too.
DAVIS: Then at Kent's you just…
KIRN: I worked for them for nine years.
DAVIS: That was not in the slaughtering but in the cutting up
KIRN: No, I slaughtered for 'em, and at the last I was working in the shop and slaughtering, too. I worked there for nine years. Harry finally left and Mr. Wallace asked me to take over and run the shop. About that time Harry Heck kept talking about selling his little place out there [250 S Maine St], and I and Sam Beeghly bought it.
DAVIS: Where was Kent's slaughter house?
KIRN: Where Tulio Mori is.
DAVIS: On Allen Road.
KIRN: Um hum. There was not even a cooler there at that time when I went to work for 'em. I'd kill four beef and hang 'em overnight. Then they'd pick 'em up early the next morning, haul 'em to town and put 'em in the cooler. Later, they built the cooler on. But, in the meantime, I'll have to tell you, April the third of 1937, Virginia and I got married. We had a little house, and Sam had a little house. We put up those two houses for enough collateral to buy the little plant.
DAVIS: It wasn't a bank then?
KIRN: No. And then Charlotte Towle loaned us enough money to operate on--three thousand dollars, or thirty-five hundred, I forget which it was. Everybody was good to us. We had a good business and a good clientele. We used to do custom work for people--even cured hogs for people out-of-state. And I still, once in awhile, have someone tell me that they can't get a ham as good as the hams we used to make.
DAVIS: I can believe that. (laughing)
KIRN: Up to fourteen, I thought I wanted to be a cowboy. So the last cavalry horses that were ever bought here, a fella come in and bought a half a car load of 'em.
DAVIS: That was for the U.S. Cavalry, right?
KIRN: Yes, and, consequently, he had another half a load bought over at Lovelock and he wanted these horses here driven overland to Lovelock to get 'em together so he could ship 'em on the main line. There was a cowboy from Winnemucca and he needed someone else to drive 'em over there. Well, I took the job and we left Fallon early in the morning with the horses.
DAVIS: About how many did you have?
KIRN: We had about eighteen head, I think. The first day we made it to eighteen miles this side of Lovelock. Coolidge had a highway job with horses at that time on the main highway. We made it to their horse corral, froze that night and slept in our saddle blankets-didn't sleep much--got up early the next morning and started those horses on toward Lovelock. There's a cook shack up there about six miles from where--I think it was about six miles--seemed like it--to where we spent the night. He said, "Let's go in and get some breakfast." We went in and washed up, just started to sit down to eat and them horses headed back for Fallon. (laughing) Gosh, we went out, jumped on our horses and run them suckers plumb back to that corral and three head kept coming on toward Fallon. But my horse--I was riding a horse he'd bought from Dick McCullough in Fernley--was gettin' sore footed, so I stayed with them at the corral. This other fellow went on and it was about two hours before he come back with those three head. They just cut around ya and keep comin'. When we got up to the cook shack again he went in and got some breakfast and I stayed with the horses. We got into Lovelock about three thirty that next afternoon. The man that hired me gave me five dollars for the trip. It cost me five to haul my saddle and myself back to Hazen on the train. (laughter) I decided maybe cowboyin' wouldn't be very profitable. (laughing)
DAVIS: (laughing) Doesn't sound like it. About how old were you then?
KIRN: It was about 1925 or '26. 1924 maybe.
DAVIS: That seems like a long ways now.
KIRN: That was about 1926, I think.
DAVIS: Long ways now, but, I bet it seemed long then?
KIRN: Yeah. [tape cut] I think we bought our plant in 1941.
DAVIS: That was during the War?
KIRN: During the War, yes. Tallow was a good price then. They used that rendered tallow to shove them boats they were building into the ocean. It greases the runway.
DAVIS: How did you get that to market? Who bought it?
KIRN: There was a hide buyer in Reno then.
DAVIS: Okay.
KIRN: He bought the beef hides and the tallow. And, gosh, we got good money for that tallow. We just had a good business from the start.
DAVIS: When did you start having freezer lockers, too--about that time?
KIRN: Well, no, it was a few years later. We put in the first freezer plant in Fallon and lockers for people. I went out and hustled the money to build those lockers from the individuals that were going to use 'em. So it was pretty quick--maybe couple of years or so after we got the business--we done that. It's hard to remember back all those things.
DAVIS: Oh, yeah, sure.
KIRN: But, you know, sometimes I can remember a lot of things that happened when I was five years old.
DAVIS: To digress a little bit, what do you remember about your school days in Harmon? Any special incidents or things that were unusual happen?
KIRN: Oh, yeah, I was an ornery pupil. I'm ashamed of myself when I think back--as ornery as I was to those teachers. I remember one time--it was along toward spring when Mrs. Sanford was teaching. She was going to put on a circus--have kids gettin' hoops and coverings and animals. I decided that they didn't need me around there for that circus, so I took a vacation. One day I was ridin' my horse by the school. I thought I'd go in and see how they were gettin' along. I walked in the room. Mrs. Sanford spied me. She said, "Lester, where you been? Don't you ever want to make a success of yourself?" She come down there and she hit my head against that blackboard with her fist. (laughing) She really worked me over. But, praise the Lord, I had it comin'. (laughing)
DAVIS: I’m sure you weren't the only one down there.
KIRN: It was great experiences. But this Justine Hughes-she was a wonderful teacher now. She could read a whole paragraph just lookin' at it at a time. She'd read a book to us at noon, after lunch--she'd read maybe a few pages each day. I think I've become a pretty good speller. I know we'd have spelling matches and I'd maybe didn't win all of 'em, but I would be maybe second at 'em. She taught you how to syllable those words, and if you do, you can come pretty close to spellin’ ‘em, see, and tear 'em down. I did win the first prize of saying the multiplication tables backwards and forwards. And, gosh, I can think of a lot of things, but I was never in that school room a day I didn't look out and want to be out of it.
DAVIS: How far did you live from school and how did you get to school?
KIRN: Well, I walked at first until I got a horse. It was about three miles, I think, from the school.
DAVIS: What do you remember about irrigation problems or anything to do with the farming? Did Dodge Island have plenty of water?
KIRN: Yes, Dodge Island had plenty of water. They had a reservoir. It's all been filled and farming now. I think Sorenson has it.
DAVIS: It's right near the Lone Tree School.
KIRN: Um hum, just beyond and south of…
DAVIS: It was north of the old Pinger ranch.
KIRN: Yeah, north and west of the Pinger ranch. That one great big ditch comin' down all through the ranch there, and, at that time, there wasn't much cement around. We used redwood boxes--one by twelve redwoods. They'd dig back in the bank and they'd be maybe three or four feet from the bottom of the ditch down and then way back in the bank. I used to dig four of them a day and I remember one day I was back in the bank diggin' one of those structure holes. Mr. Renfro rode up on his horse and he said, "Hey, kid, slow down. I got two sonofabitches over here ain't diggin' as much as you are." (laughing) Whitey Harrigan was fifteen when he came there and he became the night irrigator. I didn't know until I run onto Prouty a few years ago that sometimes Whitey'd let that water run too long at night. Prouty finally told me Whitey get that water set and then go over to see Georgia Gray (laughing) at night. They had plenty of water. Mr. Renfro was leveling those fields forty, fifty acres with no levees in 'em at that time with a ditch on 'em at two sides. But, that wasn't very practical. He'd be out there with a shovel, shoveling water in the first irrigation and making levees by hand to get that water all over where he wanted it.
DAVIS: What were they raising down there, at that time-alfalfa and grain?
KIRN: Alfalfa and grain and I think about two thousand cattle a year. I took care of the horses there. They had these collars and they'd get sore shoulders. I'd take the padding out and doctor 'em and all those things.
DAVIS: Taking care of the harnesses and so forth?
KIRN: Um hum. Oh, the businesses were small but they were good at that time. Nothing like it is today, for sure.
DAVIS: What was on Maine Street in those days?
KIRN: The cars were parked in the middle of the street then. There was a big water trough down there between the Court House and just across the street from there. In the years prior to that--when they had the teams running to Fairview and Wonder--that was the turn around point. They'd go down and turn around that big water trough out there in the middle of the street.
DAVIS: How big a trough was that?
KIRN: It was about six or eight feet in diameter.
DAVIS: Metal, wood, cement?
KIRN: It was cement, I think.
DAVIS: The railroad was already into Fallon when you came?
KIRN: Yes, it was. In fact we rode it when we came out here in 1921 from Hazen to Fallon.
DAVIS: What do you remember about the Second World War--the effect it had on Fallon?
KIRN: Well, gosh, I can't say much on that.
DAVIS: The Navy base?
KIRN: I know that's when the Navy base came in in its [Second World War] infancy. I know there was a lot of us guys that were married and had families. If we were deemed in an important job that was more beneficial than going to war, why then we were deferred. Which I was in that position.
DAVIS: Did you have any business with the Navy foodwise or meatwise?
KIRN: No.
KIRN: I sold Safeway Stores quite a bit of meat.
DAVIS: Do you remember any reaction from local people about Navy boys in town, or the influx of the Navy, or did everybody seem to be in favor of it?
KIRN: About that time there was a bunch of the CC [Civilian Conservation Corps] boys that decided to stay instead of go back home. They didn't resent the Navy. In fact, they thought it was a good thing for Fallon. And I think it has been a good thing for Fallon. I don't think Fallon would have half the population that it has now if it weren't for the Navy. I just hope that nothin' happens to it. I also think that if it's for the benefit of protecting our country, I don't care where those planes need to fly, they should have the right to do it.
DAVIS: They dismantled the base, too--a couple times?
KIRN: I don't think entirely. I think it was maybe cut down a time or two, but I don't think it was ever dismantled.
DAVIS: Were you here when the CCC camps were going?
KIRN: Yes.
DAVIS: What do you remember about their activities and the reaction?
KIRN: They were a great thing. It'd be good if they had a program like that today, I think. You got so much unemployment. Instead of havin' those guys drawin' unemployment checks, put 'em to work, and pay 'em a little. Everybody's spoiled now, though--the wages and the money these baseball players get and the Congressman and Senators--I just can't understand it. I never made over a hundred dollars a week in my life. When you think of that, this makes me sick. [tape cuts out] They put in most of the good cement structures in the ditches around for the TCID and just many things. I know Mr. Wallace was the head of some of those CCC's. They weren't using the material over to Yerington. He went over there and got the material and brought it over here. Cement was in its infancy then around here. There's a lot of these structures now you'll see CCC on 'em. I got a couple of 'em up here at the corner of my place. [end of side A] -Some of the CCC men decided to stay in Fallon, and I can tell you some of their names; Floyd Biggs, Larry Goone, Johnny Shamp. .
DAVIS: There was Nick Thomas?
KIRN: Nick Thomas.
DAVIS: And Johnny Brooker.
KTRN: Johnny Brooker, Kelso, and, gosh, there's a lot more of 'em. When I want to think of 'em I can't. Anyway, there's many more that I just can't get on the tip of my tongue here, right now. But, there was a lot of the boys, good boys, that chose to stay here. They became real good citizens and raised families here. Newt Lumos was one. He has a son that's an engineer here now. There was several fine boys that were killed in the War from Fallon.
DAVIS: What do you remember of Pearl Harbor Day?
KIRN: I remember Pearl Harbor Day [December 7, 1941]. We had a pinochle party the night before, got up the next morning and about eight o'clock somebody told me Pearl Harbor had been attacked. It was just an uproar and a touch and go from then on as to the news that you would receive. But there wasn't much that anyone here could do about it except accept the bad news that we'd get.
DAVIS: The community had different activities during those years. I was in school at the time and I can remember scrap drives.
KIRN: Oh, yeah, there was several things that happened about that time. I know they took the king off the top of the Copenhagen cans, and all kinds of materials were really valuable to make war materials…
DAVIS: Metal.
KIRN: Yeah, any metal…
DAVIS: .copper . .
KIRN: Um, hum.
DAVIS: Iron.
KIRN: Iron and just pert near any kind of metal.
DAVIS: They stockpiled that somewhere?
KIRN: Well, they used it to build those ships, I think, down there, didn't they?
DAVIS: But, locally, they stockpiled it somewhere, and then it went on by train?
KIRN: I think they shipped it to Reno. [tape cuts] When I first came out here in 1921 a lot of people didn't even have a dairy barn. You'd have a milk stool strapped on ya, and you'd milk one cow right out in the corral--and the cows were broke to stand. You'd take your stool and go milk another one.
DAVIS: How did they handle the milk in those days?
KIRN: Well, there was a creamery here in Fallon that used a lot of the milk--or, I guess, most of it. Everyone had a separator and you'd sell your cream--usually had some hogs or somethin' to feed the skim milk to. Pert near all the small ranchers had a few dairy cows and that was their livin'--to sell what little cream [they could]
DAVIS: How often did they take that cream into town?
KIRN: Probably once a week.
DAVIS: Just keep it in a cool place.
KIRN: Uh huh--buy groceries. A lot of people--that was their existence about that time. My own uncle, Fred, had a little forty-acre ranch and a few milk cows. That little forty-acre ranch, as I remember, and those dairy cows and that cream and milk was the main thing that he brought a large family up with.
DAVIS: Some of 'em raised a few chickens, too.
KIRN: Yeah, chickens and turkeys.
DAVIS: Turkeys, right.
KIRN: This was a great turkey raisin' place at one time
DAVIS: Who were the big turkey raisers?
KIRN: Mrs. Blair was about the biggest that I can remember. There was different ones, though.
DAVIS: Would they contract with Kent's and around or was it kind of individual? Do you know?
KIRN: Well, there were individual and some of 'em were contracted. There was one guy out here had seven or eight hundred turkeys at one time and they were stealin' them turkeys. A guy was shot out there, think.
DAVIS: Somebody was poachin' turkeys then?
KIRN: Uh huh.
DAVIS: They caught him?
KIRN: No, never did catch him. There was a guy'd come to town--he'd have three or four hundred turkeys--go home and they'd be gone. Take a long time to come to town if you lived out in the boonies then--horses and buggies and things.
DAVIS: They were pretty expensive things in those days.
KIRN: Uh huh, but Fallon turkeys were noted for their prime at that time. That was before your double breasted turkeys came along.
DAVIS: Where did they ship 'em?
KIRN: By gosh, I really don't know. I imagine they shipped 'em to Sacramento and different places--big cities. But, they used to contend then--they'd have a flat, four by four, for them turkeys to roost on--that if they set on a round pole they would make their breasts crooked. (laughing) I don't know how much truth there is in that, but I know a lot of 'em done that.
DAVIS: How about the people that raised cattle?
KIRN: Out at the ranch there, we'd feed those cattle, and H. Moffitt was a big buyer of beef. He had a slaughtering plant in San Francisco and he bought a lot of the cattle. Then there was another plant in Dixon and different places and their buyers would periodically come in.
DAVIS: Did they have an auction yard here at that time?
KIRN: No. No auction yard here then.
DAVIS: It was just personal contact?
KIRN: Yeah, Allen Road was just a sandy trail These buyers'd come in and they'd buy a couple of load of cattle, maybe, out of a corral which had two hundred fifty head. He'd cut out the fattest ones. We'd drive 'em to town and ship 'em on the train the next day. I remember when Cushman came to the ranch out there. It had always been a cattle feedin' deal in the winter time until he came. He was a sheep man. I ran the things around the ranch there and built the corrals, put the water lines in . .
DAVIS: That was Cushman?
KIRN: Yeah and take care of the sheep when he was out buyin' 'em. We fed ten thousand sheep that first year.
DAVIS: Where did he get his sheep from?
KIRN: All over--wherever these sheep were--in the mountains-mostly north of here--Elko, and I don't know if he got any out of Utah or not.
DAVIS: But, he sold the wool besides the…
KIRN: They'd sell the fat and the sheep and fatten the lambs themselves. We'd lose two or three lambs a day. 'Course you can expect a loss out of that many, but we came to find out that that salt from Salt Wells was killin’ ‘em. There was too much salt peter in it.
DAVIS: Was there any conflict between the cattle men and the sheep men?
KIRN: (laughing) Not that I know of.
DAVIS: Oh, no, that's the old western…
KIRN: The old western deal, uh huh. Most of the ranchers-the big ones--I think had both cattle and sheep.
DAVIS: When you loaded the cattle onto the train, that was off of Auction Road, wasn't it?
KIRN: Yeah We'd come up Allen…
DAVIS: That was known as the cattle road then.
KIRN: Um hum. There's a big sand hill in there between the Reno Highway and Sheckler Road.
DAVIS: They'd put those cattle on the train then, and ship them East and West?
KIRN: All west. Old man Renfro'd leave it up to me in the fall. He'd go to Elko County and Challis, Idaho-that's where the best cattle was comin' from--Idaho--and buy about two thousand head each fall. Douglass was supposed to put up the money each fall. This fall he wouldn't put up the money to buy the cattle. So we got Dodges, and went in partners with them. They bought the cattle.
DAVIS: Douglass had the bank?
DAVIS: He had the ranch?
KIRN: Douglass had the ranch out there--the Charlie Frey ranch. Dodges and Renfro made thirty-six thousand dollars that year on the cattle. They bought 'em for around nine cents and they got contracted for eleven or eleven and a half, I think. Renfro was going to take his thirty-six thousand and give Douglass back the ranch. He'd lost it three times, or twice, prior to that. Then Dodges and Renfro got together and they bought it from Douglass. I think they paid ninety thousand dollars for the thirteen hundred and sixty acres.
KIRN: A few years went by and Dodges come out one day and told Renfro they had somebody to replace him. His equity was eatin' up.
DAVIS: What did Renfro do after that?
KIRN: I don't want to tell you that.
DAVIS: Okay. I want to thank Buck for sharing his memories with me and we'll be signing this recording off as of now.
ED: Mr. Kirn passed away not long after this interview, and his obituary was included with the transcript:
Funeral services for long-time Fallon resident Lester F. (Buck) Kirn, 79, will be conducted Saturday, 10:30 a.m., at the Parkside Bible Fellowship, 485 Tedford Lane.
Graveside services will follow at the Fallon Cemetery.
Kim died March 13, 1991 at his residence following a lengthy bout with cancer.
Born March 29, 1911 in Golden Eagle, Ill., Kim came to Fallon in 1921 with his uncle following the death of both of his parents.
He graduated from Hannon* School in 1924. He worked for various ranches in the area and became a butcher for the Kent Company. Later, he and partner Sam Beeghley purchased Heck's Market and K-Pack Meat Packing Company which he sold in 1968.
Kirn was a member of the Parkside Bible Fellowship, Churchill Lodge 26 F & AM, past commander of Lahontan Commandry No. 4, past Master of the Council, and a life member of Kerak Temple of the Shrine. He was a Rainbow DAD and received the Grand Cross of Honor from the girls' organization.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia of Fallon; son, Ron of Anchorage, Alaska; daughters, Kay Glanzmann of Carson City, Ramona Peterson of Reno; brother, Carl of Golden Eagle, Ill.; sisters, Grace Wolfe of Chicago and Kathryn Quick of Danville, Ill; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Buck Kirn Memorial,Fund at Parkside Bible Fellowship, 485 Tedford Lane, Fallon, Nev., 89406 or the American Cancer Research Institute.
Churchill County Oral History Project
Churchill County Museum Association, “Lester "Buck" Kirn Oral History,” Churchill County Museum Digital Archive: Fallon, Nevada, accessed January 17, 2021, https://ccmuseum.omeka.net/items/show/608.
Copyright Churchill County Museum Association, 2015-Present
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A Beginner's Guide To Enjoying Tennis
Giri Nathan
Image credit: Sam Woolley/GMG
We’re in the middle of the U.S. Open, that two-week phase of the solar year in which the average American citizen is most likely to be struck by tennis. It could be you. Or maybe you’ll watch 10 minutes of tennis and yell, “This shit is boring!” before returning to episodes of Chopped. Nobody would blame you, because unless you know what to look for, tennis might just look like Pong with sentient paddles, and that isn’t very fun. You’ll get no help from the commentators, who are either hollering empty sports clichés into the void— “she just wants this win more”—or reeling off jargon too dense to parse—“on the ad side he likes a heavy kick serve out wide.” The good news for you is that I am here, and I will tell you what to look for in order to unlock the underlying sensory pleasures of the game.
Watch how they hit the ball
The ball has to be hit before it bounces twice on your side. You will notice that a tennis player does not just stand there and allow the ball to bounce twice; the player is usually trying very hard to prevent this from happening. There’s a lot of options as to how to avoid the fate, but you really have to hit the ball before it bounces twice, or you lose, okay? Okay. Here are some options:
The forehand is struck with dominant hand, on your dominant side. If you’ve ever whaled at a tennis ball just to see how far you could it could go, this is probably how you did it. In fact, when confronted with a projectile moving at alarming speed, and armed with a waffly-looking paddle, this might be the body’s most instinctive way of responding, and for the majority of players, it’s their smoothest and most reliable shot.
The backhand is struck with either two hands or (more rarely these days, and always savored) one hand. Together the forehand and backhand are considered groundstrokes. They are usually swung from low to high, after the ball has bounced once on the ground in front of the player. If you’re hitting the ball out of the air before it even bounces, you’re hitting volleys, and you’re either an idiot, or Roger Federer, or reasonably close to the net that’s sitting in the middle of the court.
Every point in tennis begins with a serve. The serve is big and strong and, except for the most wonderful and deceitful exceptions, struck over your head after tossing the ball way up there. So powerful is the serve that the default expectation is that you win games when you are serving. If you manage to win a game on an opponent’s serve, you have “broken” them, at least in tennis terms, if not animal domestication terms. The serve goes fast, and is usually aimed well out of opponent’s reach, or right at their dumb body.
Watch how hard they hit the ball
The simplest and basest pleasure of watching tennis is appreciating just how unfathomably fast the objects are moving. Racket moves fast to hit ball. Ball now moves fast. Feet move fast to get near ball that’s moving fast. Everything moves fast. Fast is fun. The fastest serves spring off a racket at over 140 mph. The fastest groundstrokes can push 100 mph, at the most extreme end. Although the typical TV vantage point takes away full appreciation of this speed as a trade-off for seeing the whole court, if you ever need a wake-up call, try a view closer to court-level:
If, as asked above, you ever tried whaling at a tennis ball to get it move that fast, you’ve probably hit it clean over the back fence. To keep it in play requires the right racket/string tech, artful application of spin, and, mostly, timing. If you’ve looked carefully at a tennis player—lithe and ropey but with no real volume, no paunch or superfluous swole—you know that sheer muscle mass has little to do with the power of their shots. Really, it’s a feat of coordination involving every single part of your body—everything from feet to hips to shoulder to wrist—to transfer energy to the ball. This needs to all happen right on cue, because the shots they hit are only viable within perfect conditions; the racket has to strike the ball in a tiny window of time and space for desired effect. That all this could still be executed at full-sprint is just ridiculous. Reflexes, reaction time, coordination ... this is stuff you’ve already marveled at in home runs, saved goals, so on.
But but but: as fun as raw speed is, you should also keep an eye out for those anomalous moments when the players choose to hit the ball, slowly, softly. These are often the most difficult and finessed shots, the result of an excruciating risk/reward calculus. So pay attention.
Watch where they hit the ball
Speed offers you the visceral rush, but most of the meaningful decision-making happens on this level, and most of the viewer’s genuine poop-oneself moments happen on this level, too. I know roughly how hard the player is going to hit any given ball, but I really don’t know much about where they’re going to hit it, and herein lies most of the creativity and craft. So where do you put the ball? Mostly you want to put the ball away from your opponent. But there are other considerations, too.
The most basic criterion is to get the ball over the net. The net droops a little in the middle so easiest clearance can be found there, and hardest clearance (about six inches higher) is on the edges. If you hit the ball into the net, you lose.
The next most basic criterion is to get the ball to land inside the painted boundaries of the court. If you hit the ball outside those boundaries, you lose.
Now combine those two and you’ll see where things get tricky. To clear the net the ball has to be moving at a healthy height off the ground (i.e., at least 3 feet off the ground). To land inside the court the ball has to very suddenly be at a very different height off the ground (i.e. zero inches). In a nutshell, this is the reason that the game is difficult: You have to satisfy both criteria, have the strike the ball in a way so that it goes high and then all the way low, and generally you’re hitting this ball very hard, and you have to wrangle its trajectory with lots of spin and lots of very fine calibration of the angle of your racket face in order to get it to dip down to your bidding. A homer can fly out of the park; a tennis ball needs to come back home.
Let’s say you’re standing in this part of the court, which, as it turns out, is a perfectly okay place to be standing in the middle of a tennis match. Broadly speaking there are two types of shots available to you, and there are tradeoffs.
That’s someone hitting the ball right back along the sideline, or, colloquially, down the line. This is a nice, assertive shot, often struck to kill when an opponent is still scrambling around on the opposite side of the court. The disadvantages here are as follows: The net is half a foot higher there, meaning you’re more likely to hit it, and the court is just 78 feet long along that horizontal.
But you can also hit the ball cross-court. The advantages here are that the net droops lower here, so you’re less likely to hit it, and the tennis court, which is your everyday rectangle—remember your basic geometry—is longest along its diagonal, giving you an extra 4.5 feet of landing strip. This might seem insignificant, but this is a game of margins much, much finer than feet. Obviously tennis is a game of flowing back-and-forth, and not every shot can be neatly slotted into a binary, but consider these rough notions about shot selection as you watch a match.
Learn what makes a shot impressive
We saw a cross-court shot above, but imagine an even more severely angled shot:
What the heck are you thinking here? For one, looking at the court geometry, you have very little landing strip available—which is a pretty handy proxy for how aggressive a shot is. You had to trust that ball to dip very rapidly after clearing the net, had to somehow coax it to from down to up and back down again. But you have also probably hit the ball very far away from the opponent, something difficult to retrieve. This is a bold shot, the kind of thing that can just leave you with the ache of appreciation. Other simple heuristics for recognizing bravery in this sport: Is the ball hit close to the lines, maybe even kissing the lines? That’s cool. Is it hit so gently as to be impossible to retrieve? That’s cool. Is it hit right past an opponent who was standing at the net? That’s cool. Was it hit while mid-sprint, with almost no time to prepare? That’s cool, too.
Other things to consider
Tennis is nice in that every single match offers a little, self-contained comparison. So always look for the contrasts. Anytime you are watching two people play, you should try to discern how their styles of play vary. Most thinking pros (so, not all of them) have logged enough hours to know themselves deeply, understand their own gifts and limitations, and they have devised strategies that maximize their chance of winning within those parameters.
As you watch a match and recognize patterns, you’ll begin to appreciate strengths: what are the shots they rely on most to win points? where do they prefer to stand during the point? where do they like to hit the ball? And weaknesses: what type of shots do they consistently mess up? what opposing strategies give them trouble? what was the precise emotional inflection point at which Nick Kyrgios abandoned all hope?
By asking those questions you’ll begin to grasp a sense of style. Is the player super-fit and consistent and content to grind forever, until the opponent flubs or delivers something weak enough to crush? Maybe it’s Andy Murray. Does the player make a tennis ball look like a bouncy ball with the weight of a bowling ball? That’s the Rafael Nadal signature. Does the player make a living on the basis of a huge serve and little else? That’s John Isner, the great unwatchable American hope, or Milos Raonic, Canada’s dull analogue. Does the player serve briskly and roam all over the court to strike the ball almost soon as it lands, as if impatient to get off the court? That’s the Federer Express. Does the player overwhelm the opposition with fast and risky groundstrokes? That’s Maria Sharapova or Jelena Ostapenko. Once you can recognize general styles of play, you can appreciate which player is doing a better job of executing their game plan, and viewing gets a lot richer than just watching two interchangeable bodies bat a ball over a net. You’ll also learn which styles you prefer watching, which is the most useful kind of knowledge, so you can avoid the boring crap.
Stuff not worth worrying about
It’s much better idea to get caught up in the above aspects of the game than to get bogged down in the most antiquated part: the scoring. Stick with the pleasures of the actual exchange. You’ll know who has won or lost any given point. From there, just know that you have to win lots of points, which are bundled into games, which are then bundled into sets. At the U.S. Open men have to win best of five sets, and women have to win best of three. You’ll pick up the finer points as you go along, or Google as necessary. Or, you never will understand the scoring, and you will, baffled, continue to subject yourself to an endless procession of spheres moving back and forth without any real understanding of the governing principles, like some kind of shitty ancient astronomer.
Enjoy the sounds
Okay, now that we’re out of the technical weeds, can we just savor how fun the sounds are? Not referring to the death/sex moans the players emit when they hit the ball, announcing their exertion to the world; those aren’t that all that great and sometimes they are actively bad. I mean the actual moment of contact between a racket and a ball. It is beautiful to listen to: a satisfying, hearty thwack, the sound of an object being given the business. Eventually, with lots of practice, the sounds can actually offer you valuable information about how the ball has been struck—what kind of pace and spin has been applied—but that’ll come much later on in your journey. For now just appreciate how a forehand sings when it’s passing 100 mph, passing right by an opponent, passing by your eyes almost too fast to register.
Get personal
For all the game’s efforts to sterilize itself, preserve propriety, and eradicate any undue expression of personality, tennis is populated by some real eccentrics, and getting to know them is a huge part of the fun of fandom. There are no teams, no pads, no helmets, just individual people on a diagrammed rectangle trying to make a living. As our own Laura Wagner has argued, tennis is one of the most mentally grueling sports you can subject yourself to, a constant state of lonely pressure, with no one to blame but yourself, and unending opportunities to dwell on past mistakes in between every point. That kind of pressure can make a person crack, letting their real colors leak out. There is racket-smashing. There is direct trash-talking. There is abject tanking. There is genuine showmanship. There is choking. There is kvetching to umps and occasionally throwing coins at them. All of these moments accumulate over a career and let you understand what a person is like.
In some cases, you can draw a straight line between a personality and a style of play:
Maybe we can just end there. If that reel doesn’t entertain you at least a little bit, you should probably just give up on tennis and get back to Chopped. And if you have any lingering questions, feel free to ask.
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Speak Out: Laurel Little League controversy
Jul 21st, 2019 · by Delaware State News · Comments:
Just 12 hours before they were scheduled to hit the road, the Laurel Major League softball all-stars received word that they had been disqualified from the East Regional tournament.
Little League handed down the penalty because the organization deemed a player did not live within its boundary map for Laurel Little League.
• I would agree with this decision if not for the fact she had been playing on that team since 4 years of age. This is obviously not an intentional “stacking” move. They should have been given the opportunity to bench this player for the remainder of games played instead of disqualifying the entire team. — James Elocin
Hope this gets national news attention because this is just wrong. Especially since she’s been playing there since she was 4. Makes you wonder if someone in charge of these rules had a personal problem with this player outside of the team. — Lizzy MacDonald
• Clearly not a stacking situation but I get that if they let them go to the tournament they could have played and been disqualified at that level so they are trying to follow the rules but it does make you wonder if
The player originally lived in the boundaries and either moved or the boundaries changed (in which case she should have been grandfathered in or at least notified when it occurred). I know when we moved from Maryland to Delaware we were told the option to keep my son in his original district/league was possible as long as he remained registered there without missing a season.
Nothing had changed but they just realized it now (shame on the organization at all levels). — Lynn Lloyd
• The league has a lot of explaining to do! So very unfair to the other young girls on that team! The parents and the league should be ashamed of themselves! I feel so badly for all the talented girls on this team that are being punished by the actions of the adults! — Janet Carey Smith
• Obviously, someone provided the names and addresses to someone who took the time to check on each player. They obviously knew there was an issue higher up, but why not do this at the playoff level, not letting it get this far. — Diane Butters-Eastburn
• Little league keeps questioning the drastic reduction in player numbers. Between outdated rules and poor boundary divisions it is no wonder. As a Little League softball coach I know how hard these girls play and put their heart into every game. Shame on the Little League for this call! — Jody Steele Williams
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Understanding a business model is a fundamental. Put simply, a business model is a definition of how your business expects to generate revenue. The Wikipedia definition is:
“A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value.”
The concept of value features heavily in any business model. We’ll look at this side of creating a value exchange with users and customers later in this section.
To illustrate business models, let’s look at three prevalent models that we encounter on the web every day.
The subscription model, where a user makes a regular or single payment in return for a service
The free model, where a service is offered for free in return for access to users by advertisers or access to users’ data
The freemium model, where a part of the service is free with additional or premium services requiring a payment.
The significance of understanding the business model is that it tells us what a user’s expectations may be or it will inform what content we need to include on a website. In short, it affects what a website’s proposition is and will lead to research questions around how that information should be presented to users.
Subscription examples
Here are three examples of companies which operate under a subscription model. You’ll be familiar with at least one of them.
Netflix charges a fee for access to its vast library of TV shows and movies.
Dollar Shave Club charges a monthly fee in return for a regular delivery of razor blades.
Salesforce has a stepped level of subscription for access to its cloud-based CRM software. There is a straightforward exchange taking place here, fee in return for a service.
Free examples
Here are three examples of companies which operate under a free model and, again, these will be familiar names. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are all social media channels of one sort or another. Billions of people around the world use these services without having to pay anything to the companies that provide them.
Facebook is free only in the sense that we don’t pay any monetary value for the service. However, for advertisers and marketers, access to Facebook users comes at a premium.
YouTube offers advertisers the opportunity to place ads in front of millions of users each day. The users’ understanding of the business model here is debatable, but there is no doubt that these are terrifically popular and successful services.
Twitter has had its problems defining precisely where its value is generated, but that doesn’t stop hundreds of millions of people using its services.
Freemium examples
Finally, here are three examples of companies which operate under the freemium model. The name freemium, of course, comes from a combination of the words free and premium.
Dropbox, Evernote, and LinkedIn provide various types of services, but each offers a free version of their product, while asking users to pay for enhanced features.
Dropbox offers an increase in storage capacity for a paid account.
Evernote, similarly, offers greater storage and unlimited document transfer.
LinkedIn provides greater insights to its data and heightened contact options for a premium product.
In these cases, the business hopes that users will develop a dependency on their product over time and build it into their work routines or lifestyle, such that they will eventually want to pay for the premium service.
Rick Monro
Rick Monro is UX Director at Fathom. He has extensive experience in user research, interaction design, user-centered design, and design strategy with private and public sector organisations throughout the UK and Ireland.
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Dan D’Ascenzo
One of the most appreciated Belgian mastering engineers in the music industry worldwide, Dan D’Ascenzo has been working as a sound, mastering and mixing engineer for nearly 15 years.
Dan started his career in 1991 as a DJ and worked throughout the BeNeLux region with different venues, including DJ residency for eight years with Rio Grande – Club techno German border and Katsu Club – Qyou. He slowly worked his way towards music production and his first release 20 years ago was on Baccardi Records (7k vinyl copies sold).
His international career as DJ and producer includes gigs in venues such as Privilege Ibiza – Lola Club Shanghai – Sunz Club Ghangzou – Audio San Francisco.
After graduating from SAE Institute, Dan launched his own mastering studio based in Liège (Belgium) – LeftRight Audio – where he is conducting workshops, private sessions and working for and with 95% international clients.
Over the years, Dan has equally been involved in radio and TV spots production and mastering (e.g. Philips TV, AG insurance), as well as music productions for Games.
Additionally, he has been one of the main lecturers for both Electronic Music (1 and Advanced) programmes in SAE Institute in Brussels for several years (specialities: DAWs, FX, mastering).
In his work/collaboration portfolio we find labels such as: Universal Music, Sony Music, Defected, Kompakt, Turbo, Skint and amazing production credits in electronic music from: Michel De Hey / Hey! Records,, Franky Rizardo, Sonny Fodera, all Dame Music and Bloody Mary / The Jaydes, DJ Godfather, Jamie Jones, Sharam / Yoshitohi Rec, Pleasurekraft, Moby, Robert Hood, but also Belgian artists like JD Davis (voice of David Guetta), Kolombo, Surfing Leons, LIMITS
Dan is well known for his warm, human approach of the projects he works on and in the relationship with his clients. His creative style applies to all genres of music and artists as long as there is emotion in the productions which he then brings to another level.
Dan speaks 4 foreign languages, loves to travel, crate digging and is passionate by cooking.
http://www.leftrightaudio.com/
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http://instagram.com/dandascenzo/ @dandascenzo
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DANCE NEWS
Smuin celebrates "Long disDANCE Love" in Valentine’s
Posted on: 1/15/2021 2:00AM
Love will be in the air when Smuin Contemporary Ballet presents Long disDance Love, a joyful virtual (streaming online) showcase featuring the Company’s signature fusion of classical and contemporary ballet February 11-14, 2021.
Marblehead School of Ballet and North Shore Civic Ballet's Drive Collects and Delivers Winter Coats to Help People in Need
During the Marblehead School of Ballet's (MSB) annual Community Appreciation Week, the studio and the North Shore Civic Ballet's drive collected over 70 winter coats for people of all ages. The drive was extended throughout December to collect additional outerwear to help neighbors suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call for Submissions from Musical Theatre Writers 18-26
If you’re under the age of 26, and you’re writing for musical theatre, New Musicals Inc. would love to hear from you. New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles is sponsoring its eighth annual New Voices Project, in which young playwrights, composers and lyricists receive workshops and concerts of their work, with support from the Helen & Jose Colton Foundation, and feedback sessions from executives from Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment and New Musicals Inc.
Mark DeGarmo Dance Receives Funding to Continue its Dance and Literacy Program in NYC Public Elementary Schools
Posted on: 1/9/2021 2:00AM
Mark DeGarmo Dance is one of 1,032 organizations included in the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Fund's recently announced awards. Mark DeGarmo Dance will use this funding to help continue its “Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity©” program, an in-school (currently virtual) program with NYC Title I public elementary schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. National Dance Education Organization research shows that only 1% of USA elementary schools have such a program.
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents The Best of The Quest digital book
Los Angeles-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) publishes The Best of The Quest, HDD’s first ever interactive digital book celebrating the company’s 35th year anniversary. The Best of the Quest documents THE QUEST, a project of 10 premieres over 10 days across Los Angeles and includes exclusive photography, film, music, animation, and essays.
What Makes a Great Online Audition? Ask Alexandra Dickson Lynch & Timothy Lynch
Lynch Dance Institute (LDI), fostering excellence through the joy of dance, announces a full line of services to support dancers as they prepare for their Summer Intensive Auditions. For the first time, many Summer Dance Intensive Auditions will be held online, requiring dancers to take many other digital challenges into account among the already-demanding artistic requirements of auditions. With many Nutcracker and Holiday Season performances canceled, now is a great time for dancers to start preparing for the new demand of online auditions, and LDI’s customized audition packages have everything auditioners need to maximize their ability to shine within their current circumstance.
Princeton Ballet School to host a week-long virtual Winter Intensive, January 4-8, 2021
Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Repertory Ballet, invites dancers ages 13 and up to jump-start the new year with a comprehensive virtual Winter Intensive, January 4-8. “Dancers will have the opportunity to study different techniques and styles with master teachers from across the country and Europe,” says School Director Aydmara Cabrera.
English National Ballet’s Christmas gift - Nutcracker Delights to be released online
As a gift to its audiences this Christmas, English National Ballet will make a recorded performance of Nutcracker Delights available to watch for free on YouTube and Facebook, from 2pm Thursday 24 December, for 30 days.
Nutcracker LIVE Performance at the Wainwright House by Carole Alexis Company/Ballet des Amériques
Following two successful, sold-out shows at the picturesque Wainwright House (260 Stuyvesant Avenue, Rye, NY), Carole Alexis Company/Ballet des Amériques are delighted to announce another collaboration with the historic mansion. The two nonprofits come together to host twenty-five immersive live performances of The Nutcracker: Drosselmeyer’s Workshop on a variety of dates throughout the holidays—from December 17th to December 30th.
Ballet Hispánico Holiday Celebration
Ballet Hispánico, the nation's renowned Latinx dance organization recognized this year as one of America's Cultural Treasures, invites audiences to the Ballet Hispánico Holiday Celebration of Club Havana on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, at 7:30pm, available on YouTube and Facebook.
Apply! Mark DeGarmo Virtual Salon Performance Series 2020-21
Calling all Performing Artists: Mark DeGarmo Dance Seeks Applicants for the 2020-2021 season of its Virtual Salon Performance Series: a sharing of works-in-progress with a facilitated audience response curated and facilitated by dancer, choreographer, writer, and researcher, Dr. Mark DeGarmo.
Limon Dance Company live stream from Kaatsbaan in New York
The Limón Dance Company is presenting a free live stream performance from Kaatsbaan Cultural Park on December 19 at 7 PM. The program showcases two masterpieces by José Limón: "The Moor's Pavane" (1949) and "There is a Time" (1956), along with the lighthearted charmer "Suite Donuts," a new dance created by Chafin Seymour for the Limón Dance Company and co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival.
Ann Reinking, Tony Award Winner Dies at 71
Performers, family and loved ones around the world are grieving the loss of Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Ann Reinking, an actor, dancer and choreographer who died on December 12th in Washington. She was 71.
Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance New Offering - Plastic Harvest Virtual Work-in-Process Screening
The Center at West Park presents a virtual work-in-progress screening of Plastic Harvest, followed by an artist talkback, on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 7pm ET.
Avant Chamber Ballet brings Paul Mejia’s The Nutcracker from the stage to your living room
Avant Chamber Ballet brings Paul Mejia’s The Nutcracker from the stage to your living room with a new virtual performance of this iconic masterpiece with live music - Nutcracker Sweets! The performance will be available to rent starting December 12th until the new year. This year the production features Act 2 and the Dance of the Snowflakes with new costumes at Moody Performance Hall. Dallas’ own Cezanne Quartet will accompany the dancers with Tchaikovsky’s famous score.
American Repertory Ballet Names Ethan Stiefel New Artistic Director
After an extensive search, American Repertory Ballet (ARB) announced that Ethan Stiefel will become its new Artistic Director beginning July 2021.
Amalgamate, a New York City based arts organization releases online films
Posted on: 12/8/2020 2:00AM
Amalgamate, a New York City based arts organization for 15 years, has partnered up with four nonprofit organizations to create its first series of “Commercials for Humanity,” a collection of online films that use the power of dance and storytelling to compel viewers to action.
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents The Re-Quest
Los Angeles-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) presents The RE-QUEST, a 2-day virtual screening experience that invites audiences to rediscover Los Angeles through sound, movement, and conversation on Saturday and Sunday December 6th and 7th at 6pm PDT.
Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble will present a symposium on Anna Sokolow's Rooms on December 5
Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble will present a symposium on Anna Sokolow's Rooms on December 5, 2020. This FREE event will be moderated by Dance Enthusiast Founder and Editor in Chief Christine Jowers, and feature speakers from the Library of Congress, Prof. Neil Baldwin, and dancers who have performed Rooms across a half-century.
Dance/NYC Announces Dance/NYC 2021 Symposium and new Symposium Programming Committee
The service organization Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the Dance/NYC 2021 Symposium will take place on Wednesday, March 17 - Saturday, March, 20, 2021 and will be fully digital. As the only gathering of its kind for the dance community in the metropolitan New York City area, the Symposium is a meeting place for the dance field to exchange ideas, expand networks, sharpen organizational practices, and deepen the inquiry around New York City's legacy and trajectory of dance-making.
Brooklyn Nutcracker announces only live and in person Production in NYC
Brooklyn Ballet, a unique and interdisciplinary dance company will present highlights from its critically acclaimed and culturally inclusive production of The Brooklyn Nutcracker. Despite the continued performance pause for the entire New York performing arts community. The Brooklyn Nutcracker in the Jewel Box will offer audiences nine free opportunities, from December 10 to 13, to experience the magic of this timeless production live from outside Brooklyn Ballet’s home studio space for the whole family to enjoy.
Limon Dance Co return to the Kaatsbaan, Dec. 1-23
The Limón Dance Company returns to Kaatsbaan for a four week residency that culminates with a virtual performance featuring three dances: a new work by choreographer Chafin Seymour and two of Limón's masterpieces, The Moor's Pavane (1949) and There is a Time (1956). The live stream performance from Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s stage will take place on Saturday, December 19 at 7pm.
Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival x Dance Gap Year Sponsorship — Submissions due DECEMBER 11th, 2020
Dare To dance are currently accepting submissions for, Dare To Dance In Public Film Festival (D2D) Round 4: PANDEMANIA! The deadline to submit is December 11th, 2020 @ 11:59pm PST.
Dance/NYC Publishes Research Report: Defining “Small-Budget” Dance Makers in a Changing Dance Ecology
Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the release of its latest research report, Defining “Small-Budget” Dance Makers in a Changing Dance Ecology, a quantitative and qualitative analysis prepared in collaboration with Dance/NYC’s research team and Webb Mgmt Services (Carrie Blake and Nelie Jacques).
Mark DeGarmo Dance receives $10,000 grant
Mark DeGarmo Dance is 1 of 79 organizations to receive funding from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF). One of 1,022 applicants, MDD will use the funding awarded to fewer than 8% of applicants to continue its “Partnerships in Literacy through Dance and Creativity ©” program virtually during the second half of the 2020-21 school year.
Watch American Ballet Theatre Dancers Perform at Bloomingdale's Virtual Holiday Benefit
Bloomingdale’s is inviting customers to register for its all-new Virtual Holiday Benefit taking place on Monday, November 23 at 7 p.m. EST. Bloomingdale’s has transformed its annual iconic holiday celebrations into an innovative virtual experience, bringing the magic of a Bloomingdale’s holiday to homes nationwide for the first time.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2020
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade airs nationwide as a television-only event with no audience Broadcast on NBC and Telemundo Thursday, November 26, 2020 from 9 a.m. – Noon, in all time zones.
Los Angeles-based Barak Ballet's Gala & Reveal of "Reclamation"
On Saturday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST, Barak Ballet, a contemporary ballet company located in Los Angeles, will host its virtual fall gala, featuring the reveal of “Reclamation,” a 20-minute cinematic ballet by founder and artistic director Melissa Barak.
The Nutcracker by Vitacca Dance Nov. 27-29 at The Woodlands Resort
Vitacca Vocational School for Dance presents The Nutcracker from November 27-29, 2020 at The Woodlands Resort 2301 North Millbend Drive in The Woodlands. This season’s production features Vitacca Dance Artists from the greater Houston and The Woodlands areas and Guest Artists including Liam Hogan of Colorado Ballet who will perform the role of Cavalier. The Nutcracker is a dazzling holiday tradition for children and adults of all ages. Bring your family and friends on Clara’s magical journey from her home on Christmas Eve into the Land of Snow and Kingdom of Sweets. The Nutcracker is the perfect introduction for children to the wonderful world of ballet.
American Dance Guild - 10 Years Over 10 Weeks
Reaching into its archival treasure trove of rarely seen recordings of past events, The American Dance Guild commenced on October 12 their virtual offering 10 Years Over 10 Weeks, a rich collection of video performances of honorees and guest artists over the last ten years of ADG Performance Festivals. The video stream, which will run for ten weeks, will feature works by 25 dance luminaries from ADG Festivals 2009-2019. Each of the Festival artists will appear sequentially by year, running for one week. The live festival has been postponed this year in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Uzalo’s leading lady Dawn Thandeka King will be leaving the show to explore greener pastures
By Anas Mohamed On Jan 11, 2021
Uzalo’s leading lady Dawn Thandeka King will be leaving the show to explore greener pastures. Just when the leading drama series is looking to improve it’s storyline, Dawn Thandeka King is no longer going to be apart of the new and improved Uzalo.
Read more: Uzalo’s Actors Future Allegedly Hangs In The Balance!
In a social media post by entertainment commentator Phil Mphela, Dawn might have already left the show as he referred to her as ‘former Uzalo actress.’ The show is currently shooting season 5 so Dawn’s long stay with the show has come to an abrupt end after 4 seasons with them.
Dawn Thandeka King plays the feisty MaNgcobo on the drama series and her bold character has kept viewers glued to their screens weeknights on SABC 1. She has left the telenovela to pursue another leading role in a new show called Diepslot which is produced by Black Brain Pictures. The name will however change as the premier nears.
Last year there were rumours that the actress left the the show along with fellow actor Siyabonga Shibe who portrays Qhabanga. This was due to rumours which said the two stars wanted salary increases. “Dawn is, in fact, among the actors who have a dark cloud hanging over their head, her attitude recently isn’t doing her any favour, She makes the writers and directors’ job difficult because she sometimes demands to change the story-lines,” a source told a publication.
She was also accused of having diva tendencies on set, when she apparently makes the directors and writer’s job hard with demands to change the story line.
Well clearly the saying where there is smoke there is fire because both the actors have now left the show. Siyabonga departed from the production last year and wrote a lengthy Instagram post.
His exit is not entirely for good, as he has kept his fans’ hopes up by promising them “he will be back.”
“What a great journey it has been with #uzalo_sabc1 I enjoyed every moment of this production. I would love to first thank the Crew, you guys work tirelessly and passionately, on set it is always fun and laugher everyday and you put up with my good nonsense. I honestly respect you I have made friends with you guys and met brothers and sisters.
To the Cast ohh my God I don’t know where to begin, you guys are amazing. Working with you all has been a gem, a fantastic experience and a learning experience. It has been my honour to share a screen and wear those shoes of every character we play together. We really make the script come to life we’ll work again,” he wrote.
Uzalo's leading lady Dawn Thandeka King will be leaving the show to explore greener pastures
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BK24 火車吃水
Locomotive BK24 of the Tamsui line (1901-54) can now be found on 光復Guang-fu Campus of National Cheng-Gung University in Tainan. It was putatively donated by the Railroad Bureau to the university, or more precisely to its mechanical engineering department, sometime after it was decommissioned. This gifting was done apparently without consulting the Tamsui Township or any of its folks. Part of its innards have been removed allegedly for educational purposes and the cylindrical body now sports two gaping holes. It also has gathered a thick layer of dust. Even so, it retains its original majasticity:
Accompanying the display, a plaque (below) shows the specs of the steam engine and the very last line mentions that it has served the Tamsui RR Line. The writer apparently had no idea what the Tamsui Line had played in the lives of Tamsui-lang. The folklore is replete with love stories at a time when boys and girls commuted one hour each way to attend the best high schools in Taipei and the sparks flew. This is no longer possible with the now always crowded Taipei MRT.
The Township will now request that BK24 be returned to its rightful place. If everything goes well, it will be installed on the exact same spot where it re-loaded water and coal:
The above is a photo taken possibly in the early 1950s showing the water tower and next to it, the guzzling BK24. This was known fondly to Tamsui-lang as 火車吃水.
How to govern Taiwan - Part 3
Chen Yi 陳儀 (1883-1950) was the first post-war governor of Taiwan, appointed by Chiang Kai-Sek on Aug 29, 1945 and arrived in Taiwan with his entourage on Oct 24 to take up the office. On Oct 25, he presided over the surrender of the Japanese. And, as we all know, the 228 Incident of 1947 occurred under his failed governance.
Was he qualified to rule Taiwan? As it turned out, yes, at least on the surface:
(1) He was educated in Japan in 1902 and again in 1919 when he graduated from the Military Academy of Japan and also married a Japanese.
(2) In 1935, he visited Taiwan and was impressed by the rapid progress made under the Japanese rule. After more intelligence gathering, he published a report on Taiwan 台灣考查報告 in 1937.
(3) Also in 1937, he became the Provincial Chairman (Governor) of Fujian (Hokkien) and sought to reproduce the Japanese success of economic development in Taiwan.
(4) In anticipation of the return of Taiwan to China, in 1943, he chaired the Taiwan Survey Committee of the Nationalist Gov't and filed two reports, one an expansion of the previous survey and the other, the 台灣接管計劃綱要Outline of the plans for taking possession of Taiwan.
Similar to Goto Shinpei of the Japanese Colonial era, Chen Yi had also reached a number of conclusions from his exhaustive studies. Surprisingly and unfortunately, they were highly inaccurate and his strategy apparently based on China-centric views:
(1) Just like during the Qing rule, Taiwan was once again regarded as a conquered land. Chen et al had failed to realize that Taiwan was already on its way to becoming a modernized society with its people enjoying a much higher living standard than that in the war-torn China. The officials and the soldiers arriving from China in 1945-6, once again misbehaved as those during the Qing era. And the wealth and riches once again were looted by the governor's cronies.
(2) The gentry class, successfully used by the Japanese to help in the colonization of Taiwan was promptly labeled as traitors of the Han people and arrested and prosecuted. And those who had escaped persecution went silent. This class was replaced with a small group of Taiwanese who had fled the Japanese rule to reside in China, They, however, no longer enjoyed close kinship with the people of Taiwan. In fact, they were often ridiculed secretly as men of the Half-Mountain, a reference to their adaptation to the Chinese ways.
(3) The implementation of de-Japanization policies that suddenly inferiorized the Taiwanese intelligentsia and the emerging leadership, both consisting of physicians, lawyers, teachers, professors, writers, and artists [and most of them were wiped out during the 228 Incident in 1947].
The red flag above was the fatal flaw.
By 1942, 58% of the Taiwanese spoke and wrote Japanese. There were 1,019 elementary-junior high schools, 44 senior high schools, 117 vocational schools, 3 normal schools, and one full-fledged university (complete with a medical school). And among the young, by 1945, 80% had attended elementary school. This high literacy was, however, interpreted by Chen, not as a sign of modernization and an asset, but as that of slaverization and a black stain to be cleaned off. And to transform the Taiwanese back to Chinese, the language must be changed to Mandarin Chinese, the 國語official/national language of China, itself a dialect from Beijing (known to the Taiwanese as 北京話). On April 2, 1946, mandatory Chinese language education started. And all official businesses must be conducted in Chinese. In addition, as in April 1937 when the Japanese Colonial Gov't banned Chinese, on Oct 26, 1946, Chen prohibited the publication of all things written in Japanese. And writers and reporters who knew no Chinese lost their livelihood overnight.
Of course, it was never a simple language issue, Chen theorized that, "臺灣過去在日本帝國主義高壓統治之下，……在文化思想上更散播了無數的毒素，使臺灣同胞日日受其麻醉與薰陶，對祖國觀念模糊，逐漸離心，以遂「日本化」和「皇民化」的目的。……使臺灣同胞在不知不覺之中，自然而然的產生一種崇拜日本的自卑心理（in 《臺灣新生報‧1945年12月7日‧肅清思想毒素》）"
Translation: "In the past, Taiwan was under the tight control of Japanese imperialism, ...in order to achieve the goals of Japanization and imperial Japanification, [the Japanese] had spread numerous toxins to anesthetize and poison the cultural thinking on a daily basis, thereby gradually separating the Taiwanese from the idea of the motherland [i.e., China]. ...This has altered the mindset of the unsuspecting Taiwanese and changed it into one with an inferiority complex that worships Japan."
And how to "detoxify" the Taiwanese? Why, the Chinese language obviously must be re-introduced and through which, the Chinese culture as well, so that the Taiwanese could learn to discard the one that idolized Japan.
The disagreement was loud and clear, and immediate. Numerous rebuttals and editorials were published in contemporary newspapers. For example, an often quoted article by 王白淵 (1902-65) stated: "臺省在其各方面，既有具備近代民主社會建設的諸條件。許多外省人，開口就說臺胞受過日人奴化五十年之久，思想歪曲，似乎以為不能當權之口吻，我們以為這是鬼話，除去別有意圖，完全不對。……臺胞雖受五十年之奴化政策，但是臺胞並不奴化，可以說一百人中間九十九人絕對沒有奴化。只以為不能操漂亮的國語，不能寫十分流利的國文，就是奴化。那麼，其見解未免太過於淺薄，過於欺人。……現象與本質，應該要認清楚，不可以為一時的現象，例如臺胞慣用日文日語，或是帶著一點日人脾氣，或是不能說漂亮的國語，寫流利的國文，就說臺胞奴化變質或是沒有用。……臺胞雖是在日本高壓之下，但竟受過高度資本主義的洗禮，很少有封建的遺毒，在這一點我們以為台胞可以自慰（in 《政經報‧1946年1月25日‧告外省人諸公》.
Translation: "In every respect, Taiwan already is ready for modernization. Many Chinese declare that since the Taiwanese have been ruled as slaves for 50 years and are used to submissive thinking, they cannot be entrusted with power. We regard this as utter nonsense, rife with ulterior motive, and is totally wrong. ...The Taiwanese may have been ruled by slavery policies, but they are not slaverized. It is fair to say that out of 100, 99 absolutely have not been slaverized. If only because the Taiwanese cannot speak fluent Chinese and write in beautiful proses and therefore to mark them as having been slaverized is too superficial and a form of bullying. ...The manifestation and the reality must be distinguished. One must not regard a temporary phenomenon, for example, the Taiwanese are accustomed to using the Japanese language and at times exhibit Japanese behavior, and often they cannot handle spoken and written Chinese, it is not right to declare them warped and useless. ... Even though the Taiwanese have been ruled under high pressure by the Japanese, we have been exposed to high degrees of capitalism while retaining very little residual poison passed on from the old feudal system. We, the Taiwanese, surely can be proud of that".
It took the Japanese colonial gov't 50 years to reach an acceptable level of Japanese literacy. Even so, most Taiwanese still spoke their mother tongues at home. And yet, Chen boasted that the language reform could be accomplished within a short span of 4 years. To achieve this goal, he recruited a large number of Mandarin-speaking young men and women from China, to replace Japanese-speaking Taiwanese teachers. The latter must pass language exams in order to qualify for teaching again. Many did. However, the former frequently touted their 5,000 years of Chinese heritage and looked down on the Taiwanese as second-class cultural citizens, thus creating an instant disharmony.
[Above: Class of 1937/8 of 淡水女子公學校Tansui Girls' Public School, now 文化Wen-Hua Elementary School in Tamsui. In the front center, Taiwanese teacher 蘇淑姬. Courtesy of Fung-yin and the Cheng Family.]
In addition, the Chinese language requirement had other unpleasant consequences for the Taiwanese: (1) only Mandarin-speakers could become civil servants and (2) elections were limited to Mandarin-speaking candidates. In order to fill the vacant posts, the gov't imported mainland Chinese. And without candidates, the democracy process stopped dead in its tracks - long suspected as the ultimate motive of the new rulers of Taiwan that turned out to be true. To add insult to injury, the gov't claimed that Taiwan had no usable talents.
Yes, the Qing and the Japanese colonial rules all over again, and worse, this time, the governance was a combination of the two.
Chen Yi's governorship was terminated on March 22, 1947; although on Aug 6, 1948, he became the governor of ZeJiang Province, but was arrested in Feb, 1949 for plotting to defect to the Communists, a capital crime. He was sent to a prison in Taiwan in April, 1950, executed at 馬場町 in Wanhua on June 18 of the same year. Tens of thousands of Taiwanese gathered to witness the execution only to discover that it was already a done deal.
In 1898, 児玉源太郎 Kodama Gentaro (1852-1906) assumed the post of the 4th Colonial Governor General of Taiwan. He invited his close friend and colleague 後藤新平 Goto Shinpei (1857-1929) [pictured above] to be the Chief Civil Administrator and jointly, they ruled Taiwan for 8 years. Although in reality, Goto was the true governor or the governor in residence and Kodama, the governor in absentia, since the latter was often busy elsewhere in the Japan Empire.
Goto's governance of Taiwan had both short- and long-term components. In the short term, a ruthless iron-fist rule was applied. In order to put down the resistance that had continued since 1895 when the Japanese occupation started, 1,023 rebels were executed in the year 1899 alone. By 1905, a total of 32,000 men were punished or killed. For long-range planning, Goto mobilized resources and manpower and conducted an extensive study of the old habit/custom of the Taiwanese. And from which a number of conclusions were drawn and strategies developed:
(1) The 生物学の原則 Biological Principle for the governance of Taiwan:
Goto was initially trained as a physician who had also done research in Germany (1890) and the results had earned him an MD degree in Japan. The utilization of the scientific method in his other duty as an administrator was therefore a matter of course. This biological principle was essentially to leave things as they were and not to go against Nature. Goto pointed out that it was not possible to, for example, change the eye position of a carp to that of a flounder "ヒラメの目をタイの目にすることは出来ない". To put this in practice, Goto advocated that any effective administering must adapt to, not to alter local circumstances, since people were the product of social customs and systems and were set in their ways.
[A side issue here: this biological principle has often been quoted out of context as evidence of the Taiwanese having been treated by the Japanese as "生物living things", i.e., animals, as opposed to "人humans".]
(2) The 3 traits of Taiwanese:
So what kind of Taiwanese did the society produce? People with 3 traits of weakness, it seemed: (1) fear of death (2) greed, and (3) vanity. These were actually universal human frailties, not necessarily specific to the Taiwanese [not to all Taiwanese anyway, more below]. Regardless, since each one could be easily dealt with in a specific manner, hence the formulation of Goto's 治台三策Three Policies for Governing Taiwan. A search of the original documents proves unproductive, thus the exact wording of the 3 traits remains unclear. The frequently cited version in Chinese appeared on page 14, Vol 145 of 台灣民報 published on Feb 20, 1927, in an article written by 菊仙 (real name: 黃旺成, 1888-1978):
「後藤新平氏在臺灣做民政長官的時候，從臺灣人的性質上發見了三條的弱點，因為要利用這弱點，所以定了治臺的三策：一、臺灣人怕死－－要用高壓的手段威嚇的[1. Fear of death -- therefore the Taiwanese could be threatened with high-pressure tactics]。二、臺灣人愛錢－－可以用小利誘惑的 [2. Greed or amorous love of money -- Taiwanese could be bribed with small favors]。三、臺灣人重面子－－可以用虛名籠絡的 [3. Overly vain or obsession with face-saving -- Taiwanese could be plied with empty titles of renown]。」
The intent of this article was actually to refute the fear of death assertion citing as proof, the failed application of policy No 1 by 內田嘉吉 Uchida Kakichi (1866-1933). In Uchida's role as the Chief Civil Administrator (1910-15), the use of deadly force had not deterred Taiwanese rebels at all. Of the many rebellions under his watch, the most notorious, also the last of its kind, was the 噍吧哖事件 (1915-16) of Tainan, in which the Taiwanese fought unsuccessfully for religious freedom and 1,413 men were later arrested and charged, with 866 sentenced to death (95 executed) and 453 to terms in prison. After the Diet [國會, Ko-Kai, Japanese Parliament] expressed grave concern over the excessive severity of the punishment, the death sentences were commuted to life in prison. Uchida served less than one year (1923-24) as the 9th Governor General and was unceremoniously removed.
That the Taiwanese were not all the same was already known to Goto, however. To him, the Taiwanese could be separated into two camps, the well-to-do gentry [仕紳] upper-class and the rest, and the three human frailties were applicable to the more educated gentry minority, not the vast number of often rebellious common folks. Realizing that in what was really a Confucian society where the gentry class had always commanded respect from the common people, Goto then went to work. By applying Policies 1-3 judiciously, he was able to gather a group of collaborators to negotiate with the fearless rebels on behave of the Japanese. This first attempt was a trial run. It would not be as successful as advertised, at least not productive in the short run, and large revolts continued, well into 1915, after Goto's term ended in 1906.
To probe even further, Goto had also found that the origin of the facing-saving vanity was actually an extension of piety, a merit central to the centuries-old Confucianism.
This, however, seems a stretch. Perhaps the simplest interpretation is that when an authoritative figure (e.g., the Governor General) asked a Taiwanese of some prominence to perform a task, the latter would feel obligated to use all his connections and power to complete the mission, or risked losing face and worse his social standing.
Nonetheless, on a more fundamental level, the Confucius teachings had long been exploited by the ruling class in China, and people were taught since childhood to be respectful of Heaven, Earth, emperors/rulers, parents, and teachers, in that order. And indeed throughout Chinese history, many had chosen to die before betraying their emperors/leaders and their heroic deeds popularized and the heroes honored as martyrs. This ultimate sacrifice was not incompatible with and might have even spawned the Japanese Bushido. Goto decided that the early attempt of erasing Chinese culture, complete with the demolition of the Confucius Temple in Taipei (built in 1882) was a monumental mistake. Confucianism was therefore re-instated and propaganda-worthy cultural events such as honoring the elders and poet gatherings were held, thereby earning the trust of the Taiwanese gentry. The long-term strategy envisioned by Goto essentially formed the core principle of the governance of Taiwan, i.e., by controlling the gentry class first and the commoners would automatically follow. This strategy had proved successful starting at when the revolts finally stopped in 1916 and Taiwan entered a peaceful period until almost the end of the colonial rule in 1945. [Note: One of the richest men of Tamsui and a prominent member of 台北仕紳 (Taipei Gentry), 許丙 (1891-1963), was even elected to the Diet in 1945 as a representative in the Upper House.]
Led by the rich and famous propped up by the Japanese, Taipei Confucius Temple was re-built in 1925 much to the delight of the general public. And for the next 2 decades, a whole generation of Taiwanese was educated, beginning with the compulsory elementary schooling, to be loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor. In the end, however, the assimilation [皇民化 or Japanificaton] was never completed. It is still unclear if this process would ever be successful, it having been interrupted by the surrender of Japan at the end of the Pacific War. Although, in preparing for the war in 1942-45, the governance of Taiwan had shifted away from the Goto Confucianism approach to unadulterated Japanese militarism. This, compounded with the exposure to western democratic ideas and more important, a discontent simmering in the background - stemming from the subtle yet real racial differences between Taiwanese and Japanese, the overt favoritism of the Japanese on all levels, and the forced abandonment of Taiwanese language and religion - had raised the awareness of the Taiwanese identity, however ill-defined at that time.
Unfortunately, an incomplete Taiwanese identity, often confused with Chinese nationalism even among the Taiwanese themselves, rendered it open to character assassination.
During the 1945 Nationalist take-over of Taiwan (above, the welcoming and celebratory banners displayed in Taipei), the Taiwanese law-abiding citizenship was derided as the result of the Japanese slaverizing education [奴化教育], based on a fear of the law rather than the healthy respect of it as that shown by other civilized peoples in the world. The orderly society during the transient absence of law-and-order authorities between Aug and Dec, 1945 was deemed an exhibition of Taiwanese meekness. And the proud work ethic? Well, simply a sign of total submission to their Japanese masters. These dismissive assessments plus the mis-reading of Goto's study proved hugely incorrect. And the long-dormant rebellious Taiwanese character of the Qing era was finally awaken in 1947, in the 228 Incident.
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The Crisis of Lord Foul’s Bane
Written by Troy Williams on July 11, 2018 . Posted in Self-Evolution.
I come to this review in a crisis. While chasing my dream of writing science fiction, I forgot my age. Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant lit my desire to write. I found Lord Foul’s Bane in the school library, a paperback fantasy on a shelf full of dusty, hard-covered tombs. Lord Foul’s Bane entered my world at another crisis point; high school. The story of a man rejected by his world was the life of every thin high school nerd in the early eighties.
I devoured The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Donaldson’s writing was a revelation. He ignored that tired advice of the simple word is better. Lord Foul’s Bane forced me to read with a dictionary nearby. I loved it. With every beat of a sentence I thought to myself, I want to write like this.
I tried, but divorce and households emptied of joy marred my transition from childhood to independence. A journey made more difficult by parents that were unable or unwilling to help. American culture is fertile ground for such stories. My story spans thirty years before I sat down to finish my fist science fiction novel.
Absently he replied, “I was, once.”
“And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?”
Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
Fiction is hard. Harder than coding a website, harder than leading a team of coders in a global integration project. Writing The Fundamentals was the hardest thing I have ever finished. It’s not Moby Dick, but it is better than most of the self-published works on Amazon, and my current work is even better. Thirty-five years after devouring Lord Foul’s Bane, I call myself a writer. I have never been more frightened.
The Crisis of Looking for Work
In thirty years of work, I had four interviews for new jobs and twice that for promotions or new positions. I got them all. No sweat.
Now, with a resume that screams competence, dedication, and success, I can’t get a job. I get interviews, but nothing more. Courtesy is gone in the interview process. When someone follows up, I learn they hired younger. I am fifty-one. I focused on my dream at forty-nine, my mistake. Wrestling with despair, I decided to read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant again.
Unconsciously he clenched his fist over his ring. “I live.”
“Another?” Foamfollower returned. “In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more—with one word you will make me weep.”
Saltheart Foamfollower from https://gapintomirrorland.fandom.com/wiki/Saltheart_Foamfollower
This is my third pass at Stephen R. Donaldson’s series. I do not reread books until they fall apart like many are wont. On rare occasion I will reread a book to reinforce my memories of its themes. That I have purchased the Kindle editions of The Chronicles for a third reading is all the proof you need. READ THESE BOOKS. No one comes away from them untouched. I know some that could not finish them, and a few that refused to read them, but for those willing to live with a dictionary at hand, it is a seminal piece of fiction.
Thomas Covenant is a leper. In the first three chapters we learn about leprosy. How family and society treat someone with that disease. An early eighties geeky teenager could relate to Covenant’s dilemma. He wanted to belong, to matter, to be accepted, but his community rejected him. Leper! Outcast! Unclean!
A geek in the eighties was a faggot, a queer, a loner. Covenant’s leprosy became a talisman I wore around my heart. When insulted or punched in the hallways of school, I curled the last two fingers of my right hand. Be True.
Foamfollower answered as if in reply to some other voice. “Remember the Oath of Peace. In the maze where you go, it is your lifeline. It preserves you against Soulcrusher’s purposes, hidden and savage. Remember the Oath. It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.”
Thomas Covenant is a writer. He started his writing career with a break-out novel that made him money, found him love, a wife, and a child. Then after all those affirmations, he became impotent, unable to write another book. His wife grew distant, went away, and in a week of desperate writing leprosy claims Covenant’s life. When his wife returns he stinks with gangrene. In horror, his wife flees with their son. The small town isolates him to his farm, paying his bills to keep him away from their children. With the cold rigidity of a leper’s dilemma, Covenant marches to town to pay his bills, where—after portents of what is coming—he is nearly struck by a police car. He falls to the ground and wakes in the Land where Lord Foul gives him a message, a bane, to carry to the Lords of Revelstone.
The Land is impossibly healthy. The inhabitants naïve of their circumstance and Covenant’s disease. In the Land, earth, stone, and wood have power. The power to give light and heat and heal.
After a trial of vertigo and kindness, the land cures Covenant’s leprosy. The defining element of his life is gone. He can feel icy water, hard stone, and power in the earth.
Unbelief is Covenant’s only defense. A leper cannot afford to hope. A cut, a bruise, any harm, will trigger the bacillus that is his life’s bane. That a magical place, bereft of technology, can heal leprosy is impossible. This land is a dream, and, in a moment, he will wake, to the nightmare that is his life.
After a few chapters of witnessing the behavior of the Land’s inhabitants, you will wonder if your life is a nightmare. Why don’t we respect the Earth and its resources? Compared to the Stonedowner and Woodhelvennin we rape our world. In the impossible health and goodness of the Land Covenant is true to his nature—our nature—raping a young girl. An event that defines much of the story in books to come.
“No,” the Unbeliever said. “Dreams—never forgive.”
Lord Foul’s Bane opens the longer narrative. Through Covenant’s travels we learn about the Land, its history, and its people. We journey high into the branches of Soaring Woodhelvennin, only to see it burned to ashes. We venture into the deeps a Revelstone and learn of the Giants and their contribution to the Land’s history. We discover the Bloodguard, the Ranyhyn, the Cavewights, and the Ur-Viles. Lord Foul’s Bane lays the foundations for the epics to come. Most importantly, we learn about Drool Rockworm, who has found both the Staff of Law and the Illearth Stone. With their combined might, and under the guidance of Lord Foul, he summoned the one thing that could free Foul from his prison of time. White Gold. Covenant’s wedding band.
A bane of a Covenant’s meant to last through sickness and health contains the wild magic that can save or doom the Land. At the end, Covenant meets Drool Rockworm, then mirrors his wife’s abandonment; he tosses his wedding band into the rocks of Mount Thunder. But despite himself, Covenant made friends in the Land, and they do not accept his castigation. They retrieve his ring, the Fire Lions descend on Drool Rockworm, and Covenant wakes in a hospital bed, bruised from falling to the pavement when a police car nearly hit him.
The doctor of this world is not the leper’s friend. He sends Covenant back to his farm, away from the town, away from the people he might infect. Thomas Covenant will never be the same. He will find it as impossible to accept his world as it was to accept the Land. Can you blame him?
As a skinny geek in the eighties I earned a derision as potent as leper; faggot. Those were different times; geeks are cool now. They have TV shows, conventions, and those old crutches of comics and science fiction are billion-dollar businesses. Being a coder is common now. In fact, if you can’t code, you risk ostracization, left behind, forgotten. Those who will find hope from despair in the pages of Lord Foul’s Bane are of a different generation today, but no less fearful than I was thirty years ago.
Troy Williams is a technology and science fiction nerd. The Fundamentals, was his first work of science fiction and there are many more stories in The Fundamental’s Universe. At his day job, he is a web and application developer experienced at coding and managing projects as small as an individual’s website to large enterprise integrations.
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COPE’s Ellen Woodsworth braces for political winter, next steps
December 7, 2011 · by David P. Ball · in Vancouver Observer. ·
Published in the Vancouver Observer news site | December 7, 2011 | Circulation: 100,000 average monthly readers.
Ellen Woodsworth, in her east Vancouver home, is surrounded by cards of thanks and support from across the city following the loss of her City Council seat November 19. Photo by David P. Ball
Former city councillor Ellen Woodsworth offers me a pair of hand-knit blue striped socks as she welcomes me into her east end row-house just off Commercial Drive – to keep my feet warm, she says. She’s on her cell phone, and as she busies herself making us tea the house phone rings.
“Can you, uh, get that for me please?” she asks. Thankfully, no one is on the other end of the line. As I settle into a faded brown couch in the living room of the row-house Woodsworth has rented for 32 years, I realize I’m completely surrounded by a decades-long collection of art, sculpture, fabrics and furniture. No knick-knacks here — all of it evidently meaningful to her and her partner, Jo.
On Tuesday, Woodsworth – known for her principled stands on affordable housing, homelessness and support for the Downtown Eastside community — officially ended her her second term on city council (the first was 2002-2005). Her brother, Dick, helped her move out of her office. He shows up during our interview, chatting about their great-uncle, renowned socialist politician and churchman J.S. Woodsworth. The office boxes he helped his sister move are yet-to-be-unpacked in the basement.
When prompted, she reveals she’s most proud of raising the profile of housing and homelessness, fighting for human rights and civil liberties — particularly during the 2010 Olympics – and securing resident-developed neighbourhood plans for Marpole, the Downtown Eastside, the West End, and Grandview-Woodlands.
Woodsworth draws my attention to a large framed Stewart Marshallwatercolour adorning one wall – it’s a large, bleak prairie landscape, snowy furrowed fields pierced by a stubble of cut grain stalks, a solitary grain elevator shining against the vast sky. To me, the stark, eerie landscape reminds me of Woodsworth’s new title of “former councillor” – pushed off city council by only 91 votes, uncertain of her next steps, waiting for a warmer season. In fact, she explains that she actually bought the Marshall print right after she lost the 2005 election.
“I had my last pay cheque from city hall,” she laughs, as the kettle begins to shriek comfortingly. “I had no idea where I was going to get money from – (this painting) just moved me very much.
“You can feel them,” she adds, motioning along the arching ploughed lines of cut grass, “how stubbly they get out of the season.”
The veteran activist-turned-Council of Progressive Electors (COPE) councillorspends the next hour reminiscing about her second term in office, her theories on why COPE was pushed out of all but Allan Wong’s lonely school board seat (a combination of overspending by Vision and NPA, vote-splitting on the left, and not putting David Cadman’s name on the ballot) — and what’s next in her own life. Her tone is considerably more upbeat than when we spoke on election night, and later when we arranged our visit today – that tone, I’d describe as sombre, disappointed, perhaps resigned.
“In a way, this may be a gift,” Woodsworth says calmly, looking out the living room window at a housing cooperative across the street, and newly commissioned street mural. “There’s other really, really important things I couldn’t do while I was on council.
“I was able to do so much – I’ve really accomplished a lot. But there’s all kinds of other ways in which you can accomplish building a better world, fighting for social justice.”
That ultimate question – her next steps — depends mostly on whether she and her partner are evicted from their long-time home. The heritage row house they’ve rented for decades has been sold to a new owner, and their future is up in the air.
“Where do we go?” she asks. The question does not seem intended to draw pity; it is not rhetorical. “My partner’s on a low income. I thought I had a job — now I don’t have a job – and the income I thought I would have to find a house all of a sudden isn’t there.
“It was something I understood from working in the Downtown Eastside and being a renter, but now that I’m personally in that situation — all of a sudden out of a job and trying to find housing – it’s a very frightening world out there.”
The precariousness of being one day a councillor whose election seemed a shoe-in to many – to being unemployed the next – draws us into a tactical discussion on vote-splitting on the left, but also a worsening economy in which more and more people are on the edge of homelessness and poverty.
“Ninety-one votes later — after a few hundred people were turned away from voting in the Downtown Eastside — I don’t have a job and we don’t get unemployment insurance. Bam.
“Across Canada, you have a widening income gap and a shrivelling middle class, and you have the wealthy trying to undermine and – through Harper – get rid of unions and undermine funding for the health care sector. There’s still a lot of individualism in Canada, where people think they individually can make it. We need to get this information out to people – what’s really happening.”
Intoning a litany of worsening societal inequality, a weakened social safety net and environmental destruction, Woodsworth heads into a thorny terrain few politicians dare enter without assurances of justice, outrage and blame: June’s Stanley Cup riots.
“Nobody tied the riot to young people feeling really afraid for their futures,” she said. “It was all just kids acting out – but why are kids acting out like that?
“I think young people are very afraid – where are they going to find a job, how are they going to afford housing, the environment is obviously falling apart. There’s a lot of reasons people go berserk like that. Those social reasons were examined in London, England – the Guardian did a great article about the many reasons why the youth in England rioted. But nobody did that kind ofsocial analysis of why the kids rioted after the Stanley Cup.”
Without dedicated journalists facilitating a public discussion on social ills, inequities and injustices, Woodsworth worries that the result will increasingly be seen in scenes of chaos and breakdown – sometimes politicized, others more unconsciously motivated.
“The corporations controlling the media have been very successful in alienating people from political discourse and engagement,” she says. “This is verydangerous – especially in times like this.”
But our time together is not entirely bleak. Even in the starkest subjects, Woodsworth jokes gently, pauses thoughtfully, draws the conversation again and again to beauty, possibilities, and hope. I ask her about a news clipping on her coffee table on how to improve job interview skills.
She chuckles, explaining someone gave it to her, but interview skills are likely not her main barrier to getting a post-council job. She brainstorms possibilities – from starting a national renters union, to being encouraged to run in federal or provincial politics (or again, in three years here). It’s possible, she says. No promises.
Her view to the future – not the loss of her seat – was summed up in her closing prayer to city council last week:
“I dream that Vancouver will become a great city,” she told her colleagues on council for the last time this term. “I call on all of us to remember our roots in the Coast Salish nations who governed here 125 years ago. They looked at the world as a whole or through a medicine wheel. The centre could only be seen through looking at a problem from all angles, listening to all voices, acknowledging different chiefs and acting for the best interests of everyone.
“Many the next council dream of nothing less.”
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SL v ENG 2021: Kusal Mendis creates forgettable record after getting dismissed for four ducks in a row in Tests
Kusal Mendis’ poor run of form continued as he was dismissed for his fourth consecutive duck in Tests. Coming in to bat at number 3 against England in the first Test in Galle today, Mendis was out in the second ball. He hung his bat outside the off stump and nicked the ball to English wicket-keeper Jos Buttler, who took a smart catch. At the time of writing, Sri Lanka are struggling at 47-3 on Day 1.
With his latest exploit, Kusal Mendis joined a list of distinct players who have achieved the unwanted feat of scoring four consecutive ducks in Test innings. Batting in top six, Kusal Mendis equalled the likes of Pankaj Roy, Mohinder Amarnath and Mark Waugh, all of whom managed four consecutive ducks in their Test career. Surprisingly, Danny Morrison has the most ducks while batting in top six, as he has five successive zeroes to his name.
Most consecutive ducks in Tests when batting in Top 6 positions
5 Danny Morrison
4 Pankaj Roy
4 Mohinder Amarnath
4 Mark Waugh
4 KUSAL MENDIS #EngvSL
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) January 14, 2021
Along with Morrisson, who was often deployed as a nightwatchman by New Zealand, the record for the most consecutive ducks in Tests is shared by Bob Holland, Ajit Agarkar and Mohammad Asif. Kusal Mendis would surely not want to join that list when he comes out to bat in the second innings against England.
Kusal Mendis’ Test career at a glance
Kusal Mendis
Sri Lanka were recently whitewashed by South Africa in a two-match Test series. Kusal Mendis could only manage 12 runs in the entire tour, all of which came in the first innings of the first Test.
Mendis has undoubtedly blown hot and cold in his career so far. He has shown promise at times but has had some bad run of form as well. Barring today’s Test, Kusal Mendis has played 46 matches for Sri Lanka and has scored 3007 runs at an average of 35.37, including seven centuries and 11 half-centuries.
However, the right-handed batsman can’t seem to score a run at the moment. Mendis would have to tighten his defence if he doesn’t want to create some more unwanted records.
Kusal Mendis in last 4 Test innings:
4 ducks in a row. #SLvENG
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Explosive Eruption at Paluweh Volcano
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Although the summit of Paluweh (also known as Rokatenda) is shrouded by clouds, evidence of a recent eruption is visible in this satellite image of the Indonesian volcanic island. After rumbling for months, Paluweh released an explosive eruption on February 2 and 3, 2013.
Gray ash covers the southern slopes of the peak in this natural-color image. A lighter gray swath running from the summit (shrouded by the plume) to the ocean traces the path of a volcanic landslide, likely the remnants of a pyroclastic flow. A new delta extends into the Flores Sea at the foot of the flow. To the northwest, airborne ash swirls around the island. Green vegetation appears relatively untouched, but ash has destroyed many of the island’s crops, according to The Jakarta Globe.
Erik Klemetti, author of the Eruptions Blog, suggested that the eruption at Paluweh may have been caused by the collapse of an unstable lava dome. The number of small tremors and emissions of ash increased in October 2012 and continued into February 2013, perhaps indicating growth of the lava dome.
The image above was collected on February 12, 2013, by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. According to the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Paluweh has experienced minor ash and gas emissions almost daily since the initial blast.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.
A recent eruption covered much of this Indonesian island in ash.
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Mafia sets up another circus tent in US
Following Magnitsky Act fiasco and RICO case getting stuck, oligarchs take a third shot
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After seeing that Bulgaria does not believe the oligarchs' crocodile tears and that its citizens no longer fall for their vaudeville tricks, the multi-millionaires of the country's murky period of transitioning to democracy decided to take their circus act across the pond and inundate the American society and institutions with lies. Yet again.
The brothers Atanas and Plamen Bobokov, aka the Lords of Junk, who have been indicted for poisoning the Bulgarian environment and citizens with toxic waste, and Minyu Staykov, who stands accused of misappropriation of EU funs and is a defendant in a separate case involving tax crimes and money laundering, hired the same US lobbyist firm - within several months apart - to clean up their image with laughable lies and blatant libels. Including about Bulgaria.
From the documents filed by the lobbyist company Alexandria Group International under the FARA law, which requires every US company working for a foreign enterprise or natural person to disclose the details of its contracts with them, it becomes clear that the firm has been contacted by even more potential Bulgarian clients involved in three criminal cases. Their identity has not been officially revealed. However, all signs point to the Bobokov brothers' family friend, gambling tzar with record number of charges (19) Vasil Bozhkov, being one of them. The fact is that his name is mentioned in the lobbyists' exposes filed with the US Department of State in relation to their contract with the Bobokov brothers. Furthermore, he was painted as a victim of repressions and of an attempt for a hostile takeover of his business, just like the Bobokov brothers.
This is the third US smokescreen created by oligarchs under criminal investigation in Bulgaria for the past three years. The current overseas campaign launched by the mobster fellowship follows in the footsteps of Tsvetan Vassilev's two attempts to make himself out to be innocent through lies about the country and his enemies. First was his claim under the Magnitsky Act, then came the RICO case. Both legal actions were smokescreens. The Magnitsky one was a complete fiasco and the RICO one has gotten stuck in mud. However, this has not deterred the mobster bosses, who are doing their level best to avoid retribution for their crimes, from taking the same path. To that end, they have joined forces seemingly in the hope that together they may succeed where Tsvetan Vassilev rightfully failed. Their hope is baffling considering that, even though the company Vassilev used was different, the documents filed by the lobbyist firm Alexandria Group International show that the Bobokov brothers, family friends of the fugitive banker, intend to use the same template, relying on blatant lies.
The Lords of Junk have signed a contract with the US firm for the period between 1 July and 31 December 2020. Initial reports put the value of the contract at $130,000, of which $78,000 has already been paid. The contract with Minyu Staykov has the same value, the term of application is between November 2020 and April 2021, the documents filed under FARA show. Two “exposes” have been filed under the Bobokov contract, which describe their case in fantasy-genre terms. Even though they have officially been paid for by the Lords of Junk, the exposes defend not only them, but gambling tzar Vasil Bozhkov as well.
These exposes lack even a single attribute of a legal document. They offer no evidence in support of the assertions they make. Instead, they are full of laughable theses that paint the Bobokov brothers as “innocent victims” arrested by members of a “Pretorian Guard” that is supposedly an heir to the “communist State Security”. The Lords of Junk, who are being investigated by the prosecutor's offices in three different countries are presented as “hard-working middle-aged entrepreneurs” with “clean records”. Both they and Vasil Bozhkov are described as cleaner than fresh snow and victims of attempts for “illegal takeover of their business”. Against this backdrop, the figures that the authors of this vaudeville story choose to blame for the alleged attacks shouldn't surprise you. Once again using the template created by Tsvetan Vassilev, the authors point a finger at the country's prime minister, prosecutor general… and opposition lawmaker Delyan Peevski.
No evidence is provided in support of these claims or the alleged connection between Peevski, the ruling party and the Prosecutor's Office. There could be no such evidence because the claims are false. However, that has not stopped the authors from attaching to Peevski, who has become enemy №1 of the oligarchy, not only some imaginary connection to the cabinet and the prosecutor general, but a plethora of absurd lies that have been disproven dozens of times with facts but continue to be disseminated by the oligarchy's media machine for fake news. Those include claims that he owns 80% of the distributions of newspapers in Bulgaria (a business that he has had nothing to do with and that has been under state control for nearly a year now); that he owns a big share of the daily newspapers (his media group consists of six of a total of over 230 publications in the country); that he owns the “second largest TV network” (even though his media group has never owned a radio or a TV channel).
At the same time, there is no mention of the fact that Peevski not only has nothing to do with the Prosecutor's Office, but that a representative of that office ordered the Patent Office to erase the trademark of Telegraph, the largest newspaper in Bulgaria and part of Peevski's media group. No mention of the fact that, unlike the multi-millionaires of the so-called Transition Period, Peevski has nothing to do with the State Security. Another significant and irrefutable fact is also conspicuously missing - that Peevski is a lawmaker in opposition. In other words, the only power he really has is his right to legislative initiative. But if they were to admit that, the authors of this fable would not only be admitting to lying, but to the fact that the MP has become enemy №1 of the mafia of the Transition Period namely because of his legislative initiatives, which have thrown a wrench into the oligarchic clique's illegal schemes. Another factor that has earned him this status are the constant investigations his publications conduct into these individuals' dealings and the State Security puppeteers who stand behind them and their getting rich in the first place.
And so, while written by a US lobbyist firm, these “exposes” follow an old Bulgarian tradition of thieves crying thief and pin the crimes of the US firm's clients on Peevski. Again, following an old Bulgarian tradition, people who have been amassing wealth through corruption schemes and at the expense of Bulgarian citizens for decades, now libel the country abroad not only to save their own hide, but to be able to continue syphoning off the country's resources. The libels, the tax irregularities and the syphoning off, however, are crimes both under the Bulgarian Penal Code and US law. It is highly unlikely that the latest attempts of the indicted and charged oligarchs to make themselves out to be victims through lies and smokescreens will change this fact.
Billionaire paedophile who committed suicide sponsored lobbyist for fugitive banker
The lobbyist tactics that Tsvetan Vassilev has used to make himself out to be a victim have not only failed miserably, but were touched by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as well. The billionaire, who was charged with sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors, killed himself while in custody. Among the things revealed in his case was the fact that he donated $50,000 to the election campaign of democratic candidate for governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson in 2006. The report was confirmed by a spokesperson for Richardson. It is the former governor of New Mexico who was the main mouthpiece for Vassilev's claim under the Magnitsky Act. It was later uncovered that their friendship had a price tag - $5m from the purposefully failed CorpBank, that were paid to the Atlantic Council, where Richardson sat on the board over a period of four years. Separately, the fugitive banker paid $50,000 to the US lobbyist firm Jason Waterman International.
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Triumvirate of junk spreads lies about Delyan Peevski
The Bobokov brothers inundate the public with fake news to clean up their image and pose as victims
A certain triumvirate is trying to hold Bulgaria captive. A triumvirate of oligarchs served by puppet journalists and fake news. A triumvirate of people who have amassed their wealth on the back of Bulgarian citizen thanks to corruption and waste disposal. And now these same people are attempting to plunge the country and its public into a swamp of their own vice and lies (dressed up as news) in order to keep making millions at the expense of the Bulgarian people.
Bobokov brothers spew lies about Delyan Peevski on TV
For some men getting cuckolded is shameful, something to hide. Others, however, wear this fact like a badge of honor and even embellish it with lies. It is easy to see what category the Bobokov brothers fall in. The answer was made clear to anyone who chose to suffer through watching the farcical interview with Plamen and his older brother, Atanas, that bTV aired in primetime on Sunday.
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The pyramid of lies built by indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev came crashing down in an instant under the weight of Ivo Mirchev, the corpulent avatar of former justice minister Hristo Ivanov, aka Pinocchio. The giant Hippoland gaffe of the fat troll illuminated the fact that for decades now the Capital cult has been spewing thousands of lies against Delyan Peevski, lawmaker and publisher of the newspapers Monitor and Telegraph.
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Alex Pettyfer: Magic Mike Pony dance recreated
By Devan Coggan
Updated July 18, 2016 at 03:47 PM EDT
Credit: Glen Wilson
Original Magic Mike star Alex Pettyfer may have sat out last year’s XXL sequel, but he still knows how to shake it.
It’s been four years since Pettyfer starred opposite Channing Tatum in the big-screen saga of male strippers, and since then, “The Kid” has co-founded a recommendations app called Hypit. But his new coworkers haven’t forgotten his dancing past, and in a new video, they surprise Pettyfer by blasting Ginuwine’s “Pony” — while he breaks out a few of his Magic moves.
“When you’re working late at night and your team decide to bring up the past!!!” Pettyfer wrote on Instagram, adding the hashtags #imissthosedays and #littlerusty.
Pettyfer and Tatum didn’t get along during production on Magic Mike, and last year, Pettyfer opened up about his behavior on set and his clash with Tatum over a rent dispute. “Channing Tatum does not like me, and for many reasons — many being my own fault,” he said in November.
As a result, Pettyfer didn’t return for the XXL-sized sequel, and Tatum has said there are no plans for a Magic Mike 3. Still, Mike and his magic will be returning to the stage next year with the upcoming Magic Mike Live show in Las Vegas — and Tatum has said to expect “a lot of crazy cameos.” And based on his latest Instagram video, Pettyfer clearly still has the moves.
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Sundance 2015, Day 6: Shut out of Jupiter Ascending, charmed by Guy Pearce
Yesterday afternoon, on my final day of Sundance, Variety officially brought to an end the hours of speculation that have become an annual pastime among press in Park City. This year’s secret screening—the mystery movie scheduled for a “TBA” slot on Tuesday evening at the Egyptian Theatre, just as Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 was last year—would be none other than the unofficial world premiere of the Wachowskis’ delayed space opera Jupiter Ascending. Don’t let me get anyone’s hopes up, though: While last year’s surprise dose of Von Trier was something of an unofficial press screening, packed to the gills with journalists, critics were persona non grata at last night’s 3-D exhibition of the spring blockbuster. “No press are being admitted,” a volunteer told me and A.V. Club contributor Ben Kenigsberg as we tried to talk our way into what turned out to be a half-full screening. Moments later, festival director John Cooper confirmed this policy, encouraging the both of us to go see something more explicitly Sundance-appropriate instead. The irony of such a decree, issued moments before the introduction of a $200 million studio film at the festival he runs, was surely not lost on the programmer.
So we didn’t get in, though not for lack of trying. I could go on and on about the suspect reasoning behind showing such an enormous Hollywood product at a film festival devoted to independent movies, or what it says for the movie in question that Warner Bros. was so insistent that critics not be invited (though a few did manage to score hard tickets—not that they can write about the embargoed title yet). Maybe, however, this shut-out was a blessing in disguise. Maybe Cooper is right and there are better ways to spend a film festival—and in my case, to finish one—than watching a picture that will be released in countless American theaters in about a week. It wasn’t as though there weren’t plenty of fine alternatives.
One of them, the touching, sweeping immigrant story Brooklyn (Grade: B+), really snuck up on me. Adapted by Nick Hornby, from a novel by Colm Tóibín, the film follows a pretty Irish girl (Saoirse Ronan) as she leaves her tiny community for the hustle and bustle of New York, where she struggles with homesickness, slowly adapts to life in the big city, and falls in love. Period-piece melodramas (the film is set in 1952) don’t often play Sundance, which tends to favor an edgier breed of independent movie, and Brooklyn’s old-fashioned charms felt like a breath of fresh, simpler-time air. The plot eventually becomes something of a love triangle, with our heroine torn between a nice Italian lad (Emory Cohen, from The Place Beyond The Pines) and an equally nice Irish suitor (Domhnall Gleeson). But the real tough decision faced by the character is whether to keep fighting to make it on her own, thousands of miles from her family, or to retreat to the comfort of her hometown, where she’s “needed.” It’s a very relatable conflict that Ronan, in what may qualify as her first truly adult performance, powerfully internalizes. Her transformation from fresh-off-the-boat introvert to confident city slicker is entirely credible, and one of my biggest pleasures of the festival.
The consistently intense ’71 (Grade: B) offers a much less tranquil vision of mid-20th-century Ireland. Jack O’Connell, from Starred Up and Unbroken, plays an inexperienced British soldier abandoned by his unit when things go FUBAR in Belfast circa the titular year. With no choice but to fend for himself, the young man creeps around town, receiving assistance and opposition from conflicting forces—IRA militants, British Army sympathizers, and several neutral parties. The clear model for this guerrilla historical drama is the work of Paul Greengrass, and not just the similarly themed Bloody Sunday. Director Yann Demange is operating in the same urgent, handheld, you-are-there mode, and like Greengrass, he tackles politicized history apolitically—in this case, by suggesting that there are no rooting interests, that everyone involved in these troubles is not to be trusted. As pure action cinema, ’71 is unrelenting, unforgiving, unsentimental. Enjoy it as a genre exercise, a gloried urban-warfare potboiler; do not look to it for ideology, beyond a general, pervasive cynicism.
As far as more traditional Sundance fare goes, it didn’t get much better (or funnier) than Results (Grade: B+), the latest comedy from Andrew Bujalski. The writer-director’s last movie, Computer Chess, was a wildly unusual departure, in which he traded the mumblecore style he helped pioneer for something even less commercial. Results is a wide swing in the opposite direction—a surprisingly accessible yukfest, as slickly shot and directed as Computer Chess was rough and intentionally primitive-looking. Some fans have already expressed disappointment that a true original filmmaker has made a swerve for the mainstream, but Results is no sellout move. If anything, it proves that the filmmaker’s offbeat sensibilities are malleable enough to be applied to something more superficially “traditional.”
Granted, for once, the privilege of using his native Aussie accent, Guy Pearce exhibits a unexpected gift for straight-man comedy. He plays Trevor, the owner and proprietor of an Austin fitness center, where he oversees—and secretly pines for—short-tempered personal trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders, looser and funnier than she’s ever been). Into both of their lives wanders the slovenly, independently wealthy stoner Danny (character actor Kevin Corrigan, in a rare starring role), who claims to want to get in shape, but mostly just seems totally unsure of what to do with his piles and piles of money.
As with Brooklyn, it’s possible to describe what occurs as a love triangle, but the romance seems almost beside the point. Results feels instead like another of Bujalski’s studies in socialization, driven less by the demands of the plot—which, in this case, is actually quite unpredictable—than the big personalities on screen. Early on, one could be excused of mistaking the characters for caricatures—the hyper-positive workout guru, the tightly wound tyrant trainer, the rich slob—but Bujalski allows them to grow into themselves, and into their more distinctive qualities, as the film expands in unexpected directions. I thought more than once of Albert Brooks, whose chatty portraits of neurotic romantics the film sometimes resembles, especially during inspired moments like a dinner with a hardass exercise icon (Anthony Michael Hall, having fun with his Eastern-European severity). In its just-left-of-center appeal, Results feels like an ideal Sundance film—funny, unusual, and a fine note on which to end a sturdy festival. Who needs Channing Tatum saving the universe when you have Guy Pearce telling Kevin Corrigan that seeing Rocky 200 times is “half the battle, mate”?
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Bloodhound jet car LSR accelerated to 1011 km/h
The Bloodhound LSR car step closer to his goal: the world record speed on land, which at present is 1228 kilometers per hour. During the tests in the Kalahari desert racer Andy green managed to disperse a supersonic car to 1011 kilometers per hour. While this is the most impressive achievement Bloodhound LSR.
Currently races are held in test mode – they need to collect data on downforce. Because the car was driving at full power: to set the speed unless you use a jet engine from a fighter jet, while for record-in also has a rocket motor.
How fast will a car with such a powertrain, not yet reported, however, he must beat the current the land speed record that was set by Andy green in 1997.
The authors of the project do not intend to get only one record. Their global goal is to reach 1610 kilometers per hour. According to plans, the first race on speed will be in late 2020 or early 2021.
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By Athenae, So Called Liberal Media
It Doesn’t Concern You
When I talk about laziness and stupidity in media, a lot, and laziness and stupidity in politics, a lot, what I’m really talking about is the tendency to glom onto stories that have nothing to do with anything. Yes, I’m going to talk about Balloon Boy for a minute, because Romenesko isn’t, and I can’t think why not.
This is a story that could plainly be seen as a hoax within ten seconds by anyone who watched Mythbusters even once, but let’s say that it was true, that a child had stowed away in a homemade helium balloon his goofy family made in their yard. What the fuck does that have to do with me? Why should I care about that? Other than it being really fuckin’ weird, what’s the news value? At no point in the approximately a billion cable broadcasts did anyone tell me what kind of relevence it had to my life here in Chicago where nobody, as far as I know, is launching tin foil in the air to chase UFO’s with their six-year-old.
Do I enjoy the occasional “news of the weird” story about a priest growing pot in the rectory or someone making the largest ball of sausage in the country? Sure. But the wall-to-wall coverage suggests that not only would I find this interesting but that it should matter, that I should be caught up. We see this over and over with missing-person stories, child kidnappings, Octo-Mom, where somebody’s tragedy is presented to us in the most minute, soap-operatic detail, and we’re never asked: To what end?
I’m not an abnormally important person but I am kind of busy most of the time, so being pressed to form an opinion about something like Balloon Boy and his parents (I’m supposed to say they’re crazy, and act like a gawker at a car wreck) is usually just kind of beyond me. Am I supposed to be learning things from these stories about Jaycee Dugard? Or am I simply supposed to cluck over them at the grocery store check-out counter? If someone asks me, “What do you think of this poor kid and his nutty parents?” am I really not supposed to answer, “I don’t fucking care?”
I bring this up mostly because Balloon Boy is annoying but also because this is a cousin to the critter that tells me I should be outraged becausesome kid in Mississippi wants to wear a tux in a high school photo. Or somebody somewhere can’t post the Ten Commandments on city property. Or somebody in a store said Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas (you can see that coming again, by the way, sure as the first hard frost). So fucking what, again? What does it hurt me that somebody at Macy’s is trying not to offend Jews and Hindus and everybody, if some kid make a fashion choice, if not everything in the world conforms to the way I want it?
It’s not even that I have less mundane things to think about. I think about mundane things all the time. But increasingly I feel pressure by the media-sociological machine to have a personal opinion about other people’s lives and that gets on my damn nerves. It’s all news of the weird now, all little personal outrages, all the time, and none of it matters to anyone.
11 thoughts on “It Doesn’t Concern You”
whet moser says:
I think some of it comes down to the fact that cable news is simply good at covering things like floating UFO balloons – they’re better equipped to do so than any other medium. On the other hand, they’re usually ill-equipped for some reason to, I dunno, have people other than Pat Buchanan yell at me about politics.
So I’m fine with Balloon Boy coverage, insofar as I’d rather they do something meaningless well than do something meaningful badly.
The Other Sarah says:
I disagree that the Mississippi school district’s decision not to allow a photograph in a yearbook not to conform to the school’s dress code (a “drape” for girls? WTF? That sounds like a porn costume, to my ears!).
Just for the record: most of my wardrobe comes off the guy’s clothes racks. I buy a lot of Rustler / Wranglers jeans (rustlers for everyday, wranglers for fancy-dress days. I have skirts for interviews, but I ain’t wearin’ ’em out on construction sites, savvy?) and Dickies shirts. They cost a LOT less, they hold up to wear / wash / wear better, I don’t have to either iron ’em or alter ’em to cover my naughty bits, and they’re comfy.
Matter of fact the last few years way we tell my clothes from my SO’s is he wears mostly short-sleeve shirts (I don’t) and there’s a difference in the waist size on the tags (but I’ve lost enough weight now to wear his, hee hee hee!)
virgotex says:
Our opinions and our attention are currency and those stories are nets trying to collect it for their own profits or agendas or validation.
preview is your friend.
I disagree that the violation of that student’s right not to be pigeonholed while still being included in the yearbook isn’t important.
If one ignrunt skewl in Mis’ipi can do it to one dyke kid, what stops the state from doing it to all GLBTQW (gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer or wondering) folks of any age in Mississippi?
That’s a real issue, and kudos to the Mississippi ACLU for trying to intervene on the girl’s behalf. (By the way, look at her photo. She’s much cuter than most androgynous-wannabe pop stars, and I first took it for a photo of a young man — that haircut was popular when I was a high-schooler, on guys). I wore a version of it that was brushed-back on both sides, and longer in the back (classic ’70s shag/ mullet, yeah) for my senior photo.
We were allowed to wear our own clothes or our senior grad gowns. None of this “drape” crap.
Yes, it is a semi-porn-look. I had to hunt for one that didn’t bare lots of cleavage. If I were a mom, my daughter would wear a tux instead, gay, straight or otherwise, just for the cause of dignity.
Death by Spreadsheet and Balloon Boy.
Two of the many heads of the same hydra: Reductio ad absurdum.
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Sarah, what I meant by the MS school photo example was that her wearing a tux is being taken incredibly personally by a lot of conservative whackjobs as some kind of affront to their values or something, when really, it doesn’t concern them at all. It concerns her. That’s all I meant. The denial of her right to express herself is a different thing.
I was unclear. If someone wants to wear what they wanna wear, let them, was my point, what difference does it make? My comments were aimed at those attacking her, not defending her.
heretic says:
I think you’re operating under some serious misconceptions about the media.
1). We are not their customers. Advertisers are their customers.
2). News/information is not the product they sell. Eyeballs are the products they sell.
3). They sell eyeballs to advertisers. With this in mind, everything they do makes perfect sense.
montag says:
They sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Oh, I agree with this, to a considerable degree, but, up until about twenty-five years ago, the news department was treated as the advertising loss leader of each network. Certainly, CNN played a big part in the change in attitude. But, sensationalism has been such an integral part of the “news” for ages, that, perhaps we take it for granted.
What has changed the equation is virtually instant communications. That has increased the value of the voyeurism variable in that equation, and the news organizations have been playing to the voyeuristic tendencies in the public. The only reason to have, for example, helicopters showing real-time video of the balloon floating along is to heighten the expectation that the child presumably aboard would somehow fall to his death, and the public would have the opportunity to see the eventas it happened, the latter being an integral part of the voyeur’s thrill.
Nathanael West’sDay of the Locust predates 24-hour news channels, but, it doesn’t predate human nature manipulated for gain. 🙂
hoppy says:
The problem with CNN is not that they cover nonsense, but that they take up most of a day, plus a significant part of the following days, covering the same nonsense over and over, complete with talking head analysis as if it were a football game. I found that balloon interesting for the first 2-3 minutes of the “story”, but after that it was so pure nonsense, so totally irrelevant to anything of importance, that it became virtual porn.
CNN covers all stories where they can get video to show, that same way. If a cat gets stuck in a tree, and CNN has a camera there to tape it, we get this same kind of coverage. If some violence, or some threat of violence accompanies the “story” – perhaps the cat is rabid? – we get this for several hours, followed by even more hours of analysis about the amount of saliva being dropped by the kitty.
Heretic nailed the reason for this. If real porn were legal to telecast you can be sure that CNN would be broadcasting it live 24 hours a day.
woke up to the story. helium? meh. jazz hands. i ignored it as much as i could.
drunken hausfrau says:
A. you are killing the mainstream media, again. How dare you imply that they should apply some sort of journalistic judgement about what is and is not truly newsworthy? You clearly need another blogger ethics panel or something. (see why I drink?)
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NC Dems Gloat About All Their Female 2018 Candidates…To Unseat Incumbent Women
RALEIGH – The leading metro paper in Raleigh has been carrying water for North Carolina Democrats since Reconstruction. Monday they were out with a piece cheering on Democrats’ efforts to ‘Break the Majority’ and lauding the Leftist party for advancing the cause of Women through all their recently announced female candidates running in the 2018 General Assembly elections.
“The wave of women signing up to run for political office has hit North Carolina.
State Democrats spent Monday announcing nine new candidates – including six women – in their 2018 effort to break Republicans’ veto-proof majority in the state legislature.
Rep. Darren Jackson, the top Democrat in the North Carolina House of Representatives, said on Twitter that he thinks the rise in women candidates has been especially pronounced in the last year.
“It’s something we were seeing way before all the sexual harassment scandals started to break,” he wrote. “After the 2016 election, a lot of women started turning out for events, indivisible groups, house parties. Many for the first time. Been seeing it for a year now.””
This is, of course, is a thinly veiled attempt to paint Republicans as ‘anti-women,’ as was the favored smear (right behind racism) during the 2016 Presidential elections, by pushing the illusion that Democrats hold the edge over Republicans in representing women via their bevy of female candidates and Progressive values.
There’s one small (large) problem with that narrative, though – so many of the female candidates Democrats are touting as evidence of their empowering women are, in fact, running against incumbent Republicans women.
“In Wake County, lawyer Sydney Batch announced her candidacy for House District 37, which represents southwestern Wake County. Batch is a certified child welfare specialist and runs a law firm focused on family law issues with her husband, J. Patrick Williams.
That seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Linda Williams, a former Holly Springs town councilwoman who joined the legislature last year after the retirements of former Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam, also a Republican.
The district covers parts of Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina and Garner.
Batch said Monday in a written statement she wanted to run because “too many people feel the deck is stacked against them.”
“People want affordable, accessible health care, quality and affordable education, safe air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a fair paycheck,” she said. “Most of all, they want their children to live a more prosperous life than they have.”
In Johnston County, Linda Bennett is running for the seat held by Republican Rep. Donna White, a nurse from Clayton. Bennett founded a pharmaceutical consulting company and lives on a farm south of Zebulon.
Reading this puff piece you will start to notice that it’s not the women themselves Democrats (and the writer, though I repeat myself) are really championing, but their Leftist beliefs in Big Government that they love.
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Republican women already occupy these seats. Do they not represent women’s empowerment? Of course not! Republican women are, somehow, enemies to the cause of women in the eyes of the Left.
The pitting of *approved* Leftist women against Republican women incumbents continues…
“In the northern Forsyth County suburbs of Winston-Salem, Terri LeGrand announced her plans to run against Republican Rep. Deborah Conrad for House District 74
In Concord, the 82nd district was redrawn so that its incumbent, Republican Rep. Larry Pittman, was put into a neighboring district. The new 82nd district is home to a different Republican incumbent, Rep. Linda Johnson.
Johnson could face Aimy Steele, an elementary school principal and former Spanish teacher who announced her candidacy Monday.”
To be fair, not all of the celebrated female Democrats females announcing their candidacy are running against other women.
“…Cary Life magazine editor Jennifer Ferrell hopes to run a second time against Republican Rep. Nelson Dollar of Cary. First, though, she will be in a primary against fellow Democrat Matt Calabria, a Wake County Commissioner. And Jen Mangrum, a professor at UNC-Greensboro, plans to run against Republican Sen. Phil Berger, the leader of the state Senate.
In [incumbent Republican Larry] Pittman’s new House District 83, he could face a challenger who also announced Monday, Gail Young.
Young is the leader of a liberal advocacy group called Citizens in Action NC that organizes protests in Cabarrus County. Young also worked for a long time for the Mecklenburg County government.”
While the Republican majority could do without the milquetoast House Budget chairman Nelson Dollar, his defeat should be at the hands of a conservative primary challenger, not a full out Leftist.
Pittman on the other hand is a stalwart conservative, popular among constituents, who was curiously drawn out of his district by Republican leadership. His challenger in the new district is a Far Left Nutcase – she organizes protests for progressive causes that would be more at home in Soviet Russia than the Old North State.
All in all, Democrats want you to know that they are the one and only champion of women…as long as those women drink the Left’s Kool-Aid.
Successful conservative women be damned.
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There seems to be twp main theories about the origins and motivating forces behind Iran’s constitutional revolution, as set forth by either historiographers or those who had participated in the events surrounding it. This essay will attempt to elaborate on the thrust of these theories. Most of the historians or participants who sympathized with the main objectives of this revolution tend to construct it as the outcome of a self propelling social and political movement set into motion by Iran’s internal developments, particularly in the decades prior to the revolution.
A number of other analysts believe, in varying degrees, in the primacy of British conspiratorial role in bringing about the revolution in the context of England’s traditional rivalry with Tsarist Russia. The latter theory has particularly been endorsed by those who seek to denigrate and debunk the very ideas that informed the constitutional revolution by emphasizing the role of the great colonial power of the time, Great Britain.
The evidence, however, points clearly to the fallacy of the latter theory which is based on the assumption that the age old Anglo-Russian rivalry was the reason for British encouragement and support of Iran’s constitutionalists against the Qajar dynasty the traditional client of the Russian government. Yet, the preponderant historical evidence point to the fact that at this particular juncture of history, the British were more concerned about the rising power of Kaiser’s Germany than Tsarist Russia. The 1907 Anglo-Russian agreement, purporting to divide Iran into zones of influence, is among an number of developments that confirm the suspension of the old Anglo-Russian tensions in Iran.
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Samsung presents a fake screen for tomorrow's smartphone
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San Francisco, USA (AFP) –
The technical manufacturer Samsung presented on Wednesday a folding screen for their smartphones which, when opened, could become a tablet, although the South Korean brand did not advance the date of commercialization of this technology.
"When it's open, it's a big screen tablet and when it's closed, it's a perfect fit for your pocket," explained Dustin Denison, one of the company's managers at the presentation of the prototype at a San Francisco conference. , USA.
Samsung "Close Mass Production" of this new type of screen, called "Infinity Flex Display", "In the coming months", continued Denison, who said the device has been developed to "fold and install multiple times".
"The screen lays the foundation for tomorrow's smartphone," he said. But the group, which manufactures both devices and components, did not announce the devices that will have this folding screen.
In fact, a device with this technology to function needs an operating system and optimized applications.
Samsung and Google, as the jointly designed Android system powered by the South Korean company's mobile devices, announced on Wednesday that they have already started collaborating to optimize the operating system for these future devices.
The South Korean brand also called on other developers who design applications to change their products to be compatible with devices that have a future type of screen.
Finally Samsung, world leader in smartphone sales, also announced Wednesday a new user interface called "One UI", available from next year on the Galaxy S9 and Note 9, which facilitates usage and, above all, is optimized for phones that mount the fake screen in the future.
The dropdown screen is seen as the biggest breakthrough in the smartphone industry, pending a revolutionary technology that will give the market a second step, more than a decade after the arrival of the iPhone.
According to the specialized press, other manufacturers, especially South Korean LG and Chinese Huawei, work with this technique.
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Top 8 Best Mac Games on Steam
8 Best Mac Games on Steam
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Different operating systems come with different features but also certain drawbacks. Whenever you shift from one operating system to another, you’ll notice that while some features may be new, some may be missing. If you’re a gamer making the shift from Windows to Mac OS, you’ll notice that Windows Steam and Mac Steam have different games. We think you’ll agree that this change can be pretty jarring initially. However, there’s no need to fear. Shifting to Mac OS doesn’t mean you’ll have to lose out on the games you loved. In this article, you’ll find the best Mac games on Steam. These games are player favorites around the globe, and every game has something new to offer. With this exhaustive list, finding your next favorite game on Mac Steam is genuinely a piece of cake.
Top 8 Best Mac Game on Steam
1. Spiritfarer
We start this list with a steam game that takes a unique outlook towards something often regarded as a failure: death. Spiritfarer follows the journey of Stella, a girl who guides souls to the afterlife. In this fantastical world, we travel to find some spirits willing to board our ship to the afterlife. Our job then is to care for these spirits by performing tasks such as building work stations and homes. We also help these spirits in their main and side quests. The scenery is vivid, serene, and beautiful at the same time, but even that isn’t what makes it one of the best mac games on Steam. What truly sets this game apart is how it shows the journey towards death as an essential part of character progression. Death is inevitable, and our job is to care for these spirits as they make this final journey. While we go about tasks such as gardening, trading, and exploring, spirits ruminate upon their lives and what they achieved.
2. Bioshock Infinite
One of the most popular Mac games on Steam, Bioshock Infinite, is another game that packs a punch in graphics, storyline, and gameplay. Players are in the beautiful, broken, floating city of Columbia – a place where the American Dream turns into a nightmare. You explore heavy themes such as religion, politics, and corruption as you navigate the steampunk-themed city. Bioshock is primarily a shooter game, so your character has a massive arsenal at his disposal. From machine guns, snipers, pistols, and the like, your character also uses Vigors (magical powers) to attack enemies. Hordes of enemies will come at you in both indoor and outdoor locations, allowing you to immerse yourself in the stunning landscape fully.
Bioshock is a confusing yet exhilarating steam download that’s not just fun to play but also explores heavy themes. Truly a game that’ll turn the knobs in your head, Bioshock Infinite is one of the best Mac games on Steam you’ll ever play.
3. Disco Elysium
A groundbreaking role-playing game, Disco Elysium is set in the world of Elysium, where you start as an alcoholic detective suffering from amnesia. Things get even messier when you find the hanging man in the empty lot. Now, it’s up to you to get to the bottom of this mystery.
Here’s the deal: Disco Elysium is a take on the classic RPGs of the ’90s. The game is dialogue-heavy and complete with skill checks and dialogue trees. As we level up, we can improve our four primary skills, Intellect, Motorics, Physique, and Psyche. The game gives you an unprecedented level of independence in shaping your character arc. The choices you make and how you interact with NPC’s shape the narrative of the game entirely. What makes this the best Mac game on Steam is that every person playing it has a different experience from others.
4. Stardew Valley
There is an absolute comfort that comes with playing farming simulation games and RPG’s. Stardew Valley combines both to give you an experience unmatched. In the 16-bit countryside landscape of Stardew Valley, you can do a wide range of things. From mining, farming, collecting, exploring, or crafting, you can do it to upgrade your farm. The graphics evoke nostalgia, and the farm setting is exceptionally soothing. However, Stardew Valley isn’t just about idyllic farming. Instead, you can fight enemies that get progressively stronger in the mines or create relationships with the inhabitants of the valley. You can rake up hours of gameplay in this top Mac game on Steam.
The bottom line: Stardew Valley is a relaxing, nostalgic game that you can always keep coming back to.
5. DOTA 2
Truly a player classic, there’s no doubt about the fact that DOTA 2 is one of the best mac games on Steam. DOTA 2 is an online multiplayer battle arena game (MOBA). You can choose your hero from a vast pool of characters, each with their traits. Every character is part of a team of five, with every member fulfilling vital roles. To come out on top, you need a well-balanced team. The playing field is vast, with several lanes that players must be stationed on. Each session is only over when one team’s ‘Ancient’ is destroyed. Furthermore, as you win matches, you can upgrade your team and your hero with weapons and clothing.
Here’s the deal. If you’re looking for a steam mac game that you can keep playing through the years, there’s no better option than DOTA 2.
6. Factorio
Factorio is one of the best mac strategy games you’ll play. The 2D world of Factorio is limitless, and you have to construct your factory. The factory you build will create increasingly complex products, and your factory can become colossal with time. However, as your factory starts to grow, you’ll become prone to attacks by the land's inhabitants. Initially, you’ll start off chopping wood and crafting small weapons. As your progress, you can gain the ability to construct linguistic robots, refine oil. The journey to becoming an industrial powerhouse can be enriching, and that’s what makes Factorio one of the best mac games on Steam.
It gets better: you can craft your scenarios in this uber customizable game. If you don’t find terrain or challenges you like, you can make your own!
7. The Elder Scrolls Online
If you want a game with the main storyline to keep you engaged for days on end, Elder Scrolls Online is the game for you. There are more than 100 hours of just the main story, and expansion packs can give you 30-50 hours more gameplay. You can take down enemy hordes or even dragons with your friends, or become an assassin for hire. Honestly, one of the best open-world games for mac, you can play with others or explore unchartered territories on your own. The world of Elder Scrolls is colossal, and new updates can even let you visit Skyrim.
If you’re looking for an adventure game to keep you hooked, Elder Scrolls is one of the best mac games on steam for that.
8. Dying Light
No list of the best mac games on Steam would be complete without a survival horror game. This game can be challenging to play initially, but once you get the hang of it, there’s nothing better. As your skill set expands, you can turn the rotting zombies into your playthings. The combat is one of the standout features of this game, as it involves parkour too. Your character sets off to save survivors amid a zombie apocalypse, completing side-quests in the middle。
How can parents limit kids' game time on mac
All of these best Mac games on Steam can keep you hooked. However, if you’re a parent, you might want to limit your kids' time playing games. Famisafe is an app that can let you monitor the time spent on all apps. Furthermore, you can set parental alerts and even set screen time limits. All these can help ensure your kids have a much safer experience playing online.
As a powerful parental control app, Screen Time restriction is only one of the useful features of FamiSafe.
Screen Time: Parents can check the total screen time usage of the kid's Mac and set up daily screen time usage limits to avoid kids from overusing the device.
Website Filter: Parents can block websites that are not proper for their kids on the Mac easily with FamiSafe's Website Filter feature. Suppose they think their kids have spent too much time on Steam browsing games. They can add Steam as a website to be blocked.
Application Blocker: Blocking specific games or apps on your kid's Mac or set up advanced rules for these apps.
Activity Report: For parents who don't have time to check their kid's Mac usage every day, they can use Activity Report to view their daily use or previous usage record.
This list of the best mac games on Steam has something for everyone. Whether you’re craving some survival horror or want a relaxing farming simulation, you’ll find the best of each genre in this list.
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Shared-space junctions
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31 of 42 Wed 29th Feb 2012 11:12am
Hi Providing priority is always given to pedestrians, as they will always come off worse if in contact with a vehicle & if zebra crossings were installed at strategic points for those who need to use them, is that a way forward? My two biggest concerns are that the left, or nearside front corner of a bus is a total blind spot for the driver (I have tried it) & no matter what provisions are provided for people crossing, shared space or not, people will still cross where they please. People don't have number plates, so often just please themselves.
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32 of 42 Wed 29th Feb 2012 12:54pm
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I've just read a letter in the Telegraph from a driving instructor who says he observed these junctions for a while the other day and said not one single car "gave way" for a pedestrian - mainly because there are no signs at all instructing them to do so! I would like to know how the powers-that-be intend to enforce the 20mph speed limit that is due to come into being in the next couple of weeks? On the one hand, the way they are going, people won't want to drive into the city centre, on the other hand, the way the new bus services are heading, we won't have any choice BUT to use our cars!
Hi again on this thread What would help is if motorists knew the highway code with regard to the rights of pedestrians to start with. Rule 170 is an example of what is just not understood by so many motorists. Whether a shared junction or not, rule 170 states: "At a junction. When crossing the road, look out for traffic turning into the road, especially from behind you. If you have started crossing and traffic wants to turn into the road, you have priority and they should give way" (see Rule 170). The fact that a healthy pedestrian is limited to a max walking speed of 4mph, should make no difference, but motorists believe that they have the right of way on any road, but that is contrary to what the highway code states. When I did my class 4 bus test thirty years ago, eleven out of the fifteen applicants failed the theory test on that question alone, yet they were all driving around in their cars. Theory tests have always been part of the PSV. I suspect that I would struggle to pass a highway code test now. On a recent tv quiz show, not one of six drivers answered all of the questions on the highway code & several did not answer half of them. That is the crunch of this problem, along with the blind spot for a bus driver turning left where the corner of the bus hides anyone outside of the bus.
I drove across this junction the other day, and taxis were absolutely hurtling across it. Then again, Coventry city centre was so dead on Friday and Saturday night I thought I'd made a mistake and gone out mid-week. Is it always so quiet? On Friday night a taxi driver (I was somewhat drunk) ranted at me that there was no business in Coventry. Until we got to Earlsdon high street, which was heaving with people and cabs. (The taxi driver called them "a disgrace".) 20 years I remember Gosford Street/Jordan Well/Far Gosford Street used to be heaving on Fridays and at weekends.
35 of 42 Fri 16th Mar 2012 10:33am
Another article in today's Coventry Telegraph - "Shared space junctions to be reviewed".
36 of 42 Mon 26th Nov 2012 2:44pm
Now it is reported that a zebra crossing has been installed at the Burges shared space junction - Coventry Telegraph report
Hi all, What ever court action is meted out to the driver involved with the fatality, nothing will bring the man back to life. I knew him from Holbrooks too. I also have real sympathy & understanding for the driver of the bus. The fact that zebra crossings have been installed now, means that what was there before was inadequate, no matter what a council or highways spokesman has said. If what was there had been adequate, then nothing else needed to have been added after the event, at whatever great cost to a cash strapped town hall & highways department. Please remember, if you or I cannot see the bus driver, then he cannot, see you or me. Just look at the picture in the telegraph of the No55 turning left out of Bishop St. into Hales St. The driver cannot be seen. Making a tight left hand turn in one of those buses means that the driver is forced to drive blind. Not like the days of buses with off centre high vision cabs as can be seen in Midland Red's model pictures in a nearby post. I hate cover-ups in any situation & whilst I am not totally against shared junctions, this particular action stinks all of the way to the town hall. I am so sorry to have to say this of my own city.
Hear hear Philip and how would they see a wheelchair too, which is lower, my daughter-in-law told me yesterday about the zebra crossing as she cuts through to the hospital, she too is wheelchair bound.
flewo
39 of 42 Mon 10th Dec 2018 5:55pm
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Hello, I am an architecture student at Coventry University. I am currently writing a dissertation on the shared spaces we have in Coventry. If you could take a few minutes to fill out the questionnaire I have posted, this will be very helpful. Thank you, Oliver Flew Link to questionnaire
omrf
40 of 42 Tue 11th Dec 2018 10:28am
Thank you for the questionnaire, it was good to be able to give my thoughts on shared spaces. I wonder if on one question there's a possibility to have multiple tick boxes? Question 4 asks if we've used the shared space: "In a car", "On a bike", or "Walking".... and I had to choose one, but I'd like to have been able to select all three.
Old Lincolnian
41 of 42 Tue 11th Dec 2018 2:12pm
Pleased to help Oliver . I had the same problem as Rob but noticed today it now has multiple tick boxes so some people may wish to resubmit.
!! Happy Anniversary !!
Mystery markings, Binley
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Netflix review: 'Fate: The Winx Saga' lacks any magic
Not Another Teen Series
'Fate: The Winx Saga' follows the fairy students of Alfea College in the Otherworld. It focuses particularly on Bloom (Abigail Cowen - 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina') as she attempts to uncover the secret behind where she really comes from.
Some will remember animated Nickelodeon series 'Winx Club' from which this series 'Fate' is adapted. It has been adjusted for teen viewers, and it's more than apparent those behind it are trying to market to as young as audience as possible as they cut scenes just before anything too sexual or scary happens. Across movies and series, Netflix have produced both hits and total trash when it comes to their YA demographic. 'Fate: the Winx Saga' falls to the latter.
We know the opening well. A pretty girl starts school, immediately gets hit on, and struggles to make friends and fit in (she even has red hair like Cady Heron). She meets such stereotypes as the mean blonde girl, the fat girl with attitude, the bully, the cute boy, and the guy struggling with his sexual identity. There's so much teen angst between loner tendencies, fighting with parents (pretty much EVERYONE has parent problems in this show) and drama-filled parties; and let's not forget the "being angry makes my powers come out" trope that we've seen soooo many times, it's getting very dull.
The bad guys are zombies because let's face it, it's that or dementor designs when it comes to the baddies in YA programming. The young male characters seem to do nothing but combat and training exercises. One character emerges as particularly vulgar with such lines as "I hear she let's you do butt stuff" and "she's so thirsty for your di**, it’s embarrassing." Well actually no, it's this show that's embarassing.
They're not the only cringeworthy lines either as you also have a character saying "sometimes being a fairy means you have to deal with sh**" (having literally just told a story about sh**), and Bloom's mom at one point refers to herself as a "basic bitch." In spite of the casting of Abigail Cowen, 'Fate' is closer to 'Cursed' than 'Chilling Adventures' in terms of quality. It really does feel like they're just hurling sh** at a wall, hoping something will stick.
In spite having a talented young cast ('Normal People' fans will be delighted to see Eliot Salt pop up), 'Fate: The Winx Saga' is too ridiculous and pointless to invest in, on top of the aforementioned revolting dialogue. One wouldn't want to give away its twists for fear of spoilers, but regarding the plot, as several characters in the show would say, "ya basic." On the bright side, the poor CGI quality doesn't put one off, but that's also because it was far from the worst thing about the show.
'Fate: The Winx Saga' is streaming on Netflix from January 22, 2021.
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Into the labyrinth: Persephone's journey as metaphor and method for research
Jones, Janice K. (2013) Into the labyrinth: Persephone's journey as metaphor and method for research. In: Metaphors for, in and of education research. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp. 66-90. ISBN 978-1-4438-4398-0
The hero's journey (Campbell, Cousineau, & Brown, 2003, p. 29) offers a rich metaphor for the doctoral research experience, with its call to action, its focus on a parallel world where challenges are met with the support of mentors, and where the hero returns with special knowledge. The labyrinth is a traditional metaphor for the heroic path, and Theseus is acknowledged in book and film as the hero who craftily negotiates the underground maze in order to slay a half-human beast and claim rewards of wealth, and power. This chapter re-situates the labyrinth metaphor as a framing device for the less-told and more ancient narrative of Kore-Persephone-Demeter: a fertility rite and seasonal transition of the female principle involving sacrifice, transformation and rebirth. The author contends that metaphors of immersion, sacrifice and transformation, rather than metaphors of strategy and force have a greater capacity to reveal the complex and multiple truths of the doctoral research journey. Eschewing metaphors of research as a maze wherein the binaries of evil and good, light and darkness contend, the writer re-frames the doctoral journey as a sacrificial experience where constructs of self-and-the-world and self-in-the world are disrupted and transformed, leading to greater agency. The unicursal labyrinth is applied as a metaphor by which the seasonal trajectory of Kore-Persephone-Demeter through death to resurrection and new life may be understood as a representation of the doctoral journey: a metaphor within a metaphor. The metaphor and myth are frameworks against which tales of the field (van Maanen, 1988) in the form of vignettes extracted from a bricolage of data gathered during a six-year doctoral journey in education are used to illuminate the researcher’s growing awareness of the reflective and transformative power of writing. Sacrificed, transformed, and wisened, the researcher emerges from the immersive experience as an empowering force for others’ research journeys.
© 2013 by Warren Midgley, Karen Trimmer and Andy Davies and contributors. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Chapter 5.
transformation; transformative practice; professional identity; researcher identity; reflective practice; bricolage; writing as research; narrative methods; autoethnography; labyrinth; metaphor; transitions; resurrection; feminism; rites of passage; Persephone
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Manchester United Want Erling Haaland More Than Sancho
By Rishabh Jallan
Manchester United want to sign Erling Haaland over Jadon Sancho in the upcoming summer transfer window.
Jadon Sancho who had a brilliant season last year had scored 20 goals and had given 17 assists in over 44 appearances in all competitions.
However this season he is struggling to find his form as he has scored 4 goals and has given 4 assists in 18 appearances across all competitions.
His spark which he had showed last season has seemed to become dim this season which has made United turn their attention to Haaland who has been in red hot form since he joined Borussia Dortmund where in 32 outings he has scored 33 goals.
The 20-year-old Norwegian striker has caught the attention of many clubs and one of them are Premier League giants Manchester United
Manchester United prefer Haaland over Sancho?
Sancho is a world-class player and the 20-year-old English winger has proved what a menace he could be on the wings.
However, a huge asking price set by Dortmund which is €108 million and there being multiple barriers in signing Sancho has prompted United to shift their attention to another attacker who could be ruthless in front of goal.
Haaland would be a great fit for United as they are in need of landing a striker who can guarantee them lots of goals, and with Cavani having only 2 years left in his contract, this will thus push United to sign a long term replacement for Cavani and that replacement can be Haaland.
Manchester United would now prefer to sign Haaland instead of Sancho, claims the Mirror 👀 pic.twitter.com/EU4z5YZdPB
— Goal (@goal) January 3, 2021
Therefore it will be interesting to see where he ends up playing as United will face stiff competition from Real Madrid who already have a verbal agreement in place to sign Haaland in 2022.
So Red Devils will look to open talks with Dortmund regarding Haaland signing as soon as possible.
Related Items:borussia dortmund, erling braut haaland, Jadon Sancho, Latest, Latest News, latest transfer news, Manchester Haaland, Manchester United, real madrid, Transfer rumours
Mohammedan SC sign Indian winger Nikhil Kadam
Top-5 Leading Replacements of Frank Lampard at Chelsea
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hexmode
Puppet module for single and multi-tenant Mediawiki installation.
Project URLRSS Feed
Mark A. Hershberger
released Jul 30th 2014
Tags: mediawiki
hexmode/mediawiki — version 0.4.1 Jul 30th 2014
Types in this module release
mediawiki_extension
2014-3-10 Release 2.0.0
Update submodule usages.
Add type and provider for installing MediaWiki Extensions
2012-09-07 Release 0.3.0
Switched from installing from distro package to installing from source.
Added support for CentOS.
Added support for memcached.
Switched to using vhost template provided by puppetlabs/apache.
Resolved resource depndency issues.
Adjusted syntax for backwards compatibility with Puppet 2.6
f8ae191 Incremented the minor version number. 3d9b8bb Updated dependencies in Modulefile. 442efa1 Removed unnecessary attributes from vhost when deleted. ecd2fc8 Merge pull request #2 from branan/fix_re_for_older_puppet 95864ff Fix regular expression validation to work with puppet 2.6 1d8785d Removed a trailing comma of last param in class definition. 50f3af4 Merge pull request #1 from branan/test_cleanup 9cedbdb Cleanup tests 51547b4 Turned on memcached support. adf5cd0 Switched to using apache's vhost template instead of custom one. 9491a91 Corrected recursive purging of wiki directory when user deletes wiki instance. 09637dc Converted a ruby function into a regular expression. 4871b42 Fixed spec tests for mediawiki::symlinks. 768c06f Fixed regex for recognizing operatingsystem var. 420aa3a Added CentOS specific configuration. 70a1df2 Fixed the wiki site name. 4c3e8fe Switched from installing MediaWiki from a package to installing from a tar file. c9bfbb9 Factored out common code in params.pp. 81695a1 Resolved resource dependency problems.
puppetlabs/apache (>= 0.4.0)
puppetlabs/mysql (>= 0.5.0)
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5 Things you need to know about Side Channels and Runtime Encryption® with Intel® SGX
At Fortanix we are building a new class of solutions called Runtime Encryption®, leveraging Intel® SGX, to protect applications and data in use. We often receive inquiries about the impact of side channel attacks on Intel® SGX and Fortanix solutions. Many of the queries are inspired by recently published literature identifying side channels that are applicable to SGX technology. The discovery of Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities has further raised the awareness of side channels, which are not always well understood even within the cybersecurity field.
In this blog, we will give an overview of side channel attacks, describe their relevance in the context of Intel® SGX, review key ingredients of an attack and mitigation strategies, as well as highlight defenses used by the Fortanix Runtime Encryption® solutions.
Modern era Safecracking
If you watch a lot of heist movies, chances are good that you have encountered a scene with a safe-cracker determining the correct combination of a rotary lock using his fingers or using a sensitive listening device.
A side channel attack is like the digital equivalent of a safecracker using a sensitive listening device to determine the state of mechanical components in a lock. In the context of digital systems, side channel attacks extract sensitive information from the system by some means other than the intended input and output channels. The sensitive information gleaned by a side channel attack is known as side channel leakage. There are many reasons that side channel leakage can exist, including variation in the time taken by the system to process different inputs, variation in the electrical activity of a circuit when processing different inputs, electromagnetic emissions from a circuit, and even sound emitted from a device.
Ubiquity of Side Channels
Side channels can exist in any digital system. The recent discovery of Meltdown and Spectre are a reminder of the ubiquity of side channels. Meltdown and Spectre are side channel vulnerabilities in CPU that can be exploited to allow unauthorized reads of data of running programs.
Side channel attacks are commonly described in the context of cryptographic systems, where the leaked information is a cryptographic key. However, it is important to note that side channel attacks can be associated with leakage of any kind of sensitive information.
Side channel attacks are a very real concern in any digital system that operates on sensitive data. The concern about side channels becomes even more prominent in the context of cloud computing, given the risk they pose for hardware infrastructure shared by co-resident virtual machines or processes.
Anatomy of an Attack and Mitigation Strategies
Several factors that are not always discussed in literature can make it infeasible or extremely difficult to mount a side channel attack in a practical setting. Successful side channel attacks require a perfect storm of key ingredients including access to a shared resource, an application that exhibits externalized behavior that is dependent on sensitive logic, and the ability to measure with precision. In the presence of measurement noise, the attacker may need to make a larger number of measurements to mount a successful attack, which increases the chance of detection.
Mitigation strategies stem from disabling one or more of the ingredients of an attack. Secure development practices that remove or hide secret-dependent behavior can significantly limit the risk of side channel leakage. Other strategies make the victim sensitive to measurements of side channel leakage and take defensive action based on this detection.
Intel® SGX: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
By combining encryption of data in use with attestation, Intel® SGX offers secure computation in an untrusted environment, without exposing the data being operated upon. SGX enables applications to run in a protect execution environment, called an enclave.
Interest in side channels attacks in the context of SGX arises because many kinds of attacks that are possible in conventional computing environments are no longer possible in SGX, leaving side channel attacks as one of few remaining attack vectors.
Recently published literature identifies side channels that are present in the SGX technology, but whether there is information available from the side channel and whether the side channel is accessible to an attacker are properties of each application and deployment, and not of SGX itself.
Fortunately, applications can use countermeasures to control these parameters. To ensure that enclaves are secure in practice, great care is needed in design and implementation of the application, including the care to avoid leaking secrets through side channels.
Fortanix Runtime Encryption® protection
Fortanix leverages its considerable hardware-based security, side-channel, and cryptography expertise to deliver Runtime Encryption® solutions that ensure data remains protected even when in use.
Fortanix uses various defenses in its Fortanix Self-Defending KMS™ and Runtime Encryption® solutions to protect against side channel attacks. For example, in Fortanix Self-Defending KMS, all cryptographic algorithms are hardened against side channel attacks. When appropriate, non-cryptographic algorithms are also protected. For example, the time to verify passwords is ensured to be independent of the secret.
For a more in-depth look at side channels, applicability to Intel® SGX and the protection offered by Fortanix solutions, download our white paper “Side Channels and Runtime Encryption® Solutions with Intel® SGX”.
Download the joint Intel and Fortanix white paper on Fortanix solutions using Intel® SGX
Check out our blog on the state of security with Meltdown and Spectre
Interested in cutting edge Side Channel and Cloud Security work? Join our team
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Other Competitive Reality Shows
By Twilight Man, September 9, 2014 in Other Competitive Reality Shows
SoMuchTV 4.5k
Omg Tiffany Haddish had moments of brilliance, and moments of WTF ARE YOU THINKING?!??
I was touched by her description of what happened to her and other foster kids. I hope they got all the $$$$.
Swenson 235
The celebrities are boring and they make the questions too easy for them because it's for "charity". Yawn.
I believe we are all essential in some way. But they make it sound like we all owe something to these "frontline" people just for doing their job. So I guess now those of us not considered essential can't try out for this anymore. But what we can do is CLICK!
Phishbulb 849
12 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:
The weird thing is she seemed to be going in the right direction when she was saying "I remember them eating something brown!", then decided to trust her friend anyway, which was a bad idea.
readster 9.5k
My problem is, this is like "celebrity charity" than "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." Yes, it's true seeing people who go: "I watched this at home and think I can do better and I really can't." The show was great not because of Regis, but because of average people being on. Friend of mine was on back in 99. I had two friends almost get on in 2000. Every time I see this I want to go: "How about us teachers who need money for funding?" or how about: "I'm playing for a community to get them going." Not that one charity is more important than another, but this just doesn't work in the long term.
saber5055 36.8k
I came here to say the same thing. I've never cared for her, but when she started out pretty smart, I was thinking hey, girl's got some brains going for her, I need to rethink my opinion. Then she was all WTH is a woodchuck, some imaginary animal? And I was back to oh, snap, get her off my teevee, what a loser.
I never watched The Sopranos but saw that last scene several times on different pop-culture shows. I didn't notice they were eating anything, but like she said, shrimp was too high-class for that diner. Onion rings were what people would order there IMO. Chicken fingers would be next choice, but even those are a bit fancy for a mob diner. And nachos? No way. Too crunchy and loud for the sound guy. Plus messy with all that cheese gooping off the chips. No respectable mob boss would eat nachos, at least not in public.
Was glad when she was gone, although I'd really like to own that wig. It was nice.
The "regular" guy who came on next shows promise. He was smart so far, and I like how he thanked Jimmy for making him feel relaxed. Well done, fellow. I hope you go far.
Edited October 19, 2020 by saber5055 · Reason: Added my take on nachos.
geauxaway 23.5k
Not for nothing, I ❤️ the charity Tiffany was playing for. I’m so glad she was able to bring it to a national stage. It is a VERY important cause that I wish more people took notice of. If you ever have the opportunity PLEASE donate old suitcases, luggage, duffles, backpacks to your local foster / adopt organization. Anything is better than the black bags. My son came into my care at 8 years old with 4 black garbage bags of his entire childhood “belongings.”
I think I would subscribe to a podcast with Julie Bowen and Jimmy Kimmel discussing 80’s films and Oscar winners.
ams1001 33.1k
Gah, they were overthinking the states question. They got Ohio and Utah, which rule out "border each other" and "names are one syllable," even if they don't know where they are in relation to the Mississippi River...and if they know where Ohio is, it rules out that answer, too. So "starts with a vowel" is all that's left. Didn't even need to come up with Iowa.
Trinidad is closer to mainland South America than I realized...
Fun fact: Julie Bowen's charity (Baby2Baby) "is one of the four charities to which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex suggested people might donate instead of sending gifts for their newborn son Archie in 2019" (from Wikipedia). Julie is on the board of directors.
I guessed Fast Times for the movie question because it's the only one I've never seen and I couldn't think of three Oscar winners for any of the others (though I don't really pay that much attention to the Oscars, so that was no guarantee).
Oh and I thought Julie Bowen did a better job than a lot of the recent contestants at using her first-ten friend. Maybe the show cut some stuff out, but it seemed like some of them went straight to a lifeline before even checking in with the friend.
12 hours ago, ams1001 said:
I came up with Sean Penn right away, and Forest Whitaker after I thought for a little bit. I was assuming the third one was Jennifer Jason Leigh, who has been nominated for an Academy Award (for "The Hateful Eight") but didn't win. The third one is actually Nicolas Cage, who is kinda barely in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (and I think is credited as Nicolas Coppola in it). It was his first screen role.
Edited October 26, 2020 by Phishbulb
That was the best part of this episode for me. I was enjoying how much they knew about the business (show) they are in. Not that that should be surprising, but it is.
I knew the answer to the Utah/Ohio clue as soon as those two states were said, so agree that spending time trying to think of Iowa was a waste. But the funny part is, I can (practically) see Iowa from my back door and I couldn't think of it either. Good thing Iowa doesn't connect Utah with Ohio.
4 hours ago, Phishbulb said:
The only name I associate with Fast Times is Sean Penn..
2 hours ago, saber5055 said:
Iowa was the first I came up with, then Ohio. I hadn't thought of Utah before they said it.
vibeology 12.2k
On 10/26/2020 at 12:53 PM, saber5055 said:
Same. Though I was screaming at my TV that Robin Williams didn't win a Best Actor Oscar. His win was for supporting. I think that would have made things easier for them.
Also, I didn't realize that you were allowed to use Jimmy like your helper and go back and forth with him. All the more reason to ditch 50/50 and use him.
opus 7.4k
1 hour ago, vibeology said:
That lifeline started in the first pandemic run when it replaced "ask the audience' (since there's no audience to ask)
Eolivet 12.7k
Oh man, I was just coming here to say that. That was so delightful and spontaneous, from the moment Jimmy Kimmel said "I watched Fast Times last weekend," and Julie Bowen leaned forward in her chair, like they were having an actual conversation. I loved them going back and forth about the characters in the movie. You could see them drop their "personas" and it was almost like listening in on two friends, hanging out. "Forest Whitaker was in Fast Times?" "Yeah, he was the football player." And then when they started doing imitations of the characters ... I swear, twenty years fell away from both of them during that exchange.
Julie Bowen was interesting, because I thought she was toast after she had to check with her expert after every single answer, but she clearly was leaning on the guy because she thinks he knew more than her. Yet when forced to think for herself, she's actually pretty good.
Edited October 28, 2020 by Eolivet
17 hours ago, opus said:
I knew they had switched it but I think this is the first time it's turned into a drawn out conversation rather than Jimmy just giving his answer with maybe a joke back and forth. Julie and Jimmy being able to collaborate is the thing I find fascinating and the reason it would be even more valuable a lifeline. I think any time you can talk out an answer with another person is ideal.
Taeolas 1.4k
I do like the "Ask a friend" option, and the banter/consultation on the early prize levels they can have. I suspect it helps relax the contestant a bit and break the ice, especially for the ones not used to TV production.
I also like the ask the host banter chance as well. I hope both of those life line options remain somehow even when the audience can return.
While it is one of the show's "feature" life lines, I wouldn't mind "Phone a friend" being dropped as a lifeline entirely. Or maybe replace it with "Zoom a Friend" so you can see who is being called and see they aren't looking up the answer but just trying to figure it out, and give them a full minute, or maybe 45 seconds to answer (with the question on their screen).
Maybe have 4 Lifelines available at the start, but you can ONLY use 3 lifelines total. So you would have: Zoom a Friend, 50/50, Ask the Host, Ask the Audience at the start and have the in studio partner available to the 32k level. Then you can swap your Studio friend for one of the remaining lifelines if you want. (And are still limited to 3 total)
chitowngirl 10.9k
Yep, would definitely tune-in to a Julie and Jimmy Podcast.
Erik looked so sad!
Edited November 2, 2020 by chitowngirl
mtlchick 17.5k
Joel McHale is the game show utility player. In the last month he’s been on Masked Singer, Match Game and this and I’m not even counting Card Sharks.
7 minutes ago, mtlchick said:
He also shows up on To Tell the Truth.
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41 minutes ago, mtlchick said:
Also he was on Celebrity Family Feud where his “family” was other dads from his kids school.
Sucks that neither Erik nor his helper Alberto knew what a “wenis” was. I learned that in elementary school since it was something kids would joke about due to the rhyming implications. If he had used Ask the Host I’m confident Jimmy would know it.
As for Julie Bowen getting a Tiger King question for $1,000,000 that would be the one case I would see a question and be happy to not know the answer.
I thought Julie Bowen's $500,000 question was about as difficult as a $100 question ....I mean what else could you see people in Caracas doing? I certainly can't see them on ziplines....and what people would ride an ostrich or a water buffalo to church? Caracas isn't all that weird. People do roller skate. But you put a life changing amount of money on that question and you find yourself agonizing over it.
853fisher 1.1k
Erik and his friend obviously had a more refined upbringing than my school friends and I did. "Wenis" was the talk of the town.
I wasn't sure about the "hero" contestants, but they aren't overdoing it. I was hoping they would include bus drivers and others who have kept things working, and not just the usually fireman-cop-soldier. It's like the show read my mind. I did cringe a little at the "you've never ever seen snow...not even to go up to Big Bear?" Little bit of foot-in-mouth, maybe. Not everyone has time or money for a ski vacation.
Questions were pretty interesting. I did not know that Julie's sister was a noted infectious disease specialist. Pretty good episode. Joel, though, my goodness. I need him to dial it down just a bit. He way way too "on" for me.
Edited November 6, 2020 by 853fisher · Reason: typo
Today I finally learned what the R in Joseph R. Biden stands for... 😄 Thanks, Millionaire!
1 hour ago, ams1001 said:
I think I heard it for the first time at some point yesterday. But I did know that it was “R” so I would have been able to figure it out. I have to keep reminding myself that these folks didn’t see what we current-time people have seen over the past couple days.
9 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:
I think I heard it for the first time at some point yesterday. But I did know that it was “R” so I would have been able to figure it out.
Yeah, I knew it was R (I think it's the NY Times that almost always refers to him as "Joseph R. Biden") and I have idly wondered what it stood for but never bothered to look it up.
Jadzia 712
I know we are supposed to be rooting for the little guys on this show, but that food truck guy was such a dummy. He acted like he had to pick one of those answers even though he clearly had no idea. And he obviously didn't even read the question much less understand it. I was screaming at him to pick Thelma & Louise and then he was like "But they didn't even have cell phones back then?" It said Polaroid right in the question!
I also wondered why he can't run his food truck right now. The food trucks where I live are doing excellent business because they are outside and carry-out only to begin with. One of my favorite food trucks even partnered with a nightclub that is closed so they can park in their parking lot every day for lunch and use their kitchen. They sell out at lunch every single day.
Edited November 10, 2020 by Jadzia
11 minutes ago, Jadzia said:
I know we are supposed to be rooting for the little guys on this show, but that food truck guy was such a dummy. He acted like he had to pick one of those answers even thought he clearly had no idea. And he obviously didn't even read the question much less understand it. I was screaming at him to pick Thelma & Louise and then he was like "But they didn't even have cell phones back then?" It said Polaroid right in the question!
I got it wrong too....because I remember Romie and Michelle was about two ladies attending their high school reunion so I thought it was that.
I can understand him not knowing the answer. I was just surprised he didn't consider just walking away without answering since he did not seem certain of his answer at all. He acted like he had to make a guess.
Jimmy's usually fairly quick to remind contestants that they are forgetting their "Walk away" option, but I get the feeling the Food Truck guy lept to Final Answer too fast for Jimmy to realize where that was going and remind him of the other option. Plus they had gone over "You can still walk away after you phone your friend" before the lifeline was used.
As for the question itself, I would've been stumped, since I've only seen 1 and maybe 2/3rds of the movies listed. But I vaguely recall T&L had some marketing of them with the Polaroid selfie, so it was my best guess. I probably would have walked though.
While it is an iconic lifeline, Phone a Friend really has to be replaced with something else. Studio friend sort've works, but as I suggested above, Zoom a friend might be a better one. Or maybe Phone a friend could work better if they have the host ask the question and starting the 30 seconds when the host is done. (And don't let them chatter until the 30 seconds starts). Since often times a lot of the time seems eaten up just with the contestant mangling the question.
T & L in a Polaroid is in one of the movie posters
On 11/10/2020 at 1:54 PM, opus said:
I answered Thelma and Louise while the question was being read and before any of the answers were given.
Yeay me.
Some years ago there was a big-winning show dog named Robinetta.
Yay for David Chang! I was thinking they better call his friend back and tell her!
I like J.D. so far. I hope he does well.
bybrandy 7.0k
I was happy for David Chang. But pissed that they gave away that he was going to win the million in the promos during the show.
blueray 2.7k
3 hours ago, bybrandy said:
Me too! I was watching it yesterday and the episode is called something like "the one with the million". They to make it even worse the commercials even kept saying "someone" is going to win. Well... hm, there is David Chang who is only five or so questions away and someone will maybe start if there is time. So I think it's safe to jump to the conclusion that he wins. And certain enough he does. That being said, he seems like a nice guy actually and the charity really could use help right now. I know locally (but everywhere really) a lot of restaurants are about to go under if they don't get help.
Did they really? I hadn't seen any promos.
For me, it was literally the name of the episode on my PVR guide. "Someone wins the Million" or words to that effect. And I think the description was something like "A celebrity wins a million" on top of that. Whoever was in charge of promoting this episode should be fired.
3 hours ago, ams1001 said:
Turns out it was in the DVR description on mine, too. I just didn't pay any attention to it.
On the show Jimmy says that Regis talked Norm McDonald out of going for the million. I remember that episode because it was the first celeb edition and Norm had been playing the fool the whole time and it was back when you had to do the fast finger test to get into the hot seat and he didn't get any of the fast finger questions right and it was a big joke and then he gets to the hot seat and of course he's really well educated guy. But he has like no confidence. So he wastes all 3 of his lifelines on questions he for sure knows the answer to. I mean 3 questions in a row where he is like, "um, so I'm pretty sure the answer is a because I legitimately know the answer is A but I'm not sure the answer is A so I'm going to use a lifeline and the whole while I'm screaming, "But the answer is AAAAAA" So by the time he got to the million dollar question he had no lifelines.
Maybe Regis talked him out of it but I mean he just wasn't playing like he was a gambling person the whole game.
2 hours ago, Taeolas said:
Heh, I hadn't read the description, either. Just looked at TV Guide and...yeah. 🙄
Considering they don't get more than two players into an episode, they seem to be alternating celebs and regular people, and the episode started with a celeb in mid-game...pretty obvious.
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If I’m using my phone a friend lifeline, I am condensing that question into as few words as possible in order to give them time to ask Mr Google. Who was the first president to have electricity in the White House. No need for the wordy part about president and First Lady being afraid of getting shocked.
15 hours ago, bybrandy said:
All the tv promos on all the days leading up to Sunday as well as my tv directory said a celebrity was going to win a million, but I'd never heard of David Chang so wasn't sure he was the winner. Until I looked at the clock and knew there was no time for a new contestant to get that far, so yeah, the show ruined the BIG SURPRISE that was no surprise at all.
However, I did actually tear up when he won. It's been that kind of year. David is going to be on Kimmel's show tonight. Good thing he had that phone a friend since he thought two of those million-dollar answers weren't even presidents. Gah.
Yeah, the Hulu episode title in my queue is “The Million-Dollar Win.” I hate when shows do this. Is it supposed to make me hurry to watch? It kind of makes me not care all that much. But at least it’s for charity. I hope it’s spent wisely.
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For David Chang's million-dollar question, I would've thought it was Arthur, but only because I thought Arthur was the latest among those presidents. I knew it had to be around turn of the century, thanks to a line from the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey season 1: "I couldn't have electricity in the house. I wouldn't sleep a wink!" and that was 1912.
I'd also forgotten (or maybe it's a new thing) that they turn off the music entirely at the million-dollar question, so it's just a heartbeat. Spooky.
I happened to know the million dollar question! I used to love books like "101 Odd Stories About Historical Figures." If there wasn't a servant around to turn off the lights in the residence, they just stayed on all night while the Harrisons were there. What is now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building was electrified at the same time, but the paper pushers there in the State, War, and Navy Building didn't earn a mention in any of my books. I think commercialized electricity was about a decade old then, but maybe it got to rural England a while later.
I was pleased for the winner. He was a bold and intelligent player. I can only imagine what a great moment that would've been if I hadn't been told it was going to happen by the title of the episode. Harrumph. I appreciated that he named the charity as many times as possible too, discussed at length what they need and why, etc. He is a great spokesman for them.
I've noticed in recent weeks that some contestants seem not to understand what appears to me to be a basic fact of the game. I guess Millionaire doesn't have particularly complex mechanics, but if I were going on I would want to bear a few things in mind. What I'm thinking of is that, at the upper levels of the game, there are no "trick answers."
If the question is "which president," the four options are all going to be presidents, so don't psych yourself out trying to figure that part out. There isn't going to be a "Warren Hoover" or "Chester Z. Arthur" up there. It obviously didn't stop him, but the big winner spent a bit of time trying to parse whether Harrison was in fact a president. Once you introduce yourself to doubt, it can be tough to dig out.
The ASL interpreter a few shows ago did the same thing. "I haven't heard of 'Blueberries for Sal,' I guess it must not be much of a classic, I can rule that out." If the question is "what classic book," assume that all four books are in fact classics. IIRC, she was bailed out by a lifeline who knew the correct answer. I could be overthinking this, but it's what I'd tell someone I knew who was going on.
One more thing: I'm sure we're all tired of hearing and reading about COVID, but does it strike anyone else that, if you're unmasked and you've gotten close enough to bump elbows, you might as well just shake hands or go in for the hug or whatever you were going to do? I find that looks so strange.
OMG. I liked JD but jeez he was getting really annoying with the Meryl Streep question.
I was absolutely LOVING JD and wanted him to stay on for at least 20 more episodes, then take over hosting, then star in his own show. I've never enjoyed anyone that much. And I was getting a kick out of his Meryl Streep talk. JD could do no wrong in my eyes. I wish he could have gone on to the million. That would have been whack if he played his Czech guess and won $500,000. I was with Kimmel on that one though, I guessed Korean so I would have been a big loser. I'm happy JD got $250,000 though. Well deserved. I also got a kick out of his friend having studied Oscar winners when they knew JD was coming on the show.
It was refreshing to see a bright articulate player after some of the dumbasses who have been on (pretty much all) game shows lately.
I agree, it was just the hemming and hawing on that one question. No wonder they only manage a game and a quarter (at best) per episode.
I tried to google the last question while they were talking, and chrome autocorrected "ano" to "no" which apparently means yes in Polish, so I figured since it was close the answer was probably Czech. Then I went to google translate and saw I was right. (All while they he was still deciding what to do.)
I also liked JD. He was clever and funny. Total keeper. I knew Iron Lady straight off but that's a lot of money so I get the hemming and hawing. I like, though, that the friend was assigned topics. I told my mom a long time ago she needed to learn all the vice presidential trivia to be my phone a friend and she has not taken this request seriously at all. So every time vice presidential trivia comes up on this or Jeopardy I tease her about being a terrible phone a friend. On the electricity question, she was like, "HA, not a vice president. You're on your own."
When Cedric the Entertainer hosted the daytime version, the format was completely different. For the first ten....they used to shuffle the categories and dollar amounts and when contestants got a question right, they would reveal the dollar amount won and that was added to the players bank. After ten questions, they played "classic millionaire" for the dollar amounts from $125.000 to one million. If a contestant lost in this round, they would receive half the bank they had accumulated in the earlier round.
11 hours ago, Swenson said:
I never even knew he hosted a version of it until recently. Came across an article about James Holzhauer's wife being on Millionaire and watched a video of it on youtube and it was that version. I was so confused at first with the shuffling of the clues.
Didn't have any strong feelings one way or the other about tonight's civilian contestant. I kept yelling "it's Bob Dylan" at my TV but they weren't listening.
I like Cedric's sister.
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Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. The appearance of Gatsby from the shadows suggests that
he is a man of mystery and secrets.
Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066 was based onevidence that all Japanese Americans were plotting to fight the US within its borders.past experiences of Japanese Americans causing civil unrest in the United States.the assumption that Japanese Americans posed a threat to national security.written reports that Japan was recruiting American citizens to spy for them.
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village.Keeping in mind Hemingway’s iceberg principle, what feeling is he trying to convey by describing the scene as an “entrance to a circus or a native village”?a feeling of unease as the narrator is driving into a peculiar and alien locationa feeling of sadness at the devastation that has been caused by violence of wara feeling of joy as the narrator realizes that he is alive despite all the carnagea feeling of defeat about a war that has taken so many lives and still continues on
Because of his journalistic background, Ernest Hemingway’s diction tends to bea combination of formal and informal.neither formal nor informal.only formal.only informal
Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby.Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They were not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.The use of words such as “fashionable,” “superficial,” “bizarre,” and “sinister” providea truthful and vivid description of the West Egg and East Egg.a sense of artificiality in the world the narrator finds himself in.an idea of mischief that surrounds the narrator and his friends.a meaningful portrayal of life on the Long Island Sound in the 1920s.
Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.It is unbelievable how fast people adapt. It hurts to admit it, but within hours of first breathing the cattle car’s nauseating air, we began to feel at home. ‘Home’ was the edge of the wooden plank I sat on as I dreamed of the Jewish exiles of antiquity and the Middle Ages. More curious than afraid, I thought of myself as their brother. Mixed into my sadness there was undeniable excitement, for we were living a historic event, a historic adventure.Which best describes the author at this point in his life? He comprehends the situation but is trying to remain optimistic.He reveals the torment he feels while riding the train to the unknown.He is too young and naive to truly understand what is happening.He is troubled by how quickly the others have accepted the current condition
Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a man’s death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel.Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus.mc018-1.jpgWhich theme is addressed in both excerpts?Inexperience can sometimes lead to misunderstanding.It’s important to follow tradition regardless of circumstance.Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them.There are times when one must be able to see in order to believe.
Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life?He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.I had a dog—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away—and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
Which accurately describes a contrast between Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea and Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus?Wiesel’s narrative is a nonfiction account of the Holocaust, whereas Spiegelman’s novel is a fictional account.Wiesel’s work relies on the memories of others, whereas Spiegelman’s account relies on the memories of one person.Wiesel’s story includes his thoughts and feelings, whereas Spiegelman’s novel illustrates his father’s horrific experiences.Wiesel’s writing is loosely based on his own experiences, whereas Spiegelman’s narrative is purely imaginative.
Which incident taken from O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is the best example of irony?Lucynell Crater falls asleep in the diner before she has a chance to eat her food, and she is left there by her husband.Mrs. Crater gives her car to Mr. Shiftlet in hopes that he will marry her one and only daughter.Mrs. Crater thinks she is gaining a son-in-law, when in fact Mr. Shiftlet takes her car, her money, and abandons her daughter at a diner.Mr. Shiftlet appears at the plantation house and explains that even the best doctors cannot know what is in his heart.
By signing Executive Order No. 9066, President Roosevelt assumed thatno one would actually be interned in camps.he was doing what was best for his nation.his direction and command would end the war.the internment camps would be permanent
Read the excerpt from “In Response to Executive Order 9066”.My best friend is a white girl named Denise—we look at boys together. She sat in front of meall through grade school because of our names:O’Connor, Ozawa.In the excerpt, Okita reveals significant details aboutreligion and culture.race and friendship.internment and prison.youth and love
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. “Tenente,” Passini said. “We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made.” “I know it is bad but we must finish it.” “It doesn’t finish. There is no finish to a war.” “Yes there is.” Passini shook his head. “War is not won by victory. What if we take San Gabriele? What if we take the Carso and Monfalcome and Trieste? Where are we then? Did you see all the far mountains to-day? Do you think we could take all them too? Only if the Austrians stop fighting. One side must stop fighting. Why don’t we stop fighting? If they come down into Italy they will get tired and go away. They have their own country. But no, instead there is a war.”Which best describes the effect of Passini’s long pieces of dialogue? They indicate that Passini is naive about the ways of war.They indicate that Passini is guided by his emotions.They indicate that Passini feels passionately about his beliefs.They indicate that Passini is the main protagonist.
Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”He held the pose for almost fifty seconds and then he picked up his box and came on to the porch and dropped down on the bottom step. “Lady,” he said in a firm nasal voice, “I’d give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening.”Keeping in mind the ending of the story, which best describes the irony of Mr. Shiftlet’s statement?Mr. Shiftlet does not need a fortune, as he places no value on financial wealth or the security of having a permanent home.Instead of staying at the plantation, where he can see sunsets like these for the rest of his life, he runs away with Mrs. Crater’s car and money.According to Mrs. Crater, the sun sets like this every evening, and if he stays at the plantation, Mr. Shiftlet will see this regularly.No amount of money can ensure that an individual will witness a sunset to equal this one and will see it every single day.
Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.””A body and a spirit,” he repeated. “The body, lady, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . .”This excerpt contains one simile.two metaphors.two similes.one case of irony.
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there.In the excerpt, what does the diction, or words used to express an idea, show about the narrator? It makes the narrator seem disorganized.It makes the narrator seem discliplined.It makes the narrator seem confused.It makes the narrator seem lively.
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The major asked me to have a drink with him and two other officers. We drank rum and it was very friendly. Outside it was getting dark. I asked what time the attack was to be and they said as soon as it was dark.The casual behavior of the characters during a difficult time demonstrates Hemingway’s belief that a hero shouldexhibit grace under pressure.recognize the meaningless of life.have a mentor to follow.learn from his mistakes.
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. “It could not be worse,” Passini said respectfully. “There is nothing worse than war.” “Defeat is worse.” “I do not believe it,” Passini said still respectfully. “What is defeat? You go home.” “They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters.”The use of informal diction in A Farewell to Armsrobs the passage of having a deeper meaning.helps to maintain the realism of the dialogue.lends an air of absurdity to the dialogue.reduces the readability of the passage.
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there.Hemingway uses vague pronouns and simple language toconvey the intelligence level of the men in the scene.illustrate the sense of fear the narrator is experiencing.reflect the reality of the characters’ situation in a straightforward manner.indicate that the narrator may not fully understand his surroundings.
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there.In the excerpt, what does the diction, or words used to express an idea, show about the narrator? It makes the narrator seem disorganized.It makes the narrator seem discliplined.It makes the narrator seem confused.It makes the narrator seem lively
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there.What effect does Hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have?It slows down the narration by interrupting the action.It makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful.It makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere.It prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.
Read the excerpt from A Farewell to Arms.The major asked me to have a drink with him and two other officers. We drank rum and it was very friendly. Outside it was getting dark. I asked what time the attack was to be and they said as soon as it was dark. I went back to the drivers. They were sitting in the dugout talking and when I came in they stopped. I gave them each a package of cigarettes, Macedonias, loosely packed cigarettes that spilled tobacco and needed to have the ends twisted before you smoked them. Manera lit his lighter and passed it around. The lighter was shaped like a Fiat radiator. I told them what I had heard.In the passage, Hemingway’s characterization of the narrator and his peers provides important details about their backgrounds.allows the reader to fill in the details without being given all of the information.slows down the narrative to allow the reader to reflect on the meaning.develops only one character at a time to not overwhelm the reader.
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Pennsylvania’s March 18th special election to fill the 28th district senate seat vacated by the resignation of Senator Mike Waugh only lacked normalcy. Everything about it was wrapped in controversy, suspicion, confusion, arrogance, and incompetence, ultimately producing a profoundly surprising historic outcome, as Tea Party outsider and Republican unnominated, Scott Wagner, won an unprecedented write-in victory helped, in no small way, by public disgust over vicious attack ads directed at him by the GOP establishment. Added to this was the possibility, due to improper selection of eligible precincts, the election could be contested as invalid, leaving uncertainty and chaos in its wake.
Avoiding possible chaos, hearing no challenges, Scott Wagner will be sworn in Wednesday April 2, as the first ever Pennsylvania legislator elected by write-in. Not only that, his margin of victory was so huge that the York County GOP Committee-picked nominee, sitting House member Rep Ron Miller, subsequently dropped out of the May 20 primary, which will select candidates for a new full state Senate term beginning 2015, effectively ending his 16 year career in the legislature.
The issue of the election’s validity was raised due to its being held in a time of redistricting transition, and the revelation that another special election for a vacant state House seat had been held only seven weeks prior, on January 28th, set up using existing boundaries, whereas the March 18th Senate election was set up using the adopted, but yet to take effect, new district boundaries, each to fill vacant terms expiring November 30, 2014.
This suggested nearly 50,000 citizens were being disenfranchised, as another nearly 36.000 had been improperly enfranchised, becoming a daily topic of discussion by local talk show host Gary Sutton on WSBA radio. Only the size of Wagner’s margin of victory, itself driven by public reaction against the vile attack ads from his own party, rendered validity moot, as his nearly doubling the vote totals of each of his two opponents left no room for argument that, even had the election been set up properly, the outcome could possibly have been different.
Questions remain as to suspicions of collusion raised by Senator Waugh’s resignation, his constitutionally questionable appointment as executive director of the Farm Show Expo, run by a Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, by Governor Corbett, and Lt Governor Cawley’s issuance of the writ for the special election, all within hours.
The smell and speculation of conspiracy was aided by Waugh’s August 9, 2013 announcement he would not seek reelection, Scott Wagner’s announcement of intent to run shortly after, and known differences between Wagner and GOP party insiders. Was this a plot to keep Wagner out?
Setting the special election March 18th with a primary election only 9 weeks ahead added more fuel to the fire, as this would result in additional cost to the taxpayer estimated to exceed $200,000 as opposed to holding the special election in conjunction with the May 20 primary. This brought speculation also that, because there is no primary for a special election, and the county party committees would select the nominees, outsider Scott Wagner would have to face an incumbent in the May primary, to lessen his chance of success there.
With some in the public from both parties upset over an unnecessary $200,000+ expense, the York County GOP committee unwittingly, by selecting any sitting house member at the time, did something that could have doubled the expense, had their chosen nominee won. Had Rep Ron Miller won the election, yet another special election to fill his vacant seat would not have been an option, in spite of early indications from local GOP officials that it would.
The election code is clear in stating that, on the occurrence of a vacancy, the presiding officer shall within 10 days issue a writ for a special election at least 60 days forward, unless the vacancy occurs within 7 months before the expiration of a term, in which situation there is no special unless the presiding officer makes the case for one. Waiting for the May 20 primary, therefore also, would have ended the ugly possibility of $400,000+ in two special elections.
It is worth noting here that some also complained about the special election candidate nomination process, being hand picked by the county committees. Often they were the same people also upset by the $200,000 extra expense, by scheduling the election apart from a primary only 7 weeks hence. Here, though, is where it cannot be both ways. Either accept the committee selection process as prescribed in the code, or accept imposition of an added expense of holding a primary for the special. Those are the choices.
As a final thought on the boundaries used for the 28th district senate special election being incorrect, as radio show host Sutton pressed the validity issue, he reported his repeated attempts to obtain answers of clarity from the Lt Governor’s office, the Department of State, and the local Board of Elections all resulted in unreturned calls, not what would be expected of those capable of and anxious to defend their actions.
Then also, there is one curious post election observation. Sometime between the election and Saturday March 22, all the “Find My Legislator” information at the General Assembly website was changed to the new district boundaries for Senators but not members of the House. In my case, where Newberry Twp, York County will be moving from Senator Teplitz-15th to Senator Folmer-48th the website now tells me Senator Folmer is my Senator presently. Questioning Senator Teplitz, who periodically has staff available in the Newberry Twp building, he confirmed that nothing has changed. Until the end of November his staff will still be there the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month as always. So it seems a mistake, luckily complimented by a decisive outcome aided by arrogance in political advertising, that saved a potential challenge of an election, is now being smoothed over with a lie. Oh, my!
While the historic but flawed Senate 28th special election of 2014 suggests clarification of the code to guide in times of redistricting transition in the future, the next time it can happen is beyond current sight. With no expectation of political gain by addressing it now, it is likely the same issues of confusion will arise again, when memory of this experience will long have been forgotten.
Note: This article shared to WatchdogWire-Pennsylvania 4/3/14
This entry was posted in Elections, PA Politics, Pennsylvania, Politics, State Politics, York County and tagged cawley, Corbett, mike waugh, Pa 28th senate district, ron miller, scott wagner, special election, york county. Bookmark the permalink.
2 responses to “Final Thoughts on an Historic but Flawed PA Special Election”
papatriot1776 | April 1, 2014 at 9:29 pm | Reply
Great post! How long before the GOP figures out that people with principles can really win?
Charlie Beatty
>________________________________ > From: FreeMktMonkey >To: chasbeatty@yahoo.com >Sent: >Subject: [New post] Final Thoughts on an Historic but Flawed PA Special Election > > > > WordPress.com >freemktmonkey posted: ” Pennsylvania’s March 18th special election to fill the 28th district senate seat vacated by the resignation of Senator Mike Waugh only lacked normalcy. Everything about it was wrapped in controversy, suspicion, confusion, arrogance, and incompetence,” >
freemktmonkey | April 1, 2014 at 11:40 pm | Reply
I think they’re getting the message…maybe. It’s funny how efforts of the established leaders to control the show backfired big time in this election. I would imaging whomever approved the attack ads has a lot of explaining to do, as well as the company that produced them…very bad politics.
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Learning is an essential part of our lives, especially when we are kids and everything seems so mysterious and full of potential discoveries. Naturally, children enjoy learning about the world around them, and today modern technologies are always available to help them. Educational apps haven’t been around for a long time, but they are rather popular among parents and their children due to a number of factors - wide availability, affordability, and the potential to keep a child entertained for at least an hour, to name a few. You can find lots of such apps in both iOS Apple Store and Android Play Market, but not all of them are worth your child’s attention. Let’s take a look at the ABCmouse.com app and find out whether it is a good idea to let your children use it.
Functionality 5/5
The first thing you have to understand about this app is that it isn’t a stand-alone app, but rather a mobile client for a popular website called ABCmouse.com. You can only use the app if you have an ABCmouse.com subscription; otherwise, it’s not very useful.
If you do have a subscription, you’ll have to download the app from your device’s respective app store and sign in using your existing user details for ABCmouse.com. Once you do that, you’ll be able to access all content the smart mouse has to offer - which is quite a lot. Overall, there are more than 600 lessons on ABCmouse.com, all of which are interactive and revolve around a custom curriculum. When your child completes a lesson, you can view their progress and even analyze it, because the app gathers various information about your child’s activity on ABCmouse and presents it as graphs, charts, and diagrams. If you take ABCmouse quite seriously, not just as a fun pastime, but as an educational resource, this feature might be quite handy.
The lessons are also divided into eight various levels, starting with preschool level (children who are about 3 years old) and finishing with the first-grade level (children who are older than 6 years). There is a flexible motivation system, which rewards the child with points and tickets after completion of every lesson. The points can be spent in an in-app shop to purchase various items, including clothing, pets and other fun things for an avatar (a figure that represents the child when they are doing something on ABCmouse).
The subjects that your child can learn in the ABCmouse.com app for mobile devices are as following:
Reading and Language. Here children can learn how to read, starting with letter recognition and gradually improving their skills until they can read books from ABCmouse library (more than 450 books, covering various subjects from seasons of the year to numbers);
Math. This section teaches kids to recognize numbers from 1 to 120, as well as do addition and subtraction and measure some basic things, such as length and time;
The World Around Us. This is a place to learn about the human body, the planets, plants and animals, climate and geography;
Art and Colors. In this section, children can discover their creative side as they learn about various colors and their shades, color pictures and draw their own ones using lines, shapes, and colors.
ABCmouse.com iOS and Android app also features educational animated videos and interactive games. All of them were designed to help children learn while playing and having fun. In addition, ABCmouse has lots of jigsaw puzzles to help develop critical thinking and attentiveness in children, as well as songs that explain some basic concepts (ranging from letters to friendship) and are fun to sing along to. ABCmouse users can also go on a virtual tour around a zoo, an aquarium, and a farm whenever they wish, which means that they learn about fish, wild and domestic animals in an entertaining, interactive way.
Last but not least, there are more than a thousand printables available at ABCmouse.com, which means that kids don’t necessarily have to spend a lot of time on the ABC app. Many activities can easily be taken to paper, which is good for developing fine motor skills.
Design 5/5
ABCmouse.com Android and iOS apps both have a great design, featuring lots of fun, colorful graphics that are bound to make learning interesting. Since the app is mostly used by children, it is very important that the interface is user-friendly, and it definitely seems like the ABCmouse developers have succeeded in achieving just that.
Usability 3.5/5
Here’s where it might come to problems with the ABCmouse.com apps. Many users complain about being unable to cancel the subscription when it is no longer needed. In addition, according to numerous app reviews by Android users, the ABC app is prone to freeze and crash quite often, which makes it unsuitable for children.
Cross-Platform Use 4.5/5
You can download and install the ABCmouse app for smartphones and tablets running on Android and iOS. There’s no version of the app available for Windows devices, but it is possible to access the website through the browser on PCs and Macs. Still, a dedicated app would’ve been more convenient for many users.
ABCmouse.com offers a free app for iOS and Android devices, but you need a paid subscription to access the app’s features through the ABC website. The subscription costs $7.99 per month, but it can also be paid on a yearly basis (then it’ll cost you $99 per year). There is no free version with limited functionality, so be prepared to invest some money if you want your kids to use ABCmouse.com.
While the idea of an educational app for children with such a vast variety of features is great, the developers seem to have forgotten about the usability aspect. This might be the deal breaker for users who want to get seamless app performance for their money.
While ABCmouse.com is an undoubtedly great resource, in theory, its practical application is quite poor, so you might be better off with another source of educational content for your children.
Pros : Lots of high-quality educational material;
Free printables;
Progress tracking;
Fun, interactive content.
Cons : Usability issues;
Canceling the subscription may not be easy;
No dedicated app for Windows 1o devices.
Functionality 5
Usability 3.5
Cross-platform use 4.5
Average : 4.5
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“Hearables – The New Wearables” – Nick Hunn’s Famous White Paper 5 Years Later (Future Ear Daily Update 7-10-19)
July 10, 2019 October 15, 2019 Dave Kemp
Nick Hunn, the wireless technology analyst and CTO of WiFore Consulting, coined the term “hearables” in his now famous white paper, “Hearables – the new Wearables,” back in 2014. For today’s update, I thought it might be fun to look back at Nick’s initial piece to really appreciate some of his prescient foresight with predicting how our ear-worn devices would mature across the coming years.
For starters, one of the most brilliant insights that Nick shared was around the new Bluetooth standards that were being adopted at the time and the implications for battery life:
“The Hearing Aid industry’s trade body – EHIMA, has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bluetooth SIG to develop a new generation of the Bluetooth standard which will reduce the power consumption for wireless streaming to the point where this becomes possible, adding audio capabilities to Bluetooth Smart. Whilst the primary purpose of the work is to let hearing aids receive audio streams from mobile phones, music players and TVs, it will have the capability to add low power audio to a new generation of ear buds and headsets.”
To put this into perspective, the first “made-for-iPhone” hearing aid, The Linx, had just been unveiled by Resound at the end of 2013. Nick published his paper in April of 2014, so it may have been apparent for close observers that hearing aids were heading toward iPhone’s 2.4 GHz Bluetooth protocol (every hearing aid manufacturer ended up adopting it), but without a background like Nick’s, working in the broad field of wireless technology, it may have been hard to know about the way in which this new Bluetooth standard (initially called Bluetooth Smart and then later called Bluetooth Low Energy) would allow for more efficient power consumption.
Nick’s insight became more pronounced as Apple rolled out its AirPods in 2016 with its flagship W1 chip, which used ultra-low power Bluetooth allowing for 5 hours of audio streaming (2 hours of talk time). Flash-forward to today, and Apple has released its AirPods 2.0 that uses the H1 chip and Bluetooth 5.0, allowing for even more efficient power consumption.
It needs to be constantly reiterated that hearables were deemed unrealistic up until midway through the 2010’s because of how inefficient the power consumption was with previous Bluetooth standards. Batteries represent one component inside miniature devices that has historically not seen a whole lot of innovation, both in terms of size reduction and also by energy density, so it might not have been obvious to see that the work-around to this major roadblock was actually in the way that the power from the battery was extracted via new methods of Bluetooth signaling.
The other aspect of hearables that Nick absolutely nailed was that ear-worn devices would eventually become laden with biometric sensors:
“Few people realise that the ear is a remarkably good place to measure many vital signs. Unlike the wrist, the ear doesn’t move around much while you’re taking measurements, which can make it more reliable for things like heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and pulse oximetry. It can even provide a useful site for ECG measurement.”
Today, US hearing aid manufacturer, Starkey has incorporated one of Valencell’s heart rate monitors into its Livio AI hearing aids. This new integration unveiled at CES this year was made possible due to the miniaturization of ECG sensors to the point they can be fit onto a tiny, receiver-in-the-canal (RIC) hearing aid. To Nick’s point, there are significant advantages to recording biometric data in the ear rather than the wrist, so it should come as no surprise as future versions of AirPods and its competitors come equipped with various sensors over time.
Nick continues to write and share his insights, so if you’re not already following his work, it might be a good time to start reading up on Nick’s thinking about how our little ear-computers will continue to evolve.
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John Jarosek says:
Nick is (or was?) the chair of the Bluetooth SIG Hearing Aid Working Group. We were expecting new hearing aid and general audio standards after Bluetooth 5 was released in 2016. Unfortunately, we’re still waiting. If and when these standards are released,thing might get really interesting.
Dave Kemp says:
Thanks for commenting! That’s interesting, I did not know that Nick was (or still is) the chair of the Bluetooth SIG. I agree, it will be really interesting if new standards are released
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Wolfenstein Youngblood Guide: How To Use The Buddy Pass
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By Shibu S Last updated Jul 27, 2019
Wolfenstein Youngblood presents a system called Buddy Pass, which will allow you to share the game with a friend, let’s see how it works in our mini-guide.
Wolfenstein Youngblood is officially on the shelves. Announced at E3 2019, the new shooter of Arkane Studios and MachineGames will have not one, but two protagonists in the main campaign. If you purchase the Deluxe Edition of the title you will have access to a system called Buddy Pass, which basically allows you to share your copy of the game with a friend, in order to play cooperatively. Let’s see how to use the Buddy Pass in Wolfenstein Youngblood.
Wolfenstein Youngblood Guide on how to use the Buddy Pass:
Let’s start by saying that to make everything work, your friend will have to download the free trial of the game, present in the store. To share the experience with a partner, all you have to do is invite him/her from the main menu of the title, without any code, proof or anything else: just as you would if your friend had a personal copy.
The beauty of the Buddy Pass is the fact that your partner will have no timer, nothing at all, but can assist you from the start of your campaign to the end. Furthermore, the experience cannot be shared only with one person, but you can have all the friends you want (provided you let them in one at a time).
Although players who join together thanks to this system will normally advance in the main campaign, they will not earn trophies (goals or anything else) dedicated to the latter, since they do not have a personal copy. To use the Buddy Pass, you and your friends will need to have a subscription (Xbox Live Gold, PlayStation Plus or Nintendo Switch Online) in case you play on a console.
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Lorde Is About %$ Years Old, According to That Microsoft Age App
If there’s one thing Microsoft’s new web toy “How Old Do I Look?” is good for, it’s exploiting our collective narcissism to build a robust facial recognition database. But if it’s good for a second thing, it’d have to be answering the open question of how old alleged celebrity teenager Lorde really is.
Lorde Tells Diplo to Fix His Tiny Penis in Taylor Swift Twitter Feud
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You do not make fun of Taylor Swift's little booty on Twitter and get away with it, my friend. Not when Lorde's ancient spirit is also on Twitter.
Lorde Helped Jennifer Lawrence Put Her Boob Away at Hunger Games Party
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Lorde's Version of Lorde on South Park Is Better Than Regular Lorde
Lorde's recent appearances on South Park—where she was revealed to be the musical alter ego of Stan's dad, Randy Marsh—came up in a new interview with TV3 in the singer's native New Zealand, and reporter David Farrier got her to sort-of-perform a snippet of her song from the show.
South Park Mocks Spin Over Joke About Elderly Pop Star
Remember the time South Park did a joke about the conspiracy theory that teenage pop star Lorde is actually way older than she claims? And the time Spin, a music publication, totally missed the joke and got offended on Lorde's behalf? It was a week ago. Anyway...
Are the South Park Guys Lorde Age Truthers?
Grammy-winning New Zealand singer Lorde's rise to fame is especially remarkable because she's just 17 years old. Or that's what she wants you to think. Despite the release of the singer's birth certificate—or an easily-forged printout of it, anyway—earlier this year, some still believe Lorde is older than she claims.
Elderly Pop Star Delivers Bumbling Acceptance Speech
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First, they didn't have a mic waiting for Lorde when she won her VMA for Best Rock Video. Then she said "shit." Then she did this.
Cows Love This Farmer's Trombone Cover of Lorde's "Royals"
Farmer Derek Klingenberg is also a musician, and he's found an unconventional way of calling his heifers in from the fields: He plays them pop songs on his trombone. Here's his performance of Lorde's "Royals" from Sunday morning.
Weird Al Spills All His Illuminati Secrets in "Royals" Parody
Weird Al Yankovic's #8Videos8Days continues with a parody of "Royals", the Lorde song that even Lorde is sick of hearing. Al's version is fresh, though, because he's got it wrapped up tight in strong, versatile aluminum foil (foiiiiil). It's as good for preserving sandwiches as it is for preserving your head from government thought control.
Jennifer Lawrence's Email Address Probably Has "Butt" in It
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Lorde Says a Photographer is Stalking Her
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Maybe-maybe-not-teenager Lorde went public on Twitter Sunday night, posting the name and picture of the photographer she says has been stalking her.
Lorde Sings Nirvana at Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony
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Bruce Springsteen Growls Through a Cover of Lorde's "Royals"
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Bruce Springsteen was in Auckland, New Zealand yesterday, which is also the home definitely-a-teen-and-not-secretly-much-older idol Lorde. In her honor, the Boss performed a growling cover of her Grammy-winning single "Royals." If you pay too close of attention he kinda sounds like an SNL parody of Bruce Springsteen covering modern pop songs.
How Old Is Lorde? Are You a Lorde Age Truther?
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Lorde, the Kiwi singer-songwriter who won a Grammy on Sunday night, is 17—or is she? Is this Lorde's birth certificate?
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George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Honoring African American Heritage, Arts and Culture
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A tour of our gallery spaces located on the first floor provides a sense of what it was like for Black Pioneers and later generations across Arizona to live, love, learn and become successful in spite of monumental injustice and indifference.
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We invite you to come experience “That Which Might Have Been, Birmingham 1963” and all of our exhibits this. We are taking all the necessary steps to both honor the many contributions made by families, businesses & organizations across the valley and greatly expand the capabilities of the building and grounds. Our community deserves amazing programming and available resources in this historic facility that will serve families and patrons. To help support our mission, click here.
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What is a social robot?
The terminology to describe so called social robots is not consistent across literature but depends on the particular research emphasis. Robots are often described as “socially evocative“, “socially situated“, “sociable”, “socially intelligent“ or “socially interactive“. Since the beginning of HRI studies up to today, researcher argue that social features of robots are crucial for a successful interaction between robots and people [1-3]. The requirements of social skills may differ depending on the degree of contact with humans (none to repeated long-term), a robot’s functionalities (limited, clearly defined to adaptive, shaped by learning), and the role of the robot (machine, tool to assistant, companion, partner) [2]. Given this wide spectrum of characteristics, there is a tendency in HRI research that any robot, which interacts with or is used by a person is claimed to be a social robot, may it be a floor cleaning vacuum robot or a seal shaped robotic companion for the elderly. A general definition of a social robot is “a physical entity embodied in a complex, dynamic, and social environment sufficiently empowered to behave in a manner conducive to its own goals and those of its community“ [1]. Other definitions of social robots include the following characteristics:
express and/or perceive emotions,
communicate with high-level dialogue,
learn models of or recognize other agents,
establish and/or maintain social relationships,
use natural cues (gaze, gesture, etc.),
exhibit distinctive personality and character,
learn and/or develop social competencies,
possess histories,
follow, adapt to and communicate understanding for social situation and rules.
The definition of social robots also depends on the approach to social interactions. Taking a human-centered view, social robots are described as “robots designed to interact with people in a human-like way“ [4]. Taking a more robot-centered view, social robots are defined as embodied agents as part of a heterogeneous group such that “they are able to recognize each other and engage in social interactions, they possess histories (perceive and interpret the world in terms of their own experience), and they explicitly communicate with and learn from each other“ [5]. A more detailed discussion of the human-centered versus the robot-centered view is given in chapter Paradigms in HRI: Approaches to social interactions with robots.
The term social robot is not without criticism. Kahn et al. hesitate to use this term by arguing that calling a robot social implies that the thing actually and in reality is social [6]. Instead, they introduced the alternative term robot others. Kahn et al. claim that robotic others makes less of a commitment to the ontological social status of a robot and also less of a commitment to the ways in which people interpret the social standing of a robot. However, the term social robot has gained general acceptance in HRI research today.
Duffy, B.R., Anthropomorphism and the social robot. Robotics and autonomous systems, 2003. 42(3): p. 177-190.
Dautenhahn, K., Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007. 362(1480): p. 679-704.
Young, J.E., et al., Evaluating human-robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2011. 3(1): p. 53-67.
Breazeal, C., Social interactions in HRI: the robot view. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2004. 34(2): p. 181-186.
Fong, T., I. Nourbakhsh, and K. Dautenhahn, A survey of socially interactive robots. Robotics and autonomous systems, 2003. 42(3): p. 143-166.
Kahn, P.H., et al., Social and moral relationships with robotic others?, in IEEE International Symposium on Robots and Human Interactive Communication. 2004, IEEE. p. 545-550.
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Rory Sabbatini, Brian Gay take Zurich Classic lead, discuss bracelet shopping
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By Dan Kilbridge | April 26, 2019 3:27 pm
AVONDALE, La. – Things got weird Friday at the Zurich Classic.
There are already enough moving parts here due to the team-format, and a race to make up for a 7-hour, 33-minute rain delay Thursday meant total chaos Friday afternoon.
You had teams all over the course playing different formats, some finishing Round 1 best-ball while others had already teed off for Round 2 alternate-shot.
You also had a team of unexpected veterans at the top of the leaderboard.
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Brian Gay and Rory Sabbatini matched the tournament best-ball record and finished their opening round with an 12-under 60 to take the lead, after which they were asked what team activity they’d be great at other than golf.
“Beer pong,” Gay said.
“Shopping for bracelets,” Sabbatini countered.
What kind of bracelets?
“Just men’s bracelets. We always have our unique style of bracelets.”
That led to a discussion regarding the cost of said bracelets, ($1,000 to $2,000 “probably”), and an incredible response from Gay when asked where one would acquire a luxury men’s bracelet.
“They’re out there,” Gay said.
Gay, 47, last won on Tour in 2013. It’s been even longer for Sabbatini, 43, a six-time winner who was last victorious at the 2011 Honda Classic.
“Brian just played solid all day yesterday and today,” Sabbatini said. “That makes it easy on me to be a little bit more aggressive and take a few more risks out there. He just played solid all day.”
Sabbatini also made sure to point out they would have shot 59 to beat the tournament record had Gay not missed short putts on a few holes.
“I think it helps if you know the guy pretty well,” Gay said. “It’s better if your games match up and if you’re comfortable with your partner and you know each other, that works better.”
Gay is in New Orleans with his family this week while Sabbatini is alone, so “I eat at the bar, he eats at a table,” Sabbatini said.
Sabbatini does have a team-format win on his resume, taking the 2003 World Golf Championships-World Cup with Trevor Immelman. He’s also coming off a T-10 at last week’s RBC Heritage and has made six consecutive cuts, finishing inside the top 40 at each.
“We’re kind of playing the way we both play our own games,” Gay said. “Rory likes to go. I’ll let him hit first and play his deal. I know he’s going to be pretty aggressive. He’s putting the eyes out of it.”
All told it took about 32 hours to finish the opening round at TPC Louisiana, creating a long wait for the leaders – Gay and Sabbatini weren’t set to tee off for Round 2 until 6:36 p.m. Friday.
It’s been that kind of week in the Big Easy, where the colorful Gay/Sabbatini duo made for a fitting group of frontrunners in Round 1.
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January 1, 2021 January 1, 2021 Good Call Live Editor
YOU ME AT SIX Release New Single ‘Adrenaline’ + Album Out Soon
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You Me At Six have shared Adrenaline, a brand new track taken from their highly anticipated new album ‘SUCKAPUNCH’, due January 15th via Underdog Records / AWAL.
Adrenaline arrives with demanding and bold assertion, driven by saturated bass and steeped in suspense as You Me At Six power into genre-breaking new territory. Speaking about the track, lead vocalist Josh Franceschi says:
“Adrenaline is about understanding & accepting the capacity we all have as humans to have split personalities. Coming to terms with the idea of co-dependency.”
STREAM: ‘ADRENALINE’
Adrenaline is taken from the band’s eagerly anticipated seventh studio album, ‘SUCKAPUNCH’. Having secured a spot add on triple j, and being described as “epic” by the NME, previous single and the album’s title track was hailed as one of the band’s boldest artistic statements to date with its anthemic amalgamation of electronica and rock. Rock Sound confirmed, “it’s big, bold, brash and another example of how far the band are willing to push their sound” where the Daily Star described You Me At Six as “the hottest band in rock right now”, following the announcement of a limited edition ‘SUCKAPUNCH’ vegan hot sauce.
Recorded over five weeks at Karma Sound Studio in Bang Saray, Thailand, the new album arrives after a tumultuous period of emotional blows, leaving the majority of the band getting to grips with new life scenarios. With themes rooted in reflection and redemption, ‘SUCKAPUNCH’ sees You Me At Six harness darker experiences as a catalyst for creativity, empowerment and positivity.
The band were eager to push the experimentation of their 2018 UK Top 6 album ‘VI’ even further, continuing their creative relationship with that album’s producer, Dan Austin (Biffy Clyro, Massive Attack, Pixies). Brimming with ambition, sonic influences dive boldly into electronic music, hip-hop and R&B, some of the songs tread entirely new territory, others twist rock into fresh forms. All of it springs surprises. ‘SUCKAPUNCH’ is the sound of a band embracing change. You Me At Six have crafted their most experimental, personal and progressive record to date.
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GemArts NPO 2018-2022 success!
Following this mornings announcement we are delighted to announce that GemArts is part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio from 2018-2022.
GemArts Director, Vikas Kumar MBE said;
“GemArts is thrilled with today’s NPO news. This funding is hugely important to our plans for the next 4 years, and we are thankful that Arts Council England has continued to support our work during the 2018-2022 funding period.
The past 3 years have been a very exciting time for GemArts with regional and national awards recognising the positive difference our work makes, and the introduction of our Masala Festival (back 17th-23rd July) placing South Asian arts firmly on the North East arts scene. The coming 4 years will see the organisation continue to deliver an ambitious programme, supporting and championing the creative case for diversity at every level, offering something truly unique for artists, participants and audiences across the region.
This NPO funding alongside project grants, individual donors and corporate support, will enable GemArts to deliver an artistic programme with creativity, diversity and equality of opportunity at its heart”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2017 by GemArtsuk. Leave a comment
GemArts Director awarded MBE for services to Arts and Culture
GemArts Director Vikas Kumar awarded an MBE for services to the Arts and Culture.
Vikas Kumar, Director of GemArts, Gateshead has been awarded an MBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to Arts and Culture.
Vikas is Founder and Director of GemArts, and since 2001 he has been leading this visionary organisation. Vikas’ passion for creativity, diversity and equality of opportunity has built GemArts into an internationally recognised arts organistion, which continues to grow from strength to strength.
Vikas’ expertise in the South Asian and Diversity Arts sector, from a national and international perspective, has enabled him to develop an excellent network of artists and creative producers worldwide. Working in collaboration with the voluntary, public and private sector, Vikas has made a significant contribution in increasing arts engagement amongst under represented communities particularly those from a Black and Minority Ethnic and wider backgrounds across the North East.
Through GemArts ambitious and inspiring artistic programme across all strands of work, including concerts, festivals, commissions and workshops, collaborating with flagship venues, community spaces and regional, national and international partners, Vikas has been instrumental in supporting artists at every stage of their career, ensuring that talent and artistic excellence is diverse, thriving and celebrated.
Speaking about his MBE for ‘services to the Arts and Culture’ Vikas said: “I’m honoured and delighted to have received the MBE for services to Arts and Culture. I’m absolutely passionate about the positive difference that arts and culture makes to our communities, and in bringing people together to celebrate creativity and diversity. This achievement would not be possible without the work and commitment of GemArts and my dedicated team, our amazing trustees, volunteers, artists, communities, audiences and partners, and I’m truly humbled. Finally I want to thank my mum and dad, family and friends for their guidance and support”.
Brief profile (further information available)
Current Position – Founder and Director of GemArts 2001- Present
Founder and Director of GemArts, presenting and profiling ethnically diverse arts and culture in the North East, by developing high quality multi-artform concerts, festivals, workshops and commissions with both UK and international artists. In 2016 GemArts launched the first Masala Festival, which brought together Vikas’ vision for the north easts very own South Asian arts festival, and went on to win the Arts Council award at the Journal Culture Awards.
Many years involvement, predating GemArts, with local charity Gateshead Visible Ethnic Minorities Support Group (GVEMSG), set up in 1989 to provide support to minority ethnic, refugee and asylum seeker individuals and families in Gateshead. GVEMSG began using participatory arts and cultural events to support integration and promote community cohesion in the local area.
In 2001 a pilot project between GVEMSG and Sage Gateshead was launched, funded by Arts Council England’s audience development programme, which focussed its effort on culturally diverse art and artists. The project continued to grow and Vikas launched GemArts, which became a permanent feature in the North East, and is now a sector leader in culturally diverse arts and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
Vikas has always been a keen business man with an entrepreneurial mind-set. His business acumen and skills with numbers led him to study Accountancy, and he has undertaken many successful ventures. Following in his family’s footsteps he went on to set up and manage his own companies including a Post Office which he ran for over 5 years, and he is also a property portfolio holder.
Voluntary posts that Vikas has held include:
– Chair of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts’ Equality and Diversity Committee- 2013-Present
– Trustee of Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust- 2007-2013
– Founding member of Arts Council England Creative Case North Forum – 2015-Present
– Vice Chair/Trustee of Bensham Grove Community Centre- 2016 – Present
– Member of Gateshead Children Safeguarding Board Gateshead Council – 2016-Present
– Member of Gateshead Council’s Diversity Forum- 2015- Present
– Member of Gateshead Strategic Partnership-2015- Present
– Member of Hate Crime Tension Monitoring Group (Gateshead) – 2012- Present
– Trustee of Gateshead Voluntary Organisations Council – 2012-Present
– Member of South Asian Dance Alliance – 2014-Present
– Trustee of Sound Sense Board- 2009- 2014
– Trustee of Tyne Theatre and Opera House Preservation Trust Board- 2011- 2014
Vikas was also awarded Gateshead Volunteers Award in 2009, and the Asian Business Connexions Art and Culture award in 2016.
Vikas dedicates much of his professional and personal time to, and genuinely enjoys attending, as many community and cultural events as possible, and is a true champion for Gateshead and the North East, promoting the region wherever he gets the opportunity. A Gateshead ‘Bensham lad’, Vikas is a keen NUFC supporter, and an active member of the local Hindu temple, having helped develop a popular children’s programme there. Vikas enjoys spending time with all his family, especially his wife Angela and young daughter Anya.
In 2016 Vikas’s team launched the first Masala Festival which went on to win the Arts Council Award at the Journal Culture Awards 2017. Speaking of the festival Vikas Kumar said “It’s fantastic for Masala Festival to be named winner of the Arts Council Award at the Culture Awards. This award helps GemArts celebrate the creative talents of artists from the region, across the UK, South Asia and beyond, and recognises the incredible support we receive from our participants, audiences, trustees, volunteers, sponsors, partners and local communities, to whom we are hugely grateful! It was a joy to collaborate, connect and celebrate with thousands of people from across the region at our first Masala Festival, and we can’t wait to do it all again. We will continue to champion creativity and diversity at every level, supporting young and emerging artists, and offer people from all backgrounds and ages, community groups and schools, engaging opportunities to take part in our culturally rich and diverse arts offer.”
Last year Masala Festival offered a truly eclectic programme, spanning traditional and contemporary South Asian arts, and this year’s festival (17th-23rd July) promises to be even more ambitious building on successes, collaborating with venue partners, places and spaces, commissioning new work and presenting internationally significant South Asian artists and art forms from the UK and abroad. GemArts Masala Festival 2017 will continue to bring a mix and blend of the very finest South Asian Arts and Culture to the North East this summer, with 2017 marking the 70th anniversary of India and Pakistan’s Independence, some work focuses specifically on this important milestone in India and the UKs history.
For more information on Masala Festival visit http://www.gemarts.org.
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GEMARTS MASALA FESTIVAL 2017
GemArts award winning Masala Festival returns with a mix and blend of the finest South Asian Arts and Culture, 17th – 23rd July 2017.
Building on the success of last year’s Masala Festival, GemArts bring you an even bigger and more ambitious line up of music, theatre, film, visual arts, storytelling, dance, workshops, food, and lots more, with artists from across the UK, South Asia and beyond! We have put together an incredible programme, and I do hope you can join us.
The North Easts very own South Asian Arts Festival offers audiences and partners the opportunity to reflect on the past, celebrate the present and get excited about the future, in this special year which marks the 70th Anniversary of India and Pakistan’s Independence.
We look forward to welcoming you to the second Masala Festival and sharing this amazing programme of events with you.
Click on the events to learn more about MASALA FESTIVLA 2017 events:
Monday 17th SACRED SOUNDS: Sikh music traditions and the First World War (Sage Gateshead)
Tuesday 18th MASALA FESTIVAL at Q Festival: Indian storytelling, Dance classes, Foodie talks & more (Gateshead Quayside)
Tuesday 18th CHAI, CHAAT & CHUTNEY: cooking demo with ex GBBO contestant Chetna Makan (Food Nation, Newcastle)
Tuesday 18th GANDHARVA CHOIR: the first ever visit to the North East from India’s top choir (Sage Gateshead)
Tuesday 18th DALJIT NAGRA Heritage and Identity: Poetry reading & discussion (Culture Lab, Newcastle)
Wednesday 19th & 20th NO DOGS, NO INDIANS: a powerful new play by Siddhartha Bose (Live Theatre, Newcastle)
Thursday 20th SARATHY KORWAR QUINTET: Indian folk & Jazz (The Black Swan, Newcastle)
Friday 21st CHANGES: stories on the edge, film programme (BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art)
Saturday 22nd MASALA FESTIVAL at Trinity Square: Family workshops (Trinity Square, Gateshead Central)
Saturday 22nd MOVIES AT MASALA: screenings of The Jungle Book (2016) and Gandhi (1982) (Jam Jar Cinema, Whitley Bay)
Sunday 23rd MASALA MINI MELA: Free family fun day with workshops, performances & lots more (Live Theatre, Newcastle)
Further information to follow, any questions do get in touch with sinead@gemarts.org .
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Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2017 by GemArtsuk. Leave a comment
PhD Studentship opportunities
National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) PhD studentships
To begin in October 2017
Deadline for studentship applications: 19 June 2017 applications to supervisors
Award offers will be issued after 11 July 2017
Any queries should be directed to rn.northumbria-sunderland-cdt@northumbria.ac.uk
The Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership and Northumbria-Sunderland Centre for Doctoral Training invite applications for NPIF studentships funded via the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Each studentship is a collaboration between a partner organisation and University, allowing students to work with industrial and commercial partners, and leading academic researchers. Through the scheme students have access to a number of training opportunities including placements and internships.
Building Capacity in the (Multi)Cultural Arts Sector
New research into the cultural economy shows that while there is considerable public interest in access to creative jobs, there is a concern that these jobs are limited to organisation with privileged backgrounds (Oakley & O’Brien 2016; Taylor & O’Brien, 2016). Yet research that investigates the practices of arts and culture organisations that represent multicultural ethnic communities and employ minority performers and artists is virtually non-existent in the UK. This studentship will study capacity-building and resilience-enhancement in multicultural-led small creative and cultural enterprises, with emphasis on how networking processes and digital awareness impact productivity and opportunities in the sector. Particular attention will be paid to the ways that enhancements to ethnic creative industry production might not only expand and improve the cultural economy, but also act as intellectual and social ‘borderwork’, ‘contact zones’ and/or ‘engines of connectivity’ (Cooper & Rumford, 2011).
If you are considering applying for one of these studentships, you must first consult the Guidance Notes.
Prospective ‘Supervisor-led route’ applicants must also consult the list of 31 Research Fields and e-mail the relevant supervisor as soon as possible.
Prospective ‘Applicant-led route’ applicants must e-mail the relevant lead academic contact with an expression of interest by Wednesday 7 June at 5pm.
Before they begin to complete the Application Form, potential applicants must have made contact with a member of academic staff at one of the five universities.
For full information visit www.nuwebapps.northumbria.ac.uk
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All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About
Ghost Atlas
Produced by Jesse Cash
Album All is in sync, and there’s nothing left to sing about
All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About Lyrics
[Verse 1: Jesse Cash]
So long my only friend
Hello to another new beginning
That I don't want to begin again
I can't come down
[Pre-Chorus: Jesse Cash]
There is nothing left for us to sing about
[Chorus: Jesse Cash]
You come on over and set me free (Ooh)
In my own head I find my escape
All is so clear
But it is so much better here
With you my dear
There is nothing left for us to sing about (but what lies ahead)
You just come on over and over
I've loved nothing more
[Bridge: Jesse Cash & Cat Lippincott]
I worry all the time
I miss my old ways
In creative isolation
But every day you save me
Of all the things that I have loved well
I have loved you better
About “All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About”
“All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About” is the final song in Ghost Atlas' debut studio album, All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About. Ghost Atlas is an unsigned band which is independently run, and funded, by Jesse Cash, who is the Soft Vocalist in popular metalcore band ERRA.
“All Is In Sync” creates a nice atmosphere with the pleasant melody and calm vocals help ease you to the end of the album. “All Is In Sync” takes the part of a couple who are parting ways after was is described as a relationship which has just come to its end due to love fading.
However, once faced with the changes and they begin to miss each other it seems that they are regretting their departure and realise that they do love each other after all.
In terms of succession, “All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About”, although named after the album only amassed a total of 10,082 views (as of 27/12/2017) on Jesse’s YouTube (where he posts all videos from Ghost Atlas or solo segments). Making it the fifth most popular song on the album.
"All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About" Track Info
Written By Jesse Cash
Drums Alex Ballew
Mastered by Joseph McQueen
Mixed By Joseph McQueen
Tracking By Joseph McQueen & Josh Gilbert
Backing Vocals Cat Lippincot
Release Date November 17, 2017
All is in sync, and there’s nothing left to sing about Ghost Atlas
1. Cry Wolf
2. Vertigo
3. Legs
4. Badlands
5. Fox Rain
6. Surrogate Lover
7. NightDrive
8. Mirror Room
9. Scouts Honor
10. Little Shell
11. Rabid Dog
12. All Is In Sync, And There’s Nothing Left To Sing About
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Posts Tagged ‘catastrophe’
CoronaFRI!vus
* Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful. No other country has been this far into the pandemic and still had the number of cases growing at the rates the U.S. is seeing. Without Urgent Action, Coronavirus Could Overwhelm U.S., Estimates Say. I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed.
* David Harvey: Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19. The Politics of the Pandemic. You and Your Boss Have the Same Interests Right Now. That Is a Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity. Sara Nelson Says People Are Ready for Solidarity. COVID-19 Emergency Tenant Protections. Homeless families occupy vacant homes in LA. Dealing With Coronavirus Requires Bold Action. The Democratic Leadership Won’t Take It.
💯 pic.twitter.com/4XUrxBs6th
— traxus4420 (@traxus4420) March 19, 2020
* 9% of Working Americans (14 Million) So Far Have Been Laid Off As Result of Coronavirus; 1 in 4 Workers Have Had Their Hours Reduced; 2% Have Been Fired; 20% Have Postponed a Business Trip; Shock Waves Just Now Beginning to Ripple Through Once-Roaring US Economy. U.S. Jobless Claims Jump to Two-Year High Amid Closures. 2700% increase in unemployment claims in Ohio — midweek. [Calfornia] averages 2,000 unemployment applications a day. Two or three days ago, it received 40,000. On Tuesday, 80,000 applications were filed. JP Morgan is forecasting -14% RGDP growth in Q2. That’s so bad it isn’t even on the historical axis.
History is dialectical but the likelihood that the US will be operating under some version of the USSR’s command economy in a year is just next level
The persistent fantasy of a serious crisis that forces even the worst politicians to do the right thing
— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) March 20, 2020
* So, It’s Bad. Free, Widespread Testing Is The Only Way America Goes Back to Normal. This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus. Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S. US sales of guns and ammunition soar amid coronavirus panic buying. The Stimulus Plan That We Need Now.
* Curb Your Enthusiasm: “The Virus.”
* I’m reminded somehow of the way you end a SimCity game by unleashing every disaster on your city as once. The Midwest Is Preparing To Get Hit With Major Floods During The Coronavirus Outbreak. How the Coronavirus Crisis May Hinder Efforts to Fight Wildfires. Locust crisis poses a danger to millions, forecasters warn. Earthquake in Utah. A Huge Chunk of Yellowstone Is Pulsing.
* Weeks Before Virus Panic, Intelligence Chairman Privately Raised Alarm, Sold Stocks. Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness.
weren’t you in the same meeting https://t.co/Zf4xBfAeYO
* Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet. Amazon Workers Shut Down Warehouse After Employee Is Infected With Coronavirus. The tech execs who don’t agree with ‘soul-stealing’ coronavirus safety measures.
This really hammers home the way in which the Uber model (like that of all “gig economy” employers) is to extract money from workers while making those workers bear all of the risk. https://t.co/2jCKfrfdNn
— Jacob Remes (@jacremes) March 19, 2020
Bellamy imagined a universal monopoly ushering in more or less communism; our version is giving control of the planet to a guy who thinks rich people need to move to outer space to escape environmental collapse https://t.co/36hkp1Ex9W
* Mitt Romney’s $1,000 Isn’t Our Universal Basic Income. Americans may see first round of checks from US government by April 6. I really should have known.
The UK announced it will guarantee everyone’s wages until this thing is over, and Congress is still haggling over like, whats the income cutoff to make someone eligible for the one-time $1200 check
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 20, 2020
Not processing yet that we got through this week without Congress finalizing massive action on behalf of tens of millions of unemployed and desperate Americans, whose bills are piling up as we speak
— David Dayen (@ddayen) March 20, 2020
As the proposed amount of the checks vary wildly we get a fun natural experiment in how much has to be on the table before a liberal doesn’t start their analysis with “of course *I* don’t need the money.”
* Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded. In Coronavirus Testing Ramp-Up, U.S. Called Private Sector in Late. How the CDC Botched Basic Science in Its Attempt to Make a Coronavirus Test. Don’t Let Trump Off the Hook.
* I had a lot of question about this, so perhaps it will be useful to you too: No, The World Health Organization Is Not Recommending Against Ibuprofen For Coronavirus Symptoms.
* The world’s fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a treatment. Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID‐19: results of an open‐label non‐randomized clinical trial.
* “I’m Not An Epidemiologist But…”: The Rise Of The Coronavirus Influencers. This is certainly a problem but I became attuned to the reality of coronavirus precisely through these sorts of non-experts while Trump and the CDC were still lying to everyone. I haven’t seen anything better for learning true information about this crisis than Reddit’s upvote/downvote system.
* Today in the trolley problem. Today in the simulation argument. Today in career goals. Today in Star Trek Studies. Today in Watchmen fan fiction. Weird time.
* Rikers Island inmate has contracted coronavirus: officials. How coronavirus could explode at Riker’s Island. Reducing prison population protects us all from coronavirus.
* You Need Me to Have a Mask. ‘It Feels Like a War Zone’: Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media. A New York Doctor’s Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling. Simple math offers alarming answers.
* Rural America Isn’t Ready for a Pandemic.
* This picture tells a story about America.
* As Cities Around the World Go on Lockdown, Victims of Domestic Violence Look for a Way Out.
* The COVID-19 Crisis and International Students. Colleges offering dorms as hospital overflow for virus cases. A Brief Letter to an Institution that Believes Extensions are the Accommodations We Need Right Now.
* ‘Panic-gogy’: Teaching Online Classes During The Coronavirus Pandemic. As Schools Look for Guidance, Educators Are Left Asking, ‘What?’ New Coronavirus Package Could Unravel Protections For Students With Disabilities. Is online school illegal? With schools closing from coronavirus, special education concerns give districts pause.
* Waaaaaay ahead of you.
All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is, like, *really* unhappy now, shit.
* GameStop claims it is ‘essential retail’ to remain open amid coronavirus shutdowns. It didn’t work.
* Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers.
* There’s plenty of food.
* The Quiet Emptiness of a World under Coronavirus.
* The desire for public sex is, of course, nothing new. In his book Tell Me What You Want, sex researcher and Kinsey Institute fellow Justin Lehmiller found it was one of the seven most common fantasies, but the way people are having it in a coronavirus-ridden world definitely is. Now, instead of treating it as nothing more than a novel thrill to “spice things up,” some people are using it as an act of resistance against the virus-induced lockdowns that have squashed so many of the liberties we hold dear. Sex etiquette during the coronavirus.
* Kim Stanley Robinson releases a chapter from his latest novel, though weirdly it’s listed as “news.”
* I spent four months pretending to live on Mars. Here’s what I learned about staying sane and passing time.
* I’m beginning to think you just can’t trust billionaires: When he joined the race last year, the billionaire said he would employ his campaign staff through the November election, even if he weren’t the nominee. But Bloomberg dropped out after a poor showing on Super Tuesday, and he has since fired staffers in multiple waves. His campaign had announced earlier in March that it would launch an independent expenditure group to take on Trump that would employ former campaign staffers in swing states.
* The Sanders worldview wins even as Bernie loses.
we're in a national pandemic with a looming Depression and I believe this is the last we saw of the leading Democratic candidate, over 60 hours agopic.twitter.com/fHoD8UB5TS
— jack allison (@jackallisonLOL) March 20, 2020
Biden beating Bernie and then immediately giving up is an even worse scenario than I expected
* You know it’s bad when politicians are leaving elected office to join the priesthood.
* A false accusation nightmare in the Times.
* Moffat leaving Doctor Who seemed like a good exit ramp for me, so I haven’t seen any of the new episodes — but wow, this latest retcon looks like a mess, as well as a pretty clear “find some way to tie this off and wrap it up” directive from the BBC.
* Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto.
* Octavia Butler gave us a few rules for predicting the future.
* An “Extinction Event” for the Comic Shop or “Too Stupid to Quit, Too Dumb to Die”?
* The Ending of Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, Revisited.
* Star Wars in ruins: The Most Problematic ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Plot Twist Ruined Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy. Disney has embarrassed itself issuing Episode 9 retcons but it really ought to explain why it’s being so elliptical about this one issue for no apparent reason.
* And Star Wars resurgent: The Mandalorian Casts Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano.
* Because you demanded it: A new Disney Princess historical fiction series finds Belle in the French Revolution.
* And they were nearly almost done, too! I swear!
* Hey, it’s me, the first sign of civilization in a culture.
* Coming soon: The Collapsing Empire, Book 3. A Cixin Liu story collection. And some free coronavirus reading: Short Changes, a story collection by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Tagged with academia, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Amazon, America, apocalypse, Are we living in a simulation?, Avatar, Avatar 2, Beauty and the Beast, Bernie Sanders, billionaires, broken legs, capitalism, catastrophe, chart, civilization, Cixin Liu, class struggle, college, comics, command economy, communism, contagion, coronavirus, Curb Your Enthusiasm, David Harvey, Democrats, disability, disaster, Disney, Disney World, Doctor Who, domestic violence, Donald Trump, education, epidemic, food, futurity, games, homelessness, How the University Works, indigenous futurism, international students, Jeff Bezos, Jesuits, Joe Biden, Kim Stanley Robinson, labor, Larry David, liberals, lockdown, Looking Backward, Mars, Marxism, means testing, medicine, Minnesota, Mitt Romney, Octavia Butler, pandemic, parenting, photography, politics, prison-industrial complex, prisons, race, racism, rape culture, Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, rural America, science, science fiction, Second Great Depression?, sex, simulation argument, Soviet Union, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Collapsing Empire, The Mandalorian, the Midwest, the rent is too damn high, trolley problem, Trumpbucks, unemployment, unhappiness, universal basic income, universities, USSR, Utopia, Vermont, Watchmen, Wisconsin, work, worst financial crisis since the last one, worst financial crisis since World War II
* A lost eighth continent was recently discovered underneath the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, but it’s all pretty boring actually.
* How the US built the world’s largest immigrant detention system. A list of companies that contract with ICE.
* Checking in on Duke and UNC under siege.
* 2019 Genius Grant awardees, including Lynda F’ing Barry.
* Only an English major can prepare you with the psychic resilience needed to endure a lifetime under capitalism.
* Allegations of white supremacy are tearing apart a prestigious medieval studies group. The Whitesplaining of History Is Over.
* The kids are all right: Students protest demonstration policy, deliver letter to Zilber.
Inspiring photos of @MarquetteU's undergrads protesting investments in fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt. @PresLovell should have divested from Baupost a long time ago! #solidarity from #MUnion pic.twitter.com/hv5SVL0j4w
— Tom 🌹 (@TomHansberger) September 24, 2019
* Student activists at UNC Chapel Hill have created a text alert system that warns the campus when racist groups are nearby.
* Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years. The Great Decline.
* And on the China and college beat: US universities see decline in students from China. China’s Higher-Ed Ambitions Are at Odds With Its Tightening Grip on Academic Freedom.
* Impacts ‘accelerating’ as leaders gather for UN talks. Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It’s Accelerating. ‘Unprecedented Conditions’ Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds. The African Congo Is Quietly Being Deforested As The Amazon Rainforest Burns. Scientists Set Out to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change. On white supremacy and green living. The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History. This is daytime. Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want World To End. “You’re So Accustomed to the Erasure and the Normalization of Catastrophism.”
Turns out the hippies were right about almost everything and no one will ever admit it even if it means the f'ing species dying out.
— David Roberts (@drvox) September 24, 2019
young people telling septuagenarians how much they despise them for what they did to the planet is good, actually
* It’s called M-Journal, and it will help you convince your professor that you’re citing a real academic source.
* Shoulda been Bruce.
* Can a burger help solve climate change?
* The Bible may have a naming discrepancy, and a Duke researcher plans to correct it.
* I might have done this one already, but what the hell: Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living.
* A real “hold my beer” moment for neoliberalism: A doctor and medical ethicist, who happens to be Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, argues life after 75 is not worth living.
* Time travel is real y’all.
* Chris Ware, whose Rusty Brown is finally out, about which I am very excited, celebrates Peanuts.
* Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC’s 1980s Famine Relief Comics.
* What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.
* Normal society that is definitely normal and good.
* Autism aesthetics.
* Die a villain, or live long enough to rebound as a hero.
* Will Google’s quantum computing breakthrough change everything?
* The 50 Best Video Games of the 21st Century. Surprisingly solid #1 and #2 picks.
* And I’d like to see Ol Donny Trump wriggle out of this jam! Impeachment step by step.
Tagged with academia, Ad Astra, America, apocalypse, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, catastrophe, CBP, Charles Schultz, China, Chris Ware, class struggle, climate change, comics, continents, deforestation, demographics, deportation, Donald Trump, Duke, ecology, English majors, environmentalism, film, games, gender, genius grants, Google, Greta Thunberg, history, How the University Works, ice, ice sheet collapse, immigration, impeachment, Impossible Burger, Islamophobia, John Cage, kids today, longevity, Marquette, Mattel, mortality, over-educated literary theory PhDs, Peanuts, plate tectonics, politics, protest, quantum computing, race, racism, religion, Rusty Brown, science fiction, sea level rise, Snoopy, student movements, the Arctic, the bible, the Congo, the Earth, the Great Decline, The Joker, the oceans, the university in ruins, the Wisconsin Idea, they say time is the fire in which we burn, time travel, toys, UNC, University of Wisconsin, Ursula K. Le Guin, white supremacy, Wikipedia, Wisconsin
Friday Links! SpoOooOOOOOoOOOOooOOooky
* Remarkable reversal: James Tiptree’s name will be removed from the Tiptree Award after all.
* Meritocracy purports to ensure that social and economic rewards track achievement rather than breeding and, in this way, to underwrite deserved advantage, squaring hierarchy with democratic fairness and squaring private gain with the public good. The book’s central charge is that this account of merit is a sham.
* Aggression sensors. Classroom barricades. How architects are transforming schools for the era of mass shootings. The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools.
* Emails Show Falwell Mocked Students, Staff For Years.
* Thoughts on the planetary: An interview with Achille Mbembe.
* Green and white nationalism.
Right-wing extremists have seized on the opportunity to claim to speak, like Dr Seuss’s Lorax, for the trees. In some of the dimmer corners of the internet, the Pine Tree Gang – fond of using an arboreal emoji on Twitter, until journalists smelled them out – demands a white separatist homeland in the northwestern United States. Their founding philosopher is ‘Uncle Ted’, the Unabomber; they circulate such slogans as ‘Save trees, not refugees.’ Quoting both Mosley and Heidegger, the alt-right publisher Greg Johnson asserts that saving the ecosystem requires saving the white race. The Ringing Cedars of Russia, a religious homestead movement named after a series of novels, combine racial myths with environmental mysticism.
Most of these are tiny, fringe movements. But there are signs that green and white nationalism is scaling up. In the recent European elections, France’s National Rally claimed that ‘borders are the environment’s greatest ally.’ Marine Le Pen declared that someone ‘who is rooted in their home is an ecologist’, whereas those who are ‘nomadic … do not care about the environment; they have no homeland’. Across the Atlantic, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed to be against illegal immigration because it ‘produces a huge amount of litter’, while the far-right pundit Ann Coulter has suggested that Americans must ‘choose between a green America and a brown America’. In India, public tree planting and reverence for sacred groves reinforce the government’s majoritarian claim that only Hindus are the nation’s true stewards.
* When Hurricane Dorian blew through the Bahamas, it exposed one of the world’s great faultlines of inequality.
* Someone who is good at the economy please help me.
Someone who is good at the economy please help me pic.twitter.com/qWAgWa74bP
— Sam Sacks (@SamSacks) September 11, 2019
* Big Library vs. Big Book.
* Now we see the violence inherent in the system: A program on civic virtue at UNC-Chapel Hill is raising concerns about secrecy and funding.
* John Bolton and the Fox News Century.
* Science corner! A bold new perspective suggests space-time isn’t a fundamental entity but emerges from quantum entanglement, says physicist Sean Carroll.
* ‘I Lost Everything’: The Obscene Cost of Being a Woman with a Chronic Health Problem.
* Actually existing media bias: The Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right, anti-immigrant group, was frequently cited by major U.S. newspapers in the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency — without mention of the group’s deep ties to the Trump administration, according to a report released Thursday.
Ninety percent of news articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today that cited the Center for Immigration Studies from 2014 to 2017 did not mention “the extremist nature of the group or its ties with the Trump administration,” according to “The Language of Immigration Reporting: Normalizing vs. Watchdogging in a Nativist Age.” The report, which was produced by researchers at Define American, a nonprofit media and culture organization, and Media Cloud, a project of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, focuses on immigration reporting in those outlets over a four-year period starting in 2014.
* The right’s new turn on ectopic pregnancies is one of the sickest political developments of the last twenty years.
* The richest man in the world has some news for his workers at Whole Foods.
* Bizarre comet from another star system just spotted. Once is coincidence, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action.
* In my home timeline, Tiger Woods was on You Can’t Do That on Television for a season.
* In 1949, LIFE magazine broke it down.
* #YangGang.
* And your Lord of the Rings after-the-credits stinger.
Tagged with abortion, Achille Mbembe, actually existing media bias, aliens, Amazon, America, Andrew Yang, books, catastrophe, class struggle, climate change, disaster, Donald Trump, eco-fascism, ectopic pregnancy, Fox News, green fascism, guns, immigration, James Tiptree Jr., Jeff Bezos, John Bolton, Liberty University, libraries, Lord of the Rings, Lyft, Mandela Effect, mass shootings, medical debt, meritocracy, neoliberalism, now we see the violence inherent in the system, Oumuamu, politics, pregnancy, science, science fiction, taste, the Bahamas, the economy, the truth is out there, Tiger Woods, Tiptree award, Tolkien, Uber, UNC, war on education, white nationalism, Whole Foods
At Long Last: Links!
* CFP: Paradoxa 31: Climate Fiction. CFP: Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction. CFP: Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene. CFP: Radical Perspectives on Horror Cinema. CFP: New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction. CFP: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. CFP: The David Foster Wallace Society Annual Meeting. CFP: Poverty and Literature.
* Twentieth Century/Contemporary literature and culture (permanent, full-time) @ Warwick’s Dept. of English & Comparative Literary Studies.
* Applications for The Roddenberry Fellowship are now open. $50,000 will be awarded to up to 20 Fellows in the areas of civil rights, immigration, environmental protection, LGBTQIA & women’s rights. Are you or someone you know a future Fellow?
* University of Pittsburgh Acquires Romero Collection, To Found Horror Studies Center.
* What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism.
* A Union Fight at Marquette University. Spadework. Letter from a Graduate Instructor: Why We Need a Union @ Marquette University.
* Microsyllabus: Critical University Studies.
* What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: An Insider’s Account.
* Ex-Players Sue UCLA, Coaches, NCAA For Injuries, Abuse.
Universities are some of the best institutions we have, run by people who despise everything they stand for.
* Enrollment Shortfalls Spread to More Colleges.
* Want to save the humanities? Make college free.
* The Humanities Without Nostalgia.
* The Party of Utopia: A Report from the 43rd Annual Society for Utopian Studies Conference.
* As the Hungarian prime minister systematically undermined his own country’s education system, one institution stood defiant: a university in the heart of Budapest, founded by George Soros.
* This Is What It Sounds Like Hiding In A Dark Classroom During A School Shooting.
* It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning. And speaking of which: read Ted’s new book! Really!
* Profiles of young Americans who entered voluntary exile rather than paying their student loans.
* What’s Scarier Than Student Loans? Welcome to the World of Subprime Children.
* It is here that Afrofuturism offers not just significant thought and art but praxis in the development of black posthumanism – or better, exhumanism. Ditto with the call to enact innovative forms of cooperation: we need to think of who is joining whose cooperative, and for what purposes beyond liberal tenets of equality or socialist tenets of economic equity. I want to point out that the infiltration of Afrofuturism into the popular unconscious by way of black popular music, remix culture and science fiction marks but one of the sociopolitical forces of its versatile imaginary, yet perhaps its most potent: it seeds Afrofutures that destabilize the unthought aspects of whose future is at stake. When Afrofuturism, even as an “aesthetic,” enters popular discourse, its black speculative futures and revisionist histories tend to question whose worlding of the world “we” are speaking of – whose social movements, whose politics, whose “we”?
* History is a dystopia.
* A folk hero for our time.
* How golf explains Donald Trump.
Democrats: Republicans are under the sway of a death cult whose precepts make no sense and which is led by an utter buffoon
also Democrats: we should nominate Joe Biden for president
you couldn’t talk about a sports team with this kind of childlike naivete, but every adult in the country does it about the Founders https://t.co/GWgglA3VZu
* The deaths of multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees were preventable, according to internal agency documents obtained by The Young Turks. One ICE official told TYT the problem is “systemic.” She Stopped to Help Migrants on a Texas Highway. Moments Later, She Was Arrested. “I can tell which migrant children will become gang members by looking into their eyes.” What doctors found US officials have done to caged kids. DHS watchdog finds 900 people at border facility with maximum capacity for 125. Pretty grim.
* The Deported Americans: More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?
* A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.
Left: The Onion, 2015
Right: The New York Times, 2019 pic.twitter.com/R2Cw9EIOzv
— mcc (@mcclure111) May 9, 2019
I think it was @PatBlanchfield who taught me to read all of American politics through the lens of Boomer incontinence. https://t.co/zu9boSLIBu
* ‘So much land under so much water’: extreme flooding is drowning parts of the midwest. Extreme Heat Wave Forces South Carolina Bridge to Close for Several Hours. Levees Won’t Save Louisiana from a Climate “Existential Crisis.” Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems. This Town Didn’t Want to Be a Radioactive Waste Dump. The Government Is Giving Them No Choice. Flooding leaves Houston area students stranded at school. The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island. Now it’s cracking open. This map shows millions of acres of lost Amazon rainforest. Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End. What remains of Paradise. Jay Inslee promised serious climate policy and he is delivering. Ireland becomes second country to declare climate emergency. Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing. Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns. 2050 or bust. No Happy Ending.
* Studies in the Novel 50.1: The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction.
* We may be witnessing the first stirrings of a climate movement that’s big enough to tackle the coming disaster — and radical enough to name the system responsible for it.
* What Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We’re in Planetary Crisis?
* Of course you had me at hello: The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less.
* One Year Off, Every Seven Years.
We are now emitting every ten years as much carbon as was produced in the first two centuries of industrialization. https://t.co/KFIeJOMkxG
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) May 23, 2019
New Greta Thunberg mural in Bristol pic.twitter.com/EP8GnQ4GU2
— Joe Ware (@wareisjoe) May 30, 2019
* After 4 Years Of Not Throwing Away His Trash This Photographer Created A Powerful Photo Series.
* Why Are Americans Ignoring the Most Important Movie of Their Times, China’s The Wandering Earth?
* The average lifetime of a civilization is 336 years.
* A Green New Deal Needs to Fight US Militarism.
* Stalling on Climate Change Action May Cost Investors Over $1 Trillion.
* After Standing Rock, protesting pipelines can get you a decade in prison and $100K in fines.
* Almost 80% of the working incinerators in the United States are located in low-income communities and/or communities of color, exposing millions of already vulnerable people to pollutants.
* The end of the Grand Canyon.
* Koalas declared functionally extinct.
* Necessity defense.
* The other side of climate grief is climate fury.
* Freedom gas.
* Party’s over.
* Dystopias now.
* America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.
* America’s educational system is an ‘aristocracy posing as a meritocracy.’
* Hell is a YouTube algorithm.
* Americans with diabetes are forming caravans to buy Canadian insulin at 90% off. How the U.S. health-care system puts people with diabetes in danger.
* American kids are 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other rich countries.
* Angry Birds and the End of Privacy.
* ‘I’d Have These Extremely Graphic Dreams’: What It’s Like To Work On Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat 11.
* 5G networks could throw weather forecasting into chaos.
* Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change.
* Amazon’s Size Is Becoming a Problem—for Amazon. Cofounder of Facebook calls for breakup of Facebook. Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images. Worry About Facebook. Rip Your Hair Out in Screaming Terror About Fox News.
* Of course it’s even worse than all that.
Every VC funded online publication became a woke clickbait mill for a simple reason: the metrics told them this was the best performing type of content. pic.twitter.com/tqMEEtVI9n
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) May 9, 2019
What is of interest is how what began as a cynical metrics and cost-driven expedient became a a set of genuine ideological commitments through an online radicalization process driven by cycles of trolling and performative victimhood
* ‘I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy’: Bernie Sanders on the 1980s.
* The kids won’t save us. Teenage Pricks: Trumpism’s Boy Power.
* Post-Earth capitalism.
* The Birth-Tissue Profiteers.
* The $3.5 billion shaving industry is secretive and litigious — and disrupting itself silly.
* Parents who raise children as vegans should be prosecuted, say Belgian doctors.
* Uber rang in its IPO with champagne and mimosas. Then the hangover began. The Ride-Hail Strike Got Just Enough Attention to Terrify Uber. Lyft’s First Results After I.P.O. Show $1.14 Billion Quarterly Loss. How Corporate Delusions of Automation Fuel the Cruelty of Uber and Lyft. Uber, Lyft account for two-thirds of traffic increase in SF over six years, study shows.
* This Bird Went Extinct and Then Evolved Into Existence Again.
* Weird science: Jeanette Winterson talks writing, teaching and queer visions of the future.
* There is no depression gene. Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?
* NASA Accidentally Destroys NYC in Attempt to Save Denver.
* No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime.
* Buffoonery, or laying the groundwork for heads-we-win-tails-you-lose impeachment proceedings? Or both? Probably both.
* Who wins from public debate? Liars, bullies and trolls.
* My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.
* Twenty-five years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die. Reckoning with its legacy may help redirect the conversation in urgently needed ways.
* David Foster Wallace’s journalism is, in many ways, inaccurate. But he’s hardly the only venerated journalist to have made stuff up.
* What I’m saying here is that the Georgia law is NOT an overturn of “Roe v. Wade.” We’re not headed back to pre-“Roe” days. We’re headed for something much worse.
* Countervailing powers: the forgotten economic idea Democrats need to rediscover. Democrats need a power agenda, not just a policy agenda.
* How A Black Psychiatrist Shaped ‘Sesame Street’ Into A Tool To Fight Against Racism. “Sesame Street” was a radical experiment in challenging institutional racism.
* What Would Happen to Earth If the Avengers Undid Thanos’ Snap?
* In perhaps the richest city in the richest country in human history. And again.
* The average millennial has an average net worth of $8,000. That’s far less than previous generations.
* Suicide rates in girls are rising, study finds, especially in those age 10 to 14. For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers. Over the past year, a spate of suicides has revealed a financial crisis in New York’s cab industry. Officials have blamed Uber, but much of the crisis can be traced to a handful of taxi tycoons. As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage.
* Life, Liberty, and Advanced Placement for All.
This is what happens when all we're encouraged to focus on is the brief dopamine rush of "unspoiled" plot twists: the conveyor-belt model of media consumption. https://t.co/4NUZn68VrT
— Dan Hassler-Forest (@DanHF) May 17, 2019
* Susan Sontag was true author of ex-husband’s book, biography claims.
* Autoreply. Real college. Revenge. Love. Winning. Nausea. Brains. Aliens. Vegetarianism. The real climate change was the friends we made along the way.
* Of course I’d want $150,000. Please go away — I’m reading! There’s only one rule I know of. It could work.
* Some people just want to watch the world burn.
* Alternate history, 500 levels in.
* The Martian Base in the Gobi Desert.
* Freeing Britney Spears.
* We asked 15 experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” Here’s what they told us.
* The Net Libram of Random Magical Effects version 2.00.
* “Here follows my ongoing thread of Game of Thrones characters as Dril tweets.”
* Physicists Discover Our Universe Is Fictional Setting Of Cop Show Called ‘Hard Case.’
* Take the red pill, and find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
* Trump’s hasty plan to get Americans back on the moon by 2024, explained.
* And okay FINE I’ll get excited about all these UFO reports.
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Saturday Links! Maybe It’s Won’t Be a Month Between Linkposts Every Time!
* CFP (Journal of Futures Studies): “When is Wakanda? Afrofuturism and Dark Speculative Futurity.”
* Summer Course! ENGL 4717: “Twenty-First Century Comics”! Fall Courses! ENGLISH 3000 (“Magic and Literature”) and ENGLISH 6820/8282 (“Monsters of Theory”)!
* All the Dem candidates as Michael Scott is the most accurate thing I have ever seen.
* But a couple of scientists who study Mars are trying to burst that hermetically-sealed, oxygen-recirculating, radiation-shielded bubble. If a new analysis is correct, conditions on Mars make it impossible for existing technology to turn it into a garden of Earth-like delights.
* Trump Is Trying To Change The Meaning Of Instructor, And It’s Not Good.
* Flooding at an Air Force Base Exposes a Growing Threat to the US Military. The Midwest floods are going to get much, much worse. Terrifying map shows all the parts of America that might soon flood.
Pretty wild that the USAF has had ~10% of their F-22s and HQ, USSTRATCOM destroyed by weather within the last six months. https://t.co/4A4VrzJMCf
— Michael Stahlke (@MichaelStahlke) March 22, 2019
absolutely love it when people argue that climate change action can't be too disruptive as if climate change, left unmitigated, isn't going to be the single most disruptive event in human history. it's almost as if they don't actually believe in it
— alex (@betterbecoffee) March 22, 2019
* Interviewers are increasingly making absurd demands on applicants’ time. Here’s what to do if you’re asked to work for free.
* Struggling to stay alive: Rising insulin prices cause diabetics to go to extremes.
* ‘I made $3.75 an hour’: Lyft and Uber drivers push to unionize for better pay.
* liberalism.jpg
* politics.jpg
* First leaks coming out now from the Mueller report and it’s not looking good.
* And Barbara Streisand has some of the most odious opinions on any subject I’ve ever seen. I’m still floored hours later.
This hurt my feelings real bad pic.twitter.com/ZS33FxstSs
— Geistlicherin (@suesswassersee) March 22, 2019
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Sunday Morning Links! Two Days in a Row!
* CBP is human trafficking.
* Fatal encounters: 97 deaths point to pattern of border agent violence across America.
* Court Order To Reunite Migrant Children And Parents Reveals How Little Planning Went Into Separation Policy. Trump administration admits they’ve lost track of roughly 20 percent of toddlers’ parents. Kids as Young as 1 in US Court, Awaiting Reunion With Family.
The stories that we are hearing are cruel and awful. I fear they aren't even the tip of the iceberg of what we will yet learn.
— #Prisonculture (@prisonculture) July 7, 2018
Just got off a conference call with HHS about reuniting kids with their parents. They read from a script for around 20 minutes and then they took only 3 questions from Senators. It was Orwellian in its overconfidence and vagueness. I am more, not less worried for these kids.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 6, 2018
Dems are largely allergic to “Abolish ICE” as a message because it’s clear and uncompromising but, even more importantly, did not require a cadre of overpaid consultants to develop
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) July 7, 2018
* This logic had a lineage and a name: “militant democracy,” a term first coined in 1935 by the political theorist Karl Loewenstein. A German-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, Loewenstein arrived in the United States convinced that totalitarian and democratic regimes could not coexist. It was the nature of fascists and communists, he wrote in widely read academic essays, to infiltrate democratic regimes, exploit their freedoms of the press and speech, and destroy them from within. Long before the first shots of World War II were fired, Loewenstein claimed that an existential struggle between democracy and its enemies was already engulfing the entire globe. To win, democracies had to reform themselves. They had to become “militant.”
There’s a GOP candidate for Congress in CA who:
-is friends with anti-Semite Baked Alaska
-has a bodyguard who went to the Charlottesville rally
-has aides who post the 14 words and use parentheses to indicate Jewish people
The guy in this article is a DIFFERENT GOP candidate. https://t.co/gL5ATeVhtC
— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) July 7, 2018
* The US as seen from South Africa.
* Well, it will have to be a drunk NYU student who can afford $5,000 a month in rent. What Calhoun and the other adamant Pollyannas refuse to understand is that a bar is one thing, a dance hall is one thing, and even a Gap or a Starbucks is one thing, but a bank branch is another. It is a carpet and a machine from which one extracts money, then leaves. No one is writing a novel or an album about it. Those things that we do not value, that we do not actively protect, fade away and die. The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence. I’m worried I may have done this one already but it’s worth reading twice.
* In the U.S., there is adult jail and there is school, and the two rarely go together. Most juvenile detention centers have educational programs, and prisons often have GED or college classes. But since August, the New Orleans jail has offered something unusual: a full-day high school that’s part of the public school system and offers real credits. The only others are in the nation’s largest cities, such as Chicago and New York.
* The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger.
* It’s time to put down the Hemingway and accept that the Running of the Bulls is horrifying.
* Rob Wielgus was one of America’s pre-eminent experts on large carnivores. Then he ran afoul of the enemies of the wolf.
If the lions-eating-rhino-poachers story didn’t cheer you up, I don’t know what will.
— Barbara Ehrenreich (@B_Ehrenreich) July 7, 2018
* What makes a case like Janus particularly confounding is that the foundation, as well as the committee, claims to be acting on behalf of these American workers. On its website, in its arguments, it describes its work as freeing employees from forced union payments and restoring First Amendment rights. Yet scratch the surface of the Janus case and what fast becomes clear is that it, like so much else in the right-to-work realm, did not begin with a worker but rather with a wealthy anti-union businessman.
* This is a catastrophe that is happening even as, at some level, millions of people don’t believe it really can. It seems so wildly improbable after all. Mass extinction? Floods? Rising sea levels? The end of the human race? Who could believe such a thing? What sort of rapturous religious imagination would take this prospect seriously? What sort of fantasy underlies this sort of End Times catastrophism? Those are all perfectly excellent questions. It’s just that, the catastrophe is real.
* Ontario Labour Arbitration decision holding that student evaluations can’t be used to promotion/tenure decisions because the evidence shows it’s unsafe to conclude anything about teaching quality from them.
* Why Everyone Is Talking About Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix Comedy Special.
* And a headline straight from your nightmares: Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity.
Jaws is the most American 4th of July movie because it's the one in which an elected official acting on behalf of business interests allows several of his constituents to be literally eaten alive by a problem he was warned about
— jason lee (@speaks2ya) July 4, 2018
It’s crazy how we went from arguing if all Americans deserved health care to arguing if kids deserve to live in cages. The devil works quick.
— Ronald Funches (@RonFunches) July 6, 2018
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— 🏳️🌈Deep State Shu™🏳️🌈 (@ReplyWithAMeme) July 6, 2018
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* Some current calls for papers: Science Fiction and Communism. Beyond Humanism. Sesame Street at 50.
* Coming soon to Marquette! The Center for the Advancement of the Humanities will host Adam Kotsko on Feb. 15th at 3:30 p.m. in Marquette Hall 105, as he discusses “Animated Nihilism: RickandMorty, BoJackHorseman and the Strange Fate of the Adult Cartoon.”
* My favorite weird found-poetry I’ve discovered on this trip: in Switzerland and Germany first-person shooters are called “ego shooters.”
* My favorite thing on the Internet in a long, long time: Rey and Kylo set to just about every song you’ve ever heard of.
Rey & Kylo Ren fighting the Praetorian Guards to "Footloose" pic.twitter.com/MWnIg4kVbk
— “some meme god” ✨ Saw TLJ x4 (@rachlikesbands) January 25, 2018
Rey & Kylo Ren fighting the Praetorian Guards to "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" from Dirty Dancing pic.twitter.com/3MngCorEnW
Rey & Kylo Ren fighting the Praetorian Guards to "Tequila" by The Champs pic.twitter.com/gzLFDev9k7
— Rico Albarracin (@RicoA87) January 27, 2018
Rey & Kylo Ren fighting the Praetorian Guards to "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
Technology hates me so I hope this works.
Happy birthday @nickmasondrums pic.twitter.com/HBO3oHE2Oa
— Louis (@LouseGrouse) January 27, 2018
Another classic, last one tonight.
Rey and Kylo Ren fighting the Praetorian Guards to Meatloaf! pic.twitter.com/F0OyxzGqvq
— 2catsinJapan (@2catsAB) January 27, 2018
I'll never get tired of this: #TheLastJedi but in the #GuardiansoftheGalaxy style pic.twitter.com/rRvi0Lzyws
— fernanda castano (@ferwen) January 29, 2018
* Star Trek: Discovery is exciting, but not much else.
To put it another way, if this was just called Discovery, if the serial numbers were filled off and this was just another science fiction show with aliens and parallel universes and FTL drives, I doubt we’d be talking about it. It would be significantly less annoying in some ways (my brain would appreciate not having to fit any of this into continuity, that’s for damn sure), but it would be far more forgettable—a pretty, messy piece of nonsense with some decent performances and occasionally unexpected story twists. Hell, maybe we’d like it more, if only because our standards would be lower and it would still be possible to convince ourselves that someday, this would all make sense.
io9 was even harsher, if anything. I’m still a fan of the series but the extremely poor plotting of the second half of season one has made complete hash of their very promising initial setup. It’s much harder for me to argue the series is genuinely good, as opposed to liking it because it is Star Trek and I like pretty much everything Star Trek.
Today Star Wars wants to be Star Trek, and Star Trek wants to be Star Wars, and everyone is angry about it.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) January 29, 2018
* Advice from a Contingent Faculty Member on Career Directions for PhDs in English.
* Sam and Max Hit the Road: The Design Document. What a great game that was.
* “A fascinating new kind of job that only a human can do: robot babysitter.”
* The myth of America’s immigration problem.
* Beautiful Coal and Disastrous Droughts.
* Seen accurately. American collapse is a catastrophe of human possibility without modern parallel . And because the mess that America has made of itself, then, is so especially unique, so singular, so perversely special — the treatment will have to be novel, too. The uniqueness of these social pathologies tell us that American collapse is not like a reversion to any mean, or the downswing of a trend. It is something outside the norm. Something beyond the data. Past the statistics. It is like the meteor that hit the dinosaurs: an outlier beyond outliers, an event at the extreme of the extremes. That is why our narratives, frames, and theories cannot really capture it — much less explain it. We need a whole new language — and a new way of seeing — to even begin to make sense of it. Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse: The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State.
* If your highest value is the preservation of American institutions, the avoidance of “dysfunction,” the discourse of norm erosion makes sense. If it’s democracy, not so much. Sometimes democracy requires the shattering of norms and institutions. Democracy, we might even say, is a permanent project of norm erosion, forever shattering the norms of hierarchy and domination and the political forms that aid and abet them.
* What does living in a dictatorship feel like?
It's a mistake to think a dictatorship feels intrinsically different on a day-to-day basis than a democracy does. I've lived in one dictatorship and visited several others–there are still movies and work and school and shopping and memes and holidays.
— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) January 30, 2018
The press picks a side. The military picks a side. The judiciary picks a side. This part should already feel familiar.
* Cixin Liu and Chinese science fiction, in the London Review of Books.
* The Voynich Manuscript has been cracked again. Everybody take a drink!
* Sic semper: Twilight of Chief Wahoo.
* Huge, if true: some millennials think James Bond could be sexist.
* Emma, the fifteen-second horror movie.
* Here’s What One Day In The Dysfunction Of Restoring Puerto Rico’s Electricity Looks Like. FEMA To End Food And Water Aid For Puerto Rico.
* ICE Deports Palestinian Man Living In The U.S. For Almost 40 Years Despite Outcry. Father detained by ICE after dropping 4-year-old off at daycare. 2 dads nabbed by ICE as they drop off kids at NJ school; 3rd takes shelter in church. Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is a recipe for national decline.
* Even By Our Awful Standards, Americans Have Basically Stopped Saving Money.
* CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work.
* An ER visit, a $12,000 bill — and a health insurer that wouldn’t pay.
* Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person.
* The future just ain’t no good.
* “In honor of the new Mr. Rogers biopic, here’s his Marquette Commencement address from 2001.”
* A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies.
* #DontCallItAComejack.
* What does it mean to die?
* Why Reddit’s face-swapping celebrity porn craze is a harbinger of dystopia.
* The life of the mind. Working at university in 2016. Statement of teaching philosophy.
* Of course you had me at a Civilisation V mod about the risk of superintelligent AI.
* And happy birthday, old friend.
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Thursday Night Links!
(Slight format change: with the return to teaching, increased professional responsibilities, and my kids getting older [too fast!] I’m having real trouble keeping up with the level of linkblogging I’ve previously done. I’m not hanging up the blog, quite yet, but it’s definitely going to continue to be more irregular and more tightly focused on stuff I find particularly interesting and/or might someday need for research. Sorry! Please simply take it as read that Trump sucks, everything he does sucks, and everyone who supports him sucks.)
* This week I have a review of John Scalzi’s newest book, The Collapsing Empire, up at LARB: “No, Speed Limit.” Buy it! It’s good!
* For the more academic minded among you I’ve also got a review of Anthony Lioi’s Nerd Ecology up at ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. I tweeted an excerpt from it too not long ago:
I like to think I’m fun to be around. #amwriting pic.twitter.com/jG3Y7ddSSD
* Must have: Monograph by Chris Ware.
* Humanitarian catastrophe in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans are living climate change right now. Here’s how they describe it. He rattled off a list of what he could not find: bottles of water, gas canisters to light stoves, food.
* Isle of Dogs looking like a strong contender for the first Wes Anderson movie I don’t like.
* Harrowing read: Student survives three days in a cave after college spelunking group leaves him behind.
* Futurism’s blind spot.
* Revolutionary Possibility: Henry Farrell on China Miéville’s October.
* Farah Mendlesohn is crowdfunding her Robert Heinlein book, which proved too long for its original publisher.
* Great review of the (excellent) Star Trek: Discovery pilot from Aaron Body at LARB. I’m very pleased, and a little shocked, by how good it is! 8 Star Trek Spec Scripts That Never Saw the Light of Day. And yes, of course it is.
* Humanities, universities and sustainability. Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars. And doing my part: Amid Professors’ ‘Doom-and-Gloom Talk,’ Humanities Ph.D. Applications Drop.
* From a public relations perspective, accepting the terms of a right-wing narrative about supposedly illiberal campuses by bending over backwards to subsidize an already well-financed right-wing assault on the university may do more to confirm the erroneous claims of that narrative than to change them. That narrative has become a crucial element in the arsenal of weapons used to attack our democracy. Make no mistake: the groups that attacktransgender people, Muslims, people of color, women, legal immigrants as well as undocumented students, are also those that attack science, and feel no obligation to hold their views to academic standards of evidence or coherence. We, therefore, urge the administration to creatively and courageously confront the way free speech is being deployed against our academic freedom, and—in deciding what can take place on our campus — to prioritize the conditions that enable teaching and research.
* Meanwhile, across campus. How Much Is Your College Football Team Worth?
* The nightmare state of Thomas the Tank Engine.
* Democrats, for all their self-conception as architects of a progressing world, possess no such singular purpose. Their plan, even when they are in office, consists largely of defending the paltry welfare state already in place against the vastly more disciplined forces of reaction. Their ambition — when they have the opportunity to realize one — is just to tweak. Sometimes they tweak for the better. Sometimes they call their tweaking “welfare reform.”
* The Senate’s Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free. Forever and ever amen.
* centrism.biz.
* How She Lost.
* Wendy Brown on apocalyptic populism.
* Head Geek Is Head Creep.
* War With North Korea Starts to Look Inevitable.
* The Madness of Donald Trump.
* We’re not going to fix American democracy until we can explain why the GOP went crazy.
* The Resegregation of Jefferson County.
* Whites Have Huge Wealth Edge Over Blacks (But Don’t Know It).
* No rights which the white man was bound to respect.
* The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs. Capitalism with a Fluffy Face.
* ICE violates own policy by locking up pregnant women, complaint alleges. ICE Is Using Prostitution Diversion Courts to Stalk Immigrants. The American citizens illegally detained by ICE. Immigrant taken by ICE from Austin courthouse was killed in Mexico. Undocumented Parents Arrested at Children’s Hospital While Awaiting Their Infant Son’s Surgery. Two Women Say They Lost Pregnancies In Immigrant Detention Since July. Government policies funneling illegal immigrants into more dangerous crossing areas have contributed to fatalities. A cancer patient desperately needs a stem-cell transplant. But the U.S. won’t grant the donor a visa. ICE attacks sanctuary cities, arrests 450.
* Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees.
* Failing Charter Schools Have a Reincarnation Plan: Converting into private schools — and using voucher programs to thrive on the public dime.
* In the richest country in human history.
* By age 3, inequality is clear: Rich kids attend school. Poor kids stay with a grandparent.
* According to a Department of Education report, black students nationally were three times more likely to be suspended than whites in 2012. Suspensions occur most commonly in secondary schools, but black children were more than twice as likely to be suspended from preschool as well.
* When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of the machines. In September 2015, the multi-millionaire engineer at the heart of the patent and trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.”
* Today’s don’t-say-climate-change term of art: mega-heat dome. Australia’s record-breaking winter beats average highs by 2C, Climate Council says.
* Although the uncertainty of each prediction in Fig. 4 is considerable, all scenarios for cumulative uptake at the century’s end either exceed or are commensurate with the threshold for catastrophic change.
* One of the clearest signs of climate change in Hurricanes Maria, Irma, and Harvey was the rain.
* What would a flood-proof city look like?
* When Bad DNA Tests Lead to False Convictions.
* What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.
* Notes towards a trans reading of Severus Snape.
* Gerrymandering on Trial.
* The New York Times reviews N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy.
* Jordan Peele gets it.
* The secret history of Dune.
* A people’s history of Dunkin Donuts.
* Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ to Newt’s Moon Base to Donald’s Wall.
* It’s officially too late to save Title IX.
* You had me at hello: Each successive video takes on a new video game and goes into incredibly granular detail on the speed-running history associated with it.
* Your time-travel short of the moment: Cradle.
* Is the Pope Catholic?
* This is a beautiful thing.
* Up Against the Centerfold: What It Was Like to Report on Feminism for Playboy in 1969.
* And finally a reason to start drinking: Arcade games return to Milwaukee bars.
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* CFP: Economics and SF.
* DACA at Marquette. Editorial: Marquette must support diversity by declaring sanctuary campus.
* Marquette to create new race and ethnics studies program.
* Pillars of Academia: The colleges that produce the most altruistic students, by state.
* We are not responsible.
* On a Twitter account called @Shitty_Future, you can find, according to the feed’s anonymous authors, “the future we deserve.”
* On Dec. 20, 2011, Stockley attempted to stop Smith after a suspected drug transaction. When Smith did not stop, a high-speed chase began. The then-officer shot at Smith’s car during the chase, apparently screaming, “I’m going to kill this motherfucker, don’t you know it!”
* The Case against Civilization.
* How do you feed a zoo during a disaster?
* The NASA Team That Kills Spacecraft.
* I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It’s time for single-payer.
* Today, almost every piece of software comes with a disclaimer on its user license that basically says that the product may not work as intended and that its maker may stop supporting it at any time, and that’s the user’s problem. It’s a wonder companies don’t insert “nyah nyah nyah nyah” into the tiny-print legalese. Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability.
* Also works as the control structure for academia: the game.
* A Deep Dive Into BoJack Horseman’s Heartbreaking Dementia Episode.
* More opioid prescriptions than people in some California counties.
* “Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE.” Widow of victim in suspected Kansas hate crime faced deportation after husband’s death. U.S. Army kills contracts for hundreds of immigrant recruits. Some face deportation. White House Weighs Lowering Refugee Quota to Below 50,000.
* On Clinton’s book, just one.
* College admins behaving badly.
* But Harvard takes the prize, twice over.
I'd trade every war criminal Harvard has ever feted with a sinecure for half an hour with Chelsea Manning.
* Berekely a close second. Kudos to the Daily Californian for working out that this is likely all a scam. Failure to confirm.
* Bosses behaving badly all over.
* Trump Inc: Inside the president’s not-so-blind trust.
* No matter how he leaves the White House, we’ll never be rid of Trump—and all that he represents about America. #AlwaysTrump.
* ICE agents dressed in plainclothes staked out a courthouse in Brooklyn and refused to identify themselves.
* Being Colin Kaepernick.
* Flying Coach Is So Cramped It Could Be a Death Trap.
* Teachers in U.S. paid nearly 60 percent less than other professionals, report finds.
* It Cinematic Universe Correct Viewing Order.
THE "IT" CINEMATIC UNIVERSE CORRECT VIEWING ORDER
Bring It On 2
— Zach Dunn (@ZachBDunn) September 15, 2017
* Suicides peak in middle age. So why do we call it a young person’s tragedy?
* Former Sheriff David Clarke must revise thesis or risk losing degree, docs reveal.
* No Apology, No Explanation: Fox News And The Seth Rich Story.
* Durham’s heroes.
* Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters.’ Twitter Says It Fixed Feature ‘Bug’ That Let Marketers Target People Who Use the N-Word.
* The Best Look at the Future of the Star Trek Universe Comes From a Video Game. Meanwhile, not a great sign: CBS Won’t Allow Any Reviews of Star Trek: Discovery Before It Airs.
* Actually a pretty fun issue, even if this approach to R2-D2 has always pissed me off.
* Return of the J.J. And yet another delay.
* Jor-El is bad (again) (apparently).
* Another EVE Online scam for your rubbernecking pleasure.
* What to Bring.
* The secret history of FEMA.
* The great nutrient collapse.
* Big Oil Will Have to Pay Up, Like Big Tobacco.
* Background Checks for Voting? But their emails.
* Solving the mystery of the internet’s most beloved — and notorious — fanfic.
* Sign language interpreter used gibberish, warned of bears, monsters during Hurricane Irma update.
* Happy anniversary to the most important Twitter exchange of all time.
* Watchmen spinoffs really getting out of hand now.
* And Nintendo decides maybe it wants that license to print money after all.
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Closing All My Tabs Tuesday
* CFP: Octavia Butler Companion. CFP: MOSF Journal of Science Fiction Special Issue on Afrofuturism. CFP: Shakespeare and Science Fiction. CFP: Monsters and Monstrosity, A Special Issue of The Popular Culture Studies Journal. CFP: Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies: New Epistemologies and Relational Futures in the Age of the Anthropocene.
* Classic “you had one job” situation: Credit giant Equifax says Social Security numbers, birth dates of 143 million consumers may have been exposed. How to Protect Yourself from that Massive Equifax Breach. Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You.
* Game writers to be honored with Nebula Award in first for professional science fiction and fantasy org.
* A Poem About Your University’s Brand New Institute’s Conference.
* Academe on the Auction Block.
* Adjuncting in Trump Country: What Has Not Changed.
* She Was a Rising Star at a Major University. Then a Lecherous Professor Made Her Life Hell.
* What to Do When the Nazis Are Obsessed with Your Field. J.R.R. Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit.
* What the Rich Won’t Tell You.
* Dreamers at Marquette. Marquette University leaders show support for students affected by DACA announcement. Why ending DACA is so unprecedented. And they tried to warn us: Immigrants Gave Their Info to Obama, Now Trump Could Use It to Deport Them. How to Support Students Facing Immigration Crises: Suggested Policies and Best Practices for UCI Departments/Faculty. The 3 bills Congress could use to protect DACA recipients. The United States Cannot Be Trusted.
Donald Trump is a vicious, utterly reprehensible human being capriciously ruining tens of thousands of lives for no gain.
* Trump’s Repeal of DACA Is the GOP’s Pathology in a Nutshell: An entire country is being held hostage by a thin slice of the Republican electorate, and they answer to no one.
* ICE Wrongly Imprisoned an American Citizen for 1,273 Days. Judges Say He’s Owed $0. Relatives of Undocumented Children Caught Up in ICE Dragnet. ICE wants to destroy records that show abuses and deaths of immigrants in custody. Dispatches from the Northwest’s immigration dystopia.
* Abandoned States: Places In Idyllic 1960s Postcards Have Transformed Into Scenes Of Abandonment.
* Urban artwork gives downtown MKE some color.
* An American Dialect Dictionary Is Dying Out. Here Are Some Of Its Best Words.
* Prisoners Face Horrifying Conditions, Limited Drinking Water After Harvey Pounds Texas. Texas Republicans Helped Chemical Plant That Exploded Lobby Against Safety Rules. The devastation of Hurricane Harvey marks a turning point and raises the terrible possibility that we’ve entered the age of climate chaos. Parts of Puerto Rico could be without power for 6 months after Irma. Tampa Bay’s Coming Storm. The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners. A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been. What Homeowners Insurance Won’t Cover If a Hurricane Hits. Floods in drought season: is this the future for parts of India? State of emergency for fire danger declared for all Washington counties. In the wake of Harvey, it’s time to treat science denial as gross negligence—and hold those who do the denying accountable. We should be naming hurricanes after Exxon and Chevron, not Harvey and Irma. The cats are all right.
* Randolph in the News!
* What is it with New Jersey senators?
* How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt.
* The ‘internet of things’ is creating a more connected world but there is a dark side to giving up our domestic lives to machines. You don’t say!
* The Arctic is now expected to be ice-free by 2040. But of course to the World Economic Forum “entirely preventable civilization-ending catastrophe” is just another word for “opportunity”:
On the upside, the Arctic Council foresees increased shipping once the sea-ice has disappeared. Using the route across the top of the world to sail from northern Europe to north-east Asia can cut the length of voyages by two-fifths compared with travelling via the Suez Canal.
* If we fail.
* Gasp! House flippers triggered the US housing market crash, not poor subprime borrowers.
* The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.
* Kodak 1987 vs. Apple 2017.
* North Korea: “All Paths Lead to Catastrophe.” What Would War with North Korea Actually Look Like?
* Spider-Man Needs to Be White and Straight, Say Leaked Sony Emails.
* This isn’t canon.
* A Timeline of Postapocalyptic Dystopias That Didn’t Actually Happen.
* Wole Talabi’s Compilation of 654 Works of African Speculative Fiction Should Top Your Reading List.
* Why Does High School Still Start So Early? Why a later start to the school day could pump $1 billion into Illinois’ economy.
* RIP, John Ashbery.
* RIP, Len Wein.
* Seven Days of Heroin.
* Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted.
* Winning the white working class for criminal justice reform.
* The end of Title IX.
* Star Wars is falling apart. The “Star Wars” franchise officially has a director problem.
* The Defenders Are Here to Tell You All Lives Matter. What is going on at Marvel TV?
* San Junipero 2: I Told You They Were Actually in Hell.
* A(mother) Solution to the Voynich Manuscript. Voynich Manuscript “solution” rubbished by experts.
* Hacking Alexa.
* Americans Have Given Up on Public Schools. That’s a Mistake. Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost. The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools.
* Unfortunately, to put it in one phrase, the Democrats are unable to defend the United States of America from the most vicious, ignorant, corporate-indentured, militaristic, anti-union, anti-consumer, anti-environment, anti-posterity [Republican Party] in history. End of lecture.
* The Republican Party Is Building The Electorate That Will Keep It In Power.
* The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republican Party.
* The First White President.
* Sexual Harassment in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Communities Survey Results.
* The onus should be on universities that rely on SET for employment decisions to provide convincing affirmative evidence that such reliance does not have disparate impact on women, underrepresented minorities, or other protected groups. Because the bias varies by course and institution, affirmative evidence needs to be specific to a given course in a given department in a given university. Absent such specific evidence, SET should not be used for personnel decisions.
* If immigration agents show up at your door. Life after love. Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. Hemingway called it the saddest short story ever written. Superheroes we can believe in. Statement of teaching philosophy. The child is the father of the man. Abbrs.
* Futurama is coming back again, for a single, audio-only episode.
* But at least they finally found the Savage Land.
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Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiinks!
* Once more, with feeling: Should You Go to Graduate School?
* CFP: Not Reading: University of Chicago English Graduate Conference.
* What are Muppets, anyway? Monsters from an evolutionary perspective.
* No.
* The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice: A conversation with the authors of Octavia’s Brood.
* The Elements of Bureaucratic Style.
* Yikes! New Behind-the-Scenes Book Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign. More. More.
* Dungeons and Dragons and the class system.
* Bruno Latour: The New Climate.
* Which country shall we bomb today?
* Notes on Walls.
* Against “Fearless Girl”: 1, 2, 3. And a counterpoint.
* The Secret at the Heart of A.I.: No one really understands how it works.
* Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense.
* How artificial intelligence learns to be racist.
* The new Star Wars theme park seems like a place my kids will completely love.
* The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners.
* The Retail Apocalypse Is Suburban.
* California State University cannot justify administrative growth, manager raises, audit says.
* The coming British bloodbath.
* The fake news long con: The Anne Frank Center.
* The United States of Work.
* Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia.
* “I always have SO MANY QUESTIONS about the economies of post-collapse fictional societies.”
* The Ugly Duckling.
* Every Sci-Fi Star Map. Keep scrolling, we’re not done yet!
* Why the FBI Kept a 1,400-Page File on Einstein.
* American energy use, in one diagram. 410. There hasn’t been a cool month in 628 months. A closer look at how rich countries “outsource” their CO2 emissions to poorer ones. Countries Need to Move to Zero-Carbon Energy Now–Here’s Why.
* Are zoo animals happy?
* Who Speaks for the Trees?
* Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of civilizations.
* “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
* Why are doctors giving anti-psychotic drugs to toddlers? Kids Who Use Touchscreen Devices Sleep Less at Night. Let the children play.
* A New Study Confirms What You’ve Long Suspected: Facebook Is Making People Crazy.
* History as a never-ending struggle to delay the Nazi takeover of the world.
* Star Trek: Discovery delayed again, again. Ian McShane says a Deadwood movie script’s made its way to HBO. Every New (and Returning!) Development Thrawn Brings to the Star Wars Universe. ‘Locke and Key’ Pilot From Carlton Cuse Set at Hulu. Can Batman Beyond save the DCEU? And because you demanded it!
* Mystery of why shoelaces come undone unravelled by science.
* What’s the most American movie ever made?
* NASA announces one of Saturn’s moons could support alien life in our solar system. NASA Considers Magnetic Shield to Help Mars Grow Its Atmosphere. Space Leaves Astronauts Partially Blind, and We May Finally Know Why. Simulation suggests 68 percent of the universe may not actually exist.
* Recycling is in trouble — and it might be your fault.
* Why United Was Legally Wrong to Deplane David Dao. How Much Money Will David Dao Make From United Airlines?
* Moderate drinking is good for you, if you don’t control for wealth.
* Nintendo doesn’t want you to be happy.
* Jeff VanderMeer amends the apocalypse.
* It might be easier to make a list of who isn’t working for Putin.
* The Landmark Sexual Assault Case You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.
* Put a rainbow on it.
* There’s just one story and we tell it over and over.
* Editing the Constitution: Wisconsin conservatives are pushing for a constitutional convention. What are their motives? Oh, I bet it’s fine.
* Fifteen Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Film and TV Projects with Black Talent to Get Excited About.
* First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump.
* Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a federal informant?
* Trustees of the Whittier Law School said on Wednesday that it would close down, making it the first fully accredited law school in the country to shut at a time when many law schools are struggling amid steep declines in enrollment and tuition income.
* If you want a vision of the future. The thing is though. The hero’s journey.
* And just in case you haven’t heard: Capitalism is violence.
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Return of the Son of Occasional Linkblogging
With new and unexpected obligations in the last few months it’s become very hard for me to keep up with the link-blogging. Sorry! It’s bad enough that I’m considering putting this function on the blog on (likely permanent) hiatus. But, for now at least, some links…
* Wordless, but one of the best things about parenting I’ve ever read: Dan Berry’s “Carry Me.” Made me cry each time I read it.
* For the night, which becomes more immense /and depressing and utter / and the voices in it which argue and argue. / For this conflict with the stars. / For ashes. For the wind. / For this emergency we call life. All-Purpose Elegy.
* This is really good too: “the best Spider-Man story of the last five years.”
* CFP: Utopia, now!
* Class, Academia, and Anxious Times. From Duke’s Own Sara Appel.
* Hugo nominations 2017! How well did the new rules do against the Sad Puppies? Meet the Hugo-Nominated Author of Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By the T-Rex.
* The African Speculative Fiction Society holds the Nommo Awards to celebrate the year’s greatest speculative fiction written by African authors.
* A list of contributors has been announced for Letters to Octavia, which has been renamed Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (which I’m in, by the way — I’m the rascal writing about “whether we should respect Butler’s wishes about not reprinting certain works”). I’m also a small part of the Huntington’s current exhibit of the Butler archives, presenting at the associated research conference in June.
* I wrote a small encyclopedia article on “Science Fiction” for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, which is live now…
* And some lovely, kind words for my Butler book on the latest episode of “The Three Hoarsemen”, around an hour thirty in!
* Desperation Time: Visions of the future from the left.
* ‘Doomsday Library’ Opens In Norway To Protect The World’s Books From Armageddon.
* The 43 senators who plan to filibuster Gorsuch represent 53 percent of the country.
* The history of all heretofore existing society is the history of archery dorks. Evidence that the human hand evolved so we could punch each there.
* Check out my friend David Higgins on NPR’s On Point, talking dystopias.
* War, forever and ever amen. What We Do Best. Trump’s bombing of Syria likely won’t be met with a wall of “resistance,” certainly not within the halls of power. That’s because for nearly all liberal and conservative pundits and politicians, foreign wars — particularly those launched in the name of “humanitarianism” — are an issue where no leader, even one as disliked as Trump, can ever go wrong. The Syrian Catastrophe. A Solution from Hell. Profiles in courage. There are no humanitarian wars. 7 Charities Helping Syrians That Need Your Support. The only answer is no.
"In that moment, I think, he became presidential" is one of those phrases that can be the caption to any New Yorker cartoon
— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) April 7, 2017
Omfg. Bolivia, who called today's Syria meeting at the UN, holds up Colin Powell's 2003 picture, saying to remember that ISIS was the result pic.twitter.com/dRxKoSEYlH
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) April 7, 2017
* Incredible story: Hired Goon Drags Man Off United Flight After He Refuses to Give Up Seat. More details here. It’s only going to get worse.
* Trump Conspiracy Tweetstorms Are The Infowars Of The Left. It is shocking how these things erupt through my timeline day after day, then evaporate utterly as if they’d never happened.
* This week in the richest country that has ever existed in human history.
* Being Wealthy in America Earns You 15 Extra Years of Life Span Over the Poor.
* New York will no longer prosecute 16 and 17 year olds as adult criminals.
* I loved this story about the connections that expose us: This Is Almost Certainly James Comey’s Twitter Account.
* We did it guys, we did it. But let’s not lose our heads yet.
* On Becoming a Stepmother.
* When Women Negotiate.
* What Happens When Your Internet Provider Knows Your Porn Habits?
* Activism we can all believe in: Protesters raise more than $200,000 to buy Congress’s browsing histories.
* Democrats Against Single Payer.
* How to Survive the Next Catastrophic Pandemic.
* An epidemic of childhood trauma haunts Milwaukee. An intractable problem: For the last half-century, Milwaukee has been caught in a relentless social and economic spiral. Milwaukee celebrates groundbreaking of new Black Holocaust Museum site.
"why am i so sluggish today" he whispered to himself after spending every minute of the past decade staring at glowing rectangles of sorrow
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 4, 2017
* Dolphins beat up octopuses before eating them, and the reason is kind of horrifying.
* Wild situation in X-Men Gold #1. The artist’s statement.
* If nothing else, Operation Blue Milk had me at “Nnedi Okorafor.” Everything Cut from Rogue One. The Final Star Wars Movie Will Include The Late Carrie Fisher.
crazy shot on air force one from reuters pic.twitter.com/ZyMAKBQKPy
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 6, 2017
* The Minnesota Eight Don’t Want to Be Deported to a Country They’ve Never Lived In. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE Yesterday.
* 7 Tips for Writing a Bestselling Science Fiction Novel.
* Can the Great Lakes Be Saved?
* Does This Band Name Start With The? A Quiz.
* America’s first female mayor was elected 130 years ago. Men nominated her as a cruel joke.
* Diabetes is even deadlier than we thought, study suggests.
* The Biggest Employer in Each US State. Look at all those universities we don’t need!
WARNING: This film contains ADULT THEMES. All the characters are really tired and in debt.
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 30, 2017
* Already old news, but worth noting: whether out of general interest or revenge Joss will be doing Batgirl. If I had Joss’s ear I’d pitch about 20-30 minutes of kung-fu action girl Batgirl and then have her paralyzed and do the Oracle plot instead. It’d be something different in this genre and something different for Whedon too, as opposed to something we’ve frankly seen from him a few too many times by now.
* Pedagogy watch: Why won’t students ask for help?
* More on the history of sleep: Why Do We Make Children Sleep Alone?
* When Every Day Is Groundhog Day: The Danny Rubin Story.
* No thanks: Disney Could Go Westworld With New Patent Filing for Soft ‘Humanoid’ Robots.
* There are dozens of us! Dozens! The Life Aquatic might not be Wes Anderson’s best film. But it is his greatest: The director’s misunderstood classic knows that sadness can’t be defeated, only lived with.
* Star Trek: Discovery ZZzzzzzzZZzzzzzZzzzz.
* Joe Hill (son of Stephen King): In the late 1990s I asked my Dad how to write a cover letter for my short fiction submissions. He was glad to help out.
* I always call Chuck Schumer the worst possible Democrat at the worst possible time, but Rahm Emanuel really gives him a run for his money.
* Margaret Atwood is dropping hints about a Handmaid’s Tale sequel. She even wrote a little bit extra, just in time for me to teach it this summer!
And so, Dr. Baloo finds himself leaping from life to life, hoping each time that his next leap… will be the leap home. pic.twitter.com/YBBhTnwx1t
— Matt Moylan (@LilFormers) March 12, 2017
* KSR talks NY2140. KSR talks world building. KSR in conversation with Adam Roberts and Francis Spufford.
* Geoengineering watch. Sadly, this is probably our civilization’s only hope.
* These Are the Wildly Advanced Space Exploration Concepts Being Considered by NASA.
* If you want a vision of the future.
* Tyrannosaurus rex was a sensitive lover, new dinosaur discovery suggests.
* PS: Conservatives and liberals united only by interest in dinosaurs, study shows.
* The proliferation of charter schools, particularly in areas of declining enrollment and in proximity to schools that have closed, is adding financial stress to Chicago’s financially strapped public school system, a new report co-authored by a Roosevelt University professor shows.
* How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons.
* Where the Water Goes.
* Great Barrier Reef at ‘terminal stage’: scientists despair at latest coral bleaching data.
* The Original Ending of Alien Was Both Terrifying and a Huge Bummer.
* Fuck You and Die: An Oral History of Something Awful.
* The arc of history is long, but New York now has more Mets fans than Yankees fans.
* Congratulations to North Carolina.
Salaries left to right: $0, $0, $0, $0, $3,000,000, $0, $2,088,577, $0, $0#nationalchampionship pic.twitter.com/OUJT13pmLE
— Jack M Silverstein (@readjack) April 4, 2017
* OK. OK. But I’m watching both of you.
* Teach-Ins Helped Galvanize Student Activism in the 1960s. They Can Do So Again Today.
* The Uses of Bureaucracy. Browser Plug-In Idea. A Brief History of Theology. To thine own self be true. Stop me if you’ve heard it.
* Politics. Democracy. Art. #2017. Submitted for Your Approval. We lived happily during the war. Five years later. Pretty grim. Any sufficiently advanced neglect is indistinguishable from malice. How to tell if you are sexually normal. Juxtaposition of wish fulfilment violence and infantile imagery, desire to regress to be free of responsibility… Join the movement. Know your sins.
* And even in the darkest times, there is still hope: Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year.
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She Is Not My Wife, I Saw Her In The Bush And I Decided To Have A Taste Of Her – Suspect Confesses
According to PUNCH, three teenage Fulani herders have been apprehended in Bauchi for allegedly gang-raping a girl whose identity is hidden from the public for privacy purposes.
The leader of the gang, Mamman Jauro, who was said to be 15 years of age, said he was in the bush with his cattle, where he saw the young girl passing by and then decided to have a taste of her.
He also added that while he was doing it, his friends caught him in the act, and also begged him to have a taste.
When asked if he knows the girl, he said he knew her when he arrived in the area, as he also said he her name is Nasaiba, saying they have no relationship as she is not his wife.
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May 22, 2019 May 21, 2019 David Hogan
We continue our look at the third volume of the Tenth Doctor Adventures with One Mile Down. It’s a middle of the road story, containing both good and bad, and I can’t help but feel the Judoon, seen here front and centre of the cover image, were added for the sake of it, but without further beating around the bush, let’s have a closer look!
Donna and the Doctor take a holiday in the beautiful underwater city of Vallarasee.
Things have changed since the Doctor last swam through. Vallarasee is now enclosed in an airdome, with Judoon patrolling historic sites. Now, instead of tourists wearing breathing-helmets, native Fins are forced to adapt.
But leaks are trickling into the dome. The Judoon must be persuaded that disaster is imminent, or thousands will be trapped, as the waters rise…
*spoilers appear from here on out!*
Cast of Characters:
The Doctor (David Tennant) – The Doctor would have loved to have taken Donna to Vallarasee when it was an underwater paradise, but now it’s a big tourist trap full of badly treated locals, he’s less than thrilled.
Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) – Donna saw the infomercial for Vallarasee and insisted The Doctor take her there, despite his misgivings. Who doesn’t like a bit of a holiday now and again?
Pickus (Christopher Naylor) – Pickus is the chief engineer of the dome that stops the water from flowing into the now-drained city of his people. His life would be all misery if it weren’t for his human love interest who’s coming to visit.
Thispus (Robert Whitelock) – Thispus is in charge of Vallarasee, well, at least as much as he can given he’s under the boot of Patricia Derbyshire…
Patricia Derbyshire (Eleanor Crooks) – Patricia was tasked with the job of turning the underwater paradise of Vallarasee into a tourist attraction, and she feels she’s done just that.
Andrea (Rakie Ayola) – Andrea has fallen in love with a “Fin” named Pickus, and she’s looking forward to seeing him as she arrives in his lovely, if not suddenly dry, home…
The Judoon (Nicholas Briggs) – The Judoon are a galactic peace-keeping force that, sadly for many, take an all-too literal idea of the law and therefore have arrested people for minor infractions in the past… Sounds perfect for guarding the Vallarasee artefacts!
Plus more!
Looks like a Judoon centric story is … oh, or not. Oh well *shrugs*
The story, while not very subtle, has a good message at its heart, one of exploiting a native populace for the sake of gaining some tourism money being a not very nice thing to do. Yes, the main crux of the story is an evil corporation has turned a beautiful underwater city into a tourist trap by draining it and putting a dome over the whole place. People used to visit wearing breathing helmets, but now the local Vallarasians (?) have to wear helmets full of water to walk around their own homes. Cue lots of racism, a few leaks turning into a full-on collapse of the dome, and a disgruntled and poorly treated “Fin” leader, Thispus, turning out to be responsible for the whole dome collapse in the first place as a way to reclaim his home. Terrorism and killing the racist race isn’t any better than what they were doing, two wrong don’t make a right, and all that jazz.
There was a child Judoon called Clo that was legitimately funny, and very of the era. Although they felt shoe-horned in, the Judoon save the day (by being tricked) with their H20 scoop seen in their first TV appearance, so at least they weren’t completely pointless, and they had some funny scenes with their super-strict laws, so… overall, happy the Judoon are featured, even if them being front and centre still seems a little… forced.
During most of the story Donna is stuck on the ground with a woman who has fallen in love with a man from Vallarasee, and a flat-out racist by the name of Garth, meanwhile The Doctor is in the head office having to deal with Thispus and the woman at the head of the tourist company. It’s a shame that the two are kept apart for so long, as their chemistry is the best part about these releases. They had some good lines at the start, but that was it.
Plus I don’t get where the writer was going with Garth. He was a really blatant and unpleasant racist for the whole story, but when he tried to stop a Judoon from taking a place on the escape raft and got punched for it, Donna stuck up for her “racist friend”. The two then get quite close, before he’s left behind by The Doctor and Donna on a lovely beach to close the story. Now, I’m not saying because the character is racist he should have been killed off, but I was hoping for him to at least learn a lesson or something, not have Donna find out he’s not so bad after all, even though he clearly is.
Andrea, the woman who was in love with a fishman, is also confusing. At the end, when realising that now the city is underwater she’ll have to wear a helmet to be with her love rather than the other way round, she was hesitant to continue the relationship, at least until hearing her love will now be councillor. So, turns out the nice girl who is in love with someone despite the differences in appearances was actually also a bit of a shallow, unpleasant character as well… Hooray?
The Continuity:
The Judoon front and centre on the overall cover too, for some reason!
The Judoon first appeared in Tenth Doctor TV story “Smith and Jones”, and have reappeared on TV, in Comics and on Audio since, being one of the most prominently reused “nuWho” creatures.
Apart from that though, the story is very much stand-alone.
One Mile Down is a decent story with a good, if not on-the-nose, message at its heart. Sadly some characters are just confusing, and it seems a shame to keep The Doctor and Donna away from each other for so much of the run time. Bit of a mixed bag, so it gets a middling score!
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