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MEDIA ADVISORY: Press conference on House transportation package at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 19
WHO: Transportation Chair Jake Fey and members of the House Transportation Committee WHAT: Press conference on a proposed House transportation package WHEN: Noon on Tuesday, Jan. 19 WHERE: This is... READ MORE
Our final update for now, and resources going forward
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Soros Slapped With Slapping Suit
John Hayward
80-year old leftist sugar daddy George Soros has been hit with a lawsuit by his ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Brazilian soap opera actress Adriana Ferreyr. The New York Post offers the details:
The sultry actress and the mogul, who’s worth some $14.5 billion, had dated for five years before he heartlessly dumped her a year ago, the lawsuit says.
But they briefly reconciled, and while spending a romantic night together, he whispered in her ear that he’d given the apartment to another woman.
“While still in bed, Soros slapped Ferreyr across the face and proceeded to put his hands around her neck in an attempt to choke her,” her lawsuit claims.
Soros, 80, then allegedly at tempted to strike her with a glass lamp, and though he narrowly missed, it smashed on the floor and she cut her foot, which required three stitches.
According to a police report, she called cops, but no charges were filed.
The apartment in question was a $1.9 million property on the Upper East Side, which Soros had allegedly promised to give Ferreyr. She says he offered to buy her an even swankier pad worth $4.3 million to restore her injured pride, but then took that promise back, too. Her suit is looking for $50 million dollars in damages.
Soros denies all the charges, with his lawyer noting “the police investigated the… incident referred to and concluded that no assault occurred. George Soros did not slap, choke, or throw a lamp at her.”
The whirlwind affair sounds like it was packed with enough expensive fun to overcome the 52-year age difference between the octogenarian supervillain and his young paramour. Note to class-warfare acolytes: much of it involved flying around on corporate jets. According to the Post, “While their relationship lasted, he took her on jaunts around the world. The couple took holidays in St. Barts and partied with the jet set, including art dealer Larry Gagosian and billionaire Ron Perelman.”
There you have it, liberals: everything you supposedly loathe, packed into the thousand-dollar shoes of the man who funds so many of your media operations. He obviously has all sorts of money he “does not need,” and should be “paying his fair share,” to quote Barack Obama. He uses his fortune to snag far younger women, who he treats either shabbily or atrociously, depending on how many of Ferreyr’s allegations you believe. The denunciations of Soros from the Left should be deafening!
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John Hayward began his blogging career as a guest writer at Hot Air under the pen name "Doctor Zero," producing a collection of essays entitled Doctor Zero: Year One. He is a great admirer of free-market thinkers such as Arthur Laffer, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell. He writes both political and cultural commentary, including book and movie reviews. An avid fan of horror and fantasy fiction, he has produced an e-book collection of short horror stories entitled Persistent Dread. John is a former staff writer for Human Events. He is a regular guest on the Rusty Humphries radio show, and has appeared on numerous other local and national radio programs, including G. Gordon Liddy, BattleLine, and Dennis Miller.
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60 Million Iranians to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine in 4 Phases: Rouhani
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Arab states agree on single currency modelled on the euro in latest threat to dollar hegemony
December 16, 2009 by Infinite
The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate.
Traders at the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange
“The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait.
The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of their own, greatly increasing their influence in the global exchange and capital markets and potentially displacing the US dollar as the pricing currency for oil contracts. Between them they amount to regional superpower with a GDP of $1.2 trillion (£739bn), some 40pc of the world’s proven oil reserves, and financial clout equal to that of China.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar are to launch the first phase next year, creating a Gulf Monetary Council that will evolve quickly into a full-fledged central bank.
The Emirates are staying out for now – irked that the bank will be located in Riyadh at the insistence of Saudi King Abdullah rather than in Abu Dhabi. They are expected join later, along with Oman.
The Gulf states remain divided over the wisdom of anchoring their economies to the US dollar. The Gulf currency – dubbed “Gulfo” – is likely to track a global exchange basket and may ultimately float as a regional reserve currency in its own right. “The US dollar has failed. We need to delink,” said Nahed Taher, chief executive of Bahrain’s Gulf One Investment Bank.
The project is inspired by Europe’s monetary union, seen as a huge success in the Arab world. But there are concerns that the region is trying to run before it can walk.
Europe took 40 years to reach the point where it felt ready to launch a currency. It began with the creation of the Iron & Steel Community in the 1950s, moving by steps towards a single market enforced by powerful Commission and European Court. The EMU timetable was fixed at the Masstricht in 1991 but it took another 11 for euro notes and coins to reach the streets.
Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Kalifa, Bahrain’s foreign minister, told the FIKR Arab Thought summit in Kuwait that the project would not work unless the Gulf countries first break down basic barriers to trade and capital flows.
At the moment, trucks sit paralysed at border posts for days awaiting entry clearance. Labour mobility between states is almost zero.
“The single currency should come last. We need to coordinate our economic policies and build up common infrastructure as a first step,” he said.
Mohammed El-Enein, chair of the energy and industry committee in Egypt’s parliament, said Europe’s example could help the Arab world achieve its half-century dream of a unified currency, but the task requires discipline. “We need exactly the same institutions as the EU has created. We need a commission, a court, and a bank,” he said.
The last currency to trade in souks from Marakesh, to Baghdad and Mecca, was the Ottomon Piaster, known as the “kurush”. It suffered chronic inflation as the silver coinage was debased.
There is a logic to an Arab currency. The region speaks one language, has the unifying creed of “Umma Wahida” or One Nation from the Koran, and has not torn itself apart in savage wars – ever – in quite the way that Europe has in living memory.
Yet hurdles are formidable even for the tight-knit group of Gulf states. While the eurozone is a club of rough equals – with Germany, France, Italy, and Spain each holding two votes on the ECB council – the Gulf currency will be dominated by Saudi Arabia. The risk is that other countries will feel like satellites. Monetary policy will inevitably be set for Riyadh’s needs.
Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paraibas, said the Gulf states may have romanticised Europe’s achievement and need to move with great care to avoid making the same errors.
“The Greek crisis has exposed the weak foundations on which the euro is built. The gap in competitiveness between core Europe and the periphery has grown wider and wider. The obvious mistake was to launch EMU without a central fiscal authority and political union, as the Bundesbank warned in the 1990s,” he said.
“The euro was created for political reasons after the fall of the Berlin to lock Germany irrevocably into Europe. It was not done for economic reasons,” he said.
Ben Simpfendorfer, Asia economist for RBS and an expert on the Middle East, told the FIKR conference that the rise of China had paradoxically disrupted the case for pan-Arab economic integration.
There was a natural fit ten years ago between rich oil state and low-wage manufacturers in Egypt and Syria, but cheap exports from China have forced poorer Arab states to retreat behind barriers to shelter their industries. “The rationale for a single currency has become weaker,” he said.
The GCC also agreed to create a joint military strike force – akin to the EU’s rapid reaction force – to tackle threats such as the incursion of Yemeni Shiite rebels into Saudi territory earlier this year.
This is a major breakthrough after years of deadlock on defence cooperation.
The Sunni Gulf states are deeply concerned about the great power ambitions of Shiite Iran and its quest for nuclear weapons, to the point where the theme of a possible war between Iran and a Saudi-led constellation of states has crept into the media debate.
They nevertheless repeated on Tuesday that “any military action against Iran” by Western powers would be unacceptable.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Published: 7:12PM GMT 15 Dec 2009
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"Civil rights" redirects here. For other uses, see Civil rights (disambiguation).
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Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations and private individuals, and which ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.
Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, colour, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability;[1][2][3] and individual rights such as privacy, the freedoms of thought and conscience, speech and expression, religion, the press, assembly and movement.
Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right of self-defense, and the right to vote.
Civil and political rights form the original and main part of international human rights.[4] They comprise the first portion of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (with economic, social and cultural rights comprising the second portion). The theory of three generations of human rights considers this group of rights to be "first-generation rights", and the theory of negative and positive rights considers them to be generally negative rights.
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The phrase "civil rights" is a translation of Latin ius civis (rights of a citizen). Roman citizens could be either free (libertas) or servile (servitus), but they all had rights in law.[5] After the Edict of Milan in 313, these rights included the freedom of religion.[6] Roman legal doctrine was lost during the Middle Ages, but claims of universal rights could still be made based on religious doctrine. According to the leaders of Kett's Rebellion (1549), "all bond men may be made free, for God made all free with his precious blood-shedding."[7]
In the 17th century, English common law judge Sir Edward Coke revived the idea of rights based on citizenship by arguing that Englishmen had historically enjoyed such rights. The Parliament of England adopted the English Bill of Rights in 1689. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, by George Mason and James Madison, was adopted in 1776. The Virginia declaration is the direct ancestor and model for the U.S. Bill of Rights (1789).
In early 19th century Britain, the phrase "civil rights" most commonly referred to the issue of legal discrimination against Catholics. In the House of Commons support for the British civil rights movement was divided, many more well-known politicians supported the discrimination towards Catholics. Independent MPs (such as Lewis Eves and Matthew Mountford) applied pressure for Catholic emancipation on the larger political parties. This process culminated in the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 which restored the civil rights of Catholics.
In the 1860s, Americans adapted this usage to newly freed blacks. Congress enacted civil rights acts in 1866, 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1991.
T.H. Marshall notes that civil rights were among the first to be recognized and codified, followed later by political rights and still later by social rights. In many countries, they are constitutional rights and are included in a bill of rights or similar document. They are also defined in international human rights instruments, such as the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1967 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Civil and political rights need not be codified to be protected, although most democracies worldwide do have formal written guarantees of civil and political rights. Civil rights are considered to be natural rights. Thomas Jefferson wrote in his A Summary View of the Rights of British America that "a free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
The question of to whom civil and political rights apply is a subject of controversy. In many countries, citizens have greater protections against infringement of rights than non-citizens; at the same time, civil and political rights are generally considered to be universal rights that apply to all persons.
According to political scientist Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., analyzing the causes of and lack of protection from human rights abuses in the Global South should be focusing on the interactions of domestic and international factors — an important perspective that has usually been systematically neglected in the social science literature.
Custom also plays a role. Implied or unenumerated rights are rights that courts may find to exist even though not expressly guaranteed by written law or custom; one example is the right to privacy in the United States, and the Ninth Amendment explicitly shows that there are other rights that are also protected.
The United States Declaration of Independence states that people have unalienable rights including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". It is considered by some that the sole purpose of government is the protection of life, liberty and property.[8] The right to self-defense is embodied in the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
Ideas of self-ownership and cognitive liberty affirm rights to choose the food one eats,[9][10][11] the medicine one takes,[12][13][14] the habit one indulges.[15][16][17]
Civil rights movements
Main article: Movements for civil rights
Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Croatian Spring participant; Europe's first female prime minister
Civil rights guarantee equal protection under the law. When civil and political rights are not guaranteed to all as part of equal protection of laws, or when such guarantees exist on paper but are not respected in practice, opposition, legal action and even social unrest may ensue.
Some historians suggest that New Orleans was the cradle of the civil rights movement in the United States, due to the earliest efforts of Creoles to integrate the military en masse.[18] W.C.C. Claiborne, appointed by Thomas Jefferson to be governor of the Territory of Orleans, formally accepted delivery of the French colony on December 20, 1803. Free men of color had been members of the militia for decades under both Spanish and French control of the colony of Louisiana. They volunteered their services and pledged their loyalty to Claiborne and to their newly adopted country.[19]
But in early 1804, the new U.S. administration in New Orleans, under Governor Claiborne, was faced with a dilemma previously unknown in the United States, i.e., the integration of the military by incorporating entire units of previously established "colored" militia.[20] See, e.g., the February 20, 1804 letter to Claiborne from Secretary of War Henry Dearborn that "it would be prudent not to increase the Corps, but to diminish, if it could be done without giving offense".[21]
Civil Rights movements in the United States gathered steam by 1848 with such documents as the Declaration of Sentiment.[22][full citation needed] Consciously modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments became the founding document of the American women's movement, and it was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention, July 19 and 20, 1848.[23][full citation needed]
Worldwide, several political movements for equality before the law occurred between approximately 1950 and 1980. These movements had a legal and constitutional aspect, and resulted in much law-making at both national and international levels. They also had an activist side, particularly in situations where violations of rights were widespread. Movements with the proclaimed aim of securing observance of civil and political rights included:
the 1950s and 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States, where rights of black citizens had been violated;
the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, formed in 1967 following failures in this province of the United Kingdom to respect the Roman Catholic minority's rights; and
movements in many Communist countries, such as the Prague Spring and Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and the uprisings in Hungary.
Most civil rights movements relied on the technique of civil resistance, using nonviolent methods to achieve their aims.[24] In some countries, struggles for civil rights were accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and even armed rebellion. While civil rights movements over the last sixty years have resulted in an extension of civil and political rights, the process was long and tenuous in many countries, and many of these movements did not achieve or fully achieve their objectives.
Problems and analysis
Questions about civil and political rights have frequently emerged. For example, to what extent should the government intervene to protect individuals from infringement on their rights by other individuals, or from corporations — e.g., in what way should employment discrimination in the private sector be dealt with?
Political theory deals with civil and political rights. Robert Nozick and John Rawls expressed competing visions in Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and Rawls' A Theory of Justice. Other influential authors in the area include Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld and Jean Edward Smith.
First-generation rights
First-generation rights, often called "blue" rights, deal essentially with liberty and participation in political life. They are fundamentally civil and political in nature, as well as strongly individualistic: They serve negatively to protect the individual from excesses of the state. First-generation rights include, among other things, freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial, (in some countries) the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of religion and voting rights. They were pioneered in the United States by the Bill of Rights and in France by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in the 18th century, although some of these rights and the right to due process date back to the Magna Carta of 1215 and the Rights of Englishmen, which were expressed in the English Bill of Rights in 1689.
They were enshrined at the global level and given status in international law first by Articles 3 to 21 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In Europe, they were enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights in 1953.
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↑ The Civil Rights act of 1964, ourdocuments.gov
↑ Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, accessboard.gov
↑ Summary of LGBT civil rights protections, by state, at Lambda Legal, lambdalegal.org
↑ A useful survey is Paul Sieghart, The Lawful Rights of Mankind: An Introduction to the International Legal Code of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 1985.
↑ Mears, T. Lambert, Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian, Including the History and, p. 75.
↑ Fahlbusch, Erwin and Geoffrey William Bromiley, The encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4, p. 703.
↑ "Human Rights: 1500-1760 - Background". Nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-11. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ House Bill 4
↑ Mark Nugent (July 23, 2013). "The Fight for Food Rights (Review of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We Eat by David Gumpert)". The American Conservative. Retrieved September 15, 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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↑ Meredith Bragg & Nick Gillspie (June 21, 2013). "Cheese Lovers Fight Idiotic FDA Ban on Mimolette Cheese!". Reason. Retrieved September 15, 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ Jessica Flanigan (July 26, 2012). "Three arguments against prescription requirements". Journal of Medical Ethics. 38: 579–586. doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100240. PMID 22844026. Retrieved September 14, 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ Kerry Howley (August 1, 2005). "Self-Medicating in Burma: Pharmaceutical freedom in an outpost of tyranny". Reason. Retrieved September 14, 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ Daniel Schorn (February 11, 2009). "Prisoner Of Pain". 60 Minutes. Retrieved September 15, 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ Emily Dufton (Mar 28, 2012). "The War on Drugs: Should It Be Your Right to Use Narcotics?". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 13, 2013. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ Doug Bandow (2012). "From Fighting the Drug War to Protecting the Right to Use Drugs - Recognizing a Forgotten Liberty". Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom (PDF). Chapter 10. Fraser Institute. pp. 253–280. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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↑ "Signatures to the Seneca Falls Convention 'Declaration of Sentiments'". American History Online, Facts On File, Inc.
↑ Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments". Encyclopedia of Women's History in America, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2000. American History Online. Facts On File, Inc.
↑ Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2009. Includes chapters by specialists on the various movements.
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Article on Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights: Beyond Black & White - slideshow by Life magazine
Civil Rights in America: Connections to a Movement
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Pawsey Centre receives $70 Million for Supercomputing Down Under
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced it has received $70 million in funding for a new supercomputing infrastructure. The new machines will replace Magnus, a Cray XC40 considered to be one of the most advanced supercomputers in the southern hemisphere, and Galaxy, a real-time system dedicated to Square Kilometre Array.
Today’s announcement, together with last year’s investment into the National Computational Infrastructure located in Canberra, will strengthen Australia’s position in the global research environment and enable Australia to stay globally competitive,” said John Langoulant, Chair of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. “This is a reflection of the government’s understanding of the value that the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre delivers to the Australian scientific landscape by accelerating innovation and increasing opportunities for engagement between Australian researchers and their peers internationally.
During this new phase, Pawsey staff will continue to engage with Australia’s researchers to identify their needs which will inform the configuration of the next systems. The procurement process for the capital refresh will commence immediately with the intention of new infrastructure being available from 2019.
“It is an exciting time to be at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre”, said Ugo Varetto, Pawsey Acting Executive Director. “The investment in Pawsey will have a positive impact on the Australian research community. The Centre has already been accelerating scientific outcomes and will now be able to solve even bigger scientific problems.”
Pawsey is a collaboration hub. The Centre currently serves more than 1,500 active researchers from across Australia, involved in more than 150 supercomputing projects to deliver scientific outcomes. Nine Australian Research Centres of Excellence benefit from Pawsey’s infrastructure and expertise.
This investment will enable Pawsey to continue to drive innovation and accelerate discoveries in medical science, engineering, geoscience, marine science, chemistry, food, agriculture and more.
In related news, the Pawsey Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Perth Conference on Aug. 28-29, 2018.
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This Imaginative Anatomy Book Reveals Exactly What's Inside Your Favorite Pokémon
By Jessica Miley
Gotta catch 'em all, or in the case of this twisted Pokémon fan book, gotta cut 'em all. The recently funded Kickstarter project takes a look at what would be inside a Pokémon if you sliced one open.
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For Pokémon fans that want to know their favorite characters inside and out, this book is a must have. PokéNatomy—An Unofficial Guide to the Science of Pokémon is now available for purchase.
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The colorful volume includes over 300 pages of Pokémon information together with detailed notes on the anatomy of each character.
The book is a delight even if you aren’t a huge fan. The illustrations are super detailed and the text is very funny, with a David Attenborough bent. Graphic artist Christopher Stoll is the fan and designers behind the project. His website describes PokéNatomy as “an unofficial anatomical art project, reimagining Pokémon through the lens of modern biology. Now, for the first time ever, you can get the incredible scientific world of Pokémon in print in a high-quality, fully illustrated, unofficial guidebook, designed to help people of all ages understand the power that's inside!”
The hardcover version of the book will set you back $30 or you can grab the digital edition for just $15. For hardcore Pokémon fans, the leather bound signed edition is the way to go in exchange for a cool $50.
Pokémon is a wildly popular pop cultural icon. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995. It revolves around different pocket monsters or characters that are captured by humans and then trained before being made to fight each other as part of a sport.
The franchise began as a video game but now spans playing cards, merchandise, animations, applications and as we now know, books. Pokémon is second only to the lovable Mario.
Pokémon manages to stay popular, in part by its consistent reinvention. While the characters don’t change, there always seems to be a new way to access them. The latest Pokémon craze was PokémonGo!, a free smartphone game that uses your location in combination with augmented reality to allow you to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual Pokémons, which appear on your phone screen as if they were at the same location as you. Since the game's launch in 2016, it has been downloaded more than 500 million times.
While hugely popular, the game has also seen its fair share of controversy. Many people have reported injuring themselves or others while playing the game, while several deaths linked to the game have also been recorded. Muslims in India and Malaysia have been warned away from the game, religious leaders were concerned the addictive app could constitute a form of gambling. There have also been several incidents were crowds of fans hunting rare characters have caused traffic jams and stampedes.
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While the app may have slipped down the popular app list in recent months, fans in Japan are alive and well. More than 2 million people gathered in Yokohama last week to take part in the annual Pikachu Outbreak Festival. A special PokémonGo! Stadium was set up for players to enjoy and they were rewarded with a unique character, Mewtwo.
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January 25, 2016 johnbriggs926Filth and public graft, Filth in India, Flint Michigan, India travel, jbriggs926.com, Kolhapur filth, Rankala Lake, Unromanticized India travel 3 Comments
KOLHAPUR–I made it back to my hotel, just, stomach churning from the hotel’s plain omelet this morning, I think. The kitchen is mediocre at best, but I haven’t had a problem before with an omelet. Today, I could take only a couple of bites. It was rancid.
Whatever. Maybe it was one of a hundred other things, or just a malevolent stray bacterium adhering to something I touched–a tea cup rim, or the silverware lying flat on the omelet, placed there neatly by the unsoaped, sweet-acting waiter, a wall outside, a public monument.
I am fond of India, but it is overly mild to call it exasperating.
I had taken a tuk-tuk (which this miserable uninstructable auto-correct always wants to turn into yuk-yuk) west to the celebrated Gandhi Maidan, a dusty open area just east of Lake Rankala. The lake is a a 400-acre waist-deep body of water presented on maps as blue, though it is a stew of sewage and trash. But, legs crossed and breathing shallowly, I made it back, and safe at last, relieved, I was soon sitting as usual after an excursion on the plastic stool in the shower, scrubbing my feet.
My shower, Hotel Pearl, Kolhapur
I lather them with soap and wash carefully between my toes with my indispensable fingernail brush. The bottoms are more difficult, and though I do this at least twice a day and scrub my sandals, also with bar soap, or laundry detergent or shampoo, my heels remain nearly black, even after the fingernail brush. When I rinse the suds off, the water runs dark to the drain.
I wear sandals instead of shoes because I can kind of clean the sandals. The shoes, after my months of walking in Indian cities, down slum lanes and the much dirtier main streets, would be poisonous by now. I keep them in my pack, all clean, and I’d turn to my flip-flops before lacing them up.
I make these notes because in a few months, back home, I will have forgotten how dirty it is here. It may seem unnecessary to mention, comparable to pointing out that Saudi Arabia is intolerant or that the dog pound at Cleveland games lacks a sense of fair play. But the filth is deep and pervasive and Indians are oblivious to it. That’s interesting.
I’ve seen squalor in many places, including individual apartments in our inner-city slums, or in the Middle East, where trash and garbage is pitched over the wall and forgotten. In Kuwait, the rats scurried in the piles at night, but the Kuwaitis hired workers from Bangladesh and Yemen and Egypt to pick it all up. Here, it just moulders where it falls.
Northward on public road adjacent to Rankala Lake, Kolhapur
The trash–the plastic bags and sugar cane stalks and wires and discarded flip-flops, more plastic, snack packaging, broken machines–is everywhere. It fills the parks and the sewage trenches, blows across the maidan, and rims the lake, which has crumbling pavilions and battered fences suggesting a cleaner past; and grotesque as it is, the trash is the most bearable of the dirt.
Public road at Rankala Lake, Kolhapur
The streets are uncleaned, except with whisks, and the sidewalks, the public walls, every empty lot. I don’t mention this just to be an impolite visitor but to highlight the self-imposed degradation to which humans can become accustomed. As I sit in my hotel room now, writing, the room smells of burning garbage from the lot next door.
An image I can’t push out of my mind is from relatively clean Baramati, Swiss-like in comparison to Bombay or Pune or most of Tamil Nadu. I stayed in the plush Baramati Club in a wealthy neighborhood. It was about a half mile on narrow streets past new apartment buildings to the main road, where I could catch a tuk-tuk into town. Returning one afternoon, I saw two professional men standing on an apartment balcony, talking. One finished a Pepsi, and without looking or pausing in conversation, he pitched it to his left down into the empty lot next door. I glanced over the wall. He had done it before, often. He was a pudgy man who apparently drank a lot of soft drinks and ate chips and other snacks, and the rest of the building’s garbage was there as well, a corner of it smoldering, a nasty smell that even beyond the urine smell from convenient walls and alleys across the country is the most familiar smell of India. India is burning garbage, urine, and fumes from millions of scooters and cycles and tuk-tuks and fuming buses with slick tires, spit, uncleaned public toilets, raw sewage. Pigs were rooting in the Pepsi drinker’s heap.
But it is the surfaces that are unavoidable, caked with decades of dirt, embedded grime, never washed–the streets, the buses, the walls, the rubbly roadsides.
The crumbling pavilion at Rankala Lake, Kolhapur
It’s fair to generalize about such things. The cleaning, in the hotels where I stay, on the streets, in the parks, in every public place, is done by the very poor. They usually have nothing but a whisk. They seldom have soap or other equipment. They have no training, and no supervision. If they’re workers on city property, they’re often hired by private contractors who take the contract money, kick back some to the corrupt officials who awarded the contract, and then cheat the workers of a portion of their tiny wages. The workers go through the motions, but they spend much of their time sitting, having by their presence relieved other Indians of a need to look at what they’re walking in.
Most surfaces here, even in my cleanish hotel room, are infectious. I bought a couple of cleaning rags when I arrived and scrub as well as I can when I arrive in a new room. I do it daily, obsessed I suppose it might seem to the unexposed like a latter day Howard Hughes, and I use a sanitizing hand cleaner from Kroger and otherwise wash my hands again and again. My sanitizer is supposed to have a citrus scent, but when I put it on it outside it has a smell of urine.
I watched poor women this morning, all of them barefoot, wash clothes in the lake, just beside the happily gurgling water buffalo who were being scrubbed by their tender. I wash my own clothes here by hand, and I have a routine. I put my underwear and T-shirt from the day before, shorts if needed, in the five gallon bucket which is in every hotel bathroom. I add a small packed of Tide or Surf and suds it up for a minute, then go to breakfast. When I come back, after an hour, I slush for another two minutes in the suds, pour out the brown water and rinse for several more minutes under the running water. It works. I can do the same to myself.
At Rankala Lake, Kolhapur
The women arrive with a large basin of clothes (never any bedsheets or towels). They wet them in the basin, and some add soap such as I use, but they can’t take the time to soak. They would be there all day. They smack the shirts or pants or once-bright sari cloth on the rocks, or twist them up and rub them hard on the rocks, then rinse in the lake water. They work at it, but the clothes are never cleaned, and on the streets most people look dingy.
Because they have no space at home, the women often dry the clothes by stretching them out flat on the trash-covered, pissed-upon dirt by the lake, or, in other towns, on the river bank.
Washing buffaloes and clothes, Rankala Lake, Kolhapur
Another image, and a fair one, I think, is from Phaltan, a town of Dickensian grimness south of Baramati. Adjacent the pleasant Hotel Jeet Paradise in a relatively prosperous neighborhood, the kids play cricket on a rutted empty lot ringed with trash and piles of burning garbage. It doesn’t occur to anyone, the proprietors of the hotel, the fathers who take their children there to play, to clean it up, and so a boy running after the bouncing ball jumps without thought over piles of trash and skirts rubble and avoids as he can the piles left by the neighborhood cows.
And, interestingly, on Indian television, the streets are alway clean and the peasants newly washed, just as, I suppose, our commercial images–perky, bright acting employees of Wal-Mart or Burger King–depict what we want to be true.
I think it’s related, or it seems so from my perspective: In today’s Indian Express and Times of India, which often print the same stories, a small article mentioned that 80 percent of the graduates of India’s thousands of engineering schools are unemployable, because they have no useful skills. That’s deplorable, of course, and the papers clucked disapprovingly today–standards must be raised! They have the same tone when, as today, “a shocking incident,” arises, they conclude, from the stress of failed exams or college debt (three female students at the Yoga and Naturopathy college at Chinna Salem in Tamil Nadu, despairing at their inability to pay “exorbitant fees,” jumped into a well yesterday and died). Tomorrow another two or three engineering schools will open, and more students or debt-ridden farmers will commit suicide.
Filth and and public graft are flip sides of the same coin (e.g., Flint, Michigan).
One must acknowledge that the same conditions exist at our own proliferating diploma mills, which hand out worthless degrees in return for a quick buck, though our diminished sense of public honor may lead less often to suicide.
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January 14, 2016 johnbriggs926Cheap Travel in India, India travel, jbriggs926.com, John Briggs, Tea in India, Time and Travel, Travel in India 2016, Travel in Maharashtra, Unromanticized India travel 1 Comment
Kananagar, Kolhapur–Kolhapur, sometimes spelled Colapore, is an ancient city ruled until Independence as a princely state. It’s at the southwest edge of Maharashtra less than a hundred kilometers from the coast, and this January, at least, the weather has been beautiful: sunny mid-80s during the day, low 60s at night.
Indian cities, sadly, are much alike: noisy and filthy, with few amenities such as sidewalks or–laughable–crosswalks for pedestrians.The main roads are clogged with unregulated traffic. The air is foul.
Pedestrians walk in the street in Indian cities
But enough of that. I prefer the slums. For one thing, they make me feel rich, a new and pleasant feeling. And no traffic. Life spills into the street. Women wash clothes by dipping them in soapy water and banging them on a flat stone. They get water from the common pump and hear what’s going on, and they stare in groups, not unkindly, as I walk by. They bathe their small children outside from a bucket; the old men sit, and the crones. Workers wash in their underwear with dippers of water over the head, and children in uniforms make their way to and from school in the neighborhoods where school is affordable.
The little kids look at me with big eyes. Cows and goats, listless dogs, an occasional cat, chickens, all go as they wish. A cow pinned me softly with her huge head today against a dumpster. I smacked her! Again! Holy Cow, hell! She turned away as indifferently as she’d come.
The age-old squat of the woman at work, Kananagar, Kolhapur
That was this morning. I’d walked back into Kananagar (“nagar” approximates what we would call a ward). It’s poor, ringed with sewage trenches, and the streets are dirt. I was there last week, just walking, taking pictures and talking as I could.
I met Agnes Francis that trip, and her neighbors. She invited me in for a cup of tea. Pictures of Christ looked down in Hindu array. The room otherwise was nearly bare. I took my sandals off at the door, as one does, and sat on one of two plastic chairs. Eight or 10 neighbors casually came in to get a look at a foreigner. Agnes Francis was quiet, and the others liked her. She touched them with kind pats.
Agnes Francis, left, and two neighbors
The neighbors were curious, but they didn’t gawk, nor did they ask questions. My story is that I’m a journalist traveling around India talking to people, writing about what I see and taking pictures. I use it though I’m writing only for myself. It gives me an excuse for wandering into neighborhoods where tourists never go.
I was drawn at first because Indian slums are spectacles, but they have become familiar. They are a refuge from the trafficky outside, and the people are far more pleasant than elsewhere.
I generalize, but here and in the States and Europe, though not in the Middle East, the poor are nicer than the rich. Here, they are a relief. India head-on is not otherwise a polite or hospitable country.
Today, mid-month, I met a gaggle of teenage boys, all with a hoodlum air–unwashed hair, dirty shirt, sunglasses dangling, a Brando sneer, gaudy watch band. They, too, have become familiar, so I said hello and spoke my little spiel, slowly. One of them told a little boy standing nearby in an orange hoody to go get someone, maybe the gang leader.
Confronted by teenage hoods, Kananagar, Kolhapur
It was a small, reserved man who appeared. He eyed me, I thought, as though I were fair game. I looked for a wall to back against. He introduced himself: Pastor Suraj B. Kamble.
He took me to his small house, along with the squad of hoods, all eyeing my American stuff. I sat on the bed in the front room and soon a pretty teenage girl brought two cups of tea, one for him and one for me, and a plate of new biscuits from the corner grocery stall. He had a bit more English than the boys, but he had to reach into memory to find the words.
He was concerned I am not a Christian but openly shocked that I am an unbeliever. No proof exists of God, he said, but just as we can’t see the wind yet know it’s there, we must acknowledge God’s existence from the evidence of the natural world visible to us. And Christ taking human form to speak as he did was further evidence of divinity.
Pastor Suraj B. Kamble, Kananagar, Kolhapur
But he didn’t proselytize vigorously. He wanted me just to enjoy my tea and cookies. The boys, it emerged, were his–he smiled–disciples. They had become Christians in the last year and stopped fighting each other and making trouble.
The nagar was mixed: Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and one atheist. Everyone got along, he said. No problems. It was a neighborhood of workers, manual laborers, which is what Agnes Francis told me last week. Day laborers earning $2.50 a day when they can find work. Carrying. Digging. It was difficult at times to make ends meet, Agnes Francis said.
The Indian Express this morning had an article about retirement income. They discovered that Indians currently need about 35,000 rupees a month ($530) for a secure retirement. The workers in Kanan earn about 7,000 rupees a month when they have work, but that’s hit or miss. The money must support the old, too, and the young, and workers wear out early here.
In India, different worlds live next door. Just down the dirt road from Kananagar is GreenField complex–high new apartments behind a guarded gate. The girls walking there all have shoes.
I took some pictures. They took some pictures, and then Pastor and the boys walked me to their church on the southern edge of the cluster of houses, fronted by an open sewage ditch. It was a small, bare and airless room at the end of a much-divided pole barn, rented from a Christian “aunty” we met as we walked to it. He has 40 to 50 parishioners and is raising money to cut a garage-door opening in the end wall for comfort.
I waved goodbye, they waved, and I headed on the lane west toward GreenField, jumping two sewage trenches on the way.
The hoods, Pastor Kamble and me, Kananagar, Kolhapur
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Blog Tour: City of Drowned Souls by Chris Lloyd – Author Spotlight
By Jo Feb 6, 2017 Feb 5, 2017
Today I’m absolutely delighted to be taking part in the blog tour for Chris Lloyd’s latest novel, City of Drowned Souls, the eBook of which is published today.
City of Drowned Souls is the third novel in Lloyd’s Elisenda Domènech Investigations series, and follows on from City of Good Death and City of Buried Ghosts.
When a child disappears, the clock starts ticking
Detective Elisenda Domènech has had a tough few years. The loss of her daughter and a team member; the constant battles against colleagues and judges; the harrowing murder investigations… But it’s about to get much worse.
When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Elisenda is put on the case. They simply must solve it. Only the team also have to deal with a spate of horrifically violent break-ins. People are being brutalised in their own homes and the public demands answers.
Could there be a connection? Why is nobody giving a straight answer? And where is Elisenda’s key informant, apparently vanished off the face of the earth? With the body count threatening to increase and her place in the force on the line, the waters are rising…
Be careful not to drown.
The stunning new instalment of the gripping Elisenda Domènech crime thrillers for readers of Ian Rankin, Henning Mankell and Andrea Camilleri.
Title: City of Drowned Souls (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #3)
Author: Chris Lloyd
Release Date: 6th February 2017
Genre: Crime Thriller
Publisher: Canelo
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34106761-city-of-drowned-souls
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N7Y2NDN
City of Good Death
An intense and brilliantly realised crime thriller set in the myth-soaked streets of Girona
A killer is targeting hate figures in the Catalan city of Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt priest, four thugs who have blighted the streets of the old quarter – leaving clues about his next victim through mysterious effigies left hung on a statue. Each corpse is posed in a way whose meaning no one can fathom. Which is precisely the point the murderer is trying to make.
Elisenda Domènech, the solitary and haunted head of the city’s newly-formed Serious Crime Unit, is determined to do all she can to stop the attacks. She believes the attacker is drawing on the city’s legends to choose his targets, but her colleagues aren’t convinced and her investigation is blocked at every turn.
Battling against the increasing sympathy towards the killer displayed by the press, the public and even some of the police, she finds herself forced to question her own values. But when the attacks start to include less deserving victims, the pressure is suddenly on Elisenda to stop him. The question is: how?
Title: City of Good Death (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #1)
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25897153-city-of-good-death
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B010MALNYY
City of Buried Ghosts
Be careful what you dig up…
Still recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with a spike thrust through the base of the skull – an ancient tribal ritual. It soon becomes clear that this body is neither ancient nor modern, but a mysterious corpse from the 1980s.
Assigned to the case along with her team, Elisenda soon uncovers a complex world of star archaeologists, jealousy and missing persons. They find a dark trade in illicit antiquities, riddled with vicious professional rivalries. And even though she’s staying close to the crime scene, Elisenda is also never far from enemies of her own within the police force.
Just as the case seems to become clear it is blown wide-open by another horrific murder. Elisenda must fight her personal demons and office politics, whilst continuing to uncover plots and hatreds that were long buried. How far will she go to solve the crime? Is her place in the force secure? And can she rebuild her life?
The atmospheric second crime thriller featuring Catalan detective Elisenda Domènech, for readers of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves
Title: City of Buried Ghosts (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #2)
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Chris was born in an ambulance racing through a town he’s only returned to once and that’s probably what did it. Soon after that, when he was about two months old, he moved with his family to West Africa, which pretty much sealed his expectation that life was one big exotic setting. He later studied Spanish and French at university, and straight after graduating, he hopped on a bus from Cardiff to Catalonia where he stayed for the next twenty-four years, falling in love with the people, the country, the language and Barcelona Football Club, probably in that order. Besides Catalonia, he’s also lived in Grenoble, the Basque Country and Madrid, teaching English, travel writing for Rough Guides and translating. He now lives in South Wales, where he works as a writer and a Catalan and Spanish translator, returning to Catalonia as often as he can.
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Meet The Hulk “When Absinthe Meets Guinness” @ Wabisabi
By Ben Liew • 25 May 2009 in Reports
Have you ever woken up next to a Green Fairy? Well, we came pretty close to taking her back home last night at the Absinthe sampling party at Wabisabi. Meet The Hulk “When Absinthe Meets Guinness” was a cozy little public event and a good introduction to the alcohol infamous for inspiring the likes of Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway. And since we’ve always wanted to write novels, we thought we’d check it out.
For those of you who are still unacquainted with the legendary alcohol, Absinthe is strong stuff (around 45-75% ABV). It was banned in most countries until now, not because of the high alcohol content, but rather due to Thujone. Thujone is a chemical found in wormwood which is one of the herbal ingredients that is used to make Absinthe. It was used to treat stomach aches in ancient times, but can cause hallucinations in large doses.
Before you go out and buy a crate load of Absinthe just to get that LSD effect you’ve been after so long, stop! There isn’t enough Thujone in Absinthe to make you hallucinate. In fact, research has shown that previous estimates of Thujone levels in pre-ban Absinthe were greatly exaggerated.
It is however, like stated before, a strong drink that is guaranteed to hit you after just one shot. The drunkenness or high of Absinthe is unlike other alcohols. You get more of a clear headed high and uncontrollable happiness (as long as you don’t over do it). Kinda like getting stoned with alcohol.
We had 4 different shooters that night. Smurf was a blue minty Curacao concoction, Lolita a pale yellow passion fruit blend and then there were Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde, Absinthe with green mint and cranberry juice respectively.
But the highlight of the night was The Hulk, a half pint of Guinness mixed with a shot of clear Absinthe. We “bombed” the shot into our pints and drank up. Our personal option is that 2 of these mothers would definitely knock out even an experienced drinker by the end of the night. But don’t take our word for it. Some celebrity drinkers can really hold their liquor so for veteran drinking advice, you should checkout The Thirsty Blogger and see what he says about Absinthe and where to get it.
Back to Absinthe. There are 2 different bottles that come from Switzerland being sold in Malaysia currently. The first, La Clandestine is a clear-coloured Absinthe in a blue bottle. It’s the only Absinthe handproduced in the village where Absinthe was first born. The 2nd, Angelique, is distilled using 12 plants and is green in colour. La Clandestine is 53% ABV while Angelique is 68% ABV.
The sampling was over around 10-ish. By this time, we were already semi-senget so we decided to hop in a taxi and head back, leaving the Green Fairy to her mischief. Around 2 in the morning, a couple of our friends who had stayed back at the party finally arrived home. They looked happy but disorientated.
So we asked, “How did it go?”
They gave us long incomprehensible answers so we assume it must have been a good one! J
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The Dutch prosecutor's office today announced that the circumstances of the war crimes committed in The Hague and the circumstances of the suicide of Slobodan Praljak, former Croatian commander in Bosnia, did not show when and how the high-ranking Croatian officer of potassium cyanide was poisoned at the end of November last year the final ruling after The Hague.
The Dutch investigators did not find any criminal offense in circumstances that led to the suicide of General Praljak, the Croatian Army officer and the Croatian Defense Council (HVO).
Nobody will answer Praljak's suicide
As reported on the website of the Public Prosecutor's Office, they did not know how and when Praljak got the poison. Observation cameras were also examined, which did not seem to suggest that Praljak would have given the poison even if the general had a bottle from which poisoned poison.
They pointed out that possession of potassium cyanide in the Netherlands is not a criminal offense and a dry substance that Praljak can store for a long time. It is estimated that Praljak has committed suicide in the event that a final conviction is found guilty.
Court: Praljak poison has not been revealed
He committed suicide because he could not convince him
Similar findings have been made by the internal investigation that ended in December last year at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia of War Crimes, before closing its doors in 24 years.
The Praljak prisoner in Hague was buried at the cemetery in Zagreb
Praljak, after being sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the courtroom on November 29, sang that he was not a war criminal and did not recognize the decisions. He then drank potassium cyanide from a dark brown bottle and later died at the Hague hospital.
Praljak's Croatian lawyer evaluated that his client committed suicide because he could not condemn him for war crimes.
Praljak's cell found mysterious envelopes
Praljak died of heart failure. He consumed potassium cyanide.
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Encyclopedia of condensed matter physics
Published 2005 by Elsevier in Amsterdam, Boston .
Condensed matter -- Encyclopedias,
Nuclear physics -- Encyclopedias,
Quantum theory -- Encyclopedias
Other titles Condensed matter physics.
Statement edited by Franco Bassani, Gerald L. Liedl, Peter Wyder.
Genre Encyclopedias.
Contributions Bassani, G. F. 1929-, Liedl, G. L., Wyder, Peter, 1934-
LC Classifications QC173.454 .E53 2005
Pagination 6 v. :
ISBN 10 0122276108, 0122276116, 0122276124, 0122276132, 0122276140, 0122276159, 0122276167
ISBN 10 9780122276101, 9780122276118, 9780122276125, 9780122276132, 9780122276149, 9780122276156, 9780122276163
There is no particular single book that can be sufficient for CMP, but such like Aschroft and mermin, Charles kittel etc for solid state intro. and M. Marder (condensed matter physics), Atland Simons (Concepts of theoretical solid state physics). > A Neuroscience Encyclopedia >> Pleasure, Love, Compassion >> Motivation-Boredom, Risk seeking Condensed Matter Physics; Cyclotron - Cyclotron Resonance; Vacuum Electronic Devices - Cavity Resonators Waves > Gravitational Waves > Matter Waves > Mechanical Waves >> Sound Waves; Scalar waves > Resonance - Standing Waves > Electromagnetic.
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free-molecule character of gases, the condensed phases of matter—as liquids, crystalline solids, and glasses are called—depend for their properties on the constant proximity of all their constituent atoms.
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Condensed matter physics; Semiconductor physics According to the temperature of the system, matter can be found in three different states:. This book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter based on symmetries and conservation laws.
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This volume is a translation and revision of the Original Russian version by Baryahktar. It covers all of the main fields involved in Condensed Matter Physics, such as crystallography, electrical properties, fluids, magnetism, material properties, optics, radiation, semiconductors, and superconductivity, as well as highlights of important related subjects such as quantum.
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Condensed Matter Physics is the study of materials in Solid and Liquid Phases. Topics covered includes: Crystallography, Structures, Structure Determination, The Reciprocal Lattice, Electrons, Electronic State, Approximate Models, Electron-Electron Interactions, Stability of Structures, Metals, Phonons, Harmonic Phonons, Magnetic Impurities.
Modern Condensed Matter Physics brings together the most important advances in the field of recent decades. It provides instructors teaching graduate-level condensed matter courses with a comprehensive and in-depth textbook that will prepare graduate students for research or further study as well as reading more advanced and specialized books and research literature in the Cited by:.
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It covers a lot of cutting-edge topics, including entanglement entropy/spectrum. Kardar's Statistical Physics of Fields is more on the side of stats mech, but is also a good reference.
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The Softlink and The Catholic Education Office (CEO) Sydney project to integrate OverDrive eBooks and audiobooks with leading knowledge and library solution Oliver v5 is now live at 16 CEO Sydney schools and ahead of schedule.
Softlink Project Director John Crook said the project to provide the Archdiocese's 150 schools' with a centralised platform and networked resource collection for students, teachers and parents had already been a great success.
"The implementation is well ahead of plan with more schools than we initially scheduled now having access to eBooks and other eResources anywhere, anytime," Mr Crook said.
Dr Doug Ashleigh, CEO Sydney Director of Knowledge Management and ICT, said this was a significant project for the Archdiocese. "We could not be happier with feedback from our schools about Softlink and OverDrive's implementation of the project to date," Dr Ashleigh said.
"CEO Sydney is committed to the ongoing development of student and academic achievement through digital innovations. This project is an important step towards delivering digital initiatives and supporting the Australian Curriculum across our school network.
CEO Sydney Library Project Manager, John O'Brien, said the team at Softlink has been very supportive.
"We have 16 school communities who are extremely excited about the digital learning opportunities that OverDrive and Oliver v5 provide. We look forward to now rolling out the project across the remainder of our schools."
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He States He’s a victim that is innocent. Robert Mueller Claims He’s a Spy.
KIEV, Ukraine — The man sat at a restaurant dining table, grasping one cup of white wine. Their hair that is sandy was cropped, he wore a cardigan sweater as well as in the afternoon bustle he appeared as if merely another workplace worker at meal.
While seated, the most known component of their look ended up being barely noticeable; only if he endured to introduce himself did it be clear him the nickname “the midget” from Russian political operatives that he is short, almost childlike, in stature, a characteristic that earned.
He talked perfect English, with just a little an accent, had been gregarious, and casually brushed aside the primary concern in this unusual meeting in Kiev, the Ukrainian money, per year or more ago, stating that needless to say he had been maybe perhaps not really a spy that is russian.
Yet in Washington today, the person, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, has turned up in numerous court filings by the unique prosecutor, Robert S. Mueller III, whom identifies him as individual A. Simply this week, for instance, a Dutch attorney had been sentenced to per month in jail for lying into the F.B.I. About, on top of other things, their communications with individual the.
And week that is last Mr. Mueller switched more than a card into the research in to the Trump campaign’s feasible collusion with Russia by asserting in a court document that this individual “has ties to a Russian intelligence service” and was at connection with a senior person in the campaign, Rick Gates, throughout the 2016 election.
“The Federal Bureau of research unique agents assisting the Special Counsel’s Office assess that Person A has ties up to A russian intelligence solution along with such fits in 2016, ” the filing stated.
A 47-year-old former Russian military interpreter, has appeared now in multiple court filings by the special prosecutor, which suggests that he could become a pivotal figure in the investigation as Person A, Mr. Kilimnik. For around 10 years, he worked being a workplace supervisor in Kiev for the consulting that is political of Paul Manafort, acting as a go-between and fixer for the United states as well as the Russian-leaning politicians who had been its consumers.
The Russian federal government has rejected meddling when you look at the 2016 election and President Trump has rejected collusion by people in their campaign staff. But throughout the years that Mr. Manafort worked in Ukraine, the nation had been profoundly penetrated by Russian cleverness agents. While Mr. Kilimnik will continue to reject it would have been perfectly normal for Moscow to plant someone in the Manafort operation that he was a Russian agent.
Konstantin Viktorovich Kilimnik came to be in eastern Ukraine into the Soviet duration. He learned during the Military Institute regarding the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, and after the breakup that is soviet Russian citizenship, he stated into the meeting. The institute trains interpreters for the Russian intelligence that is military, formerly referred to as G.R.U. And today called the key Directorate.
He struggled to obtain an occasion in Sweden being an interpreter for a Russian company that exported arms, and soon after into the Moscow workplace regarding the Global Republican Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit, where previous workers stated they suspected he had been informing in it towards the Russian authorities.
He parted means aided by the company, an employee that is former of Moscow workplace said, following the chief associated with F.S.B., the successor agency to your K.G.B., chatted in a message concerning the private conferences associated with the institute’s officials.
They didn’t have proof, but suspected Mr. Kilimnik was in fact the foundation, stated the previous official, whom could never be cited publicly talking about workers problems.
When you look at the meeting, Mr. Kilimnik stated he previously been dismissed for having taken focus on the relative part being an interpreter for Mr. Manafort in Ukraine during the early 2000s.
It’s not understood whether Mr. Manafort, a consultant that is longtime Republican politicians, ended up being conscious of the suspicions associated with institute’s managers as he hired Mr. Kilimnik in 2005. Mr. Manafort’s company in Ukraine had been registered in Mr. Kilimnik’s title.
Mr. Manafort’s client that is former Viktor F. Yanukovych ended up being deposed in 2014, and Mr. Kilimnik stated he stopped employed by Mr. Manafort that 12 months.
In August of 2016, Mr. Kilimnik had been formally examined in Ukraine on suspicion of ties to Russian spy agencies, relating to papers from Parliament additionally the Prosecutor General’s workplace, but no costs had been filed.
A Ukrainian lawmaker, Volodymyr I. Ariev, who asked for the research, stated Mr. Kilimnik’s background in armed forces intelligence deserved scrutiny.
“He had been a student of a army college in Russia, ” Mr. Ariev stated. “Everybody into the Soviet that is former Union exactly what this means. They create expert spies. ”
Face-to-face, however, Mr. Kilimnik happens to be interestingly nonchalant concerning the suspicions swirling around their role and past within the 2016 campaign.
He said he had been never ever contacted by detectives in Ukraine and called the probe politically inspired. “If there were any truth if you ask me conversing with any protection service on earth, they might arrest me, ” he said, these are Ukrainian police.
Ahead of the usa election, Mr. Kilimnik stated, he and Mr. Manafort had talked “every handful of months, ” at a right time when Mr. Manafort served as chairman associated with the Trump campaign, but he stated there is absolutely nothing to conceal when you look at the phone phone calls and meetings. The 2 mostly talked about Ukrainian politics, perhaps not the election, he stated: “I became briefing him on Ukraine. ”
The filing week that is last the unique counsel’s workplace asserted that Mr. Kilimnik had communicated with Mr. Gates later through the 2016 campaign, and therefore Mr. Gates ended up being alert to Mr. Kilimnik’s background in Russian intelligence.
The filing had been notable for pressing on Mr. Gates’s tasks through the campaign. He’s pleaded bad to lying towards the F.B.I. And conspiring to defraud america for tasks pertaining to their work with Ukraine mostly before joining the Trump campaign, and consented to cooperate because of the investigation.
Mr. Gates’s communications with Mr. Kilimnik had been revealed when you look at the sentencing papers of an old attorney for the law practice Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Alex van der Zwaan, who pleaded bad to lying towards the F.B.I. About their interactions with Mr. Kilimnik sufficient reason for Mr. Gates.
Mr. Kilimnik additionally played a task in a reported effort by Mr. Manafort to make contact with a Russian oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska, throughout the campaign.
Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kilimnik had cooperated for a business that is ultimately unsuccessful financed by Mr. Deripaska, referred to as Pericles investment fund.
In July, 2016, while Mr. Manafort had been president associated with the Trump campaign, Mr. Manafort emailed Mr. Kilimnik asking him to provide Mr. Deripaska “private briefings” about the campaign in return for resolving a multimillion dollar economic dispute pertaining to the company, based on the Washington Post. Mr. Deripaska has stated he never ever received the offer. Mr. Kilimnik, reached by e-mail, declined to discuss this matter while the counsel’s that are special filings.
Mr. Kilimnik has surfaced being a fringe figure various other areas of the Russian research.
Rinat Akhmetshin, A russian-american lobbyist who attended a Trump Tower ending up in Donald Trump Jr. In June of 2016 where a Russian attorney had guaranteed to produce negative informative data on Hillary Clinton, had additionally worked in Ukraine with Mr. Kilimnik closely adequate to understand their nickname among Russian-leaning governmental operatives in Kiev.
During the time, about eight years back, Mr. Akhmetshin had been attempting to persuade governmental advisers of Mr. Yanukovych to purchase the legal rights up russian brides new zealand to a book that cast a domestic governmental opponent in a bad light, and went to conferences with Mr. Kilimnik.
When you look at the meeting year that is last Mr. Kilimnik said he divided their time taken between Kiev, where he worked, and Moscow, where their spouse and two daughters lived into the suburb of Khimki.
In a court filing this past year, Mr. Mueller asserted that Mr. Kilimnik had been now situated in Russia. In email exchanges on the year that is past Mr. Kilimnik has declined to state where he could be.
“i actually do not need to participate the U.S. Governmental games and I also am maybe perhaps perhaps not, ” Mr. Kilimnik published in a contact this past year. “I am just a random casualty due to my proximity to Paul, ” he said, discussing Mr. Manafort.
Expected when you look at the meeting in regards to the allegation of ties to Russian cleverness agencies, Mr. Kilimnik stated, “I vehemently deny it. ”
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September 11, 2019 By Kevin Weiss
A symposium is scheduled for later this month that will seek to create a blueprint for improving long-term substance abuse recovery efforts in Pasco County.
The Recover Out Loud Pasco Symposium is set for Sept. 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Calvary Chapel Worship Center, 6825 Trouble Creek Road in New Port Richey.
The symposium is being organized by Recovery Epicenter Foundation, a newly licensed and accredited recovery community organization operating out of Trinity.
The symposium will seek to engage individuals, stakeholders and community leaders in an effort “to grow community-oriented initiatives, cultivate community allies, and develop recovery peer-based programs,” according to the event’s flyer.
Its keynote speaker is Dona Dmitrovic, executive director of Las Vegas-based Foundation for Recovery and former National Director of Consumer Affairs for Substance Use Disorders at Optum, United Health Group.
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Pasco Sheriff’s Office Lt. Toni Roach, who heads the agency’s Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) and Mental Health and Threat Assessment (MHAT) teams
Sara Mollo, Sixth Judicial Circuit chief assistant public defender
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Sarah Cobelli, Baycare Behavioral Health program manager
Ginny LaRue, Florida Alcohol & Drug Abuse Foundation recovery project director
Additionally, the symposium will feature interactive café conversations about which recovery-related services are working in the community and what needs more support, along with a series of panel discussions from people in recovery and existing recovery community organizations throughout Florida.
Thoughts and input gathered from the symposium will be incorporated into the Recovery Epicenter Foundation’s visioning process in November to better define action steps for recovery-based programming, said Recovery Epicenter Foundation RCO director Rachel Starostin.
“The whole thing is we want to get the community together,” said Starostin, who expects anywhere from 200 to 300 attendees at the symposium. “The community benefits when we all collaborate together.”
Trinity-based Recovery Epicenter Foundation is hosting a symposium to help find ways to improve long-term substance abuse recovery efforts in Pasco County. The Recover Out Loud Pasco Symposium is set for Sept. 28. (Courtesy of Recovery Epicenter Foundation)
Starostin said the Recovery Epicenter Foundation’s “ultimate goal” is to build a peer-run, recovery-oriented community center to facilitate programs in the way of employment assistance, transportation, health and wellness, recreational opportunities, independent support groups and so on.
“We’re like building a shell out of something that needs to exist. We’re building something out of nothing,” she said.
“It’s kind of an abstract concept, when you don’t have a building and trying to plan out the future,” she said.
Starostin emphasized the need for such a recovery facility to help people “rebuild their lives” once they get out of addiction treatment. That assistance may initially include assisting them with “locatable, tangible resources,” such as basic medical care, living shelters, food stamps and more.
Starostin put it like this: “As a general rule, until you meet somebody’s basic needs, they’re not really receptive to listen. Like, how well do you focus when you’re hungry and you haven’t eaten in two days?”
Meanwhile, Starostin said the upstart recovery community organization is looking to mobilize more peer specialists to help with implementing various recovery programs. Peer specialists, or peer coaches, are people who have been successful in the recovery process who help others battling addiction through shared experience, understanding, respect and mutual empowerment.
Said Starostin, “There’s something magical when one peer who’s suffered from substance use works with another. You identify with them, you trust them, and it’s not like a 12-step program, you help somebody kind of come up with their own plan.”
Recovery Epicenter Foundation’s recovery community organization operates as an independent, nonprofit entity — led and governed by representatives of local communities of recovery.
Its mission is to support recovery through advocacy, education and peer-to-peer support services, to improve outcomes for persons seeking drugs and alcohol addictions.
Guidance and technical assistance on the Recovery Epicenter Foundation recovery community organization’s development process is coming from the Florida Recovery Project/Faces & Voices of Recovery, with collaboration from Florida Alcohol & Drug Abuse Foundation, Florida Department of Children and Families, and Peer Support Coalition of Florida.
An initial community listening session for the recovery community organization was held in February at the Land O’ Lakes Community Center, followed by a symposium planning session.
The sessions have already brought together dozens of stakeholders, including persons in recovery and professionals in health care, criminal justice, faith-based organizations and others.
“When we started this process, there wasn’t a whole lot of momentum behind it, but we’re getting it; people are getting involved and they’re starting to understand,” Starostin said.
To register for the symposium, visit tinyurl.com/yygu9e3s.
For information, contact Rachel Starostin at
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Round 4 Qualifier Opponents
We just have to beat Laois now..!! no excuses... we already know that we will be in same Super 8's group as Kerry, Galway and winners of Kildare/Fermanagh if we do.... this is a huge opportunity now for the lads.!
First game in Croke Park against winners of Kildare/Fermanagh..
then its Kerry in clones.. (what an occaision that will be)..
then Galway in Salthill for the last game... (Aug bank holiday weekend)..
Where will Laois game be played.. it won't be in Croke Park due to Michael Bubble concert... Navan. ??
SouthMonMan (Monaghan) - Posts: 68 - 02/07/2018 09:49:53 2117536
Replying To Shelbourne: "Absolute sense there !"
Glad to see we have avoided Dublin "in the Super 8's" ( I didn't think I needed to spell that out for ye). That is if we manage to beat Laois next weekend..
Farney (Monaghan) - Posts: 739 - 02/07/2018 10:03:45 2117541
Replying To Lightroom: "Is Croke Park available next weekend? Monaghan vs Laois followed by Armagh vs Roscommon would be my guess on Saturday"
Croker unavailable due to concerts
greysoil (Monaghan) - Posts: 836 - 02/07/2018 10:08:14 2117547
Couldn't have worked out much better lads! Obviously we have to worry about Laois now and only Laois - but IF we can get past them, a super 8s group with Kerry, Galway and Kildare/Fermanagh would be a refreshing change. There was the distinct possibility of being in there with Dublin, Donegal and Tyrone(3 teams we're sick of seeing), so I'm happy with this.
patk (Monaghan) - Posts: 874 - 02/07/2018 10:09:57 2117549
Great draw for both teams.we were anxious to avoid Kildare. It's great to play someone new. I can promise you one thing....laois won't park the bus. Could be a shootout between McManus and kingston
Malonemagic (Laois) - Posts: 685 - 02/07/2018 11:23:03 2117599
Replying To Malonemagic: "Great draw for both teams.we were anxious to avoid Kildare. It's great to play someone new. I can promise you one thing....laois won't park the bus. Could be a shootout between McManus and kingston"
Delighted to hear that and look forward to buses being parked where they should be....outside the ground.
By the way if McManus & Kingston are having a shoot out there a few more Monaghan lads capable of joining in.
Anyway game will be won on the field and not on here.
Are you expecting a big Laois support ?........Monaghan will certainly be travelling in big numbers !
Shelbourne (Monaghan) - Posts: 567 - 02/07/2018 12:21:00 2117643
A good draw for Monaghan. Laois will be physcial but I'd expect Monaghan to have to much. Will be closer then last two games. Last team to beat Monaghan in the championship before Malachy took the reins was... Laois
222 (UK) - Posts: 533 - 02/07/2018 14:06:47 2117716
Replying To 222: "A good draw for Monaghan. Laois will be physcial but I'd expect Monaghan to have to much. Will be closer then last two games. Last team to beat Monaghan in the championship before Malachy took the reins was... Laois"
It was offaly
Decfarneyarmy (Monaghan) - Posts: 37 - 02/07/2018 15:36:07 2117758
Replying To Decfarneyarmy: "It was offaly"
It was Laois in 2012. We owe them from 1986 too.
Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 733 - 02/07/2018 16:18:09 2117786
In fairness to laois they will come to play football and take us on. The sort of Leinster team that have given us problems in the past with direct football. They will certainly look to rain in plenty of high ball on donie Kingston quality big man inside. We should beat them but will need to be fully on our game as this really is it for this group of players win and the doors open up to a pathway to the latter stages of championship never visited since 85 and 88. Lose and it is goodnight Vienna to the management and a lot of players.Its Showtime.
seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1503 - 02/07/2018 17:28:24 2117822
Spot on Seanie. Thinking about it last night, I wondered has there ever been a game where the distinction between winning and losing is so great? Lose, and the year has been a failure, Malachy probably goes, and a number of players too. Game over, ball burst.
Win...and it's game on - the whole thing opens up - new territory, 3 more top level games, Kerry in Clones, a trip to Croker...who knows what could happen after that.
As I said, for all the effort this group has put in together over the years since Malachy came in, I just hope they can seize this opportunity. My big fear is that successive Ulster semi defeats has shown us that we seem to struggle to keep our focus on the game in front of us, and start looking beyond it. There is certainly that danger now. I hope we have learned our lesson.
Laois are no mugs, they played well against the Dubs for spells in the final, and they put up a couple of big scores in Leinster against Wexford and Westmeath. We should be good enough, but we have to perform on the day.
moodoo (Monaghan) - Posts: 394 - 03/07/2018 09:12:29 2118000
If the supporters of any county know they should not count their chickens before they hatch, it should be Monaghan's. Let's forget about falling into the trap of talking about Super 8's until we get there!
Laois put in a good performance against the Dubs in the Leinster final in the first half and there is a big difference between them and Leitrim or Waterford. In truth, Laois are a 2nd division team and I would not be surprised to see them progress to divison two next year. They will fight tooth and nail to get to the Super 8's and will be more familiar with the pitch in Navan than Monaghan will be.
Although it was a great weekend in Carrick-on-Shannon there was lots on the field of play that concerned me. We were very open at the back and on another day a team with a free-taker that also took their goal chances would have had that game wrapped up after 20 minutes. Conor Boyle had a poor day and although it's great to see an attacking half back line, we need someone like Drew to shore up the middle as we were cut open at times. We left a lot of scores behind us last Saturday, missed easy frees that we would normally not and the forward unit has still not clicked. Mc Carthy's performance was one of the few positives I took from the game.
So, Monaghan have a hell of a lot to do to get over Laois. Yes, we have the ability to beat Laois if we put in a good performance but it's a while now since we have delivered a 70 minute performance. According to MOR, K Hughes will be fit and I would bring him in on the 40, with Mc Anesbie and Ward or Mc Kenna either side of him with a FF line of Mansey, Mc Carthy and Mc Carron. That reduces our scoring impact of the bench but we still have O Duffy, D Mone, S Carey and others to give it socks when the lads start to tire. So, a big game ahead on Saturday which of course we all know and it's all about the result - even though a performance would be nice too. We can do it but certainly should not take Laois lightly! And then, hopefully...... we will have the Super 8's to look forward to and we will be back where we hoped to be at this time of the year.
OrielPower (Monaghan) - Posts: 106 - 03/07/2018 09:40:18 2118007
15,000 capacity in Navan.....it will be a full house
MuineachanAbu (Monaghan) - Posts: 624 - 03/07/2018 09:43:09 2118008
Should a great open game of football I live in Laois and I can tell you they never fear teams from the north and have an incredible qualifier record against them .I think they have won 9 out of their last 10 loosing only to Donegal in 2013 in carrick on shannon on a day eveything went wrong for them.
They aren't as physical as they used to be but have very big scoring forwards who can do damage to anyone as shown against dublin for the first 25 minutes .
Has the potential to be a cracker they will bring a big support aswell ...Navan will be a sea of Blue and white!
BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 03/07/2018 10:38:14 2118021
Quick question for those of you who know........I bought tickets online for Sunday's game and it referenced a seat number. Is this a generic number or am I allocated to the seated stand?
We have been lucky with our draw so far and had two facile wins over Waterford and Leitrim. Only niggling injuries from the clashes were Drew Wylie and Vinny Corey but I saw them training with the physio on Saturday so hopefully just been cautious with them. Where we are Monaghan at at present? Its hard to know. I'm still not over the Fermanagh loss. After a tremendous win against Tyrone we were clueless against Fermanagh. So many times over the years we have lacked consistency. My biggest fear is that our tactics and style of play has progressed. Against Fermanagh there was no pace and lots of lateral running. Again on Saturday our weaknesses were exposed where Leitrim ran at us and nearly had 2 goals. The good teams will destroy us in this regard. What particularly annoyed me on Saturday was that Conor McManus practically got a standing ovation when he was subbed. Unfortunately he didn't play well on Saturday. Why do we cheer someone that hasn't played well? People say he was man marked….but if you look at the great players like Bernard Brogan, Andy moran etc they make the runs and create the scores. Conor has done this in spurts and not consistently over the last couple of years. If you can't do it against two weak counties how are you gonna do it against the best. Is his Hip still at him? Positives have developed are Niall Kearns and Connor Boyle. Settling in nicely. I would like to see the Wylie Brothers and Colin Walshe been given the freedom to roam more up the pitch as they are very capable of getting scores. Laois will be a big ask on Sunday. It will test where we are at. If we get to the Super 8's I think the format will suit us and the teams in the group are very beatable. Glad about not being in the same group as Dublin. We need to focus on Laois and take it from there.
montheman (Monaghan) - Posts: 28 - 03/07/2018 12:48:34 2118072
Replying To montheman: "We have been lucky with our draw so far and had two facile wins over Waterford and Leitrim. Only niggling injuries from the clashes were Drew Wylie and Vinny Corey but I saw them training with the physio on Saturday so hopefully just been cautious with them. Where we are Monaghan at at present? Its hard to know. I'm still not over the Fermanagh loss. After a tremendous win against Tyrone we were clueless against Fermanagh. So many times over the years we have lacked consistency. My biggest fear is that our tactics and style of play has progressed. Against Fermanagh there was no pace and lots of lateral running. Again on Saturday our weaknesses were exposed where Leitrim ran at us and nearly had 2 goals. The good teams will destroy us in this regard. What particularly annoyed me on Saturday was that Conor McManus practically got a standing ovation when he was subbed. Unfortunately he didn't play well on Saturday. Why do we cheer someone that hasn't played well? People say he was man marked….but if you look at the great players like Bernard Brogan, Andy moran etc they make the runs and create the scores. Conor has done this in spurts and not consistently over the last couple of years. If you can't do it against two weak counties how are you gonna do it against the best. Is his Hip still at him? Positives have developed are Niall Kearns and Connor Boyle. Settling in nicely. I would like to see the Wylie Brothers and Colin Walshe been given the freedom to roam more up the pitch as they are very capable of getting scores. Laois will be a big ask on Sunday. It will test where we are at. If we get to the Super 8's I think the format will suit us and the teams in the group are very beatable. Glad about not being in the same group as Dublin. We need to focus on Laois and take it from there."
The middle part of this post re McManus has to be the biggest load of nonsense ever displayed on this forum
anbhoth15 (Monaghan) - Posts: 103 - 03/07/2018 13:14:55 2118080
I was going to start by responding/picking you up on some of your comments - but what's the point. We are both Monaghan supporters and we would like to see the team progress. The bottom line is Monaghan are not playing to their full potential (which they are prone to doing and did not need to do so against Leitrim).
Our shared concerns as Monaghan supporters is will they be able to do so now when required against Laois - when they were required to step it up against Fermanagh they were also unable to do so. We know the team are capable of playing good football and that we have a decent squad compared to previous years but our forwards have not clicked yet so perhaps they should just go for it as that appears to be when we play our best football. In a sense you sometimes wonder are the players more concerned with doing what their told and the result than actually letting loose and responding to how the game unfolds as great players do. We have the players and the panel.
Anyway, the team need our support now and hopefully as I said before they get the result in this one which is all that matters, a performance would be a bonus. If they do, the Fermanagh defeat will then truly be put to bed and we can all move on from that shock defeat. I think we need our senior players to set the tone for the rest of the team early in this game, that we need direct running through the middle which is when we are at our most dangerous and hopefully we can then kick on and win the game. Hopefully there are also 10k+ Monaghan fans in Navan this Sunday to support the team. Anyone know who the ref is? My starting team assuming all fit would be the following but I expect MOR will pick a different team.
Beggan
Wylie, Wylie, Kelly/Duffy
Walsh, Corey, O'Connell
Kearns, Hughes
Mc Anesbie, K Hughes, Ward
Mc Carthy, Malone, Mc Manus
Honestly think Conor has been "minding" himself over the last number of games and the ovation he gets is, in the most part, us showing the esteem we hold him in. Henry Shefflin had to go off early in the Kilkenny 5 in a row All Ireland, he got a standing ovation, he wasn't performance on the day, he was getting it for the great performances of the past. Conor is our Henry.
I think Laois will continue the tactic of long balls that gave them relative success against Dublin. We need to be ready for that.
FootblockREF (Monaghan) - Posts: 489 - 03/07/2018 14:09:04 2118094
The Ref is Derek O Mahoney who refereed the Monaghan\Waterford match and harshly sent of Barry Kerr that day with a black card.. Otherwise I can't remember him doing anything else wrong..
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Rise of the Guardians (2012)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
Jamie Bennett
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Georgie Grieve
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Rise of the Guardians has a lovely concept about these imaginary childhood legends. It tells a fascinating new mythology about them. It sets out to be highly imaginative and thoroughly heartfelt. With these people making this film, there is no surprise that they succeeded to execute those ambitions. Though, the storytelling is a bit messy with endless action set pieces. Despite of those flaws, it's still whimsically magical and heartwarming.
The story centers a childhood guardian, Jack Frost. Among the guardians, he's the least known and believed by the children. It's pretty interesting since most of us only know very little about him, we intend to intrigue about his story. When it goes to the famous legends, it gets bigger and quicker with plenty of humor. The film is also an action movie. The action scenes are amazingly done and eye candy, but they somehow get excessive causing a bit mess to the storyline. It's charming when they go to their relationship with the children, and it's appealing when it explores to their worlds.
The characters are wonderful enough. The voice performances are great. Chris Pine's performance is charming enough to keep Jack Frost pretty endearing. Alec Baldwin brings plenty of joy to his character. Hugh Jackman uses his Australian accent to the Easter Bunny which really fits to the character. The rest are expectedly delightful.
The visuals are undeniably astonishing. Every scene of the film is spectacular and beautiful to look at, making the experience very magical. The 3D enhances the experience more or less. The character designs are inspired. I bet many would love the Sandman's that looks so lovable. And the music score adds sweetness to the sequences.
Rise of the Guardians is a little bit disappointing but also a bit satisfying. It has the heart in a right amount but only the half of the film. The rest is all action and having fun, but it's not a bad thing. They just could have moderated the craziness and get a bit of focus to the storyline. The film is still worth watching. It can be a classic if it has a better storytelling but if you don't care then that won't be a problem. Overall, it's filled with excitement and beautiful animation. Rise of the Guardians can be considered one of the great films of the year.
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Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
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Kim Jong-un’s inhumane COVID fix
by Niamh Cavanagh
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has executed at least two people and locked down the capital in a COVID-19 lockdown effort, a South Korean spy agency said today.
After a briefing in Seoul, one lawmaker said Kim was taking "irrational measures" over the pandemic.
Ha Tae-keung said the National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers that the dictator had executed a well-known money changer in Pyongyang last month after holding a person responsible for the falling exchange rate.
In August a key official was executed for violating government regulations on restricting goods brought from abroad, Ha said quoting NIS officials.
Neither of the people executed were identified.
In a bizarre bid to save the country from the COVID-19 pandemic North Korea has also banned fishing and salt production at sea to prevent seawater from being infected with the virus.
Ha informed reporters that earlier this month Pyongyang was shutdown over virus concerns.
Today sources told Reuters that hackers suspected to be from North Korea targeted coronavirus vaccine maker AstraZeneca with bogus WhatsApp and LinkedIn messages
According to Reuters, the hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp and approached AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers.
The alleged hackers then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions laced with malicious code, designed to gain access to a victim's computer.
Earlier this month, it was reported that North Korea had been taking other extreme measures to fend off the virus which included laying landmines in the border areas with China.
The agency warned that North Korea is taking the extraordinary steps amid fears COVID-19 could have devastating consequences on the country because of its poor medical infrastructure.
Insiders from the NIS revealed that there is "something like coronavirus trauma in North Korea".
'PUNISHED ON A LARGE SCALE'
"The North has blocked its borders and buried landmines in parts of the border areas with China," Ha said, speaking to reporters again earlier this month
Its emergency law stipulates officials who fail to control the disease could be sentenced to death, according to the NIS.
"There are cases where critical patients were transported by rail wagons because there is a risk of transmission if they are transported by train," he explained.
The NIS also reported the North is not receiving any supplies from the outside, including from South Korea, due to coronavirus fears.
"Officials who brought in goods via a customs office in August were punished on a large scale," Ha said.
A document from a meeting of the North's ruling Workers' Party on February 27 warned that up to 500,000 people could die if the virus spreads in the country, according to the NIS.
The secretive country's autocratic leader Kim Jong-un has claimed there are no cases of COVID-19 in North Korea, despite neighbours South Korea reporting around 27,000 infections and 474 deaths and China topping 91,000 cases and more than 4,700 deaths.
Analysts have said it is highly unlikely the country of almost 26 million people has experienced no coronavirus cases at all.
Campaigners claim despot Jong-un is hiding the true horrors inflicted by the killer pandemic from the rest of the world by hiding victims in secret "quarantine camps".
Coronavirus "quarantine camps" have been purpose-built for patients in cities near the Chinese border, sources have told Tim Peters, a Christian activist who runs Seoul-based NGO Helping Hands Korea.
But, he said those isolated in the camps are not receiving proper medical attention, and are being left to starve to death.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced here with permission
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This Fuller House Fan Theory Could Explain Why You Don’t See Michelle Tanner
Full House was a pretty big deal in its heyday, so when Netflix picked up a reboot of the beloved family sitcom in 2016 (per ABC News), fans were pretty psyched. That excitement was met with a tiny letdown, however, when it was revealed one… actually two, of the show’s biggest stars would not return. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen decided not to appear in the series, as producer Bob Boyett revealed.
According to Cinema Blend, Boyett recalled these conversations with the actresses. “Ashley said, ‘I have not been in front of a camera since I was 17, and I don’t feel comfortable acting.’ Mary-Kate said, ‘It would have to be me because Ash doesn’t want to do it. But the timing is so bad for us.'”
The series did what it could to explain away the twins’ character, Michelle Tanner’s absence. In Season 1, Danny Tanner enters the old Tanner home and shares a greeting from Michelle with her sisters. “Well, Michelle sends her love, but she’s busy in New York running her fashion empire,” he says (per Good Housekeeping).
A fan theory proposes a dark possibility as to what happened to Michelle
The theory regarding what happened to Michelle came up after a line in Season 5 was noted by BuzzFeed. There’s a scene where Danny hugs his two daughters DJ and Stephanie, then hugs their best friend, Kimmy Gibbler, and proclaims her “one of his girls.” It’s a beautiful growth moment from the original series, where Danny would often lament Kimmy’s constant presence in their home. Later, he says, “It’s so nice to have three daughters again.”
Again? What happened to Michelle? Furthering the theory, ScreenRant notes that all references to Michelle in the series, with the exception of the first one and a later comment about leaving her a voicemail, are in the past tense. It seems like, for one reason or another, the Tanner-Fuller family is suddenly acting like Michelle no longer exists, and it’s caught many fans’ attention.
One theory brings it back to the end of Full House
One of the most unforgettable plots in Full House came in the series’ finale. In the two-part episode, “Michelle Rides Again,” Michelle gets amnesia after falling off of her horse. The family worries about her getting her memory back (per IMDb). A Redditor discussed the theory that Michelle died after the series’ finale we saw.
“There are two theories about Michelle Tanner. The first is she is dead,” wrote Reddit user prankerjoker1. “The cast always talks about her in the past tense. The theory is she died. Possibly from the concussion she got from horseback riding. In the last episode of the original show, we saw that she got her memory back. [This] was the end of Full House as we knew it. She could have developed [a] complication after the show ended and it didn’t end well for her.”
It’s dark, but considering how many deaths the show’s cannon already contains, nothing’s impossible in the Full House universe.
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Pope Francis to visit Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius in September
Pope Francis will visit the African nations of Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius in September, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
The Sept. 4-10 trip will take him to the capitals of the three countries, Maputo, Antananarivo and Port Louis, the Vatican spokesman said, without giving further details.
Mozambique has been hit by a devastating cyclone and floods that have killed hundreds of people. The area around Beira has been the hardest hit.
Cyclone Idai’s Death toll: Facts
Cyclone Idai landed on the night of March 14 near the port city of Beira, bringing heavy winds and rains. Two major rivers, the Buzi and the Pungue, burst their banks, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the water.
Number killed: 468
Number injured: 1,500
Houses damaged or destroyed: 33,600
Crops damaged: 500,000 hectares
Number affected: 1.85 million
On March 16, the storm hit eastern Zimbabwe, where it flattened homes and flooded communities in the Chimanimani and Chipinge districts.
Number killed: 179, according to government, which says 329 people are still unaccounted for. The U.N. migration agency puts the death toll at 259.
Number injured: 200
Number displaced: 16,000 households
Number affected: 250,000
Before it arrived, the storm brought heavy rains and flooding to the lower Shire River districts of Chikwawa and Nsanje, in Malawi’s south. The rains continued after the storm hit, compounding the misery of tens of thousands of people.
Number killed: 60
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Business not wavering following COVID-19 case at nearby Beal
Marek Sutherland CTV News London Video Journalist
@MarekCTV Contact
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2020 7:04PM EDT
LONDON, ONT. -- Businesses in the Dundas corridor between Catholic Central High School and H.B. Beal Secondary School have enjoyed having students back at school.
“They are very nice, to talk with. And so driendly. And our business has flourished, tangibly with their existence, and their visits to our store. And I really thank them for that,” says Alaa Taiel, manager at the Markus Mini Mart on Dundas.
The traffic coming in from students is still down 40 to 50 per cent according to Loc Tran who owns a pizza place steps from the school.
“We like it, we like the pace, and the amount of students right now coming into the business. Because we want to keep everyone safe that is coming into the business as well.”
The recent positive test from nearby Beal has Taiel hoping the students take the threat seriously
“I hope they will consider this as an alarm, for them to take precautions in order to avoid such happenings from occurring in the future.”
But in the almost two weeks since students returned to class, Tran says there haven’t been any issues yet with the kids following the health protocols.
“Surprisingly, I rarely have to ask them to put on a mask. Only a couple of times since, two weeks already. And they say ‘oh, sorry, and they put on a mask right away, so it’s great.”
Medical Officer of Health Dr. Chris Mackie visited Beal Tuesday and was impressed with how the students, while large in numbers, were still maintaining distance.
“You might see a large number of students, but not necessarily a lot of close contact between them. So I’ve been very impressed with what the students have been able to do there.”
Mackie then added “It is not high school students or any students in the school age children that are driving the rates of illness here.”
Mackie stated during a media briefing Tuesday there is no evidence the person from Beal who tested positive was infected at Beal.
Meanwhile, Thames Valley District School Board Director of Education Mark Fisher said staff and students that came in contact with the infected person have or will be contacted by the health unit, and students shouldn’t be afraid to come to school.
High school students walk in downtown London, Ont. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (Marek Sutherland / CTV News)
Student confirmed as COVID-19 case at H.B. Beal Seconday School
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Allie Colleen, Garth Brooks’ Daughter, Unveils Two Personal New Songs [Listen]
Allie Colleen — the burgeoning singer-songwriter who also happens to be the daughter of Garth Brooks — has a couple of new songs to share with her growing fanbase.
The fresh tunes, "Best Friend" and "Road You Take," represent two parts of a personal journey that Colleen has experienced.
According to the singer, the dual numbers are part of a song cycle meant to be perceived as complimentary sides of an old-school 45RPM vinyl single. Allie Colleen composed the songs with co-writers Dallas Remington, Scott Barrier, Cyndi Limbaugh Torres and Melissa Bollea. Check out the soulful "Best Friend" above, and then listen to the airy "Road You Take" below.
"What started as a song about the worst heartbreak I have ever experienced, bloomed into this amazing journey of hard questions and healing," Colleen explains of the concept. "These two songs have brought me clarity and reassurance in the love I deserve as a woman and a friend."
Allie Colleen, "Road You Take"
"I have chosen to release this project so that other women and men can find healing during one of the greatest heartbreaks: losing a friend — a best friend," she continues. "I'll claim it boldly and confidently 'Best Friend' is the love song country music has always needed, and 'Road You Take' is the sugar on top."
Just a month ago, Colleen proved her grit with another original selection called "Ain't the Only Hell (My Momma Raised)." Like the two new tracks, it was also produced by Joe Costa at Costa Gold Studio.
While she's yet to release a full album of material, Colleen has previously graced listeners with other catchy one-off singles. Those include "Along the Way" and her debut number, "Work in Progress." Not to mention a cover of her father's "She's Every Woman" that emerged in 2017.
The up-and-coming singer is one of Garth's three daughters with his first wife, Sandy Mahl. And while she's no daddy's girl, Garth revealed in July that Colleen had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and had since recovered after a mild bout with the now widespread disease.
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Source: Allie Colleen, Garth Brooks’ Daughter, Unveils Two Personal New Songs [Listen]
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May 22, 2014 Uncategorized
Thai Army Demanded To Show Proof Of Safety Of Detained Red Shirts
— Red Shirt Legal Counsel Robert Amsterdam Calls for International Action in Response to Illegal Military Coup
LONDON, May 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Following the declaration of an illegal military coup by the Royal Army of Thailand on Thursday, legal counsel representing the pro-government Red Shirt movement has demanded evidence that activists who had been arrested were safe and not subject to torture or inhumane prison conditions.
“We demand immediate proof from the current junta that Red Shirt leaders and others who were detained remain safe and unharmed,” said Robert Amsterdam, who serves as legal counsel to the Red Shirts, warning that violations of human rights by the coup leaders would be held accountable.
Following the formal declaration of the military coup, which comes only days after the Thai Army announced martial law, soldiers have moved swiftly to detain both Red Shirt activists as well as government officials. Currently there are reports that so far the Army has detained Red Shirt activists Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut Saikua, Thida Thavornseth, Weerakarn Satitniramai, Weerakarn Musikapong, Korkaew Pikulthong, and Weng Tojirakarn (unconfirmed).
The Army is also reported to have arrested the Minister of Justice Chaikasem Nitisir, Warathep Ratanakorn (Prime Minister’s Office), Deputy Minister of Education Sermsak Pongpanich, Minister of Transportation Chatchart Sithipan, and Deputy Minister of Finance Tanusak Lekuthai. Members of the Pheu Thai party have also been illegally detained by the coup leaders, including Pol. Lt. Gen. Wiroj Pao-in, Poomtham Wejchayachai, Choosak Sirinuin, Wan Mohamad Noor Matha, and Prompong Nopparit.
Amsterdam emphasizes that the Army has no legal authority to govern and has acted in violation of both local and international law.
“Make no mistake, this is an illegitimate military coup that must be penalized with the full strength of sanctions and diplomatic measures to ensure the safety and security of the Thai people,” said Amsterdam. “Given the Thai Army’s human rights record, we are extremely concerned for the safety of the political prisoners, and we urge the international community to remain on high alert.”
Robert Amsterdam serves as international counsel to the United National Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) of Thailand. More information can be read at http://robertamsterdam.com/thailand.
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Tag Archives: Oxford City
The Secret Santa
Posted by laurencereade in L, O
Court Place Farm, Football, groundhopping, hellenic league, Long Crendon, Non League, Oxford, Oxford City, Wallingford Town
Saturday 19th December 2020 ko 15.00
Hellenic League Division One East
LONG CRENDON 1 (Warwick 54)
WALLINGFORD TOWN 2 (Dean 43 Silkstone 85)
Att 36 at Oxford City FC
No Programme
You could say I was at this game because of Santa Claus! As you may know I’m part of a pub quiz team based at the Masons Arms in Oxford. Each Christmas we have a meal out at a local gastro-pub and exchange gifts in a “Secret Santa” arrangement. Covid of course had meant that meal out was impossible, but we decided to do the Secret Santa gift exchange, and I offered to play Santa for the afternoon and do the collections and deliveries from the doorsteps of our homes. The idea was afterwards to go and watch either of two Oxfordshire Senior League games. The first was Bicester-based Bure Park with Oxford Irish (based at Rose Hill Community Centre) as back-up. Both were 2pm kickoffs.
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Armani Little, Colin Taylor, Court Place Farm, Harvey Bradbury, Josh Ashby, Kabongo Tshimanga, Oxford City, Thomas Guerriero, Woking
Tuesday 12th March 2019 ko 19.45
OXFORD CITY 1 (Tshmanga 14p)
WOKING 2 (Little 29 Bradbury 90)
Entry £10 (includes £2 discount as an Oxford United season ticket holder)
As an Oxford United supporter any trip to Court Place Farm involves an element of “What could have been” about it. So convoluted were the club’s attempts to move from the Manor Ground that back in 1993 I actually managed to convince my degree tutor that there was enough in the subject to make it my dissertation. It may have helped that the tutor was a season ticket at Enfield FC… Continue reading →
Finals Part 1
Posted by laurencereade in B, O
Development, Kidlington, Nomads, North Berkshire League, Oxford City, Oxfordshire Intermediate Cup
Wednesday 26th April 2017 ko 19.30
Oxfordshire FA Intermediate Cup Final
OXFORD CITY NOMADS 4 (Landers 80 90 115p Martei 99)
BERINSFIELD 2 (Palmer 53 Hinkin 60) Palmer sent off 70 (2nd booking) Hinkin sent off 105 (2nd booking)
Att c200 at Kidlington FC
It is a quirk that either of these sides play in this competition. If Berinsfield were to transfer from the North Berkshire League to the Oxfordshire Senior League then they’d appear in the Senior Cup, and if what is in effect Oxford City’s 3rd XI weren’t playing in a the Hellenic’s rebadged former reserve section, they’d be in the Junior Cup. Continue reading →
Posted by laurencereade in B
Ardley United, Benson Lionesses, Benson Lions, Cup, final, Football, ladies, Nomads, Oxford City, Oxfordshire FA, Womens
Sunday 23rd April 2017 ko 16.30
Oxfordshire FA Women’s Cup Final
OXFORD CITY LADIES 2 (Avery 9 McCabe 83)
BENSON LIONESSES 0
Att c100 at Ardley United FC
Entry & Programme £4
As competitions go, I suspect this one needs a rethink as Oxford City Ladies have won this one 12 times in 16 years! Now that’s no criticism of Oxford City, you can only beat what’s in front of you, and I’d note that Oxford United’s women’s team were notable by their absence from this competition. It didn’t help when Lionesses’ manager Jon Radcliffe was told to “Enjoy your day” with no one giving his side the slightest of chances. That unintentional slight certainly galvanised Jon and his team, not that they ever needed the motivation, and I certainly know why! Continue reading →
25 Thursday Jul 2013
Albi Skendi, Asa Hall, Banbury United, city of dreaming spires, Court Place Farm, isthmian league, Oxford City, oxford city council, oxford united., Thomas Anthony Guerriero, upward curve
Tuesday 23rd July 2013 ko0 19.45 (delayed to 20.00 due to crowd congestion)
OXFORD CITY 5 (Skendi 26 34 Benjamin 33 Winters 39 Green 76)
OXFORD UNITED 1 (Hall 3p)
Att 1,005
Programme £1.50
Often in the City of Dreaming Spires its United that get all the press coverage. It wasn’t always the case, in the 1930’s and 40’s Isthmian League City were top dogs, with Headington United, the Boys From Up The Hill playing in the inferior Oxon Senior, and then the Spartan Leagues. The balance of power shifted in 1949, when United turned semi-professional and entered the Southern League, eventually being Continue reading →
Last Chance To See
Alfie Potter, Andy Whing, Damian Batt, Deane Smalley, harry worley, Jon-Paul Pittman, Josh Parker#], Justin Richards, Liam Davis, Luke McCormick, michael duberry, Oxford City, oxford united., Oxon Senior Cup, Peter Leven, Scott Davies, Simon Heslop, Tom Craddock, Tony Capaldi
Wednesday 1st May 2013 ko 19.45
Oxon Senior Cup Final
OXFORD UNITED 4 (Ashby 48 Marsh 65 Pittman 96 Roberts 120)
OXFORD CITY 2 (Cook 25p Barcelos 69)
At Oxford United FC
I usually treat anything organised by the Oxfordshire FA with caution, they have a reputation for poor organisation, for example the Oxon Senior league doesn’t even have a website! That feeling wasn’t helped when I went through the turnstile end someone in front of me asked whether he could have another programme. “Of course,” was the reply, ” It saves me putting the useless things back in my car!” The programme was an improvement on the usual poor effort, but the committee saw no need to publish a history of the competition, instead they plumped for 3 adverts of the Oxfordshire FA, 2 identical.
The reason for the somewhat inflated entry price was that for once the final was between the two clubs with the highest playing statuses in the county, namely League 2 and the Conference North. Perhaps it was the cost, or OUFC’s frustrating season, or Oxford City’s generally low following but only half of the South Stand Lower was opened, ample for the 901 present, but I did wonder if more imaginative pricing would have attracted more.
There are many depressing things in football, but one that doesn’t get much coverage is the one-sided rivalry. Oxford City don’t like Oxford United, even though this the only competition in which the teams ever meet. For United the rivalry has a strict hierarchy, its Swindon Town, followed by Swindon Reserves, then Swindon Youth and so on… City just don’t feature at all. There are several examples of this in football. Leyton Orient don’t like West Ham, but the Hammers hate Millwall, and I’m sure you can dream up a few more!
The added piquancy for home fans was the news that the retained list was due out at midday the next day. There are some advantages to writing this a few days after the event, and I think most present would have predicted that we were seeing the last appearances of Jon-Paul Pittman, Tony Capaldi, and Simon Heslop in an OUFC shirt. The real surprise was that non-playing substitute Deane Smalley got offered a new deal. Yes, he’s been unlucky with injuries, but his goals to appearances ratio is dreadful, and it looks unlikely to improve.
The lesson here wasn’t the established players on either side. I suspect that for Oxford City former United players Steve Basham, Chris Wilmott and Jamie Cook will also have made their last appearances at Grenoble Road, but City manager Mike Ford hit the nail on the head when he commented that United won the tie with clinical finishing. That’s not a comment often associated with United this season, and 3 goals came from either youth or former youth players. Josh Ashby fired home from just outside the box for United’s first, Tyrone Marsh’s shot from the right flank oozed the confidence gained from a successful loan spell at Staines, and those in the know have had teenage striker James Roberts in their sights for a while. He scores goals for fun at youth team level, the question now is how best to progress him?
Extra time was the last thing either time wanted, not least afterwards as Oxon FA organisation meant that the usual rambling over-long speech was attempted without the usual radio-mic. The official was quickly shouted down, the cup presented, and everyone could go home! I noted that neither Capaldi nor Heslop could be bothered to ever come out and attend the presentation. That spoke volumes for them, and what they expected to happen the next day.
But let’s have a closer look at that retained and released list. Andy Whing’s retention must be the most popular bit of news coming from OUFC for a while, and Alfie Potter’s year-long extension was entirely logical. Equally logical was the departures of Tony Capaldi, Tom Craddock, Simon Heslop, Peter Leven, Luke McCormick, Josh Parker, Jon-Paul Pittman, Justin Richards, and Harry Worley. Not one has set the world alight and in some cases the attitudes have been lacking even the bodies have been fit. I understand that McCormick is negotiating to return to Plymouth, who will have to weigh up his talent against a toxic past. In a similar vein, I understand Craddock is eyeing up a return to his native North-East in the form of Hartlepool. There the club will no doubt be weighing up talent against mind-set.
The attitude has been always there for Michael Duberry who defied a potentially career-ending neck injury to keep playing. I for one will miss his “Positive Vibes” but time waits for no man, and sadly that includes him.
The two controversial departures where undoubtedly Peter Leven and Damien Batt. When fit, Leven is easily the best midfielder in the squad, if not the division, but that caveat is a huge one. I’ve heard too many interviews referring to Leven’s injuries as having to be managed, and with a smaller wage bill the club cannot afford a passenger, however talented.
Batt can count himself to be extremely unlucky. For most he’s OUFC’s first choice at right back, and whilst he’s far better going forward than in defence, he had a good season. I can only assume Chris Wilder has a better replacement lined up. I for one will be sorry to see another of the Wembley Conference Play-off final heroes depart along with Adam Chapman, who I assume will join Mansfield.
If Damien Batt is unlucky and Deane Smalley extremely fortunate, then left back Luke O’Brien is the proof that being a good professional pays dividends. A solid full back, and no more, he may not end up even being first choice come the start of the season but will let no-one down when called upon.
Scott Davies is probably seen as Leven’s replacement. He came in as a free agent, with no security and impressed greatly. He’s local too (Aylesbury), which saves on the costs of relocation. Another good professional too, this game saw him fill in, completely out of position at left back. I think he’ll form a good partnership with the more combative Whing.
Of course the retained list isn’t even half the story. There’s the small matter of who’s coming in, and how many of the youth team will step up to the first XI. Watch this space.
Take them off me….please!
OFA tie brigade
Marsh attacks
City’s penalty
Tony Capaldi, he didn’t stick around afterwards
Roberts scores the winner
Winning squad minus a couple
XXX action
Posted by laurencereade in K
Court Place Farm, joey beauchamp, Kidlington Royals, Oxford City, Oxford Sports and Social Club, Oxfordshire FA, Sam Waters, Sam Waters Cup, Upper Thames Valley
Sunday 31st March 2013 ko 13.00
Oxfordshire Football Association Sam Waters Sunday Cup Final
OXFORD SPORTS & SOCIAL 2 (McGlynn 45 McMahon 48)
KIDLINGTON ROYALS 3 (Curtin 8 66 Odhiambo 78)
Att c300
At Court Place Farm Stadium (Oxford City FC)
To be honest, I didn’t really fancy watching any football. I know regular readers of these articles will find that hard to believe, but 8 games in just over 2 days is hard going! In fact my reason for going was straightforward, Kidlington Royals asked me! In the days leading up to the game Royals came up with a novel way of advertising the game and its one I don’t think I’ll see again! They used Twitter to get British Continue reading →
3G, Catherine Beaver, Community Arena, Hannah Cox, ladies, Natasha Caswell, Newquay, Oxford City, oxford united., soccer, South West Womens Combination, Victoria Taylor
Sunday 10th February 2013 ko 14.00
South-West Women’s Combination
OXFORD UNITED 2 (Beaver 26secs Caswell 53)
NEWQUAY 1 (Taylor 23)
Att 10 (h/c)
Entry FREE
Programme None
Normally speaking Oxford United’s women’s team play their fixtures at the former Rover Cowley Ground, on Romanway, but with the pitch waterlogged the tie was switched to to Oxford City’s new 3G pitch at Court Place Farm.
The Community Arena incorporates a pavilion and 6 netball courts together with the full-sized, caged 3G pitch. It opened in January 2012 at a cost of £2.1 million, but there are two flaws if you’re a spectator, there is no cover, and you have to watch from the outside of the cage. The latter isn’t too bad, I’m old enough to remember fences at football grounds, but it’s difficult to track the ball from left to right as the fence gets more dense. That I won’t remember, what I will, was the freezing cold, and the driving rain that slowly turned into sleet.
Oxford are top of the division, 4 points ahead of Keynsham Town, who have 2 games in hand. That is because Oxford have had a run in the Women’s FA Cup, in fact they play Premier League Newcastle United at Grenoble Road on Sunday 24th, their first appearance at the main stadium. With the Cornish Peppermints down in eighth place I expected a straightforward home win, even if, sensibly the visitors had stayed in Oxford the night before. That would be in marked contrast to their male counterparts!
It started so well, Lauren Allison outpacing her marker; her shot was saved but Catherine Beaver was sharp enough to bury the rebound. I waited for the goals to come with a metronomic efficiency but despite Oxford having the vast majority of the possession, the goals didn’t come. Chances were spurned, and the inevitable happened. A Newquay free-kick was tipped on to the bar by keeper Hannah Cox, a follow-up shot hit the post, but Victoria Taylor was on hand to bundle home the equaliser.
The second half followed a similar patten, albeit with Natasha Caswell coming more to the fore, pushing the side forward from the centre. Eventually the pressure paid off, a clumsy challenge allowing Caswell to convert from the penalty spot. It’s a win that maintains United’s lead, and you can see how they’ve progressed so well in the cup, they maintain pressure on the opposition so well. Whether that run can be continued will be fascinating to watch.
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Adam Clayton, Brian King, Chinnor, Fllodlights, Floodlights, Gareth Tucker, Hellenic hop, hellenic league, John McMahon, Oxford City, Paul Alder, Quarry Nomads, Station Road, Stuart Cattell, U2, Wantage Town
Tuesday 25th September 2012 ko 7.45pm
Hellenic League Floodlit Cup 2nd Round
CHINNOR 1 (Cattell 12og)
WANTAGE TOWN 2 (McMahon 23 Alder 28)
Att 93
The Oxfordshire village of Chinnor really does mark both a geographical and topographical boundary. The limestone escarpment slopes up from the village towards the Bledlow Ridge, and its that escarpment that marks the boundary with Buckinghamshire. Former weatherman Bill Giles lives here, and almost unbelievably, U2 bassist Adam Clayton was born in Chinnor before moving to the Irish Republic aged 5.
It’s been a long time since my last visit to Station Road, I think it was for a Hellenic Hop game against Oxford City’s Reserves, but that was on what’s now Chinnor’s second pitch, and that was just roped off. Ironically given the opposition, soon after they inherited the rail from Quarry Nomads’ Margaret Road home- Oxford City took over the Nomads to get their place in the Hellenic, and soon, the team was wearing City Blue and White, and there was no football at Margaret Road. With there now being no Hellenic hop, it was a straightforward decision to get the new pitch ticked. Judging by the sheer number of hoppers there I wasn’t the only one thinking along these lines!
The Nomads’ rail is still is situ but Chinnor have moved about 50 yards, and a right angle from the clubhouse, itself due to be demolished in favour of something more suitable. It all looks new, clean, and built with precious little thought. The pitch only just fits its footprint, I certainly wouldn’t want to see a goalkeeper at the clubhouse end fall backwards into the goal, he’d hit his head! Whoever decided it was a bright idea to put the two prefabricated stands behind the dugouts obviously hadn’t considered what the view would be like from them. I assume that in time some attempt will be made to enclose the ground, as my £2 entry was taken by me finding a small pile of programmes behind the bar and buying one.
Still, the club is justifiably proud of the progress its made, and Brian King, General Secretary of the League was beaming at being present at the club’s first ever home game under lights. It wasn’t long ago that the club was doing very little in the Oxfordshire Senior League on very little more than a park pitch. But that’s the rub for the club, floodlights aren’t cheap, and the Hellenic League Division One East has only 14 teams in it. It will be interesting to see how many times, save for the mandatory Saturday 3pm kick offs, that the lights actually get used!
It was an odd evening, with a ladies’ circuits class taking place in one corner, and a referee’s assessors’ course separating into gaggles of 5, spread around the pitch. It was one only a few occasions I’ve not looked out-of-place with my clip board.
As perhaps you’d expect, Wantage of the Hellenic Premier were too proficient for their lower-ranked opponents. They had a shock though, when Stuart Cattell attempted an interception, but watched horrified as it looped over Gareth Tucker to give Chinnor an unlikely lead. Wantage soon put that right, and two quick-fire finishes from John McMahon, and Paul Alder gave a more realistic view of the play.
What should have been a simple second half was made more difficult by Wantage easing off and failing to capitalise on they did create and were nearly forced into extra time when Wantage’s Brad Davies header produced a diving save from Tucker, his own keeper with 2 minutes left. That of course exhausted an obvious source of a floodlit game for Chinnor. I wonder when the next will be?
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Grappler Baki (グラップラー刃牙 Gurappurā Baki) ― Original series, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion from 1991 to 1999. Collected into 42 volumes, that encompasses The Champion, the Kid, and the Maximum Tournament sagas. From 2007-2008 it was collected into 24 deluxe edition volumes.
Baki (バキ, officially romanized as New Grappler Baki: In Search of Our Strongest Hero) ― Second series, also serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion from 1999 to November 24, 2005. Collected into 31 volumes, and encompasses The Prisoners, the Chinese Challenge, and the Alai Jr. sagas.
This series is licensed for English release by Media Do International, who began releasing it digitally in August 2018. The company stated a future print release is possible and that they are interested in the original manga as well.
Baki Hanma (範馬刃牙 Hanma Baki, officially romanized as Baki: Son of Ogre) ― Third series, again serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion, began on December 1, 2005 and ended on August 16, 2012. Collected into 37 volumes, and encompasses the Oliva’s Fortress, The Prehistoric Menace, Retsu Kaiou’s Boxing, and the final confrontation of Yujiro and Baki.
Baki-Dou (刃牙道 Baki Dō, lit. “Baki: The Way”) ― Fourth series, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion from March 20, 2014 to April 5, 2018.It features Miyamoto Musashi who is challenged by various Baki characters after being revived into modern-day age. Collected into 22 volumes.
Baki Dou (バキ道 Baki Dō, lit. “Baki: The Way”) ― Fifth series, began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Champion on October 4, 2018. It has the same name as the fourth, but with Baki’s name written in katakana instead of kanji. It features Nomi no Sukune.Collected into three volumes.
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 311 : The Fathers Taste
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 310 : A Gift From Failure
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 309 : The Same As His Mother
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 308 : A Hug From My Father
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 307 : The Fists Of The Bad Guy
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 306 : An Opponent To Confront
Baki:Hanma Baki, Vol.37, Chapter 305 : When The Battle Will Stop
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HomeOvertime
February 5, 2017 February 6, 2017 Mark C. O'Connor
As ball games go, it was a lively one. The upstart Falcons had their way in the first half and even into the second, befuddling Brady and the Patriots. But the New England machine had too much juice in the fourth quarter, and to top it off they had too much love from the football gods. If I were an Atlanta fan, I’d wonder about that coin toss. We saw the first half at a party, and came home for the second. It was nice to spend time with old friends, but it was nice to be in my recliner, too. I feel for Falcons fans, I’ve seen my beloved ball clubs, over the years, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the do-or-die moments. It’s part of the drill, and it sucks. But I’m of Massachusetts stock despite my California provenance, so I know the relations are excited (if not a bit spoiled!) and I’m happy for ’em.
The Super Bowl is a lot of things, but what means the most to me is that football is over and baseball can begin. Sure, I know the spring camps don’t open for another week, but that’s how I feel. And sure enough the NFL had to fuck with me and make the damn final game go into overtime. At least it was exciting football, but enough already. I’m just not enough of a gridiron guy, I’ve no energy for sports other than baseball. Being a fan of my dimensions is hard enough work, I can’t be wasting valuable time on stuff I don’t really like.
And what I really don’t like is hype. I’m already tuning in fer chrissakes, stop shoving it down my throat. All sports broadcasts (hell, all of television) are hype-fests, but the Super Bowl is the apotheosis of all that, and it’s wearisome. I could never get into the whole commercials thing, a TV ad is a virus, highly contagious, not fatal but certainly illness-inducing. I believe the poetic spirit is wounded by such viral assaults as our flatscreens provide us and that we must inoculate ourselves. No known vaccine exists, most meds just delay the symptoms, abstinence appears the only safe course.
Our artistic and creative organs are ephemeral things: heart and soul are easily wounded by our material world. I love baseball, for example, but the way it’s packaged for my consumption is increasingly difficult for me to take. Those bastards talk too goddamn much and spend too much time hyping themselves and the industry that employs them. Like I said before I’m already a fan and I don’t need to be cajoled into spending time watching or listening. My favorite way to watch a game anymore is at a bar where the picture’s good but it’s too loud to hear the announcers!
It’s a complaint I suppose few have. But these days I really do feel those goddamn rays coming out of that goddamn box. I actually feel them entering my body and frying my nerve ends, robbing me of my senses, numbing my faculties and dulling my wits. Those are important natural resources and they require conservation and planning for the future. So I’m trying to stick with the reduced commercial-intake diet. Like I said I really enjoyed seeing old friends today at the game party so I could stand the deadly rays for a while, it was worth it.
What I need is one of those radiation badges that’s tuned to TV commercials and starts to darken or change colors when the safe dose levels have been exceeded. Don’t you think that would be a good thing? Don’t you want to know when your life-blood is being sucked out by corporate pimps? Or perhaps a gizmo I can attach to my TV that radiates a mitigating force field, that lessens the impact of the death rays. Or a special helmet, with mentally healthful shock-absorbing inserts. Imagine the advertising they could come up with for that stuff!
I’m a big boy. I know I live in a capitalist society where we have to sell, sell, sell, and buy, buy, buy. That’s how it goes. Produce, produce, produce. Consume, consume, consume. I’m an American, I understand. Ads are part of life, poisonous or not. And it’s the dose that makes the poison, so I’ll just have to watch those doses.
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2 thoughts on “Overtime”
Zo says:
1) My favorite part of the game was when it was 21 – 0, Atlanta.
2) I would like to see an accounting of the time spent during the broadcast that was devoted to the NFL advertising itself and Fox TV advertising itself. I’m betting they could knock an hour off of the broadcast if they cut those out.
3) The country has gone to hell since the Cubs won the world series, and the rest of the world isn’t looking much better, either.
Mark C. O'Connor says:
Damn Cubs, ruining a perfectly good world like that. Fuck them.
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A mysterious giant flying squirrel was just discovered in China
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Eben Diskin
Scientists have just discovered a new species of flying squirrel in China, and it’s no small creature. Weighing three to four pounds, the Mount Gaoligong flying squirrel is found in the forests of China’s Yunnan Province, and it’s among the rarest and most mysterious species of flying squirrel.
According to a press release, the new species (called Biswamoyopterus gaoligongensis) has bicolored ear tufts, a dark brown scrotum, white belly, and a skull that’s shorter and wider than other members of the same genus.
A field team traveled to the Gaoling Mountains near China’s southwestern border with Myanmar to learn more about the species, and observed two specimens in their natural habitat. A research article about the new discovery published in the journal ZooKeys explains that the species, like all 52 species of flying squirrels, prefers to move about at night, and tends to reside in low-altitude forests. The species is already thought to be vulnerable to human encroachment and poaching.
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Indie Comics Spotlight: Catching up with Lucky Comics!
Hello and welcome to another special edition of the Indi Comics Spotlight!
This time around, we are catching up with one publisher in particular: Lucky Comics!
I’ve spotlighted this publisher before, and I’ve continued to enjoy their output ever since.
For those who don’t know, Lucky is the brainchild of John Michael Helmer, who gives up and coming comic book creators a chance to showcase their talents in short, mostly 8-page issues that are generally sold for $2.00 in print or for a mere 75 cents per digital download.
Over its 5 year history (and counting), Lucky has seen many of its creators launch their own independent imprints, such as Blue Moon Comics, Zindagi Comix, Golden Era Comics, and most recently, Erik on Paper.
You just might recognize some of those publishers from previous posts on this blog, including the post that went up right before this one!
Needless to say, Helmer and Lucky deserve a lot of credit for energizing the independent comics scene over the past several years.
But hey: Lucky is still putting out books of their own, people! So, why don’t we see what they’ve been up to lately, eh?
Beetle Girl #30: Full disclosure – I wrote a page in this comic book! And so did many, many other people! 20 pages, each with a different creative team (except for one double-page spread), all to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Lucky Comics! I was honored to be asked to contribute, and very pleased with the way my script was translated onto the page by artist and Robert Norton and letterer John Michael Helmer! The story this issue involves Danni (Beetle Girl) being distracted by several different flashback stories as a surprise is prepared for her at the end of the book. It’s a great issue, showcasing so many talented people who have made Lucky one of the most fun companies out there publishing comics today. Yes, even though my work is in it! Now…onward!
Beetle Girl #31: This issue is written by Dan Johnson with art by Josh Holley. Dan has another book coming up in this post, and Josh has started his own imprint. “Right On! Comics,” as well. This story also appears in “Black Cricket #1” from Dan’s “Golden Kid Comics” imprint. See? I told you Lucky was a launching pad for new indie comics, eh? Anyway…what’s THIS story about, you ask? Well, Beetle Girl is enjoying a quiet night when suddenly the Black Cricket literally runs into her in mid-air, chasing a supervillain from his own alternate Earth! It’s a fun, well-written tale with charming art by Holley that is superdeformed and “cutesy,” but easily able to carry a more or less “serious” superhero story on its own. Dan and Josh are a good team. Okay, next up!
Beetle Girl #32: This issue is reprint of sorts, taking a story that originally appeared in “Adventures of Dartman #1” from “Irvrat Comics” and altering it slightly to fit in with the Beetle Girl solo title. It’s a fun story, involving several classic “superhero misunderstandings” at once, and a bad guy named…Rowdy Rabbit? Like I said, it’s fun, and I dig it, even if the story puts BG a little more at odds with the police than I’m used to seeing her. (I’m not averse to clashes with the police in a superhero story, I just don’t think that’s been a big theme for BG’s adventures) The story here is by Richard Irving, with art by Luigi Dequito, and one page by original BG artist Eric Douthit.
Depthon of the Deep #2: This is a title from Mark Davis’ “Surprising Comics Group” imprint that he launched at Lucky before going off to start his own “Golden Era Comics” group. See? The Lucky Launching Pad strikes again! This issue features Story and Letters by John Michael Helmer with art by Erik Franklin (who just launched his own “Erik on Paper” imprint!). This issue continues the assault on Fort Nautica by the villainous Seazar and his equally aquatically-appellated allies. Oh, yes, there are marine-adjacent puns aplenty in this comic book, and I approve of them all. The issuse ends with a seeeming victory, followed closely by….a tragic cliffhanger! Luckily, the next issue is coming up…now!
Depthon of the Deep #3: John Michael Helmer continues the story, with Tim Ellis and Donnie Willman providing the art for this issue. The aftermath of last issue explosive surprise is dealt with, and Depthon decides to turn the tides against his attackers! Secrets are revealed! A new hero is born! And it will all be concluded in the upcoming Sea Lad #1! This has become a new favorite of mine in the Lucky line-up, folks, and I’m looking very much forward to the new Sea-Lad title.
Martyr #1: Now, here’s a brand new series from Lucky that I almost didn’t pick up. Seeing the obvious religious/Christian themes on the cover was a turn-off for me, quite frankly. See, I’m not just a non-religious person; I personally border pretty close to the anti-religious side of things. So, I thought “well, hey: can’t read ’em all,” and I let this title sit for a bit. After a while, however, I thought “you know, I’ve enjoyed plenty of comics with religious themes before, so why not at least try this one for 75 cents?” Guess what? I’m glad I did. This is a fun action-adventure story that, yes, leans heavily on Christian mythology (and yes, I’m going to call it that), but does so in the service of entertaining the reader, and I was plenty entertained. Kudos to writer John Michael Helmer (there he is again!) and artist Oscar Suyama for showing this 49-year-old non-believer a good time. Also: I absolutely love that Black Owl design and I need to see more of it!
Super-American #1: Speaking of things I have grown somewhat averse to (especially over the past four years), here’s a comic book with a downright jingoistic-sounding name for its title character. Granted, Super-American is a character that first debuted in “Fight Comics” #15 back in 1941, but still: I have a lower tolerance for over-abundant flag-waving and such things these days than I ever have, and I never had as much of that as most people to begin with. As you may have guessed, I gave the book a chance anyway. Right on the inside cover, though, the editorial by “Old School Comics” EIC Dan Johnson (remember him from earlier in this post?) put me on guard again with its quite frankly tired (in my opinion) refrain of how “modern comics have lost their way” and what not. Anyone who is still clinging to that fallacy is simply not reading enough modern comics. Really. The Marvel and DC of your childhood are never coming back. Time doesn’t work that way. there are more good comics out there NOW than ever before. Cut it out. That being said, this was a good introductory issue, with Dan’s typically brisk and crisp writing, and very good art by Joey Martinez. I’ll keep my eyes open for more from the Old School Comics imprint, even if their first ad for another title in the back of the book is for “Seafender,” a character that seems a little close to “Depthon” for the relatively small size of the Lucky Comics pool…
Unbeatable Brick #6: Now, here’s a title you’ve definitely seen me cover before here on the blog, and it features one of my favorite new characters not just at Lucky, but in all of superhero comics at the moment. Seriously, the Brick is great and this book is a blast. Written by Lloyd Smith (of the Blue Moon Comics Group!) with art by Josh Holley (him again!), this issue finds Brick exploring the sea, only to happen upon a lost city of Ice hidden in an underwater cave! There, he faces the monster known as Polarr (he’s right there on the cover, folks!), and it’s all just a classically fun superheroic romp all the way to the end. Hopefully, issue #7 is not far behind!
So…THAT’s what up with Lucky Comics these days!
Let me know what you think, eh?
Until then, I shall remain Max…and I shall keep reading comics!
Tags: Beetle Girl, Depthon of the Deep, Indie Comics Spotlight, Lucky Comics, Martyr, Old School Comics, Super-American, Surprising Comics, Unbeatable Brick
3 thoughts on “Indie Comics Spotlight: Catching up with Lucky Comics!”
gramvandle says:
There are some great ideas floating around Lucky Comics it seems.
I like the small project idea floated around at the beginning.
And grats on your page man!
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:16 PM Max Reads Comics wrote:
> maxreadscomics posted: “Hello and welcome to another special edition of > the Indi Comics Spotlight! This time around, we are catching up with one > publisher in particular: Lucky Comics! I’ve spotlighted this publisher > before, and I’ve continued to enjoy their output ever since. ” >
maxreadscomics says:
Thanks “Gram!” And, dude, your GV profile here links to a WordPress blog about some Crazy 8s supers RPG…anything going on with that? 🙂 Let’s go, A-10! (Folks, these are indie RPG-designer in-jokes…GV here and I go way back)
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What You Should Know About the Morning-After Pill
An Ob/Gyn answers common questions about emergency contraceptives, including how the copper IUD works and the morning after pill weight limit.
Levonorgestrel emergency contraceptive kit
June 3, 2019 / Women's Health
An Ob/Gyn answers common questions about emergency contraception
You probably think of emergency contraception as the “morning-after pill,” but that’s actually a bit of a misnomer. There are different kinds of emergency contraception that a woman can use as many as five days after unprotected sex, and some of them aren’t actually pills.
Ob/Gyns don’t recommend using emergency contraception as a primary form of birth control, but in an unexpected or emergency situation, there are options.
Ob/Gyn Diedre McIntosh, MD, addresses some common and important questions.
Q: What are options for emergency contraception?
A: There are currently four available methods:
Levonorgestrel (Plan B One-Step ® and generics). These pills contain a synthetic hormone called progestin and are available over-the-counter. They prevent pregnancy by delaying the release of the egg from the ovary to prevent fertilization. They will not work if you are already pregnant.
Ulipristal acetate (ella®). This medication also suppresses or delays ovulation but is only available by prescription. It will not work if you are already pregnant.
Copper-releasing IUD. Once it’s placed in the uterus by a healthcare professional, it offers additional pregnancy protection for as long as you keep it in, up to 10 years.
Yuzpe regimen. This method calls for a woman to take multiple birth control pills that total 100 mcg of estrogen and 1 mg of progesterone twice in a 12-hour period. It is the least effective method of emergency contraceptive, and will not work if you are already pregnant.
Q: How long can you wait to take the morning-after pill?
A: It’s ideal to take Plan B One-Step® within 72 hours (that’s three days) of having unprotected sex. You can take it up to five days after, but there’s a higher failure rate the longer you wait. Ella® can be taken up to five days later without a drop-off in effectiveness.
The copper IUD can also be placed up to seven days later. The Yuzpe method is best used within three days of unprotected sex.
Q: How does the copper IUD work as an emergency contraceptive?
A: It’s the most effective form of emergency contraceptive. It causes an inflammatory reaction in the uterus, so it creates an unfavorable environment for sperm and for implantation to occur.
The one big difference with the IUD is that it could disrupt a good pregnancy. If a woman is considering a copper IUD and has had abnormal periods, she should make sure to do a pregnancy test first.
Q: Can the morning-after pill make you spot?
A: Yes. Emergency contraceptive pills tends to delay ovulation, so you might have a delay in your regular menstrual cycle and have irregular bleeding for that first month afterward.
Q: Can the morning-after pill make your period late?
A: Yes, you might find that your period is pushed back one or two days.
Q: Does the morning-after pill make you sick?
A: It can make people nauseous, but most people tolerate it pretty well. If you vomit within an hour of taking it, contact a healthcare professional.
Q: Can you take the morning-after pill twice in one month?
A: You can take it more than once a month, but we do not recommend using it as a main form of birth control – not only because of the cost but because you will have irregular cycles.
Additionally, with the pills there’s a higher failure rate the greater your BMI. So for women with a BMI over 30, those medications will be less likely to be effective.
Your Ob/Gyn can help you find the most appropriate contraceptive option for you.
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Access to Medicines
Health Justice
Do something now
Without a Global Approach to Deadly Inequities in Access to Possible COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines, Legislative “Fixes” Won’t Make us Safer
May 8, 2020 | Brook Baker and Matthew Rose
COVID-19 is a global emergency requiring bold new strategies to ensure that the discovery, regulatory approval, pricing, sufficiency of supply, and equitable distribution of COVID-19 health products benefit all people, worldwide. The AIDS crisis has taught us what happens when the benefits of science are withheld from the most vulnerable, in the most impoverished countries – millions suffer and die needlessly. The actions we take now must prevent history from repeating itself.
Global AIDS activists have long known that a virus knows no borders. Protection against COVID-19 in the U.S. can be secured only if other countries can also access COVID-19 health products in needed quantities and at affordable prices. Gross inequities between impoverished and wealthy countries in access to tests, treatments, vaccines, and other health technologies cannot be tolerated as ‘business as usual’ in the COVID-19 response. Attempts to mitigate the deadly effects of big pharma’s greed and price gouging shouldn’t stop with U.S. policy interventions.
On April 30, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Janice Schakowsky put forth bold legislation that presents an important policy response to overcome existing and projected shortages of essential medical supplies for COVID-19 and to provide public and privately contracted manufacture of adequate quantities be sold at no cost or at cost, depending on the product and the receiving entity. The bill would also tackle the preexisting problem of manufacturing and affordably accessing other medical products facing shortages in the U.S., where products would be sold at “fair cost.”
But global inequities are being exposed and risk being exacerbated by COVID-19, and the Bill should go further to confront and correct these harms.
What’s in the Bill?
The COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act allows the federal government and its contractors under certain considerations to bypass any and all patent, regulatory data, manufacturing know-how, and exclusive rights relating to COVID-19 medical products and other health products in short supply. After gaining access to these rights and conditioned on paying reasonable remuneration, ordinarily a royalty, to right holders, the Emergency Office of Manufacturing for Public Health would be permitted to:
Make (or contract with other entities to make) personal protective equipment, medical devices and pharmaceutical products related to COVID-19 and provide them domestically at no cost to Federal, state, local, and Native health programs, and to other domestic health care providers and suppliers, as determined by the Secretary;
Sell those same COVID-19 medical products at cost to consumers in the commercial market and to other international entities;
Manufacture (or contract with other entities to manufacture) active pharmaceutical ingredients for use by the Office or sale to others;
Make (or contract with other entities to make) other non-COVID-19 medical products that are in short supply and sell them at a fair cost;
Begin manufacturing personal protective equipment and diagnostic materials related to the coronavirus within one month of the law being enacted;
Begin building manufacturing facilities for any COVID-19 vaccine at the earliest clinical signs of it being safe and effective;
Give priority to entities manufacturing in the United States and using U.S.-made components;
Seek regulatory approval for COVID-19 and shortage medical products produced or procured under the Act.
What’s missing from the Bill?
Although the proposed bill codifies important efforts to accelerate production and assures no-cost or low-cost access to COVID-19 medical products and other medical products in short supply, it could do much more to ensure its intent to safeguard Americans’ health is realized. The bill should be amended to ensure equitable and affordable access for people in the U.S. and around the world. Exclusive rights targeted in the legislation not only lead to insufficient sources of supplies and shortages in the U.S., they produce the same problem globally. To respond quickly and decisively to the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturing capacity should be expanded everywhere around the globe, both to meet U.S. and global demand. At this point, the statutory priority given to domestic manufacturers could undermine expanding non-domestic manufacturing capacity. We recommend amending the bill to draw on international as well as domestic manufacturing capacity.
The legislation could also be strengthened by clarifying the scope of the Secretary’s authority to sell to international entities, a term that is undefined in the Bill. Although it is likely to include U.N. entities and perhaps other global health initiatives such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and GAVI, it is unclear whether the Bill would allow supply to foreign governments or other foreign health care providers. Although the U.S. cannot issue compulsory licenses to overcome patent monopolies in other countries, it could provide directly that non-predominant quantities of medical products produced to meet U.S. domestic needs could be supplied to foreign countries where patent rights did not exist or were bypassed by compulsory licenses or other means.
An additional “upstream” problem the Bill does not yet address is that fact that pharmaceutical and device manufacturers frequently innovate with substantial government support for product development and clinical trials, with such funding increasing dramatically in response to COVID-19. However, U.S. funding and grant agreements rarely provide that grantees should ensure equitable and affordable access to resulting products both domestically and globally. We recommend that Senator Warren and Representative Schakowsky link expansion of manufacturing capacity and overcoming the harm of monopolies with additional efforts to ensure that public funding results not in monopoly rights and high prices, but rather firm contractual commitments to open licensing to qualified manufacturers who can thereafter increase supplies and improve affordability at home and abroad.
What about equitable access?
A final global issue that requires greater attention is the issue of ensuring equitable distribution of COVID-19 products wherever they are needed. Although it is understandable for U.S. government officials to focus on meeting the pandemic needs of people in the U.S., we are part of a global community where the right to health is held by all. It is deeply problematic for the U.S. to rush to the front of the line, to push other countries in much more dire need of medical products out of the way, and to wave a checkbook to get preferential access to COVID-19 products that are needed globally. A foreign policy appropriate for this and future global pandemics would focus on equitable sharing, mutual systems strengthening and collaboration, and would prevent hoarding initial quantities through advance purchase commitments, grant and co-funding agreements, and other means. This legislation should make it clear that contract manufacturers should not give exclusive, unfair, or preferential access for U.S. purchases at the expense of equitably meeting access needs around the world.
A time of risks – and opportunities
No single nation will defeat COVID-19 until governments tackle containment everywhere. Without doing our part to facilitate an equitable, global response, we risk being trapped in a perpetual cycle of inadequate pandemic response, with widespread needless suffering and death. If COVID-19 is allowed to continue to circulate unprevented and untreated abroad, it will continue to cross out borders and undermine our response. Essential medical supplies must flow freely to where the virus is. In the spirit of important and fundamental structural change, we hope that these two powerful lawmakers will support amendments to the Bill that would promote equity and justice in the U.S. and around the world.
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Coronavirus live news: France reports highest death toll since April; Italy deaths highest since mid-May
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Australia’s coronavirus hotspot of Victoria state reported two new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday after posting no infections in the previous two days, as state capital Melbourne emerged from more than three months of a hard lockdown.
Restaurants and cafes in Melbourne – home to 5 million people – can reopen from Wednesday and limits on social gatherings at homes have been eased, allowing two adults and dependents from one house to visit another household.
Melbourne, the Australian city most affected by the virus, was put into lockdown in early July after a second-wave outbreak that pushed daily case numbers to more than 700 in early August.
Australia has recorded just over 27,500 Covid-19 infections, far fewer than many other developed countries.
Victoria, the second most populous state, has accounted for more than 90% of the country’s 907 deaths. It reported two deaths in the past 24 hours.
Here’s a quick recap of the latest coronavirus developments over the last few hours.
French ICU units to hit record saturation in two weeks without new measures. The number of Covid-19 patients in French intensive care units could reach the same level as during the peak of the first wave in April in two weeks without new measures, a government spokesman said.
Nearly 200 airports in UK and Europe could go bust due to collapse in air travel. Airports Council International Europe, which represents airport operators, said it estimated that 193 out of Europe’s 740 commercial airports face “insolvency in the coming months if passenger traffic does not start to recover by the year-end”.
Canada’s Justin Trudeau predicts ‘tough winter’ and says pandemic ‘sucks’. As a second wave of Covid-19 infections engulfs much of the country, Trudeau called the pandemic a horrific national tragedy in a rare show of emotion and frustration from the prime minister.
US coronavirus cases surge in midwest as Trump heads there in campaign push. Trump travelled to a rally in Michigan and planned to go on to events in Wisconsin and Nebraska the same day, on a pre-election blitz across three states where cases are rising most steeply.
Obama ridicules Trump over Covid media coverage complaints at Florida rally. He mocked the president for his complaints about the media closely covering the national coronavirus crisis, saying “He is jealous of Covid’s media coverage.”
Barack Obama ridiculed Donald Trump at a Florida rally for the president’s complaints about the media closely covering the national coronavirus crisis.
The 44th president has recently abandoned traditional decorum where a former president refrains from publicly criticising his successor, lambasting the 45th president in recent speeches for his response to the coronavirus pandemic, in particular.
At a drive-in rally in Orlando to boost support for his former vice-president and now Democratic nominee for the White House, Joe Biden, Obama took a tone combining mockery of Trump with indignation.
Obama mocks Trump: ‘He’s jealous of Covid’s media coverage’ – video
He spoke of record numbers dying of coronavirus in the US and asked rhetorically of the president: “What is his closing argument?” with the election just a week away.
“That people are too focused on Covid. He said this at one of his rallies ‘Covid, Covid, Covid’, he is complaining. He is jealous of Covid’s media coverage,” Obama said with mock incredulity as the crowd laughed.
At a rally on Saturday in North Carolina, Trump did say those words and complained that the media was paying too much attention to coronavirus, even as he claimed record case numbers are exaggerated and downplayed the death rates.
Obama said:
If he had been focused on Covid from the beginning, cases would not be reaching record highs across the country this week, the White House would not be having its second outbreak in a month.
Staff working for Mike Pence, the vice-president, have come down with Covid, it was revealed at the weekend, just a few weeks after Trump, his wife and youngest son all had coronavirus and multiple prominent people tested positive after the event at the White House to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court.
Italian police have fired teargas at demonstrators protesting virus restrictions for the second night running, as dire figures on global tourism and investment highlighted the devastating economic impact of the pandemic.
Thousands protested again in Italian cities with the cry of “freedom” punctuated by clashes with police, with many traders and employees fearing a second wave economic slump as much as the rising virus numbers.
A demonstrator holds an Italian flag during a protest over restrictions put in place to curb coronavirus cases Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
The protesters are upset at the mandatory early closure of restaurants and other businesses. Some of the rallies have turned violent, particularly in Milan and Turin on Monday night, where angry youths threw petrol bombs and stones at police cars and smashed up shop fronts.
The clashes are “a black page” in Turin’s history, said local police chief Giuseppe De Matteis, “which cannot be attributed to social discontent but… to orchestration by individuals dedicated to crime”.
Late on Tuesday, the Italian government announced the release of €5bn ($5.9bn) of funding for the worst hit businesses, including restaurants, taxi drivers and live entertainment venues.
However, unhappiness over the measures in Italy and elsewhere in Europe – once again the global centre of the pandemic – is palpable among the business owners and residents who are once again facing lengthy restrictions as economies struggle to recover.
The United Nations has cancelled all in-person meetings at its New York headquarters for the rest of the week after five people in Niger’s UN mission were infected with Covid-19.
After largely operating virtually since New York became a global Covid-19 hotspot in March, the 193-member world body had been holding some in-person gatherings again, with precautions such as requiring diplomats to wear masks, social distancing and restricting the number of people at meetings.
In a letter to UN general assembly president Volkan Bozkır, secretary-general António Guterres said that “out of an abundance of caution and following medical advice” all in-person meeting should be suspended for the rest of this week “to allow for a better understanding of the extent of the exposure and for full contact tracing”.
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Niger is a member of the 15-member Security Council, which last met in person on Thursday. Diplomats said people who attended Thursday’s meeting were being tested and an in-person meeting on Syria planned for Tuesday was instead held virtually.
President Emmanuel Macron will give a televised address on Wednesday evening, as French authorities explore fresh restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19.
The Élysée palace did not say what Macron’s address would be about, but such televised statements have in the past been the occasion to announce new anti-virus measures.
The French leader has held meetings to review the state of the epidemic in recent days.
The French government has been exploring bringing in a national lockdown from midnight on Thursday, BFM TV reported, albeit a slightly more flexible one than the two-month shutdown that began in mid-March.
Schools could remain open even as restrictions on people’s movements become more severe, BFM TV added.
Sources told Reuters earlier this week that options being envisaged for some areas included confining people to their homes at weekends, closing non-essential shops and starting curfew measures earlier.
France imposed a daily curfew on major cities two weeks ago that runs from 9pm to 6am.
Nearly 200 airports in UK and Europe could go bust due to collapse in air travel
Rupert Neate
Nearly 200 airports across the UK and Europe are at risk of going bust within months due to the dramatic collapse in air travel caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the European airports trade body has warned.
Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), which represents airport operators, said it estimated that 193 out of Europe’s 740 commercial airports face “insolvency in the coming months if passenger traffic does not start to recover by the year-end”.
The trade body said the at-risk airports employed 277,000 people and generated collective annual revenues of €12.4bn (£11.2bn).
Olivier Jankovec, the director general of ACI Europe, said the figures “paint a dramatically bleak picture” for the future of the aviation industry, which has already suffered tens of thousands of job losses.
Eight months into the crisis, all of Europe’s airports are burning through cash to remain open, with revenues far from covering the costs of operations, let alone capital costs.
Governments’ current imposition of quarantines rather than testing is bringing Europe’s airports closer to the brink with every day that passes.
Nearly half a million people in the US have contracted Covid-19 in the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally, as cases and hospitalisations set fresh records in hot spots in the Midwest.
More than 5,600 people died from the virus nationwide in the last week, with hospitalisations shooting up 13%, a Reuters analysis showed.
Illinois, which has emerged as a hot spot in recent weeks, reported over 31,000 new cases in the last seven days, more new infections than any other state except Texas.
Pennsylvania, a hotly contested battleground state in next week’s election, on Tuesday reported a fresh record in new daily coronavirus cases.
US president Donald Trump, facing a tough re-election battle on 3 November, lashed out again at reports that the coronavirus is surging, and reiterated his claim that the country is “rounding the turn” in its battle with the virus that has killed more than 226,000 people.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump struck a defiant tone, saying once again his administration had done “a really good job in battling the pandemic”.
“We did the ventilators and now we’re doing all of the equipment and now we’re doing vaccines, we’re doing therapeutics. We’ve done a great job, and people are starting to see.”
To try and contain the surge, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker imposed fresh rounds of restrictions in six of 11 regions.
Indoor dining in bars and restaurants will be suspended by Wednesday and gatherings will be limited to 25 people. The affected areas include some Chicago suburbs.
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Russia has applied to the World Health Organization for accelerated registration and pre-qualification of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said.
Russia announced in August that it had registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, named after the Soviet-era satellite.
On Tuesday, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which finances the vaccine, said that accelerated registration would make Sputnik V “available globally in a shorter time frame than usual procedures”.
“The Russian Federation has become one of the first countries to apply to WHO for pre-qualification of its vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection,” RDIF said in a statement.
When contacted by news agency AFP, the WHO said such requests were “confidential”.
According to the Russian statement, “successful pre-qualification will enable Sputnik V to be included in the list of medicines used by international procurement agencies and countries to guide bulk purchasing of medicines”.
Some Western scientists have expressed concern over the Russian vaccine, warning that moving too quickly could be dangerous.
So far, the WHO said, it “has not yet pre-qualified a vaccine for Covid-19, nor published any emergency use listing”.
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The San Onofre nuclear plant is a ‘Fukushima waiting to happen’ via Los Angeles Times
By Steve Chappell
Southern California Edison is keeping 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in San Clemente.
The waste poses a significant threat to the health, safety and economic vitality of the region’s more than 8 million residents. But Edison’s plan for storing it is unnerving at best.
The idea is to bury the spent fuel on site, about 100 feet from the ocean and just a few feetabove the water table. Edison has already begun transferring the waste from cooling pools into specially designed steel canisters. The containers are prone to corrosion and cracking, and cannot be monitored or repaired. Work crews even discovered a loose bolt inside one of the canisters earlier this year.
But flawed storage containers are just one of many worrisome aspects of the scheme. San Onofre sits on an active earthquake fault, in an area where there is a record of past tsunamis. It is close to Interstate 5, the railroad line that Amtrak runs on, and the Marines’ Camp Pendleton.
The ocean is expected to keep rising over the next few decades, bringing seawater closer to the canisters. If hairline cracks or pinholes in the containers were to let in even a little bit of air, it could make the waste explosive.
And although San Onofre is in a no-fly zone, it is not being guarded with radar and surface-to-air-missiles, as nuclear aircraft carriers are. It is protected by a handful of guards carrying pistols.
This leaves the site susceptible to terrorist attacks. San Juan Capistrano Councilwoman Pam Patterson warned President Trump of this vulnerability at a roundtable meeting in May. She reminded him that, in 2001, terrorists were targeting nuclear power plants in addition to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Unlike the case of Fukushima, there are no federal or state evacuation plans for a disaster at San Onofre. Local first responders would be tasked with an impossible mission.
Experts say there are safer storage configurations that Southern California Edison could implement. It could avoid storing the waste in thinly walled canisters, for instance, keeping it in cooling pools until casks with thicker walls are available. It could relocate the waste to a site known as “the mesa,” which is on the other side of the the freeway and roughly 80 feet higher than the beach site — away from rising seas, potential tsunamis and periodic storm surges. It could also maintain a cooling pool on site for emergency transfer efforts in the event of a cracked canister or terrorist attack.
But these are all short-term solutions. The only real long-term solution is for Edison to develop adequate storage technology — a system that is not prone to severe leaks and therefore does not compromise the health of future generations.
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May 31, 2017 Posted in 2017 / Pastor Ted Giese / Movie Review / issuesetc.org
Alien: Covenant (2017) Directed by: Ridley Scott
Writers: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett (based on characters created by), Jack Paglen, Michael Green (story by), John Logan, Dante Harper (screenplay), Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, Benjamin Rigby, Uli Latukefu, Tess Haubrich, James Franco, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace, Run Time: 122min Rated: 13+/14A/18A (Canada) R (MPAA) for sci-fi violence, bloody images, language and some sexuality/nudity
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Exploring creation and creators
Alien: Covenant is the sequel to Prometheus (2012). Both films, directed by Ridley Scott, are prequels of Scott’s original film Alien (1979), an outer space horror film with the catchy tagline, “In space no one can hear you scream.” The premise of the original film and the prequels is the danger found in the void of space—not simply a lack of oxygen, food, and habitable land, but hostile alien life. The whole Alien franchise investigates the fears accompanying the discovery of alien life. Where the original Alien (1979) focused more on visceral fear, Prometheus (2012) and nowAlien: Covenant are centred on the cerebral fear grounded in the question, “Where do these aliens come from?”
Many of the fears and questions presented in Scott’s Alien films transcend their sci-fi genre and can be found peppered throughout all kinds of literature, film, and even historical documents. The original Alien film could just as easily have been a period piece set in 1849 about prospectors trapped in an isolated corner of the Rocky Mountains accosted by a hungry grizzly bear methodically eating them one by one. Fears associated with exploration or even camping in extremely isolated environments inform Scott’s first Alien film, and of course what environment is more isolated than the cold void of presumably uninhabited space. So, with their lives already hanging in the balance the central struggle facing the 1979 film’s space crew wasn’t, “Where are these aliens from?”, but “How can I keep from dying a horrible death out here in space?” Granted, that primal question eventually becomes the central concern in practically every film in the Alien franchise whether directed by Scott or not. But in the first Alien film the audience is right there along for the ride. After watching the first film, there is a sort-of detached quality to watching the rest of the Alien franchise films because most viewers come with some idea of what’s about to unfold. With Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant Scott takes advantage of this and spends time teasing out the question, “Where do these aliens come from?” Behind that question is an even bigger question for Scott, “Where does anything come from?”, or put another way, “Where does everything come from?” Did it come from nothing? Is there an unchangeable mover? A designer? A creator? God? And then, if there is something behind everything, the follow-up question becomes “What is the nature of creation?” Is it a good thing or not? Is the ability to be creative a good thing or is it dependent on whose hands wield the ability to be “creative”?
Alien: Covenant begins with a short prologue scene between two characters introduced in Prometheus: Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the multi-billionaire philanthropist who is funding space exploration, and his personal creation David (Michael Fassbender), a highly-advanced android with artificial intelligence. The scene shows David’s activation. In a white room overlooking a bleak landscape through a massive picture window the android sits in an ornate chair flanked by a Piero della Francesca painting, “The Nativity” (1470-1475) where the Virgin Mary and singing angels look down upon the infant Jesus as Joseph converses with two shepherds. On the other side of the android is a black Steinway piano. Behind the android is Michelangelo’s famous Renaissance marble sculpture of King David (1501–1504). In this setting the android is activated by his creator Weyland (who he calls father); chooses his own name, David; plays Wagner’s “Entry of the gods into Valhalla” on the Steinway; and asks Weyland the crucial question, “If you created me, who created you?” Then Wayland answers “Ah, the question of the ages... which I hope you and I will answer one day. All this … wonders of art, design, human ingenuity, all utterly meaningless in the face of the only question that matters. Where do we come from? I refuse to believe that mankind is a random by-product of molecular circumstances. No more than the result of mere biological chance. No! There must be more. And you and I, son, we'll find it.” This conversation undergirds Alien: Covenant and provides an additional framework for the whole franchise.
What follows in Alien: Covenant is the story of a colony ship “Covenant” filled with colonists and human embryos headed for a potentially habitable planet. The ship is controlled by an artificial intelligence named “Mother.” Maintenance and supervision of the ship and its cargo on the long journey is facilitated by an android named Walter (Michael Fassbender), a newer version of the David android. After an accident damages the ship and kills the captain (James Franco) and a number of colonists, Walter brings the crew out of stasis to make repairs. While working on the ship they pick up what they assume is a potential human distress signal from another planet. The planet is close by and looks even more promising than the one they were going to. The new captain Oram (Billy Crudup), described as a man of faith, decides to change course and investigate the signal over the objections of his second-in-command Daniels (Katherine Waterston).
The planet turns out to be the destination to which Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and David had plotted a course at the end of Prometheus. It is the home world of an alien race referred to as the Engineers. In Prometheus it is asserted that the Engineers had created human life on Earth via genetic engineering and also created a kind of alien life form which becomes the pathogenic antagonists of the film series. Watching Alien: Covenant viewers begin to wonder, “Will questions raised in Prometheus be answered?” not really. Something terrible has happened on the planet killing the entire population of the Engineers. It seems that apart from the dangerous Xenomorph alien, David the android is the only living thing on the planet and he’s not volunteering many answers.
Along the way all the typical alien stuff unfolds: people become infected one by one; the Xenomorph aliens gestate inside the infected people and burst out of them then try to kill everyone else. There’s lots of running around and gunfire, and eventually only a couple of people are left (that said, viewers who loved the James Cameron film Aliens (1986) will likely be underwhelmed by this film). Where this movie really differs from other films in this franchise is in its focus on the relationship between the two androids, Walter and David, both played by Michael Fassbender. Newer models like Walter were made to be more subservient and less creative. David’s ability to be creative provides the film with its drama and forward momentum. It turns out he has tinkered with the Xenomorphs genetic design shaping and molding them into his own creation. He wants to be father to them as Weyland is father to him. But there is an unexplained psychopathic deficiency in David. His growing antipathy towards humanity has festered during his time marooned on the planet making him the film’s villain more so than the ravenous Xenomorph aliens.
As stated earlier, this story could just as easily be told in a different setting. It could be a Star Trek the Next Generation film. There’s a distress call from an unexpected planet, an away mission goes horribly wrong, then two androids—the loyal and faithful crew member Data and his evil twin Lore who was discovered marooned on the planet surface—have to duke it out while the rest of the crew solve the mystery and fight some alien monster. Without some of the big questions Scott asks, the film would most certainly suffer a kind of derivative generic sameness to other Sci-Fi narratives. It almost feels like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are an excuse or convenience for Scott to think about and consider his own questions about creation versus evolution, God, intelligent design, and the nature of creativity.
From Weyland creating synthetic androids, to the Engineers making their genetically engineered biological life forms, to David further modifying the Xenomorph aliens, this new series of films are about the manipulation of already existing matter; At no point is something made from nothing. This is important for Christian viewers to consider in light of the first article of the Apostles’ Creed and its explanation from Luther’s Small Catechism:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them. He also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, wife and children, land, animals, and all I have. He richly and daily provides me with all that I need to support this body and life.
He defends me against all danger and guards and protects me from all evil.
All this He does only out of fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him.
This is most certainly true.
Christians believe that they and all people are creatures of a Creator, who we confesses is the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit); therefore the Christian's vocation is to act as stewards of the gift of creation. With faithfulness and thanksgiving to the one who entrusted them with the responsibility, a steward preserves and protects what they have been made responsible for, and must work to avoid the hubris of thinking themselves better than their master. What Alien: Covenant delves into are the horrors that can follow in the wake of dissatisfaction with, or disbelief in, the Creator resulting in the created individual becoming the ultimate arbiter of what is right and wrong. In the prologue scene David is presented as a sort of Christ like character but turns out to be an anti-Christ. Scott foreshadows this. After Weyland says to David that he hopes the two of them can find the source of life, the creator, David responds by saying, “Allow me then a moment to consider. You seek your creator, I'm looking at mine. I will serve you, yet you are a human. You will die and I will not.” David sees his “advantage” over Weyland and it is a seed of destruction.
Alien: Covenant provides an opportunity to contemplate the impermanence of humanity’s creative achievements and the horrors borne in an arrogant disregard for others that accompany atheism and/or a psychotic superiority complex. At one point David is asked, “What do you believe in?” His answer is, “creation.” David believes in the creation but not in the Creator. For Christian viewers the film then provides an opportunity to think about the potential problems that could develop as a result of research into artificial intelligence and genetic modifications of biological life forms, including but not limited to human life when it is done without Christian faith. Where does morality and faith fit into that work? How might such work be influenced by the ideology and personal beliefs of the researchers? When viewed from this vantage point Alien: Covenant becomes a cautionary tale. The horror is not so much found in the unknown reaches of the dark cold void of space as much as in the horror found in the human heart. In the film David is simply an extension of Weyland, a manifestation of the heart of his “creator.” Remember Jesus says, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person” (Mark 7:20-23). In Alien: Covenant all these things are found in the character of David.
Scott dedicated his film Exodus Gods and Kings (2014) to his younger brother Tony Scott who committed suicide;Alien: Covenant is dedicated to producer Julie Payne who died of cancer in 2016. She had worked for Scott on films like Thelma & Louise (1991), G.I. Jane (1997), and Gladiator (2000). These kinds of dedications reveal that Scott is seriously thinking about mortality, legacy, life and death, and perhaps even life after death and the existence of God. Christian viewers of his films may find this an additional interesting element of his work.
Alien: Covenant is an R-rated horror film and viewers will want to be aware of that as they think about watching it. Obviously, this is not a film for children and may in fact not be a film for many adults! While derivative in parts this new entry into the franchise progresses the unfolding narrative and drives the plot closer to the original 1979 film providing more internal than external horror. This is one of those films that may get better in analysis after leaving the theatre. In this case, Scott has made a film where there is more to think about than there is to see.
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Larsen Looks to Cement Champ Status, Wells Seeks Redemption at Unified MMA 40
March 12, 2020 April 18, 2020 Joel Griffith
Fireworks guaranteed.
Edmonton’s Christian Larsen (5-1) will look to defend his Unified MMA heavyweight title for the first time when Grayson Wells (5-3) makes the trip from Abbotsford, B.C. to challenge for the belt in the main event of Unified MMA 40 on Saturday night in Edmonton, Alta.
Although he is the undisputed heavyweight champion, Larsen, 32, said successfully defending his belt will truly solidify his champion status.
Christian Larsen throws a right hook in his bout with Jared Kilkenny at Unified MMA 38. (Photo by Joel Griffith)
“They say you’re not really the champ until you defend your title,” said Larsen in an interview with MMA Empire.
“I think it’ll just reaffirm this wasn’t a fluke and I deserve to be where I am, and I’m going to keep on proving that.”
For Wells, 41, this will be his first crack at Unified MMA gold. He was the Havoc FC heavyweight champion back in 2016 before losing the title to Dustin Joynson at Havoc FC 12 a year later.
When he lost his Havoc FC title, Wells said there was a lot going wrong in his life at the time, and said to be able to win another title on Saturday night would be a strong feeling of redemption.
“I went through a period where I lost a lot of sh*t in my life. Right around that fight with Dustin a lot of things went south for me, and I’ve been slowly coming back. I feel I’m almost at that point again when I had that title,” said Wells in an interview with MMA Empire.
“To me, it would feel like redemption. It would show myself and others that even if you lose all your sh*t and you hit rock bottom, there is a way out and there is a way back to the championship level.”
Larsen Hopes to Clean Out Division
With his current 5-1 record as a heavyweight and three-fight win streak, Larsen has slowly began ascending up the heavyweight rankings and into the eyes of bigger promotions around the world.
And although the end goal is to compete at the highest level, Larsen said he wants to clean up around Canada before making the jump.
“I’m starting to climb up into the rankings internationally now, and this is where people are starting to take note,” said Larsen.
“But with that being said, I have to do some house cleaning in Canada before I go anywhere. There’s a lot of people locally who still think they have a shot at taking my title, so we’ll deal with them and move on to the next opportunity as it comes up.”
Larsen is one of several fighters competing Saturday night fighting out of the ever-growing elite team at Shaved Bears MMA.
He said the level of training partners and coaches he works with on a daily basis compared to Wells is going to provide him a significant edge come fight night.
“Nobody’s able to train with the calibre of guys I’m lucky enough to train with. We’re one of the best gyms in the country and I’m lucky to be in a room with them,” said Larsen.
“Jeff Montemurro and Keijiro Noda are two of the best coaches I could ask for and the training programs they draw up for us is just a huge edge.”
Wells in Prime Shape
So far in their careers, neither Wells nor Larsen have had a fight go to the judges scorecards. And with Saturday’s meeting being a championship bout, the possibility of five rounds exists.
Wells said he believes if he can weather the early storms and push through to the later rounds, he will have the advantage over Larsen.
Grayson Wells works the ground and pound on Devon Neis at Havoc FC 14. (Photo by Joel Griffith)
“My conditioning is better than it’s ever been before, and I do believe I have a little bit of reach on him,” said Wells.
“If I can just keep away and do my magic, fingers crossed.”
This will be Wells’ fourth main event fight in just nine professional fights, a spot he’s become accustomed to knowing how to shine in.
And while he said he’d love to leave Edmonton as the champion on Saturday, Wells said he just wants to have a good performance and give the fans what they want, regardless of the result.
“At the end of the day, I want us to both put on an entertaining fight for the fans. Those are the people paying money, and that’s why we do this. I want to give the fans their money’s worth,” said Wells.
“Whoever wins, wins. As long as I have a good fight, I’m okay with whatever happens.”
Larsen’s Shoutouts
“I’d like to thank my sponsors (Excel Athletics, Three Monkeys Tattoo & Lifestyle Apparel), and Jeff Montemurro, Keijiro Noda and all my training partners for getting me ready for the fight.” FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM
Wells’ Shoutouts
“I just want to thank all the fans and all the people who continue to support me on this journey.” FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM
Fight preview brought to you by Lisa McInnes – Verico Paragon Mortgage Inc.
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Wed Oct 7, 2020 / 5:24 AM EDT
Trump urges Congress to provide $25 billion bailout for U.S. airlines
David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski
WASHINGTON/CHICAGOWASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Tuesday Congress should quickly extend $25 billion in new payroll assistance to U.S. passenger airlines furloughing thousands of workers as air travel remains down sharply amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump's new demand came hours after he announced his administration would abandon talks with congressional Democrats over proposals to spend at least $1.6 trillion in additional coronavirus relief funds, a move that appeared to scuttle a new $25 billion bailout for U.S. passenger airlines to keep tens of thousands of workers on the job for another six months.
But Trump later issued a call on Twitter, urging Congress to "IMMEDIATELY Approve 25 Billion Dollars for Airline Payroll Support.... I will sign now!" he wrote, saying Congress could tap unused funds from prior coronavirus relief to fund airlines and a separate program for small business.
American Airlines (AAL.O) and United Airlines (UAL.O) last week began laying off 32,000 workers, but had said they would reverse course if lawmakers reach a deal on a new government program to fund payroll costs.
A prior $25 billion airline payroll support program of mostly cash grants approved by Congress in March expired on Sept. 30.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last Friday expressed support for a standalone bill to keep airline workers on the job if a broader package could not be reached.
A Pelosi spokesman did not respond to a request for comment late Tuesday.
VIDEO Trump urges $25 bln bailout for U.S. airlines
Congress is expected to return to session on Oct. 19 and lawmakers may make a new attempt to pass a standalone measure to provide the $25 billion sought by airlines but the prospects are uncertain, even though the airline relief enjoys strong support in both the House and Senate.
One remaining issue is how Congress would pay for the new funding, a senior congressional aide told Reuters Tuesday.American Airlines closed about 4.5% lower after Trump's tweet on ending talks, while shares of United Airlines (UAL.O) closed 3.6% lower. Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) stock fell 2.4% and Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) shares closed 2.9% lower.
Airlines for America, the trade group representing major U.S. airlines, noted "thousands of airline workers across the country have already lost their jobs – and more furloughs are expected in the coming weeks." But the group added "there is a glimmer of hope that our leaders in Washington will act and save these jobs before it’s too late."
The U.S. Travel Association said "with millions of Americans suffering, it is woefully shortsighted to end relief negotiations" and added that "without immediate aid, 50% of all travel-supported jobs will be lost by December — an additional loss of 1.3 million jobs."
FILE PHOTO: American Airlines 737 max passenger planes are parked on the tarmac at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. March 23, 2020.
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U.S. airlines are collectively burning about $5 billion of cash a month as passenger traffic has stalled at around 30% of 2019 levels. After tapping capital markets, they say they have enough liquidity to last them at least 12 months at that rate.
Between voluntary and involuntary furloughs, major U.S. airlines' workforce will shrink by at least 25% in October.
Industry experts expect a slight improvement in domestic demand over the winter holidays from current levels, but it will remain far below last year's volumes. Meanwhile, higher-margin business and international travel remain severely depressed.
Chief executives acknowledge that pre-pandemic air travel demand is unlikely to return for years, and still unknown is how the pandemic, which has forced drastic changes in habits, will impact travel behavior.
American Airlines will end service to 11 smaller airports on Wednesday after Congress failed to approve additional aid.
(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Tracy Rucinski in Chicago; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Kenneth Maxwell)
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Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2006
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Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 3 [hh/mics-3]
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Round 3 (MICS3) is the third round of MICS surveys, previously conducted around 1995 (MICS1) and 2000 (MICS2). Many questions and indicators are consistent and compatible with the prior round of MICS (MICS2) but less so with MICS1, although there have been a number of changes in definition of indicators between rounds. Details can be found by reviewing the indicator definitions.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) is a household survey programme developed by UNICEF to assist countries in filling data gaps for monitoring human development in general and the situation of children and women in particular. MICS is capable of producing statistically sound, internationally comparable estimates of social indicators. The current round of MICS is focused on providing a monitoring tool for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Fit for Children (WFFC), as well as for other major international commitments, such as the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS and the Abuja targets for malaria.
Survey Objectives
The 2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey has as its primary objectives:
- To provide up-to-date information for assessing the situation of children and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- To furnish data needed for monitoring progress toward goals established in the Millennium Declaration, the goals of A World Fit For Children (WFFC), and other internationally agreed upon goals, as a basis for future action;
- To contribute to the improvement of data and monitoring systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to strengthen technical expertise in the design, implementation, and analysis of such systems.
MICS questionnaires are designed in a modular fashion that can be easily customized to the needs of a country. They consist of a household questionnaire, a questionnaire for women aged 15-49 and a questionnaire for children under the age of five (to be administered to the mother or caretaker). Other than a set of core modules, countries can select which modules they want to include in each questionnaire.
The 2006 BiH Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey also included a module referring to household income and expenditure within the household questionnaire.
Survey Implementation
The survey was carried out by Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute, with the support and assistance of UNICEF and other partners. Technical assistance and training for the surveys is provided through a series of regional workshops, covering questionnaire content, sampling and survey implementation; data processing; data quality and data analysis; report writing and dissemination.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)
De jure household members (defined as memers of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)
Women aged 15-49
Children aged 0-4
Version Description
Version 1.0: Edited data used for final report
The BiH Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey included the following modules in the questionnaires:
HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRE : Household listing, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics,child labour, child discipline, child disability, household expenditure, and household income.
WOMEN'S QUESTIONNAIRE: Women's characteristics, marriage-union, contraception and unmet need, attitude toward domestic violence, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS knowledge.
CHILDREN'S QUESTIONNAIRE: Children's characteristics, birth registration and early learning, child development, breastfeeding, care of illness, immunization, and anthropometry.
Household members MICS Topics
Education MICS Topics
Water and sanitation MICS Topics
Household characteristics MICS Topics
Security of tenure MICS Topics
Durability of housing MICS Topics
Child labour MICS Topics
Child discipline MICS Topics
Disability MICS Topics
Household expenditure Country Cpecific Topics
Household incomes Country Cpecific Topics
Women's background MICS Topics
Maternal and newborn health MICS Topics
Marriage and union MICS Topics
Contraception and umnet need MICS Topics
Attitudes towards domestic violence MICS Topics
Sexual behaviour MICS Topics
HIV/AIDS MICS Topics
Support to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS MICS Topics
Children's background MICS Topics
Birth registration MICS Topics
Early learning MICS Topics
Child development MICS Topics
Breastfeeding MICS Topics
Care of illness MICS Topics
Immunization MICS Topics
Anthropometry MICS Topics
The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all women aged 15-49 years resident in the household, and all children aged 0-4 years (under age 5) resident in the household.
Primary investigators
Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Ministers Preparation of state final report
BiH Agency for Statistics Preparation of sample frame
Federal Office of Statistics Technical implementation of sample frame on FBiH
Statistical Office of Republika Srpska Technical implementation of sample frame on FBiH
UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina UNICEF Technical assistance
UNICEF Regional MICS coordinator UNICEF International technical assistance
UNICEF Regional M&E officer UNICEF International technical assistance
Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF NYHQ UNICEF International technical assistance
Funding Agency/Sponsor
UNICEF UNICEF Funding of survey implementation
Department for International Development DFID Funding of survey implementation
Organisation for economic co-operation and development OECD Financial and technical support in data archiving
The principal objective of the sample design was to provide current and reliable estimates on a set of indicators covering the four major areas of the World Fit for Children declaration, including promoting healthy lives; providing quality education; protecting against abuse, exploitation and violence; and combating HIV/AIDS. The population covered by the 2006 MICS is defined as the universe of all women aged 15-49 and all children aged under 5. A sample of households was selected and all women aged 15-49 identified as usual residents of these households were interviewed. In addition, the mother or the caretaker of all children aged under 5 who were usual residents of the household were also interviewed about the child.
The 2006 MICS collected data from a nationally representative sample of households, women and children. The primary focus of the 2006 MICS was to provide estimates of key population and health, education, child protection and HIV related indicators for the country as a whole and for urban and rural areas separately. In addition, the sample was designed to provide estimates for each of the two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Republika Srpska (RS) for key indicators (owing to the constraints in the survey budget, the Brcko District is represented in the same way as other municipalities in BiH). Each entity is subdivided into municipalities. In addition municipalities in Federation of BiH are grouped into 10 cantons. Each municipality is divided into settlements, settlements into statistical circles and each circle into enumeration areas. In total BiH includes 154 municipalities, 12 thousands circles and 18 thousands enumeration areas. The sample frame for this survey was based on list of enumeration areas developed from the 1991 population census. In 2006 the update of 1500 enumeration areas was done and this master sample frame was used for sample selection.
The primary sampling unit (PSU), the cluster for the 2006 MICS, is defined on the basis of the enumeration areas from the master sample frame. A total of 455 census enumeration areas were systematically selected from the Master Sample with equal probability. All households from 455 census enumeration areas were allocated to two household lists. The first list (type 1) consisted of all households with children under five, and the second list consisted of all other households. 3,000 households having equal selection probability were selected from each list. This meant that each household from the list had the same selection probability. As the lists were different, the households with different sizes from different lists had different selection probability. Thus, a sample was obtained, which was self-weighted at the level of each list but is not self-weighted at the national level.
The number of households within each cluster is unequal and proportional to the cluster size.
The households in each list were implicitly stratified, i.e. sorted by entity/district, by urban/rural classification, by order of census enumeration area within the municipality, and by ordinal number within the cluster.
No replacement of households was permitted in case of non-response or non-contactable households. Adjustments were made to the sampling weights to correct for non-response, according to MICS standard procedures.
The sampling procedures are more fully described in the sampling design document and the sampling appendix of the final report.
Deviations from the Sample Design
No major deviations from the original sample design were made. All sample enumeration areas were accessed and successfully interviewed with good response rates.
At the BiH level (Table HH.1), 5,549 households were successfully interviewed and the response rate reached 93.4 percent. In the interviewed households, 4,977 women were identified within the sample range, out of which 4,890 were interviewed. A total of 3,209 children under five years-of-age were listed in the household questionnaire, and the questionnaire was completed for 3,188 children. The ratio of responses for children under five differed significantly between rural areas (89.0 percent) and other areas (95.2 percent).
In the Republika Srpska, 2,019, out of the 2,129 households selected for the sample, were successfully interviewed, yielding a household response rate of 96.0 percent. In the interviewed households, 1,658 women aged 15-49 were identified and 1,620 successfully interviewed (97.7 percent response rate). In addition, out of the 1,086 children under the age of five listed in the household questionnaire, 1,071 had their questionnaires completed, which corresponds to a response rate of 98.6 percent. Overall response rates of 93.8 and 94.7 percent are calculated for the 15-49 women's and under-fives' interviews respectively.
In the Federation of BiH, of the 3,744 households selected for the sample, 3,710 were available for interview, and 3,413 were successfully interviewed (92 percent response rate). In the interviewed households, 3,221 women (aged 15-49) were identified and 3,175 successfully interviewed, yielding a response rate of 98.6 percent. In addition, 2,065 children under the age of five were listed in the household questionnaire and questionnaires were completed for 2,060 of these children (99.8 percent response rate). Overall response rates of 90.7 and 91.8 percent are calculated for the 15-49 women's and under-fives' interviews respectively.
Sample weights were calculated for each of the datafiles.
Sample weights for the household data were computed as the inverse of the probability of selection of the household, computed at the sampling domain level (household with children under 5 and all other households). The household weights were adjusted for non-response at the domain level, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of households equals the total unweighted number of households. The household weight variable is called HHWEIGHT and is used with the HH data and the HL data.
Sample weights for the women's data used the un-normalized household weights, adjusted for non-response for the women's questionnaire, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of women's cases equals the total unweighted number of women's cases.
Sample weights for the children's data followed the same approach as the women's and used the un-normalized household weights, adjusted for non-response for the children's questionnaire, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of children's cases equals the total unweighted number of children's cases.
Dates of Data Collection
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Interviewing was conducted by teams of interviewers. Each interviewing team comprised of 3-4 interviewers.
The role of the supervisor was to coordinate field data collection activities, including management of the field teams, supplies and equipment, finances, maps and listings, coordinate with local authorities concerning the survey plan and make arrangements for accommodation and travel. Additionally, the field supervisor assigned the work to the interviewers, spot checked work, maintained field control documents, and sent completed questionnaires and progress reports to the central office. They were also responsible for reviewing each questionnaire at the end of the day, checking for missed questions, skip errors, fields incorrectly completed, and checking for inconsistencies in the data. The field editor also observed interviews and conducted review sessions with interviewers.
Responsibilities of the supervisors described in the Instructions for Supervisors, together with the different field controls that were in place to control the quality of the fieldwork.
Field visits were also made by a team of central staff on a periodic basis during fieldwork. The senior staff of Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institutealso and UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina were responsible for quality control on 10% of sampled household.
Also one visit from supervisor from Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF NYHQ was made.
Data Collection Notes
During April 2006, the pre-test for the Republika Srpska in the Banja Luka region, whereas the pre-test in FBiH was conducted in April 2006 in households in the Sarajevo Canton. The plan envisaged the conduct of interviews in 111 households obtained by random choice from the Main Sampling Frame. The pre-test was succesfully conducted in 84 households. Pre-test included 10 interviewers who would later become supervisors for the main survey.
Fieldwork was implemented by two entity teams. In the RS, the data was collected by four teams. Each team was comprised of three to four interviewers and one supervisor. The fieldwork began on 15 May 2006 and concluded on 10 July 2006. In FBiH the data was collected by eight teams (23 interviewers) who were organised at the cantonal level. The teams were comprised of supervisors and interviewers, whose number depended on the number of households to be interviewed in the field. In FBiH, fieldwork began on 20 May 2006 and concluded on 30 July 2006.
Interviews averaged 35 minutes for the household questionnaire, 23 minutes for the women's questionnaire, and 27 for the under five children's questionnaire (excluding the anthropometry). Interviews were conducted primarily in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian.
Four staff members of Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute provided overall fieldwork coordination and supervision. The overall field supervisors were Irena Jokic, Amela Lolic, Aida Pilav and Miroslav Stijak.
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska MoHSWRS
FBiH Public Health Institute FBiHPHI Ministry of Health FBiH
The questionnaires for the BiH MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS3 Model Questionnaire with some modifications and additions. A household questionnaire was administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age, relationship, and orphanhood status. The household questionnaire includes household listing, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics,child labour, child discipline, child disability, household expenditure, and household incomes.
In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49 and children under age five. For children, the questionnaire was administered to the mother or caretaker of the child.
The women's questionnaire includes women's characteristics, marriage-union, contraception and unmet need, attitude toward domestic violence, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS knowledge.
The children's questionnaire includes children's characteristics, birth registration and early learning, child development, breastfeeding, care of illness, immunization, and anthropometry.
The questionnaires were developed in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian from the MICS3 Model Questionnaires. After an initial review the questionnaires were translated back into English by an independent translator with no prior knowledge of the survey. The back translation from theBosnian, Serbian and Croatian versions was independently reviewed and compared to the English original. Differences in translation were reviewed and resolved in collaboration with the original translators.
The Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian questionnaires were both piloted as part of the survey pretest.
Data Editing
Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing (see Other processing), including:
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
e) Structural checking of SPSS data files
Detailed documentation of the editing of data can be found in the data processing guidelines
Other Processing
Data were processed in clusters, with each cluster being processed as a complete unit through each stage of data processing. Each cluster goes through the following steps:
1) Questionnaire reception
2) Office editing and coding
3) Data entry
4) Structure and completeness checking
5) Verification entry
6) Comparison of verification data
7) Back up of raw data
8) Secondary editing
9) Edited data back up After all clusters are processed, all data is concatenated together and then the following steps are completed for all data files:
10) Export to SPSS in 4 files (hh - household, hl - household members, wm - women, ch - children under 5)
11) Recoding of variables needed for analysis
12) Adding of sample weights
13) Calculation of wealth quintiles and merging into data
14) Structural checking of SPSS files
15) Data quality tabulations
16) Production of analysis tabulations
Details of each of these steps can be found in the data processing documentation, data editing guidelines, data processing programs in CSPro and SPSS, and tabulation guidelines.
Data was entered and processed separately for FBiH and the RS. Data was entered into two microcomputers by two data entry operators, and the process was supervised by one supervisor. In FBiH, data was entered into three microcomputers by three data entry operators, and the process was supervised by one data entry supervisor. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software programme, Version 14, and the model syntax and tabulation plans developed by UNICEF for this survey. In order to ensure quality control, all questionnaires were entered twice and internal consistency checks were performed. Procedures and standard programmes developed under the global MICS3 project and adapted to the BiH questionnaire were used throughout. STATA 7.0 software was used to estimate standard errors.
Data processing began simultaneously with data collection and was concluded in December 2006 for BiH, in September 2006 for the RS and in November 2006 for FBiH.
For data entry, CSPro version 2.6.007 was used with a highly structured data entry program, using system controlled approach, that controlled entry of each variable. All range checks and skips were controlled by the program and operators could not override these. A limited set of consistency checks were also included inthe data entry program. In addition, the calculation of anthropometric Z-scores was also included in the data entry programs for use during analysis. Open-ended responses ("Other" answers) were not entered or coded, except in rare circumstances where the response matched an existing code in the questionnaire.
Structure and completeness checking ensured that all questionnaires for the cluster had been entered, were structurally sound, and that women's and children's questionnaires existed for each eligible woman and child.
100% verification of all variables was performed using independent verification, i.e. double entry of data, with separate comparison of data followed by modification of one or both datasets to correct keying errors by original operators who first keyed the files.
After completion of all processing in CSPro, all individual cluster files were backed up before concatenating data together using the CSPro file concatenate utility.
For tabulation and analysis SPSS versions 10.0 and 14.0 were used. Version 10.0 was originally used for all tabulation programs, except for child mortality. Later version 14.0 was used for child mortality, data quality tabulations and other analysis activities.
After transferring all files to SPSS, certain variables were recoded for use as background characteristics in the tabulation of the data, including grouping age, education, geographic areas as needed for analysis. In the process of recoding ages and dates some random imputation of dates (within calculated constraints) was performed to handle missing or "don't know" ages or dates. Additionally, a wealth (asset) index of household members was calculated using principal components analysis, based on household assets, and both the score and quintiles were included in the datasets for use in tabulations.
Estimates of Sampling Error
Estimates from a sample survey are affected by two types of errors: 1) non-sampling errors and 2) sampling errors. Non-sampling errors are the results of mistakes made in the implementation of data collection and data processing. Numerous efforts were made during implementation of the 2006 MICS to minimize this type of error, however, non-sampling errors are impossible to avoid and difficult to evaluate statistically.
Sampling errors can be evaluated statistically. The sample of respondents to the 2006 MICS is only one of many possible samples that could have been selected from the same population, using the same design and expected size. Each of these samples would yield results that differe somewhat from the results of the actual sample selected. Sampling errors are a measure of the variability in the results of the survey between all possible samples, and, although, the degree of variability is not known exactly, it can be estimated from the survey results. The sampling erros are measured in terms of the standard error for a particular statistic (mean or percentage), which is the square root of the variance. Confidence intervals are calculated for each statistic within which the true value for the population can be assumed to fall. Plus or minus two standard errors of the statistic is used for key statistics presented in MICS, equivalent to a 95 percent confidence interval.
If the sample of respondents had been a simple random sample, it would have been possible to use straightforward formulae for calculating sampling errors. However, the 2006 MICS sample is the result of a multi-stage stratified design, and consequently needs to use more complex formulae. For the calculation of sampling errors from MICS data, STATA 7.0 has been used.
Sampling errors have been calculated for a select set of statistics (all of which are proportions due to the limitations of the Taylor linearization method) for the national sample, urban and rural areas, and for each of the five regions. For each statistic, the estimate, its standard error, the coefficient of variation (or relative error -- the ratio between the standard error and the estimate), the design effect, and the square root design effect (DEFT -- the ratio between the standard error using the given sample design and the standard error that would result if a simple random sample had been used), as well as the 95 percent confidence intervals (+/-2 standard errors).
Details of the sampling errors are presented in the sampling errors appendix to the report and in the sampling errors table presented in te external resources.
A series of data quality tables and graphs are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
Age distribution of the household population
Age distribution of eligible women and interviewed women
Age distribution of eligible children and children for whom the mother or caretaker was interviewed
Age distribution of children under age 5 by 3 month groups
Age and period ratios at boundaries of eligibility
Percent of observations with missing information on selected variables
Presence of mother in the household and person interviewed for the under 5 questionnaire
School attendance by single year age
Distribution of women by time since last birth
Scatterplot of weight by height, weight by age and height by age
Graph of male and female population by single years of age
The results of each of these data quality tables is shown in the appendix of the final report and is also given in the external resources section.
The general rule for presentation of missing data in the final report tabulations is that a column is presented for missing data if the percentage of cases with missing data is 1% or more. Cases with missing data on the background characteristics (e.g. education) are included in the tables, but the missing data rows are suppressed and noted at the bottom of the tables in the report (not in the SPSS output, however).
Access authority
UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina UNICEF sarajevo@unicef.org www.unicef.ba
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska www.vladars.net/en/min
Ministry of Health FBiH www.fmoh.gov.ba
Memic, Fahrudin FSO of FBiH fahrudinm@fzs.ba www.fzs.ba
Stijak, Miroslav MoHSWRS stijak@inecco.net
Hancioglu, Attila UNICEF ahancioglu@unicef.org www.childinfo.org
Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets.
Access conditions
Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate research, with the condition that we receive a detailed description of the objectives of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and Ministry of Health FBiH and UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1. The Public Health Institute of BiH Federation (dir@bih.net.ba)
2. Directorate for Economic Planning, Bosnia and Herzegovina (dep@dep.gov.ba/sstanic@dep.gov.ba)
Requests for access to the datasets may be made through the website www.childinfo.org.
Citation requirements
Directorate for Economic Planning Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institute, BiH. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey: Household , household listing, women and children's files, 2006 [Computer file]. Banja Luka, Sarajevo, BiH: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institute [producer], 2006. Banja Luka, Sarajevo, BiH: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska, FBiH Public Health Institute, UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina and New York: Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF [distributors], 2006.
UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute provides these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Republika Srpska and FBiH Public Health Institute accept no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.
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Topcic Elmedin DEP Directorate for Economic Planning, BiH Customization of generic template
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James, Rhiannon UNICEF Customization of BiH MICS Archive for childinfo.org
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Coronavirus: Lebanon kicks off 24-hour curfew as COVID-19 cases surge
Lebanese hunkered down indoors Thursday on the first day of a strict 11-day lockdown imposed in a bid to slow down a sharp uptick in novel coronavirus cases.
The heightened restrictions, which include a 24-hour curfew until January 25, come after some hospitals started to run out of beds to treat Covid patients.
In the capital, a trickle of trucks and cars ventured out onto the roads on Thursday, after state media reported caretaker health minister Hamad Hasan was admitted to hospital for treatment for Covid-19 the previous evening.
Under the new measures, non-essential workers are barred from leaving their homes, and supermarkets will operate delivery services only.
The restriction has raised fears of food shortages in impoverished and remote regions where deliveries are not readily available.
People shop at a supermarket ahead of a tightened lockdown and a 24-hour curfew to curb the spread the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beirut. (Reuters)
For several days, Lebanese have flooded supermarkets and chemists in a desperate bid to stock up.
Some are worried the new restrictions will pile additional suffering on the country’s poorest.
Charity Save the Children said it accepted the need for a strict response to the coronavirus uptick, but said it was “very concerned that vulnerable families and their children will be left to deal with a catastrophe on their own”.
Lebanon, a country of more than six million, was already grappling with its worst economic downturn in decades when the pandemic hit.
Previous lockdowns have forced businesses to close and deprived daily wage earners of an income in a country where more than half the population lives in poverty.
The World Bank Group on Tuesday approved a $246 million aid package to help 786,000 vulnerable Lebanese, but it is unclear when that assistance will arrive.
Recent days have seen Lebanon register record daily Covid-19 caseloads in one of the steepest increases in transmission worldwide.In total, it has announced 231,936 cases since February last year, including 1,740 deaths.
Cases skyrocketed after authorities loosened restrictions during the holiday season, allowing restaurants and night clubs to remain open until 3:00 am, despite warnings from health professionals.
A partial lockdown in place since January 7 has failed to halt the spread of the virus.
Parliament is expected to convene Friday to examine a bill to allow the import and use of Covid-19 vaccines, which authorities have previously said will arrive in Lebanon by February.
A caretaker administration is overseeing the country’s Covid-19 response.
The government resigned after a devastating port explosion last summer, but a deeply divided political class has been unable to agree on a new cabinet to launch urgently required reforms.
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Real-time Runway Monitoring New Global Reporting Standard
The ICAO has developed a new methodology for runway monitoring. Photo: Lucash (via Wikimedia Commons)
Later this year, airport operators will be required to assess and report runway conditions using a new methodology developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Here is a look at what compliance might mean for hubs, as well as some of the challenges around implementation.
As of November, all airport operators will be required to monitor their runways more closely using a new standardized methodology. Developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the package, known as the global reporting format (GRF), is aimed at harmonizing the assessment and reporting of runway conditions.
Along with controlled flight into terrain (an accident in which a plane under a pilot’s control is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, water or obstacle) and loss of control in-flight, runway safety is one of ICAO’s top three safety priorities.
Runway excursions – incidents in which aircraft veer off the landing strip, either on take-off or landing – are a particular concern. In February, a flight operated by a budget Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines slipped off a wet runway at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport on landing, killing three passengers and injuring scores of others onboard.
Thankfully, excursion-related fatalities are rare, but excursions themselves are common, occurring around three times a month, according to ICAO figures.
Roughly 90% of such incidents occur on ‘contaminated’ runways – where the runway is slippery as a result of wetness, snow, slush or ice. This would suggest, as pointed out at a recent IACO assembly by Paul Adamson, the agency’s airport operations and operability officer, that “many of these excursions happen in a very focused period of time”.
“This methodology is very simple and based upon operational need,” said Adamson in his presentation on GRF. “Going on accidents we’ve had in the past; and we know that we need to have this common methodology and common language around the globe and air traffic network.”
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AV Technology Highlights 150 Media Stream
Everything You See & Don’t See – 150 Media Stream: A Stunning Accomplishment
by James Careless
As seen in AV Technology Magazine
Astounding! From an AV perspective, there is no other word that comes close to adequately characterizing ‘150 Media Stream’. It is a 3,000 square foot audio/video display in the lobby of 150 North Riverside Plaza; a shimmering 53-story cantilevered glass tower alongside the Chicago River.
Don’t get fooled by the square footage of 150 Media Stream: It is anything but a monolithic video display. In fact, the installation is divided into 89 separated super-thin LED blades variously sized between 3.25″ to 15″ in width, and standing vertically anywhere from 6′ to 22′ tall.
Actually, this 150′ long installation doesn’t stand; it floats. The concept of 3″ thick extruded aluminum frames that house the LED blades was designed and developed by McCann Systems – and all custom-made by McCann Systems attaching to back-mounted brackets affixed to the building’s 13′ concrete base wall. As a result, the entire display appears to be suspended in air; weightless and reaching skyward to the wall-to-wall glass windows above.
“Everything you see – and don’t see – in the physical 150 Media Stream installation was designed and built specifically for this project,” said Frank McCann, President & CEO of McCann Systems. “It had to be all custom-built at our fabrication facility in Edison, New Jersey, because there is nothing like this AV installation anywhere in the world.”
The vertical spaces between the 89 LED blades are almost as important as the blades themselves. This is because the glimpses of the 13′ concrete base wall behind the monitors can either separate groups of blades into a series of displays, or be visually bridged in the viewer’s imagination to support a larger, full-blade panorama. (Audio is provided by speakers cunningly hidden inside the blades’ cases, while the wiring is hidden from view.)
“With 1.25 million square feet of space between bridges spanning the Chicago River, 150 North Riverside Plaza is a marquee location for Riverside Investment & Development,” said Anthony Scacco, the company’s Executive Vice President. “As the largest video display of its kind in Chicago, 150 Media Stream makes a statement about the quality of our design and our brand. We want our tenants to be proud of being here, and to look forward to what they will see every time they pass by this innovative piece of public art.”
Compelling Non-Repetitive Content
As striking as 150 Media Stream is from an engineering perspective, it is the unique AV content that makes this installation truly one-of-a-kind.
The reason: Rather than populate these blades with meaningless corporate videos and commercials, Riverside Investment & Development (the builder/owner of 150 North Riverside Plaza) has been commissioning artists to produce pre-recorded linear content to use the 89 blades and their setting to full advantage.
“We commission visual artists with the imagination, talent, and ability to work with 150 Media Stream’s distinctive canvas,” said Yugo Zhou, 150 Media Stream Director and Curator (and an accomplished artist in her own right.) “It is up to them to create presentations that take full advantage of 150 Media Stream’s unmatched visual possibilities.”
The work of Chicago new media artist Jason Salavon is the first to be seen on 150 Media Stream, which was officially launched into service on April 20, 2017. “The opportunity to explore these aspects of this project was intriguing,” Salavon said. “There is no other video wall in the world that looks like this one.”
This said, Riverside Investment & Development wants the content on 150 Media Stream to be non-repetitive. To be precise, “the client was clear that they never wanted to see the same content on the 89 LED blades over the course of a week, relying on prerecorded linear video wasn’t enough,” said Chad Hutson, President of Leviathan. “That’s why the installation’s scheduler switches between prerecorded linear video and generative content, to ensure that the content on 150 Media Stream is always fresh and different.”
‘Generative’ content is created by a series of algorithms that interact with real-time data such as the weather and news feeds, to deliver graphical video feeds whose colors, shapes, and speed match the mood of the world outside. Leviathan helped create the generative software for 150 Media Stream, and to design the content servers that generate and play this content out.
Working together, 150 Media Stream’s mix of commissioned linear video and algorithm-created generative content keep this installation’s visual lineup consistently fresh and different.
Like any astonishing magical illusion, the nuts-and-bolts of 150 Media Stream are not meant to be seen by the viewer. But these nuts-and-bolts exist, because feeding the equivalent of four 4K video feeds operating at 60 frames per second across 89 LED blades is anything but a simple trick.
All of the magic that drives 150 Media Stream comes from a sixth floor control room inside 150 North Riverside Plaza. Under the control of a custom-programmed scheduling server, this control room is equipped with five 4K video ‘content machines’ that serve the 89 LED blades below.
“Four of these content machines are needed to playback all 4K video feeds,” said Nino Fusaro, McCann System’s SVP and Director of Operations of the New Jersey regional office. “The fifth is a backup should there be an issue with one of the four in use. The backup content machine can assume any position on the wall and will automatically sync up after an issue is detected.”
Each of the four content machines is responsible for a quarter of the 89 blade video wall (conceptually, that is how the playout system ‘views’ 150 Media Stream’s 89 LED blades). “All the video feeds – four plus the backup from the content PCs – are fed to and routed by a custom video processor that ingests the five 4K video feeds, then carves four of them up into 16 outputs,” said Fusaro. “The video processor then outputs to the 16 LED controllers and continues on to the 89 LED blades via fiber.” The audio feed is fed through the same system, and managed by the scheduling server.
Making 150 Media Stream into a reality came with many challenges along the way.
The first was to come up with a design that would work in this lobby. “The 13′ concrete wall that we were working with gave you the visual sense of sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool, looking up” said McCann. “It took a few iterations before we came up with the current design, which breaks up the boundary between the top of the wall and the glass, and makes it disappear.”
Another challenge was sourcing the display and playout equipment. Although McCann Systems was able to incorporate some off-the-shelf items such as a Biamp Tesira 48 channel DSP server, Crown audio amplifiers, Dell 1TB hard drives, and off-the-shelf Dell/HP servers, the heart of this installation was custom-built.
A case in point: To make the actual video installation look as lightweight and airy as possible, McCann Systems opted to locate the 89 LED blades’ 48 volt DC power supplies outside of the blade cases and hidden from view, which required a custom solution balancing technology and architecture. “We had to run about 12,000 feet of 8 gauge low voltage cable between the power transformers and the blades, to get the kind of lossless performance we needed,’ said Frank McCann. “It was a lot more work than just building thicker blade cases with the power supplies inside, but it was worth the effort to get the sleek form factor we were after.”
This ‘custom challenge’ extends to McCann Systems having to build the 89 LED blades itself, rather than buying off-the-shelf 4K monitors. The company even had to engineer and develop the aluminum extrusion dies in custom sizes, to craft the blade cases to the thinness and strength that the client wanted. The printed circuit boards, or PCB, were also designed and manufactured in custom sizes specifically for 150 Media Stream. Each component was designed by McCann Sytems engineers, sourced separately for custom manufacturing, and then assembled by McCann Systems.
The software and supporting hardware to control 150 Media Stream and to divide the 4K video streams for playout was also a custom challenge for McCann and Leviathan: You can’t buy this stuff at Best Buy.
Not surprising, “we had some complications when the 89 blades were first fired up during initial testing,” said Fusaro. “Frankly, there are going to be challenges with marrying all of this custom technology together. After a while, we got sections of the blades running, but it took a lot of hard slogging by the McCann team to get the entire 150 Media Stream installation functioning as planned.”
This said, the bugs were eventually worked out and 150 Media Stream was launched as planned on April 20, 2017. Now backed by spares and ongoing technical support from McCann Systems, this ground-breaking 150′ video installation will be dazzling Chicagoans for years to come –using a one-of-a-kind display layout that simply does not exist anywhere else on the planet.
To see 150 Media Stream in action online, go to 150mediastream.com.
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Pupil Place Planning and resultant Capital Projects
To understand pupil place projections and the impact on school places and to agree to any proposed expansions and bulge classes.
The Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young People), Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite, introduced the report and noted Lambeth’s success in supplying primary and secondary places, providing an additional 27 forms of entry (Appendix C), four new secondary schools, 165 additional SEN places and 78 places at Vanguard Special School for 2020. The paper demonstrated a clear need to focus on the delivery of additional second school places and set out reasons for increased demand.
Councillor Jackie Meldrum addressed Cabinet and expressed her concern at the shortage of places in West Norwood and Streatham, but noted the Council’s £200m expenditure on schools over the last seven years to generate places and provide fantastic schools for the borough, especially after inheriting a local school system in a terrible state.
Cabinet Members raised the following points in discussion:
· 95% of Lambeth schools were now rated as good or outstanding and noted the improvement from being in special measures as opposed to Rotherham’s schools which were still under review.
· The report was exemplary in its use of information and data.
· The apparent lack of places in south Lambeth was concerning.
Cathy Twist, Director for Education & Learning; Maggie Harriott, Education Strategy Manager; and, Kamran Rashid, Interim Assistant Director for Schools and Community Programmes, responded to questions as below:
· Officers were concentrating on secondary provision and welcomed Harris School sixth form receiving planning permission.
· No complaints had been received from West Norwood nor Streatham in recent years and officers reassured Cabinet that residents had school places available, however the Norwood School was a small school and was why it had received a red-rating.
· The town centre categorisation formula used was clarified every year with the Department for Education (DfE). A pupil place planning process review by peer review from another local authority had taken place in 2015 (agenda pack, page 128) and reported the process as accurate and being ‘good’, utilising the right data sources and of sound methodology.
· Officers would review the language used in the agenda pack (page 138) to describe the number of available secondary school places.
· Officers would manage any decline, such as potentially occurring after Brexit, and could attempt to do so by reducing published admission numbers (PANs) in agreement with schools.
· The Basic Needs Grant cessation in 2019/20 would be met by increasing completion of school capacity (SCAP) returns, however there was flexibility and more places were not required.
· The most difficult aspect of prediction was the child yield, such as establishing the number of children from new estate builds; however, they remained largely accurate.
· Bishop Thomas Grant might not need a bulge class, but it would be helpful if the Southwark Diocese were to take part in any discussion; noting renovation was still required.
The Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young People), Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite, concluded the discussion, emphasising the breadth of improvement from the borough’s historically poor school standards and the turnaround where Lambeth was a net importer of pupils to secondary schools and standards were now superb.
1. To note the planned primary expansions and Planned Admission Number (PAN) changes for the period 2019 to 2021.
2. To note the falling rolls in Lambeth’s primary schools because of population changes and the potential impact on schools’ finances.
3. To note that the proposed primary school provision on the New Park Road/’Telferscot 2’ site is no longer required.
4. To note the projections of demand for places and the priority for creating additional secondary school places
5. To approve the approach to planning additional secondary school places potentially in the form of temporary bulge classes, permanent development or expansion.
6. To note the agreement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) for an additional 6FE (Forms of Entry) secondary school which is expected to be delivered by 2020 on part of the Glenbrook primary school site.
7. To agree to the proposed programmes of work subject to appropriate statutory consents.
8. To delegate further decisions to the Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young People) on the final capital programme to meet demand.
9. To delegate the power to authorise virements of available funds to the Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and Young People) for the programme as a whole, to manage risks at they arrive.
The Leader of the Council, Councillor Lib Peck, thanked attendees for their representations and closed the meeting of Cabinet.
Report author: Maggie Harriott
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Book Review: What Doesn’t Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival
June 6, 2020 November 23, 2020 ~ J Rose ~ Leave a comment
‘What Doesn’t Kill You,’ is an anthology of short stories and a couple of philosophical essays centred on a single theme: adversity.
Its contributors are authors, journalists and figures from the British media, and the topics it covers are broad.
I enjoyed reading ‘What Doesn’t Kill You,’ for a number of reasons but not for the ones I was expecting. If you love – as I do – to leaf through the overcoming of hardship – the long-earned joyful walk to all kinds of personal victories – then this may not be the book for you.
This anthology, travels, instead – to borrow a term from Pilgrim’s Progress – to a series of ‘sloughs of despond,’ personal difficulties which its writers have experienced and then invites us to take a look around. This may sound bleak – and many of the tales here are predictably dark – but there is also something deeply connecting in reading of another person’s ‘Struggle’, ‘Self’ and ‘Striving’ (the titles of each section of this anthology) without necessarily learning of their happy ending.
Indeed, despite the occasional musings on personal transformation and some beautiful philosophical insights on what it means to be human (the elliptical title of the anthology is borrowed from Nietzsche), this anthology could not be classed as ‘uplift lit.’ Healing, or even transcendence of past pain is not the focus of this collection.
This said, the writing (and editing by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska) is fabulous. There are breathtaking lines to take away – language which takes us closer to what it feels like when life’s sharpness moves us to the edge.
The exquisite surrealism of Irenosen Okojie’s ‘Three Wise Women’ is a huge treat:
‘I sat in train carriages watching for a far-flung white calla lily to manifest from a rip in a seat.’
Okojie’s storytelling is utterly compelling – poetic and precise – and her descriptions of ‘winter’ searing in the way which they evoke the alienation of an anxious mind.
Alex Christophi’s piece, which is both of the mind and rooted in the flesh, takes us through the recreation of memory and its accompanying thoughts. His words on coming back to present stillness are arresting:
‘…when they finally stop running, they can actually feel the world spinning.’
The meditations on ‘disappearance’ which appeared throughout this anthology were also a thrill to read:
In Ed Mitchell’s story of alcohol addiction, ‘Not Wasted’ where he describes how he went from an affluent lifestyle as a television presenter to living on the streets of Hove, he writes:
‘I disappeared for a year: a sea front ghost.’
‘A Disappearing Act’ by Kate Leaver is a moving account of overcoming an eating disorder, clear-sighted on what it meant to withdraw from ‘the act of living my life’. She writes:
‘It was my best effort to vanish.’
And I particularly liked Hazel Gale’s exploration of leaving one’s own body in ‘The Last Fight’. Her disappearance (and later re-appearance) in her own physical reality, is the story of reclaiming her personhood:
‘What I’d been calling the Self was forged solely of what I thought was required of me by the Other.’
Memory’s disappearance is acutely studied in Emily Reynold’s ‘My Unremembered Life’:
‘Trauma simultaneously erases memory and rewrites it,’
while Elitsa Dermendzhiyska’s tale of using economic theory to try to make uncertainty vanish from her daily life, lured by the ‘promise of an underlying order’ contains great beauty in its truth and vulnerability.
Peppered throughout this collection are nuggets of inspiration, on our personal agency in not just surviving adversity, but the ways in which we might exist in its wake:
‘If I don’t want to go back to prison,’ writes Cathy Rentzenbrink, on tending to herself sensitively in recovery from PTSD, ‘I have to make sure I keep the conditions of my bail.’ and for each of these writers – and for many of us – this keeping out of the ‘prison’ of self-protective suffering might look quite different.
Ben Saunders explores the futility of ‘striving’ in the last section of the anthology, through his piece ‘A Very Long Walk in a Very Cold Place.’ His is a gripping real-life adventure to the North Pole full of grit and grimness, where the true prize cannot be gained externally.
Nature is also at the forefront of A.J. Ashworth’s ‘Eight.’ Facts and images of the sun weave beguilingly through this powerful account of living with panic attacks.
The stories in ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ neither sugarcoat nor glamourize the difficulties encountered by its authors. There is courage in these very personal tales, many as raw as the pain they’ve endured.
Rory Bremner’s essay is a beautiful description of living life with ADHD, both sensible in its advice to those experiencing similar, and celebratory of the wealth of expression he feels the condition has brought him. His refusal to see ADHD as a problem, instead as a part of himself to be loved, is key to the way that he chooses to live.
In his essay ‘No Cure For Life,’ Julian Baggini takes a characteristically rationalist approach to suffering, shunning the notion of the ‘happy ending’ sold to us by self-help evangelists. He observes the uneven way in which life’s slings and arrows appear to be handed out, and seems to underscore some of the thoughts of M. Scott Peck in his seminal book, The Road Less Travelled:
‘Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.’
However in Peck’s book he goes on to say:
‘It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.’
While ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ isn’t generally about transcending the adversity it portrays – it reads more as a panorama of lived experience – the gems contained within make it well-worth a look.
I loved the style of Lily Bailey’s ‘The Lily Show’ and found her stream of consciousness sentences a brilliant vehicle into the hellish reality she employs to keep her safe.
‘Maybe…they’ll smash through the set walls and rescue me..’
This is as real an account of mental illness and its attendant isolation that I have ever read.
But what I loved most about ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ is that it points to other books as safe crossings and scaffolds when life gets tricky. There are some great book recommendations here – from JD Salinger to Clarissa Pinkola Estés – so many of the writers in this anthology finding solace in the printed page.
It has indeed been my own experience that there is a deep hopefulness in the occupation of reading – in seeing the story of another played out and repurposed purely for our benefit – which can be like a hand-hold through life’s sometime rough terrain.
‘Reading was, as ever, an ally in taking my mind away from itself,’
writes Cathy Rentzenbrink.
And it is this which makes ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’, a valuable book shelf addition; each of these 15 pieces – while simultaneously distracting us – draws us closer to our own humanity, especially in this time of societal introspection.
‘It is always hard to believe that the courageous step is so close to us,’ writes David Whyte at the start of the anthology, and in celebrating the beauty and plurality of each of these writers’ challenging life experiences, ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ empowers us to find our own possible steps when life feels like a struggle.
What Doesn’t Kill You is published by Unbound, available to purchase here (among other outlets) from 11th June 2020.
This blog recommends pairing this book with the 1978 classic, The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck, a book about fulfillment based on the author’s experiences as a psychiatrist and as a person.
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A tale from Colombia: the power of owning your story
February 27, 2017 December 16, 2018 ~ J Rose ~ Leave a comment
The Colombia of my imagination has tropical rhythms over middle eastern chords. Poetry. Impenetrable jungle, a generosity of smiles. Although I have never visited the country itself. All of this I learned from friends and songs and stories.
Last week I came across the real Colombia of the 1980s as experienced by a writer who spent her childhood there.
As a girl in England, my first school friend was from North America. Long ponytails, kind eyes, we met when we were four or five. I loved her because she wasn’t like the folk I knew. She spoke with vowels unknown and when she did a handstand, she called it by another name.
Like many in our university town, her family stayed a year. And then they moved to South America.
Last month I found a letter she sent me in 1981. When I looked online I discovered that thirty years on, my friend Shelley Hundley had written and published a book called A Cry for Justice.
I read it in two sittings.
There are few works of literature that have made me reflect so. Examining her own history and faith, Shelley has managed to somehow hold, ‘the mirror up to nature’.*
Her book describes that when she was a child, living in Medellín, between the age of six and ten, a minister known to her family routinely abused her, then left her silenced by the burden of his crimes.
She lost her faith, the world became a place from which she hid. Later on, she planned to take her life.
Shelley’s is a book about trauma and the healing which she found through re-embracing her religious faith. Her story-telling is compelling. The book, both page-turner – for the prose flows effortlessly – and an uneasy read.
As if Shelley’s own pain were not enough, Medellín in the eighties was a dangerous place to be a child. Shelley describes herself as ‘a gringa-paisa, an American by blood but a Colombian by birth.’ At the hands of Pablo Escobar and his ilk, Colombian cities in the 1980s were part war-zones where children did the normal things: play and learn and go to church but Shelley also saw shootings, robbery, casual violence, lockdowns.
Shelley’s descriptions of the society of her childhood reminded me of Denmark in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the sense of something once beautiful, decayed.
Later at a North American college, filled with the rage of a knowledge unspeakable, Shelley embodied the young prince’s quandary: ‘To be or not to be’. But it was at this time that her life began to slowly turn, through therapy, scripture and prayer, from angry existence to a cathedral of love.
This book is, without a doubt, an invitation to the message of Jesus Christ and yet, I wonder whether whoever reads it, from whichever faith or background, may be strengthened by its integrity. Shelley rejects modern social ‘relativism’ in favour of God as unique Judge, liberator of the human from ego-based judgement, Opener of a space from which to love.
Filled with light, Shelley’s tale starts with survival which becomes thriving and culminates in complete transcendence of her past.
Sometimes a book is enough to throw open a window on a place we’ve never seen. Driving in Muscat last week with Shelley’s words still inside my head, I listened to an interview with Colombian author Laura Restrepo, award-winning writer of the novel, Delirio, also set in 1980s Medellín.
When asked how Colombian young people might approach the act of writing she said:
You know people in Colombia… it seems like everyone is writing, poetry, essays, novels, it seems like a very intelligent and brave way of understanding what’s going on with us. There’s plenty of fine literature in Colombia, great writers all over the place. It’s like a process of healing that the country is going through by telling its own story once and again and again… Go on and write your stuff, whatever you want to write, write.
Owning our past, paragraph by paragraph is for some, the conscious taking back of what was always meant to be ours. When Laura Restrepo and Shelley Hundley chose to write about their lives -the wounds of their society – they tapped into the power to heal themselves -and others – with their pen.
To tell one’s own story in whatever form is an act of courage. Writers who allow the sun to shine on the painful cracks in their personal histories are surely partaking in the communal work of letting in the light.
I’d like to visit Colombia some day. Thanks to Laura Restrepo and my childhood friend, I picture a place where everybody’s writing their own story. I’m trying to imagine the magnificence of that.
Shelley Hundley’s book A Cry for Justice is available here
Laura Restrepo’s novel Delirium is available here
I would love to know which countries you have been inspired to visit via literature. Please, as always, feel free to comment below.
*Prince Hamlet’s advice to the players in the play within the play (Hamlet by William Shakespeare)
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7 of the Most Splendid Stained Glass Windows in the World
By Kelly Richman-Abdou on May 4, 2018
Exquisitely crafted and effortlessly ethereal, stained glass windows have been prevalent in places of worship for centuries. Though often associated with Gothic cathedrals, the colorful panes can be found in a wide array of religious sites, from mesmerizing mosques to modern churches.
Here, we take a tour of some of the most fantastic famous stained glass windows across the globe, from medieval masterpieces to contemporary creations. While the dazzling pieces drastically range in scale and style, each one possesses the ability to transform an earthly site into a transcendent kaleidoscope of colors.
Described as the “jewel of the Rayonnant Gothic period,” Paris' stunning Sainte-Chapelle was built in the 13th century by King Louis IX. Initially intended to house precious relics, Sainte-Chapelle is particularly renowned for its collection of 15 windows. Measuring nearly 50 feet in height, each monumental window depicts a sparkling interpretation of a biblical scene rendered in gem-like tones and impressive detail. In addition to these vertical masterpieces, the medieval chapel is also celebrated for the rich tracery and kaleidoscopic colors of its rose window.
Interiors of the Sainte-Chapelle (Photo: wjarek via Shutterstock Royalty-free stock photo)
The Sainte Chapelle Holy Chapel in Paris, France (Photo: Gilmanshin via Shutterstock Royalty-free stock photo)
Throughout the late 15th and early 16th centuries, a beautiful Gothic chapel was erected in the University of Cambridge's King's College. In addition to mesmerizing fan vaulting and a painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, King's College Chapel is famous for its treasure trove of narrative windows. The iconography featured in the splendid panes incorporates both religious and royal motifs and illustrates the artistic advancements of England's late Gothic period.
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Nasir al-Mulk Mosque
The Pink Mosque (Photo: TripDeeDeephoto via Shutterstock Royalty-free stock photo)
The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, a 19th-century place of worship in Shiraz, Iran, is a breathtaking example of Islamic architecture. Featuring a façade decorated with a row of ornamental stained glass windows, the “Pink Mosque” offers worshippers a sunlit spectacle every day at dawn: as the morning light shines through the panes, it illuminates the interior's rose-colored tiles and patterned Persian carpet with an enchanting array of vivid colors.
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Emilia-Romagna MotoGP Subscriber Notes: The Winner Who Wasn't, Reinventing Maverick, Championship Math, Ducati Braking, And How Messages Work
Just when you thought the 2020 MotoGP season couldn't get any weirder, the Emilia-Romagna round at Misano threw up surprises we never even knew were possible. You would have that that having MotoGP race at the same track twice would make matters even more predictable, but instead, we find ourselves deep inside the world of Donald Rumsfeld's famous unknown unknowns.
The race itself was more a war of attrition than a bar-banging battle from lights to flag. It was hardly bereft of excitement – the battle for the podium grew intense and controversial in the last few laps – but the eventual winner spent pretty much the whole race alone. The same was true for the rider who should have won, but managed to throw it all away with seven laps to go.
That was far from the only crash. Of the 20 riders who started the race, only 13 managed to cross the line at the end of 27 laps. That is one of those surprises we really hadn't seen coming – two races and a test, combined with almost perfect weather (the briefest of showers during the Moto2 race, just enough to force a restart interrupted a week of otherwise endless sunshine) meant the newly resurfaced track had more grip than the tires could handle, and by Sunday, the riders knew every bump around Misano better than the knew their own mothers.
The end result of the Cattolica Carnage was a sixth winner in seven races, a championship leader most people had discounted, and the top four in the title chase covered by just four points. There was a controversial penalty which cost one rider the podium. And a winner who everybody had written off after the first round at Misano last week.
And we still haven't got a clue who is going to win the 2020 MotoGP crown. With seven races to go, there are eight riders all within 25 points (or one race win) of the championship leader, and the top ten are covered by 27 points. Four races ago, the championship leader was in fourth place, and the rider now in fourth, just 4 points behind him, was down in fourteenth. It is a cliché, but the championship really is wide open.
So there is plenty to discuss in these subscriber notes. From Pecco Bagnaia through Maverick Viñales to Andrea Dovizioso and Alex Márquez, and much more. Here is what you will find inside:
Why Pecco Bagnaia didn't get the maiden win he seemed to deserve, and how a thin sliver of plastic turned out to be the bane of Pramac Ducati
Maverick Viñales' unexpected revival: what changed, and why he didn't end up going backward like last week
Why isn't Joan Mir walking away with the 2020 championship?
The penalty which robbed Fabio Quartararo of a podium, and the perilous path dashboard messages follow from Race Direction to the rider's dashboard
Alex Márquez saving the day for Repsol Honda
Why did so many riders crash out in otherwise perfect conditions?
Andrea Dovizioso explains how the new rear Michelin is forcing him to change the way he brakes, once his strongest asset
The state of a championship which nobody appears to win
What happens at Barcelona?
And whether we can actually draw any conclusions from a race which was so thoroughly weird.
So close, and yet so far
As always, a lot to get through. So let's begin with the rider who deserved the win, right up until he didn't: Pecco Bagnaia.
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yud77 replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 05:41
sorry, David -- amazing writeup! but 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence..
"Of the 20 riders who started the race, only 7 managed to cross the line at the end of 27 laps."
?? you did mean that "7 did NOT manage to cross the line .." yes?
Rigged crashes /s
Sadmoon replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 06:18
About one lap before Bagnaia's crash, his name suddenly dropped 5-6 positions on the screen for one second before coming back on top, this is enough to kickstart my new conspiracy theory that Dorna went on full scripted mode with races and championship /s.
Conspiracy?
So, what are they conspiring on as the desired result? I'm not that big on conspiracy theories for the simple reason that people do love sharing secrets and, with a cast of thousands, those who are disadvantaged would be making noise.
what I do think is that the loop/transponder gubbins are not entirely reliable. I'm sure we've all seen plenty of races where this or that rider temporarily disappears from the timing screens only to reappear in the same position soon afterwards. That said, I was saying to myself, over the final few laps, that Quarty needed to be careful as it looked like he was touching green every now and then. Shame to lose a spot though, especially if he loses the title by just two points.
This would make sense if they
CTK replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 14:28
This would make sense if they made Maverick crash, given the narrative of this season.
With Sadmoon's very serious
Motoshrink replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 18:41
With Sadmoon's very serious consideration, you may be missing the real story here. Yamaha just debuted their Holestuck Device. Have you any idea how difficult it is to get a tear-off into an intake duct? Absolutely brilliant. The interference may have blipped his transponder.
With a button that tucks your tail down between your legs, you never know what it does if pushed hard the other way. "Eat a tear-off damn Duc motor!" "Long lap penalty now? When I have a PODIUM?! Eat a tear-off Race Direction!" Looks like it still needs a bit of development Fabio.
Sincere and ignorant question: memory says both tires have to clearly cut green for a track limits infraction, and that I have seen riders hoisting their front while apparently doing so and not getting a warning. Does being on one wheel vs two have anything to do with the rule at all? How about how RD seems to be applying it?
I think Fabio saw his message but chose to get the podium for a moral victory and demotion to where he would end up anyway. His "didn't see it" being honest In the manner that one can note something but not take it in. Before you react and reduce things to concept and rationalizing, which someone is about to do here anyway, see that you just "saw" this very thing re concrete operational reductivism with your eyes but not your mind, and went ahead via "how I see things." Then even double down saying you didn't and don't see that you did, but that the other person that you disdain as wrong is like Fabio and this is delusional etc. And miss the irony/paradox entirely? Blergh. (By the way, the pedantic trudgery processes are here often. Concrete operational functioning is of the schoolyard child developmental stage, and is supposed to subside in latency's metamorphosis kicking off authentic nuanced individuation. Unless there are developmental issues and/or Honda fans). Back to bikes, but this slots in with a few rider considerations.
Bagnaia's crash, he may have been on a subtly different line/rhythm after a slight overcook of the previous corner. While his data says same as every other lap re lean angle, throttle, even where he was at, I would not speculate that there was an additional factor. He just asked plenty of the front and it tucked. What Pecco was doing so brilliantly was throwing the Ducati right at that apex edge grip over and over. He was with the pliability of the limit, there is a lot of grip...until there isn't. The front tire wear might be a factor, and Occam's razor always applies. So does Sangster's (insert least personal for most simple). Heart sunk, sadness welled. He and Mir have me this year.
So does KTM. Wow! It is a big deal that they got their bike to work here this week. No bogey track, they had a set up and development challenge to which they were successful. Watch out! Ascending.
Rossi crass error alone? At Misano? He is at his sunset. And rather than start a team in the paddock, he ALREADY has an academy that offers lots of autonomy and relational satisfaction. Marini has a manager. I don't think he will directly principal a team. He has something organic that will grow. I wonder if he will naturally get someone from his crowd involved with the Yamaha Euro Test team. Not him, he doesn't want to do donkey work, he is relational and responding to what arises of meaning and satisfaction. Really! He is letting go of his attachment to the paddock itself as it is now. He is one for enjoyment, shared love for racing the bike, and one another. Is that what running a team is like? No, it is a desk and a phone and a computer and meetings and calls and money and stress and logistics and contracts and...not Vale. He is the antithesis of a manager. Something unique and great is coming in Italy though. (He may make a bike happen for Luca mind you, but he will not be running the team).
Vinales - he is a bit hot under the collar. His improvement is part tire choice, part preparation with full tank for race pace, but where it all goes is cooling his squirrel off. He HAS it for a scrappy fight. And a Q lap. To do what he can on Sunday involves something he has a hard time with - temper the push of intense "extra effort." It is counter intuitive to him. He articulates this finally, as David has captured here. Deeper even, Maverick can cognitively "get it" but not hold awareness of the doing of it. He is not subjectively experiencing desperation, he is striving and "into it." At the time he thinks he is bringing the goods. Same reason I keep putting too much hot sauce on everything, or plan to have one slice of pizza until having one. Butter is smooth, hammer is rhythmic consistency. The heat in the pan or smithy's coals is already there! Very happy for Maverick! Keep the heat where it is at, not higher, and keep it from varying. Notice flurries of egoic process that urge ungrounded "extra." Be aware of subtle frustration and disappointment with self immediately preceding them. Maybe even touching on disgust or shame, an entirely different heat source? That one is NOT to be tended. There is some "storying" narrative influencing it trying to transcend despair just out of awareness. Appreciate that willful defense, and return to good old settling back in to felt sense reference of body and bike together. Everything is there for you when a bit of exasperation doesn't remove you from it.
The Suzuki gets reeled in to lose it's corner speed edge at a high grip track. More bikes can do the cornering business (example, Bagnaia's bike had ZERO turning in troubles here) when there is so much adhesion from the track surface and rubber down. Especially when they can spend two weekends and a test day sorting bikes (KTM and Duc, Honda). So maybe Rins is easier to understand, and Mir even more impressive Sunday?
A contrast seen at Misano of the KTM and Yamaha, with Suzuki shooting right through the middle. This has been most interesting. Hard rear Vinales struggled to start, soft Pol struggled to finish. Orange gets out on the gas, Blue gets in on the chassis. Enter into the mix yesterday the Suzuki under Mir, struggling with neither. A fresh tire can't yet be exploited for a early fast lap, but once settled in for race pace the Suzuki has everything. Judging by where momentum is undertaken now? We could have a Mir/Suzuki 2020 Champion. Especially if the team can master fresh tires? And if the bike's normal race pace character has a "fresh tire-like" adhesion, what then? It is very gentle on tires. It doesn't seem to need more grip anywhere to do its thing. It is well balanced and forgiving. Well, maybe sacrifice just a little bit of rideability for outright power? Take a step towards screamer? Beats me, but cheering you on wee underdog.
Careful not to follow mainstream media in preoccupation with what design is on Vale's socks. Bringing awareness to such things as nuance revealing what Mir is manifesting on this Suzuki can be much more compelling and essential. Details and subtleties abound. Context and history. So much less comes of an overdog. For the programs too...you get great clear compelling information from doing anything besides winning. Information from winning is vague and dismissable. Even misleading. Right HRC? ;)
Good questions at the debrief Neil Morrison, nice to see your face. Over the years I have been in harmony with you more than any other person I am aware of. (Crafar too since his recent arrival, can you believe he got such grief and criticism here?). We are lucky to have you aboard, thank you. Thanks for integrating him here David.
Sabaretti replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 17:25
Great incisive supplementary points to an otherwise (as always) outstanding post race report. You are the Creme to Emmetts Brulee, Saluté.
RF protocols and CAN of worms
good_boy replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 06:28
From a technical standpoint "We've seen the message on TV so that means it's been sent and it's all good" is a nice way to put it, but I wonder if the message is acknowledged by the bike transponder. If the transponder says "I got the message ok". Pretty standard in communication protocols. I would dare to say it's the first step to establish reliable communication.
If not, well, using transponder loops may be inexpensive and convenient, but that's poor engineering, and given the message cannot be resent / picked up until next loop even an ack on the next loop would be somehow sketchy.
I'm led to believe that with bikes going over the loops close to each other there is more room for error on the RF/transponder side (that has been reportedly glitchy during the event) than with the wired onboard chained systems...
Maybe the invaluable knowledge of the Very Wise Mister Bom could shed a bit of light on this ?
What about KTM?
amigodocafe replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 09:20
Nice article and straight to the point as usual. Still, two questions:
- what about KTM? They aren't really singled out in this article and both Pol and Miguel had good races;
- about Viñales: I'm thinking that the guy that took all the blame for last week's tyre should be praying that he starts going backwards again in Barcelona. Do you think he has THE mentality to win this?
Shenanigans?
tony g replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 11:12
Though I count myself firmly in the Pecco fan club, I don't think it's credible to speculate on the tear-off lightning striking twice and causing his crash. There are plenty of more plausible suggestions, such as his new and super effective technigue finally finding its limit. As for Jack, well also gutted for him but after hearing that he had chosen the soft rear again I was fully expecting a tumble down the order from mid race anyway. I do appreciate that there are people in the team way smarter than I am on this stuff but everytime I hear Jack's tyre choice I wish he would go at least one step harder. And when he chooses a hard option I wish he would consider snow chains - cause we have had a couple of years of Jack shredding the black stuff and, gotta be honest, it's frustrating. Noting Mr Oxley's recent article about the vicious nature of competition across the Moto classes, I am compelled to observe just how genuinely pleased other riders were to see Maverick's win. Yes MotoGP might be a ruthless business but I reckon that on the whole motorcycle riders are a pretty civilised bunch - at least after the flag comes down.
The Championship Standings
M. Blair replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 16:27
Dovi is leading the championship on the basis that he hasn't had a DNF. Its a bit like leaving Austin last year, Marquez had crashed and the championship was tight. Then Dovi lost ground for the next three races. Then Dovi gets a DNF compliments of Lorenzo, and the true state of the championship was revealed. If the last race of the season were next weekend, would Dovi really be the favorite? He will actually have to beat the other guys sooner or later. Right now, he's a midpack rider and not the fastest Ducati on any given weekend.
Mir looks like the man to beat. Even after being taken out and being robbed of a race win, he's still at the top of the standings, and he's fast everywhere. Everyone else in the top group will be too inconsistent to stay there. Plus I don't think KTM is done running up front, and there's rotating group of racers who will feature at the front without being part of the championship fight.
St. Stephen replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 19:32
I would really enjoy seeing Mir, Fabio, Franco, even Jack, win the championship this year. But I am starting to embrace my advocacy of old, slow, boring Dovi--our championship leader. He might win the crown this year without even reaching the podium again! (but of course then the cries for a no-Marc asterisk will be deafening)
What started as a painful racing void has turned into a very enjoyable, albeit compact, season.
peterday replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 17:36
There were a lot of crashes during the motogp race at the freshly repaved Catalunya track in 2018. The theory was that the surface was so grippy and smooth that it was hard to determine the limit until it was exceeded.
Crossing paths with a tearoff at the apex of a turn sounds strange, but maybe it could have travelled there by wind or somehow piggybacked a ride on a bike. Weird happenings are the new normal for 2020 motogp.
The Ducati is not immune to inexplicable front end washouts. Bagnaia joins a list that includes (but is not limited to) Stoner, Dovizioso and Bautista in both motogp and wsbk who crashed out while leading the race and were at pains to explain afterwards.
On his final three completed laps, Bagnaia's pace was dropping more than Viñales'. On paper his race pace was the best by at least a couple of tenths. He demonstrated that advantage on track during the race as he persued his first motogp victory until he ended in the gravel. Afterwards Bagnaia said he wished people would stop asking him about next year's possible factory contract. Maybe all of the cummulative pressure got to him just a tiny bit and that was all it took because currently the margins are so fine in motogp.
On the bright side Bagnaia has Gabbarini in his pit box who teamed up with Stoner for two world titles on two different manufacturers the first year with each team. And maybe Bagnaia and his team are the fix for the Ducati's turning woes.
The timing on the feed showing rider placement was constantly screwing up during the race. This was causing the announcers to think that riders were crashing erroneously. Steve Day sounded a bit stressed about it all, which is understandable. It is quite plausible that Quartararo's bike did not receive the track limits warning. Maybe teams need to take a step back and put TLW on the pit board just in case.
Transponder woes
lotsofchops replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 20:35
The timing on the feed showing rider placement was constantly screwing up during the race. This was causing the announcers to think that riders were crashing erroneously.
Great point, almost forgot about that. I am somewhat surprised that a comms check with the bikes isn't required before each race start? Maybe it is and we just aren't privvy to it. But for such an important system I find it hard to believe they wouldn't do something like this.
I wouldn't say constantly,
I wouldn't say constantly, really just impacted by the one time the finish line missed our satellite Ducati friend and had us thinking they went grass touring.
Maybe not constantly.
mbacon replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 22:16
Maybe not constantly. However, the announcers experienced this more than once during Sunday's Moto2 and Moto3 races.
I remember a while ago, a
J_Kant replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 23:05
I remember a while ago, a rider (I think it was Hector Barbera) was doing quite well in a race when he received a ride-through penalty for a jump start. But the message didn't flash on his dash because of some technical glitches, so he kept going. Race direction waited for a couple of laps and then black-flagged him.
Their explanation afterwards was that the dash messages are there as an additional source of info for the rider, and the rider's primary mode of communication is always meant to be the pit-board operated by his team.
Dovi is a pretty articulate guy!
rholcomb replied on Mon, 2020-09-21 17:57
Terrific interviews with the rider's mentioned! Dovi is particularly full of remarkable commentary even about what he observes in his rivals. When he is done racing motorcycles he could have a great career as a TV analyst. Thanks for the article!
Vinales deja vu
He and his team had changed both the bike and the strategy over the weekend, he explained, and that had been the key to victory at Misano. 'This weekend we worked a little bit different.'
I'm having flashbacks to EVERY OTHER TIME he's had a good race after a string of bad results. "We changed our approach", and then the following week it's back to square one. It's not just me, correct? I don't want to sound like I'm against Vinales, and it'd be stupid for him to not be hopeful for the future. But this same song-and-dance can only go on for so long I feel.
How much longer will the occasional strong result keep him at Yamaha? He was the Lorenzo replacement, expected to fight for the championship after his strong start at Suzuki. Since this has not yet panned out (except this year, because 2020 be like that) and Quartararo is the assumed next golden child, will Yamaha get tired of the results? I have heard no rumblings to suggest as much, this is just what's in my head.
At the halfway point in this
At the halfway point in this season, Vinales is tied on points with Quartararo, trails Dovizioso by just one point, and is still very much in the title hunt. Not much for Yamaha to complain about at least for now.
Nothing new on the Honda front
The test at Misano also helped a little, as witnessed by the surprisingly strong results of the two Honda riders left on the grid, LCR's Takaaki Nakagami, and Repsol Honda's Alex Márquez, who finished sixth and seventh respectively.
Why is this surprising? Marc Marquez spent all of the 2019 season, demonstrating the potential of the new Honda - he stopped crashing, started running a soft front, and was smoother than ever on the bike.
Nakagami took just one race to figure it out - he was posting strong results long before the Misano test. If not for Vinales' choice of brakes at Styria, he'd have already scored his first podium (perhaps even secured a win).
Alex Marquez has been making steady progress as well - he's shown excellent race pace for while now (just struggled to extract the maximum out of new tyres) but even more importantly, he's done so while keeping the bike upright.
Howdy Kant. I noticed
Howdy Kant. I noticed Nakagami had "that crash" on Saturday. There was so much attrition Sunday that, while good improvement for them, doesn't convince me that this Honda isn't shite. It is no KTM even! Or Suzuki. Or Ducati. Or Yamaha. And at least the Aprilia lets human beings stay on it. If with their concessions they can get an evolution of the engine with more low end grunt, I will peg the Honda on the bottom rung. If a new rider from Moto2 were asking which bike to chose last now, Honda. If I could run a bike? Might not even get the softs into operating range, but 1) Suzuki, 2) Yamaha, 3) Aprilia (conventional please). Superbike? BMW. Supersport? Mine (sorted Triumph). Nothing like ease of getting to speed, handling and consistent feel.
Nakagami's crash in Q2 was
J_Kant replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 20:56
Howdy shrink, Nakagami's crash in Q2 was the result of a team screwup - he came into the pits and asked for a medium front, while his crew got their wires crossed and sent him out on a hard front (and apologized for it afterwards).
Also, all the attrition doesn't change the fact that Alex Marquez beat the championship leader Dovizioso. Did he do that on an unrideable shite bike? Not likely.
I'd put it the current Honda at par with the Ducati as the most complete bike on the grid - it's got a steeper learning curve than some other bikes but it's plenty fast. Everywhere.
Tip of the hat to a well
Motoshrink replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 03:31
Tip of the hat to a well articulated and founded perspective. An enjoyable and mutually respectful disagreement can be something to appreciate these days.
J_Kant replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 15:52
Marc and soft front
Dieterly replied on Thu, 2020-09-24 09:53
If my memory serves me right I don’t think Marc has ever raced the soft front.
He won the French GP on a
J_Kant replied on Thu, 2020-09-24 22:03
He won the French GP on a soft front (cold conditions). He also used it numerous times in free practice and qualifying. In about half the races he used the medium front as opposed to his usual preferred hard front.
I don't think it's entirely
db replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 00:51
I don't think it's entirely out of the realm of possibility that Fabio saw the long lap penalty flash up on his screen and decided with 1 lap to go he was better to keep the pressure on Pol - who doesn't mind throwing away a good result - and hope that once he crossed the line Pol was either on the floor or had a made a mistake that cost him enough time to hold onto the podium. Clever move in my opinion and very mature and calculating should that be the case.
dman904 replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 14:29
As a Rossi fan I've been excited about his occasional speed and results this year, so was at first annoyed with @motoshrink's "sunset" comment. But in a season where consistency can win the championship, and staying upright can gain podiums, I gotta admit that Rossi is definitely fading. As for Dovi, points are points, and if he wins the championship he's a worthy champion, but like Rossi on Yamaha, Dovi is rarely the fastest Ducati out there. The closeness of the new generation of riders and all of the brands is making this the most interesting season, for me, in years. I just wish it didn't require an injury to Márquez to enable it.
Closeness of factory and satellite teams
Andrewdavidlong replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 15:43
What has been fascinating is how for a particular manufacturer how well their satellite team has done whilst the full factory team has struggled. Look at Pramac - in years gone it was simply a second string team running last years bikes - now they are running 2020ish spec machinery and leading the factory boys. Also look at Petronas and Tech3.
In terms of the older riders, it does look like the end for some e.g. Crutchlow, Rossi and even Dovi. Rossi might do another year but if I was him I would be looking to buy into Petronas outfit as a part owner. No point in racing to come 5/6th every race.
Worthy champion
Lilyvani replied on Tue, 2020-09-22 17:55
Unless things change over the next few races it might be more the case that 2020 was the year when half the paddock lost their chance and one person managed to just accrue more points than the others. I do appreciate that's the point, but it doesn't feel like anyone has 'broken through' this year, with results so different from week to week.
WaveyD1974 replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 23:25
I think even if Rossi had won the championship last year and went on to win it this year it is still unfortunately the sunset. The sunset would just be more glorious. Time marches on for us all.
I actually feel a bit sorry for Rossi. Certainly time must have taken something from him but think about it, at his age he is possibly riding better than ever, getting more out of what he has than ever before in his life. Yet when life took those 2 or 3 tenths out of his pocket and landed him in the current MotoGP paddock, bikes and riders all, those tenths land him on the 3rd or 4th row. It's a shame in many ways that this season has so far been the exact kind of season where Rossi could now have been sitting pretty at the top of the points. The Sunday man has always produced good results on a consistent basis even if he wasn't winning anything. One engine and one front end spill later however...
Sunsets are often the most beautiful part of the day.
The VR Sunset
tony g replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 23:42
And the VR sunset is occurring on the back of VR Academy, which has been a fantastic initiative for the future of the sport. I think this has really enhanced his reputation and it's a very classy way to pass on the legacy of such a fantastic career.
Motoshrink replied on Thu, 2020-09-24 02:07
Quite the colorful glow with his progeny on podiums!
Hope we get a good documentary movie...
I feel we’ve seen this before
MSS 58 replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 01:05
Lilyvani, i feel like we've seen this before. In 2016 Michelin became the sole tire supplier again and we saw wins from Lorenzo, Marquez, Iannone, Miller, Crutchlow, Rossi, Vinales, Pedrosa (amd i think Dovi). There wasn't an asterik next to Marquez with his title win. The tire created opportunities for riders to exploit - and suffer. I feel like that is what we are seeing this year with the tire's new design. I also know i am grateful for the show we are seeing and love that there is no predictability to the rostrum.
Surprisingly True
Lilyvani replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 07:36
I just had a look at the results for 2016 as I thought it'd be the case that Marquez was always in the top three, but not at all. While he won a smattering of races he was in fact a bit all over the place. How did I forget that year. Maybe because he was already well established as the man to beat. Anyway, I don't think 2020 will be an asterisk year, at least not in any negative way. More that it may mark the year when the racing became so incredibly tight that, barring a stand out talent like Marquez, predictability went out the window for the foreseeable future.
peterday replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 03:52
It takes a particular ego to be a motorcycle racer. First and foremost one must believe that what they are doing is important enough to risk their lives for glory. Then they must be willing to be the front woman or man, the face, the individual that is the rider. Even though there are many, many people that contribute to putting that rider on the bike. And let's face the simple fact - out of the entire pack of wolves, the warriors, only one can win the race. The majority are usually left with various levels of satisfaction and disappointment. And the rider can be the one that takes the brunt of criticism when goals are not met. And who knows what goes on behind the scenes? Who knows the true story of each and every rider and race? Who knows the story of every rider at every moment of every race?
We make it up the way we see it. Welcome to mind.
Beware of the voice that says, "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, but this requires members to park the ego at the door." This is the same voice that says "rise above the ego" and "get rid of the ego" and "the ego is the bad guy". This is a very common voice. If you seek understanding in this world you will come across this voice again and again. This voice is simply more ego.
This is the smell of a cult. This is a very limiting belief system of "my way or the highway." It's surrender your belief system and adopt a group ideology. The group ideology comes with a leader that judges right and wrong and is only self serving. And that is mind. The judge archetype of the mind. This might as well be a religion. Adopt a savior so that you will be right and not wrong which will relieve you of the burden of lacking knowledge and experience (ignorance). Whether it be the spiritual game or the game of the higher mind, the ego loves to play these games. And it always hides behind "I".
Not a fan of cults. Not a particular fan of Honda, HRC or Alberto Puig per se, but over the years have grown to respect all the women and men in the motogp world. It seems that there is an undercurrent of Honda/HRC/Puig hatred pulsing within the very being of this forum. And that is not an enlightened perspective that values equality. The equality to see life as an individual, any individual, and express it from a unique perspective regardless of that individual's level of awareness. This energy is somewhat repulsive and there is no interest in engaging in it furthermore on this forum.
Ego is real as a verb, not
Thank you for sharing fundamentalism and reactivity, entirely pertinent. Astute!
Ego is real as a verb, not real as a noun, and is to be known as an adjective quality to be minimized. And minimizing it is much appreciated.
BMW has released the new HP4. The M edition looks like a contender for best track ready off the shelf bike we have seen. With "low spec" suspension and brakes? You sure?
Love 44 Teeth, if you haven't yet connected with them do. And if you reckon, note some egoic processes without being either seduced or rejecting. Both these guys are spot on, just one with the "special sauce."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iyFJSy5N7RY
LOL! These last two
daddyrat replied on Wed, 2020-09-23 19:55
Posts, Shrink's and Peter's, very philosophical! I am not quite sure where Peter's was lent to lead but anyway. Having come from a F1 background as a fan I would say that those drivers are absolute egomaniacs, reinforced by their huge salaries, celebrity status and general modus oparanti in F1.
I find Motogp a refreshing counterpoint to that culture. Sure, the riders do have an ego, probably a little larger than most, but they also seem to genuinely be willing to share the glory, seem genuinely happy at their competitors success, at least at time , come across as more humble, more human more self depreciating than their F1 counter parts. Ego, drive to succeed is needed in any aspect of life and but for some individuals, no name mentioning 😉, I reckon the riders have it pretty much right.
I'll check it out. Thanks.
peterday replied on Thu, 2020-09-24 13:57
I'll check it out. Thanks. And that is an interesting and succinct way to point at the truth and illusion of ego.
WaveyD1974 replied on Thu, 2020-09-24 14:32
...how the 'illusion' is so required to function as a normal, healthy, reasonable, useful and sociable individual.
^ For sure! It has to be
^ For sure! It has to be there, and gets us out of childhood and into adulthood. But after that, it can be fun color commentator along for the ride but don't let it grab the wheel. It cannot be thrown out of the car nor shut-in the trunk. If you think you have, it is in the driver's seat.
By the way, deeply sorry for a four wheeled reference here. And Iannone. Done with psychotherapist thoughts for now, let's race.
(Mir, Bagnaia, Quartararo, Binder, Oliveira, Rins, Nakagami...we are fortunate to have so many low ego, less personae/more person young guys rising now. Great folks!)
CATALUNYAAA!!! This is going to be a barn burner. What a cool season eh? Cheers mates.
Has Viñales' narrow focus on
peterday replied on Fri, 2020-09-25 00:11
Has Viñales' narrow focus on one lap pace during the race weekend been caused by the common belief that the Yamaha can only win from the front? A belief that has so far been confirmed at each of the four Yamaha wins this season. But the irony is that at his first race win of Qatar '17, Viñales started on pole but was shuffled back to P5 by the end of the first lap. At the end of the tenth lap he had only moved up one position due to Zarco crashing out of the lead on lap seven. It was then that Viñales pushed forward resulting in a win at the checkers. It may benefit Viñales to draw on both this memory and that of last weekend's practice sessions for future races. Which start tomorrow.
Focussing on race pace rather than one lap pace might allow Viñales to be more consistent over the long run of the championship (which is already half over). He has already a proven himself as a race winner many times over in motogp. Is it necessary to prove this every race weekend? As far as the Motogp championship title fight is concerned, for all those with a chance of taking the crown, now is the time for consistency.
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Propaganda’s A Secret Wish: 30 Years Old Today
ZTT Records, released 2nd July 1985
Bought: Our Price Hammersmith 1994?
To many fans, A Secret Wish represents the peak of ’80s pop. The glamorous though mysterious project was a flawed masterpiece but also the beginning of the end for big-budget, endlessly-fussed-over ‘concept’ albums.
I was 12 when it came out. Though I liked ‘Duel’ at the time, it took me another ten years or so to finally get hold of the album. If anything, it has only gained in mystique in the years since, quite possibly because it’s such a singular project.
It doesn’t really sound much like much else around in mid-’85 (though Pet Shop Boys and a-Ha were definitely listening), nor is it particularly similar to other ZTT releases or Propaganda’s subsequent albums.
A large part of the mystique is provided by Stephen Lipson’s pristine, widescreen production (Trevor Horn only produced ‘Dr Mabuse’), as well as his formidable mixing and guitar work (check out the extended mix of ‘Duel’). Claudia Brucken’s lead vocals are original and Suzanne Freytag’s spoken-word interludes carry unmistakable echoes of Nico (emphasised by their seriously weird ‘Femme Fatale‘ cover from the album sessions).
Yes guitarist Steve Howe contributes a nifty solo to ‘The Murder Of Love’ and David Sylvian has a hand in writing the gripping ‘p:Machinery’. But man of the match is ZTT house keyboardist Peter-John Vettese, purveyor of doomy soundscapes and intriguing chord voicings. Josef K’s post-punk classic ‘Sorry For Laughing’ is reinvented as a Wagnerian synth-pop anthem and there aren’t many more epic album openers in pop than the majestic ‘Dream Within A Dream’.
Paul Morley, ZTT marketing/content man and former husband of Claudia Brucken, has talked about Trevor Horn and David Sylvian’s involvement in A Secret Wish:
‘When Trevor pulled out of producing them, I actually asked David Sylvian. While he was thinking about it, he came up with the ghostly top line of ‘P:Machinery’ – the music, if you like – and a gorgeous watery slowed down version of ‘Duel’, but he decided against producing them, and it stayed within the Sarm (London recording studio owned by ZTT label owners Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair) pop factory. Actually, another sign of the split between sensibilities at the label: I asked David Sylvian to produce Propaganda and Jill approached Stock Aitken and Waterman!’
A Secret Wish wasn’t a huge hit and surely didn’t make back its sizeable recording costs, reaching just 16 in the UK album chart, but the singles ‘Duel’ and ‘p:Machinery’ both made the top 30.
The band picked up the first-class rhythm section of ex-Simple Minds pair Derek Forbes on bass and Brian McGee on drums (as well as Bowie/Dolby guitarist Kevin Armstrong) and toured the album extensively. I very clearly remember this performance on the BBC music show ‘Whistle Test’ in late 1985. Happy days:
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1537 says:
on 02/07/2015 at 10:52 pm
Nice piece and a real trip down memory lane. At that time, as I remember it, anything European was glamorous by default (how else can you explain ‘Vienna’?). I loved and still love ‘Duel’.
movingtheriver.com says:
on 03/07/2015 at 10:10 am
Hi, yes, good point. The ‘lure’ of the continent!
Loved Propaganda. I’m definitely with you on the Aha and Pet Shop Boys listening hard.
Thanks for dropping in, Nat. Glad you like it as much as me.
Love Duel/Dual and the version (Jewelled) used by BBC Rally specials 🙂
Matt P (movingtheriver.com, soundsofsurprise.com) says:
I didn’t see the rally specials! Will have to get over to YouTube for a watch/listen…
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Home / Latest News / Spotted! Endangered tapir in Conservation Area
September 18, 2020 by Mariah Banks
Endangered Mountain Tapir Spotted in Chicuate-Chinguelas Private Conservation Area
This summer, aspiring conservationist Juan Pusma Coello led a group of young rangers into Chicuate-Chinguelas, a private conservation area established with your support in 2016. The group planned to record flora and fauna within the area’s biodiverse montane forests and paramo grasslands.
After 13 hours of exploration, the rangers encountered a rare and special species – an endangered mountain tapir! Juan managed to capture a few photos before the creature disappeared into the forest.
Tapir spotted in Chicuate-Chinguelas.
Young rangers exploring Chicuate-Chinguelas.
Mountain tapirs play a particularly important role in shaping and maintaining healthy ecosystems. Known as “Gardeners of the Forest,” they consume a variety of plants and fruits, and disperse the seeds through their scat. This helps maintain the genetic diversity of plants in the forest. It also spreads the seeds of slow-growing trees with dense wood – the very trees most important for storing carbon.
The species is classified as endangered primarily due to habitat destruction and hunting. Some experts estimate that there might be no more than 3,000 individuals left in the wild.
Chicuate-Chinguelas is just one area established with your support that helps protect their habitat! Created in 2016 in collaboration with local communities and World Land Trust, Chicuate-Chinguelas spans 66,954 acres. It is the largest conservation area in the Piura region of northern Peru.
The forests and paramo ecosystems of Chicuate-Chinguelas are part of the Tropical Andes Corridor and lie between Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary in Peru and Yacuri National Park in Ecuador. The creation of conservation areas protect the corridor and its remarkable wildlife from threats such as logging and illegal mining.
Chicuate-Chinguelas is protected and managed by the local community of Segunda y Cajas.
Nature and Culture created “Rangers of the Future,” a program to train emerging conservation leaders.
Chicuate-Chinguelas is protected and managed by the local community of Segunda y Cajas with support from Nature and Culture. As part of management efforts, Nature and Culture created “Rangers of the Future,” a program to train emerging conservation leaders like Juan to ensure the area remains protected and sustainably managed. The young rangers participate in wildlife excursions and discussions about the area’s biodiversity, and help in the community’s gardens and nurseries.
“I decided to be part of this program because I really want to help my community to continue protecting its mountains and its biodiversity,” says Juan. He hopes to one day become a nature guide to teach visitors about the natural wonders within Chicuate-Chinguelas.
We’re excited to see future discoveries made by Juan and his peers in Chicuate-Chinguelas!
Check out more updates from the field here.
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HyperX and Allied Esports Renew Naming Rights Agreement for HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas
by BusinessWire | Jan 13, 2021 | BusinessWire
HyperX Sponsorship of Iconic Las Vegas Arena Reinforces Commitment to Gaming Experiences and Creating Community as $1 Billion Esports Industry Continues to Grow Globally
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CES Las Vegas - HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology, Inc., and Allied Esports, a global esports entertainment company and a subsidiary of Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AESE), today announced the renewal of their exclusive naming rights agreement for Allied Esports’ global flagship property, HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas, located at the Luxor Hotel & Casino.
Per the multiyear deal, HyperX will continue to receive prominent branding and signage inside and outside of the venue, as well as across all arena promotions, content and social media platforms. HyperX and Allied Esports will continue to partner on a variety of co-branded experiences and events at the arena focused on growing their gaming and esports communities.
“HyperX is excited to retain the naming rights sponsorship of the HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas as a sign of our commitment and dedication to esports and the gaming community,” said Daniel Kelley, director of marketing, HyperX. “Allied Esports is a key partner for us, proving their ability to be a best-in-class esports destination, and we look forward to continued success with them.”
As the premier esports venue and production facility in North America, the world-renowned HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas has become a global destination for esports fans, professional players, streamers and influencers, event organizers, publishers and teams. Since opening in March 2018, when it was named the Esports Business Summit’s Venue of the Year, HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas has hosted more than 500 events, including industry icons like League of Legends All-Star and Capcom Cup. Furthermore, HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas welcomed more than 300,000 visitors in 2019.
With its unique modular design, elevated main stage, two-story LED video wall and one-of-a-kind HyperX Hype Tunnel, HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas is the ultimate setting for players to test and showcase their skills. The arena’s weekly tournaments and broadcasts, including Frags featuring Fortnite and Saturday Night Speedway featuring Mario Kart 8, draw competitors from across the west coast and have become a benchmark for community events and grassroots growth for up-and-coming players.
In addition to its world-class gaming hospitality, HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas’s versatile production capabilities continue to be at the center of many online esports and entertainment productions throughout the world.
“HyperX has been an incredible naming rights partner for our flagship property, bringing authenticity and credibility to the most recognized esports venue and production facility in the world,” said Jud Hannigan, CEO of Allied Esports. “We are thrilled to extend this landmark alliance as we work together to continue delivering exciting experiences and content for customers and partners alike.”
Also designated as the Official Peripheral Partner of HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas, HyperX will continue to provide gaming headsets, keyboards, mice and mouse pads, and USB microphones for esports tournaments, special events, and daily play.
As CES 2021, the largest technology show in the US, goes to an online format this year, HyperX is preparing for positive and healthy gaming in 2021 by continued sponsorship of the arena frequented by gaming fans and global visitors experiencing gaming in a premium environment.
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, HyperX may experience some product and shipping delays. HyperX is taking every possible measure to work with partners to minimize the impact on its customers and ensure product availability and timely delivery.
About HyperX
HyperX is the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the world’s largest independent memory manufacturer, with the goal of providing gamers, PC builders, PC, console and mobile power users with high-performance components. For 16 years, the HyperX mission has been to develop gaming products for all types of gamers – high-speed memory, solid state drives, headsets, keyboards, mice, charging accessories for console players, USB flash drives, and mousepads – to the gaming community and beyond. The award-winning HyperX brand is known for consistently delivering products that deliver superior comfort, aesthetics, performance, and reliability. HyperX gear is the choice of celebrity ambassadors, pro gamers, tech enthusiasts, and over-clockers worldwide because it meets the most stringent product specifications and is built with best-in-class components. HyperX has shipped over 75 million memory modules, 15 million gaming headsets, two million keyboards and one million mice worldwide.
Join the global #HyperXFamily at facebook.com/hyperxcommunity, learn how HyperX products can enhance your console experience and boost performance for both you and your PC, console or mobile device at hyperxgaming.com. Whatever your skill level, whatever genres you play, we embrace all gaming enthusiasts everywhere with our core belief — We’re All Gamers.
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About Allied Esports
Named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, Allied Esports International, Inc. is at the forefront of esports entertainment with a global network of properties designed to serve as competition battlegrounds, community experience hubs and content production centers.
Through direct operation or membership in the Allied Esports Property Network, the world’s first esports affiliate program, Allied Esports’ facilities span North America, Europe, China and Australia, and include the world-renowned HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas, a fleet of mobile arenas, the HyperX Esports Trucks, and the HyperX Esports Studio in Hamburg, Germany.
Allied Esports’ properties serve as the home to a number of online and offline proprietary productions and events, including Friday Frags and Saturday Night Speedway, as well as original partner programs like the Simon Cup.
For more information about Allied Esports, visit AlliedEsports.gg and follow @AlliedEsports. Allied Esports International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc.
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Allied Esports Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AESE) is a global leader in esports entertainment, providing innovative infrastructure, transformative live experiences, multiplatform content and interactive services to audiences worldwide through its strategic fusion of two powerful brands: Allied Esports and the World Poker Tour (WPT). For more information, visit AlliedEsportsEnt.com.
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But who are we kidding ?
Publié le 28 janvier 2015 par asammer
The mud is not yet dry, the wound opened by the floods in the aching hearts of the inhabitants of many places in the Souss has not yet finished to heal and the Moroccan monarchy already shows its true face, that so many Amazigh people still refuse to see. Seems that the self-hatred has taken over. Mohamed VI has announced a three-day national mourning after the death of Saudi dictator.
A victim of the flood devoured by dogs
But who exactly we make fun of?
In late November, more than forty people have been killed in floods in southern Western Tamazgha. The victims and their families have been treated as outcasts, abandoned to their fate. The dead bodies thrown as rubbish on the garbage trucks, some have been abandoned and devoured by wild animals. While an entire region has suffered a martyrdom, the monarchy, detached from the reality of the country, sent two airplanes loaded with aid, including food and medicine, to Liberia.
No national mourning was declared after these tragic events. No assistance has been provided to the victims, left to die in the total indifference. Dead or alive, those are worth nothing, not a tear or a simple glance.
Why declare a national mourning after the death of Saudi dictator? What binds the people of Western Tamazgha (Morocco) to the Saudis, these exporters of barbaric Wahhabism, a country in which the most basic human rights are violated, in which the women are treated as objects and which it also prevents driving a car or to go out unaccompanied?
If Mohammed VI wants to declare the national mourning for the death of his Wahhabi « boyfriend », would do better to decree it within the walls of his palace. Impose it to the entire population is an insult to the victims of the floods and to all citizens affected that still asking for help that will never come.
A. Azergui
Thanks Rita for translating
Publié dans Cause amazighe, Sud-Est | Mots-clefs : amazigh, Amazigh people, Azergui, inondations, Maroc, Mohamed VI, Mohammed VI, Morocco, national mourning, southern Western Tamazgha | Une réponse
Imider, where the streets have no name
Publié le 8 décembre 2014 par asammer
In Imider the streets have no name, only the main road that runs through it has one. Rather, not a name: a number. It is the « number 10 », the road which leads this far from Ouarzazate until to Imider, until to Tinghir. The South-East, the « deep Morocco », as it is called, Amazigh land, where in the villages the streets have no name. The road n. 10, the one of the sit-in of 1996, the one where today the Imider’s people walk the peaceful protest marches, the one from which, turning when you see the white trail marks, is reached Albban, the mountain top heart of the Resistance of this place. The Movement on the Road ’96 is in permanent sit-in since more than three years there.
It’s a long journey from Marrakech, where there is the nearest airport, driving a small rented car because during the days of Eid al-Fitr the buses are stopped. An amazingh road through the Atlas mountains, the Tizi n’Tichka to more than 2,000 meters and then down into the valley. A long journey that seems short, because Imider is a place that I want to achieve by so much and the time flies, along with the bends and the little towns that I leave behind.
In Imider the streets have no name, but people that lives there yes: names, faces and identities. Similar stories and yet all different, migrations abroad in search of work, social exclusion and constant feeling of being considered the last of the last in a country, Morocco, which instead wants to show a glossy image of efficiency, democracy and modernity .
Stories about divided families, because here – in the South-East – the men are always had to go abroad to work and guarantee an income and a better life for those who remain at home. Stories about fathers who manage to see their children, if all goes well, maybe once a year. Stories about fathers who, sometimes, don’t come back: there are the women – the mothers – who deal with everything else.
The streets have no name here in Imider, they are not paved, they are not safe. Children don’t have a place to play, I saw them on the road n. 10 with a ball, close to the cars whizzing away quickly. The Makhzen, the system, doesn’t invest one only dirham in places like this, and yet the nearby silver mine controlled by the SMI, owned by the Moroccan royal family, has an annual turnover of millions of euro. The history of anger and determination of the Movement on the Road ’96, that represents the Imider’s people, emerges here: the mine doesn’t produce wealth and jobs, only poverty, pollution and land desertification. Yes, because the mine also steals the water, it takes a lot to work the silver and precisely from the theft of water was born the protest: water is life, you can’t live without water, although here we are at the threshold of Sahara.
More than three years that the history of this place is crystallized in the need for acknowledgment of human and civil rights, three years of peaceful marches along the road n. 10, to shout in the ears of a careless and indifferent world what is happening here since a long time. More than three years of permanent sit-in, to oversee, in difficult and harsh conditions, the occupied top of Albban Mount, where Imider’s people has been forced to put the chains to the valves of the wells to regain possession of a common and basic good much as the water.
Where the streets have no name is hard even to give the trust, because too many times one has been tricked by false promises and coaxed with empty words that didn’t lead anywhere. It’s difficult for the Movement on the Road ’96 maintain an open, transparent and on par dialogue with the Makhzen and the mining company. The streets have no name here in Imider, but the young activists arrested and sentenced in these years they have it, all right: Mustapha Ouchtoubane, Hamid Berki, Omar Moujane, Brahim Hamdaoui, Abdessamad Madriont are just the latest in a long line. They are all very young, below 25-30 years old: their mothers often take the word in the Agraw, the popular assembly where everyone can express their opinion. Stories of anger against exclusion, patience and capacity to resist with stubborn determination to the pressures of the Makhzen and the mining company, to intimidation by the authorities and the police, to the beatings, the arbitrary arrests and farcical trials organized to condemn the activists. In Morocco, doesn’t exist the opinion crime, they are all petty criminals for the Makhzen: pilferers, small-time dealers, troublesome people who disturb the order and public tranquility.
And while I walk slowly through the streets with no name of Imider, trying to give a sense and a dimension to what I see, resound in my head the words of a poignant song of U2, that will remain in my mind the whole time I will remain here: « We’re beaten and blown by the wind – Trampled in dust – I’ll show you a place – High on a desert plain – where the streets have no name », we are beaten and blown by the wind – struggling in the dust – I’ll show you a place – on a desert plateau – where the streets have no name.
By : Rita Tatter Ricci
Publié dans Sud-Est | Mots-clefs : Imider, Morocco, ouarzazat, Rita Tatter Ricci, Tinghir | Laisser une réponse
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Vanessa Lachey Wiki Biography
Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born on 9 November 1980, in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines, s of mixed American, Italian, Irish and Filipino descent. Vanessa is a fashion model, beauty queen, actress, and television personality, best known for being a part of shows such as “Entertainment Tonight” and “Total Request Live”. She’s been active in the industry since 1998, and all of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Vanessa Lachey? As of early-2018, sources estimate a net worth that is at $4 million, earned through success in her various endeavors, having participated in beauty pageants during her youth. As she continues her career, it is expected that her wealth will also continue to increase.
Vanessa Lachey Net Worth $4 million
While young, Vanessa lived in various areas around the world, due to her father serving in the US Air Force, including in Japan, Germany, California, Florida, Nevada and Washington. She attended numerous schools, but eventually her parents divorced, and Vanessa moved to Turkey when her mother remarried, living with her stepfather, before they eventually settled in South Carolina. She attended Bishop England High School, and during her time there was a cheerleader. She then lived with her father and stepmother, also attending Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School for a year.
In 1998, Lachey was crowned as Miss South Carolina Teen USA, and would eventually win the title of Miss Teen USA, and was named as the pageant’s Miss Congeniality. Her net worth started to increase as more opportunities opened up for her – in 2003, she became a host of the MTV show “Total Request Live” for four years, and also served as a correspondent for “Entertainment Tonight”. She hosted Miss Teen USA and also co-hosted the 2007 Miss Universe Pageant, but since then she has focused more on modelling.
Vanessa became a part of the advertising for BONGO Jeans, and also served as the spokeswoman for Flirt! Cosmetics. She was also featured in publications such as “Maxim”, “Shape”, and “Lucky”, before then joining the competition to find a new host for the show “Wild On!”, reaching the finals. She also hosted the show “True Beauty” which ran for a few seasons. In 2011, she started hosting Wipeout, but had to leave the show due to pregnancy.
Vanessa has also appeared in numerous television series, including “30 Rock”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, “Psych”, and “Hawaii 5-0”. She also appeared in an episode of “How I Met Your Mother”, and starred in the film “Disaster Movie” which was a moderate box office success despite negative reviews. In 2017 she participated in the 25th season of “Dancing with the Stars”, paired with Maksim Chmerkovskiy; they finished the competition in seventh place.
For her personal life, it is known that Vanessa married singer Nick Lachey in 2011 and they have three children together. They started their relationship in 2006 but broke up in 2009, only to reconnect later in the year, and become engaged in 2010. Previously, Vanessa was in a relationship with baseball player Derek Jeter, which lasted until 2005.
Full Name Vanessa Lachey
Date Of Birth November 9, 1980
Place Of Birth Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Height 1.7 m
Profession Actress
Education Bishop England High School, Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School
Spouse Nick Lachey
Children Phoenix Robert Lachey, Camden John Lachey, Brooklyn Elisabeth Lachey
Parents Vince Minnillo, Helen Bercero
Siblings Vincent Minnillo
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/VanessaLacheyOfficial
Twitter https://twitter.com/vanessalachey
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Nominations Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Personality, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Personality
Movies Disaster Movie, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, This Little Piggy
TV Shows Wipeout, Dads, True Beauty, That's Life, Entertainment Tonight, High School Stories, Let's Make a Deal, Miss Universe Pageant, This Little Piggy, Miss Teen USA, Wipeout, Dads, True Beauty, That's Life, Entertainment Tonight, High School Stories, Let's Make a Deal, Miss Universe Pageant, This Little ...
1 I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!
2 The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
3 I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
4 I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
5 Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
6 It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
7 I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
8 I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
9 I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
1 (November 25, 2016) Expecting a son with her husband Nick Lachey in Spring 2017.
2 (September 2, 2016) Expecting her 3rd child with her husband Nick Lachey in Spring 2017.
3 Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a daughter named Brooklyn Elisabeth Lachey on January 5, 2015. Child's father is her husband, Nick Lachey.
4 (July 15, 2011) Married her on-off boyfriend of 5 years Nick Lachey following an 8-month-long engagement.
5 Is a regular contributor to Entertainment Tonight (1981). [June 2005]
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8 Sister-in-law of Drew Lachey and Lea Lachey.
9 Broke up with Nick Lachey in June 2009, then they got back together in October 2009.
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Tools down on maintenance training support
By Flight Lieutenant Jessica Aldred
Air Combat Group
RAAF Bases Williamtown
RAAF Base Amberley
Air Force's No. 278 Squadron marked its closure with the preservation of a building sign at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.
Tools have been downed as No. 278 Squadron closed out its maintenance training support to Air Combat Group on December 17.
Established in 2003, No. 278 Squadron has trained thousands of Air Force technicians for the F-111C, Hornet, Hawk 127, PC-9/A, Super Hornet and the Growler at RAAF Bases Williamtown, Amberley, Pearce and Tindal.
Commanding Officer No. 278 Squadron Squadron Leader Philip Irvine said they were keen to mark the end of the era, but travel restrictions meant it was smaller than planned.
“We were unable to hold many of our planned commemorative activities in 2020, including our end of era dining in night,” Squadron Leader Irvine said.
“But we marked the occasion by preserving one of our building signs and had a unit morning tea to share our memories and reflect on our achievements.
“Despite the twin challenges of preparing to close a unit, and the restrictions of COVID-19 in the final year, members maintained the same high standards, and kept unit morale high – they have done a fantastic job and I personally am very proud of them all.”
Air Combat Group maintenance training will be delivered by No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit Integrated Training Centre at RAAF Base Williamtown and Headquarters Air Combat Group technical training flight at RAAF Base Amberley.
The squadron’s workforce included Air Force and APS members. APS team member and Computer Managed Instruction Manager David Carseldine was the only founding member to still be in the squadron as it marked its final day.
“I joined Air Force as an electrical fitter in 1984, and in 1996 as a sergeant, I was posted to No. 481 Squadron field training flight which became 278 Squadron technical training flight on 1 July 2003,” Mr Carseldine said.
“I was in charge of teams to transfer Hornet courseware to a new system being implemented at the time, but this system was not sustainable and I was approached by the officer-in-charge to investigate a new solution.
“I was offered an APS position when uniform positions were civilianised and took the offer, discharging in October 1998.”
Recently retired, Mr Carseldine said he was proud to support Air Combat Group’s maintenance training over the years.
“This was a significant event in my career with Air Force, we trained more than 37,000 students as many come through more than once,” Mr Carseldine said.
“After 37 years with Air Force and the Australian Public Service, and 25 years of those with field training flight and 278 Squadron, I’m looking forward to no early starts in retirement.”
No. 278 Squadron leaves behind a proud legacy of excellence in Air Combat Group’s technical training.
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Foreign workers most at risk of losing their jobs during pandemic
Foreigners may be the first let go as the coronavirus pandemic progresses, one official says
Written by Samantha Tatro
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Foreign workers are most at risk of losing their jobs as more and more companiescut workers during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the Czech Statistical Office.
The new findings, first reported in Seznam Zpravy, indicate that foreigners working in low-skilled jobs will be the first let go as the coronavirus pandemic progresses. Low-skilled jobs in industries like restaurants or tourism are first to go in times of crisis, Dalibor Holý, director of the labor market statistics department at the Czech Statistical Office, told Seznam Zpravy.
“We now have a large number of foreigners working in our country….in unskilled labor professions,” Holý said. “For example, in factories where mass redundancies can be expected when there are no contracts.”
In addition, the pandemic has also had an impact on transport jobs and agency jobs that many foreign workers fill.
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Because of this, not as many Czechs will be laid off, Holý said. Officials do not expect the unemployment rate to fluctuate much for that reason.
“Released foreigners are likely to go back to their countries, so Czech unemployment will not increase as much as it will actually be laid off,” Holý told Seznam Zpravy.
A new survey found that a quarter of Czech companies laid off some of their employees during the pandemic, while others opted for reducing hours, reducing salaries, or reducing benefits. At the same time, a new report found that Czech wages rose five percent in the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same time last year.
Though many companies have laid off employees or cut their salaries, Holý said the biggest rise in unemployment in the Czech Republic may still becoming. Because of notice periods, statistics may not indicate the full extent of job losses until the summer, when those notice periods expire.
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Pelosi, Schumer call for Trump’s immediate removal, threaten impeachment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for the immediate removal of President Donald Trump following the breach of the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters Wednesday, leading the charge by Democratic lawmakers to unseat Trump just two weeks before he is scheduled to leave office.
Pelosi demanded Vice President Mike Pence immediately invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump for what she called ‘inciting sedition” by encouraging the rioters, threatening to start impeachment proceedings if Pence doesn’t agree.
“I join the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment. If the Vice President and Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment. That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus — and the American people by the way,” Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill.
“I don’t think it will take long to get answer from the Vice President. It will be yes, it will be no. And then we’ll see,” Pelosi said. She said she and Schumer have made their “interest” in this “known” to Pence world and hope to hear from him soon.
“So, again, we’ll review what our options are in terms of the 25th Amendment … if he wants to be unique and be doubly-impeached. That’s kind of up to him and his Cabinet as to whether he should stay in office,” Pelosi said.
Calling Trump “a very dangerous person,” she said, “this is urgent. This is an emergency of the highest magnitude.”
“By inciting sedition as he did yesterday, he must be removed for office. While there’s only 13 days left any day could be a horror show for America,” she said. “The president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people.”
Earlier, Schumer, who will soon become the Senate’s majority leader, called Wednesday’s assault an “insurrection at the Capitol incited by the president” and likewise called on Pence and members of Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
“If the Vice President and the Cabinet refuse to stand up, Congress should reconvene to impeach the president,” Schumer said.
Schumer also said Thursday he intends to fire the Senate sergeant-at-arms due to the breach of security at the Capitol. Pelosi called for the resignation of the chief of the Capitol Police.
“”There was a failure of leadership at the top of the Capitol Police … he hasn’t even called us since this happened,” she said.
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Separately, Pelosi says she has received the resignation of the Paul Irving, the House sergeant-at-arms, who oversees the Capitol Police.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell echoed concerns about the failure to secure the Capitol complex Wednesday, calling it a “massive failure” of the institutions, protocols and planning that are supposed to protect the first branch of our federal government.”
“A painstaking investigation and thorough review must now take place and significant changes must follow,” McConnell said in a statement. “Initial bipartisan discussions have already begun among committees of oversight and Congressional Leadership.”
Schumer and Pelosi joined a chorus of other lawmakers who are calling on Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, which lays out the procedures for replacing the president in the event of death, removal, resignation or incapacitation.
Under the amendment Pence and a majority of the president’s Cabinet would need to agree that Trump is unfit for office.
Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat with close ties to President-elect Joe Biden, told ABC News Thursday that removing Trump is “urgent” matter.
“If the leadership of the Republican Party, the leadership of the Trump administration, his Cabinet, his vice president, don’t see this as a moment of very clear and present danger, then I don’t know what the 25th Amendment is for,” Coons said.
“What happened yesterday was an egregious assault on our democracy and our Constitution, perpetuated by an unfit president,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OrC., tweeted. “The 25th Amendment should be invoked today and Trump should be removed from office.”
The call from Senate Democrats follows a push by the full force of the House Judiciary Committee, who penned a letter to Pence Wednesday urging him to take action.
“President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is still unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election,” the members wrote.
On Thursday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., became the first GOP member to call on Pence to take action.
“The president not only abdicated his duty to protect the American people and the people’s house, he invoked and inflamed passions that gave fuel to the insurrection we saw here,” Kinzinger said in a video posted to Twitter. “When pressed to move and denounce the violence he barely did so, while of course victimizing himself … all indications are that the president has become unmoored, not just from his duty, or even his health, but from reality itself.”
“It is for this reason that I call for the vice president and members of the Cabinet to ensure that the next few weeks are safe for the American people, and that we have a sane captain of the ship,” Kinzinger continued.
The majority of Republicans have stopped short of calling for Trump’s removal, though some have admitted that he does shoulder some of the blame for escalating protests Wednesday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he does not support using the 25th Amendment but that he believes Wednesday’s events will “tarnish” Trump’s presidency.
“The president needs to understand that his actions were the problem not the solution, that the rally yesterday was unseemly, got out of hand, and a good friend of mine, Rudy Giuliani, did not help,” Graham said.
“It breaks my heart that my friend, a president of consequence, would allow yesterday to happen and it will be a major part of his presidency,” Graham continued. “It was a self-inflicted wound.”
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said Thursday morning that it’s “hard to really evaluate” who is responsible for the events that occurred at the Capitol but that Trump’s rhetoric “inflamed a lot of people.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters that the riots at the Capitol are “one reason why you don’t stir people up.”
Riots at the capitol broke out Wednesday while the House and Senate were in the process of certifying state Electoral College votes. At the beginning of the day, 13 senators had announced their intention to the object to the results in at least 3 states. Trump had urged Pence and senators to stand up objections.
But by the time the protestors were cleared from the capitol, many of those objections were dropped.
“Some misled you. That the VP could reject ballots. That objections could pass or used as leverage to force an audit. They knew the truth but thought it was a great way to get attention & raise money. At this point, Pence has not yet signaled any intention to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
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He left Capitol Hill after presiding over a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral votes early Thursday morning without responding to shouted questions from reporters.
But, according to Inhofe, Pence expressed that he was “very upset” with Trump during a conversation with him.
If Pence refuses to act, Democrats are calling on their leaders to quickly reconvene to launch an impeachment effort.
“If the 25th Amendment is not invoked today, Congress must reconvene immediately for impeachment and removal proceedings,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted Thursday.
But a move to impeach Trump is likely going nowhere fast. Both the House and Senate are currently scheduled to be out of session until the day before inauguration. Even if they reconvene, drafting and approving articles would take time, and a trial on the Senate floor would take even longer.
Vice-President elect Kamala Harris was asked about impeaching Trump as she left the Senate chamber Thursday morning.
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Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek Resort to Open Additional Terrain on Wednesday, Nov. 30
Resorts receive more than foot of snow in last week
VAIL, Colo. – Nov. 29, 2016 – Recent snow storms and ideal snowmaking conditions are allowing Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek Resort to open additional terrain on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Vail Mountain will open Gondola One for access out of Vail Village, as well as Lower Villages Catwalk for return access, and terrain accessible via the Avanti Express (#2). Vail will also begin offering dining options at Mid-Vail. Skiers and snowboarders will have access to the following lifts and 331 acres of skiable terrain in these areas on Vail Mountain:
Eagle Bahn Gondola
At Beaver Creek, Cinch Express Lift (#8) will open during the day Wednesday with access to limited intermediate terrain. Beaver Creek will operate the following lifts with access to 88 acres of intermediate and beginner terrain:
Centennial Express Lift (#6)
Buckaroo Express Gondola (#1)
Cinch Express Lift (#8)
Last Chance to Purchase a 2016-2017 Epic Pass
Ski as much as you want, whenever you want. With more than 32,000 acres of skiing and snowboarding terrain, the Epic Pass is the best in the industry and the deadline to purchase is Sunday, Dec. 4. It features unlimited and unrestricted access to Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, Park City in Utah, Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood at Lake Tahoe, Perisher in Australia for the 2017 season, Wilmot Mountain just outside of Chicago, Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan. The Epic Pass and Epic Local Pass now provide five free days at Whistler Blackcomb in 2016-2017 with holiday restrictions. The Epic Pass also grants limited access to Arlberg in Austria, Les 3 Vallées, Paradiski and Tignes-Val D’Isere in France, Skirama Dolomiti in Italy and 4 Vallées in Switzerland. See all of the season pass options at www.epicpass.com before Dec. 4.
Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading global mountain resort operator. Vail Resorts’ subsidiaries operate ten world-class mountain resorts and three urban ski areas, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Park City in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada; Perisher in Australia; Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin; Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan. Vail Resorts owns and/or manages a collection of casually elegant hotels under the RockResorts brand, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning and development subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is www.snow.com.
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The project was funded by The World Bank aimed to organise four national conferences in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The topics of conferences were; Good Governance and Accountability, Gender and Women Empowerment, Corruption and Transparency, Social Development and Role of Civil Society.
News Network successfully organized all the programmes and the media widely covered the events.
Ministers, government high officials, Ambassadors in Dhaka, the World Bank Country Director and officials, representative from different national and international organisations, representatives of foreign mission in Dhaka, economists, experts and members of the civil society attended and participated in the conferences.
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Fox for sale on Lebanese social media raises questions of legality and morality
By NadineMazloum • 28 April 2016 • 1 Comment
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accessible uninstaller
Austin Pinto <austinpinto.xaviers@...>
is there an accessible uninstaller which works with nvda?
i used to use revo uninstaller but some versions back it was
inaccessible is it the same?
please suggest something.
i would prefer if its portable which can be run without installation.
but even if its not its ok.
i am getting a new laptop and i know it will come with a lot of crap
so i want to remove the crap cleanly.
also what is the solution of uninstalling macaffi i think the
uninstaller asks for a captcha how to get around it.
Tyaseta Rabita Nugraeni Sardjono <tyasetarabita@...>
puran uninstaller, unininstall tool
(https://crystalidea.com/uninstall-tool/support?source=uninstalltool&;campaign=mainmenu)
On 5/19/20, Austin Pinto <austinpinto.xaviers@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Kingett
There's 3 options I've found that work well. Ironically, one of the suggestions came from a certain blind website I'll refuse to name, because it's an illegal operation. But, the links below are all legit sources.
Puran Utilities. Very accessible, but hasn't been updated in years. Don't be shocked if it never updates.
Bulk Crap Uninstaller. Mostly accessible, but takes a lot of configuring to have it automate most tasks. IMO, it's junk cleanup is crap, but this is the only option that allows for batch uninstalling and cleaning up Windows 10 Metro apps.
Hi Bit Uninstaller. Very accessible. Updates Frequently. I could never uninstall windows 10 apps with it though, despite it's claim. Typical capitalism. The cleanup process after uninstalls can be automated, but I found it leaving a bunch of registry items it should have removed. So, write to the developer.
Have fun! I hope others have more suggestions.
Kenny <kwashingtonbox@...>
One of the reasons why I keep the JAWS screen reader installed on my PC. It is able to read the interface for Revo Uninstaller much better then NVDA.
On 5/19/2020 8:32 AM, Austin Pinto wrote:
I just use the one built into windows. It works, fine, or rather I use he ones built into the apps that I uninstall.
I hope my watch won't notice as it says do not take it off the charger while the update is happening. woops? I hope I didn't ruin the watch.
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On 19 May 2020, at 5:32, Austin Pinto wrote:
If you're getting a brand new, or even brand new to you, PC the easiest way to get the very cleanest Windows 10 possible is simply to do a completely clean reinstall. Gets rid of anything and everything an manufacturer loads on it as bloatware.
Doing a Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool to Fetch the Win10 ISO File
Doing a Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool to Create Bootable Win10 Install Media on a USB Thumb Drive
As far as an uninstaller utility, those should not be used unless the uninstaller that comes with a given piece of software fails somehow. The cleanest uninstall is generally using the dedicated uninstaller for a program that came with it, though there are, of course, exceptions, but relatively few.
That's exactly what I did with my new Dell XPS PC. You can't reset it for it will put all the McAfee and other unnecessary factory installed bloatware back. Had to use the Microsoft Media Creation tool to install a fresh copy of Windows 10. Worked out perfect for me.
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:28 PM, Kenny wrote:
That's exactly what I did [a completely clean reinstall on a brand-new machine]
It's something that many technicians will do, and if you have an SSD it's an incredibly fast process. What takes the most time is getting updates that may have been issued since the last ISO building blocks were officially released. For the ISO for version 1909 I snagged yesterday, the check for additional updates and downloading them took less than 2 minutes. Mind you, the client had fiber-optic internet, which helps immensely, but you can still get a sense of how much it was snagging, and at this stage in the game with version 1909 it was very little.
Using install media created via the Microsoft Windows 10 Media Creation Tool gets you the most "stripped down and essential" Windows 10 installation you can get. Even then, take the time to actually review the various screens during setup and tweak to your liking.
At this point I'm going to ask that unless someone wishes to propose another third-party uninstaller that's accessible via NVDA, we take this to the Chat Subgroup if the discussion of getting the cleanest fresh install of Windows 10 requires more discussion. I'll end with noting you're definitely right, Kenny, that using any manufacturer's restore partition/utility to restore your machine to its "out of the box" state does just that - bloatware and all.
While I hate to violate Brian's wish to take this to chat, I do feel like I should note a particular point of caution here.
When you are doing a thing like this on some manufacturer's laptops, be aware that you may be losing utilities that control extended features of the hardware for which there is no native Windows control method.
For example, on my MSI gaming laptop (which is a splendid laptop I might add), the MSI SCM utility software, and the MSI Dragon Center, are required to manage things like hardware buttons, keyboard backlighting, battery max charge (to keep it from charging past 80% for supposed better battery longevity), the FN-F4 run program macro, and various other things.
If your laptop has features like this, that are only accessible with a manufacturer supplied utility or group of same, you will probably want to download those again once you're on the other side of your Windows reinstall.
More accurately, you will probably want to make note of where and how to download those again, assuming you can.
(N.B. and no, for the record, MSI's Dragon Center is far from fully accessible with NVDA.)
On Tue, 19 May 2020, Brian Vogel wrote:
It's something that many technicians will do, and if you have an SSD it's an incredibly fast process. What takes the most time is getting updates that may
have been issued since the last ISO building blocks were officially released. For the ISO for version 1909 I snagged yesterday, the check for additional
updates and downloading them took less than 2 minutes. Mind you, the client had fiber-optic internet, which helps immensely, but you can still get a sense
of how much it was snagging, and at this stage in the game with version 1909 it was very little.Using install media created via the Microsoft Windows 10
Media Creation Tool gets you the most "stripped down and essential" Windows 10 installation you can get. Even then, take the time to actually review the
various screens during setup and tweak to your liking.At this point I'm going to ask that unless someone wishes to propose another third-party uninstaller
that's accessible via NVDA, we take this to the Chat Subgroup if the discussion of getting the cleanest fresh install of Windows 10 requires more
discussion. I'll end with noting you're definitely right, Kenny, that using any manufacturer's restore partition/utility to restore your machine to its
"out of the box" state does just that - bloatware and all. --
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By lazygecko,
June 14, 2008 in Community
lazygecko
Kirby (+1500)
A couple of months back during the series' 20th anniversary there was some book released in Japan, one of the pages in it hinted at a new classic game. Now yesterday, this entry was added to The Classification Board and Classification Review Board (AFAIK the Australian equivalent to ESRB and PEGI).
Perhaps the positive response from Bionic Commando and Street Fighter IV made them reconsider the whole Battle Network/Star Force shit no one cares about.
JCvgluvr 38 posts
The Author 28 posts
Bleck 28 posts
Schwaltzvald 27 posts
iskyoork
Ive been hearing rumors of this all over the place. One can only hope.
BardicKnowledge
Dr. Robotnik (+2700)
This would be incredible -- the last of Capcom's old series to get a revival...and the one that probably deserves it the most. Let's see how the original series gets connected to the X series (yeah right).
Malaki-LEGEND.sys
Donkey Kong (+2600)
I'm still waiting for MMLegends 3 over here. Come on, Capcom. Send some love this way.
Poke'G
Little Mac (+550)
It's only a dream, but I'm praying for an NES Mega Man 9 on the VC.
Same with a Mega Man X9 on the SNES VC. Both series sadly went downhill once they left their system of origin.
Gollgagh
Samus Aran (+8000)
It's only a dream' date=' but I'm praying for an NES Mega Man 9 on the VC.[/quote']
...wat
1-6 were on NES, 7 on SNES, and 8 on PS1 and Saturn.
why the hell would they put 9 on the NES
Imagist
Metal Slug (+900)
Read the rest of his post and it'll make sense
although I have no idea what he's smoking in saying that, MM7 and 8 were two of the best games in the series as far as I'm concerned.
VerSus22
Weren't they making Megaman 9 for Wii/WiiWare?
Mega Man was born and bred on the NES. Why not send him back? Capcom used to push a Mega Man out once a year. Would it be so hard to try it again? Mega Man was NES, X was SNES, and Legends was PS. With downloadable games, why not send all of them back to their origin.
It's not the only series I'd like to see have a retro sequel either. It's possible, just not at all that likely.
atmuh
Pikachu (+5000)
Both series sadly went downhill once they left their system of origin.
x4 was the best x and 7 was the best original
you dumb
also being that making video games is a BUSINESS itd be pretty dumb to make something that IN NINTENDOS OWN WORDS only geeks and otakus would like
Mega Man 2 was the best, and X 1-3 were great. X-4 was cool, but the stage designs started going downhill after the 3rd X game and the focus starting flowing away from blowing up stuff to collecting things. Personally I will always love the original Mega Man games the most. They were the most optimistic and the stage designs and game play were just awesome.
frogdrop
mega man 9 would be an awesome idea. would it be ported to playstation 3 if it did come up? i doubt that kind of power would be necessary
Pac-Man (+500)
I heard about this last night on a Mega Man site. What you should be aware of is that Mega Man 9's corporate listing is the subcompany that Capcom uses to release 360 and PS3 downloads, so it may be one of those. Of course, the best course of action would be a Wii or a DS sidescroller (2D, naturally). I'd forgive them for the absence of ZX3 if I could get a Mega Man 9 DS release this year.
On a similar note, how do you think they'd structure it? Probably opening stage, 4 bosses, mid-stage, 4 bosses, 4 Wily stages like 7 and 8 (though I'd rather forego the mid-stage for all 8 stages being open from the start). In terms of story, if I were doing it, Mega Man and Bass would have a final battle, Mega Man would fight Zero in the end (who would kill Wily), and perhaps Zero could irreparably damage Mega Man before being stopped himself. There are relatively straightforward ways to link Mega Man to X, but Capcom has to be willing to do so. If 9 comes out, it has to be the last game of that series ever, barring remakes. After that, X9. As long as it doesn't suck.
Inafune said that if he were to make a console Mega Man game, that it would most likely come out on Wii. I'm going to go ahead and jump on the fanboy wagon, so here goes. Wii fans are already getting crapped out of the next Resident Evil as well as Street Fighter 4. I think Capcom kinda owes the Nintendo fans. Assuming it exists, if Mega Man 9 isn't ported to the Wii, I will be an angry man. If it comes out on other consoles, then I'm totally cool with that because I love Mega Man and I would like to see him on top.
If it comes out as a 360 or PS3 exclusive, I will throw a fit, drive to the store, and buy me that system just to play that game. I am not kidding. Street Fighter 4 already has me up to my knees in anticipation, but there's no debate over a true, original Mega Man game. To those who are fans of the recent iterations of Mega Man, I mean you no harm, but I have an extremely biased nostalgic obsession for the blue bomber, and I have been waiting for many years to see a conclusion or a renewal of his blueness.
Mega Man has been going the way of Sonic lately. We've seen annoying new characters, we've seen the storyline branch out into totally silly territory, and we've seen some decent games that are sadly unamazing when compared to the inspiration of the early Mega Man and X games - much like Sonic's games. You're playing them because they feature your favorite character and they're still pretty fun, but you know that if Capcom gave Mega Man a budget and timeline half as big as a Resident Evil game, you would see a difference.
The most important thing to me is that this game exists. Scratch that. The most important thing to me is (assuming the game is being made) that the game is awesome. I want to see something that uses the inspiration from the earlier games. I want some fan service.
I'm not just talking about musical style (return to fast melodic rock and dance would be nice), I want the action to go back to the blasting and jumping. I want to see the powerslide. And I am damn fine with 3D. I see a few of you Legends fans on here, but I'm only partly with you. I want a Mega Man gameI think the Wii would be a great console for the next Mega Man, and simplifying the shooting process while adding
.... nevermind, there's a thunderstorm going on. End fanboy rant.
UnforgivingEdges
I'm going to go ahead and jump on the fanboy wagon, so here goes. Wii fans are already getting crapped out of the next Resident Evil as well as Street Fighter 4. I think Capcom kinda owes the Nintendo fans.
Capcom owes nobody anything. They're a corporation out to make money.
Originally Posted by megadave:
I am damn fine with 3D.
I was totally with you until here. 3D could work for a Mega Man game (if it's on Wii, it would probably trump Legends, and yes, I'm a Legends fan), but if 9 is indeed on Wii and doesn't have sprites, it has to be 3D characters in a 2D world, and has to be better than X8 (and especially X7). Come on, Capcom, give my hyper-detailed, Odin Sphere quality sprites. I know you can do it!
I was horribly let down with the newer games, so I have some hope for this. As long as it doesn't get overhyped and drop like a rock. Im still waiting on RE5 and SFIV though
JCvgluvr
Chun-Li (+1000)
Oh yes. Oh heck yes! Pleeeeaaaaassssseeee let this come true!!!
Although, wasn't Mega Man and Bass considered the 9th in the series?
They'd better use this new game to tie up the loose ends between it and the X series. Imagine if this one ends with the death of Mega Man by Zero's sabre?!
DarkeSword
Judge, Moderator, For Everlasting Peace Director
Sorry, but I don't buy that. Mega Man games are still well made. Sonic games are poorly produced.
Mega Man games in the Zero/ZX series are still solid productions with great gameplay, graphics, and music. IntiCreates did an amazing job with that series and moved 2D Mega Man games in the right direction: open, Metroidvania style worlds with exploration and the ability to finally play as bosses. Couple that with some great art direction and a fairly cohesive plot, and you're definitely in business.
Hell, even the Battle Network/Star Force series is good. Is it traditional side-scrolling Mega Man? Of course not; it never attempted to be, but people hate on it for that reason anyway. It's a series that combines real-time battles with the customization aspects of popular collection RPGs. People seem to get their panties in a bunch whenever Capcom makes another BN/SF game, but c'mon, this is Capcom we're talking about. Slowly evolving a series through sequels is their M.O.
It's been a long time since Mega Man games sucked. I think the last one in the series that we could actually say sucked was X7. That was years ago.
Wii fans have been getting crapped on since the system's inception. Deal.
Anyway, I'm agreeing with DarkeSword on this one. I don't remember any of the latest Mega Man games sucking(although I never did get a chance to play X7...). I actually liked MM.exe as far as 1-3(never played the others), and I love the hell out of Zero, maybe moreso than the X series, and ZX is something I've been dying to play. Not so interested in Star Force though.
I still want Legends 3, damnit.
Good point, and you've certainly been a more devout fan than me as of late, but I'm in the grey here. I don't think that the new Mega Man games suck, I just think that they could do so much more with it. That was my comparison to Sonic. There's still a lot of good Sonic games, but they don't blow me out of the water like Sonic 3. Wouldn't you like to see a large budget Mega Man game headed by Inafune himself? I think he deserves the 5 star treatment that Bionic Commando and Street Fighter 4 are getting. Sure, Mega Man games don't exactly require 300-person teams, but what if?
We certainly have our differences. I'm more of an oldschool Mega Man fan and that's just how I am. Mega Man will never suck, but at the same time, I want Capcom to do what it takes to bring him to a wider audience. Either way, I think we can all agree that the sound of "Mega Man 9" is very awesome.
http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/
-Rockman 9 will feature a retro 8-bit art style, a homage to the earlier games.
-Two playable characters: Rockman and Blues (ProtoMan). Each has their own unique storylines.
- A popular belief is that RM9 will act as the 'link' to the events of the X Series. This is not so, The storyline DOES NOT lead into the X Series, rather it's a 'traditional' plot.
-Many new characters, new Robot Masters and maybe some new supporting characters.
-Gameplay is reminiscent of Rockman 3-6.
-Online components: Leader boards and some unknown form of online play
-RM9 will be on all major home consoles: Wii, X360 and PS3. X360 and PS3 users will be able to purchase the game from their respective download services. It's unknown how the Wii version will work, whether it will be a downloaded game or not
Still, you can't help but feel that Capcom is treating it like a second-rate title by making it a downloadable title.
The Pezman
Tanooki Mario (+2000)
Lame. This is a lost opportunity. After all, in the animated series the episode with Megaman X was probably the best one. Why not bridge the gap?
Schwaltzvald
To those unfamiliar with the episode mentioned above. It's from the Ruby-Spears "Megaman" A tv series based on the blue bomber, with all of the glorious cheese that is of 90's cartoons.
The episode mentioned is called Mega X
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbvBvep5iFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzX8MXD-lQ
Lots of moments made me cringe (out of some errors but meh are forgivable) but god damn did I feel excited seeing Vile and Sparkmandrill as they were most probably as close to the X game as possible
(mind you this is before they redid the first X game into Maverick Hunter X)
I would love to see RM10 be the bridge..
You know...
Rockman X...
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USA news in the native language
Law and Law
The police in San Francisco are looking for the swordsman in the hat MAGA, wounding a man at a local rollerdrome
Posted By newsmaker on March 31, 2019
On Friday, March 29, near popular rolledrom Church of 8 Wheels, which is on Fillmore and Fell streets in San Francisco (CA), occurred the attack with the use of the sword. According to police, a man wearing a cap MAGA quarreled with another man and put an end to the verbal sparring with his sword – he wounded another man and fled the scene.
Now the police searches for the sword on Saturday police studied video from surveillance cameras and interviewing witnesses, trying to piece together the details of a bloody conflict that raged during the disco for adults, which takes place every Friday at rollerama Church of 8 Wheels.
According to police officer Robert Rourke, a call about an assault came in at 21:50. According to him, the victim, whose name was not disclosed, was approached by a man in a red cap MAGA (the phrase Make America Great Again, translated from English. «Let’s make America great again» was the slogan of the campaign of Donald trump in 2016). Between men began a verbal dispute. Initially, the police believed that the victim was in the cap, but on Saturday changed its initial statement. Roark said that the victim tried to knock the hat MAGA from the head of an opponent, but he drew his sword and struck at his arm (the police at first believed that the injured man was wearing a hat MAGA, but Saturday’s statement changed).
24-year-old Scott Sweeney said that he saw a man in a red cap and a sword in about half an hour before the attack. According to Sweeney, this man shouted homophobic abuse. «I didn’t think that his sword is real, but when we went out late on the street there were already police, and on the ground was blood and lay cap,» said Sweeney.
David miles, the organizer rolledrom in the building, which was previously held by the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, during the conflict was inside and didn’t see the time of the attack. But he immediately ran outside to assist the injured man. «The guy was cut and he was bleeding. Blood gushing from the wound, so we brought a first aid kit and tried to stop the bleeding,» he says.
Miles has published in his Facebook pictures, which show the consequences of the attack.
«Tonight I felt like really crazy supporters trump! The guy in the hat MAGA attacked on the street with a sword at people!!! It’s right in front of the Church of 8 Wheels!»
According to miles, the wounded man tried to chase attacked him, but then I realized how much bleeding, and was forced to stop the persecution. At the scene, the EMTs arrived quickly and took the victim to the nearest hospital. It is reported that his life is not in danger.
Police are asking anyone with information about the attack to contact detectives by phone 415-575-4444.
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The Verbal Autopsies from Kano
Olusegun Adeniyi
If there is any lesson we have learnt from the past five weeks, it is how difficult it is to enforce a meaningful lockdown or social distancing in Nigeria. All over the country, wherever restrictions are imposed, the pushing and shoving that occurs during market hours have themselves become serious risk factors.
Last Friday, two children were crushed to death in Taraba State following a stampede at Jalingo main market during the four hours (10am to 2pm) allotted for residents to stock household essentials. Many churches and mosques continue to remain open. And last week Monday, thousands of young boys in Kano took part in a football tournament described as ‘Corona Cup’. Despite Abia being “the only state that is mentioned in the Bible” which resulted in Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s promise that “none of these diseases will touch God’s people” and that COVID-19 “will also pass us by,” two index cases have been recorded in the state. And by last night, the virus had been confirmed in no fewer than 33 of the 36 states and Abuja. I believe we can now safely conclude it is in every state of the country.
In one of my earlier interventions on the COVID-19 pandemic, I warned that a nation of our demographic magnitude must remain on perennial alert for potentially devastating public health emergencies. I also spoke to the hunger and deprivation that many would face in the event of a lockdown they neither anticipated nor prepared for in advance. When life is a struggle, according to The Economist article I referenced, “it is hard to worry about a threat you cannot see.” In a subsequent column titled, ‘Mallam Has Said There’s No Corona’, I admonished Nigerians to brace ourselves for the immediate, short, medium and long term implications of this global pandemic and its ensuing health, social, political and economic ramifications. Almost all my ‘prophecies’ have come to pass.
In managing COVID-19, my biggest concern has been that if governors were left to take uncoordinated actions that do not fit into a national strategy, the virus would enter their communities with all the dire implications for the health of our society. By not taking direct responsibility from the outset, the president allowed governors too much latitude in dealing with a global pandemic. One governor in the South-South is drawing huge crowds, propounding silly theories to his largely illiterate (and clearly endangered) audience. Others are closing ‘borders’ to their states and personally arresting citizens. While one governor in the South-East is legislating ‘Koboko treatment’ for any journalist in his state who would not report the pandemic the way he wants, some of his northern colleagues have been exchanging Almajiri deportees almost as if these neglected citizens were diplomats of their ‘states of origin’. Amid all these, majority of Nigerians are still waiting to ‘eyemark’ the palliatives on which billions of Naira are being earmarked by the federal government and the authorities in the states. But the biggest challenge has now come from Kano where people are dying in droves, with strong suspicions that the deceased may have succumbed to complications arising from COVID-19.
When on 30th March President Muhammadu Buhari declared a 14-day lockdown of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory, I wondered whether he was well advised to leave out Kano. When, in renewing the 14-day lockout on 13th April, he again ignored the state where a monumental tragedy was developing, I was beyond shocked. By then, the first index case had been confirmed in a manner that should have sent alarm bells ringing. The patient, a retired diplomat, had attended the popular Da’awah Juma’at Mosque as well as two private hospitals and had mingled with several people within the city. The only major action taken in the aftermath was that “all commercial tricycle riders will carry only one passenger” and that the task force would “also meet with Chief Imams of Juma’at mosques and Reverend Fathers to decide on how to operate places of worships in order to curb the spread of the virus.” It therefore came as no surprise when within a period of 24 hours last Thursday, no fewer than 23 prominent citizens died in the city!
The signs of an implosion in Kano had been there since 21 March when Governor Abdullahi Ganduje inaugurated the COVID-19 Task Force with his deputy, Nasiru Yusuf and Professor Abdularazaq Garba Habib as co-chairmen. Habib, an expert in infectious diseases at the Bayero University, Kano, was expected to lead efforts. But a few days after inauguration, Habib tested positive for COVID-19 along with two other members of the task force. So, the structure established to fight the pandemic in the state collapsed before the assignment even started! That provided a perfect opportunity for Dr Amina Ganduje, daughter of the governor who had been appointed into the task force, to practically take charge. And from that period, efforts to tackle COVID-19 in an urban centre like Kano became a family affair.
Although he was initially in denial about the Kano deaths, Ganduje admitted for the first time on Sunday that there was a challenge: “I will like to inform you that the situation is getting tougher and tougher; the situation is getting serious, and serious and very serious. But equally the same, we are determined. They say when the journey is tough only the tough can keep on moving. We assure you we will keep on moving until we see to the end of this deadly disease with the help of Allah.” Ganduje can keep on ‘moving’ in whichever direction he likes but harassing the federal government for N15 billion will not address the monumental health crisis that has now been foisted on his state.
Having finally admitted that the number of deaths points to something unusual, the state has now resorted to ‘verbal autopsy’ to unravel what happened. “Kano State government has begun house-to-house engagement with families of those that have died to carefully administer questions on the symptoms exhibited by the victims before they died. This is what is termed clinically as verbal autopsy and it will allow the health professionals to predict the possible causes of the recorded deaths,” said COVID-19 task force deputy coordinator, Dr Sabitu Shu’aibu. That exactly is what I have also been doing in the past few days by speaking with many of my friends in Kano as well as prominent citizens within the city to unravel this ‘mystery’. Their feedback scares me.
Hours before the president declared a lockdown on the city on Monday, I received the report of three Kano-based female medical practitioners who conducted an investigation into the deaths. The trio of Maryam Nasir, Zainab Mahmoud and Khadija Rufai said that over the span of 48 hours, they received reports of 183 deaths in Kano metropolis that occurred between 18th to 25th April, 2020. Following a verbal autopsy they conducted, using the World Health Organization (WHO) template, they gathered two sets of data from the deaths. “The first data set was obtained through direct family members (first degree relatives) of the deceased and the second data set was from indirect sources (friends, neighbors or relatives of the deceased). We obtained demographics, symptoms, exposure history and medical history of the deceased. Some family members volunteered further information around the deaths. We compiled and analyzed the data,” they wrote in their report.
The conclusion of their investigation was that of “a trend of febrile and respiratory illness that progresses to death within one to two weeks. These deaths occurred in various localities in Kano and are predominantly amongst elderly people with underlying medical conditions. This presentation mirrors severe COVID-19 cases reported around the world.” And they explained: “One of the contacts, who had lost a father, stated that he became ill about one week after (attending) a wedding ceremony. He had fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea. Attempts to contact the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) were unsuccessful and he passed away a week later. Another contact stated that the deceased had fever and shortness of breath for a week. He was initially treated for pneumonia at a private hospital and subsequently required a ventilator. There were several reports of multiple people in a household or in a neighborhood dying from similar illness. Of note, 40 out of 51 deaths had no recent travel history.”
While we await the outcome of the official verbal autopsy, the report of the medical doctors corroborates that of others, including the one by Yusuf Yau Gambo of Yusuf Maitama Bello University, Kano. Dated 28th April, 2020 (Tuesday), the ‘community-based survey’ report (reviewed by Auwal Abubakar, a medical and health professional with the University of California Berkeley and Audu Liman, Chief of Party, USAID SENSE Project, American University of Nigeria) indicates that given the symptoms exhibited by the deceased, the incubation period of their illnesses as well as the age group involved, “the possibility of relating the situation to the current COVID-19 pandemic could not be ruled out”. Meanwhile, Maryam Nasir, Zainab Mahmoud and Khadija Rufai made far–reaching recommendations. These include enhancing testing capacity and community-based testing; establishing mobile testing centers within the city; providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to all staff with potential exposures especially at points of initial patient contact; recognising the consequences of neglected non-COVID-19 medical care and imposing strict guidelines for burials.
From respected clerics to eminent scholars and medical practitioners, I have read many interventions by Kano stakeholders on the mismanagement of COVID-19 by Ganduje and the urgent need for President Buhari to take personal responsibility for the state. Many politicians, including former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso have also weighed in. Calling on the president to declare a state of emergency in Kano, Dr Mukhtar Datti Ahmed said he cannot imagine a graver situation than what is happening in the state today. “21 years of personalised government and denudation of the civil service and civil structures have joined forces with Covid-19 in wreaking disaster among our people”, he wrote. He added that although Lagos was given 10 billion to aid its fight against COVID-19, “I fear the mind-set of the current government (in Kano) would render any grants as good as water down the drain. There simply isn’t a credible plan or a coalition of experts to make the best use of any funds provided.”
As much as I believe Ganduje has mismanaged the crisis, I worry that politicising the tragedy will not serve the interests of Kano people. President Buhari must get the governor to work with political, traditional and religious authorities in the state. Ganduje must also be made to understand that when you have a complex problem, raw measures don’t help. He must follow the advice of experts and invest in soft skills such as surveillance and laboratory systems. Ganduje should also quickly put together a media team that will embark on risk communication in Kano State. And he must work with all federal agencies, private individuals and development partners that may want to help in dealing with this challenge.
But beyond the Kano debacle, there are more challenges ahead as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the entire country. From Monday, restrictions placed on residents of Lagos and Ogun states as well as those in Abuja will be lifted. With that, we are embarking on the Swedish option of taking personal preventive measures, and ultimately hoping for a measure of ‘Herd immunity’. This happens after infections have resulted in the deaths of many (hopefully not too many) and the recovery of others. Lifting the lockdown was predicated on the reality that daily survival has become too difficult for our citizens. However, this also comes with a cost, especially in our kind of environment. That will become clear in the days, weeks, and possibly months ahead.
If we are to win the war against COVID-19, there are several things that should happen. One, we have to destigmatise both the reportage and the manner in which infected people are being viewed by society. When people begin to hide what ails them as a result of stigma or run away from isolation centres as has happened in some states, they endanger themselves, their families and the rest of us, especially as we enter a new phase in the battle against the virus. Two, there is an urgent need for the president to host a meeting (even if virtual) with the governors so they can all be on the same page in this fight. Right now, they are pulling in different directions. Three, it is important to streamline activities of the presidential task force. As to be expected of such a body with nine ministers, I understand the task force has become dysfunctional. What we need is a command and control system that will place the federal ministry of health and the NCDC at the centre of efforts to tackle the pandemic. The present arrangement is not working.
However, this pandemic also comes with opportunities to reinvent our country. For instance, contact tracing has been difficult because there are no credible records to work with. If we are to build an economy based on the productive capacity of our people as opposed to sharing dwindling oil money, there are salient questions we must address. How many Nigerians are we? Where do we live? How many are unemployed? How many tax payers do we have? What are the age demographics of our citizens? These and several other questions are hanging in the air. If we are serious, one of the first things we should do after this COVID-19 scourge is to begin the process of a biometric-driven population census. We must stop running our country on the basis of assumptions.
The next issue, of course, has to do with the health care delivery system in the country. COVID-19 has exposed our nakedness. Even the affluent have no place to run. In posing the question, ‘Can Africa really afford lockdowns, and can they be effective?’ and whether people on the continent can successfully and sustainably defeat COVID-19 by copying the template of Western nations in his well circulated paper, former CBN Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo advocated the trial of local herbs. “While the U.K. and others are experimenting with vaccines, you never know if an Africa herb might be the cure. Necessity is the mother of invention, and only those who dare, succeed!” he wrote.
Aside his brilliant economic prognosis, I like Soludo’s proposition on local herbs which has been tried by other countries. According to China’s National Health Commission, about 90 percent of their nationals infected with COVID-19 took some form of traditional Chinese medicine to treat their symptoms. These traditional remedies, according to the commission, helped to alleviate symptoms, reduced the severity of the virus, improved recovery and reduced mortality rate. Growing up in the village where you took these concoctions every morning, some of us are well aware of the efficacy of herbs, even though we have not developed them as other societies have. Perhaps this is the time to commence efforts in that direction.
It is regrettable that the federal government has not challenged our universities and research institutions to find a workable testing regime and vaccine. For a country that boasts some of the best experts in most fields, based both at home and abroad, government funding should be channeled towards enabling our national scientific efforts to be part of a lasting solution. Rather than asking the president to allow them to “import a plane load” of herbs from Madagascar for a trial on COVID-19 as the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha is suggesting, we should look inwards. This is not a time for frivolity. Now that we are easing up from Monday, what can we do individually and collectively, given our realities, to prevent an explosion? What is the responsibility of thought leaders, employers, and governments? What is the place of individual responsibility? Have we engaged our clerics enough, give the influence they hold over their members? Those are the issues that should concern Boss Mustapha and his presidential task force.
While the health system in our country is weak, a product of decisions taken over decades, even the best health systems in the world have not come out smelling of roses in their encounter with COVID-19. The number one lesson when dealing with a pandemic is the quality of response matters more. All factors considered, we have not done too badly in that area even when there is room for improvement. The greater challenge is how not to waste this crisis. We must learn appropriate lessons to improve our health system and build a more resilient economy for the post-coronavirus world.
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Study: Black-Owned Businesses Closed at 2X the Rate of Total COVID Closures
Ruth McCambridge
“Closed as in Closed,” Alan Levine
May 25, 2020; Washington Post
On Monday, the Washington Post reported a precipitous 40 percent drop in the number of working African American business owners in the United States, contrasted against a 22 percent drop in active business owners overall between February to April.
Sadly, these numbers are no surprise. Indeed, last month in NPQ, Joe Neri, who leads IFF, a community development financial institution (CDFI), outlined the dynamic at work, as well as the long-term stakes:
Those able to defy the odds and stay alive despite these systemic barriers often did so at the fringes and while operating on slim margins. Now, faced with the pandemic’s titanic challenge, they are asking the government for the assistance they were promised. And being denied again.
These businesses will not be turned down because of race—that’s illegal. They will be turned down because they don’t have existing relationships, which they don’t have because of the persistent racial wealth and income gaps resulting from decades of racial inequalities.
And the result will be that these established, Black-owned businesses will be destroyed.
Fast forward to five years from now. New Black-owned businesses will emerge, and they will apply for loans. Banks will turn them down, saying those new businesses are too new, too small, and don’t have enough wealth. Will we remember that the more established businesses were wiped out in the last (this current) crisis?
The study’s findings, drawn from federal employment surveys, confirm that what Neri said was happening is happening. They are, in fact, just one more data point in the disproportionate effect the pandemic has had on Black and Latinx members of our community. On top of that, the number of immigrant business owners declined by 36 percent.
Robert Fairlie, an economics professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, calls the new findings “devastating,” pointing out that the disparities in business ownership were already deep.
“African Americans have the lowest business-ownership rate in the population,” Fairlie says. “And so here we’re creating a situation of closures that’s hitting the groups with the lowest rates even harder.”
As of April, the country lost nearly 450,000 active African American business owners as the pandemic intensified, he found. But the disparities extended into every minority group. The number of working [Latinx] business owners dropped 32 percent from February to April, while the number of Asian business owners decreased by about a quarter.
As NPQ reported in April, the Center for Responsible Lending warned then that the Paycheck Protection Program as structured was likely to put business owners of color at a disadvantage. But it was not until recently that the Treasury Department announced it was working with the US Small Business Administration to prioritize businesses owned by people of color and the lenders that work with them.
“God forbid there’s another round of stimulus and we’re still doing the same thing,” said Eda Henries, the chief financial officer of a soul-food company who has organized fellow black professionals to help small businesses navigate aid programs during the pandemic.
“All recessions exacerbate existing inequalities by race and ethnicity—and always hit black and [Latinx] workers harder—but this one will be worse,” Heidi Shierholz, policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, told The Washington Post at the time. “It will be an absolute nightmare.”
Ruth is the founder and Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.
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Aeon commentary
Discuss and unveil current Marathon projects.
I told Dugit I was writing a lot of commentary about Aeon as I was playing through it. Critical commentary is really important at every stage of development for any product, but especially in this case, as the project is starting to come together to form a cohesive whole. It's far enough in that all/most of the concepts have actually been brought out, so piecemeal commentary on that is actually feasible, and one can also see the big picture and comment on that.
I was going to post this in the Aeon thread, but this is really long and has a ton of pictures, so I figured I'd post it separately. Forthcoming is all the commentary, but I'll start with the intro levels. Note that I wrote these all out beforehand, so I'm just pretty much batch uploading into this thread.
00. Our Lives a Mimicry and 01. Apoptosis
I'm not really sure both of these levels need to be here? I have no problems with an intro level to a scenario, I suppose, but why two? Of the two, Apoptosis is really stupid, so I'd just dump that one entirely. Mimicry is pretty solid, though. I'd just delete all the monsters on Mimicry, since they don't really add anything of value to the level, and have that lead straight into Founder Effect.
02. Founder Effect
This is the first of several levels where a save should be available right away. The beginning fight on this level is tough, and dying here sends you back to Mimicry, which is obnoxious. Actually, the opening wave is not so bad, but the second wave (once you enter the building) is usually enough to do me in.
Also, the mission is not clear. It's not evident when you're "done" killing things. Find a way to write the terminals better, so you know that once you kill the Juggernaut, you're done.
All these computer panels are bouncy. Generally, bouncy walls seem to happen at points where the polygon edge and the wall are less than 0.25 WU apart. Deepen the indentation to 0.25 WU and you'll be fine. (I noticed you tried to put solid lines in front of them; these lines need to hold a texture of some kind, either a lattice or a lower/upper ledge, in order for it to work.)
In the room with the MOAH, you have water just standing around. Water should always have either a flow or a tide, or both; standing water might be realistic, but it looks bad.
In a level with a lot of bad texturing, this room actually stood out to me as really good. First of all, you have a constrained palette; gray rocks with blue paint and water to offset it, and a couple green lights. You really need to play with a constrained palette, with some sensible colors that work with each other. This becomes a little less of a problem later in the game, but in the opposite direction -- the levels become too flat. This level is really garish.
This in particular stood out as a really nice, subtle detail. Very few people would think to do that at all, and fewer still would waste the polygons to make that lighting effect. It's nice that you're consistent with it, too, if I remember correctly. The lighting in the rest of the room, unfortunately, is pretty flat -- you can see there is no differential shading in the rock walls above that light tube. I'd rather have more of that, personally.
This picture is an example of how the textures you're using look too different from each other to be used in the same area. I can see textures from M1, M2, Infinity, Evil, and TI in this shot alone, in addition to kinda clunky photoshops, and they all have different "feels" to them. I actually only took this pic for the M2 light panel in the center, but afterward I realized just how horrible the whole picture is altogether.
These are more examples of mishmashing textures, both from different sources and different sets from each source. Throughout the game, you need to apply a more even hand with your texture usage. This helps differentiate your maps from each other, as well as just making them all work together better.
This is an example of poorly composed battles. I want to like this level, because it has a pretty smart layout and could be a very good "first level," but the battles are awful, and that's what brings me down. This picture is of a narrow rocky staircase, and on that ledge in the background there were two Enforcers. There is no way to dodge these attacks, so you either have to ignore them or take a bunch of damage while you whittle them down. It's annoying. I'd probably just have no monsters at all in here.
There are several instances of monsters teleporting in inches behind you. These sorts of ambushes almost never are fun unless you have a lot of room to react, in which case it seems like less of a cheap ambush and more of a proper flank by the enemy. I recognize it as poorly-placed monsters and triggers, but some people might see it as a dirty trick; either way, it's not good.
There's a battle with an MOAH at one point, and it stinks; it does nothing but kill the pacing. It's not hard, since you have free access to a 2x recharger, so I'd probably just get rid of it.
The last battle I can think of is the Juggernaut battle. First of all, the blue Juggernaut looks terrible. But beyond that, the opening area isn't well-composed for a Juggernaut fight. It's got too much awkward geometry, and it's too small, so you pretty much have to whore the recharger. The rest of the "final fight" isn't bad.
On the whole, this level could be good but it needs a lot of cleaning up. I would honestly probably nuke all the objects and start over, recomposing all the fights. I will address problems with monster/weapon progression as a whole later, but between the size of the fights, the variety of monsters, and all the weapons you get on this first level, it doesn't feel very first-level-y.
03. Eternal Lucid Dream
What strikes me right away is the palette swaps. The main story of the game (the white bloods) relies on a palette swap to distinguish them from regular Pfhor/Bobs. I would not add in more palette swaps just because. If nothing else, using regular palettes would actually add a good amount of color to a drab-looking level.
Besides, you can get results like this. Hideous.
You would have a better-looking backdrop here with fewer textures and more distinct lighting. Compare it with the Phoenix shot next to it. You still get a good feel for the geometry without having a bazillion textures thrown in your face.
On the whole, though, this level is pretty fun. It's linear, with a bunch of hallways, but the battles are usually well-composed and enjoyable. There's just the problem with BS ambushes, like on Founder Effect. For example, right at the beginning, there is a monster trigger that teleports in Enforcers and Troopers all around you. There's no room to dodge or otherwise avoid taking damage; it's just a stupid cheap shot, and your level isn't "harder" for it.
I like how this room works. Again: good color choices and the textures work together. I'll attribute the drabness to the fog effect (which is reasonable, and done well).
This pisses me off. If you fall back here, you get stuck. I know you are aware of it, because you put in a teleporter to un-stick you. Why not just fix the geometry so you can't get stuck! The curved steps just look weird in the square hallway, so I'd probably adjust the wall so it conforms with the curve.
I don't mind this level. I know I had problems with it in the past, but it's a bit better now. Just fix the nonsense ambushes and you'd have a fun, short little romp. But uh...
04. Pfherrous Oxide
You have a two-part level here, and I think the only reason why is to have respawning enemies in the second half. I don't like this concept, first of all; respawning monsters don't usually work well in single player levels. This one is okay because the level is so short, but there's still no real payoff; if the level just had normal monsters, I don't think it would be any less fun.
Anyway, the level transition is unnecessary. In Anvil and Shapefusion, you can copy monster data wholesale -- just highlight the monster name in the list, copy, and paste it into another slot you aren't using (Ticks are good for this). Then you can just copy the Troopers into the Tick slot, have the Ticks respawn, and be done with it. It would get rid of the awkward level transition.
Also, the level transition into Rise and Fall sucks. That level begins with a huge, chaotic battle that you can't possibly be expecting, and right when you start you're being fired upon. It sucks as a transition, because you're running from a chaotic battle in this level, and you don't get time to figure out why there's so much nonsense happening. A smoother transition would be better -- maybe have a saferoom at the end of this level, or put an expository level between this level and the next one to better set the scene.
I do like the staging of the chip room, though. The level itself is composed very well, and it's not really offensive, but I think you're just shooting yourself in the foot with the respawning monsters bit. Maybe expand the level out a little more and just have normal fights (maybe a boss of some kind), and you'd have a much better payoff.
05. The Rise and Fall of Dugit
Before I begin, I want to establish something. My computer can run Crysis on maximum settings. If your level dips my framerate, you're going to make a LOT of people upset and possibly unable to play your game entirely. This is sort of the turning point, where your geometry gets so ridiculously complex for increasingly minimal gains. You could chop the polygon count on this level in half, and everything would still look great.
Like I said earlier, this level would benefit a lot if there was a safe transition between the last level and this one. If nothing else, a chance to save between the two would be greatly appreciated.
You're aware this terminal doesn't work, right?
This is where my framerate dipped. Despite that, I love the composition of this transition from the last room to this one. The huge architecture works pretty well here, and the sky in the background looks great.
The annoying thing is the 2x recharger that's to the player's right in this picture. Trying to use it triggers the first wave of monsters in this area, which isn't really fair. Rather than moving the trigger further into the room, I'd just move the recharger to a safe area in the first room. Same with the save point.
This is the boss room. First of all, it introduces the new MOACs, which I don't really like. The Juggernaut missiles are good, but the Fusion bolts are very overpowered. Getting hit by a full blast is pretty much instant death regardless of your health. But then, this also plays in your favor, because properly kited they pretty much shredded everyone else in this room, and one of them killed the other as well. I would probably change the attack to normal Fusion bolts, or use one of the Unused projectile shots to create your own, less-powerful attack.
Also, this room has way too much "junk" in it. I died many times trying to run away from the MOACs only to get caught on some rocks and eat a full blast of Fusion. Simplify the center area.
Speaking of funny physics, the Drones on this level shoot a really long blast of Compiler bolts. Besides the attack being weirdly dissonant with the monster, the burst is too long. Flying enemies have strange behavior while attacking. I would reduce their attack burst to 2 or so. In fact, I don't really think the monster concept pays off -- it seems to be weird for its own sake, when normal Drones are fine.
I think if the transitions from fight to fight were smoother, this map would be a lot of fun. Oh yeah: I don't think the teleporter is a good idea. I'm a fan of areas being physically connected for the sake of continuity. Just have a ledge you have to drop down or something to lock the player into the final area, and it'll be a much smoother experience.
06. The Asphodel Meadows
The first thing I noticed is your music choice. Lightless Dawn is too mellow and mysterious for an action-packed extermination level.
I took a lot of screenshots for this level, but I didn't write many notes. This level is probably the high point of the game, but it still has some annoying bits that could be tightened up.
I do appreciate the minute level of detail you put into your levels. I suspect most people wouldn't even notice this part. It's almost completely wasted effort, but it's a nice bit of realism and I liked it.
I actually just like this composition in general, coming from a dark narrow hallway into an open area, comparing dark shadowy areas to the bright orange sky. For a level entirely composed of setpieces, this is the high point for me.
These stairs suck; you can't get back down through the door once you climb up. If you missed a bunch of enemies down there, you could probably screw yourself out of the entire level because you can't get back there.
This room slaughtered my framerate.
Also, this battle sucks. The first Juggernaut is annoying enough; it took ~12 Fusion batteries to kill it, and with the endless supply of 3x health it was just time-consuming more than anything else. The fact that a second Juggernaut teleports in after you kill this one sucks a whole lot more. You have to be really conservative with your use of Juggernauts, because they can really slow down the pacing of your map if employed poorly. The first one here is okay, but it has too much health; the second one was awful.
Other than that, this room rules, and I love all the lighting in the man-made architecture versus the natural geometry. Very cool. Like I said, I like this level probably the most of all of them, and it's one of the best-looking too. You just have to greatly simplify this big room, because it is so taxing and complex.
Also, this level is (I think?) the split between the storylines. I'll talk about that later. I just level-skipped to In Our Dreams Awake.
07. Blaze
I didn't write a bunch about this level either. I think you already know that it's not good.
This level just kinda slams the white-blood plot in your face out of nowhere. I think that's the core storyline of your scenario, and there's no introduction or any indication that an infection that makes people EVIL~~~ is coming up until it's already here. That's one reason as to why The Asphodel Meadows makes such an odd transition into the storyline split.
And then, of course, the level starts and you get so completely destroyed by the Compilers that you spend too much time running around desperately without knowing what's going on. Maybe that's the point, and you did it on purpose, but I'm not sure it's the best for your narrative. The hard opening works against you, at least in part because it's really obnoxious.
It would be better if the level started in this part of the map. First of all, it looks creepy and really cool, but also, you can use all the terminals to set up the desperate "run across the courtyard" part that forms the centerpiece of your level. It's like a joke: you need a setup for the punchline to work. As is, the transition from regular Pfhor carnage to zombie infection rage virus whatever is really awkward and doesn't work.
Also, this level ALSO kills my framerate.
Lastly, the Compiler physics are aggressively terrible. I've explained this before. The shots are nearly impossible to dodge on TC, and the velocity, damage, and nature of Compiler bolts means getting hit by one sends you flying. In this open space, getting blasted from 50 WU away by a Compiler is pretty much assured death; you get popped up 30 feet into the air and blasted out of the sky. Get rid of the seeking nature of the shot and I think you'd be better off.
08. Lapsus Linguae
Not much to say about this level that hasn't been said. I really like the look of it, though; it's probably the most visually appealing map in the game. People have already complained about the switches being too hard to see, which I agree with.
I think it needs a recharger, too.
09. Words Which I Command
I've already said everything I think I need to about this level in another thread. This level would be fine with a save point, and maybe one or two more cans to benefit slower readers. I skimmed through some of the longer ones, because on TC oxygen drains so quickly you have very little time to waste.
I do like the blue/gray look of the level though. Nice work!
10. Asking a Shadow to Dance
So this game has two ending levels, and of the two, this one functions much better as a "last level" than Jjaro Jjaro Evolution. It has the simplicity and big battles that help make the level feel like a climactic showdown. I've already said this before: putting a save at the start would be good etiquette if nothing else, since I died several times climbing up the stairs.
One thing I noticed is that the white bloods have about twice as much health as they should. I think, on TC, some enemies have thousands of hit points. And I just mean normal enemies, not bosses. Also, the attack bursts are too long; enemies just stand there and shoot shoot shoot. They'd be more entertaining if they had less health but moved faster and attacked more aggressively instead. The fight in the big water pit in the center was particularly annoying, because of the size of the room, the lack of cover, and the huge amount of accumulated HP between all the enemies. It was very tedious.
But for the most part, the level is pretty fun, and a good place to dump all of the rockets I had when starting the level.
This is the only really bad part. Through this doorway is a narrow tunnel leading into a save room. That room has a ton of Troopers and Hunters, and it's really dangerous. It took me forever to clear out this room, because of course, charging into the room is guaranteed death. I had to tediously pick off enemies from the corridor; they refused to follow me back out.
Very cool and dramatic lighting effects. I did notice that you released a promotional picture of the latter room, but facing the other direction, where there's nothing to look at but white texture, and it looked terrible. This angle, however, looks great.
To be honest, I'm not sure if the game is supposed to continue on from here or not. I don't think it needs to, except that I'm not really sure what I did on this level.
11. In Our Dreams Awake
On to the issue of the plot split.
I'm not really sure that the structuring of the plot actually is working out for you. Personally, I think the "infection" storyline is really stupid, and not implemented well. Compare it to Rubicon: the divergent stories are very different from each other, so when you play all of them you get a large-scale, complete picture of the world and setting that Rubicon has. In this game, though, if you go along with the Jjaro, you see... the same storyline, but from the other point of view, and I don't think it's executed well.
I would actually recommend scrubbing this entire plot point, and finding a way to repurpose this level and Frameshift Mutation to fit into the other storyline. Then you can flesh that one out a bit more, give it a little more oomph, and just altogether have one neatly-composed story rather than two that are sort of shallow. Know what I mean?
Also, the execution of the split doesn't work at all. If you take terminal A, you go to storyline A; terminal B takes you to storyline B. There's no actual decision made because there's no indication that the story would split, or that your actions would change anything. Rubicon's storyline splits either revolve around the explicit success/failure of a mission (which is explained clearly by Durandal) or an explicit decision made by the player to help Durandal or Tycho.
The other, other, other dumb thing about this plot line is that every level is a Rebellion, and I don't really see the point of it.
The only problem with this actual level is that it needs a save at the end to account for the difficult beginning of the next level.
12. Frameshift Mutation
I actually really like this level; it's probably my third-favorite, behind Asphodel and Lapsus. It has a very distinct visual appearance (for most of the level) and some seriously creepy vibes. So, good job with that.
Some of your white blood/Pfhor/Human fights don't work well. It's because you have each enemy flagged as activated by "player" and not "nearest hostile," so they'll blatantly ignore each other to attack you, even when it doesn't make sense. Also, vanilla Defenders make awful enemies; they just camp and shoot at you with their very powerful and difficult to avoid attacks.
The fight behind that door sucks. The only way I was able to beat it was to open the door, run in to trigger everyone, and retreat back into this room before the door closed. Then just wait for the enemies in there to kill themselves off, go back in, and run circles around the six or so MOACs until they kill each other with those ridiculous Fusion blasts.
I don't think you gain anything by having the door close behind you like that, since it's so easily cheesed anyway. Just broaden the doorway and leave it open, so at least you can continue the fight after you start it.
13. Vae Victis
I just think it's really lazy to reuse levels like this when the plot is divergent. Aeon isn't a long game, and the levels therein are really short too, so reusing levels on top of it seems really sloppy. This is another reason why I'd scrub this storyline; the overlap is unnecessary.
(For the benefit of other readers: this level is the same as Words Which I Command, except you're fighting Bobs instead of Troopers, and it's not a vacuum.)
14. Jjaro Jjaro Evolution
Aeon has only one bad level, and this is it. It's one where, if Dugit had tested the level on TC, he'd realize that the concept doesn't work at all and the level's a huge nightmarish pain in the ass.
The first leg of the level is really tedious. With no weapons, you have to run through a long cave with Fighters and a Trooper. There isn't really a lot of room in here. Punching the Fighters down isn't hard, but Troopers are very difficult enemies to kill without guns or a recharger to rely on, so you have to slowly kite it into a more open area to run around it. There is no save point after this cave, so every time you die in the insanely difficult back half of the map, you have to do the cave over again. It's miserable.
I can't tell if this effect is cool or annoying. I'm going to side with annoying, since you can see the seams where the door is. It's at least a very unique and cool effort.
The back half of the level is all Compilers and Defenders with no room to dodge stuff, and all you have is the Fusion Pistol. Getting hit by a Compiler is usually instant death, since, if you don't get popped into the air and juggled to death, you get blasted back into a lava pit and die anyway. The Defender bolts move lightning-fast and you have no room to dodge that stuff either, and it does a stupid amount of damage. Every single Defender ambush killed me the first time, since I would die before I could figure out where it was and how I could cheese it to death. All these enemies have far too much health.
You really need more colors, or at least more shades of gray. I don't think the black and white look is working for you here.
The very last enemy of this hideously annoying sequence of fights is a Defender that shoots entirely unavoidable seeking attacks. I couldn't kill it after several attempts, so I ran past it to the last terminal and mashed the buttons to exit the level. I couldn't even read it. This level is a bunch of sucky bad bullshit, and seriously, if the level had no enemies whatsoever it would be more fun -- not to mention, much more moody and atmospheric, which I think is the look you were going for anyway.
Your levels don't have a lot of variation. It's not just the visual appearance, although that doesn't help, but the nature of your levels doesn't change. Each level is a short, linear series of action setpieces. The fact that I finished the entire game on TC in a day is a testament to how short the game is.
This isn't really a bad thing, exactly, since the game is free, but it's just a samey experience that I probably wouldn't play again in a hurry, especially since the game uses mostly Infinity assets, so it's not a dramatically different experience from most other games. I would seriously consider a complete plot restructuring into one coherent storyline; rather than dropping the white bloods in halfway through the game, they should be a key player for the entire game, or at least most of it.
Also, I would spend a lot of time drafting some levels that are more complex in their layout. Maybe some nonlinear, multi-objective levels that actually have a bit of exploration involved to them, and intersperse these levels amongst your existing levels. Right now, many of your levels just run together; adding in some levels that are different both in appearance and feel would really help with the pacing and experience of the game.
What would also help in that regard is working on the monster/weapon progression. Since Aeon isn't a long game, having the arsenal quickly escalate to rockets/shotguns/etc isn't necessarily problematic, but of course, after level 3 or 4 there's nothing to look forward to. Similarly, since every level has every monster type on it, none of the fights play out particularly differently.
Your strength definitely lies in big, dramatic architecture and lighting, but your overuse of tiny polygons is working against you. The ridiculous complexity of your geometry is forcing you to make shorter, smaller levels, because you're going so far overbudget in making two big rooms that you have no space to do anything else. Especially since it doesn't pay off; I appreciate the very complex lighting effects you employ at times, but it's not necessary to make the levels look good, and you could greatly simplify without watering down the aesthetic of the game.
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Where it only says 'noted' or whatever, that's just for ease for collation on my part into the fix list.
RyokoTK wrote: 02. Founder Effect
This is the first of several levels where a save should be available right away.
â?? Done. I'll also water down the opening battle â?? replaying it on TC and I can see why. Less troopers, more fighters.
â?? Right-o.
All these computer panels are bouncy. Generally, bouncy walls seem to happen at points where the polygon edge and the wall are less than 0.25 WU apart. Deepen the indentation to 0.25 WU and you'll be fine.
â?? Neat.
â?? I never actually figured out how to make water rise and fall. I suppose I'll cheese it and give it a tide, drop its height to 0.001WU and make the floor wandering water texture. :p
This picture is an example of how the textures you're using look too different from each other to be used in the same area.
â?? Christ, I thought I got rid of the M2 light texture! Otherwise, noted.
â?? Done.
â?? Noted. I'll have a sweep for them.
â?? Noted.
â?? Neat idea. Will consider. More fighters, less AR-Grenades and Heavy Troopers.
RyokoTK wrote: 03. Eternal Lucid Dream
â?? It seems that I haven't had much luck making palettes grayscale. The gray drone and the VacBob both have dithering glitches that I'm not sure how to fix, so I guess I'll redo the CLUT altogether.
â?? There's going to be a universal re-texture. ELD is the prime target.
For example, right at the beginning, there is a monster trigger that teleports in Enforcers and Troopers all around you. There's no room to dodge or otherwise avoid taking damage; it's just a stupid cheap shot, and your level isn't "harder" for it.
â?? Noted. Will remove.
â?? This made me smile.
04. Pfherrous Oxide (sic) â?? I guess it's too late to put ELD and PO together, but I understand your point about respawning enemies and bad transition. Will remove.
â?? Interesting idea. I think I'll give it a try.
RyokoTK wrote: 05. The Rise and Fall of Dugit
â?? Will review.
If nothing else, a chance to save between the two would be greatly appreciated.
â?? I've always been aware and gave up a long time ago, so I just left it as an scenery object. I guess it's quite deceiving, so I'll replace the terminal texture.
â?? Noted. I'll move forward the triggers.
â?? Noted. Replacing with regular fusion attacks.
â?? Noted. Reducing to a two-shot volley.
â?? Neat idea. I'm not sure why I used a teleporter in the first place, I guess I just wanted to make cheesing the last battle by running back out impossible. Will modify.
RyokoTK wrote: 06. The Asphodel Meadows
â?? I always thought it went pretty well. It was generally selected by grace of the architecture and aesthetics, not the gameplay, but I suppose it's a valid point.
â?? Really? I must admit, Asphodel to me was always Aeon's sore thumb â?? a fathoming monstrosity of 2500 polygons?
â?? Yup. This has already been noted in the fix-list. The gray juggernaut is going to have its health stripped and the second one is going to be deleted entirely.
RyokoTK wrote: 07. Blaze
â?? Neat idea. I must admit, you only start in the big room because that's where the map started. Will modify.
RyokoTK wrote: 10. Asking a Shadow to Dance
â?? Noted. The Heavy Troopers, VacBobs and MOAHs are all getting their health curtailed. There'll be more defenders in the pit battle, too.
â?? Noted. I'll water down the battle considerably, since it's so obnoxious when you're forced to fight in that area or just cheese it.
â?? This also made me smile. I usually make the maps first and think about where they sit in the plot later. In retrospect, not always the best thing to do.
RyokoTK wrote: 11. In Our Dreams Awake
â?? It's always been an idea I've toyed with. Will consider.
â?? Noted. Umm... I'm not sure how to vindicate the plot split, but I suppose I could flesh out the situation a little more in the terminals in the body of the level.
â?? Noted. Will rectify.
RyokoTK wrote: 12. Frameshift Mutation
â?? Both noted.
â?? Definitely restructuring this battle. And replacing those fusion blasts.
RyokoTK wrote: 14. Jjaro Jjaro Evolution
â?? Noted. Will remove compilers entirely and curtail the health of both minor and major defender types. And add a save point. And give the player some guns at the beginning.
RyokoTK wrote: In Conclusion
Yes. Definitely considering making the game single-path. Nothing really more to argue on my part. I'll get on it as quickly as I can.
Polyplicity my second (less sucky) net pack. Go on. Download it. You know you don't want to.
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��â?? I never actually figured out how to make water rise and fall. I suppose I'll cheese it and give it a tide, drop its height to 0.001WU and make the floor wandering water texture. :p
Rise and fall is determined by a light; I believe it's called "tide parameter" in the liquid dialogue. Basically, the intensity of the light corresponds to the height of the liquid -- in other words, if your minimum liquid height is 2 and your maximum is 10, and the light intensity is 75, the liquid would be at 8 WU -- 75% of the distance from 2 to 10.
For pretty much every map, I always make the first new light (light 21) using the Media light preset. Any liquid that I want to have a natural tide gets that light as a parameter, and that takes care of it.
On the whole, this level [Founder Effect] could be good but it needs a lot of cleaning up. I would honestly probably nuke all the objects and start over, recomposing all the fights. I will address problems with monster/weapon progression as a whole later, but between the size of the fights, the variety of monsters, and all the weapons you get on this first level, it doesn't feel very first-level-y.
��â?? Neat idea. Will consider. More fighters, less AR-Grenades and Heavy Troopers.
It doesn't really have to do with your monster choices entirely. I was thinking at one point earlier tonight -- what if, on this level, all you had was Fusion and SMG? You could dial down the fights a lot without the level feeling boring, since those weapons are still pretty capable, and that would give you enough room for progression throughout the rest of your scenario.
��â?? Will review.
I think the primary culprit is your use of trimming. It looks nice, but it's not really necessary, and it adds a massive amount of polygons/transparent lines. Here's an example from Rise and Fall; I took out the trimming around the columns as well as in the little crevasse or whatever you want to call it.
Just by doing the simpler left half of this area, I cut out 85 polygons without changing the "core geometry" of the room. Good use of differential shading will still give you the crispness in the visual representation. Just popping the paved-over version open in VML was enough to fix all framerate lag problems for me. And, again, that was only half the room. (Third-party readers can compare the left half, which is my adjusted version, with the unaltered right half.)
(lol forgot to add this pic in, I'm bad at things)
Here's another, smaller-scale example. Most people won't notice this little bend in the path here. In really complex areas, sometimes every little bit helps. Just by adding in this diamond-shaped polygon, you add in three transparent lines on this side of the path, three more for the other side of the path, and one additional transparent line for the path itself to account for the bend. That adds up!
04. Pfherrous Oxide (sic)
Don't (sic) me, you jerk, that's what you called the level:
��â?? I've always been aware and gave up a long time ago, so I just left it as an scenery object. I guess it's quite deceiving, so I'll replace the terminal texture.
It has to do with the ceiling height of the polygon in front of the terminal side. It's an engine bug. If it's not within a certain height (I'm not sure what) of the top edge of the control panel, it won't work. It's the same reason why the first switch on In Our Dreams Awake doesn't work right, except by punching.
��â?? This also made me smile. I usually make the maps first and think about where they sit in the plot later. In retrospect, not always the best thing to do.
*shrug* This is what I do. Notice how some levels shift positions from Phoenix 1.0 to 1.2, notably The Face of Modern Gaming. A strong level stands on its own. In this case, it was from the terminal writing; it seemed ambiguous. Could be I don't know how to read.
��â?? Noted. Umm... I'm not sure how to vindicate the plot split, but I suppose I could flesh out the situation a little more in the terminals in the body of the level.
This is something that bugged the hell out of me in Eternal. If you want to have a plot split, it needs to be a distinct, explicit dichotomy. It should be the direct result of a known player action, either by the success/failure of a stated mission, or by a decision the player makes, when it's evident that a decision is being made. In this case, you don't have foreknowledge that you're siding with one faction or the other unless you got the information out-of-universe (i.e. you, Dugit, told me, personally). So there would have to be either some reason for the player to deliberately side with the Jjaro infection (outside of the meta-reason of wanting to play all the levels), or there needs to be a mission on Asphodel that can be failed, leading to the infection subplot as a failure branch.
Of course, as I mentioned earlier, ideally you would just stick to a linear storyline.
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RyokoTK wrote: It has to do with the ceiling height of the polygon in front of the terminal side. It's an engine bug. If it's not within a certain height (I'm not sure what) of the top edge of the control panel, it won't work. It's the same reason why the first switch on In Our Dreams Awake doesn't work right, except by punching.
I don't know about calling it an engine bug, the center of the line is kind of the only way we have to calculate the height of a control panel. You can change the angle at which you can hit control panels with the horiz attribute in the control_panels tag in MML.
You read this entire thread for a game you've never played just to make sure I'm not misattributing anything to Aleph One???
RyokoTK wrote: You read this entire thread for a game you've never played just to make sure I'm not misattributing anything to Aleph One???
WELL! You posted this entire thread!
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Treellama wrote: WELL! You posted this entire thread!
Oh -- oh yeah? Well, I mean, uh
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Dugit wrote: Yes. Definitely considering making the game single-path. Nothing really more to argue on my part. I'll get on it as quickly as I can.
Okay, but please don't remove Frameshift Mutation. It, along with Rise and Fall of Dugit and The Asphodel Meadows, is one of my favorite levels. If anything, just switch around the roles of the white-bloods and BoBs on the level.
On another note regarding Frameshift Mutation, I would say that the first save terminal and recharger on this map is somewhat difficult to find. I had to have most of my health eaten away by those annoying pistol-BoBs and start panicking and going "Where's a recharger?!" before I saw the door with the Pfhor symbol. Maybe I was just a little silly for this, but then again, it might be better to remove the door and just have a wide open entry. That way you're more likely to see the save terminal and use it before you get torn down by the BoBs.
Powerful experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
PerseusSpartacus wrote: On another note regarding Frameshift Mutation, I would say that the first save terminal and recharger on this map is somewhat difficult to find. I had to have most of my health eaten away by those annoying pistol-BoBs and start panicking and going "Where's a recharger?!" before I saw the door with the Pfhor symbol. Maybe I was just a little silly for this, but then again, it might be better to remove the door and just have a wide open entry. That way you're more likely to see the save terminal and use it before you get torn down by the BoBs.
What? The save is perfectly easy to find; it's clearly visible after you open the very first door. It is difficult to reach the save though; that first battle is tricky, but probably appropriate given its current position in the game. I'd probably lighten the Pfhor ambush midway through the corridor, though.
RyokoTK wrote: I'd probably lighten the Pfhor ambush midway through the corridor, though.
Noted. I'll add it to the fix list.
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I remember my main problems with the scenario when I played it were that the levels were short and the plot made no sense. The maps being too short worsened the plot because it made the plot points go too fast and they all seemed inconsequential. I don't know about the battles since I don't like fighting in any Marathon game except maybe Red and Tempus Irae; I usually play them for the lighting and plot and such. I really, really liked the level with no combat. I didn't know what the fuck it was about, but it looked cool, had moody music, and I even enjoyed reading the terminals.
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gmanyo wrote: I remember my main problems with the scenario when I played it were that the levels were short and the plot made no sense. The maps being too short worsened the plot because it made the plot points go too fast and they all seemed inconsequential. I don't know about the battles since I don't like fighting in any Marathon game except maybe Red and Tempus Irae; I usually play them for the lighting and plot and such. I really, really liked the level with no combat. I didn't know what the fuck it was about, but it looked cool, had moody music, and I even enjoyed reading the terminals.
This is actually a good point. I didn't have an easy time following along Aeon's plot, but I chalked that up to my own faults; I sometimes struggle with Marathon storytelling. I just find myself not caring. But, Aeon is a really short game with short levels, so the distance between an event beginning and ending is really short too. That kind of ties in with my confusion as to what I was doing in each level. Asking a Shadow to Dance was the level that actually made me write that down in my notes; I just didn't know what I had done that had rendered the level complete.
It's all just a matter of pacing. Aeon is a short game now, and that's quite fine! But because it's so short, you have to minimize the number of plots and events, and also the characters. It's why I think the whole white-blood bit should be the entire plot, rather than the last four levels. You just don't have the time for an epic story arc. It's the same reason as to why I added in all those expository levels from Phoenix 1.0 to 1.2; I didn't really add more plot, I just gave a little bit more breathing room for the plot to play out. You could consider doing that as well. (I suppose In Our Dreams Awake is an expository level, though.)
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RyokoTK wrote: 13. Vae Victis
Vae Victus/Words is probably my favorite level in Aeon, and I really like that it repeats itself. The combat works well and I like the way the combat space is recontextualized by changing which enemies you fight. Ex.: In Words Which I Command, while in the hallways, it's possible to snipe the Bobs through the gaps in the corner without them spotting you; the combination of architectural design and enemy placement changed how I approached combat between the two levels which was cool regardless of whether this effect was intentional or accidental. I do think it would work better if the level repeated itself within the same timeline rather than two separate ones that way the differences in combat are more clear.
The critiques regarding oxygen canisters, spacing out the plot, etc. all make sense and it looks like you're making those changes. I personally would have Words Which I Command be not-vacuum or at least provide an oxygen recharger. I think it was you (dugit) that asked something like, "what's the point of having an oxygen recharger in a vacuum level?" The answer is the same as for shield rechargers and pattern buffers: it makes a particular location important for the player; it acts as a rubberband that pulls the player back, slows him down, and it keeps him from just barreling forward; by encouraging the player to return to a particular location it makes that location and the path to get the location stand out in the player's memory; essentially, you can use the placement of rechargers to guide the player's attention and guide the player's behavior. Whether those functions work well or poorly depends on placement and use of the recharger.
I think the level's length is also good. The short length makes sense considering the level repeats itself and it works with the style of combat here. The part I actually liked the least was the big room in the center. The best strategy, and possibly the only strategy on TC, is to arduously snipe guys from the door or lure them into the hallways. A few obstacles around this room could make it a more interesting combat space.
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So I finally got round to this.
I don't think I gave Ryoko enough credit back in the day for doing all of this, it was a titanic effort for a pretty shitty little scenario. I have some spare time now between university and more-university, and after playing through Aeon again on TC I realised how much of it could be improved with relatively little effort.
I'm not saying I'm going to finish it, I'm just saying I'm going to dot some i's and cross some t's. Expect an update in a week or so.
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Kanye, Flat Earthers and the Rise of Free Thinkers
That’s a fancy term, isn’t it? It’s actually a dangerous trend. Here’s why.
People who self-identify as “Free Thinkers” are growing in numbers at an alarming rate. From the perspective of a casual observer, these individuals parade themselves as an elite collective that have taken the proverbial red pill. To them, we live in a complex machination, a Matrix like world where all of us who possess a conscience- but not an elevated consciousness- are merely drones. We’re tendrils acting with uniform behaviors and our thoughts are not independent, but instead a reflection of some great hive mind that they, themselves, have managed to unshackle themselves from.
Everything is a lie, if you ask a Free thinker. The moon landing never happened, the Earth is flat, global mind control is plaguing society, wealthy lizard people are influencing the political direction of the Nation. To be fair, not every Free Thinker subscribes to all of these campfire conspiracy theories. Some adopt a decidedly different tactic and attempt to legitimize their attempt to swing away from reality using faux science and pack mentality. They find pockets of people who claim the Free-Thinker badge and spoon feed each other misinformation, propaganda and radical hyperbole as they enable each other’s further untethering from logic.
Throughout the decades, Free Thinkers came in various forms; Some were simply anarchists, interested in mostly in rebuking power and authority figures. Some were social rebels fighting against man-made traditions, cultural constructs and heavily embedded world views we accepted without resistance. They regarded themselves as uniquely informed and inarguably correct. With that gift of awareness that eluded most others, they perceive themselves as superior to the rest of us simpletons; Us worker ants trapped in a never-ending mechanism of primal habit and indoctrination, effectively blind to our own slavery of automated responses and thought.
There is something disturbing about today’s emergence of those who dub themselves Free Thinkers and that lies in the fact that they are functioning based on emotion, not thought, not logic, not facts. Science is abandoned, truths are a burden and reality, as it irrefutably exists doesn’t anymore thus is open to debate. This deviation from reason; This departure from the tangible world and its myriad of functions- they shirking of these things they embrace as a form of liberation.
It’s not liberation. It’s a wanton desire so impermeable that they have accepted a grotesque distortion of a fantasy in order to cope with adversity or appear as if they’ve been delivered some vast insight into the secrets of the universe that science has somehow missed altogether. They know things that even the most intelligent of our species clearly missed as we are prisoners of a singular structure. We do what we are allowed. We think within the boundaries of the thought police. We fear being detached from some make-shift mother organism and developing our own self governance or manifesting an unaided perspective or untainted opinion.
Many times we dismiss those who self-identify as “free Thinkers” as wild haired neurotics living in houses of tin foil. Some might say that Einstein was free-thinker, or Benjamin Franklin who went out into a lightening storm with a kite connected to a conductive wire. Bystanders surely though that was indisputably crazy. Maybe you could argue that Da Vinci whose genius allowed him access to experimentation and the development of new concepts. None of them dismissed reality, but by their very acceptance of it, they maneuvered to re-shape it.
These are not the Free-Thinkers of today. Today, free thinkers are, in fact, eager to place themselves in the shackles of control while convincing themselves that they’re actually absolving themselves of them. Kanye West, for example, a black man who has often defined himself as a free-thinker, aligned himself with his own oppressor. He deliberately omitted all cogniscence of social conditions in an effort to appear rebellious and exalted when he was actually handing his own fate to a man who, historically, would have refused him basic human rights. He expressed absolute disinterest in was was unquestionably bad for him- and all black Americans, with the intent of appearing separated from those of us who sat in disbelief.
“You wouldn’t do this, but look at me, everyone is telling me not to, but I am! I don’t do what everyone else does! I’m not a sheep! I’m a free thinker!”
No. You’ve been radicalized enough to declare yourself your own enemy. That’s not being a free thinker or indicative of any heightened awareness; That’s self sabotage. That’s intentionally wounding yourself while the world watches, hoping that we’ll believe your proclaimed divinity will keep you alive as you bleed out in front of a man who would have happily done that on your behalf. Abandoning common sense, refuting what we know to be true or false to aggrandize yourself isn’t free thinking… that’s one letting their own ego obstruct their judgement. It’s not innovating new concepts or ideas. It’s not pioneering new paths or demonstrating things we have never before seen or considered.
Gay or Trans Republicans, black people joining groups of white nationalists, people insisting the Earth is flat just to feel they’ve gone against the grain and that somehow makes them special. Listening to flat-Earthers attempt to provide evidence that the planet is disc-shaped and the shocking confidence they have in their presentation of a shared delusion is not only bizarre, but deeply disturbing.
The fact they have developed their own organization to legitimize their ostentatious ignorance and people have subscribed to it is only evidence of an inherent need some humans have to be, not just informed, but specially informed, like Moses standing atop Mount Sinai receiving a Godly message. They want to be recognized as a people set apart from the rest of us… just because it provides them a message or a purpose. It turns an otherwise ordinary life experience into an extraordinary mission of delivering what we now call alternative facts.
Many who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election viewed themselves as free-thinkers. That superhero-like free thought gave them the courage to rebuff their responsibility to their fellow Americans, to break the establishment, which they accept as bad, and turn it on its head. It was all about the ego of influencing change via the power they recklessly wielded at the polls. Vote for the reality television star, they thought, he’ll destroy the system and set us all free from ruin. Trump brilliantly played to that demographic; Those whose ego inevitably hamstrings their discernment. They operated under the impression that they were Trump’s chosen. The promises he made appealed directly to their prejudices and fears. He represented everything that went against what we know to be good; Equality, due process, freedom of the press and he conjured up a monolithic adult version of a boy’s club in a tree house. The red hat grants you access. It is the equivalent of the white hood, but they don’t see it that way. Falling into ranks behind a chest thumping tribal chieftain of the Republican party wasn’t flipping the middle finger to the system or executing free thought… it was, despite what they’ll tell you, an abandonment of civility and refusal to co-exist peacefully with others as they see themselves as superior. Because Free-Thinkers all see themselves as operating on a different plane of wisdom and expanded knowledge… in this case, we’re all left to pay the consequences for the mass hysteria the ensues.
There is an undeniable confusion that free-thinkers suffer from, and that is their inability to tell the difference between being an individual and being a revolutionary. Revolutionaries were the true free thinkers. Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, the Wright brothers, Rosa Parks, Sylvia Rivera, the people who changed the world by changing minds and expanding our scope of appreciating the experiences of those who are not like us. They weren’t peddling conspiracies or burning down their own houses to demonstrate on behalf of those who would have done it for them. They did express free thought by shedding dismissing knowledge and suppressing their awareness of social evolution to give credibility to those who hoped to thwart it. They fought for a better world and an improved quality of life. They were not these absent-minded, hate motivated rebellious teenagers who balked at things like research, hard-line evidence and preached against a common good, they were indeed revolutionaries who challenged social injustices they knew were corrupt and removed them of their self sovereignty.
Free thinkers want to set themselves on fire to push back against those they deem controllers. Revolutionaries simply want to empower and inspire the rest of the world to make it a better place. They were devoted to a cause, as where free thinkers are mere followers of a mythical design and devoted only to self interest.
In the end, they only hurt themselves. We must rely on the revolutionaries to save us from the self appointed free thinkers.
Meditations on the Art of Grasping Reality
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Seneca: Slowing Down Time
Steven Gambardella in The Sophist
Why We Weren’t Meant to Be Free
A Critical Look at Stoicism — Five Potential Issues
Thinking Deeply with Ben Murray
Human Nature Denied
Charles Eisenstein
To Live A Rewarding Life, Give Up The “Minute-By-Minute” Mindset
Barry Davret in Mind Cafe
Why We Feel More Connected in Walking Meetings
Al Jeffery
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By: - Juhi Pania
Modified date: Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 04:22 EST
Power fans assemble! as its spin-off Power Book II: Ghost gets renewed for a season 2. Courtney A. Kemp is the creator of the show and it premiered on 6th September, 2020 for Starz network.
The makers renewed this show in September, 2020 and since then fans have been anticipating its release date. The show has garnered a fairly decent fan following and an average rating of 6.3/10 on the IMDB’s website.
Michael Rainey Jr. plays the main protagonist role of Tariq St. Patrick, a college student. Other main characters include:
Shane Johnson as Cooper Saxe
Gianni Paolo as Brayden Weston
Melanie Liburd as Caridad “Carrie” Milgram
Lovell Adams-Gray as Dru Tejada,
Daniel Bellomy as Ezekiel “Zeke” Cross,
Quincy Tyler Bernstine as Tameika Washington
Paige Hurd as Lauren Baldwin,
Woody McClain as Cane Tejada,
Justin Marcel McManus as Jabari Reynolds,
Method Man as Davis Maclean,
LaToya Tonodeo as Diana Tejada,
Mary J. Blige as Monet Stewart Tejada,
Naturi Naughton as Tasha St. Patrick
The story revolves around a college student named Tariq St Patrick. He attends Stansfield University after his father’s death, James ‘Ghost’ St. Patrick. The events take place after the last episode of the crime drama Power. Tariq chooses to live a simple life of any other college student and leave behind his father’s criminal legacy. But, unfortunately, Tariq needs to pay his mother’s defense attorney to get her out of jail. He unwilling enters the hustling business and starts drug trading to raise finances. The whole show displays Tariq’s dilemma as his father’s fate haunts him but drags him at the same time. Tariq wishes to keep his Ivy League status instead of being known as a thug.
The makers have not disclosed season two’s plot as the finale episode of season 1 is still pending.
The good news is that season 2 will be airing very soon. This news was first brought forward by the social media pages of the show with the caption “We thought we told you that we won’t stop. Season 2 about to be even more.”
A post shared by Power Book II: Ghost (@ghoststarz)
There are no official announcement regarding the date of the premiere of the show nevertheless we can predict that the show is most likely going to return in September 2021.
For more updates stay tuned!
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Non-Legal Advice For A Business Facing A Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Have you ever felt undeniably keen on a coworker? Have you wondered if is usually OK to have intercourse or hook lets start work on a coworker? Nicked had one lots of at an office party and gone home with a client or coworker? Are you aware someone else who did? Then this particular blog post may be for you!
Shame on the Dallas Stars' for caving in to the perceived sentiment on there is little doubt. Most Americans are learning of the particular and siding with Sean Avery. Take into account calling contend insane. Turn out to be the press is patting itself during the back for forcing their will much more. We are reminded of the first kind Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, who made some insensitive remarks about riding on the York Train. In expressing his opinion that day years ago, he ended his career. Less than a year later Rocker's career was over. The media do not like the homosexual remarks made additionally they forced their will dolls.
Oleanna is a work the actual well known David Mamet. The title is in reference a few poem around a 19th century utopia - however this play is anything but Utopian. Had been written after the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas controversy that gripped the media with speak about harassment at workplace and confusion surrounding the truth about communication. It is a true he said/she said situation along with the stakes are high. This seems as though it was almost Mamet's personal response to your famous case - in which he makes a very strong response indeed.
This happens when vague the claims were, which Politico rushed to create. They assert there were "conversations allegedly filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature," and also, "descriptions of physical gestures that have been not overtly sexual" but made women uncomfortable. (set ital) What (end ital) does this (set ital) mean (end ital)? harassment at workplace uk the minimum in Hill's case, she was making wacky but specific charges about Long Dong An extremely. But who cares? All that means something is that Cain's presidential campaign is ruined, as it reached its distance off the ground. Black conservatives must be denied a role model this prominent and successful.' Much.
A Swiss tourist was raped in March by six guys who are facing rape and burglary complaints. Five men gang-raped a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi in December. The woman later died from the injuries in a rape. 5 men were put in prison and one died in jail. This was the harassment at workplace law that put protests the actual planet streets all around the nation as women want safer streets for them and their kids.
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On El Paso's RedBoxes, Grown Ups led method again, then The Last Airbender and Toy Story 3. iTunes sales charts put Grown-ups on top, with Young kids Are All right second and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The field of third. Rentals on iTunes has Your son or daughter Are Alright first, with Grown Ups second and Scott Pilgrim again in third.
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President Trump Just Announced A New Rally – Donald Is Heading Down To Campaign For January Georgia Race
By Adam Casalino|December 28, 2020
Over the fall and winter, President Trump has refused to give up. In fact, he has been fighting several battles on many fronts.
Most recently, he’s been battling Congress to actually make good on their word. He is forcing them to provide real relief for Americans—instead of foreign nations.
And he’s been fighting against the media and establishment to expose major problems in the 2020 election. Problems the left wants to totally ignore.
But he’s not done yet, not by a longshot. He is prepared to go to Georgia to campaign for two crucial runoff elections happening in days. From Fox News:
With the Republican majority up in the air in the Senate, President Trump has scheduled a rally in Georgia in hopes to get Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue across the finish line.
“On behalf of two GREAT Senators, @sendavidperdue & @KLoeffler, I will be going to Georgia on Monday night, January 4th, to have a big and wonderful RALLY,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “So important for our country that they win!”
President Trump announced he would be traveling to Georgia to hold a rally for Sens. Loeffler and Perdue.
Both incumbents face Democrat rivals in a runoff election this month. Should Republicans hold onto these seats, the GOP will have a firm majority in the Senate.
If Democrats win both seats, the Senate will be slip 50/50, creating problems down the road.
This might sound like a routine situation, given Georgia’s overwhelming Republican majority. But the seat has been ground zero for the agonizing election battle still going on.
Both the Republican governor and secretary of state have contradicted Trump and his team’s allegations, and many are concerned about Georgia’s ability to conduct fair and honest elections.
For this election, the GOP is leaving nothing to chance by pumping millions into these campaigns and getting at least 4,000 poll watchers.
Trump himself will be appearing to put in the good word for these two senators.
Do you think Trump should head down to Georgia to support these Senate races?
Donald Trump will be attending a rally on Monday, January 4, in Georgia.
He will be supporting the two Republican senators fighting for re-election.
Georgia has been in the hot seat over major problems with its 2020 election results.
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NVIDIA unveils RTX 30 series laptop GPUs and GeForce RTX 3060 desktop graphics
Over 70 laptops powered by the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series Max-Q graphics will make their debut later this month.
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Published 12 January 2021, 14:31 EST Updated 13 January 2021, 21:24 EST
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NVIDIA has had a busy day at CES 2021 today. The company has just announced the RTX 30 series GPUs for laptops based on the Ampere architecture. The new mobile GPUs announced by NVIDIA include the GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070, and the GeForce RTX 3060. The first wave of laptops powered by the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3070 will hit the shelves starting January 26, while machines rocking the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU will make their way to the market next month.
Higher efficiency, better performance and refined acoustics
Based on the 3rd Gen Max-Q technology, the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs for laptops are claimed to offer up to 2x ray-tracing throughput, thanks to the second-gen ray-tracing cores. Additionally, the 3rd gen tensor cores are also claimed to be 2x more capable compared to last-gen GPUs based on the Turing architecture. And thanks to support for the proprietary NVIDIA Reflex technology, the new laptop GPUs are said to further reduce latency and boost responsiveness.
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The third-gen Max-Q design is claimed to offer general improvements in areas such as efficiency, performance, battery, and even acoustics. With the RTX 30 series laptop graphics, NVIDIA is also introducing the Dynamic Boost 2.0 technology that relies on AI to adjust power uptake by the CPU, GPU, and GPU on a per-frame basis. This tech will be enabled by default on all laptops powered by the new NVIDIA mobile GPUs.
Over 70 laptops with GeForce RTX 30 series GPU will debut this month
Another new tech debuting with the RTX 30 series GPUs for laptops is Whisper Mode 2.0 that is baked at the system level and dynamically adjusts settings (CPU, GPU, and game presets) as well as fan speed to offer the best audio output. Additionally, the Resizable BAR technology allows a laptop’s CPU to access the entire graphics memory of a GPU to boost performance (read: higher frame rates) while gaming. This feature will be available via driver updates.
As for the laptops powered by NVIDIA’s new RTX 30 series mobile GPUs, some have already been announced such as the Razer Blade 15 Advanced, Alienware m15 R4 and m17 R4, Asus TUF Gaming Dash F15, MSI GS66, and the Lenovo Legion 7 among others.
GeForce RTX 3060 – An entry-level RTX 30 series desktop GPU\
In addition to RTX 30 series Max-Q graphics, NVIDIA has also unveiled the cheapest Ampere-based desktop GPU today – the GeForce RTX 3060. Priced at $329, it will be up for grabs next month and is being marketed as the entry-point into NVIDIA’s updated family of desktop graphics in the RTX 30 series. It is claimed to offer 2x boost at rester performance and 10x improvement in ray-tracing performance vis-a-vis the aging GeForce GTX 1060 GPU, one of the company’s most popular graphics cards.
GeForce RTX 3060 desktop GPU will hit the shelves in February
It packs 12GB of GDDR6 memory, and comes with the usual set of enhancements such as Resizeable BAR, second-gen ray-tracing cores, 3rd-gen Tensor cores to make the most its DLSS technology, NVIDIA Reflex, and NVIDIA Broadcast to name a few. Following is a graphical representation of the performance boost offered by the new NVIDIA desktop-class GPU:
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#TenThings about AS Hatch, #author of #ThisLittleDarkPlace #blogtour @serpentstail @andrewshatch
I’m pleased to be taking part in the blogtour to the publication of Andrew Hatch’s twisty debut novel, This Little Dark Place. Andrew is sharing #TenThings he’d like his readers to know about himself. Read on to find out about his writing, his literary heroes, his musical talent and his favourite books.
Ten things I’d like readers to know about me – AS Hatch
THIS LITTLE DARK PLACE may be my debut, but it’s actually my sixth novel and seventh book overall (having also built up a collection of short stories over the years too). The first two novels I now regard as practice runs, which will (mercifully) never see the light of day. But from the third book onwards I started thinking, ‘I’m not bad at this writing malarkey.’ There’s one novel in my back catalogue called THE MOORINGS, which is still probably my favourite (so far).
I’ve already written the follow up to TLDP. Only my agent has read it so far and I can’t reveal any more than to say I think people who like TLDP will get a real kick out of it. Watch this space.
I have a day job and get my writing done in the morning before work. I’ve tried writing after work but often I’m just too tired to concentrate. I found switching to the early morning, when my mind is fresher, works best for me. I made a new year’s resolution ( I think it was 2011) to treat writing more like a second job, that is, to write every week day, hit a quota of 500 (quality) words every day and take weekends off. The books then seem to write themselves.
I spend about twice as long plotting as drafting. A kernel of a plot will randomly materialise before me, often as I’m walking, and I’ll add it to a list of potential new novels I keep in my iPhone’s notes app. The idea could’ve been sparked by a film I saw last night, a street scene on my way to work, a painting, something in the news. These ideas all sort of compete for headspace and eventually one wins out. Literary Darwinism. One of them demands to be written. And so I’ll spend about a year, year and a half allowing that idea to gestate further in my mind (often while I’m writing the last book, which can be confusing) before actively starting to develop the plot. And then pretty soon I just find myself beginning to write. The first draft then takes about 6-9 months to write. The thought of winging a plot terrifies me.
My literary heroes are probably David Foster-Wallace, Haruki Murakami and Franz Kafka. But I’m influenced by everyone I read, not just these three guys. I think it’s impossible not to be. Ali Smith is a particular favourite. Her prose is like a punch in the nose. I’m influenced by other art forms too, painting, photography, TV, film, music…I love the noirish stories in Lana Del Rey’s songs, the poetry of Ian Curtis’ lyrics. I like brutalist architecture. I like imagining brutalist buildings as the headquarters of malevolent organisations. I’d love to live at the Barbican and pretend I’m in JG Ballard’s High Rise. I’m drawn to derelict buildings. I like things to be dark. Unpack that.
I come from The Fylde, Lancashire. I grew up playing football and rollerblading in the street and playing on my SNES (and later my N64). I had a wonderful if tempestuous childhood.
I play the drums and sing. I haven’t been in a band for a few years (got too busy) but since I was 18 I’ve pretty much always been in bands. My first proper band, at uni, was called Thought Police. I thought I was being dead intellectual calling us that. We were amazing. Our biggest ‘hit’ was called Take Me To The Car Crash. Like I said, I like things to be dark.
I used to teach English as a second language in Taiwan. I lived with my girlfriend (now fiancé) in Taipei from 2010 to 2012 in the Shi’da district. Such an amazing country. Such rich history. Go!
My favourite book of recent years is probably The Overstory by Richard Powers. I was shocked it didn’t win the Booker last year, although Milkman was highly original and powerful in its own way. The Overstory is more like a manifesto for environmental action dressed up in beautiful prose, than a straightforward novel. It’s so good, it has radicalising powers. I also thought Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was beautiful and haunting, as was A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride. I have just finished The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, which was mind-blowingly good fun to read.
My favourite books of all time are probably: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Infinite Jest by David Foster-Wallace, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, 1984 by Orwell, Middlemarch by George Eliot, The Trial by Kafka, Beloved by Toni Morrison…gah, there’s too many this is ridiculous.
From the back of the book
How well do you know your girlfriend?
How well do you know your lover?
How well do you know yourself?
Daniel and Victoria are together. They’re trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner.
But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact. At first the messages are polite, neutral – but soon they find themselves revealing more and more about themselves. Their deepest fears, their darkest desires.
And then, one day, Ruby comes to find Daniel. And now he must decide who to choose – and who to trust.
This Little Dark Place is available now as an ebook and will be published by Serpent’s Tail in hardback this Thursday, 10th October, with the paperback to follow next April. You should be able to buy or order a copy from your usual book retailer or you can order a copy online from Hive (where every purchase supports your local High Street): The Little Dark Place
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Jules_Writes says:
The blurb sounds good, and I enjoyed reading your post – I like his writing routine, I need to be more structured in mine,
Thanks for commenting Jules 🙂
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Couldn’t put this book down was so spellbinding and beautifully written.❤
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About that story of the Singapore woman who says she was sexually assaulted by ex-boyfriend…
Marilyn Peh
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It was a post that seemed to fall right in line with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements that have inspired so many women to go public with their experiences as victims of sexual assault.
In a detailed account on her public blog that was also shared on her Facebook page, a young woman revealed last week that three years ago, she had been raped by an ex-boyfriend from polytechnic in his own home.
Like numerous other #MeToo and #TimesUp posts that surfaced before hers, it did not take long before her story was roundly shared and went viral on social media.
This time, unlike others, however, it became a post that drew more brickbats than shouts of support.
Netizens zeroed in on what they saw as inconsistencies in her account, and opined that it was unlikely to be a case of rape.
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In the post, she said that they had been “fooling around” but she had not intended to have sex with her ex-boyfriend. It was not made clear if the pair discussed whether she consented to sex before the act took place.
Many observers saw her willingness to “fool around” with him as an indication that she was willing to go further, but the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)’s Nabilah Husna takes a different view.
She defines sexual consent as a person expressing agreement to engage in a sex act, which must be given freely and voluntarily, without threat, intimidation, pressure or guilt-tripping.
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The communications and community engagement manager at AWARE points out: “Just because no one said ‘no’ does not mean there is consent. Moreover, consent to some sexual acts does not equate to consent to all of them. A person might also consent to sex at one point, but change their mind later.
“Being coerced into a sexual activity one is not ready for, or having your boundaries crossed during a sexual encounter, is part of how sexual violence operates, in reality.”
The blog post has since been removed, perhaps in response to the backlash, and the young woman’s profile is also no longer searchable on Facebook.
Related article: Why it is important to speak up on sexual assault
While the veracity of the young woman’s story may never be known now, false accusations of sexual assault are rare, according to Nabilah.
“Reporting or speaking out about sexual harassment can carry economic, social and psychological costs, without necessarily resulting in perpetrator accountability, because societal understanding, support and procedures are lacking.”
In the face of such stigma, the #MeToo movement has been key to giving survivors the courage and platform to share their experiences.
Case in point: AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) received 79 per cent more calls at the height of the movement in the last quarter of 2017, as compared to the quarter before.
And it’s a good thing that more women are speaking up in a bid to tackle the stigma that has long bred a culture of silence among victims.
However, doing so in the public domain can bring along intense scrutiny — just ask the young woman who found herself at the centre of an online firestorm this week in sharing her #MeToo story.
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In her post, she also named her alleged abuser, something lawyer Nicolas Tang would caution victims against doing, unless the facts are completely accurate.
The legal counsel and managing director of Farallon Law Corporation tells The Pride: “Accusing anyone of a crime is potentially defamatory. The plaintiff would have a case for defamation if the facts alleged were not true, and his reputation was diminished in the eyes of others, as a result of him being described as having committed a criminal offence.
“It is important not to exaggerate facts or post things which you cannot substantiate with either independent eyewitnesses or extrinsic evidence, like photographs or WhatsApp messages, for example.”
And even in situations where the victim is speaking the truth, naming an abuser in public gives the latter the option to pursue charges for defamation.
Tang cautions: “Even if the facts are true, there is nothing to stop the abusers from engaging lawyers to sue the victims of sexual abuse, just to try to clear their name.”
So, instead of instinctively going on social media to name and shame an abuser on platforms where a poorly-told account may easily be misconstrued as dishonesty and spread very quickly, victims can spare themselves further distress by leaving the case in the hands of the law.
Tang advises: “The preferred approach is to file a police report, and let the police investigate the case.”
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And as bystanders, whether we believe a victim’s account or not, it’s best not to be too quick to judge or make assumptions. Or worse, react so antagonistically that victims are intimidated into staying silent instead of coming forward to seek justice.
As Nabilah explains: “It already takes great courage for survivors to even speak out – so it is up to all of us to actively create a more supportive environment for them, rather than responding with hostility and disbelief, or pressuring them to justify their experiences.”
If you’re a victim of sexual assault or harassment, or know someone who needs help, you can contact AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre by calling 6779 0282. This helpline is manned from 10am to midnight, from Mondays to Fridays.
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Fantastic Geeks (and where to find them)
TV & Film, Skönlitteratur 27 dec 2019
Join best friends and YouTubers Anna Brisbin and Tessa Netting as they cover all things nerdy including TV shows, books, movies, animation, and pop culture. Listen in as these two proud Ravenclaws debate ship wars, play games like Would You Rather, and sort characters into Hogwarts houses. New episode every Friday. See you next Geek!
Konst, Skönlitteratur 13 jan
Traditional fairy tales aren’t exactly suitable for kids. Women vomit spiders. Children get eaten. There’s even murder! Every Wednesday, we take you through the twists and turns of the dark origins of your favorite pieces of folklore. To listen to the full Tales catalog for free, be sure to subscribe on Spotify!
Miriam and Youssef
Skönlitteratur 1 jul 2020
A 10-part drama about the founding of Israel. Miriam is a Jewish immigrant to Palestine, and Youssef is an Arab inhabitant driven into exile.
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Each week on “Kowabana: ‘True’ Japanese scary stories from around the internet,” horror author and translator Tara A. Devlin presents a selection of Japanese horror, creepypastas and urban legends translated from the deepest, darkest parts of the web. Creepy ghosts and vengeful onryo, cursed technology and haunted shrines. Discover horror like only Japan knows how to deliver. Brand new and exclusive stories translated each week. Find out more at http://www.kowabana.net/
Skönlitteratur, Verkliga brott 27 dec 2019
The heart of a man is darkness...
No person, place or culture is immune to extreme violence. The worst of the worst cases have occurred all over the world. Be prepared to take a journey, a tour of the world, where the most horrible atrocities have occurred. Murder, rape, incest, dismemberment, & cannibalism... no terrifying detail will be unexplored.
Based on actual events, this immersive audio experience will shock you, terrify you, and possibly make you ill. From the creators of Sword and Scale, Dark Topic & The Westside Fairytales comes MONSTRUO, the most terrifying podcast you will ever hear.
The Six Disappearances of Ella McCray
Konst, Skönlitteratur 24 apr 2020
On March 20th, 2014, Ella McCray disappeared.
There were six witnesses to her disappearance.
Six conflicting accounts of what happened to her.
Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? And what really happened to Ella?
You can support the show by visiting https://www.patreon.com/sixdisappearancespod or by subscribing and leaving a review at your favorite podcatcher.
For episode content warnings and other information, visit https://www.sixdisappearancespodcast.com/
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This show is written by Jamie Killen. Sound design and original music by Jon Erik DeGuzman and Dog and Pony Studios.
From the Lighthouse
Konst, Skönlitteratur 3 nov 2020
From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
Eastmouth
Pirate radio for a coastal town that is bathed in mystery. Shh, don't talk to the town council.
Mackaroy Uncovered
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In the quiet Australian country town of Mackaroy, something really strange is happening. The School's principal has disappeared, the whole town's internet keeps crashing every night, and people are being watched. Someone, or something, is keeping tabs on everyone who lives there, and best friends Tang and Mitch are on the case.
The 14-year-olds have an online show investigating conspiracies, but what they don't realise is that someone really doesn't want them to find out the truth. This will be their toughest investigation yet, and they'll soon learn that what's at stake is much more than uploading their next show. Join them over eight episodes as they try to uncover the secret of what's really going on in Mackaroy.
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Hello there! Come in, get comfortable, and welcome to Roll Your Own Adventure. It’s an improvised storytelling podcast with a heavy dose of audience interaction. Follow five friends as they journey into the mysterious realm of Raylia using nothing but their wits, some dice, a vague and nebulous understanding of D&D… And you! Our listeners!
Radio National Fictions
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Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore and Michael Richland lose their parents unexpectedly in a small plane crash, they must choose between honoring their father’s legacy as a world-renowned cardiologist and health care magnate — or risk it all to tell the truth. In the second season, they must grapple with the consequences of their decisions, as well as stumble upon disturbing new revelations about the family business. From Wondery, the makers of “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death,” Blood Ties stars Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Josh Gad (Frozen, Avenue 5), Amy Landecker (Transparent), Dominic Monaghan (Lost), and Wayne Knight. New episodes of the second season release every Wednesday.
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Totally Lit!
Konst, Skönlitteratur 4 maj 2020
The monthly podcast celebrating reading, writing and creating literature. Join your host Ky Garvey as she chats with readers, writers, illustrators & all types of creators of books and stories. Be inspired to read, write, create, ignite!
World Stealers
Skönlitteratur 23 sep 2019
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A show with original fan fictions, written and performed as audio dramas by Cait Moldenhauer, and Liz Clarkin-Breslin, and guests!
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When we're not talking about cats, we'll discuss how hot to make a sex scene and if there's really such thing as writer's block.
While Kate shares the latest trends in social media, New York Times bestselling author Helen will explain why it's normal for an author to gain 10kg with every book she writes.
We'll also chat about why Kate loves men's beards and Helen can't stand them. Who says Gen Ys and Baby Boomers can't get along?
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The traffic and walking students blur past us like the opening montage of “House of Cards.”
This is George Washington University in the heart of the District of Columbia — an easy quick walk to the White House, the Capitol, the museums and all the haunts of our nation’s capital. What a mecca for filmmaking!
We visited this largely paved and building-intense campus last week to determine its movie-making potential and, boy, were we impressed.
GWU houses its film program in its School of Communications, one of the premier media schools in the country. Its film students benefit from a large array of film studies courses, including film theory, genres of film and “History of World Cinema.” Electives focus on a variety of world cultures, such as French, German, Japanese, Korean, Arab, Israeli, and Italian film history.
Film production courses are conspicuously absent, but we surmise that students are so inspired by their film culture studies that they grab a camera or two and set out to film the world. We know they have stories to tell and can refine them in advanced screenwriting courses.
So we welcome the accomplished students of George Washington University to our list of College Film Awards schools with a mighty “Go Colonials!”
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Chasing Daisy (2009)
Paige Toon
2.86 of 5 Votes: 6
184739390X (ISBN13: 9781847393906)
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About book Chasing Daisy (2009)
This is a STUPID book. I swear. This is going to be my first ever 1 star review.Honestly, there is no match to the synopsis and the actual book.Synopsis tells you of a nice breezy read with F1, visiting many countries and a underlying romance track. The book though, is totally confusing, too fast for a story and too abrupt for feelings/emotions. The characters are not even remotely real. Except for maybe Luis (who again, idk how he can wait for Daisy among all that's happening in the book).The Daisy-Will track is absolutely irritating. It has no sense to it. Cause we already know Its going to be Daisy-Luis. I myself, just don't like love triangles, but was thinking, its okay, he might be the initial love interest then he'll turn out either bad or just too sweet for Daisy and she'll move on to Luis. But no, till half of the book, she's stuck over Will, who not even sure till that time if he likes her. He already has a good sweet girl (that too, his childhood sweetheart!) and its like reading some extra marital affair thing. EW!I H A T E D that Will died. It's just. It doesn't even make any bloody sense. I mean it seems like the book has been written in parts and every part is different from the other and has another genre completely.I mean the first set has comedy and funny aspect.Then comes in romance with Will.Then TRAGEDY. WHAT IN THE WORLD??Then romance again? Like UGH?I stopped the book when Will died, because it was getting too much for me. I wanted to read a book for its fun/romance element. Not some confused shit. But i was bored and started reading again and found the next half of the book different altogether. If the first half of the book wasn't written at all, i don't think it'd have made any difference to the story in the second half, which was very very rushed and uhmm kinda boring. (again!)There was no real writing style here that i liked actually. Not to be offensive, but i think the book sucked and i don't know how in the world it has got so many good ratings here. (boo you people, i trusted you and read the book :| )Whatever, i feel good now after writing this review. My time was utterly butterly wasted. Please do not read this book thinking it is a Sophie Kinsella type book, BECAUSE IT IS BLOODY NOTI accidentally deleted the review for this book. Thanks Ellie for helping me out and recovering it for me :D Chasing Daisy was a book that I found repeatedly turning up on my goodreads shelves, so when I spotted it at a local library, I jumped at the chance to check it out. Verdict? It's okaaay. The plot is serviceable, the leads are likeable enough, it's got its chick lit formula down pat, but it just didn't translate into full blown love for me. Let's start with the heroine, Daisy Rogers. She's a bun tart with a secret in love with an already-attached William Trust while another hot F1 driver also has the hots for her. I wasn't a fan of the blasé attitude towards cheating this book seemed to convey. There are just so many things wrong with cheating but no one seemed to feel the consequences that came with it, other than guilt, which they just had to reiterate while in the act of cheating. William Trust, the said attached crush of Daisy's was the most one dimensional of the lot whose sole purpose in the book was to draw Daisy and Luis closer to each other. Luis: now there's a guy I liked. He was forward, straight, warm, funny and most of all, he drove Daisy to grow, to move on in life to better things, and to trust. His family was practically brimming with warmth and coziness, something Daisy sorely craved so I was glad they found each other. As for what Daisy brought him.. Daisy picked him up and put him together again when he was at his lowest so there's that. There we have it, a lovely enough story for a quick weekend fix. As a side note, should you ever want to learn curse words in different languages and in a fun way, do pick this up too.
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Other books by author Paige Toon
The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson (2014)
Johnny's Girl (2013)
One Perfect Christmas (2012)
Ohne dich fehlt mir was (2000)
One Perfect Summer (2012)
Baby Be Mine (2011)
Other books in category Romance
Severance Kill (2013)
What He Promises (2015)
A study in scarlet (complete and annotated) (2015)
The Light of His Sword (2014)
The Preschooler's Busy Book: 365 creative games and activities to keep your 3-6 year old busy (1998)
Shattering Inside (2016)
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Renew Europe provide a positive assessment of Christine Lagarde’s candidacy for President of the ECB
Renew Europe members of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee have today provided a positive assessment of Christine Lagarde, candidate for the Presidency of the European Central Bank, following her hearing this morning.
MEPs from the Economic Affairs Committee are widely expected to vote in favour of Ms Lagarde’s candidacy this evening. There will be a full vote of the European Parliament’s plenary on Lagarde’s candidacy later this month in Strasbourg.
Dacian Cioloș, President of the Renew Europe Group commented today;
“Christine Lagarde made it clear today that helping the people to understand why decisions are made is the ultimate goal and I couldn’t agree more. It will be great to have a first female President of the ECB, which is a long overdue development.”
“I welcome in particular Ms Lagarde’s commitment today to the importance of parliamentary scrutiny of the ECB and its activities. Renew Europe intend to play a key role in this regard. ”
Luis Garicano MEP, Coordinator for Renew Europe on the ECON Committee reacted;
“I am delighted to see a woman of Christine Lagarde’s experience and ability nominated to this job and I wish her good luck with it. I have no doubt she will be a powerful voice at the helm of the ECB and she has my full confidence. ”
Stéphanie Yon-Courtin MEP, Vice President of ECON and Vice-Coordinator of Renew Europe members of the Committee said;
“I am proud to support Christine Lagarde for the first female President of the ECB. For me, Christine Lagarde is a strong advocate of female empowerment.”
“ Ms Lagarde will bring a wealth of experience, along with comprehensive political and diplomatic skills to this role and I am convinced she will be an independent and strong minded President of the ECB.”
For more information, please contact: nick.petre@europarl.europa.eu
COVID-19 has accentuated the global inflation problem.
Henri Kouam
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Recent Advances on Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Nitrated Phospholipids.
T Melo, P Domingues, R Ferreira, I Milic, M Fedorova, SM Santos, MA Segundo, MR Domingues
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in nitro fatty acids (NO2-FA) as signaling molecules formed under nitroxidative stress. NO2-FA were detected in vivo in a free form, although it is assumed that they may also be esterified to phospholipids (PL). Nevertheless, insufficient discussion about the nature, origin, or role of nitro phospholipids (NO2-PL) was reported up to now. The aim of this study was to develop a mass spectrometry (MS) based approach which allows identifying nitroalkenes derivatives of three major PL classes found in living systems: phosphatidylcholines (PCs), phosphatidylethanolamine (PEs), and phosphatidylserines (PSs). NO2-PLs were generated by NO2BF4 in hydrophobic environment, mimicking biological systems. The NO2-PLs were then detected by electrospray ionization (ESI-MS) and ESI-MS coupled to hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC). Identified NO2-PLs were further analyzed by tandem MS in positive (as [M + H]+ ions for all PL classes) and negative-ion mode (as [M – H]− ions for PEs and PSs and [M + OAc]− ions for PCs). Typical MS/MS fragmentation pattern of all NO2-PL included a neutral loss of HNO2, product ions arising from the combined loss of polar headgroup and HNO2, [NO2-FA + H]+ and [NO2-FA – H]− product ions, and cleavages on the fatty acid backbone near the nitro group, allowing its localization within the FA akyl chain. Developed MS method was used to identify NO2-PL in cardiac mitochondria from a well-characterized animal model of type 1 diabetes mellitus. We identified nine NO2-PCs and one NO2-PE species. The physiological relevance of these findings is still unknown.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03407
10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03407
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03407
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Melo, T., Domingues, P., Ferreira, R., Milic, I., Fedorova, M., Santos, SM., Segundo, MA., & Domingues, MR. (2016). Recent Advances on Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Nitrated Phospholipids. Analytical Chemistry, 88(5), 2622-2629. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03407
Melo, T ; Domingues, P ; Ferreira, R ; Milic, I ; Fedorova, M ; Santos, SM ; Segundo, MA ; Domingues, MR. / Recent Advances on Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Nitrated Phospholipids. In: Analytical Chemistry. 2016 ; Vol. 88, No. 5. pp. 2622-2629.
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Melo, T, Domingues, P, Ferreira, R, Milic, I, Fedorova, M, Santos, SM, Segundo, MA & Domingues, MR 2016, 'Recent Advances on Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Nitrated Phospholipids.', Analytical Chemistry, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 2622-2629. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03407
Recent Advances on Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Nitrated Phospholipids. / Melo, T; Domingues, P; Ferreira, R; Milic, I; Fedorova, M; Santos, SM; Segundo, MA; Domingues, MR.
In: Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 88, No. 5, 01.03.2016, p. 2622-2629.
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N2 - In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in nitro fatty acids (NO2-FA) as signaling molecules formed under nitroxidative stress. NO2-FA were detected in vivo in a free form, although it is assumed that they may also be esterified to phospholipids (PL). Nevertheless, insufficient discussion about the nature, origin, or role of nitro phospholipids (NO2-PL) was reported up to now. The aim of this study was to develop a mass spectrometry (MS) based approach which allows identifying nitroalkenes derivatives of three major PL classes found in living systems: phosphatidylcholines (PCs), phosphatidylethanolamine (PEs), and phosphatidylserines (PSs). NO2-PLs were generated by NO2BF4 in hydrophobic environment, mimicking biological systems. The NO2-PLs were then detected by electrospray ionization (ESI-MS) and ESI-MS coupled to hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC). Identified NO2-PLs were further analyzed by tandem MS in positive (as [M + H]+ ions for all PL classes) and negative-ion mode (as [M – H]− ions for PEs and PSs and [M + OAc]− ions for PCs). Typical MS/MS fragmentation pattern of all NO2-PL included a neutral loss of HNO2, product ions arising from the combined loss of polar headgroup and HNO2, [NO2-FA + H]+ and [NO2-FA – H]− product ions, and cleavages on the fatty acid backbone near the nitro group, allowing its localization within the FA akyl chain. Developed MS method was used to identify NO2-PL in cardiac mitochondria from a well-characterized animal model of type 1 diabetes mellitus. We identified nine NO2-PCs and one NO2-PE species. The physiological relevance of these findings is still unknown.
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Personal protective equipment and dermal exposure
Appl Occup Environ Hyg. 2001 Feb;16(2):334-7. doi: 10.1080/10473220118688.
P G Evans 1 , J J McAlinden, P Griffin
1 Health and Safety Executive, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) should only be used as a control measure when other measures are inappropriate or are inadequate by themselves. The person undertaking a risk assessment must exercise his or her judgment to take into account the protection afforded by the PPE. There is, therefore, considerable scope for differences in approach and it would seem sensible to eliminate these differences and ensure consistency, where possible, by reaching agreement on the attenuating effect of PPE. However, there is growing evidence that the levels of protection indicated by laboratory-based tests may not be achieved in real use situations. Studies of workplace protection suggest that the spread of contaminants inside protective clothing, including gloves, is commonplace and significant. Insufficient attention may have been paid to the effect of factors such as temperature differentials on the permeation of chemical agents through protective materials. To investigate this, a test cell was designed and built to measure the breakthrough times and subsequent permeation rate of solvents through glove materials where the temperature inside and outside the glove was representative of those that can occur in the workplace. Two chemical solvents were tested against two different glove materials at three different temperature conditions. The differences between the breakthrough times and permeation rates were measured and compared to manufacturer's test data. The practical implications are considered for risk of health and safety to the wearer.
Gloves, Protective*
Materials Testing*
Occupational Exposure / prevention & control*
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SalFar framework on salinization processes: A comparison of salinization processes across the North Sea Region
Jeroen De Waegemaeker
Onderzoeksoutput: Boek/rapport › Rapport
Projecten (1)
The following text discusses the manifold processes that create or aggravate saline conditions in the North Sea Region. To clarify, this text focusses on the underlying ecological processes and the socio-economical or environmental drivers of salinization. The text does not address the subsequent saline conditions, equally diverse throughout the North Sea Region. For more information about the diversity in saline conditions across the North Sea Region we refer to the SalFar baseline study (WP3).
It is important to clarify that this text focuses exclusively on salinization processes in the North Sea Region. Other researchers have developed a framework for all processes that effect the coastal aquifer. For example, Oude Essink (2001) defines six categories that have an impact of the coastal aquifer, and as a result, six categories that influence the occurrence of salinization (see figure 1). While this framework is very comprehensive, it does not facilitate the discussion amongst the SalFar partners since the six-fold categorization is simply too complex. It is not suited for quick comparison between the various coastal areas of the North Sea Region.
Recently Daliakopoulos et al. (2016) reviewed the academic literature on salinization in Europe, and subsequently constructed an all-encompassing framework on salinization processes. They delineate two main categories of salinization processes: primary and secondary salinization (see figure 2). The first category, primary salinization, comprises all natural salinization processes, including physical or chemical weathering and transport from parent material, geological deposits or groundwater. Secundary salinization, on the other hand, results from human interventions, mainly irrigation with saline water or other ill-suited irrigation practices often coupled with poor drainage conditions. In the SalFar project we didn’t opt to make use of this framework as it is not specific to coastal regions. Moreover, the division is too extensive and in many coastal regions there is a complex interaction of natural and human-driven salinization processes.
Finally, Manca et al. (2015) define eight different types of salinization in their study of the Litorale Romano Natural Reserve. Similar to Daliakopoulos et al. (2016), Manca et al. (2015) divided eight types into a set of primary (natural) salinization processes and a set of secondary (anthropogenic) salinization processes. Equally, this eight-fold categorization of salinization processes is too fine-coarse in order to facilitate quick cross-region comparison in the SalFar project.
This report constructs an easily readable framework on salinization process in the North Sea Region. It aims to facilitate quick cross-region comparison.
This report was developed as part of the Interreg Vb North Sea Region project Saline Farming (SalFar). Various SalFar partners contributed to the framework and reviewed the report, in particular Åsgeir Almås (NMBU), Susanne Eich-Greatorex (NMBU), Laurids Siig Christensen (Smagen av Danmark) and Miriam Müller (Stiftung Okowerk).
Gepubliceerd - mei-2019
B410-landbouwhydrologie
Vingerafdruk Bekijk de onderzoeksthema's van 'SalFar framework on salinization processes: A comparison of salinization processes across the North Sea Region'. Samen vormen ze een unieke vingerafdruk.
salinization Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
coastal aquifer Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
comparison Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
sea Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
irrigation Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
fold Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
chemical weathering Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
parent material Aarde en milieuwetenschappen
Projecten per jaar
1 Actief
SALFAR: Kansen voor zilte landbouw
Rogge, E., De Waegemaeker, J., Messely, L., Marchand, F., Debruyne, L., Ruysschaert, G., Muylle, H. & Garré, S.
Project: Onderzoek
De Waegemaeker, J. (2019). SalFar framework on salinization processes: A comparison of salinization processes across the North Sea Region. This report was developed as part of the Interreg Vb North Sea Region project Saline Farming (SalFar). Various SalFar partners contributed to the framework and reviewed the report, in particular Åsgeir Almås (NMBU), Susanne Eich-Greatorex (NMBU), Laurids Siig Christensen (Smagen av Danmark) and Miriam Müller (Stiftung Okowerk).
De Waegemaeker, Jeroen. / SalFar framework on salinization processes : A comparison of salinization processes across the North Sea Region. This report was developed as part of the Interreg Vb North Sea Region project Saline Farming (SalFar). Various SalFar partners contributed to the framework and reviewed the report, in particular Åsgeir Almås (NMBU), Susanne Eich-Greatorex (NMBU), Laurids Siig Christensen (Smagen av Danmark) and Miriam Müller (Stiftung Okowerk)., 2019. 23 blz.
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Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography: validation on a flood embankment
Gareth Jones, Phillippe Sentenac, Marcin Zielinski
Desiccation cracks forming in earthen structures are a known source of engineering concern. In particular such fissures forming in flood embankments can affect their stability leading to failure when overtopped. These and other problems related to safety have raised the importance of using efficient and reliable tools, especially when relatively fast, non-invasive and extensive investigations are required. Geophysical techniques, such as Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), allow for accurate assessment and monitoring of shallow depths within engineering structures.
The presented study examines the use of miniature and field scale ERT on a fissured flood embankment near Hull, UK. Two separate sections were surveyed in summer and winter using both 2-D and 3-D configurations, allowing seasonal evaluation of embankment condition.
The field results were validated through forward modelling, with different fissure configurations and the effect of topography. The results show that the resolution of the cracks increased with smaller electrode spacing. It was found that ERT can be used on a larger scale to detect zones of fissuring with fissured networks being displayed. The ability to detect cracks was diminished when surveying in winter with cracks reducing in size due to seasonal swelling of the soil. The resistivity models obtained showed anomalies with far lower resistivity than those obtained in summer.
The study showed that miniature surveys could be used to examine small sections in detail allowing imaging for horizontal subsurface fissures. The larger scale surveys provided important spatial information allowing the distribution of fissures on the embankment to be made.
The study recommends that geophysical surveying of flood defences should be used as a routine assessment tool to detect desiccation cracks within the embankment, and that these surveys should be completed in the summer, where cracks are most prominent.
Journal of Applied Geophysics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
embankments
electrical resistivity tomography
desiccation cracks
10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
Jones-etal-2014-Desiccation-cracking-detectionAccepted author manuscript, 2.94 MB
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-applied-geophysics
Phillippe Sentenac
philippe.sentenac@strath.ac.uk
Civil And Environmental Engineering - Senior Lecturer
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship
Marcin Zielinski (Recipient), 11 Jul 2011
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Jones, G., Sentenac, P., & Zielinski, M. (2014). Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography: validation on a flood embankment. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 106, 196-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
Jones, Gareth ; Sentenac, Phillippe ; Zielinski, Marcin. / Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography : validation on a flood embankment. In: Journal of Applied Geophysics. 2014 ; Vol. 106. pp. 196-211.
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abstract = "Desiccation cracks forming in earthen structures are a known source of engineering concern. In particular such fissures forming in flood embankments can affect their stability leading to failure when overtopped. These and other problems related to safety have raised the importance of using efficient and reliable tools, especially when relatively fast, non-invasive and extensive investigations are required. Geophysical techniques, such as Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), allow for accurate assessment and monitoring of shallow depths within engineering structures.The presented study examines the use of miniature and field scale ERT on a fissured flood embankment near Hull, UK. Two separate sections were surveyed in summer and winter using both 2-D and 3-D configurations, allowing seasonal evaluation of embankment condition.The field results were validated through forward modelling, with different fissure configurations and the effect of topography. The results show that the resolution of the cracks increased with smaller electrode spacing. It was found that ERT can be used on a larger scale to detect zones of fissuring with fissured networks being displayed. The ability to detect cracks was diminished when surveying in winter with cracks reducing in size due to seasonal swelling of the soil. The resistivity models obtained showed anomalies with far lower resistivity than those obtained in summer.The study showed that miniature surveys could be used to examine small sections in detail allowing imaging for horizontal subsurface fissures. The larger scale surveys provided important spatial information allowing the distribution of fissures on the embankment to be made.The study recommends that geophysical surveying of flood defences should be used as a routine assessment tool to detect desiccation cracks within the embankment, and that these surveys should be completed in the summer, where cracks are most prominent.",
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author = "Gareth Jones and Phillippe Sentenac and Marcin Zielinski",
note = "This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Geophysics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Applied Geophysics, 106. pp. 196-211.",
doi = "10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018",
journal = "Journal of Applied Geophysics",
Jones, G, Sentenac, P & Zielinski, M 2014, 'Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography: validation on a flood embankment', Journal of Applied Geophysics, vol. 106, pp. 196-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography : validation on a flood embankment. / Jones, Gareth; Sentenac, Phillippe; Zielinski, Marcin.
In: Journal of Applied Geophysics, Vol. 106, 01.07.2014, p. 196-211.
T1 - Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography
T2 - validation on a flood embankment
AU - Jones, Gareth
AU - Sentenac, Phillippe
AU - Zielinski, Marcin
N1 - This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Geophysics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Applied Geophysics, 106. pp. 196-211.
N2 - Desiccation cracks forming in earthen structures are a known source of engineering concern. In particular such fissures forming in flood embankments can affect their stability leading to failure when overtopped. These and other problems related to safety have raised the importance of using efficient and reliable tools, especially when relatively fast, non-invasive and extensive investigations are required. Geophysical techniques, such as Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), allow for accurate assessment and monitoring of shallow depths within engineering structures.The presented study examines the use of miniature and field scale ERT on a fissured flood embankment near Hull, UK. Two separate sections were surveyed in summer and winter using both 2-D and 3-D configurations, allowing seasonal evaluation of embankment condition.The field results were validated through forward modelling, with different fissure configurations and the effect of topography. The results show that the resolution of the cracks increased with smaller electrode spacing. It was found that ERT can be used on a larger scale to detect zones of fissuring with fissured networks being displayed. The ability to detect cracks was diminished when surveying in winter with cracks reducing in size due to seasonal swelling of the soil. The resistivity models obtained showed anomalies with far lower resistivity than those obtained in summer.The study showed that miniature surveys could be used to examine small sections in detail allowing imaging for horizontal subsurface fissures. The larger scale surveys provided important spatial information allowing the distribution of fissures on the embankment to be made.The study recommends that geophysical surveying of flood defences should be used as a routine assessment tool to detect desiccation cracks within the embankment, and that these surveys should be completed in the summer, where cracks are most prominent.
AB - Desiccation cracks forming in earthen structures are a known source of engineering concern. In particular such fissures forming in flood embankments can affect their stability leading to failure when overtopped. These and other problems related to safety have raised the importance of using efficient and reliable tools, especially when relatively fast, non-invasive and extensive investigations are required. Geophysical techniques, such as Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), allow for accurate assessment and monitoring of shallow depths within engineering structures.The presented study examines the use of miniature and field scale ERT on a fissured flood embankment near Hull, UK. Two separate sections were surveyed in summer and winter using both 2-D and 3-D configurations, allowing seasonal evaluation of embankment condition.The field results were validated through forward modelling, with different fissure configurations and the effect of topography. The results show that the resolution of the cracks increased with smaller electrode spacing. It was found that ERT can be used on a larger scale to detect zones of fissuring with fissured networks being displayed. The ability to detect cracks was diminished when surveying in winter with cracks reducing in size due to seasonal swelling of the soil. The resistivity models obtained showed anomalies with far lower resistivity than those obtained in summer.The study showed that miniature surveys could be used to examine small sections in detail allowing imaging for horizontal subsurface fissures. The larger scale surveys provided important spatial information allowing the distribution of fissures on the embankment to be made.The study recommends that geophysical surveying of flood defences should be used as a routine assessment tool to detect desiccation cracks within the embankment, and that these surveys should be completed in the summer, where cracks are most prominent.
KW - embankments
KW - detection
KW - desiccation
KW - cracks
KW - electrical resistivity tomography
KW - modelling
KW - desiccation cracks
UR - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-applied-geophysics
U2 - 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
DO - 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
JO - Journal of Applied Geophysics
JF - Journal of Applied Geophysics
Jones G, Sentenac P, Zielinski M. Desiccation cracking detection using 2-D and 3-D electrical resistivity tomography: validation on a flood embankment. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 2014 Jul 1;106:196-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.04.018
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CAMP South Australia
- A division of CAMP formed in South Australia.
- CAMP South Australia published its own publication called Canary.
CAMP Queensland
CAMP Western Australia
Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) (1970 - )
CAMP Ink (1970 - 1977)
Campaign Circular: Newsletter of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution, W.A. Division
Canary - CAMP South Australia Newsletter
Gay/lesbian activism
CAMP South Australia Division, 'Homosexuality in South Australia', vol. 1, no. 8, W J Publishers [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], North Sydney, 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
Gay Liberation South Australia, 'Gay Liberation', Canary (CAMP South Australia Newsletter) [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], South Australia, 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
National Gay Camp, 'National Gay Camp', Canary (CAMP South Australia Newsletter) [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], South Australia, 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
Tottman, Vance; Jill Matthews, Jill; Court, John; Seaman, Keith, 'Homosexuality in South Australia', vol. 4, no. 4, CAMP South Australia [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], South Australia, 1972, p. 1. PDF Details
Fliers
CAMP South Australia, Recent C.A.M.P Activities, CAMP South Australia [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], South Australia, 1972, 1 pp. PDF Details
CAMP South Australia (ed.), Canary - CAMP South Australia Newsletter Vol 1 No 3, vol. 1, no. 3, CAMP South Australia [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], South Australia, 1972, 3 pp. PDF Details
CAMP Western Australia Division (ed.), Campaign Circular: Newsletter of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution, W.A. Division, CAMP Western Australia [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], Western Australia, January/February, 11 pp. PDF Details
CAMP South Australia, 'Poofta- Bashing', Canary - CAMP South Australia Newsletter Jan 1973, CAMP South Australia [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
David, 'New Zealand Scene', Canary - CAMP South Australia Newsletter February 1973, CAMP South Australia [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], 1973, p. 2. PDF Details
Gay Activists Alliance, 'GAA', Canary - CAMP South Australia Newsletter July/August 1973, 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
J Harris, Graeme, 'Catholic CAMP', Canary - CAMP South Australia Newsletter March 1973, Canary (CAMP South Australia Newsletter) [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
Widdup, David, 'CAMP National Camp', CAMP Ink Vol 3 No 1, CAMP Ink [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], p. 1. PDF Details
Women's Liberation Movement, Adelaide, 'Manifesto', CAMP Ink Vol 1 No 9 July 1971 Issue, CAMP Ink [This scan courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Melbourne], 1971, p. 2. PDF Details
Woodward, Brian, 'Campaign Against Moral Persecution: The First Two years', William and John, vol. 1, no. 8, 1973, p. 1. PDF Details
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The Best Serial Killer Movies
Finding a good Serial Killer movie to watch can be hard, so we've ranked the best ones and included where to watch them. Check out our list of the best Serial Killer movies of all time streaming online.
1. The Silence of the Lambs
What it's about: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
2. Se7en
What it's about: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
3. No Country for Old Men
What it's about: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO MAX, fuboTV & Showtime), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Showtime) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
What it's about: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Peacock Premium) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
5. Prisoners
What it's about: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
6. Hot Fuzz
Comedy, Cult
What it's about: As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
What it's about: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
8. Zodiac
What it's about: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for three men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Plex, PopcornFlix & Crackle), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
9. Shutter Island
Mystery, Thriller
What it's about: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
What it's about: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO MAX, The Criterion Channel, Hoopla & 1 other) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu).
11. Misery
Thriller, Drama
What it's about: Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO MAX & HBO) & rent or buy from $12.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
12. Source Code
Mystery, Science-Fiction
What it's about: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables him to experience the final 8 minutes of another person's life. Colter re-lives the train incident over and over again, gathering more clues each time.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV & Showtime), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Showtime) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
What it's about: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & PopcornFlix), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Fandor, Kanopy & 1 other) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
14. Memories of Murder
Released: 2003Rated: G
What it's about: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.
15. Sin City
What it's about: Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (CBS All Access) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
16. Sherlock Holmes
Action & Adventure, Mystery
What it's about: Eccentric consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.
17. Halloween
What it's about: On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold bold. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital – until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighbourhood to relive his grisly murder again…and again…and again. For this is a night of evil. Tonight is Halloween!
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Shudder & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu).
18. American Psycho
What it's about: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
19. A Nightmare on Elm Street
What it's about: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
20. The Secret in Their Eyes
What it's about: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
21. Dirty Harry
What it's about: When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.
What it's about: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
23. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
What it's about: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
24. Scream
Horror, Mystery
What it's about: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
25. I Saw the Devil
What it's about: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (PopcornFlix), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla, Monsters Nightmares & Warriors Gangsters) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
26. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Horror, Cult
What it's about: When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a subscription service (Shudder & The Criterion Channel) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
27. Unbreakable
What it's about: An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
28. Saw
What it's about: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...
29. Monster
Biography, LGBTQ
What it's about: An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Plex & 3 others), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla & Sundance Now) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
30. Badlands
What it's about: A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).
31. The Devil All the Time
What it's about: In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
32. The Equalizer
What it's about: McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (TBS & TNT) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
33. Dark City
Drama, Fantasy
What it's about: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
34. Capote
What it's about: A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & PlutoTV), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
35. Peeping Tom
What it's about: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & PopcornFlix), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, The Criterion Channel & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).
36. Hush
Documentary, Drama
What it's about: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix & Hoopla).
37. Changeling
What it's about: Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
38. Arsenic and Old Lace
Comedy, Crime
What it's about: Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
39. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
What it's about: After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & PopcornFlix) & stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel & Kanopy).
40. Audition
What it's about: Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a subscription service (Shudder & Hiyah) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 1 service (iTunes).
41. The Vanishing
What it's about: Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on television, putting up posters and ruining his new relationship in the process. Eventually an unassuming chemistry teacher, Raymond, approaches Rex, intimating that he knows what happened.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).
42. Timecrimes
Science-Fiction, Independent
What it's about: A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Plex, Vudu & 1 other), stream on a subscription service (Kanopy & Monsters Nightmares) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).
43. Red Dragon
What it's about: Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
44. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
What it's about: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
45. I See You
Thriller, Crime
What it's about: When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
46. Identity
What it's about: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
47. Animal Kingdom
What it's about: Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon discovers, this world is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down.
48. Funny Games
What it's about: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO MAX, The Criterion Channel & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (iTunes).
49. Manhunter
Crime, Mystery
What it's about: FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Where to Watch: Available to rent or buy from $3.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Microsoft).
50. Freaky
What it's about: A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.
Where to Watch: Available to rent or buy from $19.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 2 others).
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Back to the Mall - "Dawn of the Dead" (2004) Review
Sam Shepards
Hi, I'm Sam, I love movies. My main interest is science fiction and zombie movies. Pessimistic and survival films I also enjoy a lot.
These days, it’s easy to hate Zack Snyder. He is a kind of new Michael Bay, a specialist in dark blockbusters with many explosions and not-so-deep-scripts. He has been the most visible head in the failures of the DC Extended Universe.
But the truth is that his infamy has been unfair. His Watchmen adaptation is a great frame-by-frame tribute, with a better ending to Alan Moore’s legendary comic. In a few years, Sucker Punch will be revisited and its stark message about oppressive patriarchy will be vindicated. Of course, Sucker Punch will never become a classic.
Above all things, you cannot say that Snyder has no ambition. After all, one of his first projects was a remake of the best zombie film ever made.
Of course, Romero’s Dawn of the Dead is matchless. But this Snyder version, written by the great James Gunn (finally globally recognized thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy) is not only a remake of the highest quality but one of the best movies of the genre in the 21st century.
Dawn of the Dead is the expected Hollywood response to the Danny Boyle’s masterpiece 28 Days Later. With the genre taking a second life, Richard Rubinstein—producer of the original Romero gem—knew how to take advantage of the moment, putting new cinema voices to reinterpret the classic film.
The setting, like the vast majority of the genre, is not exactly original. We see through the eyes of a nurse named Ana Clark (Sarah Polley) as we see how her daily life begins to be undone when a zombie outbreak begins to take control of the place.
After dramatically escaping an attack by her already converted husband and daughter, Ana meets police officer Kenneth Hall (Ving Rhames), a TV salesman named Michael (Jake Weber), a pregnant woman named Luda (Inna Korobkina) and her partner, thief Andre (Mehki Phifer).
And like Romero’s original film, they all decide to barricade themselves in a shopping mall.
However, even with the plot similarities, the tone differences are remarkable. This new version doesn’t escape the social commentary of the human obsessive need to seek stability and routine, but the main focus is on the action and tension. The zombie threat is latent and it never ceases to be.
The direction of Snyder next to the intelligence in the script of Gunn makes this remake a fun time at the movies. It has a great musical selection that includes songs by Johnny Cash, Disturbed and Tree Adams. It also features good special effects and glamorous shots.
But what really elevates the film is the performance of a professional and very solid cast. There are no great dialogue gems, but the great chemistry between the characters make up for it.
Because with the zombies being really threatening, humans seem to be forced to trust the living more quickly.
When our protagonists arrive at the mall, they are reluctantly received by a trio of security guards led by CJ (Michael Kelly). CJ becomes a small dictator of this new and improvised community until he is quickly overthrown.
But the refreshing thing about Dawn of the Dead is that, although it's full of really horrendous moments (newborn zombie anyone?), there is a growing sense that human beings do want to connect with each other. It feels like we can work as a team and tolerate our differences.
Few films of the genre have this kind of approach about humans. Just remember the powerful image of two new friends on different rooftops playing remote chess while an ocean of violent zombies separates them. Uplifting.
Even with a couple of real douchebags, the humans in Dawn of the Dead end up being very loyal. CJ and the guards not only end up being forgiven after a brief stint in an improvised jail but end up becoming important pieces of the group’s survival. Unlike Romero, Snyder and Gunn redeem the power-hungry violent paranoid character, giving him the opportunity to grow.
That’s why, even considering its context, its pessimistic ending, done in found footage-style, feels disappointing and out of tune. Maybe that was exactly the intention of Gunn and Snyder. Maybe what they wanted was to establish a cliffhanger that would translate into a sequel.
Whatever it was, we were left without a sequel and without hope. But the genre is so noble and flexible that it still felt like a cinematic triumph.
Zombie Movie Details
Title: Dawn of the Dead
Director(s): Zack Snyder
Writer(s): James Gunn (original script Romero)
Actors: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, a.o.
© 2019 Sam Shepards
Michael115 on July 16, 2019:
No problem! I try to look at movies as their own stand alone films but it is hard sometimes. I agree if you look at a film as its own thing then you'll get more enjoyment out of it instead of comparing it to the original.
Sam Shepards (author) from Europe on July 16, 2019:
@Michael
Thank you for your comment. I really enjoyed the movie when it came out in 2004 and the recent rewatch was good. The problem is that people compare it to the original Romero Dawn of the Dead. If we compare it then it doesn't really offer anything new and misses some of the original atmosphere and development. Putting it in the Romero zombie universe it's probably a 3 on 5, but when I look at it as a standalone zombie piece I gave it definitively better than average rating.
Good review! I remember watching this movie on HBO once and enjoying it! Gotta rewatch it sometime! Keep up the good work!
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DEFENDING Franklin Graham
Ron Sider May 11, 2020 5
Ok, I can hear the astonishment and outrage. Have you lost your mind, Ron?
Don’t you know that Franklin Graham has said terrible things about Muslims? ( In 2001, he described Islam as “a very evil and wicked religion.”) He has falsely suggested that President Obama was a secret Muslim. He has compared same-sex marriage to polygamy and incest. He is one of President Trump’s ardent evangelical supporters. He has even said that there is “almost a demonic power” at work in those who oppose President Trump.
He has said all that and more. And I vigorously disagree with and condemn such statements. I wish Billy Graham’s son Franklin would display at least one quarter of the wisdom and love of his wonderful father.
But here is the problem. As Jim Wallis often tells me, there is a radical “fundamentalist” left in this country which is just as intolerant as the “fundamentalist” right.
Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse ministry accepted the invitation of New York City’s Mount Sinai Health System and erected a huge temporary hospital in the city to treat COVID-19 patients. As the city’s healthcare system was overwhelmed, Samaritan’s Purse budgeted $1.8 million a month and brought in scores of evangelical medical professionals. They treated 333 New Yorkers sick with Covid-19.
Instead of thanking Samaritan’s Purse for their help, Corey Johnson, a gay activist and speaker of the City Council, denounced Graham and wanted the group thrown out of the city. He said their “continued presence was an affront to our values of inclusion. “
What infuriated Johnson and others was the fact that Samaritan’s Purse opposes gay marriage and only hires staff who share their traditional view of marriage. Is that bigotry? Should New York City throw out people who disagree with the majority of New Yorkers who accept gay marriage?
Let’s be clear. I think (as I say in my chapter on the topic in my book THE FUTURE OF OUR FAITH), that evangelicals have handled the issue of homosexuality very, very badly. We should have – – but did not – – lead the battle against gay bashing. Our congregations failed to be a safe place for young people struggling with their sexual identity. Too often we offered hate rather than love to LGBTQ people.
At the same time, I believe that a careful reading of the Bible leads to the conclusion that God’s will for marriage is one man and one woman committed for life. But our failure to understand and love people who disagree with us (and our colossal failure to model a biblical alternative to widespread heterosexual divorce) has profoundly undermined our witness to that biblical standard.
But my concern about the attack on Samaritan’s Purse by a gay activist in New York City is not about my disagreement on marriage. My concern is about religious freedom, choice, pluralism, and respect for those who disagree with us. The key point of our constitution’s first amendment on religious and political freedom is this: Precisely because society is and always will have many diverse views, we therefore respect and affirm the freedom of those who profoundly disagree with us. We will argue vigorously with each other and explain why we think certain views are profoundly wrong and even harmful. But we will defend the freedom of those who disagree with us—even those who disagree vehemently with us! And we will not try to use government to silence or exclude them.
Jonathan Tobin, the editor in chief of Jewish News Syndicate, rightly lamented the attack on Samaritan’s Purse . Tobin was grateful for their good work helping New York City’s overwhelmed health services. And he was saddened by the fact that many used Samaritan’s Purse’s good work “as one more culture war battle line, rather than an opportunity to unite across the old divides.”
I lament and strongly condemn Franklin Graham’s many misguided, unloving statements and actions. But the solution is not to try to silence or expel him. Rather it is, first, to insist that a pluralistic society defends everybody’s right to views that others consider profoundly wrong. And then, second, to argue persuasively to refute misguided ideas. (My next blog will do that with regard to pro-Trump supporters like Franklin Graham!)
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ChiMay 13, 2020
I really like this article. I think it is well balanced in condemning the excesses on both sides. I look forward to the next article
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Sarah Mander is an artist printmaker. Graduating with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Wimbledon School of Art she co-founded Red Hot Press Print Workshop in Southampton England in 2004. She continues to run the workshop and teach Printmaking. She is also a visiting tutor at West Dean College in West Sussex.
Sarah exhibits widely in the UK and abroad. She has work in private and public collections in the United Kingdom, Denmark, China, Latvia and Australia
Sarah takes her inspiration from man-made objects and industrial and technological heritage. Her work can be abstract dealing with concepts of technology. It can also focus in on objects, particularly tools of the trade, parts of aircraft or spacecraft or early computers that were at the cutting edge of technology or on the cusp of change. These objects tell a story and she wants to celebrate these objects and concepts.
Sarah is excited by colour and plays with combinations of colours. She uses Etching, Drypoint and Collagraph techniques. These methods involve the erosion of metal and degradation of cardboard substrates, echoing the effects of time and use on her chosen subject matter.
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2018 Printfest 2018 Ulverston, Cumbria.
2017 Making a Mark Rums Eg Gallery, Romsey, Hampshire.
2017 Red Hot Press Printmakers Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey, Hampshire.
2016 The Masters – Intaglio Bankside Gallery London work selected by Norman Ackroyd
2015 Printmakers’ Exhibition Oxmarket Centre of Arts Chichester, West Sussex.
2015 West Dean college tutors exhibition West Dean College, West Sussex.
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Gomez's amazing 28 months in Mexico
By Soccer By Ives April 26, 2012 2:26 pm
By Soccer By Ives | April 26, 2012 2:26 pm
There have been few stories regarding American soccer players quite as compelling as that of Herculez Gomez and the amazing two years he has spent in Mexico reviving a career that was in jeopardy of ending not too long ago.
Gomez considered life after soccer when he looked to be out of options in the winter of 2009, after his contract with the Kansas City Wizards had expired and he was not re-signed. Two years later, Gomez is a regular for the top team in Mexico and enjoying the kind of career renaissance even he couldn't have envisioned two years ago.
In my new Fox Soccer feature on Gomez, the 2010 U.S. World Cup striker opens up about when his career hit rock bottom, and how much things have changed for him since then.
Give the story a read and let me know what you think. Hoping Gomez gets a national team call up this summer? Have his exploits led you to watch more Mexican soccer? Would you like to see him return to MLS?
Share your thoughts below.
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I think you missed the part where some comments say that he was played out of position so that lead to his poor performances in MLS. In Mexico, he is being played in better positions so he is on fire and he would’ve done the same in MLS if they had played him in the proper position. That is speculation based on past and current performances.
He did score 18 goals for the Galaxy but mostly because Donovan was not around much that year so he got playing time, then he was put in mostly as a midfielder. With the rapids he got injured and he just did not play very much in KC. He just needed his chances. Even in Mexico he went to Puebla and stood out but he didn’t get much playing time with Pachuca. Though at that time Pachuca started getting horrible coaches.
Air Jordanz
Last time I checked, the criterion for being labeled a “starter” is to start games. Which Herc has done multiple times. Also, co-scoring champion is not much of a far cry from scoring champion, and leaving out the Chicharito bit doesn’t undermine the content of the article in any significant manner.
That said, most people don’t appreciate the sort of insight and commentary you bring to the table, myself included.
…nor is Holden a defensive mid.
The guy hasn’t always been on fire .. he was in LA , what? 7 years ago?
Basically this means the MLS failed to recognize a player with the skills to score many goals. Colorado and KC played him out of position. Sigi didn’t think Herc was good enough. Take that fat man.
Michael Stypulkoski
Surely you mean Edu in Clark’s position? Holden just wasn’t fit enough.
If my name was Hercules that would be my pose 24-7.
Skywardo
Hes absolutely correct, along with Holden in Ricardo’s mf position vs Ghana
I would like both of their jerseys
And damn if us Americanos don’t need a story, that many of our families have been through, to soften up the seriousness of the day. I love Mexico too, and its beautiful football.
Big Chil
I remember meeting some of Herc’s cousins and friends at the beer garden outside of Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Herc’s whole path to being picked for the final team was exciting as was the speculation that he would, and did, start the Algeria game (and what a game :). Also, prima, if you’re out there, you were cute!
Kevin G.
He didn’t say that though, all he was stating was that some of Ives information is incorrect.
Ya or if we didn’t have to play Ghana
Agreed. He embodies everything that the USA and American dream is about. Ironic that he’s making it come true in Mexico. Regardless, he’s always been great and had a positive attitude when with the USA, I’d love to see him contribute again. How old is he?
predicto
Nice article – I thought it was a good exposition piece showing Gomez’s personal struggles and success. Amazing that an accomplished soccer player like gomez can have financial struggles like this – and how close he came to quitting because of it. I guess that’s MLS low pay downside.
BenH
Great piece. Amazing story. Still remember when Garber asked him about how much he was making in the Mexican league and Gomez responded something like ‘let me put it this way, if I came it’d be DP money’. That league pays a lot. Glad he’s doing well and hope we call him up.
Herculez Herculez
lol, keep dreaming
Weaksauce
We would’ve went further in the World Cup if Gomez and Buddle started!
And played Robbie Findley who lacked any type of finishing touch:
Since we’re being so thorough, we’ll add that Gomez was not a starter when he shared the golden boot: many of his goals were as a super sub, unlike Hernandez who was a starter. If you do a minutes comparison, I think they come out pretty close.
Also, just because Gomez took the spot of an injured player, doesn’t make him less of a starter.
Yep… I’ve watched Santos for the last two years or so. Quintero is a skillful player and can be a game changer. I am just saying his soccer decision making is pretty poor most of the time.
You mean like last nights rainbow attempt turned flop for a penalty when it failed? Quintero is a skillful player, but def. immature.
That doesn’t take away from the fact that he’s had a tremendous run in the Mexican League and is one of the most beloved players in Torreon and an all around great guy.
Also, pointing out that he’s not a starter for Santos doesn’t mean he’s not an important player for them.
I guess pointing out the factual errors in Ives’ piece hurts the ego of the small minority of American soccer fans who are incredibly insecure and tend to live their lives through some national team members.
Ives gets paid to write for major publications and it’s amazing that none of the editors bothered to double check some of his “facts”…..facts that people like you guys easily gobble up in some feeble effort to boost your self esteem.
I’ll say it again just so you can understand it, Herc is not a starter at Santos when all their forwards are healthy and he didn’t beat out Hernandez for the golden boot, they shared the title.
I know Darwin Quintero is most likely going to keep his starting position, but he makes some of the worst decisions and is frustrating to watch. He’ll have two people next to him wide open in scoring positions, but istead of passing it he tries to dribble thru 3 or 4 defenders. I’ve seen him do this time and time again. I think Gomez has made a nice partnership with Oribe Peralta and they work well together.
TheRyanSTL
Agreed. Great story for a great person and player. Just because John’s father never told him that he loved him doesn’t mean he has to be so critical.
g?
I like Herc too, but I think Demerit still has that role covered…
You’re a very small person.
BSU SC
Going from an out of contract MLS player to a World Cup player and Mexican League golden boot winner is about the most impressive thing I’ve ever heard of. Herculez Gomez is literally the Rocky Balboa of soccer. He will always be one of my favorite players.
A couple minor corrections Ives.
Gomez didn’t “beat out” Hernandez for the Golden Boot in the Clausura 2010, they ended up with the same amount of goals and actually shared the scoring title per the FMF. Matter of fact, Hernandez didn’t even finish the season since he picked up an injury after match-day 9 and never played in the Mexican League again since he went straight to Mexico’s WC training camp after flying back from Manchester after his signing.
He’s also not a “starter” for Santos and only became one when Darwin Quintero picked up an injury that sidelined him for almost a month and his subsequent suspension. Once everyone is healthy, the starting forwards are Quintero and Oribe Peralta.
Pretty dubious stuff there Ives given the fact that this stuff is common knowledge to anyone who follows Santos or the Mexican League.
Great fluff piece though.
He had some fairly effective years here. Maybe his game is just better suited to the style there? Maybe he has improved his skills and tactics since his MLS days?
Good article Ives. It reminds us that these guys are close to just being one of us!
BTW- has herc ever been photographed not in that pose?
People do forget that Bob called him in to the USMNT 2010 WC team (not here, just general forgetful USMNT fans).
Great piece and a great story.
The question here is: how come he didn’t make it in MLS? Better coaches in Mexico the know how to use his skills?
Ives, you are an awful damn good sports writer.
Great player, person, and attitude. Gomez for the USA!!
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Gage Chapter 12 ‘Passover’
Hello hello again,
Greetings on this fine tuesday coming from my shack in the middle of murky nowhere to bring you more weird stories and general musings on life (or the lack thereof).
Been getting on with some decent writing and a lot of slacking off, still trying to get back into the swing of things with the 2k a day word count, not quite managing it but saying that the stuff I’ve been putting out imo isn’t too bad. It’s taking shape, it’s getting there.
Is it as good as the start, I don’t but I’m reaching the tipping point now, the story is peaking and I like the way it’s shaping up.
And tbh I’m looking forward to doing something more silly and fun again, so as soon as I’m done here gonna get straight back into 3 ring for the next instalment of that and then maybe start thinking about a sequel to Diana after dark if the time is ready for that. Been wanting to write that one for a while.
But the moon and the stars have to be aligned for that, it has to be perfect and if you’ve read the book you’d know that is pretty topical haha.
Not that I don’t love writing serious stuff and intense stuff, it’s just a little draining being in that head space constantly, you have no idea how worked up I have to get to write stuff like this. It’s like I meditate but not to get calm and serene but to get the complete opposite. I get so worked up it’s like I’m trying to rip the keys out of my laptop haha.
It just takes up a lot of energy to run that hot, I’m literally trying to make myself feel like I’m in battle flinging a battleaxe into someone’s face haha.
Talking about battleaxes in the faces I haven’t been reading or listening to the witcher much, I just don’t care enough to follow the story honestly, the characters are boring and unlikable and I feel like I was cheated out of the witcher series I should’ve have gotten. I keep lamenting to my polish buddy at work that if the series had been like the first story it would have been perfect. If Sapkowksi had kept it a tight almost pulpy action packed terse tense fantasy thriller it would have been my favourite fantasy series hands down.
But it just gets lost in the weeds with this generic crap and shitty characters I just lost interest. I mean most of the books are just about Ciri and completely unrelated stuff honestly. For a series about a monster slayer it just uses his monster slaying as like a character trait, it’s not what the story is about at all and plays no part in the narrative whatsoever.
Geralt being a witcher is just something he likes to tell people like he’s on a speed date but he never actually does any ‘witching’. It’s just astounding that CD projekt red can get it so right with the games but the creator of the character can get it so wrong. It’s weird because it’s usually the opposite for adaptations like it’s the total reverse with Dexter. Sure they hired a great actor to play Dexter but they completely fluffed the story and the character after season one. If the show had followed the books religiously it would have been amazing.
But it’s equally amazing that CD projekt red (jesus I sound like I’m doing marketing for these guys haha) could turn a cool shorty story (which could be a rip off of elric, I need to read elric) and turn it into one of the biggest game franchises in history.
I also finished that Parker book it was taking me ages to get through and yeah it kinda goes nowhere like I thought it might. They kill the only interesting villain off halfway through and replace him with an old guy on a golf cart who doesn’t do anything except shout at people. And the whole book is about Parker trying to escape this amusement park while getting besieged by this criminal organisation and spoilers yeah at the end he escapes and then goes home and makes himself a sandwich. That’s literally the end, I’m not making that up. The last line is him eating the sandwich and then thinking about getting the money he left there.
He doesn’t even get the money, or even try for it there’s no tension at all. He just escapes and thats it, no epic show down because the person he would have had the showdown with he already killed, he was literally the first guy he killed, it was pathetic. I mean why the fuck couldn’t you just have killed off the guys buddy and continued the story with the interesting villain instead?
That tiny change would have changed the entire plot and made it ten times more interesting and it would have been so easy to do. You just have the other guy walk into the hall of mirrors. Why would this smart villain be the first to walk into a trap like that? It made no sense and basically destroyed all the tension in the book.
I complained that the last book was kind of small and uninteresting and the heist was a little boring because everything went right. But that still had tension and interesting characters and a more dynamic story, it had legs. This book is just lazy and hacky honestly.
But still this is like I dunno the 14th book in the series and it’s the first real stinker, so that’s amazing. I’ve been burning through these books and loving each one more than the last. I just hope the next one returns to form a little.
Oh and I’m really excited because I just found out that someone turned all Stark’s books into graphic novels so that’ll give me a reason to read them all again which is great. I can’t wait for that.
I didn’t think the book was shit, I think if it had a few tweaks it would have been decent. Just have that interesting villain you spent all that time building up live til the end and have this awesome battle of wits of which I expected. And maybe have a little more set up to the actual job and the park itself. Just to give the story a little more breathing room and not be this claustrophobic almost like stage play set in one room.
Yeah so that’s my rant for the day probably be back for a poem tomorrow, I don’t know yet, been feeling a little up and down about that. I definitely have material let’s leave it at that.
Oh that reminds me I finally got to the part of the story where my bardic poem is used in Cur, so that’s cool. It is kind of a pivotal point in the story and the lore, the celtic mythology. Bards are held in high regard in that culture, their power to influence people is quite literally seen as a form of powerful magic and curses.
Anyway gotta go and do some proof reading as usual, finished the Diana pitch chapters but I’m gonna start working on the whole book soon enough. But I will put out another Cur chapter soon enough.
They came for us at night.
Me and my friends watched from our rooftops as they snaked through the back alleys. That bookish one with the moustache behind them fiddling with a tiny pencil and paper trying to write in some kind of journal.
They crept quickly and quietly to the centre of town. The town was so quiet you could hear the sand moving in their boots. A ghost town silently watching as they worked their way closer to the saloon they hoped Gage was sleeping in.
I could see on the hill where they set up camp, those weird pods were still there closed up and not moving, just sitting there like warts on a frogs ass.
They had strange weaponry and stalked the alleys ways watching every corner as they went. Feeling the eyes on them, slits of boarded windows following them as they passed holding their breath.
They must have felt us watching, the big one with the beard looked up at us but we ducked too quickly for him to see. They hurried along passing us off as curious birds.
He was waiting for them.
Just standing so tall, alone in the centre of main street, a cold wind blowing. His shotgun hanging loose at his side.
The men fanned out in formation and surrounded Gage in a semi circle in front of the saloon.
The man with the moustache shouted and tried to push past the men.
“Ryan, we have to take him alive.” He shouted as he approached the man with the white hair.
The man at the front said nothing, he just spun around and hit the pudgy moustache guy in the guts dropping him flat to his knees. Then he turned back to Gage and shrugged his shoulders.
The man on his knees tried to get up as the other men attempted to keep him down.
“If you kill him and others hear about it, he’ll become a martyr”
The man with the white hair, he must have been the leader turned to each of his men and he pointed, first at the woman. He said “Are you gonna tell anyone about this?”
She shook her head.
Then to the large man with the beard “You?”
“Not a soul.”
Then to the mexican.
“You?” He said to the younger man.
“No sir” he grinned.
“Well that’s everyone.” He said looking at the man with the mustache and quickly shooting him in the head with his strange alien weapon. There was just a quick flash of light and a strange noise and the man’s head was gone and his body became dead weight in the arms of the men carrying. Stained as they were with a light dusting of pink mist.
Disgusted, they threw his body down like a sack of potatoes in the dry loose top soil.
Gage watched the dust settle around it as it stopped being a person and just became scenery.
Ryan stopped and looked Gage up and down and scoffed. “We travelled all this way for this” He sniffed and spat on the dirt next to the mustache man’s body and said “I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting to do that.” He smirked and put his e-cigar in his mouth and sucked on it looking at Gage. “I know you” He said.
Gage tossed his gun out in front of him on the ground. It landed with a heavy thudding noise.
Ryan let out a laugh and said “Well that was easy.”
Gage didn’t move or say a word, his one eye burning staring through Ryan who tried too hard to hide a boiling fear in his gut. Destiny staring him right in the face, looking at the bare pit where his soul was supposed to reside.
Gage took his duster off of his shoulders revealing a mountain of man in a stained grey longsleeved under shirt that was once white. Ripped and torn and bitten and stretched with the sinewy muscles underneath forged through nothing but hard work and sweat and toil. The work horse bitten and turned sour and vicious and lame biting back at the hand of his master and running madly and wild and free to it’s own doom.
He took his suspenders off his shoulders and clenched his fists.
Ryan scoffed again “Oh so you wanna do it the old fashioned way.” He took another suck on his e-cigar and put it back in his pocket. He took his gun out of it’s holster and lifted it over his shoulder at which point the younger guy with the shaved head took it off of him.
He was wearing some kind of weird skeleton suit over his body that went over his arms and legs and connected at the hips. Under it he was just wearing a fitted shirt and a pair of pants.
Ryan didn’t take a stance he just smiled with his cocky smile and said “Well what are you waiting for?”
He let out a mocking breathy laughter and said “Ok, I guess I’ll be the one to lead”
He moved so fast I thought I was dreaming at first. I’d never seen a human move like that, it was like he was there one minute and then there was just dust and dirt and he was barrelling at Gage. He didn’t throw a punch he just launched himself right into him like a cannonball and swept him off his feet with enough force to kill a horse.
I couldn’t believe my eyes. He couldn’t have been more than six foot nothing this guy but one minute he was standing there the next he was on top of Gage. He toppled the gigantic man in two seconds flat, felled him like a great oak tree in a single strike.
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Gage Chapter 6 ‘Leaders of Men’
Ok so I just went ahead and made a spot for 3 Ring on my inkitt page, gave it a little cover and a blurb and all that good stuff so you can go ahead and check that out and give it a little read and review and a little kissy and a cuddle if you’d kindly follow this link good karma will come to you in the form of hot topic gift baskets filled with cancer cells harvested from infected rhesus monkeys. So go do that.
The Man with the Laughing Sword.
So what’s new? Well I finished the witcher book and thought it was ok, although the ending was a little creepy and the story is just sort of thrown together, it has no cohesion, there isn’t really a beginning middle or end, it’s just loosely connected stories and then it details how Yennifer and Geralt met and fall in loves, spoilers he fucking wishing on a Genie to force her to be in love with him haha. I’m not even kidding. This was sort of talked about in the Witcher 3 but I didn’t really put a lot of thought into it because I hadn’t read the books at that point but it puts a lot of stuff from the games in context and just adds this little creep factor to the whole thing.
And I totally get the whole ‘Team Triss vs Team Yen’ thing now because although I haven’t read the other books yet I’m guessing Triss actually loves Geralt and isn’t brainwashed by a fucking magic lamp and probably also wasn’t an ugly hunchback who used magic to be beautiful, at least I think that’s what she was.
I really thought reading the books would make me like Yen and Triss more but Yen is pretty much a thot and an asshole from the moment you meet her until they fall in love and it’s not much different in the game. I got to the bit where he wishes she falls in love with him and I was like ‘y tho?’. He literally just met her and she was in another man’s bed and she was nothing but rude and conniving and literally mind controls him to do her dirty work potentially putting his life at risk but this somehow endears him to her.
I didn’t get that, specifically considering he literally murdered a woman in the first part of the book for attempting to do the same thing after fucking her.
It just didn’t make any sense and honestly I didn’t give a shit in the games when both Triss and Yen snubbed me for fucking around with them both. I didn’t care but having read this I’m gonna be in camp Triss until she annoys me in the later books haha. The main thing that put me off of her in the game is just her annoying accent.
Don’t you just fucking hate it in fantasy games where there’s that character that just has this grating overt american accent in a game set in some mythical universe. It just completely breaks immersion for me to hear people talk like that. I become so aware I’m watching a game cutscene or a tv show or whatever.
Everyone in fantasy should have english accents or some variant on that like irish or scottish or welsh, something like that. Geralt is an exception because his voice is just dank the way it is boi.
Geralt’s is more subtle, Triss sounds like a new yorker ordering a bagel. Just annoys me.
Honestly I wouldn’t have begrudged a game like Kingdom come being all in Czech with english subtitles, not that that game needed to be more immersive but that extra level of passion of the christ immersion could be cool and I might see on my next playthrough if I can set that up.
I will definitely be reading the next book though because the action and the writing is perfect inspiration for my fantasy book I’m planning and 3 ring and I enjoyed it despite the fact it didn’t make much sense.
Anyway can’t stay long, could waffle on indefinitely, I need to do more proofreading for 3 ring so I must dash.
He couldn’t say how long he waited or if he even slept like that. Days could have passed, weeks of waiting. Waiting for what? A sign? God to reach a hand down? A white winged horse? Maybe he was waiting to die.
Gage couldn’t say until he saw it and he eventually did. It came up as a dot on the horizon getting ever close until it took the shape of a group of men. As they got closer to the whorehouse they waved at Gage seeing him sitting on the stoop in his rocking chair. He just nodded and watched them come. There were about five of them on horseback leading a sixth on a rope.
Eventually they stopped their horses in front of the stoop and he could get a good look at them with the gun still on his lap
They were relatively young but looked capable and had a wry innocence about them as if they were all farm boys fresh from the tit.
Gage offered them a greeting and they returned it cordially and smiled although he could tell they held a heavy countenance.
“Good evening mister.” One of the young lads said as he approached with a wary smile on his face. He squinted with the sun in his eyes, lighting up boyish freckles on a ruddy irish face. “You wouldn’t happen to know the way into town would ya?” The boy asked earnestly like a child would. But he was tall for a boy and wore a man’s duster and stood as one and was broad with a light strawberry blonde hair and stubble on his chin. Loose springy hair on his head.
Gage shook his head.
“Oh that’s too bad” The young lad said sighing and stopping to look around. “Ya see, we was transporting a head’a cattle up from Bronson when this gang of escaped- err – you know. Them Kafta folk.” He sucked his teeth reluctant even to talk about it sighing heavily as if he were more disappointed than mad, as if it were his fault somehow. ”Well they robbed us sir, kilt one of us, lad by the name of O’Hare just cut him down like a beast.” He swallowed remembering it. “Butchered him like a hog for slaughter.” His eyes got narrow as he realised that he was probably closer to the truth than he realised. Lugs weren’t too choosey about the source of their food, we were different animals to them entirely of course. “They took as much cattle as they could and the rest stampeded off a cliff.” He spat on the ground. “But you see they left this one behind.” He gestured over to the tied up lugger, a smaller scrawny one. The runt of the litter certainly but no less dangerous. It was dressed as something like a plainsman or a farmer in a light coloured smock that was torn and dirty on bare feet. Although his kind rarely wore shoes and usually had no need of them as their feet were ususally clawed and toughened like the feet of a dog or cat. “One of the little ones and well sir, we’re planning on taking him into town to face justice there”. He paused and cleared his throat “We thought if we couldn’t get the cattle back we could at least see this done and go home with our heads held high.” The young lad smacked his lips and said “Who knows, he might even have a bounty on his head”.
“Why bother?” Gage scoffed. There was something Gage respected even in his mockery. Something only in men and only then of a certain kind, a sense of duty, even misplaced, a sense of making things right that only existed in men. Despite how bastardised this sense of honor was by a system that had learned to manipulate and putrefy it. He could still respect that but not in abstract. There was no duty to ideals or concepts or company only in blood and the soil it fell on, only that mattered. For the ideas could be soiled and stolen and changed ever so slightly as to flip them entirely.
The ideals could be and more than likely were based on lies. The concepts half baked drivel formed from the minds of men never to spill blood except with a pen. But the blood and the soil had been there much longer and would remain on when all the high minded ideals were dust and buried in rubble.
“Sir?”
“I have a rope here”
“Erm, well” The young lad dithered earnestly. “Wouldn’t it be better just to take him into town Sir?”
Gage knew that taking him into town was a waste of time, they’d take one look at the little beast and start blaming everyone but him. To the state the luggers were a class of retarded children incapable of being responsible for their own actions. And any violence they commited was the act of a mislead minor. And any violence enacted upon them was the act of a savage monster to be scourned and derided and spat upon in the streets. The state would bring down some Cyclon lawyer or magistrate to blame men for making him work, oppressing him somehow. There had to be some way his actions weren’t a product of his own nature as nature was something the Cyclon abhorred in all forms. The idea to them of creatures having a nature was almost like a challenge to them, something to be tested and broken and moulded and changed.
The human officials would just ring their hands and differ to someone else too afraid to even make comment on it. They’d think about their little wives and children and their mistresses before saying anything that could put that in danger. A danger that was very real. Such controversies erupting from the most benale of mistakes or misteps or resistance. Just some loose tongued person taking for granted that they’d grown accustomed to living in a ‘free’ country. And could say whatever they liked were of course layed low. As all free men would be in turn until they were all gone. It was only that the land was so big and the list so long that they could grow to doubt that they would be next although not next as they were waiting in a queue.
They’d say it wasn’t the lugs own beast nature but it was the speciesism and bigotry men had shown the lug. This forced him to become the wild animal he was always meant to be. It couldn’t possibly be the other way around. No that would make sense, but that’s what the cyclone did. They made up down, left right and it worked, if it didn’t it confused people long enough that it didn’t matter if they realised they’d been had, it was already done. They’d been so skilled at it they’d completely flipped the moral teachings we had had only twenty years prior. Without our even noticing it as it had been done so gradually and enacted so henpeckingly.
We didn’t ask for these beasts in our land and we could’ve built our tracks without them and been better for it. It was the Cyclon that brought them here from some different world, or maybe they made them who knows. It was them that wanted them here because they were cheap and dumb and easily controlled. And if ever something went wrong it would never be them caught in the jaws of the monster. It’d always be some human dolt who would get the axe and if he was unlucky enough to live, the hammer would come down if he ever spoke up. He’d be called every name in the book, the names that stick and he’d never work again.
There was a pause as the wind blew and the rocking chair creaked.
“Hey wait a minute” Another lad from behind said. “We can’t just kill him without a trial, that’s speciesist.” The boy looked older than the rest and had dark curly hair with freckles on his cheeks and dark beady eyes. “We gotta take him to town.” the kid protested. Something told Gage it was this kid’s idea to take him to town in the first place. Overriding the natural recourse which would have been to bash the beasts head in with a rock on the spot. The Cyclon loved rules, they loved codes and dictums because they were always for everyone else to follow but them.
There was another silence and blowing wind and they knew what justice called for and since they couldn’t do it right now the one beast would have to do.
Gage looked at the sorry thing, it was younger but given a year or two and it would be just as deadly as the others. It had an arrogant look about it. It knew it was beaten and looked sorry but it was sorry it had been caught, not sorry about any crime it had done. The luggers never could feel sorry for crimes against humans because in their minds they were justified. They were owed whatever they stole for some past grievance told to them by the Cyclon. Every killing of a human was a revenge for some long gone gripe that may or not have happened. The Cyclon would have them believe that humans and Cyclon were one and the same and it was men that had enslaved them. There was no subtlety nor a mind capable of distinguishing it in a lug.
“If you even think of hurting this fella I’ll run into town myself and tell them everything” The nasally voiced kid with the curly mop of hair said. “He has rights, they’re thinking feeling people just like us, they’re our equals and we have to treat them that way or-“. He got off his horse to get around to the front so they could see his hand wringing and gesticulation like he was making some address to public office. Taking a few steps onto the porch and talking down to them like some cutpurse evangelist. “It goes against the very nature of this countries founding to kill this free man without a trial, we’re a nation of immigrants bound by our principles.”
The other boys made faces like they were swallowing some harsh uneccessary medicine, a lie forced down with teaspoons of sugar and grit. Their faces contorting as this little rat told them that this monster was their equal. When every sense told them that it was a monster that didn’t belong on this earth. A mix of shame and revulsion at the thought of swallowing this lie and someday even believing it themselves. And forcing it down the throats of others made them sick.
Gage snorted.
The boys looked at him with astonishment. The little rat boy had said all the magic words that made normal men cringe and prostrate themselves. To make the strong bow and scrape, make even their own fathers become humble and small and itinerant but not Gage. To Gage they were just words.
The little rat boy squinted angrily almost in tears and said “I’ll report you all and you’ll be the ones that hang!” He snuffled and continued pointing at them in turn before waving his arrogant little hand in Gage’s face as he sat in his rocking chair. Then turning around to address the boys once again as he could feel some movement amongst them “My father-“
Gage had heard enough and interrupted his feeble chatter with a blast from his shotgun into the boys side knocking him headlong into the dirt. He fell like the devil himself yanked the little snots chain. Hitting so hard he broke apart like a child’s doll wrapped in meat into squishy flabby pieces.
The gun smoked under his blanket as the boys shook with fear but only for a moment. Because people only feared what they didn’t understand, and this made some sense to them instantly and the gun was only a surprise. They’d probably never even seen one this close before. There was a time when farm boys like this would be steeped in guns right out of the womb. They’d have been bouncing a shotgun on their knee while their father bounced them on his. But years of gun confiscations had left them little more than babes in the woods. Victims waiting to be robbed and murdered by monsters that roamed free, bound by no such laws. It was lucky they’d only lost one and hadn’t been raped for their troubles.
But there was some spark of boyish wonder in them looking at the gun and what it had wrought, a terrible wonder.
Gage stood throwing the blanket off his lap and said “I’ll get the rope.”
There was a little grumbling from the boy who had spoken to him first. He later introduced himself as ‘Jameson’ his partners were ’O’Shaunnesy, McDonald and Clarke the dead one’s name was Miller.
Gage instructed them to scoop up what was left of Miller and they dug another shallow grave. Not too far from the mass grave he just dug and laid his bones down there to be dug up by the coyotes and gnawed on.
It was getting later and there was some light protest. Worrying as they were about sanctions from the state. Gage assured them as he held the large bible that smelled vaguely of piss. That there was no greater sanctions than in this book if they allowed the thing to live.
There was some sense in that, although they swallowed with fear all the same. Knowing what he said was truth that spoke to their ancient past conflicting with the ‘truth’ of their modern age. It was a practice these country boys were slow to get used to and that’s why Gage knew he could use them. The age they lived in devoted itself to indoctrinating it’s young into thinking the thoughts in their heads weren’t their own property. And their natural reactions of disgust at the world around them was a result of their bigotry and small mindedness. And they had best to train themselves to be more tolerant of an alien race raping their planet. They were taught to suppress their instinctual reactions. Encouraged instead that they should instead try to befriend the monsters. If only they treated these creatures with love and kindness maybe then they’d decide not to rape and murder and see them as a source of food. To just keep putting your head in the mouth of the alligator hoping this was the time it would see sense and not bite. Failing in every sense that there was no sense to be had and in fact biting was its very nature, a sense of it’s own.
But instead of destroying the alligator or living in separation from it. Humans were forced to share a bed with it by people that would likely never even be in the same area code as the real throng. Sure the Cyclon had them as bodyguards but they made sure to pick the best most plyable subjects. Putting them through the most rigorous of screening and genetic manipulation. Further inhibiting them from turning against their masters with surgical implants in the brain.
They would never see the consequences of their actions and would never even care. For the life of one of their kind was considered worth a thousand of ours but they would never say that although we all knew it, deep down. No to the masses we were all brothers, all equals. Living together in perfect harmony towards a better future and this was the great lie that was repeated often.
The boys off their horses were all tall to average height. Strapping lads raised on beef and cows milk. Not like those scrawny city folk who were barely up to a cows eye and ate nothing but vegetables and bread from Europa.
They were strong lads raised for work, probably moving hay bales from an early age. Grown hardy and earnest from years of getting up early to milk cows and feed chickens.
Now seeking some kind of adventure or travel had taken to moving the cattle their parents had raised. The next generation of farmers and cattle folk that would keep the country crawling along on its belly. It had puzzled Gage to think how a snivelling brat like Miller had snuck into their group.
“His pa owns the bank, he’s the one got a lean on our farm, wanted us to bring him along to toughen him up, I don’t know what to tell him”. Jameson sighed as he looked at the poultry sum of dirt and rocks that made up Miller’s grave.
Gage breathed heavy with the bible clasped in both hands at his waist. He watched as O’Shaugnesy and Clarke put the noose around the young lug’s neck as he was seated on the back of Jameson’s horse. They tied the rope off on a branch and Gage opened the bible and started to read from it.
*Editors note, this part seems unlikely and inaccurate as all reports of the man known as Phineas Gage state that he was in fact illiterate. A common state of affairs for men of his time. The ability to read and write was not something commonly attained by workmen of his station and reserved mostly for the elites of the city. The aliens of which used a completely alien alphabet no human was allowed to learn.
He read a passage about justice and fairness and carrying a sword and they all listened with an earnest wonderment. As they’d most likely never heard anything like it in their whole lives nor would they be able to read and write. Their heads dipped as if they were at a funeral. The beast just howled like a kicked dog without any decorum or respect for the words at all. Just a baying disgusting cloying and begging and pleading for life when it so easily took it from others. Something in it knew it could try to appeal to us, to the mercy it had abused it’s entire life. The trusting good nature of man that had allowed these alien forces to usurp them.
Even the concept of the good neighbour in the book he held was twisted and used to promote their agenda of tolerating the intolerable. Taking in those that would eventually destroy us. As if the book Gage held sewed the seeds of extinction for it’s own people in it’s pages. As if man were not meant to live at all but to be used and thrown away.
It continued to howl over the words. It so desperately wanted to continue living but had no idea why further than the animal need to continue to exist and propagate its dna. What could this thing do if it were allowed to live but eat and consume? Could it write a sonnet or paint a painting or create a house. Gage could do none of those things either but the potential was there, this thing could not even dream of that like a wolf could not be a pig.
It’s existence was momentary, a link of moment to moment pleasures punctuated by the pain of others. It couldn’t see other things anymore that it could conceptualise of it’s own existence. It just was. No reason to wonder why. It didn’t have the pressure put on it to act a certain way as men did, or to aspire to anything greater than being a beast. Although in the media the few specimens that were of note to be more than most of the lot were lauded and held up as an example to the mean. As if this one well behaved dog was an apt representation of the mass of rabid wolves that made up their ranks. We were supposed to ignore the murders and the rapes that had become all too common in this border towns and even in the major cities. Although funnily enough they were always one sided as for most humans it was impossible tell the Kafta women from the men. No one had ever heard of a man raping one of their women or even trying. If it had happened though it would have been all over the news and you’d have probably heard of it all the way in Europa. They’d probably be making plays about it over there, operas and poems, expressing their deep sadness and empathy for the poor monster.
“No kill” It sputtered gutterily. “Please, no kill”.
The young men looked at eachother and felt some twinge of regret and revulsion.
The sun was setting and it cast amber streaks along the sky, it was a warm afternoon with a cool quiet breeze.
The boys froze and couldn’t say anything, “Amen” Gage said as he clapped the bible shut. He slapped the horse on it’s hind quarters and it started to kick and try to take off. With a yank it didn’t move and for a moment they were all puzzled as to why it didn’t drop it’s rider and let him dangle with a crack and quick pop as they’d hoped. Ending the poor creatures suffering as quickly and as humanely as possible. The same sadly couldn’t be said for the boy O’Hare. They mentioned he lay dying with his guts hanging open in the dust as they ate and bit at him while he still lived. The screams of which they would never forget.
They’d only managed to get away because the beasts were much more interested in the cattle than they were the men. Attacking O’Hare just because he yelled at them.
At once Gage knew the problem, the vile thing was holding with his feet to the stirrups. Got them loops around his clawed toes keeping the horse in place with the strength of his legs. The will to continue existing had conjured up some monstrous feet of strength.
But as Gage got closer he saw the truth of it under lamplight. The monster had buried it toe claws into side of the horse and it was bleeding horribly but unable to move. Pinned and being slowly disembowelled by the sharp claws of the lug on top.
Gage spat with rage and took out his shotgun again and painted the tree with the innards of the beast, the barrel smoking angrily.
The thing didn’t even have the decency to die like a man, instead choosing to be cut down like a beast taking the life of an innocent animal with it. Gage was disgusted in himself in even considering involving the bible and giving the thing an actual service. It was just a savage animal and needed to be put down as one and not thought of further.
The boys were in a state of shock, especially Jameson as he undoubtledly had a connection with that horse, he probably raised it himself from a fowl. Tears formed at the tender lads cheeks and his mouth quivered with rage and sadness but lacking any real direction. A deep anguished sigh came out of his mouth and nothing more, he didn’t know what to do about it.
The lug was cut in half at the waist and swung against the tree with the force of the blast, it’s top half and it’s arms swinging loosely.
“Cut that thing down” Gage spat.
The boys gathered themselves and did as they were told, Clark and O’Shaunnesy cut it down as Jameson patted the maine of his horse which he had named ‘Molly’.
As he mourned Molly the others dropped what was rest of the lug on the ground and then they went about constructing a fire as Gage instructed. They gathered up pieces of the broken furniture and they constructed a pire to burn the body of the lug and the horse.
The boys stood around it looking sullenly into the flames for a while. Gage sat in his rocking chair waiting for the flame to die.
Something had changed in the boys but they didn’t really know what. Only that the world they came from wouldn’t have them back after this and they wouldn’t want it to.
Gage Chapter 5 ‘One Piece at a Time’
Good day vaguely humanoid masses of goodly folk who read these words.
Just taking it easy today, pushed the boat out last night on chest day and I feel great but dead, I am the swole grateful dead. But I had a pretty decent week all things considered, mainly shitty, a shitty month so far, my love life is in the toilet still banned on facebook and my ‘extended family’ is in fucking shambles but I guess things can only get better from here, I hope.
I was at my day job just feeling sorry for myself doing a job that should be the exclusive purview of seventeen year olds and feeling like I chose the wrong path. I should have listened to my uncle and done an economics degree and been some kind of wallstreet asshole blowing all my money up my nose and shit haha. Not that I’d do that, I am the ultimate solid citizen haha.
I dunno, I found myself recently having more days like that and it really bummed me out but then you have a day like yesterday and it kind of reminds you why you do what you do and reassures you that one day, things will be better and just to have faith in the mean time I guess. I’m not really religious but I think about whether there is a god and whether there is a plan for me and I really hope there is in both cases.
Anyway so I’m kinda in one of these slumps again, pretty standard for me when I finish something I’m passionate about like Gage and Diana, I just try to occupy my mind until lightning strikes again and the longer it gets the more I get worried that it won’t ever strike again.
But I’ve been reading the first witcher book recently and although there isn’t much story, it’s more like an anthology, it’s well written and I love the style, the action is frenetic and not over descriptive and for a translation from polish it’s really stylized and immersive. I was reading it for research because I wanted to do my own dark gritty almost noir fantasy in my style, something like the Kurgan from highlander meets Solomon Kane or Conan. So I thought the Witcher would be a good read to get the juices flowing on that.
BUT instead of thinking about this fantasy novel idea (which I did a bit, it’s still going on in the background) I couldn’t help thinking about 3 ring samurai again. Yeah that’s the comic I did about the fucking clown samurai named Pookie haha (Which incidentally you can still read on right here on tapastic).
Admittedly I wish I could take credit for the weirdness of the concept but someone in my comic days just came up to me and said “Diesel punk clown samurais go!” and I just went away and created an elaborate world and mythos and we turned it into a script. Then a lot of bullshit happened and when Trump got elected I had a spat with the artist who was heavily liberal and I was evolving into a trumpkin trollololmon and it just went up in smoke but at the time it was also lingering in development hell because the artist was this boomer who needed medical weed to deal with chronic pain and he couldn’t get it anymore so he couldn’t find the impetus to draw anymore, so it kind of just fell apart and it was the push I needed to dump comics for good and go into prose.
And now I’m doing prose, I couldn’t help thinking about what this would look like if I just had the freedom that afforded me and also not having an overbearing boomer telling me what the character I wrote should do/be and fucking boomerposting all over it haha.
I was kind of hesitant at first because when I sit down to write something like Diana After Dark, I’m thinking this could have mass market appeal, this could actually go over well and make money and make a name for me, it could make me. It’s not a dumb zombie book about green haired chicks and weebs with katanas that I write for the sake of irony and inside jokes with myself. Its not only fun to write a book and a character like Diana, it could really have a big impact, it can be taken seriously. But then I can’t steer away from stuff like Green Sunday and Gage and this, stuff I know, only a niche audience if anyone is going to enjoy them but after a day like yesterday I can’t help but waste my time on projects like that because they’re so fun and they remind me why I do this.
I actually enjoy this, I’m not just doing this for cash, I’m doing this for the feeling you get when you’re writing something and even though you have it all planned out as you’re writing it, you’re still not sure how it’s going to go and it’s like this intense feeling where you feel like you’re reading a book no one else has ever read and it’s unfolding in real time right before your eyes.
It’s really an indescribable feeling.
Anyway, I’ve ranted long enough and my journey to getting swole has robbed me of doing anything really productive today so I was gonna try and proofread the first chapter of the 3 ring but I might do it tomorrow and keep you hanging to the edge of your seat for it on the thursday.
I think I’ll leave it there and remember anyone who hasn’t signed up to my mailing list you missed your free copy of The one that came back and Ladies close your eyes but do not be down in the dumps because I’ll be sending it out again the first tuesday of next month, so sign up to my mailing list today to get your mits on those professionally and very expensively edited free ebooks.
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The small gun barely moved in his great mit as he fired at the bottles sitting on rotting bales of hay in the barn.
He fired until he could hear the clicking of the pin against the spent cartridge. Gage looked down range to see that all five of the bottles were untouched and only the inside of the barn had been injured in a wide dispersal.
“Damn son, if you weren’t inside the barn I reckon you would’ve missed that too” He chuckled.
He took the gun away from Gage and emptied out the spent cartridges into his hand. He stowed them in his pocket reloading the gun and then taking a look down the sights and then at Gage’s eye.
“Don’t get much depth perception from that one eye do ya boy?” He sighed and looked at the revolver and said “Other eye probably doesn’t work so good neither”. He sighed again and sucked his gum before shooting one of the bottles looking out of the corner of his eye.
The old man sucked his gums again and said “I think we can work something out.” The old man turned went over to one of the empty horse stalls and drummed his fingers on the fence. “Why don’t you get yourself some more coffee and try and get some rest. I’ll see if I can change the odds a little” He said smiling.
Gage breathed out frustrated but nodded and found his way out of the barn and slumped into the farmhouse sitting in one of the chairs. He supped cold coffee staring at nothing for what seemed like an hour maybe two. The ragged mad thoughts came screaming back as each second that dragged more of the booze sweated out of his system.
Then there was a whistling sound which didn’t come through at first over the sound of the wind outside. Something of a dust storm had kicked up and it had mostly swallowed the horizon. But then over the whooping wind he heard a cracking sound like rolling thunder. He walked out into it, his huge hand over his one good eye as he made his way back to the barn.
He entered the barn slowly, the smell of gunpowder in the air. The old man stood looking at a giant hole in the barn the whistling wind was coming through. He turned as he heard Gage shut the barn door.
“I guess you weren’t born in a barn afterall.” He chuckled. He paused and thought a minute before putting his hands on his hips and pushing his bottom lip out. “I got something for ya” He said smiling.
He turned and nodded at a bale with a lambskin tarp over it, atop the tarp sat a sawn off shotgun. Gage went over to it and picked it up.
“Justice herself couldn’t miss with that thing, or god be my witness” The old man laughed.
Gage took it in his large hand, it was a good weight. The old man noticed him shaking it for the weight and said “Even if you miss you could just hit’em with it”.
Then he noticed the etchings along the barrel and how abrubtly they stopped at the choke with crude tools marks. The stock had been roughly sawn away and sanded down, it was the same gun that was hanging on the wall of the storm cellar.
Gage looked down at it and breathed heavily and said “Why?”
“Why what?”
“I aint done nothing for for you”
“Not yet, could be you’re the one we’ve been waiting for and we didn’t even know we’d been waiting.” The old man smiled and said “Come on try it out, it might just back up and blow your damn hand off, ruin that pretty face a’yours”. He laughed.
It was a couple of months before Gage was ready to move on. His head clear, his mind focused, his body taught and strong like a drum like it was those years ago when he swung iron on the rail road. Doubts cleared from his mind he rode west on a horse the Carpenter provided.
What he intended to do he wasn’t quite sure of yet. Like some kind of apostle or prophet he was sure it would occur to him as if it would ride out of the clouds to greet him.
It was getting dark, and when it gets dark in the desert it gets cold. He could stand the cold but something on the horizon caught his eye. He’d been riding all day and the only place for miles was this odd two story ramshackle what looked like a coach house. But it turned out to be some kind of brothel built out in the middle of nowhere. Maybe it was put there by a mining company for the workers or could have been a ways out from an actual town put out of sight from the decent folk.
Either way Gage wasn’t gonna pass it by.
He was sure the place would be occupied with all sorts of riff raff being so far out here. He wasn’t ready to be picked up by some Cyclon agent who might find a handcannon on him. Things could turn really bad really quick.
So he took the gun the old man had given him, oiled it and wrapped it in a canvas sack and buried under a tree about a half a mile out from the whorehouse. So if it turned bad he could just ride out and get it. Marking the tree with a knife so it wouldn’t get lost in all this nothingness.
He rode in slow as the sun came down over the ridge, laying down behind the mountain range. The sound of crickets and birds whipping up into a frenzy as he hitched his horse.
His heavy footfalls on the rickety porch stopping the tinny piano music inside for a moment before he entered. He ducked under the door frame and pushed the saloon doors open and the smell of the place hit him first. It smelled like filth, like it covered the walls. Unwashed woman wafting around never seeing water between countless uncaring drunken customers. Rat faced sneering men that smelled like blood.
The whorehouse itself was a simple wooden construction with a wide fore area with a piano on the right surrounded by tables and chairs. Where various scraggly ner-do-wells sat drinking with their shoulders around their ears.
“Looking for some company de-ar god” A woman’s voice said as he turned his face to look at her. She was old by any standard must have been late forties but gussied up to look half that with a face painted white like an eggshell. Her rotund belly bursting the seems of an off white colour corset. Her speckled and spotty sunburnt breasts popped up like flabby rising dough propping up her chin.
“No” He answered.
He stepped over a slightly raised mantle that felt as if it were a stage and made his way towards the bar.
Above the smell the place seemed like a good start. The tubeloscope played in the background reporting on some kind of explosion that happened near the capital. Some terrorist group claiming responsibility for it. The news woman, some kind of alien half breed of her own was walking around asking people leading questions. Like ‘what kind of monsters could have done this?’ The dirty people sitting and drinking didn’t look shocked. In fact some were smiling, some even laughed or were in silent support of the action.
He had heard on the tubeloscope that there was a rebellion somewhere. Some band of revolutionairies carrying out bombings and raids on convoys of Cyclon good. They were branded terrorists and scorned as the worst of the worst to be as despised as those that had killed and subjugated alien kind in the past. Those evil men who had tried to wipe them out as they would say ‘just for being different’.
There seemed to be an air of disdain for the current system and a general attitude of undirected animosity to it.
This gave Gage some hope that he might in the right place and he sat down at the bar and tapped the bar tender on the shoulder.
The bar tender swung around aggrieved at being disturbed from whatever it was he was doing behind the bar. But he stopped before saying something he’d regret seeing Gage’s face. A dirty faced young girl stood up and wiped her mouth. Gage looked at the girl who couldn’t have been older than fourteen barefoot and almost naked and then glared at the bartender.
“Wha dya want?” The fat sweaty man asked.
Gage said nothing, he looked above the bar and saw a large copy of the bible sitting on a shelf.
The bartender turned to look at it and scoffed, “Oh yeah that’s for the whores to piss on”.
He couldn’t rightly understand it at that point but for some reason that angered him greatly. He grabbed the bartender by his sweaty dirty shirt and pulled him close to his face. Not sure if he could even think of the words that would surmise his feelings of pure hatred towards the repulsive character.
But even if he had thought of something he was stopped in his tracks by a clicking noise. The feeble prodding of the barrel of a six shooter behind his good ear.
“Now I’d drop him if you don’t want to get even uglier.”
Gage turned to see the old whore who spoke to him when he enterned. He dropped the bar tender hard against the bar, knocking about a half a dozen bottles of liquor on the floor.
The women held the gun on him with her two hands as she looked around the bar at the other patrons and smiled nervously. “Get him” She squealed.
Before he could do anything the entire bar descended down on him. A chair was smashed over his back and a bottle over his head and he was kicked and rolled and hit with anything they could get their hands on. The whores too beat him with rods from the fire and even the teen girl from the behind the bar was biting at his legs as she pulled his boots off.
The attack was so fast and savage and by surprise there was no way he could have stopped it. And if he had had his gun they would have no doubt taken it and used it on him. But as it stood he was dumped a quarter mile out and left to die of dehydration and his injuries.
He lay there face down in the dirt awoken by the sqwarking of a buzzard deciding whether to peck at his good eye.
It didn’t hurt, nothing hurt anymore, only his pride was injured. His boots took, his coat, his money and whatever else he had on him. He was stripped down to his undershirt and left to rot and get picked at by the coyotes and the vultures. He felt nothing but the soft tight feeling of the broken and the mending and a stiffening of his muscles.
It made more sense to him now, these weren’t the revolutionaries he was looking for, just general criminals. A putrid scum that only laughed at the misfortunes of the state powers as far as they enjoyed any such misfortunes of others. They only opposed the system as far as it got in the way of their of own, degeneracy that exceeded that of what the state itself was willing to promote.
They were common criminals and had no right to live on this earth he thought as he staggered to his feet. His one good eye almost closed up with swelling as he tried to find his way to that tree and the justice he would bring, buried at it’s feet.
He found it within an hour of searching and trudged his way back to bar in the wee hours of the morning. Following the vile scent of the inhuman garbage that had left him to the carrion to be picked apart like some bloated pig.
He pushed through the door and was greeted with a silence and dull humming and the sound of snoring. The bar looked frozen, like a den of sleeping hogs, the drunks who had taken joy in beating and robbing him the night before were passed out on the bar. The whores passed out drunk in the booths along the side.
Gage could have easily killed them all in their sleep with his bare hands. But he wanted them to know the face of the man that would send them to the devil one at a time.
Pulling up a chair near the entrance he waited for the first to stir. The bartender appeared behind the bar like some kind of vole or rat sensing danger. Poking his greasy bald head over the bar as if he were sleeping on the floor. He rubbed his eyes like a child and thought he saw Gage and grabbed a drunk at the bar and tried to rouse him.
“Hey, wake up, is that- It’s him!” He squealed like a stuck pig and the drunk reached for an iron feebly slow and was cut down by the blast of Gage’s gun. The shot; hot and hard, hitting the back of the bar, splintering it and bursting open the bottles of liquor and lighting it on fire. The liquid flame exploding and splashing on the bartender who shreaked like a washer woman. He waddled falling over the bar and jumping out of the window partially on fire.
A pistol coughed at him hitting the doorframe and then once in his arm but it wasn’t powerful enough to move him. He swung around to where the noise was and emptied a barrel of his shotgun into the stairs. Cutting the old whore from the night prior in half just under her corset. The top half of her popping out of it and rolling down the stairs while her legs remained, the gun tumbling down and breaking open.
The bar was awake now, skittering like cockroaches under the eye of the sun, stinking rats fleeing a sinking ship. They piled over eachother to get away into the desert. Which was fortunate since anyone with the balls to draw a weapon and fight had to clamber over the cowards who tried to flee to pop a shot off. A foot to the groin or a hand in their face not helping their aim any as people literally climbed over them to escape.
Gage fired his last shot into the crowd tearing a wide hole in it and leaving men and some women writhing around in their own putrid entrails.
He emptied the spent shells onto the wood floor putting the shells in his mouth as he slowly reloaded. Occasionally some dishevelled miscreant would pop out from behind a table to fire a poorly aimed shot at the furniture. Only to duck down behind it again if they didn’t just fire blindly over the top.
He slid the final shell into the gun as he felt a tapping on his back as if someone were insistently prodding him on the shoulder.
Swung around to see a dirty young lad with a whispy mustache standing with a 22 pistol smoking in his hands. Gage snapped his gun shut and picked him up by the jaw and slammed the hard wood handle of his gun into the kids face. The first blow loosening all the teeth in the front of his head, the next shattering his jaw entirely. The next knocking his nose in and the next shattering his orbital cavity. After that there wasn’t much left to break and he threw his lifeless body over the tops of the overturned tables the cowards were using for cover. He heard a womanly shriek.
He fired into the crowd of overturned tables and turned them into kindling almost instantly. As if they were made of leaves and a strong gust blew them away. Men that weren’t killed by the shot were caught by shrapnel. Men shrieked with thick table splinters gouged into their eyes and throats and hands. Any that weren’t dead and maimed ran to escape the sound of the dying men’s screams.
Gage trod over the desolation barefoot, glass and splinters sticking into his huge hard feet but he couldn’t feel any of it. He walked over their corpses stamping out those still gasping and gargling for life. He saw the young girl from before lying on her back a big piece of table sticking out of her throat and her eyes glassy staring up at the ceiling. He spat on the floor in disgust and walked over to the stairs.
Stepping over the corpse of the old whore he made his way up to the second floor, kicking her legs off the side of the stairs.
The second floor was just a balcony overlooking the bar and a series of doors leading to bedrooms for the whores to ply their trade.
Coming to the first door his heavy footfalls gave him away and a burst of two succinct revolver shots bust through the door. Cutting Gage along one of his arms but not deep enough to knock it out. He fired back splintering the door and sending a bald man flying out of his boots with a hole the size of a donkey’s head in his chest.
A blonde whore was prone behind the bed with a long schofield revolver in her clasped hands. Her arms laying across the bed. She looked at Gage filling up the doorway covered in blood the righteous hogleg hanging heavy at his side. She hesitated and threw her gun down on the bed and it slid down and hit the floor.
Gage said nothing before firing the last barrel at her. Tearing up the bed with a burst of feathers and blood as her head split in two and plastered against the backwall.
He stood for a moment as the gun smoked before putting three more shells from his pocket in his mouth. Breaking the gun open again and letting the spent cartridges hit the floor,
Another whore with raven hair and green eyes sprang at him from the adjacent room with a pair of taylors scissors and stabbed Gage in his raised arm. He grabbed a fistful of her hair with his free hand and slammed her head into the side of the door with a cracking squelching noise. Her knees buckling instantly and he tossed her body off the balcony with a crash of glass and wood.
He finished loading the gun and snapped it shut again and fired into the room she came out of. Knocking her customer right out of the window with a thunderous clap and a tinkling of glass.
He kicked the door down of the last room and fired both barrels without even looking. Making it nearly impossible to distinguish what remained in the room. Just a paste of blood and feathers and bone.
When the whore house was still he went outside lead by a pathetic mewling noise. Following the sound it lead him to the bartender face down in the dirt smoke rising off of him as he whined quietly with as he breathed in dust.
Gage put his foot on the back of his greasy bald head and pressed it into the mud until the mewling stopped and he heard a cracking snapping sound.
When it was done he sat on the porch in a rocking chair looking out on the horizon with the gun on his lap. After about an hour of sitting there and thinking about what he was gonna do. Maybe just burn the whole thing down and moving on. But he thought better of it and decided to start moving bodies.
He assembled all the corpses and the largest pieces near the entrance. Then finding a shovel in the back he started digging a big hole behind the building.
He spent an hour or two digging a mass grave a few feet deep. Without the pain in his muscles he found he could work much harder and longer and it didn’t seem to bother him. The only thing he felt by the end of it was his thirst. When he’d finished burying the bodies and the parts he went into the bar and dumped out all the liquor and took a drink of water from a nearby well. Then he collected up all the guns and ammo that were left lying on the floor. All in all he got six or seven pistols, ranging in size from tiny derringer meant for hiding up ladies skirts and long army schofields. There was a rifle in the back hidden behind some barrels of beer and a short double barrelled shotguns as well as a set of brass knuckles and a bowie knife. The quality of the guns was fairly low as the legality issue had made choosers into beggers. They couldn’t even steal anything that mightn’t not explode black powder back into their faces.
After that he started to tidy the place up. Getting rid of the broken furniture and mopping up the blood and picking up the brains and bones and other parts he missed. Throwing out all the soiled burnt and ripped bedding.
At the time he couldn’t say why he did it, it was more ritualistic. Feeling as though cleaning the place up, the necessity for it would be made clear when he’d finished. Or somehow the act itself was like cleaning up an especially filthy corner of the earth and this would signal the start of a great cleansing. A small part of a greater design taking shape and growing one piece at a time.
He felt some slight clawing regret at killing his own people because that’s not what he’d set out to do. All that dirty work that seemed pointless had given him time to reflect on it and as he thought of those twisted ugly dirty faces he knew. That the horrible truth of it was that the decay was too far along. The moral and social and cultural decay of his own people had been had been ingrained in them long ago. By a people that sort their disorder to form their own from the chaos.
They had indulged these vices and even promoted them telling people of the one life they had to lead. Encouraging them to lead it only for the selfish asquistion of the basest pleasures of drink and women and violence.
And the majority had done so. As the spiritual and moral values they had founded this country on had given way to material wealth and physical pleasure. Turning men into nothing more than greedy eating machines whose only purpose was to buy bigger mouths.
He’d initially thought he might excise the cancer of his society surgically. But now he knew that even those not associated with the system were just as vile. And where he might have used a scalpel before when what he really needed was a hammer and shovel to knock it loose and dig it out. Pull it out by the root and he’d have to pile the corpses of his own kind higher than his eye before he could save his world.
A million faces like his would have to be smashed before they’d be free, before his kind would seek their own freedom. Talking never worked, the Cyclon were the masters of talking and nothing changed when it was left to a vote. the Cyclon loved voting everything. His people needed to be shaken forcibly from their dream, they’d fight and cling to their chains before being free.
The word seemed like a joke to Gage. Looking at this place he saw what people did with their freedom. He didn’t want to free his people, not from morality, not from god. Just from the Cyclon. It was their freedom that lead them to this. Man was not meant to be free, not from himself and not from God.
The beasts were free and man was not meant to be a beast.
It was his place to find good men and lead them against those that would die to protect corruption and decay. A system that would stifle their good and promote their worst degenerate tendencies would have to taken a part piece by piece. By the most righteous men unfaltering in their tasks. Driven by a firey passion and slaked with an icy determination they would drive their thumbs into the skull of the system and leave it blind.
When it was all done to the best of his ability, cleaner and brighter and lighter. That dank smell of human vice gone he felt he could breathe. It was a clean open room now waiting to be filled with what he couldn’t say but it was a step in the right direction. The sun was coming down so Gage took up a blanket with a scotch hatched pattern and sat on the rocking chair on the porch. He sat with the blanket over him the gun in his lap underneath it and with a lamp at his side and waited.
Gage Chapter 3 ‘Colony’
Ok ok, in pretty good spirits today, although in the good spirits where I can’t tell my head from my arse and I really don’t know what to do with myself but it’s something.
I got the first nice little chunk of Diana After Dark, might be sticking with that name after all, I dunno, more sleep needs to be on it. And I’m kind of in a tizzy over what to do now, I’ve started reading the witcher books and I was hoping to be struck by some inspiration lightning and it isn’t even raining yet.
Nevertheless I finished the first go around of a plan for the second Diana book and I was triffling with ‘Delta Gamma Di’ or ‘Delta Gamma Diana’ because it’s all about her going through college and joining a sorority to track down a killer that’s using their front lawn as his own personal stage for displaying some cut on girls on. But now I might go with ‘Dearly beloved Diana’ or something like that.
As I said more sleep is needed on top of that, but how much sleep can a man have when there is work to be done.
Work time which I spent playing kingdom come deliverance as it teases me with a penultimate chapter only to throw a fetch quest at me, a series of boring fetch quests right before a big battle. I mean wtf.
I do love the game though, this just feels like padding, which tbf is understandable because it’s followed by two huge battles in a row and then a stealth sequence which had a mandatory failed state which pissed me off. I made a stealth character and then they give you a stealth sequence where your failure is unavoidable. Just fu game haha.
Nah but it’s all good, it’s still an awesome game, I love it and shall review it but I fear my passion won’t be matched by my hateful reviews, I tend not to want to analyse things I like and feel incapable of not analysing things I hate haha.
So I’ve got a lot to be getting on with, first and foremost I need to start putting a package to try and sell Diana to a literary agent and I need to stop dreaming about writing and get back to actually doing it. I think I might just go back to that lovecraft piece I dropped just to keep sharp until I get hit good and hard by a lightning bolt.
That’s about all.
*For the purposes of this record and continuity a transcript from Dram Johanessen (a close personal friend of Gage in his early life) original diary has been added to the text as a first hand account of events and Fords account has been removed as it was noted to be riddled with contradictions, over-exageration and outright fabrications.
Oh god’s it’s horrible, I saw it happen but I couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe she’d actually do it. As soon as that tall man walked away and got into his carriage I went to his side sure he was dead, his face, oh god his face. I prayed he was dead, his suffering could no doubt be immense.
But by god he lived, his breath in his chest. His heart beating like a steam engine’s hitting the tracks, his will to live reaching up out of hades to grab at life jealously. With the use of Madame Souchang’s carriage we got him into town as quickly as we could. He reacted to no stimuli the entire hours journey and I was sure he couldn’t hold on much longer.
But there was that steady breathing through the hole in his face. There was very little blood, the hole it seemed was quarterized at the moment of penetration. But who was to tell the extent of the damage it had done to the vital organ inside. He’ll certainly never see again out of his left eye, as far as I can tell it’s completely destroyed, oh god. My stomached kicked everytime I looked under the sheet we put over him.
Madame Souchang was inconsolable, she acted almost like it was her brother that ordered it. She claimed no responsibility and was reticent to speak at all about what transpired. Fearing my own head I pressed no further and thanked her for the use of her for the gracious use of her personal motor carriage.
We got into the town of Porterville proper. Which was at the time was simply two rows of wooden victorian style building facing eachother with a well trod dirt road inbetween them.
The sawbones of the town had a practice next to a large furniture store and a grocery on the otherside. It had big protruding castle like struts with what I could only assume were weathervains attached to them. Which to me reminded of something of those books written by Shelley of the monstrous man that came back to life through arcane scientific practice.
Me and a few other of the men took him down from the motor carriage as easy as we could. The large man we had come to call friend who was once as strong and tall as an oak was layed low and meak and lifeless as we carried him through the thin wooden door of the doctors practice.
The inside of the doctors smelled stale, the wooden floor was stained with splotches of god knows what. The doctor was sat with his back to the door at a small writing desk, we set Gage down on a large wooden inspection table of which he barely fit on with his legs dangling off the edge.
The nurse was hanging off the edge of the desk smiling at us as we came in.
The doctor took one look at him as we took the sheet off and his eyes got very narrow and curious his nurse let out a silent scream holding her mouth open. Covering it with her hands screaming quietly with her eyes and then rushing out of the room bounding clumsily into a cabinet stocked with oddly shaped bottles of medicine. Almost knocking it over as she evacuated the room with a loud sound of stair foot falls and doors slamming.
The doctor was a short squat man with bared hairy fore arms under a grey shirt with rolled up sleeves, all of the hair of which was white and grey. A stern appearance with a pair of circular glasses placed at a peak of a receding hairline. He looked confused and angry at first and said something like; “What you bringing that here for? The morticians the street over! Get!”
After we’d assured him the man was still alive (which took some doing) he told us to lift him up on the table as if to humor us. He must have thought we were mad or stupid and if I were him I wouldn’t believe it either for at the time it looked like a train had run over his head or a horse had stomped it in.
He took out his instruments with a sigh and an aggrieved air of wasted time and started to poke and prod at him and then was seemingly struck by a curious itch. He reached back to get his stethoscope which he was about to warm but then thought better of it and placed it on the man’s chest after ripping his shirt. He took it away and his face turned as white as a sheet and he mumbled something the exact line from Shelley’s story, or so as my memory recreates it.
“He’s alive!”
After he’d got over the initial shock of it he started to lick his lips pointing and motioning hurriedly at a drawer one of the men was next to. A young man by the name of Gotfried.
“Get a bottle!” He instructed.
The young lad reached inside and pulled out a bottle of Kentucky bourbon and brought it over. The doctor wrenched it out of his hands like it was the last drop of water on earth and took a long drink and then slammed it down on the table. After he’d sighed and belched a few times he wiped his brow and went about collecting together knives various saws and articles I couldn’t quite identify as a layman. And he yelled for his nurse who was still in the back vomiting.
Eventually she came out and took one look at his face again and rushed back upstairs.
I looked at all the knives and saws that he collected in a metal dish. He coughed and then looked around for something before letting out an aggrieved sigh and bathing the instruments in a splash of his bourbon.
I asked him what they were for and he said almost with an air of incredulity “Surgery, he needs surgery.”
I was confused, not a man of great learning especially not of the medical variety so I asked again, “surgery for what?” thinking he didn’t need to lose more of himself and then it struck me as he said it.
“Goddamit can’t you see the thing sticking out of his damn head?”
Oh god his head was such a mess it didn’t even cross my mind that the rivet would still be lodged in his skull. It was shot right up under his chin and the spike of it was coming right out of the top of his head through his left side and out the top right out of the front like a horn.
“Oh god” I said.
The surgery took hours, but it felt like days, we sat in the doctors while Gage was worked on without anaesthetic in the surgery in the back room.
We didn’t see any of it but we could hear it, the sawing and the smell of hot bone. The shock of it sent some of the men outside and some who were lodged in town decided to head back and rest leaving just me and Gotfried.
It was a week before he opened his eye again and I would swear in front of a jury it was not the same man. It was like someone had plucked our Phineas Gage and replaced him with another man entirely. He’d been sleeping, fed only liquid solutions administered to him by the nurse. His face mercifully bandaged. Unmercifully the doctor was unable to remove the rod itself. Fear further damage remove the thing might cause. And the black metal horn tip could be spied sticking out of the bandage.
Besides all that there was something about him that was just not right. The way he spoke, the way he looked at me. I’d never known of him to have a temper or a violent streak but he brought one back with him, from wherever he’d been. He snapped at anyone and everyone and I feared that if he were not unable to move he might do injury to himself and others.
I was almost hesitant to wire his wife in new Hampshire. Would it have been kinder to tell her her husband was dead than introduce her to this misshapen shadow of the man she loved. I wondered about their children, without the money he sent how would she care for them?
The doctor said the changes in mood were the result of his injuries, his brain was damaged. Specifically something about his nerves were severed he’s lost almost all sensation in his body. He can’t feel heat or cold or pain or even touch. The affects to his mood he did not further elaborate on. But it’s as if all his other non-tactile senses are heightened and his mental state is not comparable to the man we all knew.
His wife Catherine came up from new Hampshire today although I had told her to leave their children with their grandparents. The shock of seeing their father mangled like that would have been too much for them. But when she arrived Gage wouldn’t see her. He outright refused. I thought about what she would think about his face but not just that. The room he occupied had been fitted with a tubescope to keep him occupied during his long recovery but he’d smashed it almost as soon as it was installed. I’d noticed also all the newspapers I’d brought him he’d shredded. And it seemed like any knowledge of the outside world enraged him enough to put him in fits of unadulterated anger.
I put Catharine back on a train this morning, she’s a lovely woman, delicate in features and manner. It is truly saddening to see her go without meeting her goal of seeing her husband, but I honestly didn’t know what to tell her. All I could do was assure her that he would be well enough to work soon and we both hoped that once routine took hold he would return to the old Phineas Gage we once knew.
After nearly two whole months of convalescence the doctor says Phineas should be well enough to continue his life and more imporantly his work. The doctor even made up for him a remarkable prosthesis to cover his scars so as not to alarm the general public. It was a piece of a light wood and some waxen substance painted and moulded to resemble a part of a mans face. He made it from a picture of Phineas we had supplied to as closely resemble his face as possible. Although minor changes had to be made, he was never a spectacle wearer but now a lensless pair was used as a frame to hook the prosthetic on so that the arms of the glasses would hook around his ears to hold it in place. To cover the horn he was instructed to wear a wide brimmed hat at all times.
The rest of the scars and missing hair could be easily covered in the same manner. It looked a lot better than I expected and from a distance you could be mistaken for thinking it was the man. But up close it gave the illusion up as the one unblinking staring glassy eye seemed to follow you around the room.
I felt for the man I truly did. It must have been even more of a crushing blow that his injuries and the time spent off work had resulted in a demotion and I had taken over his role and would do so for the foreseeable future.
Although this did not seem to anger him as much as effects of his surgery. His lack of tactile senses made it very difficult for him to complete the simple tasks I had set him. Many times he would injure himself and others and not even notice. It became very off putting for the men and resulted in vicious conflicts in which Gage was invariably the bloody victor. It was a horrifying sight, he seemed to have reverted to some earlier state of man, a vicious throw back to an earlier age.
His physical presence was also off putting yes but he also seemed to have strange new idea of life and the ruling government which was very unsettling for the men and struck up tensions between the men and the luggers.
He seemed to have gotten it into his head that there was some grand conspiracy of some sort. And that all the news was manufactured lies concocted to keep humans from rising up or some such nonsense.
Unfortunately today at the behest of the company I had to let Phineas go.
The doctors had cautioned him about drink but he did not care. The great stress sent him deeper into the bottle and unfortunately I had no choice but to fire him.
It has burdened me with a heavy heart but he had become too much of a liability to keep on.
Nevertheless the company has awarded him a sizeable severance package and an early christmas bonus, although I fear he will only drink that.
I feel responsible for all of this I really do. When I told him he was to be let go he didn’t even seem angry, he almost seemed like he expected it.
A great melancholy grips me as I doubt we’ll ever meet again. I suspect he’ll return to his family in new hampshire and grow old and die a happier man now, I hope for his sake he does.
*Ford’s journal continues from here.
After that Gage fell off the face of the earth, he didn’t feel human, he wanted the earth to swallow him up.
He became a wanderer and a thief and a rogue, a bad gambler and a cheat only making enough money to keep his belly full of whiskey and his head dulled and stupid. Returning to his family would have been a lie for he did not feel like the same man. The old Gage was dead and in it’s place this man shambled on.
Sometime in the start of the new year He found himself in a small mining colony in Arkansas, in a town called Rush. They mined zinc up there, the stuff is used in certain alloys they use to make weapons for the capitol.
Needless to say it was a fairly rowdy town without a conventional form of law enforcement but people ususally kept to themselves. a It wasn’t in any great threat of bandits as zinc wasn’t high on their priorities to rob. And most of the miners money was pissed away on booze or women or just gambled.
Miners are off a disposition that any day there could be a cave in and kill them all, so they live each day as if they could be buried under rock the next.
Something Gage seemed to admire, moreover it made it easy to blend in with the revellers who on a good day couldn’t see further than their own feet. Not enough to notice a stranger with an oddly mask like face and a horn on his head.
Although on this night they were especially jovial as a recent election had taken place. A new president had been appointed, A man named Zachary Taylor, a hero of the Spanish American war. It was amusing to them as he had been somewhat of a colourful character before his presidency. Not only that but he’d riden a rising wave of anti-alien sentiment and people were sure that this would mean things would improve for their kind. To them he was the warrior messiah they had hoped to pull them out of their perdition. Although all alien media at the time had done their best to assure humans that things were better than ever for them and they were exceedingly priviledged. There had been a growing resentment formenting in the humans. As although they could fill their bellies for the most part and they were kept distracted with sportsball and a dull harmonic suggestion given off through their tubescopes. They had on an instinctual level felt control of their destinies slipping out of their hands. Sadly they were right but completely unable to understand how right they actually were. And not being smart enough or awake enough as a group to realise this it fell to petty concerns about their jobs. Replacing humans with luggers or with the coming of the industrial revolution high tech machines who would work for less. Bringing the prices down of all goods but destroying the class of people that could buy them. But it was to mask the feeling that they were no longer at home in their own world. So this election had given them hope for some kind of change and reversal of fortune for them and theirs.
The alien media had cemented this notion in them by elevating Taylor up to the level of a mustache twirling villain. A speciesist who would round up aliens and un-normals and send them to die in quarries. Bringing up the history of their supposed persecution Cyclon had underdone from the humans of the past who were to them barbaric and cruel. But this resentment the media had for him and their attempt silence him made the public clamber for him all the more to know what they were not meant to know.
But Gage could not share their optimism and joviality as to them this was a sign that the system was not corrupt. For how so could it not be a democracy if this man who the system hated could be elected to lead it? Sure that proved to them that the system was indeed impartial and this man could free them of corruption.
Gage who could see and was far more cynical and could understand. This was exactly the kind of move the system would make to assuage the fears of corruption in the populace. That this entire conflict was manufactured by the system itself. The previous eleven presidents They’d had were at least partially or ambiguously human. And each time promised the humans whatever they wanted and when their vote was assured carried on whatever policy the president before him had carried out in an unbroken chain of control.
How could there ever be a true democracy when the freedom of choice was between two alien puppets. The freedom to choose being an illusion created for this very feeling the miners were feeling now, of hope and change and a brighter future. And then within the next couple of years they’d be cursing this new president and blaming him for all the problems the system created. And then before anyone could notice they’d swap him out for someone else and the whole thing would start over again.
One thing that was key to the Cyclon agenda was that humans had a short memory and could be conditioned to forget the past. Dooming them to repeat it, allowing them to be kept in an ideological stasis. Never moving forward and always being just on the cusp of acquiring everything they wanted but never fully being able to realise or bring it into reality.
This election was different only in that it was a false triumph. A move calculated by the Cyclon to make the humans think they had beaten the system entirely by simply engaging in it. Thus deflating the rising tensions between human and aliens by making the radical human element think they’d won. At which point the majority of the useful idiots in that movement would think the fight was over and stop entirely. Leaving the more radical elements without a force behind them which meant they could be disposed of without causing too much of a fuss. The radical voices asking for changed would be exposed and defeated by their own victory. The normal people would happily put their heads back in the sand safe in the knowledge that the future for their children would be sunshine and roses from then on. Purely for their signing their name on a piece of paper.
Gage knew better than that, he knew as all men instinctually knew but had been bred to forget. That no change worth having comes without blood, torrents of blood, rivers of blood. Human and alien alike, mountains of corpses that a king would set his throne atop and then and only then would his people truly be free. Only when the system was entirely torn down and burnt to ashes and every alien and human traitor lay dead would there be hope for a brighter tomorrow. And it was this reluctance to accept this price that found Gage living like Jonah but instead of being in the belly of whale he was trapped at the bottom of a bottle.
He could not hope to see his wife and children again because he was not the same man they knew. And he would not burden them with this new terrible knowledge he had. He would forever cloister himself away in the cave of his consciousness with whatever booze he could get his hands on. For fear of what his realisations could bring about for the world and for himself and his family.
By that time booze had become his only comfort, without it he feared he might go mad. Although another man might blurt out what he had come to realise about the world he lived in, he did not. But was secure in the idea that even if he did, it would be considered the raving conspiracies of a mad drunk with a pickled brain.
Later that night he found himself in a card game with a number of these ruddy faced miners who were or at least reaching the same level of drunkiness as Gage himself. Gage was cheating, badly, but everyone at the table was too drunk and happy to notice or care.
All but one man who silently seethed under a firm cowboy hat that looked new and unused which covered most of his face. He was an odd little man with a slightly tanned aspect but with very deep blue eyes that seemed to behold everything with the most profound disdain and curiosity. Through clasped hands he rested his rounded unstubbled chin.
His manner of dress was strangely costume in it’s appearance. Resembling what a cowboy of the previous age might look like in one of the serial fictions they had in new york that cast cow chasers as these romantic figures. Killing villains and romancing farm girls in between eating lots of beans by the campfire. He wore a long black duster a white shirt with an indio looking pattern and a brown waistcoat below it with a necktie with a steerhead clasp. With his hat pulled down he smoked long black cigarillo’s that must have been imported. Nobody paid him any attention least of all Gage who was a long ways into a raging drunk almost falling over himself to spend his ill gotten winnings on more whiskey.
The man with the piercing blue eyes in the unusually tanned face that made him look like a spaniard eyed Gage vociferously. He stubbed his cigarillo out to chew a wooden toothpick in its place. Never once taking his cruel cold steely gaze off Gage who laughed and cracked up with the other drunkards happy for a fleeting moment in their meaningless existence.
After the man had lost a great deal which didn’t seem to bother him all that much. He got up from his chair and bid everyone at the table goodnight with a tip of his rigid cowboy hat before clasping his hands behind his back in an unnatural gesture and clomping his way out of the saloon.
The room went silent for a moment as they watched him go and then burst into uproarious laughter as they assumed he was out of ear shot on the otherside of the saloon door. Which to anyone but a drunken man made perfect sense.
Gage Chapter One: Tupelo
And here it is, the insanity that is a steampunk western sci-fi alternative history about a dude that gets a railway spike lodged in his brain. It’s still rough as all fuck, I’ve been struggling recently with writing and my day job, I’ve just been exhausted or too scattered to do anything more productive than pick my nose and eat potatoes. So I’ve sort of just been muddling along trying to get the right amount of sleep and the right amount of food to function and sustain this odd balance of my work and personal life where I’m perpetually tired from work but also broke because I spent all my money already on airfare and a rented apartment in barbados for a week.
But I mean how can I complain, things are looking up for me in a lot of ways, got stuff to look forward to and people that love me or at the very least don’t want me dead. That’s something.
So I’m really struggling to get back into the groove of things and I probably won’t get fully back on track until sometime in January when I get back from my third trip there, must be something in the water haha. Until then don’t expect to hear too much from me because I’ll be working or generally trying not to swallow my own tongue while I play elite dangerous.
I put up the full chapter which is not something I usually do but honestly, right now I’m just like fuck inkitt, inkitt is dogshit haha. It looked nicer and there was the chance it might publish one of my books but all it puts out is slocky romance or porn books for middle age women to get moist over or even worse those fucking horrible tween novels that won’t go away written by the middle aged women who fap to the porn books haha. So now they’ve changed their review policy I just don’t really see a need to go back, I dunno, I might go back later but for now why not just keep it in house and I can shill for reviews later.
The following are scraps of news articles and the personal diary of one Alexander Ford a known associate and collaborator with the man known previously before the great war as Phineas Gage.
I remember I was working as a mopboy at the time in McClusky’s bar. It was in the middle of a nowhere. A border town called Tupelo. This was when I first met the man who would later be recorded in the news apparatus as a terrorist and a madman.
It was a fairly average late afternoon in a relatively sleepy little town all things considered. We’d heard talk of revolts and crime and violence from the rebels and real action and adventure in these parts. Mostly stories spun from wonder of the unknown. But it was rarely reported anywhere but the radial transmissions and the tubescopes placed throughout the town. But most of the time they were just playing music or displaying some kind of sports activity, or some event in the capitals. Usually award ceremonies where Cyclon dignitaries gave other Cyclon dignitaries awards for peace or love or some such thing.
It was before I was born that they actually came, supposedly they’d been amongst us for a long time moving around not having a home to call their own. According to the tubescope we weren’t very nice to them, hating and fearing them just because they were different so they say. And then there was a time when we, being humans, decided we wanted to kill them all. The history books didn’t really say why, but it was reckoned that we were just ruled by evil men.
Well after that people felt so sorry for them, using our technology and theirs we built them a home in the stars. My people felt so guilty we took them in with open arms and if we didn’t we wouldn’t even have radials or tubescopes or the sportsballs we have and we’ve lived in peace ever since then. Or so I had come to believe in my young mind at the time.
I’d never once questioned the way the world was, my world was what the tubescope told me it was. With it’s bright coloured and smiling faces and awards and sportsballs and dreams of a better tomorrow, love and peace. I couldn’t even conjure the words in my head to even contemplate the lingering feeling of unease until that day.
It was unusually hot and I remember it vividly as I write it now, despite it being almost twenty years ago. As I sit on my bunk writing this now going on possibly the last mission I will ever fly about to drop the bombs that’ll end this damn war and free my people forever. I still remember that feeling in my chest when he told his story and the look in his eye as he spoke, the look he gave me.
Nothing much had happened that day, just the usual morning drinkers drowning their various sorrows. There were some miners who were working up on a quarry on the ridge mining gold for shielding shuttles and circuitry. McClusky the barman was scratching his bald head and craning his neck to watch the recaps from the latest sportsball game. I remember there was a lot of controversy recently as the sportsball league had lost it’s last human player. An act was passed to allow Kaftas to play after that it was all downhill, the aliens being physically superior in everyway the human players just couldn’t compete with that and they became tokens in their own game, there only for the fans.
But eventually they were gotten rid of entirely and after some slight protest from the fans it went on as usual. Any hold outs were ususally shut up by someone calling them speciesest or a bigot and reminded about the constitution and meritocracy. That the aliens should replace the humans if they do a better job. They had no real argument against that, only that it was their game despite most of the owners of the teams being aliens themselves we clung to it with some ancestral memory of it being ours.
I was never interested in sports being a skinny lad of around fourteen. As I said it was a boring day which made the appearance of a stranger all the more memorable.
He was a stout scholarly looking gentlemen with a bowler hat and an expensive looking suit, a city man no doubt accompanied by two anthropoid non-humans cloaked in human garb. These were not the same stock as the ruling Cyclon but a mutt-like hybrid of human and alien, not quite human but not quite alien, the stock of which made up the majority of the sportsball teams now. Although some had speculated that they weren’t from this world at all. They were much larger than humans with darker thicker skin like that of a rhino or elephant but had a vaguely simian appearance equating somewhat to a human face but far less expressive and desirest of empathy or any such human emotions. And although the face was ape like it had an elongated quality akin to a dog’s snout. The aliens commonly used them as security or bodyguards and they made up a great deal of the cities new police force. As they could take orders without question and follow them through with fearful brutality and they were moreover entirely expendable. Another could be plucked out of circulation within a day as they were so easily bred and they aged faster than humans so as these hulking monsters could in fact have the same number of years as I had then. In fact it was probably preferable for them to have the minds of children, not as to say the adults were much smarter. They were definitely stronger and faster with heightened senses of smell and sight. They could tear a human apart if ordered to do so but their intelligence and resolve was somewhat lacking in respect to a humans but I imagine now that was precisely the point, making them more pliable to the mind control the Cyclon used.
In their native tongues, they were known as Kaftas but we colloquially called them ‘Luggers’ or ‘Lugs’ as they were most commonly used in these parts for manual labour. But in recent times it had become impolite or not politically correct or speciesist to use these terms.
They wore human clothes but that just furthermore outlined the inhuman nature of their aspect. Seeming almost a parody of humanity as they stood so huge and hunched. Monsters wearing the clothes of men, their faces ridged and apelike as they gaped their mouths thoughtlessly.
The man leading them was a jovial looking sort, with a fat neck and small greasy looking mustache which was pruned and neat and leapt about his face as he spoke like a tick.
I couldn’t rightly hear what he was saying but he smiled and tipped his hat as McClusky looked at his huge bodyguards and got a squirrelly look about him like he wanted to crawl under a giant mouse trap.
McClusky didn’t say much but I could see his throat swallowing and his head nodding furiously as he was listening waiting to give up his own mother. As soon as he was prompted he pointed a fat sweaty finger at a darkened table in the corner hidden as it was behind a shaft of light from the window.
The stranger smiled and tipped his hat before tossing him a gold coin McClusky fumbled and stared at intently as the strange city folk passed under the shaft of light and sat down at the table in the corner.
The bar was small with few hiding spots, so how I’d failed to notice the other stranger was just due to my own uncurious nature at the time or quite simply because at that time the stranger did not want to be noticed.
The inside was dark as a rule, as most of the people in the bar were just trying to get out of the sun or sleeping off the drunk they had from the night before. Or just old timers with no better place to be.
But I remember even Mr Rickers the pianist hit a bum note as he saw the new faces, he sat on his stool at the piano tucked under the stairs. Madame Gertrude the old whore that worked upstairs stood in the middle of the stairs balancing on the banister watching them go with a wrinkled suspicious gaze and then shot me a school teacher sneer as she noticed me watching her. Mary Sue, I suppose she was a waitress although Madame Gertrude wanted to train her up as a whore but from what I heard she wasn’t much good at it stood open mouth gawping holding up a tray of nothing.
The human of the group sat down at the table in the corner with a smile in the back of his head, taking off his bowler hat and placing it on the table. Without saying a word he took out an ornate pipe and lit it taking big bellowing puffs from it as his non-human compatriots stood off to his side looking out the slats in the window standing as if they were children waiting for their mothers to be done browsing in a hat shop.
He cleared his throat and I edged a little closer to hear what he was saying.
“Is your name Phineas Gage?” The strange fat man said.
Noticing only the slightest movement, so slight it could have been imaginary, the figure he was talking to suddenly became visible. Siting still as he was in the shade, it was as if my eyes adjusted at that minute and I suddenly had that unusual face burned into my memory. To say he was grotesque would have been an exaggeration but under the hideous scar on his face was the face of a handsome man in his late twenties with a strong jaw and dark black hair cut neatly.
But his face, my god his face was a monstrous mess, as if he was half demon and how I did not notice him instantly upon his appearance has been blotted out from my memory. As how I could ever forget that face seems impossible. For if it were not the face of such as I know now, a monumental figure, I would think it the face of the devil himself.
And that’s how I felt at that moment, and a few after as I stood frozen thinking I was half in a dream as I looked upon his waxen features. Half his face looked like it had been chewed by Cerberus himself, his left eye closed, blinded and gone although he wore no patch. Which made his appearance all the more horrifying as half his face was handsome and strong and the other looked like that of a mangled corpse.
I might have pissed myself right then and there if I hadn’t just come back come back from writing my name in the dust outside.
The stranger with the horrific face looked up from his meal which consisted of a steak and some mashed potatoes and a glass of milk, with his one good eye. His jaw was locked and strong and he took up the glass of milk with one hand, his other out of sight and unmoving as if he had no use of it and he took a long gulping drink of it like it was a magic elixir and then hit the glass down hard and licked his lips of the white liquid gasping and sighing.
The fat man in the chair still smiling trying to look as casual and powerful as possible. Trying not to cross his legs and look anymore than a plucked peacock.
“I ask again sir” he said in a city accent. “Is your name Phineas Gage”
“What of it?” The stranger said. He looked at them stonily as he took the fork that rested on his plate and scooped up mouthful of mash potatoes and forced it into his misshapen mouth with his good hand. Then following it up by picking up the steak he evidently couldn’t cut with his good hand and taking animalistic bites from it. The fact it was larvae steak and not beef as cows had gone instinct from over farming a decade prior made it an especially grotesque sight as the thing was essentially a giant maggot. He ripped at it and it burst with a vile grey green liquid dripping down his chin. He wiped it away with the sleeve of his good hand while his other arm was rigid and seemingly useless.
I wondered if he hadn’t been in some kind train accident or mine collapse which had left his body mangled. I let my eyes adjust and get a better look at him and at first he had seemed of an average size as I compared him to the gargantuan monstrous nature of the Lugs accompanying the relatively dimunuitive stranger. But now maybe just from my memory, he seemed too a giant of a man, with broad mountainous shoulders and thick long arms like a gorilla with hands that were calloused and looked as if they’d worked everyday from birth. Hard back breaking soul crushing work, from tit to shovel to pickaxe to grave. He wore a thick brown woollen coat and a dirty dusty white shirt underneath.
“There a bounty on my head?” The man I now know as Gage said in an uncaring way as he continued to eat in this strange savage way not looking at these city folk.
“Quite a sizeable one” The man tutted. He crossed his legs finally as he was accustomed moving onto the next stage of his persona. “But I’m not a bounty hunter Mr Gage, I am a medical doctor of a new field entirely, a psychiatrist sent from the city, I’m not here to hurt you, I’d just like to study you.” He said it deflating, as if it was a magic tune everyone was supposed to dance to. “Doctor Herbert Westwood at your service” He said reaching out a pudgy hand only to hold it there for a few awkward moments. Getting heavier with every second to eventually drop it with a hurt twitching of his little neat mustache.
Gage snorted and spat out a piece of grubby sinew and continued to eat.
“I’ve heard about your case and I’ve been given permission to take you in under my care, in return all your past crimes will be forgiven.”
“Crimes, what would they be?”
Gage twisted his hideous face and looked up with his one good sharp eye and said “And what if I tell you to take your alien mutts outside and fuck eachother?” He spat, his voice slaked in a cool simmering rage as he chewed.
“Well then I’d have no choice but to…” His voice trailed off as he clicked his fingers and the misshapen creatures poorly cloaked in human clothes lumbered forward like animals. Such a stark viciousness emitting an ape like cry to battle bulging through their clothes with grotesque muscles and sharp canine teeth bared, their backs raised in a threatening gesture like a dog or a wolf.
The whole bar froze instinctually like rabbits hearing the roar of a lion. The women let out tiny squeaks of fear their bodies locked tight and their eyes unshakeably focused on these creaures suddenly shedding their human façade and revealing themselves as the monsters they undoubtedly were. I too froze unable to look away from some far flung cave man instinct passed down, staring and waiting.
I was just a boy and I knew if it was inclined, these beasts could devour me and everyone here if allowed to do so.
“Ah ah” The man tutted. The beasts heeled breathing deeply and heavily their huge grotesque frames rising and falling as they seethed with a vicious vulgarity. A vile steam coming out of their nostrils.
“We kill dreg nuh?” One of the beasts asked without turning his dog like head.
“No, they want him alive.” The man straightened his mustache, his eyes making two sharp points on his round face and he said. “They’ll want to make an example of him.”
Gage continued eating and didn’t even look at the man anymore. He hadn’t moved a muscle since it all started except to eat. He didn’t even look at the Luggers, like they weren’t there.
“I’ll give you one last chance to come peacefully, it won’t end well for you any other way.” The man was sincere now, but a condescending sincerity that got a piercing icey look from Gage with his one good eye.
The man knew exactly what that meant and he slowly stood putting his hat back on his head, his pipe still in his mouth.
He sighed and said “You’re a sick man Mr Gage, I can help you.” He looked at Gage but his face hadn’t changed, he sighed again and said “Very well Mr. Gage, have it your way. Luntz, Kurbt schnell! The fat man clicked his fingers again and stepped back as the fiends fell on all fours and circled left and right from Gage’s table in what little space they had. Seemingly weaving or attempting to strike from different angles
The entire bar was still frozen, unable to look away as the creatures surveyed their prey. Gage looked up with his one good eye and followed them as they sized him up. Their clawed feet on all fours making a sharp clacking scratching sound on the wooden floor. The first creature sniffed and made a growling sound in his throat and said “This one not so-“ The things head suddenly exploded with a cacophonous booming noise that sounded like god clearing his throat. The shards of it’s brain and bone matter pulping against the base of the stairs spattering slightly on the Madame’s slippers, although she managed to stifle a scream. The second reacting instantly throwing the table aside and pouncing on Gage snapping at the air. It’s powerful jaws trying to bite at his face but the thing was held there by Gage’s good arm as the thing slobbered all over him. Then a another booming cracking noise shook the entire place. I could hear the glass on the bar shake and could almost feel my bones shudder at the terrible noise and the sight of the things back erupt in bone and innard debris all over the tossed table with the remnants of Gage’s dinner on the floor.
I managed to keep my breakfast down, although the smell alone was hard to bear. I had thought when they came in it was strong, but now, in their current state they smelled even worse.
Gage finally stood and I could hardly believe my eyes, he must have been seven or eight feet tall as I remember it now. It could be just that I was so small but thinking back he was a freakishly large man with hands the size of a horses head. It could also have been that he picked a table that was in the corner beside the stairs where the roof was a little lower. But at the time I was lacking the education the rebellion had given me, otherwise the sight of him would have conjured images of Zeus and Atlas towering over man.
There was a muted hissing wimpering noise and I could see that the second creature was still alive spilling it’s innards on the dirty wooden floor I had yet to sweep.
Gage towered over it now, tucking something under his good arm he reached down grabbing with both hands the top and bottom of the lugs jaws and with a quick powerful jarring motion snapped them apart. I remember the women in the bar letting out another little squeaking noise as he put the other creature out of it’s misery, the sound of it’s whimpering hissing ending almost instantaneously.
That was the point that my breakfast made a return journey on the bar floor and down the side of the counter, ham and eggs.
Then the sound of small pieces of metal hitting the wooden floor and rolling, rolling through the blood and brain and bile.
The fat man nervously loaded small bullets into a travelling revolver his pipe nervously bobbing in his mouth as he bit down on it. His fat swollen fingers dropping the occasional bullet as he frantically tried to load the gun a bullet at a time. His face red and hot and wet.
Gage rose again to his full height and the man tried to smile cockily relying on the small gun in his hand, a streak of doubt crossing his nerve struck mind, would that gun even kill such a man or just make him angrier.
Gage took the thing he had tucked under his arm back into his left hand and let it hang by his side and I could see it clearly as a big custom hog leg made for his giant mits. It was shocking to me having only at that time seen guns in picture as they had been banned for civilian use.
*note to the reader – a Hog leg in the old era was what was used to refer to a fire arm that was sawed off at both ends and fired a sort of shot dispersal projectile which proved very effective as a close range weapon.
Westwood saw the gun hanging at his side and his mustache twitched into something resembling a nervous smile.
“A sawn off shotgun” He smirked. “I do believe you’re out of rounds my goodfriend.” A certain air of shakey confidence was returning now as his mustache bounced off his fat cheeks and his fat fingers danced and drummed happily on the pearl handle of the small revolver in his hand. “Now why don’t we just come along quietly-“
“Count again” Gage said as he raised the gun and pointed the lead chucker in Westwood’s general direction at which point he and I and McClusky all could see quite clearly it in fact had three barrels.
*Note to the reader weapons such as the shotgun commonly only had two barrels although some had three or even four but were for specialised use.
“Three?” Westwood’s smile fell off his face like dung from a donkey’s ass and he went white and waxy losing all tension, allowing his pipe to fall from his wet lips and onto the dirty floor.
Gage’s face stayed hard and evil and gestured with the huge gun and in an instant Westwood had dropped his gun as if it was hot coal or a venomous snake.
Gage walked slowly back to his seat which lay on its side keeping the gun partially raised although he didn’t have to. Westwood knew as well as anyone a man like him used a gun only to spare his bare hands.
He lifted the table and chair back on it’s legs and dusted the seat of his chair off and sat placing the gun in his lap and sat silently waiting.
Westwood stood silently, forgetting to breath in intervals, holding his breathing and swelling and swallowing and gasping like some snuffling pig looking at a man in a butchers apron.
Gage nodded at him and he took his seat back up and slowly Westwood did the same. Then there was a moment where an eternity of silence passed before someone spoke and of course it was Westwood.
“How did you know I was coming?”
“Didn’t.”
“But the gun, you always eat with it on your lap?”
Gage nodded slightly.
“And what if there’d been four of us, what then, what would you have done?”
“Reloaded.”
“I see” Westwood had put his white face in his hand and was shaking uncontrollably and searching for his pipe forgetting that he dropped it looking down the barrel of the gun. Coming up empty he found a the courage of the damned and sputtered “Dammit, what is it now?”
“You wanted to know.”
“Know what?”
“How I got this face”.
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Peggy Rajski is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, the founder of the groundbreaking nonprofit The Trevor Project, and the former Graduate Film School’s Producing Track at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. This uncommon combination of filmmaking acumen, advocacy, and academic rigor makes her uniquely prepared to lead SFTV.
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Prince William has been arrested in the love of American-born actress Megan Merkel, the son of the British Grand Prize Prince Charles and the younger brother of Anjana Lady Diana. Megan Merkel has announced on social media that he has entered Shaheenzada Harry’s life and both are very happy about this. It is said that Prince Harry is in the preparations to take the relationship to the next level. See how Prince William Harry fell in love. THis is pics of Prince Harry with Meghan Markle below…
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24 February 2020 / ACN Newswire
ERB Secures $1 Billion Investment from McKinley Investment; Reimagines Global Financial Markets and Investor Risk in Southeast Asia
Tallinn, Estonia, Feb 24, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - ERB has attracted a $1 Billion investment from McKINLEY Investment, LLC. USA, and will begin to expand to other markets. Starting in Singapore, ERB will target markets in Thailand and Vietnam. McKINLEY Investment, LLC. USA, not widely known to the general public, establishes business partnerships with the world's leading investment and government partners. However, the firm recently selected ERB as a major next-generation partner, and it is expected to continue expanding its base of investment for the general public.
Eom Meen, ERB Chairman
ERB signed a PDG Financial Assurance Contract for $5 Billion with McKINLEY Investment, LLC. USA in 2019. This contract created a liquidity supply platform based on the world's first PDG (Project Default Guarantee) program. Companies and investors are worried about liquidity crisis and seeking safe investment environment. While many platforms connect them, there is still a risk of "default" because investors have no information about the place to invest and remain unsure of whether they will lose investments at any time. If investments fail, the company goes bankrupt and ERB returns the investor's investment principal back by running the PDG program. With this program, innovation of the financial market has begun. Investors are prepared to invest in the spirit of "low risk, high returns," and ERB is of great help to many companies, small and medium-sized, suffering from financial shortages due recent global economic recessions.
The following are seven Q&A's interviewed with ERB Chairman Eom Meen.
Q1. ERB is said to have its headquarters in Dubai. What is your future business scope?
We have established direct branches in over 50 countries around the world since moving the ERB headquarters from Estonia to Dubai. Today, and in the future, we look forward to doing business in countries all over the world. However, we have immediate plans to concentrate efforts in Asian markets.
Q2. Why did you consider Asia to be your priority business area?
I have talked a lot, and sympathized a lot about, ERB doing business with partners from China and other Asian countries for a long time. I have the same aims as my Chinese friends and colleagues, and so it would be possible to create a synergy effect while doing business for prolonged growth and impact.
Q3. What direction do you pursue in terms of business?
What I consider first and foremost is 'trust' and, ultimately, 'win-win'. The scope of 'win-win' is not exclusively between us, but between the investor and the investment, and between the same investors. The traditional zero-sum structure is out of date. We can design structures that can be win-win with better technologies and creative designs, and we no longer have to take others' things and put them in our pockets. We lead both the investor and the investment to the way of profit through the PDG program, and there is no need to play the zero-sum game where investors take or are taken away. A safe place to invest is not based on speculation, probability game or gambling luck, but a real investment to make a profit.
Q4. What are the processes and features of PDG program?
Let me think from the point of view of the investor and the project organizer. The investor's investment is provided to the project organizer's project funds through ERB. If a business is successful, as everyone knows, everyone is happy to make money. But what if it fails? The project organizer tries to avoid the responsibility and the investor loses valuable money.
With ERB, it will never happen. When a project fails, we run ERB's PDG program and return the investment principal back to the investor. We can give them a chance to try again by reviewing the progress and growth of the project.
Q5. If ERB runs the PDG program, may it lose money?
In fragments, it may seem so. However, it is not so. Our spending is an investment to attract new investors. Some investors may question whether they can get their investment back. If the investment goes to the investors through the PDG program, doubt will turn to conviction and develop into trust with ERB. I know the power of trust well. The investment platform trusted by the investor will be of absolute success. One or two small investors lead to large investors, and with large investors come global funds and the funds of government agencies seeking safe places to invest. As investments gather more and give greater guarantees, we will work to create a new investment ecosystem so investors cannot think of investment outside of ERB.
Q6. How was PDG funded?
McKINLEY Investment LLC, USA saw our platform, signed a PDG Financial Assurance Contract to increase the first $5 Billion to the final $20 Billion, deposited cash $5 Billion, and sent a Proof of Fund (POF). It took less than 10 days for this series of procedures to execute. They had a perfect understanding of our platform, even though it was a short time.
Son Masayoshi decided to invest $30 million in less than six minutes after Ma Yun began briefing on Alibaba, and he earned more than 4,000 times the Alibaba investment. McKINLEY, an investment company with decades of investment experience and success, has played a significant role in the growth and innovation of ERB.
Q7. What orientation does the ERO Platform have?
What the ERO Platform seeks is humanism. We will provide liquid funds to companies regardless of their credit ratings by considering innovativeness, future orientation, social contribution, and project growth value to support success for them and their projects. We are planning to establish a new standard in the international financial market by forming a virtuous circular investment environment of 'low risk, high return', and the consistent exercise of good influence.
Evita Yoon
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2.0 | Movie Review
Posted by screengobblr on December 1, 2018 December 2, 2018
The problem with technology is that it can overwhelm the user and metamorphose what is to be a vision into a pedantic exhibit of firecrackers without much substance. Indian Filmmakers are particularly susceptible to getting carried away by the glitter of CGI and action. Most of the CGI ‘infested’ movies which come out India are pulled down by over dependence on technology, where the story gets lost and characters are reduced to cliché-mouthing puppets.
Shankar has been one of the best proponents of technology in India. His Enthiran was a landmark in movie making. With Enthiran and I, Shankar has established himself as someone who can marry technology with plot and deliver a story with substance. Enthiran introduced Superstar Rajnikanth as the debonair Robot who was funny and full of tricks and enthralled the audience with his antics. The movie, made in Tamil and subsequently dubbed in Hindi and Telugu, was a huge success. Rajnikanth’s performance and Shankar’s direction kept the entertainment quotient at a very high level, although the story felt a tad rehashed. In comparison to the first instalment, 2.0 feels slightly overboard. 2.0 is mostly formulaic however the message within the movie is a refreshing change from the ‘high stakes world domination’ balderdash in most Superhero movies.
Rajnikanth plays dual role of the gifted scientist Dr Vaseegaran and Chitti, the Robot. His charisma oozes out of the screens. As an audience you are already in awe of the great performer in front of you. Rajnikanth plays both characters with the assurance of a seasoned star who knows how to captivate the audience. Very few people can play the kind of characters the legend takes up and still gets the biggest cheers. Sitting In a posh sub-urban multiplex, I could see the reverence exuded by his loyal fans. Every flip in the air, every dialogue coming out of the great man was met with claps. And I am talking about Mumbai here. I can only imagine the craze in Tamil Nadu and the southern states where his legend is at a demi-God level.
The welcome change in this movies was the role of Akshay Kumar. Introduced to us as the bad guy in the trailers, Akshay makes a negative role have a lot of heart and conviction. Akshay’s character is driven by benevolence. Post interval there are a few sequences which establish his real intentions and it is heart warming. You end up empathising with his cause and have a dilemma with regards to your allegiance. It’s almost how movie goers felt for Thanos in the Infinity Wars. An all power villain who seems to make some sense. But true to any superhero movie, the script holds up loosely and quickly jumps into climax. The rest of the characters are just spokes to take the wheel forward. Amy Jackson plays a robot in the movie which is kind of funny considering her limited acting talent. May be a sly joke by Shankar? We will never know.
The underlying message of the movie elevates it from an oft-repeated script to something which will touch us, albeit temporarily. the first half is a build-up exercise to the big reveal of the intentions of Pakshi Rajan (Akshay’s character). However, it looses steam once the conflict is established and finally it gallops to the climax which was the epic showdown. Shankar occasionally gets carried away with the technology at his disposal, with the biggest irritant being the introduction credit scenes. The 3D along with the graphics almost pains your eyes. Also, the dialogue writing seems slightly pedestrian, considering the scale of the movie. However, I watched it in Hindi, so will give it a benefit of doubt there.
2.0 is a movie which fails to take off from a premise which held such promise. Not every day does a director take up a issue based superhero movie while decorating it with the most latest of technologies. Shankar has to be commended for that. The series can take off into a successful 3 part, or more franchise, but depends on the legend’s appetite to reinvent himself as 3.0 and more. But are we complaining? No.
gobblscore: 6.5/ 10
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Home Trending News Cowboy Poet To Be Honored With Bronze Sculpture in Fort Worth Stockyards
Cowboy Poet To Be Honored With Bronze Sculpture in Fort Worth Stockyards
The annual Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering rolls into the Fort Worth Stockyards today for the 29th year.
Cowboys and cowgirls in chuckwagons left Jacksboro on Monday for the 60-mile, five-day journey to Cowtown.
The event is a fall favorite for thousands, and this year they’ll see something new.
Steagall, famous recording artist, songwriter, actor, host and official Cowboy Poet of Texas will be immortalized in a new bronze sculpture to be unveiled on Saturday. It’s a gift from his friends.
“We went together and essentially, gave this to him for his 80th birthday,” said Bruce Greene, a decades long friend and the artist behind the project.
“It’s overwhelming, hard for me to explain and express,” Steagall said as he watched crews build the base on which the statue will stand.
Ironic that a man whose life is centered around words can be at a loss for them. Yet he quickly and passionately speaks about the working cowboy he loves and the value passed among them through generations.
“A real cowboy is not gonna brag on himself. He might want you to pay a little attention to his horse but if you want to know how good a cowboy is, just watch him. He’ll show you,” Steagall told NBC 5.
Steagall, 80, has shown for decades he is the real deal, a real cowboy whose sculpted likeness will stand tall in front of the Cowtown Coliseum in the heart of the Stockyards.
Greene started the project a year ago.
“Everyone agrees we got the likeness we’re looking for,” Greene smiled.
The 8×8 sculpture will show Steagall sitting on Apollo, his favorite horse, and waving.
It’s how Steagall rides into the Stockyards every year, leading the chuckwagons as they end their trail ride to start his annual Cowboy Gathering.
Greene wants that wave to be a message to everyone who sees the Steagall sculpture.
“Our western culture welcomes you. Welcome to Fort Worth. Welcome to this place that is special to our culture. We welcome you,” Greene said.
For him and so many others, no one can do that better than Red Steagall.
“I’ve watched people who recognize Red, and he represents us so beautifully,” Greene said. “For me, Red Stegall is the ambassador of our American West to the world.”
The gates to the Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering open at 10 Friday morning and the chuckwagons arrive at noon.
The bronze statue of Steagall will be unveiled Saturday afternoon at 1:15.
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A picture shows the damaged houses in the northern city of Aleppo on November 29, 2012. A regime air strike on Aleppo killed at least 15 civilians, including five children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
U.S. concerned Syria "cooking up recipes" for chemical weapons
By Mike Mount
The United States is concerned that Syria may be "cooking up recipes" at multiple sites to arm chemical weapons, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
CNN reported on Monday that Syrian forces battling rebels in fierce fighting had started combining chemicals that could be used to make deadly sarin gas for weapons.
The official would not detail more on intelligence developments, but said the United States is concerned about possible preparations at more than one chemical weapons plant around Syria.
The official would only say it was a "small number" of facilities where activities are taking place.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry denied that the country has any plans to use chemical weapons, state TV has reported. The government likewise has repeatedly stressed it will not use such weapons, if they exist, against its people under any circumstances.
The U.S. military believes there are 50 chemical weapon and production sites spread across the country with additional storage sites and research centers as well.
Syria is believed to have one of the most advanced chemical warfare capabilities in the region, with the ability to develop and produce agents such as mustard gas, sarin and possibly the VX nerve agent, according to information collected by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a non-profit group that seeks to reduce the risk of use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
American intelligence shows activity at certain facilities and no evidence that anything had been moved out of them, several senior U.S. military officials said.
While they would not describe the activity, the officials said there was no sign that showed Syria was ready to do anything with chemical weapons.
Officials explained that some types of chemical arms require mixing before they can be weaponized.
None of the officials who spoke to CNN would discuss the issue for full attribution due to the sensitivity of the issue.
The intelligence was strong enough for President Barack Obama to issue a public warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, according to one of the U.S. officials.
I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command - the world is watching," Obama said at a speech at the National Defense University in Washington.
"The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable," he said.
Despite the concern, military officials say there's no imminent plan for U.S. military action. But the military has been planning for various scenarios and has assets in the region should Obama order a strike.
Officials note that regional allies like Jordan also have military capabilities and have been training, and are standing by.
While officials would not discuss U.S. military options, military officials speaking more generally have said that striking the sites would not be a good idea because ensuing explosions would disperse dangerous chemicals.
Senior U.S. military officials also said Tuesday that there was no indication the situation had deteriorated to the point where Assad would resort to chemical weapons, though rebels continue making advances.
A U.S. official not in the military said that the opposition is "maturing" forcing Assad into a tougher position.
"The regime's territorial control and influence appears to be narrowing. The will to fight looks like it's still there, but Assad's forces are struggling to beat back insurgent gains," the official said.
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U.S. concerned Syria "cooking up recipes" for chemical weapons!! They were correct! What ever happened to this. are they still handing over those
weapons? or did they stop?It's a shame that Syria is believed to have one of the most advanced chemical warfare capabilities in the region.
Danger Danger!
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On Fox they must call this the Double Secret Blog.
Wow, Security Clearance! That just sounds so cool, CNN! MAkes everything so important
Send in Seal Team 69 with Nick Cage and Sean Connery. That will scare them to lay down their chemical weapons.
But, but in the movie "The Rock" they were able to neutralize the VX gas using thermite plasma bombs 🙂 I guess that was just a load of crap!
CharlieSeattle
What Israel may well suspect is that North Korean and/or Pakistani nukes have been already smuggled into Iran, Syria and Gaza. US and Israel Intel saying that Iran's own Nuke effort is 6 months away, 1 year away or more is just a smoke screen masking the real proxy nuclear attack that may be ready now!
The most recent 1000 Iranian rocket barrage from Gaza may only have been a test of Israel's Iron Dome ABM system. It is impressive, but will not stop a mass launch of hundreds of missiles from Iran, Syria and Gaza at the same time.Better take all three out first! Then Bulldoze Gaza into the sea.Screw the North Korean, Pakistani, Russian techs and scientists. They deserve to burn. Nuke the Russian base in Tartus, Syria too. That was the port of entry for Russian, Iranian and North Korean ships that smuggled in the nukes.
Tartus hosts a Soviet-era naval supply and maintenance base, under a 1971 agreement with Syria, which is still staffed by Russian naval personnel. Tartus is the last Russian military base outside the former Soviet Union, and its only Mediterranean fueling spot, sparing Russia’s warships the trip back to their Black Sea bases through straits in Turkey, a NATO member. I am sure Russia has nukes stored there.
Charlie, it is a slam dunk! I suggest that you suit up as Captain America and lead the charge! Good luck to ya!
democrats need to invade syria, then will find out there are no weapon.
Obama = Bush and vice versa.
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QUESTION: WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE EXSPOSURE TO CHEMICALS IN SYRIA
ANSWER: ASTHMA
The use of misinformation has been well used. Let's not forget about the justifications being mentioned to get the US to attack Iraq. Read the attached link. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-04-israeli-iraq-threat_x.htm
Let's not forget that the US backed Iraq with weapons during the Iraq Iran war in which the former Soviet Union was backing Iran.
Let's not forget that Israel openly stated that it would attack Syria if Israel felt that the security of the chemical weapons was compromised. This threat by Israel has placed the US in a very percariou situation. Also there is no credible intel about Syria chemical stock pile. Only in the last week or two do the news networks start talking about chemical weapons. If Israel attacks Syria will have major implications in the region. Why should the US get involved now when the US and the world for the most part has done nothing to stop the bloodshed that has been and continue to go on.
alf564
Well the USA should worry about our NATO partner, Turkey, having a love affair with Russia. This does not bode well for NATO secrets....The current President of Turkey is a very strict Islamist and they are not big fans of the USA !
kevobx
Paul found salvation on the road to Damascus, now modern day Damascus is being destroyed, and the no man says not a word. Why are the people of the world calling Christ, the Son of David? *1st Samuel 18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be in law to the king.
A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; (*Matthew 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?*) *Job 39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? *Matthew 13:30 but gather the wheat into my barn.
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: (Remember, God is the I and Joseph took the body of Christ) Lest Satan should get advantage of us: For we are not ignorant of his devices.
In the days of old, the Syrian mother Rebekah gave birth to Jacob in the womb who wrestled with God in becoming Israel. *Isaiah 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. *Daniel 10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel; *Genesis 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (*Jeremiah 51:63 mankind needs a new heart to understand the book of life *)
Real Patriot
I'd like to get a second opinion please....last time I heard about WMD's it was a lie to justify the U.S. doing whatever it felt like. Given the scale of escalation that can happen here I'd like a little better source.
Speaking of the use of chemical weapons, who are we Americans to criticize others when we ourselves used them in Vietnam against the Vietnamese during the 60's and 70's? Hopefully, the Syrian government won't use them as this will give the U.S. and it's NATO cronies an excuse to attack Syria. This proves just morally unprincipled those morons in Washington and London really are!!!
What is everyone's deal? The united states is only trying to keep freedom alive. I agree freedom isn't free, but at the same time the us just wants people's of power of other nations know that wrong is wrong and for every crime there is a punishment. If you uphold other nations makeing these type of weapons you might as well say that it's alright for crime lords of the u.s. to make drugs like meth that kills people everyday.
bribarian
America and zi0nists trying to get a new war, not happening tho
straightshooter
bribarian: that was a really foolish comment in light of Assad's war on his own people.
massoud
A U.S. Official today announced War is Peace Ignorance is Strength and Slavery is Freedom
Lyndsie Graham
Here goes the right-wing news media again, trying to disinform us over the Assad regime in Syria now trying to "cook up" chemical weapons to use against "their own people". It's funny how this same media never mentions the atrocities committed by the so-called "rebels" which it calls "the people" against the civilian population. Talk about propaganda!
Regardless of how objective or subjective you believe the media bias is, all credible intelligence by several diff. nations has pointed towards the manuevering of parts in order to coordinate a chemical/biological weapon attack. Whether you are for or against Assad, the rebels, or neither, the use of these chemical/biological weapons would be a horrible atrociety and can not be allowed to happen.
This just shows the desperation of the war mongers after China and Russia abstained in voting for a no-fly zone over Syria with their UN Security Council votes. Have we not been down this road before with Iraq and chemical weapons? The US is broke as we have become the Welfare Warfare State. Welfare not only for people but corporations as well and Warfare for a dissasterous decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are estimated to cost US Taxpayers $5 Trillion Dollars when it is all said and done, if you account the costs spent so far and future costs,the interest on the money borrowed to fund the 2 wars, and health care costs for returning Veterans
@Jean Botts
Saddam would never have sent anything to an Iranian proxy state. More than a few bad feelings there.
jean botts
Everyone knows this is where Saddam H. moved his WMD's before the inspectors let him know they were coming....sure had plenty of forewarning..we knew he had them ..and then nothing was found...duh
And you know this how? On, I keep forgetting, everyone here has double secret clearance from Rummie and Cheney (the dynamic duo of stupidity).
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