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What Brexit Means for Climate
Posted on June 27, 2016 March 30, 2018 by Emilie Mazzacurati
Reposted from The Huffington Post, The Blog, view it on HuffPo HERE.
In the short run, Brexit means, at the very least, delays and complications in the process towards the ratification of the Paris Accord.
The financial volatility caused by the referendum’s outcome could distract the worlds’ financial regulators and have a negative impact on current efforts to better regulate climate-related financial disclosures.
Looking ahead, the incoming Eurosceptic government in the UK is unlikely to make climate change its priority, depriving global climate negotiations from a leader and political engine towards more ambitious GHG cuts.
In a worst case scenario, a full-blown global economic crisis would set back investments in clean energy, cut budget for both mitigation and adaptation efforts, and fuel further discontent from the middle-class and the unemployed.
Over the long run, a possible “contagion” effect enabling populist victories in upcoming elections in the US, Spain, France or Germany over the next 12 months could further hamper the enactment of effective global climate policy.
Political Implications: Impact on the Paris Accord
The only certainty regarding the impact of Brexit on climate policy comes from the extensive political uncertainty and financial volatility the referendum outcome has triggered. As the political debate turns towards the process for the UK to exit from the EU and deepening internal tensions between the UK and the “pro remain” constituents within Scotland and Northern Ireland, this uncertainty will at a minimum cause a temporary slowdown of the ratification process of the Paris Accord.
The ratification process was already expected to be long and complex for the EU. Each country has to approve the ratification domestically before the EU as a whole ratifies the accord. In the context of such a lengthy process, we think it is highly unlikely the lame-duck Cameron government would stick its neck out and push for a rapid ratification of the accord in the next three months, before its scheduled October departure. It is unclear how the UK will affect the EU ratification process during the two years preceding Britain’s formal exit from the EU.
This leaves the next government in charge of a possible ratification. Leading candidate for British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who are credited with driving the success of the Leave vote, both do not believe in or prioritize climate change, casting a shadow of uncertainty over whether the UK might actually ratify the Paris accord at all.
However, the Paris Accord requires the ratification from 55 countries representing 55 percent of global emissions to come into forces. A refusal from the UK to ratify would send a negative signal but a single country representing 2 percent of global emissions would not bring the global process to an end. While the UK has historically been a driving force in global and EU climate negotiations, we expect the new UK government will at best be a follower, at worst a laggard and opposing force in global climate policy.
Beyond Britain: The Rise of Populism
While the direct political implications of the referendum on UK climate policy are quite predictable, we cannot rule out a potential ripple effect on the willingness from other countries to ratify the Paris accord. More generally, the UK vote signals that current populist trends in the world’s largest economies – U.S., France, Germany in particular – could bring a deep reshuffling of cards for climate policy. Populists parties are typically lukewarm, if not outright opposed to climate policy and global agreements, as illustrated by the so-called Trump Trajectory in the U.S.
A rise in climate-sceptic governments could bring to a halt the progress brought about by the Paris accord and set us back toward a high carbon emission pathway. At this point in time, however, we believe most governments have a robust understanding of the seriousness of the issue of climate change, and will do their best to proceed with the accord ratification and with meeting their targets.
Financial Implications: Impact on Efforts to Regulate and Price Climate Risk
A very immediate impact from Brexit-induced financial volatility and risk of recession will be felt on efforts to better understand, regulate and price climate-related risks on financial markets. The very institutions and individuals that have been leading this effort globally – the Financial Stability Board and its Chair, Mark Carney, who is also the Chair of the Bank of England, as well as to some extent the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S., are going to be entirely focused on preventing a complete collapse of the British economy and a global recession. This will necessarily cause distraction away from the recent efforts to push climate change higher on the agenda of financial decision-makers.
Assuming the world’s financial leaders are successful in preventing a global recession and the volatility of financial markets continues, we expect the discussion to resume and allow the recommendations from the Task Force on Financial Climate-Related Disclosure to garner the attention needed from global financial regulatory bodies.
However, if Britain’s decision to leave the EU were to cause continued turmoil on financial markets around the world, leading to a major recession, the impacts on climate change policy could be extensive, and mostly negative. Recessions in general are bad for the environment because jobs and financial volatility typically take precedence on the political agenda over environmental regulations and climate policy, often perceived as putting added burden on the economy. A global recession could lead to budget cuts and increased contention over energy and climate budgets, and otherwise lead to a scale back of efforts to reduce emissions.
Financial instability also means a setback for investments in clean energy, with financial flows likely to flock towards safe havens (U.S. bonds, gold) and away from riskier investments. Expectations of trade financing faltering, credit spreads narrowing, emerging markets assets under serious stress and a worse-than-expected earnings season, impacting equity valuations all point to less money for adaptation in developing countries and a further slowdown in renewables investment levels.
The UK’s decision to leave the EU puts both financial markets and climate policy to the test. Financial markets were still slowly recovering from the second greatest recession in the history of modern markets, and this is where the main uncertainty stands at the time of writing. Short term volatility may bring distractions but unlikely to drive a meaningful change of course away from greater climate risk disclosures. If continued economic turmoil materialized, it could slow down investments in clean energy and put climate and environmental issues on the back burner once again.
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Spanish brand ZARA apologies for substandard products sold in China
posted 7 May 2011, 05:57 by Mpelembe [ updated 7 May 2011, 06:00 ]
ZARA Apologizes -- Spanish brand ZARA apologies for substandard products sold in China
China Central Television - As a response to some of its substandard products blacklisted by Chinese authorities two weeks ago, a representative of Spanish brand ZARA in Shanghai apologized to Chinese customers on Friday.
And the representative announced that, from May 6, 2011 on, customers are eligible either to refund on their substandard products or exchange for other products of the same price at ZARA stores without necessarily displaying the receipts.
A clerk of a ZARA store in Shanghai said that all the products in problem had been off the shelf, and they began to accept returns since Friday night. The products in problem include two overcoats and a type of men's casual trousers.
Xu Xueqing, Director of Public Relations of ZARA Commercial (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., said: "We are very sorry to our customers, and we will abide by China Quality Act, strengthen monitoring of our global suppliers and manufacturers in future. We guarantee that no such things would happen again."
Despite a nationwide bottom carriage and unconditional return of ZARA garments in problem, many disappointed Chinese consumers still hold that the brand has greatly faded.
"I think ZARA should have thought of the consequences before doing this. And I don't think recalling its products in problem could be taken as a reparation for consumers," said a Shanghai resident.
"I will continue to shop in ZARA stores, but not as frequently as before. For example, I visited ZARA shops 10 times in the past, now I'll be there only 6 or 7 times," said a customer.
ZARA had been blacklisted twice in China. In December 2009, a ZARA overcoat was found to have failed to meet the prescribed standard. Then at the end of 2010, an overcoat was found to have falsified to have cashmere content.
For any questions please call +86-10-63969499, or email [email protected] If you want to learn more, please go to the CCTV website at http://newscontent.cctv.com.
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The Cabal, A geoplutocratic dominance-and-control conspiracy organization
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Friends and Star Kids,
Recently a talented remote-viewer friend of mine acquired the following important information. Because it represents a further demoralization of the Cabal leadership, I especially wish to share this news with you.
The remote viewer was brought by her Star Visitor Guide to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Cabal.
("Cabal" is a term coined by my late friend, Dr. Michael Wolf, consultant scientist with the National Security Council's Special Studies Group, the clandestine organization that oversees UFO matters.)
(There would be considerable overlap between the upper-echelon membership of the Cabal, a geoplutocratic dominance-and-control conspiracy organization, and the Executive Committee of the Bilderberg Council, group that makes future plans for the world.)
(The Cabal control and operate the Bilderberg Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, their various future-planning bodies.)
The remote viewer was taken to a window-less round building in some part of Europe, where a meeting was taking place. The all-male group was in discussion when the remote viewer saw that "millions of beings surrounded that building from all Earth realms and beyond." In other words, the consciousness-presences of millions of Star Visitors, and of Humans and other Earth species who have been harmed by the Cabal's henchmen's vile deeds and by their multinational corporations' environmental damage, gathered to give a message to the Cabal leadership. The magnitude of that encounter made clear that something very definitive was happening.
It was the follow-up by Star Nations and various Earth species to the 9/29/05 Hearing, [see: http://www.drboylan.com/formalhearing.html ] which convicted the Cabal of systematic and repeated violations of the 11:11 Laws [see: http://www.drboylan.com/11.11laws.html ]
Communication took place telepathically but effectively, because the Cabal-Conviction message had to be delivered formally to the Cabal, and clearly reached the minds of the gathered Cabal.
When the millions of Star and Earth beings present at that meeting "handed a Mandate [to the Cabal] that their time was over," that set into firm place the beginning of a formal accountability period for the Cabal to start paying off the karmic debt they have earned from their long train of misdeeds.
The remote viewer further noted,"Ever since then, I have seen the squirming of the [Cabal] group, trying to get out of the Mandate, but it has been set, and they can't escape it."
Did the Cabal really think that they could evade the (11:11) Spiritual Law of Karma?
(See attached classic illustration about another, earlier Ruler getting the "handwriting on the wall".)
The remote viewer concluded with, "It was an incredible event, and I have had hope ever since witnessing this."
The remote-viewer did not determine the date of this Mandate Delivery, but it obviously took place not too long after the September 29, 2005 Trial and Conviction of the Cabal.
You may be sure that that Cabal leadership did not inform their underlings about how they had gotten the word that the Cabal organization's time is over. The Cabal needs their subordinates dumb and happy, so that they will not desert the organization.
But now this news message, which is being intercepted by many Cabal operatives on the Internet and passed around to their associates, will leave them less dumb and definitely not happy.
My word to these disaffected Cabalistas: it's not too late to desert the dark side and come over to the light. Sincere repentance and reparations will be necessary, of course. But there is definitely no future in the course you have been on.
in the light,
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
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Thus ye may find in thy mental and spiritual self, ye can make thyself just as happy or just as miserable as ye like. How miserable do ye want to be?......For you GROW to heaven, you don't GO to heaven. It is within thine own conscience that ye grow there.
Volitzer
Re: The Cabal, A geoplutocratic dominance-and-control conspiracy organization
Geo-Plutocrat.
I think the term Illuminati would work better.
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Selected players participating in the “Education, Sports, Future” program as well as the most talented players from across the country who want to hone their basketball skills may be enrolled at the Sports Championship Academic High School (ALMS) in Gorzów. “It is our pride and joy. ALMS provides optimal conditions for the continuing development of the players’ basketball skills and provides comprehensive education so that they see a vision of their own future,” said coach Dariusz Maciejewski.
Basketball players who attend the ALMS high school have 10 hours of basketball training and 6 hours of athletic training and strength-training per week under the guidance of experienced coaching staff. ALMS allows for combining sports trips with systematic school education at each grade level. Experienced teaching staff and small groups of up to 15 students ensure an individual approach to each basketball player. This contributes to a high-quality education. Players who live outside Gorzów can stay at the sports dormitory, where they are monitored by dorm supervisors with pedagogical training. During the season, our basketball players take part in women's 1st league tournaments as well as U18 and U22 Polish Youth Championships.
“The standard of education at our school is remarkable thanks to small class sizes and demanding teachers. Teachers approach each student individually, which helps them reach their maximum potential. Scholarships and other distinctions help us stay motivated. One of them is the Scholarship of the Prime Minister, which I have been receiving for two years now. I am very grateful that I have been given such a chance,” said Kornelia Ruszkowska.
Wiktoria Kuczyńska, member of the Polish national team for the U16 and U18 European Championships, is a perfect example that the best basketball players from all over Poland choose Gorzów to further their development. Why did she choose to play for AZS AJP Gorzów although her home town of Tarnów is so far away? “Before high school, I received a few offers from clubs all over Poland where I could enhance my basketball skills. I talked to my parents and my sister about this and they convinced me to choose Gorzów. Experienced coaches, a very good training base and a great atmosphere played an essential part in my decision-making. Thanks to the ALMS high school, we can easily combine education with sport and that’s why I like my school so much,” said Wiktoria Kuczyńska.
Why did a Gorzów-based club decide to set up the Sports Championship Academic High School? “We decided to create a place where young basketball players can further develop for two reasons: it was the seventh year of the "Education, Sports, Future" program and there were a number of basketball players from all over Poland who couldn’t continue playing for their teams. Initially, we started with a junior high school and a high school. Now, after the educational reform, there is only the high school (ALMS). Professor Elżbieta Skorupska-Raczyńska, the Rector of the Jacob of Paradies University (AJP), understood our needs. Together, we managed to create something that today is our pride and joy. The Club has an excellent relationship with the University and the ALMS school administration, in particular with Principal Renata Janicka-Szyszko,” added coach Dariusz Maciejewski.
What added value does ALMS offer to the club?? “All training sessions take place at facilities located within 100 meters of each other. I can monitor the training sessions easily and I can see which basketball players are worthy of interest, since they can provide a real reinforcement for the top league team. The gradual development of our basketball players shows that we have created something that is unique in Poland. We have two teams in the first league macro regional games (U18 and U22 teams),” said the coach.
From this season, basketball players who are high school third graders may obtain a basketball instructor license, tantamount to a coaching license (C level) of the Polish Basketball Association. AZS AJP Gorzów is Poland’s first club to offer such a course to basketball players. “I am glad that we are pioneers in this respect. I would like to express my gratitude for the support we have been given by the Polish Basketball Association. Now our Club is able to offer an alternative career to our players. Of course, not all of them will achieve their dreams and goals and become professional basketball players, but they can also express themselves in this sport as coaches. I am willing to share my extensive experience with them. All in all, I think that what they have learned during the classes will also help them in the game,” said coach Maciejewski.
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Apparently there's going to be a parade, or a protest, or something in New York this weekend which caused Torontonian Naomi Klein to release a book that's getting lots of attention in prospective marching circles.
The Economist does a good job, with the graphic, of reminding people that standards accomplish things. So to, it seems, do big capital intensive projects.
Curbing climate change: The deepest cuts | The Economist:
ON SEPTEMBER 23rd 120-odd presidents and prime ministers will gather in New York for a UN meeting on climate change. It is the first time the subject has brought so many leaders together since the ill-fated Copenhagen summit of 2009. Now, as then, they will assert that reining in global warming is a political priority. Some may commit their governments to policies aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. What few will say is how many tonnes of carbon dioxide these will save—because they almost never do.
According to scientists, cutting carbon-dioxide emissions is an essential part of reducing catastrophic risks from climate change. Yet governments are persistently averse to providing estimates of how much carbon a policy saves. That may be because, in countries where climate change is controversial, it makes more sense to talk about the other benefits a scheme offers rather than its effect on carbon. Or it may be that, in countries which are enthusiastic about renewable energy, pointing out that it may not save that much carbon is seen as unhelpful. Or perhaps governments think climate change is so serious that all measures must be taken, regardless of cost (though their overall lacklustre record suggests this is not the case).
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I feel obliged to note some of this Naomi Klein nonsense - which I've read more of than I care to admit, and communicate on it only to discourage others from wasting similar time.
Klein's article in The Globe and Mail begins:
During the globalization wars of the late nineties and early 2000s,...
I noted, on Twitter, these "globalization wars" raised many out of poverty - which isn't something we saw from "World" wars of the 20th century.
I don't encourage my readers to continue reading Klein's Globe article, but if you've been exposed to Klein's work, I've seen many comments about the usually excellent Will Boisvert's Why Progressives Should Reject Naomi Klein's Pastoral Fantasy — and Embrace Our High-Energy Planet, which might be the antidote needed.
The Guardian carried an article by Naomi Klein, with an equally uninteresting beginning, although this time the fault may have been the Guardians' editors. The caption to a picture of the Toronto writer includes, "My doctor told me that my hormone levels were too low and that I'd probably miscarry, for the third time. My mind raced back to the Gulf."
Neither my mind, nor my eyes, were racing to the text below after that.
I suppose it was good that breakthrough.org carried Boisvert's response/review to Klein's book. What I would much rather read is Breakthrough Senior Fellow Pascal Bruckner writing on it, but maybe he already did:
...we live in a permanent terror film and every day they [ecologists] explain to us that it is a miracle that we are still alive.
“The absurdity of this propaganda of fear – which recalls that of [former US president] George W. Bush regarding terrorism – is that we have never lived so long.
“We are living in a post-technological Middle Ages. Our mentality is that of the medieval peasant serf who sees maleficent forces in nature.
“Everything is dangerous. Simply to live has become an impossible task.
“We are afraid of everything – of mobile phones, of food, of dummies, of nappies, of antennas. We are living in a society which has a horror of risk and therefore is afraid of its own shadow.”
Intelligent responses to environmental degradation are therefore required rather than radical “belt-tightening” and “privation” in the form of a retreat from nuclear power and even domestic heating.
“There is this famous notion defended by the ecologists of ‘negawatts’: the best energy is that which we don’t expend,” the philosopher almost sneers.
“Yes, we need to make some savings. But wealth reproduces itself and life cannot simply be a subtraction. It is like saying ‘the best life is the life we don’t lead’. This is a kind of neo-Malthusianism.”
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Gesammelt und bearbeitet von Julius Hoffmann
1880. Julius Hoffmann. Stuttgart
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Here is a sturdy book in very good condition featuring a strong chromolithograph pasted onto its cloth cover: King Lion is seated on a raised dias, surrounded by various animals and with an arch behind him proclaiming the title. The subtitle continues "Eine Auslese der besten Fabeln." Julius Hoffmann is not only the publisher. He is also responsible for the prose versions of the 120 fables, each begun with an elaborate initial. The author or source is named after the title of each fable in the text but not in the beginning T of C. Bodemann lists the first edition in 1872 (#347.1) but does not mention further editions. Her description of the first edition fits this copy perfectly. There are 68 pages of texts, interrupted by eight chromolithographs at regular intervals. This book may offer a firm source for these oft-repeated chromolithographs, which appear on cards and other publications. Six of the eight colored full-page illustrations are signed by either of the two artists: FC (frontispiece); "The Miser and the Monkey" (8, after Hagedorn, unsigned); WL (16); TB (24); "The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox" (32); WC (40); "The Fox and the Woodcutter" (48); and "The Ass and the Lapdog" (56: La Fontaine, unsigned). This is a lovely book!
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The idea for this book came from a single image in the game Spirit Stones. It was just a picture of a girl with bang-cut black hair, a way too short dress, enormous heels, and a mischievous look on her face -but the face seemed a bit too nice to go with the rest of the package. I had found the card while playing the game, and noted that she reminded me a bit of Betty Page (link should be considered NSFW as Betty Page did a lot of nude photos). Later on, I found another card that used the same artwork for the girl’s face, but the girl was blonde, wearing a flowing white dress, and the mischievous face (exactly the same art as on the previous card) in this case seemed a bit too naughty to go with the pure, white image. That was the inspiration for Jezebel and Angela (later renamed Bethany).
The idea for the town of Ashwood has been in my head for a very long time. The prologue in this book was more or less written a couple of decades ago. The whole story of Reginald and Beatrice had been completely formed, but initially had gone into more detail of the duality of the characters who lived there (the town is a backdrop for this novel, In the Eyes of Mister Bearsley and at least one other that I already have outlined). In early drafts of this novel though, the plot necessitated that I remove any direct references to the duality or it would spoil the big reveal. So I used the metaphor in the shadow of the angels to avoid directly referencing the it.
To go into a bit more detail about that point, in the first draft of the book, Jezebel and Angela were the same person. The portion where Dr. Stephens describes Dissociative Identity Disorder and his being seduced by Jezebel was setting the stage for that reveal later on. The primary characters all knew that Angela suffered from DID (The reader was never given that knowledge nor any real hint towards it), but referred to her as whichever of the two was in control when they interacted with her. There was no direct interaction between the two characters in this draft. I thought I was so clever!
The problem with that is that there was no way you could have guessed that they were the same person. When the reveal came, very near the end of the story, it felt like you had been cheated. As if you had been reading a mystery novel and on the last page they introduced a new character who turned out to be the culprit. When I read the draft after having let it sit for a while, I wasn’t at all happy with the experience, and I knew that any potential readers also wouldn’t be.
I already had 70,000 words of a story written at that point though, and I wasn’t about to scrap it entirely. I thought portions of the story worked very well, and wanted to save it. I removed about 15,000 words that were there in support of the Angela and Jezebel plot and started writing a new one. I renamed Angela to Bethany simply because I didn’t like having ‘Angels’ in the title and ‘Angela’ as a character. With this rewrite, I added in Edward Digby (someone needed to have something over Dr. Stephens) and put in the direct interactions between Bethany and Jezebel.
Many of the other scenes happened in the initial draft, but did so in a much more serious manner. During the rewrite, I was sure to lace the more horrible scenes with some irony and dry humor to (hopefully) keep the reader rooting for the protagonists while they were doing some very bad things. My goal was to make it similar in style to Four Rooms or 11:14. Hopefully you root for the characters doing the very bad things, but only because the other characters are doing things that are much worse. After a couple more rewrites, the story as it is now was formed.
Having scrapped the DID plot, I could have removed the prologue completely, but I really liked it, and others who read the story early on did as well. I could also have gone back to the prologue and replaced the detail about the duality of the characters in Ashwood as well (you’ll note that each of the characters you meet in the story has that dark side), but I kind of liked leaving it to the reader to discover that as the story unfolded. Without the DID plot though, the title didn’t seem to make nearly as much sense. So I tried to rename it. For most of the editing process, the story was called One Night at the Place, I even had an artist mock up a couple of covers -a portion of one is to the left.
You will no doubt agree that the title One Night at The Place doesn’t really grab you and pull you in. Nor does it give any indication as to what genre of book it will be. My next idea for a title was Hammer and Vase, which makes use of a reference that Devin makes a few times during the story, but which, again, doesn’t grab your attention and doesn’t give any indication as to what type of book it is. So I decided to stay with the original title, though it doesn’t make quite as much sense as it did in the initial draft. The cover art underwent a major renovation, as detailed here, in March, 2016.
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Capital Press, November 16, 2009
Pressure to move wheat through Portland next fall could be greater than most years, given that barge transportation on the Columbia River system is expected to be shut down from December 2010 to April 2011.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to repair locks at The Dalles and John Day dams on the Columbia and the Lower Monumental Dam on the Snake River during that period.
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i told a guy that i’ve always wanted to get a tattoo. he said, “why put a bumper sticker on a ferrari.” do i have a stick up my ass or is that kinda fucked up.
Response #1 (The High Road): “Comparing me to a car is a particularly disrespectful form of objectification, and it’s insulting to imply that a tattoo would somehow be degrading.”
Response #2 (The Middle Road): “You don’t get to have an opinion on what I should do with my body.”
Response #3 (The Low Road): “You put racing stripes on a Ferrari, motherfucker.”
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Vardy says:
He’s giving you a compliment, jesus christ.
Quinn says:
No, he isn’t.
VeryIrritable says:
He was trying to. Half of art is recognizing intent.
Daffodil says:
Nope, not gonna give a guy a cookie for intending to compliment me when he compares my body to a piece of property.
Nobody asked you for a cookie and nobody gave you a compliment. Feel free to respond however you want when that happens.
Nobody is unsure as to what his intent is. The issue is that his worldview is such that he thinks comparing a woman to an object is a compliment.
WhoAmI says:
Intent is nothing.
That depends on whether there is a continued context. Art in a museum? Yeah, intent is jack shit.
Giving a Christmas gift? “It’s the thought that counts.”
Trying to save a life? Good samaritan laws.
Missing the toilet while standing up? Jack shit.
My bad, I wasn’t being clear enough. The hidden thoughts that go behind actions don’t mean shit compared to said action.
Except if said action is meant to reveal said thoughts in an interaction where both sides are here looking for that. Which is exactly what art is about. Or gift giving in Western European societies. Flirting outside of the intimate sphere ? Not so much.
But people in positions of privilege will typically have the tendency to think this isn’t true, and that their intent is important, always, and something everybody else should want to consider and be on the lookout for. In this example ; straight men.
ExtremelyAmused says:
I still feel like there’s not enough proof on the flirting case. It could just be gentle probing. One or the other person has to open the door. I defer to Zizek. but I do see what you’re saying about sensitivity, and I maintain we aren’t the ones sensitive enough to know what happened. If this was a trial, I would hang the jury with reasonable doubt.
You open the door by asking them about their life, their passions and ambitions. Their favourite bands. You honestly tell them about what you find so attractive in them. You give them earnest compliments about how good they’ve dressed or how fit they are. And you listen to them. That was definitively a bad spot in the conversation to try and tell her he thinks she looks hot.
I know if someone managed to tell me how to live my life and make a sport car comparison in the same sentence, they’d be dead to me even for a drunk fuck.
That’s cool. That works for you. I wouldn’t have made a Ferrari compliment myself. But this isn’t about us.
You are trying to impose your own standards by saying “you.”
Those aren’t my standards. Hell, I broke them a couple of times. I’m a rather ill-mannered young man, I’m working on it.
Those are very low standards for how you address a fellow human being. Whether they have a chacha or not. Manners 101.
VeryTired says:
I’m saying that this is, most likely but not certainly, the equivalent of a social typo. When someone makes a spelling mistake you don’t take them at their word. There are a lot of people here who want to project their own experiences with sexism through that eight word keyhole into two people’s reality. There’s a whole lot of proselytizing about how it couldn’t be interpreted as anything other than sexist objectification. what they don’t realize is that those projections are more about them than the subject. The freedom they claim to be protecting is actually, in this instance, probably a cage. If there’s a continued friendship in this story, do you really think interpreting it in the most hostile manner is appropriate? I’m not saying CQs quips aren’t possibly fully appropriate for the poster. I’ve only ever advocated that there’s a whole lot of possibility space here and I’m the only one who made an attempt to contribute to it. So many have only been reductive in response. As a proof in excercise, imagine any person in your life, take the compliment yourself, and tell me what you might have said? There are no wrong answers.
She doesn’t talk about him as a friend or a man she knows and has interest in. It’s just a guy. He’s not in a place in her life where saying that isn’t uncalled for.
It’s not “just a typo”. You don’t say that out of nowhere. This sentence is revealing of how he thinks.
Maybe that’s why you’re all up in this comment section ; you can’t and don’t want to see such a reply as a part of a whole behavior, and only as an outlier to his intent’s data set. That sentence and that context alone bear a lot of unfortunate implications. And the rest is us trying to explain to you why that guy sounds shady to us.
Having been confronted to related behavior before doesn’t mean we’re paranoid. It means we’re more sensible to it. Are you gonna say the people who can pick up on such clues are liars because you can’t ?
For what I would have done, I would have said nothing, looked them up and down, walked to the opposite end of the bar, and probably rolled my eyes five times in the process.
Damien Otis says:
he wasn’t giving her a compliment
I would have taken it as a compliment as well. Finding men who will tell you your body is perfect exactly as is are a rarity.
On the other hand, I can see how it could feel insulting. Without being there to hear the tone, it’s hard to judge. Certainly the poster is right in thinking that she has 100% autonomy over her body.
RocketGrunt says:
He’s not telling her that her body is perfect. He’s telling her that putting a tattoo on her body would devalue her just like putting a bumper sticker on an expensive car devalues the car. It doesn’t matter what his tone was; it’s still a degrading comment no matter how you say it.
Do you think his intent was to degrade or devalue her? Probably some young guy and the Ferrari analogy was the first analogy he could think of. You’re outraged because you want to be outraged.
Strangely Rational says:
Guys like this may not be consciously intending to degrade, but that doesn’t mean it’s not degrading.
The mentality that such things are “compliments” that we should be grateful to get arises from the mistaken male notion that how appealing they find us is in any way relevant when it comes to our self worth. On top of that, there’s the overwhelming sexist, self-centered assholishness of declaring that we don’t get to decide for ourselves what we consider to be compliments.
If you say something to a woman and she says it’s not a compliment, it’s not a fucking compliment. If she tells you it’s offensive and objectifying, you try to understand why she sees it that way and you apologize. Only an asshole insists that she’s wrong by telling her how important his opinion ought to be to her.
Men may not be aware that they’re being assholes because they were raised with the concept that women are valued based on men’s opinions. It’s understandable to be ignorant if you’ve never been taught any better, but once you’re told by the women themselves that they do not appreciate it, then you’re responsible for adjusting your attitude.
Nobody has to intend to be an asshole; that’s easy. Sometimes you have to intend NOT to be an asshole.
monochromicorn says:
right on, strangely rational.
I would actually say that being an asshole does require intent. It’s someone who consciously breaks a rule or takes an unearned liberty. If someone doesn’t do it consciously, they are not an asshole, they are incompetent, or ignorant. You can point out that someone violated your expectation after the fact and their not apologizing might make them an asshole. But up until the time they know how they are expected to behave, its incompetence or ignorance; not asshole. Never assume maliciousness where incompetence will suffice.
Nope, sorry, I’ve known too many assholes. Almost none of them are aware that they’re assholes. That, in fact, is what makes the biggest assholes, because they’re in utter denial about their behavior being rude, disgusting, or cruel, so they just sit there and obliviously defend it instead of taking a good hard look at themselves and making an effort to be a decent human being.
ExtremelyIrritable says:
See, I’m with you there. When someone is told they are violating an expectation or norm and they don’t reflect or try to empathise, then I’m with you. Definitely asshole brand douchebag.
Mounting a defense against their behavior…that’s getting into particulars and I don’t actually like hypotheticals as much as it might appear from this recent romp of ridiculous proportion.
OP says:
“young guy” = 10 years my senior, I’m in my late 20’s
No says:
It’s not a compliment to disrespect someone’s choices w/r/t their own body.
You must be a seriously cynical soul to interpret that as disrespectful. The dude offered his opinion (he doesn’t think she should get tatted), and called her perfect in the process. It’s stunning that you think he disrespected her.
She didn’t ask his opinion. It’s the height of male arrogance to think that a woman commenting on something to do with her body is an invitation for him to rate her appearance and tell her she’s wrong about what she wants to do with it.
Well, if it came up in casual conversation then there’s a de facto opinion request. Mostly because in this context it’s in regards to ornamentation and strictly nothing actually functional in the framework of messaging…unless it’s a swatstika or “fuck me here” tramp stamp. Nobody announces their tribal intent without expecting some kind of validation or invalidation. So, let’s assume the assessment was actually garnered with fair intent.
Framing it in terms of ownable objects is an honest and mislead step on his part. It is kinda insensitive to the idea of tattoos, but his heart was in the right place in trying to make her comfortable with the idea of not getting ink. To get bent out of shape after someone gives you an honest opinion definitely edges toward ass-stick territory. There’s no reason both can’t be true in degrees.
All in all, it’s an opportunity to communicate. You can use it to tell him what you think about objectification. You can use it to move him closer or further away. If you want to bond more, you’ll “yes, and…”
Alternate responses:
“I’m not planning on selling the car.”
“If you can read this, you’re too close.”
“You can’t see the bumper sticker when you’re driving the car.”
Is the problem that he rated her appearance or the analogy he used? Or that he didn’t ask permission? Does his intent (positive) not count for anything?
There’s a lot of hyperbole in there. It’s hardly “the height of male arrogance.” 🙂
Yes, what veryirritable said. If anything, he was a bit dismissive of tattoos. That is not the same thing as objectifying the woman. He was giving her a compliment, and all you fools having a major fit about it are part of what gives feminism a bad rap. At best, it’s a minor offense and was meant as a compliment.
“Well, if it came up in casual conversation then there’s a de facto opinion request.”
No there fucking isn’t. If someone wants your opinion about something, they will ASK you directly. If you’re not directly asked to give your opinion, it is unsolicited. That’s the definition of “unsolicited,” not being ASKED.
If I announce that I am pregnant, I did not just ask for your opinion about how my body looks, whether I’m too young or too told or too poor to be having a kid, or whether I should get married first.
“his heart was in the right place in trying to make her comfortable with the idea of not getting ink”
Ah, so he’s decided that she shouldn’t get a tattoo, and now he’s just trying to help her feel good about that decision by making sure she understands that she’s already appealing to him, which is obviously going to be such a relief for her. How very chivalrous of him!
If there’s something a woman should appreciate, it’s a man trying to save her from making a mistake with her body.
Yes, yes, and no.
“There’s a lot of hyperbole in there. It’s hardly ‘the height of male arrogance.'”
In considering this some more, I can agree on this point. Male arrogance can achieve far greater heights, if there even is an upper limit at all.
If you’re really a feminist you will admit that female arrogance can reach the exact same height. 🙂
Reminds me of a comment by zizek…Something along the lines of someone needs to cross the line in order to become intimate (not always sexual). Given that initial attempts may be clumsy..IE don’t know each other’s stories well enough to exactly conjure the intended emotional or intellectual response. The issue I have is breaking it down into micro micro detail is to fail to see the person’s around you or otherwise be looking for some weird ‘mirror’ or desire. Not understanding someone’s framing as it was intended is the exact same crime as has been perceived…It must be love
@confused my point would be that if you only look for the perfect mirror, you will never see yourself how others do…an enabling echo chamber of two.
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grouch says:
Let’s be clear, he didn’t say something along the lines of “I think you look great just as you are, and I think you’d look better without a tattoo”, he compared her to an object, and drew an analogy between her and the object. The first one could be replied to with “Okay. Well, I want one anyways”, and the second one has all kinds of moralising connotations of ruining one’s self.
I understand that you are sensitive to objectification, and rightfully so. Sex has been commoditized and genders disadvantaged. But on a moment to moment scale, is the change you want to see in the world really a hostile interpretation of what was meant in the best possible way? nobody is going to crush or even subvert the patriarchy by smacking people who aren’t friendly in exactly the way you would like.
I don’t think that was being friendly. It sounds like an attempt at instilling shame, masquerading as a compliment. It smacks a bit of entitlement and possessiveness to compare a woman to an object like that, and then complain about what she wants to do with her body.
Yow. That sounds like projection. Most guys I know aren’t plying that “neg” shit and would just be klutzing their way to a compliment. But hey, maybe you live in a game zone where that’s more common. I feel sorry for everyone who lives in that world.
alpha says:
He did disrespect her and the fact that you think he did compliment her and feel the need to repeatedly insist that he didn’t degrade her implies that you hold the same mentality.
There are people in the world who find tattoos ugly. He could have easily said he didn’t like tattoos. He instead said that tattoos (using the delightful comparison he chose) devalue the person they’re on and make them look cheap. She could be the unicorn 10/10 to him and a tattoo would make her a 3 in his eyes. (Might as well use the rating system while we’re at it because why the fuck not.) He can give his opinion but she didn’t ask for what he thought based on what was given. He is telling her that she looks good but she would look cheap with a tattoo. So please tell me in what world that would be a grade A let me drop my panties for you right here compliment.
I’m sorry, but everyone making value judgements because of a little clumsy poetic license need to fuck right off. Holy shit, did someone compare your eyes to limpid pools? That’s okay because you like limpid pools. But omg, if it’s a comparison you don’t like, well then that’s evil patriarchy objectification bingo.
Did he communicate what he finds attractive, yes. That is not the same thing as disrespect. Even if you really think you can tart up some offense there; you should pick your fucking battles.
“Did he communicate what he finds attractive, yes. That is not the same thing as disrespect.”
Yes, it is disrespectful for a man to assume that a woman he’s not in a relationship with gives a shit about what he finds attractive about her, especially when he’s in the process of telling her what she should or shouldn’t be doing with her body as a result.
You know who gets to decide what’s respectful to women? WOMEN.
Yeah, no. That’s also what men say when I complain about getting catcalled.
Comparing this to cat-calling? Wow.
Romanian Psycho says:
I sincerely think that over exaggerations like this…is what gave us Trump. Many are fed up..the idea that making a joke is taking as insulting, when the INTENT was not [ we don’t know, but to me it sounds like a mega macho meta joke ] is what makes all of this baloney.
Getting cat-called is bad enough and worth complaining about for sure. Feeling entitled to outrage at any fricking joke is just ludicrous.
I was going to say that too, but didn’t want to get political. You’re right though. The people who read this e-mailer’s message and think “sexist” or “disrespectful” are exactly the kind of PC crowd that has put America in the shit it’s in today.
I’m pretty sure the people who voted for Trump are the ones to blame for him getting elected.
No, it’s your warped values that gave us Trump, asshole. I’m not a fucking car.
(Seconding Coquette)
Says a man.
Trust me, you should never never speak like this to a woman.
The Coquette says:
Over-exaggerations didn’t give us Trump. Misogynistic white men blind to their own sense of entitlement gave us Trump, and if you think it’s politically correct to clap back at a guy for making unsolicited comments about your body, then you’re part of the problem and you can seriously go fuck yourself.
Unsolicited? She told this guy she always wanted to get a tattoo, and he replied with a totally valid opinion which is that no, in his opinion she should not get a tattoo because she’s already perfect the way she is. It’s a completely harmless conversation in my view.
How is telling someone you’re getting a tattoo soliciting their opinion about your body?
Comments about your body are unsolicited unless the person making said comment was directly asked for an opinion.
@strangelyrational It is a solicited opinion if you’re having a conversation. Consider that you don’t walk up to strangers and say, “I’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo.” If you’re in an actual dialogue with someone, you expect them to have a response. So the real question here is what the context of the posters conversation was. If she didn’t expect a response, then it wasn’t a dialogue and that guy had no idea how alone he was in that moment. I am guessing she wasn’t just standing at a bus stop and wondered aloud.
Bry says:
Jesus, I’m so sick of everything being correlated to Trump. General ignorance and broken political and election systems gave us Trump. Isn’t it bad enough that he makes everything about him without everyone else following suit? I am the father of a very cute four year old and everyone, male and female, always says how cute she is. They never care or ask that she’s polite and smart. I always have to tell her that yes, she is beautiful but that it’s much more important that she is polite and smart. I’m much more glad that she has been reading since age three than the fact my genetics happened to make a cute kid. I fucking hate our society.
it's clear says:
Healthy people wouldn’t bring up Trump in this discussion, which doesn’t even qualify as an extremity (P.S. I voted for Hilary; have disdain for Trump). Posts and responses like these make me so grateful for women who are secure in themselves, not always on the defensive, can view things from multiple perspectives, and recognize that attraction is the initial reason any two people are together. It’s biological. If you deny this, then right away your head is not screwed on straight.
We don’t know the nature of their relationship. Stranger? Friends? Boyfriend? From one perspective this hardly qualifies as an asshole comment. From another perspective he’s just complimented her, albeit lousily/douchey (if that’s who he is then why are you spending time with him? why do you care what he has to say? …NEXT).
It’s not an unsolicited comment by the way. It’s an opinion, logically we can presume it’s inside the context of a conversation; it’s not a wrongdoing, or sleight of hand. You’re way too shut off to opinions from men, Coquette. What did Daddy say/do to upset you? (yeah, you’ve probably been hearing comments like that your whole life because you magnetize them with your extreme bullshit)
Here’s another perspective: sounds to me like this dude cannot stand tattoos. That’s his knee-jerk reaction. So what? If he’s a friend or date or boyfriend, he has the right to state his opinion on a topic she brought up. He wasn’t cruel, not even mean. She hasn’t gotten a tattoo yet either, why not? She’s “always wanted one” so why doesn’t she already have one? What’s the hold up? If it matters so much to her why doesn’t she just get it and stop talking about it? I’m playing devil’s advocate on purpose. Learn to think in different ways than an extreme linear feminist would. It’ll do you a lot of good.
You might not know it, but I know you used to be better, Coquette, how did you go backwards over the last 7 years? And plummet in the last 2? Now this website only documents you, blindly latching to your feminist-missile (which fires from a victim mentality launch pad) and always blasts off to battle against misogyny, even when it’s a mirage 74% of the time and actually “misogyny” or an uncalled for, long shot. You are constantly blowing things out of context. This is why good worthwhile men dodge you for the long haul. They always will (until you shed whatever deep-seeded contempt you maintain within, and evolve).
excuses excuses excuses, It’s Clear. A great many men just have their heads up their asses, and you’ll bend yourself backwards to tell yourself it isn’t true.
“It is a solicited opinion if you’re having a conversation.”
It is a solicited opinion if – and only if – it was specifically asked for.
If you tell a coworker that you’re going out to lunch and they tell you to make sure it’s not too fattening because you’re already at just the right weight and don’t want to get fat, that is NOT a solicited opinion. “Solicited” does not mean “said something about a subject.”
You really need to open a dictionary if you’re going to be arguing about what a word means.
Wait, nobody said there aren’t men with their head up their ass did they? But be fair, there are women afflicted with the same problem. Some of them might be posting here. So if the colon fits, you got a hat.
Ah veryon (what ever your name is), you have your head up your ass about this one.
Your way way up in this conversation, which is indicating to me that you are exactly the type of heterosexual dude that says these kind of things and then wonders why he can’t get past the third date with a woman.
You’ve probably been getting feed back on this your whole life, but instead of listening, you debate it as if this were an academic philosophical point.
Ignoring middle classes. Not even trying to appeal to them cause you bought media. Now media is just sour grapes. Without selling papers they had some value as a political tool. Now that that myths busted little other value? Business model of manufactured consent dead!
Clap back?
All i’m saying is that everyone is so sensitive and jumping on “sexism” conclusion like it’s the only one.
1. The guy made what I feel is a joke.
Did the joke landed? well, she asked you so she IS conflicted about it…which means to me that she is not sure she SHOULD feel insulted or not. Did she laugh though?
I am a lot about intent. You can tell what the guy wanted to say etc and maybe he made a sexist joke but the intention was not. That’t he kind of thing that happens in a patriarchal society but this does not mean that you can’t educate people and say ” dude, that wsa not ok because you see…bla bla bla”. Said dude can learn or not, but you did a good job.
Now, back to Trump, what happens is that a lot people are fed up that every time they do smth that maybe it’s wrong they intent is read as being the worst possible and called on. They end up feeling cornered and misunderstood and in turn they vote Trump. Not the only reason but yeah.
PS: Women voted for Trump too, a lot of them. So, please, let’s keep it realistic with those” misogynistic white men” shit.
Women have been valued (or devalued) according to our appearance or other physical characteristics (such as whether we have an intact hymen), sometimes in terms of literal material value like how many goats we’re worth, throughout history. And yes, that still includes today.
Excuse us for not finding it funny when our bodies are evaluated as material objects. And guess what? We get to decide what we think is funny and what we think is offensive. We’re at least as entitled to that as you’re entitled to be outraged over us not being amused.
I totally get that. Nobody want to hear what their Dow jones sex rating is. We can also look at it from this guys perspective; he could mean more than one thing at once. He can be communicating that he sees her as attractive. He can be communicating that others like him already see her as attractive. He may be doing it for different reasons too. He could just be trying to make her comfortable. But how she interprets and weighs these values he is proffering speaks more about her character than his.
“I have been thinking about painting myself purple.”
“Nobody paints a stop sign purple.”
“Oh, I didn’t realize you see me as a stop sign. Do you know how offensive it is to be called a stop sign?”
“Oh god, I’m sorry, I don’t want you to think I need you to be a stop sign!”
“All you police officers are alike trying to make us into traffic signs!”
“I’m sorry, i don’t think I’m a police officer, I will go away now.”
Yes, heavens knows the most important thing is for women to stay calm and polite when men lob offensive nonsense at us, because we don’t know for sure that they’re shitheads. And if we get angry at being subjected to that kind of double standard, that’s our fault for being bitches.
Wait which blog are we on.
(You’re also writing a conversation that didn’t happen here. It’s more like:
“Wait, that doesn’t sound right, I’mma go ask some people I respect what they think of that.”
“Yeah, that’s pretty uncool.”
“BUT WHAT IF HE MEANT IT IN A GOOD WAY.”
“Don’t care, fuck off.”)
I’m sorry daffy, but his comment didn’t seem “lobbed” from the posters context. Also, you are missing my point of how ridiculously overwrought this entire thing has become. We are so far into stick up ass territory that trump has gotten involved somehow. Clearly the compliment was written by Putin!
Cuttlefish says:
I can get irritated by excessive political correctness myself, and I do agree that this dude’s comment was nowhere near as offensive as catcalling, but I’m pretty sure gutting the voting rights act, along with a long, focused, ruthless takeover of the GOP by its most insane constituents, decreased funding for public education, and the breakdown of respect for easily identifiable non-biased journalism did a lot more to “give us Trump” than outrage culture on the internet. In fact, I think the whole “Trump won because liberals can’t take a joke/focus too much on identity politics/etc” is not only inaccurate, but also really harmful. The fact that enough morons were willing to vote for a presidential candidate because they don’t like political correctness is the problem–because that’s the one of the most idiotic fucking reasons to justify vote for anyone, and anyone with a basic understanding of civics would understand that–not the excessive political correctness itself.
No, it’s exactly as stupid as a man telling you you shouldn’t wear makeup.
Stop telling me what to do with my body. I don’t do things to it based solely on a man’s opinion.
You’re absolutely right.
Personally, I like no makeup or jewelry, or even hair dye, and you’d never dream of telling me that I should change my mind.
You don’t get to decide that. Whoever the comment was intended for gets to decide that.
you must be new here.
Iwatchalotofkardashians says:
You should tell him that’s a Kim Kardashian quote, op! But I think she said Bentley
Soooooooooooooooo says:
It’s making me uncomfortable that u can’t see at all why his comment was rude.
I can see why white people think black women r always angry because he would’ve gotten an attitude on sight from me. I wouldn’t have had time to type to cq because he would already b apologizing.
If she was a Ford Taurus in his mind, would he say go ahead and get the bumper sticker? Can u see why this is wrong?
Lol. “Baby, you better get a hood ornament.”
Yes. Wrong.
Oh god. “You don’t put bumper stickers on a Ferrari. Let’s be honest, though, you’re more like a Honda Civic, so go right ahead.”
I’m loving the way soooooooo made me think about it.
Smart re-framing! Thanks for that!!
I think the real question at the end of the day isn’t about what he said, but what she wants out of it. That ranges from alienation and getting him to go away to being welcoming and building a stronger relationship in one way or another.
That would be why Coke gave three possible replies? We’re way out ahead of you dude.
You are not fucking “way ahead of me.”
There is literally an infinite number of responses in a vast number of directions. So sit your ass back down and let me have my fucking opinion of the situation. It’s just as valid as yours and you aren’t winning a fucking race.
Pffft. Says the guy who showed up in this conversation and promptly hit half a dozen of the bingo squares here: https://hoydenabouttown.com/2011/02/18/sexist-joke-bingo/ We’ve had this conversation a million times with people like you, and have heard it all before. Poke around here for a while if you want to get up to speed: https://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/purpose/
Fuck off daffy. You deserve the world you’re in.
Niqi says:
God, right? All this tired rehashed bullshit. It gets exhausting.
Please pay veryirritable no mind. Anyone who says someone deserves to live in a world where they’re systematically oppressed because they posted a funny bingo card pointing out that their arguments have been used before is a gross misogynist.
@niqi – I’m just enjoying getting under this guy’s skin. Anyone who waltzes into a blog with the tag line “shady advice from a raging bitch” and expects women to have a calm conversation about how maybe they should consider being complimented when guys objectify them is not the sharpest crayon in the box.
I’m assuming here that op is female, but a good litmus test for whether something is sexist is ‘would it seem offensive/weird/fucked up if said to a man?’. And I don’t think that if it was said to a guy, you’d all be jumping up and down saying that he just can’t take a compliment (because we don’t tend to equate men’s bodies to objects as we do women’s bodies, and also because we don’t expect men to accept and appreciate commentaries on their appearance).
Ki says:
You changed my perspective on this with that litmus test. I agree, if op was a guy that Ferrari comment would seem weird and irrelevant.
Excellent point!
Honestly, if someone said that to me I would definitely take it as a compliment. it might just sail right past me and I would take it at face value. Depends on the situation, person, tone, distance, eye contact, history, whether they were touching me, facing me…but at no point would I think, “holy shit, I’m an object” without some other very extreme cues.
Extreme cues like living in a world that objectifies you on a daily basis? For you, being objectified almost never happens, so you can safely ignore it when it maybe does. For women, it happens constantly, so we fight it as much as we have energy and time to do so.
The experiences of people who walk around in female bodies and those who walk around in male bodies are very different. It’s a one-way mirror – invisible from one side, and really fucking obvious from the other. Learn to see the glass.
This. Also, the aforementioned litmus test isn’t about the reaction of the man, it’s about how the statement would be perceived more broadly. I don’t believe for a second that if a guy said to you ‘why would you put a bumper sticker on a ferrari’ in response to you saying you wanted a tattoo, that you wouldn’t at least think ‘hmm that was kind of a weird thing to say’ (and if not you, then certainly 95% of the people around you; they may not think it was offensive, but they would think it was weird in a way that they wouldn’t if it was said to a woman for the very reasons outlined a million times already – no one bats an eyelid when women’s bodies are commented upon, we’re told to take it as a compliment or as a valid criticism).
As a man who has received similar “compliments” a bunch of times, it flies over your head the first two times, and after that it leaves an empty feeling in your stomach and a weird dry taste in your mouth. It’s unpleasant and uncomfortable and I want nothing to do with people who think it’s okay to make people they want to fuck endure it.
Oh my god, I’m so TIRED of arguments to the effect of “well he INTENDED it as a compliment/didn’t MEAN to offend you” and “men who aren’t completely awful are rare, so be grateful for this mediocre and objectifying comment.” Fuck the fuck off with that shit.
It’s almost like you’d think these people can’t get along with anyone. 🙂
Dude. Get the fuck over yourself. You think a woman is overreacting for disliking a comment and yet you’re butthurt all over this comment section because you didn’t like the asker being offended or Coquette’s response.
And to address your dumb comment above, women do not have the “same arrogance” as men – see why you guys have more resources and power than us. Seriously, how willfully clueless can you be?
Go revise how you think of your relationship to your mother. You need to.
I liked CQs response. I thought there could be more. Jesus fucking Christ. Just because I want to play the game too doesn’t mean I’m trying to stop anyone else. So you should go get over your own self. I fucking dare you to come up with some entertaining lines.
hurtfeelingsreport says:
yawn. this guy reminds me of a dude i recently talked to who wanted to have a discussion about the types of power women hold over men. i listened, of course, because i’m a woman and was eager to be enlightened. he cited the fact that women have more “resources” than men do (i.e., shelters, domestic assistance programs, etc). he cited that women are more frequently granted custody. he cited that women hold the sexual purse strings — at a bar, women do most of the rejecting.
after i got done balking at the absolute insanity of what i was just subjected to, i tried to explain that well, of course there are more women’s shelters — it’s a simple matter of supply and demand. of course more women receive custody. that is based on a domestic model that MEN created in order to insure that women stayed home, nurturing, mothering, etc. and of course women turn men down in bars more frequently than vice versa. men are terrifying sometimes, especially when they feel they are entitled to sex.
like, none of this exists in a fucking vacuum, extremelyirritable. try looking at things through the lens of history, social constructs, and the assumptions that thrive even today — in other words, some motherfucking context.
it’s a privilege that men get to be considered as individuals with a variety of intentions, and that women need to just be more aware of their feelings and intentions. when we get granted that same privilege, and not treated as one homogeneous group of overly sensitive twats, sure, we can reopen this dialog. until then, try listening to women with the intent of learning something, rather than assuming your voice is always welcome and always necessary.
VeryOn says:
I will bypass a lot of the baggage you’re trying to load only to say this. Your response was far more thoughtful than most. I appreciate that there is a lot of history and continuity that you have to battle daily. And I also understand how I can come across as a “not all men” sort of formulation of motivation.
And it looks even more grim after the OP explained the age gap. What I wanted personally was to explore more possible outcomes, not more possible labels, conclusions, or insults. What I see happening continuously is confirmation bias. By assuming that “guy friend” is taking an unwelcome liberty based solely in male objectification, then nobody will ever get out of that loop in even the most casual conversation.
Thanks for being civil if a bit insulting, I think I see from where it came.
Babyella says:
All of the people that are offended by the asker being offended seem to be thinking of themselves and how they would react in this situation. Try to remember that this isn’t about you. You did not experience the emotions of the original asker. You are a completely different person from them, and it’s okay for them to have a different response than you would. Sure, you can have your own take of how you would react in this situation, but quit applying it to this. The asker was clearly bothered by a comment, and wanted to know if her feelings were valid. You don’t get to tell people how to feel, react, or what to say. Also, none of these responses are out of line with the original comment. In fact, I think the last one is funny as hell, and perfectly demonstrates that she doesn’t give a fuck what this guy thinks.
If the guy is allowed to state his opinion on her body, then she totally has the right to respond in line with how she is feeling.
I agree with you in that her feelings are valid. But if she invited someone’s opinion, then the implicit part of that bargain is that she had to listen to it for what it was worth. The worth is very contextualized. CQ threw out some nice quips, but none of them were focused on what the poster might want as a result; maybe. They might, but maybe not.
OP does seem to be very uncertain, so trying them on is definitely empowering and maybe even spot on. My take is that the situation called for a little less self absorption by both parties.
“I’ve always wanted to get a tattoo” is information, not soliciting an opinion. That would be “Do you think I should get a tattoo?”
And I agree, douche’s tiresome cliché response which implies a tattoo would degrade her worth should be listened to for what it was worth. Which is nothing.
Not if it’s in conversation! Especially if they had been walking around together on a “sorta-date.” When you’re checking each other out as potential mates that’s definitely a “how would you think of me?” And she found out! Mission accomplished. But what she didn’t figure out was what SHE thought about what he thought. But that’s just one possible context of nearly infinite possibility. I totally get that your ideal situation would be that after you say, “I was thinking I might get a tattoo.” The person would remain respectfully silent or change the subject. Or whatever, including my response which would have been, “of what and why?” But poor dude made a move and now everyone’s chopping off the limb he’s on.
The more I think about it. Your viewpoint really is worth nothing. The only viewpoint that really matters is the original poster. What does it mean to her? And she has to figure that out.
Dude, you’re usually great, but you’re so so wrong on this.
Her viewpoint was that it was kind of fucked up, but she wasn’t sure if that was a valid viewpoint to have. You’re being a colossal ass by suggesting it wasn’t a valid reaction for her to have and she ought to consider the guy’s intentions instead.
Because that’s what we need, right? More focus on men and their feelings, and if women object to anything a man says, they should just examine it harder until they stop having silly girl feelings.
And no one gives a flying fuck about YOUR viewpoint, dude, yet here you are vomiting it all over the comments section. Go masturbate to the importance of your opinion elsewhere.
I don’t think I am. I’ve made every attempt to value and clarify the posters feelings where they themselves were motivated to write because they were uncertain. Most everyone else here is projecting their own sexist combat context onto the situation and trying to paint this dude as a criminal patriarch when he is at worst guilty of clumsy poetic license. I hold each of the viewpoints of this story in esteem and I refuse to sacrifice the integrity of good will by both involved parties until more context is provided.
At this time I will take a moment to demonstrate real disrespect, not imagined disrespect. Fuck daffy, and fuck nikki. The proof here is that disrespect requires awareness and violation of expectations. If someone is not aware that they are violating a norm, they are merely ignorant.
I’m sorry that you’ve all suffered such horrible objectifying experiences that you feel a need to exorcise them from this demon child whom you have never even met. I know that sounds like I’m being facetious, but I’m serious. You all leapt to a narrative of disrespect and objectification where mere incompetent flirting would have been the end of the story and “use a quip to set em straight” would have been the moral. Nuance is dead, and it goes into the night air on a burning pile of hyperbole and gross exaggeration.
What I found incredibly disgusting was the attempt to fence me into a stereotype and I was directly insulted. That bingo “game” is in itself a hypocritical over generalization. You should be ashamed to reference it because that’s the sort of game “men” would play.
If you’re serious about feminism, don’t play games.
And if you’re daffy or nike, don’t talk to me.
Good will ain’t worth shit, dude, and you can absolutely be disrespectful without meaning to.
It was a small comment and the dude was ignorant of the unfortunate implications, but it doesn’t follow that the asker is required to hold his hand and gently guide him past his ignorance to make sure his precious ego stays intact. Insisting women must always be perfectly kind to people who say shitty things to them is one of the ways sexism persists.
Also, don’t you think you’re maybe taking this a little bit more seriously than the situation warrants? The fate of the universe doesn’t hang on how the asker chooses to respond to this shit, and you’re not the last bastion of human decency. You’re an insignificant asshole.
Feel free to keep flapping there slack jawed clack-dish. I didn’t read but one word.
Projecting that fear of insignificance there.
“Especially if they had been walking around together on a ‘sorta-date.’ When you’re checking each other out as potential mates that’s definitely a ‘how would you think of me?'”
You think that because a woman said something to someone she describes only as “a guy” about getting a tattoo, that implies she’s romantically interested in him and wants to know if he finds her attractive?
Male arrogance again. Of course when a woman talks to a guy, she’s probably checking him out as a potential mate and dying to know whether he finds her attractive or not!
This may surprise you, but we women aren’t romantically or sexually interested in every guy we speak to. We’re not interested in the vast majority of guys we speak to.
StrangelyRational, that’s only one of the infinite contexts that are possible here. You’re the one insisting that it isn’t the case and therefore trying to justify a malevolent view. I propose a possible context and you act like I’m insisting on that reality? Simply not true. You don’t get to claim I’m arrogant because I attempt a mildly plausible inference. You’re arrogant for insisting without evidence that I am wrong. I would be willing to take the fact that “a guy” is the most neutral stance possible. But responding conversationally with mild flirting is still not some patriarchal objectification beyond a reasonable social fucking transaction that may or may not lead to and entail actual fucking in the future because his intention and messaging is different from hers.
Additionally you don’t see how you’re removing the posters own freedom to figure out how she feels about it because you’re hell bent on proving how wrong guys are to say whether they like tattoos? CQ built a frame that I thought might be confining and I tried to expand it a little. Sorry, but without more context I’m not willing to buy the Sherlock Holmes bit without showing the work or getting a confirmation. I’m totally willing to reverse many of my statements with incoming data. Until then, I respectfully disagree with you.
But @ninki oh, I’m projecting? Really? I chose that using a randomized Shakespearean insult generator…so you can extra fuck off with your attempt at psycho analysis. I literally looked it up after typing it. You’re welcome for the vocab. I’ll consider reading your future responses if your first words are thank you.
Still didn’t read your previous flippity floo. Good luck.
Thank you for the laugh. Are you seriously bragging about using a Shakespearean insult generator? lmao I was fucking wondering where you pulled that out of. Can’t be bothered to come up with your own insults? Makes sense, given that original thought doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.
And it wasn’t your randomly-generated insult that I was addressing, dude. It was you feeling the need to tell me you hadn’t read my response, instead of just not reading my response and moving on.
Also, here’s a logic lesson in return for your oh-so-kind vocab lesson: when someone suggests something as a possibility, the burden of proof is on the suggester, not on others to disprove that it’s possible. This is that “prove god doesn’t exist” bullshit.
Don’t choke on your own pretension, dude.
And Strangely Rational is right, guys assume with uncomfortable frequency that just because we’re interacting with them, we’re attracted to them.
Ooooh Ninki, creativity is what I got all over your lame ass. I came up with lines when you brought shit to the party. You haven’t created anything. I was creative enough to go and find it, use it, look it up, and learn. That’s something you’re not doing until I make you. You’re the one who tried to spin the table and failed with your community college psych projection.
I’ve got analogies you don’t even address.
Your accusations are fucking empty.
You don’t entertain me.
You don’t inform me.
You don’t influence me beyond the opportunity to berate you colorfully.
I’ve got a far wider range of response than you.
You are clearly unequipped to make any assault on my esteem.
Give up bitch.
How very telling that you’re dismissive because I’m not here to provide you with anything.
I’m not dignifying your claim that using a random insult generator is somehow indicative of creativity with an argument against it, because that shit is self-explanatory. And reading it once caused enough secondhand embarrassment.
Your attempt to infer something about me based on my responses was inaccurate, if you were wondering. Shouldn’t surprise me that you’re so unoriginal you can’t even come up with your own argument tactics.
But god, you’re right, where would I fucking be without a man to explain things to me?
I’m goin’ to bed. Maybe you wanna think about doing the same yourself, or else spending your time doing something other than spewing bile.
Nope. We are back to me not reading anything you write except by skimming accident. Everything I said was perfect and you are as dust.
Rainbowpony says:
That’s the thing Veryon, you can’t logic people out of their feelings and experiences, especially since those feelings are based on decades worth of straight-up objectifying sexism, and tons of nebulous sexism wherein men say ambiguous-shitty things and then tell us our feelings about the possibly shitting things are wrong and the man just knows he’s right.
Is spilling 500,000 words on this topic bringing you closer to women? Is proving that the tattoo comment is correct in some non-emotional deductive way working for you, socially?
The reason that dude’s comment about the tattoo is shitty is impossible to describe to someone who doesn’t have the refined senses necessary to detect sexism in all of its forms. To take a different example, imagine someone at a party walked up to you and ask, “what do you do for a living?” Now, as a question, its perfectly valid and someone could argue for hours why that’s a perfectly fine and polite question, and there are any number of cases where that question is fine; thing is, we all have all run into assholes who ask that question to judge you. And you know when a person is using that question to judge you because… of a refined social sense of assholishness that you’ve cobbled together over your life-time of knowing assholes. It’s tiny accents on particular words, they way they look at you, their body posture, the particular phrasing they use…. etc. Anyway, as for the tattoo comment, what I can tell you, as a woman, fucking making a comment about cars and value and women’s bodies and tattoos, while the comment itself can (maybe) be deconstructed forever to reveal no particular sexism (maybe), everything about my past experience tells me that is fucking sexism. Nebulous, I don’t take responsibility for it, ambiguous, shitty sexism that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and the man tells you its your fault. And you’ve been told now by several women in this blog, including Coke, so now you know, and you can no longer claim ignorance, and you should move forward knowing that.
Or whatever man. Keep digging your hole, I’ll be up here talking to the dudes that know how to have a conversation.
“That’s the thing Veryon, you can’t logic people out of their feelings and experiences”
…and then you try to do exactly that to me?
“Is spilling 500,000 words on this topic bringing you closer to women?”
Which women? Is that my intent? Am I entertained? Sharpening my writing skills against people who have trouble rubbing two verbs together is definitely fun. But…Who fucking cares? I was sick in bed and had little else to do other that watch rapey mc pumpkin nazi fuck the U.S.
This whole thing has been off the rails and I made a sincere effort to validate 84% of the comments directed at me and made a 100% effort to validate the poster and her “guy friend” even though many want to cut off a dick just because he made a clumsy remark. If you’re going to ask questions about shit “working socially” start with attacking someone who gives you a misguided compliment.
“…the tattoo is shitty is impossible to describe to someone who doesn’t have the refined senses necessary to detect sexism in all of its forms.”
Estrogen, the super power that allows you to see social injustice at any scale. You want to write me off because I don’t think it was a monumental offense? Fine. I’ll be sure to fill the space on my fridge where THAT christmas card was going.
Your own goddamn example proves exactly how wrong you can be, and even could be in this instance.
“‘what do you do for a living?’ Now, as a question, its perfectly valid and someone could argue for hours why that’s a perfectly fine and polite question”
…because maybe it is a valid question? I can’t even remember a party where it wasn’t asked at least twice…I mean parties where normal fucking humans hang out.
“…refined social sense of assholishness that you’ve cobbled together over your life-time of knowing assholes.”
YEah right, your asshole radar is capable of seeing through a tiny stream of eight words and you can justify judgement.
“It’s tiny accents on particular words, they way they look at you, their body posture,” …none of which were present in the text presented to us, again proving that you are racing to judgement.
“…everything about my past experience tells me that is fucking sexism.” Great. Well. My statements have been to the effect, “it might not be sexism.” But you want to try to burn me and discard my own personal years of experience.
Not having it. I have left every avenue open for recanting, adjusting, accommodating, and reformulating even though I’m as certain as you are.
“And you’ve been told now by several women in this blog,” …who could all be wrong.
“by several women in this blog, including Coke,” …I’m not clear on that. If you read it carefully she said
“if you think it’s politically correct to clap back at a guy for making unsolicited comments about your body, then you’re part of the problem and you can seriously go fuck yourself.”
I do not classify it as “politically correct” and recognize any womans right to clap back in any situation that makes her uncomfortable sexually or not. So don’t try to hide behind CQ. I am not part of the problem.
That’s a laugh. You’ll be hanging out in an echo chamber that doesn’t challenge you to see anything but your own perspective. You clearly can’t concede a lack of evidence and insist on judgement where none is necessary or required for the resolution of the posters original intent. womp womp.
And this entire stream of shit from you stems from objectifying the male viewpoint in a framework that insists on seeing his comment as sexist without ambiguity.
I would restate a number of paragraphs to make the following assertion. You have revealed yourself to be sexist.
But the thing that I find offensive;
You have no charity.
You’ve been commenting this much because you’re sick? Whatever, you doth protest too much, me thinks.
I don’t have to be nice to you; I don’t owe you charity when you’ve written 105 replies in this thread demonstrating why i shouldn’t extend anything to you on this topic.
“StrangelyRational, that’s only one of the infinite contexts that are possible here. You’re the one insisting that it isn’t the case and therefore trying to justify a malevolent view. I propose a possible context and you act like I’m insisting on that reality?”
You’re the one defending someone on the basis of one possibility among “infinite contexts.” I never insisted that a romantic situation wasn’t possible. I merely questioned the motivation behind your suggestion; there is no evidence whatsoever to support it, and it’s a common misconception among men that women who pay attention to them are romantically interested. Especially among the sort of men who feel like a romantic interest on their part could possibly be used as a valid defense for making this kind of comment in the first place.
If anything, a romantic interest makes this comment even more disgusting and potentially risky, as it isn’t just some mindless repetition of a tired phrase the guy heard from someone else but something that he said with the intention of actively attracting her. Just the assumption of her considering it flattering demonstrates a serious ignorance of women.
If a guy friend who I knew had no romantic interest in me said this, I’d roll my eyes and tell him why he was being an idiot (although in the case of my male friends, I’d know they’d be saying it ironically to mock asshole dudes who really feel this way). But if I heard this from a stranger or romantic interest as an obvious attempt at flirting, I would feel seriously creeped out and get away from the dude as soon as possible.
If you understood what it was like for girls and women in our world, you’d understand why we cannot take any chances with guys who we even suspect to be demeaning, disrespecting, and/or objectifying us. Better to risk some clueless guy not getting a date (and maybe learning how not to talk to women in the process!) than for a woman to risk having her boundaries violated by a man whose level of objectification and entitlement are unknown.
You’re saying “…she invited someone’s opinion,” but did she? She mentioned that she had always wanted to get a tattoo. But she wasn’t asking the guy what he thought about tattoos. She was merely sharing a decision she had made for herself.
Think of it in a different scenario. Say you were on a date, and you were craving a burger. You tell your date, “I want to eat a hamburger.” Your date replies, “Why would you want to buy a hamburger when a salad is healthier for you?”
Sure, your date may just be trying to help you, but at the end of the day, they don’t respect that you’re a person capable of making your own decisions. If the asker had been trying to decide whether or not to get a tattoo, then I would say that the guy’s response wouldn’t have been so out of line (even though it’s still a douchey thing to say). However, unsolicited opinions over such trivial shit are annoying as fuck.
And not only that, but he compared her to a fucking car. I know it’s normal to say that kind of shit these days, but if you really think about it, it’s fucked up. He’s comparing her to an object defined by its utility. Moreover, a Ferrari is a status symbol. I see where you think he’s complimenting her, because it’s an expensive object that makes you look cool and is useful. But it’s not a compliment because it shows that he’s not considering her dignity as a human.
I like the salad analogy. I can see where you’re coming from. But just because someone points out it’s healthier doesn’t mean they are disrespecting you. I know I’ve been around people talking about what food is healthy and nobody demanded an apology.
Because it is typically asked of women to eat healthy and low-fat to be skinnier and easier on the eyes of their male counterparts, with clear disregard for their personal pleasure. “Oh honey, you shouldn’t eat THAT, you’ll get fat and no man will never ever want to have anything to do with you.” Ya feel.
KittyNinja says:
Hmmm, I see that you’re bagging what they’re are raking, and one thing gives me pause that seems to be what is causing people to shut down and maybe miss what you’re saying. It seems like you want us to have a bit more empathy for derps derpin’ out which makes me ask is it so bad to be disrespectful? Plenty of people have shitty manners and they can be grating to some, but that isn’t a moral failing. Just less than ideal behaviors. And manners and how to be respectful continues to grow, but bad people have manners and good people loudly belch at the table.
Ionno, I just keep thinking about how I have gotten ragey to my friends while I politely eyeroll whenever retelling a story to my coworkers. I know my audience. But lord knows, if someone saw my RuPaul like rant on some dude bro, they would think I was outraged when I was really just trying out some new comedic devises while letting off steam about all the times in the past where I smiled, ducked my head, and believed I would be worth more if x. This chance to express rage is something new to me in my short 33 years, and I am so happy to finally have some language to explain why that shit was troubling to me.
I like to imagine I’m a powerhouse that ain’t affected by that shit, but my rage is definitely because of real experiences that leave me reactionary. I really can’t blame a sober person for losing patience with an alcoholic (which I routinely experience as someone 5 months sober). Anger at a situation is a step towards accepting and changing, but it behooves those who have the ability to be patient with that anger to do so.
BTW, former educator here, so I love learners and tend to be more patient and have more tools on communicating those steps than others.
Hey kitty ninja, I’m sorry I didn’t take time to appreciate your thoughtful response sooner.
If you think that someone mentioning something they want or intend to do with their body or life = inviting your opinion, you may want to re-examine the way you have conversations. Sexism aside, that’s not how respectful adult conversations work (unless you’re talking a close relationship in which it is understood by both parties that unsolicited advice is welcome. But if it were such a relationship in this instance, the OP would likely have said “my friend” or “my boyfriend”, not “a guy”). There are few things more irritating than sharing news or information about myself with someone else and then having them tell me what they think I should do. Unsolicited advice disrespects the autonomy of the fellow adult with whom you’re conversing. If people want advice, they are capable of asking for it. And if you can’t stand not telling someone your opinion of their life choices, asking “Do you mind if I give you some advice?” first is a common courtesy. As is keeping your mouth shut if they say they do mind.
My husband said that no wife of his was ever going to have a tattoo. As soon as the divorce is final, I’m celebrating by getting a flying pig tattoo, and he can suck it.
So you’re literally getting a tattoo when pigs fly. Poetic.
Fuck yeah.
My first husband said he thought tattoos were a turnoff. I got mine a year before I broke up with him (should have done it sooner), because at that point it was hardly a deterrent.
Why do you like tattoos? I’m asking honestly. thanks
I’m not sure if that question was directed at Faith or me (or both), but I can answer for myself anyway.
Asking why someone likes tattoos is like asking why someone likes paintings (as these are both art forms, it’s a direct comparison). To which I’d respond that it’s too broad a question; there are too many styles and individual expressions to judge as a whole.
As with paintings, I appreciate certain kinds of tattoos more than others. A well thought-out, long planned, symbolically meaningful tattoo designed by/with a professional tattoo artist chosen for his/her specific talents and paid an amount you’d need to pay for a high-quality tattoo, placed carefully on your body, is a completely different thing from a Tweety Bird tattoo you got impulsively at some random place near the bar where you and your friends drank too much.
(Not that I would have any problem with someone who did the latter – their body, their choice – but it’s the difference between quality art and mindless doodling, and that makes a difference in my level of appreciation.)
My tattoo falls into the former category. It’s incredibly personal and symbolic, with very deep levels of meaning. My sister has several in relation to her experiences with mental illness and the death of her stepson. The memorial ones touch me the most. I remember a woman I knew whose 7-year-old son was killed in a car accident she survived; she had his last drawing from a few days prior (him and his family together on a sunny day) tattooed across her back. She was a virtual stranger to me, but seeing the picture of that tattoo had me in tears.
Then there are the people who get tattoos to cover self-harm scars, whether from suicidal or non-suicidal cutting. That, like the memorial tattoos, goes beyond being a tool for basic artistic expression to one of healing. And it’s different from putting it on a canvas, because it’s something that you’re making a part of your body and carrying with you everywhere you go.
If you’re wanting to know why I like the thought of a tattoo for myself, it’s something I’ve thought about doing for a really long time. I only want just the one, and I’ve wanted to make sure that before I put something permanent on my skin that it was genuinely meaningful for me.
As far as liking tattoos in general, I have seen some exquisitely beautiful tattoos, and I have seen some that I don’t like at all. I tend to prefer those that show off an aspect of someone’s personality and are obviously meaningful. In the long run, though, no one is getting or not getting a tattoo based on what I think about it, which is as it should be. Something so personal, and permanent, should be the right of the person who will be wearing that art and no one else’s.
It was a broad question, to be interpreted any way you like. Thank you for sharing.
He was trying to warn you that he does really crappy tattoos.
As women (as humans really) we need to inform the individuals around us, men and women, about how we need to be treated when we are in a relationship with them. In every relationship.
If someone makes you feel uncomfortable with their words or opinions that needs to be addressed with that individual. More often than not, you’ll find a way to resolve whatever issue could have arised before it becomes an issue. It does you no good to get hurt/offended, say nothing, and then let it take up space in your brain. Address it and let it go. If you can’t walk away from the individual and feel a-okay after that conversation then you should start evaluating that relationship.
I think that people are super good at reacting and super shitty at communicating and resolving.
*polite well distanced metaphorical hug*
Finally…sanity.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying about individual relationships, but this sort of thing represents a much broader social issue than that.
There are far too many men in this society who believe that their opinions about women’s bodies are paramount. We see this everywhere, from seemingly minor issues like the guy’s attitude in this situation to major, serious issues like sexual assault and reproductive rights.
At the core of those major issues is the sort of attitude that these types of guys demonstrate – women’s bodies aren’t there for women; they’re there for men. Objectifying comments may appear to be no big deal and something that can be handled on an individual level, but they’re at the root of so much harm when they add up and become amplified that we have to address it on a larger scale.
What’s most important now is how we raise our boys, and I don’t just mean “we” as in mothers, but “we” as in everyone who has the ability to be an influence. Not that we should just let adult men slide, but things like sexism or racism tend to require generations to correct because too many individuals brought up a certain way will not change, or at least not enough. Especially if they belong to the privileged class and have a major stake in maintaining the status quo.
So absolutely we should be standing up for ourselves in our relationships, but that’s just the beginning.
Please believe me whole heartedly when I say I am all for individuals rights in staking out personal boundaries. I believe in bodily autonomy from birth to death regardless of age, sex, gender, or social standing. I have intervened on behalf of women who have been harassed. I would intervene in any human rights violation, maybe up to and including my own death.
And while Sun Tzu said something like “pay attention to little things, big things take care of themselves.” I don’t believe it to be true in this context. All I see is a bunch of people trying to assert their own realities and draw their own boundaries. Unsupported assertions made with ridiculous hubris and lack of evidence have been made. Fortunately this only comes at the cost of a couple hypothetical people living in contorted imaginary cages…some made of colon tissue.
The argument as last stated seems to indicate that little problems become big problems. And as a hypothetical, that can’t be disproven. And with concrete examples, I am willing to agree that it’s true. There are definitely insidious undercurrents that affect social behavior. I just do not believe this is the example you would want to use given the severe lack of context.
Too many men who think their opinion matter.
Too many men who think they should word it.
And so little men who actually have more than one interesting thing floating in their brain.
Lord have mercy.
Jessica Sen says:
Yes! The thing that irked me most was that OP wasn’t even asking for his opinion. She was just sharing that she was thinking of getting a tattoo. For his own reason of inflated self-importance, he found it appropriate to express his opinion
Jessica ! Whatcha doin these days ?
I’m on house arrest with no alcohol or weed or sex. My doctor had also banned me from doing social experiments which means no fucking around with the police. I’m sorry about your book – I emailed you explaining why I couldn’t deliver.
VeryMobile says:
Do you need a copy coquettes latest book Whoami?
Not need, but yeah I (still) don’t have the cash for it.
VeryHelpful says:
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Change has to start somewhere. No one person is going to change a major social issue by themselves. If we as educated people, men and women began communicating with one another in a respectful, meaningful and concise way and stopped being so reactive then we would see change begin.
If we receive a rude/objectifying/unwanted comment and react with an equally rude/objectifying/unwanted comment then what do we accomplish? Nothing. I am guilty of this at times because it can be entertaining and sometimes I get bored but I know that my negative reaction isn’t helping anything and certainly isn’t showing people how to treat me in a respectful way.
I think it is also important to point out that every woman and man has a different perspective on what is considered objectifying of themselves. As much as it is the OP’s prerogative to feel objectified by the comment; for me, I wouldn’t have been bothered by the comment one bit. I know what I look like. I would be mad if someone commented on my intelligence or my ability to fucking rock it at my job. I wouldn’t have felt objectified because I wouldn’t feel that that is the intent of the individual. If he slapped my ass or grabbed some tit while saying it, hell, even if he licked his lips while saying it… that is a completely different story.
And I agree with IRRITABLE, you don’t head into a conversation with someone with the intent of just talking to someone. When you make a statement you expect a response. If she said “hey, I am thinking of getting a tattoo” and he said “I think that is fucking brilliant, your beautiful skin is like a canvas!” would people still be outraged? He would still be commenting on her appearance and likening her to an object. Is the real problem here the lack of validation?
I honestly don’t understand all the hoopla surrounding this.
I think Coke said in some earlier post that people can’t “make” you feel one way or another. How you feel will depend on how you respond.
Wow, “victims just need to explain politely” and “getting mad doesn’t help anything” and “it wouldn’t offend me” and “it’s your fault if you feel hurt” all in one go. We have bingo.
I don’t know why you are using quotations.
MK, in a discussion forum where the exact quotes are immediately available in the preceding post, it is perfectly fine for a responder to use quotation marks around an obvious paraphrase. It indicates that “this is what I’m interpreting you to be saying” and separates those thoughts from the responder’s.
Casual discussion board/social media posts do not have to conform to strict journalistic standards. (And I say this as a formally educated English nerd with some experience in journalism, so I haven’t come by this opinion lightly.)
People process things differently. Sometimes you can’t tell what it is that bothers you about what someone said until you’ve had time to think it over. Sometimes you know, but you don’t know how to put it into words right away. Some people get frozen by shock when someone says something shitty, and only later find their voice. I agree that talking it out (or at least trying to) at some point is important, but I think the sentiment that “if you can’t walk away from the individual and feel a-okay after that conversation then you should start evaluating that relationship” isn’t particularly fair.
I get that, but still think that feeling okay after something was said to you is important. It won’t always happen immediately of course, but recognizing that they said something that upset you doesn’t mean you need to internalize it. It isn’t about you, it’s about them and their limited knowledge about you.
(I’ve been the ‘victim’ verbally, physically and emotionally. I don’t take this subject lightly.)
I see we are no longer embracing the fucking change.
I was never really clear on the change…
I think as a man, no one ever tells you you’re too pretty to _______. It feels like a compliment when you’re a young girl or ugly, but it gets ugly fast. You’re too pretty to carry those groceries. Someone as angelic as you shouldn’t have to go without. You’re too beautiful to be a cop, you’re a farrari that’s better suited for a war tank type of woman. You’re too gorgeous to be a dr, that’s too much school and the pay out isn’t worth it, you can get a rich husband to take care of you. I just turned 30, and I’m tired of being told in some way, shape, or form that I’m too pretty to ____.
At least dignify me with a real reason. Because you think carrying groceries is a mans job? That’s cool, pick up these groceries then, see u upstairs. Because you think men should take care of women so I should never go without? Cool, take care of this rent then. Because you think women are too weak to be a cop? Oh ok, that’s not cool. Because pretty women shouldn’t aspire to do anything in life? That’s not cool either.
Why shouldn’t she get a tattoo again? Because she’s the equivalent of a farrari? Or because he thinks her body is more important than any reason she could want a tattoo? It’s offensive.
This straw man is too pretty to burn.
You’re mean and I hope you have nightmares for two weeks straight: (
Strangely enough the medication I’m taking for my back is actually giving me nightmares. You win! But we are all in for probably four years of nightmares.
man, will you just fucking listen to other perspectives for once? perspectives that you don’t find appealing, even? perspectives that are validated, not by you, my dear edgelord, but by experience and perspective and constant, prevailing oppression? did you know that sexism isn’t something men get to claim, because sexism/racism/etc necessarily implies that the oppressed have been oppressed historically and continue to be oppressed under current social/cultural constructs — constructs that have been normalized? or are you still in your 20s with limited world experience, lacking the wisdom and humility that will, lord have mercy christ have mercy, come with age? (ps don’t cite your trip to ecuador or w/e as “world experience.” like literally no one gives a fuck.)
you seem to be laboring under the impression that your advice and opinion is perpetually & implicitly being solicited. you also have a lot of arrogance about your own writing and position in this world that you may want to reexamine (there’s some unsolicited advice! but wait wassss iitttt, because maybe by making mention of your writing skillz you were just asking for it blah blah blah, wet fart noise, etc). your lack of self-awareness is staggering. the assumption that your take on a situation involving sexism is just as valid as a woman’s take on the same situation is embarrassing. when you devolved into using gendered insults upthread, i actually laughed out loud because it was so perfect.
earlier, you stated: “I’m sorry that you’ve all suffered such horrible objectifying experiences that you feel a need to exorcise them from this demon child whom you have never even met.”
you’re wrong. we have met him. i meet him every day. it’s flippant, casual sexism and male arrogance coded into every day language and behaviors, and then the eye-rolling MRA call-to-arms that surely follows (“what about his intennnntttioooonnss” *jacks off into a subreddit forever*). it’s so common for women to encounter this that it’s boring.
tl;dr you’re a dime a dozen, and each time a dude makes this argument, he does so with such theatrical rhetoric, like he’s the first fucking person to point out x, y, and z to women who feel affronted, and we’re all so lucky for our ability to languish in the slow burn of his word craft (or i guess the cut/pasted genius of…lol, shakespearean insults are you fucking fist fucking me with that right now, dude?? do you still quote monty python? holy fuck.)
You what I find really hilarious? I hardly read anything you wrote after I got your attempt to insult me. So there I am scrolling down and I landed on “tl;dr.”
Isn’t that fucking beautiful?! I didn’t read your shit for exactly the reason you would like to dismiss me! high five!
cool, i don’t give a fuck. i was bored with you about 10 hours ago. i’m watching a terrible henry rollins movie now.
I find the fact that someone needs to ask for permission from a blogger to be offended by some guy’s compliment far more annoying than the guy’s comment. And what’s worse is the mental masturbation (including mine, obviously) that follows in the comments. I wish everyone had our 1st world problems.
Yes! Outstanding contribution.
The rain boots I ordered won’t be here until Tuesday. But it’s raining today. I don’t wish that on anyone.
I left my headphones at home today, pissed.
Is it pissing down outside?
Was cats and dogs earlier. Are you a fellow Brit?
VeryDepressed says:
I lived and worked in Australia for a number of years and work with a lot of lovable Brits. 🙂
oops…wrong device.
Not verydepressed.
VeryIrritable.
Misogyny is everyone’s problem?
First world problems are like, “I couldn’t get a latte today.”
I don’t think sexism goes in that category.
I know you can’t see it, but I am applauding you over here.
Feel free to milk a clumsy compliment for all the froth you can get.
Well, great, now I look like a jackass for liking the statement in a bubble devoid of context. And, yes, I fucked up the pot of coffee at the office today, and really wish I was at home drinking the Texas Hill Country brew I keep in the fridge while I knock out 100 pages of “Winter of the World.”
As per the usual, MonoChromicorn, you’ve very simply posted more than most of us do in 10x the words.
It certainly is but not in this analogy. The US is a nation that considers everyone to be equal and gives them the same rights. Sure, there are wankers there like there are everywhere. Misogyny is a HUGE problem and should be fought fiercely in countries that it’s institutionalized like Iran or Afghanistan. Showing your hair there can result in a woman being beaten up. The notion of getting a tattoo is unfathomable. These are the women who are in need of solidarity.
So, sorry for not empathizing with a woman who intends to get a tattoo and gets a stupid response from some guy who told her she’s pretty by comparing her to a Ferrari.
Oh, misogyny is still institutionalized in “equal rights” countries (it is in pretty much every country on the globe). The results are far less abherrant to us, sure, but they’re still there. Savvy, low-key sexism is still sexism.
Something isn’t necessarily a first world problem just because you can find someone who has it worse.
This is about sexism and objectification of women, and that’s a serious problem in our society. The topic that triggers a sexist comment – in this case, a tattoo – isn’t really relevant. It’s not just that one thing by itself; it’s a series of comments and criticisms and judgments about women’s bodies that we hear throughout our entire lives. Each individual thing might seem innocuous or trivial, but it’s part of a larger system that has the ability to affect our own ideas and decisions about who we’re supposed to be.
Please, let’s not decide that just because American women are more privileged than women in other parts of the world, that means it’s no big deal if we’re treated as second class citizens in our society. What’s so difficult about solidarity among all women? It’s not like empathizing with one woman means less empathy for another. On the contrary, I think that defending women’s rights in all situations is better for all of us.
Thanks guys! I feel so special today.
Why don’t you criticize our culture which is always pressuring women to be nice and shames them when they express anger? You can see it playing out in this comment section. “He’s giving you a compliment, jesus christ.” “But his intentions were good!” And then all the comments that amount to “you’re getting angry over nothing”. Don’t shit on the question writer for trying to navigate through it.
Key says:
Many answers here remind me of the South Park episode about replacing the town flag. “Well, I can see how some people feel it’s bad, but I can also respect the historical value.”
It was a flag of 3 white people lynching a black one. In the end, they changed it to a multi-racial group lynching, and everyone was happy.
Well as long as it’s not “Stay Wild” across the knuckles…. *shudder*
Hey now, that’s like putting eight tiny bumper stickers…
ayyy lmao
So many butthurt, myopic men in this comment section, it’s not even funny.
Some of which I had some fragment of respect for beforehand. I’m disappointed.
I guess that’s how it feels to hear your nice co-worker proudly say he voted for Trump.
You sound like a myopic cunt. You’re grasping, and desperate. Bringing Trump into this is the lowest form of intelligence.
I voted for Hilary despite a bunch of broken women like you making lame assumptions. Get over yourself.
I don’t know what’s funnier : you trying to throw misogynistic insults at me or you thinking I’m a woman.
It’s a fair assumption considering most are an “unidentified gender” yet you automatically attacked men.
But if you’re a man, that’s great, you myopic little puss boy.
Puss boy? Really. That’s on the level of when I tell someone to “eat a billion dicks and die.” The difference is that I’m intentionally being ridiculous.
I’m not attacking anyone, that’s just the T.
You sound like someone who thinks reverse sexism is a thing. Yikes.
I think nothing is a thing. Just exist in reality, on realities terms. Life is great on my end 🙂
You’re even worse than I assumed.
I’m consciously being a prick with good reason. Most people who comment in here are soft as fuck, on the road to nowhere. I’m lashing out with a harsh dose of much needed reality. Coquette literally used to DRILL punks and bitches, would only respond to quality inquiries too…but man, times have changed and she’s now a broken chump.
I’m balancing out the embarrassing shit stains of the world by telling it like it is. I’m fair and pack a punch; fully aware I’ll go too far if you strike me as a crybaby cause you’re a joke and jokes get TROLLED. It’s difficult to say whether these lames are actually deeply damaged and it’s merited, but I’m putting my chips on the fact that they’re just incredibly weak and doomed. DEAL WITH IT.
Unless you’re actually diagnosed with something: HUMAN THE FUCK UP!
And you Whoami, can politically correct my above average dick. Fuck off.
You’re not telling it as it is or being controversial. You’re just a teen boy with too much time on his hands. You know nothing.
Soft as fuck and on the road to no where?
OK, what are your big, hard credentials?
I have nothing to prove, why share my personal life with you?
Work hard, maintain grit and have heart, because the results are sublime.
Wow, this looks like the kind of dude who unironically likes Boondock Saints and plays Wonderwall at every fucking party.
What do you call the male equivalent of a Basic Bitch?
HAHA, nice. Ain’t me, but made me laugh.
A basic bro.
Whatever, it’s clear. We’re all soft but you have grit. Ha! You have no idea who you are talking to in this column.
Why are you here? Did you find a space full of women and LBGT and you just can’t wait to come here and say that we are pussys? That us soft idiots must confront the throbbing hard truth of your trump righteousness? Do you cum on the screen after every “gritty” comment and go lie down and spend hours regaling yourself with stories of your comment thread superiority over soft women and queers? WTF, dude. You’ve never said a damn interesting thing here, you clearly just come here to shit on people you despise to feel better about yourself.
hahaha, i just ugly laughed at this. you’re absolutely correct. reverse racism. my mercy.
this guy is the same one who wrote a really noxious response to the “stay wild” knuckle tattoo OP by saying, essentially, “visible tattoos won’t get you anywhere in this world, least not in a position like mine! i shake hands with CEOs!! REAL ones!! and– and, guys, and– and i i’m in my mid-20s and i make, like, FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS a year! you heard me right, ladies, 50k. a cooooool 50k. that’s above average in many midwestern cities.”
that deafening sound you hear is a tectonic shift brought on by the overwhelming weight of panties simultaneously dropping across the land.
good luck out there, kiddo.
Egad @HFR, as right as you might be with your facetiousness and sarcasm in that comment, it really is an ugly way to put it. It’s hard to scroll when I’m holding my nose with one hand.
You’re not a woman? I always thought you were one!
This makes me happy for some reason. You have traits I rarely see in men. I mean this as a compliment (hopefully you’ll take it as one).
Ha, you’re being magnanimous with me here, I’m still a man. But yeah I’m a big pansy I guess, I’ve never been a man’s man and frankly I don’t intend to be. Thanks.
Who would have thought, a randomly-generated pink user picture may not indicate a woman…
When “Who am I?” becomes “Whoa, mi?”
To be frank that’s not the first time someone has mistaken me for a woman, here or on another website. I’m not mad about it tho.
People mistake me for a man with alarming frequency, even on more female-oriented forums and sometimes even after I’ve made comments that strongly imply my gender.
When I’m being optimistic, I assume that a gender-neutral name and avatar would lead people to assume male by default. When I’m not being optimistic (more often), I’m guessing the word “rational” attached to posts that tend to favor logic over emotion is what’s doing it. That and the fact that I do often defend the male position, when it’s reasonably defensible anyway.
I vaguely portrayed you in my head as a gay man tbh.
Gender stereotypes am I right ??
“Like, I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, “What happened?” He goes: “Well, I guess I, uh… I guess I said something, and, uh… and then she got her feelings hurt.” That’s a weird way to phrase it: “She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then SHEEE…” Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? “She got her feelings hurt.” It’s like saying, “Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don’t know what happened. He leaned into it.”
Yeah, so I guess I gave her a compliment, and she went and felt herself demeaned. JEEZ. PC culture, man.
Yeah! Let’s compare this clumsy, lousy, douchey compliment to murder!! Right on!!!
Do you know quotation marks? Do you know jokes? Do you know metaphor?
The crux of comparison in the joke here was “could you more remove yourself from responsibility”, but you managed to hear “blah blah blah murder”. Good job.
Maybe press ‘enter’ next time, and format it in such a way that it comes across as an intelligible comment. You halfwit fuck.
HaIvan says:
The paragraph has quotes around it. Come on. It’s okay if you didn’t realize at first it was a quote. There’s really no need to be blamestorming
Dude. Eat a Snickers.
Because you’re too much of a fucking moron to exercise basic reading comprehension (that no one else struggled with, mind you) the poster is the “halfwit fuck” in this equation. OK. Makes sense.
Dude, you’re fucking hilarious.
Cuttlefish, sincerely, I hope you have a great weekend with loved ones 🙂
rofl, what a refreshing, new rhetorical tactic, It’s Clear! say something that you deem off-putting or unsettling in response to someone’s criticism! terrific! don’t listen to them; you’ve got this writing thing on lock. you’re kind of like an unsung genius in that way?
Dude, it’s from Louis CK. Is this gross meth head serious?
I’ve seen all of Louis CK, been watching since his earliest special. Am up to date on his series too. I Google the trash presented above it. Oh, his monologue on NBC’s SNL during politically correct times. Fuck off!
Then enjoy.
“Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.”
― Louis C.K.
Nobody cares how up to date you are with Louis CK and it’s entirely besides the point
You care Betsy 😉
wow, an arrogant idiot who feels validated by louis ck. what a strange and fascinating specimen.
No, I care about the social context that makes it possible for you to delude yourself into thinking anybody cares. Hence why I’m telling you to fuck off. Otherwise, go wink at your mother.
How did Reddit find us? Please go back! Thank you!
Shouts to all the people who caught the throwback.
How, indeed.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Whew…i was thinking i was the reason.
You wrote a book coke, and it was covered by the avclub. It’s like you went fishing for american dude bros.
Don’t get me wrong, the book is awesome. But, yeah.
LN says:
I don’t think you understand how publishing works.
I meant, you have to take the good of publishing the the bad of publishing.
There are a lot of regulars acting up in this thread, can’t say I’m innocent of that.
But, when coke reached a broader audience I noticed a new type of asshole coming around. They found us!
My statement was clumsy.
LO says:
HOW does this innocuous post have almost 200 comments!?
Damn Coq, how aren’t tired of these comment sections? This is fucking exhausting.
I’m partly responsible for that. Flat on my back in bed for three days I had the choice of reading, which puts me to sleep if I’m laying down (causing migraines), watching news that drives me completely insane, or writing. Since I didn’t have anything I wanted to write about, I addressed some nuance.
People who can’t imagine anything beyond their own hostile interpretation tried to pick fights with me at various turns. They fell victim to my entertainment.
For those who find it tiring, you have my apology. Anyone who came at me, not so much; I’d ring that bell again.
It’s not exhausting if you don’t read it all, it’s discipline for the eye.
A good example would be completely ignoring a couple people after they laughably attempt to insult you. It’s also not exhausting if you write more easily than you read. 🙂
I’m feeling better now and I won’t be the one fueling this thread any further.
p.s. heaven help you all if I’m ever in the hospital.
Play some damn Game Boy next time.
for you…mayyybe
Yeah, sure, dude. Construct a narrative where you had a legitimate reason to spend such an absurd amount of time and effort losing your shit over this simple question and trying to convince everyone the asker didn’t have the right to be uncomfortable. Convince yourself you’re the victim who got “attacked” because people dared to call you on your bullshit, the same bullshit we’re all fucking sick of hearing everywhere else and didn’t want to leave unchallenged on Dear CQ.
You were the one picking a fight, dude. Saying other people were the aggressors doesn’t make it so.
You didn’t pour thousands of words into this because you couldn’t care less about the topic and were just bored with nothing better to do. My guess is something about CQ’s answer or the opposition to the “he meant it as a compliment so you’re not allowed to be upset” argument struck a nerve with you. Maybe you said something you thought was complimentary to a woman and she got angry at you, and instead of considering why your words might make her angry, you decided she should consider your intentions. Maybe you said the exact same bumper sticker/ferrari cliché and still feel you were misunderstood and wronged because a woman got mad.
Since you’re so into suggesting possibilities, there’s no reason to argue with that, right? Arguing that’s not what happened is attacking me. Not to mention laughable, because I need to make it very clear that your opinion means soooooooooo little to me and my ego is not wounded at allllllllllll.
Also, you see what I’m fuckin’ doing up there? Imagining your perspective? That’s all we fucking want. Instead of constantly asking women to imagine your perspective, imagine theirs, for once. Listen when they tell you what hearing degrading “compliments” feels like after the first few times, and listen when they explain why, and imagine it being inescapable. The problem here is not lack of empathy for you and the guy who made that stupid comment. It’s lack of empathy for us.
You are so astoundingly up your own ass that I only have to read eleven words before completely dismissing the rest of what you write without reading it.
Bye miqqi.
Bye, douchecanoe.
VeryAmused says:
Thank you so much for that parting thought. The fact that you would use a euphemism for female genitalia as a derogatory term proves my suspicion that you’re a self loathing “feminist.” Please make huge note of the use of quotes…in fact, feel free to blow them
out of proportion.
And it’s beautifully ironic and appropriate that I don’t consider anything you say an insult! Cunt.
I hadn’t exactly promised I wouldn’t fuel this thread; so I take this liberty in laughing at you.
I’m actually surprised. If anyone had asked me what insult would have the least impact but have the most entertainment value, I dare say I wouldn’t have been creative enough to think of that. Well done! It’s almost like leaving it on a high note, except I know that you can’t stop. You’re addicted to paddling.
row row row your boat
The whole “I didn’t read what you wrote” thing you keep pulling is the textual equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming, “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU.”
What’s beautifully ironic is making the wild claim that “douchecanoe” is a misogynistic slur meaning vagina (lmfao what), and then calling me a cunt.
What’s also ironic is how you claim I’m doing things you’re doing before you can be accused of doing them. It’s like there’s a part of you self-aware enough to see your shitty behavior, and yet you won’t stop.
“I won’t be the one fueling this thread any further.”
And then you accuse me of being unable to stop responding, when your obsession with getting the last word in these comments is bordering on creepy.
Classic abuse tactic, y’know. Accuse the other person of what you’re doing.
And douchecanoe wasn’t meant to be an attack on your esteem, it was dismissive. But I can see how you’re getting those mixed up, what with screaming about how you’re not reading what I’m saying like it’s gonna hurt me, and all.
Veryon my dude, douchebags are not exclusive to vaginal hygiene.
That is true. But in my circle of friends “paddling the flesh canoe” is very well established due to a shared comedic reference. That same flesh canoe also holds douches. And if you’re intellectually honest you will have trouble finding a single male reference for using a douche for anything other than female hygiene even though noses get the second most popular usage. Nobody has ever said a douche is a male hygiene product. Whatevs. It was my equivalency and I get to decide how I used it.
dude… bro… some people douche their asshole homie… some of them men… pal… have you ever been around gay people bro…
you didn’t address any nuance and everything you said was boring. if you go to the hospital, feel free to write here again. no one will feel attacked or scared, i promise you. you just spouted some tired bullshit that women hear on a daily basis. free shrugs!
get back to school, kiddo.
When did you first realize you were a troll?
Hilarious. Thank you. So long, then.
(Yes, Heaven save us from more of your delusional twattery.)
Another gendered insult.
Gendered insult. So classy here these days.
Goes a long way in solidifying my opinion.
i tried to follow the WWCQD motto on this one before i saw it was posted, and it ended up being a combination of responses #1 and #2.
CQ: thank you for posting this. i’m a long time-reader and it’s still surreal to see this here.
definitely not batman says:
Where did all these Žižek fuckboys come from. That dumb motherfucker is a bro-philosopher. Feel free to ignore him, especially with regards to gender.
i was thinking the same thing. don’t worry, sun tzu was also used up-thread in a desperate clamor to appear learned. i think the same person also got down on some nihilism. all the moron stars aligned in this comments section.
“all the moron stars aligned”
Bless you, steling
Oh, yeah, feeling superior now? all good there?
Oh god, is my desperation so transparent? I have to learn how to put makeup on to cover that particular blemish. Maybe if I put some eyeliner around my self deprecation they won’t notice how many pounds of zizek are poking over my belt. Maybe if I wear a niqab over my vocabulary they won’t have unnatural urges. I hate being objectified, so I should try to conform.
This comment section got sad fast…from enlighting discussion, all i see now i bickering, people caring more on having their belief confirmed than a true open discussion.
Again, I echo my sentiment, that the bubbles are getting stronger and more extreme and harder and harder to find a bridge of understanding.
Because everyone thinks their side is right, and righteous.
i don’t know what I find worse, the insistence that any informed reference is necessarily egotistical facade or that efforts to tear other people down are petty and unimaginative. no ground is gained. And when you talk about building bridges, we end up back at intent which so few here are willing to recognize as a valid force, goal, or instrument.
i knew going in that commenting here would have to be its own reward because very few honest and thoughtful responses grow here. the same weeds repeat their form without variation or flower.
i would even read the worst arguments of the moment if they were creative, heartfelt, or interesting.
Bile is the ingredient of choice when they don’t have heart. And derogatory remarks are used in place of unique perspective.
It makes me sad because if I were CQ, I would be less motivated to get a forum up and running knowing that this particular Internet pipe is full of sewage. some of it is admittedly mine.
Being that everyone has to, and it’s healthy to do it regularly, thanks for giving us a place to shit CQ!
Still on intent:
“3. The Impact of Your Actions Is More Significant Than the Intent
Cool. You didn’t mean to contribute to the objectification of queer women when you made that lesbian porn joke. Perhaps you even think that you’re so “enlightened” as a “feminist man” that we should just know that you “didn’t mean it like that.” In fact, maybe you even think that you were being “subversive” when you said it. Okay.
But from a woman’s perspective, that doesn’t matter, because we still have to feel the effects of that mindset every single day – and your bringing that to the foreground has a negative impact on us, no matter what the hell your intent was.
Many men don’t do hurtful things maliciously. They may be doing them subconsciously, adhering to the ways in which they’ve been taught to behave, as all of us do.
Other men, of course, are intentionally violent. But the effects of both can be incredibly damaging.
Surely, we’re less likely to harbor resentment towards someone who stepped on our toes accidentally than we are towards someone who stomped on them with malevolence – especially when accountability is had and an apology is issued. But our goddamn toes still hurt.
To a gender minority, there’s very little difference between the impact of inadvertent and intentional harm. A man who makes you feel unsafe by accident is as harmful to you as one who does it on purpose.
So no matter how well-intentioned you are, you’re not off the hook when you hurt people. And you need to be willing to take responsibility for that.”
PS. We’re not without heart. We’re without fucks to give to frankly disingenuous arguments we’ve heard a billion other times before. It tastes like bile to you but it’s actually hard-earned backbone. An acquired taste. (Mix it with some genuine empathy; a willingness to amuse the thought that a hundred similar experiences can’t be all paranoid hysterical projection; and a nice a glass of port wine; and you may come to enjoy it).
What lesbian porn joke? Wtf lesbian porn joke?
“Many men don’t do hurtful things maliciously. …taught to behave, as all of us do.”
Look, that’s why one of the more sane posters said that we are all responsible for explaining what makes us comfortable and uncomfortable. And it’s why I have repeatedly voiced respect for “clapback.”
I’ve never said intent was more important. At best it’s half. Ends, means. Etc. forever.
Hard earned backbone, fuck yeah.
And I have tried to voice room for the collective experiences but people can’t get past their own projections to come from the other angle. You’ve done a very good job of trying to build that bridge.
But some of the reflexive shit I’ve seen around here is either so amazingly traumatic that they still haven’t processed it, or they’re just assholes. I try to see each context individually.
It’s just an example. Notice the quotation marks. I lifted this from another website which articulated the nature of intent in a way I found relevant.
Oh! Whew. Yeah, please don’t copypasta. Please? I’m totally willing to go to the mat with specifics in context and strip metaphors. I can’t connect to your actual identity if you borrow it from someone else. When I saw the quotes it looked like it could have been anyone’s enumeration here but I couldn’t tell who, if even mine.
I have to check on this:
“But from a woman’s perspective,… your bringing that to the foreground has a negative impact on us, no matter what the hell your intent was.”
Are you really saying that because some guy posters here said, “it was just a compliment” that you are retraumatized or unable to process your negative feelings because we brought the male dominant framework back to the foreground? You are still writhing in agony because it’s been pointed out by a guy that some guy is probably just derpy?
I can kind of understand that, but it leaves me with what is either tragic or comic; women carrying a list of responses just in case a guy compliments them so they can assert their identity and boundaries.
If this is supposed to be some kind of safe space, I was completely unaware. But I can’t feel responsible for any anguish here as I have continuously and repeatedly made an effort to validate whatever choice the poster made. And I even respect arguments made against me without ad hominem attacks or other generally insulting tones.
You’ve gotta be shitting me.
I think you might be too self-absorbed to actually empathize. You talk a good game, but then that’s your interpretation of things? Without malice, son, that’s as clueless as it gets.
A torrent of folks say, in one way or another, “it was just a compliment” (code: don’t be oversensitive, shut up). We get pissed off because we’ve gotten our valid feelings over shitty comments dismissed a thousand times before. It’s not a question of trauma, your-experience-looks-like-my-experience-let’s-all-waaah-together. It’s a question of identifiable, predictable dynamics, of this-is-part-of-a-larger-recognizable-systemic-issue-that-won’t-go-away-and-I’m-sick-of-playing-nice-and-accommodating. And then shitty comments – “derpy” – don’t exist in a vacuum. Sexist derpy comes from sexism inside. You do not accidentally sprout sexist stuff when drunk or high or nervous if you weren’t sexist to begin with.
That’s a wild, barf-inducing caricature. Do you carry a list of responses just in case someone plants a hurtful comment on you? No? You can defend and assert yourself just fine? My word. Very good. Then again, you’re probably not used to being talked about and treated like public property and belonging to a hive mind. You’re not confronted with the same tired arguments and dynamics over and over again. You’re not socialized to dismiss your own feelings and perceptions over everyone else’s needs. Yet still I assure you there’s a third option to your conclusion: enforcing our boundaries and dignity in a human, organic, non-hypervigilant way, according to each woman’s ability and nature, and not some imaginary manual of lists we get in the mail when we start menstruating.
(It may just feel hypervigilant from the outside because when assholes don’t realize they’re being assholes and don’t care to stop being assholes – like when they’ve accidentally made a hurtful, objectifying comment, for example – they raise their arms and go “JEEZ, what NOW? Can’t catch a break! Stop being so touchy about EVERYTHING!” – instead of, you know, trying to figure out what the problem may be.)
Bottom line:”When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.” (And yes, I copy pasted that.)
Yes yes yes !
This also applies for queer and black people.
dear coke,
i don’t know if this has already been said but this comment thread is precisely why i vehemently oppose you creating some type of forum. i really love the work that you do but people on the internet are determined to ruin everything.
shut it down. (pretty please)
guiliana says:
not only that, it has becomr an echo chamber. long before it devolved into name calling, it had become a situaion of group think and closed mindedness to new ideas – and at times, hostility. in group vs out group, and no potential for a intelligent discussion. such a situation is inevitable, but it really does nothing to add to coketalk’s column, which has its own flaws of coketalk being less than flexible in her thought. i am not sure i can keep reading the column; but i’ve come to the conclusion that the comments are certainly useless to peruse at this point.
VeryWhat says:
I’m sorry you haven’t gotten anything out of it, but I’ve gotten a lot.
I’m more aware of how easily reframing something can cause a perpetuated reactive response.
I’ve seen how rigidly context is maintained in order to uphold validation of past interpretations.
And while I definitely intellectually understood why so many women jumped to the worst interpretation of the situation, something about the repeated exposure to rejection of my point brought home the truth, irony, and parity in that views probability.
I have gotten to write by sourcing motivations that aren’t internally generated.
And while you are more right than wrong about close mindedness, I’ve seen glimmers of change here and there.
It was therapeutic in keeping me awake while being heavily drugged.
My faith in estimating humane behavior as a cross section was restored when a couple people chimed in with sane, thoughtful, non hostile responses.
I found out how far I’m willing to go in insulting people who are clearly not capable of creative comprehension or response.
I’ve built a model of how flippant I can be without sabotaging my point.
As for flaws in the column, the comment section is your only place to address those flaws and instead of trying to, you slag it. So you deserve the flaws you get.
My point here is that the comment section isn’t about you or what you find useful in exactly the same way the column isn’t about you. If you’re not getting anything out of it, it’s because you’re shitty at junk shopping or you didn’t bring any shit in for consignment.
The comments are about what individuals find useful in contributing, or unfortunately, attempting to detract or reduce. If the comments are truly as useless as you say, then you are intellectually impaired for reading them. Being intelligent is as much about knowing what to look at as what to ignore. If you can’t skip individual posts, don’t bother reading the comments FFS. And filtering is pretty strongly linked to identity by the way.
Of course I could present a list of intent, but nobody cares. 😀
I too, get a lot out of Coquette’s forums.
I always have, but now more than ever.
I’ve just been released from a long stay in a mental institution and am now on house arrest. I can’t drink, I can’t smoke weed, I can’t go out unaccompanied by my parents. The situation is bad. Coquette keeps me alive. It’s like having friends you’ve never met, being able to laugh with them, fight with them, listen to their interestingly diverse viewpoints, and sometimes even amuse yourself as they split the atom.
How dare you try to shut down a place just because you find no value in it for yourself? You narcissist.
Seriously Josh? You would petition the government to pave over a skate park because you don’t skate and you don’t like skaters? Nobody is forcing you to read comments. Their existence has exactly zero fucking impact on the post and CQ response. So what the fuck bullshit line of reasoning is that? “Please don’t make a forum and shut down the comments because they aren’t useful to me personally?”
i agree, veryirritable.
josh, chill out, dude. the whole internet is an arena of shit-flinging and posturing. don’t pretend you’re above it, that sucks. there has even been some good discussion here.
Something I can agree with!
This is hardly representative of standard people on the internet. There tends to be more intelligent conversation than on so many other comment sections out there.
You don’t have to read it
Terrible trolls throwing shit out at each other just to know there’s someone out there on the other end of the virtual plasmic wall showing shit back at them. Basically, this is our way of saying “hey” to each other. It’s not our fault Trump made us so godamn grumpy.
I’m part of this team of terrible trolls so if you are looking for something nice, peaceful, civil and quiet, I suggest you go to the reading room of a library.
A revolution is beginning and this is the place for us to sharpen our wits and throw off steam.
Also, congratulations on your shiny piece of new vocabulary – echo chamber. Sadly you’re using it wrong.
You’re my favourite troll.
You’re sounding better. Welcome back.
Zilla says:
Veryirritable, I usually love reading your comments, and usually I can take a problematic position with a grain of salt. I have to as part of my career.
But you’ve revealed to the entire (devoted) readership over the course of a long series of clearly well thought out, but obviously misguided comments how very wrong you are. And clearly, you’re too stubborn to just accept that this is one time that you done fucked up. You have to keep defending a weak position, one that relies on sheer semantics to avoid the “of course Coke wasn’t aiming that at me” point.
Whether you give it the fuck up or not doesn’t matter now. My opinion obviously doesn’t matter, because no doubt, if you respond to this at all, it will be with a half-baked asshole response in the same vein as Coke’s, just less intellectually guided and more ad hominem. Everyone knows you for who and what you are. I for one am mostly glad to find this out now, so that I know exactly the calibre of opinion I’m dealing with in future.
Thanks for demonstrating that my apprehension with gender relations is well formed. Also, fuck you, you sexist piece of trash.
yeah, i agree. professionally, i get to deal with this shit all the time, as well. you know someone’s backed into a corner when they double down as much as he has, or uses the ol’ i’m-not-listening-lalala tactic without any apparent irony. using gendered insults in a discussion about gender is also a weak strategy, and immediately deflates any credibility you may have built up. it sucks, but hopefully with awareness and experience he’ll grow into some stronger rhetorical skills. i got so bored, i started writing out a response last night but instead decided to get high and watch henry rollins deadpan his way through a terrible movie about being a fallen cannibal angel or some shit. 10/10 would recommend.
If you think I’m backed into a corner you have no grasp of dimension. If you think I doubled down on something you’ll have to tell me what.
Please point me to the gendered insults so that I can apologize where appropriate and laugh where legitimate. It’ll be a nice walk.
I haven’t attacked anyone who didn’t come at me first. And most of the shit in this comment section is people being mad because they want to be mad. Some are so lazy that they copy other people’s words as though they apply perfectly to the context of the dialogue. But that’s the thing isn’t it. You’re not here for dialogue if you paste.
Also, He Never Died was the most perfect role for Henry. I love that movie even though it fails.to deliver in some consistency.
walk you through your own ineffective rhetoric? that’s a hard pass.
also, i agree. henry was perfect for the role. “i don’t believe you!” “i don’t care.”
Even you have to admit the irony and humor of being unable to persuade me when you are incapable of being persuaded.
Also, I’ll point out that “ineffective rhetoric” is yet another attack because it’s not meant with the charity of coming to an understanding. Unless of course you’d like to argue that intent is worthy of consideration.
i mostly came back to say hi to jessica sen. hi, jessica sen. welcome back.
Hey you guys. Will you please do me a favour and smoke 25% THC medicinal weed from a very large bong, while playing KCSM jazz music, drinking a quart of rum and having wild sex? I can’t do any of those things and I’m stuck in my parents’ house on house arrest. All this because I have bipolar and also because in hospital I met evil people and confessed that I’m The Coquette because I figured hey what the hell I’m already screwed so I might as well take one for the team. So now I’m on antipsychotics and I’m pretty sure I’m not psychotic. These fuckers take The Coquette as a sort of movement toward anti-psychiatry. Or am I The Coquette? The fuckers will never know. Only you guys will know.
The sex’ll be a trick, but I’ll see what I can do about the rest.
Also, a boy I met in California started stalking me while I was studying in Australia. I have no idea how he did half the things he did – he had to be far more resourceful than I initially thought. I like him a lot, and the attention pushed me even further into mania and I was arrested 3 times in 2 weeks. I was trying to test the sphere of his influence – whether he had friends in the police. Also, I was running social experiments on police brutality. I would be handcuffed and pushed against a the police van and still be shouting “Hands up don’t shoot!” When I was in the cell I took off all my clothes and refused to put them on until I was released. I was released and brought to a hospital under the Mental Health Act instead. Is this normal? Would a normal person do this? I don’t think anything’s wrong with me. I have my own line of logic that always makes sense at the time…
I’ve missed you guys… muah!
perspectivator says:
Okay, you aren’t sounding better.
I’m sorry to say that what you are experiencing and doing does not seem normal at all.
I hope you get better.
I’m sure anyone experiencing a sudden intervention in their lifestyle can attest to this feeling. How can I get better without losing my essence? How can I function better without having a boring life? I’m in tears. I don’t feel much like myself these days.
Well, psychosis and mania is going to be really hard to deal with because as you said, you had a “line of logic” that made “sense at the time.” And if you don’t error correct along the way, you’ve suddenly lead yourself down the garden path into completely insane behavior. So it’s understandable that this happens and very understandable that you wouldn’t feel yourself. I hope you find a counselor who can help you cope.
I don’t think getting better necessarily means losing your essence. I’ve been mildly manic a couple of times, and while it was euphoric, and great – a part of me also found it monstrous. But is your essence being in and out of psych wards and house arrest? That sounds like a not-so-great thing to have as part of your identity.
No, you’re right. I do want to address the mania. I just don’t think I’m psychotic. Then again, it’s ridiculous to be asking for an opinion on my mental health on an anonymous forum. It’s just nice to hear from some mad cats.
If anyone here has magical powers, can you please bless me with some adventure and freedom? I’m bored out of my mind and about to chew on my puppy and she’s innocent. Boredom makes good people do evil things, so I may cross over to the dark side and start slashing infants (never liked babies anyway).
Yeoja says:
Want to chat? I don’t have bipolar, but I think I know what it’s like to feel compulsed to do insane shit and to freak out when people freak out and try to restrain you and then to go even further off the deep end in reaction…etc.
itshouldcomeonacone@gmail.com
This is almost as bad as that time with the cats.
Oh my god how do you even remember that.
E. K. V. says:
I find the comment disheartening not so much because he’s remarking on her body as if it is an object, but because this “bumper sticker on a Ferarri” remark is old, it’s everywhere and it simply means he’s not listening. Conversation with this fellow is bound to devolve into “am I right or am I right” over the beers and you will be driven mad. He’s devoid of imagination and thinks he’s clever, and I’d hate for you to have to kill him. Drift away and count yourself lucky!
Exactly. It’s not just sexist, it’s boring.
The guys first reaction to her getting a tattoo was how it affects her body. His comment is a compliment, but it shows how shallow he feels about her. When my gf showed me the tattoo she always wanted to get, I asked “what does that mean to you?” She explained it’s importance, it was very heart-warming. I don’t like tattoos so I told her “I think you are beautiful just the way you are. But if your heart is set on getting it, then it doesn’t change the way I feel about you.”
There are ways to express your opinion and compliment girls without being a selfish, shallow dick.
Xen says:
A male friend of mine said this in jest when someone offered him a greasy burger after a morning of training. He laughed and said you don’t put diesel in a Ferrari. I am honestly shocked at the length of the comments here, when there is so much grave injustice and a war on women. I think we need way more context to judge if this was offensive. Maybe she was getting a really idiotic saying tattooed across her face? She doesn’t mention what it is, isn’t that kind of a critical element? And what about if he honestly was just joking? The cult of gleeful outrage could perhaps be directed to a more worthy cause? Note – don’t expect to change anyone’s mind and I respect your opinion but at the same time jokes can just be jokes.
Janesgotagun says:
He probably wasn’t really listening to you and just said that shit as a half ass compliment.
spek says:
He compared a woman to… A Ferrari. Exotic, beautiful, sexy. A timeless, sought after piece of movable art. Maybe the guy is a car buff and it’s the highest compliment he can muster. Choose to be slightly irked by the metaphor, but this is not the height of social injustice. Normally, I would declare your rights to your own feelings, but really? Letting an offhand, silly compliment cause a meltdown (or even trouble you enough to write to an advice column) reminds me of my ex-wife…
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#31 by mikeh
Thanks, Steve and Alain, to both of you for that careful work. Very helpful. There are some more recent books on Greek divination, and also its survivals via Roman Empire to medieval Western Europe; I read them once but would have to go to the library to be sure I knew what I was talking about.
Meanwhile, I have been working on Ch. 5 of Moakley.
Moakley chapter 5:
[start of p. 55]
THE DEATH OF CARNIVAL
THERE ARE two characters in the triumphal procession who are rather hard to account for. They are the lowest of the trumps and the wild card known as the Fool. The Fool has no place in the procession, either with the four ordinary suits or among the trumps.
We find that the lowest trump is named Bagatino. This Bagatino was one of the Carnival clowns, and later became the "Little Juggler" of the commedia dell'arte. In our procession he is the Carnival King, and the real object of the whole procession is to lead him to his execution. He is one of Cupid's captives because Carnival is a great time for love as well as farce. He is also the principal victim of the triumph of Death, and he rises hopefully from the grave in the triumph of Eternity. (1)
The Fool has no place among the seventy-seven regular cards because they are not his world at all. Like the six unnumbered cards of the minchiate pack, he is "out of this world." He has his own world, the approaching season of Lent, from which he comes in advance to warn all the gay figures of Carnival that they have but a short time to enjoy themselves. (2)
Carnival, like a noble wedding or a solemn entry, was one of the favorite occasions for triumphal processions. In particular, there would be a procession to greet King Carnival before the beginning of Lent. This took place just after Christmas, when he would be the highest and most victorious of the triumphs. At the close of the pre-Lenten season his position would be reversed, for he then had only one day to live.
The mock execution of King Carnival is a vestige of the ancient Saturnalia, when the man who had acted as king of the revels was actually put to death at the end of his reign. This practice continued in parts of the Roman army well into Christian times. We read of a soldier who refused to act as king of the Saturnalia because he was a Christian, and was martyred (anyway) in consequence. The stubborn persistence
[note 1 originally on p. 58; note 2 originally on p. 59]
1. For the identification of Il Bagatino and II Matto as Carnival King and Lent see the notes for those two cards.
2. For the Carnival triumphs see Burckhardt (Civilization) Pt V ch 8: "The Festivals."
[start p. 56]
of this grisly human sacrifice is all the more remarkable when we remember that it had been forbidden by the Roman Emperor Tiberius centuries before. (3)
The Saturnalia was a winter festival commemorating the golden age of Saturn, the age when the fruits of the earth were bountiful and men were at peace. There was no money in that time, and therefore no greed for gold. No man was a slave, and all property was held in common. Good King Saturn died, and the golden age was dead except when brought to life again for a few days each year during the festival. For that short time slaves and masters were equal. Slaves were permitted to speak as boldly as they wished, to get drunk, issue orders to their masters, and in general be excused for behavior which would have been fatal at any other time. Psychologically speaking, it was an excellent safety valve. But it had its dark side. In the earliest times the man elected to play the part of King Saturn during the festival had to die at its close. When the actual death was prohibited in later days, no doubt there was an execution in effigy, as in the medieval Carnival.
The early Christians would have nothing to do with the winter revels of Saturnalia. But to Christians of a later age, compelled by civil law to observe numerous ecclesiastical precepts, something was again needed as a safety valve. This must have been especially true during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, when many of the clergy, the very class which insisted on Christian behavior, were openly seen to be acting in direct opposition to the principles they preached. Then, as the temporal power of the Church declined, so did the necessity for the Carnival, and today it is given, at best, only token observance in a few sections of the Christian world. (4)
We have a glimpse of the Carnival in its heyday from the program of a Carnival at Rome in 1891, which was celebrated in the medieval manner. (5) The Carnival season began on January seventeenth, and from that date it was lawful to wear any costume and to cover the face with a mask. The formal celebrations began two weeks later, and lasted for ten days, from February first to the tenth. The official Carnival was inaugurated by the grand Senatorial Procession, with participants wearing costumes of the fourteenth century. This procession started at two o'clock in the, afternoon at the Piazza del Popolo and moved by way, of the Corso and the Via Nazionale to the Costanzi Theater. It was a procession of men-at-arms, cavalcades, heralds, and trumpeters, preceding the Senator of Rome and his suite.
[originally on p. 59]
3. For Saturnalia and Carnival see the abridged edition of The Golden Bough, by Sir James George Frazer (New York, Macmillan 3.440) 383-587 and 301-307. Our bibliography lists T. H. Caster's revised abridgment, The New Golden Bough, which seems not to object to these passages, and Professor Homer W. Smith, in his Man and his Gods (New York, Grosset 1952) 138-139, says practically the same thing as Frazer about the Saturnalia. See also Bernheimer (Wild) p 53ff — who is, however, to inclined toward the idea of a secret society being involved, I think.
4. The resentment of the laity against the clergy during our period appears in the tarocchi themselves, which make the Pope and Popess captives of Cupid, and again and again in the secular literature of the time. See Huizinga (Waning) p 178f and Burckhardt (Civilization) pt VI eh 2: "Religion in Daily Life."
5. The description of the Carnival of 1891 is from Carnival at Rome.
When it arrived at the theater, the first grand veglione (masked ball) of the Carnival began. This was a children's party, with prizes for the best costumes. In the evening there were two more veglioni in other theaters.
The next day, Monday, featured a band contest and a fete at the Wine Show. Here too, prizes were awarded for the best costumes. On Tuesday there was a parade of the Senatorial Cortege, the race in which the rioni (the various quarters of the city) competed, and a horse race. There was throwing of red chalk in the Corso, and in the evening a veglione with prizes. On Wednesday the horse races continued, and there was a grand artistic fancy dress ball in the evening, with prizes again for the best costumes. An added attraction was a great chess board in one of the theaters, on which the pieces were living people. This chess game was played by two members chosen from the Roman chess society.
On Thursday, February fifth, a traditional triumphal procession was held, with decorated vans, masqueraders on horseback and on foot, all competing for prizes. A battle of flowers took place from two o'clock until dusk. In the evening there was a grand illumination of the Piazza del Popolo by Messrs Fantappié and Sons from Florence. In it were twenty colossal transparent Chinese fans lighted with various colors: and twenty streams of light from the top of the obelisk. Two separate veglioni were held, each with prizes. The next evening there was a "white" veglione at the Costanzi Theater, to which only masqueraders in white were admitted.
The program for Saturday the seventh included another battle of flowers, more racing, and the usual veglione. On Sunday there was a parade of two-horse carriages and a veglione. Monday, the last day but one of the Carnival, was marked by the award of prizes for the most elegantly decorated balconies along the Corso, the route by which the Senatorial Cortege proceeded to the racing in the Piazzo del Popolo. In addition, there was a wine fair, and of course, a veglione in the evening. People were advised that the best time to see this veglione was from midnight until two.
The Carnival ended on Tuesday with a battle of flowers and a repetition of all the previous parades. In the final triumphal procession was a colossal statue of Justice on a float eight yards long, another huge float with a statue of Rome, and the Wedding of Romulus and Tazia on a third. In the evening there was the special candlelight display called
the moccoletti, with a procession of bengal lights and illuminated vehicles. The evening concluded with the cremation of King Carnival, fireworks, and a balloon ascent.
From the historical evidence we have gathered, we may quite logically deduce that the commedia dell'arte was an outgrowth of the fifteenth-century Carnival. This type of farcical comedy improvised by skilled actors on the basis of a written plot could easily have developed from the sort of procession which appears in the Visconti-Sforza tarocchi. (6) If we imagine the Fool, the representative of Lent, running alongside the procession and calling his warnings to the riders in the cars, we can assume that they talked back to him. Happy bits of repartee would please the crowds and encourage the actors to do even better. Finally the representative of Lent might invite King Carnival to leave the safety of his car and fight like a man. (7) Then we would have a scene such as Breughel shows us in his painting "The Battle between Carnival and Lent," where jolly fat Carnival sits on a wine barrel. With a spitted goose for his weapon, he fights the representative of Lent, in this case an old woman like the Popess of the tarocchi, who had to take the place of the Fool when the latter eventually assumed the guise of Carnival King. In Breughel's painting we see in one corner a comedy troupe engaged in playing "The Dirty Bride", and observe that they look very much like characters who were originally part of our triumphal procession.
The metamorphosis of the Fool into the Carnival King can be seen quite plainly in later tarocchi packs and in other paintings. His rags and patches became gayer and gayer, as did the feathers in his hair. At some time or other he may have won his battle with the Carnival King, or more likely, he was such a dominant figure in the gaiety that people forgot he had not always been the Carnival King. (8)
So even in the tarocchi we have the old story of the sacred king, who has a merry reign for a short time and then is put to death by his successor, The Carnival King is the first of the trumps, and his successor, King Lent, is just outside the door, waiting to dethrone him and take over his staff of office. The King is dead! Long live the King!
6. The best books I have found on the commedia dell'arte are Smith (Commedia) and Lea (Italian), which is much more detailed than Smith. Enci spett has good articles on "Carnevale" and "Commedia dell'arte." I suspect a connection between the tarocchi characters and those of the commedia because they are so similar; Smith (p 59, note) gives as the list of essential characters in the commedia two lovers, three women, one Scaramouche who plays the part of the braggart Captain, Pantalone, the Doctor of Law, Mezzetin, and Harlequin. The boastful Captain says that he once took prisoner Love, Death, and the Devil, and went to Hell to steal Proserpina. The Moon forgot Endymion for him, and he conquered Cupid in battle. (Smith 93-95). See also the first paragraph of the Notes for Il Bagatino, the first of the trumps, who was a character of the commedia. Pictures of the Carnival characters and the commedia characters can hardly be distinguished, and there is the same slapstick in both.
7. See the reconstruction in my "Undocumented Prologue," above.
8. For the metamorphosis of the Fool see the notes for that card.
Scan of pp. 58-59 (Notes): viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1168&start=30#p19080
One problem with these description of Carnival is that it seems to be based on celebrations and characters from at least a century after the PMB. What can she tell us about Carnival in Northern Italy before 1450?
Her description of "The fight between Carnival and Lent" did intrigue me:
If we imagine the Fool, the representative of Lent, running alongside the procession and calling his warnings to the riders in the cars, we can assume that they talked back to him. Happy bits of repartee would please the crowds and encourage the actors to do even better. Finally the representative of Lent might invite King Carnival to leave the safety of his car and fight like a man. (7) Then we would have a scene such as Breughel shows us in his painting "The Battle between Carnival and Lent," where jolly fat Carnival sits on a wine barrel. With a spitted goose for his weapon, he fights the representative of Lent, in this case an old woman like the Popess of the tarocchi, who had to take the place of the Fool when the latter eventually assumed the guise of Carnival King. In Breughel's painting we see in one corner a comedy troupe engaged in playing "The Dirty Bride", and observe that they look very much like characters who were originally part of our triumphal procession.
Here is the detail she is talking about (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight ... l_and_Lent):
Offhand, I'd say that the fat, oblivious figure of Carnival does not look a bit like either the gaunt, somber "Bagatino" of the PMB or the thin, disheveled wreck of a Fool:
However the man in back of him in yellow at least has "Bagatino's" cups and stick; his color, yellow, is that of deceit, Wikipedia says, first of Carnival and then the man in yellow:
He is wearing a huge meat pie as a head-dress; he is wielding a long spit, complete with a pig's head, as a weapon for the fight. The pouch of knives at his belt indicates that he is a butcher - the guild of butchers traditionally provided the meat for the carnival feast so his place at the procession's heart is apt.[7] The man behind the barrel is dressed in yellow, which is connected with deceit, and he is followed by a female figure who is carrying on her head a table with bread and waffles on it.
They don't say what waffles indicate. The image of deceit more fits other images of that time and place, notably the Bosch workshop's "Conjurer", a painting filled not just with illusion but deceit (the pickpockets, at least) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjurer_(painting)). The PMB figure, however, is not yellow but red.
Nor does the personification of Lent look much like the PMB Matto, although I do admit a likeness to the Popess.
She (or is it a he with stubble on his face?) looks to me like a parody of the religious fanatic. Neither has any parodies of kingly attributes. Wikipedia calls them Carnival and Lady Lent. The latter's hat, as well as her dress, is somewhat reminiscent of the PMB Popess's tiara.
She is not much like Bosch's equivalent of the PMB Matto, namely, his two "Wayfarer" figures, with their sticks very similar to the PMB's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wayfarer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haywain_Triptych (scroll down to "shutters"). If there is any relationship to the tarot, the suggestion would be that of the "Fool's Journey", toward an uncertain future.
More like Bosch's wayfarers--and some tarot Fools, too, in the 16th century (Cary Sheet as a proto-Tarot de Marseille, Rosenwald Fool/Bagat) is the Fool who gingerly leads an "Everyman" couple through life. Wikipedia is rather disparaging about the couple, saying that the bulge on the man's back represents egotism and the woman's unlit lantern represents lack of reason, and the fool's lit torch represents dispute and destruction. It seems to me more positive than that, a symbol of light in the darkness. That he is leading them through the middle of the scene (next to the well that both sides share) indicates the avoidance of the two extremes.
I was intrigued by the two people in the left bottom corner. Is the one whose face is hidden (probably for good reason) a fortune-teller consulting his lot-book?
Right above these two is the performance of "The Dirty Bride". The onlookers do not look like tarot figures to me. There is one procession in the painting, religious people all dressed alike invading Carnival (click on the image at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight ... l_and_Lent). That kind of procession is believable.
I am not done with Carnival and Lent. Moakley has some other things to say, more relevant to the PMB, in her sections devoted to the two figures ("Bagatino" and Matto) in the two sections she refers to in her notes. I will do them next.
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Nice find Mikeh
The player has 3 sheets around the head...
The Fortune Teller consulting a fourth one - for interpretation of the 2 dices
Kind of Lotoquine boards or lot book sheets ?
Anyway about 21 throws and 21 Triumphs ...
With 21 Triumphs it could become depending on the ordering choosen - for example :
21 = 6+5+4+3+2+1
1+1 Bateleur
1+2 Impératrice
1+3 Empereur
1+4 Papesse
1+5 Pape
1+6 Amoureux
2+2 Tempérance
2+3 Chariot
2+4 Force
2+5 Roue
2+6 Ermite
3+3 Pendu
3+4 Mort
3+5 Diable
3+6 Tour
4+4 Etoiles
4+5 Lune
4+6 Soleil
5+5 Jugement
5+6 Justice
6+6 Monde
And for foolish fun :
0+0 Mat
It's not such a bad ordering and makes some sense finally, no?
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#34 by SteveM
BOUGEAREL Alain wrote:
They're waffles (a food theme just like the big guy on barrel has a pie on his head)
The fourth being used like some kind of games boards, moving along the square holes (12x7 grid) according to the amount thrown?
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
Right Steve
"The fourth being used like some kind of games boards, moving along the square holes according to the amount thrown?"
Seems so, yes
"12x7 grid"
I had counted 11x7? Probably me wrong
Waffles are 12x7?
Those ones are -- unless I miscounted
SteveM wrote:
"By the 16th century, paintings by Joachim de Beuckelaer, Pieter Aertsen and Pieter Bruegel clearly depict the modern waffle form.[21] Bruegel's work, in particular, not only shows waffles being cooked, but fine detail of individual waffles. In those instances, the waffle pattern can be counted as a large 12x7 grid, with cleanly squared sides, suggesting the use of a fairly thin batter, akin to our contemporary Brussels waffles (Brusselse wafels)"
end quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle
Yes, good about the waffle. I hadn't made the connection, which is obvious.
Here is what else Moakley says about "Bagatino" and the Matto. It's in Part II of the book, where she discusses the individual cards and the suits in more detail. "Bagatino" is the first one and Matto the last. Although using the Bertoni order of trumps for everything else, she seems to be going to the "Steele Sermon" for the Matto, which has it last. It probably has to do with her interpretation of it.
I IL BAGATINO (Quarterpenny, The Juggler)
The lowest of the trumps, as we have said, is the Carnival King, Bagatino (Quarterpenny). The procession of triumphs which he leads is taking him to his own execution. The card shows Bagatino on the last day of the Carnival, when he is having his last meal. He is still dressed in holiday red and green, and has in his left hand the simple rod which is the sign of royal office. His right hand hovers uncertainly over a covered dish, which is white with touches of gray. We see by this how he became the Little Juggler of the later commedia dell'arte. That dish-cover offers many opportunities for cleverly "nervous" comic juggling. In the modern tarocchi Bagatino is often a juggler or conjurer, and his kingly rod becomes a magician's wand.
Before the Carnival King is executed, he is first given a trial, and accused of keeping people up late and making them drunk. Often a personification of Lent accompanies the procession to be sure that King Carnival gets his just deserts.
NOTES IL BAGATINO
For the theory that Bagatino is the Carnival King I have no direct authority. It is based on these facts: (1) Bagatino must be a proper name, since the modern form of it, Bagatto, has no meaning except "the first of the tarocchi trumps." (2) The clowns of the commedia dell'arte were thought of as Carnival figures, and one of them was named Bagatino: cf Harlequin, by Thelma Niklaus (New York, Braziller 1956) p 42; The Italian Comedy, by P. L. Duchartre (New York, John Day Co 1929) p 16o and pl1 showing Bagatino as the Little Juggler, facing p 228; also Pulcinella, by A. G. Bragaglia (Roma, G. Casing 1953) p 49-50. The whole triumphal procession may have become a comedy troupe, but for this I have no authority, though Brueghel's painting, "The Battle of Carnival & Lent," strongly suggests it. (3) Playing cards were associated with Carnival, and often forbidden by law at other times; cf Arch stor ital, 4 ser, xviii (1886) 28-29, for one instance. (4) As Il Matto is Lent accompanying the procession (see notes on that card), it seems likely that this is Carnival's farewell procession. I was convinced of this long before I had any idea as to the character of Bagatino. When I found that his rod was a sign of royal office it struck me that he was, of course, the King of the Carnival. For the plain rod as sign of royalty see the Empress in our set, the King in the so-called "Tarot of Mantegna," and a picture of "L'Imperatore Sigismondo in Trono" (detail of pavement in the cathedral at Siena, by Domenico di Bartolo d'Asciano (Assum (1), pl facing p 80.)
For the custom of personifying the Carnival and trying him for his sins see Sir James G. Frazer The Golden Bough, pt III "The Dying God" (London 1951) passim.
In the Milanese dialect (see Angiolini, Vocabolario) the word bagatt has come to mean "chatterbox," "the first of the tarocchi," "cobbler"; and "scarta bagatt" means "to make a long speech" and also "to speak one's whole mind." This throws a good deal of light on Bagatino's character; he was evidently a juggler with a good line of patter. As to "cobbler," in modern Italian tarocchi there is often a shoe on the table in this card. When I saw the Visconti-Sforza tarocchi in the Morgan Library, this card was in an envelope marked "Cobbler," although in the library's catalog it was titled "Castle of Plutus."
[start p. 113]
IL MATTO (The Fool) The Fool is never numbered. He is not one of the trumps but rather, their worst enemy. During the entire time the procession has been moving he has been threatening it with the club he carries. In fact, one can see him running alongside the great cars and brandishing his club at the gayest of the riders The seven feathers in his hair, and the ragged penitential garments which he wears, show that he is the personification of Lent, which puts an end to the Carnival season. According to custom, one of his feathers will be pulled out at the end of each week in Lent. The figure of Lent himself will be destroyed in effigy on Holy Saturday when the fast ends. But now he is on the point of claiming his seven-week kingship. "Just wait until tomorrow!" he has been saying to the gay knights and ladies of the tarocchi. Into the fire with all of you cards then!" And so it would be. A good Ash Wednesday sermon would send people enthusiastically home to bring out cards, gaming boards, and false hair to be burned in the "bonfire of the vanities."
It only added to the fun and fascination of Carnival to have Lent threatening it, and people enjoyed the antics of the Fool so much that in time they forgot he was the spirit of Lent. Then the Popess became Lady Lent, as we see in Breughel's famous painting, "The Battle Between Carnival and Lent," and the Fool was looked upon as the Carnival King himself. In later versions of the tarocchi we can see how he became now the double of the oId Carnival King, and then his supplanter. In some packs the first of the trumps and the Fool are both shown as Harlequins. In others the second of the trumps, instead of representing the Popess, shows the Spanish Captain Fracasse. The Captain is dressed rather like the old King, our Bagatino, and he is the special enemy of the first trump, though people have long since forgotten the reason. It is still a Carnival tradition that the Carnival King who wears the white clothes typical of the clown, is the special enemy of some character dressed in red such as the Spanish Captain or Bagatino. This happens too in the commedia dell’arte which, we believe, grew out of the Carnival buffooneries. The Fool also is the forerunner of the Joker in today's bridge cards.
The Joker or Fool fascinates most of us even more than the prince and princess. He is the successful outsider, the man who has escaped from the demands of society, and no longer attempts to dress or act to please it. He is the prince above all princes, who dares to do as he pleases. Tramps and bums in general fascinate us for this reason. The child in us who would like to defy convention and avoid responsibility envies these men who dare to go about with dirty faces and ragged, dirty clothes. So the Fool, who has no place in the pack, in a sense reigns above it as its ruler.
NOTES IL MATTO
In modern tarocchi and tarot packs the Fool is sometimes assigned the number zero. The minchiate have several unnumbered cards (the Fool and those representing the triumph of eternity), the thought apparently being that it is Lent plus eternity which is to put to flight the procession of triumphs.
There is an Italian saying, "Esser come it Matto ne' tarocchi," "To be like the Fool in the tarocchi," that is, to be welcome everywhere (cf Alfred Hoare, An Italian Dictionary (Cambridge, University Press 1915) art "Matto"). This, and the fact that the Fool has no special rank among the trumps, inspires my idea that he is to be imagined as running about here and there through the whole procession. The rules for the play of the game point to this, too. Together with the first and last of the trumps, the Fool counts as one of the special "Tarot trumps" in calculating the value of one's hand. But in actual play he can take nothing, and his only value is that he may be played at any time instead of following suit, so as to save a valuable card. If he is taken in a trick, he counts for nothing. As soon as I saw the Fool at the Morgan Library, I noticed the feathers in his hair, and remembered having read that in parts of Italy Lent is represented by a figure with seven feathers attached like legs, which are pulled out one by one as the weeks of Lent pass. I knew it was either in Frazer's Golden Bough or in Frances Toor's Festivals and Folkways of Italy that I had seen this, so I went home and searched through both books without finding it. Surely I had not invented the story! But I almost thought I did until it occurred to me to look in the unabridged Golden Bough, and there it was: pt III "The Dying God" (London 1952) p 244-245). [This is online at https://books.google.com/books?id=dQdph ... rs&f=false]
In Milan Carnival actually lasted through the first Sunday in Lent.
For tarocchi sets in which the Fool has become the Carnival King see the British Museum catalogs of playing cards, especially the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Flemish, German, and Austrian tarocchi.
Clowns became more and more a feature of the Carnival in from 1461 to 1607 (cf Molmenti I pt 2, p 76). One type was called the Mattacino, Mattello, or Matterello. A very common dress for the clown has always been the plain white or ragged dress which is the special mark of the penitent (it is odd that the writers on these clowns have not noticed this), as we see him in the "De Sphaera" ms. made for Francesco Sforza about the same time as our tarocchi, in the part devoted to the influence of the planet Saturn. Here the penitent is a condemned criminal being prepared for death by a hooded brotherhood. He wears a white shirt and drawers (one remembers how often in the Middle Ages and renaissance public penance was performed in shirt and drawers, carrying a candle). It is for this reason that the month of March is often represented by a ragged or white-clad penitent, as in the Schifanoia "Months" at Ferrara (Ancona's suggestion that this figure represents Perseus seems too far-fetched to me). In a mosaic shown in Ancona (Uomo) tav. XXXVII, representing the year and the months at San Michele, Pavia, March has the feathers and blows two horns to represent the winds of that month. An engraving which is probably Ferrarese, about 1470-80, is shown in Hind (Early) iv pl 426. Here March has ragged stockings and a bare toe sticking out of one shoe. A legend has him saying:
Io som Mazzo che carne no mazo bocone
p no psso esser compagnone
Vivado de morona, spinaze e gabareli
Cauiaro tonina port e burateli.
which apparently means something like this; "I am March who has no mouthful of meat to eat; I can't be a good fellow, living on morona (whatever that is — but not good), spinach, and cress. . . ."
The association of Lent & March is also in Rabelais, bk. 5; beginning of ch. 29. In Hind's Early Italian Engraving there are several early tarocchi Fools: the tarocchi doubtfully ascribed to Nicoletto da Modena (v 139ff) have a Matto who is drunk, lying on the ground with his legs in the air and supporting a jug inscribed "Muscatello." The Sola-Busca tarocchi (iv pl 370 ff) have a Matto playing a bagpipe, and with feathers in his hat. Plate 573 is "El mato" by Zoan Andrea — a naked man, kneeling, with a wreath in his hand.
The association of feathers with folly goes back at least to Giotto's time, for we find in the Cappella dell'Arena at Padua, which Giotto began to decorate about 1306, the vice of Folly depicted as a woman with a feather headdress a little like an American Indian's, but with the feathers more widely spaced. She is bare-legged, and her dress has a scalloped or ragged hem which is above her knees in front and trails down to the floor in back. She appears to be pregnant, and has a braided girdle. This figure is reproduced in Ancona (Uomo), tav XXI, b.
There is a suggestion that Carnival clowns known as Matto or Mattello were especially connected with the mockery of religion, in Malaguzzi-Valeri (Corte 563) who says that the buffoni Diodato, Galasso, Fritella, and Mattello, were highly esteemed at Mantua, and that Mattello was disguised as a friar and burlesqued religious ceremonies.
Even today in Italy there persists the tradition that the white-clad clown-penitent is the natural enemy of a man dressed in red like our Bagatino or the Spanish Captain. In L'Italia dei poveri, by Giovanni Russo (Milano, Longanesi 1958) p. 141-143, the author tells of seeing in Rome, during Carnival time, the impromptu dance of a Pulcinella in white and a young man dressed in a red uniform and visored cap and brandishing a club.
Scan of pp. 62-63 (Bagattino): https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lCPFfXJwFVs/ ... ge-029.jpg
Scan of pp. 114-115 (Notes on the Fool): https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rfcEIMimKfY/ ... ge-008.jpg
#39 by Huck
... :-) ... in Cologne they burn the "Nubbel" = "somebody" tonight, earlier it was named the "Zacheias", in Jülich they burn the "Lazarus", in Düsseldorf the "Hoppeditz". Nobody of these is the Prinz Karneval.
In Malsch, and nobody knows, what sort of location this shall be, they burn the Prinz Karneval. In Ballenhaus they call the Prinz the "Nippel", but only, cause they misunderstood the Cologne word "Nubbel". And nobody in Cologne knows, where Ballenhaus is. Actually it's only a pub ...
http://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/4 ... e-malsch/4
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballenhaus_Schongau
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I think that now we can revisit Hurst's and O'Neill's criticism that the interpretation of the cards as a spoof without a coherent solemnity that is being spoofed. O'Neill says something directly regarding the theme of Carnival vs. Lent:
One reason that the "spoof" explanation must be questioned is that the triumphal processions were more than a gay festival, they were part of the psychological preparation for the Lenten season. The spirit was gay and almost anything was permitted, but the themes were sacred and regarded as such by the people. One can spoof a patriotic parade, but the spoof better not include dragging the flag in the mud. Some foolishness was expected, but the deeper value of the allegory could not really be spoofed, short of sacrilege.
We can see O'Neill's point simply by looking at the "Battle of Carnival and Lent" painting. Both sides are spoofed, yet there is a deeper meaning: the sensual man of Carnival is attachment to ephemeral things, which for salvation in eternity must give way to the spiritual man. At the same time the senses themselves can be utilized for this transition, of which the painting itself is an example. The divine first appears in sensual form. So likewise the procession at Epiphany of the Three Kings delights the senses while preparing us for death.
In Moakley's account of the feathers on the PMB Fool, she cites the chapter on "The Dying God" in The Golden Bough. This applies to the Carnival King (or Prince) as well as the King (or Lady) of Lent. Christianity recast the mythology of the Saturnalia in its own image. It did not abolish "the dying god" but made him its central figure, the crucified Christ. God appears on earth in sensual form to give his message and then points the way forward by dying to that life, both in life and in death. So the Carnival King's death has a double message: death to the sensual man, but thereby preparing for spiritual rebirth. It spoofs the sensual man, but within that context the spiritual message is untouched, for it is not the senses themselves that are spoofed, but merely the use of them as an end in themselves. Can we say the same about the "Bagatino".
If we want to find images in Northern Italian art that compare with the PMB "Bagatino", we need look no further than the churches of Cremona, whose interiors were graced with paintings by the Bembo artists:
The image on the right is from a Bembo painting of Christ's ascension, which I reproduce from the 2013 Brera catalog on the Bembo and the tarocchi. Red, green, and white are the colors of the Magi (as well as Faith, Hope, and Charity). That red is predominant suggests to me the blood of Christ. It is true that the Bembo painted a lot of male faces in a similar fashion: a St. Mark in the Cavalcabò Chapel of St. Agostino, Cremona ( Tanzi, Archigoticissimo Bembo, 2011, p. 70), also the second king in an Adoration, and a couple of King Davids in an illuminated manuscripts (all in Bandera and Tanzi 2013). But there is a relationship to Christ for these people, too.
Moakley calls the figure "Bagatino", asserting that the word has no meaning other than the card. Actually, it was the word for a coin of very small denomination in Bologna, according to the etymological dictionary. The heading of the section called "Bagatino" even gives a correct translation: quarter-penny, the smallest denomination of English money. It goes with his monicker "le petit", the little one. It fits the Carnival King, in the eyes of the Church, but also Jesus, God in the humble form of an itinerant beggar.
But in fact the earliest name on record for the card is in the "Steele Sermon": El Bagatella. Moakley says that this is a mixture of Spanish and Italian. Actually, I think "El" is an old Italian form of the definite article, too. It indicates that the card is not "La Bagatella", meaning "trifle", but rather the illusionist called with the same word, the "chatterbox" whose patter distracted from his hands. Ross found the word quoted by Muratori from a 13th century poem (translation by Marco Ponzi).
Lassovi la fortuna fella /Travagliar qual Bagattella:
Quanto più si mostra bella, /Come anguilla squizza via.
I leave to you wicked fortune/ Who acts like a Bagattella:
whenever she seems most beautiful,/ she slips away like an eel,...
Fortune is an illusionist. The connection between an illusionist and Christ is, perhaps, Christ as logos, the one of whom it was said (http://www.latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=1&b=4):
Omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ipso factum est nihil quod factum est.
(All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.)
In that sense, the four objects of the trade--shells, wand, knife, cups--do symbolize the four suits, the non-sacred parts of the game, and the four elements, with the triumphs as the quintessence. These associations were in fact made during the Renaissance, in various ways, e.g. below, in connection with the four humors (except for the cup, which is awkwardly given to the swordsman, even though water is associated with the religious man):
Moakley says the figure on the card is the Carnival King eating his last meal. I think he was always a "Bagatella" in the 1298 sense (or Bagatello, as the Anonymous Discourse of 1570 calls him, with a similar explanation. I give the text, followed by Caldwell, Depaulis, and Ponzi's translation, with my comments on the translation in brackets:
Gli posa appresso il Bagatello, percioche si come coloro, che con prestezza di mano giacando, una cosa per un' altro parer ci fanno, il che oltre alla maraviglia porge vana dilettatione, non essendo il suo fine altro che inganno cosi il Mondo allettando altrui sotto imagine di bello, et dilettevole promettendo contentezza, al fine da guai, et in guisa di prestigiatore non havendo in se cosa premanente ne durabile, con finta apparenza di bene, conduce a miserabil fine.
(He placed the Bagat [in Italian, Bagattello] next to him [meaning the Fool], because,like those that play with swift hands, making one thing look like another one, causing wonder and a vain amusement, since his only goal is deception, in the same way, the world attracts the others [literally, attracting others] with images of beauty and delight, promising happiness at the end of trouble, as a juggler it contains [literally, "in the manner of a slight of hand artist, having"] nothing either permanent nor durable, and [he?] leads to a miserable end, under the false appearance of good.
Well, yes, but so is the world itself, from which the road to the divine begins. Plato's Republic (of which Filippo's secretary had in 1440 completed a new, readable translation) compared the world of the senses to shadows cast on a cave wall from unseen puppets and an unseen fire. (To the followers of Augustine, buried at Pavia, Plato was the pagan whom Augustine had put in service to Christianity.) It is that world into which God descended to become Jesus, and which crucified him.
Yet the scene on the card does suggest someone sad sitting down to a meal, as a kind of secondary association. One might think of Jesus at the Last Supper as well as the Carnival King. The sadness would be at how the world treats the truth--there is such a long road ahead for his followers. The straw hat, which Moakley takes as covering a dish with food, also resembles the cover on the communion cup. (I hope to show later how fitting it is that the suit of Cups is what comes next in Moakley's procession.)
His wand does resemble a scepter (as well as other things, such as an innkeeper's nib pen), suggesting a king. Well, Jesus was considered King of Kings (or "prince of princes", in Moakley's phrase).
There is also the term "Juggler", which she also uses and takes as someone who keeps plates and cutlery in the air as an exercise in skill and humor. Actually, that is a modern sense of the term, unrecorded before the 19th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, 1997 Additions. The first date they find for its use is 1807. On the other hand, different meanings attach to the word in the years in question, more appropriate to an entertainer (sense 1, obsolete), trickster (sense 2, used mainly up to the 17th century), and conjurer (same). It is an incorrect translation in relation to the English language currently. It is a good translation only in obsolete senses of the word. A better translation would be "street magician", for that is where he was found, in the piazzas. Mainly he was on a raised platform, or bench, attracting crowds for the selling of patent medicines, looked down upon by the medical establishment. He might also be doing the "shell game", luring in those who think their eyes are faster than his hands, who find that they have lost their money by the end.
I turn to the Fool. Moakley starts out:
He is not one of the trumps but rather, their worst enemy. During the entire time the procession has been moving he has been threatening it with the club he carries.
That does not apply to the tarot Fool. She also says:
Together with the first and last of the trumps, the Fool counts as one of the special "Tarot trumps" in calculating the value of one's hand. But in actual play he can take nothing, and his only value is that he may be played at any time instead of following suit, so as to save a valuable card.
This sounds like a very cooperative relationship with the other trumps. It is rather like Jesus's self-sacrifice in a state of powerlessness for the sake of humanity. At the end of the hand, both he and the Bagatella are valuable point-getters, however. The analogy might be to their worth if "played right" after the end of life (comparable to the hand).
She continues:
The seven feathers in his hair, and the ragged penitential garments which he wears, show that he is the personification of Lent, which puts an end to the Carnival season. According to custom, one of his feathers will be pulled out at the end of each week in Lent. The figure of Lent himself will be destroyed in effigy on Holy Saturday when the fast ends.
Yes, another self-sacrifice, like the Bagatella's. Oddly, when discussing Giotto's Folly, a possible model for the card, she says:
The association of feathers with folly goes back at least to Giotto's time, for we find in the Cappella dell'Arena at Padua, which Giotto began to decorate about 1306, the vice of Folly depicted as a woman with a feather headdress a little like an American Indian's, but with the feathers more widely spaced. She is bare-legged, and her dress has a scalloped or ragged hem which is above her knees in front and trails down to the floor in back. She appears to be pregnant, and has a braided girdle.
Perhaps Giotto, too, had Lent in mind. The posture seems to imitate, foolishly or mockingly, that of a pope blessing the faithful, in this case the crowd at the end of the parade. There is also the play on "fool" in I Corinthians, with the fool in the eyes of the world, the fool for God, who is no fool but the most prudent of all, because he sees life as a whole, including after death. It is the "Holy Fool" again.
In that case, the pregnancy is symbolic of rebirth.
Added March 7: Here is the passage from Frazer (from https://books.google.com/books?id=dQdph ... rs&f=false):
Thus in the Abruzzi they hang a puppet of tow, representing Lent, to a cord, which stretches across the street from one window to another. Seven feathers are attached to the figure, and in its hand it grasps a distaff and spindle. Every Saturday in Lent one of the feathers is plucked out, and on Holy Saturday, while the bells are ringing, a string of chestnuts is burnt for the purpose of sending Lent and its meager fare to the devil.
The Native American headdress for the chief was meant to suggest, I think, the halo that the shamans saw around people, or maybe spirits, evident in the petroglyphs in my part of the world. The same would be true in Northern Italy in Giotto's time and after. The expression on the PMB Fool's face, usually taken as the sign of an empty head, devoid of sense, is the same as that the Bembo painted on their "Martyr Saints" (2013 Brera Catalog p. 81, dated by them to c. 1450):
They are lost in the unfathomable inwardness that ps.-Dionysius described in his allegorical reading of Moses' journey up Mt. Sinai (in Mystical Theology, newly translated by Traversari in Florence, c. 1436):
Here, being neither oneself nor someone else, one is supremely united to the completely unknown by an inactivity of all knowledge, and knows beyond the mind by knowing nothing.
Of course it is the hallmark of the fool to "know nothing". And Saturn, besides being an evil planet, was also associated with wisdom and the Golden Age. Again the spoof has an ironic twist.
So I think Moakley's thesis can be saved. Before and behind the spoof we see in the cards is the Christian message, which is never negated, merely stated in a witty way that, besides being just what it appears, also suggests the opposite of what appears. It is the same as in the "Mass of Fools" and the "Mass of the Gamblers" (see Andrea Vitali at http://www.associazioneletarot.it/page.aspx?id=435), which spoofs that which the rest of the year the participants (minor clerics) take very seriously.
However these two figures cannot be taken in isolation from the rest of the triumphs, maybe even from the rest of the 78 cards. So we must soldier on.
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“A win at Henty gives the entrant valuable exposure for their product,’’ Mr Bergmeier said.
An additional accolade is the Australian Tractor and Machinery Association Award for the best new Australian-made machine.
It is judged and presented on the final day of the field days. Last year, the award went to the 50 tonne Crop Carrier from Coolamon Steelworks.
Nominations are made by the Henty Machinery Field Days Co-operative members who unload the machines – in the vein of the Archibald Prize packer’s award.
Judges then visit each nominated company during the field days.
For more information on entering the award visit www.hmfd.com.au
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Home > Update | Killed in her sleep - St Bess woman murdered by estranged boyfriend
Published:Tuesday | January 14, 2020 | 12:00 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer [1]
WESTERN BUREAU:
The kitchen knife used in the preparation of Sunday dinner at Neville Sinclair’s home in Brinkley district, St Elizabeth, became an instrument of death a few short hours later as it was used to slaughter the senior justice of the peace’s (JP) daughter, Nevia Sinclair, who was allegedly murdered in her sleep by her estranged boyfriend.
The suspect is now in police custody.
According to reports, shortly after 10 p.m., the accused killer broke into Sinclair’s house and apparently went into the kitchen, picked up the knife, and then went to the room where his 26-year-old daughter, a secretary of the National Works Agency, had retired to bed. She suffered multiple stab wounds.
Neville Sinclair said that he and his wife were alerted to noise from Nevia’s room and went to investigate.
“When we go inna de room, mi see mi daughter pon the floor full a blood and we see [name redacted] a run from de room.”
“While him a run fi get way, him trip over a iron board, so mi run to the front a de house and me see when him run through di gate … mi bawl out, ‘You really kill mi daughter! You really kill Nevia!” said Sinclair. The suspect continued running.
The distraught father said that the suspect called him back, about 10 minutes later, pretending to have heard of Nevia’s demise. Neville Sinclair hung up in anger.
The police theorised that the killer had gained entry to the house via a window over the deceased woman’s bed.
The grief-stricken father said that his daughter was involved in an on-and-off relationship with the suspect and had once lived with the accused in the nearby Hatfield district. Neville Sinclair said that he often visited their house to settle domestic disputes. Nevia had, on several occasions, moved out of the home she shared with her boyfriend but was persuaded to return.
“On de third a dis month, she again moved out on him and come back home to my house … . She seh, ‘Enough is enough!’ and dat she fed up and tired,” recounted the father.
When The Gleaner visited Sinclair’s house, scores of residents swarmed the property, many crying or frozen in disbelief as they took turns viewing the blood-soaked floor in the room where the killing took place.
“Is like we under a wicked spell fi start de 2020 inna Jamaica,” remarked a resident, who was clearly upset about the killing. “Dis is too much…the killing must stop.”
Sinclair’s murder occurred hours after a murder-suicide in Portmore, St Catherine, where a Jamaica Defence Force soldier, identified as 33-year-old Doran McKenzie, murdered his partner Suianne Easy before killing himself.
Editor's note: Nevia Sinclair was employed to the National Works Agency and was 26 years old. An earlier version of this story had referenced the National Water Commission as her workplace and had put her age as 27.
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ABC No Rio benefit May 3
just like those in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, maybe these walls belong to the ages (detail of 1998 mural done by Chris Benfield to which other artists later made additions - customary practice in the ABC No Rio space - but those elements are not shown here)
Barry and I are going to be at the ABC No Rio benefit on May 3rd at Allegra LaViola on the Lower East Side. We're both really looking forward to it, for the interesting company, the beer and the food, a great silent art auction, and guest DJs including Anna Kustera, Doug McClemont, and Kembra Pfahler.
But the occasion is also about the opportunity to help out, in at least a very modest way, one of the most interesting arts institutions in the city, an activist (and tenacious) DIY art, performance and community space on the Lower East Side (156 Rivington Street), a "collective of collectives," with an awesome past, a dynamic present, and an exciting future.
The current building is a monument, but it's pretty distressed structurally, and in a serious state of disrepair. Restoration would cost nearly as much as a creative new design offering more space and significantly-enhanced facilities, and it could be constructed on sustainable design principles. The decision was made: Start from scratch.
While I love a snappy new building as much as the next guy, it's going to be tough watching the old ABC No Rio go down. I think there will be an effort to salvage some of the bold murals created - in layers - over the last three decades: The image at the top of this post is just one of a number I captured last month on a tour of the old tenement on Rivington Street.
The institution is now well on its way toward realizing a handsome new Green home, designed by Paul Castrucci, to be built on the same site. Anyone can help it along by attending the party next Tuesday, or if unable to do so, by making a donation of any size.
Full disclosure: Barry and I are on the benefit committee. Details here. Tickets start at $50.
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"Anomalistic Urge" at Vaudeville Park, going, going . . . .
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I wanted to get this post published before it was too late to send anyone to see this wonderful short-run (only ten-days) group show of sculpture in Williamsburg. Barry and I stopped in at Vaudeville Park last Sunday to see "Anomalistic Urge." intrigued by the siren of a new space and a new curator. Some of the artists were very familiar to us; some of them were not (although maybe we should be embarrassed to admit that).
Courtney Tramposh, whose work we had not encountered before, gathered together gorgeous and exciting pieces by some 30 sculptors for this show. Tramposh is a sculptor herself and for this show she created the room environment as well as the unconventional but aesthetically sympathetic platforms on which the works are displayed. She describes the installation as "a tabletop sculpture show." For a large group sculpture show, it's contained within a fairly small space, but it all works. "Anomalistic Urge" is her first outing as a curator, and it's a doozy.
Courtney was anxious to point out all of the other artists's work, but never mentioned she had a piece of her own in the show. I thought we had already stayed past closing time, so unfortunately we didn't quite see everything, and I didn't snap an image of her own work (outside of its supporting roles).
The complete list of artists includes Justin Adian, Michael Berryhill, Shawn Bluechel, Strauss Borque-LaFrance, Sung Jin Choi, Tania Cross, Ben Dowell, Stacy Fisher, Jashin Friedrich, Joachim "YoYo" Friedrich, Gerald Giamportone, Susana Gaudencio, Hiroshi Tachibana, Rachel Higgins, James Hyde, Kristen Jensen, Michael Johnson, Tom Kotik, Denise, Kupferschmidt, Emily Noelle Lambert, Colin O'Con, Jonathan Peck, Courtney Puckett, Nathan See, Emma Spertus, Madeleine Stern, Jennifer Sullivan, Raphael Taylor, Courtney Tramposh, and Austin Willis.
Vaudeville Park is as much a (very interesting) music and performance space as anything else, and so we're not surprised to hear that there will be a closing party and "sound performance" this Sunday, April 10, from 6 to 9 (not to mention some quirky contemporary classical music tonight, and "feral chamber music" on Saturday).
James Hyde OR 2008 Parex on wood 24" x 12" x 12"
Jennifer Sullivan Borrowed Confidence 2008 gouache, ink, collage on cardboard 10" x 16"
Nathan See The Triumph of Logic 2011 clay figurine, wood, cardboard, paint, paper
Joachim "YoYo" Friedrich Untitled 1976 oil on wood 2' x 4'
Emily Noelle Lambert Flock 2010 paint on wood
Denise Kupferschmidt Vase, Bowl, Block 2011 cement, plaster, paint, string, plexiglass, wood
Hiroshi Tachibana untitled 2009 hand-cut plywood, latex paint and oil pastel 16" x 24" x 6"
Courtney Puckett Bug 2010 wood, wire, string 5' x 1' x 1' [with detail of Raphael Taylor's "Designer 737 02/21/11 13:11, #1"]
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Workers Were Allowed To Return To New York Offices This Week. Almost None Of Them Did.
FDNY Firefighters Get Help Fighting Their Foreclosures
The exodus of New York City's endangered middle class
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Wake NYC up already: The city's future hangs in the balance
2020-09-06 — nydailynews.com
Gov. Cuomo has recently announced that restaurants and bars might have to close down during the cold weather months, although it sounded more like a threat, because he mentioned that he was angry about too little compliance with existing regulations.
judging from the city's seeming paralysis, it seems the pandemic is devastating New York far more than Miami or Dallas. Even though COVID cases are now minimal here and New Yorkers have followed most mandated instructions beautifully, we're being effectively shut down into depression. As night follows day, vagrancy and filth and crime follow.
If we've matched the virus-containing achievement of cities like Berlin, we should be able to operate like Berlin. Even Hoboken and Jersey City, just a few stops down the PATH train, have 25% capacity indoor dining. New York now has a solid testing infrastructure and fast-developing contact tracing networks. Restaurants and bars can open with UV lights or alternate strict sanitation measures, plexiglass separators, masks and hand-sanitizers required and restricted occupancy.
The root of quarantine is the word "quarante," French for forty, as in 40 days. Over 140 days is enough. Wake New York City up before September ends.''
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InDepthNH.org (http://indepthnh.org/2020/12/30/safety-concerns-prompt-sununu-to-cancel-inauguration-ceremony/)
Safety Concerns Prompt Sununu to Cancel Inauguration Ceremony
By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | December 30, 2020
Paula Tracy file photo
Gov. Chris Sununu
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu today cancelled his inauguration ceremony Jan. 7 out of concern for public safety.
“My first responsibility is ensuring the safety of my family and our citizens,” Sununu said via Twitter. “For weeks, armed protesters have increasingly become more aggressive, targeting my family, protesting outside my private residence, and trespassing on my property — an outdoor public ceremony simply brings too much risk.”
Since Sununu announced a mask mandate last month, protesters have targeted his private residence in Newfields, prompting the town selectmen, which include the governor’s brother Michael, to issue a town ordinance prohibiting protests in residential areas.
That did not stop protesters who returned earlier this week resulting in one arrest and nine people fined $100 including a journalist from NH Journal.
An organization called the NH Committee of Safety planned to protest the inauguration ceremony scheduled Jan. 7 outdoors in front of the State House.
The group along with a half dozen elected state Representatives and about 80 citizens gathered Dec. 21 on the State House steps to support a Declaration of Independence from New Hampshire calling for the “Termination of office and Termination of the ‘state.’”
The governor’s mask mandate, Sununu’s executive orders shutting down the state due to the coronavirus and expanding his emergency powers, as well as the expansion of absentee voting were given as the reasons for the declaration, according to Daniel Richard of Auburn, who organized the NH Committee of Safety.
On Wednesday, Sununu said he did not make the decision to cancel the inauguration ceremony lightly, but it is the “right thing to do.”
After discussing the situation with Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, Senate President Chuck Morse and acting-Speaker
Sherman Packard, Sununu said he and the Executive Council will be sworn-in during a small ceremony attended by leaders of both houses of the legislature, and virtually attended by all other members instead next Thursday.
“I will deliver my inaugural address live at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 7. More details will be made public in the coming days,” Sununu said.
Other gubernatorial inauguration ceremonies have been held outside Representatives Hall, the traditional location, but have allowed for public access.
Earlier this year, Sununu decided to move the ceremony outside to allow for social distancing and making it less likely anyone would be exposed to the coronavirus.
The day before the inauguration, the House and Senate are scheduled to meet to adopt rules and other housekeeping measures.
The Senate is meeting remotely, but the House is scheduled to meet in a drive-in theater arrangement in a parking lot on the University of New Hampshire’s Durham campus.
Democrats noting some of their disabled and health compromised members will not be able to attend the session, are pushing for remote access saying the arrangements violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The House and Senate held sessions on Organization Day earlier this month outdoors at the University of New Hampshire to elect their leaders for the next two years.
House Speaker Dick Hinch of Merrimack was elected that day, but died a week later of COVID-19, raising health and safety concerns about future sessions.
Following news reports that Sununu is canceling the inauguration ceremony due to concerns over armed protestors, Granite State Progress Executive Director Zandra Rice Hawkins released the following statement:
“Governor Chris Sununu is partially responsible for the growth and threat of domestic terrorism in New Hampshire. Sununu vetoed background checks and repealed concealed carry licensing requirements, paving the way for dangerous individuals to more readily access and carry firearms. During the election, Sununu campaigned with anti-government and secessionist leaders, normalizing those viewpoints and building political power for those groups.
For months, Sununu looked the other way as heavily armed white supremacists stood outside of Black Lives Matter events, and armed militias recruited during ReOpen rallies. Now Sununu is finally worried about safety – when his own is at risk.”
As early as May 2020, Granite State Progress held press briefings and public education sessions warning that anti-government extremist and white supremacist activity was on the rise in New Hampshire.
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Massachusetts home where Lizzie Borden’s parents were axed to death selling for $2M
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Real estate is so hot right now, there’s not even a discount for a (possibly) haunted home.
The Massachusetts house where Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were brutally axed to death in the 19th century has hit the market for $ 2 million. Now, brave buyers have the unique opportunity to own a piece of history and inherit a successful bed and breakfast that’s said to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in New England.
The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum Fall River house at 230 Second St. in Fall River, Mass. (Google Maps)
The three-story clapboard home in Fall River currently operates as the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum, and went up for sale on Monday, the Associated Press reports. The potential buyer would score the home, B&B website, intellectual property, and merchandise sold at the museum with the purchase.
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A listing page described the buy as an “unbelievable opportunity to own and operate one of New England’s top tourist attractions,” saying the spooky site draws visitors from around the world.
In June 1893 Lizzie Borden stood trial, later acquitted, for killing her father and stepmother with an ax. (Getty Images)
“This is a turnkey operation, running lucrative day tours and evening events, and as a popular bed and breakfast destination,” the MLS page reads. “Picture yourself serving fun hatchet cookies, tiny johnny cakes and a scrumptious breakfast to overnight guests who have just enjoyed an experience of a lifetime!”
Listing agent Suzanne St. John of Century 21, who is also a tour guide at the museum, told The Boston Globe the current owners are retiring after more than 15 years in business with the bed and breakfast. Moving forward, St. John hopes the next buyer will keep continue running the museum and B&B named after the suspected axe murderer.
“It’s well known all over the world, and on a normal year you have people that come in from all over,” she explained.
On Aug. 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed at the Fall River house at 230 Second St. Lizzie was arrested and jailed for the murders, but acquitted on June 20, 1893, after a sensationalized trial. The historic house has operated as a bed and breakfast since 1996.
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The Fall River home where Lizzie lived for the rest of her life after being acquitted is also up for sale. (Google Maps)
For true-crime enthusiasts especially eager to expand their real estate portfolio, the Victorian home “Maplecroft” where Lizzie lived for the rest of her life after being acquitted, is also up for sale. The 4,000-square-foot property, also in Fall River, was most recently asking $ 890,000.
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Ralph Shephard - Landscapes
I was born in 1954 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. From being very young I can always remember having a burning desire to be creative, and would draw, paint or sculpt, given an opportunity. As a child I was extememly intoverted, and art really was the one way in which I could fully express myself, prove my metal. Subconsciously, a lot of these earliest traits I think, have a lot to do with how and why I work nowadays. It all has a lot to do with what drives me on so insatiably.
In 1970 I did a ground and foundation course in art at Norwich School of Art, and then went on to do a fine Art course at then infamous Leeds Polytechnic. Thecourse at that time was radically innovative in the extreme, braking every conceivable rule, and totally challenging the art establishement. To a large extent, I thought 'so what'. I didn't feel that the need to be outlandish fitted into my own scheme of things, and wa looking for something far deeper and more satysfying.
American Art had a considerable influence on my painting when I was younger, and still does to this day. Mostly Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and Frederick Edwin Church, Charles Sheeler, Philip Pearlstein and the Photo Realist of the 70's. This interest was cemented into place when I was 18 and I had a lenghty summer stay thee in 1972. I had the opportunity to see what inspired me in the cult road movies. As an impressionable romantic I fell totaly in love with the landscape, of diners, gas station, and solitude of the more 'off the beaten track' places I visited.
Apart from American influences over the years there has always been the other side to my artistic outlook. I have always admired some of the works of the Pre-Raphaelites.
For years I have been doing various things such as illustrations, graphics, model making and giants props for television. I have also lectured art. For all these years I have been of course painting and my main interests have been: portraits and a female form and te large landscapes, mostly of a British locations.
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Are You a Social Media Landlord or Renter?
January 14th, 2015 2 Comments
Do you own social media channels?
Think again, chances are you are simple renting a presence but somebody else is making the rules. Hence, one of the trends in social media marketing in 2015 is a turn to truly owned vs. rented social channels.
Evidence #1:
In a hotly debated report, Nate Elliott, a Forrester Research analyst stated that:
“Facebook will become nothing but a repository for display ads”.
What caused him to make such a statement?
According to Mr. Elliott, top brands’ Facebook and Twitter posts only reach around 2% of their fans and followers, and less than 0.1% of fans and followers actually interact with each post on average. And recent FB tweakts have made it even less likely that brands unpaid posts will actually be seen by users.
As a result, marketers hoping to interact with consumers online might be better off investing in social features that exist on their own websites, or in smaller, more niche social networks, Mr. Elliott said.
“It’s time for marketers to start building social relationship strategies around sites that can deliver value.”
Based on Forrester’s research, Mr. Elliott urged marketers to think carefully about the ways they’re spending their money on social efforts, and to recognize that Facebook and Twitter are not what they used to be from a brand perspective.
”While they’ll continue to collect billions in display ad revenues, they’re just not the most important sites for social marketers anymore.”
In 2014, Eat24 wrote an infamous letter to Facebook to “break up with them”.
The reasons stated were similar to Nate Elliott’s: Facebook changed the rules of the game along the way. It’s their prerogative as the owner of the platform. Still, it left a bad taste…and made Eat24 leave.
THE POINT IS…
…companies are getting tired of renting social media channels. While Twitter accounts, LinkedIn pages and Facebook pages are often called “owned media”, they are really not.
In the HBR blog, Making Sense of Owned Media – published in October 2014, Mark Bonchek writes:
“If social media were truly owned, brands would have control over the experience, access to their fans, and full use of the data.”
Let’s be honest, the reality is quite different:
Public social networks like LinkedIn and Twitter don’t enable brands to access their own data. And “Facebook now charges brands to reach their own fans and followers.”
What Are Your Options?
Think about what you CAN own and try to own it.
Mark Bonchek says “Think Content, Community & Context”.
Examples include your website, catalogs & newsletters as content channels. Also, your stores and mobile apps.
Communities emphasize the connections your customers have with each other. Yes, it takes a huge investment to establish a flourishing community, but long term, you are your own landlord and control the terms.
Earned and paid social media create a purely transactional relationship between you and your audience.
How can you turn these isolated interactions into a connected experience? By turning the data you capture into value for the customer. The key word (and huge buzz word) here is Customer Experience.
You can shape it much more easily when you truly own vs. rent the real estate. Examples here are loyalty and reward programs for B2C, and Influencer programs for B2B companies.
The bottom line: you don’t own accounts hosted on external social networks, you only rent them. And access to data is limited.
If it meets your goals and you have the resources, consider creating your own social media community, one where you have access to and can analyze all the data (and content), without fear of you landlord changing the terms.
What are your views on owning vs. renting social channels?
Tags: Eat24, Facebook, Forrester, Landlord, Nate Elliott, Owned, rented, Social media, Strategy, Twitter
Brian D. Hawkins says:
This is fearless insight based on facts and supporting research. It’s a great write-up worth sharing, which I did. I do think brands that have long established (and still thriving) communities on sites like Facebook would be crazy to walk away from it. It will be, however, a travesty when small businesses look back and see years of wasted money and resources if they haven’t been building a solid community separate from those landlords.
Natascha says:
thanks for taking the time to comment and share additional insights.
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Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro Nikon F
"This is a good lens for the price. It is light enough to carry all day, it has macro capabilities and it is relatively fast on focusing. I use this lens for sports, challenged youth. It is also perfect for wildlife and closeups of plant life. I would recommend this lens." bhphotovideo.com
Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro Canon EF
"I would strongly recommend the zoom telephoto AF70-300 mm Macro Autofocus Lens. I used it on the deer and wild turkeys in my backyard. It was easy for a person with arthritis to use. Loved the autofocus." bhphotovideo.com
Panasonic Lumix G Vario 35-100mm f/4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S.
Image stabilization Panasonic MEGA O.I.S.
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro Nikon F
"I recently took a trip up and down the coast of California and took only this one lens...it worked perfectly! I could not have been happier with the results." bhphotovideo.com
See 50 sample photos taken with the Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro Nikon F
Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro Sony Alpha
"Picture quality is excelent, zoom is great. Overall quality seems decent." bhphotovideo.com
Panasonic Lumix G X Vario PZ 45-175mm f/4-5.6 O.I.S.
Image stabilization Panasonic O.I.S.
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THE WALKING DEAD EPISODE 2.12 BETTER ANGELS
by BigSolo | Mar 16, 2012 | Movies and TV | 0 comments
I just got done watching the latest episode of The Walking Dead called Better Angels. Yeah I know I am a little late on watching this episode and writing this up, but things came up. So to recap a little from the last episode, they did not kill Randell and still have him locked up in a barn. Carl found a walker stuck in the mud and was going to kill it, but it got freed and Carl took off running. After everyone decided against Dale about keeping Randell alive, he tells Darrel the group is broken. He then went for a walk and found a cow with it’s guts ripped out. Dale was then attacked by the walker that Carl encountered earlier, and had his stomach ripped open. Just as that happens, the group catches up to where Dale is being attack and Darrel kills the walker. Now everyone are standing over Dale crying and Rick could not pull the trigger to finish off Dale because they could not save him. Darrel takes the gun tells Dale,”Sorry brother”, and kills Dale.
Better Angels starts off with Rick doing a monologue about the group and Dale. As Rick is talking they show Shane driving a truck with Andrea, Theodore, and Darrel scouting for walkers. They find a bunch of walkers and take out there frustrations on them. After that scene, the group is standing around Dale’s grave. Rick talks about how that Dale had a rare quality on how he could read people and see what type of person you were. Rick also said that the group needed to stay strong and prove Dale wrong by getting together and not being a broken group.
Hershel is now letting the group move into the house and says he should have done this a long time ago. The group is now trying to fortify the farm. Hershel gives up his bedroom to Rick and Lori because Lori is pregnant. As Glenn is bringing his stuff in, Maggie tells him to bring his stuff to her room. Glenn tells Maggie not with her dad in the house and walks away. Maggie walks away with a hurt look on her face. Meanwhile Shane is outside collecting wood. Carl walks up to Shane and tells him about the walker he found and how it was the same one that killed Dale. Carl also showed Shane the gun he stole from Darrel and told Shane to give it back to Darrel. Shane tells him to keep the gun to protect himself, but Carl says he never wants to touch a gun again and runs away.
As they are fortifying the farm, Andrea and Glenn are trying to move Dale’s RV. Andrea can’t get the RV started. Glenn then opens the front of the RV grill to try to fix it. Glenn remembers Dale telling him that older vehicles can get a little croaked. Glenn starts to fix the RV when he stops and looks down. He tells Andrea that he feels like he let down Dale because he voted against him about killing Randell. Andrea tells Glenn that Dale was very proud of him and knew that he was a good person. Glenn then smiled fixed the RV and it started right up. While this is going on, Shane is building a lookout with the wood he was collecting. Lori walks over and starts talking to Shane about how she never thank him for everything he has done. She also apologize for the way things are and for how hard things are for him right now.
Rick is now talking to Darrel about releasing Randell. Shane comes over and tells Rick he need to talk to Carl about everything. Rick says it can wait he needs to release Randell, and that he will have Lori talk to Carl. Shane gets mad and tells Rick that he needs to talk to his father not his mother and puts Darrel’s gun Carl stole in front of Rick telling him he can give it back to Darrel. Rick then heads out to Carl and has a talk. He tells Carl that Dale’s death was not his fault and that he should keep the gun to stay safe.
Shane, mad and starting to lose it, heads to where Randell is being kept. He sits down in front of Randell and just stares at him. Shane then slaps himself and pulls his gun out. He puts the gun to Randell’s head and starts breathing hard. He then sees that Randell was about to free himself and comes up with a plan. Rick sends Theodore to go get Randell so they can take him far out from the farm and release him. Theodore then opens the barn were Randell is kept to find him gone. They then show Randell and Shane walking way out in the woods. Shane asking Randell about his camp. Randell tells him they were about five miles out from the farm and that he knew how to get back to them. Shane tells him to take him to them and that he is done with his group. Randell agrees and tells him that he will like it there because there are a bunch of people like him real rowdy. As Randell is walking Shane snaps his neck. Shane then rams his face into a tree and brakes his nose.
As the group is trying to find out how Randell escaped, Shane comes out of the woods and tells them that Randell snuck up behind him and hit him in the face stealing his gun. Rick tell everyone to get in the house expect for Shane, Darrel, Glenn, and himself who were going to go look for Randell. They split into two teams, Shane went with Rick and Glenn with Darrel. Darrel feeling that something is not right starts off back at the starting point Shane showed them after searching for a while. This taking Glenn and himself in a different direction that Shane told them Randell had ran off from. Darrel quickly finds the spot were Randell was killed by Shane, and tries to figure out what happen when he is attacked by a walker. Glenn gets the walker off Darrel and kills it. They put the flash light on the walker and see that it is Randell. They search Randell’s body and can not find a bite mark anywhere. Darrel tells Glenn that he died of a broken neck and take off back towards the farm.
Meanwhile Shane and Rick go further and further out into the woods. Rick is questioning Shane the whole time and looking at him as if he had a feeling something was up. They get into a open field and Rick stops and says to Shane,”Is this where you are going to do it?” knowing at that point that Shane had plan on killing him. Shane reply’s with,”Good as spot as any.”. They then go back and fourth, Rick saying that he did not need to do this. Shane telling Rick that he had a broken wife and a weak son because of Rick and that he could not keep them safe. Rick then says that they can go back to the house and forget this happen and puts his gun on the ground telling Shane to do the same. Shane puts down his gun, and Rick walks over to Shane. Rick then stabs Shane in the chest. Rick yells out why did you make me do this! Rick is now laying on top of Shane as he fell to the ground and pulls the knife out screaming and starts to cry. Then from behind him, he hears,”Dad?”. Carl is standing there confused and crying. As Rick walks towards Carl, the screen started showing Shane on the ground and flashes of walkers. Carl then rises the gun to his dad. Rick crying tells his son that its not as it looks. As Rick is still walking towards Carl, Shane gets up as a walker and starts heading toward Rick who has his back turned to him and does not notice Shane had gotten back up. As Shane gets close to Rick, and Rick is still trying to explain himself to his son, Carl pulls the trigger and shoots Shane in the head. Shane drops to the ground dead. The sound of the gun however alerts a whole hoard of walkers never by. As Rick is hugging his son and crying, far off in the back ground the hoard is coming toward them and the episode ends.
This left me in shock and upset at the same time. I can not believe they killed off Shane so fast. Especially since they just killed off Dale the episode before. There group is getting smaller by the show. Shane was my favorite character. In my eyes he would have been the one I would have wanted to lead me if I was in that group. Yeah I agree that he did not approach somethings in the right way. But Shane would have kept everyone alive and had what it takes to do what needed to be done. Rick has proven over and over that he can’t do what needs to be done and flip flops on his decisions. Shane was right about the walkers in Hershel’s barn and about Randell. He was the leader of the group until Rick showed up. Then everyone pushed Shane aside like he had done nothing for them. Lori being the worst of them all. She in my opinion is the main reason Shane lost it. She also is the one who pit Rick against Shane to get her way. I will miss seeing Shane on the show. I just hope that they will still bury him like they did the rest of the group.
Now having said that, this whole thing about turning into a walker with out being bite is leaving some questions out there. Could it be that they have been around the walkers so much that getting there blood on them put something into there systems that only affects them after they died as long as there brain is intact? Or maybe whatever started all this is now air born? Could it be that if you have hate or doubt in your heart when you die after being around the walkers for so long just changes you? Only time will tell if we get those answers. Only one more episode left this season, and I can’t wait to see what happens.
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Last Updated: Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 22:47 GMT
Blast kills Bangladesh politician
The attack on the rally sparked riots
A grenade attack on a political rally in north-eastern Bangladesh has killed a prominent member of the opposition Awami League and four other people.
Shah AMS Kibria, a former finance minister, died in hospital of injuries he received when the grenade was thrown just after he delivered a speech.
Many other people were injured in the blast in Laskarpur, Habiganj District.
Rioters attacked vehicles and shops after Thursday's blast and the League has called for two days of protests.
It blamed the government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for the attack.
There was no immediate word from the Bangladeshi authorities while police began an investigation.
In August, the League's leader, Sheikh Hasina, survived a grenade attack on a rally in the capital, Dhaka, in which 22 people were killed.
Ivy Rahman, who headed the League's women's wing, was killed in that attack.
Thousands attend funeral in Dhaka
25 Aug 04 | South Asia
Timeline: Bangladesh
04 Jan 05 | Country profiles
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Nato's Afghan death toll mounts
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GATEWAY PUBLIC RELEASE 2.3b
September 1st, 2014, 20:41 Posted By: wraggster
Early this week we released our latest Gateway OMEGA 2.3b firmware to our beta testers.
We have received a lot of positive feedback from our beta testers and we would like to thank them for taking the time to test the latest update.
Our beta testers have mentioned a few minor issues:
* The Gameboy Advance virtual console games and DSiWare are not working yet.
We acknowledge this and we will try to get it working after the next firmware release.
* Emunand 8.x boots up slower.
We have observed this too for some brands of SD cards. We suggest our users to try a different brand or a faster SD card.
Other than that no major issues have been observed so far, so we decided it’s time for a public release!
You can find the latest firmware Gateway OMEGA 2.3b in the Downloads section.
http://www.gateway-3ds.com/
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Pasofami v2.18
via http://www.aep-emu.de/
Pasofami a japanese NES/SNES/GB emulator has been updated.
BizHawk 1.8.1
via http://www.aep-emu.de/.
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator in C#.
Supported Systems
Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom / Famicom Disk System (NES/FDS)
Super Gameboy
PC-Engine (TurboGrafx-16) / CD-ROM
SuperGrafx
TI-83 Calculator
Unofficially Released
My NES 6.0.1
via http://emu-russia.net/en/
NES emulator has been updated. Changes:
- Fixed: Triangle sound channel curroption for low frequencies (freq < 4);
- Fixed: "Battletoads" hangs on stage 2 fixed, the problem was in 'DMC DMA occuring and game asserts other DMC DMA';
- Fixed: The "Detect" window for the Launcher never work when the default installed Language in Windows is not English (US).
File: Download
News source: http://sourceforge.net
The "New Nintendo 3DS" will land
The last Nintendo Direct Japanese scarcely finished, we learn that a new model of Nintendo 3DS will release in the near future (October 11, 2014 in Japan). Some are very likely to say yet! Nevertheless, the views of the specifics of this new model, one could almost believe that this is a console full ...
Declined as usual in two sizes (standard and XL), it includes some new interesting, judge for yourself: - best viewing angles (especially in 3D) - Best Displays - more power - the presence of an NFC module ( compatiblilité amiibo) - better battery life - replaceable shells (38 skins, 1500 yen per model) - second analog (well stick) - 2 buttons additional tranche (ZL and ZR) - microSD slot The old school touch buttons ABXY high risk of capsize the heart of the high retrogamers the Super Nintendo, especially the white model which is just beautiful, it must be confessed. Note that the cartridge port, stylus, the power button and the headphone jack are located on the front edge of the console, simplifying the overall design of the console (with only the HOME button is left in the middle, on the bottom screen). A new charging dock is also emerging.
t is against disappointing to learn that games have already been announced exclusively on this New Nintendo 3DS, due to the extra power it delivers. This is the case of the futureMonster HunterXenoblade for example. To be confirmed, but if this information is correct, Nintendo is likely to create a segmentation of its 3DS game library, which is very bad move with the players. Website: www.nintendo.co.jp
http://mobiles.gx-mod.com/modules/ne...?storyid=10027
SysCheck HDE v2.3.0, Wii Application Update
via http://gbatemp.net/threads/syscheck-...update.370606/
JoostinOnline has updated SysCheck HDE to version 2.3.0. This Wii/vWii application does several checks on installed IOS and custom IOS. See the change log for what's new, and join the on-going discussion for more information about this project.
Change Log (08/18/14) said:
v2.3.0 • Added a new argument --skipIOS, which lets you skip any specific IOS in the scan. This is useful for freezes. Multiple arguments are supported.
• Added translations for "Homebrew Channel is not installed" message
• Added support for GC\Classic controllers, and multiple remotes
• Added detection for DM\DML 2.11
• Fixed BC_NAND and BC_WFS showing up as patched
• Fixed a translation for "Unknown"
• Fixed the report from spilling an extra line past the frame
• Improved timing between messages
• Improved "Sorting Titles" speed
• Other minor changes
https://code.google.com/p/syscheck-hd/
[NDS] Bilou : rush to completion.
Ready to School ? Rush ! Rush ! Pencils, erasers, inkjets are all after you. Your only weapon lies in stunned dumb sharpeners. Your mission is to avoid drowning in the raising ink. There's only two levels so far, but beating them will give you access to increased ink speed, and will insist on you finding new paths, mastering new moves to compensate lost platforms.
So don't wait longer. Dust off your linker and grab Bilou : rush to completion to take the challenge.
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.ph...06423bdbd97d7f
3DS ROM decryptor tools released
VOiD has released a set of tools with source code which decrypts 3DS game ROMs (.3ds).
http://www.eurasia.nu/modules.php?na...ticle&sid=3332
3DS: Smealum to release Homebrew Loader in a few days
Those of you in the 3DS scene have probably been following Smealum’s recent activity with excitation. The French hacker announced several months ago that he was working on homebrew support on the latest firmwares for the 3DS. Until now, homebrew on the 3DS has been limited to older 4.x firmwares, and requires the use of expensive flashcarts. Smealum has confirmed his hack will not require a flashcart. It will, however, require a specific 3DS game to trigger the exploit. Smealum has confirmed to me that the game is available on physical cartridges, and, in one locale, on the Nintendo eShop. Bottom line is, if you are interested in this exploit you will need to purchase that game, and most likely you will want the physical version of it, not the eShop version (in particular because Nintendo would not be able to patch or remove the physical version from your device). The exploit has been confirmed to work on 3DS, 3DSXL, and 2DS, on all firmwares from 4.0 to 8.1.
3DS Homebrew Menu release delayed!
Update: the release of the homebrew loader will be delayed due to the soon to be released new 3DS (which is actually pretty cool, as it's kind of what the DSi was to the DS, with upgraded hardware, better design, etc). Hopefully the exploit will work on that 3DS as well so the homebrew loader can be released asap!
http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=13436
3dmoo Git (2014/09/01)
via http://www.emucr.com/
3dmoo Git (2014/09/01) is compiled. 3dmoo is an open-source Nintendo 3DS Emulator Prototype. It does not run games (yet).
3dmoo Git Changelog:
* Merge pull request #5 from xerpi/master
Silented warnings
* Silented warnings
Minor tweaks
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6k4653
Nestopia Git (2014/09/01)
Nestopia Git (2014/09/01) is compiled. This project is a fork of the original Nestopia source code, plus the Linux port. The purpose of the project is to enhance the original, and ensure it continues to work on modern operating systems.
Nestopia Supported Platforms:
* Windows
* Linux
* FreeBSD
* OpenBSD
* NetBSD
* libretro
Nestopia Git changelog:
* Merge branch 'unused' of git://github.com/lioncash/nestopia
* Core: Remove unused variable from NstCartridgeRomset.cpp
https://www.sendspace.com/file/aq370i
WinDS PRO 2014.09.1
WinDS PRO 2014.09.1 is released. WinDS PRO is a Nintendo DS & GameBoy Advance emulator package. This have NO$Zoomer, NO$GBA, NO$MOOZ, NOZ, myZOOM, NGZoom, NO$GBA 2X, iDeaS, DeSmuME, VBA Link & VBA-M.
WinDS PRO 2014.09.1 Changelog:
DeSmuME r5048 (32-bit)
Usrcheat.dat (2014-8-15)
WINDS PRO Apps pack 2014.9.1
Dolphin, Citra, 3dmoo, Play !, PCSX2, BizHawk, PPSSPP, rpcs3.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/4e9in9
kindred 1.06 Preview Build 1
kindred 1.06 Preview Build 1 is released. kindred is a multi-system video game emulator for Windows. A work-in-progress for more than a decade, the software utilises a number of priority technologies to accurately emulate video games systems.
- 128KB Backup RAM (various file formats)
- Support for various ROM formats (Max 64Mbit Cartridge Mode, Max 96Mbit Game Doctor Mode)
- Support for Standard Controller, Nintendo Scope and Mouse
- Advanced 24bit Color Mapping Technology
- Screen Capture in PNG format
kindred 1.06 Preview Build 1 Changelog:
- [FDS] Added Famicom Disk Drive
- [FDS] Added RAM Adapter
- [NES] Many Picture Processing updates
- [NES] Updated Audio Sequencer
- [NES] Added custom mapper (Bandai DATACH)
- [NES] Added Famicom Basic Keyboard
- [NES] Updated WRAM power-on default (fixes Minna no Tabo, River City Ransom)
- [ALL] Added Joystick support (Preliminary)
- [ALL] Rewrote virtual device system
- [NES] Added Bus Conflicts
- [NES] Added Save State system (Preliminary)
- [NES] Added custom mapper (Taito TC0690)
- [NES] Added board (SZROM)
- [NES] Updated SRAM initialization (fixes Famicom Wars)
- [SFC] Added board (SHVC-2K0N)
- Updated kindred.db
- Updated ninja.exe
https://www.sendspace.com/file/9wnrmr
Dolphin Git 4.0-2824
Dolphin Git 4.0-2824 is compiled. This is the trunk of Dolphin Project. Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a Gamecube, Wii and Triforce (the arcade machine based on the Gamecube) emulator which supports many extra features and abilities not present on the original consoles. It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games.
Dolphin Git changelog:
- Core: Break movie header validity checking into a function
- Core: Fix potential uninitialized variable warnings in Wii_IPC_HLE_Devices_es.cpp
- AudioCommon: Declare iterator variable in loop body in DPL2Decoder
- PPCAnalyst: Use std::swap instead of making a temporary variable
- Clean up brace placements within the project.
- Get rid of C-style empty function parameter indicators
- Core: Change a bitwise OR fail case to a logical AND success check in ActionReplay.cpp
https://www.sendspace.com/file/2lxpvp
IodineGBA Git (2014/08/26)
IodineGBA Git (2014/08/26) is released. IodineGBA is a GameBoy Advance emulator that utilizes HTML5 canvas and JavaScript audio APIs to provide a full emulation of the console.
IodineGBA Git Changelog:
- Optimization
undefined/unused read/write paths optimized.
- typo fix
Why the **** were we calling new on this function?
- minor
- Optimizing Sprite Rendering
Make some VRAM fetching happen in 32 bit units. Update some code to use
bitops to force typing.
- minor function name change
- Inline some calls
- Converting IO/32 Read VTable to switch
- Convert IO/32 write VTable to inlined switch
http://grantgalitz.github.io/IodineGBA/
Citra Git (2014/08/25)
Citra Git (2014/08/25) is compiled. Citra is an experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++. At this time, it only emulates a very small subset of 3DS hardware, and therefore is only useful for booting/debugging very simple homebrew demos. Citra is licensed under the GPLv2. Refer to the license.txt file included.
Citra Git Changelog:
* Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/bunnei/citra
* Core: Change HW update to happen on thread switch, fixes GSP synchronization.
* Merge pull request #73 from yuriks/remove-docs
Remove documentation for external modules.
* Remove documentation for external modules.
We don't need these and they clutter up the repository.
* Merge pull request #68 from archshift/readfile
Added FS functions to Archive and Archive_RomFS
* Added FS functions to Archive and Archive_RomFS
* Merge pull request #46 from archshift/citrah
Removed unused citra.h
https://www.sendspace.com/file/5vpjjc
DeSmuME SVN r5048 Fix
DeSmuME SVN r5048 is compiled. DeSmuME is an open source Nintendo DS(NDS) emulator for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. DeSmuME supports save states, the ability to increase the size of the screen and it supports filters to improve image quality. DeSmuME also supports microphone use on Windows and Linux ports, as well as direct video and audio recording. The emulator also features a built-in movie recorder.
DeSmuME SVN Changelog:
apply patch #164 to screenshot path building format
https://www.sendspace.com/file/xv6bl7
New Nintendo eShop releases: Theatrhythm Curtain Call demo, weird Street Fighter
September 6th, 2014, 22:53 Posted By: wraggster
It's an interesting week on the Nintendo eShop, though perhaps not a terribly thrilling one. The big highlight is a Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call demo. The demo will let you sample two songs from the rhythm game, and players can transfer their save data to the full game, which launches September 16. Also on the Wii U this week are two strategy games, Cubemen 2 and the Virtual Console release of Nobunaga's Ambition.
On the 3DS side of things, the Virtual Console picks up Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight, a futuristic NES action platformer that Capcom claims has something to do with Street Fighter's Ken. It's weird.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/04/ne...call-demo-wei/
Nintendo Just Announced a New 3DS With Another Analog Stick
It's called the "new" 3DS and the "new" 3DS LL. It's faster with "new" 3DS viewing. It also has "Amiibo" function and a new analog pad call the "C-stick." Wow! This sounds great.
The New Nintendo 3DS is priced at 16,000 yen ($154) and the New Nintendo 3DS LL is priced at 18,800 yen ($181). Both will be out October 10 in Japan.
Here's some pics of the new one or you can check out what's different between the old and new 3DS here.
The New Nintendo 3DS comes in White and Black, while the New 3DS XL comes in Metallic Blue and Metallic Black. Note that in Japan, the 3DS XL is called the "3DS LL."
The New 3DS also has colorful face buttons.
Look familiar?
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/08/29/n...ounced-new-3ds
New 3DS and 3DS XL maintain region lock policy, confirms Nintendo
Nintendo will maintain its policy of strict region locking with the New Nintendo 3DS and New 3DS XL models.
All current 3DS models employ rigid a region locking policy, which only allows 3DS consoles from Japan, US or Europe to play games from the same region.
The recent announcement of the New 3DS models offered some hope that Nintendo would respond to long-running fan outcry over the locking policy with a region-free SKU.
But this will not be the case, a Nintendo rep told to Gamespot on Wednesday, confirming the presence of region-locking restrictions on the new consoles.
A fan petition asking Nintendo to make the Wii U, 3DS and Wii region-free had gathered over 12,000 signatures back in July 2013. Now, in September 2014, that count sits at 31,946.
While Nintendo's home consoles, including the Wii U, have always employed some form of region restriction, the firm's handhelds were traditionally region-free.
The 2009-released Nintendo DSi was the first Nintendo handheld to feature regional restrictions, with DSi-compatible software only playable in the territory it was released.
Nintendo has previously claimed that the 3DS is region-locked "to provide the different parental controls to deal with the ratings in each territory". Nintendo president Satoru Iwata blamed the firm's region locking policies on the need to adhere to 'legal restrictions' in different countries.
Sony's PS Vita handheld is region-free, as is the PS4. Region locking functionality exists in the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles, but games on those platforms rarely employ the restriction.
Nintendo announced the upgraded versions of the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL on Friday last week. Referred to simply as the 'new 3DS' and 'new 3DS XL', the systems will be coming to Japan this year and in Europe and North America in 2015, and feature a number of new improvements over the current models, including a faster CPU, dual analogue sticks, face tracking for improved 3D, built-in NFC functionality and more.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...irms-nintendo/
Newo Escape
Your planet is destroyed, and you must escape. But beware, because you still a dangerous bounty hunter. Your mission is to escape without destroying your ship already degraded. not have breaks or weapons, only your skill will save you. This game features a table online world to see the records of the best players and has several levels of play. Do you accept the challenge?
http://wii.scenebeta.com/noticia/newo-escape
Nestopia Undead v1.46
The NES-Emulator Nestopia Undead has been updated to version 1.46.
Unix Shell:
Additions:
- Mask Overscan option
- Disable GUI option
- Command line interface
- Scale Factor and Filters can be changed while playing
- Zapper support
- Palette and Picture options
- Ability to turn Vsync on/off
- Alternate emulation speed
- libao audio output (handles ALSA, OSS, Pulse, etc)
- More volume controls
- Turbo Buttons A and B
- Ported to SDL 2.0
- Completely rewrote config file handling
- Completely rewrote input config and input handling
- Completely rewrote cheats
- Removed ALSA and OSS audio output
Windows Shell:
Fixes:
- xBR dialog now updates video output when options change
libretro:
- Ability to load NstDatabase.xml (needed for some games)
- Overscan masking (themaister)
- Palette options
- Region detection based on NstDatabase.xml
Core:
- Game Genie sound distortion option
- Mapper 210 (NAMCOT-175, NAMCOT-340)
- Hard Drivin´ now playable (dragon2snow)
- Kaettekita Mario Bros. fix (dragon2snow)
- Fix for rewinder sound issue (steelywing)
- Typos and syntax error fixes (lioncash)
- Fix for Mickey´s Safari in Letterland (joepogo, james)
Young Oscar San (29-07-2014) (NES Game)
via http://pdroms.de/
Oscar Richard from Mexico comes up with a work in progress of his new NES Game Young Oscar San.
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11260
Legend of Link 1.2 Released
via http://www.romhacking.net/
“Various ancient legends have been recorded of a young boy clothed in green, wielding the mythical master sword, sealing away all evil throughout the land. His ventures, passed down through generations have become legend. The hero of legend, had many different forms. He saved many kingdoms, restoring peace in all the lands. This is but one of the legends, of which the people speak…”
Once you start playing, you may find it hard to believe that this is a hack of the original Legend of Zelda. New items, new sword mechanics, new graphics, new music (different sound engine, even!) and a world twice as large as the original… there is little left that hasn’t been extensively modified. This hack will keep on wowing you right up to the very end.
Make sure you’re using an up-to-date emulator, as this hack makes extensive use of MMC5 features to push the game’s capabilities to the limits. Tested with current versions FCUEX, Nestopia, Nintendulator, and others (see http://acmlm.kafuka.org/board/thread.php?id=7308 for the full list and more info.)
Relevant Link: (http://acmlm.kafuka.org/...board/thread.php?id=7308)[/h]
Final Fantasy V advance - sound restoration updated
via http://www.romhacking.net/..
The Final Fantasy V advance that restores the sound has now been updated, it now features 100% authentic music and sound effects, and supports all three versions of the ROM (Europe, Japan and America).
Even the reverb was made to sound like the original SNES version.
This version also fixes things that were even wrong in the original GBA release (and previous versions of this hack) : The correct music now plays in correct places, and the framerate drops in the game are eliminated.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/563/
4 new development disks released
DanB shares dumps of the 4 floppy disks that came with his recently acquired VUE-Debugger kit.
These disks contain by far the latest known versions of neat stuff like the VUCC compiler or the sample programs.
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/news...hp?storyid=392
Smealum Postpones his 3DS Exploit...
We've been following the work of 'smealum' for a while now on cracking the Nintendo 3DS handheld to run 'homebrew' in full 3DS mode without the need of any 'flashcart'. And last week finally he was tweeting it is up and running on the latest v8.x firmware, and he gotten a graphic artist to code up a cool menu for the launcher, and also started 'teasing' hints of the retail game you need either in physical or eShop form, saying it is 'old & cheap' and available in all regions.
But now with the big announcement from Nintendo on the super-duper 'New 3DS' with its better CPU and other features, 'smealum' has decided it is best to put his 'exploit' on hold until the system comes out, so Nintendo is more ****ed if his exploit works or can be updated to work also on the brand-new 'New 3DS' model.
Oh'well, you can thank big 'N' for putting our v8.x 'homebrew' ideas on hold without the need of Gateway 3DS flashcart.
This Precious Land DS v0.9
via http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic...feaf38f1845358
I am pleased to present " This Land Precious DS "remake / adaptation of the play" The Precious Land "of Ishisoft for Nintendo DS. This is a sandbox game in which you will learn the workings of nature and create your landscape types. This is a version 0.9 because it is not completely finished but the game is fully playable.
This Precious Land DS Manual v0.9
This Precious Land DS is a game of sandbox, this is the remake for Nintendo DS project "This Precious Land" Ishisoft.
Author's Website : * Unzip the archive and copy the file to your ThisPreciousLand_DS.nds flash card. -------------------------------- ------------------------------- Description gameplay: - Use the stylus to select the desired resource (Top of touch screen). - Use the stylus to select the tile to be placed on the grid. - Use the stylus on the blank page at the bottom left to start a game. ------------- -------------------------------------------------- Version history: Version 0.9 (06-09-2014) . - Initial and Playable Version To do: - Animation of recovered resources. - Fusion of Tiles "Water" Animation + cumulative "Resources. - logo.bmp for display Logo on the linkers. -------------------------------------------- ------------------- Programming: Cid2Mizard. graphics. Craig Forrester (ishisoft) Programs used: devkitPro, PAlib, Maxmod.
zIIP v0.2
via http://www.nintendomax.com/adm/index...feaf38f1845358
Page offers version 0.2 of " zIIP "clone of the puzzle game" Zoop "on Wii. Well, the update date, but she came out one way, it must be said, could not be more discreet in his time.
Changelog 11 February 2011 (v0.2) Reworked graphics (thanks nacmartin!) Multiplayer modes --other Many minor things
* Bump version number
* Disable SDL audio under 2.0.4
* Updated documentation and hardcoded inputs
* Added fullscreen toggle to menu
* Allow Enter and Space to be entered as input mappings
* Fixed some GUI bugs
https://www.sendspace.com/file/i9f89g
- DolphinWX: Use std::string over char arrays in MemoryView
- Common: Inline declare some loop variables in ArmEmitter
https://www.sendspace.com/file/i5sfoa
Fceux SVN r3079
Fceux SVN r3079 is compiled. FCEUX is a cross platform, NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. Over time FCE Ultra had separated into many separate branches. The concept behind FCEUX is to merge elements from FCE Ultra, FCEU rerecording, FCEUXD, FCEUXDSP, and FCEU-mm into a single branch of FCEU. As the X implies, it is an all-encompassing FCEU emulator that gives the best of all worlds for the general player, the ROM-hacking community, and the Tool-Assisted Speedrun Community.
Fceux SVN changelog:
Fixed rerecord counting broken outside taseditor since r2974.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/bsenyv
3dmoo DSP Git (2014/09/06)
3dmoo DSP Git (2014/09/06) is compiled. 3dmoo DSP is a branch of 3dmoo. 3dmoo is an open-source Nintendo 3DS Emulator Prototype. It does not run games (yet).
3dmoo DSP Git Changelog:
* impr. getlastbit
* Update .gitignore
* Delete dspram.bin
* Delete shared_font.bin
https://www.sendspace.com/file/mail19
DeSmuME SVN r5050
savestate gamecode printing was endian-wrong
https://www.sendspace.com/file/ageo81
Gearboy Git (2014/09/03)
Gearboy Git (2014/09/03) is compiled. Gearboy is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator written in C++. The emulator is focused on readability of source code, but nevertheless it has good compatibility. A lot of effort has gone into this in order to follow OOP and keep it as simple as possible.
Gearboy Features:
- Accurate CPU emulation, passes cpu_instrs.gb from blargg's tests.
- Accurate instruction timing, passes instr_timing.gb from blargg's tests.
- Memory Bank Controllers (MBC1, MBC2, MBC3 with RTC, MBC5) and ROM + RAM cartridges.
- Accurate LCD controller emulation. Background, window and sprites, with correct timings and priorities.
- Mix frames: Mimics the LCD ghosting effect seen in the original Game Boy.
- Sound emulation using SDL Audio and Gb_Snd_Emu library.
- Basic Game Boy Color support.
- Integrated disassembler. It can dump the full disassembled memory to a text file or access it in real time.
- Compressed rom support (ZIP deflate).
- Multi platform. Compiles and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and iOS.
- Uses OpenGL for rendering on all platforms.
- Uses Qt framework for Mac, Windows and Linux. Uses Cocoa Touch for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
- Visual Studio 2010 project provided for Windows. Netbeans 7.2 project provided for Linux and Mac OS X. Xcode project for iOS.
Gearboy Git Changelog:
* fixes a bug with project configuration
https://www.sendspace.com/file/ukfzsj
Nintendo lines up 8-hour gameplay stream, including Smash 3DS
Nintendo continues its holiday push with an 8-hour "gameplay" stream this week that's set to feature among others the handheld Super Smash Bros. The House of Mario is broadcasting from its American headquarters this Friday, September 12, though it didn't give specific times to tune in. Nintendo said it'll first "be covering some upcoming games" for Wii U and 3DS before getting into gameplay, but it coyly kept what those other games are beneath its cap.
It's hard to know if we can expect a Direct-like slew of announcements or not, but it's safer to say there'll be more Smash info, simply because the game's almost out. The 3DS Smash launches in Japan on Saturday, September 13, and over thereNicoNico is preparing its own Smash broadcast, also scheduled for this Friday (3AM PT/6AM ET/11AM UK). So, if there is any news left - and supposedly leaked character videos suggest there is - now's the time, though that info may arrive earlier in the day during NicoNico's broadcast
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/09/ni...ing-smash-3ds/
Nintendo's latest 3DS XL edition plays on your nostalgic side
September 13th, 2014, 00:41 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo regularly draws on its long history in video gaming to get you buying games and consoles, but it may have just topped itself with its latest 3DS XL variants. On top of two models meant to honor the launches of Persona Q and Super Smash Bros., the company has unveiled an NES Edition that plasters the classic NES gamepad on top of a gray back. It's not as good-looking as the similarly-themed Game Boy Advance SP from years ago, but let's not kid ourselves -- this is still going to evoke many fond memories of playingMetroid in the family den. Not fair, Nintendo. If you're feeling all warm and fuzzy just by looking at the photo, you can buy the NES Edition at GameStop on October 10th for $200. http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/11/n...l-nes-edition/
When 'Super Smash Bros.' hits Wii U, you'll be able to control it with a 3DS
If you need another method of controlling Super Smash Bros whenever it actually releasesfor Wii U, Nintendo apparently has you covered. Spotted by a Japanese gamer on Twitterand IGN (the handheld version is already out in the East), the 3DS version offers the option to connect the portable to Nintendo's HD console to exchange customized characters. What's more, there's a menu saying that you "can use it as a controller," too -- perfect for any future couch-based tournaments, we'd imagine. Granted, you'll almost assuredly have to own the game on both platforms for this to happen, but what Nintendo fan wouldn't anyway? We've reached out to Nintendo for confirmation on the matter and will update this post should we hear back.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/13/3...-u-controller/
Mystery patent points to new device from The Pokemon Company
A patent recently filed by Nintendo, Ambrella and The Pokemon Company suggests that a new gadget is in the works, but details beyond that are scant.
According to the filing, the device would be an "information processing apparatus" with wireless communication capabilities and the ability to read NFC and RFID chips (like those found in Nintendo's Amiibo figures), along with the integrated circuit chips most commonly seen in credit cards. The mystery device was invented by Norio Matsumura, director at Ambrella and a frequent collaborator on Pokemon games. Matsumura's involvement, along with the patent filing which lists The Pokemon Company as one of three assignees indicates that the device will have some link to Nintendo's intensely popular monster catching franchise, though here again details are sorely lacking.
While NeoGAF commenters have concluded that this patent is some kind of Pokemon gaming system, the patent filing does not offer enough information to support that idea. It could just as easily be a real-world Pokedex analogue or something completely unrelated to diminutive Japanese monsters. Only time will tell what Nintendo has in store, but while we wait, we invite you to leave your ideas on what this gadget might be in the comments below. Best response wins nothing, but your parents will be proud.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/11/my...kemon-company/
New Nintendo eShop releases: Adventure Island, Teslagrad
Oh, the NES... simpler times. Blowing into cartridges, power gloves, cheat codes, Minus World, R.O.B. and The Wizard. It was a time when people could makeAdventure Island, a game in which a rotund man clad only in tiny green shorts and a white cap went running, jumping and skateboarding around the forests and caves of the South Pacific. And, with the help of a fairy called Honey Girl, he saved a princess from a witch doctor. Time-travelers, take yourselves to the Wii U this week and go skate some clouds.
If you want something a bit fresher on Wii U, Teslagrad offers Metroid-like platforming with a dollop of electromagnetism, steampunk and Eastern European art. There's also the kung-fu rhythm of Kickbeat, and on 3DS you've got first-person, old-school dungeon crawler .
Apart from that, Nintendo's pre-Super Smash Bros. sale is also worth a look. Running through until the release of Smash on 3DS, the big N's discounting games starring the fighter's roster. Check out the Smash sale here and all the other discounts, and jump past the break for the full list of new releases.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/11/ne...and-teslagrad/
Nintendo announces winter 2014 free 3DS game promotion
Nintendo has announced a free game promotion for new European 3DS owners.
In order to qualify for the promotion, customers need to complete both of the following steps:
Register a Nintendo 2DS, Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 3DS XL with Club Nintendo between September 11, 2014 and January 12, 2015.
Register a copy of either Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS, Pokemon Omega Ruby or Pokemon Alpha Sapphire between October 3, 2014 and January 12, 2015.
If both registrations are made, customers will then be able to request a free download code for one of the following 3DS titles:
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Yoshi's New Island
Kirby: Triple Deluxe
Mario Golf: World Tour
Mario Party: Island Tour
Players will be able to request the code through their Club Nintendo account, and will have to do so by February 12, 2015.
Nintendo says the offer is only open to customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, South Africa and Russia.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ame-promotion/
Smash brothers, another gateway exclusive !
One of the much-anticipated 3DS games of the year has been recently released to our friends in Japan and we at Gateway want to share the experience with
our friends all over the globe!
Watch the Gateway exclusive video below. (NOTE: We are using Gateway OMEGA 2.3b Launcher.dat with emunand 8.1, and a SD card larger than 2GB)
Nintendulator 0.975 beta (11-09-2014)
- Palette configuration is now specific to the selected region (NTSC, PAL, and Dendy/Hybrid) rather than the CPU/PPU clock divider ratio. Additionally, both PAL and Dendy mode will now swap the Red and Green color emphasis bits as has been observed on actual hardware.
News source: http://www.qmtpro.com
blargSnes v1.0
StapleButter offers version 1.0 of " blargSnes "Super Nintendo emulator for the Nintendo 3DS.
blargSnes 1.0 A SNES emulator for your 3DS http://blargsnes.kuribo64.net/ What's in the zip * blargSnes.3ds - 3DS ROM. . Useful for Gateway * blargSnes.elf - ELF file. May be Useful for alternate homebrew loaders. How to use You need a way to run homebrew on ARM11 userland your 3DS. At the time of this writing, the Simplest way is to use a Gateway. If using a Gateway, copy blargSnes.3ds to the Gateway's MicroSD. Otherwise, follow the instructions Specific to your homebrew loader. You're on your own for getting SNES ROMs. On the 3DS's SD card (not the Gateway MicroSD), create a folder named 'snes' and put your SNES ROMs in there. In Sami the folder, you can aussi up savegames. They must have the name as Sami Their Corresponding ROM, and has .srm-have extension. With That done, start blargSnes, and you see a ROM selection menu. Select your ROM and press A (or B). See what happens. gameplay You can break by tapping the touchscreen. When paused, resume by pressing A or B. DO NOT RETURN TO THE HOME MENU WITHOUT HAVING FIRST PAUSED. AVOID Also playing with the 3D slider closing / Reopening your 3DS while blargSnes is running. gold Supported features * PPU modes 0, 1, 2 , 3, 4, 7 * DMA (with paths for faster VRAM / CGRAM / OAM), HDMA * SPC700 * SRAM with auto-saving * Joypad for player 1 (circle pad aussi works) Future features * Sound, we hope. The issue is to get the 3DS to play sound. * Expansion chips. Star Fox in 3D, anyone? * hardware-accelerated renderer Perhaps Known issues * Potential loss of image When closing / Reopening the 3DS or pressing the Home button and returning to blargSnes. If quitting and restarting blargSnes Does not fix it, you'll need to Log restart your 3DS. * Lack of VSync. This means clustering in image tearing and That May games run too fast. Credits * 3dbrew and all the people Who made homebrew 3DS can anyone * Who Helped make lolSnes work * Bond697 and Normmatt for how to use the 3DS syscore * if you feel I forgot your name here, let me know
http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic...bcd9ffed5dc166
Visual Boy Advance GX v2.3.0
libertyernie 2.3.0 offers an excellent emulator Game Boy / Game Boy Advance Nintendo for the Wii " Visual Boy Advance GX "porting VBA-M .
[2.3.0 - September 10, 2014] - libertyernie * VBA-M core updated to r1231 * Tiled rendering Farming for GBA games (new VBA-M feature, originally from RetroArch) - the provides a major speed boost! * Changes from cebolleto's Version (bit.ly/1uqb6wW): * Screenshots Can Be Displayed For Each game on the menu * Nicer 7-Zip Support * When you leave a folder, the folder you just left Will Be selected * New options available: * Disable the "Auto "string being white Appended to save files * Disable frameskip Entirely on GBA * Keyboard fixed (from libwiigui r56) * GUI prompt is now purple INSTEAD of green (colors more intuitive button) * Goomba and Goomba Color ROM support: * Any Game Boy ROM Stored Within a Goomba ROM Can Be loaded "Natively" in the Game Boy (Color) emulator (or the Goomba ROM Can Be loaded as GBA) Game Boy * Stored Within Goomba SRAM SRAM is loaded and saved Correctly [2.2.8 - July 29 2012] * Fixed lag with GameCube controllers
fix obvious crashy bug in NAND cards when booting from firmware, but for some reason the card isn't detected still.
improve previous commit, which was just plain buggy. now card is detected again. but... the game crashes when trying to boot.
fix regression within past 2 commits of launching any game from firmware
https://www.sendspace.com/file/kds6r8
- Fix missing "return"
- JIT: support immediate stores
https://www.sendspace.com/file/m9asjt
* ups
* added vcvt.f64.f32 and vcvt.f32.f64
* Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo
* Merge pull request #7 from archshift/patch-1
dspemu.c: condensed getlastbit()
* fixed mutex/sem
* stubbed mic:u, stubbed apt:u cmd
* compile fix
* fixed vmov added svc stub fixed shared_font handling
https://www.sendspace.com/file/gw7c3i
Super Smash Bros Edition Gamecube Controller + Wii U Adapter Pre-orders Kick Off!
In anticipation for the Wii U release of Super Smash Bros., the GameCube Controller - Super Smash Bros. Edition and GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U pre-orders have kicked off at Amazon!The GameCube Controller - Super Smash Bros. Edition retails for $29.99, and the GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U for $19.99. The GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U supports up to 4 gamecube controllers.Save $10 by buying the Super Smash Bros. Bundle for $99.99, which includes the game, controller and adapter.With the Q4 2014 release, we anticipate a run on the GameCube Controller - Super Smash Bros. Edition at retail, so get your pre-orders in if interested...Check it out:
Amazon - Super Smash Bros. Bundle
Amazon - GameCube Controller - Super Smash Bros. Edition
Amazon - GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's Edition (Nintendo 3DS)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's Edition (Nintendo 3DS) Release Date, Pre-orders LIVE!
Pre-orders for the upcoming release of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's Edition (Nintendo 3DS)have kicked off at Amazon!
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate will take players to new heights, literally, with the introduction of more vertical and lateral movement than ever. An expanded repertoire of actions will create more dynamic hunting experiences with fluid climbing motions and the ability to jump attack from walls or ledges. In addition, players will be able to ride atop a monster for a limited time as they hang on and deliver attacks. With the addition of two new weapon classes, challenging new monsters and numerous locales, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate will be the most robust hunting experience yet.
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's Edition (Nintendo 3DS) has a scheduled release date of March 31, 2015.
Check it out: Amazon - Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's Edition
Super Smash Bros. 3DS sells 1 million in Japan
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS has sold more than 1 million units in its first few days.
According to data from Media Create, Super Smash Bros. has cleared the 1 million sales milestone despite only being released on September 13. That figure also includes digital sales.
Super Smash Bros. is just one title to have passed 1 million units in its first week on Nintendo's dominant handheld, perhaps the only platform in Japan popular enough to support software sales at that level.
The game will be released in North America, Europe and Australia next month. The Wii U version will also be released this year - a game that Ubisoft's Alain Corre recently described to us as the console's best chance at gathering some much needed momentum.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...llion-in-japan
Don't you step on my blue suede Pokemon New 3DS
Nintendo's New 3DS is getting Poke-themed limited editions in Japan to mark the launch of Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby. The red Groudon and blue Kyogre systems are coming to the country's Pokemon Center stores alongside the games on November 21, and both handhelds feature suede faceplates for that extra luxurious feel you've always craved maybe when capturing pocket monsters. If you want in it's 19,000 yen (around $177) a piece, and they don't come with copies of the games.
The New 3DS itself launches in Japan on October 11 in both regular and XL models, and its New features include the right-hand analog C-stick, ZL and ZR shoulder buttons, built-in NFC tech, greater battery life, improved CPU andcustomizable faceplates, suede or otherwise. As for when the New 3DS launches outside of Japan, Nintendo's ruled out bringing it West in this calendar year. But you can nab Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby when the two 3DS remakes launch in North America on November 21 and Europe on November 28.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/15/do...kemon-new-3ds/
Retro? Modern? This home-brew NES game is both
Retro gaming projects on Kickstarter are pretty common, but here's one that's a bit different: a game cartridge that, when plugged into the original Nintendo Entertainment System, plays an 8-bit game, and when plugged into a Mac or PC (via USB) plays a modern version of the same game. Perhaps the coolest aspect is that the two versions will interact with each other; an ability or weapon unlocked in one is available to futz with in its cousin. That is, if the project's Kickstarter is funded, of course. As Mystic Searches' project lead Joe Granato IV tells it, the concept comes from a design document he drew up, quite literally, as a seven year-old back in the '80s.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/18/m...s-kickstarter/
We just played with Nintendo's New 3DS: Finally, an extra analog stick
You might have heard: Nintendo's refreshing its 3DS family with two new models. Both the New 3DS as well as the larger New 3DS XL will arrive with a diddly analog stick just above the action buttons. (Throw away your Circle Pad Pros!) Plus, there's built-in NFC for those incoming Nintendo figurines and a new microSD card reader. Unfortunately, in my fly-byMonster Hunter 4G gaming test, I didn't have the chance to try either of those features -- readers love SD slot close-ups -- but it does offer an estimation of what Japanese gamers will get in less than a month when both handhelds launch. There's still no word on an overseas release for either model, but for now, watch me prove how poor I am at Monster Hunter in our video after the break. No, far worse than that.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/18/n...-3ds-hands-on/
God of War 2 for NES Released!!!
September 23rd, 2014, 00:38 Posted By: wraggster
With the successful release of the NES version of God of War Earlier this year comes the second installment of the 8-bit series. The first game involved Kratos proving himself worthy enough to be saved by the God of War, Ares. This latest release pits Kratos against a mysterious sorcerer that has imprisoned the Gods with powerful dark magic. The Gods aid Kratos with what little power they have left as power ups in the forms of Lightning, Hades Army, a gorgon head, and a mace. Download both of these exciting games now!!!
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/inde...pic,18669.html
Ultimate nes remix coming to 3ds
If you own a Wii U chances are that you've already played NES Remix 1 and 2, if you haven't... then get to it! Well it looks like the series is coming to the 3DS as well, in the shape of the Ultimate NES Remix, slated for release November 7th 2014 in Europe and December 5th 2014 in America. And the 3DS version is going to be one kicker, check out the official news from Nintendo below and pay extra attention of the last few lines straight from the big N.. Let the challenge begin! :-)
Take on a rapid-fire onslaught of challenges and mash-ups from 16 of Nintendo’s finest 8-bit games! Test your skills on a gauntlet of quick, tricky challenges and remix stages that combine parts of different games. The best mix of titles from the NES™ Remix and NES™ Remix 2 games is on Nintendo 3DS. Now you’re playing with PORTABLE power!Link™ vs. Donkey Kong™! Kirby™ vs. Boo™! It’s mash-up mania in this celebration of all things NES™! Race through to earn stars on increasingly tough tasks, like beating Ridley from Metroid™ or making Princess Peach™ save herself! Compete in Championship Mode’s blitz of challenges from the Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.™ 3, and Dr. Mario™ games, then compare scores with others in your region via online leaderboards*.
Features action-packed challenges from 16 classic 8-bit Nintendo games.
Dominate exciting chunks of retro Nintendo games from NES™ Remix, such as Super Mario Bros.™, The Legend of Zelda™, Excitebike™, and Donkey Kong™.
Challenges from NES™ Remix 2 include bite-sized chunks of Super Mario Bros.™ 3, Zelda II- The Adventure of Link™, Metroid™, Kid Icarus™, and Kirby’s Adventure™, among many others.
Test your skills in a series of altered 8-bit challenges and improve your times to unlock more challenges!
Take on 3 unique challenges from the Nintendo World Championships and Nintendo Campus Challenge, then check your score on online leaderboards* to see how you stack up.
http://www.nesworld.com/
Latest on Nintendont (R161)
Development Nintendont being perpetual, with its share of almost daily versions, it is difficult to follow each build (for both users and Newsers). Instead, a point is made about GX-Mod every major advance of this loader Gamecube, and it's time to make one. Since revision 153 (05/09/2014) adds Nintendont feature long requested and awaited (especially by the players on vWii): support for Wiimotes. The icing on the cake, the MAJ 160 (09.15.2014) also adds support for joysticks WiiU Pro.
Numerous bug fixes and calibrations were also made over the versions to the current R161. It is therefore strongly recommended to use the latest version of Nintendont to make the most of your old Gamecube games. note: the link to Nintendont is ALWAYS the latest version of it. Nintendont (permanent link to the latest version ) Website: https://code.google.com/p/nintendon-t/
http://wii.gx-mod.com/modules/news/a...p?storyid=3219
- OGL: Get rid of explicit deletes in RasterFont
- Core: Fix SIGABRT possibility in EXI_DeviceGecko
- DolphinWX: Fix case where the debugger would crash on hiding a pane.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/ypgtzd
TronDS v1.0.0.2
TronDS v1.0.0.2 is released. TronDSom is a Nintendo 3DS Emulator, It's very simple and is only capable of running homebrews. It currently supports:
- ARM9/ARM11 interpreter for the 3DS appcore – the processor core dedicated to running user applications
- OS HLE to support userland interaction with the various 3DS OS services
- Framebuffer rendering
- Debugger with ARM11 disassembler, register view (written in C#)
TronDS v1.0.0.2 Changelog:
- Added support for 3DS files
- Added support for VFPU
- Added support for Breakpoints
- Fixed some bug in ARMv6 opcodes
https://www.sendspace.com/file/0ii2z4
Project64k Stable Version (2014/09/17)
Project64k Stable Version (2014/09/17) is released. Project64k is a version of the Project64 emulator that supports multiplayer games using the Kaillera network.
Project64k is an online Nintendo64 emulator that uses Kaillera Netplay, and the additional P2P option (comes with the Kaillera Client) and AQZ option (input plugin). Project64k on Kaillera cannot properly sync many games, however It can play the main games played just fine.
-Super Smash Brothers 64 (All versions including Quick Match Rom Hack by Madao)
-Super Mario 64 Multiplayer Rom Hack/and Star Road Multiplayer Rom Hack
-Mario Kart 64 (All Versions)
To play games like Goldeneye007 or Perfect Dark on Kaillera you will need Mupen64k the alternate (less stable) Project64k.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/48m2y9
2DS to go see-through in EU with new designs, out in Nov.
Two new transparent 2DS skins are coming to Europe in November, letting continentals take a peek at the innards of the 3DS variants. The red and blue models first launch in the region on November 7, with Pokemon Alpha Sapphireand Omega Ruby bundles arriving alongside the Poke-remakes on November 28. Nintendo of Europe didn't disclose prices in its press release (2DS standalones are regularly priced £110 on Nintendo UK's online store)
The transparent bundles clearly come with the games pre-installed on a 4GB memory card, with the red system including Omega Ruby and the blue systemAlpha Sapphire.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/23/2d...ns-out-in-nov/
Pikmin 3, Star Fox 64 3D And More On Sale On U.S. Nintendo eShop
The final week of the Super Smash Bros.-themed sale is underway on the Nintendo eShop. Until October 2nd, the following games are available at discounted rates:Donkey Kong Country Returns (3DS) – Down from $29.99 to $19.99Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) – Down from $49.99 to $29.99Game & Watch: Donkey Kong Jr. (DSiWare) – Down from $1.99 to $1.49Donkey Kong (3DS) – Down from $4.99 to $3.49Donkey Kong (Wii U) – Down from $4.99 to $3.49Donkey Kong Jr. (Wii U) – Down from $4.99 to $3.49Kirby’s Dream Land (3DS) – Down from $3.99 to $2.49Kirby’s Dream Land 2 (3DS) – Down from $3.99 to $2.49Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (Wii U) – Down from $7.99 to $4.99Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (Wii U) – Down from $6.99 to $4.99Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (Wii U) – Down from $19.99 to $11.99Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (3DS) – Down from $19.99 to $11.99Pikmin 3 (Wii U) – Down from $59.99 to $39.99Star Fox 64 3D (3DS) – Down from $39.99 to $29.99Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) – Down from $29.99 to $19.99
Read more at http://www.siliconera.com/2014/09/26...5SuHIDq5GmG.99
Super Smash Bros. For Wii U Gamecube Controller Bundle Is $99.99
Nintendo announced a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U bundle that includes a Gamecube controller and more importantly an adapter to plug Gamecube controllers into Wii U. This bundle, according to Amazon, will cost $99.99.Nintendo has not set official pricing for the package and have not said if the Wii U Gamecube controller adapter will be sold separately.Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will be released sometime in 2014. The Nintendo 3DS version is scheduled to come out on October 3 in North America. Siliconera has been playing Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and will have impressions soon.
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Super Smash Bros 3DS tourney in US GameStop stores
Nintendo is hosting a Super Smash Bros 3DS tournament at GameStop stores across the United States on October 4, the day after the game launches. Tournaments will be held at 16 stores across the country, including 15 GameStop locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Washington, Florida, Georgia and Texas, plus the Nintendo World store in New York.
"Participants for the 64-player local tournaments on October 4 are selected on a first-come, first-served basis with no pre-registration required," Nintendo says in a press release. "Participants may bring their own Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 2DS systems and/or Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS games to the tournaments, but are not required to do so."
Tournament winners will be flown out to the New York Nintendo World store on October 11 to compete in the Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS National Open Tournament. See the full list of GameStop stores hosting tournaments on October 4 in the press release below.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/25/su...mestop-stores/
New 3DS reaches Australia, New Zealand in November
When Nintendo first revealed new versions of the 3DS and 3DS XL handhelds last month it was unclear if the device would be released globally or if it would be exclusive to Japan. Thanks to a new Nintendo Direct, we now have an answer.
Below the break you'll find what Tom Enoki, managing director of Nintendo Australia, describes as the "first Australian Nintendo Direct" video. The nearly 15-minute clip focuses on a number of upcoming 3DS games - Super Smash Bros. in particular - and also reveals word that the new model will launch in Australia and New Zealand on November 21. The 3DS will bear a price of $220AUD while the 3DS XL is priced at $250AUD.
That's great news for people living in those regions, but it also suggests that the new 3DS models may be coming to Europe and North America as well. If nothing else, those regions offer Nintendo far more potential sales than the gaming giant would see by launching exclusively in Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/24/ne...d-in-november/
US Nintendo eShop update: Hyrule Warriors
Link and company hit the crowded battlefield in this week's US eShop update, led by Nintendo and Omega Force's Hyrule Warriors.
Principally developed by the studio behind Dynasty Warriors, Hyrule Warriors lets players control familiar Zelda characters in massive skirmishes against monsters like Moblins, Lizalfos and more.
In CVG's Hyrule Warriors review, we said it "has taken Zelda and turned it into all-out war, without compromising its core ideals".
The first Yu-Gi-Oh card-battling title for 3DS arrives this week, and users will find a demo of Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party on Wii U along with a temporary discount.
Here's the full list from Nintendo:
[h=3]Nintendo eShop on Wii U[/h]Hyrule Warriors - It's time to fight. Cut down entire legions of enemies as Link, Zelda and other characters from The Legend of Zelda series using over-the-top, powerful Dynasty Warriors-style moves. This legendary adventure through the beloved locales of Hyrule will have you battling the fiercest enemies in The Legend of Zelda history. Collect materials and rupees to enhance your characters, upgrade weapons and dominate. Hyrule Warriors will be available on Sept. 26.
[h=3]Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS[/h]Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL World Duel Carnival - The first Yu-Gi-Oh! video game for Nintendo 3DS brings characters and stories from the popularYu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL animated series to life. Play as one of 12 characters, each with his or her own storyline, and battle with 40 Duelists from the TV show to compete in the World Duel Carnival. Enjoy multiple game modes, a tutorial and customization options as you play with more than 5,700 cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game. Clickhere to watch a trailer for the game.
[h=3]Nintendo eShop Sales[/h]It's your last chance to save up to 40 percent on select games starring fighters from the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. This week includes games featuring Kirby, Donkey Kong and other classic characters. Check out the games athttp://www.nintendo.com/eshop/offers.
Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party is 30 percent off (reduced from $11.99 to $8.39) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 12 in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
Armillo is 37 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 6 in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
Swords & Soldiers is 33 percent off (reduced from $2.99 to $1.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 9 in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
Glory of Generals is 30 percent off (reduced from $9.99 to $6.99) until 8:59 am PT on Oct. 9 in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.
[h=3]Coming soon[/h]Castlevania: Dracula X - Oct. 2 (Virtual Console on Wii U)
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - Oct. 9 (Virtual Console on Wii U)
[h=3]Also new this week[/h]Mario Golf: Advance Tour (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
Darts Up (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Wii U)
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EPA sends $2 million in brownfield clean-up funds to Vermont
Vermont s congressional delegation announced today $2 million in Brownfields grants for the state. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said the Environmental Protection Agency funding, $400,000 of which came from the economic stimulus plan, will go towards clean up of and reinvestment in properties blighted by hazardous waste. The City of Burlington will receive a $200,000 grant; the City of St. Albans will receive $400,000 in cleanup funds, and the New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro will receive a $200,000 cleanup grant.There are also four regional recipients. The Windham Regional Commission will receive $400,000. The Lamoille County Planning Commission will receive $400,000. The Northwest Regional Planning Commission will receive $200,000. And the Rutland Regional Planning Commission will receive $200,000.The EPA defines a brownfield site as a location where the presence of a hazardous substance may complicate the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of the property. Cleaning up polluted site takes development pressures off of undeveloped open land. It also improves and protects the environment.Details of the Vermont grants are available here. To learn more about the Brownfields program, visit the E.P.A. Web site here. read more
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Medical marijuana fight heats up
By Lloyd Dunkelberger , Herald-Tribune
/ Friday, May 30, 2014
Early polling shows that a ballot initiative to allow the use of medical marijuana should pass in the November general election.
But it has become clear this month that supporters of the constitutional amendment will face organized opposition in their bid to win approval from 60 percent on the voters. The Vote No on 2 Campaign, which is being directed by veteran media consultant Sarah Bascom, is stepping up its criticism of Amendment 2.
“Amendment 2 is simply a guise to legalize pot smoking in Florida and the goal of this campaign is to point out the loopholes and explain why this amendment is bad for Florida,” the group said in announcing its coalition that includes law enforcement members, business leaders, doctors, parents and others.
The group’s main message is that the constitutional amendment is so broadly and vaguely written it could lead to a number of problems, ranging from children using patient confidentiality to obtain marijuana without their parents’ knowledge to drug dealers hiding behind a “caregivers” provision.
Echoing arguments that were made in trying to keep the measure off the ballot, the opponents also say the marijuana use would not be limited “debilitating” medical conditions, such as cancer, but could be used for other conditions, including headaches and backaches.
“The pot supporters had every chance to be clear about the critical details of the pot amendment,” said Susan Kelsey, a Tallahassee lawyer who is among the opponents and who has worked on constitutional amendments. “But now, they ask voters to assume that the Legislature and Florida’s courts will cure the loopholes in it. Where is the crystal ball? Amendment 2 is a constitutional amendment and it cannot be changed by statutory law or court interpretation.”
Ben Pollara, the campaign manager for the People United for Medical Marijuana campaign, said the opponents are playing up hypothetical fears and that amendment’s intent can be clarified through state rules, although he said those regulations must be drafted with input from patient advocates and from officials in the 21 states where medical marijuana has been approved.
Pollara said Florida’s medical marijuana system will avoid many of the problems that have occurred in California.
“Much of the opposition to Amendment 2 comes from opponents who either ignore the text of the amendment or presuppose that the state will abdicate responsibility and implement a loosely regulated, California-style system — a result that no one paying attention believes will actually take place,” Pollara said in a statement.
However, Pollara and other supporters of Amendment 2 are clearly concerned about the prospect of an organized and well-funded opposition campaign.
“If you’ve been thinking that Amendment 2 would pass without a serious fight, it’s time to think again: The “No on Amendment 2” campaign is fully underway, with a new website and video,” Pollara said in a fund-raising appeal earlier this month. “We’ve been expecting this all along. While we got a great head start, there are a lot of resources and potential big donors on the other side.”
The medical marijuana supporters have already spent nearly $5 million for the effort, with the majority of the money going to collect voter signatures that were needed to place the measure on the ballot. And Pollara said a successful campaign may cost $10 million “and we’re a long way off.”
But Pollara also said the amendment supporters are ready to take on the opponents.
“We are not going to let the Vote No on 2 campaign set the tone of this debate,” he said. “We will set the tone. We will own the debate. We are going to make sure the voices of patients, caretakers, doctors and nurses are represented.”
WINNER OF THE WEEK: Leslie Dougher. The Clay County Republican chairwoman is expected to be tapped by state Republicans this weekend in Tampa as the new state party leader heading into the critical fall elections. Dougher, who has the support of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and House Speaker Will Weatherford, will replace outgoing chairman Lenny Curry who is exploring a run for mayor of Jacksonville.
LOSER OF THE WEEK: Openness. A trial judge in Leon County barred the public and the media during a court hearing this week as he heard testimony in a case that alleges state lawmakers violated a constitutional mandate for non-partisan redistricting for congressional seats. The judge closed the hearing following an order from the state Supreme Court that allowed the submission of more than 500 pages of evidence from a political consultant but said the information could only be reviewed in a secret proceeding.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Transparency and accountability are critical to supporting our veterans and this suit will fight the federal VA’s continued practice of stonewalling our inspectors,” Gov. Rick Scott said in announcing the state’s lawsuit against the U.S. Veterans Administration, seeking permission to allow state inspectors to review the care at VA hospitals.
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Philadelphia Phillies (28-20)
Adding one of the best free agents in free agency, Bryce Harper is looking to tear it up in a Phillies uniform. He and partner Rhys Hoskins are going to hit tons of bombs this year to produce tons of runs. The rotation is good enough to lead them to the postseason, but winning in the postseason could be a stretch with this rotation.
Key Players: Starting Pitching
With Aaron Nola and Jake Arrieta being the two-star starters, they’ll need more production from the other 3. So far, Zach Eflin has produced but where are the other two starters. They’ve been getting lit up almost every start and can’t happen in the future starts if they want to finish top of the division.
Injuries: David Robertson (RP)
Missing your best reliever early in the season is better than losing him later in the season. Robinson wasn’t having a good year in any means this season, hopefully, when he gets back he can right the ship and get back to his old self. They will need him for sure later in the year so it’s okay if he takes a little longer to get back just to be safe.
Atlanta Braves (26-23)
Loaded with young talent, the Braves will pick up there play and dominate in the middle of the season. With every single position player being able to hit for power, this Braves team can put up a lot on you quick. Limiting this team to 3 runs or fewer will be a challenge. This team’s only weakness is the bullpen and that’s something you can always get at the trade deadline. Expect them to be buyers then and make moves to potentially get them to a World Series.
Key Player: Josh Donaldson (3B)
Signing him later in the year in 2018 was a signing that didn’t pay off. This year he looks to be a pivotal piece to this Braves team that needs some veteran leadership. If Donaldson can have a year as he did for the Blue Jays, this Braves team will be almost unstoppable to get out.
Injuries: Bullpen
The bullpen took a hit with injuries with 4 guys from the pen getting hurt this year. They need all of the bullpen arms they can get this year as that is clearly the weakness this year. If they can get a reliever like Shane Greene from the Tigers, this team should run away with the division.
New York Mets (22-25)
Having to begin the season with a few stars on the IL, currently, almost all of them are back. The Mets are looking to prove to those that this team can compete. Loaded with underrated players, this team is looking to fly under the radar and steal a playoff spot.
Key Player: Pete Alonzo (1B)
A potential candidate for Rookie of the Year, Alonzo is looking to make a name for himself in the Big Apple. Already crushing bombs for this Mets, he expects to be a key piece moving forward. Having him in the lineup every day will only help him in the upcoming future.
Injuries: Yoenis Cespedes (OF), Jeurys Familia (RP), Jason Vargas (SP)
Missing players needed to win a division in the early stages of the season isn’t a good sign for a team known for players getting hurt. Céspedes is the only player expected to be out awhile which is bad news for all Mets fans. Having this team healthy is a successful season in itself.
Washington Nationals (19-29)
Losing your best hitter in free agency is tough already, but signing in the same division is even worse. Even though they signed Patrick Corbin, the nationals will have to rely on young outfielders to get the job done in Harper’s absence. If these young bucks can step up to the plate, the Nats could possibly be a sleeper team to win the NL East.
Key Players: Outfielders
Without Harper, the Nats leave a gap open for an outfielder. Insert Victor Robles, Robles has gotten off to a decent start, but no Bryce Harper numbers. If he can continue to play well and have help from Juan Soto and Michael Taylor, the Nationals should do just fine without Harper.
Injuries: Matt Adams (1B), Trevor Rosenthal (RP), Ryan Zimmerman (1B)
All of the season vets on the Nationals end up on the IL. Not having them in the game helping the youngins isn’t always best, but helping them from a different perspective on the bench can help too. Maybe we are going to see a resurgence of these 3 players when they get off the IL. If we do, watch out NL East.
Miami Marlins (14-31)
Coming into the year with absolutely no positive expectations, the Marlins only good thing going for them is their new logo and color schemes. With Derek Jeter at the helm, the Marlins can be contenders in a few years if everything goes well. But history with the Marlins would say that it won’t turn out so hot.
Key Player: Caleb Smith (SP)
The only bright spot for the Marlins this year has been Smith. With a 3-1 record and an ERA of 2.38, he should be on all teams radars at the trade deadline. If he continues on the pace he is at, he should be on a competing team in August.
Injuries: No key injuries
For a team with no injuries and still having a bad record, Marlins fans should just turn away and wait it out a few more years.
Miami Marlins (56-126)
A tight race down the stretch is going to determine this division. With the Braves and Phillies being the only clear contenders, expect games between the two to be really competitive.
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My little social bargain hunting experiment
Published May 13th, 2008 in Business Social. 3 Comments
Do you remember Modoshi? It is a deal site that launched in November 2006 and implemented a few interesting concepts that turned bargain hunting into a fun contest. The project eventually shut down but it really got me thinking.
Can a deal site be turned into a fun game where participants get rewarded for the bargains they recommend?
Can the site modeled around this concept be a successful and profitable business?
Ever since Modoshi shut down in summer 2007 I have been sitting on this idea. But I wasn’t just sitting, I was actually doing something. Read on to find what kept me sleepless over the past several months.
What makes people share deals?
Why people come to deal forums to post the shopping deals they find? For the most part it is because of the community. Initially they come to get information, feel thankful for the support they find and eventually come again to give back to the community that helped them. You could say that the community feeds itself.
Sometimes the site owners make an effort to help the community grow. SlickDeals encourages participation via reputation points the deal submitters receive from the peers. With DealsPlus each deal submission brings you closer to the next level - another star by your avatar. All these small attributes help the participants build their place in the community, help them feel useful and rewarded.
What did Modoshi do differently?
Why did I like Modoshi when there is already a number of striving bargain hunting communities out there? Because the team made an effort to improve on what some of these communities are doing. They have attempted to give the members a monetary incentive to participate and contribute. The incentives were offered in a form of daily and monthly contests that rewarded quality submissions and intelligent deal picks/votes which in turn brought a crowd of regulars to the site.
In addition Modoshi offered a huge number of tweaks for efficient bargain hunting on the site itself. The amount of product data they displayed made me think I am looking at a control panel of an airplane. It probably was a bit overboard but it appealed my geeky taste and built an invisible bond with the site creators.
I liked the idea so much that I decided to recreate it in a slightly modified form on Buxr, the project I started with my partner last year. Here are the basics (and I encourage you to comment on these!).
The daily contest
Users submit deals. Every day one deal is selected “the best of the day” based on user votes and our own judgment. The user who submits this deal is rewarded a daily prize (currently $10 via PayPal).
The monthly contest
There are two ways to participate, via deal submission and via deal votes.
Users submit deals. We select the best and the worst deal of the day on a daily basis. The user who submits the best deal gains 5 points, the user who submits the worst deal loses 5 points.
Users vote deals up/down. At the end of the day we compare user votes with our deal picks. If a user votes up the best deal of the day, or votes down the worst deal of the day, they earn 1 point. If a user votes down the best deal of the day, or votes up the worst deal of the day, they lose 1 point.
The user who collects the most points at the end of the month earns the monthly prize (currently Apple iPhone).
We plan to tweak these rules going forward as we learn from the participants, but the goal will stay the same, to build an exciting environment for people to come and share shopping deals, given whatever limited resources we have at hand.
Modoshi failed. Why am I doing this?
I strongly suspect a part of the reason why Modoshi closed was the lack of experience from the team (or the individual) who was running the site. Both my partner and I have been in this niche for a while and have come here to stay. Buxr doesn’t bring any significant revenue right now, not even enough to compensate for the prizes we offer. Yet we believe that the community around a deal site is the single most important side of a successful shopping affiliate business. It brings life, triggers conversations, helps with viral marketing.
Personally for me, it also gives a meaning to my life. I have always said that comments on this blog make me wake up in the morning and write more. Buxr is my new (more bargains focused) way to talk to you guys. The good part is that now you can initiate conversations as well! :-)
Has Modoshi social experiment failed?
Published August 17th, 2007 in Business Social. 1 Comment
You might remember Modoshi, the social site for bargain hunters that launched early this year. I wrote about them back in January and my overall impression was that the team has found that key ingredient of a successful social deal site. I have recently received an email from one of my readers complaining that Modoshi team has essentially abandoned its members.
The site has been dormant
I went to check out the website and it does really look like Modoshi is having problems. The last deal posted dates July 26 and the last message from the admins at the bulletin board says:
Hello everyone, sorry for the almost non existent responses. We are deciding the fate of the site and are acertaining whether we can continue to support this model.
It looks like the idea hasn’t picked up as much as expected and the team of early adopters who came to play the bargain hunting game Modoshi was running (read: earn prizes) hasn’t brought enough main-stream users who would actually come to shop at the site (read: spend some cash).
Is business model broken?
When I praised Modoshi for its social direction, I didn’t pay much attention to the financial side of the experiment. It now looks like the model used by Modoshi lacks certain attributes necessary for a profitable business.
For example members are compensated for bringing referrals who then post quality deals. This makes sure that the posted products are true bargains. However no one is compensated for referring people who will come to shop. This means that the members are not directly interested in bringing revenue to the site.
I am sure the founders hoped that viral marketing would take care of this issue and it is hard to speculate why it hasn’t been successful for Modoshi. I still think the team has done a great job with the site and with a little bit more luck Modoshi wouldn’t be having problems now. The idea is good and it might just need a little help to pick up.
What will happen next?
I have sent an email to Modoshi but didn’t receive any response. An eBay exit might be one option, or alternatively the current founders may choose to re-adjust the model a bit and restart the experiment. In any case I hope we will find it out very soon. It is very sad to see a good idea die like that.
Why Modoshi will beat DealsPlus
Published January 11th, 2007 in Business Social and Business: Strategy. 14 Comments
Over the past 2 years I have seen many social bargain hunting sites launch. Most of them had very distinct features and quality design. Yet their flawed marketing strategy made their life very short. If I were to list a few you would most likely have to admit that you never heard the names.
The new kids on the block have been more fortunate in the sense that they started when Digg was already popular and many Internet users have adopted the idea so well that they were not shy digging things anymore. However if you look closely at these websites you will notice that they all suffer from the same problem: they have not built an active community — a community of users who would find and digg up the deals — the kind of community that only FatWallet and SlickDeals currently have.
This is not surprising at all. Bargain hunting is a very narrow niche. It took Digg over a year to become as popular as it is. It will take even longer for these sites if they follow the Digg model.
Social bargain hunting is plagued
We all know that Digg is not community driven in the sense that less than 1% of users control most of the front page news. This is partially due to the algorithms Digg has put in place to favor the top submitters but mostly due to the fact that only a small percentage of users is capable of devoting themselves to the long hours of sifting through the news looking for that Digg-worthy scandal story.
It is obvious that all of the bargain hunting sites currently don’t have even a fraction of the half a million Digg users. I will bet my car that the owners of these sites keep them on life support by searching and submitting deals daily and maybe even by manipulating the ratings to bring the most promising offers to the top for better visibility (for that same reason these websites usually don’t show who voted for the deals. Some don’t even show who submits the deals, at least not on the front page).
The conclusion — social element is there mostly to satisfy your feeling of freedom, to feed your desire to be in control, to create an illusion that you can make a difference. At this time the social part doesn’t do a good job of building a supply of fresh quality submissions for these websites.
How can this be fixed? What can be changed to make the system work? What will compensate for the lack of active users?
It sounds like Modoshi has the solution.
Who are the folks that submit news to Digg? They are mostly teens — school children and college students. They have a very strong feeling of community, they have the time and curiosity to try new things, they are willing to do it for free or for a very small pay. Modoshi is a community where users who submit or pick the best deals are financially compensated. Right now each user only has one shot a day at winning the two daily prizes — $5 for submitting a new deal and $5 for digging an existing one — however as the site growth the prizes will grow as well, according to Modoshi co-founder Vaishali Anga. $10 a day doesn’t sound a lot at all however keep in mind that Netscape was able to sway the top Digg users with a mere $1000 a month — and working for Netscape sounds like a full time job to me.
This is not all however. With each new deal the submitter has to verify 3 existing deals for accuracy. This just sounds like a terrific idea! Once the bugs are worked out the only thing that Vaishali will have to worry about is that his servers are capable to support the crowds of teens who will flock to play the game and earn that penny towards next Wii. By the way, about Wii, the top Modoshi user in January will get one for free — it is another contest the team is running and the prize selection only proves my guess at what the target age is. Seriously though enforcing verification should hugely improve the overall deals quality and as the result will make the site more attractive to those who come to use those deals.
Different game requires different rules
According to Vaishali when Modoshi launched in November it “started on the premise that it was high time contributors to the Internet community in general (who) got a share of the revenue”. The team quickly abandoned the concept though. “Pricier items such as TV etc got unfair advantage. Deal (submission) was based primarily on commissions, not quality”. The contests in contrast provide “a uniform model irrespective of what deal is posted, be it a $10 toy or $1000 hdtv”. Makes a lot of sense to me!
Now what about that rank that social sites display next to each entry? It usually more or less reflects the number of votes the entry accumulated. It makes perfect sense in the Digg case — how else can you judge the value of a news story? It sounds like for shopping deals you could use more data to calculate that number. The item price (compared to the average price for similar items), the item popularity (number of clicks or sales it produces), the submitter credibility — all of these can be factored in to compute the deal rank. Isn’t it brilliant? I wonder why no one else has done it before?
I have been playing with Modoshi over the past month or so and the more I play the stronger the feeling is that they have implemented the best marketing strategy to make a social bargain hunting site a success. I am not saying they are already the best — the site navigation and functionality could be improved quite a bit — but they currently have the best bets at coming out the leader. Sorry DealsPlus, you are not my favorite any more. ;-)
Social Bargain Hunting Roundup
Published December 25th, 2006 in Business Social. 8 Comments
This year has been revolutionary for the Internet. It’s growing popularity has given birth to a new trend - “social”. What started as IRC and bulletin boards has now been adopted by all online services. User contributed content is the king this year and according to this Times magazine article its impact will only grow in the years to come.
In addition online shopping has experienced very nice growth this year. Online spending during this holiday season are 25% up according to comScore. The growth has created an opportunity for new players to join the game thus growing the already long list of participants. Many of them are adopting social features.
Let’s go over some newcomers featuring social attributes and check what they are really worth. I used several factors for selection, among them are usability, functionality, innovation and design. Popularity often influences usability with social websites therefore let’s look at it first.
Comparing Traffic
The only thing that is clear from this Alexa chart that Dealspl.us is leading the pack while Modoshi is far behind. The rest three websites are somewhere in between.
In an attempt to measure how many deals these websites have I did a search for “iPod” on each of them and counted number of entries posted within the last 30 days. Besides I attempted to measure how fresh the data is by looking up the latest deal. Here is what I found as of 12/25/07 4:30 am (no, Santa has not stopped by yet :-)):
Dealigg
Deals.com
Dealplumber
Modoshi
Search for “iPod”
Latest posted deal
10 hours 4 minutes 2 days 3 days 8 hours
Be aware that some of the deals may be submitted by the people running the websites and hence these counts cannot be used to judge how popular the websites are. Nevertheless the numbers give an idea what to expect.
The side-project of its parent website bensbargains Dealspl.us may soon overgrow its dad. Dealspl.us had a privilege to come to the market among the first (if you don’t count the early experiments like dealcritic) and managed to do a lot of things right. Ben’s 6 years of pro-bargain hunting have helped to avoid mishaps. The content, while user submitted, is constantly moderated and refined. I am sure Ben feeds a few of his own deals every day to keep the things running smoothly.
The simple and nice looking design along with pre-filled quality deals content is what made the website a success initially. The team kept adding functionality and now I cannot really find anything that I wanted from a bargain hunting site that Dealspl.us didn’t have. Maybe just some minor things like email newsletter, hot deals widget, and a submitter web browser plugin? (Ben, it is a hint ;-) )
From the first glance Dealigg looks like a “not very polished” Dealspl.us copycat. Nevertheless it doesn’t prevent it from bringing in nice user traffic. Overall it is very much one step behind compared to the original. The coupons section, the friends feature, and the talk groups are just a few things that Dealigg lacks compared to Dealpl.us. Read my earlier Dealigg review to get a better picture.
The creators of Deals.com have put aside sufficient funding for the domain name and web site branding yet they failed to assess the level of saturation in the bargain hunting market. A great domain name and a cute logo could bring crowds of visitors a year back but not today.
As the result the website is somewhat stagnant (see the table above). I wrote about Deals.com earlier and why it may fail. Another example of a nicely designed quickly forgotten website is Trezr — read my review here.
Dealplumber started around the same time as Dealspl.us and originally boasted a higher Alexa rank due to slightly earlier launch and the “share deals & earn” program which allowed affiliate ids in the submitted links. The website however wasn’t as well designed as Dealspl.us and most importantly it failed to deliver quality deals which in turn didn’t work well as far as retaining a user base goes.
Very recently they have somewhat improved the website design and navigation however it is still not as convenient as I would like it to be. Just a few things:
The menu at the bottom is hard to see (and there are some important things there)
There is no way to access all related store deals from a single deal page
I cannot mark a deal as a spam or expired
The web site functionality overall is a subset of that of Dealspl.us
Launched just last month Modoshi is trying to succeed where Dealplumber failed — revenue sharing — hence the web site name which in Japanese means “giving-back”. “Typically, Modoshi will receive 7 to 8 percent from an affiliate for each sale, and on average, 40 to 50 percent of that commission will go to the user who posted the deal”, according to the website’s co-founder Vaishali Anga.
I remember the main problem with Dealplumber was spam. Users would submit low-quality deals and benefit from the clicks the website attracted after the launch. In an attempt to improve the deals quality Modoshi is running daily contests. There are two ways how you can win a prize (currently $5): post a best selling deal or pick the best selling deal. While you can post or pick as many deals as you like only one deal and pick can be submitted every day to the contest. This is a very smart move which will certainly pay off.
While Modoshi may be a fun game to play for school kids it still lacks some must-have features. For example I couldn’t find any way to browse deals by a merchant. They also don’t seem to have a separate section for coupons/promo codes. The thing I liked is that I could rank deals up and down without being logged in (the vote is associated with my IP address). This should give a boost to the user activity that Modoshi needs so much.
I have ranked each website on a 1 to 5 scale where 1 is the worst and 5 is the best. Here is the run down:
Usablility
No question Dealspl.us is the current leader in social bargain hunting. Judging by the features and the innovating marketing campaign Modoshi seems to be the next runner up. Dealigg is playing catch ups while Dealplumber is recovering from the early mistakes. Deals.com has good potential (especially given its catchy domain name) but the team needs to introduce some more innovation into what they are doing.
2006 marks the first year when social bargain hunting really caught up. While reviewed here websites have satisfied the essential demand there are still opportunities to build on what’s accomplished. In addition I think the market penetration at this point is not yet high and new players (or old players with new ambitions) will have a good shot at grabbing a piece of the pie — a good example is the recent social revolution at JudysBook.
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Bob Santamaria and Joop Beek
In a book, written in German about the Jesuit priest Franz [von] Magnis-Suseno, its author Heinz Schütte has included a chapter on Joop/Josephus Beek. He has the story of Beek as the founder of Realino in the 1950s. In 1959 he moved to Jakarta where he trained Catholic students to become political activists against Communism. They started in the Jesuit compound of Jalan Gunung Sahari 88 a documentation centre and Beek sent regular reports about the politcal-social situation to his Catholic network. Schütte also gives a summary of section of a book by Frank Mount, Wrestling with Asia (2012). Mount concentrates on the Movement of the Australian Bob Santamaria. In the 1930s his dream was that Australia would become a Christian country, but after 1950 he became very active in fighting Communism, first of all in Vietnam, but he had also connections to Indonesia, especially with Jesuit Joop Beek. I did not see the book by Frank Mount (there is according to the Worldcat no copy in Europe, just one in Cornell and further in Australia only!) but rely on summaries from reviews on the Internet and the book by Heinz Schütte, Dialog, Kritik, Mission. Franz Magnis-Suseno, ein indonesischer Jesuit aus Deutschland Berlin; Regiospectra, 2013; chapter 13 is on Pater Josephus Beek SJ, 151-176).
Frank Mount tells that Father Beek had a similar network to the one by Bob Santamaria. "Having got word of the coup, Beek toldSantamaria who in turn informed Australia's security organisations before the coup happened.' According to Frank Mount 'many, many thousands of dollars' were sent to Indonesia through Joop Beek (Schütte, p. 160). The money came from Australia and the USA. Beek wrote regular secret information bulleting to his network, called 'social justice organisations' (p. 161). The documentation centre, established by Beek in the early 1960s and staffed by people like Harry Tjan Silalahi and Jusuf Wanandi.
Picture above, left is rightwing, anti Communist journalist Frank Mount, right Bob Santamaria, South-Vietnamese Tran Van Lan in the centre.
In another book, the political autobiography of Jusuf Wanandi, Shades of Grey. A Political Memoir of Modern Indonesia 1965-1998, Jakarta/Singapore, Equinox, 2012, nothing is said about Joop Beek, although 'an older Jesuit stated that Beek had made Wanandi' (Schütte 162). Schütte quotes Mount in a Wanandi statement from 1970: What we and Beek's Bureau are working for is that in ten to fifteen years we, the civilians, through the Functional Groups, will be able to take over from the Army. In the meantime, we have to support the Army and work for change and restrain the present political parties.
In Aad van den Heuvel's (a Dutch journalist, TV programmes and books on Beek) words: Beek was the player who manipulated the Wayang puppets. From a distance in time it may also have been the opposite. It was the smiling general Soeharto who made use of the Catholic and Muslims students with Harry Tjan, Jusuf Wanandi and Cosmas Batubara on the Catholic side, Subchan with the Muslims of NU. In retrospect Jusuf Wanandi in his energetic and short style acknowledges: We now know, looking back, that we were wrong to support this move [MPRS decision of June 1966] and would never do it again. It gave too much power to one man. But it was a struggle at that time. We were inexperienced (Wanandi, p. 65). Beek and his students may have been thinking that they could manage the process, but looking back they had to be satisfied with the spectators' role. Anyhow, they could make also good profit from this position.
Schütte writes that Harry Tjan still considers Beek as his great teacher, although Magnis estimates that Beek was wrong in his analysis of the situation: Communists are not per se the great enemy, nor are Muslims so (as Beek analysed after 1967; see Schütte, 169).
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The philosophical discourse of Franz Magnis Suseno
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Sport has long been an integral feature of life at Edinburgh Academy, and the client's aim was to bring their sporting facilities up to the highest level, starting with this project to create a new Hockey Pavilion.
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Ride Review: Ducati Multistrada 1200S (2015)
Post author By Sebastiaan de With
I must admit, I have always been attracted to Ducati bikes. My first bike in the US was a 1997 Ducati Monster 750, and its character, sound and good looks are things I still love today. I rode a Ducati GT1000 to the Arctic last year, but like my Monster of old it was a street bike, and not a touring bike per sé. I’d be lying if I wasn’t interested in how Ducati’s flagship touring bike would hold up on a solid long road trip. Can Ducati make a true touring bike that holds it own, without losing what makes a Ducati so damn fun and exciting to ride?
I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to ride Ducati’s latest and greatest bike — the 2015 Multistrada 1200S — for all of August through Europe, riding through five countries and thousands of kilometers to answer this question once and for all.
Staying true to its brand and formula, the Multistrada is powered by a 90° L-twin dual-spark engine shrouded in bright red (or optionally white) plastics and aggressive styling. Since a while back, Multistradas are liquid cooled, but riding it you can still feel some serious heat coming from the top cylinder. It’s a hot-blooded, red racehorse of a bike that just happens to have all the requisite farkles for comfortable touring.
At first glance, the new 2015 Multistrada is visually quite similar to the previous model. There’s a few areas where the aesthetics have improved; the ‘beak’ is a bit downplayed, some lines are smoother and more continuous. The biggest changes are apparent to the rider; the new, much improved instrument cluster and handlebar controls and the engine between your legs.
The Multistrada seems to have people split on its design: some truly love it, others seem to find it offensive.
No matter which camp you are in, it certainly looks modern — and strikes a fine balance between the aggressive curves of its superbike sister, the Ducati 1199 Panigale and the hooligan-oriented upright-posture Hypermotard, all the while adding comfortable touring features. In Europe I received a lot of compliments on it from all sorts of motorcyclists. If anything, it looks fierce.
A highly appreciated change Ducati made was the simplification of the cluster and its controls. But the changes to the main instruments don’t just end with the appearance of the cluster; the actual main display featuring your tachometer, speedometer and more basic information moved from traditional LCD technology to a true transflective LCD. Transflective LCD technology is fairly new, and has a serious advantage on motorcycles: it is incredibly bright in sunlight. I found it an incredibly nice experience, as a motorcycle rider that has always preferred traditional gauges over digital displays.
The cleverness of the instruments don’t end there; if I rode through a tunnel or the sun set, the display inverted its color scheme and became dark, making sure I wasn’t getting blinded by an all-white LCD screen. The cluster also has accommodations for media controls as well as GPS from a Bluetooth-connected phone, but sadly at the time of riding the ‘Ducati Link’ app that enables such functionality wasn’t yet available.
All in all, it added up to one of the best instrument displays I’ve seen on any bike. A bit of a shame is that Ducati has deemed it an extra: the entry-level, less-farkled non-S Multistrada 1200 has a much more basic greyscale LCD instead.
Coming from the 2014 Multistrada 1200S, the engine has been slightly upgraded: there’s 10 more claimed horsepower on the bike, which is a nice addition in a bike with little to no noticeable weight change.
A first for Ducati is the introduction of DVT, or ‘Desmodromic Variable Timing’. While variable valve timing has been a thing in cars for a while, Ducati has debuted it in its Multistrada — arguably to improve its engine character and performance on the lower end of the power band in first gear, while also improving the fuel economy. Bundled with the most advanced engine Ducati has put out yet are a host of electronic systems: an Intertial Measurement Unit (IMU) coupled with ABS, which can adjust braking power and application even while the bike is leaned over while maintaing stability.
Things get even crazier: the IMU can send data to the on-board computer so that as you lean the bike, the headlights automatically light up more of the turn you are turning into. It’s kind of insane when you experience it, and yet incredibly easy to get used to. The lights themselves, regardless of where they were aiming, seemed good at their job. If anything, a bit too good: by EU spec, seemed rather bright and aimed a bit high; I often got flashed by oncoming cars at night, which made me double-check if my high beam was on. (it wasn’t)
Throttle is ‘ride by wire’, which means that almost every aspect of the engine character and throttle response can be controlled by the computer. This enables the four riding modes, but also the sub-settings of each which you can tweak if you’d be so inclined. Features include Ducati Wheelie Control, Traction Control and about a dozen more settings. I played a bit with the basic settings, but found myself often staying with the ‘Touring’ setting which strikes a good balance of control, performance and comfort.
I did have moments, however, where it felt a bit like the ‘ride by wire’ created a bit of a disconnect between my inputs and what the bike was doing. It was a bit jarring, and it’s hard to put my finger on exactly when it kicked in, but perhaps I am simply too used to a Ducati being a bit aggressive and raw in its performance. The Multistrada felt — at times — a little too smoothed, as if the computer tried to average my inputs rather that respond to them. Something that could be fixed with adjustments of the many settings on board, possibly — but I found it apparent even in the supposedly untamed ‘Sport’ setting.
The bike is tall, as many bikes in its class, but thanks to its narrow, sculpted seat which is practically carved into the shape of the bike, it is easy to reach the ground. It’s certainly shorter than the comparable Triumph Tiger or BMW GS bikes in its class, in part thanks to the seating position putting you ‘in’ the bike rather than ‘on’ it. It makes for a well-planted position that lends itself well for aggressive cornering as well.
While the views expressed in this review are exclusively my own, the touring comfort aspect was also tested by my girlfriend in Europe who rode on the back. Pillion provisions are exceptional with the factory luggage option: the top hard case has a little back rest for your passenger, and the general geometry of the bike is such that your passenger will have a ton of space behind you to sit and move around.
After about three weeks of riding around Europe, we both reached the judgment that the Multistrada was easily the most comfortable bike we’d toured on. In its ‘Touring’ riding mode with full adaptive electronic suspension and the stock seat, it was no issue riding on it all day long. If you feel like it, you can even adjust the height of the seat.
The seat may be a bit secondary, though: it became instantly obvious how much comfort the suspension provides when I turned off the ‘Touring’ mode and switched to ‘Sport’ for a day. My butt was seriously hurting – I almost felt like it was bruised. Back to ‘Touring’ and the DSS (Ducati Skyhook Suspension) adaptive suspension made it nice and comfy again and my behind took the subsequent kilometers in stride.
Stock, the bike comes with a windscreen and hand-guards; the handguards, like the Ducati Hypermotard, have integrated turn signals which clean up the bike’s appearance nicely.
Other niceties are the one-hand adjustable windscreen and cruise control. While these are pretty standard features on a serious touring bikes, the implementation was superb. Compared to the equivalent BMW 1200GS — possibly the current highest-selling touring bike — the cruise control and windscreen controls were simpler and easier to use.
As a cherry on top of the almost-Science Fiction levels of technology in the new Multistrada, the bike comes complete with a keyless ignition system. There’s a key in case you need it, but much like modern cars you can just keep the key in your pocket and hit the starter to take off. It even automatically locks when you walk a certain distance away from the bike.
A touring bike isn’t a true touring bike without solid luggage options. In the past, Ducati offered a standard touring kit with hard panniers and this year’s model is no different. The case set is made by Givi and consists of a hard top case and side panniers.
While I am told it has been improved from the last year’s set, the Givi cases still fall short in several places. The side cases are side-loading, which means you have to open them up with the lid facing outward instead of being able to load them from the top. This usually results in most of your stuff falling out, even if you use the internal stowing straps. While likely a limitation of the ‘aerodynamic’ profile of the panniers, it’s just a deeply impractical design for more than minimal touring.
The aerodynamics of the cases is nice, but the general aesthetic is reminiscent of the hard luggage often seen on scooters, and clashes with the overall aggressive styling of the bike.
Fortunately there’s plenty of aftermarket luggage options available by now — though, do check fitment, as luggage mounting points have changed from the 2014 to the 2015 Multistradas.
Modern sport-touring bikes have departed from the mid-90s notion of being heavy and bulky thanks to Ducati’s practical reinvention of the category with its aggressively road-oriented Multistrada. With the 2015 1200S model, it adds enough features, technology and comforts to make BMW owners swoon — and the Bavarian company too, perhaps, as it recently entered the market by introducing its S1000-XR Multistrada-lookalike. However, Ducati shows its future vision in the new 2015 1200S: it is a solid update to an already impressive bike.
Whether or not the Multistrada is for you depends on what you want out of it. If you want the sheer, raw power and pleasure of a Ducati that is unforgiving, demanding and forces you to become a better rider, it is possible to work your way through the complexities of the Multistrada and peel down the layers of technology to reveal that yes, indeed, there is a high-powered race bike hidden in there.
But you shouldn’t — what this bike is perfect for is those people who want to take their time exploring well-paved parts of the world while still feeling like they are riding a sporty, aggressive bike that corners fantastically.
Where the BMW 1200GS is the motorcycle equivalent of a pocket knife, the Multistrada is designed for a specific purpose, much like a chef’s knife: touring the highway and carving the civilized, tarmac mountain and coast roads of Italy and beyond, where it will never fail to give you a comically big grin all day long.
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Utilization of antimicrobial agents for prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial infection in liver diseases and its complications
Farrah BILAL, Mudassar Iqbal ARAIN, Ubed Ur Rehman , Abdullah Dayo, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Ahsan Ali Memon.
Objective: To examine the antimicrobial therapy as prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial infection in liver diseases and its complications.
Methodology: This descriptive study was carried out at Liaquat University of medical and health sciences hospital Hyderabad, Pakistan from May to October 2018. Patients of liver cirrhosis with positive HCV antibodies, age from 16 to 70 years were included. Diagnosis of liver impairment was based on patients clinical features and laboratory tests which is documented in patients records. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data. Child Pugh classes are used to determine the severity and prognosis of disease.
Results: Out of 250 patients, 156(61.2%) were males and 48(38.8%) were females. 109(43.6%) belonged to Child Pugh Class C. Ascitic fluid analysis showed that 101(40.4%) samples were infected and 40.4% were culture positive. Escherichia coli was most frequent in 41(20.5%) organism. Most frequently ceftriaxone was prescribed intravenously in 121(48.4%) patients.
Conclusion: Bacterial peritonitis was widespread in liver disease. Ascites was a major problem and ascitic fluid culture showed E.coli as commonest causative agent of infections. Ceftriaxone was mostly used in them.
Key words: Bacterial peritonitis, Child Pugh class, prophylaxis, cirrhosis.
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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 209 and ends at position 250; the E-value for the BBOX domain shown below is 9.59e-7.
PKGLMCPDHKEEVTHYCKTCQRLVCQLCRVRRTHSGHKITPV
B-Box-type zinc finger
This entry represents B-box-type zinc finger domains, which are around 40 residues in length. B-box zinc fingers can be divided into two groups, where types 1 and 2 B-box domains differ in their consensus sequence and in the spacing of the 7-8 zinc-binding residues. Several proteins contain both types 1 and 2 B-boxes, suggesting some level of cooperativity between these two domains. B-box domains are found in over 1500 proteins from a variety of organisms. They are found in TRIM (tripartite motif) proteins that consist of an N-terminal RING finger (originally called an A-box), followed by 1-2 B-box domains and a coiled-coil domain (also called RBCC for Ring, B-box, Coiled-Coil). TRIM proteins contain a type 2 B-box domain, and may also contain a type 1 B-box. In proteins that do not contain RING or coiled-coil domains, the B-box domain is primarily type 2. Many type 2 B-box proteins are involved in ubiquitination. Proteins containing a B-box zinc finger domain include transcription factors, ribonucleoproteins and proto-oncoproteins; for example, MID1, MID2, TRIM9, TNL, TRIM36, TRIM63, TRIFIC, NCL1 and CONSTANS-like proteins [ (PUBMED:16434393) ].
The microtubule-associated E3 ligase MID1 ( EC 6.3.2 ) contains a type 1 B-box zinc finger domain. MID1 specifically binds Alpha-4, which in turn recruits the catalytic subunit of phosphatase 2A (PP2Ac). This complex is required for targeting of PP2Ac for proteasome-mediated degradation. The MID1 B-box coordinates two zinc ions and adopts a beta/beta/alpha cross-brace structure similar to that of ZZ, PHD, RING and FYVE zinc fingers [ (PUBMED:17428496) (PUBMED:16529770) ].
zinc ion binding (GO:0008270)
There are 44632 BBOX domains in 32803 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing BBOX domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with BBOX domain is also avaliable.
Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing BBOX domain in the selected taxonomic class.
Borden KL
RING fingers and B-boxes: zinc-binding protein-protein interaction domains.
Biochem Cell Biol. 1998; 76: 351-8
The cysteine-rich zinc-binding motifs known as the RING and B-box are found in several unrelated proteins. Structural, biochemical, and biological studies of these motifs reveal that they mediate protein-protein interactions. Several RING-containing proteins are oncoproteins and recent data indicate that proapoptotic activities can be mediated through the RING. 1H NMR methods were used to determine the structures of RINGs and a B-box domain and to monitor the conformational changes these motifs undergo upon zinc ligation. This review discusses in detail the structural features of the RING and B-box domains. Further, possible structure function relationships for these motifs particularly in their role as protein interaction domains are discussed.
Reddy BA, Kloc M, Etkin L
The cloning and characterization of a maternally expressed novel zinc finger nuclear phosphoprotein (xnf7) in Xenopus laevis.
Dev Biol. 1991; 148: 107-16
We report the cloning of a cDNA (xnf7) coding for a maternally expressed Xenopus protein that becomes highly enriched in nuclei of the central nervous system during later development and in nuclei of adult brain. The protein also shows stage-specific nuclear/cytoplasmic partitioning and phosphorylation that may be related to its function. In addition, it binds to double-stranded DNA in vitro. The conceptual protein produced by the xnf7 clone contains several acidic domains, a novel zinc finger domain, three putative p34cdc2 protein kinase phosphorylation sites, and a bipartite basic nuclear localization signal. The xnf7 mRNA was detected as a maternal transcript that decreased in abundance during development through the gastrula stage. It was reexpressed at the neural stage in mesoderm and neural tissues, and its reexpression was not dependent upon the normal juxtaposition of the mesoderm and ectoderm that occurs during neural induction as demonstrated by high titer in exogastrulae. In situ hybridization showed enrichment of the mRNA in the neural tube and a small amount in the mesoderm at the late neurula stage. Xnf7 is normally phosphorylated during oocyte maturation. The bacterially expressed xnf7 protein was phosphorylated in vitro by purified maturation-promoting factor at a threonine in a small N-terminal domain containing one of the p34cdc2 protein kinase phosphorylation sites, but not by several other protein kinases. The structural domains present in the protein and its localization in nuclei suggest that the xnf7 gene product performs an important nuclear function during early development, perhaps as a transcription factor or a structural component of chromatin.
SwissProt sequences and OMIM curated human diseases associated with missense mutations within the BBOX domain.
Pyrin (O15553) (SMART) OMIM:249100: Familial Mediterranean fever
54.17 map04120 Ubiquitin mediated proteolysis
25.00 map05221 Acute myeloid leukemia
20.83 map00380 Tryptophan metabolism
This information is based on mapping of SMART genomic protein database to KEGG orthologous groups. Percentage points are related to the number of proteins with BBOX domain which could be assigned to a KEGG orthologous group, and not all proteins containing BBOX domain. Please note that proteins can be included in multiple pathways, ie. the numbers above will not always add up to 100%.
3D Structures of BBOX domains in PDB
1fre XNF7 BBOX, DEVELOPMENTAL PROTEIN, PH 7.5, 30 C, WITH ZINC, NMR, 1 STRUCTURE
2csv Solution structure of the zf-B_box type2 domain of human tripartite motif protein TRIM29 isoform alpha
2d8u Solution structure of the B-box domain of the human tripartite motif-containing 63 protein
2did One sequence two fold ? : Correct fold of the zf-B-box domain from human tripartite motif protein 39
2dif One sequence two fold ? : Miss fold of the zf-B-box domain from human tripartite motif protein 39
2dja Solution structure of the B-box domain of the human Midline-2 protein
2dq5 solution structure of the Mid1 B Box2 Chc(D/C)C2H2 Zinc-Binding Domain: insights into an evolutionary conserved ring fold
2egm Solution structure of the zf-B_box domain from human Tripartite motif protein 41
2ffw Solution structure of the RBCC/TRIM B-box1 domain of human MID1: B-box with a RING
2jun Structure of the MID1 tandem B-boxes reveals an interaction reminiscent of intermolecular RING heterodimers
2mvw 2MVW
2yrg Solution structure of the B-box domain from tripartite motif-containing protein 5
2yvr Crystal structure of MS1043
3ddt Crystal structure of the B2 box from MuRF1 in dimeric state
3q1d The B-box domain of Trim54
4tn3 4TN3
5eiu 5EIU
5iea 5IEA
zf-B_box
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October 28, 1990: first WTA title for Jennifer Capriati
October 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Fourteen year old Jennifer Capriati wins the first of her 14 career singles titles, defeating Zina Garrison in the finals of the Puerto Rico Open in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Capriati, however is not the youngest player to in a professional tournament, as Tracy Austin, at the age of 14 years and 28 days wins the title in Portland, Oregon in 1977.
Capriati’s age at the time of her first victory is 14 years 7 months.
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1990 French Open: Opposites attract, Gomez defeats Agassi
May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Back in the days when Agassi was wearing pink lycra bike pants and a wig.
Agassi was then just a “forehand and a haircut” as Ivan Lendl once said. Coached by Florida tennis guru Nick Bolletieri, Agassi was tennis’ enfant terrible, known as much for his look as his explosive game.
Seeded number 3, Agassi had reached the semifinals of both French and US Open in 1988 and US Open again in 1989. In 1990, he defeated Jim Courier and defending champion Michael Chang en route to his first Grand Slam final.
Gomez was the total opposite of Agassi: a 30 year old left handed from Ecuador, he was known for his nice volley touch and science of play on clay. Before 90 French Open, he had never been past the quarterfinals of a major. Beaten three times at this stage of the tournament by Ivan Lendl, Gomez was somewhat relieved by the Czech’ decision to skip Roland Garros to focus on Wimbledon.
Before the final, Agassi said: “Like any good player, the more that’s expected of them, the more they rise to the occasion. I didn’t stay in Paris for two weeks to come in second place”. Unfortunately for him, he did. Agassi was favored and expected to overpower the veteran from Ecuador, but he was overconfident, nervous and probably thinking too much about his wig.
Gomez moved to a career high ranking of 4th following his victory in Paris. He retired in 1993. During his career, he amassed 21 singles titles (mostly on clay) and 33 doubles trophies.
Gomez and Nastase at the Trophée des Légendes, June 2007:
And Agassi? He was runner up again in 1991 (lost to Jim Courier). He finally captured the Roland Garros trophy in 1999 after a five set battle against Andrei Medvedev to complete a career Grand Slam.
During his roller coaster career he collected 60 singles titles including 8 Grand Slam titles and one Olympic gold medal.
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Watching history in the making
By John Coulter (China Daily)
China's Shenzhou-9 soared from the launch pad into history on Saturday. The capsule carrying China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang, and her two male colleagues, Jing Haipeng and Liu Wang, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket.
On Monday the spacecraft successfully docked with the Tiangong-1 space lab, a vital step in China's plans to build its own permanently manned three-module space station by 2020, which will be the only space station after the programmed retirement of the International Space Station in 2020.
The ninth "Divine Vessel" adventure is more than just a milestone in space exploration; it marks the rise of China as a space-going nation, just as the Russian and the US programs lose their luster. This can be compared with the world-changing rise of Spain in search of the New World. Spain's dominance of centuries of ocean-going exploration was based on advanced shipbuilding technology and a burning quest for what has been characterized as "God, gold and glory". China now has the technology, but unlike the conquistadors it is not proselytizing and not seeking to steal gold.
The spirit and motives of Chinese space program are reflected in the Zheng He voyages to India, Arabia and Africa, which preceded Christopher Columbus' expedition to the New World. The Chinese expeditions were much larger in both vessel size and personnel numbers than any expedition out of Europe. Their main purpose was to share Chinese culture; they carried beautiful scrolls of art and philosophy, backed up with exquisite porcelain gifts. Historians wryly note the porcelain was a bigger hit than the philosophy.
Now, with the United States and Russia no longer committed to manned space flights, China enters a new epoch as the torchbearer for space exploration. It can be reasonably predicted that China will face with enthusiasm decades of challenges in spectacular space missions. Kids in the United States in the 1950s dreamt wildly of rockets to the moon, enunciated in the then US president John F. Kennedy's 1960 announcement that "we have the technology" to reach the moon "this decade". Now Chinese kids see in the inclusion of a female astronaut in the Shenzhou-9 crew, an expectation that future space travel will include families with descendents arriving at destinations. It is okay to dream big even as others scoff.
There have been snide remarks that the Shenzhou design is a copy of Soyuz, and certainly that is partly true, but the configuration of the orbital, re-entry and service modules are basically dictated by the constraints of living in a vacuum and then facing the frictional heat of re-entry. The technical improvements of the Shenzhou design encapsulate the logarithmic achievements of the past decades in electronics and materials science. The computer guiding the US moon landings was so primitive it had no disk drive, 74 Kb of memory and 4Kb of RAM. The Shenzhou capsule is roomier and more livable in than Soyuz and has facilities for complex scientific experiments. It is the forerunner for China's long distance exploration program, the Santa Maria of China's exploration of a "New Universe".
Some in the United States have voiced concerns at what they see as China's military ambitions in space, but this is just an echo of their own world-policeman mentality. China is a signatory to all the UN space treaties and, as demonstrated in the Zheng He expeditions halfway round the globe, does not believe in "planting the flag" and colonization.
China has learnt and is learning from the rise and fall of the Russian and the US space adventures. Space travel is expensive and China still has more than 100 million people living in poverty. In the past three decades the government has lifted several hundred million out of poverty and nurtured millions of middle-income earners. Wasting money on a space race is anathema to Chinese citizens and China has long-term views to commercialize and privatize exploration and development away from Earth. How it will be funded and where income will derive from is not yet known; there may be UN-agreed mining of resources, and taking advantage of space for exotic production processes, even tourism. If the scenario of sci-fi movies ever unfolds where the Earth faces destruction, then seats on ocean liner sized descendants of Shenzhou will be selling well. In the meantime, let us revel in being witness to history as it happens, and the future of communities in space.
The author is an Australian researcher collaborating with Chinese academic and commercial institutions.
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Does the TV licence have a future – lessons from Sweden?
October 26, 2020 BBC, Europe, Government, Public Service BroadcastingBarry White
While the government is still deciding on whether to decriminalise non-payment of the television licence fee, following a public consultation earlier this year, the very future of the TV licence fee hangs in the balance. Although safe until the next BBC Charter Review in 2027, when the way the BBC is governed and funded is decided, government ministers are reported as saying they are “open minded” about how to fund the BBC from then onwards.
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Media reform – are the parties up to the challenge?
December 7, 2019 BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, media plurality, Public Service Broadcasting, ReviewsBarry White
The central role the media has played in the General Election Campaign is undeniable. So is the pro Conservative party dominance of much of the national press together with its anti-Labour party bias. Social media has again offered alternative platforms for the parties and people to get their messages across. Since the last election we have seen increasing consolidation of media ownership, the latest takeover being announced at the end of November when JPIMedia sold the i newspaper and website for a reported £49.6m to the billionaire Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail and General Trust, which owns the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline. Meanwhile press baron David Montgomery is in talks to buy JPIMedia which owns dozens of major local British newspapers.
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Just hours before Parliament was dissolved at one minute past midnight on 6 November, the House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee published a report calling for urgent action to safeguard the future of public service broadcasting. The report – ‘Public service broadcasting: as vital as ever ‘ – points to the current threats and calls for urgent measures to safeguard the future of broadcasting as a vital part of UK society and democracy. It warns that public service broadcasters (PSBs) need to be better supported to ensure that they can continue to produce high-quality drama and documentaries which reflect and examine UK culture. In return, the broadcasters need to adapt to ensure that they serve and reflect all audiences. Continue reading Urgent action needed to support public service broadcasting says Lords Committee →
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THE THIRD RAIL Issue 13
Sin Mayonesa
Julio César Morales
On June 19, 1867, Emperor Maximilian stood with Generals Miramón and Mejía before a firing squad. Maximilian’s last words were, “I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. ¡Viva México, viva la independencia!” The rifles erupted with smoke and fire, and the three fell.
Maximilian’s brief, tragic rule of Mexico (1864 to 1867) is understood best through his most intimate and trusting relationship: the one with his imperial chef and confidant, a Hungarian man known as Tudos. The bloody end of Maximilian’s reign yielded numerous conspiracy stories: he was ushered out of the country after his Freemasons brethren faked his death; he bribed the firing squad with gold to aim at his heart; he wore the 41.94-carat diamond that bears his name to tempt or mock his executioners. Maximilian exists in the popular imagination as a victim of Napoleon’s rule and as the subject (mid-execution) of Manet’s famed series of paintings. According to some, Maximilian dies at the hands of Tudos, who accompanies him by carriage to the execution site and, at Maximilian’s request, kills him before they reach their destination. In the famed photographs, it is Tudos who is executed. In an alternative history, Maximilian is saved by his Mason brother Benito Juárez and taken to El Salvador where he lives out the rest of his life as a noble writer Justo Armas (translates to “just guns”).
Maximillian and Tudos’s influence on the modern cuisine in Latin America was extraordinary. They created the bolillo or pan frances, which is the first ingredient in a Caesar’s salad. Forget the fancy crostini, corn bread, rye, dill, seaweed, or za’atar croutons, a bolillo was originally used to make the aromatic, toasted, fluffy squares of delight that we love to crunch into.
The biggest gift that Mexico has given the world, besides tequila (never mind the hipsters with their Mezcal or Sotol fantasies), is Caesar’s salad. While many creation stories exist about Caesar’s salad, this one was passed on to me by my grandfather, Daniel Dueñas; he should know— he was in the kitchen when it was born. During the first wave of migration to Tijuana, he brought his family to the border city from Guadalajara, Jalisco. In the late 1920s during Prohibition in the US, the southwest border with Mexico began to expand from tiny ranches to cities and “wet entertainment” was on offer for American tourists. Dubbed as a “sin city,” Tijuana developed, with the help of a very young Wayne McAllister, a plethora of Moorish- and Art Deco-styled casinos, hotels, and bars. As Don Daniel would tell me, it seemed like a city of the future. No other border cities in Mexico had the sophistication of design or were as guided by style as these haunts frequented by the stars of 1920s Hollywood.
During this time, my grandfather owned a small jewelry store and often sold his goods on a street corner, as he preferred being out and talking to people. He got to know everyone on Avenida Revolución, the main drag where all the bars and restaurants were located.
Later, in the mid 1990s while the drug cartels were scaring away tourists, I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute and interviewed my grandfather about the history of Tijuana. These sound recordings were endless and filled with comical, sometimes tragic stories about daily street life: from his friend Antonio painting donkeys with shoe polish to make them look like zebras for tourist photo booths, to the night he met Al Capone and helped invent Caesar’s salad.
Don Daniel gave me this 4-by-5-inch photograph of him, his brother, and Al Capone sitting on a donkey. He recalled how a friend of his was La Guardarropa (the coat attendant) at Club Unicornio across the street. One night he tipped her 5 dollars to bring Capone to the famous Caesar’s restaurant. This was also one of my grandfather’s favorite street corners to vend his goods, so when La Guardarropa came over with Capone and his posse, introductions were made and the group quickly entered Caesar’s from the side kitchen entrance to meet the chef, Beatriz—a friend of La Guardarropa’s and recent immigrant to Tijuana.
As they stood at the kitchen door, La Guardarropa asked Chef Beatriz to make something special for Mr. Capone. Around the same time, it came to the attention of the restaurant owner, Mr. Cardini, that the famous American gangster was in his kitchen. He quickly came in with a tall pitcher of Martinis to welcome everyone. Over many boozy cocktails, and getting quite hungry, they started contributing ideas for a new dish in cool repose to the hot summer day. Beatriz brought out the Romaine lettuce, Capone eyed the cheese, and someone suggested salty anchovies and garlic as a paste. It is uncertain, other than an attempt to make an aioli, where the egg and olive oil comes in. According to Don Daniel, he often went to Caesar’s for chorizo and potato tortas and recalled that the cast iron skillets were coated in the delicious residue of chorizo and oil. This surface is where Beatriz warmed the open-faced bolillo, soaking in the flavors and imparting her signature mark on the croutons in this recipe.
In other versions of the story, leftovers and day-old bread are casually thrown into the salad recipe, but, on the contrary, this was a deliberate and collaborative response to a specific moment. A recipe born like an exquisite corpse drawing. Don Daniel thought it should contain the green olives from the martini drinks and Capone suggested canned artichokes…(OK, I’m getting ahead of myself, there’s a bit more story before the recipe).
This recipe is far different and brighter than you can ever imagine a Caesar’s salad to be, and YES—I am writing Caesar’s with an apostrophe because that is how it was spelled originally. Similarly, pozole is referred to by US gringo chefs and restaurants as “posole”—and that is messed up! What is wrong with the letter z and, for that matter, pronouncing words correctly? My hairs stand on end when I hear Bobby Flay say taquitos in a Boston accent. If you’re going to claim something, learn how to say it, cabron! Respected American chefs and food writers such as Rick Bayless and Diana Kennedy have spent decades cultivating and conserving “authentic” Mexican cuisine for the masses in a very respectful manner. But according to contemporary Mexican chef Gabriela Cámara of Contramar (Mexico City) and Cala (San Francisco), even her recipes are adapted according to her personal taste and skills. In a recent New York Times interview, Cámara attests that she does not claim an “authentic Mexican cookbook,” rather one that is authentic to her own experience. After all, Tijuana is barely recognized as “Mexico” by most Mexicans—it’s a border city, a third space that is perfect for invention out of necessity. In this case, a salad is improvised by a band of outsiders and becomes legend.
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World Cup 2014: Netherlands scouting report
The Dutch have deployed an unusual 3-4-1-2 formation at this World Cup, creating one of the more fascinating tactical battles at this tournament
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Australia have a fine record in friendlies against the Netherlands, but this is their first clash at a major tournament.
The history of Dutch football is long, romantic and well-known. In short, they’re most famous for pioneering Total Football at the 1974 World Cup, a style of football that emphasised ball retention, fluid interchange of positions and free-flowing, attack-minded football. They’ve thus developed a reputation for being an exciting, attacking side, a stereotype that probably didn’t even ring true for the following tournament in 1978, where the Dutch had already begun the natural progression towards a more practical, conservative style. Total Football remains more an ideological concept than a realistic one, and although the Netherlands have generally kept with the 4-3-3 formation synonymous with it, have used more orthodox tactical systems in recent years.
Exhilarating performances at Euro 2008, for example, with a memorable pair of 4-1 wins over Italy and France respectively, were founded upon the use of two holding midfielders and ruthless counter-attacking football. Two years later in South Africa, the generational change was completed by Bert van Majwik’s use of Mark Van Bommel and Nigel de Jong as an extremely defensive double pivot, and summed up by their physical, cynical fouling in the final against Spain. Total Football might have long been dead, but the funeral wasn’t until that tournament.
Despite coming so close to the ultimate glory, however, there was mild public dissuasion at the nature of the tactics. That general feeling greatly intensified after the Netherlands’ dismal performance at Euro 2012, as they finished bottom of their group with zero points. That triggered much soul-searching about their roots, and the eventual appointment of Louis Van Gaal was unsurprising. The newly appointed Manchester United manager was actually Dutch coach when they failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, but has long seen as one of the standard bearers of ‘traditional’ Dutch football. The move, in essence, was designed to transition the side back towards a more enterprising, ‘Dutch’ style of play.
The irony is, then, that is a Netherlands side rather different from the cliched perception.
Still, true to history, Van Gaal used 4-3-3 throughout the Dutch qualification campaign, and played a fairly standard brand of modern football, looking to build play out from the back of midfield wide and introducing a new generation of younger, more technically skilled players. The Dutch breezed through qualifying with a 17-match unbeaten run.
However, an injury to vice-captain and excellent, all-round midfielder Kevin Strootman, who’d been enjoying a fine season at Roma, caused a serious rethink of tactics. “Strootman is a player who brings a balance to the entire team,” Van Gaal said. “I will have players like Rafael van der Vaart and Sneijder, of course, but no one will be able to replace Kevin.”
Quite amazingly, then, weeks out from the World Cup, the plan for 4-3-3 was ripped up, and replaced with something entirely different.
3-5-2?!
In came a 3-5-2/3-4-1-2, still a relatively obscure formation despite proving more popular at this World Cup (with variants used by Mexico, Costa Rica and Argentina). Van Gaal has stated they’ve trained with the shape in the five weeks of training camp prior to the tournament, and it’s somewhat similar to the shape used by Feyenoord at the tail end of this season – fittingly, four of the five defenders are from the Eredivisie side.
It’s not a 3-4-1-2 in the same way Chile’s formation sometimes appeared 3-4-1-2 in the Socceroos opening game, because Marcelo Diaz was predominantly a holding midfielder who only occasionally dropped in between the centre-backs to help retain possession. The Dutch system, rather, features three out-and-out centre-backs, and two disciplined, physical holding midfielders ahead of them.
Its purpose, broadly speaking, is to free up the front three – and the side’s most talented players, on paper – from defensive responsibilities, creating a 7-3 split when the side is without possession that is somewhat comparable to how Ernie Merrick set up the Wellington Phoenix in the A-League this season. Van Persie and Robben sit high up the pitch and spread wide defensively to block off passing lanes down the flanks, with Wesley Sneijder tucked in behind as a central playmaker but often becoming the most advanced player when pushing forward to press.
Front three
This remains the strongest department of the side, featuring the only real ‘elite’ players left in the Dutch squad (with Sneijder’s decline demonstrated by his move to Galatasaray, and Rafael Van der Vaart out with injury). There’s an alarming lack of genuinely elite quality in the rest of the side – lots of talented young players with lots of potential but few from Europe’s top sides/leagues – and thus a large component of the creative and leadership burden falls upon Van Persie and Robben.
The Netherlands’ truly staggering 5-1 win over Spain exaggerated the quality of their attacking (especially considering the third and fourth goals, crucial in the context of the match, were a set-piece and diabolical error from Iker Casillas). In reality, they succeeded with the rather simple approach of knocking balls over the top for the front two to chase. While this suits the mobile, predatory Van Persie, a ruthless and at times, impromptu finisher, it’s an unusual role for Robben, who we’re used to seeing as the definitive ‘inverted winger’ – starting high up on the right, and cutting inside onto his left to shoot.
In this system, however, he plays pretty much as a second striker – making darting runs in behind the defence from a left-sided position, but also drifting around the width of the pitch to collect possession and dribble directly towards goal. He and Van Persie can swap positions, allowing Robben to occasionally gravitate towards his favoured right-sided position, and Van Persie moving short towards the play.
Sneijder sits in behind the two but drops closer to the two central midfielders than he does to the strikers. This is a far weaker version of the Sneijder that dominated the 2010 tournament but he seems to benefit from having two players making runs in behind to aim for with his through balls, as well as looking for longer balls from deep positions.
Deep midfield
This will be important in light of Van Gaal’s midfield pairing of De Jong and Jonathon de Guzman, both athletic, defensively-minded players who close down very quickly in midfield, and sticking tight to opposition midfielders – with the former normally the deeper of the two, meaning De Guzman will probably be the one to close down whoever plays at the tip of Australia’s midfield triangle.
In possession, both De Guzman and De Jong are fairly limited, knocking it short to the wing-backs or Sneijder. De Guzman can carry the ball forward on the run, but could be replaced by Jordy Clasie, a short but tidy Xavi-like distributor. The midfield’s proactiveness defensively does somewhat account for their lack of incisiveness – they win the ball higher up the pitch, and are able to transfer it quickly to the front three. Milligan and Jedinak should be careful not to be caught on the ball.
Wing-backs
Both Daley Blind and Darryl Janmaat – left and right respectively – are attacking full-backs intelligent and clever on the ball. Blind is involved in play more, provided two fine assists with chipped balls over the top against Spain and is versatile enough to play central midfield, while Janmaat is more about energy and will burst forward from deep.
The biggest issue playing a 4-2-3-1 against a 3-4-1-2 is the question of how to deal with the wing-backs – do you ask the wingers to track back, or instruct the full-backs to move high up the pitch to close them down? Cameroon took the former approach in their Group A match against Mexico, but were robbed of their attacking threat because of how deep Eric Choupo-Moting and Benjamin Maukandjo were forced to come to defend against Paul Aguilar and Miguel Layun. A similar approach would make it very difficult for Matthew Leckie and Tommy Oar (or Ben Halloran) to transition forward into counter-attacks.
Spain, meanwhile, had huge trouble deciding whether to push David Silva and Andres Iniesta, narrow wingers in a 4-3-3, out to the flanks to occupy Blind and Janmaat. When they didn’t, there was too much space between for Jordi Alba and Cesar Azpilicueta to be able to move forward and properly close them down, meaning the Dutch wing-backs were often free in possession, with De Vrij hitting a few cross-field balls to the left wing-back zone.
The result was that Blind was steadily involved, always available as a passing option on the left – he was their highest passer, while the combination between him and the left-sided centre-back, Bruno Martins Indi, was the Dutch’s most frequent.
Conversely, though, the Dutch could have a similar problem if Australia push their full-backs high up (as they have under Postecoglou) to create 2v1s – with a narrow front three, Blind and Janmaat could be theoretically overloaded.
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Interestingly, Van Gaal admitted post-match against Spain that “if it was still 1-0 at the break, I would play 4-3-3 to keep the pressure on the ball,” suggesting a change of formation is a very likely possibility if the side ever go behind. They experimented with 4-3-1-2 in a friendly against Wales – Blind would move into midfield, with Martins Indi able (but not entirely comfortable) at left-back.
The 4-3-3 seems most likely, however, if Van Gaal does change formation. For width, Jeremain Lens and Memphis Depay are ideal substitutes (or potential starters) – both fast, tricky wide forwards able to play on either flank and dribble towards goal.
A Dutch 4-3-3 would also change the shape of the defence significantly, with Martins Indi and Vlaar becoming a partnership, and De Vrij dropping out. Martins Indi would still be proactive, however, and be more likely to move forward from the back to intercept passes. The 4-3-3 would also make the role of Australia’s full-backs simpler, with the wingers picking up the full-backs, leaving Davidson and McGowan free to concentrate on Robben and whoever starts on the left.
Off the bench, Huntelaar is a more traditional number 9, and would provide additional penalty-box presence. Jordy Clasie, as mentioned, is a different option in midfield, while Georginio Wijnaldum is a ‘shuttler’, and gets up and down in midfield.
The Dutch recorded one of the all-time great World Cup wins by utterly dismantling defending champions Spain – but strangely, still appear vulnerable in certain areas.
The key question from an Australian attacking perspective is what Martins Indi and De Vrij do defensively – stick tight to Oar and Leckie, or stay narrow and compact alongside Vlaar? Either way, Cahill won’t get as much freedom as he did against Chile, but Australia will still have an advantage in some area of the pitch, whether that’s with a simple Cahill v Vlaar battle, or down the flanks where they could overload the wing-backs 2v1. Generally speaking, quick counter-attacks, rather than crosses, should be more prominent here.
Defensively, the area of concern is the channel between full-back and centre-back, where Van Persie and Robben target their runs. If Postecoglou pushes the full-backs forward, the Netherlands will be able to hit the front two quickly and directly on the counter-attack, just like they did against Spain.
With more possession likely, however, Sneijder will be more involved here. Therefore, he must be closed down quickly by Jedinak and Milligan, especially as De Jong and De Guzman lack the quality to hit incisive passes. Furthermore, Postecoglou must be decisive about how he handles the unorthodox wing-back threat of Janmaat and Blind – ask the wingers to track them, or push the full-backs onto them? Neither solution is optimal, but Blind has already demonstrated his creative quality, and their threat simply can’t be neglected. Something of a hybrid approach, with the wingers tracking them to a certain point, before passing them off onto the full-backs.
Beyond all this analysis, however, is the possibility that Van Gaal changes shape. The 4-3-3 seems to be his preferred formation against inferior sides, and would allow him to have width high up the pitch.However, he might stick with the 3-4-1-2 for the simple reason of how successful it was against Spain. A mid-game change seems likely, however, and that flexibility gives the side an extra element of unpredictability.
For more on the Dutch (and next opponents, Spain), pick up a copy of the July edition of FourFourTwo for Tim’s tactics feature. On Twitter, follow Nikos Overheul for the best insight into the Netherlands.
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A story about our common humanity
T.M. Doran
TEDDY MADE HIS COFFEE ON A CAMP HEATER. He didn’t have the right oil so it took him a long time to get it ignited and the instant coffee wasn’t as hot as he liked when he sipped it on the sofa.
Lady wouldn’t bother him till he’d had his coffee, got dressed, and went to the cabinet where they kept their dog walking paraphernalia. This morning, he decided to let her roam without a leash. She wouldn’t stray far and he wasn’t worried about traffic.
Stepping outside, Teddy was struck by what a lovely summer day it was: cool but not chilly, early sun, bright blue sky, no wind to speak of. Perfect! He decided to leave his jacket behind.
Perfect weather for the dog too, who stretched her legs and then joined Teddy as he made his way down the street. He loved walks in Milltown and their neighborhood, especially on days when it wasn’t too cold or stormy to observe the houses and yards: hundred year-old homes next to brand new models, every architectural style imaginable, big and small side by side. Sure, the yards needed some attention but he was more interested in the personal touches he’d never noticed before.
He didn’t hinder Lady, letting her go wherever she pleased. There were fewer squirrels and rabbits than usual; maybe they sensed something.
Lady had no sooner finished her morning meal than Susan came down the stairs. This morning, she was already dressed in her favorite outfit, the one with the flowery blouse. Somehow, she managed to look radiant at this early hour.
They had dry cereal and juice boxes for breakfast, Teddy telling her about Lady’s exploring. He said, “Did you know the Rodriguez’s corbels are a different color than their house?”
“They did that two years ago. It’s called an accent and it’s supposed to draw the eye.”
“Well, I just noticed.”
“Better late than never,” she said, and they both had a laugh.
It was almost noon when Teddy said, “You haven’t been out. Do you feel like walking?”
“I certainly do. We don’t want to waste this beautiful day.”
“Mind if Lady’s off the leash?”
“Why should I? Let me find my shoes.”
“Shall we apply our sunblock?” he asked her.
“I’ll pass today, you silly fool.”
They went in the opposite direction from Teddy’s morning walk, and they hadn’t gone far when they saw Charlie on his tall handled bicycle decked out with ribbons and other colorful adornments, Charlie’s long pony tail extending to the middle of his back.
They waved to each other and Charlie said, “It’s today!”
They hadn’t ever known Charlie to think about any day but today.
“It’s good to see him out,” Susan observed.
They walked further than usual, and on the way home Teddy pointed to a red dot in the sky. “There it is.”
“Mars?” she asked him.
“Let’s assume so. Are you hungry?”
“Not especially,” Susan said, “but I’m thirsty.”
Inside the house, they had big glasses of water and sat next to each other on the sofa.
“The bathtub water isn’t bad,” he said.
“We should have saved two bottles,” Susan replied.
“We enjoyed them…remember?”
Susan said, “The Lord is my light and my salvation, what shall I fear. The Lord is my strength, of what shall I be afraid?”
Teddy said, “I like the story where Saint Paul lists all his troubles: shipwrecks, prison, stonings…then says how happy he is.”
“Yes, and Jesus with the children. I worry about ours.”
Teddy didn’t want her to worry. “I’m sure they’re doing their best. They have their children to consider.”
He went to the window and looked out. “It’s as big as the Moon now.”
She joined him. “And how red it is. We should set our camp chairs on the lawn. We’ll open that bottle of wine and I’ll spread some peanut butter on crackers.”
“Sounds like a feast,” Teddy said.
“It will have to do. I’ll make enough for Charlie in case he rides by.”
Teddy said, “I’ll put the chairs out and uncork the wine.”
They didn’t see Charlie but they knew he was apt to wander for miles on his bike. They sat close to each other with the crackers and wine between them.
“How long?” she said.
“Less than an hour. This one is bigger than the dinosaur asteroid. I guess we shouldn’t complain since it’s been sixty million years since the last big one.”
Susan said, “Couldn’t it have held off a measly hundred thousand years?”
“Hah! You’re always thinkin’.”
“Do you think humans will survive?” she asked him.
They were both thinking about their children and grandchildren. “I hope so. Many have gone to the other side of the world.”
“Not the kids. They only got to Georgia,” Susan said.
“Maybe that’s plenty far. People are resourceful, especially young people. How long since you’ve seen anyone but Charlie?”
She said, “A month or so…about the time the water and power stopped working. Not a soul since, or they’re bunkered down.”
“Bunkered in what…and for what?” he said.
“Exactly,” she agreed. “Does it feel warmer to you?”
“It’s summertime. It gets hotter when the sun is up.”
“It’s bigger than the Sun now,” Susan said.
“I guess so,” Teddy said, taking her hand.
“I love you, Teddy. I’m very grateful for everything…our forty years, our children, all our blessings.”
“It’s been a wonderful trip, hasn’t it?”
Lady usually sought the shade when the summer sun was up, but today she sat sphinxlike at Teddy’s feet.
“It looks like they were right,” Teddy observed.
“About what?”
“About a direct strike on Milltown. Quite a distinction for our home to be the epicenter.”
“Couldn’t we have deflected or destroyed it?” Susan asked him.
“We had more important fish to fry, mainly fighting with each other and building the next distraction device. Anyway, we didn’t do any worse than the dinosaurs did.”
They laughed so hard that Lady joined in with barks.
It was huge now. They couldn’t see a tail because the asteroid was coming right at them, but they could see a spectacular multicolored aurora surrounding it.
A hot breeze wafted over them.
Teddy raised his wine glass. Susan did too. They tapped glasses, then she gave him a sip of her wine and he gave her a sip of his.
“To us,” he said.
“To us and ours. God bless us everyone.”
“Goodbye old girl.” Was he speaking to Susan or Lady?
She never knew.
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The 200 Aussies that defied a Jap Division
Discussion in 'War Against Japan' started by Macca, Mar 13, 2009.
Macca Member
I have just finished reading the most fascinating and surely little known accounts of the 2/2 Independent company Australian Army. They had garrisoned Portuguese Timor shortly before the Japanese invaded Dutch Timor and quickly disposed of a more substantial if very ad hoc and under supplied Infantry force. Having no radio contact with the outside world the 2/2nd was dismissed in Australia as having suffered the same fate as their brothers across the border (death or capture) but that was far from the truth. Having trained as commandos (under Mike Calvert of later Chindit fame) they chose to stay and fight as a guerilla unit. This they did with incredible results for 11 months and to cut a long story short the 200 odd men eventually tied down over 30,000 Japanese troops, planes and even naval craft that were desperately needed elsewhere, most notably New Guinea and the Solomons. Can you imagine what would have happened at Kokoda if these men had been available!
I'd like to know if any of the Aussies out there have ever heard of the 2/2nd or their story.
Macca, Mar 13, 2009
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Macca,
One hell of a great story.
I think that this will be a thread to keep an eye on.
Just found this.
2/2 Independent Company, Australian Army, in Australia during WW2
2/2nd Independent Company: Australian War Memorial
Smudger Jnr, Mar 13, 2009
Warlord Veteran wannabe
Just my kind of stuff! :indexCANAHAIH:
Try this two links for the whole deal about Sparrow Force:
Official Histories; look in chapter 21
Official Histories; look in appendix 2
Warlord, Mar 13, 2009
Ah Smudger your 2nd link to the Aus War memorial contained the book that I have read in its references. 'Independent Company' by Bernard Callinan who was 2/2nd CO. It's not often that I come across a factual account that is so gripping that I can't put it down but this was one, all the more fascinating being written by the very guy who largely orchestrated the whole thing. It's not often that we Kiwis are seen taking our hats off to our brothers across the ditch but I do to these guys. They had no idea at the time just how significant their actions were and because of their largely un trumpeted heroism nobody since has attributed to them what they deserve but as I originally wrote imagine if those Japs had been free to garrison Guadalcanal or New Guinea or even go straight on to Darwin. Unfortunately the book has not been reprinted since 1989 so I'm not sure how many copied there are in existence. i'd love to make a TV doco out of it and it probably has parallels to what's happening in East timor today.
A Movie film by Spielberg/Hanks would really set the story straight and I am sure that it would be a best seller.
I wonder if they were the forunners of the 'Z' Force?
No mate forget Spielberg and Hanks I'd pick Ridley Scott and Hugh Jackman much grittier and realistic styles. As far as Z Force origins are concerned you could be right because the foreword to the book describes how 2/2nd and 2/4th that succeeded them were picked men and specially trained as harassing forces. They killed an estimated 1500 japs and lost 40 of their own in just under 12 months. This success must surely have had some bearing on later plans for raiding forces like Z force.
Any way you care to look at it, the figures say it all.
A really monumental achievement against great odds. But it also shows that the leaders were exceptional.
troopietraveller Member
G'day all
Think you will find the most comprehensive account of the 2/2nd is the book ALL THE BULLS MEN by Cyril Ayris. It is 500 odd pages and contains nominal roll of original 2/2 members and also roll of the fallen.
It is the full unit history and a great historical read if you can manage to get a copy.
An earlier thread asked who had the hardest job during the war, don't think many would have had it much harder than the blokes of the Independent Companies including Z and M Special units.If you were captured it was almost certain execution.
The other thing that made it very hard to hide was the fact that there were usually only three kinds of people on the islands, the Japs the local brown people or the tall white people, the soldiers sort of stood out in a crowd.
Anyway it is great that you blokes are reading some of our local military history and can then compare what happened in the Islands as against the war in Europe.
Cheers Rob
troopietraveller, Mar 14, 2009
G'day Macca,
Just a little more on the 2/2nd, after more training on their return to Australia from Timor they went to New Guinea and then to New Britain where 50000 Japs were trapped south of Rabaul. So to say they saw a bit of action would be an understatement.
PS Don't you ever take your hat off when you have just been flogged in a test match by Aussies?B) ( Accross the ditch rivals ) but we fight like Anzacs.
Hey Troopie
Don't mention the cricket or I'll mention the Rugby (Union and League for once!) although you guys in NT probably care more about Rules. But you're right, no matter what the rivalry we will always be Anzacs.
spider Very Senior Member
[FONT="]Rabaul New Britain[/FONT]
[FONT="]The 2/22 Battalion (Lark Force) and the 2/10 Field Ambulance (about 1400 personnel) where in Rabaul when 5000 Japanese attacked on the 23 January 1942.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Due to the size of the harbour there was little chance of defending the area effectively.[/FONT]
[FONT="]150 POW’s where executed at Tol Plantation[/FONT]
[FONT="]1050 POWs in Rabaul in 1942, only these 4 were found alive in Rabaul at the end of the war.[/FONT]
[FONT="]On the 22 June 1942, prisoners held in Rabaul were place aboard the Japanese Ship Montevideo Maru. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Nine days later, on its way to Hainan Island it was torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine USS Sturgeon.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Montevideo Maru was sunk by the USS Sturgeon skippered by Lt. Cdr Wright on the 1 July 1942.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Wounded and older prisoners were believed to have left on the Buenos Aires Maru or Naruto Maru[/FONT]
[FONT="]Members of a Melbourne Salvation Army band were members of the 2/10 Field Ambulance and none survived.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fall of Rabaul: 'Left to their fate'[/FONT]
spider, Mar 15, 2009
Mushin Junior Member
Some years ago i met one of the Aussies who had fought in the war and stayed on the island. this was at a Public meeting in the Kew Library, in Melbourne Victoria some 30 years ago. He returned to Timor every so often to thank the people for their generosity and their help during the war. At the time the island was under "administration' by Indonesia and the meeting was for we Aussies to understand how to help our previous comrades in arms.
Too long to go into but he showed marvellous photographs of the island. I also had had the luck to meet the Indonesian officer who led a commando force into Timor during that war whose team also inflicted a lot of damage there...During his training on Wilson's promontory and later leave in melbourne he met an Australian woman and married her. He eventually rose to sit in the Indonesian Cabinet.
Their story is published by VIKING ISBN 13579108642. An Unconventional Woman by Jean Tahija. It is more the story written 50 years later of her life in Indonesia and the post -war construction.
Mushin, Jan 28, 2010
spidge RAAF RESEARCHER
Coincidental it must be. Was just watching this on the History Channel with Original film.
Seems one lad from Western Australia was a former Roo (Kangaroo) shooter and was responsible for shooting 47 of the enemy on his own.
spidge, Jan 28, 2010
wtid45 Very Senior Member
I have recently been chatting on the net with my Nephew, in Australia, and I asked him about his Stepdads, Father who served in 2/2 Commando, he told me his Stepdad has this book on the unit, A History of the 2/2nd Independent Company and 2/2 Commando Squadron A History of the 2/2nd Independent Company and 2/2 Commando Squadron [RB01643] - $85.00 : Regimental Books, Specialising in Australian Military Books which along with 'All Bulls men' which is mentioned earlier in the thread would, I imagine pretty much cover the 2/2 very comprehensively, he also gave me his name and I found this information on the excellent site in this link, WW2 Nominal Roll I know he served on PNG, but I will try to find out some more and see if he was on Timor which would be intresting as I have a book on the 2/2 on Timor!
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wtid45, Mar 24, 2011
Other books on the subject are Timor 1942 and The Men Who Came Out of the Ground (recent publication)
I know he served on PNG, but I will try to find out some more and see if he was on Timor which would be intresting as I have a book on the 2/2 on Timor!
Were Independent Companies ever involved with Kanga Force? Based on the nature of their job, I think they should have...
I read the Digger Official History for PNG '42-'43 a rather long while ago, and this is one of the subjects I don't quite remember about
Warlord, Apr 4, 2011
You mean these Independent companies In May, Kanga Force, which included the 2/5th Independent Company, was airlifted into Wau to operate as a guerrilla force against the Japanese in the Markham Valley. On 29 June Kanga force raided Salamaua inflicting heavy casualties and capturing the first Japanese equipment and documents taken by the Australian Army.
On 31 August a strong Japanese group arrived at Mubo but with the Japanese on the offensive along the Kokoda Trail and at Milne Bay reinforcements were not available for Kanga Force until October when 2/7th Independent Company joined. The battles for and around Salamaua
wtid45, Apr 4, 2011
So, that means that your vet served with both outfits in less than a year? To find out would shed a lot of light on the operation of the posting system under wartime conditions.
This gets better every time!
The 2/2 Independent Company (later 2/2 Commando Sqn) did not go to New Guinea until June 1943, after re-grouping after Timor.
spider, Apr 5, 2011
Then Jason's veteran went first to Timor and then to PNG...
Some trip!
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BSTFC A Team defeated by Stanton Drew in last game of season
Bradley Stoke Town Football Club’s (BSTFC’s) season is nearly over now and Saturday afternoon was the last game for the A Team.
The team faced Stanton Drew in manager Chris Laslett’s last game in charge but things didn’t go their way as they stepped off the gas, losing 4-0.
The first goal, only a couple of minutes into the game, came after a cross from Mark Ferby on the left hand side somehow made its way into the goalmouth assisted by the wind. The second, only ten minutes later as the defence slipped up, allowing Andrew Payne to sneak through and put the ball over the keeper to ensure that Bradley Stoke were 2-0 down at the break.
Just five minutes into the second half and Stanton Drew had their third goal on the tally – Andrew Payne with another chip over the keeper, only for him to see it bounce back off the post, but he was the first one to the ball and was able to poke it into the open Bradley Stoke net. The fourth Stanton Drew goal came from another good strike by Payne who was able to seal his hat-trick in doing so.
The final score: BSTFC A Team 0-4 Stanton Drew
The B Team also had a game, which was also their last of the season. They did their captain Sean Watts proud, who had to be taken off because of a suspected broken ankle, by winning the game 1-0 on a windy pitch where both teams found it difficult to do anything with the ball, but it was Bradley Stoke who scored in the first half against a strong Iron Acton side.
Cricket: Bradley Stoke Cricket Club (BSCC)
The First, Second and Third Teams all had their first league games of the season this weekend.
The Firsts had a disappointing start to their senior league campaign – they travelled to Bristol YMCA and lost by five wickets.
Put into bat by YMCA, they did not set a high enough total, with only Joe Coles (77) and Ben Wooster (36) really impacting on the scoring. After the 45 overs they had scored 169.
YMCA responded with an 82 not out by Butler and a 41 by Milsom, who was also in at the end. Despite a creditable 3 for 33 from Bhushan Mankar, YMCA reached the total with 8 overs to spare.
I also watched the BSCC Seconds who also played YMCA Seconds but with a very different result.
YMCA batted first with Spink and Hughes both getting 50s but an outstanding 5-37 from Bradley Stoke’s Chris Phillips limited the visitors’ score to 193 in the 45 overs.
Bradley Stoke struggled to start with, their first two wickets falling for 14, but Gareth Price settled the side with some steady batting and, partnered by Jason Grail who added 31 before being bowled by Shar, continued adding runs with Jim Tickner.
With Price on 98 and the total runs needed fast being knocked off, it did look at one point as though he would not make his century but he finally took strike and won the match with a boundary taking his individual score to 101 not out. Jim Tickner was not out 33, meaning the Seconds won by six wickets.
The Thirds also had a landslide victory over Bristol United Banks, setting a total of 252-9 with an outstanding 111 from Sririam. They dismissed United banks for just 92 runs in 36 overs.
Listen to Connor Summers’s interview with BSCC Second XI player Gareth Price:
Audio clip courtesy of Connor Summers and Bradley Stoke Radio
Judo: Bradley Stoke Judo Club (BSJC)
BSJC coach Pete Douglas writes:
“Pete Miles fought in his first ever Junior European Cup this weekend in Lithuanian and managed to come away with the gold [medal]. This competition was under-21s. Pete still fights under-18s but we thought the step up would be a good experience. We didn’t expect him to win it! A massive ‘well done’!”
Photo: Pete Miles on the podium in Lithuania.
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Glen Wintle writes:
On Saturday 13th April, Bradley Stoke Bowls Club opened for the 2013 season by holding a ‘Roll Up’ for members. The day was very well supported with everybody enjoying being back on the green. By 12 noon the rain came and the decision was taken to stop play, all was not lost as we adjourned to the bar and caught up with friends we’d not seen during the winter months.
Wednesday 24th April saw the Club hosting a ‘Bring A Friend Day’ and, although the day was rather bleak, a number of ‘friends’ came along and were welcomed by the club captain Bill Plank. Information was given about the game and the club, followed by the opportunity to go on the green and ‘having a go’. Everybody seemed to be enjoying themselves and we are now looking forward to seeing the potential new members again in the near future.
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A lot of people dive straight into starting a small business and invest large sums of money on equipment, stocks of materials, perhaps even renting studio or retail premises before they have really tested the market. It�s a worrying statistic, but around a third of small businesses fail within the first three years. This happens for a number of reasons - usually because people fail to check out the actual demand for their product before they start the business in the first place, or because they don't take account of the real costs of running the business and the cash-flow difficulties those costs can create.
Geography can be a critical factor too. Where do you want to live and work? It's worth opening up a large scale map of your region and thinking about the following things:
How many cities and towns - large population centres - are within striking distance? List them. Draw a circle on the map that delineates a comfortable travelling distance - to visit retailers to encourage them to take your work and later, to deliver stock to them. Do some research. How many galleries, shops and other outlets are there within your chosen area? In marketing terms, is there a big enough slice of your target market close enough to you so that you can both make and sell effectively in the time you have available?
If you are going to supplement your making with teaching or workshopping, you need to think about all the places that might be available to you for that slice of income too.
A lot of us conduct our daily business on the net nowadays. You will, I hope, be looking at the best of your fellow makers� websites. You may also be watching how they sell on sites like etsy.com. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you'll be able to make a fortune simply from selling on the web. You will need to market yourself in both high and low tech ways. The highest earners will have quite a spread of marketing tools and techniques in play.
Seek advice from the best possible source - other makers who have already experienced the ups and downs of getting started. It's rare for someone to turn down a reasonable request for help. The more successful someone is, paradoxically, the more likely they are to have asked for help themselves along the way. Be brave, contact people you admire. Tell them why you particularly want their help - because you like their work perhaps, or are fascinated by the way their business has developed.
Identify and contact regional creative industry umbrella groups. (For example, mine is called �Creative Leicestershire� - A lot of them can now be found on Facebook) They will be able to let you know about any training and mentoring schemes that are available in your area.
Above all, don't try and do it all on your own. One of the strongest trends of the last couple of years is the move towards collaborative production and marketing. Who could you team up with to make your offer stronger and share the effort and risk?
And one last word to echo Charles Handy - portfolio working is essentially an entrepreneurial activity. The days of grants and subsidies are fading fast. The future belongs to upbeat, positive people who are determined to make things happen against all odds.
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Annuli – Double-Blind No.2 nominated for 2020 Motion Awards
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Modern Houses Seeking New Owners
In the past we’ve highlighted listings from Trimoca.com, an online gallery of Modern houses on the market in the Tri-State area. There has been a blip in Trimoca postings over the past several months so we’re going to step in with our own Modern on the market highlights—this month, New Canaan, CT. Plus one in nearby Darien.
Tirranna (Rayward House)
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956
Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Tirranna,” is an expansive structure originating in a 1956 L-shaped Usonian hemicycle design, expanded with a 1958 Wright-designed wing, and later extended by additions designed by Wright’s successors Taliesin Associated Architects—all overlooking an elaborately landscaped site featuring ponds and waterfalls created by damming the Noroton River. Original gardens and plantings designed by Frank Oakamura and Charles Middeleer incorporate fountains and a Wright-designed outdoor playhouse. A gracefully arcing covered passageway connects the main house to the caretaker’s suite, guest studio and greenhouse. The living spaces, several of which surround an interior courtyard, are showcases of Wright’s exquisite interior finishes in fine wood, all original and impeccably maintained.
6,917 sq ft; 14.98 acres
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Wiley House
Philip Johnson, 1952
Philip Johnson’s 1952 Wiley House, is a variation on the design of his own earlier home—with the Glass House here perched on top of the Brick (in this case stone) House. The sharp slope of the site was leveraged in the expansive glass openings that bring light and views to the lower-level rooms. Later additions on the site, including a minimalist “art barn,” were designed by Roger Ferris + Partners. The vintage swimming pool with its original diving pad is a twin to the circular pool at the Glass House. Johnson is noted as choosing the site for its stand of towering Hickory trees that create a cathedral-like space around the house.
5,616 sq ft; 6.33 acres
27 Tory Hole Road
Arthur C. Holden, 1938
This 1938 transitional Moderne/International Style house designed by Arthur C. Holden features voluptuous curves, cove lighting, multiple fireplaces and terraces all overlooking an artfully landscaped sloping site with two ponds. Behind the gentle curve of the façade at the entry and the tall glass-block window is a three-story spiraling staircase from which the house radiates. The rear façade is shallow curve terminating in a semi-circular dining room wrapped in a ribbon of windows. Curving plaster walls and integrated lighting add theatricality throughout. The construction is steel and cast-in-place concrete and most of the interior metalwork is custom cast aluminum. Holden received degrees in architecture and economics from Columbia University in 1915. After serving in WWI he worked at McKim Mead & White before opening his own firm, Holden, McLaughlin, and Associates, in 1920. Holden and his firm are known for serving as the local architects for Frank Lloyd Wright on the Guggenheim Museum in the 1950s.
4,035 sq. ft.; 5.47 acres
Overview brochure with photographs by Bob Gregson
Lee House No. 3
John Black Lee, 1990
This unusual New Canaan structure was the home of John Black Lee, who designed a number of elegant, symmetrical houses in New Canaan (including two previous designs for himself). This one departs from expectations (though still symmetrical), with concrete slabs cantilevered from the banks of the Silvermine River and entry through an A-frame skylight (an unsung predecessor to I. M. Pei’s entrance/skylight at the Louvre). Larger than it looks, the lower-level rooms are tucked into the hillside. Constructed entirely in concrete, the house has an open floor plan that flows into a wrap-around cantilevered terrace. John Black Lee was one of the first wave of architects to arrive in New Canaan post war, practicing alongside the Harvard Five and for a very long career. He is said to have remarked, “This house is the only one in New Canaan that you enter thru a skylight.”
$750,000 (sold as is; requires substantial remedial work and renovation for habitability)
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Hijri Perpetual Calendar Platinum
October 05, 2020: Following nomination for the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève 2020 in the Calendar and Astronomy category, Parmigiani Fleurier unveils the secrets, invisible at first glance, of their Hegirian Perpetual Calendar.
Parmigiani Fleurier, renowned for its fine craftsmanship, design and manufacturing prowess, spared no attention to detail in the extraordinary care and development given to its Hegirian Perpetual Calendar. With this in mind, they sought the expertise of Mr. Stefano Macaluso, who redesigned each of the bridges of the new PF009 movement.
'The inspiration behind the Parmigiani Fleurier Hijri Perpetual Calendar was drawn from the architecture of the Arab world, highlighting all of its aesthetic codes, each more beautiful than the next, while keeping in mind an evocative and quickly understandable visual vocabulary.” Stefano Macaluso
The bridges adopt the shape of growing and shrinking crescent moons, and that of the Rub el Hizb, an Islamic symbol represented by two overlapping squares which, in Arabic calligraphy, marks the end of a chapter and is often used in the holy book of Quran.
Whether inspired by the typical arches of mosques, the moon or the stars, every detail has been designed and carefully crafted to honor the cultural richness of the Arab world through modern watchmaking.
The original development of the timepiece dates back to 1993 with the restoration of a pocket watch by Michel Parmigiani, three years before the creation of the Parmigiani Fleurier brand. This led Mr. Parmigiani to the creation of a table clock featuring a Hijri Calendar in 2011- a world’s first as no lunar calendar had ever been designed to operate continuously. This piece of exception was inspired by his work restoring a simple Hijri Calendar. He also worked on a pocket watch dating back to the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th Century, which featured a solar calendar translated into Arabic.
'The calendar is an eminently fascinating watchmaking complication, as it really is the mirror of civilizations' Michel Parmigiani
In the Muslim world, the calendar is based on the cycles of the moon. The Hijri or Islamic lunar calendar consists of twelve months of 29 or 30 days – depending on the moon phase- and is used to pinpoint the days for Islamic holidays. In contrast to the solar calendar, which is used in the west, the months of the lunar calendar change annually by a difference of -10 to -12 days. As a result, each month always falls on a different season and therefore varies from the Gregorian Calendar.
Two major horological complications reside in this single timepiece, a perpetual calendar combined with a Hegirian calendar, and make this watch a true horological feat. It is all the more impressive and important, when taken into account that Islam follows the position of the moon to know when Ramadan begins and ends; its ending marked by the feast of Eid al-Adha The Islamic month begins when the crescent moon – Hilal- becomes visible for the first time after sunset on the last day of the previous month. Thus, a new day, is rather, a new night.
The Parmigiani Fleurier Hijri Perpetual Calendar features a 44.5 mm case, a slate dial and rotor, all made in platinum. It shows the hours and minutes, and date in Arabic numerals, the name and length of the months in Arabic calligraphy, as well as the abundant and the common years. It also features a moon phase in an aventurine sky and a power reserve of up to 48 hours. As seen in all Parmigiani Fleurier timepieces, every single component of the movement, even the hidden parts, are decorated by in-house specialists. No components were made of gold.
The Hegirian Perpetual Calendar embodies embodies both culture and high horology, as well as the DNA and fine watchmaking standards dear to Parmigiani Fleurier, where innovation draws its inspiration from restoration.
'This unique perpetual calendar, inspired by treasures from the past, is a representation of our ability to innovate through tradition. It is an extraordinary honor to have used our watchmaking know-how and expertise to pay tribute to the centuries-long heritage of the Arab world, and to have collaborated with Stefano Macaluso. The result, I believe, is worthy of the challenge. ' Davide Traxler, CEO
Hijri Perpetual Calendar
REFERENCE PFH980-2000111-HA1481
RETAIL PRICE 80’000 CHF
SHIPPING DATE 2020
Polished platinum
Dimensions: Ø 44.60 mm,thickness : 14.09 crown: Ø 6 mm
Glass: anti reflective sapphire , back: sapphire
Back engraving Hijri Perpetual Calender, individual number XX/20
Colour: Slate
Finishing: Brushed
HANDS Skeleton delta shaped
PF009, HIJRI PERPETUAL CALENDAR, AUTOMATIC MOVEMENT
Functions Hours, minutes, seconds, Hijri perpetual calendar, moon phase
Power reserve Up to 48 hours
Frequency 28’800 Vph (4 HZ)
Jewels 32
Nb of components 310
Total dimensions Ø 33.30 mm, thickness : 5.70 mm
Decoration Large Côtes de Genève, bevelled bridges
Oscillating weight Platinum Grain d'Orge ' guilloché
STRAP Hermès Black alligator strap
W.R. 30 meters
Taking its name from its founder, watchmaker and restorer Michel Parmigiani, the fine watchmaking brand was founded in 1996 in Fleurier, in the Swiss valley of Val-de-Travers. With its own watchmaking centre ensuring its independence, the brand has both full control over the production process and unique creative freedom. For over twenty years, the Parmigiani Fleurier signature has resided within timepieces that command the utmost respect, in harmony with watchmaking traditions. They are the labour of a lifetime – that of Michel Parmigiani, the talented individuals who assist him, and the special relationship between the Manufacture and the masterpieces of the past, enabling it to invent a bold future.
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RAD’s vAccess Shortlisted for Most Innovative NFV Product Strategy Award
MAHWAH, New Jersey, May 8, 2018 – RAD, the industry pioneer of network edge virtualization, today announced that its recently released vAccess VNF for network edge virtualization was selected as finalist for Light Reading’s Leading Lights award in the category of Most Innovative NFV Product. The prize is awarded to the technology vendor that has devised the most innovative network functions virtualization (NFV) product strategy during the past year.
vAccess, which was commercially released in April, is RAD’s latest addition to its comprehensive vCPE Toolbox, which allows Service Providers to roll out vCPE services today without vendor lock-in. Part of RAD’s Service Assured Access solutions, it allows immediate deployment of value added SDN/NFV-based services over any access.
vAccess upgrades any white box operating system to carrier-grade level by adding VNF assurance capabilities and, when combined with RAD’s pluggable physical network functions (P-PNF), adds missing network capabilities such as CE2.0 demarcation (with RAD’s MiNID) and interfaces such as xDSL, PON and legacy TDM.
“We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Leading Lights awards,” said Ilan Tevet, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at RAD. “This recognizes our commitment to deliver on the original promise of NFV and SDN – to allow service providers true freedom in selecting the best solutions that fit their needs and avoid vendor lock-in.”
A live demo of the multifunctional vAccess was successfully presented at the MPLS-SDN-NFV World in Paris in April and will be also shown at the upcoming Big Communications Event in Austin, Texas, later next week.
vAccess is already in use by a Tier 1 operator in North America. There it helps to extend the operator’s uCPE-based service beyond fiber access over traditional TDM circuits, which still make up 20 to 30 percent of deployments, especially in rural sites.
The winners will be announced at the Leading Lights awards dinner, which will be held on Monday, May 14, in Austin, Texas, the evening before the doors open to the Big Communications Event.
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Top Five PJs in Frock Flicks
By Trystan L. Bass on April 24, 2020 in Top 5 Friday
It’s been about 60 days since I’ve worn a structured garment thanks to the San Francisco Bay Area starting a shelter-in-place order earlier than anywhere else in the U.S. Plus I’d just returned from Italy when it was hit hard with Coronavirus, so my employer said, ‘hey why don’t you work from home for a week or so?’ even before the official order came down. Thus, I was an early adopter of the PJs-all-day lifestyle instead of my usual CorpGoth fashions (though I sometimes spice things up with wacky headgear for a #quarantinefabulous lewk).
While we usually look at frock flicks with ostentatious, elaborate fashion, how about some historical costume pajamas and casual wear? That feels closer to home (y’know, social distancing and all) right now!
Delysia’s dressing gown in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
I like to imagine I’m swanning around my swanky flat in this feather-decked gown like Amy Adams, skin all aglow and curls lightly tousled.
But it’s more likely I’m frizzy and vainly attempting homemade masque treatments in a vaguely satin sack like Frances McDormand.
The queen’s nightgown in Marie-Antoinette (2006)
Nice, simple, white nightie with a big, elaborate, pain-in-the-butt formal ceremony to wake up to.
IDK, I’d prefer to sleep in.
All the kimonos & nightgowns in Downton Abbey (2010-2015, 2019)
Both the series and the movie gave good bedroom game, showing ladies in gorgeous kimonos over 1920s undergarments as they dressed or with nightgowns in bed.
Cora in a print kimono at her dressing table.
Not in the oriental style, but lux satin & lace.
Totally oriental here.
Sad Edith gets a simple green ensemble.
But she has a sexier style in the Downton movie.
Mary has an EXTENSIVE wardrobe of just dressing gowns!
Some are actual kimonos.
Glimpse of pink lining.
Plus more in the Downton movie.
And then there’s the best reason to lounge about in nightwear — breakfast in bed.
The Dowager Countess demands it, of course.
Cora savors it.
Mary takes it for granted.
Edith, I share your feels on this matter. I don’t have anyone serving me breakfast at all, much the less in bed :(
Mr. Darcy’s bathrobe in Pride and Prejudice (1995)
How about some token menswear? Doesn’t get more casual than Fitzwilliam Darcy stepping out of the bath, all dripping wet, and getting wrapped in a robe by his manservant.
The bad girls’ slumber party in Grease (1978)
I’m not a fan of the movie, but this ridiculous scene is exactly what I miss as I sit alone in my house with only my two cats — I wanna hang out with my friends and get drunk and silly, dammit! Yeah, yeah, I’m flattening the curve for now, it’s for the greater good, and I am an introvert by nature, but I’m really going to enjoy seeing friends again someday.
What’s your quarantine fashion sense? Do you have fabulous vintage PJs?
Tags1760s1810s1930s1950sdownton abbeyMarie AntoinettePride and Prejudicevideos
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Trystan L. Bass
A self-described ElderGoth, Trystan has been haunting the internet since the early 1990s. Always passionate about costume, from everyday office wear to outrageous twisted historical creations, she has maintained some of the earliest online costuming-focused resources on the web. Her costuming adventures are chronicled on her website, TrystanCraft. She also ran a popular fashion blog, This Is CorpGoth, dedicated to her “office drag.”
Susan Pola Staples April 24th, 2020
Does Ian Carmichael’s and Edward Petherbridge’s smoking jackets in their Lord Peter Wimsey adaptations count?
Trystan L. Bass April 24th, 2020
Oh yes! I should have included some smoking jackets but I got carried away with Downton Abbey’s kimonos.
And which Lord Peter did you prefer? I preferred Edward Petherbridge as he fit Ms Sayer’s description of Lord Peter better.
Elisa April 27th, 2020
Edward Petherbridge all the way! He’s a bit too old, but he is perfect anyway. And of how I long for a really good tv series of all Sayers book, much as they did Poirot.
Donna April 27th, 2020
Ian Carmichael is my favorite Lord Peter … and he has fabulous lounging about wear.
Cheryl Washer April 24th, 2020
Myrna Loy and William Powell in “The Thin Man.” Plus these PJ rules –http://foolishquestions.com/2012/08/06/sleepwear/
While I love the Thin Man series, they aren’t historical costume movies because they were created in the 1930s & are showing contemporary fashions of the time.
http://www.frockflicks.com/what-is-historical-costume-movie-tv-show/
Hooley April 25th, 2020
Thanks for the reminder. I just love those two so much!
Shashwat April 24th, 2020
What about the regency white maxi dresses in nubby linen.Atrocious as they are,they must feel very comfortable when all you are wearing is a hort sleeved tube of fabric cinched at the waist.Not that Hollywood feels the need for regency stays,either.
Karen K. April 24th, 2020
Downton Abbey is the clear winner for loungewear and nightwear — especially since they’re not bothered by ridiculous ladies-in-waiting waking them up and getting them dressed. Those dressing ceremonies were ridiculous, I think I read somewhere Marie Antoinette would stand around freezing while the L-I-Ws would stand around arguing over whose turn it was to put on which layer or something. Unbelievable.
And Mr. Darcy in a bathrobe is a welcome addition. More men’s loungewear, please!
Saraquill April 24th, 2020
My daily wear is shorts, lounging pants and oft-changed tshirts (because cat hair.) For v ideo calls, slightly nicer shirts come on.
The always lovely Jessica Kelgren-Fozard and her vintage-style PJ collection:
Argh, link didn’t show up. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNrAp0d6lUE
Ms M. April 24th, 2020
Everyone needs a good kimono or banyan. Banyans should ideally, also have those funny little hats (really nice when it’s cold and your heating is terrible)
Frannie Germeshausen April 24th, 2020
Miss Fisher isn’t too shabby in the lounging pj/kimono area either.
Katie O. April 25th, 2020
She has a red dressing gown that I love!
MrsC (Maryanne) April 24th, 2020
I am and always will be smitten by Norma’s pale yellow satin and white fur ensemble in Victor Victoria. When she arranges herself in the doorway and announces “I’m Horny” I just lose it every time. A site with a great reference still: https://oklahoman.com/article/3689921/leslie-ann-warren-recalls-working-on-victor-victoria-with-blake-edwards-james-garner
Lily Lotus Rose April 24th, 2020
My quarantine fashion sense consists of tee shirts and leggings. No, I don’t have any fabulous vintage PJs. Other than a fabulous vintage robe or kimono, I don’t know that I’d want vintage night clothes. I like to be comfy in bed, and for me there’s nothing like a good-ol’ gunmetal grey tee shirt.
I’m so here for this post! Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day is one of my all-time favorite films, so I am happy to see it discussed here. Amy Adams just looked drop-dead gorgeous (that was the point), and the costumes were just…awesome! Ditto for Downton Abbey. I’m sure that PJs and other night clothes have caught my eye in films before, but I can’t think of any of the top of my head. This post is definitely going to make me keep my eyes open for them in the future!
Mrs. D April 24th, 2020
I have been re-watching Mad Men lately, and there are a lot of interesting jammies in that show. Betty alone has a whole arsenal of nighties and robes. Sally’s neck-high frilly nightgowns remind me of ones my mom used to buy for me back in the 80’s. But nothing beats the image of Don Draper painting Anna’s walls in his T-shirt and boxer shorts.
Leslie April 24th, 2020
My favorite is Michelle Pfeiffer’s sari dressing gown in Chéri. http://www.gorgeouspfeiffer.com/images/gallery/movie/09_cheri/cheri_lc_de6.jpg
Vanesa Cano April 25th, 2020
The marvelous mrs. Maisel shows a lot of wonderful sleepwear too! with matching “shoes”
Eryn April 26th, 2020
I’m schlubbing in a Pride tank top and pajama pants, but one of my friends just finished an 1860s wrapper in a gorgeous printed calico. Jealous! (Ideally I’d have Lucille’s nightgown and dressing-gown from Crimson Peak.)
damnitz April 28th, 2020
The shirt of the gourverneur of Maracaibo in Polanski’s “Pirates”.
Something very different from the examples here maybe…
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Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Review
Release Date: Nov. 16, 2010
Publisher: Ubisoft
Genre: Action / Adventure
Platforms: Xbox 360 [Reviewed], PlayStation 3, PC
In 1 year we saw the release of two Assassin’s Creed titles. Assassin’s Creed 2 put us back in the animus, assuming the role of Ezio, of the Italian renaissance. You met historical figures, such as Leonardo da Vinci and you discovered along the path of revenge your true calling: assassin! Assassin’s Creed 2 was so well received that a sequel was inevitable. In Brotherhood we assume the role of Ezio again, picking up right where the second game left off. Of course, the big question is, “Is Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood a full game or just an expansion?” I can tell you this much, Brotherhood is more than just an expansion pack and packs some major substance behind it. With all that said, does it deliver?
Cesare Borgia, the son of Rodrigo (the guy you killed at the end of Assassin’s Creed 2) is not too happy with Ezio and the Assassin’s guild for slaying his father. He gathers troops of Rome and launches a full scale battle on Monteriggioni, the villa in which you built throughout the course of Assassin’s Creed 2. Ezio’s quest this time around takes revenge on Cesare and brings Rome to its knees. Twelve districts make up Brotherhood and each district is protected by towers that keep armored troops looking for you or members of your guild. You must take the tower down, and to do that, you must kill the tower captain. Bring the tower down and the district is yours. You can then open up the business, much like the villa, to get a steady income. Easy enough? The towers are not going to be your main focus in Brotherhood. Although they are a big part, the towers simply generate a way for you to gain money throughout the game to upgrade your armor and weapons.
Brotherhood features a lot of side quests and missions for Ezio to partake on. I felt myself becoming very sidetracked at times in the game, sometimes to the point that I nearly forgot about progressing the story. You can explore historic landmarks and the best thing of all, you can make friends with other guilds and perform missions for them. Think of Oblivion when you were a member of four different guilds at any given time. You will again find treasure chests, and be given contracts to further gain respect. Respect is a plus and, of course, money is too.
The biggest leaps in the series come from the adjustment on the combat system. My biggest gripe with Assassin’s Creed 2 was the dumbed down fighting system that worked about 60% of the time. Brotherhood smoothed out all of the kinks. Ezio actually moves and strikes with more precision and power. Players also have the ability to recruit members to your guild, because as advertised in Brotherhood, “I can’t take on Rome by myself”. Each assassin you recruit can gain experience points by completing contracts for money and also their combat moves and kills equal to XP points. Using assassins is easy: You need an enemy killed? Hold the left trigger after selecting an enemy and your guild mate will assassinate that target. Every time that a tower falls in a given district, you will gain a slot to recruit an ordinary citizen to the guild. Although there is a new assassin to be gained, make sure to watch their health and make sure their armor is upgraded because they can die and you will have to work to train another.
The main backbone of this game is not to be the silent assassin type anymore. Although this element still exists, your focus now is to gain trust in numbers and not do all of the dirty work yourself. Think of this game as Ezio sitting in a director’s chair just picking out targets and letting his guild mates do the rest.
This game can be a little bit disappointing in the fact that you, as a player, do not have to kill as much as in Assassins Creed 2. This time just pick a target, pull the trigger, and watch from a distance. Does that mean the AC: Brotherhood is less difficult than in previous games? In a way, yes. The enjoyment out of stealth killing guards from inside haystacks and ledges of buildings will be lessened in this game, but long range weapons and guild mates take over in that sense.
Remember the loot you received from dead bodies in AC2? Of course you do. In Brotherhood you can still loot soldiers. This time you gain much, much more, from soldiers than just a few gold coins. Weapon ammo, money, and meds are very frequent. Again, gaining these items from looting makes the game easier to play. A majority of the items you pick up can also be sold for some extra income. Just make sure to keep depositing money into banks as you open them to keep your pockets from maxing out.
Ezio can now ride horses inside of districts and ride them through towns. Players wanted to bring their horse through the front gates of many cities before, but were never able to do so. Now in Brotherhood, you can take your horse anywhere, anytime. It makes it very nice for quick escapes, but can cause some major damage to civilians if your not a careful rider. This is an easy way to alert guards. You can also, once again, whistle for a horse at any time by pressing a button (similar to Red Dead Redemption). The trot button on the horse has been replaced with Ezio’s ability to stand on the horse while riding. It’s a cool move to look at once or twice, but becomes seldom used in the course of the game.
The environments are just as beautiful as they were in AC2. The world is carefully laid out, and is historically accurate to the time period. The characters and weapons look a bit more crisp than in AC2, and even facial animations looked smoother. The cities still feel very authentic and alive. Many of AC2 features such as wanted posters, walk-through markets, and notoriety from the town’s people are present.
The biggest addition to the franchise came in the way of multiplayer. Yes that is right, I said multiplayer in an Assassin’s Creed game. The play style in itself is very unique and fun to play. You sync up as a modern day Templar, thrown into a training program to hunt Assassins. The main objective here is you are given a target at the start of every game. It is your job to assassinate that target, while at the same time, being hunted by another assassin. Players are given a compass to help you find the target, but the city you play in is large and full of guards. Not to mention citizens are still as lively. You must not bring more heat down on yourself by alerting them, so the best thing to do here is the best stealth you can possibly do. Do not hide in one spot, as another assassin is easily able to get you. Move frequently and blend in. You will have four game modes to choose from, each offering a different take on the solid free-for all. Wanted uses the same game type but the radar is tweaked to be unusable, and making the game based more on looking hard at your television screen for sudden movements and change in characters.
Manhunt divides two teams into two, where one team hides and the other team hunts. Hide and Seek for a video game, but with killing. The last mode is Alliance, where you and a buddy partner up against another team of two. The match is over when one team has zero assassins in the game. If you are looking for a change from playing countless hours of Call of Duty, Brotherhood will fill the void. Not for long periods of time, but works nicely on a couple hour experience.
Final Truth:
Brotherhood is a solid addition to the franchise, and lets us play with the better of the two characters one more time before we move on. The game still functions as an Assassin’s Creed game, but is easily transitioned for more of a casual approach. If you were a fan of AC2 you will enjoy Brotherhood. It gives you a lot more of what you loved with some solid additions. If you were looking for a major step up in the series this probably is not what you were looking for; you will have to wait for Assassin’s Creed 3. Should this be a game worthy of your hard earned $60? I believe it is. It features so much more than an expansion would offer.
If you were wonder, Brotherhood does not play or feel like an overpriced expansion pack. It feels like a honest sequel to the sequel that we loved last year. From the graphic and fighting upgrade and the addition of multiplayer, add this to your long list of games to own this year.
[xrr label=”Rating: 7.5/10″ rating=7.5/10]
+ Visually stunning
+ Improved fighting mechanics
+ Multiplayer is fun and unique
– Seems too easy
– Target lock-on still needs work
– Story was not as satisfying as previous titles
– Side missions are AC2 all over again
Tags: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, Review, Ubisoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Kyle Spencer, Editor I have been a video game enthusiast for many many years, and have been in the industry for the last 10 years. I love what I do and I love, well VIDEO GAMES! I have a degree in computer programming and currently working on a arcade/indie title.
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International Skeptics Forum » General Topics » Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
Continuation JFK Conspiracy Theories VIII
23rd November 2020, 12:30 PM #81
Axxman300
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Originally Posted by MicahJava
https://old.reddit.com/r/JFKeveryday...head_contents/
PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7V...ew?usp=sharing
Did this small wound occur the day before or did someone shoot him on the other side of the Triple Underpass?
I ask because the assassination is on film and JFK is only hit twice.
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HSienzant
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This new post also offers rebuttals.
BTW you should know that Bruce Pitzer's former wife Joyce also said that he was vaguely aware of a "something" her husband had concerning the assassination.
Dennis David said he didn't come forward earlier because of his career and his (perhaps untrue) suspicion that Bruce Pitzer was murdered.
Taking the last point first, Pitzer committed suicide, as you acknowledge as a possibility. He wasn't murdered. That puts the lie to David's story.
Allan Eaglesham investigated the Pitzer case and covered it in in detail:
http://www.manuscriptservice.com/WBP-Resolution/
Dennis David's story of seeing an autopsy assassination film of the assassination taken by Pitzer is patently untrue. Pitzer wasn't at the autopsy, and no one who was at the autopsy claims any motion picture film was taken, only photos.
Dennis David decided sometime after the suicide of Pitzer to interject himself into the assassination story by making up a story involving a deceased co-worker who wasn't around to deny his claims, and he got his wish, David's now mentioned in plenty of conspiracy books.
But there's nothing there. And there never has been. It's all just a story David tells. Conveniently, David doesn't have this autopsy film or anything else that would confirm his story. And Pitzer's wife being "vaguely aware" of "something" doesn't confirm Dennis David's lies about seeing a non-existent autopsy film that Pitzer never took because Pitzer wasn't at the autopsy.
Pretty much all of this was covered with Robert Prey. Read the threads.
I have never ”refused” to provide evidence. I provide evidence if requested to do so in a specific and relevant manner.
Hanks ”method” [of requesting evidence] is not going to [get me to] provide any evidence since it has a completely different purpose. To create the the illusion of me not providing evidence when requested to do so. - Manifesto
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MicahJava
Originally Posted by HSienzant
Yes, all of this is directly quoted in the post I linked.
Dennis David never said anything proven to be a lie. He only said that he initially believed Pitzer was left-handed because he dealt cards with his left hand while playing Bridge together. When informed by Joyce Pitzer that Bill was right-handed, Dennis accepted that as true and stated such.
As Humes pointed out to the ARRB, there was a CCTV system set up in the morgue, and he said that in hindsight he wished the autopsy had been filmed. There is no information on whether or not there could have been cameras installed into the walls where a witness would have have necessarily noticed. Eaglesham found one or two witnesses who claimed to remember that only the Walter Reed medical center had cameras capable of filming medical procedures, and that these were giant bulky television cameras which would have been difficult to transport across the street to Bethesda.
As early as the mid-50's, there were special color cameras designed to record medical procedures in a hospital setting, and those cameras looked like a plain square box on wheels, like a non-descript piece of medical equipment.
Jerrol Custer is one witness who claimed to have seen a man filming with a movie camera, but I understand that Jerrol was a clown.
Dennis David claimed to remember the pictures he saw were on 16 millimeter film. He could theoretically be wrong about the technical specs while also being right about Pitzer showing him pictures of the autopsy.
Again, Joyce Pitzer also claimed to be vaguely aware of something her husband had concerning the assassination.
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Then you should know better.
Dennis David never said anything proven to be a lie.
Sigh. You should know better, certainly by now that's the logical fallacy of shifting the burden of proof. Nobody has the obligation to disprove his claims. You want to accept his assertions, the burden is on you (and him) to prove them. You don't get around that burden by saying his claims haven't been disproven.
There's a golden teapot orbiting Jupiter right now. That claim has never been disproven either. Hopefully (hope springs eternal) you understand the problem with your "Dennis David never said anything proven to be a lie" assertion. It matters not whether it's been proven to be a lie. You need to prove it's true., otherwise it's just a scary story Dennis David tells around a campfire.
He only said that he initially believed Pitzer was left-handed because he dealt cards with his left hand while playing Bridge together. When informed by Joyce Pitzer that Bill was right-handed, Dennis accepted that as true and stated such.
But his earliest statements, to David Lifton, don't mention anything about an autopsy film, or seeing such. He only introduced that story 25 years after the fact, to another conspiracy theorist.
As Humes pointed out to the ARRB, there was a CCTV system set up in the morgue, and he said that in hindsight he wished the autopsy had been filmed.
It wasn't. End of story.
There is no information on whether or not there could have been cameras installed into the walls where a witness would have have necessarily noticed.
This is all speculation by you. It matters not. Do not confuse it with evidence confirming David's story. It doesn't do that. David's story was that Pitzer was at the autopsy and filmed the assassination. That's the problem with trying to insert yourself into a major incident, like (in this case) the assassination of the President. You don't know what documentation exists that contradicts your claims. The people at the autopsy were documented, and Pitzer wasn't one of them. David's claims fail right there.
Eaglesham found one or two witnesses who claimed to remember that only the Walter Reed medical center had cameras capable of filming medical procedures, and that these were giant bulky television cameras which would have been difficult to transport across the street to Bethesda.
Bethesda is not Walter Reed. You've just argued against the autopsy being filmed.
It doesn't matter what could have been done. It only matters what was done. There are witnesses who are quite specific that no film of the autopsy was made. The problem you have is Dennis David has been caught in an inescapable lie - and that destroys his credibility.
Since you neither quote Custer saying anything of the sort here, nor establish he was a clown, I'll table that for now.
No, he said he saw *film* of the autopsy with Pitzer. Not photos. Not pictures. *Film*. You can't salvage his story by claiming he was a poor witness. You salvage his story by establishing he was a witness to what he claimed... Conveniently, there's no evidence he saw anything like he claimed he saw.
And she made this claim how many decades later? Her "vague awareness of something" came how many years after Dennis David's story about the supposed autopsy film was first published?
You're assuming her vague awareness stemmed from something she learned from her husband prior to his suicide, rather than that vague awareness stemming from something Dennis David alleged in 1988.
These are issues you need to confront if you're going to convince anyone. You're posting on a skeptic site, remember. Show me the evidence.
The purpose of this post is not to present the best evidence, it's to catalogue literally all of the evidence, no matter the quality.
The word of Dennis David is technically evidence, even if it's not the best evidence in the world. And Joyce's non-specific statement also counts as some level of corroboration.
Dennis David first came public with his story about Pitzer in 1975, not 1988, and at that time he had the journalist not print his name. David Lifton only found Dennis David when he saw the article and contacted that journalist and convinced them it was ok to give away Dennis's personal information. Lifton only used Dennis David's real name in his 1980 book because Dennis said he could. Dennis claimed that his own wife was reluctant to let him talk to Lifton for fear of retaliation.
Lifton seems to have a personal bias against the Pitzer story. While Lifton claims that Dennis never told him about the Pitzer story, around 2007 Dennis claimed he did remember telling Lifton about it.
So you're not arguing for a conspiracy, even though you're presenting what you think is evidence of a conspiracy?
No, it's not evidence. It's a story, an assertion, an uncorroborated claim.
Is my assertion of a teapot orbiting Jupiter evidence of a teapot orbiting Jupiter? Would there be corrobation if another poster here makes the same assertion?
Dennis David first came public with his story about Pitzer in 1975, not 1988, and at that time he had the journalist not print his name.
Still after Pitzer was dead and unable to confirm or deny the story, right? Why did he wait 12 years to come forward with the story? Pitzer wasn't dead yet, and could confirm or deny it while he was still alive, right? Yet conveniently, the only person who could confirm or deny it is dead by the time Dennis David comes forward with his story.
David Lifton only found Dennis David when he saw the article and contacted that journalist and convinced them it was ok to give him Dennis's personal information. Lifton only used Dennis David's real name in his 1980 book because Dennis said he could. Dennis claimed that his own wife was reluctant to let him talk to Lifton for fear of retaliation.
And my first wife didn't want me to use my real name on these boards (or other ones) so when I first started posting at alt.assassination.jfk, I used an alias for the first ten years or so I posted there.
But more to the point, Lifton claims David said nothing about the supposed autopsy film when he interviewed him in 1980. Why not? Remember that Lifton is a conspiracy theorist. He's not on my side whatsoever. What does that tell you?
Lifton seems to have a personal bias against the Pitzer story.
Maybe for the same reason I do, people have been known to insert themselves into famous (or infamous) incidents, solely for the notoriety. There's no contempory evidence confirming any of Dennis David's story. And as late as 1980, Dennis David wasn't mentioning this autopsy film to David Lifton at all.
While Lifton claims that Dennis never told him about the Pitzer story, around 2007 Dennis claimed he did remember telling Lifton about it.
So the story starts and ends with Dennis David. That's not surprising to me that a Johnny-Come-Lately has no evidence. Only his assertions, which are contradicted by other evidence and confirmed by nothing and no one. Since it's Dennis David's very credibility that's in question here, I find it more than a little bizarre that you would think his counter-claim of a recollection (without any proof) has any credibility.
Curiously, there's no evidence this autopsy film ever existed (or the entire incident as told by Dennis David ever happened), just as Beverly Oliver's claim (first told in 1969) that she filmed the JFK assassination and her film was taken away by an FBI agent isn't verifiable either. It's another scary campfire story with it's own set of problems (for starters, the camera she said she used wasn't available for sale in 1963 and the FBI agent she named as taking the camera was stationed in New Orleans, not Dallas).
Stuff like documentary evidence trips these people up all the time.
Now the story has evolved from a CT based on autopsy evidence he hasn't seen to a film of the autopsy that was never made.
At least Bigfoot has the Patterson film. Sure, it's a fake, but it's an actual film.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to get back in my space ship to head back to Jupiter to turn off the stove.
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I have heard that JFK was tickled to death by tiny communist goblins.
Please include this in your catalogue of evidence. If you're not bothered about the quality of the evidence, then this shouldn't be a problem.
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Originally Posted by Cosmic Yak
I have heard that JFK was tickled to death by tiny communist goblins...
Well, the story I heard was that JFK and Bobby wanted out and the assassinations were faked - they lived out their lives happily on a tropical island.
With Elvis and Bruce Lee.
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A Tiger got him.
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Originally Posted by SteveAitch
Originally Posted by kookbreaker
MicahJava, I hope you're getting all this. Look at the new evidence that's coming out! Make sure you document everything, and then let us know how it all fits into your theory of what actually happened in Dallas.
BStrong
You guys are all wet - this is what happened to JFK and it's on video so it has to be true - NSFW:
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Tip of the hat to the great researcher Joe R. Lansdale that made this video public.
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Meanwhile, in the grown-up world, another CT is debunked:
https://theconversation.com/jfk-cons...ination-148138
A main conspiracy about Oswald’s undocumented time in Mexico City puts him in contact with dangerous Mexicans on the left side of the Cold War.
This story originated in March 1967, when the American consul in the Mexican coastal city of Tampico, Benjamin Ruyle, was buying drinks for local journalists.
One of them – Óscar Contreras Lartigue, a 28-year-old reporter for El Sol de Tampico – told Ruyle he’d met Oswald in 1963 when he was a law student at Mexico’s National Autonomous University.
Contreras said he’d been in a pro-Castro campus group and that Oswald had begged this group for help getting a Cuban visa. According to Contreras, Oswald spent two days with these National Autonomous University students, then met up with them again a few days later at the Cuban Embassy.
And I'll skip to the good part:
In Contreras’ telling, he fled the National Autonomous University campus and moved to Tampico around 1964. Yet Contreras also allegedly told his “editor” about his encounter with Oswald after the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
College newspapers aren’t common in Mexico, and Contreras was a law student. So how could he have had an editor in 1963?
I thought his hometown paper, El Sol de Tampico, might hold the answer. Digging through its archives, I found that the newspaper ran a Sunday gossip column in the early 1960s called “Crisol,” or “melting pot.”
Óscar Contreras became the reporter for “Crisol” on June 6, 1963, and continued writing the gossip column in September and October that year.
While Lee Harvey Oswald was in Mexico City, Contreras was 300 miles away in Tampico. In flamboyant prose, faded back issues of the local paper show, he chronicled the sumptuous wedding receptions, quinceañeras and yacht excursions of Tampico’s high society
The article itself is great because it links to some of the new declassified documents.
Allen773
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Originally Posted by Axxman300
The problem with the CIA is that its internal system for getting information to the right departments is slow. There are TV, radio, and print news operations in every country in the world. If you need to know what's going on in a certain country, or specific region within that country you simply subscribe to the closest newspaper.
Indeed, the stovepiping of intelligence is an ongoing systemic problem in the US government; hence, the failure to connect the dots on 9/11 and, I’d argue, the failure to convey to policymakers just how poor and dated the intelligence on Iraqi WMD really was (I lay a good deal of responsibility for the latter at George Tenet’s door).
Though I do wonder if the post-9/11 reforms like fusion centers, DNI, etc. have compounded the problem by pumping massive amounts of intelligence into an ever-expanding bureaucracy (which includes tons of private contractors with Top Secret security clearances - hardly unproblematic). Not to mention, the civil liberties issues that arise with extensive domestic surveillance...
In other words, I’m not exactly confident that adding more hay to the haystack of terrorist leads and threats will help solve these issues, especially given the trend of lone wolf actors being groomed or inspired by terrorist recruiters. One person slipping through the cracks can wreak an awful lot of havoc...
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Originally Posted by Allen773
It is a mixed bag.
The FBI and CIA and the rest are on the same page as far as terrorism goes, but there are still obvious breakdowns. Worse, the current DCI has been funneling intelligence to the DEA and FBI about drug operations, which is not part of the Patriot Act's purview.
As far as the JFK Assassination goes, the recent National Archives document release showed that the CIA's Mexico City Station cabled Langley about Lee Oswald's visit to the Cuban and Soviet Embassies, and advised them to contact the FBI to fill them in so they could investigate. That information was never passed along to the FBI. And then the FBI failed to mention Lee Oswald, a defector to the Soviet Union, was in Dallas to the Secret Service, who would have detailed men to monitor him.
In short had either the CIA told the FBI, and or the FBI told the Secret Service then JFK would probably be alive today.
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The only thing I disagree with is your final six words. He would have celebrated his 103 birthday this past May if he was still alive today. That makes it highly improbable he would be alive today. Most people's natural life span isn't typically that long. I usually phrase it as there would have been no assassination attempt in Dallas.
My head is stuck in 1977.
4th December 2020, 01:06 PM #99
Add this to the list of things Trump lied about:
https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/...s/s-2448245?fs
WASHINGTON — Like many Americans his age, Donald Trump shared an interest in the mysterious assassination of President John F. Kennedy. So much so that soon after taking office he pledged, as a Washington outsider, to order the release of all related documents kept secret in government vaults.
Now weeks away from leaving office, it appears he'll leave that task of historical interest and significance to President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump came to office with a flair for television and how to build audience suspense. And given the numerous documentaries and the hit 1991 movie "JFK" by director Oliver Stone, the promised release of decades-old secret documents had all the makings of a suspense thriller. It portended critical information for historians and could quench a thirst for interested baby boomers.
"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened," Trump announced with fanfare in an unexpected tweet on Oct. 21, 2017, just nine months into his term.
But soon after the bombshell, Trump partially retreated.
But there is a end date to this nonsense:
The Kennedy assassination documents must be fully declassified by Oct. 26, 2021. That would allow the incoming Biden administration to be the one that boasts it made the JFK files completely open to the public more than 57 years after the fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Maybe El Presidente will piss off the CIA and FBI and order their release before he's out the door.
Not holding my breath.
9th December 2020, 11:47 PM #100
Been thinking that passing the JFK Records Act was a mistake. Why give in to the pressures of conspiracy theorists? Political cowardice?
10th December 2020, 04:13 PM #101
First off, most secret documents lose their classification after 20 years.
Second, the big document release a few years back didn't tell us anything we didn't already know about JFK, Ike, and our efforts to quash Castro. They just filled in a few holes.
Third, when Congress passes a law it is supposed to be followed.
Fourth, the CIA and the FBI should be embarrassed by their incompetence and inability/unwillingness to review the documents in question in order for their release within the Congressionally MANDATED timeline.
And finally, while I respect secrecy there comes a time when all secrets see the light of day. Americans have a right to know what has been done in their name and with their tax dollars. While American's don't have a right to know these secrets in this very moment, they should, and must have access to these secrets after a prudent amount of time.
If all our secrets remained in the black there would be zero accountability for the Agencies involved. Things can't evolve in the dark. The CIA's website lists many books about the Agency's history which are not flattering, and they have a link to the FOIA Reading Room. Those are there for CIA officers and employees to access as much as the public because reading them makes for a better intelligence service.
And as it applies to this subject, had the autopsy photos and x-rays been available to the public by the mid-1980s there would likely be no JFK-CTs, certainly not a second gunman. The secrecy surrounding the assassination due to the CIA and FBI's counter-Castro operations fundamentally created the JFK-Assassination CTs and have kept them alive well beyond their expiration date.
Lee Harvey Oswald: Outspoken in his extreme hatred toward General Edwin Walker, told his wife that he had shot at Walker and even showed her the rifle he had used....the same rifle that was used to kill President Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald: Matched the description by multiple witnesses in Dealey Plaza of the man who killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally.
Lee Harvey Oswald: Matched the description of multiple witnesses to the murder of a police officer who tried to question him in Oak Cliff and who went into the theater where he (ie. Lee Harvey Oswald) violently resisted arrest once the cops showed up.
Lee Harvey Oswald: "I'm just a patsy!"
Conspiracy theorists: "We believe him!"
*** This is, of course, just a tiny bit of the massive amount of evidence pointing at Oswald's guilt in the JFK assassination....and Oswald's guilt alone.
Last edited by Allen773; 18th December 2020 at 01:03 PM.
Yes, he gave her instructions about what to do if he was arrested.
The rifle has always been the 500-pound gorilla in this case. Had he used a garden variety hunting rifle CTists would have a case, but he bought a 6.5x52mm Carcano. The bullets are exclusive to the Carcano, and the only bullets recovered were 6.5x52mm Carcano rounds. There were only two Carcano rifles in the Dallas area on 11/22/63, the other one belonged to a gunshop owner.
That plus he tried to shot another DPD officer with the same gun he used to kill Tippit. They literally removed it from his hand.
He also told one of the detectives, "I guess everyone will know my name."
What do you call this?
I'm not even saying this proves a conspiracy. One could try arguing this little spot represents a shrapnel exit wound created by a shot from behind. But it sure does look like a little hole in the right front of the scalp. No such hole was acknowledged by the pathologists. By listening to everything the pathologists said, one would think there were two and only two separate holes in the scalp - a small one in the back and one long tear on the right side. At the very least, it looks like we have proof of incompetence looking at this picture.
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Wow, this is a really great example of CTist thinking (and arrogance). Trained pathologists working with the actual body at the time don't see what an amateur sleuth sees in a black-and-white photo almost sixty years later- and it's the pathologists who are incompetent.
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Originally Posted by turingtest
At the very least:
Maybe they did see it, but were too lazy to bother reporting on it because they were under the impression that it didn't change their basic conclusions. Would you at least be open to acknowledging that? What do you call the area around the red circle? Sure looks like a hold in the scalp to me.
I like to think its like a Rorschach inkblot test.
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26th December 2020, 08:15 AM #109
If they didn't think it would change their basic conclusions, then it isn't a case of laziness, it's a case of parsimony- something I'm aware CTists have a problem with.
And I'm not going to play your game of "what does it look like to you?" I've already explained why, even though it shouldn't need explanation.
A lot of CT’ers mention Oswald’s ordering the Carcano through the mail as some evidence of him being framed by The Conspiracy (TM). That is, it created a paper trail that inevitably led to Oswald.
They neglect to mention that:
1. Oswald didn’t have a driver’s license, and so ordering a rifle in-person would have required him enlisting the help of someone else and being seen by someone in a store: that’s at minimum two witnesses to Oswald ordering a rifle, and I can’t imagine that gun store managers and owners didn’t keep receipts and other records of purchases.
2. Oswald ordered the rifle under an alias.
3. Oswald ordered the rifle to kill far-right Brigadier General Edwin Walker as, it seems, part of his plan to become a Communist hero and hopefully, either be allowed to return to the USSR or maybe more likely, be settled in Cuba.
4. There’s no evidence that Oswald was even thinking about killing JFK when he ordered the Carcano, let alone making an active plan toward that end. Again, he was focused on Walker.
5. In any event, Oswald desired fame and publicity - a classic narcissist - so being caught wasn’t necessarily a setback for him. If anything, Oswald strikes me as the kind of defendant who planned to make a scene at his trial, denouncing the US government and bragging about his actions and how smart he was and how brainwashed the sheeple were, etc. Obviously he never got the chance.
(Anyone more knowledgeable than me, feel free to correct any errors and/or add more detail. Much appreciated.)
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uh, a black-and-white autopsy photo of the late President's head wound taken on the evening of the assassination with something obscure circled in red?
I'm not even saying this proves a conspiracy.
Good, because it doesn't.
One could try arguing this little spot represents a shrapnel exit wound created by a shot from behind.
Sure, go ahead. But you'd have to pretend the autopsy doctors missed this exit wound entirely, or lied about it with no evidence in support whatsoever. Remember, in the past you've taken the word of the autopsy doctors as gospel when it suited you. You cannot turn around and then say the doctors are incompetent and missed a hole in the head entirely.
But it sure does look like a little hole in the right front of the scalp.
Right, because of your extensive background in brain and skull anatomy as well as your expertise in photo analysis. Riiight...
No such hole was acknowledged by the pathologists.
So, tell us MicahJava, what was your first clue that you were wrong about this additional hole in the head?
By listening to everything the pathologists said, one would think there were two and only two separate holes in the scalp - a small one in the back and one long tear on the right side.
Ah, so that was your first clue.
At the very least, it looks like we have proof of incompetence looking at this picture.
At the very least, we absolutely do.
Your incompetence, not theirs.
Last edited by HSienzant; 26th December 2020 at 10:04 AM.
Maybe they did see it, but were too lazy to bother reporting on it because they were under the impression that it didn't change their basic conclusions.
Are you serious? They are dealing with the body of the President of the most powerful nation in the world, shot dead by gunfire, and they are just *too lazy* to mention an additional bullet wound?
You don't get to be a medical doctor by being *too lazy* to be precise, specific, and detailed.
Meanwhile, they went to the trouble of examining and weighing various internal organs and remarking on their characteristics, and even detailing old surgical scars on the President like here:
https://www.archives.gov/files/resea...ppendix-09.pdf
"There is a old well healed 8 cm. McBurney adominal incision. Over the lumbar spine in the midline is an old well healed 15 cm. scar. Situated in the upper antero-lateral aspect of the right thigh is an old, well healed 8 cm. scar. "
But your thesis you're pushing now is they were just *too lazy* to mention a third bullet wound in the head to the late President of the United States killed by gunfire? That's seriously the argument you're advancing here?
Would you at least be open to acknowledging that?
Sure, I acknowledge it's a ridiculous argument, which makes me question how seriously you take this subject. It's not a joke to some of us. You can do better. Strike that. Maybe you can't do better, but you should do better.
What do you call the area around the red circle?
The area around the red circle. I guess I was looking in the wrong place. I was looking at the area *within* the red circle. Now you're telling me I should be looking at the area *surrounding* the red circle for this hole you imagine. Silly me.
Sure looks like a hold [hole] in the scalp to me.
Remind me of your extensive background in human anatomy and photo analysis again. I seem to have forgotten you had any.
You've been informed before you have no expertise in the subjects you constantly opine about, and therefore your uninformed opinions carry no weight here. Yet you insist on continuing this charade, and in every post - or certainly almost every post, so I don't get accused of hyperbole - you tell us what you think something is or what you think something means.
For the umpteenth time, nobody cares about what you think. Nobody cares about your opinion. Your ininformed opinion is worthless here.
Make a case from the expert testimony and the eyewitness testimony. Without substituting what you *think* it means for what they actually said. We have had enough of that.
If I had four hands, I'd give you four thumbs up.
Let's do this another way.
The logical fallacy of shifting the burden of proof. If you have a case to make, make it.
Good, because that would be the logical fallacy of begging the question.
One could try arguing for any number of different things. But by mentioning only one, you're trying to force the argument into an either / or situation, or the logical fallacy of a false dichotomy, where you mention only those interpretations you favor, and ask us to choose from among those. Here, you only mention one, and don't even bother to give us a true choice.
One could also try arguing there's no evidence of an additional wound in the head, so anyone even attempting to advance such an argument must be relying on really extensive expertise in cranial anatomy and photo analysis.
Either that, or they are just trolling.
And here you're substituting your opinion for that of the expert witnesses.
We know that - and we know you know that - because you acknowledge the opinion of the expert witnesses immediately thereafter. Right here:
No such hole was acknowledged by the pathologists. By listening to everything the pathologists said, one would think there were two and only two separate holes in the scalp - a small one in the back and one long tear on the right side.
And let's not forget all the qualified forensic pathologists who reviewed the extant autopsy materials for the HSCA and the other investigations and didn't see anything like you suggest. I believe the estimated number of autopsies conducted by the HSCA forensic panel members was over 100,000 in total. I would wager the estimated number of autopsies you've conducted is zero. That's (0), as in none.
But you think you're truly smarter than all of them, with all their background and are able to discern something neither the autopsy pathologists who conducted the autopsy or the pathologists who reviewed the extant autopsy materials was able to discern?
Wow. Your photo should be in the dictionary under "hubris".
So there's the true choice, go with the experts who had the body in front of them (the original three pathologists) *and* the HSCA forensic pathology review panel of experts, or go with the opinion of some anonymous internet poster with no qualifications whatsoever in cranial anatomy or photo analysis.
Gee, what would any reasonable person do?
I can't improve on my prior answer, so I'll let it go at that.
Major Major
But you don't understand. He's the talented amateur who lacks the preconceptions and biases of the professionals, so from his outsider perspective he dazzlingly realizes what they are too bogged down in their ways to see.
Hey, it works in all those detective novels.
Just like it did for our former Juror Number Eight, who had an alternative explanation for every point, thus proving reasonable doubt.
And trying to explain that real life isn't like detective novels/movies seems to go over some peoples' heads.
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I’ve pointed out earlier in the thread that the likely reason is more likely cost. Mail order surplus rifles are cheap compared to what a store offers and Oswald would know what guns are available and their prices are. If he goes into a shop who knows what they have? And at what price?
Oswald never had a lot of money, but he wanted a rifle so he could be a “revolutionary”.
Matrixing.
It also looks like:
A parrot.
A dolphin.
The hump of a whale.
The flash would make a hole at that angle invisible.
I'm not even saying this proves a conspiracy. One could try arguing this little spot represents a shrapnel exit wound created by a shot from behind. But it sure does look like a little hole in the right front of the scalp.
No, it really does not.
What? The two guys (plus the others) who actually sawed open the skull and removed the brain somehow missed the hole, even after cleaning the head before dissection?
I'm going out on a limb here and suggest they didn't mention it because it didn't exist.
Almost as if he had been shot with a 6.5x52mm projectile. Weird.
Well golly, I wonder what's in the other five or six photographs taken of the head wounds? Have you seen them? Oh wait, no, you haven't.
Fun Note: In the time you've wasted posting these JFK fantasies you could have finished Medical School and be in your second year of residency on your way to becoming a real medical doctor.
He bought it because it was cheap, and came with a scope, and was Italian (cool factor for all wannabe revolutionaries).
Maybe they did see it, but were too lazy to bother reporting on it because they were under the impression that it didn't change their basic conclusions. Would you at least be open to acknowledging that?
No way in hell.
You have two military doctors, called in cold, who are tasked with performing the autopsy of a murdered President of the United States (a man who a few hours before had been their commander in chief). They are told that RFK is waiting in the building, and that Jackie Kennedy wanted the body ASAP.
So Humes (wisely) brings in a photographer without notifying anyone to document the process due to the limited time they would have with the body. JFK was X-rayed from head to toe. They found the entrance wound in the upper back/lower neck, and the throat wound which they initially believed to be a tracheostomy. They didn't think to call Parkland Hospital until afterwords due to the pressure to wrap things up.
At every step of the procedure Humes was in charge. He managed to be thorough in spite of the situation. Nobody in that room was lazy. You are the last person to make such an assessment.
And keep in mind that Lee Oswald was still alive in a Dallas PD holding cell. The DPD, Secret Service, FBI, and CIA were ALL actively looking for co-conspirators. The documents from that time emphasize this fact. Thus there was no reason to alter or manipulate the autopsy because at any moment Oswald could have spilled his guts, and named people. Or there could have been a second arrest. The investigation had just begun and was going full throttle.
Why would Oswald's alleged co-conspirators wait two whole days to silence him?
Unless, of course, there was no conspiracy. Occam strikes again.
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Music is a Language, Really!!
We were all set and ready to play; a dinner conversation using our instruments –harp, flute, violin and cello. Oh, how we wanted to experience the freedom of improvisation like our violinist; she was our role model. On gigs, our inspired quartet resonated as one voice whether we played classical music, contemporary songs or old standards. We had a magical connection and we knew it; as long as 3 out of 4 of us had music. We wanted more; we wanted to be free of the sheet music and we were ready to do something about it.
Sitting in a circle in my living room, our imagined dinner party began. Using only instruments to speak, the violin introduced herself followed by the flute and cello. They conversed for a while as I lingered in the corner. Unexpected waves of anxiety filled my mind as the others turned their welcoming gazes towards me. Frozen with fear, this accomplished classical musician could only play 2 notes. And that’s how my musical journey of self-expression began.
Several months later, while playing for the grand opening of a hospital emergency room, a single conversation turned my perception about music on its head. During a short break, I was talking with the architect of the facility about his deep appreciation for music and his profound experiences while singing in choirs. I shared some of my concerns about improvising and he simply stated, “Music is a language.”
Of course, I had heard this statement many times; but this time I really heard it. I was beginning a new journey of learning this language of music. Even though I’d been playing it for over 30 years, there was a desire, a deep yearning to learn how to communicate and express more through it.
Reflecting on how we learn language as infants offered profound insight:
- we cry, coo, babble and explore different sounds with our mouths
- we say our first word, then another word
- we begin putting words together in short incomplete sentences and others understand us
- we structure full sentences and communicate easily
- and years later we learn the ‘theory’ of our language in English class
My heart opened, as when you look into a baby’s eyes, as I realized I was a newborn on this journey of self-expression. Judgment dissolved, inner compassion awakened, and eventually those 2 initial notes expanded into babbles and doodles. “Doodles” became the descriptive word for whatever music came through me; as an artist doodles with colors, or a student doodles in their notebook margin, I doodled with sound. Honestly, it was also my excuse for not having to know the theory behind whatever I was playing. Admittedly, much of my fear about improvising came from the fear of “not knowing enough theory to write my own music” which was the story in my head that kept me from trying. As long as I was doodling and having fun exploring this newly discovered language, judgment was suspended. Now, years later, I continue to doodle as full expressions of feelings, images and ideas flow through my music.
Where are you on the journey of learning the language of music?
Are you beginning a new instrument and playing around with the different sounds it can make?
Are you studying with a teacher who’s guiding you along a particular path, style, or genre of playing?
Are you stepping out of your comfort zone to explore new ways to communicate?
Are you proficient and comfortable in expressing your feelings and thoughts through music?
Are you one who loves the theory and structure of the language of music?
For as many musicians there are in the world, there are that many ways to learn, express, create and communicate through the language of music. Wherever you are on your journey, play on!
-Amy Camie - MU Columnist
*Amy Camie is a spiritual harpist, passionate speaker, gifted recording artist, intuitive composer, inspirational writer and Co-Initiator of The ORIGIN Methodology of Self-Discovery. Her strong classical background allows the music from her soul to flow freely through her fingertips creating highways of sound that awaken memories of wholeness, harmony, compassion, and love.
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Today on the Buzz I have a new entry into front line politics. He is a proud old boy who attended S. Thomas’ Prep and Mount Lavinia and made his mark in athletics and rugby. He is a 3rd generation businessman and the shift seemed interesting. What I wanted to know is, why take up a seat in parliament, what he does and what he hopes to do for Colombo and the youth. Today he speaks about his life and his passion for this country.
They say politics is a dirty game, how do you see it?
Over the past 30 years, politicians have been viewed as unreliable, full of rhetoric, and corrupt with no vision for the development of the country. I feel this came about due to the voting pattern being changed from electoral to the preferential system which means no elected member has an electorate of his or her own but represents a District with a host of others which warrants no direct responsibility by any one person
How have things changed from when you were in school to today for the youth? Do you feel they have more opportunities now?
I went to school in the ’70s when we had a closed economy. The rest of the world had a television but we in Sri Lanka did not even have this. So yes things have changed drastically for today’s youth where the Internet has brought the world to their fingertips. So yes they have tremendous exposure and opportunities. Working from home is a good example
We always say the “youth is the future for our country” what do you hope to say to them about the importance of casting their votes?
Youth are very important in nation-building. The President in his Policy statement which was called - VISTAS OF PROSPERITY & SPLENDOUR - gave priority in its agenda to education and youth. My message to the youth is please elect a candidate who can carry out the vision of the President
Tell me about your school days? How was it and what did you hope to be when you were growing up?
I went to S.Thomas’ Prep Colpetty and then to S.Thomas’ Mt Lavinia. I took part in Athletics and Rugby. It was a very enjoyable period of my life. As I come from a third generation of a business family my interest was in business. Therefore I pursued Accountancy which helps one in the business field
Who is that one person you can talk to about just anything?
During my youth, it was my father and now it is my wife.
Disposable income is a luxury today even to have a relaxed evening once a month, what would you say will boost back the economy so we can have a balanced life?
We are now in post-COVID times where economies around the world have taken a hit. We need to encourage entrepreneurship SME’s home industries and local produce to boost a family’s income which in turn will have a spillover effect. Currently, HE The President is encouraging this via state institutions and Banks to help start-ups.
Who were your political heroes? What was it about them that inspired you?
Mr. Lalith Athulathmudali and Mr. Gamini Dissanayake. I worked very closely with these two gentlemen who were great visionaries. What I admired most was their love for the country, sense of discipline and great leadership
Who has been your biggest inspiration?
My grandfather Mudaliyar B J Fernando who was known as the father of the omnibus industry in this country.
Tell me about life at home, how would you describe your “perfect Sunday”?
Ideally, I go to church and then spend time at home and work at the Anura Fernando Foundation for the underprivileged.
What’s the one thing you would like to change about yourself?
To be of a greater disposition to help the underprivileged.
What’s the one thing you will change about “COLOMBO” if elected?
To get back to the position of 6 years ago - The fastest developing City in Asia. In order to do this provide better housing, address and manage the issues of traffic congestion, improve public transport garbage disposal and make it a Green City as stated in the Viyath Maga policy statement.
What makes you feel accomplished?
In the past 4-5 years, we met all the stakeholders in the development of the City and formulated policy proposals for the Government, therefore I am confident I can carry out this mission.
What is a relationship deal-breaker for you? What do you look out for in a person?
Loyalty and honesty.
Your thoughts on “political favours” and using influence?
We have always been against this thought process. That is why a 5-year policy plan was initiated to put a long term system in place that will not warrant favours and influence.
Politician's kids misbehaving and feeling entitled has been seen and discussed in many places in Colombo, what are your thoughts on this matter?
This was evident during the period of the war. As parents who were politicians feared for the safety of their children. This was then abused. However, the current President has very clearly stipulated those entitled to security and I am sure you will agree the situation is much better now.
What would you say to the people of Sri Lanka to regain faith in political leaders?
Appoint people who love the country and professionals who know their job.
What is the greatest struggle you’ve overcome?
Post education years the building up of my own business.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
I think I have evolved into the person I want to be.
Should there be a basic requirement of education before entering politics?
Yes. I think at least a basic high school degree.
What is your hope for Colombo?
To make it the Most Developed Green City in Asia.
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This report focuses on the global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) status, future forecast, growth opportunity, key market and key players. The study objectives are to present the Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) development in United States, Europe and China.
A PDMS is a computer-based information system which facilitates the collection, integration, retrieval and interpretation of the multi-source (e.g. hospital information system, laboratory system, bedside devices) multi-variant (e.g. images, numbers, text) data found in intensive care units.
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In 2017, the global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) market size was xx million US$ and it is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during 2018-2025.
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1.4.1 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Growth Rate by Type (2013-2025)
1.4.2 Single Function System
1.4.3 Multifunction System
1.5.1 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2025)
1.5.2 NICU
1.5.3 PICU
1.5.4 General Ward
2.1 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size
2.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Growth Trends by Regions
2.2.1 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Regions (2013-2025)
2.2.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Regions (2013-2018)
3.1 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Manufacturers
3.1.1 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
3.1.2 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue Market Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
3.1.3 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)
3.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players Head office and Area Served
3.3 Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Product/Solution/Service
3.4 Date of Enter into Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market
4.1 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018)
4.2 Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018)
5.1 United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
5.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in United States
5.3 United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
5.4 United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
6.1 Europe Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
6.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in Europe
6.3 Europe Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
6.4 Europe Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
7.1 China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
7.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in China
7.3 China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
7.4 China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
8.1 Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
8.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in Japan
8.3 Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
8.4 Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
9.1 Southeast Asia Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
9.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in Southeast Asia
9.3 Southeast Asia Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
9.4 Southeast Asia Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
10.1 India Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
10.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in India
10.3 India Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
10.4 India Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
11.1 Central & South America Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size (2013-2018)
11.2 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Players in Central & South America
11.3 Central & South America Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type
11.4 Central & South America Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application
12.1 Philips Healthcare
12.1.1 Philips Healthcare Company Details
12.1.3 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Introduction
12.1.4 Philips Healthcare Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.1.5 Philips Healthcare Recent Development
12.2 GE Healthcare
12.2.1 GE Healthcare Company Details
12.2.4 GE Healthcare Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.2.5 GE Healthcare Recent Development
12.3 Siemens Healthineers
12.3.1 Siemens Healthineers Company Details
12.3.4 Siemens Healthineers Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.3.5 Siemens Healthineers Recent Development
12.4 Dräger
12.4.1 Dräger Company Details
12.4.4 Dräger Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.4.5 Dräger Recent Development
12.5 Radiometer Medical
12.5.1 Radiometer Medical Company Details
12.5.4 Radiometer Medical Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.5.5 Radiometer Medical Recent Development
12.6 Cerner
12.6.1 Cerner Company Details
12.6.4 Cerner Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.6.5 Cerner Recent Development
12.7 IMD Soft
12.7.1 IMD Soft Company Details
12.7.4 IMD Soft Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.7.5 IMD Soft Recent Development
12.8 Elekta
12.8.1 Elekta Company Details
12.8.4 Elekta Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.8.5 Elekta Recent Development
12.9 Nexus AG
12.9.1 Nexus AG Company Details
12.9.4 Nexus AG Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.9.5 Nexus AG Recent Development
12.10 Mortara
12.10.1 Mortara Company Details
12.10.3 Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Introduction
12.10.4 Mortara Revenue in Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Business (2013-2018)
12.10.5 Mortara Recent Development
12.11 Smiths Medical
12.12 Medset
12.13 UTAS
Table Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Key Market Segments
Table Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Covered
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Growth Rate by Type 2013-2025 (Million US$)
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Market Share by Type 2013-2025
Figure Single Function System Figures
Table Key Players of Single Function System
Figure Multifunction System Figures
Table Key Players of Multifunction System
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Growth by Application 2013-2025 (Million US$)
Figure NICU Case Studies
Figure PICU Case Studies
Figure General Ward Case Studies
Figure Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Report Years Considered
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size 2013-2025 (Million US$)
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size and Growth Rate 2013-2025 (Million US$)
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Regions 2013-2025 (Million US$)
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Regions 2013-2018
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Regions 2013-2018
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Regions 2018
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue by Manufacturers (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Manufacturers (2013-2018)
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Manufacturers in 2018
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Manufacturers Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)
Table Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Product/Solution/Service
Table Date of Enter into Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Global Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue Market Share by Application in 2017
Figure United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size 2013-2018 (Million US$)
Table United States Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue (2017-2018) (Million US$)
Table United States Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share (2017-2018)
Table United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018) (Million US$)
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Table United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table United States Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
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Table Europe Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue (2017-2018) (Million US$)
Table Europe Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share (2017-2018)
Table Europe Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018) (Million US$)
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Table Europe Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Europe Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size 2013-2018 (Million US$)
Table China Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue (2017-2018) (Million US$)
Table China Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share (2017-2018)
Table China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table China Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size 2013-2018 (Million US$)
Table Japan Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue (2017-2018) (Million US$)
Table Japan Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share (2017-2018)
Table Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Japan Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
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Table Southeast Asia Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue (2017-2018) (Million US$)
Table Southeast Asia Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share (2017-2018)
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Table Southeast Asia Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table Southeast Asia Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
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Table India Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Revenue (2017-2018) (Million US$)
Table India Key Players Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share (2017-2018)
Table India Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Type (2013-2018) (Million US$)
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Table India Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Size by Application (2013-2018) (Million US$)
Table India Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
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New album "Wetworks" out on October 30th!
Inspired by and advised listening for fans of Swans, Godflesh, Pigface, Killing Joke, Copshootcop, Samael, Skinny Puppy, Paradise Lost, and Foetus, FEARSORE is the long-running creative project of one Wiley Wells. Wetworks is the assassination of the ever-prevailing state of human nature and its deception unto itself whether in ignorance, or self-denial. A notion which rips at the restraints of stifling ideals and delusions of normalcy. Each journey is a further descent into dissenting reflection, an uncomfortable questioning, and this release is no different. FEARSORE has always celebrated its inner alienation from society, and now as we are all alienated from society, secluded in mental cages by our attachment to what was, we are given a soundtrack to celebrate the failures we've been force-fed. Wetworks is the new analytic collection of works from FEARSORE.
Wetworks delivers three original tracks – “Incubation,” “Dissent 2020,” and “Music To Travel Where One Would Not Like To Go” – while the limited CD version of the record will also feature a cover of Project Pitchfork’s “Alpha Omega.” Created between Horse-Drawn Studios and Deadworld Studios, the album sees FEARSORE creator Wiley Wells handling engineering, sound design, programming, field recordings, manipulation, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals. John E. Bomher Jr. (Theyrgy, Yakuza) shared co-mixing and co-production duties, and additional guitars were provided by Jim Bresnahan (Cianide, Contagion) on “Dissent 2020” and Joe Starita on “Incubation.”
FEARSORE began in the late nineties in Birmingham, Alabama as an opportunity to escape the stagnation of the Southeastern US underground music movement and create something unique, personal, and challenging. An ethos of youthful exhaustion with the state of the “artistic contributions” to a musical wasteland of retread ideas and the internal strife with broad notions of what could be beyond.
What began as a nascent exploration of ambient textures crossed with classical piano derivations quickly became much more in 2000 when Wells joined with D’hiver Mort and began experimenting with more expansive tools. Over the years, FEARSORE has expanded horizons and entertained collaborations with November’s Doom, While Heaven Wept, Cannabis Corpse, and many others. These collaborations further cemented FEARSORE as an ever-evolving project. Further boundaries have been broached with additional artist contributions from Jim Bresnahan (Cianide, Contagion), Paul Gillis (Morgue Supplier/Drug Honkey), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Brain Tentacles, Corrections House), Arelys Jimenez (Matianak), and Dan Guenther (Missing In Stars, Sarcophagus) over the course of these previous FEARSORE engagements.
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Christmas as a Solar Festival
December 19, 2019 December 19, 2019 renegade 3 Comments
By William Tyler Olcott
From Sun Lore of All Ages [1914]
BECAUSE of the importance of Sun worship, and its widespread influence upon the primitive inhabitants of the world, there were instituted in honour of the solar deity, in many lands, great festivals and elaborate ceremonials, the traces of which have come down to us in modified form even to this day. Our most important ecclesiastical feast days in fact are but survivals of ancient solar festivals.
Twice in the year the sun apparently changes its course. In midwinter, having reached the lowest point in its path, it turns about and begins to mount the skies; in midsummer, conversely, having attained the highest point it reaches, the sun seems to turn about once more, and descend the steeps of the firmament. These two epochs, the winter and summer solstices as they are called, that mark the sun’s annual course, were regarded as supremely important by the ancients and gave rise to great national festivals that were celebrated with pomp and ceremony throughout the ancient world.
At the feast of the winter solstice men testified their gladness at witnessing the return of the all-powerful sun. To the inhabitants of Greenland it meant the early return of the hunting season, and all nations regarded it as a sign that springtime and harvests were on the way, and the dormant life of the winter season was on the wane.
In many countries this festival season was known as “Yole,” or “Yuul,” from the word Hiaul, or Huul, which even to this day signifies “the sun” in some languages. From this we get our word “wheel,” and the wheel is one of the ancient symbols of the sun, the spokes representing the sun’s rays. As we shall see later this symbol was a prominent feature in one of the great solar festivals.
Procopius describes how the men of Thule climbed the mountain tops at the winter solstice, to catch sight of the nearing sun after their thirty-five days of night. Then they celebrated their holiest feasts.
Plutarch, referring to the solar festivals of Egypt, says, that “about the winter solstice they lead the sacred cow seven times in procession around the temple, calling this the searching after Osiris, that season of the year standing most in need of the sun’s warmth.”
In China, the Great Temple of the Sun at Pekin is oriented to the winter solstice, and the most important of all the State observances of China takes place there December 21st, the sacrifice of the winter solstice.
In our own time a number of Christian religious observances and festivals are of distinct solar origin. Notable among these feast days is Christmas. “The Roman winter solstice,” says Tylor, “as celebrated on December 25th (VIII Kal. Jan.) in connection with the worship of the Sun-God Mithra appears to have been instituted in this special form by Aurelian about A. D. 273, and to this festival the day owes its apposite name of ‘Birthday of the Unconquered Sun.’ With full symbolic appropriateness, though not with historical justification, the day was adopted in the western church where it appears to have been generally introduced by the fourth century, and whence in time it passed to the eastern church as the solemn anniversary of the Birth of Christ, Christmas Day. As a matter of history no valid or even consistent early Christian tradition vouches for it.”
Many of the early dignitaries of the Church reveal in their writings the solar character of this festival. Augustus and Gregory discoursed on “the glowing light and dwindling darkness that follow the nativity,” and Leo the Great denounced in a sermon the idea that Christmas Day is to be honoured, not for the birth of Christ, but for the rising of the new sun.
The solar origin of the great feast is attested in Europe by bonfires, and the burning of the Yule log, and in the Christmas service chant, “Sol novus oritur.”
Even the sacrifices offered to the Sun in pagan times at the great solar festivals find their survival in the sacrifices of a lamb which we offer at Eastertide, and an ox at Christmas. The lighting of the Christmas tree is but the light to guide the Sun-God back to life, and the festival cakes of corn and fruit, made in honour of the Sun in ancient times, and laid on the sacred altars of the Persians as an offering of gratitude to the Lord of Light and Life, find their prototype in the plum pudding that graces the board at our Christmas feasts of rejoicing. Christmas is, therefore, nothing but an old heathen celebration of the winter solstice, the feast of rejoicing that a turning point in the sun’s course has been reached, and that the life-giving orb has attained the end of its journey of dwindling hours of daylight, and has started back on a course that brings with it each day an increase of warmth and light.
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Light the candles , burn the Yule Log , celebration for Christians and Pagans alike ! So many times in history has the Pagan ways been interwoven with this day including Christmas carols and old folk tunes . Look around and see more people returning to the Old Ways . From Wales comes ‘ Deck the Halls ‘ and from the Germanic countries ‘ O Tannenbaum ‘ …These old tunes come from countries where Paganism was nearly extinguished because of Church laws forbid singing around a decorated evergreen tree …Be Pagan and be proud !
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Outline how and why federalism has changed since the 1960s.
Marked by teacher: Jessica Jung 19/02/2012
Consider the view that the arguments for having an electoral college to elect the President are no longer valid
How and to what extent has modern liberalism departed from the ideas of classical liberalism?
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Is the European Union a State?
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To what extent is there a democratic deficit in the UK?
Awarding body: Edexcel (for A-levels)
Long-term factors are no longer important in explaining voting behaviour in the UK. Discuss.
Why are some pressure groups more successful than others?
The ideology of the Democrats is liberal whilst that of the Republicans is Conservative. Discuss
To what extent does Parliament control executive power?
Membership to the EU and Loss of Sovereignty
A level Politics deals with how political decisions affect our daily lives and how our democracy is organised. It addresses questions such as: Do we live in an effective democracy? Are the views of the people who elect politicians sufficiently represented? How can dissent and protest be effective? You will cover political ideologies, organisations and parties, how government works (or not), and possibly the politics of another country such as the USA.
You will need to have a good grasp of factual knowledge and the ability to analyse, argue and discuss in your essay work. Marked by Teachers has a wide range of essay examples which will identify the key skills you'll need to write strong answers in your Politics examinations.
The great attraction of Politics as a subject is that by keeping up with news sources, new material is available to you every day and that makes thesubject dynamic and alive. Politics is a great subject to pave the way for further study in Sociology, Geography and Economics and of course is ideal preparation for a Politics degree.
"Fishing in the EU maritime area is increasingly unsustainable." Discuss this statement with reference to the Common Fisheries Policy.
"In conclusion to this statement I believe that unless drastic measures are taken, beyond the current measures which are being taken by the CFP I believe that fishing in the EU is becoming increasingly unsustainable to the extent that it may never recover. However with tight regulations introduced by the CFP, and a change in fishing techniques the industry may be able to achieve a harmony with the environment and once again become sustainable. Sources: Geography for A2 Clive Hart"
To what extent is European community law supreme in member states?
"The European Union was developed so that there was a"united states of Europe" as stated by Winston Churchill. This was just after World War Two and its main purpose of a single governing state was to overcome any conflicts between member states and to eventually lead to a single member- Europe. To blossom this idea certain guideline and principles need to be in place this included the ideology that European Community law supremacy over national law. Even though supremacy was in place many conflict did crop up like the famous cases of Factotame, Marleasing and Frankovich but they all to come to the conclusion that European Community law is superior and only national law would be overridden. The pillars of European Community law- primacy and direct effect are very essential in delivering maintenance on European Community law supremacy, as without these pillars it would not be possible to keep this supremacy. So overall I would say European Community law is supreme in member states in a significant way."
The UN is an ineffective Peacekeeper. Discuss
"In conclusion in the area of peacekeeping the UN has a record of abject failures -the worst of which being the genocide in Rwanda and failure to change the status of Somalia as a failed state- punctuated with a few marginal successes such as running East Timor as a protectorate and the successful monitoring of the ceasefire on the Iraq-Kuwait border. Also UN intervention is most successful when conflicts are between two states and there is a clear distinction between the party which the UN should support and that which it should oppose."
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Critical Analysis of After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
I shall try to give my own: The name of the poem itself is intriguing and somewhat ominous. The decision to call it "After Apple Picking" is telling. The use of the term after conveys a sense of ambiguity and finality- it refers to an obscure period after a definite action. The poem is thus set up as an ambiguous one. Furthermore, the "apple" is introduced as a principal image in the poem. Thus readers are led to visualize the consequences of apple picking and to anticipate the metaphorical allusion of "Apple Picking", readied for the ambiguity of the indeterminate "After".
"Lord of the Flies" and "Escape from Saddam": the Many Roads to Freedom
So we've got to decide if this is an island" (Golding, 23). Through Ralph's words, it is evident that the boys are completely unaware of the location of the island, or what dangers it can possibly hold. On the other hand, in Escape from Saddam, Lewis Alsamari travels through Iraq and other countries such as England, Jordan, and Malaysia, and also through the desert. When comparing the island on which the boys were stranded to the desert and all the countries Lewis was forced to cross in order to get to England, it is evident that those places are unknown for the characters.
In The Road, the boy, a kid with innocence and the father are moving towards the ocean to find good guys. Throughout their journey they go through challenging events that challenges their morals and respect for other people.
This goes back to the concept of carrying that people who are carrying the fire have a good heart and respect for other people, while the bad guys, the cannibals are the people who steal, eat people, lie and give up. The boy in this case, realizes who the bad guys are; also realizes that they are not bad guys. "[The Man]: Listen, we have to talk. That man back there... There's not many good guys left, that's all. We have to watch out for the bad guys. We have to just... keep carrying the fire. [The Boy]: What fire?
A Comparison of Isolationism in The Metamorphosis and Paradise of the Blind. A Comparison of Two Passages from The House of the Spirits
Being Jewish would be alienating enough, but in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the separation from society is heightened. Furthermore, Kafka's relationship with his father matches the relationship between Gregor and his father, since both are disapproving and resentful. Kafka's father never respects the works of his son, and the father disapproves of his son's desire to become a writer rather than something more "angible. Kafka's authoritative and demanding father mirrors Gregor Samsa's father. Both deny acceptance to their sons because of their jobs, which Kafka shows in the novella by not having the family bail themselves out of the debt, and instead allowing Gregor to work the debt off as a traveling salesman.
How does Macbeths portrayal change throughout the play?
Shakespeare creates a hero who eventually falls, in order to create a tragedy, as the audience sympathizes with his character. Macbeth finally makes his appearance in Act I scence iii, as he comes across the three witches. This is where Macbeth finds out that he will become the Thane of Cawdor, but he also discovers that he will become king. "You shall be king./And thane of Cawdor too:when it not so?" (I,iii,86-87). Macbeth is initially satisfied with the idea of becoming Thane, but once the witches tell Macbeth that he will become king, this sparks the initial change within Macbeth.
Toni Morrison's novel, "Sula", has been hailed by several critics as a remarkable expression of the feminist ideology. To accurately understand this novel, it is necessary to focus on symbols used throughout.
Birds are everywhere in Sula, and they are often associated with specific characters. When we meet Rochelle, she wears a "canary-yellow dress" and has the "glare of a canary" (40) (41). And we already know that a "plague of robins" (1) arrives in Medallion just before Sula does. Birds invoke the idea of flight, which makes sense when we consider that Cecile and Sula both flee at some point in the story. And robins are often associated with the spring, the season of rebirth and growth.
Contrasting the straight forward realist drama style of "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen with the epistolary novel style of "So Long a Letter" by Mariama Ba in revealing the inner feelings and thoughts of the characters in their stories.
The only penetration into the inner world of women, depicting her in pieces of art as strong and rebellious personality who cannot tolerate the injustice and prejudices of contemporary family life, was revolution in itself then. That is why, although these works are written in different parts of the world, belong to different cultures, historical backgrounds and religious traditions, even different genres, they are very common in revealing the inner feelings of their women characters. These convergences and divergences will be further studied in our research.
How are the plot, point of view, tone, setting, and theme of the First Confession written by Frank OConnor?
The analysis begins with subject of situation: once that is identified to formulate a thematic statement about work. b. The test of statement, if the statement of theme leaves certain elements or detail unexplained, or if those elements and details fail to confirm our statement, so the work is flawed and not successful in the identification. c. The exploration of author's biography and autography. The researcher can get it from letters, journals, notebooks, and critical writings, because is it can tell us a great deal about the author, times in which he lived and wrote, and the relationship between the
Gusev Analysis. Chekov brings up two ordinary characters that are suffering under the tyranny which was ruling the country that time. Gusev and Pavel Ivanitch clearly demonstrate human suffering and injustice.
(C, Jack) Theme Although Russia was never colonized the author, Chekov brings up two ordinary characters that are suffering under the tyranny which was ruling the country that time. Gusev and Pavel Ivanitch clearly demonstrate human suffering and injustice that citizens were undergoing. Especially Gusev represents peasants who were on the edge of the society suffering from many distresses and Pavel Ivanitch represents the educated and suppressed middle class. He is a symbol of people who were seeking to stand against so called tyranny and hypocrisy.
In feminist writing, numerous techniques are employed in order to gain liberation from many stereotypical representations of women in their society. Anne Sexton uses the strategy of rewriting fairy tales, which I find most ingenious.
I myself am a victim, deeply influenced by the representation of women in the male-oriented literature I grew up with, which has ingrained versions of the ideal feminine goals, aspirations, and appearance in me. They are to be beautiful like Snow White, and to be married and spend my life relaxing in a safe household, like Cinderella. This is precisely why I chose Sexton's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Cinderella" to discuss, to show that they insidiously influence our perception of males and females.
A Farewell to Arms - plot outline
Valentini who agrees to operate him immediately. Henry learns happily that Catherine has been transferred to the hospital that he is staying. During the following months, his relationship with Catherine improves.Its no longer a simple relationship, their love becomes powerful and real. When Henry's damaged leg has healed, the army gave him three weeks to him to return to the front.. He tries to plan a trip with Catherine, who reveals to him that she is pregnant. The following day, Henry argued with Miss Van Campen.She caught him with empty bottles and accused him of trying to avoid his duty
In the novel Heroes, Robert Cormier attempts to deconstruct the rationale we all have about what defines the archetypal hero. The novel touches on whether or not an evil deed negates many good deeds and if an action, though not performed out of perceived
Robert Cormier introduces the character of Francis Cassavant by having him give a description of his physical appearance. Francis describes, with stark clarity his disfigured face; when making reference to his outward appearance he does so in a completely factual manner, 'Oh I have eyes because I can see and ear drums because I can hear but no ears to speak of, just dangling bits of flesh.' The description appears to be laced with flippant undertones, giving the reader a brief glimpse into the psyche of Francis; he does not recollect his appearance with allusions to bitterness or self pity.
In what ways do the actions of Meursault and Firdaus demonstrate their resistance against the oppression of social hegemony in The Outsider by Albert Camus and Women at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi?
Firdaus comes to realize that she has become a prisoner of the patriarchal institution of marriage. In response to such patriarchal intimidation she escapes from the man's house. Not only is this a clear act of resistance against the patriarchal system, it is also symbolizes Firdaus' awakening to the realization of women's plight in Egyptian society and that the source of her physical oppression stems from men's' lust of her physical body. Firdaus liberation is evidenced in several statements she makes about her own forced marriage, and the oppression of marriage in general.
My Last Duchess. The Last Duchess is a dramatic monologue written by Robert Browning in an Iambic pentameter.
He finally comes to one of his most prized collection: a painting of his late duchess. The extensive use of personal pronouns in the stanza clearly depicts the Duke's inexorable possessiveness over his Duchess, as shown in the line "Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I" (Line 9-10, Robert Browning). The duke over complicates his duchess, and looks way too deep for a certain sense of absolution for his wife's ubiquitous courtesy and joy. He doesn't quite understand that she is ignorant to social status, and the consequences of her actions.
Mending Wall by Robert Frost. Given the use of enjambment and blank verse in Mending Wall, I shall adopt a linear analysis of the poem in order to trace the evolving mindset of the speaker as the poem progresses.
From lines 28 to 42, the speaker develops a contentiousness against his neighbour, elucidating the personal differences that exist between them, ironically revealing the need for both characters to reconcile and mend fences, or in this case, the wall. - As the poem progresses, there is increasing tension between the speaker and his neighbour as the speaker becomes increasingly aware of the differences in mindset between them. It is the speaker's very own contention against the unpragmatic existence of the wall that places him in opposition to his conservative neighbour, ironically confining the speaker himself inside of his own beliefs, rendering him just as inflexible and unchanging as his "old stone savage" neighbour.
I will be examining two poems, The History Teacher by Billy Collins and The the impotence of proofreading by Taylor Mali.
However, words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of the poet, Samuel Johnson said. Words are not bad or good in themselves, but only by virtue of their placing in a line in a poem. The arrangement or juxtaposition of words creates its own poetic diction and reflects society just as much as everything else in the arts. Today, I will focus on diction used in the present society and how it outstandingly reflects some of the difficulties in our world. (Body) Today, I will be examining two poems, "The History Teacher" by Billy Collins and "The the impotence of proofreading" by Taylor Mali.
Romanticism essay. Romanticism was a movement in the fine arts and literature that became popular in the late 1700s and continued through most of the 1800s. It was a revolt against the classicism belief system that was previously known.
The city, once valued so highly was now seen as a hub of corruption and art being used as a means of free expression rather than imitation. Romanticism was a movement in the fine arts and literature that became popular in the late 1700s and continued through most of the 1800s. It was a revolt against the classicism belief system that was previously known. Romantic writers rejected what they considered to be the excessive rationalism and lifeless literary forms of previous periods and emphasized emotions and the imagination and over logical order.
I will show a clear understanding of the issue chosen by looking at both view points (adult and children), this will give me a balanced view and not a bias one. I shall also then produce an overall conclusion about my investigation and evaluate the quality of my findings too. Issue Childhood obesity has nowadays become a serious health matter world wide. "Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20% or more over an individual's ideal body weight.
La introspeccin en Siddhartha
Durante su estancia con los Samanas4, Siddhartha aprendi� a no poseer sentimientos y a trav�s de la meditaci�n consigui� no sentir dolor, hambre, sed o cansancio. Deseaba desprenderse de su "Yo interior" a trav�s del ensimismamiento y la despersonalizaci�n, siendo as� un simple cuerpo. "S�lo una meta se perfilaba ante Siddhartha: quedarse vac�o, despojarse de su sed, de sus deseos, de sus sue�os, de sus penas y alegr�as. Deseaba morir para s� mismo, no ser m�s �l, hallar paz y tranquilidad en su coraz�n vac�o, permanecer abierto al milagro despersonalizando el pensamiento."
What is Spiritual Intelligence? What might we learn from Heinrich Harrer's story to help us become more spiritually intelligent?
'To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where the real deep bliss is - - - not the quick little excitement, but the real, deep life-filling bliss.' -Joseph Campbell I think this quote is the perfect wording for becoming spiritually intelligent, it is saying that once you find that ever-lasting 'happy state', then you are spiritually intelligent. The 'happy' state, of which you find yourself in, is not a quick burst of joy, or a 'high' moment, but a complete mental inner peace.
A comparison of the environment reflecting the protagonists decline in Thomas Manns Death in Venice and Ibsens Ghosts.
Furthermore, even though he notices a storm stirring, he does not do anything to avoid it. This suggests the decadence and heat of Venice has influenced him, reflecting his loss of control over his restraint and eventually, to his decline. In contrast, Ghosts is continually shrouded in cold and dull weather. When Death in Venice does have cold weather, it is in the beginning of the novella, in Munich, when a stormy sky is brewing, signalling the tragedy to come. However, Ghosts continues to have a veil of rain and mist, rather than frightening storms. It has a more subtle suggestion of reflecting the stifling society and its conventions that Mrs Alving despises.
Catcher in the Rye Oral presentation
It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed any more". At this point, the title has no meaning to us. Whereas In chapter 22 we get to see the actual connection between Holden and the title. When asked, by Phoebe, what he wants to do in the future, Holden responds: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.
Las obras Romeo y Julieta de William Shakespeare y Una Casa de Muecas de Henrik Ibsen, tienen mucho en comn. Ya que se puede ver la ceguera, de los antagonistas frente a lo que acontece a los protagonistas de Romeo y Julieta y Una Casa de Muecas.
Este fragmento nos ayuda a entender mejor: "Montesco. �Capuleto, Villano! ... �No me sujetes! �Su�ltame! -"1 podemos ver como le dice villano, esto demuestra el odio que hay entre las familias. Esto demuestra la ignorancia que tienen entre las dos familias ya que no pueden aceptar la realidad y por eso crean todo el conflicto. Por otro lado, en Una Casa de Mu�ecas, la ceguera es producto de la aceptaci�n de los prejuicios de la �poca ya que eso le impide a Helmer aceptar y comprender a su mujer.
I will be focusing on the significance of the two protagonists from two different fiction texts which are Washington square by Henry James and The Ballad of the Sad Caf by Carson McCullers. Both novels have similarities such as the two female protagonis
An productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel writing, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales. Henry James had a massive success in English literature. The novel is about a female protagonist called Catherine who falls in love with a man who only is interested in her fortune.
In my opinion, Henry Jamess work The Turn of The Screw and William Faulkners As I Lay Dying have different qualities in terms of structure though having very few similarities.
In my paper I will try to show you how narrative structures of these two books are different and how narration affects reader's understanding of events and characters of the story. First of all it should be known Faulkner makes a revolutionary attempt in novel style. As a technique stream of consciousness is introduced to American Literature. Faulkner is not the first person using this structure yet he is the first in American Literature so that's why not many critics appreciates his works.
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page"
-St. Augustine
If you loved Crime and Punishment, and your favourite books tend to be those that transport you to faraway places, then you'll probably enjoy the world literature component of IB English Literature. The course teaches you to analyse literary works from many different time periods and cultures, so you'll get the chance to read translated literature alongside English literature.
To do well, you'll need to be able to construct complicated literary arguments in writing. If you would like some practice first, study Marked by Teachers collection of student-submitted IB world literature essays. The teacher-annotated papers will give you all the tools you need to earn top marks: you'll soon see the difference in your writing.
Students who excel in this course should consider studying English literature or a modern foreign language at the university level. When applying to these courses, having good marks in higher level English will be very helpful indeed.
Disgrace. Compare and contrast David and Lucys reaction to the attack in chapters 12 to 14
"To conclude I would say that David and Lucy's reaction to the attacks could not contrast more. Where David appeared to be scared and Lucy put on the brave front, David was the one who was strong for them both, going to the market etc, whereas Lucy was finding life after the attack very difficult, 'her thumb in her mouth like a child.' However, Lucy does not want the attack to be known to the public, she wants to move on, forget the past, but David wanted revenge on the attackers. Lucy's attitude towards the attack suggests that she felt guilty for the mistreatment of blacks and felt this was her punishment, whereas David's beliefs that change shouldn't happen were stressed by the attack."
To what extent does Ibsens Hedda Gabler update the conventions of Greek tragedy that can be found in Euripides Medea?
"To conclude, throughout this essay I have attempted to show and explain how Ibsen, in his play Hedda Gabler, has updated and twisted the conventions of Greek tragedy that can be found within Euripides' classic tragedy Medea. I have examined how the death of Hedda, in particular the location and reaction to it, utilises and manipulates convention to create drama and enable the audience to draw their own conclusion from the action. The nature of the Thespian Loevborg, and how Hedda lives through him, shows how Medea's character has been twisted and changed, that Hedda is no longer seeking revenge and equality, in the perhaps two dimensional Euripidean world that Medea inhabits, but also control and success. I believe that there are many ways in which Ibsen has updated the conventions of Greek tragedy, and that it is the use of farce throughout that presents this text as a truly modernised Greek tragedy. 1 Ibsen, Henrick, Hedda Gabler, Methuen Drama Student Editions, 2002 Methuen Publishing Ltd. P. 76. 2 Hedda Gabler, p. 99 3 Euripides, Medea, Cambridge University Press 1999, l.840 4 Hedda Gabler, p. 45 5 Medea l.298 6 Hedda Gabler, p. 37 7 Hedda Gabler, p. 104 8 Medea, l. 88 9 Hedda Gabler, p. 64 10 Medea, l. 398 11 Hedda Gabler p. 95 12 Hedda Gabler p. 99 C. Wild"
Who do you think is responsible for Gregor's fate? To what extent do you think he is responsible?
"Mr. Samsa lacks the qualities of a caring father, which is the central reason for Gregor's death. With enormous responsibilities at a young age, his life even before the metamorphosis is the life of a beetle. Much of this has a lot of to do with Kafka's strained relationship with his own father, who he describes as "huge, selfish, (and an) overbearing businessman," in his Letter to his father. Although this is not the reason why Kafka died, it sure is the reason why Gregor dies."
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Wendy Perriam on her forthcoming short story collection Bad Mothers Brilliant Lovers
By National Short Story Week on 21st November 2014 inRead short stories
The title may seem a tad blatant but, in my 35 years as a writer, I’ve been continually fascinated by the key influence parents exert over their children’s future development and life-chances, and also by the power of sex to enrich and exhilarate. Yet I’m equally aware of the darker side of sex, which, if violent or exploitative, can damage and debase. Taught by the Reverend Mother of my convent boarding-school that one single act of incontinence could land me in hellfire for all eternity, I was conscious from a tender age of the dramatic dangers of “the world, the flesh and the devil”.
Bad mothers certainly feature in this collection – negative, critical, or cantankerous – but I wanted to balance them with some positive, upbeat element – hence the lovers, who, although by no means all ‘brilliant’, engage in enough passionate and transformative sex to justify the adjective. However, there are also more troubling liaisons, for instance, an 82-year-old professor’s attempt to seduce a post-graduate student 60 years his junior. The encounter begins promisingly enough, as the Prof runs through his repertoire of erotic expertise but, when it comes to the crunch, he proves just too offputtingly ancient and the girl flees his bed in panic and disgust.
Another, much younger lover – a data analyst obsessed with numbers, algorithms and mathematical formulae – seems incapable of sexual spontaneity, adhering to a rigid sexual system, as if his every timetabled move is dictated by a dispassionate cyber-brain.
But many of my characters lack any kind of lover: essentially lonely souls, such as 93-year-old widow Primrose, divorcee Sarah, or single, childless Ellen. Yet, each of the three achieves redemption and reprieve – another recurring theme in my work. The basic notion of redemption was instilled in me, very early on, as a Roman Catholic child and I found it appealingly compassionate in that every person on earth can be saved, so long as they seek forgiveness. Of course, redemption for my fictional characters is rarely a religious matter; indeed, is sometimes achieved through bizarrely secular means – in businesswoman Helen’s case, a self-indulgent glut of marshmallows, or, for shy loner Ken, a home-made Christmas pudding – but the basic concept holds good, in that it remains a regenerative and liberating force.
As always, many of the stories sprang from personal experience: the fake gold ring I was offered in a scam; my encounter with a colony of mice at Clapham Common tube station; the bridal couple I saw posing for photos in the Lost Property Office, of all places; my horror as a pious child when I fainted during Holy Mass and believed I was plunging into Hell.
And that terrifying incident brings me back to mothers and lovers. Reverend Mother, who deplored my habitual fainting and refused to call me Wendy on the grounds it wasn’t a Saint’s name, was undoubtedly a ‘bad mother’. Yet I sought solace in God the Father, whom I regarded as a lover, in the sense of a powerful, life-enhancing Presence, demanding worship and surrender.
Oppressive mothers and unobtainable fathers have characterized much of my work since my first novel in 1980, along with Catholicism, of course, which has left indelible traces in the fibre of my being, like letters lingering in a stick of rock until the very last lick. And, in many of my books, I explore the struggle between rebellion and submission, and the drive for self-fulfilment in conflict with the pernicious lure of self-destruction. All these themes recur in Bad Mothers, Brilliant Lovers, yet, in the interests of fairness, I’ve also included a few good mothers in the stories, as well as some downright crappy lovers. Take your pick!
Read an extract from ‘Joy’ a short story from Wendy Perriam’s forthcoming collection Bad Mothers Brilliant Lovers. This collection will be published by Robert Hale on 14th January 2015. www.halebooks.com
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Preparation to buy energy in dry season
The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is set to start dialogue for power purchase agreement (PPA) for the dry season with four export-oriented projects. These projects have proposed to sell electricity during the dry season.
The board meeting of NEA on Saturday formed a committee under board member Laxman Prasad Agrawal for dialogue. The committee has been authorized to sign memorandum of understanding (MOU) for trading of electricity through dialogue. The NEA had sought proposal from export-oriented projects for procurement of electricity to address demand during the dry season after 2020. The NEA has already taken a decision to procure electricity from these projects in five months of high energy demand from mid-November to mid-April at a base rate of Rs 10.60. These projects will export electricity to India for the remaining seven months of the year. The NEA says base rate for PPA has been determined to send a positive message to the investors.
The NEA is ready for dialogue nine months after the promoters submitted proposal in February to sell electricity during the dry season. Combined installed capacity of these four projects is 1324 MW. Feasibility study by the promoters of these projects has put annual generation at around 1.50 billion units. Only five projects with combined installed capacity of 1724 MW had submitted proposal to sell electricity by mid-February. Proposals were submitted by 440 MW Tila I and 420 MW of Tila II, developed jointly by KSK Energy of India and SC Power, Nepal, 282 MW Manang Marsyangdi, 182 MW Upper Marsyangdi and 400 MW Lower Arun. The promoters had demanded that PPA be done in dollar at least until the payback period. Generation license of Lower Arun in the name of Brass Company is in the process of revocation now. The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had directed for revocation of its license after it did not show intent to develop the project despite repeated extensions of deadline.
Promoters have said they are ready to sell electricity during the dry season in Nepal due to the problems faced in making financial arrangements for the projects before PPA is signed. The NEA board has already approved the policy about electricity procurement. The Energy Ministry has determined a rate of return of 18 percent for investors to expedite construction of reservoir based projects. While the rate of return was only determined for the run of the river projects earlier, the government has also guaranteed return for promoters of reservoir based projects as they also need to be constructed in recent times. The government has been providing a rate of return of up to 16 percent for run of the river projects.
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सौर्य ऊर्जामा ५७ आयोजनाले लिए सर्वेक्षणको अनुमति
‘सुपर सिक्स’ जलविद्युत् आयोजना तल्लो सोलुसँग डलरमा पिपिए गर्न सिफारिस पीडीएफ मुद्रण
Sunkoshi Small Hydro Plant at risk
तल्लो मोदीको काम अन्तिम चरणमा
Devolving power
Power wastage amounts to 50m units
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12th Mar2020
‘IT: Chapter 2’ Blu-ray Review
by Chris Thomas
Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Bill Skarsgård | Written by Gary Dauberman | Directed by Andy Muschietti When I was about 10 I had a friend whose parents really didn’t seem too bothered what he got up to. I remember thinking at the time how […]
Tags : Andy Bean, Andy Muschietti, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgård, Gary Dauberman, Isaiah Mustafa, It Chapter 2, James McAvoy, James Ransone, Jay Ryan, Jessica Chastain, Review
‘Villains’ Review (Rakuten TV)
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Blake Baumgartner, Jeffrey Donovan, Kyra Sedgwick, Noah Robbins | Written and Directed by Dan Berk, Robert Olsen I’ve used Rakuten TV a few times now, and the service is on-point. Slick, easy to use and crystal clear in sound and picture, it’s a very cool service for the rental of […]
Tags : Bill Skarsgård, Blake Baumgartner, Dan Berk, Jeffrey Donovan, Kyra Sedgwick, Maika Monroe, Noah Robbins, Rakuten TV, Review, Robert Olsen, Villains
06th Sep2019
‘It Chapter 2’ Review
02nd Apr2019
‘Assassination Nation’ DVD Review
by Rupert Harvey
Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, Cody Christian, Danny Ramirez | Written and Directed by Sam Levinson The Salem witch trials are brought screaming into the 21st century through the lens of the modern teenage experience. This is the story of […]
Tags : Anika Noni Rose, Assassination Nation, Bella Thorne, Bill Skarsgård, Cody Christian, Colman Domingo, Danny Ramirez, DVD, Hari Nef, Joel McHale, Maude Apatow, Odessa Young, Review, Sam Levinson, Suki Waterhouse
23rd Nov2018
‘Assassination Nation’ Review
Tags : Abra, Anika Noni Rose, Assassination Nation, Bella Thorne, Bill Skarsgård, Cody Christian, Colman Domingo, Danny Ramirez, Hari Nef, Joel McHale, Maude Apatow, Odessa Young, Review, Sam Levinson, Suki Waterhouse
05th Oct2018
LFF 2018: ‘Assassination Nation’ Review
by Jak-Luke Sharp
Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, Cody Christian, Danny Ramirez | Written and Directed by Sam Levinson High school senior Lily and her crew of besties live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies, and chats – just like the […]
Tags : Abra, Anika Noni Rose, Assassination Nation, Bella Thorne, Bill Skarsgård, Cody Christian, Colman Domingo, Danny Ramirez, Hari Nef, Joel McHale, LFF 2018, Maude Apatow, Odessa Young, Review, Sam Levinson, Suki Waterhouse
15th May2018
‘Deadpool 2’ Review
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Julian Dennison, Stefan Kapicic, T.J. Miller, Terry Crews, Bill Skarsgard, Rob Delaney, Shioli Kutsuna, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni | Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds | Directed by David Leitch The Merc with the Mouth is back! Hot on the heels of […]
Tags : Bill Skarsgård, Brianna Hildebrand, David Leitch, Deadpool 2, Josh Brolin, Julian Dennison, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Morena Baccarin, Review, Rob Delaney, Ryan Reynolds, Shioli Kutsuna, Stefan Kapicic, T.J. Miller, Terry Crews, Zazie Beetz
‘It’ Review #2
Stars: Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson, Owen Teague, Jackson Robert Scott, Stephen Bogaert, Stuart Hughes | Written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman | Directed by Andy Muschetti Stephen King’s bumper 1986 novel gets the fully-fledged cinematic treatment […]
Tags : Bill Skarsgård, Cary Fukunaga, Chase Palmer, Chosen Jacobs, Finn Wolfhard, Gary Dauberman, It, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jackson Robert Scott, Jaeden Lieberher, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson, Nicholas Hamilton, Owen Teague, Review, Sophia Lillis, Stephen Bogaert, Stephen King, Stuart Hughes, Wyatt Oleff
‘It’ Review
by Joel Harley
Stars: Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson, Owen Teague, Jackson Robert Scott, Stephen Bogaert, Stuart Hughes | Written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman | Directed by Andy Muschetti A little boy and his bright yellow raincoat, chasing a […]
14th Aug2017
‘Atomic Blonde’ Review
Review by Matthew Turner Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella, Bill Skarsgård, John Goodman, Toby Jones, Roland Moller | Written by Kurt Johnstad | Based on “The Coldest City” by Antony Johnston & Sam Hart | Directed by David Leitch An ice cool Charlize Theron kicks plenty of ass in this stylish Cold War […]
Tags : Atomic Blonde, Bill Skarsgård, Charlize Theron, David Leitch, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Kurt Johnstad, Review, Roland Moller, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones
03rd Aug2017
‘IT’ talks in two new TV spots!
by Phil Wheat
Warner Bros. have released two new TV spots for the IT remake, which is once again based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by Mama‘s Andrés Muschietti, IT stars Bill Skarsgård (Allegiant, Hemlock Grove) as the story’s central villain, Pennywise. An ensemble of young actors also star in the […]
Category : Movies, News
Tags : Andrés Muschietti, Bill Skarsgård, Chosen Jacobs, Finn Wolfhard, It, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Nicholas Hamilton, Sophia Lillis, Stephen King, Wyatt Oleff
21st Jul2017
SDCC ’17: ‘IT’ remake gets a new poster
Warner Bros. have released a new San Diego Comic-Con one sheet for the IT remake, which is once again based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they […]
It’s here… First trailer & poster for ‘It’
Warner Bros. Pictures have released the first poster and trailer for the new iteration of Stephen King’s It, which comes to cinemas 8th September. Directed by Andrés Muschietti (Mama), It features Bill Skarsgård as the story’s central villain, Pennywise – who was brought to life so tremendously in the 90s mini-series by Tim Curry. The […]
Tags : Andrés Muschietti, Bill Skarsgård, Finn Wolfhard, It, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Poster, Sophia Lillis, Stephen King, Trailer, Wyatt Oleff
‘Hemlock Grove: The Complete First Season’ DVD Review
by Paul Metcalf
When companies like Netflix and Amazon starting to announce original series that would be hosted exclusively by them, I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t really that interested. Kevin Spacey changed this view somewhat with House of Cards, but Hemlock Grove caught my interest even more. With good word of mouth and interesting trailers featuring a […]
Category : Reviews, TV
Tags : Bill Skarsgård, DVD, Famke Janssen, Hemlock Grove, Landon Liboiron, Netflix, Review
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Home > More > Hot Links > Girl band Mamamoo drops roaring party music with retro concept
Girl band Mamamoo drops roaring party music with retro concept
K-pop divas Mamamoo returned with a new album Thursday, poised to smash the spring music scene with retro party vibes.
The seven-track record “White Wind” is the finale of the girl band’s “Four Season Four Color” album project that kicked off in January last year.
Including “White Wind,” Mamamoo released four albums under the project over the year, matching the four different seasons and four colors representing each of the four members.
The final, winter album features white, the color of member Wheein, and carries the track “25″ that she wrote.
The new album is fronted by “Gogobebe,” a reggae variation with Latin guitar riffs, which throws a colorful music party with its hilarious sounds and lyrics.
The members said the song’s producer Kim Do-hoon took inspiration from “Zzanga,” a 2001 song by 1990s K-pop star Kim Gun-mo. Kim Gun-mo himself took part in composing the lead track with the producer, while two Mamamoo members — Solar and Wheein — wrote the lyrics with the producer.
With bell-bottom pants and a halterneck top, the members’ retro fashion added force to the song’s retro glamour and party vibes when the band premiered the song to media on Thursday.
Mamamoo members showcase their new album “White Wind” at a media event on March 14, 2019. (Yonhap)
“While our previous albums had mature and deep (sentimental) sides, we worked on this album with a mind to have fun,” member Hwasa said at the press showcase.
“It’s an exciting, hilarious song that will smash everything,” Solar said, referring to “Gogobebe.”
“‘Gogobebe’ has the highest level of all the group dances we have done so far,” Wheein said. “I hope this song will trigger a dance inside those who see its performance.”
Member Moonbyul said the song best fits the festive mood of Friday night. “It’s a song like a Friday night when you seek fun as if there’s no tomorrow.”
Wrapping up the one-year album project, the members said they felt bittersweet. The demanding, frequent album releases under the project led some of Mamamoo’s fans to protest against the band’s management agency, RBW and boycott their concerts last year.
“About midway through the project, I was under enormous stress as (we) had to prepare for the next album after (releasing) one,” team leader Solar said.
“Wrapping it up, I feel much better, but at the same time, I am sad. It was good to have many opportunities to present our music.”
“There were moments of exhaustion and stress … but we grew up a lot and gained a lot in terms of music. It will go down as a meaningful moment of life,” Wheein said.
The album also includes “Waggy,” a bossa nova number; the soulful ballad “Bad Bye”; and “My Star.”
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You are here: Home / Issues / Immigration / Rep. Gutierrez Plans to be Arrested in Front of The White House
Rep. Gutierrez Plans to be Arrested in Front of The White House
April 30, 2010 By latinovations Staff
Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago, who has long been an outspoken immigration advocate, says he plans to get arrested while protesting in front of the White House on Saturday.
The Congressman will join protesters who are upset with the controversial Arizona law that authorizes police to stop and search people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants.
Gutierrez has often been one of the Democrats’ leading voices on the issue, and said he voted for health care reform on the understanding that Obama and congressional Democrats would move pass immigration reform. (LINK IT)
He plans to be arrested and released in time for an appearance on “Face the Nation” on CBS Sunday Morning.
Gutierrez offering a warning that many Latinos will probably decide to stay home for the 2010 elections because of the strict new immigration law in Arizona, said, “On one hand our are not going to vote because you don’t believe people you voted for are doing a good enough job. Then you say, ‘I got to vote, because the enemy is so mean and vindictive, I got to get out there.”
According to a 2009 Pew Research Center study, 9.7 million Latinos cast ballots in 2008 and made up about 7.4 percent of the electorate.
In the 2008 election, Hispanic voters helped win battleground states such as Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico.
Filed Under: Immigration Tagged With: Arizona, Immigration, Latinos
Jazmin says
GO GUTIERREZ GO!!!! BECAUSE LATINOS TRUST YOU!!!!
I think Congressman Gutierrez is very brave and such a good person. Obama should be ashamed of himself for not getting involved enough suporting Immigration Reform….We are still waiting Obama…
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Jan 03, 2018 - (0) comments - 2017, Alex Edwards, Bailey Bryan, Bishop Briggs, BLSHS, Britian, Can't Be Alone With You, Country, DOT, Electro-Pop, Electronica, Favorites, Great American Solar Eclipse, Heavy Heart, Highland Kites, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, I'm Not Weak, Jess Bennett, Kate Ellwanger, Los Angeles, Luci, Marissa Lamar, MIEARS, Mothica, Nashville, Neil Briggs, New York, Oklahoma, Olympia, Own It, Retrofuture, Seattle, Sequim, Washington, Who Will Save You?
2017 has been one of the craziest years, not just in music or the arts, but in politics and in my personal life. But for now, I am going to stick with the music aspect for the introduction.
First off, this was an incredible year for music. In each of the nine different categories for Lemonade Magazine’s Favorites, I had no less than three artists or bands competing for each award. It was with great difficulty that I finally settled on who my favorites were over the past 12 months. As I am typing this I am struggling to stick with who I initially chose.
Secondly, thank you to all of the artists, PR and record labels for sending us all of the incredible music that we listened to in 2017. We did more interviews, more reviews and listened to more music than any other year in our eight year run.
And of course, I need to thank all of our fans and readers. I may sound like a broken record, but there is no way we would be doing any of this without your support and encouragement. Editor Brandon and I are continually amazed at the amount of interactions on social media and the traffic we see on our site. You make it all worth it. So thank you!
Favorite Album: Retrofuture by DOT
When I came across Retrofuture by Kate Ellwanger, better known as DOT, I was in total shock. The album was perfectly named and the music evoked nostalgic feelings, yet still had me looking toward the future. And the beautiful thing is that Ellwanger literally did everything on this record. She produced, recorded, sang and founded the female-centric label, Unspeakable Records, which released her music. The 23-yr old Olympia, WA native has found an electronic sound that is boundless and timeless.
Favorite Song: “Can’t Be Alone With You” by Luci
While the Los Angeles-based trio Luci, consisting of McKail Seely, Ashley Maietta and Ariana Tibi, have only released one song so far, it is a brilliant track. “Can’t Be Alone With You” is filled with killer, sensual harmonies that ensnares all of the senses. A bluesy, pop-infused track that is so unique and fresh that it was impossible to ignore. Their vocal chemistry is undeniable and while we wait for more from the talented trio, we still have “Can’t Be Alone With You”.
Favorite EP: Heavy Heart by Mothica
If you are looking for an upbeat, but an emotional anthem for heartbreak and relationships, then Mothica‘s Heavy Heart EP is going to be your jam. The 6-song EP is 100% complete. It is flawless vocally and is layered with synth beats and a depth of emotion and heartache that most artists only dream of reaching. On top of the emotional waves, Mothica has found a sound that blends the best of indie electro-pop and mainstream hip-hop and R&B. Heavy Heart is brilliant.
Favorite New Artist: MIEARS
MIEARS – Photo by Alida Bonifaz
2017 was an interesting year for newcomer Michelle Miears. She took a break from her band BLSHS (pronounced Blushes), to work on a solo project simply titled MIEARS, her hometown was hit by Hurricane Harvey and did all of this while working. Her debut EP, Who Will Save You?, is filled with her lovely, ethereal vocals that are tinged with a heartbreaking sadness. MIEARS gathers everything that is right with electro-pop by layering down-tempo beats, soothing, sensual melodies with her tender, delicate vocals. It is a brilliant first effort that highlights all of her musical talents.
Favorite Male Artist: Jaymes Young
Seattle-native Jaymes Young had one of the most highly anticipated album releases in 2017. Coming off the coattails of his critical successes of Habits Of My Heart and Dark Star EPs, Feel Something was still a huge breakout for the singer/songwriter. Feel Something combined everything good about music. It took the quirkiness and alternative sounds of an indie records and blended it with the exquisite, detailed production of a major label to produce something that is fresh and radio-ready. On top of that, he set off on a major North American tour that saw him visit 16 cities in two countries in less than a month.
Favorite Female Artist: Bishop Briggs
Bishop Briggs – Photo by Sarah Draughon
I had the pleasure of seeing Bishop Briggs in concert at Bumbershoot in September 2016. Her ability to engage with the crowd with a huge amount of energy was insane. She pushed through the exhaustion of bouncing around the stage and jumping while never missing a bit or a hook. And when she sings, she sings with passion and power. The British songstress finds a way to balance her high-energy performances with emotional depth that might be unmatched by any other artist out there; male or female. Bishop Briggs is an entertainer, but not just. She is also a brilliant songwriter and a performer.
Favorite Band/Duo: Highland Kites
This trio of Marissa Lamar, Neil Briggs and Alex Edwards, better known as Highland Kites, took everything that was good about independent music and created the gold standard for an indie release in I’m Not Weak. The Los Angeles trio have traveled and performed all along the West Coast delivering their personal, relatable music with conviction and love. There is an honesty and truth that Highland Kites portrays and delivers and they deserve your attention and ears.
Favorite Music Video: “Own It” by Bailey Bryan
Bailey Bryan @ Tractor Tavern – Photo by Aaron Mannari
I had the pleasure of catching Bailey Bryan earlier this year at her show in Seattle and the 19-yr old future country star is one of the nicest and sweetest people I have met. The Washington native is on the fast-track to stardom, but at the beginning of 2017, she released her first music video to critical acclaim. The innovative style (it was the first video to have been shot vertically to fit best on your smart phone) and brilliantly positive message combined with Bryan’s undeniable charm and quirkiness brought the video to the forefront. This was difficult to choose as I also had Halsey‘s “Bad At Love” and SOFI TUKKER‘s “Best Friend” videos tagged as well, but because of the innovation along with Bryan‘s talent she got the nod.
Favorite Moment: Having The Love Of My Life Say Yes
I had a lot of things to choose from including seeing over 50 artists perform live in 2017 and interviewing Grammy-nominated duo SOFI TUKKER and a lot more, but none impacted my life as much as the love of my life agreeing to be my wife. For those of you who do not know, I asked Jess Bennett, that lovely lady in the photo above, to marry me after a round trip to the middle of rural eastern Oregon to see the Great American Solar Eclipse. While I did not ask during the eclipse, I did propose later in the evening after the once-in-a-lifetime event and I wanted to follow that up with something else special. I could not have asked for a better friend and partner. So thank you, Jess for making 2017 such a special year. I love you and I am looking forward to spending the rest of my life with you.
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LESLEY TELFORD / INVERSO PRODUCTIONS
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Dance draws from quantum science in Lesley Telford's Spooky Action at a Distance
The Georgia Straight/ by Janet Smith on April 19th, 2017 at 12:56 PM
One of the clearest definitions of quantum entanglement—a phenomenon Albert Einstein dubbed “spooky action at a distance”—can be found in a vampire movie.
In Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive Tom Hiddleston’s depressed rock-star bloodsucker explains it this way to Tilda Swinton’s Eve, his centuries-long partner: “When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected.”
In fact, it was by watching the dark love story that Vancouver dance artist Lesley Telford learned about quantum entanglement—in which particles are so closely connected that they cannot act independently of one another, no matter how much space lies between them. She became fascinated not just with the scientific possibilities of the concept but with the romantic ones. It’s an idea she explores in a new work, named—what else?--Spooky Action at a Distance.
“I thought, ‘What a great metaphor,’ ” the choreographer tells the Straight over sushi before heading into a Dance Centre studio. “It’s the idea of quantum entanglement and how that could relate to human entanglement.…It’s really a metaphor for human interactions.”
First, though, as is so often the case with Telford, she needed to form those ideas into words. So she approached poet Barbara Adler to talk about the phenomenon, and then to have her build poetry around it—text that the writer will perform live in Telford’s first full evening of work here.
“Barbara talked a lot about how you feel this resonance with people that have been in your life, and how it’s tied into romantic connections and love stories,” Telford explains. “As we dig into it, it’s become less about that and more of an underlying vibration in the work; it feels like we’ve gone beyond that starting point.…I feel like she has a way of making it so down-to-earth and it’s given us so much food to work with. Are we in control of the universe or is it in control of us?”
Spooky Action at a Distance, a work for seven dancers, ends up being a string of duets that weave—entangle—into other duets. Under the banner of her company, Inverso, it joins two other pieces on a solo program called Three Sets/Relating at a Distance that features poetry-driven works. Telford, an alumna of Nederlands Dans Theater and Madrid’s Compañía Nacional de Danza, has now returned to her hometown and is in the midst of an artist’s residency at the Dance Centre. She is already in demand here: along with this solo evening, she’s just coming off a creation at Ballet BC for its Program 2, and she’s done choreography for Pi Theatre’s remount of the play Long Division.
In the duet My tongue, your ear, she plays Nico Muhly’s haunting, angular viola piece Etude 1A off excerpts of Polish poet Wisława Szymborska’s ironic portrayal of parting, “The Tower of Babel”, and If is a trio that features an Anne Carson poem. In Spooky Action, it was Adler who really anchored her ideas and helped her grab onto an intangible concept, Telford says. But in the other two short pieces, poetry was the impetus for her explorations. “The danger in dance is it becomes so studied; it can square off into music,” Telford explains of her love of using poetry, “so those rhythms [of speech] really sparked ideas about how we access movement.”
Non-physics majors in the audience will be relieved to hear that in Spooky Action, as in the other two works that show Telford’s range of creation over the past decade, it’s not required to fully comprehend the complex concepts that inspire her choreography. It can be simply enough to enjoy innovative choreography that feels like it’s grounded in something deep, intricate, meaningful, and sometimes a bit strange. “I kind of hope that people don’t feel it’s necessary to understand it all,” says Telford. “It just helps me find a reason to make movement.”
Lesley Telford’s Three Sets/Relating at a Distance is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from Thursday to Saturday (April 20 to 22).
Ballet B.C. pushes to the breaking point with No. 29. Interview with Janet Smith / Georgia Straight
Recently moved back here from the dance hotbed of Europe, Lesley Telford stages a piece about chance on the Queen E. stage. In the studio with Ballet B.C., Lesley Telford pushes dancers to explore close calls from real life. The choreographer is back here after years of working in the Netherlands and Spain.
Lesley Telford wields paper houses at the Chutzpah Festival. Interview with Janet Smith / Georgia Straight
It comes as little surprise that dance artist Lesley Telford is so drawn to the image of the home. When the Vancouver-born choreographer-performer brings her Brittle Failure here for the Chutzpah Festival, it will feature hundreds of small, white paper houses on-stage. For Telford, who has spent most of the past two decades pursuing her art form in places from Montreal to the Netherlands, the structures reveal a lot about what she yearns for when she’s out in the world.
Choreograph the house of life. Roger Salas / EL PAIS/ CULTURE
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Retire Here, Not There
July 31, 2020, 9:50 a.m. EDT
This is what personal finance apps should be doing to better serve older people (and maybe everyone)
Researchers surveying people over 50 revealed the fault may lie with the apps themselves
By Richard Eisenberg
This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org .
There’s something curious about mobile and online personal finance apps and websites, sometimes called fintech. They’re not used much by people over 50, especially low-to-moderate income older adults.
What I’d tell my fellow 50-plusers: It’s not you, it’s them — the fintech designers and marketers.
80% of older Americans can't afford to retire - COVID-19 isn't helping
More than 25 million older Americans are financially insecure - living at or below the federal poverty level. We spoke with a few senior citizens who shared about their economic challenges.
“Online banking has never been more important than it is now for older adults,” Linda Peters, director of Older Adult Programs at the Northwest Side Housing Center in Chicago, said in a digital empowerment presentation at the recent National Council on Aging (NCOA) virtual Age & Action conference. And yet, she added, there has been a “huge digital divide between older adults and banking.”
“The sites really are not intuitive. I’m not sure they’re designed for younger people. It’s just that younger people are used to dealing with crappy websites, so they just keep going.”
Thomas Kamber, executive director of Older Adults Technology Services
As the pandemic has temporarily closed some bank branches and made visiting open ones and ATMs a potential COVID-19 risk, however, “it’s definitely pushing some people who were previously reluctant adopters to adopt” online banking, said Thomas Kamber, executive director of Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) and a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging.
The truth about fintech for people over 50
But as the nonprofit Financial Health Network’s Fintech Over 50: Designing for Low-to Moderate-Income Older Adults research report (sponsored by the AARP Foundation in collaboration with Chase /zigman2/quotes/205971034/composite JPM -1.79% ) shows, fintech designers and marketers have done a pretty crummy job making their tools ideal for boomers, Gen Xers and the Silent Generation.
That’s especially true for the 56 million Americans over 50 with incomes under $45,000 or so, who could really use the help. According to the Financial Health Network’s researchers, only 17% of low-to-moderate-income adults over 50 are financially healthy; 57% are financially coping and 26% are financially vulnerable.
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It’s not as if people 50+ are tech Luddites. Most are active users of smartphones and other technology offering access to fintech solutions. Some 86% of adults in their 50s and 81% of those in their 60s have smartphones.
Older low-to-moderate-income adults, the Financial Health Network report said, “prefer to feel fully in control over their money and personal information and will be most drawn to fintech companies that put them in the driver’s seat.” They’re especially concerned about financial fraud; more than 3.5 million Americans 60+ were victims in 2017.
A key barrier: fear
One reason so many older Americans still don’t deposit checks through their bank’s smartphone app: fear of what might happen if they do.
“In my experience, there’s distrust. ‘How do I know my money is going to get to you as opposed to handing my check to a teller?” said Donna Turner, chief operations officer at Zelle, a digital payments network owned by a group of major banks.
See: Why you should be using a VPN if you bank and invest online
The percentage of older adults using mobile checking to deposits has been on the rise during the pandemic, though. A June 2020 SYKES survey of 1,000 people 55+ found that 18% who do use mobile checking did so for the first time due to the pandemic. And Zelle says 55% of people 55 and older are using mobile banking more frequently since the start of the pandemic.
Fear also prevents some older Americans from using personal finance apps to manage their savings and investments.
Said Kamber: “If you’re using Google Maps and you make a mistake and go down the wrong street, you go down one block. If you use your retirement savings account and accidentally put money in the wrong place, you could lose thousands of dollars.”
Kamber is somewhat annoyed by many in the fintech world.
“There seems to be a war between user design and engineering and unfortunately, engineers have won. The sites really are not intuitive,” he said. “I’m not sure they’re designed for younger people. It’s just that younger people are used to dealing with crappy websites, so they just keep going.”
What the researchers found surveying people 50+
A few highlights from the Fintech Over 50 report (noted in bold), based on Financial Health Network’s focus groups with 90 low-to-moderate-income older adults, along with insights from experts about what those people said.
—Many fintech solutions are designed for younger users and don’t address the needs of users over 50 properly.
“It is surprising,” said Heidi Johnson, director of behavioral economics at Financial Health Network. “The financial health needs of low-to-middle-income older adults are often serious and similar to those we all experience, with the challenges of building up short-term savings and that we might have to keep working.”
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SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL WORLDS TO MESMERIZE VISITORS WITH NEW FAMILY ATTRACTION
From the idea of bringing a centuries old memory to the modern world, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon developed the concept of creating a unique carousel that will awe the visitors of Swarovski Crystal Worlds, located in Wattens, Austria. Hayon starts every project by forming shapes in his mind, which later becomes a sketch where he combines the different shapes envisioned to create a detailed designed. Then he starts working with his team to create the prototype.
The carousel – like most of Hayon’s work – showcase a characteristic contrast beautified by an exceptional sense of detail. The extraordinary carousel is adorned with Swarovski crystals and is coloured in black and white. The simple colours of the design truly bring the characters embedded on the carousel to life.
“My initial designs were very colourful”, says Hayon. However, since the surroundings of the artwork were already so colourful, the artist could not imagine his piece would stand out. So, he removed all colours and replaced them with black and white, which helped create the stunning contrast.
“The carousel is a symbol of innocence and lightness of spirit. In this exciting, new interpretation, Jaime Hayon combines superb elegance with his unique character figures from a fantasy world,” says Carla Rumler, Curator for Swarovski Crystal Worlds and Cultural Director Swarovski.
The artist’s finished work will be on display at Swarovski Crystal Worlds starting July 2019. The decorative instalment is bound to mesmerize the onlookers and engulf them in a magical atmosphere.
Swarovski Crystal Worlds is open year-round for all visitors. Tourists visiting Austria this summer will have the chance to enjoy the beauty of the new carousel and the many other fascinating artworks displayed, while enjoying the wonderful weather and natural environment of Wattens. With this new carousel and the many other enthralling instalments that captivate people of all ages, Crystal Worlds establishes itself as a leading attraction for both art enthusiasts and families.
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3 of 9 Dimensions
review by Nick Ostrum
The indefatigable David Peck (PEK) is at it still. While the recent announcement of the retirement of long-time Leap of Faith percussionist Yuri Zbitnov might damper Evil Clown's output � indeed, Zbitnov was a key, creative driving force in numerous Leap of Faith projects � until I happened upon 3 of 9 Dimensions, I had not heard a PEK recording on which Zbitnov had not made an indelible and essential mark. String Theory (a revolving unit but, here, Glynis Lomon, Elinor Speirs [a member of LoF just since 2018], Eric Zinman, and PEK himself) was established in 2015. Recorded live at Cambridge, MA's Outpost 186, 3 of 9 Dimensions is the evolving String Theory unit's 15th album and the first with Speirs and the second with Zinman.
As far as chamber ensembles go, String Theory is forceful. At times, Lomon (cello) and Speirs (violin) fall into sweet melodies or entangled whispers. There are a few moments when Zinman lays a few tight, wistful runs on his upright. At times, PEK sets his horns down and only slowly begins to rummage through his box of noise makers. That said, even these quieter moments are pregnant with a surprising gravity. The focus lies on the discordant and the disquieting quiet, rather than the sonorous and tranquil. To the extent this music is sometimes bucolic (and sections do evoke bird chirps, wisps of wind, and calm landscapes), it is considerably heavier than such a romantic description might indicate. And, even given the absence of a primary drummer � a point PEK emphasizes in his program notes � this album is nevertheless filled with percussive bluster from the musicians' primary strings and reeds to a small arsenal of cymbals, bells, rattles, and other musical instruments and trinkets, including Lomon and PEK on the aquasonic. Near the end of the performance, Lomon and Speirs round out the resulting musical kerfuffle with an extended section of overlain Leandre-esque vocalizations, which gradually release to the final fade to a lone violin. Zbitnov will be missed. But, if String Theory can be read metonymically, LoF will continue, maybe less percussively rich, but hardly less clangorously.
It is also worth noting that this album is a departure from other PEK project, and not just because of the absence of Zbitnov. Part of the reason is stylistic. Part seems tactical, as isolating a chamber unit allows the musicians to practice and perform as a concentrated unit rather than simply a section of the larger orchestra. At the same time, however, this ensemble also opens the seasoned LoF listener to some the nuances and overlain textures that underly the cacophony of the collective's sound. It lends insight into how, despite the sheer mass of the larger unites, these Evil Clown projects share a logical and interpersonal cohesion that effectively steer the groups away from the entropic free blowing that so often follows in other large, improvisational ensembles. This recording shows another, more grounded (i.e. less cosmos-focused) side of PEK (and Lomon, Speirs, and Zinman) than the big band does. At the same time, it is still very much of the LoF ilk in its playful and resourceful curiosity. And for that, I am grateful.
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The set list and reviews from Tori's February 20th concert in Boca Raton, FL
Updated Fri, Feb 21, 2003 - 4:20am ET
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Tori performed A Case Of You (solo), Mary (with the band), Talula and Spark. If you were at the Boca Raton show, please email me with your reviews and/or set list or post your review or comments in the Dent's Concert Reviews forum. (You can post under any name without registering, so it is quick!)
Tori performed in Boca Raton, FL on Thursday, February 20, 2003 at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. The opening act was Jeffrey Gaines. This was the first show of the second U.S. leg of Tori's Scarlet's Walk tour.
Many thanks to Danica Knox who phone me with the set list after the show!
Wampum Prayer
a sorta fairytale
Little Earthquakes
Cornflake Girl
Sweet Sangria
Caught A Lite Sneeze
Band Leaves
Jackies Strength
Band returns
Your Cloud
Black-Dove (January)
I Can't See New York
Iieee
1st Encore
Crucify
Mary (with band)
2nd Encore
3rd Encore
Playboy Mommy
The latest reviews are at the bottom of this page. For more reviews, please check out the Dent's Tour Reviews Forum. Please post your own review if you were at this show!
From Danica:
Danica really enjoyed the show tonight. The venue was rather weird and it was outdoors and quite humid there. Danica began her review of the concert by saying that tonight's show was all about the word "fuck"!
During Talula, Tori altered one line and sang, "Somebody tell me who the fuck the father is." After Talula, Tori spoke to the audience saying hello. She also did an improv about the heat and about how she can't have a bad hair day.
Tori has a keyboard now on top of her piano, something she started back during the European tour. She started playing Spark with that keyboard but the sound was off. So Tori stops the song and tells the crowd something like, "Hold on, I have to push a button." But the sound was still off so a tech guy started looking at it. Tori eventually said "Fuck it, Let's do it on the piano", and Tori then did Spark on the piano! Tori later forgot the words to Talula for a while and changed a line of the song to "Trusting my soul to the ice cream 'fuck this'".
The only time Tori strayed from her official written set list was when she did Mary instead of what she planned to do, which was Virginia.
The crowd tonight stood during the entire show, which was less than ideal...
There is new merchandise on this tour! I hope to have a full report later, but for now there is one shirt that says something like, "Start you summer out right, Trim your Bush". :) There is also one tour date on one of the shirts that has not been revealed yet. It is somewhere in Montana after the Rapid City, SD show!
From Dan:
I just got homw from the Tori Concert at Mizner Park. Let me first say that this was by far the BEST concert of hers that I have been to. For the first time, I finally was able to go to the meet and greet before the show. She came out at about 4:00PM. I was able to talk to her and she signed the sleeve of my Little Earthquakes CD. Then I asked if she could play one song for me. I requested A Case of You. And she PLAYED it!!! I was thrilled!! She also did an improv about the heat in South Florida. She said something to the effect of it's good to be in this heat,�I want to take it with me. She introduced the band either before or after the improv, I don't remember.
In Talula, she changed one of the lines. She said, "honey it's in god's hand, can you tell who the fuck the father is." She ended the Second encore with Spark. In the beginning, the keyboard on her piano was messed up. She said she had to press a button. The tech guy comes out, the both fiddle with it, then she says "fuck it, we'll do it on the piano" and continued to do the whole song on the piano. In the second verse of the song, she totally forgot the words. She was singing mostly improv and said Judas and Ice cream assassin and then just said fuck this, and continued with the rest of the song. She also did 3 encores instead of the usual 2. All in all, I was thrilled because she played the song I requested. Spark was also a request. Two others also requested Icicle and Not the Red Baron, but she didn't play those. She had asked me if I was going to any other show, so I told her no. I guess that's why she played my song :)
Ashre
Here is the set list:
Wampum Prayer (offstage)
Heat Improv
band leaves... Roadside Cafe comes down...
Jackie's Strength
band comes back...
Roadside Cafe goes up...
i i e e e
First Encore
Mary (with the band)
Second Encore
Third Encore
From Repotsearch:
Well, Danica summed it up pretty well. The interesting thing about this venue was that it faces a promenade of shops ( if thats the correct terminology) which allowed anyone around the area to hear the show. We were lucky to hear Tori doing her soundcheck. She did Talula, Spark, and Iieee. I may have missed one or two more but those were definite. She ended the soundcheck at around 6:30 pm.
I can definitely agree with everyone about the situation with the crowd standing up, but I happen to be one of the several people that were standing up during the show. Now, I didn't choose to do this. I had an official front row center ticket and was literally forced to stand up to prevent the ones who rushed the stage, invading my space, to block my view. As it is, front row as I have now come to find out is not the best view for a show. I hadn't done this then my experience would have been completely ruined. Even when I tired to find a way back down to my seat it was impossible.I can say that this goes for several others in the first row who I knew were in the same predicament and who I was there with So when addressing this issue please refer to those who rushed the front with no consideration for those who were at their designated seats. I am sorry that due to several morons I was forced to ruin someone's experience.����
From Janna Edwards:
First off, I would like to say that the sound tonight was very good and I was very impressed with the setlist. Tori played a lot of songs I was pleasantly surprised to hear.
But, I must complain about the crowd.
People who did not even have TICKETS to the show managed to sneak in and rush up to the front row. (my friend informed me of this; some of them were her friends and she was really mad!) The crowd stood the entire time, obstructing my view from the fourth row. I had the best seats I have ever had for a Tori show, and I could not see ANYTHING the entire time. I ended up sitting for most of the show, since it was the more comfortable way to see nothing.
There were a lot of rude, drunk people as well.�I had cigarette smoke in my face constantly and left the show with burning nasal passages.
My friend tried to get the security guards to make people sit down (or go back to their seats), and they were all ready to begin doing so when the guy in charge told them it was okay for people to be rushing the stage. I talked to Joel after the show, and he told me that there's nothing they can do to stop people unless they stop the show.
I hate to say it, but if Tori had asked people to sit down, they would have done it.
This was the best sounding concert of hers I have attended, however, I wish I could have seen it.
From Glenn Mueller:
Greetings from a fellow Toriphile! Though I am a frequent visitor to your site, I probably have never e-mailed you before. I've posted a few times -- after some of the other South Florida shows.
I can't sleep -- I'm still in Tori Land! Anyway, since I had a bout with insomnia, here is my stream of consciousness review of the concert.
Yes, Mizner Park is a strange venue. First of all, Mizner Park resembles Main Street in Disney World. It contains apartments, offices, shops and restaurants. At the very end of the complex is an art museum and an outdoor amphitheater. Originally, the amphitheater hosted free classical concerts. In recent months, they remodeled it -- and turned it into a commercial concert venue.
Not that I'm complaining! Mizner Park is about 10 minutes from my apartment. The fact that Tori has now played there makes it�hallowed ground�for me. Anyway, if the Mizner Park Amphitheater was not an outdoor venue, Tori would have blown the roof off the place tonight. It was an inspired concert, and Tori looked as radiant as ever.
Yes, it was a little bit humid, as you said (this is South Florida, after all). However, it ended up being a clear night, and you could see the stars and a bright full moon.
(You are correct. A good portion of the audience did stand for the entire show, which was less than ideal. That is about the only bad thing I can say about the concert tonight. Perhaps the outdoor venue gave it the feel of an outdoor music festival.)
During the opening act, I spotted Tori peeking over an upper-level bacony near the stage. (Yes, it is an outdoor venue but there are balconies. What can I say? It is an ecclectic place.) She was holding her daughter in her arms.
From Andre Somma:
I was at the Boca show last night. We made it in time for the opening act, Jeffery Gaines. He was OK, a lot of the songs sounded alike and I can tell that not everyone was into him. Everyone was really anxious to see Tori, I'm sure. I was trying to figure out why Jeffery's name sounded familiar to me until he played "In You Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. I then remembered that cover song being played on the radio a few years ago. After he was done, Tori started at around 9 PM, I believe; and played until 11-11:15. This included three encores. She was as wonderful as ever; and it was really nice to see her getting back to focusing on the piano. Song selection was quite diverse and gave the whole show quite an eclectic feel to me. The weather was just beautiful, and the crowd for the most part was very pleasant. Tori wasn't too talkative this time but did chat a little. She mentioned that she was doing a lot of shows this time and asked us to come see her again if weren't doing anything. She also had a little problem at the beginning of "Spark", she seemed to have pressed the wrong button on the synthesizer and had to stop the song, asked for some help, then decided to "Fuck It" and play it on the piano. She also commented about the weather via serenade.
The night seemed to be a "family affair" for Tori. My seats were located right next to the sound board, so I was able to look over and watch Tori's husband, Mark, do his thing. He did an excellent job, as the sound was perfect. I was also just a few rows behind Tori's Parents. I wasn't able to say hello because I was not able to get to their section, but I noticed a few people had introduced themselves and said hello. It was really nice to see that they still come to Tori's shows. I am sorry that I wasn't able to supply the song list to you right now, my intensions were to ask Mark for his copy of the set list, but the guy a couple seats next to me had the same idea and beat me to it. Oh Well. Over all, it was a wonderful night. Tori and the guys put on a great show and I am happy that I was able to see them again.
From Sommer aka Liquidiamondz:
The whole demeanor of the show was calmer than any other Tori show I have seen. The amphitheater provided a very intimate date with our piano goddess. The smell of sage let you know it was Scarlet behind that immense Red and black velvet curtin. Before it dropped you heard the wumpum prayer spiraling out with the sage smoke. A beautiful Tori came dancing out in a black and silver dress and took her stage. She then played the following set list the best I could keep track, A Sorta Fairytale, Little Earthquakes, a little improv about how nice the balmy weather was on her hair, and she was going to take it with her, Corn Flake Girl, Lust,sangria,Caught a Light Sneeze, Wednesday, Tallulah, Josephine A case of you, Your cloud, Concertina, Sugar, Black Dove, Precious Things, I Can't See New York, IEEEEEE, Crucify, Mary, Spark and I had to go I was too hot from non-stop dancing, Very fun show, Well worth the 3 1/2 hour drive from Tampa.
From Amanda Bosky:
Hey, everybody did a good job with a set list and reviews. And I don't need to go into details about how annoying it was that everyone stood. The only thing more annoying was trying to listen to Tori talk between songs and have it drowned out by people shouting "SIT DOWN!" The crowd pretty much ruined "Lust" by shouting "SIT DOWN!" the whole time. Word to the wise: yes, it's stupidly annoying that people rushed the stage and stood the whole time but people aren't going to sit down unless they want to. You can either decide to enjoy the show in spite of idiots or you can yell at people to sit down and drown out Tori yourself. *sigh*
Just a little FYI about the venue and about the bizarre little city that is Boca Raton. Did everybody notice that the amphitheatre was called The Count de Hoernle Amphitheatre? The Count and Countess de Hoernle are this old couple who live in the area and they *bought* the title of Count and Countess from some teeny little country in Europe. Ever since they bought the title they have plastered their name on everything they can, including a building at the local community college.
And I hoped everyone enjoyed the amphitheatre's color scheme--they decorated in the "code colors" of Boca Raton, peach and seafoam green. In certain areas of Boca, businesses are required to decorate their exteriors in those colors. They even made McDonalds decorate in peach and seafoam green.
This isn't really show related but I thought people who were visiting the area would like to add to their already bizarre impression of the strangeness that is Boca Raton. :)
From Pandochild:
hi mike! I drove to the boca raton show with my friend mandy and it definitly turned out to be a great experience. it was an outside show which I never had the pleasure of experiencing. Tori was very fun! saying stuff like she loves the heat and she would be doing alot of shows so if you guys can make it COME! hehe and when starting spark she was like hang on I need to push A button. she also danced around at beginning of songs several times. I preferd the setlist for this show more then the first 3 of the first leg and thought it was a wonderful show altho no LIQUID DIAMONDS={
you already know the setlist so I'll just track the songs that moved me the most!
SORTA FAIRYTALE
I just love this song!
before this I had heard all the songs before so when she played this one I was like thank god! this is one of my fav songs on scarlets walk and it was beautifully played altho some guy was kissing all over this girl and talking while she played it!
yay!!!!! also one of my faves and Tori didn't do this the last times I saw her so I was a hopeing!
very very nice!
good but better in tampa!
talulla
this has never been a fave but I love pele and I really liked this version it ROCKED!
couple this I wanted to comment on meet and greets after the show now?
also I read on here that Tori didn't want anyone standing up right away well eveyone was! but I guess it's diff for outside shows!
so there you have it Tori rocked is boca!
From Natasha:
First of all- I arrived in Mizner Park around 6:15, and since it was an outdoor venue, you could hear and see (if you peeked between the gates) Tori performing soundcheck! She was wearing jeans and a white shirt, and had her hair pulled up in bun. She was singing a sorta fairytale at that point. I had to go park my car then, so I missed a few songs. All in all, I heard her do (not in chornological order) A Sorta Fairytale, Spark, Talula, and Cornflake Girl. She wasn't done with soundcheck til around 7! Her performance started at 9:00
Being South Florida, it was a very humid and balmy night, but it didn't affect Tori's voice at all. During the entire performance, she she seemed to be really relishing it. From time to time, she would turn to the crowd and give one her classic cheshire grins. She said how much she loved the warm weather- then stopped herself from saying more and turned it into a little improv. The crowd stood, which I think is awful, but it was a wonderful show, none the less. After the show, I saw Tori's parents talking to someone in the sound booth (probably Mark Hawley).
From Victoria Martinez:
This was my first M&G experience and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. I have heard of so many "horror" stories that at first I was a little afraid to go. All the EWF's were very polite and everything was very calm and orderly. My only main complain was that the barricades were set up way too early. They set them in an upside down "U" format so everyone was cramming to try to get closer to the front. We were left like this for an hour and half! So it was very crowded and hot! Tori arrived at about 4:15pm and she looked beautiful. She signed a lot of items and took her time going down the line. Dan was next to me-- he requested "A Case of You" and I requested "Spark", Tori amazingly played both songs!! It was really incredible. Btw, I'm trying to locate Victoria Diane's mom. She was at the meet and greet next to us and we were going to trade some pics (if you read this, my email is VictoriaM27@msn.com) Thank you!
The show in Boca was simply amazing! This was the best sounding concert I have ever attended. Everything was just perfect! Tori was not too talkative and that may have been due to the humidity (or the incredibly rude fans). She did have a really funny comment that has not been posted. She promoted the tour by telling people to come to other shows if they were free and then said something like "It's great having so many people here tonight, especially in a place with so many Right-Wing Christians". The crowd erupted with laughter and she went into the next song. The big highlights for me were: iieee, Precious Things, Concertina, and of course, Spark (that song meant the world to me). The show was just perfect and I loved that Choirgirl had such a presence. Taxi Ride was also very impressive (Tori hit those high notes beautifully) and it was also great to hear Sweet Sangria (one of my favorites in the album).
From Anja Schulz:
I have to comment on the review of Tori's Boca Raton concert from the Palm Beach Post which has been posted on The Dent.
The author writes Tori began the concert singing Wampum Prayer from behind the stage.
I know many fans have been wondering and discussing whether it is live or recorded and just in case some still wonder....We know by now that it is by all means�recorded. I've checked the Frankfurt reviews but obviously nobody told the story...Just before the show in Frankfurt, Germany, started we heard Wampum Prayer being played and then it stopped just seconds later....I guess somebody pushed the button too soon :-)) It's not that important but a very funny detail I think.
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Iain Dale calls Lib Dem candidate a “whore”
21 June 2009 politics and lifeapril pond, byelections, iain-dale, norfolk, norwichJames Graham
Iain Dale has taken the unusual decision to take Lib Dem candidate for Norwich North April Pond to task for putting herself forward after already being the candidate for Broadland constituency.
He likens this to him abandoning Norfolk North constituency in the run up to the 2005 General Election to fight a by-election in Tunbridge Wells, and accuses her of “whoring herself across Norfolk.”
Aside from the blatant misogyny, there is just one other flaw in this argument: Broadland – being a new constituency to be created at the next General Election – encapsulates part of Norwich North constituency which is about to be abolished. You can see how by comparing the above images courtesy of Wikipedia.
Is this sort of sexist talk and blatant disinformation spreading really the sort of thing we should tolerate in political discourse? It looks as if Iain is auditioning to be David Cameron’s own Damien McBride.
Cheap. And talking of cheap shots, do you think we should explain to him that Tunbridge Wells isn’t in Norfolk?
Hat tip: Liberal England
Why didn’t Clegg visit H&H?
11 July 2008 politics and lifebyelections, comment-is-free, community-politics, david-davis, liberal-democrats, nick-cleggJames Graham
Please disregard the football-related metaphor in the heading (not my choice of words), but here is my CiF piece on the Haltemprice and Howden by-election.
It would appear that my analysis is pretty much the same as Stephen Tall’s – i.e. Clegg was right to back Davis but failed to press his advantage home:
However unjustified, the sad fact of the matter is that by not ensuring a platform alongside Davis’s other supporters, including Tony Benn and Bob Marshall-Andrews, Clegg has left the party vulnerable to this line of attack. He put principle before party, but we should be mindful of the fact that giving the Conservatives an open goal to reposition themselves as the party of civil liberties will ultimately be wholly counter-productive.
This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this self-destructive impulse within the Lib Dems to be leery of sharing a platform on the basis that it might dillute our (non-existent) brand as the One True Voice on a given issue. It goes back to the very heart of “community politics“, i.e. we need to be building a movement rather than concentrating on the party. Clegg needs to do what his predeccessors have consistently failed to do and get into the movement business. And fast.
Two Ds, Two faces?
9 July 2008 politics and lifebyelections, conservative-party, david-davisJames Graham
I spotted this quote from David Davis this morning but LDV beat me to it:
“I’m sorry that Labour and the Liberal Democrats funked it, but we’re still having a good argument and getting the issue raised.â€
Both personally and professionally I’ve spent quite a lot of time defending Davis’ actions, at least up to a point. I’m still not convinced this was necessarily the best strategy but on the basis that the real problem is locking the Tory party into opposing the extension of pre-charge detention and that I can see how this by-election might have achieved that, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Many of the objections to Nick Clegg’s decision not to contest the by-election – including David Mortons’ here – are very valid, but only from the party’s POV. From the POV of national interest, I’m prepared to accept that the party had to take one for the team.
But the quid pro quo to all that is that Davis himself doesn’t then act in bad faith and seek to present our decision not to contest this by-election as anything other than what it was – a show of unity in exceptional circumstances. It is frankly outrageous for him to stab us in the back in this way. If he had been misquoted, then surely a correction would already have been issued on his website?
Any Tories out there willing to join us in condemning him for this blatant act of treachery? If he can’t be trusted on this, what can he be trusted on?
UPDATE (11 July): As Iain Dale mentions below, Davis has got the Guardian to issue a correction on this. That is much appreciated, but it seems the damage has been done. As Justin notes below, other Tories have been adopting this line and now Rosemary Bechler on Our Kingdom is having a pop. Clearly we can’t win either way in this debate.
To be David Davis’ Sancho Panza?
17 June 2008 politics and lifebyelections, david-davis, don quixote, haltemprice and howden, ozymandiasJames Graham
I still haven’t made up my mind as to whether David Davis’ resignation is some sort of mad genius or just plain mad and I suspect this debate will rage for years to come. Over the weekend, my respect for him has increased as it became clear that part of the reason he did it was out of a fear that the Tory opposition to internment without charge was lukewarm at best and that Cameron was powerless to stop his backbenchers from rebelling as the general election loomed closer (as I’ve said so many times before, Cameron does not lead the Conservatives as much as chair their internal debates). The fact that this is a stand against his own party as much as it is one in opposition to Labour makes it a noble gesture indeed.
But there is a danger that, with even the smallest of windmills refusing to put up a fight, Davis may start to look less like a Don Quixote figure and more like Ozymandias. He’s done a terrific job as scaring off the opposition – Brown, Murdoch, Kelvin Mackenzie – but it will be a Pyrrhic victory if his only opponents are the OMLRP, a former beauty queen and John “set aboot you” Smeaton.
The question is, what should us liberal-minded folk do? We didn’t pick this fight or choose Davis to be our champion, but can we really afford to sit back and watch? I’ve lost count of the number of blog posts and facebook groups I’ve skimmed past denouncing Davis for being a hypocrite on the issue of civil liberties. That may be so, but what is more hypocritical? A hang ’em, flog ’em politician standing up for fundamental civil liberties or a smart arse who claims to care about the drip-drip erosion of our rights while sitting on the fence because the one person taking a stand doesn’t pass a “purity” test. Some of the attacks are even worse and appear to be partisan Labour attacks masquerading as crocodile tears for those very rights that Labour has been spending its time trashing. If Stonewall really have been actively briefing against Davis, they will have lost all credibility with me. If Stonewall is allowed to question Davis’ commitment to civil liberties on the basis of his commitment to gay rights, aren’t we free to question Stonewall’s commitment to civil liberties outside of the comparatively narrow interests of lesbians and gay men? I didn’t ask for this to become some kind of libertarian pissing contest, but there are plenty of people out there who want it to become precisely that. If they succeed, Brown, Murdoch and the other Forces of Darkness will have had a meaningful victory indeed, regardless of the vote in Haltemprice and Howden.
To say “only Nixon could go to China” is a cliche, but cliche’s have the irritating tendency to be true. There is a real question mark over whether there is actually a fight here to be fought, but refusing to fight it out of some sniffiness about Davis’ principles would be despicable.
Cunning stunt? Buy a calculator
2 January 2008 politics and lifebyelections, council-tax, cunning stunt, ealing-southall, economics, grant-shapps, housing, land-value-taxation, local-government, wealthJames Graham
A few days late on this one, but I have been meaning to follow up on this article about Grant Shapp’s cunning stunt over the Christmas holidays:
“Our plan would build more houses than the Government. But the way to do it is not to do it in a centrally planned way. That has always failed.
“The way to do it is to incentivise communities to want to build houses. It works by saying, ‘build these houses and you get a new town centre or other services like a hospital or school.’ The existing community gets the gain, not just those people who move there.
“If people knew that council tax receipts were kept for five or 10 years if they took houses and therefore council tax was lower, they would often be in favour. This way you are building up an array of benefits from being a Yimby, not a Nimby.”
No-one is disputing that if communities had incentives to develop, all things being equal they probably would. But perhaps Mr Shapps ought to buy himself a calculator if he intends to make this incentive reliant on council tax receipts. Because while only a fraction (a quarter to be precise) of local authority revenue is raised from council tax, new developments will continue to have net costs associated with them, not net benefits.
If the Tory policy is for council tax to shoulder a bigger burden of local tax revenue, it’s news to me, and I’m sure it will be news to the millions of people who are unlikely to welcome a massive tax hike to the tune of thousands of pounds. And it must be news to Caroline Spelman and Eric Pickles who have spent the past two-plus years denouncing any attempt of government to even contemplate revaluation by coming up with scare stories about taxing “nice views“.
If Shapps truly wants his dream of creating incentives for new build to become a reality, he’s going to have to be a bit more radical than that. It won’t happen without a significant tax shift onto land values. That isn’t something that David Cameron, Gideon Osborne and the other members of the Tufty Club behind the New Model Tories are likely to contemplate, no matter how many times Grant sleeps in a cardboard box.
Shapps of course must know this; he’s seen how Osborne has been inflated to the point of being hailed the new messiah by the Right for suggesting (modest) cuts in wealth taxes after all, which makes his stunt seem all the more hollow. Almost as hollow, in fact, as this claim:
Mr Shapps points out that the real losers were the Lib Dems whose second place was a foretaste of the disarray that eventually claimed their leader.
W-O-W – this is amazing stuff coming from the man who claimed he had proof that the Lib Dems were running a “poster lottery” (which has subsequently earned Iain Dale the immortal nickname Pravdale) and whose hands appeared to be caught stuck in the YouTube cookie jar. Cunning stunts indeed. Without wanting to revisit old battles, let’s just make one thing clear: just as the Lib Dem’s victory in Dunfermline and West Fife in 2006 had nothing to do with our lack of a leader at the time, winning Ealing Southall would have done nothing to save Menzies Campbell’s job. He would still have quit this autumn. For Shapps to claim that one of the greatest Tory fuckups of 2007 was in fact a bold act of regicide on his part is immodest even by his standards.
It’s nice to see him begin his political rehabilitation however. It is clear he has learned nothing, which suggests that we will have a second chance to have some more fun at the expense of this legend in his own lunchtime before too long.
EXCLUSIVE: The meaning behind Mark Oaten’s cryptic comments
22 November 2007 politics and lifebyelections, liberal-democrats, Mark-OatenJames Graham
Lib Dem Voice has the skinny on Mark Oaten ruminating on the possibility that he might quit early and force a byelection. Stephen Tall has quoted from the Hampshire Chronicle Oaten’s views, but I can exclusively reveal the subtext:
He said it was “me me me”.
Mr Oaten said he did not intend to trigger a by-election but “me me me”.
He said if the “me me me” came up for him and his wife, he would “me me me”.
The father-of-two said: “I hope people understand.
“Me me me me me me me me me me me me me.”
People may recall that the good people of Winchester are not known for their forgiving nature when it comes to having unnecessary byelections foisted on them. Nice as it would be for us to increase our majority by one million per cent a second time, I feel it may be asking a little too much.
Community Politics Today: be wolves not bees!
30 October 2007 politics and lifebyelections, community-politics, liberal-democrats, strategyJames Graham
Another article from the archives. This one was written in Summer 2006 for Community Politics Today, a collection of essays revisiting community politics. Again, I would encourage you to buy the full book and read all the other contributions.
The original Theory and Practice of Community Politics by Bernard Greaves and Gordon Lishman is available on Colin Rosenstiel’s website.
The party has failed to heed the principles underpinning community politics, both in the way it campaigns and the way it treats its own community. If we are to be more than “just another party” we will need to become the change we want to see.
Greaves and Lishman are quite explicit about what they think community politics is not: “Community Politics is not a technique for the winning of local government elections. It… is not a technique … not local … not government … not about elections.†It is clear that they were quite preoccupied with the sense that as Community Politics was being more widely adopted within the party, many of its proponents wildly misunderstood the principles that underpinned it.
Almost a quarter of a century on, it does seem as if this battle has been largely lost. While I have had the pleasure to get to know and work with dozens of gut community politicians over the past decade, the status of Community Politics as anything other than a means to winning elected office has diminished before my eyes. Focus leaflets have become ever more ubiquitous – but as marketing tools, not as community newsletters. Surveys are used not to learn about public opinion, but to harvest data that can be used for targeting and to come up with scare-statistics to suit the party’s agenda.
One politician I worked with once rebuked me for putting a helpline in a leaflet on the basis that “the public should come to me.” So much for helping people to take power for themselves. It is now standard practice in by-elections to send people out with disposable cameras to find “grotspots” in order to portray a totally distorted view of how run down the local area is. In the recent Bromley by-election, the candidate was prominently shown cleaning up graffiti on election material – only for it to be discovered that that graffiti was still in place on polling day. At its extreme, this ambulance chasing is just plain weird: one Lib Dem campaigner recently gleefully published page upon page of photos of rubbish on his website – it would have taken him just as much effort to pick the stuff up himself.
All of this is designed to portray the party as strong campaigners who take local issues seriously, but treats the public as passive consumers – choosing political parties as they might washing powder – not as active citizens. It is extremely effective marketing – particularly in target seats and by-elections when we have sufficient resources to overwhelm the public with our messages. But it is hard to see what it does to challenge power, which is at the heart of Community Politics.
However, what is Community Politics’ loss seems to have been the Liberal Democrats’ gain. What Greaves and Lishman disparage as the “ALC Method” has been refined and reproduced across the country and has gone on to inform Campaigns Department best practice that has seen us increase our number of Parliamentary seats by such a large degree over the past decade. It is a legitimate question, worthy of investigation, to ask whether Community Politics was all that important anyway?
We should ask ourselves two things however. Firstly, by abandoning Community Politics in this way, how do we respond to the charge that we are just another opportunist party concerned with gaining power at all cost?
This is not what many of us signed up for. We are expected to content ourselves with the notion that the more politicians we help get elected, the more we can get the body politic to work on our terms, but how much are we changing the body politic, and how much is the body politic changing us?
Secondly, is this actually getting us tangible power, or is it leading us into a cul-de-sac? Since 1992 we have gained 42 Parliamentary seats – roughly 14 per session. At that rate, we will gain a majority after 18 General Elections – roll on 2090. What is even more likely however – and I would suggest we started to see evidence of this in 2005 – is that we will start to spread ourselves too thinly and encounter diminishing returns or even go in reverse. Let us be clear: while this strategy may ensure we have significant representation in the Commons for years to come is not going to win us a general election.
If we are content with the prospect of being the junior partner in a coalition, that may be fine. Historically however, the party has not done well in a balance-of-power situation. There is also a democratic problem with us relying on horse-trading to push our agenda forward rather than public support, not to mention the fact that we would be expected to prop up a minority government on a whole range of issues that go against our principles.
With this in mind, I find it quite incredible at how the rhetoric within the party – even in confidential meetings at a senior level – remains along the lines of “one last heave.” We are wedded to the idea is that if only the party was more “professional” / had slightly more money / more active members / better market research then we would reach a critical mass and charge home. Yet this invariably leads to concentrating our resources even more on target seats and coming up with a basket of policy-bites that are designed to appeal to swing voters. The result is our public support is extraordinarily shallow with a large proportion of our vote backing us for tactical reasons or because of one or two policy commitments.
Greaves and Lishman’s vision was far wider. Inspired by Jo Grimond’s call for the establishment of “a coalition of different groups putting different emphases on different parts of the same basic idea,” they call on the party to dedicate itself to building a political movement, rather than solely concentrating on winning elections. For them, the goal of Community Politics was to create this movement by “stimulating action by communities to take and use power.”
We should not blind ourselves to the fact that this is exactly what New Labour achieved in the mid-nineties. Tony Blair and his allies recognised that the Labour Party itself couldn’t both win power and beat its opponents into submission long enough to implement a programme of action. They were extremely effective at getting a wide range of groups and communities to buy into their vision for change. The key difference between Tony Blair’s approach and the one spelled out by Greaves and Lishman is that for him building such a movement was first and foremost about getting him into Number 10 Downing Street; for Greaves and Lishman the creation of such a movement is an end in itself.
People are unlikely to be fooled twice however; if the Liberal Democrats were to go into the movement building business they would have to be able to demonstrate what Blair now demonstrably lacks: integrity. We would have to walk the talk. That would mean a major culture shift within the party. We would have to step back from focusing on becoming an election-winning machine and instead truly internalise the values of Community Politics.
How could we go about doing this? To start with, I believe we need to improve how the party itself functions as a community. Are we wolves or bees? Do we run together in packs as equals, or do we organise in hives – a strictly hierarchical structure with workers diligently serving the Queen? Many will look at our constitution and our famous rows on the conference floor and assume we must be wolves (or for that matter, cats, as in “herding…”).
But look deeper. Democratic constitutions are not the same thing as democratic cultures – ask anyone who has lived in a communist state. For all the rows we have at conference, the central party invariably manages to get its policy papers passed. The Conference Committee frequently complains that so few local parties actually submit conference motions. Meanwhile, the non-policy business of our conferences is rubber stamped by almost empty debating halls to the complete indifference of most conference representatives.
At a local level, the level of participation in the party is even lower. We do very little to help themselves in this respect. The New Politics Network surveyed the local parties of the three main parties this summer (now available as part of the Unlock Democracy publication Party Funding – Supporting the Grassroots). It found that the Lib Dem local parties held a fraction of the number of social and fundraising events that Conservative Associations did and significantly fewer policy discussion meetings than either the Conservatives or Labour. In short, our members have more rights than the members of our rival parties, yet aside from campaigning we have much lower levels of participation. Ours’ not to reason why, ours’ but to do and die.
The party needs to stop flattering itself that because we have a vibrant activist hierarchy, we are democratic. We should be worried about the stark distinction between activist and “armchair member” and set ourselves the task of doing something about it. For me, that means more informal meetings, from policy discussion (“pizza and politics”) through to simply inviting people to the pub. It was a desire to encourage such meetings that has driven Martin Tod and myself to develop the website Flock Together (http://www.flocktogether.org.uk) and its offshoot Liberal Drinks (http://theliberati.net/drink).
To maximise levels of participation however, we need to look to skilling our membership. Again, activists are already well served in this respect, with ever increasing numbers of training events taking place at conferences. This programme needs to be taken to a lower level however. Local and regional parties should start holding “welcome days” for new members designed to feed them with ideas about what sort of things they might want to do in the party, from coming to help in a by-election through to joining the Green Liberal Democrats. On and off, LDYS has for many years run similar events (including its residential “Activate!” weekends) and they have supplied us with a stream of involved and informed members (including at least one MP).
In his essay After Community Politics (Passports to Liberty IV, Liberator Publications, 2000), David Boyle takes this one step further and proposes local parties running self-help workshops on a wide range of areas from local campaigning through to changing your work-life balance. I strongly endorse this proposal and would love to see more experimentation in this area.
Indeed, everything we do should be concerned with providing people with a toolkit to challenge power themselves. Our national campaigns should be about more than “us too!” petitions – they should be concerned with reaching out to people who are directly affected and advising them on what to do themselves.
To take two recent examples, if we run a campaign on saving school bus services anyone interested could be able to download a campaign pack informing local people about what they can do about the issue. If we run a campaign against homophobic bullying, we should provide both information about the issue, but also meaningful advice for both parents and children about what to do about it. The party is getting very good at producing campaign packs for local parties; it should be equally concerned at providing detailed information for the target audience.
There are electoral gains to be made from such an approach. While it would be less effective than our target seat strategy in terms of maximising votes in the places where they can do the most good, this approach would win us more activists and the sort of goodwill that any party serious about government needs. But if we make New Labour’s mistake of simply co-opting such support for our own ends, then as has been their experience, it is likely to come back and bite us in the arse. The true value is not in simple electoral gain, but in improving the national polity as a whole.
Unless we become the change we want to see, we can’t hope to build the wider movement that we will need in order to truly challenge power, at all levels. If we fail to do this, our only course of action will be to ape our opponents, which will prove ultimately self-defeating.
Tory vote COLLAPSES!!!
5 October 2007 politics and lifebyelections, conservative-party, labour-party, liberal-democratsJames Graham
Since the Tories were making such a big deal about the by-elections last week, here are a couple of results that happened within hours of David Cameron’s conference speech:
Leicestershire CC, Shepshed
Lab 1217 (30.2; -12.7), Con 1074 (26.6; -10.2), LD John Popley 933 (23.1;
+2.8), BNP 807 (20.0; +20.0).
Majority 143. Turnout 37.3%. Lab hold. Last fought 2005.
Windsor and Maidenhead UA, Datchet
Con 799 (63.8; -8.6), LD Tim O’Flynn 352 (28.1; +12.0), Ind 102 (8.1; +8.1),
[Lab (0.0; -11.5)].
Majority 447. Turnout 35.8%. Con hold. Last fought 2007.
I’ve singled out the Tories here, but it isn’t such good news for Labour either. The only party to have raised their share of the vote in both seats are the Lib Dems. Congratulations in particular should go to Lib Dem Cllr Andrew Nisbet in Helensburgh and Lomond South, Argyll and Bute who gained a seat from an independent.
Make of that what you will.
Labour’s capacity for self-delusion
27 September 2007 politics and lifebyelections, collectivism, conferences, labour-party, liberalim, the-leftJames Graham
Back from Labour conference and in a bit of a mess if truth be told. The problem with cheap B&Bs that haven’t been dusted in decades is that they can turn a mild cold into a nasty cough that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. I’ve got two days to recover before doing it all again with the Tories in Blackpool. I’m sure the B&Bs there can’t be as chintzy and grotty as the ones in Bournemouth. Er…
Anyway, it’s been an interesting week. Labour conferences – I’ve been to 3 now – are so completely different from Lib Dem ones its hard to know where to begin. Obviously, there is the security, although compared to 2004 where they wouldn’t let you bring fluids into the conference centre and insisted you prove your mobile phone was genuine before letting you through, this one was relatively low key. The beards and sandals combo – largely mythical these days – is replaced by the rather more sartorially challenged baseball cap and crumpled suit. Indeed, everyone who isn’t wearing a trade union approved t-shirt wears suits, making me stand out in my standard attire of jeans and a short sleeved shirt.
The psychology of the two conferences couldn’t be more different either. In Labour, collectivism is all. The mindset, even among relatively sensible people, is that you are either one of us, or you’re the enemy. Back in my student and BYC days I used to encounter this on a regular basis and it would drive me insane; you simply could not reason with these people who would back anyone who was a card carrying member in an instant, no matter how reprehensible they were. Back when I was a student, the Labour membership card was a passport which guaranteed you votes at NUS conference even if you publically denounced Labour and claimed to be an independent. On the other side of the coin, former IDS adviser Quentin Davies can rely on the party faithful to give him a standing ovation.
Labour is quite unapologetic about this mindset. Indeed, Brown’s emphasis on shared values and national identity seems to be a calculated attempt to sell collectivism to the wider public. Around the conference centre there were posters everywhere emphasising the “strength” to make Britain better.
At the Fabian / Centre For Um fringe, both Angela Eagle and Michael Wills readily cited it as the crucial difference between the Lib Dems and Labour and parodied the Lib Dems for flirting with libertarianism. I suspect that my friend Tristan Mills would have responded by saying “if only”.
The simple fact is, collectivism is in many ways a strength of the Labour party. It is what has made them electable over the past decade, and what has made the Conservatives so woefully unelectable. It is this key difference more than anything else which currently appears to be guaranteeing Gordon Brown a win whenever he chooses to call the next election.
And I should also point out that with a few exceptions, I don’t see many Lib Dems who are opposed to collective action per se, so long as it is ultimately centred on the interests of individuals. But I struggled to find any Labour delegates at this conference who placed any emphasis on the individual at all. The bitter irony is that I doubt any of them believe it. Why else have people been leaving in droves? Why else do super-unions such as Unite campaign so hard to defend the interests of the relatively few Remploy workers?
Fundamentally, I don’t believe that the Labour Party believes its own hype about unity through strength. It knows where that leads. But the inability of its members to talk about collectivism as anything other than an unalloyed good does cause me deep concern. We have seen how this attitude causes them to struggle to criticise their superiors. The fact that Tony Blair remained in power – purely because of the lack of enthusiasm for Parliamentarians and members to conduct a coup – ought to worry us. I can imagine far worse people than Tony Blair finding themselves at the top of a political party; if they rose to power in Labour would we see little more than the determined foot-shuffling we’ve witnessed over the past four years? For the good of the country we must hope that Labour reconciles itself with liberalism again before too long.
Back to the Fabian / Centre For Um joint fringe, much of this debate was taken up with allegations about “dirty tricks”. Most of the attacks came from a contingent from the Colchester CLP. Now, I don’t doubt those delegates’ sincerity, nor am I naive enough to believe that no Lib Dem has ever indulged in dirty campaigning, but it is rather ironic that almost a year ago to the day, a Lib Dem councillor in Colchester was outed in a national newspaper.
I was pleased that Vince Cable and David Laws did a grand job at defending the party’s record under pressure, not resorting to crowd pleasing tactics by condemning alleged activities that they knew nothing about. Yet Michael Wills was keen to continue twisting the knife, making the “no smoke without fire” smear that because Labour and Tory MPs agree that Lib Dems are the dirtiest campaigners, it must be true.
To make such a statement, without providing one scintilla of evidence, is to indulge in the very same groupthink that Miranda Grell manipulated in Waltham Forest last year. He ought to know better. The Lib Dems threaten an order that both Labour and the Tories have an interest in defending, and it is extraordinary how they can be blind to both their own faults and each others. The recent by-elections showed both parties at their worst, yet that gets forgotten. Tom Watson‘s reliance on the rent-a-mob got him promoted. The Tories’ attempts to portray Mark Hunter as a rapist in the Cheadle by-election even gave ConservativeHome pause for thought, but it was quickly forgotten. I could go on, but Rob Blackie has already done much of the work for me.
When senior MPs make such allegations in public, it is unfortunate politicking. When they do it in the relative privacy of an audience of mainly Labour members (albeit were at least one journalist was present), it smacks of self-delusion. No-one is pretending that the Lib Dems are perfect, but when Labour have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar so many times, it is time to stop being so precious.
Overall, my advice to Labour friends is to be careful. Don’t believe your own hype. This week I saw an awful lot of that. The biggest problem with Labour is not that it’s evil but that it still believes it is whiter than white. With the scapegoat Blair now safely dispatched to the middle east, that delusion will only continue. A party that believes that is capable of anything, which is how it ended up invading Iraq, doling out peerages to people it was indebted to and marginalising human rights in the first place.
My favourite Ealing Southall leaflet
21 July 2007 politics and lifebme, byelections, conservative-party, ealing-southall, religionJames Graham
This is my favourite leaflet from the campaign (click on it to enlarge). It was being delivered on the morning of polling day in particularly leafy part of Southall near the Grand Union Canal (for the record, I picked these two examples up from the street).
Why is it in so-bad-its-good territory? Well, the message on it will mean nothing to non-Hindus; indeed I would imagine it would put a lot of their backs up. What’s more, I would have thought that a lot of Hindus themselves would feel patronised, being effectively advised that it is their religious duty to vote for Tony Lit (and not the Hindu Vivendra Sharma).
If you’re going to mix religion, ethnicity and politics up in this way, why not go the whole hog and include a Hindi translation? I’m sure there must be one or two individuals out there who would be receptive to the message but don’t read English.
But for everyone else, how is this leaflet worth delivering on polling day? What does it tell them? There isn’t a tactical message, information about polling, a phone number to request lifts… anything. I could come up with 101 things that you would be better off getting your activists to do on polling day.
In fact there was a better leaflet being delivered just a few streets away. Overall, the impression one gets is that the Tory campaign team were caught with their trousers down on polling day and were just flailing about in a vain attempt to keep people busy. A less generous person than myself would say that just about sums up their whole campaign.
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Leadership crisis at Uber – More trouble for the firm already in hot waters
Zahra Hassan
It seems that things are not going to take a change for betterment anytime soon at Uber. After a number of scandals and controversies, now the online cab hailing service is under serious leadership crises. The chief executive of Uber technologies Inc, Travis Kalanick has taken a leave from the form for an unnamed number of days.
read more All is Not Well At Uber
Travis Kalanick leaves Uber
Travis Kalanick is also a co-founder of Uber and he along with friend Garret Camp. It is not just a cab hailing service but you can also hire rickshaws, boats or even a helicopter through it. Now after a wave of people have decided they would like to boycott Uber until something publically done by the people or not.
read more Google maps lets you call Uber from within the App
Kalanich has given official statement through which nothing is clear about when he plans to return to the corporate world. According to the leaked email circulating the organization, this is what Travis Kalamuch has to say about his decision to go on a leave Uber even for a short period of time. He wants time to grieve the death of his matter and start out the sexual harassment allegations.
He also said his leave “may be shorter or longer than we might expect.” Such ambiguity will effect Uber’s efforts to rebuild its executive ranks, startup experts say.
There are fourteen major openings in the firm right now. The CEO and the COO both positions are empty.
Here is what other experts in the industry are saying about the move by KAlamuch.
“The lack of clarity around Travis’ position hangs over everything,” said Bill Aulet, managing director of the entrepreneurship centre at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “You’re dealing with the most important thing, which is, who is your boss?”
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PDP, Industry Players Count Gains Of Edo Modular Refinery, Obaseki’s Pro-business Posture
August 22, 2020 Greg Abolo 0 Comments
R-L (front row): Project Director, Edo Modular Refinery, Tian Tim; Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Edobor Iyamu; representative of the Chairman, Edo Refinery and Petrochemical Company and the company’s Global Advisor, Frans Ojielu, during an inspection visit to the refinery, in Ologbo, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, on Thursday, August 20, 2020.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and players in the petroleum industry have assured Edo voters that the reelection of Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the party in the September 19 gubernatorial election, will ratchet up industrialisation efforts and sustain the emerging pro-business posture of the state government.
They also expressed optimism that the 5500bpd Edo Modular Refinery presently under construction in Ologbo in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area will be a big boost to the economy of the state and that of the country.
Mr. Chris Nehikhare, State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, who spoke to journalists in Benin City, on behalf of the PDP Campaign Council, said: “Apart from reducing the pressure on the demand for foreign exchange to buy finished products from overseas, the Edo Modular Refinery will create employment opportunities for the citizens of the state.”
Nehikhare noted that, “The Modular Refinery, which is the outcome of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration and a Chinese consortium, is 70 per cent completed.”
The PDP added that “When completed, it would produce from its feedstock 50 per cent of diesel (500,000 litres), 25 per cent of naphtha (300,000 litres), and 20 per cent of fuel oil (200,000 litres).
“The crude will be sourced from the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC)’s facility – oil mining lease (OML) 111, near Benin City.”
Speaking on the viability of the refinery when completed, a top player in the Edo State branch of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Daniel Ojo, said the refinery would cater to the people’s need for petroleum products.
Ojo urged states that have crude oil in the Niger Delta region to establish modular refinery to crash the cost of petroleum products in the country.
He said, “When completed, the economic benefit will be huge. Before now, the Benin depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) used to be very busy and it created a lot of business opportunities for people who came to buy products. If the modular refinery is completed in Ologbo, it will attract a lot of businesses.
“The petroleum business cuts across all sectors and this will be a boost to the economy of the state and Nigeria. It will also lead to a reduction in the prices of petroleum products because of its availability and demand and supply factor. It will bring about rapid economic growth.
“We wish that the government encourages the establishment of two or three refineries in each state around the Niger Delta region where the crude is soured. It can work in areas where there are creeks and that is why its establishment in Ologbo is good. It can also work in Ovia where there are creeks. There will be an economic boost.”
Also, the Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Edo State, Comrade Eddy Ossai, said the modular refinery goes beyond Edo, adding that it will also boost the country’s economy.
“This will be a very big boost on the state economy because automatically the Internally Generated Revenue will jerk up. Besides, there will be massive job opportunities for citizens. It will be a plus for the government and the oil and gas sector in the state.
“It will also help us to conserve our foreign reserves by reducing the demand for dollars to purchase finished petroleum products from other countries. So, the economic impact will be beyond Edo economy,” he added.
Edo Modular Refinery project, which is 95 per cent (mechanical works) completed in Ologbo, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State
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The Rebel Radio Podcast
EPISODE 214 - ROAD HOUSE
Dalton is a cooler, a specialized bouncer with skills that few men have. When he is asked to come to a small corrupt town to save a bar, he gets into more than he bargained for all while taking care of business. Patrick Swayze stars in the film that has maintained a cult status despite it's several short comings. Matt picked this movie for his birthday this week as we discuss Road House!
The Weekly Top 5 features movie characters we want in a bar fight & we roast Matt a bit for his birthday with some movies we think only he would watch! We also discuss the Dune trailer in the news & preview next week's film, Almost Famous!
EPISODE 182 - STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise finds himself in a cat & mouse game of wits & war against an old nemesis called Khan! When Khan and his soldiers commandeer the starship Reliant along with a terraforming device known as Genesis, the fight begins to stop the mad man and save the final frontier in what is arguably one of the best sci-fi films ever made as we talk Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan! We also celebrate Long's birthday & discuss what we have watched lately in Download This in which Jay & Silent Bob Reboot gets a lot of love from Mark. We talk the Star Wars The Clone Wars trailer in the news along with the delays on the Obi-Wan television series & more! We then preview next week's film as we get ready to switch places & discuss the John Woo action film, Face/Off.
EPISODE 100 - STAR WARS
It's finally here! It's epic! It's a milestone! It's our very special 100th episode! Mark, Matt, & Frank are joined by their old Friend Long, a.k.a The Evil Dr. Tran as we celebrate 100 episodes of the show! We look back on how we got this far and discuss some of our favorite episodes. We play old games from the show such as Face Off & can't decide who would win between He-Man & Thor! We bring back a classic game from the Rebel Radio internet show from 2006 & tell you what we have watched lately in Download This. We go deep into Star Wars and talk about the movie that started it all for most of us. Why is Star Wars so important to pop culture, film, and the world? What makes it so popular & what about all those wonderful toys? Star Wars is talked in full as we discuss Episode IV: A New Hope and go behind the scenes to discuss this modern science fiction classic! Star Wars has changed the world & changed our lives a
EPISODE 111 - TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE
It's more than meets the eye as Mark & Matt discuss 1986's epic animated film, Transformers The Movie! This classic animated film is dear to many who grew up with it as we watched the action unfold on screen in which new Transformers were introduced, heroes and villains died, and the Matrix Of Leadership was our only hope to defeat the evil planet killer Unicron! Transformers The Movie is one of the greatest and most epic animated films ever made & we discuss it as well as our favorite Transformers, favorite toy from the line, and discuss the new Bumblebee trailer! We also tell you what we have watched or streamed in Download This, and the news is full of Batman's private parts as the big news this week seemed to deal with a mystery all these years to Batman fans! We also preview our next film, The Big Lebowski & more!
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You are here : Home » our adventures » coast to coast 2002 » C2C Resources
Between the six of us we carried at least one copy of each of the three guidebooks and each of the two different maps. That’s five different resources to point the way. However, small and larger parts of the Coast to Coast route are constantly being changed due to re-aligning right of ways, property interests, the seasonal effects of farming and livestock as well as attempts to avoid over use and erosion. Trail signs are NOT frequently used to indicate new routes or detours. Sometimes having so many resources helped, as one would hold the key to figuring out the best path. On other occasions having so many resources only left us with too many options to make an efficient choice. When in doubt head to the nearest pub. It’s likely that that’s where the trail goes anyway.
A general note on these guidebooks: all three that we used describe the route walking from West to East, the most common approach to the walk. Terry Marsh provides a supplemental East to West description. All three guidebooks are somewhat compact, fitting into large pockets
TRAIL GUIDE BOOKS
“A Northern Coast to Coast Walk” by Terry Marsh. A very useful book, this comes as a sturdy paperback. Terry Describes provides very legible maps, separates the route description from historical and anecdotal information and presents some alternate routes. The last chapter includes a handbook on planning and an accommodations guide. After the main text, this guidebook presents an additional chapter presenting the key route description from East to West.
“Coast to Coast Walk” by Paul Hannon. The smallest and lightest of the three, this book provides useful maps and sketches of scenery and objects encountered along the trail as well as a thorough description of the route.
“A Coast to Coast Walk” A. Wainwright (Revised 4th Edition) This is the definitive treatise by the person who pioneered the route. The text appears in a style resembling handwriting and it only comes in hardbound editions. A great source of inspiration.
There is a 2 part series of strip maps that focus on the Coast to Coast Walk put out by the “OS” (Ordinance Survey) which is sort of the British equivalent of the USGS (US Geological Survey). They are annotated with information from A Wainwright. These maps are out of print but not impossible to find.
Footprints (A British guide book company) also publishes a 2 part series of strip maps, based on the OS surveys, but somewhat easier to read. They also contain route descriptions. They are in print, but not that easy to find.
GENERAL GUIDEBOOKS
“Coast to Coast Bed and Breakfast Guide” by Mrs. Doreen Whitehead
“Walking in Britain” published by Lonely Planet
“England – The Rough Guide” published by Rough Guides
“Britain” in the Lonely Planet series
“British Phrase Book” yep, another Lonely Planet entry
The UK Ramblers Association www.ramblers.org.uk A good general reference to
walking in the UK
Spotlight Guides www.coast2coast.co.uk Good general Coast to Coast info,
plus an accommodations booking service
BritRail www.britrail.com Coordinated Inforamtion and Sales
for Britain’s rail service
Network Rail www.railtrack.co.uk Train Schedules
Net Cafe Guide www.netcafeguide.com Worldwide Internet Cafe Listings
UK Accomodations Guide www.1st-4-rooms.co.uk/ Accomodations information and
booking service for all of UK
* Sherpa Walking Holidays www.sherpa-walking-holidays.co.uk Baggage handling and trip
* Brigantes Walking Holidays www.pikedaw.freeserve.co.uk/walks/ Baggage handling and trip
* On our walk we used “Sherpa” to transfer baggage. They performed flawlessly. Most walkers we encountered who used a baggage transfer service also used Sherpa and we heard nothing but good comments. Brigantes comes recommended from a friend of a friend, although we did not encounter them or have any direct experience with them. A third service is “Packhorse”. I have not listed their contact here, because we met one couple who were using them and midway through their walk had to change companies. They were told that Packhorse was discontinuing their service. This was in September 2002. It was unclear whether it was due to a slow business period or other difficulties. Trail rumors (which should always be taken with that proverbial grain of salt) were that Packhorse was being sold. If anyone has personal experiences good or bad, let me know so that I can update this section and pass them on to others.
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Reviews: The Eleanor Ames Series
I became a Julie Cross fan via her Juniper Falls series (book 1, book 2), and I finally got around to reading her Eleanor Ames series. I sort of thought I would enjoy them, since I like Cross' writing, but I didn't expect to like them as much as I did.
Chasing Truth
Series: Eleanor Ames, #1
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Suspense
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
At Holden Prep, the rich and powerful rule the school—and they’ll do just about anything to keep their dirty little secrets hidden.
When former con artist Eleanor Ames’s homecoming date commits suicide, she’s positive there’s something more going on. The more questions she asks, though, the more she crosses paths with Miles Beckett. He’s sexy, mysterious, arrogant…and he’s asking all the same questions.
Eleanor might not trust him—she doesn’t even like him—but they can’t keep their hands off of each other. Fighting the infuriating attraction is almost as hard as ignoring the fact that Miles isn’t telling her the truth…and that there’s a good chance he thinks she’s the killer.
Eleanor had recently abandoned her past as a con artist to reunite with her sister. Just when she seemed to be settling into her new life, her only friend allegedly committed suicide. I say allegedly, because Ellie doesn't believe Simon would kill himself, and she was determined to get to the bottom of his death.
At first glance, I thought I was getting a simple prep school murder mystery, but there was a lot more going on in this book, and I loved every delicious moment of it.
From the very beginning of this book, I got a Veronica Mars vibe, and incase you're wondering, that's a very good thing. Eleanor had this fabulous voice. I loved her snark and wit, and couldn't get enough of the banter between her and the other characters. But I also really liked getting inside Ellie's head. She was quite a complicated character. She struggled with many things, and one thing she had trouble with was leaving her past in the past. As she was searching for answers to Simon's death, she would often leverage some of those skills she acquired as a con artist, and that would lead to these flashbacks, which gave us some insight into Ellie's past life. It was quite a fascinating world she left, and I really enjoyed those peeks into her past.
I also enjoyed the side characters. Harper, Ellie's sister, and Aiden, her sister's boyfriend, were both quite wonderful. They undoubtedly loved Ellie, and I enjoyed all the time they shared together on page. But the character, who won my heart was Miles. You know the author did the romance well, when you fall for the hero, and I fell pretty hard for Miles. He was quite mysterious, and I really liked how Ellie chipped away at him, layer by layer, piece by piece.
Speaking of Miles, I was all about the romance in this book. There was a lot of push and pull, hate to love sort of stuff going on, but once it got going, it was all sorts of swoony. Cross did a great job blending the romance into this story without it distracting me from the mystery, and as far as I'm concerned, every story could use a little romance.
As for the story, I loved the way each reveal gave way to something bigger, and enjoyed sitting back as Miles and Ellie worked to untangle all the lies as they searched for the truth. And who doesn't enjoy spending time with the young and rich prep school crowd? Prep school on of my favorite settings, and I really appreciated all the peeks into this world that Cross gave us. We went to parties, a dance, and even to class, which was a lot of fun. And the ending! I was pleased.
Overall: A fabulous mystery filled with action, suspense, intrigue, and swoons.
Hiding Lies
Fans of Veronica Mars or Ally Carter will love the snarky, whip-smart former con artist Eleanor, in this sequel to Chasing Truth.
At Holden Prep, dirty little secrets always have a way of coming to the surface.
Eleanor Ames has never been what she seems. Average high school student on the outside, but reformed con artist trying to break free of her past on the inside. When Eleanor receives startling news about someone from her previous criminal life, plans for a new operation coinciding with her school’s upcoming field trip quickly consume her.
But operations rarely go according to plan. And this is one her irresistible teen FBI agent boyfriend, Miles, would never approve of.
Now, more than just Ellie’s reputation is at stake. If she fails, it could be her life.
I was really excited to catch up with Ellie and Miles, and I was not disappointed. This installment takes us to the Big Apple as Holden Prep takes over New York. Ellie, however, wasn't there for the enrichment the program had to offer, but rather, as a way to slip back into her old con artist ways. Once again, digging in one direction revealed many other secrets, and Ellie risked losing everything she has been working for.
Honestly, I enjoyed this one just as much as the first book, which means I really liked it. Some of the things I enjoyed:
You all know I love being in NYC. It's always a treat to read a story set in my hometown, and I enjoyed traipsing around the boroughs with Ellie and the gang from Holden Prep.
Though I missed spending time with Aiden and Harper, I enjoyed all the quality time spent with Justice and Dominic. Dominic and Ellie grow a lot closer on this trip, and I learned that there's so much more to Dominic than meets the eye.
Ellie's "family" played a big role in this book. We learned a lot more about Ellie's life before, as well as what happened to her parents after the FBI raid. It was really interesting getting that first hand look at her life before, as well as revisiting her memories of her previous life.
I was pretty shocked to discover what Miles was doing on his Christmas vacation, and it added an extra level of intrigue to the story for me.
Miles little excursion was only one of many twists Cross threw at me, and I enjoy following those twists and turns throughout the book.
The romance ramped up in this one, and you know I was happy about that. I ship these two hard and just want to see them in a solid relationship with each other.
I am a fan of this kind of series. Where there is a shorter story arc completed in the book, while also adding to plot of the entire series.
That ending made my heart sing. It was all sorts of wonderful.
Overall: Another great Eleanor Ames story, which left me all sorts of satisfied. If this is the last book, Cross gave us a great ending, but I must say, I would love to read more of Eleanor and Miles' adventures.
** ARC received in exchange for an honest review.
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Nick April 16, 2018 at 9:17 AM
Ooh this series sounds right up my alley! I love books that have mystery-solving couples in it. I can just imagine how good all the chemistry is between them. I love Julie Cross' writing so no doubt I'll have fun with these!
Great reviews!
Samantha@WLABB April 20, 2018 at 5:21 AM
I was surprised by how much I liked it. I don't read a lot of suspense romance, but this was such an interesting blend of things, that I found myself totally absorbed int it all.
Sara @ Forever 17 Books April 16, 2018 at 9:22 AM
I do enjoy this author and I like mysteries to solve, con artist novels, and I love how you describe the characters and romance! I'll have to make sure this series is on my tbr!
I thought Cross did a great job combining all these elements. I was hooked immediately.
Tanya @ Girl Plus Books April 16, 2018 at 11:05 AM
I’m so glad these were such hits for you! It’s so awesome when a second books is every bit as strong as the first, and it sounds like that was the case here. Ellie and Miles sound like great main characters. As much as I like Julie Cross - both her new adult and YA books - this particular series just didn’t appeal. I’ll just enjoy it vicariously through you. 😉
I always worry about second books, especially if I really loved the first one. I put this on my TBR back in 2016, just because it was an Entangled book, and I usually enjoy their books. I totally forgot about it, read the Juniper Falls books, and then when I saw the sequel on NG, I thought, why not. No regrets.
Grace @ RebelMommyBookBlog April 16, 2018 at 11:26 AM
Ah I have never read this author and these are totally new to me! They sound awesome though and I love a mystery. Must add now!! Great reviews!
I am a fan of the Juniper Falls books, because me and hockey romances are a solid thing. I was surprised how much I liked these books. I think it was because the combination was just so well done.
I enjoyed the Veronica Mars series so anything that is in line with that I love to read. I haven't heard of Chasing Truth, but I will need to check it out. Great reviews!
I actually had to agree with that reference. Ellie had that wit that rivaled VMars, and I really enjoyed her.
Ethan April 16, 2018 at 12:14 PM
I really like the idea of a mystery duo that also has romantic interests at stake!
I like the romance and the complications and high stakes attached to it, but there was a lot of "story" outside of the romance, which took it up a notch.
Ash April 16, 2018 at 12:24 PM
I love these covers. Definitely sounds interesting
I think the cover art vibes well with the story.
Heidi@Rainy Day Ramblings April 16, 2018 at 2:23 PM
I saw the second book when I added into Friday Forecast. I didn’t know much about the series, but after reading your reviews, I think I need to give it a go.
I am really happy I took a chance, and I even purchased the first book myself (though, a "wish" from I guess 2016 came through after I already read and reviewed the book. lol)
Dark Franny April 16, 2018 at 2:59 PM
Isn't it great when books manage to surprise us? Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I am a fan of surprises when they surprise me in a good way.
Nadene @Ttly Addicted 2 Reading April 16, 2018 at 8:57 PM
I love when a book surprises you. This sounds real good. Thanks for sharing.
It was a great duology, and I would be up for reading more Eleanor Ames books if Cross wrote them.
Carole's Random Life in Books April 16, 2018 at 9:59 PM
I haven't read Julie Cross but this series does sound great. I am so glad that you ended up as much as you did.
Her YA hockey romance series is great. That's what pushed me to read this series.
Suzanne @ The Bookish Libra April 16, 2018 at 10:11 PM
You had me at Veronica Mars vibe. This sounds like it has the potential to be a pretty great series!
Ellie really lived up to that description too
Lindsi April 17, 2018 at 12:01 AM
I used to really like books that had a boarding school setting, but it has been a while since I've read one! I do love Veronica Mars... this one sounds so fun! I love trying to solve a mystery while I read.
I thought I was before, but following you via Bloglovin'!
Also, where did you find the counter widget? I've seen them around, but the widgets on Bloglovin' don't look like that.
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This is just a day school book, but because it is an elite prep school, you sort of get a similar feel with the characters. My co-blogger did the page, and I think she only used the widgets available via blogger.
Becky Baker April 23, 2018 at 12:57 PM
I saw you say Veronica Mars vibe and I was sold. It's all I need to know but then your reviews made them sound so good! I totally want to buy them now. High school mysteries can be really hit or miss but if it has a Veronica Mars vibe then I imagine it was done well so I will have to buy ASAP.
These books were such a good combo of suspense and romance, and Ellie was a great VMars type, if you ask me. It's a high school mystery, but they are mixed up with the CIA and FBI, and then there is Ellie's past with her crime family. It's a lot, but for some reason, it really worked for me.
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Five More Mistakes First-Time Novelists Make (#41-45)
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This short article will help beginning novelists avoid another five common mistakes that will usually cause publishers to throw out a manuscript.
41. Please make sure that all the characters in a scene play a distinct role. If you have many characters talking in a scene, do you need all of them? If two serve essentially the same role, probably not. For example, if you wanted to write a scene about a teen getting chewed out by his parents for underage drinking, it probably wouldn’t make sense to include both parents unless they each added something. For example, if one parent were more lenient than the other, then having both would allow the teen to play the two parents against each other, which could be dramatic.
Likewise, it’s very important to make sure that all of the characters in your book serve a distinct role. If you can merge two characters into one, it will probably tighten your manuscript and improve your characterization.
42. Don’t let your title misdirect readers. For example, don’t refer to another work in your title unless your story is actually related to that work. If I were writing a story about lambs seeking refuge, calling it Asylum of the Lambs would be spectacularly ineffective. My title may be a witty play on “Silence of the Lambs,” but unless my story actually has something to do with crime or psychological drama or serial-killing, or a SOTL parody, I’ve completely mismarketed my book.
Symbolic language can also misdirect readers. For example, if I were writing a story about a solitary guy, calling it Lone Wolf might convince some readers that it somehow includes a wolf. That may turn off your target audience (“good God, why would I want to read a talking animal story?”) Is there any way that a chunk of your audience might misunderstand a word or phrase you’ve used in your title? If so, please revise it.
43. Please avoid flat protagonists. Readers are generally more interested by characters that grow and develop over the course of the story than by flat characters. I have no doubt that your action sequences are helluva interesting, but what do they show us about the characters? Flat characters usually lead to disappointing conclusions.
44. Try to keep your book consistent. Although your plot will undoubtedly grow and expand, it will jar readers if it changes in such a way that it appeals to a different audience. For example, if you’re writing a mostly light-hearted story, writing in a murder-rape sequence would be unwise. The people that want a light-hearted story are going to drop out, and anyone that actually wanted to read about a murder-rape wouldn’t have gotten past the first chapter. Here are some ways your story might shift away from its starting audience…
1) Changing the genre. Please do not suddenly throw paranormal, mystical or magical elements into a mostly realistic story. I’ve also read a few fantasy manuscripts that suddenly swerved towards science fiction by introducing advanced technology or magic that looked a lot like advanced technology (magic… in space!)
2) Switching main characters. This suggests that the story’s substance and focus have changed dramatically. Be careful. Will the new character interest the same readers? Probably not.
3) Changing the mood or weirdness level. Some beginning authors let their writing grow too dark and/or weird.
4) Suddenly including the author’s political or religious beliefs. Books with a political or religious message can work (sometimes spectacularly) but usually only among a well-defined, pre-established audience. To successfully write such a book, you have to appeal to the audience from page 1.
45. Please avoid forms of the word “got” as much as possible. According to a friend in the publishing industry, words like “got” and “gotten” may trip up a publisher. If you remove them, it will probably enhance the rhythm and flow of your sentences.
This article was the ninth part of a series. If you’d like to read about how to avoid other common writing mistakes, you’ll find the links just below.
16 Responses to “Five More Mistakes First-Time Novelists Make (#41-45)”
# Liesl on 16 Jul 2009 at 6:46 am
#45 is it okay to use “got” in dialogue?
# Ragged Boy on 16 Jul 2009 at 6:55 am
I think so, it’s a fairly common word in speech.
# B. Mac on 16 Jul 2009 at 1:41 pm
There are a few phrases that are awkward in fiction even though they are commonly used in real life. For example, “is going to” can almost always be replaced with something like “will.” Variations of “get” are not as easy to replace, but I’d recommend trying your best.
# Revengel on 28 Mar 2012 at 11:16 am
On #45: I feel this touches on dialogue in general. If I as a writer am attempting to convey how an individual speaks should I stay away from quotes?
Let me give an example here from a story I’m working on at the moment:
Ryan removed his glasses to reveal a confuse look and a black eye. “What gives?”
Lowering his voice LaGrange replied, “I figure that since you chose the mask name ‘Velcro Fly’ that I’d take the name of an actually *good* ZZ Top song.”
“Nya, you’re just jealous, see? Besides it’s a play off the old Vaudeville. Like the human fly, see?”
“Vaudeville,” the man replied with a smile. “Why, you are definitely an O’Brien.”
“Hunh? Alright, I got to get some sleep. I’m kinda tired and all…”
Oh and for the record Ryan does speak like an old gangster (Edward G. Morrow?) flick…and I added the asterisks to replace the italicized font.
Just a thought & looking for a perspective…
# YoungAuthor on 28 Mar 2012 at 5:01 pm
“Symbolic language can also misdirect readers. For example, if I were writing a story about a solitary guy, calling it Lone Wolf might convince some readers that it somehow includes a wolf.” I kinda disagree, at least with this example, only b/c lone wolf in a common term for a “loner”
@Revengel- “Lowering his voice LaGrange replied, “I figure that since you chose the mask name ‘Velcro Fly’ that I’d take the name of an actually *good* ZZ Top song.”
unless this is a comedy superhero story, Velcro fly wouldn’t be the best name. How could people take him seriously. btw’s cool username, i like it
# B. McKenzie on 28 Mar 2012 at 11:02 pm
Revengel, I’m not sure I understand your question. “If I… am attempting to convey how an individual speaks should I stay away from quotes?” While you could show a character’s voice with selective paraphrasing from the narrator, quotes are entirely acceptable and will almost assuredly do most of the work when it comes to establishing a character’s voice.
“…I got to get some sleep.” I think this could probably be rephrased in a shorter, smoother way. Some possibilities:
“…I gotta sleep.”
“…I need to sleep.”
“…I need sleep.”
For some reason, your idea of a hero named after a ZZ Top song brought to mind a superhero rocking a top hat, a tuxedo* and an aura of mystery and prestige. He is known only as S.D.M.
*And pants, I hope.
# Revengel on 29 Mar 2012 at 8:53 am
Thanks – that actually answers my question. 🙂
With Ryan (who’s actually not a good guy at the moment) I want to portray the way he speaks accurately, even when he’s wrong grammatically. In this universe Ryan O’Brien is a bit of a joke – and the reader isn’t supposed to take him seriously.
Since I already have other items during his conversation that establish his ‘voice’ it sounds like I can certainly afford to ‘clean him up’ a bit.
@ YoungAuthor – Thanks! I’ve had this moniker since 1992-93. ^_^
Another excerpt from the same conversation shows that this guy really isn’t a major player:
“What happened to you? Did you get it?” There was a touch of urgency to his voice.
“Well…LaGrange…lemme tell ya. I was about a block away from the Ballistics lab when I heard all the sirens, see? So I just sat tight! No way I’ma take on coppers, that’s not my scene, see? So when I heard the sirens I just stopped on the roof about a block away. I called the man inside to tell him where to leave it…maybe that was before or something…but anyway I gave him the message that I wasn’t going to hop in there straight, see?”
LaGrange held up his hand. “Do you really think we should be talking about this here?”
“Sure!” Ryan motioned around him. “Nobody cares about what we’re talking about, see? Coppers don’t come down here, and there’s nobody around who’s listening, see?”
“You watched way too many gangster movies when your mother raised you.”
Ryan shrugged his shoulders and continued with his story, speaking with a softer voice. “So anyways the shooting stopped and I think to myself that it’s time to get closer, ya know? You thought I was gonna say ‘see’ see?”
LaGrange put his face in the palm of his hand but continued to listen. “You don’t understand this business, do you?”
Undaunted Ryan continued. “So I zip out a line to swing back in that direction like Tarzan, and I was gonna swing around the back, but the long way. Just as I left the roof I looked down at the coppers and saw that broad.”
“Broad? Really? Who talks like that?” LaGrange had a slight smile as he uncovered his face. “What ‘Broad’ did you see?”
“That Koeing Broad! Man the [body] on that chick! She was kiss-facing some copper and man, I never wanted to be in a uniform ever, until then, see?” Ryan’s expression shifted towards the whimsical. “The pictures don’t do her justice. On a scale of one to ten she’s a twelve. I couldn’t even stop…”
LaGrange interrupted. “Talking? I’m so surprised. Get on with it please…” Aggravation was in his voice.
Undaunted Ryan shot back, “be patient will you? Ya asked, see?”
“Alright, but there had better be a point to all this.”
“So she’s kissing this copper, and I’m watching, see? Then I see the corner of the building pass right in front of me.” Ryan shook his head. “Suddenly I had an overpowering urge to take a nap.”
“Wait…you mean the bruises..?” LaGrange began to chuckle. “You weren’t looking..!” Now he was laughing.
“Yea, yuck it up uncle..!” Ryan wasn’t offended in the least and he even joined in with a slight guffaw. “But she’s that good lookin’. So I went smack…right into the building.”
“So what happened? Did you fall?”
“Nope. I was in my suit, see? The Velcro Fly suit, so I wake up stuck to the side of the building.”
LaGrange laughed so hard that he fell out of his chair. A couple of people gave a slight glance to the two of them but otherwise did nothing.
“So now you know where the bruises came from. It’s not like they show in the movies! That knocked me right the…”
“Ok, ok…” LaGrange got back in his chair, dusting off the rear of his pants. “How long were you there?”
“I don’t know…an hour or two? When I got up the coppers were gone but it was still dark. I just went to the back of the place and got this out of the utility box. Whatever you call that thing. Here. It’s yours.” He slid the attaché over to LaGrange.
Now granted this is a rough draft but taking the points from above:
– This is about the only time Velcro Fly has a speaking part in the book. He & LaGrange are background characters.
– While this scene is intended to lighten the mood a bit it isn’t a huge departure from the norm of the story. After this portion of the conversation the mood shifts to a businesslike attitude.
– I should clean up and/or eliminate large portions of this conversation and only mention the parts of the scene that are *vital* to the story per points #41 & #45?
– By the way I did change the title of the book. In this scene the object that they exchange is now the title of the book where before I had a single word reference to a character in the story.
Thanks all of you!
Just saw that I have a review space – I’ll re-post over there. Sorry!
And thank you very much!
Revengel
# Ribke on 11 Oct 2012 at 9:16 pm
Oh, if only Katsura Hoshino (the creator of a manga called D.Greyman) had known about number 44… and about that “how to write male characters” thing… I mean, seriously! Are they guys or girls with XXS boobs?
It’s not like she began like that. I mean, she started well; at first the characters just looked childish. Then they began looking more normal; and suddenly BAM!!! They all get “look and behave like a girl” fever. And it’s not even shounen-ai!
I guess the stress finally got to her =(
# Nayan on 12 Oct 2012 at 6:29 am
@B. Mac.
You said ” it’s very important to make sure that all of the
characters in your book serve a distinct role.”
Now by ”distinct role” do you mean that every charcter should take part in the central plot? But I am writing my novel as the first part of a series. In this novel I am introducing some characters which will become very important in the sequel. For example a couple of classmates of the main character. Jacob Black was introduced in Twilight. But he became important only after New Moon.
# B. McKenzie on 12 Oct 2012 at 7:56 am
“Now by ‘distinct role’ do you mean that every character should take part in the central plot?” A distinct role could be developing a major character, contributing to a conflict, advancing the central plot in some way, advancing a significant side plot in some way… any contribution to the story another character couldn’t make*. Whatever the character does, it should be proportionate to the space he/she receives.
*If all of the roles Character A serves could be performed by Character B, it’d be worth considering removing character A and/or merging A into another character).
In my novel the classmates ( 2 classmates) of the major character develops a side plot which tells how they become partners of the major character in crime fighting in the sequel. And there is one female character who will develop the romantic plot with the main character. All these side characters are distinct
Does it sound okay?
“In my novel the classmates (2 classmates) of the major character develop a side plot which tells how they become partners of the major character in crime fighting in the sequel. And there is one female character who will develop the romantic plot with the main character. All these side characters are distinct.” I don’t have very much to go on here, but it sounds mostly okay so far. The only concern which springs to mind is that the two characters might feel like something of a distraction in the here and now. I’m not sure–I’d have to check out those scenes.
# Mightymay on 30 Dec 2014 at 1:28 am
Not sure if I’ll get a reply seeing how the last comment was posted in 2012 and 2015 is almost upon us BUT…
So if a story has two main characters and switched the POV between those two characters every chapter, is that alright?
Both characters are friends and go off on their different storylines and goals and end up working together when the separate things they were working on became connected
# Red on 30 Dec 2014 at 2:01 pm
I’m no pro but I don’t see a problem with two POVs as long as in some way they connect, story wise and writing style wise. Is this going to to be first or third person? Third person stories do it all the time and it’s easy to draw connections between the two. It’s harder in first person since unless the characters are telling the stories after it’s happened there may be some unintentional fourth wall breaking. Also how different are their stories and how long until they connect? If the stories seem to draw no connections or drag on too long readers lose interest, however being that their friends this won’t seem to be a problem.
Hope that helped.
# Kiv on 13 Mar 2018 at 2:48 pm
41: Thanks for the tip, will revise…
42: Seven Clockwork Angels, about seven magic steampunk cyborg ‘angels’.
43: Liz sometimes worries me, but I’m working on it.
44: Don’t think I’ve done any of this, but thanks for the warning.
45: M’kay, duly noted.
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2020: Even Wonder Woman Lets Us Down
–Wonder Woman 1984 is not nearly as good at the original. Pluses: the cast is still very charming, and a few of the fight scenes are effective. I did actually like most of the first hour of the movie. –Setting: In the original Wonder Woman, the WWI setting contributes to a hard bleakness which effectively […]
FRPERG ONFR Cypher
In Griftlands, Rook finds a rebel map with FRPERG ONFR written on it and chuckles. The writing doesn’t explain this, but it’s a crude cypher for SECRET BASE. Solution: rotate each letter 13 digits. E.g. the secret message starts with F, the 6th letter of the alphabet, and adding 13 turns it into S (the […]
Captain Marvel Review: 1.5 Stars Out of 5
1. I don’t know where to start with Captain Marvel. So many things went so wildly wrong that we’d need a presidential commission to get to the bottom of it. It’s like the Chernobyl of superhero movies. 2. If at any point you feel like your action movie would benefit from a character whose main […]
Spider-Man: Far From Home Review (1 star out of 5)
1. This version of Spider-Man is a useless toolbox who actively avoids doing interesting things, and what he does attempt is usually wimpy and/or incompetent. 2. Unlike most main characters, his choices don’t matter much. For example, he chooses to leave his supersuit at home (but his aunt sneaks it in anyway) and he tries […]
Rotten Tomatoes Score Dataset Updated
We’re up to 72 superhero movies since 2000 (current as of November 2017). You can download the full data here. Some observations: R movies are making up the quality gap with PG-13 movies. Superhero movies are improving. Over the last 5 years (2013-2017), the average superhero movie is averaging 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, up […]
Letters from Deadpool
Hey DeadPool, You are a funny guy. How did you become a super hero? What do you do when you’re not doing anything? Do you like being a superhero? Why do you wear a mask? Why do you wear red and white? Are you Canadian? Getting superpowers is sort of a long story. Some people […]
Preliminary review of Dr. Strange
I feel like a marketing executive put a gun to the screenwriter’s head and said “I don’t CARE what the movie is about, put New York City, London, and Hong Kong in it. Just do that thing where the villain is trying to collect plot coupons around the world in places that happen to be […]
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The Broadway Malyan scenarios – more details from the Council
November 30, -0001 by Wildcat
The Council’s unveiling of Broadway Malyan’s three scenario / plans for Twickenham Riverside were not presented with enough detail. TRTG believe the community needs additional information to make informed and considered comments on the proposals.
It is evident that Riverside Scenario 1 for land owned by the Council can be rapidly implemented. For the alternative scenarios more information is required as to the detail and implications of the proposals, time scale for their implementation, their cost, and an indication of the willingness of land owners to bring forward sites for development in order that a balanced judgement can be made by the public.
With regard to the proposals for Twickenham Riverside , it is our understanding is that anyone voting for Scenario 2 gets the benefits of 1 and voting for 3 includes the benefits of both 1 & 2. Therefore whichever you vote for you either get Scenario 1 or Scenario 1 + the claimed benefit of changes to sites not within the Councils ownership. However it is stated in the document Twickenham Area Action Plan which the options questionaire refers to that:
“Development of key sites not within the Councils ownership are dependent upon owners bringing their sites forward for redevelopment. The Council can use its planning powers to influence land owners to realise the aims of the Action Plan but these may be medium to longer term.”
TRTG’s Ron Chappell contacted the Council and received the following prompt responses to his questions regarding these issues.
RC What length of time will be needed for the Council to use its planning powers to influence land owners medium to longer term?
LBRuT: This will vary on a case by case basis, for example, in relation to the Royal Mail site which is currently being marketed the Council will have an immediate opportunity to influence the selected developers approach, where sites are not subject to development proposals any influence may be longer term.
RC: Your definition of medium and long term?
LBRuT: These are not specifically defined but my own interpretation would be that medium term would be 5-10 years, and long term 10-20 years. But any categorisation of what can be done short, medium and longer term can only be indicative.
RC: Have the respective land owners, for the proposals set out for 2 & 3, agreed to bring their sites forward for development and or demolition?
LBRuT: Most of the key owners i.e. Council, Royal mail, Network Rail, Regal House are likely to bring forward development proposals, but their intentions will be clarified through this consultation.
RC: Does the Council plan to use its planning powers to influence land owners to enable the execution of Scenarios 2 & 3?
LBRuT: Yes, the Council will certainly be using its planning powers.
RC: In order to make a sensible judgement of the scenarios 1 to 3 the anticipated cost of each should be provided and an idea of the time scale needed to realise each of these alternative scenarios.
LBRuT: When we have more understanding of the views of the community it will be necessary to undertake further detailed feasibility work including consideration of potential costs.
RC: It is noted that changes to traffic, road closures and new building are included. Can you clarify what consultation has been carried out with TfL local residents and businesses in King Street, Church street, and Eel Pie Island regarding these matters?
LBRuT: There have been informal discussions with such as TfL and some landowners, but this is the opportunity for statutory bodies, landowner, residents and businesses to engage formally in the process.
Conclusions: What is not clearly explained in the Councils Options Document is the cost and funding implications of the alternative scenarios. That for each of the scenarios involving key sites not within the councils ownership there is a time span for implementation of 5 to 20 years after adoption of the TAAP in late 2012.
This will affect Scenarios 2 & 3 for the Riverside. The Riverside has suffered from 30 years of neglect and expenditure on over ambitious development proposals. This is the reason why TRTG are proceeding with their approved planning application 09/0914/FUL for the incremental realisation of Option 1, in the TAAP. A realisable environmentally sound, community involving scheme that has already returned 40% of the pool site to the community for activity and leisure..
Categories: Consultation, Council plans, Planning, Twickenham Riverside Site | Tags: Broadway Malyan | Permalink
Grant Healy
When I spoke to Broadway Malyan’s ‘Director of Regeneration’, Joanna Chambers, at the unveiling day (June 11, 2011) she told me that a team of ‘financial experts’ had looked at the plans and they were considered to be feasible.
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Tony Shoebridge
Comment number 2.
Important correction: the incremental idea that if you vote for Option 2, “Enhancement” you get the “Consolidation” scheme plus new features unique to Enhancement is wrong. The Riverside scenarios are not incremental, unlike the options in the rest of Twickenham. Broadway Malyan were adamant about this.
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5 Office of the Future Predictions and Impacts
Published on June 26, 2013 - By Mike Sullivan
Office of the future
Increasingly mobile. Tech-enabled. Anywhere and anytime. Virtual assistants.
These are among the buzzwords that describe the office of the future. So says Office of the Future: 2020, a research study recently released by OfficeTeam.
Of course, these trends are already a reality in today’s office world. We see the use of multifunctional, wireless technology to conduct business from various locations. Administrative professionals are playing a greater role in activities such as Internet research, desktop publishing, computer training and support, and website maintenance.
So the bigger question is, what’s in store for the next 10 to 15 years?
“Technology will continue to reshape the workplace, changing how and where we conduct business,” says Diane Domeyer, executive director of OfficeTeam. “As a result, flexibility and adaptability will be sought-after attributes in employees at all levels.”
Here are some interesting predictions, along with our thoughts on how they may impact the business center industry.
Prediction #1: Technology tools to provide even greater flexibility
Miniature wireless devices, WiFi, WiMax and mobile technology will continue to allow a company’s staff to work outside of the office with greater ease. Additionally, virtual environments and web-based conferencing services will provide off-site employees with real-time access to meetings, reducing the need to travel.
Impact: Flexibility is a keyword that business centers can roll with. Your business center should be WiFi-enabled, as we’ve discussed in past columns. Adding virtual conferencing to your amenities mix will draw mobile workers to your business center.
Prediction #2: Telecommuting to rise
Improved wireless connectivity will allow for an increasingly flexible workforce. Eighty-seven percent of executives surveyed believe telecommuting will increase in the next 10 to 15 years. Telecommuting enables employees to work where it’s most convenient, but it also challenges their interpersonal skills. They must build relationships with coworkers while having fewer in-person interactions.
Impact: If you aren’t already trumpeting your virtual offices and virtual office technologies, now is the time. Telecommuting will continue to gain momentum. In other words, it hasn’t reached its peak yet. Virtual offices continue rising with the growth of telecommuting.
Prediction #3: Staff to put in more time
Forty-two percent of executives surveyed by OfficeTeam think employees will be working more hours in 10 to 15 years. Only 9 percent said they would be working fewer hours.
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Prediction #4: Workers will stay in touch while on vacation
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“In the future office, there will be added pressure to adapt quickly to change, work smarter, increase productivity and perform duties outside of one’s job description,” says Domeyer. “The good news is that emerging technological tools and educational opportunities will better enable professionals to meet these challenges.”
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“The Lamb was written during a time of intense paranoia after a home invasion, deaths of loved ones and general violence around me and my friends,” says Lillie West, the Chicago-based songwriter behind Lala Lala. “I began to frequently and vividly imagine the end of the world, eventually becoming too frightened to leave my house. This led me to spend a lot of time examining my relationships and the choices I’d made, often wondering if they were correct and/or kind.” West initially started Lala Lala as a way to communicate things that she felt she could never say out loud. But on The Lamb, her sophomore LP and debut for Hardly Art, she has found strength in vulnerability. Through bracing hooks and sharp lyrics, the 24-year-old songwriter and guitarist illustrates a nuanced look on her own adulthood -- her fraught insecurity, struggles with addiction, and the loss of several people close to her. Across the album’s 12 tracks, West carefully examines the skeletons in her closet for the first time, hoping to capture honest snapshots of her past selves. Many of the songs show West asking herself agonizing questions about her life with a clever and hopeful curiosity. On the album’s first single and opening track, “Destroyer,” she reflects on feeling self-destructive and the delayed realization something in the past has irrevocably hurt you. In “Water Over Sex,” West laments her old precarious lifestyle, while trying to readjust to her newfound sobriety, and ”Copycat” confronts her feelings of alienation and boredom. “Some of this album is about being frustrated that everything is always repeating itself and being bored with your own feelings,” she explains. “‘Copycat’ in particular is about how everyone talks exactly the same on the Internet and how it sometimes feels futile to try and be yourself.”
Artist: Lala Lala
1. Destroyer
2. Spy
3. Water Over Sex
4. I Get Cut
5. Dove
6. Dropout
7. The Flu
8. Copycat
9. Scary Movie
10. Moth
11. When You Die
12. See You At Home
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Home›News Now›Mahathir Mohamad, 92, world oldest PM takes over in Malaysia
Mahathir Mohamad, 92, world oldest PM takes over in Malaysia
Mahathir Mohamad celebrates with his coalition leaders during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on May 10. (CNN)
London, May 10, 2018 (AltAfrika)-Veteran Malaysian politician Mahathir Mohamad is set to become the world’s oldest leader after a shock victory in the country’s election, after he upended six decades of control by the ruling coalition.
In his triumphant return to front line Malaysian politics, Prime Minister-elect Mahathir — who also ruled the country from 1981 to 2003 — pledged to form a new government quickly, following a momentous night in which scandal-plagued incumbent Najib Razak was soundly beaten at the polls by his former mentor.
Mahathir, who will become the world’s oldest leader aged 92, is expected to be sworn in by Malaysia’s constitutional ruler, King Muhammad V, at 9:30 p.m. (9.30 a.m. ET), according to state media Bernama.
It follows a day of confusion over the status of Malaysia’s new government, with various times announced and then missed for Mahathir’s swearing-in.
Mahathir’s car was seen driving into the palace ahead of a possible 5 p.m. meeting, only to drive out again without a word an hour and a half later.
“We expect today for me to be sworn in as prime minister,” he told a press conference, addressing concerns over a delay by saying that some “confusion” over the process had now been cleared up.
“We hope by 5:00 pm (0900 GMT) today we will have a prime minister. Any delay means there is no government. If there is no government there is no law or any institutions.”
Mahathir stormed to an unexpected victory early Thursday at the head of an alliance packed with parties that opposed him during his two decades in power, toppling the long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
The former strongman came out of retirement to take on his former protege, scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Credited with turning Malaysia into a major trading and economic force in Southeast Asia, Mahathir left politics in 2003, but he returned with a vengeance this year, determined to oust the incumbent prime minister, Najib.
Mahathir told CNN in January that standing in the election was a “job I have to do.”
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Daddy's car
Little Johnny watched his daddy's car pass by the school playground and go into the woods. Curious, he followed the car and saw Daddy and Aunt Jane in a passionate embrace. Little Johnny found this so exciting that he could hardly contain himself as he ran home and started to tell his mother. 'Mommy, I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back to look and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, and then he helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane...' At this point Mommy cut him off and said, 'Johnny, this is such an interesting story, suppose you save! the rest of it for supper time. I want to see the look on Daddy's face when you tell it tonight.' At the dinner table that evening, Mommy asked little Johnny to tell his story. Johnny started his story, 'I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back to look and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane and Daddy started doing the same thing that Mommy and Uncle Bill used to do when Daddy was in the Army.'
Old George
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Indie Dev of the Day and Giveaway: Day 6
Like so many of the other developers we have featured on our Indie Dev of the Day, the developers, sometimes against all odds have dug their way to the top. Image and Form did that quite literally with Steamworld Dig, their claim to fame hit that is now available on many different platforms such as Nintendo 3DS & Wii U, and Steam.
Back in 2012, coming off of their iOS hit Anthill, development on SteamWorld Dig began. For a time, the game just wasn't fun according to Image & Form, but after a week of blood, sweat and tears, Steamworld Dig started to get closer to the end product gamers fell in love with. Protagonist Rusty had mined his way into their hearts, and even the heart of the creator of Minecraft! We loved it too, as you can read in our review of the Wii U version.
Steamworld Dig became a hit, earning, and rightfully deserving many GOTY nominations in 2013. Since its original release on Nintendo 3DS, Steamworld Dig has been ported to Nintendo's console counterpart, the Wii U, and to Steam. Better yet for fans of Rusty's adventures, a sequel, Steamworld Heist is scheduled for a 2015 release. Here's to hoping that the Wii U counterpart of Rusty's debut adventure will earn just as many or more GOTY nominations as it did in 2013!
As some of you might have caught on by now, we give away a game from which ever developer we talk about in this series. Today, we have a code for Steamworld Dig for NA Wii U systems. In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must make a post stating you are interested, and one optional digging pun. Good luck to all that enter! Be sure to stay up to date by Following Image and Form on Twitter, Liking their Facebook Page or their Official Website.
Indie Dev of the Day and Giveaway: Day 6 :: Comments
Re: Indie Dev of the Day and Giveaway: Day 6
on Tue Dec 30, 2014 4:43 pm by Professor Clayton
Image & Form are one of my favorite dev teams! I already own the 3DS version, so I'm not going to enter for this one, but good luck to both those who do and Image & Form!
on Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:27 pm by bezerker99
I hear this game is an awesome mining platform action-adventure game. You know I totally dig games like that!
on Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:17 am by GreenDragon
I like these kind of games, And I'd love to have some new indiegames in my library.
on Wed Dec 31, 2014 1:38 pm by SomeBitTripFan
I've been meaning to dig in and start using my Wii U to actually play Wii U games. I guess there's no better way than this game.
on Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:17 am by Professor Clayton
Congratulations to @bezerker99 for winning the code for Steamworld Dig for Wii U!
Thanks to everyone for entering, and the Image & Form for providing the code! Be sure to follow them on Social Media everyone- you don't want to miss what they'll do next!
I'll be PM'ing the code shortly.
on Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:27 am by bezerker99
Thanks @ProfessorClayton! I'm so excited I won, can't wait to play it~
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Collecting and Use of EU Passenger Name Record Agreed
On 4 December 2015 the Council accepted the compromise textual content agreed with the European Parliament on the proposal for a directive on the usage of passenger title document (PNR) information for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and severe crime.
“The compromise agreed today will enable the EU to set up an effective PNR system which fully respects fundamental rights and freedoms”, stated Etienne Schneider, Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Internal Security and President of the Council.
The directive goals to manage the switch from the airways to the member states of PNR information of passengers of worldwide flights, in addition to the processing of this information by the competent authorities. The directive establishes that PNR information collected could solely be processed for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and severe crime.
Under the brand new directive, air carriers might be obliged to offer member states’ authorities with the PNR information for flights coming into or departing from the EU. It will even enable, however not oblige, member states to gather PNR information regarding chosen intra-EU flights. Each member state might be required to arrange a so-called Passenger Information Unit, which can obtain the PNR information from the air carriers.
The new guidelines create an EU commonplace for the usage of such information and embrace provisions on:
the needs for which PNR information could be processed within the context of regulation enforcement (pre-arrival evaluation of passengers towards pre-determined threat standards or so as to establish particular individuals; the use in particular investigations/prosecutions; enter within the growth of threat evaluation standards);
the change of such information between the member states and between member states and third international locations;
storage (information will initially be saved for six months, after which they are going to be masked out and saved for one more interval of 4 years and a half, with a strict process to entry the total information);
widespread protocols and information codecs for transferring the PNR information from the air carriers to the Passenger Information Units; and
robust safeguards as regards safety of privateness and private information, together with the function of nationwide supervisory authorities and the necessary appointment of a knowledge safety officer in every Passenger Information Unit.
PNR information are already as we speak saved within the carriers’ reservation methods. They concern the data offered by passengers to carriers when reserving a flight and when checking in on flights. PNR information consists of the title, journey dates, journey itinerary, ticket data, contact particulars, journey agent at which the flight was booked, technique of cost used, seat quantity and baggage data.
The use of those information by member states’ regulation enforcement our bodies in particular circumstances is nothing new: Various member states already use PNR information for regulation enforcement functions, both on the idea of particular laws or on the idea of normal authorized powers. The assortment and use of PNR information has been important in combating sure cross-border crimes, similar to drug trafficking in human beings or kids trafficking. However, there’s as but no widespread method throughout the EU.
The UK and Ireland have opted in to this directive. Denmark will not be taking part.
The Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee is predicted to vote quickly.
The directive might be then submitted, following legal-linguistic revision, to the European Parliament for a vote at first studying, and to the Council for adoption.
Once adopted, member states could have two years to deliver into pressure the legal guidelines, laws and administrative provisions essential to adjust to this directive.
Joaquín Nogueroles Garcia
Tags: Agreed, Collecting, Passenger, Record
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