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The kids aren’t alright: How Generation Covid is losing out | Free to read | Financial Times
When Mary Finnegan, 27, and her sister Meg, 22, left their Brooklyn apartment to return to their parents’ home in March, they took enough clothes to last two weeks.
Their stay stretched into months. “It was like a return to homeschooling: no boys, no play dates, nowhere to go, except home and the liquor store,” Mary told the Financial Times.
As the coronavirus pandemic worsened and universities closed, Mary and Meg were followed by three other siblings, turning the parental four-bedroom house in Washington, New Jersey, into a “food hall, a bakery and a gym”, according to their mother Lori.
The Finnegans are among the millions of young adults around the world who have moved back in with their parents since Covid-19 struck. In the US, the share of 18- to 29-year-olds living at home is the highest ever recorded.
While they are less at risk of developing severe forms of Covid-19, students and young workers are suffering from the pandemic’s economic fallout more harshly than other groups, data show. The pandemic has also amplified previous trends including low wages, stagnant job markets and rising student debt.
A global survey by the Financial Times, to which more than 800 16- to 30-year-olds responded, shows that these difficulties are translating into growing resentment towards older generations, which are both better off and holding greater political sway.
“We are not in this together, millennials have to take the brunt of the sacrifice in the situation,” said Polina R, 30, from Montreal, Canada. “If you won’t watch out that we don’t end up jobless and poorer, why should we protect you?”
Here is what they told the FT about their experiences during the pandemic:
‘I feel I am worthless’
Komal Kadam, who lives in Maharashtra, India, and Juyeon Lee, from Daegu in South Korea, have both found it difficult to find jobs amid dwindling vacancies
Since graduating in August, 25-year-old Juyeon Lee from Daegu, South Korea, has submitted dozens of job applications. Although she has had a few interviews, she has grown rattled by the dwindling number of vacancies.
“I don’t want to get infected because if I do, job hunting would be harder . . . I feel I am worthless and I would never get proper work even though I was a confident graduate when I had interviews,” she said.
Those aged 25 and under are 2.5 times more likely to be without a job because of the pandemic than the 26-64 age group, according to the OECD. Studies have also shown that graduating during a recession can have a scarring effect on wages.
Among those still working, almost half reported a reduction in income, with young women and those in lower paid jobs the hardest hit, according to the OECD and the International Labour Organization. Many who wrote to the FT said they had to abandon business plans and dip into their savings.
In the developing world, unemployment often means no longer being able to support multiple generations of dependants: Komal Kadam, 28, from Maharashtra, India, was the only one in the family who earned money until she lost her job in March.
“I am scared of everything . . . Can I get a new job? How will I pay my loans? [There are] lots of things on my mind,” she said.
‘I refuse to stop enjoying life’
Toader Mateoc from the US and Juan from Colombia have seen attitudes to lockdown vary hugely
Many surveyed by the FT said they were afraid of catching or transmitting the virus, but others admitted to a more nonchalant attitude — a behaviour that has been criticised by political leaders as one reason for a resurgence of the pandemic in Europe and the US after the summer.
During the peak of the lockdown in the spring, Polina from Montreal had friends over. “I did not follow recommendations,” she said. “I travelled out of the country twice and have gone to bars, restaurants and theatres a dozen times.
“My risk tolerance is high and I refuse to stop enjoying life when no one has a plan and the people in power have no skin in the game.”
In many places, notably the US but also in Europe and south Asia, many respondents pointed out that it was often older people who defied public health regulations.
“Older generations believe whatever the internet tells them. They are misguided by WhatsApp forwards and YouTube videos,” Ajitha, 28, from Chennai, India, noted.
“I did break rules. I went on several dates with a girl I met during this period. I don’t know what was scarier, my mom finding out I was meeting other people and exposing everyone or the fear of getting caught by the police”
Juan, 25, Colombia
“Everybody's attitude reminds me of drivers' attitudes on the highway: everybody faster than me is crazy, while everybody slower than me is an imbecile”
Toader Mateoc, 28, US
“Pivoting on a dime just as I had been getting acquainted with the ‘real world’ was a bit jarring”
Marco Angelo Felizardo, 22, Philippines
‘We are all being blamed for a crisis in leadership’
A protest over education costs in Edinburgh and a message projected on a building protesting against President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision not to lock down Sao Paulo
Many respondents said they were losing faith in their leaders and felt that the pandemic had been poorly handled — with the exception of some Europeans and respondents from parts of Asia.
“We are all being blamed for a crisis in leadership,” Anthony, 23, from Annecy, France, told the FT.
From his kitchen table-cum-office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Danilo Ventura, 29, has watched his country cycle through three different health ministers since the start of the pandemic. “The world was saying A and Brazilian politics were screaming Z,” he said.
That lack of direction took a toll: Brazil has the second-worst death toll in the world after the US. Danilo and his wife quarantined following the regional government’s instructions, even though the country’s populist president Jair Bolsonaro attended crowded events.
Trust in government among young people has declined across the developed world since 2016, according to the OECD. “Their confidence in public institutions and their perception of having political influence and representation in decision-making have stalled,” said Elsa Pilichowski, who runs the OECD’s Directorate of Public Governance.
In the US and the UK, in particular, many told the FT that they felt the government had been inconsistent and slow to act.
“The airports were opened too long. The messaging on masks was disgraceful. I never got one until mid-June,” said John, 28, from Glasgow, Scotland. “My perception is that, shy of America, we really are handling this terribly.”
The pandemic has deepened political disenchantment, according to Naumi Haque, senior vice-president of research at Ipsos. “Gen Z and millennials are more likely to feel like things in their country are out of control right now than older generations,” he said.
‘A lot of very difficult, intense feelings’
Mary Finnegan was one of several respondents who pointed to the mental health impact of lockdown, with anxiety over education and getting a job adding to the burden
Many contacted the FT saying they had entertained thoughts of harming themselves. “Unemployment, mental health difficulties, and uncertainty about when this will all end make for a pretty despairing outlook,” James, 30, from London, said. “At one point I was considering suicide,” he added.
Public health specialists have warned that the mental health impact of the pandemic will outlast the virus, as millions cope with depression, anxiety and isolation. Studies conducted in the UK and the US showed that those aged 18 to 29 experienced higher level of distress compared to other age groups during this period.
Back in New Jersey, five of the 10 Finnegan children have started going to therapy since the pandemic began. “Someone had a breakdown about once a week,” Mary said.
María Rodríguez, 25, originally from Spain but living in Krakow, Poland, said she decided to risk getting Covid-19 rather than falling into depression because of isolation.
“I am not afraid of going to cafés and [meeting] multiple people since I won’t get my family sick,” she said. “I chose my mental health over Covid.”
In May, Ola Demkowicz, a lecturer in psychology of education at Manchester university, surveyed hundreds of teenagers in the UK. Many of them described experiencing “a lot of very difficult, intense feelings” as they adapted to the uncertainty in their lives. “For those with existing mental health difficulties this appears to have been really quite a challenge,” she said.
“I was very strict when living at home with my older parents. Now, after becoming an alcoholic nun for six months, I will risk Covid for a chance to go on a date again”
Mary Finnegan, 27, US
“You face hours of Zoom university every day, a devalued degree at full freight, diminished job prospects, fear for your elder relatives, and fewer (if any) chances to see your friends or make new ones. It’s enough to make anyone a little nihilistic”
Will, 23, US
“Teacher expectations have risen exponentially and everything I do has to be several times better than usual, for the examiners suspect and expect foul play. The pressure’s been steadily rising in the past six months, but I hope that when everything settles down, so will the stress”
Alistair Woo, 16, Hong Kong
“Young people are hustlers, every youth out there wants to be better but this pandemic ruined things, restricted movements, schools were shut down, some businesses crashed”
Victoria Chidiebere, 22, Nigeria
‘A door to many new horizons’
Alistair Woo, left, points to rising expectations from teachers, while Victoria Chidiebere says that the pandemic has halted young people’s natural entrepreneurship
Several respondents, however, said that the pandemic had allowed them to reconnect with their families and nature, as well as tick things off their bucket list.
Joshua, 26, from the UK, said that one morning in August he packed his car and headed for Spain, leaving behind a small flat and a toxic office environment.
“I now spend less than a third of my salary on a three-bedroom apartment by the sea to myself. A couple of friends have visited but I’m mostly living the socially distant bachelor life,” he said.
In February, researchers from Thailand observed a group of college students in Wuhan, China, where the virus originated, to find out how they were coping with the lockdown. They found that several them were reacting with resilience.
Dr Demkowicz found similar evidence in the UK: the first lockdown provided teenagers with the opportunity to decide how to structure their day freed from social obligations and schoolwork, she said: “They could . . . explore what they wanted out of life and kind of find ways to grow and develop and re-evaluate what directions they were taking.”
In the FT survey, Anders Furze, 30, from Albury, Australia, said he had realised that he was burning the candle at both ends before the pandemic: “I was out five nights a week: having dinners, attending film screenings, theatre shows.”
He recently gave his career a rethink and enrolled in a postgraduate law degree. “It feels like it is opening up a door to many new horizons,” he said.
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Neste, the leading producer of renewable diesel and Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer will work together to promote and accelerate the commercialization of renewable aviation fuel. The companies will work toward American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) fuel standard approval allowing the commercial use of high freezing point renewable aviation fuel by airlines. The goal is also to gain widespread market acceptance for renewable aviation fuels, and to progress sustainability accreditation efforts.
Neste anticipates that its high-quality renewable aviation fuel could help the aviation industry to achieve its greenhouse gas saving targets: carbon-neutral growth from 2020 and a net reduction in carbon emissions of 50% by 2050 compared to 2005.
“Airlines and airplane manufacturers are undertaking several initiatives to lower the industry’s carbon footprint, and renewable aviation fuel will be a key part of their long-term environmental solution,” says Kaisa Hietala, Neste’s Executive Vice President of Renewable Products. “We are very excited to work with Boeing, in order to help create a commercially viable market for renewable aviation fuels”.
“Boeing is proud to collaborate with Neste, a global leader in renewable fuel production, to meet our shared goals of expanding the supply and reducing the cost of sustainable aviation biofuel,” says Julie Felgar, Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ Managing Director of Environmental Strategy & Integration. “The aviation industry is committed to making air travel more sustainable.”
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Admas Habteslasie: « I like staring at things »
Interview of Marian Nur Goni with Admas Habteslasie
A conversation with Admas Habteslasie on his fascinating work, « Limbo », which explores landscapes and certain aspects of recent Eritrean history in three successive chapters: Past, Future and Present.
In the documentary photography tradition, Habteslasie constructs a sensitive and powerful work.
Let’s start this interview with your beginnings in photography and Lewis Hine’s photographs, which had an important impact on you. Can you say a few words about this early photographic experience?
The first time I saw Lewis Hine’s photos was in the Terrence Malick film’Days of Heaven’; Malick uses a montage of some of Hine’s photos of labourers at the start of the film. I think it was a striking experience because I’d never really looked at documentary photography before then. I went back to the photos later when I started to become interested in photography. In many ways, it’s hard to pin down what I like so much about them. There is a sense of wonder and novelty about the photographic medium in much early photography that I find very beautiful. It’s diametrically opposed to the easy familiarity that we have with photographic images today, which I suppose is part of its appeal. For photographers who aspire to social goals, Hine in some ways represents something of an ideal – his photos were an important part of a national debate on child labour that led to the enactment of legislation outlawing the practice.
Do you think that his work has had an impact on yours? If so, in what way? Have other photographers’ works been influential on your practice too?
I was definitely influenced by his style, by the simplicity of his aesthetic. I like a lot of photographers from that era – I’m also a big fan of Walker Evans. I think part of the reason that this style of photography attracts me so much is that I share some of that sense of wonder at photography – when I look at a photo that moves me, I feel like a child – and it’s also, predictably, a function of how I see the world. I like staring at things.
I’m influenced by many different photographers – too many to list – but in particular the work of Walker Evans had a big impact on me.
A residency held in Syracuse NY in 2009, organized by the non-profit US organization Light Work in collaboration with the London-based charity Autograph ABP, led to « Limbo », an exhibition of your work in Eritrea, and a catalogue (« Contact sheet » n. 151).
Can you say few words about your Eritrean project? When and how did you start taking photographs there?
I started taking photographs in Eritrea in 2004, a year before I started studying photography (1). I had been to visit Eritrea regularly from a young age, so I had a strong link to the country; when I started studying photography, it seemed natural for me to head back to Eritrea. The project started with the idea of exploring the impact of the unresolved border conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The project slowly expanded, however, until it became more of a broader portrait of the country. In retrospect, the border issue was a way into the project rather than its main point.
The photographs published in the catalogue were taken in Senafe, Assab, Sembel, Asmara… What were the work and shooting conditions like for you?
The conditions were good, even if I could only spend a limited amount of time in some of the places I was shooting in. For example, I was in Senafe, a town very close to the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, at a time when tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia were high, so I could only spend a couple of hours there. I know Eritrea well; I have visited regularly since I was young.
The general tones of your photographs are pastel. This contributes to creating a very sweet and strange atmosphere (the limbo of your title) in spite of the difficulties experienced by the country. How do you work on this particular aspect?
I went to Eritrea twice for the project, once in 2005 and the second time in 2008. The first time I went I did not have a preconceived idea of the aesthetic approach I wanted to take – I was simply drawn to things and snapped away. Some broad visual themes emerged in the editing, but I had the opportunity to really focus in on the relationship between the aesthetics and the underlying ideas during my residency at Light Work, where I had the space to play around and really think about things like the colour palette. This focused my attention for my second trip in 2008 and the overall project became significantly more aesthetically coherent as a result of this experience.
In « Contact sheet », you decided to create three successive chapters: Past, Future and Present. Was this distinction already clear to you when you were taking pictures in Eritrea, or did it come later looking at your body of work and editing it?
No, it’s something that emerged later. The idea of history and its connection with the present is something that is quite a preoccupation, both with me personally and in the project. Photography creates history: a photo is, amongst other things, a document of a specific period in history.
Eritrea, like many African countries, has a lot of history and is wedded to its historical narrative; also, there is an obsessive focus on the future and its possibilities. As a result, the present almost disappears into thin air. I suppose the chapter division was a way of trying to get some of this across.
Often in your photographs, human beings are absent, very far away, shot whilst sleeping, or with hidden faces – apart from in chapter 3, « Present », where two separate and very beautiful portraits of two men and a portrait of two children appear. Why?
The broader aesthetic approach was a consequence of the subject matter, or at least how I thought the subject matter would be best approached. Firstly, Eritrea is not a country that reveals itself to you in a straightforward way; there’s always an element of trying to work out what’s actually going on. Eritreans are obsessed with being discreet. Also, perhaps because I’m also Eritrean, I have a reticence about shoving my camera in people’s faces – I feel quite apologetic as a photographer, generally. Photographers take people’s photos and then go and form their own little narrative, a narrative that is dressed up as a historical document. It’s an enormous responsibility. As such, I’m quite shy about taking portraits – or rather, I find it hard to take one I’m happy with unless I have a certain level of comfort and familiarity with the subject. Regarding this project, I wanted to temper the overall impression of looking in on a world from the outside with a glimpse into the human side of the story. It seemed like the’present’ section was the right place to put the portraits, as it underscores the idea that in between the grand historical narrative of the past and the uncertainty of the future, the present is a place where people wait, patiently.
Do you consider your work in Eritrea as finished?
In terms of the photography, it feels pretty complete. I am currently working on producing some written material to go with the work.
What are your forthcoming projects?
At the moment I’m based in the Middle East and am working on a few projects in the region; I’m also currently doing some research for a prospective project in the Caribbean.
(1) I studied photography at the London College of Communication (formerly the London College of Printing) from January to December 2005.July 2010.///Article N° : 9709
Les images de l'article
Limbo, Telecommunications Building, Senafe, 2005. © Admas Habteslasie
Limbo, Hotel, Assab, 2005 © Admas Habteslasie
Port, Assab, 2005 © Admas Habteslasie
Limbo, School children singing Eritrean national anthem, 2008 © Admas Habteslasie
Limbo, Family gifts, 2005 © Admas Habteslasie
Limbo, Martyrs, 2008 © Admas Habteslasie
Refugee camp, Senafe, 2005 © Admas Habteslasie
Limbo, Mary in the shop, Assab, 2005 © Admas Habteslasie
Bullet, Mekrem, 2008 © Admas Habteslasie
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Eurovent Middle East puts the spotlight on energy-efficient cold storage solutions
International and local experts discuss smart solutions for food retail stores; Industry association announces working group for refrigeration and cold storage
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Brian Suggitt, MD, Systemair, and Chairman, Eurovent Middle East
Dubai, UAE, 29 January 2019: Eurovent Middle East highlighted opportunities to reduce the energy bill in cold store facilities in the latest edition of the industry association’s HVACR Leadership Workshop series, held on January 28, in Dubai. Brian Suggitt, Managing Director, Systemair, and Chairman, Eurovent Middle East, kick-started the seminar by highlighting the valuable role cold chain plays in food safety and reducing food waste, underscoring how the solutions to be presented by international guest speakers and local experts will help retailers “do more with less”.
John Austin-Davies, former Chair of the British Refrigeration Association and former Director of EPTA UK
Delivering a presentation on energy-efficient refrigeration in food retail stores, John Austin-Davies, former Chair of the British Refrigeration Association and former Director of EPTA UK, said that innovation must take into account the basic requirements of ensuring the preservation of food at the right temperature with no compromise on short- and long-term reliability. “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),” he said, “allows us to introduce technologies, where airflow is optimised by airflow-management devices, which can help achieve double-digit energy savings.” He also discussed the global move towards natural refrigerants and the need for training to ensure proper installations.
Jan Svallingson, Director, Business Development, Frico
Jan Svallingson, Director, Business Development, Systemair-Frico, discussed how air curtains can be used to reduce thermal energy losses in the retail sector. The solution, he said, is more hygienic, enhances visibility, offers a safer working environment and reduces maintenance cost, whereas PVC strips are prone to ice build-up because of the condensation. Svallingson highlighted energy savings achieved with case studies of projects in Asia and concluded his presentation with the announcement that Frico is working on releasing an air curtain for trucks in the coming months. “We have done some tests in Europe and Thailand,” he said. “We want to test it here with the high temperature conditions.”
Alexander Abrass, Sales Director of Cooling, MENA, Danfoss
Discussing energy efficiency within smart stores, Alexander Abrass, Sales Director of Cooling, MENA, Danfoss Turkey, Middle East and Africa, spoke on how a holistic approach can convert existing challenges, such as customer demand, profit margins and unclear regulations, into opportunities to save money, stressing that “whenever we are enhancing systems, we are protecting the food”. Abrass underscored the importance of providing end-to-end smart solutions to customers, which could include simple monitoring and management systems and HVACR integration. “We want supermarkets that are generating energy during the day and selling to the grid,” he said. “This is smart energy.”
Arul Joseph, Director – Digital Solutions, Data Enabled Business, Johnson Controls – GCC
Arul Joseph, Director- Digital Solutions, Data Enabled Business, Johnson Controls – GCC, spoke on the shift from stand-alone systems to connected and converged digital platforms that facilitate integration of data for actionable insights. He said: “Typically, 100 meters and sensors and more than 50 sub-systems are at work in a 10,000-square-metre building, generating more than 100 variations of the data, because markets differ and usages of buildings differ, as do the way the buildings are designed and installed. Between the various sub-systems, close to half a million sample data points are captured every day, which equates to more than 10 gigabytes of data, annually. If you collect data from 300-400 such-sized buildings, it would be more than the entire data generated by all the users pressing the ‘Like’ button in Facebook in the course of a year – that is how enormous the data from buildings is.” Joseph also underscored how data can identify opportunities in terms of performance leaks, to ensure energy savings, better efficiency, increase lifecycle and provide predictive service, which can deploy an FM personnel before a failure can occur, reducing downtime and operational cost.
Marco Duarte, BDM, ebm-papst Middle East
Representing ebm-papst Middle East, Marco Duarte, Business Development Manager, discussed the benefits of choosing EC technology, underscoring the heavy consumption that fans impose on the building sector and highlighting redundancy as a benefit in addition to energy savings, in a wide range of applications. Duarte also discussed case studies of air conditioning and refrigeration retrofits in the retail sector.
Markus Lattner, MD, Eurovent Middle East
Markus Lattner, Managing Director, Eurovent Middle East, concluded the workshop with an announcement on the development of a working group for refrigeration and cold storage with the aim of bringing the industry together to deliver recommendations that could be brought forward with the local municipality in the move towards establishing minimum standards. Lattner said this is the third working group the association introduced, with two ongoing working groups on air conditioning focusing on establishing SEER standards in Saudi Arabia and another, on air distribution and filtration, working closely with Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council.
Hannah Jo Uy is Assistant Editor at Climate Control Middle East magazine. She may be contacted at hannah@cpi-industry.com
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March-past, floats and awards mark R-Day in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, Jan 26 (Calcutta Tube) The colourful march-past and cultural programmes were all there, but the Republic Day celebrations in this Union Territory Tuesday also saw a unique event – an AIDS patient being awarded for her exemplary work among the afflicted.
Pooja Thakur, an AIDS patient, was awarded by the administration for her outstanding work for the welfare and uplift of AIDS patients. Thakur is the first AIDS patient who has been honoured during Republic Day celebrations in the history of Chandigarh.
Besides Thakur, commendation certificates awarded to over 20 residents of the city for their exceptional work in the fields of education, arts, sports and social service.
Earlier, the national tricolour was hoisted by adviser to the UT administrator Pardeep Mehra and he also took the salute at the parade to mark India’s 61st Republic Day.
The parade was celebrated at the Parade Ground in Sector 17 here, the commercial hub of Chandigarh.
An immaculate march-past, various cultural programmes and singing of patriotic songs marked the parade watched by hundreds of spectators and officials.
School children, National Cadet Corps cadets, the AIDS control society, Chandigarh Police, Chandigarh Home Guards, road safety wing, Punjab Armed Police and Haryana Armed Police participated in the parade.
There was a vibrant procession of floats, made by different city-based institutions like the Government Museum and Art Gallery, College of Arts, the adult education department, social welfare department and Red Cross society.
‘Chandigarh is pursuing a path of quick development. The administration is keeping in mind the needs of every section of society to ensure appropriate growth of this city,’ said Mehra, addressing the gathering.
Tight security arrangements were made all across the city to ensure smooth celebrations of the Republic Day.
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To create his character Ross Saakle borrowed liberally from the Batman and Superman models. A Canadian orphan whose parents were murdered by a criminal, lives for twenty years with “Yogi” in the Temple of Aidni in the Himalayan Mountains. He is transformed into a hero with the same powers as Superman. He of course wants to avenge his parents by fighting criminals back in Canada. As the story progresses he forms a close relationship with a police commissioner.
“Captain Wonder’s” first encounter is with a mad scientist called Frank N. Stein where he saves the “girl” and her brother from being turned into monsters. The second and most interesting story in the “Captain Wonder” series is the three issue (9-11) tale where “Captain Wonder” battles Satan in order to save “the girl”. The tone of this story makes one think they are watching a battle between two comedians. It ends with “Captain Wonder” victorious but Satan planning a second round with this “worthy opponent”. It seemed like Ross was onto something with the devil theme, but unfortunately it was never revisited. Instead, the serial becomes a standard good guys versus bad guys feature. The energy seems to leak out of it..
In Triumph 18 “Captain Wonder” does a guest appearance in a “Speed Savage” story. In issues 22 and 23, to the usual mix of good guy versus bad guy Ross added a group of young lads. “Captain Wonder” shows them that bad guys are cowards not worth emulating. It was an interesting effort to reduce any attraction bad guys might have for young readers. This was not the first time Ross attempted to instruct his readers. Often the last panel of each adventure, was devoted to admonishing readers to help the Canadian war effort through buying Canada Savings Bonds. Back in Triumph 12, Ross had invited his readers to tell him about their ideas, slogans and activities in support of the war effort and he would publish them in the last panel of each “Captain Wonder” story. It was an effort that lasted only a couple of issues.
At least initially, “Captain Wonder” is different from most other Canadian wartime serials. Ross makes it very clear the episodes are located in Canada. From the beginning we are told he is returning to Canada to fight crime, and when place names are given they are Canadian locations, like the 1000 islands in the St Lawrence. Ross also made “Captain Wonder” saving damsels in distress a regular feature of his serial. Unlike nearly all of the other wartime serials, “Captain Wonder” episodes deal largely with gangsters and rarely with Nazi agents, although it is interesting how he incorporates references to the war through the side comments of the characters and as mentioned above each adventure usually ends with “Captain Wonder” encouraging readers to help the Canadian war effort.
Unlike the “Batman’ and “Superman” stories which are deadly serious, Ross injected a casual almost flippant tone into his tales with a liberal use of puns, wise cracks, in jokes and sight gags. He played with names like “Frank N. Stein”. Was “Dr. Ranting” the Canadian scientist a play on Dr. Banting the co-discoverer of insulin? Certainly “Bachle Bluffs” was a play on the name of his fellow cartoonist Leo Bachle. An example that joins his sense of place with his sense of humour occurs in the issue 8 story. The location of the Nazi agents’ base is an island among the St. Lawrence River’s thousands islands. At the climax of the story the Nazis and the island are blown up. In the last panel of the story we see “Captain Wonder” and his companions looking at a “Welcome To The 1000 Islands” sign where 1000 has been stroked out and 999 has been added.
As I said earlier the originality and vitality of the serial declines after the Satan story. Was he tiring of the character or was he simply overworked? He was at the time cartooning “Ace Barton”, “ The Noodle” and “Spike & Mike” while also cartooning and illustrating games, features and stories. Whatever the reason, “Captain Wonder’s” humorous battle with Satan is the strongest in this series.
PERIODICAL ANTHOLOGY:
Published by Bell Features & Publishing
Content serial:
Triumph Comics, …, no date: “Captain Wonder.” Car., Ross Saakle: …. Black & white.
No number: 54-63. 08:54-62.
09: 53-59.
10: 51-56. 11: 49-57.
16: 43-49. 19: 22, 24, 25* 20: 19-25. 23: 11-17.
*The pages for this story are out of order and some seem to be missing.
Origin story. Triumph Comics, no number, no date: 54.
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New mag: now there’s a Brit preaching the Ghazwa e-Hind
by Charles Cameron | Oct 24, 2014 | Monitor |
[ by Charles Cameron — we’ve ignored the apocalyptic aspect of Khorasan for years, now we’re admitting it, but still overlooking the second prong ]
Introducing the first English language issue of Ihya-e-Khilafat — which is in effect a new magazine, since it has a new intended readership — Tufail Ahmad, director of MEMRI’s South Asia Studies Project, writes:
A Pakistani Taliban organization that was recently expelled from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP or the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) has released a new English-language magazine that aims at recruiting Muslim youths from the West, praises the 9/11 hijackers, and indicates that some British youths have recently joined the group in the Pakistani tribal region.
The magazine, Ihya-e-Khilafat (Revival of the Islamic Caliphate), has been published in the past in Urdu language, but this is the first time it has been published in English. Its Issue No. 1 is dated October 2014. In an editorial, the magazine states one of its objectives: “[T]here was a need to address English-speaking population of the world. To address that need, we decided to start Ihya-e-Khilafat in English as well and Alhamdolillah [Praise be to Allah] the first English magazine is in your hands. Kuffar [infidels] famously say that the first casualty of the war is truth but we shall try to bring you the news and articles based upon truth even though we are fighting a war.”
Ahmad mentions a British contributor, “identified as Abu Okasha Al-Britani” — but not the Ghazwa e-Hind, which is in fact one of the core ideas in al-Britani‘s piece, Why? I chose to join Jihad-e-Pakistan, pp 37-40:
Upon further studies I also came across numerous hadiths about the Jihad that will happen in Hind or as it has been mentioned in hadiths by the name of “Ghazvatul Hind”.
It is narrated that by Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam that “Two groups amongst My Ummah would be such, to whom Allah has freed from the (Hell) fire; One group would attack Hind & the Second would be that who would accompany Isa Ibn-e-Maryam.”
And in another narration Abu Hurairah said, “The Messenger of Allah, promised the invasion of India. If I become martyred, I will be from the best of the martyred; and if I return, I am Abu Hurairah, the saved.” (Ahmad)
From the above two hadiths, we can see the virtues of participating in the Jihad of Hind or Ghazvatul Hind. One of the virtues is that if you are martyred in the Jihad of Hind, than you will be among the best of martyrs but if you return and are granted victory, then Allah has freed this Mujahid from the fire of Hell. Some people may think that Hind refers to India but that is not correct because Hind at the time of Rasulullah referred to a very large area in which today includes Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Burma. All these countries are a part of Hind so without doubt the Jihad in Pakistan is the launch of Ghazvatul Hind. Abu Hurairah also narrates that if he is alive and Ghazvatul Hind or the Jihad in Hind starts, he would participate in it with his wealth and life. If he is martyred than he would be among the best of martyrs and if he is a Ghazi and returns then he will be Abu Hurairah who Allah has freed from the hell fire.
I also invite Muslimeen make Hijrah here, aid the Mujahideen in Khorasaan and work for an Islamic state in Pakistan. The blood of the shuhada is calling you and the screaming and oppressed pure sisters are calling for the helpers to help them. Will you answer? Our Jihad will not stop till Pakistan is conquered but we will keep fighting till entire Hind is under the Shari’ah of Allah. We shall keep going and conquering every country in our path bi’ith nillah till we reach Filisteen and there we shall erect the black flags in Al-Quds. Insh’Allah.
IMO, this new magazine should be read side-by-side with the AQIS magazine Resurgence, which also mentions the Ghazwa, see The new AQ magazine: Ghazwa e-Hind & more. Thomas Joscelyn at LWJ also wrote up Resurgence recently, noting:
“Resurgence” returns to the Indian Subcontinent as its point of reference.
“This wave of Jihad that originated in Afghanistan and has spread to Iraq, the Levant and North Africa is also the ultimate hope of the Muslims of the Subcontinent,” Yusuf writes. “It was Jihad that brought Islam to the Indian Subcontinent, and it will be Jihad again that will overturn the legacy of imperialism from Pakistan to Bangladesh and beyond.”
Various pieces from other authors are dedicated to waging jihad in the Indian Subcontinent.
Like Ahmad at MEMRi, Joscelyn makes no direct reference to the Ghazwa — but it is there by name in the magazine.
It is surely worth remembering that the “Khorasan” tradition is of two victorious armies pursuing independent but related paths in the end-times — “the group that will invade Al Hind (the Subcontinent) and the group that will be with Eesa (A.S), the son of Mariam” — the latter being the one we hear more about in the west, the one which will capture Jerusalem.
Note that according to al-Zawahiri, the Ghazwa e-Hind encompasses a greater area than “India” alone — or “the subcontinent”. As I quoted Bill Roggio writing in Al Qaeda opens branch in the ‘Indian Subcontinent:
Zawahiri says the group will defend the “vulnerable in the Indian subcontinent, in Burma, Bangladesh, Assam, Gujurat, Ahmedabad, and Kashmir …”
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HBO Max Orders a ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ Revival
“Sex and the City,” the seminal HBO series that ran from 1998 to 2004 and later featured in two feature films, is returning.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis will repeat their original characters for a new 10-episode series, HBO Max told Sunday night. Kim Cattrall, the other star in Sex and the City, who has repeatedly expressed her reluctance to return to the show, is not returning. HBO Max said the revival would be called “And Just Like That …” and that production would begin “late spring” in New York.
“The series will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte on their way from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their thirties to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their fifties,” HBO Max said in a statement.
The return of “Sex and the City” is just the most recent revival for HBO Max as the eight-month-old streaming service tries to bounce back from a sluggish start. Executives for HBO Max are also making a new “Gossip Girl” series and have signed up for a “Friends” meetup special.
Michael Patrick King, a top producer on the original series and the films “Sex and the City,” will return as executive producer.
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12 May 2018 | dorabenley | Adult Thrillers, Holidays, Literature, Movies, News, Vacations, World Events | 1914, Adolf Hitler, Armistice, Armistice Plot, bookmarks, British government, British military, Carchemish, Damascus, Edward Ware, Great War, historical thriller, Hittite, Kaiser, Lawrence, Leonard Woolley, Map Plot, maps, Munich, T.E. Lawrence, Turks
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Bookmarks are now available from Cheops Books LLC for distribution to whoever requests a copy using the Contact Us feature of the website. They will also be given out for free as samples at the ALA Library Convention in New Orleans in late June where a copy of the soon to be published Armistice Plot will also be displayed.
The bookmark depicts the cover scene for the historical thriller Armistice Plot. Edward and Lawrence are entering Damascus at the end of the Great War. Edward is driving. Lawrence is wearing the Arab head covering. The Turks are suing for peace and are willing to sign the Armistice.
The novel Armistice Plot begins at an archaeological site at Carchemish in 1914 as Edward Ware’s father and Leonard Woolley close down their dig in the face of war. As Edward peers into the tent at midnight he sees a dark-robed intruder brushing past the figurine of an ancient Hittite king that he and T.E.Lawrence excavated at Carchemish this summer in 1914. Is this a spy sent by the Germans to steal the maps Lawrence is sketching for the British military? Edward first encounters the vamp who will haunt the rest of his life prowling among the finds, looking for the military maps that his fellow archaeologist T. E.Lawrence is drawing for the British government. All during the ensuing Great War Edward must fight to keep the maps secret.
Finally during the Battle of Damascus Edward and Lawrence defeat the Turks and make them sue for peace. They will sign the Armistice ending the war. But the vamp, though imprisoned in Damascus, escapes. Edward must chase her down. There are hints that she is fleeing to join with the Austrian corporal, Adolf Hitler, who is beginning a new movement in Munich. Signs of a new war appear on the horizon though the first has just come to an end with an Armistice that isn’t worth the paper it is written on.
This is an historical thriller about Edward’s contest to the death first with the German Kaiser and then with Hitler himself. It will determine the woman he will marry and the woman he will not. It will drive him to the brink of madness in a century gone insane.
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Liquid Marijuana Drink Recipe
1/2 oz. Rum, spiced (Captain Morgan's)
1/2 oz. Curacao, blue
1/2 oz. Rum, coconut (Malibu)
1/2 oz. Liqueur, melon (Midori)
Fill with Pineapple Juice
1 splash Sour Mix
Put all measured ingredients in glass and fill the remainder with pineapple juice. Shake vigorously. Garnish with a flag.
This drink recipe was submitted by one of our sexy readers, Nicole Ferrera!
Comments on Liquid Marijuana:
By Josh on June 11th, 2011 at 10:52:29
a bar tender at a local bar made this for my boyfriend one night after work and put pinapple chunks and cherries in it, he absolutly loved it, and he doesn't like mixed drinks :)
By hewhowalksbeneath on May 20th, 2011 at 18:47:53
Awesome drink. If made right, it is completely the best. Gets you feeling good in a millisecond.
By Dave "Potwash" Bush on May 20th, 2011 at 02:16:41
Just referring to the guy/girl "luchipher", while as a bartender I would ultimately love everyone to tip that orders a cocktail, the fact a drink has 2 or more alcohols in the recipe is exactly what makes it a cocktail, so it would be arrogant to expect a tip everytime, good drink recipe though, though I'd definitiely modify the amount of p'apple
By dfultz on December 6th, 2010 at 21:03:36
extremely smooth. highly recomended from chicks
By bigtitblonde on November 16th, 2010 at 13:24:43
i loved this drink. we sampled some at a bar with some friends and i fell in love with it. you can taste the alcohol at all and they are almost addicting. i recommend this to any one!!!!
By Amy on November 2nd, 2010 at 11:29:34
Instead of pineapple juice i use pineapple fanta!It gives it more of the bubbly that people like =]
Also try it frozen! Freeze your pineapple juice in an ice try (each compartment is 1 oz). Put all the liquor and the splash of sweet and sour in the blender with about 3-4 pineapple ice cubes and about 2 regular ice cubes (depending on how strong you want it). Serve. (1 serving)
By TrueDepth69 on October 25th, 2010 at 08:09:48
Liquid Marijuana is so awesome. Guyz and Gurlz drink fo sho. Gurlz get in tha mood quick from the pineapple juice and Guyz stamina shoot thru tha roof with the Rum. Just take it like its made Ladies!
By Bruce on October 7th, 2010 at 14:07:43
Jesika.
It's green and i will get you drunk without realizing it!
By Jess on October 5th, 2010 at 00:01:47
When I bartend I sub the pinapple for a splash of sprite...amazing!
By thedude on September 30th, 2010 at 01:35:01
liquid marijuana: it's green and it makes you feel good =o)
By khayana on August 22nd, 2010 at 12:09:21
i hate the taste of liquor but this drink is the best hands down! one and a sip had me buzzing, 3 had me feeling great. Highly recommend
By Nina on July 22nd, 2010 at 17:12:36
My husband and I told Vino, a bartender in Oahu, that we didn't like the taste of Alcohol, he mixed us up a liquid Marijuana, it was the best, we were very buzzed, "Happy" and my husband usually has to drink a ton before he gets "happy" but this did the trick very fast. Whoooo Hooooo!
By heather on May 29th, 2010 at 15:41:55
just whipped this up at my bar cause I was in a malibu mood and wanted to experiment with my comp tab, and i'm already buzzed. love it.
By mainegirl on May 14th, 2010 at 11:04:00
just had this drink a couple nights ago at the famous american loggers restaurant in maine! fabulous drink & definitely my new favorite.. :)
By XianXicano on March 28th, 2010 at 10:14:00
According to this website a hurricane is served with cranberry juice, vodka, and raspberry liqueu making Liquid Marijuana a very different drink.
By anna on March 17th, 2010 at 15:37:09
By Tim on March 15th, 2010 at 22:09:05
This is an amazing mixed drink not like any other. And the only thing this has in common with a hurricane is the spiced rum so it is not the same
By milkshake on March 5th, 2010 at 17:25:53
cant taste the alcohol in the drink it taste like a fruit drink so this is my new mixed drink very tasty
By Jesika on February 4th, 2010 at 11:42:28
OK... Is there a reason why it's called 'liquid marijuana'? Does it taste like pot or smell like it? Does it make you feel stoned?
By Bambie, a mixacologist! on February 2nd, 2010 at 13:11:10
OMG!!!! IT'S like, like, ooooohhhhh, I just can't think what it remindes me of!!!! Yes I can all you idiot's out there. Have you never heard of a hurricane!!!! Nothing new here!!! It's even served in the same glass...A HURRICANE GLASS!! So big deal, a little different with the Midori. But still just about the same. Bye
By chelsea on January 15th, 2010 at 13:05:10
omg i never thought i would drink anything but coorslight than one night my friend said try this an umm i fell in love lol the best drink ever 100% love it!!!!!
By T on December 30th, 2009 at 19:52:40
Ive had my eye on this recipe for some months. I must say...very very good. I think I can get many people turned on to this drink.
By Ladi Kaos on November 25th, 2009 at 20:42:05
this has been my favorite drink for 2 years now i had a friend order it for me and like after the 5th one it was like the lights went out and it was party time...
By Lucipher on November 9th, 2009 at 10:23:38
Just remember when you order a drink that has more than 2 liquors in it, tip your bartender really well, unless they are bored and not busy.
By Jerte, paco on October 24th, 2009 at 23:57:36
A friend told me abou the drink while at a sports bar and I pulled out the recipe off the Internet and had the bartender make it for us and now it's a new favorite drink I also pulled out the recipe at another bar for them to make for a couple of us and my friend loved it and the bartender had a shot of it himself to try the second time we ordered it and he loved the taste of it himself yall need to try it this shit is good
By mary jane on October 2nd, 2009 at 14:38:02
By twila on September 23rd, 2009 at 16:00:50
this is my drink for now on.in the club and at home.
By Lisha on September 14th, 2009 at 23:33:13
I had this drink in Gulf Shores,AL. It was the best....
By Tokabowla on June 27th, 2009 at 21:05:03
Just found this off the Internet from my phone & had the bartender make me one. Excellent drink! So good I made all my friends at the bar here try a sip. 2 of them went straight to the bar & ordered one for themselves! A new fav. Most any bar will have the ingredients.
By Shawn "Watts" Watson on June 18th, 2009 at 21:58:14
I play in a band called Absence Of Worry and i thank the bartender at The Cherrywood Bar for making like 10 of these for me and making that night our best show ever. ITS AWESOME!!!
By my name on June 13th, 2009 at 13:33:41
Hell yea this is a great shot, it works :-)
By shasta on February 18th, 2009 at 14:32:01
This drink is totally the best. My husband and I drank these all night on New Years!
By tammi on February 4th, 2009 at 17:05:16
I used to drink this all the time at the local bar - then I moved 1300 miles from home and no bars around here have heard of it. I am having a get-together this weekend and want to share with my friends!
By Kristin on February 1st, 2009 at 13:20:51
I just went to the bar and had it for the first time, it's the best I've ever tried - not too strong not to bland just right. Its worth spending money on. Try it its sensational!
By matt on December 4th, 2008 at 16:59:57
I am a beer man! this is the only mixed drink I will touch its the BEST!!!!
By just me on November 29th, 2008 at 19:45:56
this is a drink for people who hate strong tastes of alcohol..... AMAZINGLY GOOD... my brother came home from the airforce and made one and i fell in love
By nate on September 24th, 2008 at 00:42:56
Thanks for the recipe, this is my favorite drink! Reminds me of a green gummy bear! Our bar here drops a cherry in it too.
By brandie on August 23rd, 2008 at 18:34:45
I actualy had this at a local bar. Its now my favorite drink, im making tonite the 1st time at home, cant wait, this is a great fruit drink, its just delisiuos. hope you all like it.
Baby Harp Seal
Old socks
Serving size: this recipe
Calories 147 (616 kJ)
from alcohol 85
Total Carbs. 13g 4%
Vitamin A 0 IU 0%
Vitamin C 0 mg 0%
Calcium 0 mg 0%
Vitamin D 0 IU 0%
Folate 0 µ 0%
‡: Does not include Pineapple Juice
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iPod nano mp3 players: mp3 technology of the future
Apple has the mp3 market essentially boxed off at this stage. The ipod Nano mp3 players were among the most popular and versatile of the ipod range. The Nano's shape and design has deviated very little from its conception. This is for one simple reason; it works, so why mess with it.
The latest ipod Nano mp3 player is the first to have a complete overhaul on the design front, with its shape becoming square, rather than the rectangle most of us are used to. The older models were equipped with 8 GB or 16 GB storage, an accelerometer and a sharp, useable interface. The curved aluminum body and brushed metal of the latter models was difficult to beat, but Apple isn't known for resting on their laurels.
The sixth generation ipod nano mp3 player is the first complete re-thinking of the model. First things first, the click wheel is gone! It has a full touchscreen interface, even though the unit is about one third the size of its older sibling.
The hardware has also undergone a radical re-design. The sixth generation ipod Nano mp3 players now have an operating system more akin to iOS than ipod. It is available in seven different colours, one for every day of the week.
Along with a hugely simplified design and aesthetic, Apple has turned out its finest Nano mp3 player to date. The screen response is excellent, making life easier for the avid jogger. It also has hardware buttons to control volume, freeing your gaze from the screen when you want to adjust it.
The sixth generation ipod nano mp3 players are a blast of fresh air into this market, both through design and hardware. It's an attractive choice if you're out looking for a new mp3 player.
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressing at the inauguration of 65th Plenary Session of North East Council, in Shillong on May 27, 2016. The Governors and Chief Ministers of North Eastern States, the Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Youth Affairs and Sports (I/C), Prime Ministers Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh and other dignitaries are also seen.
PM’s Address at the Plenary Session of the North-Eastern Council
I am very happy to be here for the North Eastern Council Plenary meeting. I also take this opportunity of welcoming you all to this meeting. I hope that the deliberations that have already taken place since yesterday and further deliberations that we have today, will help in faster development of this region.
Visited Self Help Group stalls set up by women from Northeast states. Artefacts & products displayed are impressive. pic.twitter.com/fmdJTnoakS
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 27, 2016
I am also happy to note that the North Eastern Council has provided support in the development of the North East region. It has been instrumental in establishment of a number of institutions and taking up infrastructure projects in the region.
The North Eastern Council was set up in 1972. Since then it has contributed to the development of the North East region. To meet the growing aspirations of the people, it is important that the North Eastern Council introspects and assesses the extent to which it has been able to achieve its objectives. Perhaps, there is a need to re-orient and upgrade the North Eastern Council. You may like to consider developing the North Eastern Council as a state-of-the-art resource centre for the North Eastern states with the necessary resources, knowledge and skills. The resource centre may enable the states and the implementing agencies to properly plan and execute projects, promote research and innovations and provide strategic policy vision for the region.
Euphoric atmosphere at the public meeting in Shillong. Inaugurated key infrastructure that will benefit Northeast. https://t.co/NU3FxJkSSt
The North Eastern Council may look into developing a specialised domain expertise either by itself or through an agency model to assist states and central ministries in their development planning as also problem solving needs. This will enable the imbibing of good governance and best practices in the region. The North Eastern Council should also consider focussing on issues in emerging areas of livelihood, entrepreneurship, venture funds, start-ups and skill development. All this will help in generating jobs.
The government has been focussing on the development of the North East region through its pro-active “Act East Policy”. As part of this policy, we are focussing on reducing the isolation of the region by improving all round connectivity through road, rail, telecom, power and waterways sectors.
If the western region of the country can develop, if other regions of the country can develop, I see no reason why the North East region of the country cannot develop. I am also convinced that India can move forward if all the regions develop including the North East region. The North East region is also very important to us for strategic reasons. And it is my conviction that we have to bring this region at par with the other developed regions of the country.
In the current Budget, more than Rs.30,000 crores have been earmarked for the North East region. It should be our endeavour to ensure that this money is spent well for the development of the region.
We believe in cooperative and competitive federalism. States that are strong and want to grow further, need to be given adequate authority and resources. And States that are not so strong, need to be given needful assistance. It is in this regard that based on the report of the Committee of Chief Ministers, we have decided to continue to provide assistance in the ratio of 90:10 for core Central schemes and 80:20 for non-core schemes to the North Eastern States.
In the recent past, we have established two important projects in Assam – Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited and Numaligarh Refinery Limited’s wax unit. These are big projects that would create huge employment opportunities in the North East region. However, it has taken us many years to complete these projects. We have to ensure that we are able to complete our projects in time and without cost over-runs. Only then can we realise the true benefits of these projects.
The North East is the gateway to South East Asia and we need to take advantage of this. We are opening up both road and rail routes to our neighbouring countries. This should give a boost to the economic development of the region.
We have created a specialised highways construction agency for the North East – the “National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation” – that was incorporated on 18th July 2014. Since then it has set up its Branch Offices, one each in every North Eastern State. As of today, it is implementing 34 projects in the North Eastern States covering a length of 1001 kilometres at a total cost of over Rs. 10,000 crore.
In the road sector, we need to keep in view the special land and weather conditions of this area. Most of the North East areas get a lot of rainfall and are also prone to natural calamities and land-slides. We thus need to be careful in using appropriate technologies in the construction of roads in this area.
We have recently implemented an improved internet connectivity project for the North East region in collaboration with Bangladesh. This will make available 10 GB of seamless alternate bandwidth for the region. This integration will benefit the North East region tremendously.
The Government is also making a heavy investment in power transmission projects covering all the eight North Eastern states at a cost of around Rs 10,000 crore. This would ensure power to more areas. The recent commissioning of Bishwanath-Chariyali-Agra transmission line has also brought 500 MegaWatt additional capacity to the region.
The railways have undertaken a major expansion in the region at a cost of around Rs 10,000 crore. In November 2014, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya were put up on the rail map. Agartala in Tripura has also been connected with broad gauge line. We are on the way to ensure that all the North East states come on the rail map soon.
In the North East, the Indian Railways has commissioned about 900 kilometres of Broad Gauge in the last two years, leaving only about 50 kilometres Meter Gauge lines to be converted in 2016-17. In addition, a 132 kilometre part of third alternative connectivity route to North East (that is New Maynaguri – Jogighopa) has also been commissioned.
There are a number of strengths of the North East which we need to harness for healthy growth of the region. All the states of the North East region are blessed with natural scenic beauty, distinct historical cultural and ethnic heritage. All this offers tremendous scope for tourism in the region. There is also a great scope for mountaineering, trekking and adventure tourism in the region. If developed and promoted well, this can emerge as the biggest employer in the region. It can also add to the growth and income of the region.
I understand that the Ministry of Tourism has identified a thematic circuit for the North East region. I hope that the North Eastern states will make the best use of the scheme to develop tourist circuits and attract tourists from all over the world. The region can also look into combining a few popular destinations of the neighbouring countries with their tourism circuits. This will be an added attraction for tourists.
The majority of youth of the North East region is English speaking. With improved connectivity and language skills, you may look into setting up of the BPO industry in the region.
The Government has approved North East BPO promotion scheme in the Digital India programme for creation of employment opportunities. The North East States must avail facilities and get these BPOs operationalized in their respective States. This will promote growth and provide jobs to our youth.
The North East is home to exotic fruits, flowers, vegetables, aromatic plants, and herbs. Most of them are organic in origin. If we focus our development strategy on organic farming, it would help the region greatly.
A few months ago, I was in Sikkim and participated in a function to declare Sikkim as the first organic state in the country. Other States can take a lead from Sikkim and the North East Council can also play an important role in the development of organic farming in the region. The North East can become the organic food basket for this country. Organic products are going to be increasingly used widely and if the North East Council can assist the states in the region to take a lead in this area, it will contribute immensely to the income of the people and the region.
Modi in 65th NE Council
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi visiting the women Self Help Group stalls, at exhibition on achievements of North East, in Shillong on May 27, 2016.
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone of Ampati International Multi-Sports Stadium, in Shillong on May 27, 2016. The Governor of Meghalaya, Shri V. Shanmuganathan, the Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Dr. Mukul Sangma and the Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Youth Affairs and Sports (I/C), Prime Ministers Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh are also seen.
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi delivering his address at the public meeting, in Shillong on May 27, 2016.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Shillong
There is a large rural population in the North East region. If we talk of Assam alone, 86% of the population lives in rural areas. We have initiated the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Mission to bring in economic, social and basic development of the rural areas in a cluster model. It should be the endeavour of the region’s states to make use of this mission for the development of the rural areas.In the end, I would like to express my gratitude to the chairman and all the members of the North Eastern Council for successfully conducting the plenary meeting in Shillong.
My special thanks to the Governor and the Chief Minister of Meghalaya for hosting this meeting. I am sure that the deliberations in this meeting will go a long way in providing direction to the development of the region. Thank you.
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We know also that Germany and Japan are conducting their military
and naval operations in accordance with a joint plan. That plan
considers all peoples and nations which are not helping the Axis
powers as common enemies of each and every one of the Axis powers.
That is their simple and obvious grand strategy. And that is why
the American people must realize that it can be matched only with
similar grand strategy. We must realize for example that Japanese
successes against the United States in the Pacific are helpful to
German operations in Libya; that any German success against the
Caucasus is inevitably an assistance to Japan in her operations
against the Dutch East Indies; that a German attack against Algiers
or Morocco opens the way to a German attack against South America
and the Canal.
On the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that
guerrilla warfare against the Germans in, let us say Serbia or
Norway, helps us; that a successful Russian offensive against the
Germans helps us; and that British successes on land or sea in any
part of the world strengthen our hands.
Remember always that Germany and Italy, regardless of any formal
declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United
States at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at
war with Britain or Russia. And Germany puts all the other
Republics of the Americas into the same category of enemies. The
people of our sister Republics of this Hemisphere can be honored by
that fact.
The true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of
battle. When we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined
that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as
against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers–we are
builders.
We are now in the midst of a war, not for conquest, not for
vengeance, but for a world in which this nation, and all that this
nation represents, will be safe for our children. We expect to
eliminate the danger from Japan, but it would serve us ill if we
accomplished that and found that the rest of the world was
dominated by Hitler and Mussolini.
So we are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace
that follows.
And in the difficult hours of this day–through dark days that may
be yet to come–we will know that the vast majority of the members
of the human race are on our side. Many of them are fighting with
us. All of them are praying for us. But, in representing our cause,
we represent theirs as well–our hope and their hope for liberty
under God.
My Fellow Americans:
Washington’s Birthday is a most appropriate occasion for us to talk
with each other about things as they are today and things as we
know they shall be in the future.
For eight years, General Washington and his Continental Army were
faced continually with formidable odds and recurring defeats.
Supplies and equipment were lacking. In a sense, every winter was a
Valley Forge. Throughout the thirteen states there existed fifth
columnists–and selfish men, jealous men, fearful men, who
proclaimed that Washington’s cause was hopeless, and that he should
ask for a negotiated peace.
Washington’s conduct in those hard times has provided the model for
all Americans ever since–a model of moral stamina. He held to his
course, as it had been charted in the Declaration of Independence.
He and the brave men who served with him knew that no man’s life or
fortune was secure without freedom and free institutions.
The present great struggle has taught us increasingly that freedom
of person and security of property anywhere in the world depend
upon the security of the rights and obligations of liberty and
justice everywhere in the world.
This war is a new kind of war. It is different from all other wars
of the past, not only in its methods and weapons but also in its
geography. It is warfare in terms of every continent, every island,
every sea, every air lane in the world.
That is the reason why I have asked you to take out and spread
before you a map of the whole earth, and to follow with me in the
references which I shall make to the world-encircling battle lines
of this war. Many questions will, I fear, remain unanswered
tonight; but I know you will realize that I cannot cover everything
in any one short report to the people.
The broad oceans which have been heralded in the past as our
protection from attack have become endless battlefields on which we
are constantly being challenged by our enemies.
We must all understand and face the hard fact that our job now is
to fight at distances which extend all the way around the globe.
We fight at these vast distances because that is where our enemies
are. Until our flow of supplies gives us clear superiority we must
keep on striking our enemies wherever and whenever we can meet
them, even if, for a while, we have to yield ground. Actually,
though, we are taking a heavy toll of the enemy every day that goes
by.
We must fight at these vast distances to protect our supply lines
and our lines of communication with our allies–protect these lines
from the enemies who are bending every ounce of their strength,
striving against time, to cut them. The object of the Nazis and the
Japanese is to separate the United States, Britain, China and
Russia, and to isolate them one from another, so that each will be
surrounded and cut off from sources of supplies and reinforcements.
It is the old familiar Axis policy of “divide and conquer.”
There are those who still think, however, in terms of the days of
sailing-ships. They advise us to pull our warships and our planes
and our merchant ships into our own home waters and concentrate
solely on last ditch defense. But let me illustrate what would
happen if we followed such foolish advice.
Look at your map. Look at the vast area of China, with its millions
of fighting men. Look at the vast area of Russia, with its powerful
armies and proven military might. Look at the British Isles,
Australia, New Zealand, the Dutch Indies, India, the Near East and
the Continent of Africa, with their resources of raw materials, and
of peoples determined to resist Axis domination. Look too at North
America, Central America and South America.
It is obvious what would happen if all of these great reservoirs of
power were cut off from each other either by enemy action or by
self-imposed isolation:
First, in such a case, we could no longer send aid of any kind to
China–to the brave people who, for nearly five years, have
withstood Japanese assault, destroyed hundreds of thousands of
Japanese soldiers and vast quantities of Japanese war munitions. It
is essential that we help China in her magnificent defense and in
her inevitable counteroffensive–for that is one important element
in the ultimate defeat of Japan.
Second, if we lost communication with the southwest Pacific, all of
that area, including Australia and New Zealand and the Dutch
Indies, would fall under Japanese domination. Japan in such a case
could release great numbers of ships and men to launch attacks on a
large scale against the coasts of the Western Hemisphere–South
America and Central America, and North America–including Alaska.
At the same time, she could immediately extend her conquests in the
other direction toward India, and through the Indian Ocean to
Africa, to the Near East, and try to join forces with Germany and
Third, if we were to stop sending munitions to the British and the
Russians in the Mediterranean, in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea,
we would be helping the Nazis to overrun Turkey, Syria, Iraq,
Persia, Egypt and the Suez Canal, the whole coast of North Africa
itself, and with that inevitably the whole coast of West Africa–
putting Germany within easy striking distance of South America–
fifteen hundred miles away.
Fourth, if by such a fatuous policy we ceased to protect the North
Atlantic supply line to Britain and to Russia, we would help to
cripple the splendid counter-offensive by Russia against the Nazis,
and we would help to deprive Britain of essential food supplies and
munitions.
Those Americans who believed that we could live under the illusion
of isolationism wanted the American eagle to imitate the tactics of
the ostrich. Now, many of those same people, afraid that we may be
sticking our necks out, want our national bird to be turned into a
turtle. But we prefer to retain the eagle as it is–flying high and
striking hard.
I know that I speak for the mass of the American people when I say
that we reject the turtle policy and will continue increasingly the
policy of carrying the war to the enemy in distant lands and
distant waters–as far away as possible from our own home grounds.
There are four main lines of communication now being travelled by
our ships: the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean
and the South Pacific. These routes are not one-way streets, for
the ships that carry our troops and munitions outbound bring back
essential raw materials which we require for our own use.
The maintenance of these vital lines is a very tough job. It is a
job which requires tremendous daring, tremendous resourcefulness,
and, above all, tremendous production of planes and tanks and guns
and also of the ships to carry them. And I speak again for the
American people when I say that we can and will do that job.
The defense of the world-wide lines of communication demands
relatively safe use by us of the sea and of the air along the
various routes; and this, in turn, depends upon control by the
United Nations of many strategic bases along those routes.
Control of the air involves the simultaneous use of two types of
planes–first, the long-range heavy bomber; and, second, the light
bombers, dive bombers, torpedo planes, and short-range pursuit
planes, all of which are essential to the protection of the bases
and of the bombers themselves.
Heavy bombers can fly under their own power from here to the
southwest Pacific, but the smaller planes cannot. Therefore, these
lighter planes have to be packed in crates and sent on board cargo
ships. Look at your map again; and you will see that the route is
long–and at many places perilous–either across the South Atlantic
all the way around South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, or from
California to the East Indies direct. A vessel can make a round
trip by either route in about four months, or only three round
trips in a whole year.
In spite of the length, and in spite of the difficulties of this
transportation, I can tell you that in two and a half months we
already have a large number of bombers and pursuit planes, manned
by American pilots and crews, which are now in daily contact with
the enemy in the Southwest Pacific. And thousands of American
troops are today in that area engaged in operations not only in the
air but on the ground as well.
In this battle area, Japan has had an obvious initial advantage.
For she could fly even her short-range planes to the points of
attack by using many stepping stones open to her–bases in a
multitude of Pacific islands and also bases on the China coast,
Indo-China coast, and in Thailand and Malaya coasts. Japanese troop
transports could go south from Japan and from China through the
narrow China Sea, which can be protected by Japanese planes
throughout its whole length.
I ask you to look at your maps again, particularly at that portion
of the Pacific Ocean lying west of Hawaii. Before this war even
started, the Philippine Islands were already surrounded on three
sides by Japanese power. On the west, the China side, the Japanese
were in possession of the coast of China and the coast of
Indo-China which had been yielded to them by the Vichy French. On
the North are the islands of Japan themselves, reaching down almost
to northern Luzon. On the east are the Mandated Islands–which
Japan had occupied exclusively, and had fortified in absolute
violation of her written word.
The islands that lie between Hawaii and the Philippines–these
islands, hundreds of them, appear only as small dots on most maps.
But they cover a large strategic area. Guam lies in the middle of
them–a lone outpost which we have never fortified.
Under the Washington Treaty of 1921 we had solemnly agreed not to
add to the fortification of the Philippines. We had no safe naval
bases there, so we could not use the islands for extensive naval
Immediately after this war started, the Japanese forces moved down
on either side of the Philippines to numerous points south of
them–thereby completely encircling the Philippines from north,
south, east and west.
It is that complete encirclement, with control of the air by
Japanese land-based aircraft, which has prevented us from sending
substantial reinforcements of men and material to the gallant
defenders of the Philippines. For forty years it has always been
our strategy–a strategy born of necessity–that in the event of a
full-scale attack on the Islands by Japan, we should fight a
delaying action, attempting to retire slowly into Bataan Peninsula
and Corregidor.
We knew that the war as a whole would have to be fought and won by
a process of attrition against Japan itself. We knew all along
that, with our greater resources, we could ultimately out-build
Japan and ultimately overwhelm her on sea, and on land and in the
air. We knew that, to obtain our objective, many varieties of
operations would be necessary in areas other than the Philippines.
Now nothing that has occurred in the past two months has caused us
to revise this basic strategy of necessity–except that the defense
put up by General MacArthur has magnificently exceeded the previous
estimates of endurance, and he and his men are gaining eternal
glory therefore.
MacArthur’s army of Filipinos and Americans, and the forces of the
United Nations in China, in Burma and the Netherlands East Indies,
are all together fulfilling the same essential task. They are
making Japan pay an increasingly terrible price for her ambitious
attempts to seize control of the whole Asiatic world. Every
Japanese transport sunk off Java is one less transport that they
can use to carry reinforcements to their army opposing General
MacArthur in Luzon.
It has been said that Japanese gains in the Philippines were made
possible only by the success of their surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor. I tell you that this is not so.
Even if the attack had not been made your map will show that it
would have been a hopeless operation for us to send the Fleet to
the Philippines through thousands of miles of ocean, while all
those island bases were under the sole control of the Japanese.
The consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor–serious as they
were–have been wildly exaggerated in other ways. And these
exaggerations come originally from Axis propagandists; but they
have been repeated, I regret to say, by Americans in and out of
public life.
You and I have the utmost contempt for Americans who, since Pearl
Harbor, have whispered or announced “off the record” that there was
no longer any Pacific Fleet–that the Fleet was all sunk or
destroyed on December 7th–that more than a thousand of our planes
were destroyed on the ground. They have suggested slyly that the
government has withheld the truth about casualties–that eleven or
twelve thousand men were killed at Pearl Harbor instead of the
figures as officially announced. They have even served the enemy
propagandists by spreading the incredible story that ship-loads of
bodies of our honored American dead were about to arrive in New
York harbor to be put into a common grave.
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The astral and Heroes
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Quote for today: "you believe you're on a righteous path. You believe you're a force for good. But you're not."-John Seed, from Far Cry 5.
Heroes are a menace to Beasts. They believe themselves the unquestionable good to the beasts' inhuman evil. In reality, they prove that they can be just as bad as the beasts, sacrificing innocent lives for the sake of killing the monster.
But let's be fair here. Humanity largely believes in the hero's journey, and that monsters deserve death.
Heroes, therefore, are simply going by these beliefs. They believe themselves right because in the eyes of humanity, they ARE right. This is made even worse by the fact that Heroes unconsciously sway the minds of the populace to follow them and validate them. Despite being unaware to it (most of the time), they are able to use the Jungian Astral in a way that beasts simply cannot. As to where Beasts carve out a niche in the primordial dream to become a booming presence that ripples into the astral, Heroes are made by humanity, and Heroes use that connection to control them when they feel ripples caused by Beasts. To as where a beast (specifically his horror) is a personification of Fear that has been largely forgotten by humanity (in its deeper meanings), Heroes are still by and large remembered by humanity. Because of this, Heroes are largely taking on roles that, subjectively, are true. In the astral, they really ARE the Heroes they claim to be.
So what can be done by Beasts to open their eyes to reality?
There are no mechanics for it, but it is shown in a narrative sense that Heroes can be shown the error of their ways. So in the astral landscape, what can Beasts do to convince Heroes of their flaws? Can it be done by emphasizing their Life and more strict adherence to lessons? Can beasts successfully influence the astral to the point Heroes cant wield like a hammer? What becomes of Heroes forced to acknowledge that black and white is often grey, and that they can be the darker blot?
And what happens when a Hero has faced Beasts that have only ever embraced their monstrous natures? Does the astral strengthen the Heroes' role in the story when its proven right by the beast (albeit unintentionally)?
So that's it, just a musing on Heroes. Sorry its rough, this is kinda my first attempt on an essay type post. Hope it's interesting
HelmsDerp
There is a mechanic to revert a Hero to a purely mortal state, but it's tucked away in a big list of powers, many of which are optional rather than inherent: Beasts Incarnate can simply sever a Hero's connection to the Dream.
More helpfully I think Heroes are a fear response embodied. Beasts are fear, and Heroes are the Fight Response. They're the ones who lash out and attempt to destroy the perceived source of fear where most people flee or freeze. They're not any less afraid they just mask it with violence.
(Side note I suppose this makes cults the Fawn response.)
The path to transcending fear is through knowledge and understanding, and that requires one to stop trying to destroy what they're afraid of and study it (with an eye to more than just more efficient means of destruction). To even have a chance here a Beast would have to arouse a Hero's curiosity. Challenge their worldview in a way that makes intrigued rather than defensive. Which is, you know, a pretty tough thing to do when their existence is centered around lashing out at perceived threats.
A Hero would have to be open to learning, and that's made difficult by the way the Primoridal Dream seems to make them existentially uncomfortable. Trying to ease the discomfort becomes their main priority, even as it tends to lead them into a worsening spiral
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Despite legal guarantees of equality, stark gaps in political participation and representation persist between men and women in democracies around the world. Evidence from advanced industrialized democracies shows that when women participate in higher numbers as voters (e.g. after the extension of suffrage rights), it produces policy shifts in line with their political preferences. However, it is unclear whether similar outcomes result in developing contexts where women?s voting rights are guaranteed in the constitution as a result of elite, rather than popular consensus. In this project, the PI draws on evidence from a developing democracy with persistent gender inequality, to show that voting rights are at best unevenly exercised by women. Certain additional conditions must be present for increased participation to produce improved representation: notably the independence of women's vote and the credible potential for collective action by women. By identifying the conditions under which women's preferences are equally represented in policymaking, the project findings can inform policy aimed to achieve women's political equality and improve the representation of marginalized voices in politics.
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HOLLAND, Mich., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ: YRCW) − Eastman Chemical Company, a leading global manufacturer of specialty chemicals, additives and more, has named Holland the recipient of its 2012 Supplier Excellence Award. The award is part of the Eastman Supplier Excellence Program (ESEP). This marks the seventh consecutive year in which Holland has received this award from the Eastman Chemical Company.
The award recognizes Eastman's most valued service suppliers for their performance in 2012. Consideration for the award is based upon supplier excellence in the areas of delivery performance, logistics value proposition, and exceeding customer service expectations. It confirms the key contributions Holland makes as a partner on Eastman's behalf to improve efficiency and competitiveness in today's rapidly evolving business environment.
"We are both honored and delighted to continue our winning streak with Eastman," said Scott Ware, Holland President. "Achieving such a run is a true testament to the untiring service ethic of Holland. Day after day, year after year, Holland upholds the strictest standards of performance and service, which ensure our continued presence as industry leaders in regional LTL shipping."
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Not at home at home
By Pradip Phanjoubam
(A slightly modified version of this article appeared in the opinion column of the Crest edition of The Times of India on Saturday, May 12.)
The suicide by 21 year old management student, Dana M Sangma from Meghalaya at Amity University, Punchgaon campus, Gurgaon, on April 24, close on the heels of the violent death of 19 year old architecture student Richard Loitam from Manipur at Acharya NRV School of Architecture, Bangalore, on April 18 have once again brought to the fore the vexed question whether the Northeast has emotionally integrated with the spirit of India, and more relevantly, whether the India that supposedly represents this spirit has accepted the Northeast.
Dana was apparently humiliated in the examination hall for allegedly cheating and Richard was beaten up by hostel mates for the frivolous reason of toggling TV channels during an IPL match.
That Dana turned out to be the niece of the chief minister of Meghalaya, Mukul Sangma, has made the case high profile, this notwithstanding, it is the spontaneous sense of widespread outrage amongst students from the Northeast studying and living outside the Northeast which should be a cause for concern. Probably dozens die in similar circumstance each year so why all the ado in these two cases?
Are people from the Northeast discriminated in the rest of India or is the Northeast being overly sensitive? Probably it is both, each feeding on the other, perpetuating the ugly cycle. The discrimination would not necessarily be overt. It would be more about a cultural milieu which nurtured the popular image of the Indian in which the ethnic profile of the Northeast is an uneasy fit.
For most Northeasterners, the existential question, “who am I?” has had to be renegotiated the day he stepped across the Siliguri corridor or Chicken’s Neck as it is also popularly known, the narrow strip of land wedged between Bangladesh and Bhutan, which connects the Northeast to sub-continental India.
Manipur’s case, though understandably peculiar to itself in many ways, should be illustrative of this alienation. For many middleclass young men and women here, especially among the Hindu Meiteis who have grown up in surroundings of devout Vaishnav culture, with the unwritten will of elders wanting their cremation ashes to be immersed in the holy waters of the Ganga or in the sea at Jaganath Puri, the question “who am I” begins to be troubling normally at college age, which is about the time their parents send them away from for higher studies in better political and academic climes of other Indian states. Till then, most would have had no real problem in believing themselves to be Indians without even the need to reflect on what it means to be Indian.
They would hence cheer for the Indian hockey and football teams without reservation. Cricket is still a little alien, although its fan following is now growing. They celebrate Holi and Durga Puja and other Hindu festivals, and thus share a sense of loose community with Hindu India. Their sense of a letdown when they discover there is more to the Indian identity than they believed it was is often acute. Many end up embittered.
For many Northeast Christian communities, the sense of affiliation to the idea of India is a substantially different equation, for India although politically secular, culturally is still predominantly the land of the Hindus. A good majority of the Nagas in Nagaland, for instance would even today say they are not Indians. But there is a finer distinction here. The “Indian” that the Naga say he is not, is an imagined ethnic category and not always a citizenship status. So when the average Naga says he is not Indian, he generally means he is not the non-Mongoloid, generally darker skinned plainsman that he considers is the ethnic profile of an Indian.
Is the North Easterner an Indian then? On the face of it, yes. He is a citizen of India. He fulfils all the obligations of being an Indian citizen and in turn enjoys all of the Republic’s guarantees, although with some terrible hiccups like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. But the trouble is, being an Indian does not end here. It begins at this point. Quite to the contrary of what the constitution defines, “Indianness” is often intuitively projected as a primordial state of belonging to a unique cultural phenomenon. Anybody therefore can become an Indian citizen but not an Indian. He has to be born one. The trouble is, a good part of the Northeast is outside this cultural phenomenon. This also explains why overseas travellers from the Northeast are often called upon to qualify their claims of being Indians every time they hold out their Indian passports.
To invoke Benedict Anderson, between the reality of the Indian State and the “imagining” that gives it its National character, still falls a shadow. It is a cruel vindication of Anderson again that Richard was assaulted for disrespecting cricket, a widely shared ritual of this “imagined community”.
Pradip Phanjoubam
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Creation Of Districts – A Big Step Towards Disintegration Of Manipur
By Jimmy Pamei
Manipur is like tiny India with varied communities, colorful traditions and diverse tastes. Though there were tensions from time to time, the state had managed to hammer out solutions and so continue to exist as a harmonious colorful state. There had been various ethnic
clashes in the state. But they all limp back to normalcy as time goes by. One community that often haunts the most upon the state integrity is the Naga community. When they do, they usually strike at the foundation of the state. Their independence movement or the so called ‘Framework Agreement’, ‘Alternative Arrangement’ or whatever stirs the water of Manipur. The latest move by the state in creating 7 new districts is a new salt rubbed to the unhealed wounds of the Naga’s sentiments.
In states like Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal new districts or state were created on the basis of administrative convenience, population size (about 1 million for a district), distance of district headquarter, urbanization factor etc. However the Manipur Government recent move in creating new districts was in the garb of administrative convenience, but the real intention seems to be political. And this step is somewhat likens to ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. And it is conjectured that the decision makers saw the danger while taking such bold steps, and that they have not scan the state thoroughly to see beyond their political walls. The move was bold, but is not the wisest. In order to appease one group, the whole state is plunged into the wagon of suffering.
For a long time some community have been clamoring for separation or severing of ties with Manipur state for various reasons. The Nagas in particular have their own point and the desperate hope of integrating their kith and kin as envisaged in their pursuit for sovereignty or whatever, and the so called ‘Framework Agreement’ of 2015 have given much fillip to their hope – for separation from the present Manipur state. That they ‘mean business’ is oft repeated in their various statements that ‘not an inch’ should be touched while creating new districts, especially referring to Sadar Hills and Jiribam. The All
Meitei Club Organization Manipur (AMCOM) and Meitei Youth Front South East Asia (MYFSEA) too have stated that the Manipur State Darbar Act 1932 should be looked into while creating new districts to protect the Meitei agricultural land.
But the state government has blatantly flexed its muscle by creating not only two but 7 districts in Manipur.
While seeming to take revenge against one group or organization, and while flexing the muscle to indicate dominance the other end of the state is put on the furnace. The situation now looks as if it is going to end up like the comic of Tom and Jerry.
Several reasons can be cited, besides the ethnic issues, as a writing on the wall for disintegration of Manipur from being a single entity.
The administration of the former or old districts was so bad and pathetic. Government schemes did not reached the target groups, there were instances much red tapism, rampant corruption in appointment to jobs and schemes distribution, nepotism, favouritism, and apathy towards the tribal communities have been lingering issue for many decades. For example the pathetic road condition of all the hill districts of the state speaks volume about it. They are so pathetic.
Who is responsible for such condition in this so called welfare state? What about the appointment to various posts through written or oral test? How many genuine people have been? In addition to all these doldrums what is the meaning of the attempt to inaugurate an incomplete project? What is the meaning of Passing Bills while some communities are deadly against it? The intention could be for benefit of one community, but the affected community has kick back so badly that the very foundation of state integrity is already at risk now.
What is the meaning of ‘breaking ceasefire ground rules while Manipur has said ceasefire doesn’t extend to the state’? What is the meaning of the valley community trying to become ‘Tribal’ people while attacking the hill Tribal community? Didn’t this valley community have sanskritized so high up in the hierarchy and have acted ‘holier than thou’ for decades and have they not treated the tribal communities as the ‘pariah’ for ages?
The creation of new districts was, for sure, not really for administrative convenience. There are several reasons for that argument. Even the former districts do not have sufficient officers and doctors and specialists and engineers. And even those appointed to the post at the hill district do not come to report at their stations.
What is the meaning of increasing the number of district when the earlier districts were not administered efficiently and conveniently?
What is that convenience for administration now? Therefore the logical conclusion is that the intention behind new districts creation is simply either political or communal. If it is political it is at the cost of communalism. If it is at the cost of communalism it is communalism in toto. Therefore the impact is predictable: it is another move towards disintegration of the state.
However there is also solution to every problem. Now since the discussion has filter down to the issue of communalism, the last hope for regaining trust of every community is to listen to their stories.
The government should have, at least in principle, listened to the complaints of the stakeholders while creating new districts. And that can still be done at this crucial stage. One biggest danger in the disintegration of Manipur is the Naga issue. Their struggle for the so called ‘sovereignty’ or ‘alternative arrangement’ or the ‘supra state’ ‘framework agreement’ and the likes have given this community that false or true hope. And when such hopes are already indicating danger, instead of pacifying them the Government action of instigating communal feeling is adding strength for their assertion. Instead give coax them and assure them with genuine promises, and faith that measures will be taken up to protect their interest. Make good use of the so called Goodwill Commission or other intermediaries who are willing to give peace back a chance. Recall those old traditions where the valley community has to engage the tribal people to complete some of the rituals. Actually everyone and every communities were one people in the first place.
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FIFA 09 (titled FIFA Soccer 09 in North America) is the 2008 installment of Electronic Arts’ FIFA series of football video games. Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports Worldwide label. It was released for Windows in October 2008, [2] Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and Zeebo. It Was released later in November 2008 for the N-Gage 2.0 and Mobile phone. [3] [4] [5]
The demo was released on 10 September 2008 for Windows [6] and on 11 September 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. [7] [8] The PS3 and Xbox 360 demos Were identical with the exception of the stadium used with the PS3 featuring the FIWC Stadium and the Xbox 360 version using the new Wembley Stadium. The tagline for the game is “Let’s FIFA 09.
It has been Stated in an interview with game producer David Rutter That there are over 250 improvements in the game. [9]
Among the improvements in the new FIFA are Improved responsiveness That Allows for quicker release of the ball, greater urgency in off-the-ball running, a new jostle system That takes Into account the strength of the players When going shoulder-to-shoulder, That and subtle animations enable players to take first-time shots.
Another of the edition’s Biggest changes is a Completely Revamped collision system, Which calculates speed, weight, and power Collide When the players nor Each player Will Have Their own individual strength and power statistics body Depending on Their Characteristics.
New goalkeeper technology has been added qual Also Allows for better positioning, better Reactions to saves, and faster recovery after a save has been made.
A further improvement from FIFA 08 is the weather and time. Rain and snow matches Can Be played from Kick-off mode, howevera there are no weather effects in Manager Mode. Games Can Be played at either day, dusk or night, Depending on the stadium choice.
FIFA 09 Includes a “10 vs. 10” “Be a Pro” online game. Also the game features user-controlled player celebrations, like in UEFA Euro 2008, in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. [10]
The “Be A Pro” mode of the game has Also been Improved. On the PC, Xbox360, and PS3 version, the user Can now play four seasons as a single player. The PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles Also Allow the player to change clubs, and play for national team bis, Depending on developer’s performance. This feature is not present in the PC version.
On 20 August 2008, EA unveiled the new Adidas Live Season feature That will dynamically update player form and attributes Each week, in-game, based on the player’s last game to Reflect real-world ups and downs. Live Season is a premium service That Will Be Available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC and covers six leagues: the Barclays Premier League, the Liga BBVA, the Ligue 1, the Bundesliga, the Serie A and the Primera División de México . Gamers have access to one league of developer’s choice as a free trial from the moment That runs They activate the service to the end of the 2008-09 season, the while Will Purchasing leagues cost extra £ 4.99 (US $ 7.99) Each, or all six leagues Can Be purchased for £ 12.99 (US $ 20.00).
User-controlled goal celebrations are Also featured for the first time in the FIFA series, having been trialled in the official video game of Euro 2008. The player Can Choose from a variety of pre-loaded celebrations. This feature is on seventh generation consoles only (excludes PC and Wii) due to Capacity limits.
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FIFA 09 Was updated to correspond with the transfers made in the January 2009 transfer window. Was This update added onto the game via an online squad download on 9 February 2009. On 19 March 2009, the FIFA 09 13:02 Was That updated to version added the Ultimate Team mode and Also Trophies for the PlayStation 3. On 6 June, 13:03 Was version released. Various bugs fixed It Were That caused from the previous patch.
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Ultimate Team is a downloadable game mode expansion for FIFA 09 available only on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Was Similar game mode featured in a previous EA Sports football game, UEFA Champions League 2006-2007. It lets users create Their own teams by buying, selling, trading, and auctioning off Their players with Thousands of other users. Gamers earn points by playing online or offline developer’s teams or by using Microsoft Points to buy card packs, or use coins Which You Can you gain from playing matches. Card packs are Categorized as Gold (5,000 pts), Silver (2,500 pts), or Bronze (500 pts). Card pack Contain random cards, so the user does not know exactly what he or she get in Will say. Essentially, Ultimate Team is geared Toward letting the user have full, customizable control over their teams. “You Can Also your squad Against compete with others across the world
Martin Tyler and Andy Gray Provide the English-language commentary for the game, although Tyler is Replaced by Clive Tyldesley for the PC, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii versions. Users Can Also download free alternative commentators in 13 Different Languages from the PlayStation Store (PlayStation 3) and Xbox Live Marketplace (Xbox 360). [12] [13] Another option for the English language is Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend.
The Wii version of the game is titled FIFA 09 All-Play (FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play in the US) and Was Launched under EA Sports’ new All-Play brand exclusive to the platform. [14] Even though it features the normal 11 vs 11 football match like the other consoles, a new, exclusive Was Introduced feature called ‘Footii Match’, Which is an 8 vs 8 football match plays Where your Mii against other Mii’s. The object of this feature is to beat CERTAIN teams from around the world and unlock developer’s “superstar team captain”. For the first time, FIFA 09 on this platform features “Manager Mode” as found on other platforms. Also for the first time ever, users Can now use GameCube and Classic Controller Along with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. There are two methods of playing. Firstly, All-Play is for less Experienced players, as it has basic controls and the players move themselves unless a nunchuk is connected. The other method of playing is advanced play, Which Involves moving the player with the nunchuk and pointing the remote to the player the user wants to pass them.
The PlayStation 3 exclusive game mode is a built-in FIFA Interactive World Cup. Will this enable gamers to track developer’s progress and play games through the game Rather than relying on the website. [15] FIFA 09 for the PS3 also supports rumble with the DualShock 3. In addition, like previous FIFA games, the PS3 version has support for seven players on the Same screen. In the 1:02 update, Trophies Were Also Included.
There are different covers for the regional versions of FIFA 09. All covers feature Ronaldinho with Different players for Each region except for the cover in Spain, the UK and Australian covers feature Wayne Rooney; the German cover features Kevin Kurányi; the Italian cover features Daniele De Rossi; the Irish cover features Richard Dunne; the Czech cover features Petr Čech; the French cover features Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema; the Hungarian Balázs Dzsudzsák cover features; the Portuguese cover features Ricardo Quaresma; the Spanish cover features Gonzalo Higuaín; the Swiss cover features Tranquillo Barnetta; and the North American version features Guillermo Ochoa and Maurice Edu. Edu Signed for Scottish team Rangers, Which caused the cover to swear altered to feature Edu in a US national team shirt and Ronaldinho appeared in a Milan shirt, so Was That a club shirt featured
There are over 500 teams and 30 leagues in the game, as well as 41 national teams.
FIFA 09 has 41 teams in Its international division. The Most notable exclusion is Japan (who made it Into the round of 16 in the 2002 World Cup and the 2010 World Cup, But Whose Rights Licensing currently belong to Konami). The Following international teams are playable in the current generation consoles. But not all the teams are fully licensed e.g. Netherlands and Russia.
The complete FIFA 09 soundtrack Was Announced by EA Sports on 14 August 2008. It features 42 songs from 22 different countries.
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In its 150 year, Madras Boat Club will be hosting 75th ARAE Regatta on its waters. It is a historic event for the club and for the Regatta.
Brief History of ARAE
The Sport of Rowing is by no means new to the East. The foundation of the Calcutta Rowing Club took place in 1858 and Madras Boat Club in 1867. By the end of 19th century there were flourishing rowing clubs in many of the Principal Cities of the East. On account of the distances, Interclub regattas were practically far and few. In July 1929, L. H. Macklin of the Calcutta Rowing Club spoke of his vision of an Eastern Henley. The seed took roots and less than four years later blossomed into the Amateur Rowing Association of the East.
The Founder members of the Association were- The Bombay Gymkhana Club, The Calcutta Rowing Club, The Karachi Boat Club, The Madras Boat Club, The Rangoon Boat Club and the Royal Connaught Boat Club. There are today more than 14 affiliated clubs from India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Hong Kong and UAE.
The first regatta was held at Poona in 1933, Fours was won by the Madras Boat Club and it is on record that a ‘Pair Oared Race’ was held, was also won by Madras Boat Club. In 1935, the then Viceroy, H. E. the Earl of Willingdon, presented the Association with its first Challenge Trophy for "Coxed Four Oared" race. In the same year a trophy for "Pair Oars" was presented by the then Chairman of the ARAE Mr. A. V. Venables of Calcutta and a "Sculling Trophy” was presented by Mr. L. H. Macklin also of Calcutta.
The Hooghly Cup was presented to the Association in 1956 by Calcutta Rowing Club as an additional Trophy for overall team Championship.
The Far Eastern Amateur Rowing Association (FEARA) was started in 1954 by Clubs in the Far East i.e., Hong Kong, Manila etc. For many years, FEARA held their independent regattas. Around the turn of the century, ARAE and FEARA merged to hold a common regatta for the clubs of the East and Far East. The ARAE is a Open category Regatta for Men and Women while and FEARA is for Masters (35 and above) and Super Master (50 and above for Men / 40 and above for Women).
Trophies :
Willingdon Rowing Trophy - for the Four Oared Racing (Men 4+)
Venables Trophy - for the Coxswain less Pairs Event (Men 2-)
Macklin Silver Challenge - for the Single Scull Event (Men 1x)
Hoogly Cup - to the most successful club
Adyar Cup - overall Women’s team
At the end of ARAE / FEARA, crews of participating clubs mix and row for Baird’s Trophy. Baird’s Trophy is an easy oars event allowing crew from various clubs to row together in the same boat. This event is followed by a sumptuous lunch to bring the curtains down.
Regatta schedule
Wednesday, 11th January, 2017
7:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Practice sessions
8:00 AM Ergometer competition (Open Men and Women) – 1000 mtrs
4:00 PM Inauguration of Regatta
6:00 PM Team Managers meet
8:00 PM Cocktail and Dinner
Thursday, 12th January, 2017
7:00 AM onwards Heats and repechage
Friday, 13th January, 2017
7:00 AM onwards Repechage and Semi-final
9:00 AM ARAE AGM
8:00 PM ARAE Dinner
Saturday, 14th January, 2017
7:00 AM onwards Bronze finals
2:30 PM onwards Finals
5:00 PM Prize distribution
9:00 PM Regatta dinner and dance
10:00 AM onwards Baird’s Trophy and Curry Lunch
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WHERE'S THE BEEF IN CARL EDWARDS' "PUNISHMENT"?
Carl Edwards admits he intentionally rammed Brad Keselowski's car Sunday in the closing laps of the Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, causing Kes's No. 12 Dodge to spin, take flight, flip upside down and crushing half of the top of the car (fortunately it was the right side of the car, not the driver's compartment -- leading to another fortuitous result: Keselowski was shaken but not injured).
And for such an egregious act, Edwards is placed on three weeks of "probation."
That's it. No fine, no suspension, no points deduction -- no other penalty whatsoever.
That's right, absolutely nothing else in terms of being "punished."
NASCAR president Mike Helton said that there were actually two episodes at work here. The first was Edwards' actions. The second was how Keselowski's car unexpectedly went airborn -- something that even Edwards sheepishly admitted he didn't expect to happen when he essentially did a PIT maneuver on Keselowski's ride (if you don't know what a PIT maneuver is, watch some police chases online or on TV and you'll find out soon enough).
So, instead of focusing on the core of the problem -- that Edwards was the aggressor and sent Keselowski flying -- NASCAR has chosen to consider it a more serious and egregious situation that Keselowski's car caught lift at 190 mph and turned Atlanta Motor Speedway's fast racing surface into a takeoff runway.
Let's not put the cart before the horse here. The facts are pretty straightforward: if Edwards doesn't do what he did, Keselowski doesn't wind up the way he did -- regardless of the fact that his car wasn't "supposed" to lift off the ground.
We've already seen the same situation several times in the last few years, particularly at Talladega, where cars have gotten into the air after being hit from behind or from the side. Edwards knows that as well as anybody, as it was Keselowski that gave Edwards the ride of his life a year ago at 'Dega, almost taking out the frontstretch fencing and injuring seven people in the process. Had it not been for good fortune, many more could have been hurt or worse.
NASCAR knows it has a problem with cars lifting up and off into the air. That's why it plans on replacing the rear wing element and return to the old tried-and-true rear spoiler later this season. But given what we saw Sunday at Atlanta, and the fact we have an upcoming off-weekend, wouldn't the prudent thing be to replace the wings with spoilers right now -- particularly in light of what happened with the Edwards-Keselowski imbroglio?
NASCAR's "have at it, boys" philosophy has morphed into a "hands off" policy, it would seem. Even some of NASCAR's hardest and most aggressive drivers, like Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick, were nothing short of stunned by NASCAR's action on Tuesday.
Or should I say, lack of action.
I'm not trying to be a maudlin drama queen or conspiracy theorist or anything of the sort, but unless NASCAR starts being a bit more astute at the way it hands out penalties -- in the past, it's penalized guys like Dale Earnhardt Jr. for inadvertently cursing on TV, or Jeff Gordon simply pushing Matt Kenseth (with his hands, not his car) -- something bad is wound to happen.
You know what I mean by that, too. Something bad equals someone gets hurt (or worse), be it a driver, crew member or fan. I would think we have come a long way since Dale Earnhardt lost his life nearly 10 years ago. But by turning such a blind eye to Edwards' actions, we may very well have regressed in some of the progress we've made since Earnhardt's death.
As I said in the headline, where's the beef in NASCAR's "punishment" of Edwards? The answer is simple: the beef is from the fans, the beef is Edwards' blatant ramming of Keselowski, and the beef is NASCAR's almost non-existent penalty in the offing.
Actually, scratch that last one. That's not beef, that's pure bull.
By Jerry Bonkowski at Tuesday, March 09, 2010
You are a maudlin drama queen!
Boys have at it? Are they, could they actually be serious? That'd be like the NFL saying they've been handing out too many personal fouls lately that have been making the show less interesting or something, so they're going to let the players "police themselves." WHAT? No credible sporting even can have the competitors policing themselves, are you kidding? Let's say Kurt Bush is 20 points behind Johnson at Homestead this year, with 10 laps to go. Get Sam Hornish to take Johnson out, problem solved. Then, does Mark Martin take Bush out? I'm NOT exaggerating, apparently it's now OK to take someone out during a race, is that not correct? That simply DOESN'T WORK, the sport turns quickly into a demolishon derby! They've all but said it's OK to behave this shamefully. This makes no sense whatsoever. Mayhem results, and the drivers, Carl included, are just pawns in this show, contrived for the most blood-thirsty among us. They might as well hire Jerry Springer to replace Helton, he has far more experience with this type of "entertainment." If they want us to take this as a serious "sport" it is going to have to behave like any serious sport has to behave, with a respectable amount of law and order. Allowing what happened Sunday to happen turns this "sport" into a joke, immediately. This is sad, I'm a big NASCAR fan.
"I'm a big NASCAR fan."
Apparently not.
Well NASCAR just pushed the door wide open.....
They just told the drivers that it's perfectly acceptable to put tour fellow drivers and fans lives at risk for the betterment of their TV ratings.
Just another one of NASCAR's long list of double standards to protect their poster boys and super teams.............
Ok..going the drama queen route...I get the feeling half the drivers think it was justified and the car going airborne was the ONLY problem..and the other half are stunned ... So right there is a problem. If NASCAR is giving the "go at it boys" message..what does this send to the up and coming drivers? Doesn't it lend to having more "Brads" coming into the series? I mean as it stands now the rookies wishing to make it to CUP will have to ramp it up..how can they enter the series if they don't have "their big boy panties on" and race the veterans the way the veterans have been given the green flag to race them? You can't have it both ways..you can't tell the rookies to "honor thy father"..and then give the "fathers" the green light to take out anyone they deem in their way! This should be interesting..and maybe a little more then chaotic. Hey you think Brad is aggressive...I can't wait till Stephen Wallace enters the CUP Series..and given the free pass the drivers have now...it should be MORE then interesting..it could turn out to be a hell hotter then NASCAR could ever imagine!! But wait!!! I am going to assume this free pass extends to the Nationwide and Truck Series...so maybe hell will be here sooner then we think!!!
Great Call by Nascar, when I watch races, it "better be more dangerous" than the state highway I just got off from!
Iam tired 'Tumping the Safety Card" everytime their is a wreck!
I dont go to see anyone get hurt, fan or driver, but also if it happens,it happens, life goes on! I have seen more danger on the highway we drive on,look at all the drucks leaving a Nascar event! so until Nascar races get more dangerous than our highway system, I will find the courage to attend!!!!!
Regarding the Nationwide and Truck Series, I was wondering the same thing... so now Mike Skinner and Todd Bodine have a free pass to take out anyone they want, on purpose if necessary, no penalties or fines... really? This would be THE new and most effective strategy to win the championship, take out whomever is ahead of you in points! It's just one of them racin' deals, boys have at it!
Well we know Cousin Carl is one of B. France's koolade boys......"You scratch my back and I will scratch yours".
And we all know how desperate Nascar is for attention since most of the fans are leaving in droves!
Aloha Jerry,
Come on give Carl a break, he did what they have been doing for years, only this time stupid aerodynamics on the cot put an exclamation point on the simple spin out. If Krashalotski could drive or at least have some respect then it would not have happened.
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Petra Mrsa
April 13, 2018 Petra Mrša
HD video, 2 47
By combining performance, sound and text, this video work questions the influence of the character of the movement in de-integrating, reintegrating and reinforcing the understanding of the written language.
Informed by the notions of body memory, mind–body duality, authentic movement and somatic experiencing, work examines interrelations between body movements and sentences which are created within context of stationary behaviour.Sources of the text are 2 categories of the google analytics: most googled How to question and most shared site on social networks (referring buzzsumo.com) about the most searched term in 2017. Another source of the text is a script of the biographical film that shows a person in the moment of sudden losing ability to move.
Movements are based on Laban movement analysis, the technique that all human movements characterizes by: space (direct or indirect), weight (strong or light) and time (sudden or sustained).
Most common source of knowledge in contemporary society is content provided on Internet. Development of technology provides practices like online shopping, computer games, online sex, work from home, social networks…, which all reduce the need for everyday body movement.
By associating sentences with body movements, work stands as a comment on the process of generating meaning from the perceived world. Which is the contribution of the movement and which of the language to this process remains ambiguous.
Body as a human’s feature and its impact on the identity remains unrevealed. This raises the question of undiscovered possibilities of physical engagement as a way of existence, a means of cognition and development. Interest to deal with this possibilities is prompted by the context of rapidly development of AI’s potentials, like a way to communicate or to solve problems.
The work was made as a part of the CreArt AiR residency at Bluecoat – Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts.
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Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Harmonic Motion, 2013 Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam - Harmonic Motion “Enel Contemporanea 2013” proposes a reflexion about the deep connections between energy and an individual’s intimate personal space. "More than a job, this is my purpose. Painting self-taught for ten years, she was free to explore her talent, allowing for only the expression of her unconscious to guide her many and varied creations. Her sculptures are places rather than objects and offer their users a chance to hide or feel sheltered. Harmonic Motion is the brainchild of Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam and her husband, Charles. Published on Dec 6, 2013 Al via la settima edizione di Enel Contemporanea e la protagonista di quest'anno è l'artista giapponese Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam con l'installazione Harmonic Motion. How do we define intelligence? Fabric is treated as an additional layer of skin that protects and hides individuals. ENEL CONTEMPORANEA 2013 – SPECIFICATIONS Harmonic Motion / Rete dei draghi 2013 A work by Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam Norihide Imagawa (structural design) & Charles MacAdam (design & production) MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma Entrance: via Nizza 138, Rome Opened from the 8th December 2013 and for the whole 2014 Her webs celebrate fun and enjoyment, as well as relax and reflection.The idea that each and everyone of us is connected to the rest of the planet is central to Toshiko Horiuchi’s vision of art. The opening to the public on Sunday 8 December at the MACRO Museum in Rome. See more ideas about Yarn bombing, Playground, Installation art. The protagonist of the seventh edition of Enel Contemporanea is the Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam with the installation “Harmonic Motion”. Enel Contemporanea 2013 presents a big art installation, Harmonic Motion – Rete dei draghi by Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, with the aim of actively involving the public,inviting them to become a part of the installation and completing it, in a mixture of collective and, at the same time, deeply personal experience. BACKSTAGE Enel Contemporanea 2013, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam at MACRO in Rome. Send an e-mail to info@itsliquid.com or fill the form below, Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress. Sensing, understanding, expressing are the guidelines that have led me to what you will witness in my artwork. I never get tired of these. Starting with puntinism and arriving to Action Painting and Pouring Painting, I have found my "colourful" way of expressing myself. [source: domus] Related posts: Play in Museums – Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam at The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem, North Carolina More Playground Crochet from Toshiko Horiuchi ... Playgrounds by … They are the result of long, painstaking manual work whereby through a daily activity like crocheting she braids fibres that develop into a full-blown architectural space. Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Harmonic Motion, 2013 The complex process that produces spiritual energy thus turns into a means of protecting one’s intimate sphere. 1930, Wiesbaden; d. 1985, Frankfurt am Main) during the years 1956-68, a short but prolific period when she was active as an artist. Japanese female artist Toshiko Horiuchi, who grew up in devastated Japan traumatized by the disastrous atomic bombing, firmly believes it can. Japanese female artist Toshiko Horiuchi, who grew up in devastated Japan traumatized by the disastrous atomic bombing, firmly believes it can. 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The Alien Next Door
Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist
Nina Munteanu’s Writing Featured in “Morphology” Art Exhibit
“We are water, what we do to water, we do to ourselves”—Nina Munteanu
Author's editor Merridy Cox
On Sunday January 14, “Morphology”, an art/writing exhibit and gala located in the world-class Lakeview Water Treatment Plant celebrated the new Waterfront Connection through the eyes of eleven photographers and writer/limnologist Nina Munteanu.
The show documented the initial stages of the newly created wetlands in Lakeview, Mississauga, on the shores of Lake Ontario. This revitalization project was the realized dream of visionary Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey, and was spearheaded by various organizations, including Credit Valley Conservation Foundation, The Region of Peel and the TRCA. The Lakeview Waterfront Connection reclamation project will extend from the old Lakeview generating station to Marie Curtis Park in Toronto When completed, the 64-acre site will provide 1.5 km of beach, meadow, forest, wetland and islands—providing excellent habitat for migratory birds, fish and other aquatic life. Clean rubble from demolition projects are being used to build new land.
Julie Knox with her photo art
“It is the first ecosystem that’s ever been built in Lake Ontario in the GTA—ever,” said Councillor Tovey.
The art of eleven photographers documented the early stages of the wetland construction. "It sort of looks like a Salvador Dali surrealistic sculpture garden...and what an interesting way to really celebrate all of this," said Councillor Tovey to the Mississauga News. Nina Munteanu was invited to provide water-related literature to augment the photography; quotes from Munteanu’s “Water Is…” and her upcoming novel “A Diary in the Age of Water” appeared in key locations with the photo art.
Nina cranks the water
Reiterating Jim Tovey’s earlier comment on the water treatment plant as its own sculpture-art, Munteanu celebrated the location and the nature of the exhibit: “When technology, art and ecology are celebrated together for humanity’s progress, you get magic.”
The Honourable Elisabeth Dowdeswell (Lieutenant Governor of Ontario) was present for the exhibit: “The Great Lakes … face certain challenges,” said The Honourable Dowdeswell. “Threats such as increased pollution, habitat destruction and climate change are all having negative effects on much of our natural world.”
Councillor Jamieson gets "Water Is..."
Cathie Jamieson, Councillor of the New Credit First Nation gave a stirring speech. “We are the water carriers and it’s in our best interest to respect and take care of our natural surroundings for the next seven generations,” she said. Councillor Jamieson was presented with a copy of “Water Is…” during the exhibit.
The exhibit will be moved and on public display at Mississauga’s Great Hall in March 2018. It is a must see!
Featured this year is the photo art by: Gabriella Bank, Sandor Bank, PJ Bell, Darren Clarke, Julie Knox, Lachlan McVie, Marcelo Leonardo Pazán, Martin Pinker, Annette Seip, Stephen Uhraney and Bob Warren; and written quotes by Nina Munteanu from “Water Is…” and upcoming “A Diary in the Age of Water”.
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When Greenland Melts…
“The ice sheet below tells a tale of disintegration,” writes Eli Kintisch of Science as the helicopter of scientists hovers over Greenland’s interior. “Long, roughly parallel cracks score the surface, formed by water and pressure; impossibly blue lakes of meltwater fill depressions; and veiny networks of azure streams meander west, flowing to the edge of the ice sheet and eventually out to sea.”
Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest ice mass in the world (after Antarctica). It covers about 10% of the Earths surface and holds three quarters of the world’s freshwater. The sheet contains enough water to raise sea levels by at least 20 feet. Glaciers flowing from the Greenland Ice Sheet have been retreating since the 1990s. Melt rate of the ice sheet is accelerating, losing 8,000 tons per second.
In 2016, ice melt started early and spread inland fast. By April, 12% of the ice sheet’s surface was melting. In an average year the melt doesn’t reach 10% until June, writes Kintisch about this growing “liquid fury.” Between 2011 and 2014, satellite data and modelling suggested that “70% of the annual 269 billion tons of snow and ice shed by Greenland was lost through surface melt, not calving [which itself had surged recently].” This added surface melt has doubled Greenland’s contribution to global sea level rise. “Things are happening a lot faster than we expected,” said geophysicist Isabella Velicogna of the University of California, Irvine.
What does this mean? “Greenland holds the equivalent of more than 7 metres of sea level rise in its thick mantle of ice,” writes Kintisch. You don’t need to do the math to understand the significance.
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. But warmer moist air is not solely responsible for this accelerated melt. Microbes and algae are thriving on the wet surface, producing pigments that boost the ice’s absorption of solar energy. Soot and dust blowing in from lower latitudes darken the ice with the same effect.
Kintisch writes of the scientists’ mission called “Black and Bloom” (referring to the soot and the algae, respectively) to study how these organisms are affecting the behaviour of the melting ice sheet. “We’re driven by curiosity,” says team leader Martyn Tranter, a biogeochemist at the University of Bristol, “but also the fear that all this new biology may accelerate global sea level rise.”
Scientists have found that dust and soot from European factories and Canadian wildfires have over the centuries been trapped and concentrated at the melting edge of the ice sheet. The scientists suspect that algae and bacteria play a sinister role in exacerbating the melt in places where the ice surface has become pocked with holes of crystal clear meltwater underlain by a spot of black sludge—known as cryoconite—at the bottom. Cryoconite is living bacteria that captures solar energy; it keeps the water from freezing. Brown-pigmented algal extremophiles that thrive in the freezethaw cycles also stain massive areas of ice. This growing meltwater ecosystem may drive an ever-accelerating melt.
As the Arctic warms, melt episodes are likely to “occur much more frequently in the future,” says Dirk van As of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen.
Climate scientist Marco Tedesco of Columbia University published a study that gave evidence for retreating Arctic sea ice disrupting the polar jet stream, causing weather systems to mender more slowly from west to east. What this means is unclear; but it confirms that extent and complexity of ecosystem changes on a global scale. Scientists also documented the exponential (nonlinear) character of the change. What this means is that change will compound itself as systems cascade.
Acknowledging the challenges of working in the growing meltwaters of a giant ice sheet, the Black and Bloom researchers also felt wonder at the transforming landscape. Jim McQuaid of the University of Leeds said, “Each evening we marveled as the sun went low, enjoying the fact that we were somewhere no one else had been, and would never be again, because of the melt.”
Nina Munteanu is an ecologist and internationally published author of award-nominated speculative novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books. Nina’s recent book is the bilingual “La natura dell’acqua / The Way of Water” (Mincione Edizioni, Rome). Her latest “Water Is…” is currently an Amazon Bestseller and NY Times ‘year in reading’ choice of Margaret Atwood.
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Silent Shakespeare
March 5, 2016 shakespeare
21 March, Adelaide.
The University of Adelaide and Silents Now are having a special screening of the Asta Neilsen Hamlet, accompanied by live, improvised music.
The first Hamlet ever to appear on film was Sarah Bernhardt, in a roughly ten minute piece designed to demonstrate the possibilities of film. The first full length feature film version of Hamlet also starred a woman as the Prince, Danish actress Asta Neilsen.
“To my mind there were just two geniuses of the silent film era: Asta and Chaplin. It is very hard for anyone now to conceive the huge scale of Asta’s personality in Germany. Wherever we went, even in the smallest towns, crowds immediately gathered round her.” – Sven Gade, Director of Hamlet, in The Screenplay of My Life (1941).
For those interested in the extensive, expansive history of actresses playing Hamlet, Women As Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation by Tony Howard details the whole story.
One chance only to get the Asta Neilsen experience, and see the first Hamlet feature film on the big screen.
Tickets are free and can be booked HERE.
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Shakespeare and the Drover’s Wife
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“When the Shakespeare Tercentenary Memorial Fund was established in Sydney in 1912 … the goal of the organisation was to raise enough money for a fitting memorial to Shakespeare to be created by the date of the three-hundredth anniversary of his death, in April 1916. Upon the announcement of the formation of the fund, an anonymous woman wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald to speak of the enthusiasm and support the organisation could expect from Australian women: ‘Whatever work there is to do by which we women may show our gratitude and love and devotion to our Shakespeare, we only ask, do not spare us, let us work side by side with men. Our power and ability to work for a fitting memorial of a beloved idol are as great, our devotion to the cause no less.'”
This is an extract from an article I wrote for the online journal Australian Studies.
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The research for this article about the way Australians commemorated the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death was only possible because of the remarkable capabilities of the Trove service, at the National Library of Australia. I was able to look up every column written about the Shakespeare Balls and other spectacular fundraising efforts, reported in minute detail in the Sydney newspapers from 1912 – 1916. I could do this at no charge, and without needing to travel to the Library in Canberra and ferret through their archives. This astonishing, useful, used resource is under threat from funding cuts, like so many other services supporting Australia’s intellectual and cultural life.
The idea of something that is already working so well, working for any Australian who cares to make use of it, and getting better all the time being curtailed is an unconscionable false economy.
Here you can read Mike Jones and Deb Verhoeven on Treasure Trove: why defunding Trove leaves Australia poorer.
The full article on the Shakespeare Tercentenary Memorial is available in downloadable PDF form here, as yet another free service from our National Library:
Shakespeare and the Drover’s Wife: the work of women in the Australian Cultural Landscape
(Australian Studies, volume 4, series 2)
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UWA Shakespeare in The Conversation
The online journal for academics in a magazine-ish mood has a piece up from distinguished Shakespeare in Performance scholar Liz Schafer. It reflects on the work she has just been involved in in Perth, staging the Merry Wives of Windsor and Margaret of Anjou (noted previously on this site).
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Shakespeare’s Queen Margaret in performance
February 16, 2016 shakespeare
One performance only, 18 February, Perth.
The University of Western Australia and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions are facilitating a fabulous opportunity to hear the words of one of Shakespeare’s most compelling and yet least performed characters.
Margaret imagined in a 19th Century engraving by W. Joseph Edwards
Queen Margaret d’Anjou appears in four of Shakespeare’s plays, more than any other character. However, three are the sequential parts of Henry VI, which is rarely staged, and her role in the much more popular Richard III is often (disgracefully!) cut. When her portions of this history cycle are put together what emerges is a vivid, striking portrait of multi-faceted woman who is both victim and villain, triumphant and vanquished, admirable and abhorrent at different points in her long life.
Date: Thursday 18 February 2016
Time: 1–2pm
Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA
Contact: Bob White (bob.white@uwa.edu.au)
Free and open to the public. No ticket required
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Merry Wives: the Symposium
One day only, 17 February, Perth
A wonderful opportunity to hear a gathering of international experts on a too-neglected play.
This symposium runs in conjunction with the performances of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor on the New Fortune Theatre, 16–18 February 2016. It brings together international experts on the play and on theatre history.
Further details from Bob White (bob.white@uwa.edu.au)
Rob Conkie (La Trobe University): Director The Merry Wives of Windsor, New Fortune Theatre
Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK): Author Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary (2010)
Philippa Kelly (Resident Dramaturg, the California Shakespeare Theater): Author of The King and I (Shakespeare Now! series)
Helen Ostovich (McMaster University, Canada): Online edition The Merry Wives of Windsor, forthcoming
Peter Reynolds, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne): Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Emotions
Elizabeth Schafer (Royal Holloway College, University of London): writing a performance history of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Manchester University Press Shakespeare in Performance series
Robert White (UWA): Author The Merry Wives of Windsor: A New Critical Introduction
Date: Wednesday 17 February 2016
Venue: Arts Lecture Room 5 (Arts G.61) and the New Fortune Theatre, The University of Western Australia
Registration: This is a free event but numbers will be limited so please confirm attendance in advance with Pam Bond (pam.bond@uwa.edu.au)
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Call for Papers: Shakespeare and Music Studies
4 November, Melbourne.
Shakespeare and Music Studies: From theory into practice.
Monash University. Hosted by The Monash Shakespeare Company & The Melbourne Shakespeare Society
One-day Symposium. Call for papers:
Courtice Pounds as Feste in Tree’s 1901 production of Twelfth Night, viahttps://theshakespearecode.wordpress.com
When the field of Shakespeare and music studies emerged in the late-nineteenth century, it mainly concerned itself with the problems reconstructing the musical materials and practices of early modern theatre cultures. Since then, the field has evolved to encompass a vast body of methodologies and contexts, incorporating discussions of literature and history, and linking them to musical and theatre practices. As the field stands today, it is characterised by its eclecticism, even as it asserts its intrinsic value to Shakespeare studies more generally.
This symposium calls upon these diverse areas of expertise that make up the modern field to assist in identifying and developing strategies for the integration of music into productions of Shakespeare. We invite submissions from theatre and music practitioners, academics in literature, theatre, history and music studies, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students, to contribute to this conversation. We impose no particular restrictions on paper topics, provided they are generally relevant to the field of Shakespeare and music studies. However, the following questions may act as a guide to submissions:
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Why should music be considered a priority in the production of Shakespeare?
How can an understanding of early-modern music practice be applied to modern theatre productions?
How can knowledge of modern musical practices be applied to the staging of Shakespeare?
What specific challenges do composers face when setting Shakespeare’s language to music?
What types of musical resources can small theatre companies employ when staging Shakespeare?
How can theatre directors employ music in audition, rehearsal and production processes?
NB – Since the symposium will be practice-focused, we are also interested in considering workshop sessions.
Some travel bursaries will be available for interstate or international scholars. All submitted papers will also be considered for inclusion in an edited volume.
Please submit an abstract or proposal of approximately 200 words to christian.griffiths@monash.edu by 1st May 2016.
This song is noted for appearing in both Twelfth Night and King Lear.
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Merry Wives in Perth
Three performances only, 16-18 February, Perth.
The University of Western Australia has an outdoor theatre built to the proportions of the Fortune Theatre, one of the public playhouses that operated in Early Modern London. Built by Philip Henslowe, the surviving documents detailing its specifications have been a treasure trove for theatre historians.
UWA uses the space for investigations into original practice, and for lively, fun, delicious productions. Next week only, you can catch Shakespeare’s most absolutely Elizabethan comedy performed there: The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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HOME > > Online versus In-Casino Slots
Online versus In-Casino Slots
By John Grochowski
QUESTION: I just wanted to share my experience of the last year as a slot player in New Jersey. Like everyone else, I've been staying home more and hardly went to casinos at all, but I've been having a good time playing online.
One thing I really like is that I can choose from dozens of games without leaving my recliner chair. In a casino, if I want to change games I need to walk around and find a game I like where no one is already playing. Online, I can pick any game I like without worrying about whether it's occupied.
I miss going to casinos, being with other people. For some reason, my wife won't play cocktail server. But I do like being able to change to any game I like whenever I like without fighting crowds.
ANSWER: There are tradeoffs to be sure, with online casinos having advantages in some areas and live casinos having the edge in others just by nature of the venues.
Slot machines with multiple games have a niche in live casinos, but it's not large. The first multi-game unit, the Bally Game Maker, was introduced in 1994. By touching or clicking and icon, you could launch slot games, video poker games, video blackjack and video keno.
Other manufacturers followed suit with multi-game units of their own. They're especially common in video poker, where you can choose among Jacks or Better, Double Double Bonus Poker and other games by selecting on a welcome screen.
We don't see as many slot machines with multiple games on the same unit. One reason is that unplayed games go into attract mode, displaying game features and graphics to draw players. Players look for specific games, and that's easier with one game per machine. Video poker is different. Players look for video poker, knowing there usually will be multiple game options.
Online, machines aren't trying to attract passers-by. Instead, the focus is on making it easy for you to find and play the game you want without having to leave for a competing site.
QUESTION: Does it help at all to track what cards have been dealt in video poker? If I had a pair of Aces including an Ace of spades, should I change my approach on the next hand if I'm dealt Queen-Jack of spades with a King of clubs and two low cards of different suits?
I'm thinking that maybe if the Ace of spades has been used the previous hand, then maybe the Queen-Jack two-card royal isn't as attractive and I should hold King-Queen-Jack instead.
ANSWER: Video poker games are dealt from a single electronic deck, shuffled for every hand. Since you're working with a fresh deck, your chances of drawing an Ace of spades are exactly the same on the second hand as they were on the first. That you actually received the Ace on the first hand does not change the odds on the second.
As for the strategy on the hand you outline, let's use 9-6 Double Double Bonus Poker as an example.
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Widgit software sails into calmer waters
September 8, 2011 Literacy, New technologies, software, special needsDetheridge, software, WidgitSal
Cate and Tina Detheridge
Two generations of the Detheridge family are now at the helm of Widgit software. The company has been in the doldrums lately with fears that it might be bought out by competitors, interested only in its assets and not in its development arm.
Mike and Tina Detheridge set up Widgit in 1981 to provide symbol support for young people who struggle to read English text. This includes pupils who are learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) and those with learning disabilities or certain forms of autism.
In 2001 the family sold a large stake of their then 20 year old business to Logotron but 10 years later it came to grief when Logotron went into receivership in August of this year. The Detheridge family put together a rescue package with support from Terry Johnson, former partner in the highly successful US company Mayer Johnson, and other right-minded investors. This week they learned that their bid had seen off competition from outsiders.
Now the second generation of Detheridges is leading the way. Cate Detheridge is product manager for the company and develops the symbols while Simon is chief technical officer, responsible for much of the sophisticated programming which underpins the symbol collection in different languages.
Tina Detheridge said she was delighted with the news that their bid had been successful, ‘Widgit has been our life’s work and we were desperately worried that it would disappear. Because of the complex technical developments, I don’t think that any other company would have the programming skills, let alone the vision and passion, to take it on.’
Widgit is in safe hands now and is making headway with a number of improvements and new developments.
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Modern humans reached westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than previously known
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Modern humans arrived in westernmost Europe 41,000 to 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to an international team of researchers that discovered stone tools used by modern humans dated to the earlier time period in a cave near the Atlantic coast of central Portugal. The tools document the presence of modern humans at a time when Neanderthals were thought to be present in the region.
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A type of anti-bacterial T cells, so-called MAIT cells, are strongly activated in people with moderate to severe COVID-19 disease, according to a new study.
3D biometric authentication based on finger veins almost impossible to fool
Biometric authentication, which uses unique anatomical features such as fingerprints or facial features to verify a person's identity, is increasingly replacing traditional passwords for accessing everything from smartphones to law enforcement systems.
Despite high hopes, carbon absorbed by Amazon forest recovery is dwarfed by deforestation emissions
After calculating how much carbon had been lost through deforestation, scientists have discovered that, in more than 30 years, the regrowth of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon has offset less than 10 per cent of emissions from the loss of old-growth forests.
About 14% of cerebral palsy cases may be tied to brain wiring genes
Researchers confirm that about 14% of all cases of cerebral palsy, a disabling brain disorder for which there are no cures, may be linked to a patient's genes and suggest that many of those genes control how brain circuits become wired during early development. The results led to recommended changes in the treatment of at least three patients, highlighting the importance of understanding the role genes play in the disorder.
Genetic testing cost effective for newly diagnosed GIST
Researchers reported that genetic testing is cost-effective and beneficial for newly diagnosed patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a rare type of cancer.
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Navigating through life requires balancing emotion and reason, a feat accomplished by the brain region 'area 32' of the anterior cingulate cortex. The area maintains emotional equilibrium by relaying information between cognitive and emotional brain regions, according to new research.
Naked prehistoric monsters! Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted
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Evolutionary and heritable axes shape our brain
Every region has its place in the brain. However, it has been unclear why brain regions are located where they are. Now, scientists have defined two main axes along which brain regions are genetically organized, stretching from posterior to anterior and inferior to superior in the brain. These axes are mainly shaped by genes and evolution.
Looking at evolution's genealogy from home
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Complex interplay among cells guides them to where they need to go
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Clean air, clean water and a functioning ecosystem are considered priceless. Yet accounting for the economic value of nature has large implications for climate policy, a new study shows.
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An Open Letter to Christina Aguilera Exposing the “Dirrty” Secret She Doesn’t Want You to Know
Music April 10, 2013
I will never forget the moment you turned to me and asked sincerely “have you ever heard of a singer named Blossom Dearie?”
How I hoped to never have to go public with this, but your reluctance to embrace your true musical identity as represented by a series of misguided and utterly depressing CDs—Bionic anyone?— has really forced me to spill the beans. Let me me offer heartfelt apologies in advance for breaking your confidence and sincerely say, at the risk of sounding didactic, that I am doing this for your own good. You see, with the truth exposed you just might be forced to acknowledge that the bulk of your discography is an act of treason against the great artist you longed to be but are clearly afraid of becoming. Clearly the failure of these albums, a series of increasingly misspent efforts chasing radio trends with exponentially more lackluster results (made worse with each album’s concomitant and public announcement that the new collection “truly reflects your personal growth and authentic self,”) has not chastened you.
While I know it’s fun to be a TV star and spin around in your chair on the The Voice after six hours of hair and make-up, this strikes me as a betrayal of your tremendous early promise. For Stargayzing readers, permit me to tell the story from the beginning, which will make my motives clearer and, at the risk of sounding grandiose, might give you pause to consider that you are, in fact, standing at a creative precipice.
Christina, you may remember the first time we met was sometime in the early months of 1999. I was working for the great songwriter Diane Warren (who wrote I Turn To You for you, among others) and she took me along with a few other staff members to a party in your honor at your A&R guy Ron Fair’s house. Remember? You had finished recording your debut album and the party was celebrating that milestone and essentially sending you off into the world to become an international pop star. I remember clearly being so impressed when everyone crowded into a smaller room and you sang a few songs with just a piano, like it was 1948. You had real, true talent and were sweet, friendly to everyone. Everything about you seemed filled with promise.
At that point you had only had that one Adult Contemporary hit from Mulan (Reflections), and there was something completely lovely and utterly sympathetic about you. Of course, you did venture forth into the world and become a major pop star, first singing somewhat younger pop fare written by topnotch writers like the aforementioned Diane Warren, Steve Kipner, David Frank, and Pam Sheyne (Genie in a Bottle). The world did indeed seem to be yours for the asking.
I got to know you much better a few years later when you were married to Jordan Bratman who I knew through producer Dallas Austin. I would see you at parties and we would talk. Even though you were now really famous I still found you to be approachable and down to earth. If you remember, our most enjoyable outing was in the mid-aughts. In what I considered a major coup-celebre to help my then-boss, songwriter Denise Rich, I put together a dinner at Asia De Cuba restaurant at Le Mondrian Hotel for you, Jordan, Denise, myself, Stevie Wonder and his then-wife, clothing designer Kai Milla. Kai convinced Stevie to come because she hoped you would wear her clothes and you came because you wanted to have dinner with Stevie Wonder. Everything turned out fine except Kai was sick so it was just Denise, Stevie, me, you and Jordan.
The dinner was a bit awkward in terms of Stevie because you were a little shy and he is probably also shy which probably isn’t helped when you’re blind, so you and I ended up talking to each other for most for most of the dinner. I will never forget the moment you turned to me and asked sincerely “have you ever heard of a singer named Blossom Dearie?” This question was so unexpected and wonderful. I don’t think of younger singers as having any interest in pre-rock era pop music (I’m reminded here of the time Mariah Carey snorted “I know who Edith Bunker is” when I asked her if she was an Edith Piaf fan one day up at Diane’s studio), so I was fairly suprised that you knew who Blossom Dearie was. For Stargayzing readers who are unfamiliar, Blossom Dearie was a popular jazz/pop singer in the 1950s and 1960s who was closely associated with the original hipster movement of the time. She was adored by fans of good music for her very quirky, straightforward style both as a vocalist and as a piano player. A cabaret favorite until her death in 2009, Dearie was about the furthest thing away from the hip-hop flavored Can’t Hold Me Down that one could imagine. This is Blossom Dearie singing They Say It’s Spring, a side recorded in 1956 for her first Verve Record, the eponymous Blossom Dearie.
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After the Blossom Dearie revelation on that long ago evening, I realized that you were—musically speaking— an old soul, and our conversation about the American pop standards repertoire and great female vocalists was both animated and passionate. We name checked half of the great singers of the 20th century that night, didn’t we? In that moment, my respect for you grew exponentially—I felt like I was talking to an old queen at the Duplex or the Gardenia (or insert your local piano bar here), not a young pop star in her mid-20s—and the pleasant evening passed quickly. You never did speak to Stevie much.
To thank you for coming, the next day I went to Amoeba Music on Sunset and literally bought you 50 vintage jazz and pop albums from the 50s and 60s and sent them over to your house with a note encouraging you to explore your musical passion sooner than later and stop worry about having radio hits. In case you don’t remember, I remember saying that you would create a more important and lasting body of work if you were a credible, contemporary incarnation of a great pre-rock era pop singer than a mature woman chasing radio trends with a series of ridiculously expensive producers and dwindling record sales. Unfortunately you seem to have taken the latter path.
Certainly the fear of losing your younger audience and not getting on the radio has prevented you from exploring your musical inclinations any further than some of the cutesy retro stuff on Back to Basics (a misnomer) and completely overwrought covers of At Last (from the VH-1 Men Strike Back Concert) and A Song For You (from a Herbie Hancock duets album). But what of your clear interests in classic pop music?
Maybe now that you’ve established yourself on TV, you have money, and you’re a mom, you will realize that it’s not too late to rent Capitol studios and go in and record some of the great songs you love for a new generation. But my fear is that you are drifting irrevocably toward being more of a celebrity than a great singer, which is why I’m going public. The fact that on your last two hit songs, Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” and Pitbull’s “Feel this Moment” you have relegated yourself to incidental hook singer only solidifies my belief that you are musically lost. As you sang on one of the decent songs on Back To Basics, I’m trying to save you from yourself because only when you bravely stand up to the pressure to be hip will you actually become who you really are. If you take a chance, I feel certain that the world will reward you not only with a successful record, but something that has heretofore proven elusive: respect and the satisfaction of being regarded as authentic.
In case you need a reminder in a more familiar voice, here is the note you wrote me to thank me for all the vinyl, as well asa special musical reminder of our conversation). And for God’s sake, record those old Eartha Kitt songs already—ain’t no young auto tuned chickee gonna steal I Wanna Be Evil anymore (it should only happen!)
P.S. Don’t be mad. I didn’t want to do this, but Lotus pushed me over the edge!
P.P.S. Try to stop riffing so much. Your endless vocal runs are incredibly distracting and actually undermine your ability to convey the lyrics of a song (see Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, and—yes—Blossom Dearie for reference!)
Eartha Kitt’s I Want to Be Evil
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"A Song For You"
"At Last"
"Back To Basics"
"Can't Hold Me Down"
"Feel This Moment"
"Genie in a Bottle"
"I Turn To You"
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"The Voice"
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Blossom Dearie
Christina Aguilera "Bionic"
Christina Aguilera "Lotus"
Dallas Austin
Edith Bunker
Jordan Bratman
Kai Milla
Pam Sheyne
Ron Fair
Steve Kipner
The Duplex
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Christina’s rendition of “A Song for You” appeared on a duets album with Herbie Hancock, not Sergio Mendes.
Hey Kay Bee – You’re absolutely right. I’m correcting it now. Mea culpa and thanks David
As much as i understand that what you wrote is out of concern and love for X
I also understand that if you love and care about someone that much you’d let them be whatever they want to be, so accusing X of chasing after radio hits is clearly wrong since she does take chances with her music and pour her soul into it without any regard to what the market asks for.
I understand you knew her for a while but people change, and she did wonderful in back to basics in which she thanked and gave credit to all those idols in soul and jazz music.
I dont see why you would take the time to say that lotus is what pushed you to write this instead of actually listening to it, it is not made for radio it is not made for pure promotion, its made from her to us fighters, its a throw back to stripped its her embracing where shes at and if that is not what alot people think she should be then so be it., its her life her decisions so if she wants to sail away from old soul let her,if she wants dive in electronica let her, i see a true fan as a supporting person no matter what.
I appreciate ur support by showing interest in her work and taking time to write this advice for her u r clearly invested in X otherwise u wouldnt. Even bother but dont you think thats its up to her to be whom ever she wants to be and to do what ever she wants to do and not care what people think?
Your letter is much more of a statement about good times with X for a true fighter like myself than a path correction advice to a person with little interest in X because as everyone should see it X CANT be faulted for doing what she loves to do.
Hi Farah,
Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment.
My role here is cultural observer not president of a fan club. I have no interest in supporting artists no matter what they do—I’m not their father or spouse. Rather, I am interested in constructive criticism, shining a light on what I think is important, and following my own instincts about what is true. I am more interested in sharing what I’ve learned with my readers and having meaningful conversations about popular culture. Of course, you are completely free to disagree with me, I only ask my readers to observe basic ideas of being respectful to each other.
As for Christina she either will or will not pull herself out of this slump of sales and creative ennui and only time will be the ultimate arbiter of whether she succeeded or not.
Thank you so much for reading!
Sure he’s a friend! side eye roll! I have to say I want to see Christina Aguilera sing those classic songs since she’s the only who can cover those songs! Hope we see her sing those songs in the future!
Not sure what you mean in your first sentence, but I do sense some sarcasm! I do appreciate you reading the piece and responding. David
And her At Last cover was in VH1’s Men Strike Back, not Divas Concert (she was never invited to Divas Live:( )
Thank you for the clarification, I will correct the piece. I strive to be precise but sometimes I make mistakes. I think the essence of what I’m saying was well conveyed (I hope)! Thanks again. David
Thanks for sharing this. Maybe one day she’ll see the light.
Hi Sal. I certainly hope so. She is a great talent and a nice person. She deserves better than what she’s given herself. Thanks for reading.
Wow so much wrong info on here. I’m not even sure you were/are a fan. You know you love her songs Feel This Moment, and Moves Like Jagger too. There’s no problem being a so called hook girl. Rihanna’s great at it, and got 2 #1 singles doing so. Let X keep getting #1s that way. A #1 is a #1 no matter what.
Well let’s agree to disagree! A number one record is nice, but it has nothing to do with building an enduring body of work. Lots of folks who had number one records are completely forgotten today! For an exploration of this, check out my piece about Helen Reddy!
Thanks for checking in. David
Great read, I agree. Been a fan since “Reflection” and it’s sad to watch her become the “cookie-cutter” artist her record label always wanted–I guess they won. She was on a great path with Stripped & Back To Basics but ever since she got divorced there’s been a disconnect with her music (although the Burlesque soundtrack was a glimmer of hope). Aside from her personal life I suspect there has been record label disputes as well, so it’s hard to put the entire blame on her. I do hope she finds her musical passion again because she is truly one of the great singers of our time.
Hi RW. Agree completely, but being a really great singer is about more than having the pipes, it’s about knowing what to sing and honing your instincts about how to build a body of work. Without that skill the work, even if its successful in its moment (which recent Xtina albums certainly are not) is evanescent and is fated to be forgotten.
Thank you for checking in. I hope you’ll continue reading. Perhaps sign up for my monthly Stargayzing newsletter on my homepage or follow me on twitter (@stargayzingone). many thanks David
Amazing. So heartfelt. So much truth. Although, I would have left out that last P.P.S. – not because I disagree, but because she’s probably heard it many, many times before.
I get the sense that, at this point in her career, she is making music that will make her relevant to the masses again. Her brand has diminished quite a bit in just the last four years. It’s unfortunate, because she really is one of the most talented singers to ever grace pop music. And she looks beautiful, too.
I only hope that she actually reads this heartfelt letter from you. Bravo!
Hi Leo. I’m slowly working my way through the many comments I’ve gotten on this piece, which seems to really have struck a chord. I think your feedback is spot on, though I might disagree with your comment about my P.P.S. simply for this reason: I have observed over many, many years of working with entertainers and being fairly close to a number of them, that there is a shockingly low level of honest feedback within an artist’s inner circle. Quite the opposite actually. It seems like many people generally surround themselves with sycophants and others who are on the payroll. There is just something about power and success that seems to beget a real shortage of truth telling. Therefore, although my last comment might seem a bit harsh, I figured, wtf, it’s how I honestly feel and it’s only my opinion anyway.
Thank you for reading. I hope that you’ll stay in touch. Consider following me on twitter @stargayzingone and signing up for the monthly Stargayzing newsletter on the home page! Best wishes. David
How about no mention of her complete disconnect with her fan base or her complete hypocrisy over her “creative control?”
She promised Bionic was a futuristic album that would cross the boundaries of what we think of in terms of future. She had no limitations, no box to stay within and yet her definition of futuristic was rolling around in a bunch of dominatrix costumes? What a pure waste of working with a true talent like Alex Malka. That photo shoot and theme was an utter disappointment for all fans expecting a truly original and creative concept. I am one of Christina’s long time fans and was an unfortunate soul who was owed $700 from her canceled tour in 2004. I was fortunate enough to meet her at the B2B tour but after waiting years she promised a Bionic tour. Not only did she promise it was only being postponed she actually said it was so she could present her well deserving fans with a show of the caliber we expect from her. 6 months later she is blowing off mention of her Bionic tour and era as if it was yesterdays trash. Were our feelings ever considered? But of course we were patient because of all of her personal problems and lack of Bionics commercial success. Everyone convinced themselves she would come back stronger and better than ever for the next album. Instead she made a BFD about lotus and acted like it was such a masterpiece that truly reflected her growth as an artist and then gave yet another cliched album that sounds like everything out there today. Another chance for her to at least have a big dance hit like her peers and she cant even do that much! After hardly any promo and hardly any fan connections we stood patiently expecting her to tour (since she actually said out of her own mouth several times she would be touring for lotus) and then next thing we hear she pretty much says Lotus is done and over with and shes heading to japan for vacation (in the midst of her never ending vacation) So again her dedicated fans are left disappointed and wondering why they keep spending their hard earned money supporting this artist who doesn’t seem to even care rather they succeed or fail anyways.
In all my years as a fan, I have never felt this disconnected from her. Its like she has put a wall up and acts like she is too good for anything or anyone. She acts like her concepts are so creative but they are mediocre at best. What happened to the Xtina we came to love during Stripped and B2B? What happened to her soul, her hunger, her passion? If she just wants to be a celebrity/mom thats fine. Then she should just come out and say it. Not keep leading her fans on that she still has the drive and passion she always had and keep promising us quality music and tours that never happen.
Hi Rachael,
Wow, well I really hear your frustration. I think what your observing is very hard to process as it contradicts your impulses to be endlessly supportive to this artist whose work was so important to you. I am probably much older than you so let me share something that I have learned over the years in the business. Being super talented is only a piece of what makes someone a great or important artist when all is said and done. The other piece is having good instincts about creative choices, potential collaborators, and a strong and abiding sense of who you are. What I see in Christina is someone who is very frightened and uncertain. Fear is not a good place to making creative decisions as it compromises judgement. Additionally, when you are surrounded by sycophants and “yes” people who are endlessly telling you how great you are or otherwise in the thrall of your celebrity (which is, admittedly, a kind of aphrodisiac), the chances of you being bold are exponentially diminished.
Truth is Christina has squandered her potential to become a great live singer through a consistent lack of initiative. To be great live, you have to perform. You have to go out and do it and connect with people. Connecting with people is generally anathema to rich, frightened, celebrities. What you end up with is work that is seriously disappointing that cost way too much money.
If I were Christina, I would do a tour of small clubs with a combo to try out standards and connect with her fanbase. Then I would go into the studio with a producer and cut twenty songs, ten with a small combo and ten with an orchestra, and release it with a photo of her standing in a spotlight next to a piano. Old fashioned? Certainly. Authentic? Absolutley. Successful? We’ll see, but I suspect it would be.
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I agree with all of your points and I hope Xtina reads your open letter, but I can’t help myself from feeling a little sad that Christina isn’t good enough to you to be featured with the rest of your stars on the left.
Hi there! Of course she is good enough and that was actually on my to-do list over the weekend. You can’t imagine how hard it is keeping my blog completely up to date, typo free, social media etc. Whew, it’s exhausting. Have no fear! I hope you’ll stay in touch and consider following me on twitter @stargayzingone.com Thanks again David
I always felt she was an old soul, thanks for the article it’s such interesting insight into Ms. Aguilera’s musical tastes, I really hope she just does herself.
Hey Alex. I completely agree (obviously) and appreciate your taking the time to read and check in with me. I hope you’ll stay in touch. You can follow me on twitter (@stargayzingone) and maybe sign up for the stargayzing monthly newsletter on the home page of the blog. It would mean so much to me! David
I full Agree with this article/letter, but in a way i feel for Christina because regardless of the quality music she creates, shes always torn down.Its kinda a media hobby to tear her down, i mean music WAS always (post debut and up until Bionic) her labour of love, but whats the point of making it if the world does nothing but make a mockery of it ? Back To Basics was a great album,and critically accalimed but I mean Stripped is her defining Era and in my opinion one of the greatest and rawest albums ive ever heard, yet critically Kesha albums are better rated despite the general public loving Stripped more.get my point?
Hi Ashley. I hope you and anyone else who reads this doesn’t feel like I am tearing her down. There is an important distinction between constructive criticism expressed respectfully and malicious gossip. I am only interested in music—indeed that is the connection that I shared with Christina during the period of time that I knew her. I hope that she gets the message and hears what her fans are saying to her. Please feel free to sign up for the Stargayzing monthly newsletter on the home page and follow me on twitter @stargayzingone. I’d love to stay in touch. David
You know what David? You exactly wrote what i have been thinking for almost a couple of years.
It’s sad to admit, it’s completely true and i really hope that these words arrive to Christina.
I just hope that she comes backl doing her best, That she still loving music.
The Music industry plays a big role in this, and i am pretty sure that RCA is more worried about her weight then her music at the moment.
Making music has to be her priority because God had a project for her which was SINGING.
Bionic was completely wrong, and that few amazing ballads in it gone completely eclipsed.
Why it could be so difficult to understand that when you want to be to bizarre, original and extremly aggressive it means that Music is leaving you?
I completely accept this attitude from Lady Gaga, who “born this way”. Not for her. Everybody can change, but this is not a change, this is a desperate persuit of celebrity.
“When a door closes you have two choices: give up or keep going, let them shut you down or prove them wrong”.
I just wish her all the best, because i want to be sure that when i am old i can drink a good whiskey listening to her voice and enojoying my rest moments.
Ps: i am sorry for my english, hope the message is clear enough.
Hi Luca! Thank you so much for taking the time to read an respond – it means a lot. Yes, your English is quite good! I hope you will stay in touch with me. Maybe sign up for my newsletter on the home page or follow me on twitter @stargayzingone I appreciate hearing from you! David
Wow, just wow…. She really Reply you… Hand Write… wow!!! Thank u for recognizing her great job since day 0 till now! we all fighters hope she gets in her direction!! And we will always support her!! Greetings from Dominican Republic!
Hi Ariel! Yes, whatever else one might say about Christina, she was well-mannered! Not many folks take the time to send a personal thank you note any more. Thank you for reading. I hope you’ll sign up for my newsletter on the homepage so we can stay in touch. You can also follow me on twitter @stargayzingone
And who’s this? And why Christina should care about what he says of Lotus? This is ridiculously sad. What a sad person
Hi there. I’m sorry you disagree with my opinions but, at the risk of dignifying your comment by seeming defensive, I don’t think making judgements about character is a very nice response to having a difference of opinion. Can we respectfully agree to disagree without name calling? Thanks for reading! David
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Hi David. I think that what you wrote express exactly what every fan does.
I’m 21 years old, I grow up listening to her, I went trought all her “ERAs”.. and I can honestly say that I’m very sad about what’s happening.
I always supported her, as I will always do, because she was DIFFERENT. She didn’t have to “sell herself” doing silly pop-songs just for money, she was the one who said “that’s how music should sound”.. and now? She was the one people wanted to duet to, not that she has to duet with somebody to remember the world she still exists.
I believe that Lotus too has some “old christina’s kind of songs”. Like Empty words, light up the sky, songs which texts make you cry because you think “wow.. that’s exactly how I feel!!!!”
Her fans will always be here for her, even if,like us (I’m italian), we don’t see her doing a concert since a long time (I think was in 2002).. But I think that we deserve something more from her.. We always supported her, we always fighted like she teached us..We want as a gift to see our idol singing live in front of us, with us.
Sorry for my mistakes, but i’m not a native speaker!
Hi Serena,
Your english is great actually, I understand everything. I appreciate you taking the time to check in and share your thoughts. Please help spread the word and maybe Christina will find the courage to really find “her voice within”
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Really hope she read this. It’s harsh on some parts, but it’s sincere and she needs this right now.
I’m a fan of hers because she’s not just someone with a big voice. We see toons of that in reality shows like The Voice and American Idol, but Aguilera is a real talent. She has one of the most soulful and deep voices around and is also brave enough to take risks. She also has really greats references and influences, but we haven’t seen that in her recent work.
I don’t think Lotus is a total crap. For me it
I don’t think Lotus is a total crap. For me it’s an above average pop record but that feels quite disappointing for her truly potencial. She can be in the same spot that Justin Timberlake is right now: making music for the masses with authenticity and boldness just like the greatest pop idols from the past used to do. It only depends on her.
Hi Marius,
I agree with your comment. It would take real courage to make a record of standards, just as it did for Linda Ronstadt in ’83, Natalie Cole in ’91 and, believe it or not, Streisand in ’85. No one ever thinks this is a good idea until it happens and wins every award and puts the singer back at number one. Trust me, I’m old enough to have seen this personally over and over again!
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Thanks again Marius. Your feedback is great. David
After reading this, I felt an overwhelming feeling of sadness yet kind of a relief.
Ive always loved Christina and especially her music, but over the years some of her songs in the albums are questionable…”why did see include this in the album?” I want more of her soul and R&B style of music.
I too feel that the media tends to pick on her but I realize media is media and they can never change my view on how great of a person she is and an artist.
I totally agree with your constructive criticism and I wish I knew Christina and be able to have conversations with her like you did, tell her whats on my mind. I hope she does read this letter.
I wish I knew her well enough to have this conversation personally as well, but I no longer work for Denise Rich and she is no longer married to Jason, so my to real connections to her are gone. If I could have told her this over dinner I would have preferred it to blogging, believe me! I hope you’ll stay in touch. I have a monthly newsletter you can sign up with on the home page and you can follow me on twitter @stargayzingone.
I’m still hoping I will hear back from Christina directly on this one. I would like to recommend some producers to help her out of the musical rut she is in.
Thanks again Leslie
I Love This Women! <3
Me too. That’s why I took the time to write this!
I’m from germany and will turn 24 this year. I have been with Christina since “stripped”, she kind of raised me like a big sister I never had, being a role model to me in many different ways. I developed my taste of music just because she gave me so much inspiration, that’s why to me every song has a chance to reach me.
Christina even gave me important values which is why I carry her name on my back as a tattoo – and will never regret it.
So now I want to thank you for speaking out loud what I was thinking – she lost touch with what she really lived for and you can’t imagine how sad I am about this, she lost her voice within. I want someone close to her to take her hand,bring her to a jazz club and make her feel again, she needs to feel herself again,because that is what made her sing Nina Simones “I love you porgy” with so much love…another idea I had was to get her see a really good soul singer like Emeli Sandé – she has that personal tone and atmosphere that makes you shiver like I had it with Christina doing “at last” back then…but Christina prefers to see rhianna…what a pitty… but I will stay, no matter what,although it is hard, but otherwise I wouldn’t be a Christina-Fan…so David, any words to cheer me up?
Thank you for your passionate note. I have two suggestions. The first is to help spread the word to Christina about recording an album of standards. You can do that by making sure that other fans like you see my open letter to her. The more fans that speak to her about it the more she will feel confident enough to follow her heart musically. Feel free to share my letter with anyone you’d like.
The second thing I would recommend is to spend more time listening to the classic pop music that secretly inspires Christina, like Blossom Dearie and Eartha Kitt. To that list I would also add Nat “King” Cole, Julie London, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McCrae, Billie Holliday. I will be writing about all of them in the months coming up. I hope you’ll sign up for the newsletter on my homepage or you can follow me on twitter @stargayzingone. Thanks again for staying in touch Judy! David
DNNY
I think your way of thinking on the Christina-Issue is very well articulated, and I kind off envision what you really want/expect from her, but I’m kind off missing the point here, are you suggesting she does a cover/standars record? If so, you’re suggesting the swan song for a pop singer.
As a fan of hers, I must admit the whole Bionic / Lotus fiasco is nervewrecking for fans, but she has the final say on any of this matters, I sureley wouldn’t mind her being that “pre-rock vocalist” kind of type, but since you know her personally and know her catalogue, you know the woman has a taste for uptempo songs, and most of us fans, expect cool uptempo songs from her.
The thing is, she needs to believe in her work, as of today, I don’t believe nor think that she had her heart on Bionic nor Lotus, because of her reluctancy to promote both of them, Lotus had great pop potential and could’ve gone far up the charts both singles and album sales wise… I do not expect her to be the second coming of Nina Simone or the late reincarnation of Etta James, I just want her to get her stuff together, work on her vissions, and just be ready to do something that truly comes out of her heart and inspires her, if that thing is that jazzy 20’s, 30’s stuff you want her to do it’s fine, if it’s a full heavy metal album with pop orientation it’s fine too, the thing is that she has to believe in her work, not just throw us a pop album that fans will love and then see her walk out on us…
Hi there. I appreciate your comment and taking the time to share your thoughts. I’m not sure if you meant “swan song” in its actually meaning— a “farewell”. I think Christina doing a record of standards combined with new songs in that style recorded with a huge orchestra would in actual fact probably save her music career. Think about Linda Ronstadt’s “What’s New” for example, her album with Nelson Riddle from 1983, which was one of the biggest of her career. Carly Simon’s “Torch” is another example of an excellent standards record. Natalie Cole’s record label didn’t want her to record “Unforgettable” either back in 1991. Even if this proposed Christina record for some reason did not sell, which I can’t imagine frankly given the feedback I’ve gotten to this piece from fans as passionate as yourself, she would be respected for being authentic (these sorts of records always tend to get a lot of Grammy nominations too, btw).
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Thanks for answering :), well, as I said in my previous post, I’m good with whatever she comes up with, just as long as she believes in it, I’ve always considered that standards albums were the kind of records that stars like Barbra or Celine would be more likely to do, since they have lenghty careers, and since their orientation is the AC market, Christina does have a soft spot for AC but her main focus is on pop, and as you said it on your article, it may be wiser to swich lanes this time, however I do think that she should be leaning towards modern R&B, pretty much the stuff Beyoncé presented on her “4” album in regards of sounds and aestethics would suit lovely to Christina, mixed with a little bit of pop, because after all, Christina is a pop artist.
Nevertheless I hope she takes all the time she needs and finally work on something she wants as she said on a red carpet event, music has to come up “if it feels right”, I wouldn’t mind waiting 4 o 5 years, but it’s all up to her this time…
Hi there. Well “pop” is just a big umbrella term that means “popular”. There was certainly a time when standards actually was the pop music of its day. Truth is, Christina could make a standards album that’s very “her” combining different elements and influences. It would certainly be more truthful than most of her post-Back to Basics output. In reading the extensive feedback to this piece it seems like Christina has bigger problems than sub-par musical output, namely a real rift with her core fan base. This is a very dangerous problem for someone interested in career longevity and I hope that Christina is reads and heeds what people are saying here. Thanks for your feedback. David
TheEmanueleCastelli
Amazing letter David!
Very well said! I think the same… She disappoint me a lot over the last years and I’m a HUGE fan of her… Hope she’ll back “stronger than ever” with her own style!!!
Have an awesome WE!
Emanuele from Como (Italia)
Ciao Emanuele! Mille grazie. That is pretty much the extent of my Italian, but it comes from my heart! Please stay in touch. I have a monthly newsletter that you can sign up for on the homepage, if you haven’t already. I’m glad you enjoyed the piece about Christina and there will be much more that I think you will like over next few months. David
Awww, sooo cute! Thank you for your italian thanks… Probably my english isn’t good as your italian! I’ll enjoy your pieces!!! Subscribed!!! And let me tell… U r so sexy dude
Hi there. Well usually I’m happy if someone compliments my writing, so it’s very special that someone noticed my face! Thank you for subscribing LeLe xo
Hi Anabel,
Thank you for taking the time to read Stargayzing. You make some really interesting points and it means so much that you took the time to comment! I love the fact that YOU know who Eartha Kitt and Blossom Dearie are! I hope that you’ll stay in touch. You can follow me on twitter @stargayzingone or sign up for the monthly newsletter on the home page. Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts. David
Groovybeans
It’s truly disappointing when promise and talent give way to the commodification of mediocrity. You’ve captured that disappointment here. Great post, David.
Thanks Jeff! Much appreciated.
After reading this letter, I was almost in tears. I hate listening to the radio, watching music awards including the grammy’s because Christina isn’t there. This just seems impossible to comprehend because nobody compares to her. Her talent is immeasurable. It just brings me to tears to listen to all the hate that surrounds Christina. I have bought all of her albums and I credit her for saving my life through her music. ALL OF IT. I agree with this entire letter, I really wish her the best. I will always support her no matter what. I really hope that she can get back in touch with her musical identity. I honestly don’t care about her sales its the quality that matters and with that she will get acclaim she deserves. I hope she gets this letter and does not take it the wrong way. We all love her and support her! Christina your Fighters love you. <33
As I’ve mentioned in responses I’ve written to other comments, it seems like Christina has a bigger problem on her hands than shitty music, i.e. a disconnect with her most supportive fans such as yourself. Perhaps you would find it comforting to begin to explore some of the influences that Christina alluded to in her conversation with me and look for answers in the enduring music I referenced. You can begin with Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Blossom Dearie, and Carmen McRae. These are the singers that Christina actually identifies with emotionally, but I suspect she is terrified to really let that genie out of the bottle. She probably doesn’t have the courage to take that risk. The irony is that by not doing so she is gradually losing all credibility and short selling her early promise to become an artist who really took chances or, even worse, just being a celebrity or TV personality. Pity that. If you want more specific recommendations on what to listen to I would be glad to direct you.
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Zac Miller
I agree with everything you said, but I think that another one of her major problems is her voice deterioration, she has the best vocal tone since Ella Fitzgerald and Whitney Houston, but her lack of vocal technique is really damaging her voice and she’s just 31 years old!! She needs to learn how to to sing in her mix voice urgently or she won’t be able to sing in the next five years , which is really sad because she’s really talented. She really needs read to this!!
Hi Zac,
You obviously know a great deal about singing. I didn’t really get into that aspect of the issue, though I am in agreement with you. I did make an oblique reference to your point in my double post script when I criticize her endless runs and riffing. Mariah Carey is a great example of someone who screamed entire pieces of her vocal range away (see my Stargayzing piece “the deterioration of do, re, mimi” for more on that)
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The piece you write is not very accurate.
Mariah did not “scream” her range away. You can’t just look at a slideshow through time and determine the CAUSE of her vocal deterioration – that’s not how it works.
If you LISTEN to her voice, you can see her technical competence. When Mariah belted, it was resonant, and her flexibility illustrates the effortlessness in her utilization of that register. Her vibrato was extremely even. She placed her notes well (in the mask for lower notes and in the head for the upper belts) and her higher notes (an whistles) were on-key always. She struggles nowadays, but it’s not because of “screaming.”
What you CAN tell from Christina’s belts is that they are strained, vibrato-less and have this “choked” sound, and there’s that brittle edge that’s a sign of a raised larynx. Her head voice is often off-key, and her lower notes are foggy and unclear. Mariah’s low notes were supported by breath from her diaphgram – she actually sings her low notes with clear diction, Christina just breathes low, which is why it’s hard to understand her enunciations in the lower register.
I appreciate your enthusiasm and detailed perspective on this whole riffing business. (You might be interested in reading today’s post Melismania! The Art of Good Singing Has a Terrible Case of the Runs
While I don’t agree with all of your points (for the record, my feelings about Mariah’s voice were not shaped by watching videos as much as they were by being in the studio with her) I definitely agree with your conclusion. Differing opinions are beside the point — the conversation is really what matters.
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I don’t disagree that nowadays she may be particularly careless/lazy or whatever, but I honestly don’t blame her.
During the 90s, she was completely overworked, touring back-to-back, night-after-night, internationally. You can totally see that she was a completely different person at that point in time. Back then, Tommy Mottola really squeezed every drop from her. It all seemed to culminate to her breakdown in the early 2000s and her vocal decline – I think these two things were definitely connected. I mean, you don’t get straight #1s for a decade without putting that much effort in.
That’s besides the point though – she’s already left a huge legacy and made a huge dent in the industry. Yes, there will always be people abusing runs, but then again, there are always imitators who don’t live up to their predecessors. It’s not her fault that the AI generation don’t know how to use melisma effectively.
I do agree and can definitely see that she wouldn’t be able to name some of the people who you’re familiar with, but honestly, I don’t think that really matters. For one, we know that Mariah looks up to the likes of Aretha – she’s spoken reverently about her. However, I think her musicianship speaks for itself. Here’s an example: she doesn’t even know the lyrics to “Fly Me to the Moon” – there’s a Youtube clip where she’s sings – impromptu – with this lounge singer who’s singing this song and she cuts in with an improvisation that’s perfect connected to the song’s jazz scale, it’s meter and rhythm, creating coherent and complex musical ideas – all while making up the lyrics. See, I don’t think she really cares about name dropping because she knows who she is and what she’s capable of as a musician.
Again, I’m not even a huge Mariah fan, but I do respect her ability. I will concede, however, that she’s not everyone’s cup of tea and that there ARE better musical interpreters out there, like Aretha, Ella, and Barbra.
You make strong points and I appreciate the effort it took to share your thoughts. I hope you’ll keep reading the blog.
Pretty sure Blossom Dearie died in 2009.
She did Lauren. I’ve already corrected the text. Many thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing your personal experiences with xtina. It was a nice reminder of the potential we all saw when she was first on the scene.
I truly hope this open letter gets to her because the way she is going, she’s about to lose a die hard fan.
Bionic had a couple misses but overall I enjoyed the album. Lotus on the other hand, I found myself making attempts to convince myself that I liked it.
I hope we get to see the xtina full of potential, warmth and sincerity you had the pleasure of meeting. Not this trend chasing pop star with a lack of gratitude that leaves a terrible taste in your mouth.
I love xtina and love her music even more, but her personality and work ethic are such a turn off.
Holding on to a glimmer of hope though…
Hi Juan,
Sorry for the delay in publishing your comment. It fell through the cracks.
Although my little piece on Christina was extremely well-read, I don’t know if Christina herself read it, as I never heard from her or from anyone in her camp. At least my thoughts may have struck a chord with so many of her (frustrated) fans.
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First of all, you are so lucky to have actually gotten to meet and talk to the one and only Xtina. I really wish that she could see this open letter AND take a moment to read what her fans (including me) have to say about this.
I think she should definitely let go of RCA, it’s clearly not helping her at all. She is, without a doubt, one of the best vocalists of ALL time! I’m more than a fan, I’m a Fighter and a follower. Her music has helped me to come out of some pretty tough situations and just keep challenging myself to do better in everything. I honestly believe that Christina could do anything, sing anything … BUT, she has got to sing what she really loves. It’s only my humble and sincere opinion.
Mexico loves you Christina.
Hi Emmanuel! Thank you for checking in and for sharing your feelings. I hope you’ll stay in touch and keep Stargayzing with me! David
You said that there’s hardly any honest feedback within an artist’s inner circle and that people generally surround themselves with sycophants and others who are on the payroll, and so, that is why your comment is a bit harsh, but at least it’s honest, and for that, I do respect you, but- I was wondering… If you’re such good friends with Christina and proved it by showing us her ‘thank you’ note (though she tells you to keep it quite for the songs she plans to use eventually), why not tell her in person? I think she would appreciate your honesty better if you tell her your concerns rather than writting something so public and having others comment or criticize. As a friend, doesn’t that seem a bit underhanded- backstabbing?
Hi Ella,
First of all, thank you for taking the time to read and comment. I think you’re misunderstanding—I knew Christina for a period of time primarily through her ex-husband Jordan. I would love to talk to her directly but I don’t know her anymore and am, as they say, “out of the loop.” I would not say she and I were friends as much as acquaintances who shared common interests, as noted in my piece.
I would not categorize my comments as backstabbing—I am not saying anything personal about her character—rather just critical of some of her professional choices. I am not saying that she is a bad person, just that she is not following her heart musically. I think that my comments are actually quite loving and, if the feedback I’ve gotten on the piece is any indication, many, many of her fans are in complete agreement.
Thank you for reading Stargayzing! David
I never said that you were talking about her ‘personally’ I was just saying if you think her career choices were bad, to just tell her directly.
And what I meant about ‘backstabbing’ was because you claimed to have gotten along pretty good with her and, well I’m someone who when I have an issue with somebody or just to share my thoughts of concern I tell them. But since you lost touch with her, thats different, however, you knew her so there are other ways to get in touch with her. I didn’t mean to offend you or anything, it was just a question and opinion perhaps not what you wanted. And yes, your feedback was positive, but thats in agreement of your dislike of her choices not against me, so its got nothing to do with my question to you. But thats fine. So take care.
Beautiful letter!
Was she talking about Beyoncé and ”at last” when saying certain people stealing songs?
Hi Maggie,
Well she wasn’t specific about her ideas being stolen so I can’t really speculate. “At Last” has been recorded so many times that it would seem unlikely that anyone but Etta James would be entitles to have a proprietary feeling about it. The thing about standards is that they are always being recorded decade after decade, that’s why they’re called “standards”!
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I loved reading your open letter to Christina Aguilera and you definitely showcased a more personal side of her that the public never gets to see as revealed from your intimate conversations together. I’ve been a huge fan of hers forever. I think she is a music lover, bottom line.
One of the key components to her talent is her extreme versatility. She can pretty much sing in any genre you name. There are so many different opinions on what she “should” be doing musically. People tend to draw on the careers of other musicians and artists when trying to give her a blueprint to follow. However, she is blazing her own kind of trail. Christina has always been vocal about not being labeled or put into any kind of box and that goes for “music” too. As far as musical identity, it can be very limiting to her artistic ability and “safe” if she were to stay with one sound. Sure she named dropped some great musicians of past but she also surprised me with her knowledge of electronica and synth pop acts that either inspired her or she had the opportunity to collaborate with. She loves it all and it isn’t fair to restrict her to one sound. I like that she experiments. Some of it may be commercially appealing at times and some of it won’t but that’s the risk you have to take.
She tends to blur the lines between pop star, celebrity, musician, artist, singer and vocal talent. Let’s face it, being each one of these things affects how people think her music “should be”. For example, as a pop star she should be making commercially appealing music but then as an artist she should focus on a message in her songs however as a vocal talent she’d be better suited to singing ballads to showcase that voice. It’s a lot to live up to, being all these different things. Her career is still growing and there is so much we have yet to see. This personally always excites me as a fan.
I have to disagree on your dislike of the way she riffs. To each their own, I personally love all the runs and trills in her voice when she goes into a melisma. Having your own vocal sound is such a hard thing to pull off especially in the light of other vocal Divas like Whitney, Mariah and Celine. There’s a certain way she riffs that is instantly recognizable and a lot of up and coming artists try to emulate it nowadays. She’s done very will to put a stamp on her “Aguilerian” runs.
As far as conveying the lyrics of the song it depends on how you personally interpret it. I like to use “At Last” as an example. There are the tender vocals of Etta James original interpretation of the song and then there are the powerhouse vocals of Christina’s rendition. Some people may feel a more tender way of expressing their love as Etta did, while others are so happy they want to “scream it from the rooftops” in the way Christina does. It’s all in the interpretation.
Anyway, thank you though for this wonderful article and insight into her musically. Have faith in her! I think she knows what she’s doing! Even if it gets lost on others, I would just like her to pursue what’s in her heart and not what’s on other people’s minds.
Hi Sparky boy (a.k.a. “A”),
Thanks for your thoughtful response to the Christina Aguiera piece. While I appreciate your perspective though I definitely don’t agree with your thoughts about melisma in general and Christina’s “Aguilerian” vocal runs, (a great appellation, but one which has the unfortunate effect of imbuing a degree of seriousness upon them that I don’t believe they deserve). I suspect I might be a bit older than you and, with your indulgence, would like to take a moment to respond in some detail, stating in advance that this is just my belief and I don’t wish to impress it too forcefully upon anyone (okay, I just lied a little bit. I would actually love for you to read this and have a “vocal epiphany”, that’s why I’m a writer).
For the record, here is my opinion about riffing which was shaped over many years of listening to pop and R&B and working with of few of the greats: melisma only impresses me when it serves the singer’s ability to convey the meaning of a lyric and evoke an emotional response in the listener. At the end of the day, or recording session, the only thing that matters is the singer’s skill at communicating. Or as Natalie Cole said to me once in the studio, “to make a musical point.” It is my opinion that singers who riff constantly are not interpreting the lyrics and the only “musical point” they are making is that they’re ears are not very sophisticated. Constant or reckless riffing undermines the piece of being a singer that has to do with acting ability, creating a character, etc. (For more on this, perhaps read my recent review of jazz singer Annie Ross, a much older woman who compensates for reduced vocal agility with outstanding acting skill).
While I understand that on the surface, vocal runs can be exciting (even thrilling when they are well executed), for the most part they are, in fact, a terrible distraction from the business of communication and quite poorly executed. Chronic riffing is so prevelant because this is what younger people think is indicative of good singing. “Chronic riffing” does like a condition and I do wish there was a remedy. For every singer that is skillful at melisma, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder to Celine Dion and beyond, there are literally millions of kids who grew up in malls who sound like they have Parkinson’s disease. To expand on my point, I would suggest that any young aspiring singer go back to the greats and study: from Mahalia Jackson (a gospel singer who did not riff, imagine that?), to Gladys Knight (a classic soul great who riffs minimally but strategically and can easily break your heart), to Luther Vandross (the greatest R&B crooner of his era who also riffed minimally and only when it served the song), to Barbra Streisand (the singing movie star who exemplifies that holding one note can be more thrilling than running through 88), great singing has never been strictly about melisma.
To give you some historical perspective, this cultural fetish for vocal runs only began in earnest when Mariah Carey exploded around 1990 and begat the hellish legacy we live with today, with millions of clueless children riffing like some zombie vocal apocolypse, completely unbothered by the knowledge that there was ever a time when the perception of good singing was ever anything more emotionally resonant. Of course this was only exacerbated by what I witheringly refer to as “American Idol Syndrome,” wherein judges appear to validate this approach to the unilateral undermining of the art of good singing. Singing judges on T.V. shows are frequently chosen because they are “good T.V.”, not good singers. Though ostensibly experts, these individuals in actual fact range from studio singers (Mariah Carey) to people who are all but tone deaf (Jennifer Lopez), or just hot messes (guess). For more on this, I recommend reading the coverage of when Harry Connick Jr. lost his temper when he was a guest mentor on “Idol”).
I appreciate your opinion and especially how respectfully you acknowledge those who feel differently (a classy and unique touch nowadays, don’t you think? While we all love what we love, I encourage everyone to always be expanding what you listen to…stretch a bit. If you love Christina (and let me be clear that I think she is very talented and, at least in my interaction with her, a likeable person), go back and study early Aretha Franklin (particularly 1967-1974). Go boldly into the past, it holds incredible treasure for those who take the time look. It is the foundation of Stargayzing’s philosophy and has personally served me well throughout my career.
Thank you again for taking the time to read and respond. It’s very gratifying and makes all of the hard work worth it. Did I already encourage you to sign up for the newsletter on the home page?
Warmly…and with my sincere hope that you discover the joy of a gloriously sustained note,
She oversings her riffs and doesn’t sustain notes because she CAN’T. When have you EVER heard her sing anything above a C5 without straining like holy hell? Face it, you want her to be Ella or Aretha, but she doesn’t have that kind of voice or technique – she far more limited vocally. Her runs are a crutch, and she KNOWS that she can use them to her advantage – to distract her audience.
Comparing her to Barbara is a bit a stretch, because Barbara unbelievable control over her voice – something Christina wishes she had. It’s a joy listening to Barbara’s vibrato, yet I rarely hear Christina utilize vibrato while belting high notes – probably because it’s hard to do with a raised larynx.
Anyhow, runs are not the problem. Whitney and Mariah (in their primes) had runs that were placed perfectly within the structure of the song. Say what you will about what Vision of Love spawned within others, Mariah herself was always on point when it came to her melisma. Her runs were always rooted in the chord progressions, and she can do it in any meter, during any interval, with a variety of vocal colors, and it always has a place to go and sets up a spot for the next phrase.
Overall, there are many people who riff tastefully, Christina is not one of them – she just throws her voice around.
I agree with everything you said. She is an amazing singer, of course her voice has ” flaws” like some people might say but I think it’s because she IS NOT on her comfortable zone.
I have to say, she is INCREDIBLE TALENTED, and as she said, “when I sing my whole heart comes out”. Nowadays, inside of music industry it’s rare to find a song that the singer has his “whole heart” on it. It’s seems to me it’s all based on sex, drogs and being party all the time.
I understand her message on “Bionic”, it’s feminist, dancing and catchy but Christina Aguilera is more than that.
Lotus is COMPLETELY out of her TRUE passion, it was made for sell and probably made without her “heart”. She simply can’t denied that she has lost her way.
I can see that she has something different when compared with other artist, she knows how to sing and performing, so I beg – please my dear Christina, sing your true soul, and don’t be afraid of losing “fans”or losing position on Billboard top, because real fans will understand what good music is about. I’m only 17 and I enjoy listening to Nat King Cole, Etta James, Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington and the list goes on… Christina Aguilera talent is being wasted.
David, I really appreciate the work you do, please keep sharing your toughts.
Ana, from Portugal 🙂
Hi Ana. Thank you so much for reading my blog and sharing your thoughts with the community. I hope you’ll stay in touch. Happy holidays. David
Heartfelt and Sincere. David, you’re spot on with your musical advice. I picked up that same vibrational energy from her. My strong belief is that she’ll get there. It’s her destiny and she knows that. It’s nice that you cared enough to put yourself Out there at the risk of much criticism. You know that Music is always changing just like the “wheel in the sky keeps on turning” 😉 and I think it’s incredible that you touched on the spirituality of her situation. She must be an amazing person for you to write this. She has been selected to influence masses of people with her brilliant angelic archy voice and I truly believe that she will follow her star eventually. She must be aware that she is indeed an old soul and is likely in the process of her acceptance of it and her journey ahead. The saying goodbye to the old life and what is safe cause its all ya know, is Not always easy. The internal process is grueling for both her and her fans and friends because of expectations from fans and excited anticipation from close friends/family of what they know is her best yet to come.
She’s shedding off old skin and when it’s officially all off, I have a feeling that you’re gonna be sitting having laughs again! <3
I don't know her. I liked your blog and got what I like to call torets so I wanted to comment and let you know, you're not out of line. Very supportive. Hope the doll read it.
Hi Madalyn,
I so appreciate your thoughtful comments. I think you really felt my intention which makes me so glad, as some felt I was attacking her (though many even diehard fans appreciated my approach and shared my sentiments).
I’ve mentioned it before but it merits restating, that her performance with Great Big World on “Say Something” was, at least for me, a stunning return to form: completely straightforward, elegant, understated, and highly emotive. It truly showed what she is capable of doing when she just pulls back and gives herself some room to feel. All of the riffing and runs take up the space where acting the lyric should go. I’m not saying a singer should never riff but, as Natalie Cole says, it should be to make a musical point—a choice.
I could say a lot more about this and will in future posts. I hope you’ll stick with the blog and let me know your thoughts about what you’re feeling. I have a monthly newsletter that you can sign up for on the home page that will make it super easy to keep up with my writing.
thanks again for chiming in. It made my day.
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SHIFT Theatre: Closer
SHIFT Theatre presents Patrick Marber’s sharp and brutally honest play, Closer, from November 8 to 17 at The Cultch. The play grapples with the complexity of modern relationships by following the intertwining, colliding love lives of four young adults residing in London. This will be SHIFT’s first full season, and the young company is proud to launch it with this 1998 Oliver award winner for Best New Play.
“Closer is an enormously important play – a kind of modern classic that articulates the unspoken experiences of a generation,” says Nick Sartore, Artistic Managing Director of SHIFT. “We first explored the work through The Closer Variations – a deconstruction that played with political and psychological themes. It only made sense that its rich, fascinating source materials should constitute SHIFT’s first ever full-length play.”
Directed by Adam Janusz, the show’s narrative revolves around a love quadrangle, in which lust, love, and the responsibilities that accompany relationships are mashed together with brutality. The play’s characters include Dan (Troy Cherkowski), a writer; Alice (Lara Rova), a waitress; Larry (Christian Sloan), a doctor; and Anna (Alexis Kellum-Creer), a photographer.
The story follows the foursome over the course of several years as they date, deceive, manipulate, reject, and love one another. The culmination of their experiences is a profound commentary on the complexity of modern relationships, the entitlement of a generation, and the rending harm that can come from complete honesty in romance.
One of Vancouver’s most dynamic emerging collectives, SHIFT Theatre has built a reputation for curiosity, open-mindedness, and a willingness to experiment in its works, most popularly through its annual 1-Act Festival.
Dates: November 8 to 17
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Season Preview: Boys’ indoor track clearing hurdles as it improves
December 22, 2017 By Nate Rollins, Express Sports Correspondent
Head coach Mike Driscoll has several newcomers on his hands this winter.
The Whitman-Hanson Regional High boys’ indoor track team looks much improved from last winter.
Why? Well look at the club’s first meet of the season against Hingham. After falling to the Harbormen, 63.5 to 36.5, last December, the Panthers, who finished last season with a 2-3 record, hung tough this time around as they were just edged out, 57-43. Sixth-year head coach Mike Driscoll credits the performances of a few of his seniors — Brian Edwards, Brett Holmes, Andrew Newman and Jack Ryan — as a big reason why they were able to hang around.
“All had outstanding meets,” Driscoll said. “The last couple of years Hingham has really destroyed us, and this year we took them down to the wire. I think we surprised them a little bit. We didn’t win, but we at least proved we’re capable of winning track meets this year.”
On the ground, Ryan, who is one of two Panthers captains, raced to a first-place finish in the 600-meter dash with a time of 1:30.45, and was a member of the 4×400 relay team that also took home first. Newman completed the 2-mile run in 10:35.44, which was nearly 30 seconds better than opponent, for the win.
Edwards, who is also a captain, spearheaded the Panthers’ high jump with a 5-foot-7 leap, which earned him the top spot. Holmes, a senior and first-time indoor track participant, took his talents to the long jump and he shined with a first-place finish courtesy of a 20-foot-10 ½ jump. Both were on the 4×200 relay team as well.
“I would say right now our strength will be our jumps,” Driscoll said. “Brian Edwards is one of the better high jumpers and Brett Holmes came out for indoor season [and] he’s one of the top long jumpers in the state, so those areas will be huge for us.”
Holmes is one of several newcomers Driscoll said he will be relying on to shore up one of club’s weak spots — sprinting.
“We needed to improve in the sprint area,” Driscoll said. “That was a big thing for us last year, we needed to get some more sprinters and depth. We got Brett Homes to come out for winter track for the first time, Billy Martell and Jacob Nixon, three sprinters who we didn’t have last year on the winter team and they’ve been a huge addition to our team.”
The Panthers will be back in action on Friday, Jan. 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center against Pembroke.
“We want to have a winning season, we think it’s obtainable, it’s going to be tough, but we want to have a winning season and we want to have success every meet, so we measure it on how we improve,” Driscoll said. “Everybody’s different in track, it has an individual aspect to it, but it’s also a team thing, so the individuals are looking to improve to help the team to get a victory.”
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2019 Spreydon Ward candidates
Councillor and Community Board candidates for Spreydon Ward.
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Melanie COKER
The People's Choice - Labour
My principal place of residence is in the Spreydon Ward area.
I am the current Deputy Chair of the Spreydon- Cashmere Community Board. I have a PhD in biochemistry and have been a research scientist for 10 years. I also have business experience as the director of my own education company AHeadStart Ltd.
While elected I have assisted residents to establish local community groups, and helped to retain community facilities such as the Hoon Hay Community Centre. I have also encouraged diversity and participation in local democracy, especially with a focus on our young people.
Council needs to get the basics right, including fixing footpaths and repairing roads. Financial prudence in decision-making is essential.
My top priorities for Council include pure drinking water with reliable infrastructure; accessible parks and recreational facilities; clean, healthy waterways and ecosystems; planning for climate change; and reliable and safe travel for everyone.
Your vote will enable me to continue to support and advocate for our community.
Scott ESDAILE
Born and bred in Christchurch I'm a passionate advocate of this city. Public service runs in my blood - my great grandfather was former Prime Minister Richard Seddon. I believe actions speak louder than words and will act quickly when necessary. This led me to organise March to Save Our Water, attended by over 5000 people, and the Remembering Those That Lost Their Lives on March 15 vigil, which drew over 40,000 people. As a father to a young son, protecting our precious drinking water, ensuring it is there for future generations, remains an issue of importance. Working for a local roading company gives me a down to earth, practical hands on focus. I believe I bring to Council a young, fresh approach including strong communication skills, leadership, integrity, accountability and a great deal of positivity to take this city forward.
Peter GATONYI
My principal place of residence is not in the Spreydon Ward area. I am also standing for the Spreydon Ward of the Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board.
I work and live in the area as a maintenance contractor and film maker. I have been happily married 12 years and am passionate about this city.
These are my priorities if I have the honour of becoming the next city Councillor for Spreydon.
Roading: Taking 20 years to get our roads back to pre quake condition is unacceptable. This must be the councils number one priority.
Rate rises: I think rates are getting to high and not enough attention is being paid to spending. If the forecasted rises go ahead it will cause real hardship.
Chlorine: I think the council acted on bad information when they put chlorine in our perfectly good drinking water.
The sooner it's out the better.
Parking: I would like to see more parking in the inner city. Especially the free/cheap kind.
Please contact me anytime ysteriswhat@hotmail.com 0226396727
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My principal place of residence is not in the Spreydon Ward of the Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board area. I am also standing for Spreydon Ward Councillor.
I am standing for the position of community board member in the wonderful community of Spreydon.
I was raised in this area and attended Somerfield primary, South intermediate and Cashmere high.
I work in Christchurch as a maintenance contractor and film maker and writer. In these roles I am out in the community talking to people. I think I know what people want and what their concerns are. In my film making role I have had the opportunity to work with many different community and charity groups.
I am motivated to run because I have a fundamental belief in the democratic ideal. I believe the job of a community board member is to facilitate what the community wants and not impose my beliefs.
Please join me on Facebook Peter Gatonyi For Council - Spreydon Ward
Send me an email ysteriswhat@hotmail.com
Or phone 0226396727
Tubby HANSEN
A Bus for Somerfield
My principal place of residence is in the Spreydon Ward of the Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board area. I am also standing for Christchurch Mayor and the Canterbury District Health Board.
We used to live in Holcolme Place, off Studholm Street towards the river, and I caught the bus on Somerfield Street to the Square. People now want to go to Barrington Mall for their grocery shopping so I will advocate for Bus 45 to go along Somerfield Street, both ways, to the exchange, and also to Barrington. We need traffic lights on Cashmere Road at Hoon Hay Road, and also Cashmere Road and Hendersons Road before someone gets killed.
We need a cycle lane through Selwyn Street Village which can be done by taking 12 feet off the Unbuilt on land on the west side of Selwyn Street. I cannot see the proposed shops on the west side be economic on that, only the War Nan fish and chip shop, the Sewing Shop, and Selwyn Dairy. It would be better to build a rest home on the site.
Karolin POTTER
The People's Choice
My principal place of residence is in the Spreydon Ward of the Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board area.
I am the current chair of the Spreydon Cashmere Community Board and I work hard. I have all my life been active in support of a society inclusive of old and young, new and born Kiwis and equality of opportunity for all.
On the community board, I initiated a programme to get sports gear out of peoples' wardrobes and into the hands of children who can't afford to buy it. I have advocated for indigenous flora and fauna, that will endure through climate change. I have consistently supported initiatives for clean clear water, housing for those in need, public transport that is economical and environmentally sound and access to buildings, transport and jobs for people with disabilities. I want the next council to prioritise climate change, environmental issues and restricted rates increases. I have personally always wanted free access to swimming pools for kids.
Callum STEWART-WARD
I am asking for your support to represent Spreydon on our community Board.
I went to school at Hoon Hay Primary and Manning Intermediate. I now live on Parlane St, near Lincoln Rd. With a degree in Mechatronics Engineering, I work at Deloitte as an analyst. Previously I worked as a teacher aide at Addington Te Kura Taumatua.
In a rapidly changing world, I am a firm believer in young people and community led decision making. Last year I helped to build an urban farming start-up in Addington, and volunteered extensively as a youth mentor.
This year has been difficult for our city, especially our Muslim whänau. I am proud of how our community responded to hate, and I am committed ensuring that every person in our community knows that they belong.
I am standing for our young people, clean water, public transport, inclusion and a board that listens.
This candidate information has been compiled under the Local Electoral Act 2001. The Act provides than an electoral officer is not required to verify or investigate any information included in candidate profile statements and is not responsible for the accuracy of the information contained in such statements.
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Airbus sign Partnerships with three Indian startups
Airbus subsidiaries NAVBLUE and Aerial have signed contracts with three Indian startups, accelerated at Airbus Bizlab India, to power cutting-edge technologies that will help usher in new industry benchmarks in aeronautical data services, flight operations and imagery services.
NAVBLUE signed up Bengaluru-based Stelae Technologies to enhance aeronautical data services quality and consistency while enabling faster introduction to the market of the next generation fully data-driven and connected EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) solution. NAVBLUE also extended its agreement with EFLIGHT with the aim of providing a comprehensive service solution to the Indian business aviation market.
The third agreement was signed between Airbus Aerial and Navi Mumbai-based Airpix for a joint go-to market in India to provide geo-analytic solutions and imagery services in the country.
The agreements mark the successful culmination of Season 3 of Airbus BizLab’s start-up acceleration programme TAKE OFF 2018, which seeks to bolster the Indian government’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Startup India’ initiatives. The latest partnerships are in addition to those that Airbus signed with Bengaluru based start-ups – Neewee and EFLIGHT in February 2018.
“For the last couple of years I have been convinced with the potential and the quality of entrepreneurs in India. I am pleased to see that all these partnerships between Airbus and Indian startups are proving me right,” said Bruno Gutierres, Global Head, AirbusBizLab.
Bizlab is a part of Airbus’ innovative strategy to bring together start-ups and Airbus “intrapreneurs” to work and speed up the transformation of their innovative ideas into valuable businesses. It has a community of over 2000 B2B start-ups from India, South East Asia and Israel. Through its six-month “acceleration programme” for start-ups and internal projects, Airbus Bizlab gives access to a large number of coaches, experts and mentors in various domains that help start-ups and internal projects speed-up the transformation of their ideas into valuable businesses.
As part of the TAKE OFF programme, Airbus BizLab will sponsor two travels to Europe for Indian start-ups in a period of six months as well as fund up to 50,000 euros to them for the demonstration of proof of concept.
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Well its that time of year again when Illionois’ own D Lister anti-gay leader Porno Pete LaBarbera gets to pack his assless chaps and camera and takes a paid vacation to San Francisco and cruises the attendees of the Up Your Alley Fair, (Dore Alley) the smaller version of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair that precedes the main event by two months.
LaBarbera writes at his anti-gay propaganda website Americans for Truth About Homosexuality:
I was curious to see what out-and-proud San Francisco was like AFTER the city council passed its 2012 “public nudity ban”–which, curiously enough, exempts massive street fairs celebrating nudity and perversion. (This is San Francisco, after all.) So I ventured out to the world’s most sexually deviant city last weekend (Sunday, July 27) to cover its annual “Up Your Alley” street fair, also called “Dore Alley“–put on by the same proud perverts (er…sadomasochistic “leathermen”) that annually stage the notorious Folsom Street Fair. Organizers of the “Up Your Ally” fair call it “Folsom’s Dirty Little Brother,” which, considering Folsom’s unbridled debauchery, is quite a recommendation for boundary-defying libertines and tourist gawkers who are there for the freak show. I saw more exposed penises and butts in a few hours at the Up Your Alley fair than I’ve seen in a lifetime, or so it seemed–and that includes diaper-changes for my five kids! It got real old, real fast (and note the sartorial conformity of the proud sex rebels!). Of course, deviance begets deviance, so it makes sense that the immoral, perverse and once-taboo behavior of homosexuality would be disproportionately associated with various other sexual and gender perversions–including exhibitionism (a paraphilia). Think about it: if it’s OK to be a “proud” homosexual, why not be a proud exhibitionist? Or a proud sexual sadist? Or even a proud “slave”? Did you know that there is a special flag for “Leather Pride”? (It’s black and blue–no joke.) Moral Relativism 101 in action.
LaBarbera who was nicknamed “Porno Pete” by Wayne Beesen of Truth Wins Out years ago because of his bizarre fascination with naughty gay magazines and his penchant to go “undercover” at leather events and photographed more naked men has been to more gay sex related events than I have and has had every one of them financed with money from anti-gay bigots.
Perhaps I should start a bogus anti-gay hate group to fund this blog and a trip to Folsom Street fair.? It works for Ms. LaBarbera.
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malibujd44 says:
When will this idiot admit that he is a mega-mega-closet case!!!?!??! He is more of an expert on gay guy sex (especially bdsm) and voyeurism then any any any gay man I know and I know and have been with a few thousand in my day. I have been a well paid whore for over 30 years servicing mostly married men whos wives treat them like crap. (its not cheating if a man sucks you off you know)
This guys needs to be kidnapped, then strapped down to a nice bed and given a blow job every half hour for a couple days so he can see what hes been missing. Then he needs to suck on a few dicks and see how wonderful that is then get a butt plug shoved up his ass thrown in a van naked, handcuffed, flogged, spanked and whipped and then dropped off in the center divider of the 405 freeway in Westwood, CA at 9am. That might finally shut this freaky perv up for good. He seems to have been wanting it and actually craving it and no doubt wet dreaming about it for years and years so lets give him what he wants. You know what they say about those who doth protest to much…..
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Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale: think of DNA spirals, the fact that the human heart is positioned on the left, our preference to use our left or right hand … A team from the Institute of biology Valrose (CNRS/Inserm/Université Côte d’Azur), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, has shown how a single protein induces a spiral motion in another molecule. Through a domino effect, this causes cells, organs, and indeed the entire body to twist, triggering lateralized behaviour. This research is published in the journal Science on November 23, 2018.
Our world is fundamentally asymmetrical: think of the double helix of DNA, the asymmetrical division of stem cells, or the fact that the human heart is positioned on the left … But how do these asymmetries emerge, and are they linked to one another?
At the Institute of biology Valrose, the team led by the CNRS researcher Stéphane Noselli, which also includes Inserm and Université Cote d’Azur researchers, has been studying right–left asymmetry for several years in order to solve these enigmas. The biologists had identified the first gene controlling asymmetry in the common fruit fly (Drosophila), one of the biologists’ favoured model organisms. More recently, the team showed that this gene plays the same role in vertebrates: the protein that it produces, Myosin 1D,1 controls the coiling or rotation of organs in the same direction.
In this new study, the researchers induced the production of Myosin 1D in the normally symmetrical organs of Drosophila, such as the respiratory trachea. Quite spectacularly, this was enough to induce asymmetry at all levels: deformed cells, trachea coiling around themselves, the twisting of the whole body, and helicoidal locomotive behavior among fly larvae. Remarkably, these new asymmetries always develop in the same direction.
In order to identify the origin of these cascading effects, biochemists from the University of Pennsylvania contributed to the project too: on a glass coverslip, they brought Myosin 1D into contact with a component of cytoskeleton (the cell’s “backbone”), namely actin. They were able to observe that the interaction between the two proteins caused the actin to spiral.
Besides its role in right–left asymmetry among Drosophila and vertebrates, Myosin 1D appears to be a unique protein that is capable of inducing asymmetry in and of itself at all scales, first at the molecular level, then, through a domino effect, at the cell, tissue, and behavioral level. These results suggest a possible mechanism for the sudden appearance of new morphological characteristics over the course of evolution, such as, for example, the twisting of snails’ bodies. Myosin 1D thus appears to have all the necessary characteristics for the emergence of this innovation, since its expression alone suffices to induce twisting at all scales.
The molecular motor Myosin 1D creates asymmetry at all levels, from the movement of actin molecules (red and green filaments) to respiratory trachea (white tube-like structures), to the organism itself (here a Drosophila larva).
© Gaëlle Lebreton (photo) - Stéphane Noselli (montage) / iBV / CNRS
This video shows the movement of a normal larva (left) and a larva expressing Myosin 1D in its normally symmetrical epidermis. Whereas the normal larva crawls linearly, with its ventral side in contact with the liquid, the modified larva is twisted and moves via directional “barrel rolls.”
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1. Myosins are a class of proteins that interact with actin (a constituent of cell skeletons or cytoskeletons). The most well-known of them, muscular myosin, makes muscles contract.
Molecular to Organismal Chirality is induced by the Conserved Myosin1D, Gaëlle Lebreton, Charles Géminard, François Lapraz, Serapion Pyrpassopoulos, Delphine Cérézo, Pauline Spéder, E. Michael Ostap & Stéphane Noselli. Science, 23 November 2018. DOI : 10.1126/science.aat8642
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The Government has recently published a white paper called “The Natural Choice: Securing the Value of Nature”, a bold paper outlining a number of their goals and visions for the environment over the next fifty years. This is especially significant since it has been twenty years since the last Government White Paper. The main point made in this White Paper was that all of us play a role in maintaining our environment, and that we must all work together to ensure the goals are met. This White Paper indicates that the Government understands how important it is to maintain and support our local ecosystems.
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Citizens – We rely on our natural systems so we should therefore be more aware of them and look after them. Citizens should have access to local green spaces, and give back by shopping sustainably and using water more sustainably.
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Local Authorities – To improve local communities and people’s health and well-being by providing green spaces to people in the community without further straining budgets. Local authorities will be given more rights to protect and maintain new green spaces. This will be supported by the government.
Farmers and Landowners – Over 70% of English land is farmed, but the Government understands that it is hard to increase food production whilst looking after the environment. Nature Improvement Areas and Local Nature Partnerships will encourage land managers to work with local authorities to protect the environment. The Government want to work in a close partnership with farmers and land owners and significantly reduce usage of peat in farming.
Schools – Teaching from a young age how important it is to understand the important of nature and “Ecosystem services” (our benefits from nature). Understanding how the ecosystem provides services, regulates services as the result of natural processes, and plays a cultural and supporting role in our lives.
Environmental Organisations – Working to encourage everyone to value and appreciate the environment and everything it provides. Conservation charities have huge support in the UK, with millions of members. The Government wants to work in partnership with conservationists and create National Improvement Areas. They will provide financial support to do this. They also want to do a number of other things to support the environment, including calling for a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy to make it more environmentally friendly.
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The Eagles visited Oakland this afternoon coming off two straight losses and with a bit of desperation in the air. After scoring just 10 points in their last two games, the Eagles offense erupted for 49 points in a record day by quarterback Nick Foles.
Foles hit Brent Celek for a 2-yard touchdown 10 minutes into the game and the Eagles had taken the lead, one they would not relinquish all game. After the first quarter ended with Philadelphia leading 7-3, the Eagles broke out in the second quarter, behind three more touchdowns from Foles.
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Foles wouldn’t slow down after the break, throwing for three more touchdowns in the third quarter, one each to LeSean McCoy, DeSean Jackson and Riley Cooper. It would round out a historic day for Foles, as he tied the record for most passing touchdowns in a single game with seven before being lifted in the fourth quarter.
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Not to be forgotten in the historic offensive outburst was the continued solid play by the defense in the past month. The Eagles defense held Oakland to just 20 points, their fifth consecutive game allowing 21 points or less.
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The Eagles will next head to Green Bay to face off against the Packers. It will be a true test to see just how far the defense has come since that week 4 pounding at the hands of the Broncos, as Philadelphia attempts to get back to .500 on the season.
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Learning from Christie and Brewer How to Confront the Problem
Daniel Greenfield July 10, 2010
The most important lessons for the Republican party aren't coming from any of the retired politicians doing their speaking tours right now. They come from two sitting governors, Governor Christie of New Jersey and Governor Brewer of Arizona. And what they're doing is very simple. They're confronting the problem.
When Christie won an election, like so many other state governors he was thrust into the middle of an impossible budget nightmare, which was full of impossible problems. State budgets had been bulked up by entitlements and their attached public sector unions. Cutting them meant a battle with the unions. But not cutting them meant serious tax hikes. Most governors chose to walk some kind of middle path, negotiating with the unions with the least political fallout, and raising taxes, to create a compromise that everyone hated.
But Christie made the rational calculation that he had nothing to lose by taking on the unions, because they would reliably come out against him during reelection anyway. And if he didn't take them on, he would have to shoulder the blame for a budget crisis that he had nothing to do with. So while neighboring New York's state government was trying to tiptoe around a complete shutdown over budget talks, New Jersey's new governor took the initiative and picked a fight with the unions, turning them into the villains in the budget crisis.
Unlike Schwarzenegger who had tried the same thing in California a few years too early before buckling under the response in response to his failed referendums, Christie benefited from better timing and from voters being able to directly connect the teacher's union to property tax hikes over school budgets. It was a scenario that gave people who were already cutting back a chance to directly stand up to tax hikes in local elections. And while teacher's unions are almost as good at wrapping themselves in a self-righteous cloak, as the California nurses union was, their own stunts ended up backfiring on them.
Christie's campaign served to put a major political foe on the defensive and shifted the perception of blame for the state's economic troubles, boosting his own popularity, protecting his reelection campaign and giving him a measure of control and power over an out of control situation.
What Christie did though is resonating beyond New Jersey, as Republicans and even Democrats, quickly rushed to jump on the anti-public sector union bandwagon, even when they had been taking money from those same unions not so long ago. That's because a winning strategy in one state has implications for other states. At a time when incumbents are terrified of public outrage, and scrambling for a way to avoid being blamed for the economic disaster all around them, a good tactic is a good tactic.
Similarly in Arizona, Governor Brewer zeroed in on the problem and tackled it. Like so many other states, Arizona was being bled by the cost of illegal immigration. Brewer directly tackled the illegal alien issue, and by doing so earned the ire of liberals and the Obama White House, but boosted her own popularity inside the state. Which is what really matters.
Like Christie, Brewer's presence was a bit of a fluke. Christie was an unlikely winner. And Brewer hadn't even won an election. But what looked like a disadvantage, was actually an advantage. Because it meant both of them had less to lose, than governors with more stable bases. And it made them hungrier to go on the offensive and stabilize their political prospects. Christie has already said that he's happy to rule as a one term governor, but his actions so far are giving him the best shot at reelection, which would not be the case if he had just overseen the usual compromises between unions and tax hikes that most other governors are doing. Similarly Brewer's polling has improved, even as so much of the left coast has lost its mind over her actions.
Brewer confronted a problem that happened to be part of the liberal base. She touched the "untouchable", a potential electorate that Democrats had been hoping to harness for the future. Through that course of action, she protected her own political fortunes and those of her party as well. And she enlisted populist forces in an issue that frustrated many Arizonans and Americans in general, but that most mainstream politicians had declared to be off limits. And while Arizona is being blasted by the political establishment, it has the support of locals and the country as a whole for doing a job that no one else seems to want to do.
The backlash against Brewer is all the more intense, because Arizona managed to skip ahead and tangle Obama's own policy agenda, forcing the White House into a confused tail spin, as it tries to push legalization and border security at the same time. Liberals are rushing to try and bring together the planned coalition of corporations and minority groups to try and sell America on their legalization program. But they've already been left behind and playing catch up on an issue that they've already lost among the people.
But for all the lost convention business, Arizona gains more from having to spend less money on jails and social services, than it does from a few bureaucrats showing up to use their hotel rooms. That's because it costs tens of thousands to keep a prisoner in jail for a year, and the occasional convention isn't going to bring in that kind of money. And that lesson too is not lost outside Arizona.
Other border states are joining in on the illegal immigration issue, and swing states like Ohio are polling in support of Arizona, and for a crackdown on illegal immigration in their own state. Tennessee has its own version of the law now. Bad news for Democrats in a state roughly split between Democratic and Republican congressmen.
Going forward, this means a chance for Republicans to increasingly take back the legislative momentum at the state level. And to do so by personalizing their campaigns, placing the blame on the Democratic base, and pushing them to the wall. It's the same thing that the Democrats did to Republicans in 08. It's what they're still trying to do now, by blaming everything from BP to Wall Street on the GOP.
Waiting for Congressional Republicans to do it is hopeless. Too much of the leadership is satisfied with waiting around for the Democrats to fall on their own, so they can benefit from it. The Tea Party movement is unfortunately becoming a victim of its own success, and being co-opted by professional politicians. While that's not a done deal yet, the Tea Party movement needs another flashpoint like Obamacare to become properly energized again. Without a specific issue as a litmus test, it becomes hard to hold politicians accountable, and harder to avoid being co-opted by them. In key states, illegal immigration can be that issue. And that too would help counter the public protests carried out by illegal immigration advocates.
The bottom line is that you can't win without confronting the problem. All you can do is inherit someone else's failure. A real victory requires a mandate for change, and that means tackling issues, rather than trying to be the more moderate version of the problem. For too long Republicans have been satisfied to be the more moderate version of the Democrats. And not only have they not picked up a moderate image, but they've lost the cultural war by being depicted as unreasonable extremists who want to oppress and destroy. That can only change by pushing forward, instead of pulling back.
You win by confronting the problem, and by defining your opponents as the problem. Democrats did that successfully in 2008. Now Republicans have their chance to return the favor.
Posted by: Daniel Greenfield at July 10, 2010
Christie and Brewer are leaders.
Obama is not.
Paul 11/7/10
If Republicans are ready to win by "confronting the problem", then what about California? Arizona's immigration problem might be worse than California per capita, but California's illegal immigration problem contributes the most to the nations total illegal immigration problem. We have already heard enough from Meg Whitman to see that she doesn't even really see a problem yet.
Yonatan 11/7/10
Tea Party movement needs another flashpoint like Obamacare to become properly energized again
Don't worry, that will come. When they begin pushing Tax & Cap & the like after they become lame ducks, there will be plenty to energize them. Unfortunately, I don't think it will just be noisy peaceful rallies this time.
most Republicans still aren't... which is why we have the government that we do
Brewster and Christie are public servants and leaders. Obama and his ilk are politicians, which I am using as a derogatory term.
For the most part that's all most politicians are. They've forgotten what it means to serve the public, to represent us. That it's all about their constituents and states, not climbing the corruption ladder as Obama did.
I wish there was a better Republican candidate for NYS governor but when in doubt, vote for the guy you've actually met--Lazio.
Terrible way to choose a candidate but...there's not much to pick from this year. Wish Rudy was runny.
Shavua tov
(trouble with Blogger again. Keeps saying my password is wrong)
Could FM Leiberman be another leader?
Leiberman has been promoting the idea of a land swap in place of "land for peace."
In this contexts peace evolves over time, while security, through population exchange and separation, is the primary goals.
Personally I may be opposed to giving land to a fake entity, but maybe his idea has some value.
Currently Israel is in a downward diplomatic spiral thanks to Oslo and the post-Zionists who created it. We seem unable to buck the international forces that Oslo unleashed. However, Lieberman's suggestions may force everyone to switch tracks.
On an international basis it makes sense to everyone, except the Arabs. The "world's people" will see this to be a perfect solution. And, there has been reasonable examples of success, Cypress and Bosnia being two cases.
The Arabs will not agree, because their goal to destroy Israel will not change. But, the ball will be in their court to explain why it is unacceptable.
Israel will have to keep pointing out ever example to justify this program. And, remind those who claim you cannot transfer populations why citizenship exchange is not the same. Moving borders doesn't move people.
As always, there are risks.
Patsy 11/7/10
I like your blog and am really noticing Gov. Christie. Now I hope you notice Col. Allen West at
http://peregrine5700.wordpress.com/colonel-allen-west-future-american-president/
The Marxist must go.
-Lorna
peter doonis 16/7/10
we all do what we have to do. Nurses are doing a most stressful, difficult job, and are generally treated like they are working in a factory dealing with inanimate inventory..they are not. The nurses union is almost always justified in what they ask for. As far as the strike, I do not know enough about that situation, but they must have been desperate to have tried such an extreme maneuver. Nurses good-the man bad.
Hey Daniel I think this is the first time that I disagreed with you, even partially. Cool. This is how things are supposed to work, and usually do..with everyone but Muslims who chop, cut, shoot and blow up whoever and whatever they disagree with work...
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Tag: Carlo Rovelli
Understanding Matter by Opening Mind: Letter to Carlo Rovelli
Author David HarrisonPublished on June 15, 2020 June 15, 2020 Leave a comment on Understanding Matter by Opening Mind: Letter to Carlo Rovelli
To: Carlo Rovelli
Author: Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Director, Quantum Gravity Group
Centre de Physique Theorique (CPT), Aix-Marseille University
Case 907, Luminy, Office number: 453
F-13288 France
Re: Appeal to Theorists to Lead a Change in Thinking and Serve the Cause of Reason
We only need to ask ourselves: What is implied by the thought, the idea, of Mind?
To access the help we need from philosophy to understand quantum gravity.
It may take months or years of reflection to tell Mind's story
Going back to Why must there even be a question?
With nothing more than Intuition's spontaneous insights and Reason to guide us
But it won't take the centuries that it took for experimental physics, the study of matter
To begin the journey to quantum gravity.
My book, The Story of the Child (working title)
Will likely offer a rationale for your loop theory that explains quantum gravity.
This is because our illusory material environment mirrors in many ways the Reality of Conscious Mind
That created the Child -- our real Self -- and gave him a role and purpose in Creation.
It was the Child's loss of Consciousness that interrupted his part in the process of Creation
And produced the appearances that now challenge our understanding.
The entire process of Creation, from Mind-Oneness and its stance, Being
To the Child and his creations of Worth and back again, to Being
In the Child's freely chosen reciprocation of Worth
May be described as an infinite and ongoing loop
Whose purpose is to give substance and meaning to the assertion of Being
To the stance of Life and Creation -- that is our Reality, our Truth, and our Purpose.
The journey to quantum gravity, whose main insight captures this essential attribute of Creation
And sees it reflected in the Child's imagining of another state, is most likely on the right track.
All that it needs now, to complete the journey
Is to understand that what must distinguish Creation from its imagined state
Is that one state is real and the other is not.
Had this distinction been understood by those who have long philosophized about opposites
Their topic would have yielded clarity and eloquence instead of confusion and convolution.
Opposites are nothing more than an accommodation of Mind
On the Child's plane of Creation, that can lose Consciousness.
But whether or not Child-Mind loses consciousness, the opposites of Reality do not exist.
Our world, being a manifestation of the idea of non-being, of death
Is an opposite that cannot be real.
"Reality is not what it seems" because it is literally not real.
Parmenides was right!
Hopefully, the distinction between reality and unreality -- non-dualism
Will make it into your theory and the promise it holds, of clarity and eloquence, will be realized.
The appeal from Reality Is Not What It Seems, for help from philosophy, will then have its response.
Much more explanation is needed -- the purpose of my book
But, for now, keep in mind two critical distinctions:
Between Mind Conscious and mind unconscious and between Parents and Child.
Parents' Conscious Mind knows nothing of our unreal world and had no direct part in its making.
It was Child unconscious mind's doing, and the great question for Intuition and Reason to answer
Is why and how did the Child lose consciousness?
This is the subject of The Story of the Child.
Whether we answer this question will have a direct bearing on whether we survive.
Whether the world's leading theorists -- the best minds, like yourself -- join the cause
May determine whether we succeed.
David C. Harrison
303-746-5983 / http://www.davidclarkharrison.com
74apollo350@gmail.com
Published on June 15, 2020 June 15, 2020 Categories BlogTags Being, Carlo Rovelli, Creation, Loop theory, Metaphysics, mind, Ontology, Philosophy, quantum gravity, Reality, Reality Is Not What It Seems, TheologyLeave a comment on Understanding Matter by Opening Mind: Letter to Carlo Rovelli
The Coming Paradigm Shift in Reasoning about Reality and Purpose
Author David HarrisonPublished on June 3, 2020 July 2, 2020 Leave a comment on The Coming Paradigm Shift in Reasoning about Reality and Purpose
Letter addressed separately to:
• Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University. Author, Reality Is Not What It Seems:
The Journey to Quantum Gravity
• Adam Becker, University of California, Berkeley. Author, What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
• Karen L. King, Harvard Divinity School. Author, What Is Gnosticism?
So long a science remains riveted to matter – inanimate and organic, -- so long as it systematically overlooks the role of conscious mind in Creation and unconscious mind in illusion, it will never lead humanity to the real origin and fate of the universe and the meaning – the purpose – of life. Purpose that humanity addicted to technology, on the precipice of mass irrationality and extinction, now desperately needs. On the contrary, it can only legitimize forces that keep humanity in the dark, pinned down by flaws in our knowledge and reasoning that are essential to freedom of choice, learning, and growth.
The “meaning” of quantum physics, the end of the road for quantum gravity, needs no further “quest.” Experimental physics has already produced the results that tell us what we need to know: matter is not real. Its strange behavior is readily explained as the product of mind that logically can only be in an unconscious, dreaming state. What it has produced is not Reason or Reality but unreason and unreality. These are the hallmarks of our universe and self-destructive humanity – unexplainable magic that only happens in dreams and imaginations.
What unconscious mind has produced, still living and empowered with energy, is illusion. And physics, passionate about its cause, passionate about its subject, passionately convinced that matter is real, proves it. If we haven’t already figured this out from the bizarre behavior of quanta, from a universe ruled not by order but by entropy, we may be literally too dumb to live.
Science has two tasks to salvage its honesty. The first is to acknowledge the flaw in the logic that supports it: the logic that holds that sensory perception is qualified to adjudicate between reality and unreality. That holds that separation between the body and other objects that belong to the same state of matter bestows objectivity, when separation can only bestow objectivity if it’s between one state and another. Physics that fails to acknowledge this flaw may certainly continue with its discoveries. But it is not qualified to answer for metaphysics about reality. If it lacks objectivity and rationality, it lacks authority. And until it acknowledges this fact, it is not being honest.
The second task to salvage physics’ honesty is to acknowledge the truth about the findings of its experiments, going back to its origins with Galileo and to its premises with Aristotle. Experiments that were meant to support elegant theories of everything, to reveal beauty, essence, and perfection in the cosmos, have revealed instead a welter of causes and effects that make no sense. Their net result is a pointlessness that mocks the laws of science and confounds understanding rather than illuminating it. If the laws of science disappear precisely at the point where metaphysics demands answers, what use are they? They rationalize appearances on a human scale, but humanity has been doing this on its own for thousands of years.
What mind is searching for is Reality and Reason that will enable it to exercise free choice, so humanity will grasp its purpose and act decisively to serve it. We aren’t doing this. And one glaring reason why is that science hides rather than shares the truth. The cosmos isn’t Plato’s “divine” and never will be. The journey to quantum gravity has already gone beyond where it could be any practical help.
It’s time to look elsewhere for the meaning and purpose of life, not from what matter can tell us but from what mind can tell us. Science that compromises with honesty can’t set us on this path. But science that’s honest can at least help.
Einstein devoted his career to a single-minded effort to prove the logic of matter, the perfect order of the cosmos defined by mathematics and physics, and he failed. Bohr was right. Why can’t physics accept the verdict of the Copenhagen Interpretation and support a larger effort of mind – of philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, and psychology – to find answers instead of continuing to obstruct it? Why are scientists intent on discrediting the effort instead of joining it?
Telling the story of the Child, our archetypal Self, is giving the Child back some part of the Reality and the Truth that he lost when he lost consciousness. It’s giving humanity some part of the Reality and Truth that we need in order to exercise free choice in whether to move forward, with objectivity and reason rather than sabotaging our cause with subjectivity and unreason.
The story of the Child needs to be told. Because otherwise we may never know our true worth. We may never know the meaning and purpose of life, the cause the Child was given in Creation – our cause. Without resolve that can only come from purpose, transferring perception from bodies’ senses to intuition and Reason – from appearances to Truth -- will continue to elude us. The basics of what we are doing here -- who we are, how we got here, and what is within our power to do about it, -- will continue to elude us. Unless we connect with the Child that dwells in Mind – with our Self, -- how can we ever get back home to Reality, to the engine of Creation, where we belong?
Our story needs to be told so that we will finally make it relevant, constructive, and consequential. Let it emerge from the fog of mythology, from medicine-man faiths and cultures, into the light of logic, meaning, and utility. Into the light of Mind and Reason without the mysticism and self-contradictions that alienate common sense.
The thinking reflected in the publication I’ve cited has taken you to the outer edges of the paradigm shift that’s needed. You’re receiving this because there may be a willingness to consider it, a level of intelligence and intellectual honesty that offers hope.
Am I making sense? Is the story of the Child worth telling? Can we at least try?
Author, The Story of the Child (working title, book in progress)
303-746-5983 / 74apollo350@comcast.net
Published on June 3, 2020 July 2, 2020 Categories BlogTags Adam Becker, Carlo Rovelli, experimental science, Genesis, illusion, Karen King, meaning of life, Metaphysics, Ontology, origin and fate of universe, Philosophy, purpose of humanity, quantum gravity, Reality, science, story of the ChildLeave a comment on The Coming Paradigm Shift in Reasoning about Reality and Purpose
On the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Author David HarrisonPublished on June 2, 2020 June 2, 2020 Leave a comment on On the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Letter to Adam Becker, Author, What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology
Adam@freelanceastro.com
Science has staked its legitimacy on sensory perception -- the observation and measurement of quantifiable matter -- as the sole arbiter of reality. Matter at the level of quanta has revealed that it is not bound by the reality so defined. The logical foundation that science has chosen for itself, and the material reality it stands for, is called into question.
There being no alternative reality for which sensory perception can serve as proof, science must turn to systems thinking to understand its discoveries. Metaphysics, the branch of philosophy concerned with the logic of reality, belongs in the conversation. This should include ontology, the branch of metaphysics concerned with the logic of being. The dynamics of human motivation, personal growth, feelings, and relationships come into play, and this involves psychology. Yet another field to consult is theology, because it offers insights into mind that orders all forms of creation.
Yesterday, I submitted a letter to the Mind / Brain Editor of Scientific American commenting on an article by a neuroscientist, Christof Koch. His article, “Tales of the Dying Brain,” prompted my letter because it adheres to the article of faith in sensory perception that has rooted science in subjectivity and irrationality from the beginning, and I believe the time has come to place it on firmer logical ground.
My letter cites two invaluable sources: Your own What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics and Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Both you and Rovelli appear troubled, as Einstein was, by matter that doesn’t respect science’s article of faith. Both, commendably, encourage physics to follow the trail wherever it leads, Rovelli with an open appeal for help from philosophy. But while you're both alert to the question of material reality, neither appears willing to question your faith -- to question the role of traditional physics and its dependence on sensory perception.
My letter to Scientific American suggests that the world revealed beyond matter, through quantum mechanics, and the dying brain, through near-death experiences, is one of two competing realities, only one of which can be real. Hawking was unapologetic in championing his profession's bias in favor of sensory perception. It was his, and yours and Rovelli’s prerogative, to do so. But it comes at a cost. Science insisting on the incorrect reality, in service to its institutional purposes, leads human understanding down the wrong road.
It leads to incorrect conclusions devoid of meaning and purpose. Add to this the cost of not leading human understanding toward correct conclusions that awaken us to meaning and purpose. Quantitative science measures. It doesn't evaluate. The courageous and talented physicists whose work is highlighted in your book are an inspiration. But they and their work -- their profession -- can't be the source of "meaning" in quantum physics. For this, we need other sources.
Weaning science off rigid dependence on sensory perception must be a paradigm shift too far or it would have happened over a century ago. I do not make light of yours or science’s institutional self-interests. But more than Professor Koch’s article, it is the state of our world that says it’s time for change, and what must change is our thinking. What must change is for theorists in every field, like yourself, to state the obvious: that humanity is succumbing not only to mass irrationality but also to mass extinction, that it’s flawed reasoning that got us here, and we must shift to a new paradigm of thinking before it’s too late.
My letter to Scientific American alludes to attributes of mind -- “intuition” and “reason beyond appearances” – that can access the objectivity this new paradigm will need. They deserve an explanation, and, hopefully, they will get it in the book I’m preparing for publication, tentatively titled The Story of the Child. I have criticized science for overplaying the story of matter when it’s the story of mind that can guide us. My book is an attempt, from one individual’s perspective, to explain what it means to “tell the story of mind.”
With integrity, honesty, and humanity, you are no doubt making great progress in your work. I would be honored if my letter to Scientific American, which follows, and my book were any help. Science needs help from philosophy, and I am pleased to humbly offer one response.
Published on June 2, 2020 June 2, 2020 Categories BlogTags Adam Becker, Carlo Rovelli, Christof Koch, Metaphysics, mind, near death experiences, Ontology, Philosophy, Physics, quantum gravity, quantum mechanics, Reality, reality of mind, Scientific American, systems thinkingLeave a comment on On the Meaning of Quantum Physics
A Response from Philosophy to Quantum Gravity
Author David HarrisonPublished on June 1, 2020 Leave a comment on A Response from Philosophy to Quantum Gravity
Letter to Carlo Rovelli, Director, Quantum Gravity Group
Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT), Aix-Marseille University
Author, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (2017)
Re: Appeal from theoretical physics to philosophy for help understanding the meaning of quantum gravity
The approach to the task of physics presented in Reality Is Not What It Seems strikes me as reasonable. This in contrast to the approach propounded by Stephen Hawking, because you acknowledge the limits of experimental science and allow a role for philosophy while he, notoriously, did not. For him, “Philosophy is dead.” For you, it becomes essential.
The occasion to express my thanks and admiration has finally arrived. Today, I submitted a letter to the Mind / Brain Editor of Scientific American commenting on an article by a neuroscientist, Christof Koch. The article, “Tales of the Dying Brain,” prompted my letter because it adheres to the article of faith in sensory perception that has rooted science in subjectivity and irrationality from its very beginning, and I believe the time has come, with your appeal to philosophy, to place it on firmer logical ground.
My letter cites yours and Adam Becker’s recent book, What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for Meaning in Quantum Physics. Both authors, troubled and confused as Einstein was by matter that doesn’t respect science’s article of faith, appear to believe that a road still lies ahead for traditional physics. You, in particular, breezed by Schroedinger’s observation that science by sensory perception is circular reasoning without reflecting on it, nor did you credit Parmenides and his School of Reason with common sense.
Yet both sources should be taken as prominent red flags for science, for I believe they point in the direction of the “philosophy” that can make sense of quantum gravity. That is, if the “other reality” that I allude to in my letter to Scientific American is understood for what I’ve implied that it is: one of two competing realities, only one of which can be real. Science has been insisting that the incorrect one is real -- matter rather than mind, -- not in service to the truth but in service to its own institutional purposes.
Hawking was unapologetic in championing his profession and made his own and his profession’s bias very clear. It was his, and yours and Becker’s prerogative, to do so. But it comes at a cost. The cost is continuing to lead human understanding down the wrong road, to incorrect conclusions devoid of meaning and purpose. Add to this the cost of not leading human understanding toward correct conclusions that awaken us to meaning and purpose.
My letter to Scientific American alludes to attributes of mind -- “intuition” and “reason beyond appearances” – that can access the objectivity this new paradigm will need. They deserve an explanation, and, hopefully, they will get it in the book I’m preparing for publication, tentatively titled The Story of the Child. I have criticized science for overplaying the story of matter when it’s the story of mind that can explain what it’s all about. My book is an attempt, from one individual’s perspective, to explain what it means to “tell the story of mind.”
With integrity, honesty, and humanity, you are no doubt making great progress in your work. I would be honored if my letter to Scientific American, posted on my website, and my book were any help. Quantum gravity has called for help from philosophy, and I am pleased to humbly offer one response.
Published on June 1, 2020 Categories BlogTags brain science, Carlo Rovelli, near death experiences, philosophy of science, quantum gravity, quantum mechanics, Reality, science of mind, sensory perception, the story of mind, Theoretical physicsLeave a comment on A Response from Philosophy to Quantum Gravity
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GA-ASI Demos BLOS Command & Control Over HF Using MQ-9
13.01.2021 North America
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the first Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) High Frequency (HF) Command and Control (C2) demonstration for an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The HF C2 capability does not require a Satellite Communications (SATCOM) link and is capable of providing BLOS connectivity up to 8,000 miles, depending on transmit power and link geometry.
“We demonstrated a BLOS assured Command & Control capability that can be used in contested or denied environments. GA-ASI is committed to developing a flexible UAS architecture with assured C2 that is relevant in a broad set of mission scenarios,” said GA-ASI President David R. Alexander.
For the demo, GA-ASI integrated the U.S. Government’s Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) autonomy software into the Open Operational Flight Profile (OFP) of an MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and flew the MQ-9 using improved diagonal tails with conformal HF antennas incorporated into the leading edges.
GA-ASI’s MQ-9 housed a FlexRadio Systems’ FLEX-6600 HF software-defined radio and associated hardware to translate and execute an autonomous mission plan. GA-ASI created a specialized HF software adapter to manage the unique latency and throughput constraints of the HF waveform to demonstrate BLOS command and control of the RPA.
The demonstration was flown out of Laguna Army Air Field/Yuma Proving Grounds on Dec. 16, 2020. The MQ-9 was commanded from Austin, Texas approximately 1,000 miles away over an HF C2 link. This capability enables an operator to task the MQ-9 without needing SATCOM, providing a means to operate in SATCOM-denied, contested environments.
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Our Parishes
History of the Hellenic Community of East London & Districts
The Greek Community of East London was of the first Communities to be founded in the Eastern Cape. The Metropolitan Bishop of Good Hope, Paul Varnavas visited East London personally in 1968 with the sole purpose of uniting all Greek families living in the surrounding areas by forming a Committee. On the 26th February 1969, a gathering was held at the Carlton Hotel in East London and was attended by 30 Greeks from East London, King William’s Town, Fort Beaufort, Umtata, Mount Freer, Butterworth, Stutterheim and Queenstown. Out of this meeting arose the foundation for a future Hellenic Community of East London. On the 27th April 1969, the First Greek Committee was elected with Christos Yiangou as the President. Members of the first committee consisted of Philip Pouroullis, Stavro Karvounis and Yianni Petrellis.
Of the thirty that attended the gathering at the Carlton Hotel, 15 became registered Community Members and unanimously elected that East London would be the Head Office.
The objectives of this committee were and still are to:
Meet the educational needs of members and their families and to promote the Greek Language;
To attend to the religious requirements of members and those who profess the Greek Orthodox Persuasion
To acquire or erect and maintain a Hellenic Church and/or school, hostel and any other buildings or properties necessary for the proper function of the Community -To co-ordinate all efforts in the collecting and raising of funds, contributions etc., to finance the main and subsidiary objects of the community.
Presidents that served from 1969 to date are Christos Yiangou, Philip Pouroullis, Socratis Yiangou, Stavros Karvounis, Andrea Pouroullis, Nicos Efstratiou, George
Hajiyiannis and the current President. Neophytos Kyriakou.
To date, the Community consists of approximately 120 families and our Church, named after St George, is located in St George’s Street with the School sharing the same premises.
in Cape Town,
George, Port Elizabeth,
East London, Robertson, Durban, Bloemfontein
& Welkom
Orthodox Centre
Metropolitan Church of Saints Raphael, Nicholas & Irene
Church Entrance: 14 Balintore Road, Rondebosch
Saturday 8th @ 9 am
Saturday 15th @ 9am
officiated by Archimandrite Fr Zacharias Van Wyk
officiated by Fr Danil Logovoy
Details of the services at the Cathedral of Saint George in Cape Town for August 2019 are available here.
Details of the services at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Port Elizabeth for December 2018 are available here
Details of the services at the Church of Saint George in East London
Details of the services at the Church of the Holy Trinity and Church of Saints Nicholas, Andrew and Gerasimos in Durban
Details of the services at the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Taxiarches) in George
Visit the Digital Chant Stand to find the texts (in English and Greek) for the Church’s services.
September 2019 – Programme of the Holy Services
June 2019- Programme of The Holy Services
April 2019- Afrikaans Programme of The Holy Services in Robertson
April 2019- Programme of The Holy Services
March 2019- Programme of the Holy Services
February 2019 – Programme
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His Holiness Irinej Bulović Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church visits Cape Town on OXI Day 2018
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Job Title: Planning Engineer
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Date Posted: 3 - December- 2018
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Tales of a wandering lesbian
Posts from — November 2011
by KFlick
I looked up to see her form, tall, powerful, and full of purpose, walking toward me, the one thing I’d wanted to see since the car had swerved into my lane.
Her hands swept her sun glasses from her face and stretched out toward me, asking a thousand silent questions.
My only response was to pull her close – but gently – answering with my body, shielding the place where my seatbelt had burned my skin, bruised my chest and shoulder.
In the moment after the other car moved from my periphery into the front of my world, I sat in a quiet, still haze. Thoughts came to mind in quick succession: “What the hell? Am I alright? Wow, that’s what an airbag looks like. Can I call her first, or should I call 911?”
I called 911, but ended up hanging up on them accidentally while trying to text her. There was nothing I wanted more than to have her near me. Witnesses gathered, the other driver examined his broken axle, tow trucks arrived, and I called to ask her to come to me.
Over the next days we would unwind the tangle of adrenaline and fear. We would relax into the deepening of our bond. We would talk of things that come up after an accident: last wishes, emergency contacts, gratitude.
But for the moment all that mattered was that she was with me. Big guys with handlebar mustaches, and pinup models pulled from magazines looked on as we held each other in the auto body shop, feeling the solidness of our bodies, sensing the solidness of our connection. I stood still, breathing into her shoulder, allowing her scent to wash over me and cleanse the smoke from my nose, her voice to take the sound of crunching metal from my mind.
Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am
Wham Bam Thank you Ma’am
A few weeks ago, I got in a car accident. I’m alright, but my car’s not. I mean really not. Pirus the Prius is dead. His organs will be divided up and parceled out to other cars, so I suppose he’ll live on. But it hurts.
And, honestly, I’m still waiting on test results to find out how “alright” I am.
For anyone who hasn’t gone through the circus show of being in a wreck, I’ll just say that it’s enough to make me consider not driving at all.
The guy who hit me pulled an illegal u-turn directly into the front of my car. No idea why, other than that he “didn’t see” me. At full speed. In the middle of Santa Monica Blvd.
Thank goodness it wasn’t my fault. It’s really good in terms of insurance etc. But really hard in terms of PTSD. Now, every time I feel the brakes, I get a pang in my gut, and my back and neck and shoulder. Everywhere that still hurts from being slammed into.
I don’t really want to relive the incident itself, but the process afterward is something else.
Immediately afterward, the 911 call was a trip. This all happened in Los Angeles, so it was the LAPD dispatch that responded to me as I sat in the smoke from the airbag that had discharged.
“Is anybody injured?” this was her insistent question.
“Ma’am, is anybody injured?”
“I don’t know.” I’d just been hit going 35 mph. The only thing I knew was that I could talk and that I hurt.
“Can you ask?”
“No. Well, yes, it’s me. I don’t know if I’m hurt.” I could see the other driver walking around his car.
“Ma’am, I need to know if I should send an ambulance.”
“Do you want me to send an ambulance?”
I ran a quick inventory of my body. Nothing seemed to be bleeding or sticking out strangely.
Ambulances are expensive. I don’t have health insurance. Fuckers. Went through my brain.
“No. Can you send police? We’re blocking the road.”
“Yes. Please stand by for police instruction.”
Then 911 put me on hold.
In the mililseconds after the crash, I considered what to do. I’d just left my girlfriend’s apartment after a lovely afternoon together. She was the first person I wanted to call. But my logic told me we should get 911 in process first. Now that I was on hold, however, I decided to text her and ask her to come my way. I’d need a ride. And I really wanted a hug. Mostly, I just wanted to see her face.
So I started texting. And accidentally hung up on the dispatcher.
I dialed again, and went through the same song and dance, this time with a different dispatcher.
“Is anyone hurt?”
“I don’t know. Can you just send police, please?”
What? “I’m sorry, no?”
“We can only dispatch police if someone is receiving medical transport. Do you need an ambulance?”
I was shaken, and this guy was in no way helping. My sense of righteous indignation, however, was completely intact. “So what you’re telling me is that, because I don’t have health insurance, you’re not going to send LAPD?”
It wasn’t a fair question, but I was still inhaling fumes from the airbag, and just beginning to realize that I was seriously bruised form the seat belt. And I was pissed.
“No, ma’am, I’m just telling you our policy.”
“Well, you’ll want to send someone to direct traffic. We’re blocking both lanes of the street.” Surely, he’d see the reason in that.
“You’ll need to move your cars.”
“They’re not driveable.”
“You’ll need to call tow trucks.”
“Yes. Of course. But we can’t direct traffic.”
People were starting to gather around the vehicles.
“Does the other driver have a valid license and insurance?”
“I don’t know. I was hoping the police could determine that. I’m still in my vehicle.”
“Do you need an ambulance?”
“Then I’m not sure what you want me to do.”
“Okay, fine. We’ll figure it out.” Click.
I was pretty much astounded. Gingerly, I opened the door and climbed out. I could walk. I could stand. I could tell I was beat up, but I was grateful that I was in one piece. My poor car, however, was a mess, crumpled and leaking everywhere.
It appeared that the other guy had broken his front axle.
Witnesses began to approach and we started the process of exchanging information. I called my girlfriend and she started toward me in LA’s famous rush-hour traffic.
Then I sat back in my car and made another stab at getting LAPD on site.
“911 emergency.” It was the same guy. What were the chances? I mean really.
“There’s been an accident on Santa Monica Blvd. We need police to respond to the scene.”
“Is anybody hurt.”
Violent sigh. “Okay, fine. At this point I’m going to say yes, please send an ambulance.”
When the paramedics arrived, we were all walking around. I was taking pictures, and the other driver was trying to pry his fender off his tire with a crow bar. I waved and the medics came over to me.
“Are you injured?” Was the first question.
“I was hoping you could tell me.” I was done with the song and dance. I was done. One of the guys was about as helpful as the 911 dispatcher. He just looked at me, waiting for my self-diagnosis. The other guy started an exam.
It was worth a try with these guys. “Really, we need LAPD out here, and I was told they couldn’t respond unless we have a medical transport.”
“Do you need to go to the hospital?” The unhelpful medic was looking at me again.
“I don’t know? Do I?” It was almost like we were all playing some big game with secret passwords that I didn’t know.
“You can come with us or you can drive yourself. You could probably wait until Monday and see if you’re still hurting then.”
“Great. I’ll do that.”
The helpful medic responded. “I’ll see if I can get LAPD out here.”
Finally. “Thank you.”
By the time LAPD had arrived, we’d exchanged info, taken pictures, and speculated about whether each car was a total loss. It took another half hour before we called tow trucks and got everything out of the street.
I know it’s LA, and there are more pressing things calling on the police, but seriously, I don’t think it’s the greatest idea to expect people who have just been in a pretty major accident to determine their injuries, evaluate each other’s documents for validity, direct traffic, and clean up the site of an accident.
When I told a friend about the experience, she said, “yeah, next time you’re in a wreck, just tell the 911 operator that you shot the SOB who hit you. It’s the only way to get LAPD to respond.”
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Together with our Russian friend Nikita, we put together an article about the Russian U18 National Team that won the Silver Medal at the recent European Championships in Vilnius. Nikita was so kind to speak with the Russian head coach Sergey Skorochkin about his players and what his thoughts were on the Silver Medal team.
Sergey Karasev maybe does not possess an ideal technical skill set but carries on a great feel for the game. He was nearly as tall as our centers at this tournament but played at shooting guard and small forward positions. Sergey was in my team in 2009 [at that time Skorochkin was the head coach of Russian u16 team] and comparing to last season obviously became a little bit stronger. But still Karasev has to claim more from himself, from his body and basketball attitude. I ca not say he does not work hard during training sessions; he just needs to be more serious. Naturally talented players sometimes forget that their talent has to be seasoned with good athletic background. Also it sometimes seems like he is trying to avoid the contact and play too simple while stepping in the corner and shoot and not threatening opposite side with a roll to the basket. I’m sure Sergey will have a bright future if he finally puts all the things together. Potentially he’s a national team player.
[Commenting on the information about a very possible Karasev’s inclusion in Triumph Lyubertsy senior team for a next season] I think he is ready to test himself at that level. Surely in case of the series of losses at the season start nobody would listen to stories about providing playing time to youth. However keeping in mind that Triumph recently took a “rejuvenation” course and the club is going to give some chances to their youngsters, I ca not see why Sergey should not be tried as a first-team player.
Dmitry Kulagin made the right decision last summer when he agreed to join BC Nizhny Novgorod and spent a season at senior level. Eventually his team gained an early promotion and so Kulagin had an opportunity to play nearly 30 minutes per game in the closing games of the season. It helped a lot, he is a more polished player now. Kulagin is a rare example of truly technically gifted Russian player. He is a combo-guard and is almost equally good at both guard positions which gave us more options at the tournament. As I know, his club will rely on him in the next season too so hopefully his development will continue.
Vladislav Trushkin was the most stable player of our team. He scored, stole balls, was energetic but what was my biggest pleasure he hit the threes – and many decisive ones. Yes, it’s true, for him being undersized will make it harder to play power forward at the senior stage. And he is a bit slow and is not sharp enough to play the 3 yet. But as a Head Coach of his club Spartak Vidnoe I can tell you that we are going to provide him playing time at small forward position next season. For the first time our team will take part in senior competition so as well as others Trushkin will achieve some valuable experience playing against adults. And speaking on his play at this tournament I am sure he could be easily included in the tournament’s Best-5 selection as well as Kulagin.
I’m also pleased with Alexander Varnakov who was the captain of the team. For his age, he is a quite experienced point-guard who already played for BC Nizhny Novgorod first team [Superleague B – second best Russian team] during 2008-09 season. Varnakov has some tendency to corpulence, he is not lightning quick himself but he knows how to control team tempo. His performance here was consistent and he finished as the competition’s #2 in assists per game. His shot was not falling that good, maybe he took more initiative sometimes than he had to but usually he did it for a reason. He was one of the few our guys who was not afraid in front of that gigantic Lithuanian sea of supporters in the final.
Speaking on players that coped with emotions in final I can mark out Tamerlan Bekkiev. He can eventually emerge as somewhat of a late bloomer as he has been playing less than for three years now. He has talent but not defensive-oriented one as he has many troubles protecting the basket. But it can be fixed. He bears intriguing speed for his size and while being power forward for our team here in Lithuania he will be developed as small forward at his club Avtodor Saratov and these are good news.
Unfortunately, last year U16 All-Tournament Team member Gleb Goldyrev spent shaky tournament and could not really blossom this time. You see, fundamentals are like cakes of a pie. For instance Goldyrev received the first three of these cakes at his home in Novosibirsk. Then we gave him eight more in Vidnoe. And what he’s doing – he’s doing right! But in critical situations, against a background of fatigue or with the time being nearly up those eight cakes sometimes fly away leaving the guy with his raw basic skills which he got first. Some of his mistakes he made there were the same he made as a child. Also the speed of the game has increased in this age category and now Gleb can not rely that much on his phenomenal physical strength. But I still think there’s a room for improvement and he can progress.
As for the others I can say that our bigs – Loginov, Tikhonin, Pisarchuk – have a lot to learn yet and the rest of the guys had limited roles. Our medals are quite sensational and I can only thank my assistants Rolandas Radvila Mikhail Solovyev and all the rests from our team for their enormous contribution.
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The Original Canopy Tour Canopy & Rafting in Central Valley, Costa Rica - Exploring Costa Rica-
The Original Canopy Tour
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The Original Canopy Tour is located in the private reserve of the Cloud Forest Lodge in the Monteverde area. Here we have constructed a series of observation platforms and traverses that will take you through the canopy layer of the rainforest. As of January 2002, the tour includes 2 suspended walkway sections, 11 platforms, 8 traverses high in the treetops, and 2 rappels.
The tour starts with a short guided hike through the private reserve of the Cloud Forest. The first part of the tour will take you through secondary and primary forest and then a climb up a ladder to the first platform, about 8 meters above the ground where an ingenious series of cables connecting the trees awaits you.
After a series of horizontal traverses and suspended platforms you will rappel back to the forest floor and hike another 50 meters where you will have a spectacular climb up a rope ladder through the inside of a huge, hollow strangler fig.
Dangling from 22 meters off the ground, the eight-meter-long walkway that winds around the various trees that the strangler fig has consumed in it's lifetime makes for an unbeatable vantage point for observing the surrounding rainforest.
You will then continue your tour from platform to platform, assisted by our expert guides, and finally have a second rappel the long way down to the forest floor. The platforms vary in height from 8 meters to 28 meters above the forest floor. A cloud forest generally has several layers to the canopy, all of which can be seen on the tour.
The climate in the Monteverde area is generally warm to cool. Shorts can be worn, but jeans are also comfortable. Hiking boots are a good idea, as it rains frequently. Insect repellant, cameras and binoculars are also recommended.
Tours leave daily from the office in Santa Elena at 7:30 am, 10:30 am and 2:30 pm or you can arrive directly to the Cloud Forest Lodge.
Participants must bring a passport or other ID. The Canopy Tour takes about 2 to 2 1/2 hours to complete.
US$45 per person
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Ice Cream Cake At Dairy Queen Of The Most Amazing Cake In The Town
Dairy Queen bakes the tastiest pastries of the city in many flavors and at affordable prices. The impressive and affordable price of the dairy makes it the best choice for birthdays and special occasions. Whether it is a special snow cake or a standard round cake, people love Dairy Queen cake.
Cake makers combine two amazing desserts with ice cream and cake to create a great cake with flavor. Children, especially love Dairy Queen ice cream cake, making them a good choice for birthday parties. Apart from the taste, the most surprising thing about Dairy Queen is the affordable price. They charge a minimum, even for their special cakes.
The prices of Dairy Queen Cake are easy to remember:
Prices are based on the size and style of the cake, with ordinary cakes being the cheapest option. 25 raise is when you buy their special Blizzard cakes. 28.99 10 ", so there is no big price increase. Aside Blizzard cake Dairy Queen ice cream cakes are equally relaxed for the lips and in rounds and leaves options available Regularly there are other unique options that are worth trying.
The price of the Dairy Queen Ice Cream cake is just as cheap:
Dairy Queen is a chain of soft ice cream sellers and fast food restaurants of International Dairy Queen. The company's company premises are located in Minneapolis.
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There are two of them. Two spoons! In 1976 Knickerbocker produced a game "Ernie's Ice Cream Truck" with the Ernie rag doll and a small range. The 1978 Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook contains a story called "Grover and the Twenty-six Scoops" balls in order Herbie and Betty Lou 26 ice creams.
The 1980 book what did you bring? 15 separate deliveries on the Sesame Street on a specific day. In 1984, a sister to Herry, Harry Monster discovered that get a lot of attention during the babies, they are not old enough to enjoy the ice cream. Here the ice is shown in the rare position that it is a reward to be bigger. A PVC figurine from 1986 by Baby Kermit has an ice-cream cone.
The video game Muppet Adventure from the 90s:
Chaos in Carnival has a level that takes place in an Amazing Ice Cream Maze. Unfortunately, nothing is consumable, it only serves as frozen obstacles between the Fozzie Bear and the exit. In 1992 one of the Sesame Street card games was provided with ice.
A German PVC figure depicts Grover with an ice-cream cone. A collection of sesame characters who do the work shows The Count as an ice cream seller. In the Sesame Street 2006 coloring book, all day outside!
Cookie Monster can be seen in front of an ice cream truck and has an ice cream cone with four balls. The next page shows cookie with an empty cone, and the reader is requested to draw balls into the cone. The book asks ice fans everywhere: "How much can you fit?" Much later in the book Oscar prepares a sardine sundae.
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Two locations in London, Ontario, have released their song "Canadian, Please" on June 24, 2009 on YouTube. The infectious tune is with such bold texts, it was quickly shared via Facebook and Twitter via the internet. We loved the song so much that we decided to decorate a cake in honor of the song. We told Julia and Andrew via Twitter that we decorated a Dairy Queen ice cream cake with the theme "Please Please".
Later that evening they came to our Dairy Queen store to buy the cake. It seemed appropriate to give them the cake as a thank you for their great song on YouTube. This song brings a smile to everyone's face. Later that evening we got a tweet on Twitter with a link to the better video! Julia and Andrew had compiled a video and posted it on YouTube, which was called 'Canadian, Please Update 1', and thank you for the cake.
The best advertisement you could wish for! What a great sense of humor. Thank you very much to Julia and Andrew! Both are very talented and everyone at Wharncliffe Rd Dairy Queen in London, Ontario, wishes them good luck!
I love ice cream cake. That is really what I ask every year for my birthday and mother's day. Really, it works very well because there is no stress to make me a great dessert for my birthday, just take a Dairy Queen ice cream cake and I'm very happy.
Incidentally, a year ago we even tried a cold stone ice cream cake and we all agreed that the Dairy Queen's cake was much better. Sarah and Julia write a blog about All Things With Purpose and tell us their version of a homemade Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Love Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake! But it is pretty expensive.
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1. I started with the super cheap chocolate cubes and vanilla ice cream. I would not recommend it because it does not taste that good. But it is up to you to use what you want! More after the jump.
2. Start by making the ice softer. Butter the bottom and sides of your pan and then a thin layer of vanilla ice on the bottom and sides until it reaches the top.
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Once a disreputable run-down neighbourhood, Warsaw's right bank district of Praga is undergoing a rapid transformation. In recent years, it has become something of a fashionable Bohemian district and an alternative cultural centre. The only district in Warsaw to remain fairly intact after the Second World War, Praga now boasts some of the oldest surviving structures in the city, its streets taking on new life as townhouses and old industrial buildings are turned into cafés, clubs, art studios and theatres. For a taste of Praga, stroll through the 19th-century 'Old Town', see old factories turned into art galleries, have a drink in one of the new trendy cafés, wander the mostly untamed banks of the river, and end your exploration of the district at 11 Listopada Street, Praga's major clubbing centre.
HISTORIC PRAGA
Once an independent town, Praga was attached to Warsaw in the late 18th century. You can still find many original pre-war apartment blocks, pavements and lampposts dotting the district. This was also once a neighbourhood of rich cultural diversion, where Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Jews lived together peacefully, and throughout the district there are traces of several beautiful places of worship, some still in existence.
The centre of Praga's Old Town is Ząbkowska Street, with its oldest buildings dating from the 19th century. Walking along it, you can see the evolution of architecture from then until now. You'll find the oldest house on the street at number 14, a small single-storey structure from 1866. It's a little further along, on Targowa Street, that you'll find the oldest surviving houses in Praga - two modest buildings built for the Jewish merchant Berek Roghblith in 1819 and 1830, and later used as Jewish houses of prayer; the houses are currently being renovated for exhibition space. Zabkowska Street is a good place to start your exploration of the district and soak in the old-world atmosphere.
Even as the cities of Warsaw and Praga developed during the Renaissance, no permanent bridge was ever built between them; communication was by ferry or by crossing the ice in winter. You can still see the elegant, Greek-temple-styled Water Chamber on Klopotowskiego street, with its bas-relief of Neptune and his horse-drawn chariot, where the toll service for water crossings was managed. The first permanent bridge was built in 1864.
You'll find the only remaining trace of Renaissance Praga on Ratuszowa Street, where the Church of Our Lady of Loreto stands. It was built in the first half of the 17th century, a pink cake-like structure with thick, squat towers framing its Greek temple-styled front face.
The real beauty of Praga churches is the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel and Florian the Martyr, standing majestically in a green square near the riverbank and principle streets. Its two thin spires are clearly visible from the Old Town on the left bank. But the Cathedral is more than a symbol of the Praga district; it is a symbol of defiance against foreign rule. It was built in the 19th century in response to the forced Russification of Poland under Tsarist occupation. Its beautiful structure and 75-meter towers dominated the Orthodox Church which had been built nearby by Russian authorities to accommodate Praga's large population of Russian immigrants. The church was destroyed in World War II, with only the external walls and the statues of the two saints, Michael the Archangel and Florian the Martyr, miraculously surviving. It was reconstructed after the war using authentic 19th-century bricks.
The Orthodox Church in question - St. Mary Magdalene on Solidarnosc Avenue - still stands. It was actually built on the site of a Catholic church, which was destroyed by Russian authorities as a symbol of the domination of Russian culture over Catholic Poland. The church was inspired by Byzantine architecture. It survived the Second World War without significant damage, and still functions today.
Near the Cathedral, on Klopotowskiego Street, you'll find a former Jewish bathhouse from the early 20th century. It has a beautifully restored, elegantly embellished red brick façade. Originally a mikveh (Jewish ritual bath), it is now owned by the Jewish Community. The square next to the building used to contain the Praga synagogue; the communist authorities had it pulled down in 1961 and replaced with a playground.
PRAGA OF TODAY
Transforming disused factories and run-down townhouses into art centres, cafés and clubs is a trend that's really taken off in Praga in recent years.
The old vodka factory Koneser was in operation for over one hundred years. It was built in the late 19th century, a characteristic red brick industrial complex from the era. It has recently been renovated as a cultural center, including the Wytwornia theatre, art galleries (Klima Bochenska Gallery of modern art), and other cultural institutions.
Another example of utilitarian structures being put to cultural use is Mała Warszawa , a private art and business centre housed in a former 1916 factory that once produced marmalade, then sausages, and finally athletic shoes. Now, the buildings house an auditorium, meeting room, theatre hall, exhibition hall, and spaces for festivals, fashion shows, and other cultural events.
Yet another is the Wroblewski Warehouse complex on Inzynierska Street, a former storage and transportation company from the early 20th century, where Warsaw residents would store their furniture and valuables when the traveled. The warehouse now houses many art studios and galleries, including the Sen Pszczoly Club, Nizio Gallery and Studio Melon.
In addition to a vibrant cultural life, Praga also boasts many beautiful stretches of green parkland. One such spot worth visiting is Park Praski, just outside the Zoological Gardens. In the early 19th century, this area of Praga was razed by Napoleon in preparation for new fortifications. The influence of Napoleon didn't last long, and by the mid-19th century, city authorities decided to do something more recreational with the space. Today you can wander along vast stretches of pleasant tree-lined lawns, or see an open-air concert at the park's outdoor stage.
Another pearl of Praga is Skaryszewski Park, a massive stretch of green in the southern part of the district that includes tennis courts, a sports stadium, a rose garden, a children's playground, a small lake and two picturesque ponds. The park is also something of an open-air art gallery, featuring several beautiful works of sculpture created before the war by up-and-coming artists of the time.
Praga is a perfect example of the change that's taking place in the Warsaw of today - a city that's prepared to revitalize traces of the old with currents of the new.
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Galeria Klif is a unique place on the fashionable map of Warsaw, where shopping goes hand in hand
with extraordinary experience, accompanying customers at every step. For 20 years, Klif has been
attracting fashion enthusiasts and connoisseurs, offering a wide and diverse range of Polish and
foreign boutiques from the premium and semi-premium sectors. Visitors have at their disposal many
boutiques of global brands, including Max Mara, Michael Kors, 10DAYSAmsterdam, MOOD, Nissa and
representatives of the interior design segment, among others Premium Home and the first LG Brand
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Zlote Tarasy
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Designer Outlet Warszawa
120 outlet stores to choose from, well known brands 30% -70% off every day, free parking space. Opening hours 10:00-21:00 and 10:00-20:00 on Sundays................
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Vincent Cafe
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Gus Van Zant is an Oscar winning director. His work spans from Finding Forrester to Goodwill Hunting. He has a brilliant eye with meaningful attention to detail. And it's no better illustrated than in the latest offerings he created for BMW. A few years back BMW started reaching out to A list Hollywood actors, giving them a comfortable budget, a list of car characteristics and cart blanche to work their magic within those open parameters. Gus did something a little different. He produced the same spot, three times with three different actors.
Version 1 - featuring Sam Hazeldine who plays Caleb on ABC's new hit, Resurrection.
Version 2, a rarity for car commercials. A woman as the spokesperson. Mickey Sumner from Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha.
And Version 3. It features Michael Pitt who played "Jimmy" on Boardwalk Empire.
Okay. The question posed to you now. You have to rank in order or priority. You must choose one version to air during a broadcast a MadMen. It's a fairly even split of male/female with an above average education and income. How would you rank them down?
Here are my picks and explanation.
#1 Sam Hazeldine. I think this spot just stood out more. His piercing eyes, the delivery and even Van Sant's choice of visuals including the screen dominating eyeball. The performance felt true.
#2 Mickey Sumner. But I struggled with whether she should be #1. It was close. She has the British sophistication and Shakespearean intensity. And I chose her before I knew she also had the pedigree of being Sting and Trudie Styler's progeny. It feels edgy and Masterpiece Theatre at the same time.
#3 Michael Pitt. I very much appreciated his intensity in Boardwalk Empire. But somehow his tortured spirit doesn't come out here. It seems slightly contrived. Either that or the dialogue just didn't resonate with his Jersey roots. I just wanted him to raise his voice and lose his cool. You feel Mickey Sumner's build up. Here you do not.
Cudos to BMW for continuing to push the creative envelope. I can't wait to see where they go next.
Posted by Tim.McLarty at 10:48 AM
big help because there are websites
that post top 25 tech companies for the year, top 10, etc.
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Cornel West, activist and professor at Union Theological Seminary, ripped Barack Obama’s “Wall Street presidency,” calling him another neoliberal “counterfeit” after posing as a progressive in his initial campaign for the White House in 2008.
“We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency,” West told Salon.com’s Thomas Frank.
“The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair.”
Public intellectual West lamented Obama’s failure – or refusal – to attempt a revival of democratic principles at a time of “an empire in decline.”
“Our culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of our civil life. You would think that we needed somebody—a Lincoln-like figure who could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility.”
West said at a time of deep need for solutions, for a change of culture in the gilded halls of Washington, Obama was another “opportunist.”
“It’s like you’re looking for John Coltrane and you get Kenny G in brown skin.”
U.S. President Barack Obama.(Reuters / Larry Downing)
Looking back, West said he believes Obama’s “motus operandi” has always consisted of seeking to placate the powers-that-be and to occupy the “middle ground,” even though he acted the part of a transcendent figure during his campaign 2008, the year that saw the beginning of the Great Recession.
“And so what did he do? Every time you’re headed toward middle ground what do you do? You go straight to the establishment and reassure them that you’re not too radical, and try to convince them that you are very much one of them so you end up with a John Brennan, architect of torture [as CIA Director]. Torturers go free but they’re real patriots so we can let them go free. The rule of law doesn’t mean anything.”
West also chided US Attorney General Eric Holder for his cozy relationship with Wall Street.
“Eric Holder won’t touch the Wall Street executives; they’re his friends. He might charge them some money. They want to celebrate. This money is just a tax write-off for these people. There’s no accountability. No answerability. No responsibility that these people have to take at all.”
Attorney General Eric Holder.(AFP Photo / Alex Wong)
Acting as if there are no divisions in the US, that there is one “American family,” as Obama has said, is part of the President’s “temperament,” West said.
“You don’t try to act as if we have no divisions and we’re just an American family, with the poor getting treated in disgraceful ways and the rich walking off sipping tea, with no accountability at all, and your foreign policy is running amok with Israelis committing war crimes against precious Palestinians and you won’t say a mumbling word about the Palestinian children. What is history going to say about you? Counterfeit! That’s what they’ll say, counterfeit. Not the real thing.”
Obama and Holder, both black men, were “completely silent,” West said, following the police killing of unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson. The incident was emblematic of “arbitrary police power” that is often trained on communities of color, he added.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.(AFP Photo / Brendan Smialowski)
West said Holder will likely step down by the end of the year, as he is “concerned about his legacy as if he’s somehow been swinging for black folk ever since he’s been in there. That’s a lie. He’s been silent, too. He’s been relatively silent. He’s made a couple of gestures in regards to the New Jim Crow and the prison-industrial complex, but that’s just lately, on his way out. He was there for six years and didn’t do nothing.”
The post-Obama era will be “an America in post-traumatic depression,” West said, and the likely successor in the White House, “neo-liberal opportunist par excellence” Hillary Clinton, will be “much worse.”
“Hillary Clinton is an extension of Obama’s Wall Street presidency, drone presidency, national surveillance, national security presidency. She’d be more hawkish than he is, and yet she’s got that strange smile that somehow titillates liberals and neo-liberals and scares Republicans. But at that point it’s even too hard to contemplate.”
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Will a Train Crash Brexit be Good for England in the long Term?
by Sean Danaher on 13th October 2017
Given the ludicrously optimistic promises of the Leave side during the Brexit campaign and the delusional belief that the UK simply has to throw its toys out of the playpen, in threatening “no deal is better than a bad deal,” in order to get the EU to agree to a “cake and eat it solution” it was always possible that the negotiations would break down completely. Indeed I thought the likelihood that a “leave” result in the referendum would so embolden the “swivel eyed loons” on the extreme right of the party (the ironically named European Research Group) that I assigned a probability of this happening to be about 90% even before the Referendum result.
Living in Northumberland it seemed very likely in the closing weeks of the campaign that Leave would carry the day. After Jo Cox’s murder I had really no idea, but after the Sunderland result it was clear that my worst fears had been realised. The fact that a considerable fraction of the UK press has for years been propagandizing against the EU, often with completely distorted or even totally made up content has poisoned public opinion. Indeed even the Remain side seemed to make little positive case for the EU; we don’t like it but begrudgingly pay our membership as it is in our economic interest. Being Irish our greatest poet Yeats who wrote The Second Coming during the turbulent times of Irish Independence between 1916-1922 put it best:
The referendum campaign had up to that point been the nadir of my political experience in the UK since coming here in 1981; I found much of it infantile and repulsive. In terms of the Leave campaign two big lies stand out:
We pay an extortionate amount into the EU and get less than nothing in return, just a shed load of red tape and ridiculous standards. Best typified by the “We send the EU £350m a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead. Vote Leave” slogan. My wife who is one of the UKs leading Intensive Care/Anesthetic consultants (and is in 10 Downing St even as I write this) was incandescent with rage when she saw this slogan; the major benefits the UK gets in Medicine by being a member of the EU (one example is the European Medicines Agency) was ignored and she believes that without the help of her EU colleagues the NHS would fall apart. Of course it is also well known that the £350m figure is total fiction, and on this point Dominic Cummings, the Vote Leave director and coiner of the slogan, later admitted they won because they lied to the public.
We have no control over our Borders and will be swamped by migrants and illegal immigrants unless we leave the EU. There was no mention that there were ample controls on immigration under EU rules as carefully set out for example by Craig Mackay in his OutsideTheBubble blog. I suspect that the Home Office was deliberately starved of funds as Cameron and Osbourne put the economy first and knew how valuable foreign workers were, but couldn’t bear to say so in public as the official vote winning Tory line was, and still is, to reduce net immigration to the 10s of thousands. Even more disgraceful was the conflation of the refugees crisis and legal immigration from the EU. One blatant lie was that Turkey was imminently joining the EU. Even ignoring the fact that UK had a veto, Turkey under Erdoğan is moving the country in a direction that makes joining the EU next to impossible. (Ironically Boris Johnson was one of the major advocates of Turkey’s accession). This of course was the unofficial leave campaign led by Farage and the Breaking Point poster singularly vile.
One troubling aspect of both campaigns was the appeal to some of the worst forms of English/British nationalism which is a theme I will explore later.
Of course Leave campaigners accuse the dire Remain Campaign of lying in equal measure. The two most quoted lies are:
That Osbourne would introduce an emergency budget if the vote were to leave. My feeling on this one is that if you are going to tell a lie then it should at least be credible. it was obvious that both Cameron and Osbourne would be gone within 24 hours should the result go against them.
That the experts predicted an immediate recession should there be a leave vote and the economy in fact grew. There was indeed an immediate drop in the value of the pound but there was no recession. There is a difference of course between a bad prediction and a lie. Apologies for a little bit of mathematics but it is worth running through it. In the following equation Δ is change, GDP is Gross Domestic Product, G Government spending, I investment by Industry, C consumer spending and X net exports (exports-imports). If Δ is positive it means the economy is growing. In crude terms:
Δ(GDP)=ΔG+ΔI+ΔC+ΔX
At present the government is trying to reduce G in an attempt to balance the books, industry is not investing so I stays stubbornly low (and UK productivity is stuck in a rut), consumer spending C however increased significantly in the second half of 2016 in a credit spending spree by many Leave voters, optimistic about the future. Net exports X have been disappointing (rather than using the lower pound to increase exports it seems that exporters have pocketed the extra improved exchange rate cash). It is true the economy grew in the second half of 2016, but this can’t sadly last forever. Indeed the Bank of England is already worried by the amount of consumer credit. In a successful economy industrial investment, I, should be growing sharply as indeed the Brexiteers dream of an export lead, X, growth spurt which we will all welcome. Almost all economists believe that Brexit will be a negative on the UK economy and did not expect consumer confidence to increase. In retrospect it is logical that if most people voted for Brexit they would have been happy that it happened and then optimistic about the future. Given the consumer spending accounts for around 60% of the UK economy it is not unsurprising that the economy grew (FT link here £) if the majority of people were feeling good about the future and had hope (however misguided) for the first time in years.
I would have hoped things had moved on rapidly since the referendum, however too often it seems that we are stuck in Groundhog Day with the Lancaster House Speech, the Florence Speech and this week’s speech in the House of Commons, being full of empty rhetoric and unrealistic promises which have been likened to a 5 year old on the 17 floor of an impoverished council tower block wanting a thoroughbred pony for Christmas. As Ivan Horricks said on Progressive Pulse a few days ago of the latest House of Commons Speech from May:
“Echoing Florence, she repeats that she wants a ‘dynamic, creative and unique’ partnership with the EU post Brexit. Not for her existing models of trade and international relations: EEA’s and what Canada enjoys. Oh, no! They may be fine for Norway, Iceland and co. But the UK requires – no, deserves – better. Indeed, we MUST be allowed to have our cake and eat it. In short, we’re leaving the EU, but it’s not us that has to change as a result, it’s the EU”.
Where does this entitlement come from? As a Dubliner who has live in the UK for many years there is very much I admire about the English, in the NHS, the BBC, the great scientists, artists. I could wax lyrical here but the article is getting overlong! The culture which enabled me as an Irishman to rise to the top of my profession and be judged on merit and ability. The 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony was a joy but just as in the transition between Obama and Trump it seems England has moved to a much darker place. There is a frightening form of English Nationalism which manifests itself in an unspoken superiority and manifested and reinforced by the overwhelmingly right wing press in the UK. There is an almost unconscious belief among some people (often those whom have least right to feel so) that they are the chosen people and have a God given right to rule. I have encountered this also amongst people in small nations: Israelis, White South Africans (during the apartheid era) and Northern Ireland Unionists. Amongst large nations in both England and the US, though France (FN) and Germany ( especially east of the Elbe AFD) are not immune and I understand the Han people in China believe in their superiority as indeed did the Japanese in the early half of the 20th century.
As an Irishman growing up in Dublin and missing being blown up by a Loyalist bomb by about 15 minutes in Parnell St in 1974 I am all too well acquainted with the destructive power of Nationalism and the degeneration into violence so clearly manifested by the Troubles in Northern Ireland with the Republican community on the Irish Nationalist side and Loyalist community on the British Nationalist side. There is however a positive side of Nationalism which celibates and draws people together. Grace Sutherland a Scottish Nationalist and an occasional contributor on PP draws a clear distinction between ethnic and civic nationalism and puts it very well:
“Ethnic nationalists, as far as I can see, emphasise exceptionalism, “born into” citizenship, common roots, blood inheritance and so on. Perhaps the emphasis is less on shared political rights and more on pre-existing ethnic characteristics. This would certainly fit the Brit nat mentality. And perhaps what could be said to unite people against others –as we saw during wartime – or recently with the culture of xenophobia that has taken root in the far right. Unfortunately this doesn’t help people overcome division such as race, gender, class or division of resources.
This is diametrically opposed to the ethos of SNP. The last thing the SNP are promoting is exclusivity. If the SNP are nationals, then they are civic nationals. Civic Nationalism emphasises rule by consent, democratic pluralism, liberty and strength in diversity. It provides the framework in law, legislative possibilities and political participation to reconcile differences.”
As many have observed including this year’s Orwell Prize Winner for Journalism Fintan O’Toole and Anthony Bartnett in the Lure of Greatness, Ethnic Nationalism has reared its ugly head in England channeled by the Brexit Referendum and the belief in English exceptionalism is on the rise.
What will post Brexit Britain look like especially if there is a Train Crash Brexit? For a serious analysis I would recommend Ian Dunt’s book Brexit, What the hell happens now. For a less serious prediction I very much liked Seaan Ui Neill’s comment on Slugger O’ Toole in response to someone who seemed to believe everything he reads in the Daily Mail and was certain that it would be paradise.
“ the hummin’ Of the bees in the cigarette trees, by the soda water fountain, near the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings….”
I’m confused, my own crystal ball is showing fire flood and famine following a petulant exit reverting to WTO terms. I’d negotiate what your own little voices are telling you more closely before stating all this as if it has already unquestionably happened. We are actually on uncharted sea……
The English are not used to defeat. As every English/British person knows they took on the might of the Germans in WWII and defeated them. There is acceptance that there was some help from the US, but the Eastern front is largely ignored apart from the Arctic Convoys. In no way wishing to degrade the heroic efforts of the English the narrative Dunkirk, the Blitz, El-Alamein, D-Day, Victory! ignores large chunks of the war. The reality is the vast majority of the fighting and casualties were on the Eastern Front. Without their Russian and US allies, Britain stood no chance whatsoever of winning the 2nd world war. The British ability to self aggrandise is extraordinary.
Should Britain exit the EU without a deal my view was that it would normally take the loss of a major war to be put in such a position. Whereas I could think of plenty of Scottish and Irish defeats (e.g Flodden Field and Aughrim) I could think of no similar English ones. However is a discussion of an analysis by the Eurocrat Chris Kendall Michael Reynolds suggested closest historical precedent is the loss of the American Colonies in 1776. Britain lost 30% of its trade overnight and it took more than a generation to recover good relations with the US.
Whereas Scottish Nationalism has gone a little quiet, a disastrous Brexit will likely tear the Union apart. In Northern Ireland also there is no longer a Unionist majority (there is not a Nationalist majority either) and whereas pre-Brexit, I thought I would not see a United Ireland in my lifetime, I’m now not so sure. England could well find itself not leaving one union but two.
The hope is that if Brexit proves to be a the disaster and defeat that it now likely seems, that the English will emerge a much better people and treat the other nationalities on these Islands, the Irish Scots and Welsh as equals as indeed other Europeans. Just as the Germans are a much better people after WWII the same hopefully will happen to the English. This theme is developed further in our October book of the Month.
Others have different views such as Prof Simon Wren-Lewis. The fact that a train crash Brexit will be a catastrophe may not be lost on the PM. Wren-Lewis argues that “No Deal” is a myth and by extension far from May being the most disastrous PM in the past 200 years she may be treated more kindly by history. I’m not so sure as an economist Wren-Lewis is trained to believe that people are rational. May has done nothing to indicate she would upset the increasingly sewer-like Daily Mail and even the Telegraph is attracting headlines such as Why has the once-great Daily Telegraph become Pravda for Boris Johnson? As Tobais Stone has speculated we may be entering entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals.
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An excellent analysis. As you say, the theme is developed in the October BoM. Barnett (and others) points out that there are many deficiencies in the English polity which would need to sorted if England is to emerge changed and more European: voting system, constitution, the neoliberal model, the press, entrenched privilege to name but a few. Not to mention an opposition committed to Europe and real democratic reform of both the EU and the UK (if the latter survives).
A tall order.
Sean Danaher - 2017-10-13T11:55:56+00:00
thanks, I am still reading through Barnett’s book. I find England deeply troubling at present but at least I am not far from the Scottish border being North of Hadrian’s wall.
Interesting. Your’e right that the Brexit toffs are sort of English nationalists, who know nothing of defeat – though (how ironical!) they often aren’t English.
The voters are likely generally not deep thinkers of the up yours Delors ilk who have been s**t on from a great height by their own neoliberal governments since Thatcher.
What Simon Wren Lewis would call the MSM have imparted the idea that it really is all the EU’s fault that we have to use rectangular cricket balls so that we’ll never win the test, or some such delusion and so they think they’ll give leaving a whirl.
If it happens it will be a disaster for the UK – I live in some hope that because the Northern Irish open border is realistically insoluble, that the negotiations will stall before the end of the year…
Even the ‘Sunday Times’ quotes the LSE economists Swari Dhingra and Nikil Datta with approval:
“Countries have always traded most with their biggest, closest neighbours. This is by far the most reliable fact about international trade and holds true no matter which set of countries, time period or sector (goods, services ecommerce, foreign investments) is looked at. Given that the EU is within swimming distance of the UK, has a population of more than 500m and a GDP of almost $20trillion (double that of China) an equivalent replacement is in effect impossible. EU standards on goods and labour are more acceptable to British people than those in the US, China or India.”
Or as I prefer double the distance and halve the trade.
Game set and match to remainers I’m afraid – square balls or not.
And even in the long term, lose an empire in the last century, self destruct this.
And even worse, flip chart fairy tales agrees.. https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/no-deal-brexit-its-already-too-late/
The ‘I’ also has a good article: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/another-brexits-beautiful-mysteries-despite-voting-im-expected-actively-support/
“I completely accept that the Brexiteers have won the right to drive the car off the cliff. What I cannot stand is the idea that I have to smile on the way down.”
thanks for the links: “Flip Chart Rick” is always worth reading as indeed Simon Wren-Lewis’s MainlyMacro blog. One would hope rationality would prevail but there seem to be dark forces at work.
I was thinking of writing this up as a full post.
I mentioned in this article that my wife had been at 10 Downing St. this week. I thought little of this as she is fairly regularly at the Palace of Westminster and in the past Buck House but she had a photo-op by the door of No 10 which she shared on Twitter and Facebook. indeed Jeremy Hunt who had arranged the meeting opening remarks were “These are 4 words I have been wanting to say for years: Welcome to Downing St.” It seems that 10 Downing St is used to emphasise importance.
One person who is not a Facebook friend is my wife’s brother who is an ardent Brexiteer and my wife texted the image to him on his phone. I can probably dig the exact words out of my wife’s phone but this is an approximate exchange.
Reply from the brother in law “Well its a bloody good job you are not negotiating Brexit you’d be even worse than Theresa”
Wife: “What do you mean?”
Brother in Law: “you would be hoisting a white flag towards Brussels”
Wife: “I make a far better job of negotiating than May” (I agree, she is exceptional good at this)
Brother in law: “Rubbish”
Wife “What would you do then”
Brother in Law: “I start with hitting Brussels with half a dozen nuclear bombs”
Wife: “that would be a totally stupid idea”
Brother in law became irate.
Suggested to the wife that my father used the term “Invincible Ignorance” and this is what the Brother in Law displayed
Wife: “Sean says you are invincibly ignorant and there is no point of arguing with you”
I suggested texting look up the Dunning-Kruger effect but the Brother in Law had had enough at this stage.
Who are the English? Not the privileged-and-prominent privately educated, nor the land-owning aristocracy, nor the not-from-here Brexiteers – Gove, Fox, Duncan Smith (Scotland), Johnson (USA then Eton), Hannan (Peru then Marlborough), Carswell (lived in Uganda/Kenya then Charterhouse), Stuart (Germany), or the warm-beer-MEP Farage.
Brexit will not help but the next generation did not support it and the future is theirs.
Indeed Charles,
The term “Lions led by Donkeys” which was used I think in the 1st world war comes to mind. We are all susceptible to some extent to ethnic nationalism. I think people are being dreadfully misinformed, but there also seem to be dark forces at work.
My bigger worry is who is driving a hard Brexit, as Ivan carefully put in his excellent post: http://www.progressivepulse.org/society/lists-of-the-elite-are-interesting-but-never-forget-that-power-is-at-its-most-effective-when-it-is-least-observable/ power is at its most effective when it is least observable.
I have already mentioned hard Brexit party within a party the ironically named “European Research Group.” Theresa Villers is a member, she was NI Secretary during the Brexit campaign with potentially disastrous consequences. One name that has come up a few times this week is Legatum (I put a post up re their Irish paper a few weeks ago). Legatum is an exceptionally well funded right wing think tank with some Singapore and NZ money but I understand mainly Australian money. They seem to have an extraordinary hold on the government.
Such right wing Think Tanks also have had an extraordinary influence in the US particularly with the Republican party – George Monbiot has written some excellent articles documenting this.
The question of who is behind Legatum is interesting. Is there any Australian billionaire who has a hatred of the EU? One is rumoured to have said “When I go to Downing St they do as I ask, when I go to Brussels I am totally ignored”
Legatum is a New Zealand billionaire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legatum
I guess billionaires hate the EU because they are the only threat to their power. Unfortunately, normal people do not seem to get that government is on their side protecting them from the hidden power of billionaires who want everyone to work for them in debt slavery. The government is the people, and the people really should take back control!
On the face of it yes, but with such Think Tanks there seems to be a web of dark money so I’m not sure what appears on the surface is reality.
Charles I agree whole heartedly with your last statement “Take Back Control!” now who used that recently as a slogan?
If you want “dark money”, secretive billionaires, right-wing think tanks, capturing government have a look at “Democracy in Chains” by Nancy MacLean, a professor of history.
Though, it has to be said, she has come in for quite a bit of criticism regarding the accuracy and integrity of her work – quite a lot of it from they “usual suspects” such as beneficiaries of Koch brother largesse.
Even if only a quarter of it is true, it’s a frightening picture, but one that has been documented by others elsewhere in other countries not too far from here. Just look at the list of donors to the Tory party, or the “think tanks” (aka propagandists) funded by tories and hard right billionaires and the ever revolving door between government and big business.
Indeed Ivan had an article on Nancy’s book a few months ago http://www.progressivepulse.org/uncategorized/democracy-in-chains-a-us-export-thats-not-as-new-as-some-might-claim/
The question is why do these people want to drag us out of the EU; it is not for a desire to improve the life of ordinary citizens, that’s for sure
I’ve read (sorry can’t find the link) that Legatum is funded too by some hedge fund people who have a history of making money out of countries in difficulty… No possible hints there then,
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Taking the Bates
Currently, we find ourselves 18 games into what has been a successful season to this point for the Ladyjacks. A strong non-conference schedule has paid off with four straight conference wins. Despite many tough opponents still on the slate, SFA sits at 11-7, needing only five more wins to match last season's entire total. To me, two points in time stick out so far in this season.
First, the match against ULM. The comeback against the Warhawks saved the 'Jacks from what would have been one of the more crushing defeats in recent memory. Instead, it served as a springboard for more solid play to wrap up the tournament pre-season and set the club on a positive track going into SLC play. The second turning point to date that sticks out is the insertion of Junior OH Tori Bates in the second set of the match against Rice. Having started both Kelsi Bartlett and Abby McIntyre, Debbie Humphreys was hoping to see what both freshmen could do against a bigger, physical team like the Owls. But, by the end of the first set, SFA was hitting just .029 with seven of the teams' 10 attack errors coming from the freshman duo.
Humphreys then made a change that turned out to be gold. Bates was inserted for McIntyre. Bartlett, who had mixed in some kills with the errors was allowed to stay on the floor. Despite not winning the match, SFA turned the entire game around. Rice pushed through 26-24 in the pivotal second set. The Owls scored five of the sets' last six points to take a commanding two set lead. It was a set SFA should have won - a set they played well enough to win. Bates insertion provided an immediate spark and despite being down two sets, the Ladyjacks came out of the half in fine form and took the third set. Had SFA been able to close out the second set, the match would have gone five and of course.. who knows what would have happened then? Bates finished with a 14 kills to pair up with Jill Ivy's 17. A total of 31 pin kills, plus the six times Bartlett found the floor. It was a MAJOR spark. I couldn't stop raving about it on the radio that day and I wondered all the way home if Bates would get the start the following Thursday in Thibodeaux. Indeed, she's started ever since.
I have always been a Bates advocate. Tori had one good match in South Dakota. But then the remainder of that tournament and then in Ruston and Houston she hadn't played hardly at all. During that time, several people asked me what I thought about her being relegated primarily to the bench. Yes, it's true. Various nagging injuries have hampered lateral movement and the freshman season hasn't been duplicated yet. But still, looking back, the answer is obvious now. It just wasn't "Tori Bates Time" yet. Playing four matches in three days or five matches in five days doesn't fit Bates style at this point. But, once conference play rolled around and the schedule became regulated with two matches a week, that proved to be just the right dose of rest to then unleash Bates' maximum efficiency.
Hey, we've got a lot of McIntyre to look forward to. She is going to contribute. All during the tournament season, Humphreys raved about what she could become almost every time we talked together. And I need to say at this point, I made the commitment to talk with Humphreys more in season this year and I've stuck to that. By doing so, I've learned just how valued McIntyre is to the future plans of the club.
That said, imagine if SFA had been swept at Rice and McIntyre had played just well enough to stay on the floor. That might have made it harder to insert Bates once conference play started and then we might have had to take a loss or two in order to get to the combination that has worked so well for the last three weeks. Given it would mean conference losses, they might have had a bigger impact on November.
Now, we took a loss or two in South Dakota that convinced the brain trust to return to a 5-1 offense. The matches against Valparaiso and UMKC were also winnable games, but those matched served to haunt Humphreys a bit. She'd tell me that she knew the talent was here. But, she just felt something wasn't quite right. That something turned out to be the decision to go 6-2 rather than 5-1. So, we switched. That's an example of the tournament season teaching us something valuable. But, the timing at Rice was divine. We got production from Bates at the most opportune moment. Her insertion into the lineup has been a stabilizing force over the first four games of conference - when it matters most. It has actually taken a little pressure off Bartlett and allowed McIntyre to watch and refine herself in practice so that she is ready when her name is called again.
But now, and you knew it was coming... there is a strong statistical argument to go with Bates from this point forward. SFA has the depth to be respectable on both pins, and on most nights stellar on the right one with Ivy. Generally speaking, one or both of Allen and/or Walker will chip in their share of kills. So, that sums up to a balanced offense under the current setup with Bates/Bartlett.
Here is the recent data. Take a look and then compare it with history.
Bates is hitting .198 overall for .2014. That's respectable, especially for a lot of the attacks coming from the left. But, before the Rice match she was at 39-19-144 for a .139 attack percentage and since that time she has hit 47-17-109 for a .275 hitting percentage. The numbers are even better if you focus on just conference play where she is hitting a cool .299. Attack percentages that high are extremely good on the pin. Will those numbers tend to regulate a bit as the sample size grows? Sure, probably the law of large numbers will kick in. But, now consider this list.
Attack Percentages By All SFA Freshman Pin-Hitters Since 2009 (Min: 250 attacks)
Jill Ivy (2011) .183
Emily Franklin (2009) .152
Tori Bates (2012) .145
Kaitlyn Granger (2013) .116
Katzy Randall (2011) .103
Monica Pannone (2010) .069
It is probably not surprising that our current best player had the best attack percentage as a freshman of any pin hitter over the last five years. But, the aggregate data is what is important. The typical percentage put up by this group hovers right around .130. As of this writing, Bartlett is hitting .141 in 2014.
And now, my main point:
Bates could regress slightly over the next few weeks and the combined offensive production put up by her and Bartlett would project to be above what the aggregate numbers above suggest from two freshman.
Indeed, as you can see from the chart above, the last year SFA used two freshman frequently on the pins was 2011. Correlation isn't causation, but that year SFA was 7-10 in conference play. That team needed one more year to mature before it made a serious run at the conference tournament championship in 2012. Plus, I'll remind you that Bates, then a freshman, had a double-double in the semifinal game we lost to eventual champ UCA.
Right now, Bates/Bartlett is the right veteran/rookie combination. The Rice match was a huge blessing in that regard. McIntyre's day will come. Maybe like Bates in 2011, McIntyre will team with Bates and Bartlett in 2015 for a conference tournament run. But, this is 2014 and we are interested in making a run sooner rather than later. All signs point to us being in the mix to do just that.
It's time to set the hook for the rest of the conference. Here's hoping they take the Bates.
Posted by Greg Miller at 9:09:00 PM
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Arch Chemicals, the parent company of Arch Water, a brand known in the swimming pool industry for water quality and testing products, has been formally acquired by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Lonza Group Ltd based in Basel.
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Arch Chemicals is a global biocides company with interests in personal care products, wood protection as well as water products. It has 3,000 employees and manufacturing and customer-support facilities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
The Lonza Group acquired Arch Chemicals in a cash tender offer to shareholders.
Arch Water is a world leader in water disinfection through its water products business. It specialises in commercial, residential swimming pools and industrial products to keeping water clean and safe.
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Trumpets qualifying notebook - Round 1 Austria
Matt 'Trumpets' Ragsdale gives us a rundown of the events that unfolded during qualifying for the Austrian GP.
Ambient 24.8° Track 53.8° Humidity 34.6% Wind 1.9 m/s
Well, that was quite the off season. Ferrari ditching Vettel, Team Xerox tilting for the top 3, Red Bull doth protest a wee bit too much and somehow, not remarkably, Mercedes look to be driving off into the distance yet again, an era of (mostly) unprecedented dominance that will no doubt be much discussed with asterisks and caveats. Yeah, and the whole pandemic thing. And yet, the more one looked, the more the song remained the same, Ferrari in disarray, Renault looking to make a big step, Red Bull to be on pace with Mercedes, tight midfield battles and Ted calling the entire front half of the car a bargeboard, comforting, familiar rituals in these strange times.
That said, both HAAS and Ferrari admitted up front they had no development to bring (even Williams brought some) and even worse for the tifosi, they admitted that their entire aero direction was incorrect and after suffering correlation issues to boot, they were changing course and were bringing a new concept to Hungary, leaving them defenseless at the start of the season from the Mercedes juggernaut and potentially adrift in the midfield. In general, a new concept after the season starts is a white flag for the team so it falls to Red Bull to tame their pointy car to provide something that vaguely resembles competition for the Silver Arrows. The juniors in the midfield were perhaps the most exciting feature of the weekend, as FP3 indicated it was going to be an extremely fraught struggle between them for ascendancy and Williams, perhaps, has brought enough to the table to quibble at the back.
Green Light!! Latifi was first off the mark, to make up for his sins in FP3 (he crashed), along with Alfa (not Alpha) in the form of Raikkonen and Giovinazzi. Russell was next out along with Stroll, as Giovinazzi rocked in a 1:05.478 with Raikkonen a tenth behind. Latifi limped across with a 1:07.208 as Russell looked to continue his easy qualifying dominance over his teammate. Nothing but green sectors for the Williams driver as he went P3, for the moment with a 1:05.592. Latifi's second run was a bit tidier, a half second back of Russell as the track, with 10 minutes left had quickly filled with the rest of the teams, save Mercedes and Renault.
AS the times rolled in it was Norris outpointing Stroll, Verstappen to the top and Sainz P2, ahead of Perez. Albon was a bit of a disappointment in P6 and even worse, Leclerc in P9 with Vettel P4 were rapidly dashing any hopes the tifosi may have harbored. A neat P6 for Gasly, ahead of Albon, continued his streak of quietly demonstrating that perhaps RBR may have been hasty with last season's decision. Ooooh, Hamilton to P12 and Bottas P4 meant a bit of work left for Mercedes and with 6 minutes left and the last times rolling in it was Raikkonen, Magnussen, Russell, Grosjean and Latifi
on the outside looking in, with K-Mag complaining of being balked by Leclerc. Hamilton wound up all the way down in P14 so it was going to be a less than ideal 2nd lap, which he clocked with just around 4 minutes left, bouncing up to P2 but still a less than ideal time.
As the last runners headed to the pits to get ready for their last chance to escape the purge, perhaps some steering issues for Hamilton from the team radio. Russell up to P15 as they hit the 2 minute mark, with Stroll rocking a fairly quick lap and to the top he went, with Leclerc rolling out for another go as the clock ticked ever closer to the end of the session. And FOMO ruled, as only Albon remained in the pits with everyone else electing to have another go. Grosjean on a better lap to his first effort stuck the knife into Russell, putting him out of Q1. Verstappen bounced Stroll to P2 and it was a wet blanket for K-Mag, unable to get out of Q1.
So, it was Magnussen, Russell, Giovinazzi, Raikkonen and Latifi going no further, off in search of some spaetzle as the rest turned it round for the glories of Q2. Verstappen, Bottas and Hamilton at the front, as one might expect, but Stroll P4 seemed a bit unexpected and Russell just a tenth out of Q2 had to be rated as a genuine improvement for Williams, which looked to finally be making some inroads into their disaster of a car. Albon damaged his wing, explaining his non-participation in the sorting lottery, and the question about Hamilton's steering remained unpursued as Q2 loomed.
Q2 opened with a whole lot of nothing, as the waiting game was now being played, and the only issue to be settled was which teams were going to bet on getting through to Q3 with the Medium tyre. 12 minutes left and all was still a mystery, with the track empty and the commentators beginning to reach for material.
At last, with 11 minutes left Mercedes got the party started, and with that the dam was broken and the pitlane filled with anxious drivers, fighting in slow motion for the ideal place in the slipstream, without being too close to spoil their aero. Bottas, Hamilton, Sainz, Stroll, Norris, Vettel, Leclerc all in a bunch then Kvyat Grosjean and Gasly. Verstappen, the sole Medium tyre runner, then Gasly and it all got messy as the hot laps kicked off. 1:03.325 for Hamilton, 1:03.53 for Bottas, then Norris, Stroll and Perez. Ricciardo managed a P6 and it was Verstappen, P7 on the Mediums, then Sainz and Vettel rounding out the top 10. Albon was running on his own and a big twitch ruined his lap, leaving him P13 in what was increasingly looking like a very hard to driver RBR. Verstappen managed to improve to P6 on his lap, but ooooh, would they stand with that hand? Enquiring minds wanted to know, but were going to have to wait as the teams rolled in to make their last, desperate adjustments for the last shout at the hallowed ground of Q3. Gasly, Kvyat, Albon, Ocon and Grosjean had it all to do as the seconds ticked down.
2:30 to go and Stroll led the way, Ocon next and then the deluge as all the runners were back out and Verstappen on the Softs, to the surprise of no one, dead last with the ability to bail should his time stay in the top 10. Ocon was the first off to try and save himself, he had run a 1:04 dead in FP3 and was nearly a second off that with his first run. It was not to be and he was locked into P14 a disappointment indeed as Hamilton took another 0.3 off his time and was then outdone by Bottas, and with Leclerc and Vettel in P9 and P10 respectively, in the bottom spots it was Albon, making up for his earlier mistakes, rocking up to P3 and brutally putting Vettel out of Q3. Wow.... That said, from Albon in P3 to Leclerc in P10 there was just 0.3 seconds in it and the midfield battle was looking lit for tomorrow's race. Verstappen through on the Mediums was also a thing and all that remained was the final tilt for the palmares. Going no further and off in search of some weissbier were Vettel, Gasly, Kvyat, Ocon, and Grosjean with Norris best of the rest heading into Q3 as the battle with Racing Point was hotting up tremendously.
Q3 again kicked off with criclets as no one wanted to be first out of the gate and making a slipstream for their competitors. 9 minutes to go before anyone deigned to turn a wheel and it was Mercedes, apparently unconcerned, well, who are we kidding, utterly unconcerned rolling to the end of the pitlane followed by the rest of the field in short order. Norris, Sainz, Perez and Leclerc trailed closely, then Verstappen as the Merc battle kicked off. Hamilton, crushing S1 as Bottas purpled S2 and then S3 and it was Bottas, with a 1:02.939 and Hamilton, unable to better him slotting into P2 on what was ostensibly their banker runs. Verstappen into P3 and Albon P4 as the expected order began to reassert itself. Sainz, Perez and Leclerc filled the next 3 spots, and Norris, Stroll and Ricciardo elected to bet it all on a single run, a lack of tyres cutting short their chances in the final battle.
Stroll took advantage of the interval to roll out for his effort, and as he kicked off his hot lap, the rest of the runners emerged from the pits to have their final go for all the marbles. P6 for Stroll set the mark for Perez, who was just on his outlap. Macca traffic jam in pits as confusion reigned over who was going to lead, throwing everyone behind into disarray as they loitered side by side and leaving Norris at the back of a long train when it finally got sorted. Yellows suddenly flashed up as Bottas took an unplanned trip through the gravel which did no favours for Hamilton (tinfoil time perhaps, did he Rosberg Hamilton?), but Lewis kept on it and was through with a 1:02.951, 0.012 seconds short of pole and it was Bottas, taking the first pole position of the year.
Verstappen improved his time a bit and then it was Norris, splitting the Bulls and perhaps the story of the day, as Team Xerox was expected to be playing that role, and not McLaren. P6 for Perez, followed by Leclerc, Sainz, Stroll, and Ricciardo, who surprisingly did not improve on his Q2 effort. Waiting to see how the yellows affected the laps behind and it was hard to overlook just how poorly the Ferrari powered cars had done relative to their last year's performance, with all of them being slower than last year in relative sessions, whilst their competitors had all improved. Sure enough, Ricciardo reported yellows for his run, so there's an explanation for Renault fans, but Hamilton said it hadn't affected his lap as he was apparently close enough behind to not catch them...
Tomorrow's race is decidedly setting up to be 3 different races, an epic midfield battle with 0.4 seconds covering P4-P10, Hamilton versus Bottas and the Medium tyre, played by Max Verstappen, versus the rest of the field, played mostly by Mercedes. Which should be enough for some thoroughly entertaining battles punctuated by tense tyre and fuel management periods (well, tense if you're glued to sector times to be fair). Ferrari will be searching for redemption in the form of race pace, and Vettel, at least with a free choice of tyres to even up the strategies will be eying how far up the top 10 he can reach. Of course, last year's race was fairly compromised by cooling issues for Mercedes, so if it's hot enough perhaps that extra wrinkle might appear, but given Mercedes' penchant for sorting these details out... Fingers crossed!!!
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A and J's Olde Tyme Sports Pub
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All New Soccer Thread ~ All Levels ~ All Leagues
By Texsox, November 3, 2011 in A and J's Olde Tyme Sports Pub
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This season a have the 7th grade boy's team. The 7th graders, now 8th grade won district last year, so the bar is set high. We are learning a new formation. We will be starting from a 3-4-3 which is what the high school implemented last season. The idea is consistency from 7-12 in everything from drills to cheers.
Basically from here we can fall back to a 4-4-2 or a 5-3-2
I won't have my full team until the night before our first game. They are playing football right now. I had some tonight and saw some real bright spots. Two of my best players are very athletic and left footed.
Edited November 3, 2011 by Tex
The formatting of the formation changes when I hit enter
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QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 2, 2011 -> 08:37 PM)
3-4-3 in high school? I covered a lot of high school soccer this fall and can't recall a 3 defender formation off the top of my head and certainly not a 3-4-3. Some teams went 3-5-2 for stretches of games, but I haven't seen a 3-4-3. I was kind of hoping to see something like that just for variety. What some coaches call variety is playing with a flat back four instead of using a sweeper. You must have a very progressive varsity coach.
Is soccer a winter sport in Texas? I can only dream of such a thing haha. The weather for one thing, but to not have to compete with football for the best athletes would be nice.
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IT'S PEANUT BUTTER DELLY TIME!!!
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QUOTE (danman31 @ Nov 3, 2011 -> 03:06 PM)
I think Chile under Biesla may have utilised the 3-4-3 formation a lot from memory.
You need quick defenders if it's going to work though (and wingers actually willing to push back).
QUOTE (DBAHO @ Nov 3, 2011 -> 03:28 AM)
Yeah that's pros. We're talking U18 amateurs.
The high school coach is very good, but I believe it is his assistants who are really driving this program. He's also a football coach. I believe Defensive coordinator or line coach. His assistant played at a very high level in Mexico, was an assistant coach at a University there. He also ran a club level program from what I've been told.
In middle school we play boys now until Christmas and the girls crank up in January until the beginning of March. Texas is one of about 6 or 7 states that play soccer as a winter sport. Sucks for the north Texas teams. They cancel some games from too cold conditions. But it keeps us from forcing kids to choose from their club competition or school.
Our HS program has a major challenge and the new formation is a partial answer. We have a city to our south that will send three or sometimes all four of our district representatives to the state tourny. Seems as if they always are getting a dozen recent immigrants to play for them ;-). It is tough to complain, our basketball program seems to always pull a couple immigrants as well who make big contributions. So we're starting by out thinking them.
When we get back in formation I look at only three backs and cringe. With a two goal lead I will fall back into a 5-3-2, at least on defense. If we get down, those two mids will be cheating a bit to the goal side. I have three, possibly four speedy solid players for my mids and a little waterbug kid for my center forward. He flat out can control the ball and is good with both feet. I wish he was about 6 or 8 inches taller, I'll move him to the far side for corner kicks and get a taller kid in for any header opportunities.
I also haven't really identified a goal keeper. I had one who has played the position before in a league, but I wasn't impressed during drills. No instincts were present.
And last season I went with a 4-4-2 but kind of a U for my backs. It fit the girls on the team. I wasn't tracking the stat at the beginning of the season, but in our last 7 games, no team score on the left side of my defense. Yesenia was the bomb. When the kicker for the football team became ineligible I suggested she try out. Damn does she have a leg. She intimidated the other girls and when she had the ball, they would duck out of the way.
When in doubt, pick the tallest person available.
I just may start there. I gave my team my goal keeper speech which goes something like this. When the other team scores, and they will, that means the ball passed by ten defenders ~and~ our keeper. If ten of you couldn't stop them, how is one person? So you turn around and apologize to the keeper for putting him in that position.
Well today was the first practice where I wasn't competing with the football team for players. Several new kids showed up and I needed to field a team tomorrow night. Yuck. I slotted kids as best I could, but I know I have a few out of position, a few kids starting that shouldn't. I explained that to everyone but one kid started sulking, walked away pouting. I figure this is his one chance, then he's adios.
So this morning grades came out and I lost seven players, including three starters. We were playing the first round of a tournament. It was the worst display of sportsmanship I have ever witnessed at a kid's game. The fans of the other team, parents and coaches, were yelling obscenities, accusing the ref of accepting a bribe, etc. Six of their kids received yellow cards and one red card for swearing at the ref or complaining about calls. Four of the parents were removed from the field.
We were losing 0-1 with about six minutes to play. I look up from 3/4 of a field away my keeper was getting a yellow card. I ask why and learn he was sitting down. OK, I forgot to tell him about that one. My second and third string keepers were suspended for academics, so I had no one. I grabbed a kid thinking it's only for one play. As he comes to the sideline I hear him say loudly, what the f***?! Well, now he's going to be sitting longer. The ref comes over a minute or two later and reminds me that I can bring him back in. I explain he used foul language on the sideline and would not be returning. Thirty seconds later my striker is down in the box and we're getting a penalty kick. 1-1! The obscenities really begin to fly.
When we go to penalty kicks I put my keeper back in the game. The other coach starts screaming that he had gotten a red card and can't be playing. The referee explains it was only a yellow card. The coach screams, no it wasn't or he would have been back in the game. I am about 10 yeards away and say, "I don't tolerate yellow cards from my players so I sat him for the rest of the game to teach him a lesson about sportsmanship" and walked back to my kids. The other parents started mocking me.
We won the toss and elected to go first. 3-3 in the first set. Then we went to sudden death. We made the first one, they hit it right at my keeper. Victory.
We lined up and waited, and waited, and watched them get on the bus.
I spoke with the team about being winners 168 hours a week. Called the other team losers. And started planning for the game(s) Saturday.
MexSoxFan#1 13
Location:San Antonio, TX
QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 10, 2011 -> 08:19 PM)
So this morning grades came out and I lost seven players, including three starters. We were playing the first round of a tournament. It was the worst display of sportsmanship I have ever witnessed at a kid's game. The fans of the other team, parents and coaches, were yelling obscenities, accusing the ref of accepting a bribe, etc. Six of their kids received yellow cards and one red card for sweaing at the ref or complaining about calls. Four of the parents were removed from the field.
Wow, they really get into those games, congrats on the win and an awful display of unsportsmanship from the other team, those coaches need to realize they are dealing with kids and as important as winning a game is how you play the game...
The point I made this morning when I was talking to my AD was by blaming every bad call on the referee, you shield the players from any responsibility. That leads to sloppy play. The sloppy play leads to more calls against you.
Hey look at that, the US won a game. How good was Fabian Johnson today? Geez.
ChiSox_Sonix 0
Location:NY
QUOTE (danman31 @ Nov 15, 2011 -> 02:26 PM)
Timmy Chandler has looked good too. And Danny Williams has shown promise too in limted action. I'm liking what i've seen out of these Americans learning in Germany.
Real excited about Joe Gyau who's playing for the Hoffenheim juniors right now. He's on the U-23 training squad at the moment.
As for the game, what a difference playing with a second striker made. And Michael Bradley as well. He needs to be playing as a mainstay. Defense had its issues, hopefully getting Gooch back can fix some of that
JPN366 0
Dirty South Sider
Location:Pelham, AL
Huh, didn't realize they were playing NCAA Men's Soccer playoffs in Birmingham at Regions Park.
QUOTE (JPN366 @ Dec 9, 2011 -> 11:39 PM)
Yeah I watched the second semi tonight. They did a nice job of positioning the camera so all you can see is the stands. You wouldn't know it was a baseball stadium if you weren't already aware.
Still, it's pretty lame they couldn't get a soccer (or even shared football) venue for this. Not to mention, they got pretty crappy weather tonight.
QUOTE (danman31 @ Dec 10, 2011 -> 12:30 AM)
The weather was bad? It's kinda cold, but that's all. Facility-wise, it's the best option, in our area that is. Plenty of parking, a few acres it seems, plenty of seating.
QUOTE (JPN366 @ Dec 10, 2011 -> 12:42 AM)
Well I mean no one really wants to go outside for a soccer game when it's 38 degrees.
Now you sound like Peter King, Dan.
LittleHurt05 324
Third Base Coach
Location:NW Burbs
Tim Howard scored a goal in England today
zenryan 10
Location:orlando
QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 08:14 PM)
Might have found our second striker up top.
I like his non reaction. Him being a goalie, he probably felt bad that the other GK got embarrassed because its not like he was trying to score. haha
Ummm, Barcelona is pretty good...
2 nil over their biggest rivals at halftime with 2 gorgeous gols, especially from Dani Alves.
Edited January 25, 2012 by MexSoxFan#1
SoxFan1 2
Janko Tipsarevic asked Rafael Nadal and Felicino Lopez last week: "Why is it called 'El Clasico' if the result is the same every time?"
It's so awesome to see a top level team of professional athletes absolutely lose their minds against one team. Real certainly isn't the better team, but they are one of the best in the world right now and they just melt every time they play Barca. The first half today was dominated by Real early, they missed a few easy chances, and suddenly Barca magic and they lead 2-0 at half.
It's great to watch and there are few things better than watching Ronaldo lose. What a prick. Jose Mourinho's faces when they go down to Barca are fantastic as well.
flippedoutpunk 17
I'm Bi-Losing
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Ill give Cristiano this.. Not only is he smoking hot, but when he scores a goal he behaves like he's been there before, about a billion times.
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Popiół – Zabobony
Band(s): Popiół
Label(s): Godz ov War Productions
Release Format(s): CD
Review Date: August 8, 2019
Strange thing with the new album of Popiół (Ash). Although its a “debut” of the band, this material was originally recorded after 1996 debut album of Thy Worshiper titled “Popiół (Introibo ad Altare Dei)” and some of the songs were supposedly done for the second album of the band. Its worth to notice that band Popiół consists of ex members of Thy Worshiper and also current ones. Queation is why did they wait 20 years to record and release that material? Who knows. More important question is if music defends itself after all those years. I must admit I never heard the debut album of Thy Worshiper but I’m familiar with their music and my favourite of their newer relases is “Czarna Dzika Czerwień” which is on my shelf and it doesn’t gather dust. So obviously there will be some similarities and comparison to that album is unavoidable rather than to 1996 debut.
So what can you expect from “Zabobony” (Superstitions)? Quick look at the cover art which shows female version of Leshy (Witcher games fans will guess straight away) which is the guardian and master of the forest in Slavic mythology and you will know what are they playing. The music its a mixture of Black Metal with folk deeply rooted in Polish pagan folklore. And Popiół is a example of a band that makes that pagan/folk type of Black Metal, not only by lyrics and throwing occasionally here and there some old instruments from samples but they do it with their whole music. So very rarely you will hear a blast beast or wall of buzzing sound. Core of the music is atmosphere and melodies weaved with some Black Metal and acoustic guitars. What really catched my attention is the bass. Very well recorded and mixed, it fills the space perfectly. I can hardly remember a Black Metal album with bass guitar in it that is so good. And I must admit that this mix of Folk and Black Metal works perfectly for me. To tell you the truth if “Zabobony” would be released after Thy Worshiper 1996 album it would be something in those days and an instant classic.
Question is how much of core material is in those songs and how did they change in those 20 years. Unfortunately we will never know and during those years there were some really good and innovative albums. So if it goes to comparison with modern Thy Worshiper the biggest difference is the lack of female vocals. Other than that, what can you expect when half of the band is in today’s Thy Worshiper and other half used to be in it. You guessed correctly, the music which very similar. Is that a bad thing? If you like folk infused Black Metal with Eastern European influences the answer will be “no”. And if you like old/new Thy Worshiper minus female vocals again…”no”. You will find Popiół’s debut album quite interesting. And to tell the truth if somebody would play this album without telling me name of band I’m sure i would say it is new material of Thy Worshiper.
To wrap it up its not bad material neither is it revolutionary. Really a solid “debut” album of veterans that wont turn most people head towards it which is a shame as those songs grow on you the more you listen to them. But on the other hand this its the kind of music you can play to fans of different metal schools and everybody will be happy. Its not the most dark Black Metal, its not the soft one either. It just flows naturally with the mood and the best way to explore those sonic landscapes are long trips to the deep woods. Make it on your own or with somebody you will appreciate that specific atmosphere of “Zabobony”. (Sulphur)
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Last Lap: Why Is Lil’ Kim Mad At Nicki Minaj?
Could we soon be hearing new tunes from John Mayer? Adam Levine is criticized for a less than patriotic remark, and Daft Punk’s new album takes the top spot.
After an interview in which Nicki Minaj cited Lil’ Kim as an inspiration to her current success, Kim began retweeting disparaging messages to her Twitter feed, relaying that Minaj wasn’t sincere and is actually subversively starting beef. We’re a little confused. [Bossip]
After being taken out of the game by a growth on his vocal cords, John Mayer is back and is beginning to record new music. Can’t wait to hear what the singer-songwriter has in store. [E!]
Adam Levine doesn’t actually hate the country, despite his remark to the contrary. While judging The Voice, the Maroon 5 frontman made a quick joke when the competition didn’t go his way. He then took to Twitter to explain that he was, indeed, joking. Relax, America. [CBS News]
Congrats to Daft Punk, who’s Random Access Memories surpassed expectations to become the best-selling album in the U.S. [MTV]
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B.C. NDP continue to dominate
With the debate over the Northern Gateway pipeline running at a high temperature, both Angus-Reid and Forum Research stepped into the breach to poll the voting intentions of British Columbians. For all her chest-thumping, Christy Clark remains mired at less than half of the support enjoyed by the B.C. New Democrats' Adrian Dix.
Angus-Reid was last in the field only a month ago, between July 3-5. Since then, the NDP picked-up four points to hit 49% and holds a significant lead over the B.C. Liberals, who were down one point to 22%.
The B.C. Conservatives dropped three points to 19%, while the B.C. Greens were up one point to 9%. Another 2% of British Columbians said they would vote for another party or independent candidate.
These shifts do not appear to be statistically significant, suggesting that little has changed in the province despite the row over the pipeline.
The NDP leads in Metro Vancouver with 50% (+3), on Vancouver Island with 55% (+9), and in the North with 63% (+15). The race in the Interior is closer, with the New Democrats at 35% (-6), the Conservatives at 27% (unchanged), and the Liberals at 25% (+1).
The Liberals are in a sorry state everywhere, with that last result in the Interior being their best of the poll. The 23% in Metro Vancouver is especially worrying for them, considering the Conservatives increased their support in and around the city by six points to 18%.
Forum was last in the field on June 12, and since then the New Democrats dropped one point to 49% while the Liberals were up three to 23%.
The Conservatives were down one to 18% and the Greens were down two to 9%. All of these shifts are within the margin of error.
They are also almost identical to Angus-Reid's results. This sort of convergence (no more than a point's worth of variation for all of the parties) is rare, especially across two surveys using different methodologies. But both Forum and Angus-Reid were in the field at the same time. That they can be so close together suggests that they are on the money.
The New Democrats hold a statistically significant (and uniform) lead in every part of the province, while the Liberals hold second place in and around Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. The Conservatives have the edge in the Interior/North. The Liberals will accordingly have a hard time holding on to their seats there when they have to fight-off both the New Democrats and the Conservatives.
They will have such a hard time, in fact, that they could be reduced to less than half-a-dozen seats. These polls are so close to one another that I just averaged them out for the seat projection, and the result is a landslide: 78 seats for the B.C. New Democrats, four for the B.C. Liberals, and one for the B.C. Conservatives. Another two seats go to independents.
While this is an incredible result for the NDP, it isn't unusual for B.C. The 2001 election resulted in an opposition of two MLAs. Unless things change, particularly if the B.C. Conservatives continue to rake in so much of the support that would otherwise go to the Liberals, the province is on track for another almost-sweep.
And for things to change, either Christy Clark or John Cummins will have to improve their personal numbers. Averaging out the two polls gives Clark an approval rating of only 28%, compared to 23% for Cummins and 45% for Dix. That is a big gap to overcome. And whereas Cummins has a disapproval rating of 43%, Clark's stands at a massive 61%. Dix has a disapproval rating of only 32%.
There are few British Columbians on the fence about Clark, with an average of 12% of respondents not sure of their opinion of her. Dix's number is a bit higher, at 22%, while over one-third of people in the province are unsure of Cummins. Clark's only real hope is that during the upcoming election campaign a large proportion of those people will swing against Cummins - but at 22% the B.C. Conservatives would be challenging the B.C. Liberals for the role of the Official Opposition.
It gets worse for Clark if we remove the "unsures": her approval rating among decideds is only 31%, compared to 35% for Cummins and 58% for Dix. That is a lot of ground to make-up, and there are only nine months left before the election campaign begins in British Columbia.
Posted by Éric at 9:28:00 AM
Labels: 40th British Columbian General Election, Angus-Reid, Forum Research
Ryan 07 August, 2012 10:47
I don't know if you're applying any sort of star candidate factor, but Cummins is running in Langley FYI.
Éric 07 August, 2012 11:00
The B.C. model is a basic swing model at this point, but with such a huge lead for the NDP it does not matter much.
It could for the people in Langley :)
Angus Reid doesn't give a number for undecideds, does it? (I don't think it's capable of doing so given it's methodology...) Since there's no real question over who's in the lead or by roughly how much, how many undecideds are out there would probably give a better idea of how plausible a BC Liberal come-back would be.
I know I've been told that preceding the Alberta election there was an unusually high number of undecideds... I don't know if that's backed up by the actual provincial polling numbers, but it would be nice to have some way of knowing beforehand that the polls may be off by 20% as they were in Alberta.
I suspect the campaign will shape up a bit like Alberta's too, with a strategic voting campaign on the right instead of on the left. We'll see how effective that may or may not be though.
pinkobme 07 August, 2012 12:19
Thanks for this Eric. I saw the AR poll last week, but wasn't aware of Forum's. The fact these two pollsters are so close is interesting. I also find it interesting that Clark's recent "BC wants a fair share" of the Gateway project campaign hasn't apparently helped her at all. She can twist, turn and spin all she wants but it seems BCers have had enough of right-leaning parties for awhile.
Ira 07 August, 2012 12:30
Clark's "BC wants a fair share" push with regard to the Northern Gateway pipeline could win her back some support if it actually gained the province anything, but it won't.
First, Alberta and the federal government have no reasonable expectation that Clark is going to be Premier past next May, so they know that making any deals with her would be a waste of time. Second, the Northern Gateway pipepline is probably a red herring anyway - they could move that same amount of oil through an increase in rail traffice and an expansion of the existing pipeline to Burnaby (which has been filling oil tankers since the 1960s and no one seems to mind).
Much as TCPL intentionally proposed a Keystone pipeline route they knew would get rejected so they could then propose an alternate route in order to look willing to compromise, Northern Gateway was probably never really intended to succeed.
By opposing it, Clark is playing into Alberta's hands.
If a pipeline gets built, I'd bet it will be with a different company entirely. The concerns on Northern Gateway go beyond the route itself. Enbridge wouldn't put tens of millions of dollars into designing a fake pipeline.
Anonymous 08 August, 2012 12:53
The problem is that there is a huge bottle neck in Vancouver!
They can basically only do one tanker per day, NOT fully loaded, and only in the best weather conditions!
There is no technology to remove subsurface DilBit from the water!
Plus DilBit gives off toxic gases which could force the evacuation of the entire Lower Mainland!
Anon 12:53 All of which is nothing more than a refusal of industry to invest in capacity.
No it would far rather shift risk to someplace where it is much higher !!
Just another example of Big Oil shafting everybody !!
What are the four seats that the BC Liberals are expected to win?
Vancouver-Quilchena, West Vancouver-Capilano, West Vancouver-Sea to Sky, and Port Coquitlam. But, as mentioned above, this is with a very simplified model so I wouldn't take these to the bank. The overall number is more significant.
DL 07 August, 2012 15:52
Port Coquitlam is an NDP seat right now - you must be mistaken
Whoops, not sure how that happened. I was looking at the wrong thing - should be Abbotsford South.
Abbotsford South is held by the BC Conservatives right now. Not that he was elected as a BC Conservative...
Those sorts of things aren't taken into account yet.
Id rather have the Liberals than the anti-everything union loving NDP any day. Anyone remember Glen Clark?
You are entitled to your opinion, but it isn't shared by many in BC right now.
JKennethY
You'll forgive us if we, as a province, have decided we want a change from 11 years of the highest poverty rate in Canada and 8 years of the highest child poverty rate.
British Columbians want a change, and they want a government that cares about more than corporate welfare.
The BC "neoliberals" have just lost all of their moral authority to govern. Besides, it's idiotic to assume a current-day party is still the same like it was in the past.
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Deadly Heat: Chapter Two
Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook race to stop a deadly threat from Heat's past as well as an all-too-present serial killer, in Richard Castle's follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Frozen Heat.
Determined to find justice for her mother, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat continues to pursue the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered her execution more than a decade ago. For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jameson Rook, and their quest for the old spy and the motive behind the past murder unearths an alarming terror plot, which is anything but ancient history. It is lethal. It is now. And it has already entered its countdown phase.
Complicating Heat's mission to bring the rogue spy to justice and thwart the looming terror event, a serial killer begins menacing the Twentieth Precinct, and her homicide squad is under pressure to stop him, and soon. Known for his chilling stealth, the diabolical murderer not only singles out Nikki as the exclusive recipient of his taunting messages, he names her as his next victim.
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Bamlanivimab Covid-19 Treatment Coming To El Paso. What Is A Monoclonal Antibody?
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The FDA has granted the emergency use of Bamlanivimab, which is a medication used for the treatment of COVID-19.
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Learn Brandon Ratcliff’s Hard-Earned ‘Rules of Breaking Up’ [Listen]
Find Brandon Ratcliff wanting an old lover back in "Rules for Breaking Up," his debut single. The pop and R&B-influenced guitar and vocal offer distinction from the very first notes.
"Rules for Breaking Up" is arranged like a true vocal showcase, but the clean blues guitar lick that introduces him works in harmony with Ratcliff's message. Quickly the heartbreaker becomes an amalgam of styles and influences, with John Mayer standing out most prominently. The Louisiana-raised Ratcliff offers a progressive sound against today's already progressive version of country music.
Vocally, he shows range and an ability to tell a fine story — something that "Rules for Breaking Up" relies on. The hooks is "Whoever wrote the rules of breaking up / Never been broke up, broke up over you," and the 24-year-old leans hard into the emotion.
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Can’t go out and hope you see her ‘cause you gotta give her space, uh huh / Can’t go back to being friends, it don’t work that way, uh huh / You can’t call her up, tell her everything you’re thinkin’ / Can’t show up at her place every time you’re drinkin’ / You can’t keep hoping that she might be coming back.
Whoever wrote the rules of breaking up / Never kissed your lips, touched your skin / Had the world at their fingertips / Didn’t have a clue what heaven was / No, they didn’t have to lose that kind of love / And if they ever saw that smile, ever felt your fire / They might know what I’m going through / Whoever wrote the rules of breaking up / Never been broke up, broke up over you.
I guess I’m supposed to go right out and try to meet somebody new / But she won’t be as confident, intelligent and cool as hell as you, no, no, no, no / I know we said that ending it is probably for the best / But I gotta get this off my chest.
They say we need time apart / But I can’t stop hoping / Hoping that rules are just like hearts / And they can be broken.
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Super Derby 101: How to Enjoy the Biggest Race of the Year at Harrah’s Louisiana Downs
Featured Photo: Super Derby Prelude Winner Autumn Warrior. Photo by Hodges Photography, used courtesy of Harrah’s Louisiana Downs.
Super Derby 39 is coming up on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018 at Harrah’s Louisiana Downs in Bossier City. The day’s racing card will include the $300,000, Grade III Super Derby as well six $60,000 races leading up to the Super Derby. In addition to the Thoroughbred races, Harrah’s Louisiana Downs has planned a busy day of activities including a children’s play area, food trucks, the annual Super Derby Hat Contest, and more.
RSVP to the Facebook event for Super Derby 39 for more updates.
As a fan of live Thoroughbred racing, I’ve spent a lot of time at Harrah’s Louisiana Downs over the years – beginning when my grandfather would take me to the races as a child. In my opinion, there’s no better time to visit Harrah’s Louisiana Downs than the day of the Super Derby. There’ll be big crowds, fast horses, ladies in sun dresses and men in seersucker, and all of the pomp and circumstance that contributes to the excitement of live Thoroughbred racing.
Harrah’s Louisiana Downs will host Super Derby 39 on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018.
If you’re a newcomer to racing, try to get there for the handicapping (“handicapping” is the term for selecting winners in Thoroughbred racing) seminar at 11 a.m. It’s a fast-paced, educational crash course in how to to wager, how to read past performances, and how to speak the language of the racetrack. There’s also plenty to do beyond the races on Super Derby day. Here are my picks for some of the highlights:
Jockey Meet & Greet with Autograph Signing
Harrah’s Louisiana Downs Lobby
Photo for autograph will be available for $5.00 with proceeds benefiting injured jockeys
Children’s Area and Food Trucks Open
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Face painting is available for an additional charge. Children can join in the fun with the Super Derby stilt walkers and hula hoop stars! Food trucks from across the region will be serving up great local bites for purchase.
Free Handicapping Seminar at the Inside Rail Lounge (located on the first floor)
Live Thoroughbred racing begins
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Competitors will have five minutes to scarf down some of the yummiest foods available for purchase on the Racing Apron. Seven local celebrities and three participants from the crowd will compete to win bragging rights plus $250 in cash.
After 6th Race
Harrah’s Louisiana Downs Super Derby 39 Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony will feature a Proclamation by Bossier City Mayor Lorenz Walker, posting of the colors by the Bossier Sheriff’s Young Marines and The National Anthem performed by American Idol cast member Garrett Jacobs.
Super Derby Ladies Hat Contest
Ladies, pull out your hat and get creative for a chance to win some cash. Registration starts at 12 p.m. in the Harrah’s Louisiana Downs lobby. Hats will be judged in three categories: Spirit of Louisiana, Classic, and Most Original. Winners will receive $100 cash. Please contact sbriery@caesars.com for more information.
11th Race: Running of Super Derby 39
Harrah’s Louisiana Downs premiere race is a Grade III, $300,000 stakes race returning to the main track this year. The official state song for Louisiana, “You Are My Sunshine,” will be performed by Casey Boddie before the race.
If you come out for Super Derby 39, please celebrate responsibly and – if you happen to be nearby for the Food Truck Face-Off, stop by and say hello. I’m competing!
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Pillion riding to be ban due to three-day anti-polio campaign in Quetta
Pillion riding has been banned during three-day anti-polio campaign in Quetta, section 144 has been imposed, while pillion riding, public gatherings and display of weapons would also be banned in the city.
According to a statement released from provincial government, section 144 has been imposed to keep the campaign safe during the three days,due to which, pillion riding would be banned, however, security personnel, children, women, students and old persons and journalists would be exempt from the ban.
Whereas, public gatherings and display of weapons would also be banned during three-day anti-polio campaign across the city.
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Price Shock: Watch Cost of Gas Jump 10 Cents During ABC's 'World News' Broadcast
By Sarah Amos February 23, 2012
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The swiftness at which those gas prices continue to climb was crystal clear Wednesday night during the broadcast of ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer."
As ABC News' Cecilia Vega introduced her piece on high gas prices, the sign at the downtown Los Angeles gas station behind her showed the price of regular gas at $4.99 a gallon. However when the piece concluded nearly two minutes later the price of regular gas had jumped 10 cents to $5.09 a gallon.
Even Vega seemed truly surprised to see such a drastic change in such a short period of time, telling Sawyer that "it is almost too unbelievable to believe."
"It went up 10 cents?" asked Sawyer, herself shocked at what just had occurred.
"Ten cents during that two minutes while we were on the air," confirmed Vega.
Watch the exchange here:
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The Prophet’s Birth sallallâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam
by AbdurRahman.org January 31, 2014 November 16, 2018
Al-Istiqaamah Issue No.3 – Rabî’ul-Awwal 1417H / August 1996
THE YEAR OF HIS NOBLE BIRTH
According to the most correct opinion of the Scholars, the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam was born in the city of Makkah in the year of the Elephant (in the year 570 or 571CE), in the month of Rabee’ul-Awwal. [1]
THE DAY OF HIS NOBLE BIRTH
There is an agreement amongst the Scholars that the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam was born on a Monday, since he sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam was asked about fasting on a Monday, and he said: “On that day I was born and on that day Revelation descended upon me.” [2] However, as regards the exact date of his birth, then the Scholars have differed about this, although the majority of Scholars say that he sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam was born on the 12th of Rabee’ul-Awwal.
Imaam an-Nawawee (d.676H) – rahimahullaah– said: “There is on agreement that he was born on Monday in the month of Rabee’ul-Awwal. There is a difference of opinion whether this day was the 2nd, 8th, 10th or 12th day of the month – and these ore the four most well-known opinions concerning this.” [3]
EVENTS AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH
Certain miraculous events are reported to have occurred at the time that the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam was born. However, most of them are not authentically related, rather they are da’eef (week) or mawdoo’ (fabricated) and therefore cannot be relied upon as decisive proof; such as the narration which relates that some of the galleries of Kisraa’s palace broke-up and collapsed, that the sacred-fire of the Magians died-out and that some of the churches on Lake Saawah collapsed and sank down.[4]
However, it is authentically related that the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayi wa sallam said.
“I am a result of the supplication of my father Ibraaheem and the glad-tidings brought by ‘Eesaa ‘alayhimus salaam. And my mother – when she bore me – saw that a light shone out from her, which lit up the palaces in Syria … ” [5]
CELEBRATING THE DAY OF HIS NOBLE BIRTH
Imaam al-Faakihaanee (d.734H) – rahimahullaah -said: [6]
“Celebrating his birthday has no basis in the Book nor the Sunnah, nor is this action recorded from any one of the Scholars of this Ummah; those who are taken as examples to be followed and who cling to the narrations. Rather it is a bid’ah (innovotion), which was introduced by the (deviated) Battaaloon sect.[7]”
As regards to the origins of this newly-invented celebration, then some of the research Scholars have stated that the first person to innovate this practice was ‘Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mulaa in the city of Mawsil in Iraaq, during the fourth century, as is mentioned by the Imaam Abu Shaamah (d.665H).[8] He was followed in this by the likes of Abul-Khattaab ‘Umar ibn Dihyaa: “who was employed in the west, then traveled to Syria, then he traveled to the city of Irbil in ‘Iraaq, during the fourth century, where he found its king Mudhaffarud-Deen ibn Zaynud-Deen showing a keen interest in the milaad (birthday) of the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. So he composed a book for him called at-Tanweer fi Mawlidis-Siraajil-Muneer; so he recited this to the king who then rewarded him with one thousand deenaars.” [9]
Imaam Maalik (d.179H) – rahimahullaah – said:
‘Whosoever introduces into Islaam an innovation, and holds it to be something good, has indeed alleged that Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam has betrayed his message. Read the saying of Allaah – the Most Blessed, the Most High:
“This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you and I have chosen for you Islaam as your religion.” [Soorah al-Maa’idah 5:3].
So that which was not part of the religion at that time, cannot be part of the religion today. And the last part of this Ummah cannot be rectified, except by that which rectified its first part.” [10]
Thus, had the practice of celebrating milaadun-Nabee (the birthday of the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) been something praiseworthy then: “the Salaf (the Pious Predecessors) – may Allaah be pleased with them all – would have instituted it. For they were the ones having a greater love and honour for Allaah’s Messenger sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam and a greater zeal for doing good. Indeed, the most perfect expression of love and honour for him is by following him, obeying him, carrying out his commands, upholding and reviving his Sunnah (guidance and example) – both inwardly and outwardly – and in spreading his message and striving in this, with the heart, the hand and the tongue. Such was the path of the Companions and those who followed them in goodness (i.e. beliefs and actions).” [11]
[1]. Refer to Taareekh (p.53) of Khaleefah ibn Khayaat, as-Seerah (1/167) of Ibn Hishaam and also Tabaqaatul-Kubraa (1/62) of Ibn Sa’d.
[2]. Related by Muslim (2/820) and Ahmad (5/297).
[3]. Tahdheeb Seeratun-Nabawiyyah (p.20) of Imaam an-Nawawee.
[4]. Munkar: Related by Imaam adh-Dhahabee in as-Seeratun-Nabawiyyah (pp. 11-14), who said: “This narration is munkar ghareeb (rejected).”
[5]. Related by al-Haakim in al-Mustadrak (2/600) and Ibn Katheer in al-Bidaayah wan-Nihaayah (1/229) who said: “Its isnaad is good and strong.” Refer to as-Saheehah (no.1545) of Shaykh al-Albaanee for a detailed discussion concerning its authenticity.
[6]. Al-Mawrid fi ‘Amalil-Mawlid (pp.21-22).
[7]. The Battaaloon: they are one of the deviated Baatiniyyah sects from the Faatimids – as al-Maqreezee says in al-Khatat (1/490).
[8]. In al-Baa’ith ‘alaa Inkaaril-Bida’ wal-Hawaadith (pp.23-24). Ibn al-Jawzee stated something similar in Miraatuz-Zamaan (8/310).
[9]. Al-Bidaayah wan-Nihaayah (13/144-145) of al-Haafidh Ibn Katheer.
[10]. Related by al-Qaadee ‘lyaadh in ash-Shifaa fee Huqooqil-Mustafaa (2/676).
[11]. Iqtidaa’us-Siraatul-Mustaqeem (p.295) of Ibn Taymiyyah
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Fangirling | Feelings | Feminism
The Collective Blog September 12, 2018 TV/Film
“Peppermint” – A Tone Deaf Throwback that has No Place in Current Times
Image Courtesy of STX Entertainment
By The Nerdling
I’m pretty sure the script for Peppermint was written in the 80’s with a male lead. I’m convinced STX wanted to prove they are on the good side of #MeToo. So, they dusted off an old script sitting in some box in a producer’s basement and thought, “let’s make the lead a woman and throw some references to social media in there and it will be all good! We will bring in the bucks and look progressive while we are at it.” Except this movie is anything but progressive.
Be warned, there are spoilers for Peppermint ahead!
Peppermint is a Death Wish throwback. Naive everyday person’s life is turned upside down by violence and the system fails to get justice. This time out, it is a wife and mother, Riley North, who watches as her husband and daughter are gunned down by an MS-13 like gang. She is also shot in the head, but survives with some trauma which magically turns her into a badass.
The North family was targeted after the husband considered throwing in with his shady friend to rip-off Diego Garcia, the big-name drug lord in LA. The husband quickly backs out of the planned heist, but it doesn’t matter. As one cop points out, the family was slaughtered because he dared to entertain the possibility of screwing over Garcia.
The cops already had an idea who it was and why. Riley easily identifies the three men who killed her family out of a line up. She willingly testifies in court. And the case is thrown out because the DA and the judge are in Garcia’s pocket. Cue the vigilante bat-signal. Throughout the course of the film, Riley single handedly takes down all of Garcia’s cartel, exposes the dirty cop helping the gang, and kills Garcia in front of the police and a swarm of news crews. She is then arrested and put under police custody at a hospital.
I call shenanigans on Peppermint. A white, middle class family is gunned down in public, in a nice neighborhood, and the whole of the U.S. don’t lose their collective minds?!?! CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News shut down and go into hyper-focus mode when a white woman goes missing. All three stations would be running the North’s family photographs 24/7, interviewing all of the relatives and friends, following every candlelight vigil, milking it all for all that it’s worth. Fox News would be blowing their racist dog whistle so loud, you could hear the white supremacists barking for miles around. If that case would have been thrown out like it was in the movie… Heads. Would. Roll.
Now, if the North family would have been Hispanic or African American, then this movie would have been much more believable. The big three 24-hour news networks wouldn’t give a damn and the injustice of it all would be chalked up to an overwhelmed system.
I know this is a movie and not a documentary, but the racist attitude of the action flick is only adding fuel a dangerous fire stoked by Trump and his supporters. The message Peppermint sends is one which reinforces this administration’s cries the justice system will not protect the good, white citizens of the America. That the bad, brown people are taking over with the help of traitors to the white race and the only way to fight it is to load up on military grade weapons and take the law into your own hands.
Peppermint emphasizes this propaganda when those Riley saves or people on social media call her a hero for going out there and doing what cops can’t. Even the detective who investigated the murder of Riley’s family and was assigned to track her down agrees she is a hero. The movie ends when he gives Riley a key to unlock her cuffs to continue her killing spree.
I don’t think Peppermint purposefully set out to be a dog whistle to the alt-right Nazi’s. I think the producers figured they would make a cool revenge flick and have a woman at the center not realizing how tone deaf the script was. That doesn’t make the sins any less severe.
The Nerdling was born in the majestic land known as Texas and currently resides there after several years of journeying through Middle Earth in a failed attempt to steal the one Ring from that annoying hobbit, serving the Galactic Empire for a time, and then a short stint as a crew member on the Serenity. Since moving back to her homeland, Nerdling flirted with a hero reputation. Saving children from the dangers of adoring domineering, sparkly vampires (champions with souls are the only vampires worth loving) and teaching normals the value of nerdom, all while rooting for her beloved Dallas Stars. Then came the Sokovia Accords and her short spell of saving others came to an end. With Darth Vader’s reputation rightfully returning to badass status, Nerdling is making her way back to the Empire. They do have cookies, you know. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.
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R. Hess on September 14, 2018 at 8:26 am
I felt the same way about the new sicario: day of the soldado movie. Dog whistle politics and really bad timing. Don’t doubt these writers and producers know what their content means/implies to the audience. They understand and are complicit.
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Exit Polls and Orange Revolutions; Ukraine and Kenya
Posted on May 24, 2012 by Ken
From Ben Barber, senior writer at USAID during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, as quoted from a McClatchy piece on Egypt in a previous post:
The Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004 might never have taken place if not for U.S. aid. First, the former communists in control of the Kiev government declared their candidate won an election. Then, a U.S.-funded think tank tallied up exit polls that showed the government had lied and it really lost the election.
Next, a Ukranian TV newsman trained by a U.S. aid program broadcast the exit polls and set up its cameras on the main square for an all night vigil. Up to one million people came to join the vigil. Then the Supreme Court — which had been brought to visit U.S. courts in action — ruled the election was invalid and the government had to step down.
Furthermore, U.S. legal, legislative, journalism and other trainers taught judges, prosecutors, legislators and journalists how to do their jobs in a democratic system.
From U.S. Ambassador Michael Ranneberger’s January 2, 2008 cable to Washington after witnessing fraud at the ECK in the tally of presidential votes along with the head of the EU Election Observation Mission: “We have been reliably told that Odinga is basing his strategy on a mass action approach similar to that carried out in the Ukraine.”
In Kenya, however, unlike in Ukraine, the U.S.-funded exit poll was suppressed rather than broadcast. The New York Times reported that USAID’s agreement with the International Republican Institute to fund the poll stipulated that IRI should consult with USAID and the Embassy before releasing the poll, taking into account technical quality and “other diplomatic considerations”. (The USAID agreement was subquently, eventually, released to Clark Gibson of the UCSD, the primary author of the poll and consultant to IRI, under a FOIA request.)
Here is an account of the opposition approach in Ukraine from Wikipedia on the Orange Revolution:
Yanukovych was officially certified as the victor by the Central Election Commission, which itself was allegedly involved in falsification of electoral results by withholding the information it was receiving from local districts and running a parallel illegal computer server to manipulate the results. The next morning after the certification took place, Yushchenko spoke to supporters in Kiev, urging them to begin a series of mass protests, general strikes and sit-ins with the intent of crippling the government and forcing it to concede defeat.
In view of the threat of illegitimate government acceding to power, Yushchenko’s camp announced the creation of the Committee of National Salvation which declared a nationwide political strike.
Ranneberger noted that the situations in Ukraine and Kenya differed, but did not elaborate. In Ukraine there was ultimately a re-vote and in Kenya the election results stood. How was Kenya in 2007 different from Ukraine in 2004? Comments?
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Spring 2017 – Week 10
Busy, busy week… But I managed to comment most of the shows! Hit the jump and let’s dive in.
Just as a reminder, shows that I am watching are in bold, shows my wife and I are watching together are in bold italics.
Atom: The Beginning – Ep 8
The big day arrives – the Robot Wrestling tournament. Despite the amount of exposition (where robo-wres is explained to our protagonists and thus to us in the cheap seats), it was a pretty enjoyable episode overall. I particularly like how they played the over-the-top nature of wrestling completely straight.
Overall, Atom is still a mess… but it can occasionally produce something decent.
@Dawnstorm I know you’ve watched wrestling and watch wrestling anime, if you have access to Amazon I’d be curious to know your thoughts.
Attack on Titan – Ep 11
Honestly, I have absolutely no clue what’s going on anymore – or why. They’ve been zigzagging all over the dang place. While there was plenty of action this week, narrative advancement was practically nil.
My Hero Academia – Ep 11
Mostly a filler-and-setup episode… But none the less an important one. Todoroki is confronted by his father, and has actually (thanks to Midoryia) become more ambivalent about the situation. But he can’t forget what has happened in the past either… Speaking of Midoryia, he’s in a bit of pickle now, as Recovery Girl has announced that she will no longer heal him of injuries caused by using All For One.
The big story is Lida… Or, more correctly, his brother, seemingly slain by a villain. A villain subsequently scouted (recruited) by a member of the League of Villains (the bad guys from the last arc of the first season). This does not bode well…
Karandi over at 100 Words Anime posted an interesting article on MHA last week: My Hero Academia and Hero Culture, an interesting look at how the culture of the setting defines and determines the type(s) of people who become heroes and the effects of heroes essentially becoming commercial commodities. Particularly insightful was putting the Sports Festival on par with the ongoing plague of reality shows.
Sakura Quest – Ep 10
Against the background of Team Sakura tackling a romance tour (bringing city women out to the country to meet country me), Ririko’s character story plays out. The tale is less about personal growth and moving forward (as it was with the earlier stories) and more about how Ririko simply doesn’t fit in with the town around her… But honestly, it’s not working as well as it might because despite (theoretically) being a main character, in practice she’s been more of a side or supporting character. Though it mostly works, they’re having to work awful hard to ‘sell’ the story.
The Team Sakura side of the story plays out much more briskly. Unlike earlier arcs this one is less about preparations (the girls have some experience after all) and more about the execution. Until the cliffhanger, everything went fairly smoothly – a new development in and of itself. Seeing the rest of the team working hard and enjoying themselves made for a poignant contrast with the scenes of Ririko walking home alone.
This episode, we see a partial return of the “close-ups” that were such a problem early on… But here, they really work as they’re often used to emphasize Ririko’s increasingly distant relationship to the main action, to the town, and to the larger story.
The previews make it look like they’re going to tie the tale of the dragon to the dragons that appear in Manoyama’s traditional ranmas. That may be a bit ambitious, but will be interesting to see what they do with it.
Tsuki Ga Kirei – Ep 9
It was nice to see our young couple growing closer and actually being more comfortable being around each other. Kotaro treasuring the squeezy Akane gave him was especially touching. But it’s only episode 9, and dramatic necessity means it couldn’t be smooth sailing much longer.
Though they hinted at it a bit, I hoped they wouldn’t bring back the love rival angle and I wasn’t disappointed. While being involuntarily separated is something of a trope, you don’t see it quite as often. (Usually when it does appear, it’s back story to set up the narrative.) While I was never separated from a relationship, we moved a lot when I was growing up (and we weren’t even military!) and I left a lot of friends behind… So I really feel at least a little of what they’re going through. And back in the 70’s, there were no cell phones (and long distance was expensive), no email, etc… Even with those things, and Kotaro and Akane have used them to mediate their relationship, they’re no substitute for physical proximity.
If, like me, you were a little confused by the geography involved this useful map was posted on Twitter last week:
Thought this might help for some context in the latest #tsukigakirei
Kawagoe top left, Chiba bottom right, separated by Tokyo and Ichikawa pic.twitter.com/4YLS0q5arh
— Inksquid43 (@inksquid43) June 9, 2017
Using Google Earth I just now measured the distance city-center to city-center at 41 miles. 41 miles! I measured off the same distance from my home, and it really hit me how far that was… I have friends that live the same distance away, and though we keep in contact on Facebook I’d practically never see them if we weren’t in the same club and saw them on a regular basis at club events. (Unlike Kotoro and Akane, I’m an adult with more freedom to travel and my own transportation.) I can scarcely imagine how distant that must feel to them.
It will be interesting to see how they resolve this… Hopefully they won’t go all wishy-washy.
Author DerekLPosted on 2017-06-14 2017-06-14 Categories 2017 Spring SeasonTags Atom: The Beginning, Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Sakura Quest, Tsuki ga Kirei
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@Atom the Beginning and Wrestling: I didn’t think of robo-wrestling as wrestling at all; that is in the sense of sports entertainment. What makes this different from shows like Tiger Mask W is the lack of narrative: wrestling is more performance than competition, the competition is scripted along a usually rather simple heroes vs. villains narrative, with the odd weirdo thrown in. I’ll have to add that I watched wrestling from around the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties: a lot has happened since then. That wrestling matches were scripted to a degree used to be an open secret; everyone knew it, really, but nobody would admit it (google the term “kayfabe”). A few scandals changed that, and people talk more openly about this now. What wrestling narratives have in common with shounen anime narratives is their simplicity: it’s just so compatible. And this is why a show like Tiger Mask W, which pretends it’s all real (because anime-fiction and wrestling-fiction tug in the same direction) works so well. And because of the recent changes in wrestling performance type, both the presentation of the anime itself and the type of wrestling narrative invoke a similar sense of nostalgia (there was an earlier Tiger Mask anime [sixties, actually – older than I am], and there was actually a real Japanese pro-Wrestler called “Tiger Mask”).
The Robowrestling in Atom feels more like your regular shounen sports event (such as you’d see in school-club anime). It’s directly comparable to the event in Robotics;Notes, I’d say. It does have the crowd-playing aspect (Robotics;Notes, too, had that flamboyant guy in a “Star-Driver” outfit…), and there’s going to be a rivalry, but it doesn’t have the cheap sense of “sides”, of secret identies, betrayals, etc. It’s just straightforward competition. I’m not sure I explained that very well. I can see substantial similarities if I try, but instinctively it’s two completely different categories for me.
@Attack on Titan: I don’t care much about story. The episode was a sufficiently mad-cap romp. If they were all like that, I’d be happy. I mean the episode ended with titan tossing.
@MHA: I really, really hope the Hero Killer refuses to join the Villain team. Would be much more interesting that way. But then, MHA doesn’t usually go the way I would find more interesting. For example: the existance of support group at the academy is full of potential. I’d have been much more interested in the show if quirkless Deku had signed up for the support division due to his non quirky notebook-skills. Instead I get a rather tired underdog story that pushes hero values I find distasteful.
Thanks for the link; haven’t read it yet, but it sounds like an excellent read.
@Tsuki ga Kirei: Yup, that’s quite the distance considering their circumstance. Of course, I make that distance twice daily in my commute to work. (Well, around 3 miles less, but still…) Also, I like the way the show doesn’t beat around the bush.
@Re:Creators: A middling episode, I found. A few more world-building details is what I got out of it, but other than that, it wasn’t the most fun free-for-all, the show had offered.
Not goint to talk about Sakura Quest, since I’m fairly fresh from the “next episode”.
Finally, it strikes me that we’re 2 to 3 weeks away from the new season. Anything interesting? Centaur no Nayami is a no-brainer for me, and Isekai Shokudou maybe… There are a few holdovers from this season, but so far nothing looks too promising. I’m not really excited for the new season, partly because I’m really enjoying this one, too.
DerekL says:
I’m not sure I explained that very well. I can see substantial similarities if I try, but instinctively it’s two completely different categories for me.
@Atom: Well, I know now more about wrestling than I did a couple of hours ago… (Though admittedly that’s a pretty low bar.) Your explanation makes sense, I was keying off the crowd involvement by the participants which isn’t a normal feature of a regular ‘school event’ type of competition. But that’s only one face of wrestling events.
@Re:Creators: Yeah, that’s why I didn’t say much about it. Magane is not strong enough or interesting enough to carry episodes the way they’ve tried to have her do this episode and last. And so much of the plot right now depends on the characters (particularly Alicetelia) being bone stupid. They started out awful strong, but with one thing and another now I wonder how they’re going to pull off two cour.
@Sakura: Yeah, I’ve seen the next ep now too… and I’m not entirely sure I like the developments.
I’ve got a post perking along on my choices for next season, but I keep getting distracted by other things… Isekai Shokudou is also high on my list, as is Princess Principal.
prattle says:
“If, like me, you were a little confused by the geography involved this useful map was posted on Twitter last week”
I actually was confused and I really appreciate your following clarification on this.
You’re welcome! And welcome to the Lounge!
Thanks for sharing the link.
I’m thinking I’ll have to pick up Tsuki ga Kirei again either before this season ends or as a catch up next season given it is currently killing my poll for best anime of the season. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it.
You’re welcome, it was a good piece.
I’m not surprised it’s killing your poll, it’s that good. (Not that I’m biased or anything.) I think a lot of people dropped it early on, when it was so slow going, but starting with ep 7 all that prep work has really been paying off.
I got to episode 2, but it really was incredibly slow. That said, Kimi ni Todoke is painfully slow too and yet I really love that so maybe when Tsuki ga Kirei is finished I should try to marathon it. Maybe without the week break in between episodes I won’t have time to feel how slow it is.
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STACI by Jeffrey Loeb
The house was only blocks away, so I got there in minutes. Staci’s sobs were already breathless heaves. All I could do was hold her and utter empty words: “What is it, sweetheart? Tell me what I can do.”
The crying eased, and she forced out broken fragments: “Sorry. So sorry.” Then the gasps came back. And still I had no notion. Was someone in a wreck? Had one of her parents died? Rape suddenly broadsided me, and I nearly panicked. She’d been at the library late. I shoved the gruesome images down and away, then held her tighter.
After maybe ten minutes, Staci’s breaths grew slightly deeper and her shoulders sagged. The desperate sobs turned to whimpers. I grasped some words—“gross” and “awful”—but not the source of her terror. Eventually we sank onto her worn blue couch. Her chin rose slightly, the first time she’d looked at me. I watched the tears cascade onto her robe. “The worst thing that’s ever happened to me,” she stammered. Then her hands were covering her face again. “I think it’s me, not you,” I heard her say.
What turned out to be “only” a case of body lice should have been my tipoff. Once her crying gave over to outrage, Staci acted innocent enough: Looking back, the stages were humiliation, more tears, then blaming, and finally her confessing to the crabs’ creepy presence, struggling to convince me it couldn’t be her. Or if it was, she’d caught them innocently. From a toilet seat maybe. Only years later could I face the reality that she’d probably been unfaithful the whole time. After all, hadn’t cheating on her last boyfriend been what thrust us together?
It was my first “failed” relationship—at least the first one I’d gone all in for—and it left me in ruins for years. Maybe still does. Up to then I’d been guarded and selfish, but Staci—to lift a line from Great Gatsby, a novel I’d blown off in lit class that first year back from Nam—“was the first nice girl [I’d] ever known.” Trust me, I know how pompous that sounds; it’s actually worse, though, when you tie it into the arrogance oozing from the crevices of my own rotten soul. We’d sprung full-grown from the wreckage of her four-year romance with an athlete BMOC she’d “outgrown.”
All my worst “selfs”—self-loathing, self-blaming, (lack of) self-esteem—had come crashing together my first semester in Lawrence and driven me into hiding: staying to myself when I could or ducking certain topics. I’d gone back as a junior, so I knew the ropes, but eventually dropped all my classes to avoid straight F’s. These sorry grades grew mainly from loneliness. I couldn’t stand any of the other students, but really, really hated the constant blatherers or those who exuded any whiff of Greek-ness. “Discussion classes,” they were called—in Poli-Sci, History and English, the only subjects I could stomach. I’d sidestepped math and languages by forging the advisor’s signature, and never even shown up for no-fail biology.
I didn’t open my mouth in any of the occasional sessions I actually made it to. For one, I never read the assignments. Not that I didn’t read: in fact, I’d stay up all night in my crummy Lawrence apartment blasting through James A. Michener or Leon Uris or Ayn Rand—the lurid, violent stuff of my recent life. And then there was this: I couldn’t begin to live up to the suave-raconteur pose of my own fantasies. I’d pretend my classroom silences were a choice, not crudescent fear.
I’d perch in the very back of the dusty classrooms, staring out filmy windows at yellowing leaves, picturing ways of silencing the eager voices in front of me: A sudden larynx-shattering strangle-hold from behind was my usual go-to—our favorite choking maneuver during hand-to-hand training in the Marines. Or sometimes I’d delay the reckoning until after class, when a quick boot to the upper back might propel some glib offender headfirst down the marble stairs. Either way, it would end (what I imagined were) their sly glances and under-the-breath comments to friends. I should add here that I myself had no friends; and, unlike my be-Weeguned classmates, actually wore boots—“salty” jungle ones I’d brought back, and which totally betrayed the uncool clinging to me.
Afterwards, the ten-cent bus ride home being beyond my means, I’d traipse the two miles home and lock myself in, swilling the cheapest wine I could afford with my slender GI Bill money (Gallo Paisano—$3.40 a gallon), glaring vengefully at the evening news on my twelve-inch black-and-white, mind aboil with seething, self-righteous carnage.
Of course, these rabid fantasies could bloom only as long as I actually showed up for classes. Even this ended when Kansas pitched an early cold snap and staying in bed grew easier. November 15 had been the Viet Nam Moratorium on campuses across the country, and I think the day I decided to check it in. Some scruffy protestors—the opposite of my trendy frat enemies, but no less vile to me—had forced their way into Politics and History of Southeast Asia, chiding the instructor for not calling class. I was livid, but couldn’t decide which I hated worse, the Greeks, the longhairs, or the wishy-washy professor. Anyway, I never went back. Since I was failing everything, you couldn’t exactly say I dropped out (the term dignifies my motives too much). What it signaled, though, was the need for a job, or I’d soon be slouching back to my parents’ basement. In the end, I chose going to seed right where I was.
I did have one remaining human contact, my roommate, Woolley, who in most ways was even more worthless. He was a massive class avoider, one who stayed fed with a small monthly allowance from his mother. He’d pad this meager pittance with what he called his college survival skills: bribery, charm, and shoplifting. By mid-December, not even these could keep us afloat. Rent was overdue; power and phone turned off; prospects scant for any tuition money come January. Woolley took off for Mississippi to sponge off friends for a month. I was forced to get a job in a nearby Taco Bell: greasy, demeaning labor that provided me a meal per shift. My co-workers seemed nice enough—and were spared the venom coursing through me—but I saw in them dispirited ghosts of Christmas future: college dropouts, no particular goals, looming middle-class lives.
At some point, I realized the gas in our apartment was still on—a fuckup by the power company, no doubt—so I’d light the stove burners and sleep on the hard kitchen tiles. My GI Bill cessation notice came less than a week after I’d quit, but I figured I could fox them by pre-enrolling for spring. I hauled myself up to campus on a chill early-January day and did just that. In those days, you could put off paying tuition for a couple months if you played things right. Buying books wasn’t a worry since I’d formed a plan to bolt for California once I’d ratholed enough government bucks. Not that I had the vaguest idea what I’d do there. My clothes hung off me like they’d been stolen from a laundromat.
Pre-enrollment turned out to be my lucky day. On a frigid, nearly deserted campus, the Student Union happened to be open. I ducked inside to warm up and found myself pawing through a used newspaper. Deathly sick of Taco Bell, I turned to the help-wanteds. One stood out right away: part-time bartender at a local hotel. I figured why not? I was spending half my cash on booze anyway, maybe this could cut costs. I dropped a precious dime into the pay phone and dialed.
Fortunately, the club manager answered. He had an accent of some sort and was difficult to understand, but I scheduled an interview for later that day, just before their afternoon opening. The hotel was on the opposite side of town; luckily I had just enough change in my pocket for buses, but that left me with four empty hours. I sat in the cafeteria sipping hot water out of an un-bused coffee cup. Dress-wise, they’d just have to take me the way I was. The club itself was named the Rubaiyat. I knew it was the title of a poem, even if I’d never read it.
The manager turned out to be Iranian (Persian, as he insisted, the Shah still being on his throne), and a dedicated womanizer. His name was Mohammed-Ali Masoud, but he insisted on Masoud alone. From what I could tell, he’d been imported as a sort of exotic by one of the hotel’s owners, a self-styled Lawrence playboy and world traveler. Masoud was thought “interesting,” as I’d find out, at least by women of a certain age (such as that owner’s wife), with his accent, thin build, and slightly walleyed gaze. He wore flared, cheap, Asian suits specially tailored for him.
He motioned me inside the dim, empty club and seated us in black, low-slung leatherette chairs. The deep-red walls glowed with iridescent gold leaf. The only other person in the place was a cocktail waitress busy toothpicking cherries into orange slices. Aside from an initial glance, she paid no attention to us. Masoud’s first question was how I liked the harem costumes he’d designed. I glanced over—the woman’s outfit was scanty and quite Persian, I guessed—and told him they were really striking. He gestured for his girl, as he termed her, to attend us at our polished brass table. When she arrived, I saw a kind of hardness in her eyes, like she wasn’t pleased about something. Masoud ordered an orange juice for himself and a non-alcoholic beverage for me. When these arrived, he reached into his valise and pulled out a banana, which he proceeded to peel. Very carefully and fastidiously, I noticed. We both sat silent while he alternately chewed small bites of the pulp and loudly sucked at his orange juice.
When he’d finished, Masoud tossed the peel onto the table and leaned back. “For the ladies,” he said, gesturing at the flaccid banana skin. “We all eat much fruit, keeps us strong.” The diction threw me for a second, especially the royal we; at first I thought he meant everyone who worked there, though the “strong” was also mysterious. I chalked it up to his struggles with English and only later learned how the words lay bare his Persio-centric biases.
Masoud proceeded to discuss his feelings about women, telling me they were here solely for “our” pleasure. “Pleasing” them though required regular renewals of “energy,” such as that provided by the banana. As degraded as my sensibilities were, I still felt shocked. Did he imagine he was running some kind of actual harem here in Middle America? I couldn’t help glancing at the waitress framed in the light of an open storeroom door with her sheer, flowing pants and skimpy top. Was she the site of his expended energy?
Only after calling her over again—Vicki turned out to be her name—to clear our debris did Masoud get to the point, asking me what my most recent job had been. I decided it might be better to skip Taco Bell, which could be too declasse for his tastes. Instead I told him, the Marine Corps. He seemed pleased. He told me he’d known (in some vague way) a U.S. Embassy guard in Tehran and was very impressed with the man. Who wouldn’t be? Embassy guards were tall, stoic, and impeccably turned out—qualities no one would associate with me. Evidently, though, it was enough to elevate me to the next rung. He called Vicki over and asked if Jim, the head bartender, had come in. As it happened, he had and was busy inventorying liquor. Masoud nodded, stood up, and motioned me to follow him. I’d passed part one.
Things went fine with Jim, though I’m sure I gaped at his outfit—black toreador pants; gaudy, flowered shirt; a red sash circling his waist. He mainly wanted to know how dependable I was, and how fast I caught on to things. His questions were direct and down-to-earth; I got the impression that the “job” of student wouldn’t impress him, so I included Taco Bell this time. Things would sit better, I figured, if I was actually employed and just looking for a higher billet. I didn’t try any lies or evasions, just related my prior civilian work—furniture-mover, farm laborer, construction grunt—then, suddenly remembering the only positive thing my drill instructor had ever said about me, blurted out that I had fast hands. He caught my eye a second, then hired me on the spot. I’d start the next day, when he’d outfit me in my own costume and fill me in on everything. I walked out fingering the change in my pocket. I’d have to do one last Taco Bell shift to eat for the day.
Bartending not only changed my luck but in some ways turned out to be my métier. The Rubaiyat’s environment was cordial, the complimentary meals in the hotel restaurant dependable (and civilized), I had tip money in my pocket, and, most of all, I’d perfected a new mask. I was always a decent mimic, so it wasn’t hard to pick up the conversation style of my co-workers and customers. If I heard something that seemed socially cool, I right away owned it. An example would be punctuating my spiel with “my dear” and “darling” when speaking to the cocktail waitresses; it’s what the regular customers and other bartenders did.
I found myself working with a sophisticated group—virtually all grad students, accomplished and popular, not to mention pleasing to look at, yet part of a demimonde that prized the leftover energy to work and drink in a variety of Lawrence bars. I quickly invented another self, one able to stay afloat in such an environment, and then added layers as needed—making myself out to be an educated, intelligent, slightly mysterious dilettante (here’s where my wide reading helped). Within a short time, Jim was transporting me to the Flamingo Club after work in order to swill even more booze than I’d snuck on the job—we all did it, the three bartenders and four waitresses—and introducing me around to the Lawrence bar-scene gentry. It turned out to be no trouble adopting the town’s louche insouciance.
The Rubaiyat itself was a hothouse of sexual intrigue. Beyond the owner’s wife and his own live-in girlfriend (a bedraggled, mousy person who only appeared on weekends), Masoud entertained a number of women in any given week (his fruit bill must have been enormous, we’d joke), but he also moved constantly on one of the waitresses, Valerie, though so far as I could see she managed to resist his oozy charms. Jim was sleeping with Vicki, despite her being married and putting her husband through college. Sandy, who lived with her boyfriend, was the continual target of the other hotel owner, who sauntered in daily, sans-wife, the moment the doors opened. Larry stayed dedicated to his girlfriend for a while, but eventually got swept up too. I myself fell into the clutches of the hotel’s night desk-manager (Hence, a choice of empty rooms!) while her live-in bf, a full-time student, was home sleeping. Only Staci seemed to stay constant and aloof.
I make this situation sound like some sort of Hugh Hefner fever dream, but, of course, it wasn’t. Beneath the surface was frantic desperation, a constant sense of guilt, and vile intrigue. There wasn’t a stable one among us, someone who wasn’t sexually ambitious, who didn’t think he or she could “do better.” All borders got breached: honesty, fidelity, respect, self-respect, ordinary decency. We were thrust into a moral hollow space we didn’t understand or have any way of freeing ourselves from. Relationships evaporated, replaced by queasy, drunken trysts; honor and fidelity were set to heel. Emotional debts got instantly cancelled, the well-being of debtor and lender alike scattered like corn to chickens. In ways not always figurative, rapine and theft consumed us.
We stood in the hotel parking lot that Mayday night, Staci and I, watching the towering flames across the valley. Distant blue and red lights swirled, and faint howls of sirens bounced off midnight clouds, angry with flickers. I remember thinking of Yeats’s words “the blood-dimmed tide is loosed.” Now back in school, I’d discovered his poetry that spring and its images were suddenly everywhere. The Union was burning—the very place I’d called Masoud from—crumbling in an arsonist’s flames. Two other buildings had also been firebombed in the reaction to Nixon’s Cambodian invasion. It didn’t occur to me then, but this was the first time I’d ever seen Staci outside the club’s dim, smoky interior.
It also turned out to be Lawrence’s last curfew-free night: “nonessential” citizens were locked in at sundown, while uproarious parties raged in every sleazy complex. Drunks competed for floor space with mounds of empties; weed smoke drifted shoulder high in each apartment; cheap portables pounded out Credence and Santana; every squealing siren raised cheers. Then, within days, Kent State happened. Nixon’s bombs had reached us all.
With protests spreading, KU’s chancellor suspended school. Lawrence immediately became a huge, wide-open party. The pent-up energy led to one, final, lawless blast. Woolley got on the phone and convened a blowout at our place. My new-earned wealth had gotten rent caught up and utilities restored, but the place itself was a ruin: carpets burned and stained, holes in the sheetrock, food rotting in the refrigerator. We felt absolutely no obligation to what we termed the management cabal, so Woolley called everyone he knew. Unfortunately, I had to work at seven.
So did Staci, as it turned out. She seemed upset when she got there, and started drinking earlier than usual. Naturally I joined her. We both had whiskey sours. And then more whiskey sours. They eased our sorrows, which for her included a big fight with her jock boyfriend. When the last drunks wobbled out at one o’clock, it was just the two of us. I took a chance and asked her if she wanted to go to a party. Surprisingly, she not only said yes, but seemed enthusiastic. I didn’t yet own a car, so she drove.
We heard the stereo blaring as soon as we pulled into the shabby complex; inside, though, the partiers themselves seemed wasted. They paid absolutely no attention to us. I didn’t recognize any of them; Woolley was nowhere to be seen. As if it were somehow pre-agreed-upon, Staci and I tiptoed down the hall and into my bedroom. In short order, we were locked in a panting embrace, then found ourselves entwined on my single bed. I remember her telling me at some point that she’d started with the boyfriend right out of high school. He’d been All-State in football, she added. But it was all over now.
We were immediately together everywhere. Staci, it turned out, needed someone—some male—constantly with her. As disheveled as I was, she had to make me a project: yet another re-invention, one I gladly got in step with. She herself was a total slave to fashion, to the point of sewing her own wardrobe. I quickly found myself being clothed (literally and as a cliché) in ways I otherwise wouldn’t have imagined. We upgraded my rundown “look” with fashionable clothes and more frequent haircuts. We appeared in Lawrence’s more chic dinner spots. In this re-formulation, I was smart, witty, hip, and most of all fun. After work, we’d jump into my new Volkswagen (another of her insistences) and drive all night to Estes Park for a weekend of revelry. Or, on impulse, we’d head out for Lake of the Ozarks just to surprise friends living there. We woke up together each glorious morning, my former frightened, bitter persona now banished.
Both of us were bred from insecurity. Staci’s vanities were social. She’d actually come from a modest background, her parents having migrated to Kansas City from somewhere in Deepest Ozarkia. Her mother’s people were all natives (literally, at least in part—after one holiday trip, she had a Polaroid of her Cherokee grandmother), and her father had had to scramble to attend college. His degree in chemistry, in fact, is what brought them to industry-rich Kansas City. She’d only “emerged” socially after high school, she told me, “risen” at chic KU from the family’s modest background to her present status as habitue’ of trendy clubs and boutiques.
For me, though, the seething creature below this veneer strained against its newly grown skin. The suave, dapper persona we’d invented strode blithely through the frivolous milieu, desperate to be of it. In reality, even though Staci had ushered me into acceptance, I’d never found a way to unload my burdened past, the lurking will to mayhem. I was absolutely primed for the inevitable fall that everyone else saw coming.
Less than a year into our relationship, I got fired from the Rubaiyat because of an ownership change (the scion of Persia was canned too). Staci was welcomed into the new regime and with a decided uptick in costumery. I picked up gigs in other bars and continued with my BA; even though I still trailed a string of incompletes, I was technically in my final semester, with the university at least temporarily willing to entertain my excuses. Staci, on the other hand, was working on her M.A. and searching for a “real” job, which is to say a more normal life. Of course, I remained blithely unaware of this shift.
I’d become complacent about us, and in many ways slipped back into the morass I’d carried home from Viet Nam—negative, critical of society, posing as an intellect, disdaining the empty rituals around us. Ironically, this cynical personality was closer to the “real” me than anything I’d exhibited in two years. Staci, I’d privately decided at some point, was actually the shallow one for balking at my recognitions of this person or that event as a mere veneer of our hollow culture (and yes, I spoke that way then). Ironically, it was really the “counterculture”—totally passé in our trendy milieu—whose everything-is-corrupt values I’d unwittingly embraced.
I should have seen it coming, of course. Staci had bigger things in mind—a life, children, a secure middle-class existence—while I’d been busy avoiding the specter I’d lugged home in 1969. It grew inside me, heavier all the time and yet harder to reach. I had spells of what the nineteenth century would have termed “melancholy”—depression, I now see—and became less and less able to leave the house, hers or mine. I only wanted to bury myself in books, and expected people, Staci especially, to accept such behavior.
She and I grew apart, enough that we agreed to start “seeing” other people, though only as “friends.” I got my own place, though we still spent most nights together. I felt broken, but too late; worse, I was lost. I started going out with a couple of other women. My boozing, always fairly heavy, got worse, and so did my behavior. My violent urges came back, not toward her, but generally. I got into three fairly gruesome fights, all in bars where I worked. I seethed with anger and my instincts were vicious: None of my targets knew he was in a fight until it was over. It was like my KU classroom fantasies, but real.
Sometime in early December, shortly after the crab episode and just before my last college exams, I was working at a seedy college bar called the Mad Hatter. It was midnight and not very busy. A drunk pal of mine, also an ex-Marine, asked me to hold his piece for him, a military .45 as it turned out. He was a law student, but his real pastime was selling pills, so he always “packed heat,” as he liked to term it. He must have been sampling his own wares that night because he was feeling cops in every lurking patron. We slipped outside and ferried the pistol from his car to mine. I watched him eject the magazine and clear the action, then shoved it under the seat of my VW. It was exactly the kind of self-destructive behavior I invited at that point.
After I got off, drunk and lonely, I drove by Staci’s duplex. A strange car sat parked in her driveway; her own was pulled up in the shadows of the carport. The windows were all dark. I rode slowly around the block, mind racing, refusing to grasp the obvious. I told myself it was probably a girlfriend staying over; or maybe Staci had borrowed her cousin’s car. I decided I needed to call rather than barging in. I drove to an all-night filling station and huddled inside the booth, cutting off the frigid wind.
After several rings, I heard Staci’s drowsy hello. It took a minute of bluster to force her into the truth: she was with another man. I fumed and cursed, then suddenly remembering the pistol, announced I had it and was coming over. I had no intention of even touching the now-harmless piece—or probably even going back—but when I heard the receiver slam down, some ghostly message from my cerebral cortex must have overridden any sense I had left. By the time I pulled over just down from her house, I felt trapped in my own rage and fear. I just sat there, hands on the wheel.
I remember actually feeling relieved—grateful really—watching both of them dash out the front door and leap into his car. I sat riveted at my darkened post as it lurched backward out of the drive, then screeched up the street and around the corner. I steered home blinking away tears, my whole made-up self knocked from under me.
I saw Staci one more time after that. It was twenty years later, in Lawrence. I was delivering the final copy of my dissertation to the committee director, ecstatic at having that grueling hump behind me. I knew she still lived there but had avoided her, partly out of shame, but maybe a squinch of fear too—she’d married the guy I’d sent fleeing that night, who was, of course, another KU jock.
We met at a downtown coffee place. I thought she looked terrific, basically herself with a few years added. She had two kids, a boy and a girl, both in school, and the husband was a university administrator. She didn’t work herself, despite her education MA, or rather she’d been a day-care attendant before she got pregnant the first time. No professions of anger or disgust were forthcoming; in fact she said she was sort of glad to see me, but that hubby had sworn to kill me if he ever had the chance.
That was back then though, she added. Maybe I was safe.
Jeffrey Loeb lives and writes in New York City. Prior occupations include: US Marine, bartender, construction worker, waiter, truck driver, furniture mover, carpenter, college and university teacher, radio reporter, assistant city manager, cable television company manager, photography studio owner, farmer/rancher, and teacher. He has a PhD in English from the University of Kansas. Journal publications include Adelaide (multiple), American Studies, African American Review (multiple), English Journal, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood (multiple), and War, Literature, and the Arts (multiple). Book entries include “Foreword” in Black Prisoner of War and “Afterword” in Memphis, Nam Sweden.
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Ambrose Green Artz
Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, United States
The Life of Ambrose Green
When Ambrose Green Artz was born in 1857, in Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, United States, his father, Israel Artz, was 28 and his mother, Eliza C. Gregg, was 23. He married Julia Ellen Taylor on 4 December 1883, in Mercer Township, Mercer, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Mercer, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Dorchester, Saline, Nebraska, United States in 1880. He died on 17 July 1930, in Duncan Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Reger, Sullivan, Missouri, United States.
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Julia Ellen Taylor
Marriage: 4 December 1883
Carrie Artz
Jessie Mable Artz
Walter F Artz
Ruth Adelaide Artz
Erma Artz
George Everett Artz
Lydia Olive Artz
Samuel Taylor Artz
Mercer Township, Mercer, Illinois, United States
Israel Artz
Eliza C. Gregg
George Benjamin Artz
Effie Della Artz
Alva Artz
Rosa Artz
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1 North German and Dutch: patronymic from the personal name A(a)rt, a reduced form of Arnt ( see Arndt , Arnold ), or sometimes from a reduced form of the personal name Alaert or Adriaan.2 German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Arzt ‘physician’.
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Ambrose Artz in household of Israel Artz, "United States Census, 1870"
Ambrose G Artz in household of Israel Artz, "United States Census, 1860"
Ambros Artz in household of Israel Artz, "United States Census, 1880"
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